Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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You deny that USA, UK, and USSR briefly were allies in WWII?
You deny that the USA and Soviet Union, and now Russia, have been rivals and cold warriors since 1917?
You deny that USA has been angling to contain, conquer, or destroy Russia, and to regain the grip and wealth that it lost in 2000?
Dood, you have been proving my point with every neocon statement from CNN, MSN, Financial Times, NYT, WaPo, Institute for the Study of War, outlet, think tank, politician, and bureacracy that YOU so helpfully splattered everwhere.
I don't need to cite anybody except YOU to prove my point. Go back and read your own posts, dolt!
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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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Originally posted by second:Quote:I need to hold on to this one so that Signym can't change a word. Signym, you need a citation for every point you make and you can't use a Russian source.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you spew so much bullshit Im surprised there's anything left but an empty husk.
No, I don't "believe Putin". But (unlike you) I DO remember facts.
It has been the west's ambition, since 1917, to destroy, conquer, or partition Russia. Russia is an ideological and military rival. Except for a few brief years when the USA, UK, and Russia allied to fight the Nazi exigency (NO, Russia did NOT start WWII. NO, Russia was NOT an ally of Hitler. NO, the USA did NOT win the war against the Nazis.) we have strived to defeat, contain, collapse, or conquer Russia.
Don't you remember YOUR OWN slavering over an anticipated "decolonization" (i.e. breakup) of Russia?
Your whinges how "unfair" it was that Russia is so resource-rich?
That gleeful hand-rubbing about Russia's hoped for demise?
Your calls to assasinate Putin?
And now you're trying to convince ... anyone ... that it was all a joke?
Dood, your posts are an ACCURATE reflection of neocon intent and tactics since 2000.
Like I said, nobody believes you any more. Not even THUGR. So why do you keep lying? You're only hurting your own psyche by being divided from reality.
Stop that nonstop posting of hate and lies. Come out from your dark and twisted inner space. Get out in the sun and breathe some fresh air. Do something useful.
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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
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
You know that's not how quotes work on this ancient website, right dude?
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Originally posted by second:
I'm a dumb fucking Communist pirate dipshit who still has no clue how to wipe his ass.
It's in quotes.
You must have said it.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:If the USA was under a king, an emperor, a Fuhrer, an absolute dictator, you could talk about it as an entity with one mind, one goal, a purpose, a direction. But it is none of those things, does not do those things. The funny thing about Russia, for centuries it has always been like that and continues to be like that with this particular leader who has been in power since 1999. Funny how the highest leadership in Russia keeps killing off millions of Russians. The leadership position keeps changing, (Peter the Great, Stalin, Putin) but the killing of millions of Russians goes on and on in foreign war after foreign war. And tens of millions of Russians died from government violence within its borders.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You deny that USA, UK, and USSR briefly were allies in WWII?
You deny that the USA and Soviet Union, and now Russia, have been rivals and cold warriors since 1917?
You deny that USA has been angling to contain, conquer, or destroy Russia, and to regain the grip and wealth that it lost in 2000?
Dood, you have been proving my point with every neocon statement from CNN, MSN, Financial Times, NYT, WaPo, Institute for the Study of War, outlet, think tank, politician, and bureacracy that YOU so helpfully splattered everwhere.
I don't need to cite anybody except YOU to prove my point. Go back and read your own posts, dolt!
Signym you have flat-out denied Russia killed 62,000,000 Russians and counting. I am certain you understand nothing about Russia since you refuse to understand that.
For comparison with Russia, 646,596 American troops have died in battle since the Revolutionary War ended. Russia would be a very different country if it could have kept its deaths that few. But Russia's rulers never needed to keep the death numbers low because the Russian citizens, unlike Americans, did not place an extremely high value on their own lives.
https://www.military.com/memorial-day/how-many-us-militay-members-died
-each-american-war.html
6,872,000 Victims: Post-Stalin Period, 1954-1987
With Stalin’s death, the terror was gradually alleviated, though not really ended until the 1980s under Gorbachev. Beria, Stalin’s chief enforcer and head of the KGB, was executed; many other lesser lights were purged.1
The “crimes” of the Stalin years, particularly the Great Terror (in which, be it remembered, top party members were executed) were secretly revealed by Khrushchev. As mentioned in the previous chapter, the camp population was gradually reduced and the camp regime improved in the post-Stalin 1950s. However, the death camps at Kolyma still continued into the early 1960s, when they were also subject to reform, and perhaps largely closed by the middle 1960s.2
The overall camp deathrate also was gradually reduced.3 Commissions were sent to all camps to review sentences with the authority to release prisoners. Amnesties were declared. And the average citizen gradually became more secure in what he could say and do.
