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Post by vintagecomics on Sept 22, 2022 13:51:38 GMT -8
For Putin, however, Ukraine isn’t simply a land grab. It’s a template that, if successful, could be applied elsewhere, even to Poland, Romania, the Baltics and the rest of NATO’s eastern flank. And as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the U.N. Security Council Thursday, safeguarding Ukraine from Putin’s belligerence is also about “protecting an international order where no nation can redraw the borders of another by force. If we fail to defend this principle, when the Kremlin is so flagrantly violating it, we send a message to aggressors everywhere that they can ignore it too.”They're trying to make Putin sound like he's a nut only interested in expanding Russia and I don't believe he is. The sovereignty of Russia is being threatened as NATO tighten a noose around the Russia with strategic military partners. Like, how would the US react if Cuba became a Russian ally? Oh wait. This was was inevitable and the West knew it. IT's a conflict of ideologies and the West are looking to encroach on Russia just as much as Russia is looking to either expand outward or just hold it's own sovereignty. I'd still love to know the inner dealings of Biden, Trump and the Ukraine fiasco that happened over the last few years. There is more to that story than the mainstream talks about.
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Post by barry on Sept 22, 2022 16:48:45 GMT -8
For Putin, however, Ukraine isn’t simply a land grab. It’s a template that, if successful, could be applied elsewhere, even to Poland, Romania, the Baltics and the rest of NATO’s eastern flank. And as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the U.N. Security Council Thursday, safeguarding Ukraine from Putin’s belligerence is also about “protecting an international order where no nation can redraw the borders of another by force. If we fail to defend this principle, when the Kremlin is so flagrantly violating it, we send a message to aggressors everywhere that they can ignore it too.”They're trying to make Putin sound like he's a nut only interested in expanding Russia and I don't believe he is. The sovereignty of Russia is being threatened as NATO tighten a noose around the Russia with strategic military partners. Like, how would the US react if Cuba became a Russian ally? Oh wait. This was was inevitable and the West knew it. IT's a conflict of ideologies and the West are looking to encroach on Russia just as much as Russia is looking to either expand outward or just hold it's own sovereignty. I'd still love to know the inner dealings of Biden, Trump and the Ukraine fiasco that happened over the last few years. There is more to that story than the mainstream talks about. That theory doesn't hold up though. They were invited into the West's economic system and given veto power on the UN security council. We could easily have let the Germans slice through them in WW2 if we had wanted. This is the same country that divided up Poland with Hitler before the war and then rolled over country after country after it. Comparisons of Russia to the West end up looking like good vs evil. We gave them the same opportunities as we did China, and stupidly thought making them economically rich would appease them. It didn't. Pretending to be afraid of NATO is mostly theater, and can't be compared to Soviet nukes being loaded up and pointed at the US in Cuba. I'm in agreement with you on the Biden/Trump/Ukraine fiasco. I think there were some bad actors at play there.
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Post by barry on Sept 23, 2022 2:51:15 GMT -8
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Post by barry on Sept 23, 2022 2:58:36 GMT -8
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Post by barry on Sept 23, 2022 15:38:51 GMT -8
'He's in trouble and he knows it': CNN analyst explains Putin's mindset
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Post by barry on Sept 25, 2022 4:05:29 GMT -8
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Post by barry on Sept 26, 2022 4:03:44 GMT -8
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Post by barry on Sept 28, 2022 7:11:48 GMT -8
General Petraeus: Putin is desperate and in an irreversible situation | DW News
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Post by barry on Sept 28, 2022 15:25:31 GMT -8
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Post by barry on Sept 29, 2022 3:23:42 GMT -8
'We can't trust our government': Man joins tens of thousands fleeing Russia's draft
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Post by barry on Sept 29, 2022 3:28:37 GMT -8
Russia Says To Annex Four Occupied Ukraine Regions FridaySeptember 29, 2022 Moscow will formally annex four Russia-occupied regions of Ukraine at a Kremlin ceremony on Friday, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Thursday. "Tomorrow in the Georgian Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace at 15:00 (1200 GMT) a signing ceremony will take place on the incorporation of the new territories into Russia," spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. He added that the Russian leader will make a major speech at the event. Ukraine's Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions are occupied by the Russian army, which Putin sent over the border in February. Moscow organised what it called referendums in the four regions that it controls, with Kremlin-installed officials saying this week residents backed joining Russia. All four Moscow-backed leaders of the regions said they were in Moscow and expecting a meeting with Putin. The move comes eight years after Moscow annexed the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine and would mark a significant escalation in the conflict. The West has warned Russia not to press ahead with he annexations, with the G7 saying it would "never recognise" the move. Kyiv has asked for more military aid as a response.
