World Politics

[Wideleft]

10 hours ago, WildPath said:

I think the point was the dates on the stories and how things have shifted.

I did miss that.

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An absolutely insane Russian suicide attack. This time not around Bakhmut, but somewhere in the Zaporizhzhia region in the south. Russian troops, without any armor support, running in the open field. For Ukrainian snipers and infantrymen, they are just a training target.

 

 

[HardCoreBlue]

40 minutes ago, Tracker said:

 

                            

An absolutely insane Russian suicide attack. This time not around Bakhmut, but somewhere in the Zaporizhzhia region in the south. Russian troops, without any armor support, running in the open field. For Ukrainian snipers and infantrymen, they are just a training target.

 

 

None of this feels real. None of it. But here we are.

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6 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

None of this feels real. None of it. But here we are.

This tactic is predicated on the belief that the Russian army has more disposable bodies than the Ukrainian army has bullets. It worked for the Russians in WW2 but has not taken into account the advances in weaponry.

The tactic reminds me of "skirmish lies" which were popular in Europe before the advent of automatic weapons where opposing forces would line up in two parallel lines several hundred yards apart dressed in bright uniforms and march slowly towards each other while shooting or stand in lines and fire at each other. One of the reasons the Brits lost the American Revolutionary War was their generals' insistence on marching thus towards the American rebels while the rebels hid behind anything they could find and fired away. Some American commanders tried the British tactics and got a lot of their soldiers killed until they smartened up.

[HardCoreBlue]

Just now, Tracker said:

This tactic is predicated on the belief that the Russian army has more disposable bodies than the Ukrainian army has bullets. It worked for the Russians in WW2 but has not taken into account the advances in weaponry.

The tactic reminds me of "skirmish lies" which were popular in Europe before the advent of automatic weapons where opposing forces would line up in two parallel lines several hundred yards apart dressed in bright uniforms and march slowly towards each other while shooting or stand in lines and fire at each other. One of the reasons the Brits lost the American Revolutionary War was their generals' insistence on marching thus towards the American rebels while the rebels hid behind anything they could find and fired away. Some American commanders tried the British tactics and got a lot of their soldiers killed until they smartened up.

What's going on between the Ukraine and Russia right now is another concrete piece of undisputed fact that we are regressing as human beings not progressing.

[Wideleft]

34 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

What's going on between the Ukraine and Russia right now is another concrete piece of undisputed fact that we are regressing as human beings not progressing.

Harsh.

I personally blame Putin.

[HardCoreBlue]

3 minutes ago, Wideleft said:

Harsh.

I personally blame Putin.

Yes true, abviously a lot more complex than I put it here and there is always continuous good news about human beings. However Putin is not the only knuckle dragger causing havoc. Like Trump he has exposed other knuckle draggers amongst us that we thought for sure weren’t still around, hence the regression progression comment.

[Brandon]

3 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

What's going on between the Ukraine and Russia right now is another concrete piece of undisputed fact that we are regressing as human beings not progressing.

I wouldn't say it's regression,  the world has never had a period with no wars or conflicts.   I'd say it's human nature and unfortunately it will always be present.   

 

[Mark H.]

4 hours ago, Tracker said:

This tactic is predicated on the belief that the Russian army has more disposable bodies than the Ukrainian army has bullets. It worked for the Russians in WW2 but has not taken into account the advances in weaponry.

The tactic reminds me of "skirmish lies" which were popular in Europe before the advent of automatic weapons where opposing forces would line up in two parallel lines several hundred yards apart dressed in bright uniforms and march slowly towards each other while shooting or stand in lines and fire at each other. One of the reasons the Brits lost the American Revolutionary War was their generals' insistence on marching thus towards the American rebels while the rebels hid behind anything they could find and fired away. Some American commanders tried the British tactics and got a lot of their soldiers killed until they smartened up.

There was some logic to the strategy.  Their rifles weren't very accurate, so you could kill more soldiers if you created a concentrated burst of fire

The strategy persisted long after the American Revolution.  Hell - WWI strategy wasn't much better.

[Tracker]

2 hours ago, Mark H. said:

There was some logic to the strategy.  Their rifles weren't very accurate, so you could kill more soldiers if you created a concentrated burst of fire

The strategy persisted long after the American Revolution.  Hell - WWI strategy wasn't much better.

But you can't hit what you cannot see. Hence, the logic in conceal and contain.

[Mark H.]

13 minutes ago, Tracker said:

But you can't hit what you cannot see. Hence, the logic in conceal and contain.

Agreed. Just providing historical context.

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Putin’s Henchmen Threaten ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Dead U.S. Troops

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, delivered a sermon marking Orthodox Epiphany in Moscow this week. He spoke to those who wish “to defeat Russia,” using the occasion to deliver a threat to the West: “We pray that the Lord admonish those madmen and help them to understand that any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world.”

Russia’s top propagandists, from former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev to state TV host Vladimir Solovyov, have been spreading the same not-so subtle nuclear threat far and wide—and yet, Putin’s mouthpieces are now worried that the “boy who cried wolf” routine is no longer being taken seriously by their target audience in the West. The dilemma manifested during a live broadcast of The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov. After the lineup of talking heads took turns reiterating that Russia’s defeat would mean the end of the world, their agitprop was suddenly deflated by Yevgeny Satanovsky, President of the Institute of the Middle East.

“First of all, our main enemy is certainly the United States. What does the U.S. react to? They react to two things: the threat of physical annihilation and the liquidation of a certain number of military personnel. What we know based on wars in Vietnam and Korea is that several tens of thousands of annihilated American servicemen will cause the public opinion in the U.S. to be severely strained. I will repeat: not several thousand, like in Afghanistan or Iraq, but a certain number of tens of thousands. Who will liquidate them, where they will be liquidated and in what way is completely irrelevant, but this is one of the objectives if we want to influence the American leadership. We have absolutely nothing to lose.”

