Topic: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] - page 105. (Read 73618 times)

You certainly have something wrong in your brain speaking of potential "exhausted" when the Ruzzian loses of this month are higher than ever. do not overestimate what the maps and your trolls tell you, the meat grinding and artillery destruction are at the peak - not to mention the increasing difference in technical means. These bridges you speak about (two) are pretty much irrelevant to the logistics and can be re-built elsewhere in a day.

"Meanwhile", your chief psychos have bombed civilian infrastructure with zero military value - this is just plain terrorism. What do you think? All will be forgotten?? And Putin tries to cover the shit with threats to abandon the nuclear proliferation treaties... what a suprise.



https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/06/europe/ukraine-hroza-russian-missile-attack-civilians-intl-h

Kill your men, left women without men at first and then bring hundreds of thousands of black people in your country to pleasure women and have babies and ruin ethnicity. What a solid plan man. I sometimes think that it's done for purpose.

War is a business where the product are people and weapons. I woudn't say that the US is losing its power. If the US manage to destroy ethnicity of Russia and Ukraine, left them without men, then America is the winner.

Are you really sure that life is getting better in Russia and sanctions don't work? Are you from Russia? Did you feel the positiveness of sanctions on your pocket? Some of my friends are in Russia and they don't feel better since this war.

Meanwhile, when the Ukrainian offensive seems to have exhausted its potential, the initiative once again passes to Russia. The main interest is now focused on the Kupyansk direction, at least this is clearly indicated by a series of successful bomb attacks on road bridges across the Oskol River. As a result, all Ukrainian positions between Oskol and Zherebets become extremely inconvenient for defense from a logistics point of view, and I think here in the near future we can expect directed efforts to level the front line and increase pressure on Seversk from the north. The timing of the political crisis in the United States was chosen quite well.

Armenians were literary killed by drones from a NATO country. I guess that's one way for NATO to win influence, just to attack them with drones from a NATO country, and then blame Russia for not protecting them well enough literary to bomb them into NATO submission


September 6, 2023

September 25, 2023

Some kind of 4d chess moves for Armenian president

Whose article is this Borat's (you know, the second best journalist of Kazakhstan)?

Look, this is a newspaper, but it is not read in Nigeria, so I am not sure you will like it:

2013
https://www.politico.eu/article/armenia-chooses-russia-over-eu/


2023

Interesting how things can change. It may be the case that not only Ukraine wishes to try something different from the Moscowian regime?

Frontline update: Things are getting really hard in the front. The Ruzzian army is throwing in elite troops to man trenches and trying attack with nearly no possibility of success. Losses are massive. Ukraine is advancing 50 meters at at time. It seems that it is going to be an even harder winter.

It's like I have been saying for a long time now. Consider the Biden regime in Washington. They said that the sanctions were designed to weaken Russia. And they showed reasons why. But do you think that they were so stupid as to not understand what the sanctions would really do? The whole sanction thing was designed to strengthen Russia, BRICS, and maybe a new Russo-Ukraine State that is about to appear.

Zelensky suddenly found some 'overlooked' money in his banks. Where did it come from? It came from the people of the free world - Western Europe, the US, and Canada... and maybe Australia and a lot of other countries. How did it get into Zelensky's banks? It was sent there from the owners of the Federal Reserve Bank and similar banks (Euro) of the free world.

These banks have been quietly 'screwing' the people of the free nations out of money for a long time. They have been doing it in many ways, but especially by creating new money that they have been socking away for a time like this. The money they have quietly created is easily more than double that of the total visible money in all the free world countries. And they are using it to take over the world through Zelensky... if they can. The only thing that might stop them is a unification of all the BRICS countries under a unifying BRICS agreement.


Ukraine suddenly discovers money to manufacture its own weapons as U.S. funding dries up

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https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-04-ukraine-manufactures-weapons-us-reduces-money-donations.html
Ukraine is now reportedly scrambling to replenish its armory stockpiles and recently announced its intention to manufacture its own weapons, driven by a massive reduction in foreign funding, particularly from the United States. Independent news outlet Politico reported on Monday that President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as top government officials in Kyiv acknowledged that they found money in the federal budget to fund the manufacture of some weapons.

The said measure came after the passing of a clean stopgap funding bill by the U.S. government at the House of Representatives on Saturday. The short-term spending bill is a move to avoid a government shutdown, if the Senate adopts the measure, as the federal debt reached $33 trillion for the first time in history in September. If it's expedited in the Senate, Congress could just narrowly avoid seeing thousands of federal employees furloughed and nonessential government programs paused.

According to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the bill includes the $16 billion disaster relief aid that President Joe Biden requested over the summer, which means no additional taxpayer funds were allocated for Ukraine. Some Republican lawmakers cited concerns about corruption within the Ukrainian military. The funding patch will last for 45 days past the end of the fiscal year, which concludes at midnight Sunday, Oct. 1.

