Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
According to Military Summary Channel, Ukraine followed up its drone attack on civilians in Belgorod with a cluster munitions attack on them
A war crime, as even Dima points out.
SIGNYM
T
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So, your response to videos and widespread reports of UKRAINE'S WAR CRIMES is a stupid CARTOON?
I suppose it would be too much for you to adress THE FACTS?
Dood, stop rerunning the propaganda movie playing in your head.
Trump is not colluding with Russia.
Russia is not colluding with Trump.
And stop kidding yourself that you post FACTS.
You post crude propaganda, and none of us are stupid enough to believe it, or you. 
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Quote:When Russians shoot down a Ukrainian missile, the debris falls just about anywhere, including on civilians rather than military targets. Tough luck but that's the physics of an unguided missile falling randomly out of the skies over Russia. Russians won't take responsibility for the unintended consequences of shooting down missiles. Instead, Russians will claim Ukraine committed a targeted war crime. Lying seems to be a Standard Operating Procedure for Russians, so that's why they also called the UK terrorists.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, your response to videos and widespread reports of UKRAINE'S WAR CRIMES is a stupid CARTOON?
I suppose it would be too much for you to adress THE FACTS?
Dood, stop rerunning the propaganda movie playing in your head.
Trump is not colluding with Russia.
Russia is not colluding with Trump.
And stop kidding yourself that you post FACTS.
You post crude propaganda, and none of us are stupid enough to believe it, or you.
UK behind terror attack on Belgorod — Russian diplomat
The United Kingdom is inciting the Kiev regime to terrorist actions in coordination with the United States, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said
https://tass.com/politics/1728303
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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AND NOW FOR SOME ACTUAL REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
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Yesterday [three days ago now] Russia has send swarms of missiles to strike Ukraine:
" Russia fired more than 150 missiles and drones at Ukraine on Friday in one of the largest bombardments of the war, [Ukrainian] officials said, hitting schools, parks, homes, a hospital and other civilian infrastructure, and rupturing the relative calm of an otherwise quiet winter on the conflict’s static front lines.
The scale of the attack confirmed what many in Ukraine have feared for months — that Russia was conserving its missile stocks throughout the fall for massive strikes in the winter."
It [was] however not schools, parks, homes or hospitals that were the targets.
As Strana [Strana is a top-5 online Ukrainian newspaper founded by journalist Igor Guzhva, in opposition to the current Ukrainian government. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strana.ua ] writes (machine translation):
"Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny said that "critical infrastructure, industrial and military facilities were attacked."
Indeed, judging by many sources, this missile attack was directed primarily at military enterprises and warehouses. Or on other infrastructure. At the same time, unlike last year's massive strikes, the current attack did not focus on energy facilities." https://strana.news/news/454083-raketnaja-ataka-po-ukraine-29-dekabrja
-2023-osnovnye-fakty.html
The Economist confirms the targeting of weapon production facilities:
[A] "source in Ukraine’s defence industry suggests Russia had predominantly targeted defence facilities. Some were connected to missile and drone production. “The attacks had strategic meaning for the enemy, with the aim of reducing our capacity to strike,” the source says. Both sides are locked in a competition to degrade the enemy. “It’s a battle to see who can destroy more of the enemy’s long-range weapons.” " https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/12/29/russia-tries-to-overwhelm-
ukraine-with-missiles
Of course, Zelenskiy & Co are going to announce endlessly about the apparently civilian structures that were hit, so - along with him - let's ignore the other 140+ missiles, bc that's "honest reporting"!
More about that later.
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This comes three days after the Ukrainian president Zelenski boosted about domestic Ukrainian weapon production:
" Ukraine tripled its domestic production of equipment and weapons in 2023 compared to the year before, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Dec. 27.
Amid rising uncertainty surrounding military aid from key partners like the U.S., Ukraine is looking to increase its own weapons production capacity.
Speaking at a meeting with Ukrainian defense industry workers, Zelensky said there has also been an "extremely significant" increase in domestic ammunition production, especially for artillery.