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Post by barry on Sept 29, 2022 3:32:58 GMT -8
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Post by barry on Oct 1, 2022 3:28:43 GMT -8
Keep an eye on Lyman. Putin Suffers Most Humiliating Ukraine Defeat YetThousands of Russian troops may be trapped after a rapid-fire Ukrainian counter-attack fought to encircle a key strategic city on the very day Putin claimed to be annexing it.Barbie Latza Nadeau Correspondent-At-Large Updated Sep. 30, 2022 1:20PM ET / Published Sep. 30, 2022 8:28AM ET Moscow celebrated the annexation of huge swathes of Eastern Ukraine Friday but President Vladimir Putin’s party was wrecked by a lightning counter-attack that may have trapped thousands of his men in a key city supposedly now part of Russia. “This is the will of millions of people,” Putin said at a glitzy ceremony in front of high-ranking Russian diplomats still in the country. “People living in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson region and Zaporizhzhia region are becoming our compatriots forever.” But as he gloated, Ukrainian sources claimed that the strategic city of Lyman, which has served as a Russian military hub in Donetsk, has been encircled and supply lines cut. “Lyman! The operation to encircle the Russian group is at the stage of completion,” said Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko on Friday. The claim could not be independently verified but, if confirmed, it would be one of the most serious Russian military losses of the war so far. Pro-Kremlin forces have conceded that the Ukrainians have made major gains in the region and are close to cutting off the Russian staging post in northern Donetsk, which has been under Russian control since July. An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky tweeted that Russian forces would have to “ask for an exit from Lyman” if they want to surrender, adding, “Only if, of course, those in the Kremlin are concerned for their soldiers.” Ukraine said earlier in the week they had made deep gains in the stronghold region and were close to taking back the territory—despite Putin’s claims that the region now belonged to an enlarged Russia. Speaking after Putin’s formally announced that four enclaves partially controlled by Russia would be subsumed into the country against all international law, Zelensky vowed to win them back. “The entire territory of our country will be liberated from this enemy—the enemy not only of Ukraine, but also of life itself, humanity, law and truth,” he said. The latest military humiliation for Moscow will continue to raise speculation that Putin could decide to lash out in new, more brutal ways. Russian state television political editor Maxim Yusin warned that Putin intended to push the button on a nuclear attack in the “coming days or weeks,” adding that people should “have fun because it would be a shame to live out the remaining time with pessimism.” Military analysts say the recapture of Lyman could bolster morale and push the Ukrainian military to move to Luhansk province, which is the heart of the industrial region of the Donbas. Putin planned to annex Donbas after the bogus ballot referendum, which Western intelligence sources say was mostly held at gunpoint. Ukraine’s military outlined a large-scale counter attack. “If Lyman falls, our forces can… cut the main supply corridor to Russian troops in Severodonetsk and Lysychansk [in Luhansk],” Ukraine’s military General Staff said on Telegram. The British Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the gains came at the same time as a monumental supply issue for the Russians. “Medical provision for Russian combat troops in Ukraine is probably growing worse,” the MoD said Friday in its weekly war assessment bulletin. “Some newly mobilized Russian reservists have been ordered to source their own combat first aid supplies, with the advice that female sanitary products are a cost-effective solution.” Among the other issues appears to be theft, with some new soldiers using zip ties to secure tourniquet supplies, rather than the standard Velcro attachments, which make them easier to steal. “This is almost certain to hamper or render impossible the timely application of tourniquet care in the case of catastrophic bleeding on the battlefield,” the MoD statement claims. “Russian troops’ lack of confidence in sufficient medical provision is almost certainly contributing to a declining state of morale and a lack of willingness to undertake offensive operations in many units in Ukraine.” The British military also suggests that more Russians have escaped across the border than actually fought in the war so far after a mandatory draft was instated. “The better off and well educated are over-represented among those attempting to leave Russia,” they said. “When combined with those reservists who are being mobilized, the domestic economic impact of reduced availability of labor and the acceleration of ‘brain drain’ is likely to become increasingly significant.” Meanwhile in Moscow, plans for an annexation ceremony continue for Friday.
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Post by barry on Oct 1, 2022 3:39:23 GMT -8
Ukraine war: Russian troops 'encircled' as Ukraine 'poised to retake' Lyman, and other key stories
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Post by barry on Oct 1, 2022 10:17:58 GMT -8
Putin has egg all over his face less than 24 hours after his sham referendums.
Ukraine is saying that as many as 5,000 Russian troops are surrounded in Lyman. Russia has reported they were forced to withdraw.
Russia is being defeated by obsolete Western weapons.
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