But all this was relative. Freedom of thought and expression, security from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, the right to a fair trial, are not yet guaranteed to the Soviet citizen, even under Gorbachev. For example, in April 1989 the Soviet Presidium issued a decree making it illegal to insult or discredit the government.4 Until recently, citizens who spoke out or demonstrated against the party could yet end up in labor camps, possibly to die from any of a number of causes with which the reader of Solzhenitsyn has become familiar,5 not the least of which is being beaten or confined in a punishment cell. Even in reference to the late 1960s, Solzhenitsyn wrote that camps differed from Stalin’s not in regime, but in composition—there were no longer many millions of those sentenced for political reasons, or for no reason at all.6 In fact, numerous camp inmates had written Solzhenitsyn to point out that their conditions in the middle 1960s were just as bad as under Stalin.7
Moreover, while improved, the diet still
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After Russia’s invasion, the people of Bessarabia switched sides
A traditionally pro-Russian part of Ukraine now feels very differently
https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/02/11/after-russias-invasion-the
-people-of-bessarabia-switched-sides
Feb 11th 2024
WHEN RUSSIA first attacked Ukraine in 2014 Bessarabia was a place to worry about. Less than half of its people identified as Ukrainian. The region was poor and, for historical and economic reasons, many people thought that Vladimir Putin might be their saviour. But Russia’s endeavours to stir up trouble in this strategic Ukrainian borderland have failed. Ukrainian forces beat back Russian attempts to land commandos at the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022, and the security services arrested dozens of agents. Although the Russians damaged and closed one of the two bridges linking Bessarabia to the rest of the country, they have failed to shut down the other.
In just over 200 years the ownership of what is now Ukrainian Bessarabia has changed nine times. It is bounded by the Danube and Dniester rivers, the Black Sea to the south and Moldova to the north. Seized from the Ottomans by Russia in the early 19th century, it became Romanian between the world wars and part of Soviet Ukraine after that. Apart from Ukrainians its people include Russians, Moldovans, Gagauz, Bulgarians and Albanians who speak Russian rather than Ukrainian as a lingua franca and for whom Russia was their historical patron.
Oleh Kiper, the governor of the Odessa region, which includes Bessarabia, says that pro-Russian sentiment there dwindled after 2014 and “crashed” in the wake of the Russian invasion in February 2022. One reason why, he says, is that, thanks to help from France, “Russian satellite TV propaganda” has been blocked there since 2015. Since then Bessarabia has been not only peaceful, but a crucial lifeline for Ukraine. Hundreds of lorries thunder through daily, loaded with grain and other goods. They carry vital currency-earning exports to the Danube-river ports of Izmail and Reni, or into Romania and onwards.
A decade ago the main road across Bessarabia from Odessa was awful, and Izmail felt like the dingy end of the world. No longer. The road has been improved and a ferry service opened in 2020, linking the region to Romania and the rest of Europe. Russian attacks have failed to put it out of service. On the Danube in Izmail a Togolese-flagged grain ship rests at anchor; hardy old men do squats on the riverbank nearby before defying a ban on swimming in the river. Others prefer a dip in Izmail’s smart new municipal sport centre.
In the past few years wineries and tourism have flourished in Bessarabia, though the post-Soviet recovery has been patchy. In Izmail money has poured in from up to 8,000 sailors who call this port home. Those who were here when the invasion happened two years ago were caught by the ban on men aged 18-60 leaving the country, but most of those who were at sea have stayed abroad. Although it has been hit by Russian rockets, Izmail has had a good war. Businesses and refugees from now-closed Black Sea ports like Kherson and Mykolaiv have moved here. “People got a sense of pride in being Ukrainian,” says Andriy Abramchenko, the mayor, who made clear in 2014 and in 2022 that his city would have no truck with Russia.
In the predominantly Moldovan village of Hlyboke, history comes alive at the cemetery. The village lies on the banks of Sasyk, a lagoon that suffers from a disastrous Soviet-era attempt to turn it into a freshwater lake. The water is rising and the shoreline is eroding. The bones of Cossacks buried here in the 18th century, and of their descendants, jut out of the graveyard’s sandy cliff edge, eventually tumbling onto the beach below. At the other end of the cemetery lies Sasha Gorun, the school’s history teacher, who died fighting the Russians last May.
