Posted on 07/17/2023 6:48:08 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Kerch Bridge Kaboom | Grain Deal Cancelled | Ruzzia Lost again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b95zlfbW9yE
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 12th July 2023 – 22:00
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-504-summary/
*** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front!
https://militaryland.net/maps/
What do you expect out the foot soldiers of the DC Junta? At least they’ve stopped at censorship, for now. Any punishment is possible when they’re “just following orders” of their Jumta.
“Let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
Matthew 6:3”
Great response, although some cannot comprehend.
Did you se this “short:” no one left behind
https://fb.watch/lSr0pH0gtb/
They are terrible weapons and should be outlawed. We dropped a half a million tons on Vietnam and have left them strewn about Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Now we’re leaving our legacy for the Ukrainian children.
Someone seems confused when addressing you in Comment #145:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4168628/posts?page=145#145
Oleksiy Miacheslavovych Danilov is a Ukrainian politician who has been the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine since 3 October 2019.
No, I’m accusing a Zeeper of doing that. As you well know, Kaitlan.
You’re doing that annoying Zeeper-loop conversation trick you’re all taught to do. I will now extricate myself from it.
I will allow you the last word, laced with lies though it may be. Bye, Kaitlan!
I just spent 10 or more minutes watching a 36 minute video linked in comment #16 by a frequent FR Russia supporter, and then dozed off. When I woke up I was near the beginning of a 49 minute presentation by a British historian who also had experience in Russia, and international security positions. I watched that one for over 30 minutes and am now posting my thoughts. Here is the link to the historian’s lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b95zlfbW9yE
The presenter in the video linked from comment #16 says he is reporting in a public square in Moscow. He shows a view of the Kerch Bridge taken from a train moving past the damaged auto roadway. It does not look as severe as the damage caused months ago by a truck bomb. He suggests it will be fixed in a few days. Other reports suggest it will take a month. From my own experience with construction renovation I think a month is more likely, although a lane or 2 of the 4 lane highway might be restored more quickly as it was the last time. He then goes on to discuss/report many other thoughts about the current conflict. One thing that struck me was his failure to ever really look at the camera. His head shifted from side to side, but never directly ahead. He also had a full beard and dark sunglasses so you could not see his eyes. The impression this gave me was of someone hiding himself.
I missed the first few minutes of the historian’s talk, but will go back after posting this to see if I can report his name. I will also finish watching the rest of his report as it was deep and detailed. He mentions Alexandr Dugin, who published a detailed plan for how Russia should restore it’s power and greatness. Putin is reported to be much influenced by his major work which I will also try to find and link here. He has multiple decades of experience in various national and international security situations. The historian reports that in 2006, he himself said he believed Putin/Russia would reassert itself as a growing power and look toward Ukriane in this effort. He further reports on the great psychological impact from the breakup of the Soviet Union and the future impact on world events. He suggests the state of friendliness between Russia and Ukraine is rather like that between Great Britain and Ireland. At any rate, I repeat the link below and then am off to find out more as promised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b95zlfbW9yE
I just spent 10 or more minutes watching a 36 minute video linked in comment #16 by a frequent FR Russia supporter, and then dozed off. When I woke up I was near the beginning of a 49 minute presentation by a British historian who also had experience in Russia, and international security positions. I watched that one for over 30 minutes and am now posting my thoughts. Here is the link to the historian’s lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b95zlfbW9yE [This is the wrong link, my Chromebook is acting up again. It is a Denys Davidov report on the Kerch Bridge.]
The presenter in the video linked from comment #16 says he is reporting in a public square in Moscow. He shows a view of the Kerch Bridge taken from a train moving past the damaged auto roadway. It does not look as severe as the damage caused months ago by a truck bomb. He suggests it will be fixed in a few days. Other reports suggest it will take a month. From my own experience with construction renovation I think a month is more likely, although a lane or 2 of the 4 lane highway might be restored more quickly as it was the last time. He then goes on to discuss/report many other thoughts about the current conflict. One thing that struck me was his failure to ever really look at the camera. His head shifted from side to side, but never directly ahead. He also had a full beard and dark sunglasses so you could not see his eyes. The impression this gave me was of someone hiding himself.
