Posted on 07/09/2023 4:58:05 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Worth reading:
After nearly a year and a half of support for Ukraine, the U.S. now has a chance to shape the escalation cycle with Russia.
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s abortive putsch demonstrated the fragility of the Russian regime and the stress it now faces. And so for the U.S., there are two operative questions to consider. First, how can the U.S. pressure the Russian state as a whole through more intense military activity? Second, how can we exploit internal divisions within Russia, and between Russia and Belarus?...
“...Putin and his inner circle constructed this system by design. The intention was never to resurrect the full horror of the Stalin-era NKVD. Putin and his inner circle have not a scintilla of morality among them, yet they recognized the massive expense and risk that a wholesale security state would entail.”
ARTICLE: I found this interview interesting that will certainly include potential peace discussions:
Ukraine is seeking commitments from NATO at upcoming Vilnius summit. Are allies willing to give them?
By Sophia Barkoff, Margaret Brennan, Olivia Gazis
Updated on: July 9, 2023 / 7:19 PM / CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-nato-commitment-vilnius-lithuania-summit-biden/
Politics
Ukraine is seeking commitments from NATO at upcoming Vilnius summit. Are allies willing to give them?
Sophia Barkoff, Margaret Brennan, Olivia Gazis
Updated: July 9, 2023 / 7:19 PM / CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-nato-commitment-vilnius-lithuania-summit-biden/
Excerpted:
“As world leaders prepare to gather this week for a much-anticipated NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, the alliance’s unity may be newly tested as divisions over the type of assurances made to Ukraine regarding its future membership become starker.
More than 500 days into a grinding war launched by Russia in February 2021, Ukraine has pressed for a detailed path toward membership into the alliance that some member countries appear reluctant to provide.
The impasse has prompted concerns in Kyiv and among some eastern European NATO members that the Vilnius summit – touted for weeks by the Biden administration as a show of enduring support – may result again in ambiguous commitments reminiscent of those made in Bucharest in 2008.
It was there that NATO members told Ukraine and fellow candidate Georgia they “will become members” of the alliance, but – despite public pressure from then-U.S. President George W. Bush – declined to offer them Membership Action Plans (MAP) that would have laid out a detailed roadmap.
Later that year, Russia invaded Georgia, and six years later in 2014, seized Crimea.”
Thank you for Link! :D
VIDEO WITH SUMMARIZED COMMENTARY
09 Jul: Ukrainians Strike Crimean Bridges. RUSSIAN GENERALS FIRED. | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qsJOb2pvFM
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I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the five hundred first day of the war.
Day 501: Jul 09
Today there is a lot of news all over the front.
First of all, today, Ukrainians reportedly conducted a missile strike on the Crimean Bridge. Russian sources reported that Ukrainian Air Force made an attempt to once again destroy the bridge and cut off the Southern Russian Group located in Zaporizhia from supplies. Russian air defense operators claimed that they shot down the missile just several kilometers north of Taman and that the remnants of the intercepted missile fell into the Azov Sea.
Nonetheless, Russian authorities closed the bridge and caused massive traffic jams. Local authority’s representatives claimed that Ukrainians used a cruise missile. Russian analysts stated that any use of cruise missiles would necessitate Ukrainian jets to fly way to close to the front line, exposing themselves to the Russian air defense.
Later there were two more strikes: one on Russian military objects in the Rostov region and one in the Bryansk region. Here, Russian air defense was unsuccessful in shooting down the missile, which is why local surveillance cameras captured the arrival of the rocket. The footage was quickly analyzed, and almost all analysts agreed that Ukrainians used modified S-200 rockets that follow a ballistic trajectory, which is why such rockets have a range of up to 400 km.
Interestingly, simultaneously with the strike on the Crimean Bridge, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed that they were responsible for the destruction of the Crimean Bridge last year. The combination of such news made some analysts raise the alarm that Ukrainians are determined to destroy the bridge in the near future and called for the reinforcement of the area with even more air defense systems.
The Russian Ministry of Defense should also come out with an official announcement. Today some media sources reported that Putin removed the Chief of the General Staff, Gerasimov, from the position of the commander of the so-called special military operation. Gerasimov should still formally remain the Chief of Staff to avoid the loss of face, but the new commander should be Colonel-General Teplinskiy, who was the commander of Airborne forces.