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Russia lost 188,000 people in the war with Ukraine, according to US intelligence

 

 

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[the watcher]

A good opinion piece.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/system-rigged-inequality-pandemic-despair-super-rich

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Russia’s ‘Elite’ Shadow Army Edges Into Complete Collapse

Tens of thousands of fighters rounded up to fight in Ukraine for Wagner Group, the Russian private mercenary fighting corps, have gone missing or died, according to a Russian non-governmental organization.

While Wagner Group recruited approximately 50,000 fighters in recent months, including from prisons, only 10,000 fighters remain fighting at the front for Wagner, Olga Romanova, the head of Russia Behind Bars, told My Russian Rights, according to The Moscow Times.

“According to our data, 42-43 thousand [prisoners] were recruited by the end of December. Now they are, most likely, already over 50,000,” Romanova said. “Of these, 10,000 are fighting at the front, because all the rest are either killed… or missing, or deserted, or surrendered.”

The statistic cited is just the latest indication that Wagner’s fighting force is falling apart in Ukraine, even as Russia works to secure wins on the battlefield almost one year after the invasion of Ukraine.

Wagner Group fighters have been involved in the heavy fighting in Soledar in recent weeks, a town in which Russia has claimed victory. Wagner has also been largely responsible for gains made in Bakhmut nearby, “at an extraordinary cost,” given that many of the Wagner recruits had minimal training since Wagner recruited 40,000 convicts, John Kirby, a White House National Security Council coordinator, told reporters last week.

 

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Kremlin Admits ‘Putin’s Chef’ Might Be Assassinated Soon
‘A VERY GOOD IDEA’
The Kremlin claims Ukraine could be plotting to take out Yevgeny Prigozhin. But could Putin and co. be laying the groundwork for something themselves? The Kremlin signaled Tuesday that Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin could soon find himself the target of an assassination attempt.

Although Prigozhin is widely reported to have pissed off many officials in Vladimir Putin’s orbit with his antics in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it is actually authorities in Kyiv that Prigozhin should worry about.

Prigozhin himself claimed earlier Tuesday that he’d been briefed on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and CIA director William Burns supposedly getting together to discuss his assassination.

“This is more of a question for the special services,” Peskov told reporters when asked about the allegation.

“But as for assassination attempts, Ukraine is involved in both assassination attempts and an absolutely monstrous murder. Let's remember the assassination attempts that took place. Let's remember the murder of [Daria] Dugina and so forth. The involvement of the Kyiv regime in such assassination attempts is obvious, so there is such a danger to our citizens,” Peskov said.

The “assassination” claim originally came from Vladimir Rogov, one of Russia’s proxy leaders in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.

-Getty News

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BIG NEWS!!!!

 

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

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Edited January 25, 2023 by Wanna-B-Fanboy

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Putin Lackeys Lose Their Minds Over Ukraine Getting Battle Tanks

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It didn’t take long for Russian officials to start foaming at the mouth and ranting about global conspiracies after Germany agreed to deliver its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday.

After weeks of resistance, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that, along with allies, the country would provide 88 of the battle tanks to Ukraine, effectively giving Kyiv more firepower to launch new offensives. The Biden administration was also expected to announce a deal to send 30 M1 Abrams tanks to the country.

The Russian Embassy in Berlin was among the first out of the gate after the news broke—offering a bizarre, if not deranged, take: “Berlin’s decision signifies the unequivocal refusal of the Federal Republic of Germany to recognize historical responsibility to our people for the terrible, timeless crimes of Nazism,” Russian Ambassador Sergei Nechayev said in a statement.

The statement went on to say the tanks would also put an end to “postwar reconciliation between Russians and Germans” and “take the conflict to a new level of confrontation.”

Kremlin mouthpiece Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT, joined Russian diplomats in offering up far-fetched Nazi comparisons.

“After a flogging by Washington, Germany will send 14 tanks to Ukraine. Closer to summer, deliveries of gas chambers are also expected,” Simonyan tweeted.

TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov called European leaders “Nazi scumbags” and argued that the delivery of Leopard tanks to Ukraine makes all of Germany a “legitimate” military target for Russia. He claimed Germany has “forgotten its historical guilt” and must pay for it.

Sergei Aksyonov, the Kremlin’s man in charge in occupied Crimea—one of the territories Ukrainian authorities may use the tanks to take back—published what he said were the schematics of Germany’s Leopard 2A4 tank on Telegram.

[bustamente]

We would of flattened Ukraine if only you stupid countries would mind your own business and look away as we invade and kill innocent people for our pathetic excuse of a waste of space leader.

[Mark H.]

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

We would of flattened Ukraine if only you stupid countries would mind your own business and look away as we invade and kill innocent people for our pathetic excuse of a waste of space leader.

Congratulations - on summarizing the Fox talking points

Now, just add something about Europeans freezing to death without Russian oil, and you're ready to start a youtube 'news channel'

^^ sarcasm ^^

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2 hours ago, Mark H. said:

Congratulations - on summarizing the Fox talking points

Now, just add something about Europeans freezing to death without Russian oil, and you're ready to start a youtube 'news channel'

^^ sarcasm ^^

Newsmax channel in the US, a Qanon-Trump mouthpiece and a staunch supporter of independence from government interference is now asking  the government to force cable companies to include them on standard packages.

[Mark H.]

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

Newsmax channel in the US, a Qanon-Trump mouthpiece and a staunch supporter of independence from government interference is now asking  the government to force cable companies to include them on standard packages.

Interesting...they need government to do that for them...