Without referring directly to the U.S. bill, Zelensky said in a recorded speech released on the Defenders Day holiday on Sunday, that nothing would weaken his country's fight against Russia and that no one could "shut down" Ukraine's stability, endurance, strength and courage.

So, when Ukrainian leaders huddled with hundreds of defense industry officials and policymakers from allied countries, they also decided that Kyiv was open for business. "It's a survival issue," said Pavel Verkhniatskyi, managing partner at COSA Intelligence Solutions in Kyiv. Zelensky told the audience during the meeting that co-production deals are "already being negotiated with partners" and that he has established funding in the national budget to help finance those collaborations. (Related: NATO's ammo shortage worsens due to skyrocketing prices and Ukrainian troops’ overconsumption of artillery shells.)
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A recent interview of Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBsSuW2c1pQ

At least USA taxpayers now know where their money goes

https://thenationonlineng.net/olena-zelenska-spends-1100000-on-cartier-jewelry-gets-sales-employee-fired/

The US is losing its direct power over the world. This is being shown by the fact that Russia has bypassed the sanctions. Even the US is purchasing Russian products indirectly, from other countries who purchased them from Russia.

The question remains, what does this mean for the so-called free world?


Russia has almost fully bypassed Western sanctions on oil exports

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https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-03-russia-bypassed-western-sanctions-oil-exports.html
Western sanctions against Russian oil exports have proven to be unsuccessful as Moscow continues finding ways to completely bypass them.

Revenue from Russian oil sales represents a significant share of the Kremlin’s budget, and Western countries hoped that sanctioning exports would dry up funding for their invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. and the EU have mostly barred imports of Russian oil, and the G7 and Australia joined with the EU to ban services involved in the movement of Russian oil products unless they are purchased below a price cap. The prominent role played by the G7 in insuring, shipping and financing Russian oil exports meant, at least in theory, that Russia would suffer financially as a result. The price cap approach was chosen as a way of limiting Russia’s ability to profit from the invasion while helping Russian oil continue to make its way into global markets to avoid price jumps and supply issues.

However, a report by the Financial Times shows that nearly three fourths of seaborne Russian crude oil flows moved without western insurance last month, up from 50 percent in the spring. This indicates Russia is getting better at finding ways around the G7’s oil price cap of $60 a barrel and is managing to sell it at prices that are approaching international market rates. As Zero Hedge points out, it also means that most Russian clients are simply not concerned about potential retaliation by the Biden administration for buying Russian oil.

Meanwhile, analysis by the Finnish think tank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) of the eight months following the implementation of the price cap supports these findings and shows that Russia is still relying on EU vessels to bypass sanctions so it can continue to sell oil on the world market and raise funds for its efforts in Ukraine.

Media reports in recent months have pointed to a fleet of “shadow” tankers owned and insured in countries that are not part of the price cap helping to transport Russian oil. Shipping data from Equasis shows that nearly half of these shadow tankers are registered in the United Arab Emirates, and they are responsible for moving nearly 40 percent of the total exported volume of crude oil from Russia.

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Russia is also finding ways around financial sanctions
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Thanks, yes, I did have a look at the "outfit", it is Washington based and yes does not look anything like verifiable ... but it was perfect to illustrate that there actually credible reports of a state sponsored widespread machinery of filtration, kidnapping and torture going on sponsored by Ruzzia.

Branko usually likes making things look the same so that everything is the same shit, it does not matter who governs... It is a general modus operandi of the trolls: Fud, all is the same, the others do it too... And unfortunately it does work with many people.

On the front new, two massive Ruzzian attacks have resulted in zero gains and brigade-level bmps an tanks loses. Not much change in the terrain, but a lot of attrition going on.

Yes, we know

The report that Branko linked to is not an OSCE report... it was done by a Russian propaganda outfit "The Foundation for the Study of Democracy".

Typical Kremlin trollfuckery, prepare some powerpoint for some meeting at the UN or OSCE or whatever, get it published on the "official" website, have gullible morons like Branko spread it all over the intertubes.

Oh, and I would believe you if I had not seen youtube channels, newspapers,... criticising the Ukrainian government, from Ukraine, with identified authors saying that Zelensky is not performing and not delivering.

Now, I read the report, which would need to be read along with the thousands of others, but it does not speak of systematic torture or state torture. Can you say honestly that filtration, torture and kidnapping are not a state policy in Ruzzia? I mean, if you want to trust eh OSCE...

https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/6/1/541623_1.pdf



I am sure you understand what means "pattern", but just in case, it means many similar cases pointing to a common cause.

You are trying to make look the same things that are simply not the same. The level of freedom of speech in the west is 1000 times higher than in Ruzzia, or China or under any of your favourite dictators. It simply goes with the system - a dictatorship is weak by definition because it usually can only be ended by violence or death (with rare exceptions), so "speaking" puts the guy at risk of death. In participative systems, change IS the system, so speaking about change is everyday.