The changes have not yet been confirmed by Russian officials, however, such changes would not be unlikely in the aftermath of the completely failed winter offensive campaign, even while Wagner forces achieved notable results. The Russian High Command had an unclear structure from the very beginning, and such rotations of commanders and complications of the chain of command make it less and less efficient because everyone has an incentive to blame someone else for the failures on the front line.
In the meantime, Ukrainians finally returned their commanders of the Azov Regiment back to Ukraine. These commanders were responsible for holding Mariupol for more than 2 months at the beginning of the invasion, which required Russians to devote tens of thousands of soldiers, giving Ukrainians time to form a defense line.
Azov Regiment was considered to be the most elite Ukrainian detachment, with extremely high standards for physical readiness as well as years of combat experience. The commanders stated that they would join the army again and continue to fight, and with the ongoing counteroffensive operation, it is no doubt that these commanders would cause a lot of damage to Russian forces.
When it comes to Ukrainian Air force, it is about to receive 10 helicopters, Mi-24. The helicopters were already seen en route in Poland and should get to the front very soon. Right now, Ukrainians are amply using these helicopters in the Kherson region to protect the Ukrainian bridgehead on the other side of the river and facilitate offensive operations toward Oleshky.
Finally, in order to help Ukrainians to proceed faster with their counteroffensive, the United States announced new weapon deliveries, which this time included cluster munitions. A cluster munition is a specialist shell that scatters explosives covering a large area.
Right now, Ukrainians are facing countless Russian positions and fortifications in the fields, which means that deliveries of such weapons will greatly help Ukrainians to conduct their storming operation faster and with fewer casualties.
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“After nearly a year and a half of support for Ukraine, the U.S. now has a chance to shape the escalation cycle with Russia.”
May it be so!
NOTE: “Most substantive details on the Prigozhin incident will remain classified for decades, or at least until there is enough of a thaw between Russia and the West to enable the open exchange of archival material from the current war. Yet the outlines are increasingly clear. Discounting the possibility of a Russian false-flag — not impossible but nevertheless extremely improbable — the incident demonstrates a deep degree of state erosion within Russia.”
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May China reclaim Siberia
May it be so!
Are you folks cheering on America’s greatest enemy China now?
China wants to crush and control the US and Biden has been selling us out.
I sincerely hope you get a brain. May it be so.
You should pay more attention.
Despite all the tough talking over Taiwan, China has eyes on the Russian Federation. Easier pickings.
Did you know China signed a Belt and Road deal with Ukraine, and followed it up with an equivalent to the Budapest Memorandum with Ukraine two weeks before Putin forced Yanukovych into committing a treasonable offence in December 2013?
China ain’t happy with Putin. He set the Belt and Road initiative back a decade in Europe by sabotaging the EU trade deal, triggering a civil war, and then invading Crimea.
If things go China’s way, the ‘Stans will flip and Muscovy will become almost as relevant on the world stage as Belarus and North Korea.
China has better things to do right now than attack the USA, so all the USA needs to do right now is stop poking the panda, pull up a deckchair, and watch Russia get broken up... by China.
The one thing guaranteed to make China move quicker on that is a nuclear incident on Ukrainian territory. Ukraine, Turkey, the Baltics, the ‘Stans, Poland and the USA all know the score... If a nuke incident happens and Russia is responsible then Muscovy is guaranteed to find itself in a Chinese led hurt locker.
“China has better things to do right now than attack the USA, so all the USA needs to do right now is stop poking the panda, pull up a deckchair, and watch Russia get broken up... by China.”
May it be so!
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“I sincerely hope you get a brain.”
ATTENTION: Mr. Robinson helpful hint
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4166577/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
Is this similar to the Judean People's Front versus the Peoples Front of Judea?
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“Groups called the freedom Legion for Russia, the Russian volunteer Corps, and the Russian Freedom Legion clashed...
Is this similar to the Judean People’s Front versus the Peoples Front of Judea?”
No, not similar. My understandins is the People’s Front of Judea and Judean People’s Front are Monty Python’s fictional organizations.
These 3 military groups fight the Russian ‘powers-thar-be’ by sabotaging & setting fires to enlistment offices, shopping malls, factories, railroads etc.
Apologize for typos LOL
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2. Ben Hodges Explains Everyone In Russia Will Be Terrified In 13 Days! Big Surprise for Russia
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