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Anonymous wrote:This is simply bizarre. Zelensky is changing the date of Christmas to own the Russians. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/29/europe/ukraine-christmas-date-change-intl/index.html

Somewhat expected when the Russian Orthodox church supported Putin. This signals that both symbolically and spiritually, the Russian Orthodox church is not the spiritual center of Ukraine. Precedent is the 1534 Church of England separating from the Roman Catholic church, or the 1054 “Great Schism” that formed the Russian Orthodox church.

LOL don't worry. Neither Ukrainians nor Russians are particularly religious, and both regard the newly introduced "Christmas" holiday as just another day off. In truth, both nations will continue to celebrate with wild abandon on the only day god intended: December 31st. S Novym Godom!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:This is simply bizarre. Zelensky is changing the date of Christmas to own the Russians. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/29/europe/ukraine-christmas-date-change-intl/index.html

Somewhat expected when the Russian Orthodox church supported Putin. This signals that both symbolically and spiritually, the Russian Orthodox church is not the spiritual center of Ukraine. Precedent is the 1534 Church of England separating from the Roman Catholic church, or the 1054 “Great Schism” that formed the Russian Orthodox church.

Better pedophiles than invaders, I guess. Abortion bans are next on the agenda to please Poland.

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Russia defeated Napoleon and Hitler when everybody thought that they were finished and retreating. Never underestimate Russia.
The country on-track towards anarchy is Ukraine. Have you been there? I have. The level of destruction is unimaginable. It will take 50 years to rebuild that country once the war is over.
Ukraine's counteroffensive is failing badly. Zelensky would be wise to negotiate a settlement to end the war and preserve the territories they currently have under control, but more importantly to preserve the life of ten of thousands of Ukrainian people.

Napoleon, WTF are you talking about? How is that relevant at all? If anything, Russia and its crappy supply lines are playing the role of Napoleon in this war. Ukraine's counteroffensive is already far more successful than Russia's winter offensive. How many bodies did they throw away to level a town they've already lost?

It is relevant because Russia has now moved into a defensive position. Ukraine took the bait and started a counteroffensive that will prove to be a fatal mistake. Russia is stronger when they play defense. That's why Napoleon's war is relevant, so is Hitler's. Russia can't lose in defensive positions. It never has. Napoleon and Hitler know it too well. Zelensky will regret starting this counteroffensive. They will be crushed like many other that have tried.

?? Having a huge tactical advantage while playing defense is not uniquely Russian. It's why Russia's initial offensive was so pitifully anemic. Their supposed "second best army in the world" failed to capture (or even enter) the capital of its neighbor, who at the time, hadn't been truly geared up by the West. But Russia isn't playing defense at home. They're playing defense in occupied territory and will have to be supplied, refreshed, replenished, etc. That's where they'll fail and ultimately repeat their awesome Kharkiv defense. Unless by defense, do you mean running away with looted toilets?

They aren't even "playing defense" - the Ukrainian advance is accelerating, and the Russians keep losing territory. Ukraine has recaptured several towns in just the last few days alone. And, Russia faces an ever increasing number of strikes against military, intel and government targets well inside Russia's own borders, not just on key depots and bases deep inside territory they hold.

You are dreaming. Ukraine’s counteroffensive is a disaster. NATO and the West have acknowledged it and are putting more pressure on Zelensky.

“When Ukraine launched its big counteroffensive this spring, Western military officials knew Kyiv didn’t have all the training or weapons—from shells to warplanes—that it needed to dislodge Russian forces. But they hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day. They haven’t. Deep and deadly minefields, extensive fortifications and Russian air power have combined to largely block significant advances by Ukrainian’s troops.”

Oh? I didn't realize Russia was doing so well?

"Russian Cultural Center Goes Up in Flames in Cyprus"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-cultural-center-goes-up-in-flames-in-cyprus

Vaso Kapanadze, political scientist, Georgian analyst on Soloviev LIVE : "Tbilisi will respond appropriately to manifestations of Russophobia in Batumi. A criminal case has been initiated, the investigation will find the perpetrators, and they will be punished. Everything that happens, you can’t call it anything other than insanity. This is disrespect both to the Russian people and to their own people."
https://t.me/s/SolovievLive?before=200081

"Baza later reported that a military enlistment office in Ulan-Ude was also set on fire, making it the 12th such incident in 24 hours." [St. Petersburg, Mozhaysk, Rossosh, Aginskoe, Podolsk, Kaluga, Chelyabinsk region, Kopeysk, Verkhneuralsk, Sestroretsk]
https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/08/01/at-least-10-russian-military-enlistment-offices-set-on-fire-in-past-day

"Pro-Ukrainian residents of Crimea "systematically" attack Russian military bases with Molotov cocktails"
https://news.yahoo.com/military-intelligence-crimean-residents-conduct-121145252.html

You think Russia can take over all of Ukraine and end the war, when Russia is desperately struggling to hold onto the little bit of the country it's still occupying?