Maria Chekir, aged 80, who taught Mr Gorun when she was the headmistress of the school, says she knows no one in the village who supports Russia. Outsiders often
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Ukrainian military observers indicated that the Russian defense industrial base (DIB) is not as productive as Russian authorities portray it to be, but that the Russian DIB is still capable of sustaining Russia’s war effort. Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets reported on February 11 that the Russian Security Council’s own DIB production data for 2023 indicates that the Russian DIB reached a peak output in September 2023 that was 38.9 percent higher than its average 2022 monthly output and has steadily declined in the following months.[10] Mashovets stated that the Russian DIB is struggling to compensate for moderately- and highly-skilled labor shortages and Russia’s inability to obtain the necessary industrial production equipment, spare parts, and servicing to sustain the pace and breadth of DIB production efforts.[11] Mashovets noted that Chinese companies in particular are less willing to provide Russia with equipment and spare parts, as ISW previously reported, and that Russia purchased many industrial production systems from Western states before the full-scale invasion but that Western companies are now unwilling to service or supply parts for these machines due to sanctions.[12]
Ukrainian military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko stated that Russia’s reported tank production numbers in recent years largely reflect restored and modernized tanks drawn from storage rather than new production.[13] Kovalenko stated that Uralvagonzavod, Russia’s primary tank manufacturer, can produce roughly 60-70 T-90 tanks per year under perfect conditions and assessed that Uralvagonzavod is likely only producing between three and six new T-90 tanks per month.[14] Kovalenko noted that tank manufacturers Uralvagonzavod, Omsktransmash, and the 103rd Armored Tank Repair Plant in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai are primarily focused on restoring, repairing, and modernizing Russian tanks and that Uralvagonzavod is the only manufacturer producing new tanks.[15] Kovalenko stated that Russia is only modernizing T-54/55 and T-62 tanks and assessed that these may be Russia’s main battle tanks in the future. Kovalenko added that Russian manufacturers very rarely modernize T-72 and T-80 tanks. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitri Medvedev previously stated that Russian forces received 1,600 tanks in 2023, and Kovalenko attributed this number primarily to restored and modernized rather than serially produced tanks.[16]
Russia’s current limited DIB production capacity and insufficient serial tank production lines are not guarantees that Russia will struggle to produce enough materiel to sustain its war effort at its current pace or in the long term. Russia’s ability to modernize and use tanks retrieved from storage still gives Russian forces an advantage on the battlefield in the overall number of available tanks. Mashovets noted that some newly-produced tanks such as the T-14 Armada are poorly produced whereas older tanks such as T-72s (which Russia actively repairs) are more reliable.[17] Russia has consistently attempted to adapt to the limitations resulting from Western sanctions and to circumvent sanctions and will persist in these efforts. Russia’s DIB may struggle in the near term and increasing sanctions evasion measures and partnerships with states including China and North Korea may help compensate for existing DIB shortcomings in the medium to long term.[18]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-february-11-2024
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If the USA was under a king, an emperor, a Fuhrer, an absolute dictator, you could talk about it as an entity with one mind, one goal, a purpose, a direction. But it is none of those things, does not do those things. The funny thing about Russia, blah blah blah
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You deny that USA, UK, and USSR briefly were allies in WWII?
You deny that the USA and Soviet Union, and now Russia, have been rivals and cold warriors since 1917?
You deny that USA has been angling to contain, conquer, or destroy Russia, and to regain the grip and wealth that it lost in 2000?
Dood, you have been proving my point with every neocon statement from CNN, MSN, Financial Times, NYT, WaPo, Institute for the Study of War, outlet, think tank, politician, and bureacracy that YOU so helpfully splattered everwhere.
I don't need to cite anybody except YOU to prove my point. Go back and read your own posts, dolt!
And, without a scintilla of insight, you prove me right - again- by reflexively adding even MORE neocon crap to the 100+ pages of neocon crap you already posted.
Are you really THAT stupid?
America is an oligarchy. Presidents and Congresses come and go, but neocon policies remain. AMERICANS may not have a united goal, but the elites in charge sure do. You want to find out how little democracy remains here? Just try challenging the narrative in a serious way.
Oh, that's right: you never will.
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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:Signym, there you go with the "blah blah blah" once again. I have witnessed your brain stop taking information from outside and turn inward to your self-fascinating delusions. There is no conflict here between my values and yours. The conflict is between you and the reality beyond your brain. You are crazy inside your head, Signym. Your understanding of America is that of a crazy person, of someone who would think Trump should be President. I am completely not surprised when life treats you bad because that is what happens to crazy people.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:If the USA was under a king, an emperor, a Fuhrer, an absolute dictator, you could talk about it as an entity with one mind, one goal, a purpose, a direction. But it is none of those things, does not do those things. The funny thing about Russia, blah blah blah
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You deny that USA, UK, and USSR briefly were allies in WWII?
You deny that the USA and Soviet Union, and now Russia, have been rivals and cold warriors since 1917?
You deny that USA has been angling to contain, conquer, or destroy Russia, and to regain the grip and wealth that it lost in 2000?