The production of drone ammunition is being "systematically expanded," Zelensky said. In 2024, "special attention will be paid to the production of explosives and gunpowder, which are in short supply in the world." " https://news.yahoo.com/zelensky-ukraine-triples-weapons-production-161
314865.html
Zelenski is putting his hope on foreign cooperation:
"According to Zelensky, Ukraine's defense complex will become further integrated with the international defense system. In 2023, Ukraine joined forces with German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall to repair Western-produced military vehicles and ultimately produce them domestically in Ukraine.
The joint Rheinmetall-Ukrainian Defense Industry enterprise was registered on Oct. 18. "The creation of a joint enterprise is, without exaggeration, a landmark event that takes cooperation between our countries to a qualitatively new level," Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, your response to videos and widespread reports of UKRAINE'S WAR CRIMES is a stupid CARTOON?
I suppose it would be too much for you to adress THE FACTS?
Dood, stop rerunning the propaganda movie playing in your head.
Trump is not colluding with Russia.
Russia is not colluding with Trump.
And stop kidding yourself that you post FACTS.
You post crude propaganda, and none of us are stupid enough to believe it, or you.
SIGNYM
I'm sorry comrade; could you remind me who has an arrest on sight warrant issued against them by the Hague?
I know, you were a clown in another life correct?
Just, way too funny.
T
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Why don't you get some hobbies?
Your life and your obsessions comes off as extremely pathetic, Ted.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It's pretty obvious you have very few foreign stamps in your passport. Oh? You don't need a passport? You've seen all you need to know from a screen? Russians are pretty much the same since they get all their "facts" about the Failing West from Putin. Trumptards hear about the Failing NYTimes and Failing California from Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh, that old gem again. We've been over this before ad nauseam. If you're living in a place where the average personal income is $9,733 per year, then everything you buy from food to clothing to transportation to entertainment costs a LOT less than somewhere where the average income is $40k per year. You don't even have to travel out of the country to see that this is true. Somebody working and living in NYC or LA is making a ton more than somebody doing the same job in bumfuck Kentucky doing the same job, but somebody in bumfuck Kentucky isn't paying $3,500 per month for a 600 sq ft. studio apartment.
Another dumb argument from Second with zero facts or evidence provided.
Yeah. Sure. Everybody pays the exact amount for everything sold no matter where they live in the world or what the average household income is.
Got any argument and data supporting that, idiot, or have you finally figured out that without any actual facts backing up anything you think that the only thing you have left is personal insults?
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and many Kremlin officials have driven deep into the Russian political consciousness the ideas that Ukraine has no independent identity and no basis to continue to exist as an independent state; that any Ukrainian government not totally subservient to Moscow is a pawn of the West and a threat to Russia; that Ukrainian opponents of Russian rule are Nazis intent on conducting genocide against Russians in Ukraine; and that Russia has a legal, moral, and religious obligation to extirpate these supposed threats and restore Ukraine to its rightful place as a historically Russian land.[2] Putin has made these arguments part of his 2024 presidential election platform.[3] Russian administrators are inserting them in curricula throughout Russia and occupied Ukraine.[4] Kremlin mouthpieces speak to the Russian domestic audience with one voice along these lines.[5] Putin is training Russians to commit themselves to the task of subjugating Ukraine, and that training will neither stop nor vanish following some negotiated ceasefire. It will, in fact, shape the thoughts and likely policies of Putin’s successors for years or decades.
The ongoing fighting is consuming Russian forces generated just about as rapidly as Russia puts them into the field. Should an armistice be established, however, few of the conditions shaping the deployments of these forces would hold anymore. New Russian forces would not be consumed by fighting after a ceasefire. The Russians would no longer be forced to mass in particular areas where they are currently attacking but would instead be able to rearrange their forces to optimize for other factors. They would be able to mass artillery, air defense, electronic warfare, and engineering capabilities, specifically bridging equipment, and other supplies in fortified defensive positions near the front line — something they cannot do now as Ukrainian forces attack any concentrations within range of their weapons systems when they see them. The Russians would be able to prepare, train, equip, and deploy reserves in echelons throughout southern and eastern Ukraine to reinforce and support future operations and to improve the road and rail infrastructure needed to move them rapidly around. They could optimize, in other words, for a short-notice attack at times and places of their choosing in ways that the ongoing combat now precludes.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/lands-ukraine-must-liber
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Stalin Looms Large Over Putin's Russia
By Robert Coalson | January 01, 2024
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-stalin-putin-legacy/32755048.html
“In Russia today, ‘Lenin’ is just a figure in the mausoleum and in museums and nothing more,” wrote Leonid Nevzlin in a 2020 essay for RFE/RL’s Russian Service. “ ‘Stalin’ is our everyday reality. The Putin regime has a completely defined relationship to Stalin, to Stalinists, to Stalinism. This relationship is primarily tied to the roots of the regime. The KGB [and other Soviet security agencies] cannot be against ‘Stalin’ as an idea and as a practice. Stalin is their patron, their fate, and their biography.
