Posted on 04/09/2023 8:41:23 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
What gets me is how they go to white-hot rage and the nastiest of insults instantly when there is nothing going on.
Raging and anger seem to be their natural state.
How many times have you made a simple short response and had that poster suddenly launch into a raging, rambling tirade about you, your ancestors, and every insult and attack they can think of, leaving you wondering how in the world they make it through a day without bursting veins.
@KyivIndependent 5h
“Macron on Russia’s war: Now is not time for negotiations.
Both France and China see it to be too early for peace talks on Russia’s war against Ukraine as “today, the time is military”, French president Emmanuel Macron said in an April 9 interview with Les Echos.”
Hope this is accurate.
“However, recent news suggests that Ukrainians developed ballistic missiles with a range of more than 400 km and have already started targeting critical supply lines in Crimea.”
It is amazing and predictable. I don’t know if they are paid trolls, Russian agents, or sitting in their parents basement waiting for mom to drop a hot pocket and energy drink on a string
They add nothing and hurl insults and degrade people and for what am I suddenly with their clever wit going to realize the error of my ways
Oh my our borders are being over run, drugs flow like water, countries moral compass is f’d, Biden is a drooling invalid who says and signs what people tell him to, Ukraine is corrupt and full of nazis and is none of our business….
All can be true but doesn’t change the fact that ego maniacal dictator invaded a sovereign country with the intent to take it over, wipe out the inhabitants, plunder the resources and move to the next victim
The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives and their country, and the least we can do and this is the very least is supply them with weapons, designed and built to fight the soviets now Russians (spoiler alert it always was Russia, the rest of the Soviet Union were just useful fodder) till putin and his ilk are defeated or dead or both
BAKHMUTY CITY /1930 UTC 9 APL/ The Gen'l Staff reports that 20 attacks were thwarted in the Bakhmut AO, and again broke up RU attacks on Bohdanivka and Khromove. UKR artillery/missile forces engaged Russian EW systems, surface to air missile sites and troop concentrations.
@visegrad24
“These are the conditions in the trenches of Bakhmut after all the snow melted. (https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1645068845718069248?cxt=HHwWgICzwcbZutQtAAAA )
There won’t be any major offensives for another month or so.”
(But perhaps the schedule for drying out the soil will be different in the South)
@visegrad24
“These are the conditions in the trenches of Bakhmut after all the snow melted. (https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1645068845718069248?cxt=HHwWgICzwcbZutQtAAAA )
There won’t be any major offensives for another month or so.”
(But perhaps the schedule for drying out the soil will be different in the South)
ISW (https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-9-2023 ) reports:
“Available open-source reporting indicates that the most common victims of Russian religious persecution In occupied areas of the Ukraine) after Ukrainian Orthodox are Protestants, particularly evangelical Baptists.
Protestants of all denominations were the victims of 34 percent of the reported persecution events that ISW observed. Baptists made up 13 percent of victims – the largest single group after Ukrainian Orthodox. ISW observed reports of persecutions of Baptists near the occupied cities of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Mariupol, and Melitopol.
Russian forces’ persecution of Protestants is most intense in southern Ukraine. Protestants were the victims of 35 percent and 48 percent of the reported persecution events in occupied Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts respectively. Protestants suffered two-thirds of the reported repression events in occupied Mariupol City.”
Still reading my daily threads I see.
I’m feeling chemistry between us.
They aren’t paid trolls, they are just those nut cases that you have bumped into in your life where they start off talking at 100 miles an hour telling you about all the conspiracies and sounding crazy and you keep looking for an opening to end the tirade so that you can get on with your day but eventually you just have to break it off while they are still ranting about their theories and their special ‘insights’.
Developed(with help?) or given. Imagine all that is donated is not announced and hope that long range munitions is part of that. Ukraine will need boat loads of these to strike Russia in mass at time of offensive to disrupt logistics, troop concentrations, infrastructure. Once Ukraine launched their offensive they will have exposed flanks that need to be protected. One way is to make the Russian forces in the area confused and deprived of munitions, leadership, and safe haven. Though the Russians have not been performing well they still have numbers, numbers don’t matter much if they are routed like Kharkiv.
I suspect you are right though I think there is an element of paid trolling…. It is fascinating that these folks talk about propaganda and clogging up FR…. Is that not what FR was formed on, different ideas being debated, but for some only their ideas have merit and if you disagree with them then you are an inbred idiot….
Like debating a leftist after 4 seconds of content they immediately move to name calling, challenging your intelligence and heritage
To continue on my rant, bring substance not just insults. As much as I disagree with most if not all kazan posts he adds information.
You can agree or disagree but isn’t that the idea
For example he/ she/zee presents Ukrainian loses that I believe are absurd, but unlike some I don’t believe the Ukrainians are sailing through this war with low losses and I also don’t believe that Russia is also.
Oryx seems to be very good at verifying loses on both sides, nothing is perfect and the ability to verify all loses or avoid any duplication is virtually impossible, but as speedy says it is a good base line.
If you follow Ukrainian MOD the numbers are much higher, if you follow Russian MOD, Ritter and Macgregor then the Ukrainian military has been destroyed 3 times over.
I think ATP geopolitics on YouTube does a good job on this though I disagree with much of his political stuff he is a good source. Joe bloggs is also good when it comes to economics and Perun good on economics, production, and many other facets of this conflict that gets little attention
Debate me with facts as you see them, name calling doesn’t advance much though on occasion I find myself dipping to that level, but I try not to lol
Good comments as usual.
“”the Ukrainian Army have, according to leaked American defense docs, had over 400,000 of their soldiers killed.””
So their total Army casualties are perhaps a couple of million according to the numbers you use?
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