Update from Ukraine | Frontlines are Boiling Ukraine Advances on the South Ruzzia sends more forces

Youtube.com ^ | 11-18-2023 | Denys Davydov

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Update from Ukraine | Frontlines are Boiling Ukraine Advances on the South Ruzzia sends more forces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjElWt-iU2w

Offensive through the eyes of a soldier November 17, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-630-summary/ Offensive through the eyes of a soldier Company commander of 47th Mechanized Brigade speaks about the unit and combat in the south.

Mykola Melnyk is an officer of Ukrainian Armed Forces, owner of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Order. In 2022, he joined 47th Mechanized Brigade (back then a battalion) and became company commander. He recently gave an interview to Ukrainian Front 18 channel, where he speaks about the brigade and the offensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

[NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday]

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[maddog55]

The post has to do with the Ukraine and Russia war.

Stick to the subject...

[maddog55]

It was a meme... Who wrote it is irrelevant, what it said was..to normal people.

I didn’t read the rest of your rambling dissertation.

[ransomnote]

“The Russians as a culture are a very mediocre untalented people who don’t have much heart to put into a fight. “
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Except civilians fought hand-to-hand with armed soldiers to keep the Germans from reaching Moscow. You Ukrainiacs have a genetic contempt for Russians and others I’ve only seen in Nazis. Some Ukrainiacs say things like ‘All Russians are pigs and need to be shot.” You say that as a people they are very stupid and untalented. But they are mopping the floor with the Ukraine, so it’s going to be mortifying for those who feel genetically superior to Russians to be destroyed by them.

Some of you talk about Russians shoving their soldiers into the meat grinder or taking heavy losses and others talk about them as if they are useless drunkards. I’m not interested in your trash propaganda.

[gleeaikin]

Wow, sober Russians, who knew?

[amnestynone]

“But they are mopping the floor with the Ukraine”

Hey Ivan, take your nose out of Russia today. Just look at the broad history of Russia and look at the culture and daily life today. Read Qura from some of the Russian people who live in that country like Misha Firer.

[ransomnote]

I am simply stating facts that Ukrainiacs can’t bear to hear, and so they revert back to their primary talking point. Either I support the child trafficking, organ harvesting, money laundering, biolab deep State Headquarters in the Ukraine, or I’m ‘Ivan’. That’s it. That’s all you have.

With the collapse of the Ukraine, NATO’s plans for world dominion collapse...for now. They will rise again.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Maybe this source complete with multiple footnotes will add dimension & clarify issues:

Fact check: False claim about Ukraine, child sex trafficking and money laundering
Valerie Pavilonis
USA TODAY
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/04/12/fact-check-false-claim-trafficking-money-laundering-ukraine/9483069002/

[ransomnote]

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Update from Ukraine | Frontlines are Boiling Ukraine Advances on the South Ruzzia sends more forces, UMCRevMom@aol.com wrote:

Maybe this source complete with multiple footnotes will add dimension & clarify issues:

Fact check: False claim about Ukraine, child sex trafficking and money laundering
Valerie Pavilonis
USA TODAY
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/04/12/fact-check-false-claim-trafficking-money-laundering-ukraine/9483069002/

USA Today Fact Check is propaganda, naturally. The MSM uses 'fact check' to push the Deep State talking points. For example, the USA Today Fact Check below declares that Trump's claims the 2020 results were rigged is 'false'. Like I said, just propaganda from USA Today.

I previusly posted the following quote from Archebishop Viganos and it took you seconds to reply with a hit on his reputation, inuendo and rumor that he was involved in some unsavory business regarding his brother's estate. Really scum level character assasination, all because he advocated for those being trafficked and harvested for organs, and yet here you are pushing USA Today propaganda attempting to 'debunk' what international aid organizations have repeatedly noted.

"Let’s not forget that Ukraine is the main player in the market of surrogacy, organ predation, and human trafficking, which also feeds the pedophile network. The denunciations of humanitarian organizations leave no doubt about these unprecedented horrors: children are being killed and dismembered to send their organs to clinics in the West; wounded Ukrainian soldiers are having their organs harvested for the same purpose; the lives of innocent creatures are being sold to rich perverts to satisfy their abominable deviations. And we know how much the deep state is composed of characters who can be blackmailed precisely in furtherance of these execrable crimes, a dynamic highlighted by the recent film Sound of Freedom." ~ Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

• CFN INTERVIEWS VIGANÒ: Francis, Trump, Ukraine, Child Trafficking, and More

  8/12/2023, 2:05:40 PM · by ebb tide · 1 replies

  Catholic Family News ^ | August 11, 2023 | Matt Gaspers

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

I did shared truthful information regarding Ex-Archbishop Viganos. Sorry, you were disappointed

[ransomnote]

Yours was a smear job, that’s why it was deleted.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

No, wrong again

[BroJoeK]

bimboeruption: "I’m not a Russian propagandist.
I’m an American who loves this country and who loathes those who support draining its resources dry."

