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[27-25 2043]

16 hours ago, Parliament said:

The WHOLE Baltic Sea?  So they aren't gonna let warships in and out of St. Petersburg?

And Kaliningrad as well.  This one seems a bit too ambitious.  Putin likes to throw around lots of things as casus belli.  But this one might be closest to the real deal.

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https://bylinetimes.com/2022/08/12/russias-war-addiction/

Russia’s War Addiction
Paul Niland
12 August 2022
 

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Being at war is abnormal, unless you are Russian. Wars start when everything else fails. Diplomacy has failed. Mediation has failed. All that is left is to ask brave men and women to risk their lives in service of their state. Unless you are Russian.

If you are Russian, war is your default state of affairs under Vladimir Putin – because the state has failed. The Russian President’s 22-year rule has been marked by constant conflict, not that the men and women of the Russian military are risking their lives ‘in service of their state’ – in reality, they are serving Putin’s bloodthirst.

His rise to power was itself the result of a series of bloody acts of mass violence. In May 1999, Putin became the Russian Prime Minister under President Boris Yeltsin. From that leverage point, the network around Putin began its machinations to install him as head of state. To enable this move, several tactics were employed, including the blackmailing of the Yeltsin family over the Mabetex affair.

But, in order to ensure that Putin would be able to win the presidency – at a time when elections in Russia were new but relatively accepted – the former KGB officer needed an event that would make him, in the eyes of voters, a national hero. He, of course, chose war.

In her remarkable book Putin’s People, journalist Catherine Belton observes that, when Putin was on the verge of securing Yeltsin’s nomination for the post of acting president, Putin withdrew for several days to the gated Ozera Collective community that he and his FSB cohorts had built from the funds they had illegally amassed while Putin was part of the team of St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoliy Sobchak. The isolated deliberations and planning lasted for several days. Shortly afterwards, powerful explosions ripped through apartment buildings in Moscow, Volgodonsk and Buynaksk. The apartment bombings cost the lives of more than 300 people. They were Russian citizens, murdered while they slept.

The apartment bombings were blamed on Chechen separatists and they became the justification for the second Chechen War, which was the event around which Putin created his national reputation and thus sealed his capture of the Russian presidency. There is ample evidence that these bombings were the work of the FSB, Russia’s security service – a state organ that Putin had been the head before prior becoming Prime Minister.

To the Russian people, this special military operation had to be justified and was sold as wiping out terrorists. They either turned a blind eye to or enjoyed watching the annihilation of cities like Grozny. They shrugged their shoulders at the loss of 60,000 lives. With that, the rot set in to Russia’s collective thinking.

The Chechen War did not end with some glorious military victory of Russia’s armed forces – it ended when Putin co-opted Ramzan Kadyrov to bring hostilities to an end. Kadyrov was bribed with a personal fiefdom and access to riches beyond his wildest dreams.

As one war ended, another was soon needed.

On 8 August 2008, Russia invaded Georgia. Propaganda informed the Russian people that it was necessary to ‘protect’ the ‘separatist’ territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In reality, Russia had appointed Russian nationals to senior leadership positions in those territories years earlier, and it was Russia running the show there.

Russia now occupies 20% of the sovereign state of Georgia. The narrative of separatists being supported by Russia was, of course, to be redeployed when Putin turned his attentions to Ukraine.

Between Georgia and Ukraine, the Russian President found an excuse to satisfy his barbaric impulses in service of, and in partnership with, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Putin’s imperative here was to prevent an autocrat being toppled by a popular revolution. 

Assad had been struggling, even with his own brutality, to quell the stirrings of revolution for some time before Putin joined the fight and ordered the Russian air force to obliterate entire cities with the blanket justification that those standing against Assad were terrorists. Given the ‘War on Terror’ and the rise of extremist groups, this was an easy story for people to accept.

Russia’s war in Ukraine began in 2014 and expanded this year. The reactions from the Russian people have been consistent – a majority support this war, despite the baseless justification that Ukrainians are the modern-day equivalent of the Nazis. For more than 20 years all the Russian people have known is war. The scenes in Ukraine are acceptable because Ukraine deserves it – just like the people of Chechnya, Georgia and Syria deserved their fates too. 

Russia, as a nation, has arrived at a place of a collective sickness.

There are those who are indifferent to the war crimes being committed by the Russian Army in Ukraine, and there are those who are knowingly supporting such evil. In monitoring this war, I have seen instances of wives granting their husbands permission to rape Ukrainians and of mothers listening to the tales of torture told to them by their sons. Not a few times, not even dozens of times, but hundreds of times. 

The people of Russia know what their country is doing – and they either don’t care or think that it is normal, because war is not an abnormal occurrence for Russian citizens. It is the default.

The kind of collective madness we are witnessing in the people of Russia today has historic parallels, as noted historians of Nazism and fascism have been telling us for months. It has been built, cumulatively, over many years and many wars. The responsibility for destruction in Ukraine ultimately belongs with all of the Russian people.

 

 

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[27-25 2043]

Not directly related to Ukraine at this very moment.  But welcome to our new NATO brethren.  So, sorry, not sorry.