Dood, you have been proving my point with every neocon statement from CNN, MSN, Financial Times, NYT, WaPo, Institute for the Study of War, outlet, think tank, politician, and bureacracy that YOU so helpfully splattered everwhere.
I don't need to cite anybody except YOU to prove my point. Go back and read your own posts, dolt!
And, without a scintilla of insight, you prove me right - again- by reflexively adding even MORE neocon crap to the 100+ pages of neocon crap you already posted.
Are you really THAT stupid?
America is an oligarchy. Presidents and Congresses come and go, but neocon policies remain. AMERICANS may not have a united goal, but the elites in charge sure do. You want to find out how little democracy remains here? Just try challenging the narrative in a serious way.
Oh, that's right: you never will.
As individuals, Russians act crazy. That has not worked well for them. Same with Trumptards. Their craziness causes their problems, not neoCons, not Democrats, not banks. It is nonstop craziness, year after year, with them.
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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This is what happens when Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian turned politician, turns into a general:
Brig. Gen. Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of the Tavriya group of forces in Avdiivka, announced the reinforcement on Telegram on Saturday. “We strengthen the blocking line, set up additional firing positions and use fresh effective forces,” Tarnavskyi wrote. “Logistical delivery continues.”
That the Ukrainians would reinforce Avdiivka was not a foregone conclusion. In apparently choosing to stay and fight, Ukrainian forces are accepting enormous risk.
After four months of hard fighting, Russian troops from the 2nd and 41st Combined Arms Armies finally breached Avdiivka — a key Ukrainian stronghold just five miles northwest of Russian-occupied Donetsk — earlier this month and approached within a few hundred yards of the main road by which the Ukrainian garrison, centered on the 110th Mechanized Brigade, gets supplies into the city.
At that point, Tarnavskyi had two options. Pull back the 110th Brigade’s survivors from the exposed eastern part of the city and consolidate the Ukrainian line in central Avdiivka or just outside the city, to the west.
Or: reinforce the 110th Brigade and try to push the much larger Russian force away from the garrison’s supply lines.
It’s possible it wasn’t Tarnavskyi’s decision to make.
Last week, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky removed his popular top general, the charismatic Valery Zaluzhny, and replaced him with the unpopular former head of the ground forces, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Zaluzhny has a reputation — deserved or not — for embracing a mobile defense in order to minimize Ukrainian casualties. Syrskyi by contrast has a reputation — again, deserved or not — for accepting high casualties in stubborn, static fights.
It’s possible that, in promoting Syrskyi, Zelensky signaled his intention to fight for Avdiivka. Even at high cost.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/11/ukraine-may-have-depl
oyed-one-its-best-brigades-to-try-to-save-avdiivka/?sh=6c59c7385e95
Ukraine vs Russia is Dumb vs Dumber. Politicians are stupid.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Exhausted Ukraine struggles to find new men for front line
By Sarah Rainsford | Feb 12, 2024
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68255490
When Pavlo Zhilin and his patrol hit the streets of Cherkasy, men often swerve to avoid them.
Pavlo is a conscription officer looking for soldiers for Ukraine's army.
But almost two years into Russia's full-scale invasion, there's no flood of volunteers to the front line anymore.
Most of those who wanted to fight are either dead, injured or still stuck at the front waiting to be relieved by new recruits.
In the central town of Cherkasy, like elsewhere, finding them isn't easy now that the first burst of enthusiasm and energy has faded.
Ukraine is exhausted.
Pavlo's story
"I don't get it. People are out and about, like the war is somewhere far away. But this is a full-scale invasion, and it's like people still don't care," Pavlo says.
He is frustrated by what he sees as indifference. (Pavlo, it is fear, not indifference.)
"We need everyone to come together like they did on the first day. Everyone was united then, like brothers."
Instead, the security service in Cherkasy is constantly shutting down local social media channels that warn people when the conscription teams are in town and alert them to areas to avoid.
When I ask Pavlo whether he's lost friends in the fighting, he admits that there's "almost no one left" from his entire company.
"The only ones left are [injured] like me. The others are dead."
(Pavlo, it is fear. For Ukrainians who can't be brave, their smartest move is to leave Ukraine and join the cheese-eating surrender monkeys of the EU.)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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The cheese-eating surrender monkeys are resurgent in Germany:
Germans now view issues like migration and the threat from radical Islam as more immediate concerns than the menace in the Kremlin. That’s according to new research published Monday ahead of the Munich Security Conference, a gathering of top political and defense officials which kicks off in Germany on Friday. While Russia was perceived as the number one threat in Germany in last year’s Munich Security Index, it has now slipped back to seventh place in the annual report.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-no-longer-top-threat-germany-g7
-munich-security-conference-concern-ukraine-war-fades/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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