Then you should love supporting Ukraine.

The US military budget is circa $850 billion and its number one purpose is to deter bad people from doing bad things -- that's what "Peace through Strength" is all about.

But deterrence sometimes fails and the world is chock full of hungry two-bit tin-horn dictators just waiting for a weakness they can exploit to invade and conquer their neighbors.

One of those is Russia's Vlad the Invader and in February 2022 he saw enough weakness, stupidity and corruption in our President to defeat the deterrence value of our military and so he invaded Ukraine, again.

Ukraine is what happens when we look weak, and deterrence fails.
So is the attack on Israel and the CCP threat against Taiwan.
They are all connected and related by perceptions of our weakness.

The War on Terror cost us around $8 trillion over 20 years, or roughly $400 billion per year.
Ukraine is costing circa $55 billion per year and much of that is obsolete stuff that would be scrapped eventually anyway.

The Federal deficit totaled $3 trillion over the past two years, all of it the result of massive Democrat vote-buying schemes.
If we simply eliminate all the grift and corruption, then there will be plenty of money to pay for the essentials of government, beginning with restoring the deterrence value of our national defense assets.

[BroJoeK]

Fresh Wind: "Even though Ukraine's number is trending upwards, it is hardly something to be proud of as they continually demand cash and weapons from the US and other countries and a meaningful audit of that assistance is not to be found."

There's no doubt that Ukraine started in the 1990s from a low number in the "Corruption Perceptions Index" -- third-world shit-hole level corruption.
Russia then scored higher than Ukraine, since then has bounced around and today's scores are about what they were over 20 years ago.
US scores in those days were 10% higher than they are today.

So, where US corruption has gotten worse, Russia's is about the same, Ukraine's has rather dramatically improved.
Yes, Ukraine is still far from standards of, say, Western Europe, but they are the only ones moving in the right direction.

And there's no evidence I've ever seen that any US aid to Ukraine was ever misused or corrupted.

Finally, all of this is irrelevant to the fact of Vlad the Invader's 100% illegal, immoral and unjustified "special military operations" against Ukraine.
If that is allowed to stand unopposed, then we can expect the world order as we've known it since 1945 to transform into something vastly less friendly to American interests, peace and prosperity.
Ukrainian "corruption" cannot be used to justify Vlad the Invader's insane empire building adventures.

[Fresh Wind]

And there's no evidence I've ever seen that any US aid to Ukraine was ever misused or corrupted.

About all you can see is the US government giving lip service to the idea of auditing the disposition of tax money and material going to Ukraine. And you can count on the democRats and MSM keeping anything negative well hidden from public view.

It's tempting to say that US corruption has nothing to do with Ukraine, but we know that's not the case, considering Biden's crooked deal to stop the Burisma investigation involving his crackhead son.

I have to agree with Trump when he says that the Russian invasion would not have happened if he was still president. A weak and feckless US administration has negative impacts worldwide as our enemies and competitors see opportunities galore, and they know that Biden and his cronies are literally for sale.

Corruption on one side emboldens corruption on the other side.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "The post has to do with the Ukraine and Russia war. Stick to the subject..."

Okay.

"Any Hint" of Corruption "Unacceptable": interview for Kyiv Post NAFTO GAZ, 17 October 2023

Corruption accusations continue to plague top Zelenskiy aides Reuters, 19 September 2023

How much progress has Ukraine's government made against corruption? NPR, 10 October 2023

'Ukrainians understand corruption can kill': Kyiv takes on an old enemy Guardian UK, 19 September 2023

Leaked U.S. strategy on Ukraine sees corruption as the real threat Politico EU, 19 September 2023

Ukraine uncovers corruption scheme implicating top officials Politico EU, 25 August 2023

Is Ukraine really interested in fighting corruption? Economist, 4 September 2023

US increases pressure on Ukraine to do more to counter corruption CNN, 3 October 2023

Battling corruption in Ukraine Financial Times, 30 September 2023

Ukraine struggles to curb corruption in its military Deutsche Welle, 17 August 2023

Corruption Is an Existential Threat to Ukraine, and Ukrainians Know It New York Times, 10 September 2023

Discontent grows over wartime corruption in Ukraine EuroNews, 8 September 2023

Corruption scandals continue to sweep Ukraine's government TIME, 13 January 2023

"In one poll, 77.6% of surveyed Ukrainians said Zelenskyy was responsible for government corruption."