I missed the first few minutes of the historian’s talk, but will go back after posting this to see if I can report his name. I will also finish watching the rest of his report as it was deep and detailed. He mentions Alexandr Dugin, who published a detailed plan for how Russia should restore it’s power and greatness. Putin is reported to be much influenced by his major work which I will also try to find and link here. He has multiple decades of experience in various national and international security situations. The historian reports that in 2006, he himself said he believed Putin/Russia would reassert itself as a growing power and look toward Ukriane in this effort. He further reports on the great psychological impact from the breakup of the Soviet Union and the future impact on world events. He suggests the state of friendliness between Russia and Ukraine is rather like that between Great Britain and Ireland. At any rate, I repeat the link below and then am off to find out more as promised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b95zlfbW9yE [The wrong link as reported above.]
I have said Putin’s mistake was in not looking at the history of Japan up to and including post-WWII Japan.
Japan lost all its global empire and post-WWII has not seen a need to regain it, and yet is one of the top ranked nations economically and way ahead of Russia in many important respects.
Russia in the post-Soviet era did not NEED to rebuild imperial Russia in any sense and did not even NEED to continue the “cold war” (nuclear arms) with the west. It NEEDED to immulate the post-WWII experience of Japan in every way - freedom and economic development. Without beligerance and with a dictators dominance or dominance of neighbors, Russia today could have been NOT at war and at peace with everyone around and as prosperous as western Europe. But THAT, lack of imperial dominance, is not Putin’s vision.
Ukraine already has a huge UXO problem from all the Russian ordnance fired at it, all the mines, etc. Including masses of cluster munitions that the Russians have been using over 18 months.
And who is blasting the Russians over all that? Not you, obviously.
It’s their country. If Ukraine wants to use cluster munitions it’s their decision. It will add somewhat to the enormous problem they already have.
You can’t accuse a freeper of removing posts, we don’t control threads.
Jim Robinson runs his site and determines if name-calling, personal attacks, insults, etc violate his rules and a post has to be pulled.
Unfortunately, although I tried to track down the talk given by the British historian by clicking the link at comment #16 and then going to the following videos, that did not work. I saw several videos about the Kerch Bridge, including military implications for the war. Also longer videos about the broader view of the entire Russia/Ukraine war and world politics. Apparently, the videos that follow an initial link can be changed over time, so I never found the historians talk.
However, I did track down the reference he made to Alexandr Dugin and his 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics, that has so influenced Putin’s thinking and actions. This book is being used in Russian war colleges and is well worth learning about. Read the 10 bullet points listing Dugin’s plans for Russia taking over all of Europe. The step of separating the sea powers of Britain and the US from the European land powers has already been achieved by Brexit. We now have learned that Prigozhin fielded a political action in the US during the 2015/16 election which resulted in the Trump election. To what degree was something similar activated in the UK?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Continue by reading the other 10 or 11 bullet points describing Dugin’s plans for the rest of the world, ending with details on what to do in the US, Canada, and Latin America.
* “Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]
The Eurasian Project could be expanded to South and Central America.[9]”
Is this already being done here at Free Republic???
It's called "new technology", granny glee.
If he looks directly into the camera that he's holding at arm's length for too long, he'll end up on his face.
You can see how he's doing the recording occasionally when he walks by a reflective storefront or office window.
He doesn't always wear sunglasses - just when the ambient light requires it.
I've seen many, many videos by Alex Christoforou, where he does a walkabout in many historical Greek and Cypriot locations. Many times he's is not wearing glasses.
The immersion in history while also talking about geopolitics is amazing.
You should get out into the world of personalized videos more often. You'd learn something.
“We now have learned that Prigozhin fielded a political action in the US during the 2015/16 election which resulted in the Trump election. To what degree was something similar activated in the UK?”
Masks off for these globalists.
Pro Ukraine also turns out to be 2016 Russia Steal and Putin did Brexit.
Surprise, surprise surprise !
LOL!