Anonymous wrote:This is simply bizarre. Zelensky is changing the date of Christmas to own the Russians. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/29/europe/ukraine-christmas-date-change-intl/index.html

Somewhat expected when the Russian Orthodox church supported Putin. This signals that both symbolically and spiritually, the Russian Orthodox church is not the spiritual center of Ukraine. Precedent is the 1534 Church of England separating from the Roman Catholic church, or the 1054 “Great Schism” that formed the Russian Orthodox church.

Anonymous wrote:Good news - I heard on American public radio that the new Ukranian brigades joining the counter-offensive are NATO-trained, and that will be part of why big gains are expected in the push to cut off the land bridge to Crimea soon.

A good way to evaluate this may be to look at all other Ukraine-related predictions you heard on American public radio and see if they came true.

Anonymous wrote:Good news - I heard on American public radio that the new Ukranian brigades joining the counter-offensive are NATO-trained, and that will be part of why big gains are expected in the push to cut off the land bridge to Crimea soon.

Better check with the Russian propogandist first. If her sister is getting another manicure and her sister's husband is still picking vegetables, there may be nothing to this.

Good news - I heard on American public radio that the new Ukranian brigades joining the counter-offensive are NATO-trained, and that will be part of why big gains are expected in the push to cut off the land bridge to Crimea soon.

Anonymous wrote:We can’t stop supporting Ukraine.
It’s like giving up and letting Hitler take over Europe.

Nice - i would like some western euro refugees here só domestic labor is cheap

Who doesn’t want a low cost French gardeners, Italian chefs, British butlers, German builders/plumbers etc?

Anonymous wrote:This is simply bizarre. Zelensky is changing the date of Christmas to own the Russians. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/29/europe/ukraine-christmas-date-change-intl/index.html

Jesus was born on December 25th. Every American knows this. Glad to see Zelensky aligning Ukraine with real Christians rather than continuing on with whatever it is those Russians are worshiping.

We can’t stop supporting Ukraine.
It’s like giving up and letting Hitler take over Europe.

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Anonymous wrote:The Russian strategy is to saturate occupied Ukraine with other ethnicities and blur the Ukrainian identity. The Kremlin has sent a lot of workers to Mariupol, particularly Russian indigenous peoples, including Buryats, Tuvans, representatives of Caucasian nationalities, and people from Central Asia.

Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol and exiled resident of the city, said that, as well as displacing Ukrainians and providing a workforce, Russia was moving out people it didn’t want in its cities. “Moscow and St. Petersburg breathed out a sigh of relief,” he said.

Around 40,000 people have relocated to Mariupol, encouraged by promises of higher salaries, according to Andriushchenko. The average pay for construction work is 230,000 rubles ($2,550) a month, he explained. “There are no such salaries in Russia now. That’s why they go to Mariupol,” he said. “At first, Mariupol residents were hired for construction work, now they’re not.”

https://cepa.org/article/behind-the-lines-russias-ethnic-cleansing/

I thought ukraine was pro multikulti and lgbtq now?

What’s wrong with other ethnicities of the fsu moving to Ukraine?

Caucasian nationalities Why can't these people pay for proper translations?

What do you call people from the Caucasus?

People from the Caucasus.

No, they’re called Caucasians.

LOL no not in English.

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Anonymous wrote:The Russian strategy is to saturate occupied Ukraine with other ethnicities and blur the Ukrainian identity. The Kremlin has sent a lot of workers to Mariupol, particularly Russian indigenous peoples, including Buryats, Tuvans, representatives of Caucasian nationalities, and people from Central Asia.

Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol and exiled resident of the city, said that, as well as displacing Ukrainians and providing a workforce, Russia was moving out people it didn’t want in its cities. “Moscow and St. Petersburg breathed out a sigh of relief,” he said.