Zelenskyy fires recruitment officials for accepting $10,000 bribes. Almost all Ukrainians think the country has a problem with corruption, survey suggests. Business Insider, 13 August 2023

"The majority of Ukrainians believe that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is directly responsible for dealing with corruption in the government and in military administrations."

Almost 80% of Ukrainians consider Zelenskyy responsible for dealing with corruption in government and military administrations Pravda UA, 11 September 2023

The US demands anti-corruption measures from Ukraine in exchange for economic aid EL PAÍS USA Edition, 26 September 2023

Putting Ukraine's corruption problem in context The Hill, 18 September 2023

Corruption in Ukraine: can crackdown on military change the course of conflict? FRANCE 24, 5 September 2023

Ukraine's anti-graft police zero in on major wartime corruption Japan Times, 22 August 2023

Zelenskyy aide on corruption in Ukraine: 'People are stealing like there's no tomorrow' Fox News, 20 October 2023

Investigation of Corruption in Energy Sector is a Top Priority Kyiv Post, 27 September 2023

Ukraine Detains Official Who Helped Men Flee Draft Kyiv Post, 22 August 2023

[maddog55]

Rambling again.. I don’t read rambles. F’ Ukraine and Russia.. it’s a European problem.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "F’ Ukraine and Russia.. it’s a European problem."

But that is where we AGREE. "F’ Ukraine and Russia.. it’s a European problem."

[amnestynone]

“Either I support the child trafficking, organ harvesting, money laundering, biolab “

Even if half of that stuff was true Russia is so much more of a threat to the rest of us that it would be in our interest to support Ukraine. Nato for world domination. c’mon man you must be delusional. With the support of the rest of the world it is more likely that Russia will collapse in fact it might be very close to it now, Ivan.

[BroJoeK]

gleeaikin: "One was the Gulf of Tonkin vote in 1964 when Johnson became President after Kennedy’s assassination,...
I remember the anger or amusement of people at Goldwater’s comment about “lobbing one (a nuke) into the men’s room in the Kremlin.”
This was scary talk to some after experiencing the Cuban missile crisis showdown in October 1962.
I know I had been scared then living within 10 miles of Washington, DC. "

In 1964 I was in high school, living near Monterey, California.
I attended primary rallies for both Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
Goldwater's rally was much larger, and he won the primary, though lost in a landslide to LBJ in November.
In the whole state, Goldwater carried only a couple of rural counties.

As I remember it, throughout that campaign the only references to Goldwater and nuclear weapons I saw were those "Daisy Girl" hit-ads Johnson's campaign ran against him.
On the other hand, whatever Goldwater may, or may not have said about nukes, he was not the first one to recommend using them -- that would be Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Korea, who wanted to A-bomb the Yalu River to keep the Chi-Coms out.
It was part of why Truman fired MacArthur.

Anyway, the key point about Goldwater's views on Vietnam had nothing necessarily to do with nukes, but rather with Goldwater's insistence that we shouldn't just go fight in Vietnam, we had to have a plan to actually win the war, and Johnson never had a plan to win.

So Johnson's "Daisy Girl" adds against Goldwater successfully obscured the fact that Johnson himself had no plan to win, indeed, didn't really care about winning.
What Johnson absolutely cared about was gaining the political power to defeat Republicans, and his "Daisy Girl" ad did that for him, actually winning in Vietnam was irrelevant to him.

Anyway, that's how I remember it.

[gleeaikin]

I must say, I don’t remember ever seeing that particular ad. From research I did a few years ago, I agree with your statement that Johnson did not care about winning in Vietnam. If what I saw about certain Texas companies and the Texas Book Repository Bldg. plus some things I heard this evening about the Warren Commission report on the assassination are true, then the only thing that mattered was that Johnson become president, and keep the MIC money flowing into Texas. They were probably willing to dump him for Nixon when the time came.