Don't pretend that you didn't see the post where the freeper in question accidentally posted the "abuse" instructions to the main thread instead of to the moderator.
Such disingenuousness.
Japan and Germany had the good fortune to be conquered primarily by a country or countries which did not plan on forever occupation and which encouraged development of primarily democratic and people derived institutions. Unfortunately the Soviet bloc of eastern Europe did not have that good fortune, and look how much less they were able to develop. It also explains why they are so determined to NOT be part of Russia again.
Where was your outrage when this was being reported for the past 17 months?
“The cluster munition attack with the highest known civilian casualties occurred on April 8, 2022, when Russia launched a Tochka-U ballistic missile equipped with a cluster munition warhead at a crowded train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk as hundreds of people were trying to leave the area. A detailed Human Rights Watch investigation found that the attack killed at least 58 civilians and injured over 100 others.
“Hundreds of cluster munition attacks by Russian forces have been documented, reported or alleged since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) said.
Russia’s use of cluster munitions causing ‘intense’ harm in Ukraine
May 11, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/12/ukraine-cluster-munitions-human-rights-watch/
Russia Is Accused of Using Cluster Rockets in Ukraine.
March 11, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-is-accused-of-using-cluster-rockets-in-ukraine-why-those-weapons-are-so-destructive-11646994602
Rights groups and observers say Russia is using cluster bombs in its invasion of Ukraine
March 1, 2022
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-afghanistan-israel-syria-europe-4ac7b012f2b63567ffde368f65283921
Russia accused of using ‘cluster bombs’ in Ukraine as civilian casualties surge
March 4, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/03/04/russia-accused-of-using-cluster-bombs-in-ukraine-as-civilian-casualties-surge/
How Bellingcat Investigators Verified the Brutal Use of Cluster Munitions in Ukraine
March 18, 2022
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-investigators-use-online-evidence-to-expose-possible-war-crimes/
Bogged-Down Russian Troops Resort to Deadly Cluster Munitions
MARCH 16, 2022
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/16/russia-military-ukraine-cluster-munitions-civilian-casualties/
NATO Accuses Russia of Using Cluster Bombs in Ukraine
March 4, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/world/europe/nato-ukraine-russia-cluster-bombs.html
Human rights groups and observers say Russia is using cluster bombs in its invasion of Ukraine
MARCH 1, 2022
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-03-01/what-danger-do-cluster-bombs-pose
https://twitter.com/worldonalert/status/1503498324132966401
“Insane Russian bombardment with cluster munitions on Kharkiv tonight.”
https://twitter.com/reshetz/status/1677351108996472839
“A civilian district in Kharkiv being shelled by Russian cluster munitions in 2022. My question is where were all these humanity advocates”
They have not stopped using cluster weapons either. As usual with the more advanced weapons, they are used mostly on civilian targets.
There are big differences between US and Russian cluster munitions. US munitions are more reliable and have a lower dud rate.
https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1677420995026591747
“Russia, which has been showering Ukrainian cities with cluster munitions that have dud rates upwards of 30% (meaning that 30+% of bomblets remain unexploded and dangerous) is very very upset about the U.S. supplying Ukraine with cluster munitions that have a dud rate below 2.35%.”
https://twitter.com/CasualArtyFan/status/1677369048353366019
“For the people recently concerned about Ukraine using cluster munitions inside their own country, I got some bad news for you.”
“Russia fired 10,000,000+ artillery, rockets, cluster munitions, & more inside Ukraine over the past 500 days.”
I don’t pretend and never saw it, what did it say and why do you think she tells JR what to do?
On your Internet browser [Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Safari or the like], click on the three dots in the upper right hand corner.
From the drop-down menu, select "History".
Scroll down till you see the approximate time you were watching the video by the Brit historian.
Click on that link and you will be able to find the original link.
I would like to view that video, also. :)
The outrage on my part comes when the DC war criminals do it in my name and finance with my tax dollars. I have been outraged at US use of them since Bosnia 1999. Apparently you’re cool using these outdated brutal weapons to kill Russians, Uke children and anyone else who gets in your DC masters’ way.
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