1. Yes, you can do it on youtube. This is what happens when you do:

https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf

Yana, victim’s wife on SBU officials:
They have beaten him to death simply. When they came — they took him away to torture him. When they brought his body back — the heels were blue, the feet were blue.
 He’s got some traces of punctures on his hands... I don’t know... what they did to him, punctured him or drove the needles under his nails — there were holes on his hands.
Each bone has a hole in it. They tortured him like... when there was a real war no one has tortured people the way they tortured him.

I guess its like Idi Amin said:

“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”

Britain might be sending military people to train Ukrainian soldiers, but the Ukrainian troops that are left to train probably won't be able to keep up. While statistics for Russia are difficult to find, it seems that the average age for Russian soldiers is about 15 years younger.


The Average Age Of Ukraine's Soldiers At The Front Is Over 40

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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/average-age-ukraine-soldiers-front-over-40
Wallace's piece is unironically entitled Ukraine is winning. Now let's finish the job and claims that victory for Kyiv is not only possibly but even imminent if only the West keeps up its support and the Zelensky government follows NATO's guidance. Wallace admits that the question of manpower is not in Ukraine's favor, however.

Most surprising is what the man who was UK defense secretary throughout most of the war (in office until Aug.31st of this year) had to say about the status of Ukraine's forces. He called for Zelensky to enact a different policy and to essentially inject younger blood into the fight.

"The average age of the soldiers at the front is over 40. I understand President Zelensky's desire to preserve the young for the future, but… just as Britain did in 1939 and 1941, perhaps it is time to reassess the scale of Ukraine's mobilization," Wallace wrote

He said this is a major issue that still remains and must be corrected, yet still "slowly but surely" Ukraine's forces have been "adapting tactics, absorbing lessons, and making the best of the equipment we have all gifted them." Wallace argues that Zelensky must mobilize at a faster rate and in greater numbers if it wants to keep up with Russia.
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1 - Yes, in fact there are many who openly critizice the government, even in Youtube.
2 - No, adult Ruzzian are not free to oppose Putin, that is my point, they should and that is why Ukraine should not be under the Moscow regime.
3 - No, Snowden is not free to speak because he signed off not to do so. He is a spy, so not free to divulge any information (criminal or not) he got access in that capacity.

Many in Norther Ireland would disagree and many other would not. Scotland had their referendum and many overseas territories opted for independence without any fuzz.

Is adult Ukrainian free to oppose Zelensky, or adult Russian free to oppose Putin, or adult Snowden free
to expose his country crimes?

I thought so


Many in North Ireland would disagree

So much stuff here to go over.

So, for you nations do not have much to do with people - how is that? a sociological construct that exists on thin air regardless of the ones that are actually living in it by some "outside" influence? A construct requires components, a sociological construct requires humans (you do not seem to like "people"??) with shared culture, values and beliefs to underpin it. e.g. Monarchy was a "construct" until some "people" decided to cut a few heads and remove it.

Overall, you deny people the ability to guide that social superstructure. On what basis? And if it is not going to be the people of a country guiding it, then it has to be some leader out there "that knows what is best for you, regardless of your own view"? which obviously implies that it is ok to use a gun, because "people do not know" and someone has to decide for them", quite convenient to justify a war - so Ukrainians are killed "for their own best interest", since "they do not know what they want".

It is like treating adults as either babies or slaves. Grow up, take your own responsibility and make your own mistakes! Is freedom so scary or all this is just to justify Putin?

And certainly, given a few choices, people do judge what they think is correct and do know what they want, and most of us can judge quite well how we want to move forward and if I or we make mistakes so be it, we still are free to correct them. I do not recognise someone else's general ability "to know best" (I do respect expertise and knowledge in a field, not "God given missions").

As I suspected, there is something more at play on this war than a few territories.

On the home nations in UK ... belonging to UK is pretty much voluntary - as it should be everywhere. The concept of nation nowadays is extremely blurry - there are different grades of belonging and union, all of them legitimate if that is what the humans (better?) living in there decide.

Nation is not biological but sociological construct..."people" rarely know what they want, its usually other factors
that push us in some direction, otherwise we would have much more countries, like Wales, Scotland, England, Ireland
and maybe even few more just on that single island

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/the_devolution_of_zelensky.html

Branko, they want to try something else. They do not want Moscow and a group of kleptocrats ruling them by dictate... you know, bad experiences in the past with other leaders (Ruzzian or not) and the like. Little matters whatever map you show, people in Ukraine no longer accept being the serf / expendable meat / ready to be starved livestock of Moscovians.

It is not them Branko, it is you, they found a new friend and seem to be ok with hanging out for a while and perhaps marry later.