Ukrainian victory over Russia is inevitable

[Anonymous]

Slow news day, so we get annals of pettiness:

Stripping citizenship for performing in Russia: https://www.rt.com/news/583028-lithuania-russia-figure-skater-citizenship/

Kicking contestants out of beauty contests becomes of "insufficient patriotism" and being "friends with Russians": https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/582932-miss-ukraine-contestants-russia-ties/

This is what real winning looks like.

[Anonymous]

Kadryov is in a coma. Is it do to years of unhealthy living and rampant drug abuse or is he the latest victim of improperly installed windows?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slow news day, so we get annals of pettiness:

Stripping citizenship for performing in Russia: https://www.rt.com/news/583028-lithuania-russia-figure-skater-citizenship/

Kicking contestants out of beauty contests becomes of "insufficient patriotism" and being "friends with Russians": https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/582932-miss-ukraine-contestants-russia-ties/

This is what real winning looks like.

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"we get annals of pettiness". Oh the bot farm is so bad today! Do they pay you in potatoes?

[Anonymous]

I’m fully on board with the recent attacks on the Russian naval fleet in Crimea, but I’m concerned about putting the cart before the horse—this brilliant sea-based attack should have been timed to coincide with the breakthrough on land into Crimea. I fear we will not be able to capitalize on this successful attack as much as we otherwise would. This doesn’t seem well planned out even though it was a great attack that paid dividends.

As best I can tell the Ukrainian forces have only broken through first Russian line of defense and are working on the second line. Really hoping we can make faster progress. It would be a nightmare to be trying to roll into Crimea just at the exact moment the autumn rains show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m fully on board with the recent attacks on the Russian naval fleet in Crimea, but I’m concerned about putting the cart before the horse—this brilliant sea-based attack should have been timed to coincide with the breakthrough on land into Crimea. I fear we will not be able to capitalize on this successful attack as much as we otherwise would. This doesn’t seem well planned out even though it was a great attack that paid dividends.

As best I can tell the Ukrainian forces have only broken through first Russian line of defense and are working on the second line. Really hoping we can make faster progress. It would be a nightmare to be trying to roll into Crimea just at the exact moment the autumn rains show up.

UAF is making progress around Bahkmut. This counteroffensive will just be a slog. Our expectations were skewed by the unicorn of rapid success in Kharkiv last fall.

Crimea is the whole ballgame. I don't think there's any downside to pressing whatever advantage Ukraine can muster right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kadryov is in a coma. Is it do to years of unhealthy living and rampant drug abuse or is he the latest victim of improperly installed windows?

Rumor is he was poisoned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m fully on board with the recent attacks on the Russian naval fleet in Crimea, but I’m concerned about putting the cart before the horse—this brilliant sea-based attack should have been timed to coincide with the breakthrough on land into Crimea. I fear we will not be able to capitalize on this successful attack as much as we otherwise would. This doesn’t seem well planned out even though it was a great attack that paid dividends.

As best I can tell the Ukrainian forces have only broken through first Russian line of defense and are working on the second line. Really hoping we can make faster progress. It would be a nightmare to be trying to roll into Crimea just at the exact moment the autumn rains show up.

UAF is making progress around Bahkmut. This counteroffensive will just be a slog. Our expectations were skewed by the unicorn of rapid success in Kharkiv last fall.

Crimea is the whole ballgame. I don't think there's any downside to pressing whatever advantage Ukraine can muster right now.

As far as Crimea, Ukraine can play the waiting-game, once they drop the Kerch straight bridge. Sure, Russia can try their own version of the Berlin airlift for a while. But Ukraine controls the water to Crimea. And without the naval bases, it is not much good to Russia.

Eventually they will have to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m fully on board with the recent attacks on the Russian naval fleet in Crimea, but I’m concerned about putting the cart before the horse—this brilliant sea-based attack should have been timed to coincide with the breakthrough on land into Crimea. I fear we will not be able to capitalize on this successful attack as much as we otherwise would. This doesn’t seem well planned out even though it was a great attack that paid dividends.

As best I can tell the Ukrainian forces have only broken through first Russian line of defense and are working on the second line. Really hoping we can make faster progress. It would be a nightmare to be trying to roll into Crimea just at the exact moment the autumn rains show up.

