Ukrainian victory over Russia is inevitable
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"A vast 10 kilometre traffic jam formed overnight on one of Russia's major roads - the M4 - to the south, trapping motorists in freezing temperatures."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/blizzards-sweep-across-russia-bringing-054737625.html The question is how much is stockpiled on the Russian front lines? There should be a narrow window where Russian resupply convoys should be easy to spot once the weather lightens up. And it's not even January or February yet. |
Anonymous
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Putin is now threatening Finland with "problems" after they entered NATO.
I'm sure Biden's one word "Don't" will put the fear of Gawd into Putin. Joe has them on the run. Yep. 
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Anonymous
Russians don’t write in English, silly. Both countries use Cyrillic. All this Zelenskyy, Zelenski, Zelenskiy business is just transcribers having fun. |
Anonymous
DP, but every Russian and Ukrainian's international passports are in English, silly. |
Anonymous
As opposed to Trump who would just hand Finland (and Alaska) on a platter to Putin … |
Anonymous
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Guessing the watercooler talk around the Kremlin is getting grim this Christmas. Even the Russian Propagandists know their time is near.
In this video, Solovyov advocates for "military field courts" to hang traitors and burn their bodies. https://twitter.com/XSovietNews/status/1733921324249096488 Margarita Simonyan: [5:55 / 7:30] "To live with this feeling. You're a bunny on the field. And the hunters come out trying to catch this bunny. It isn't very pleasant." [6:55 / 7:30] "I would say that I will hang myself, but suicide is prohibited by the church." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGZ_pz2PTI |
Anonymous
| The reason Putin hates Zelensky so much is because one of his daughters married a guy whose name is also Zelensky. |
Anonymous
You seriously that has more impact than Zelensky leading an unexpected, intelligent and forceful counter attack to Putin who thought Russia would just waltz in and claim Ukraine within a month or two? |
Anonymous
He hated Zelensky prior to the war. The directive from Kremlin was to paint Zelensky as a “weak clown, who won the election by doing under the table deals”. That’s how Zelensky was painted in Russia prior to the war, after the war Zelensky was painted as a Nazi. Zelensky is everything that Putin is now, young, great speaker, unifier, charismatic. Hence the hate. |
Anonymous
| I for one spell Zelensky because it is easiest… why the need for the extra letters? |
Anonymous
Correct but there are no set transcribing rules. How do you transcribe, for instance, a Cyrillic ж? Like a j or like a zh? What about a common ending like ий? Is it a y, a yy, an i, an iy, an yi, or an ii? What about a я, is it a ya or an ia? It’s whatever convention is in force at the time the passport is issued. But depend upon it: Zelensky the president and any other Zelenski, Zelenskiy, or Zelenskyyyyyyy pronounce their names in the exact same way. |
Anonymous
Not quite. Russian-speakers and transcribers have specific patterns, practices, and spellings that they use, whether consciously or unconsciously, which are different than the ones Ukrainians use. You can tell because transcribers who are native Russian speakers are not as accustomed to the nuances of Ukrainian, or even properly making sense of the how to deal with the fact that Ukrainian has a few letters that aren't in Russian. It shows up in many places, like the fact that Ukrainian has the letter Ґ but Russian doesn't, so Gostomel vs Hostomel is a giveaway, Ukrainian has Є but Russian doesn't, and Ukrainian has Ї but Russian doesn't. Those differences in language constantly show up in how texts were transcribed, which also leaves many immediate tells as to whether the piece came from a Russian source and that it has a Russian slant to it. How "Zelenskyy" is transcribed is yet another one of those tells. |
Anonymous
Nope. It doesn't depend on the fact of Cyrillic, it depends on the LANGUAGE being used. Surely you should know that Cyrillic isn't just used for Russian, it is also used for a whole variety of Slavic languages like Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, etc each of which has its own pronunciation rules and variations which will transcribe differently than Russian. Not to mention all of the NON-slavic languages that use Cyrillic, like Abkhazian, Chechen, Kyrgyz, and so on whose pronunciation and transcription rules are even more different than the Slavic languages. Also: Ukrainian and Russian have been separate branches of Slavic language for 1000 years, and there are in fact differences in pronunciation and appropriate transcription between the two. It's not "It's all the same." On another note, the use of Cyrillic in Ukraine predates the use of it in Russia. The Kievan Rus' of Ukraine adopted it in the 10th century from the Bulgarians of Tsar Simeon I. Moscow was, at the time, nothing but a swamp. Moscow wasn't even founded until 1147. At the time, the city of Kyiv had already existed for at least 600 years. |
Anonymous
I take it you meant not not now and your analysis now makes perfect sense. Thanks! |
Anonymous
God hates Russia. 
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