“ ‘Stalin’ is a special operation under which the population is being drawn into the process of Stalinization and being recruited to become neo-Stalinists,” he wrote. “In the cultural-psychological sense, we remain a Stalinist society.”
Calling Stalin “the great manipulator,” Tatar activist and political analyst Ruslan Aisin wrote in an essay for RFE/RL’s Idel.Realities in August that Russia’s enduring inheritance from Stalin is one of subordination, conformity, individual isolation, and dislocation.
“We are definitely living inside Stalin’s legacy,” he wrote, “where the main things are fear, atomization, submission, and other social evils.”
Despite his chilling experience looking into the eyes of the broken NKVD executioner and investigating the Smolenka mass graves, Solovyov welcomes the present-day rehabilitation of Stalin.
“Stalin was a wise politician in his day, and those who criticize him just want to tarnish the ideas of communism and our great past,” he said. “Only those who want to distract Russian citizens from the serious failures of the [post-Soviet] reforms need de-Stalinization. The people don’t need it.
“The repressions were a terrible page in our history,” he conceded. “But any regime has its mistakes and dark spots. We need to talk about all the good things that happened under Stalin. And there were a lot of them. Although you could say the state at that time was built on the labor of the repressed, sometimes you need to make sacrifices to achieve certain goals.”
Oleg Yachmenev is a history graduate student at Zabaikal State University in Chita. Many of his instructors, he said, are “active Putinists.” He recalls discussing Stalin’s crimes with one lecturer who in the end said that “although things were bad, it would have been worse otherwise.”
“Unfortunately, it has become the norm to praise the Stalin era because people don’t know the truth about the camps and the repressions,” Yachmenev said. “Now, if I want to get information about those who were executed and I go to the archives, people in epaulets soon appear asking if I am a ‘foreign agent’ who is trying to smear Stalin, the pride of Russia.”
Respect And Fear
The rehabilitation of Stalin has been a feature of the Putin era since the former KGB officer came to power nearly a quarter-century ago. The independent Levada Center polling agency began asking Russians to name “the greatest figure of all times and peoples” in the early 1990s. In 1994, the Soviet dictator polled about 20 percent to take a distant fourth place in the ranking. By 2012, however, he took over first place, a position he has held ever since. By 2021, Stalin was the pick of more than 40 percent of Russians. In 2023, 47 percent of Russians said they regarded Stalin with “respect.”
“‘Respect’ in modern language signifies a warm, sincere feeling but also a recognition of the superior power of the object of the respect,” wrote Levada Center chief analyst Aleksei Levinson in an essay in August. “‘They fear us, which means they respect us’ is commonly heard these days. And it crops up a lot among the responses to questions about Stalin.”
The Kremlin’s manipulation of Stalin’s image and of the psychological legacy of the Soviet experience for the Russian people has evolved since Putin first became president on the last day of 1999, observers say. In the early years, Stalin was promoted
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Will the Ukraine War End in 2024? Experts Weigh In | Dec 28, 2023
"The only way I can foresee the Ukraine war possibly ending in 2024 is if Vladimir Putin dies," Beth Knobel, former CBS News Moscow bureau chief, told Newsweek. "It is theoretically possible that Russia could take advantage of a change in leadership to try to declare victory and just hold onto the land it grabbed since February of 2022," she said. "But even if Putin dies, I think there's only a minuscule chance that Russia would back off from the war, because it has already invested so much of its national image in winning."
"A long-term negotiated settlement also seems highly unlikely. Having spent so much blood, treasure, and prestige on this war, Putin politically cannot afford anything less than a decisive victory," said Gregory Vitarbo, professor of history at Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-war-end-2024-experts-1853696
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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