The attacks on the naval base are the result of taking out the radars - especially over the horizon.
I think they are more timing their assault for making close air support (or air support for that matter) an option.

I am not sure of the manpads laying around for the Russians but Ukraine may be setting up their final push to include combined arms for the first time in this war. So maybe the F-16s may have a bigger part in their plans early winter.

[Anonymous]

Russia’s barbaric war on Ukraine—and before that on Syria, Libya, Georgia, and Chechnya—has exposed the Russian Federation’s viciously imperial character to the entire world. Its aggression also is catalyzing a long-overdue conversation about Russia’s interior empire, given Moscow’s dominion over many indigenous non-Russian nations, and the brutal extent to which the Kremlin has taken to suppress their national self-expression and self-determination.

Serious and controversial discussions are now underway about reckoning with Russia’s fundamental imperialism and the need to “decolonize” Russia for it to become a viable stakeholder in European security and stability. As the successor to the Soviet Union, which cloaked its colonial agenda in anti-imperial and anti-capitalist nomenclature, Russia has yet to attract appropriate scrutiny for its consistent and oftentimes brutal imperial tendencies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some interesting documented war crimes (by Russia)

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/03/ukraine-apparent-war-crimes-russia-controlled-areas

I could only read part of that….Russians are animals

I think the real takeaway from that article is that Russian troops commit fewer crimes than DC's resident criminal class over the same time period.

Nah - not even DC is this bad :
“ The soldier took her to a classroom on the second floor, where he pointed a gun at her and told her to undress. She said: “He told me to give him [oral sex]. The whole time he held the gun near my temple or put it into my face. Twice he shot at the ceiling and said it was to give me more ‘motivation.’” He raped her, then told her to sit on a chair.”

“ Three bodies were on one side of the building, but not my son and brother-in-law. We walked around to the other side and saw [Bohdan and Sasha, and one more]. They were laying there. There were gunshots to their heads. Their hands were tied behind their backs. I looked at my son’s body, his pockets were empty, he didn’t have his phone, or keys or [identity] documents”

Methinks many Russians will be in war crimes courts if they are not (ideally) already dead.

I wonder if the Russian soldiers realized yet where they will be vacationing in the next 5 to 10 years? Won't be in Turkey, or Rome, or Paris, or Berlin, or Miami, or London. Nope. Given the war crimes that Russian soldiers have racked up, just a scan of a passport and they'll be hauled off to a War Crimes court for trial. They'd be extradited for war crimes. Sure, maybe the Officers can swing a 6-hour flight from Moscow to Egypt (just be careful of Tiger Sharks), but for the regular soldiers iiiitts Sochi! Imagine fighting the crowd to book reservations within a three-month window year after year just to lie down on pebble and rock beaches. There's always the ever-fun Lake Baikal! "even though much of the lake's surface freezes over for up to five months of the year. For about a month around August, the lake's water temperature can reach around 16 degrees Celsius, making it suitable for quick dips or short swims. During the rest of the year, however, it usually stays under five degrees Celsius" And don't forget Moscow in the Winter! Enjoy!

LOL what an active fantasy life you have.

Did you read that feature on Forte de Marmi, a deluxe resort town in Italy that exists due to the Russian, Ukrainian, etc. largesse?

We were in Turkey in July. It is positively brimming with Russians, Istanbul, Mediterranean, Aegean, anywhere. Even ice cream kiosks in Cappadocia have signs in Russian.

And little soldiers, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, never vacationed overseas before the war, either.

Money will always be welcome everywhere.

lol. Yeah. Good luck with that. Trump thought the same thing as well.

[Anonymous]

While Ukraine's offensive on the battlefield has stalled out, its offensive against the Orthodox Church is making much more progress. Mayor Klitschko shut 74 churches on Friday: https://www.rt.com/russia/583031-kiev-orthodox-church-crackdown/

Now what would make Klitschko so eager to shut churches down? Perhaps something in his background or something that happened in his early life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While Ukraine's offensive on the battlefield has stalled out, its offensive against the Orthodox Church is making much more progress. Mayor Klitschko shut 74 churches on Friday: https://www.rt.com/russia/583031-kiev-orthodox-church-crackdown/

Now what would make Klitschko so eager to shut churches down? Perhaps something in his background or something that happened in his early life?