Around 40,000 people have relocated to Mariupol, encouraged by promises of higher salaries, according to Andriushchenko. The average pay for construction work is 230,000 rubles ($2,550) a month, he explained. “There are no such salaries in Russia now. That’s why they go to Mariupol,” he said. “At first, Mariupol residents were hired for construction work, now they’re not.”

https://cepa.org/article/behind-the-lines-russias-ethnic-cleansing/

I thought ukraine was pro multikulti and lgbtq now?

What’s wrong with other ethnicities of the fsu moving to Ukraine?

Caucasian nationalities Why can't these people pay for proper translations?

What do you call people from the Caucasus?

People from the Caucasus.

No, they’re called Caucasians.

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Anonymous wrote:The Russian strategy is to saturate occupied Ukraine with other ethnicities and blur the Ukrainian identity. The Kremlin has sent a lot of workers to Mariupol, particularly Russian indigenous peoples, including Buryats, Tuvans, representatives of Caucasian nationalities, and people from Central Asia.

Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol and exiled resident of the city, said that, as well as displacing Ukrainians and providing a workforce, Russia was moving out people it didn’t want in its cities. “Moscow and St. Petersburg breathed out a sigh of relief,” he said.

Around 40,000 people have relocated to Mariupol, encouraged by promises of higher salaries, according to Andriushchenko. The average pay for construction work is 230,000 rubles ($2,550) a month, he explained. “There are no such salaries in Russia now. That’s why they go to Mariupol,” he said. “At first, Mariupol residents were hired for construction work, now they’re not.”

https://cepa.org/article/behind-the-lines-russias-ethnic-cleansing/

I thought ukraine was pro multikulti and lgbtq now?

What’s wrong with other ethnicities of the fsu moving to Ukraine?

Caucasian nationalities Why can't these people pay for proper translations?

What do you call people from the Caucasus?

People from the Caucasus.

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Anonymous wrote:"But there are a million ways to skin the cat."

"You see, by badly losing the battle of Kyiv and being chased out, and having my column chewed to shreds as I run with my tail between my legs, I'm actually winning!" 🤪

LOL right. OK. You convinced me. Ukraine got all its territory back and then some. All bombed-out buildings have sprung back from the earth fully done, like Athena from her father's forehead. All the refugees are back. Its economy is topping the charts. The population of young men is back to prewar levels. The wayward wives have left their slow Finnish boyfriends and reunited with their stoic husbands.

You're gloating about Russia's war crimes? You're a strange one.

I'm mocking your delusions that Ukraine is doing well in this war. It isn't.

No, you seem to think (as well as celebrating) that committing this litany of war crimes equals victory. Russia hasn't done well in this war at all, either. They failed their objectives, they've lost a catastrophic amount of material, their casualties are astronomical. They repeatedly hit civilian targets with artillery and missiles. They're adept terrorists but a failed army.

And yet....bazillions of dollars are needed to fight them. Go figure.

Who knows what Zelensky is doing with our tax dollars. Where’s the accountability?

Zelensky is siphoning military aid from the US to purchase his collection of expensive Italian suits, gold jewelry, and his luxury travel to Mar-e-Lago and Sochi.

Come on. He's not traveling to Sochi and you know that damn well. You don't like to like the man but that's an outright lie.

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Anonymous wrote:"But there are a million ways to skin the cat."

"You see, by badly losing the battle of Kyiv and being chased out, and having my column chewed to shreds as I run with my tail between my legs, I'm actually winning!" 🤪

LOL right. OK. You convinced me. Ukraine got all its territory back and then some. All bombed-out buildings have sprung back from the earth fully done, like Athena from her father's forehead. All the refugees are back. Its economy is topping the charts. The population of young men is back to prewar levels. The wayward wives have left their slow Finnish boyfriends and reunited with their stoic husbands.

You're gloating about Russia's war crimes? You're a strange one.

I'm mocking your delusions that Ukraine is doing well in this war. It isn't.

No, you seem to think (as well as celebrating) that committing this litany of war crimes equals victory. Russia hasn't done well in this war at all, either. They failed their objectives, they've lost a catastrophic amount of material, their casualties are astronomical. They repeatedly hit civilian targets with artillery and missiles. They're adept terrorists but a failed army.

And yet....bazillions of dollars are needed to fight them. Go figure.

Who knows what Zelensky is doing with our tax dollars. Where’s the accountability?

Zelensky is siphoning military aid from the US to purchase his collection of expensive Italian suits, gold jewelry, and his luxury travel to Mar-e-Lago and Sochi.