 

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[Gengs1 2583]

16 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

 

Getting ready for reports of minor equipment damaged 

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[Sawbonz 27445]

2 hours ago, MillerEP said:

^Russians blowing up all the gas stations around Kherson might indicate they're trying to slow down the approaching Ukrainian, buying them time to escape

Does Russia think a military just gases up at the local stop n go on the way to the next battle? That explains a lot of their logistics issues

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3 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Does Russia think a military just gases up at the local stop n go on the way to the next battle? That explains a lot of their logistics issues

They just want to inflict as much pain as possible

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They just want to inflict as much pain as possible

This is a true and a great tragedy. Ukraine was making something of itself and moving forward. Russia is so insanely insecure and jealous they just want to fuck it all up. Literally stealing fountains and paving stones. It’ll take decades to replace it all, if ever.

 

Expound please.

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6 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Expound please.

Girkin is an ex-FSB guy sent into Ukraine in 2014 to aid the "separatists." They thought he used a FSB provided identity to do things covertly and recently found evidence of it. He's been critical on Telegram of Russia's handling of things and their treatment of the DPR/LPR troops. Grozev's tweet is part of a thread that has more details in it.

Edited August 13, 2022 by Schulz2.0

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2 hours ago, MillerEP said:

 

The video report does not entirely match the tweet on the Slovak MiGs.  The fleet is grounded because they cannot keep those aircraft in the air absent Russian maintainers.  The Defense Minister said the MiGs are “most likely” going to Ukraine but they either want to sell them, or have Allies backfill with other needed equipment for the approximate value. Not quite a donation. Slovakia has donated a lot but for a country of five million, you politically can’t afford to just divest of basically your entire combat capable Air Force for nothing. 

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F-16's for all! Toss in a few A-10's. 

 

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If true, this is how Putin loses chunks of Russian society.

 

Edited August 13, 2022 by atomheartbevo

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And yes that’s from 10 years ago, when they, in theory, would have still had officers and NCOs who trained under the Soviet Union.  I’d imagine it’s worse now.

Edited August 13, 2022 by atomheartbevo

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3 hours ago, 27-25 said:

And Kaliningrad as well.  This one seems a bit too ambitious.  Putin likes to throw around lots of things as casus belli.  But this one might be closest to the real deal.

Yep.  Goes way beyond their complaining about us supplying them.

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3 hours ago, 27-25 said:

Not directly related to Ukraine at this very moment.  But welcome to our new NATO brethren.  So, sorry, not sorry.

 

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

If true, this is how Putin loses chunks of Russian society.

 

Never, ever, fuck with the payroll.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yep.  Goes way beyond their complaining about us supplying them.

This feels like a badly translated tweet.  It is widely known that a blockade is an offensive act of war.  I don't think that's what they had in mind.  If they're saying, essentially, "we got you surrounded and you will never run this gauntlet" I get that.  But flat out saying "You can't leave your harbors."  Nah.  

Edited August 13, 2022 by Chad Fuck

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3 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Does Russia think a military just gases up at the local stop n go on the way to the next battle? That explains a lot of their logistics issues

It worked for the Germans in 1940 and now you can get a big gulp too

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1 hour ago, Fico said:

It worked for the Germans in 1940 and now you can get a big gulp too

Plus Funyuns and some Slim Jims.

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19 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

 

Ukrainian Saint Javelin incoming 

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^?

 

[Gatorubet 30139]

And pockets for the sunflower seeds.  Those Russians think of everything!

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How unfair that they kicked her out of the country in the middle of her eye exam

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18 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

^?

Re: Girkin, that's how Bellingcat was able to confirm his prior FSB identity. He tried to travel to Kherson through Crimea and was arrested using the passport with the fake identity.

[AUS-97HORN 11682]

55 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

 

uh

The curriculum includes combat training, the basics of geopolitics, military medicine, psychology and military law.

 

legit question... why in the holy fuck does a priest need combat training?  by every definition of Int'l law the priest is a non-combatant 

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"Why would Russia fire at itself at the ZNPP?" - ru-propagandists pretend to be clowns. Let me explain: the Russian Federation is hitting the part of the nuclear power plant where the energy that powers the south of Ukraine is stored. The goal is to disconnect us from the ZNPP and blame the 🇺🇦 army for this. The UN and IAEA continue to scrutinize the ceiling.

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2 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

uh

The curriculum includes combat training, the basics of geopolitics, military medicine, psychology and military law.

 

legit question... why in the holy fuck does a priest need combat training?  by every definition of Int'l law the priest is a non-combatant 

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[InkaUtexas 25538]

Damn allergies. 

 

[Nivek 16868]

Sonya at 0:34 needs a scholarship.  

[Brisketexan 104708]

Damn allergies. 
 

I know it seems like a weird thing, but the boy an I have already been talking about this. He’s starting uni in Europe in a few weeks, majoring in international relations. Wouldn’t it be cool if, in a year or two, he did a summer internship with an NGO or similar outfit working on Ukrainian reconstruction?
Look forward to victory. That’s how you get there.

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^Starting to finally hit the "heart" of Russia, their elitist cities