The Russian Orthodox Church has provided the ideological fuel for this unholy invasion of Ukraine. Kirill et al will rot in hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While Ukraine's offensive on the battlefield has stalled out, its offensive against the Orthodox Church is making much more progress. Mayor Klitschko shut 74 churches on Friday: https://www.rt.com/russia/583031-kiev-orthodox-church-crackdown/

Now what would make Klitschko so eager to shut churches down? Perhaps something in his background or something that happened in his early life?

Not so fast with the “stalled out” talk. This is the peak of the counteroffensive and just as it’s beginning to breakthrough the new F16’s that were promised a few months ago should be arriving soon. Russians are on the back foot. How many Russian generals were locked up this week for speaking truth to power??

[Anonymous]

Not sure if you all remember the discussion about Russian republics about six months ago on this thread? The situation in both Chechnya and Belarus are already fragile. Now there's a possibility of a hot-war developing between Amenia and Azerbaijan? Imagine the nightmare for the Kremlin if one or more new battlefronts open up within the neighboring Republics? Where will the pro-Kremlin supporters get ammo? Supplies? If left to fend for themselves, the Republics themselves could be weakened or even overthrown.

However, there is one Joker in the deck. Look at the last article. Will Belarus be used as a 'nuclear proxy' to launch from and keep Russian territory clean if tactical nukes fly?

"Azerbaijani forces using Russian-style symbols are massing on the border of Armenia"
“If Russia doesn’t protect you, what is the utility of the relationship?”
"Israel, Turkey is an ally of Azerbaijan"
"Since December, Azerbaijan has blocked the Lachin corridor, first using civilian environmental protesters and then installing a blockade that stops even aid convoys from reaching the city of Stepanakert, all overseen by watching and impassive Russian soldiers."
"Roughly 120,000 ethnic Armenians live on this mountain plateau, in and around Stepanakert, which is now cut off."
“There hasn’t been bread for three days,” she said by telephone. “When I walk through the streets I hear children begging their mothers for food and their mothers crying because they have no answers.”
"Stepanakert’s stores are bare and there is no coffee, tea or tobacco. Farmers carry basic produce to market on foot or by donkey and cart."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/azerbaijani-forces-using-russian-style-154246922.html

"Kadyrov’s health appeared to deteriorate in recent days. Obozrevatel reported earlier this week that Kadyrov went into a coma and was flown to Moscow to seek treatment"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-attack-dog-kadyrov-reportedly-172212726.html

"Days before ruthless Chechnyan warlord and Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov was reportedly hospitalized in a coma, he was accused of burying his personal doctor alive in retaliation for trying to poison him."
https://nypost.com/2023/09/16/chechen-warlord-said-to-bury-his-doctor-alive-before-coma/

https://worldcrunch.com/focus/belarussian-russian-passports

"At least 5 trains suspected of transporting Russian nuclear warheads (or associated parts/components/equipment) have recently arrived in Belarus, to Baranovichi-Polesskiye and Luninets stations. 3 trains are expected to Prudok in October/November"
https://belarus.liveuamap.com/en/2023/12-september-at-least-5-trains-suspected-of-transporting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While Ukraine's offensive on the battlefield has stalled out, its offensive against the Orthodox Church is making much more progress. Mayor Klitschko shut 74 churches on Friday: https://www.rt.com/russia/583031-kiev-orthodox-church-crackdown/

Now what would make Klitschko so eager to shut churches down? Perhaps something in his background or something that happened in his early life?

Maybe he doesn't like spies and corrupt clergy?

https://www.academia.edu/37152767/The_Mikhailov_Files_Patriarch_Kirill_and_the_KGB

"Patriarch Alexy II, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and spiritual leader of tens of millions of Christians, was a fully fledged KGB agent"
"code name 'Drozdov' (Thrush)"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/feb/12/1

"The Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill loves teaching values to people but in 2012, his photo was doctored to airbrush out a luxury watch he was wearing. The gold Breguet watch is estimated to be worth more than £19,000 and was spotted by Russian bloggers."
"It has gone to great lengths to explain the patriarch's use of luxury yachts, private jets, exclusive mansions and other gifts donated by various Russian benefactors — including the infamous gold watch."
"The patriarch is also understood to oversee a sprawling private property portfolio of his own, including three apartments under his name in Moscow and St Petersburg."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-22/meet-patriarch-kirill-orthodox-church-leader-and-putin-ally/101858322