Posted on 09/28/2023 6:37:26 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine is ready for Major Attack on the South | Ruzzia in Panic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXP8vvJDjAo
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 23rd September 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).[NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday]
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-577-summary/
*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front!
https://militaryland.net/maps/
“it is going to be the poor frozen and starved russian troops who are going to be surrendering en mass come winter.”
May it be so!
russia is evil! That’s the current reality.
russia is savagely killing and destroying innocents in Ukraine.
That’s the reality.
russia is evil right now
Red China troll.
“Oh damn! That’s gonna leave a mark. . .”
no it’s not
all good people celebrate the death of the evil russians right now
You are a mouthpiece for western propaganda.
That’s the reality right now.
It doesn’t actually.
I was very angry when they bombed Georgia.
I have closer friends there than Russia.
If there was a way to go back to posts before that.. I was really sarcastic about things, like a refinery fire in Lithuania. I was joking here about it. Also there was that mysterious pipeline that blew up on the coldest day ever causing the Georgians to rely on kerosene for heat. They stood in line with cans for hours. My friend messaged me from Tbilisi about how cold he was and broke my heart. He is like a brother to me.
In South Ossetia it was destroyed. Ok.
The Georgians were getting gas from Iran and back then -Russia and Iran were not the good buddies they are now.
I still think Russia was behind it, and other “accidents”.
In most wars I have not supported Russia at all.
This time they did the right thing though.
This time NATO is the evil party.
And you should be prepared.
This time, imo, we won’t survive.
And this time...HOW do you say we are out of ammo to give Ukraine from one side of your mouth and say we are going to war with both Russia and China from the other side?
The US is under completely insane leadership.
Insane.
I don’t expect to see next summer.
I don’t think, in most cases, that Russia is much nicer than we are. I never did. Until this war.
See my post here at number 4.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062207/posts
You will be stunned I bet at my post here, number 11.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062515/posts
A genocidal Red Chinese troll. Get lost.
No. You get lost.
One more if you are interested.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221036/posts
In retrospect, at the time, both Italy and France had nearly identical forms of government in place.
They both appointed and probably still do appoint regional governors.
At the time, it being an iron fist was just Seattle beating the drum. And I lived there then. There is a good reason we moved to the midwest.
There are other threads where Putin was solidly backed here.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/776355/posts
And there is this, see post number 7
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1108874/posts#7
Then look at this if you like.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721778/posts
We considered a trip to Abkhazia a few years ago.
I have always wanted to go there.
But the people there were like demons, the things they did to Georgians living there make nazis look nice.
In the end we just couldn’t go.
It wasn’t so much the Georgians but the incredible horrific cruelty toward them.
I thought I had heard everything.
They made the word sadism inadequate.
I learn that Mar Mema (260-275) is the patron of shepherds and nurses, so I suspect your moniker reflects this saint. If so, kudos again.
I followed the exchanges between you and UMCrev about both adopting Russian-born children. Your tale seems the more heroic, though one can only "construct" with what details one has or can develop from these threads.
One places "Russia" under a set of presidents -- elections by date:
1991 Yeltsin; 1996 Yelstin; 2000 Putin; 2004 Putin; 2008 Medvedev; 2012 Putin; 2018 Putin with a coming presidential election next year, as is ours.I wager yours and UMCrev's children were adopted after 1991, obviously. And if her adopted children were very young, then they had to have been adopted during the time of Yeltsin, i. e. long before 2000 but after 1991. This would have put UMCrevmom at somewhat older than 40 at the time. Probably births between 1991-1993 would be a best guess, which an adoption process beginning in those or a year later for infant adoptions.
Of adoptions and Russia, over time, one reads:
"Russia formalized its international adoption program in the middle of 1991. That year, 12 children were adopted by American families. That figure grew quickly, topping 1,000 children by 1994, rising to 4,292 in 2001 and reaching a peak of 5,862 adoptions in 2004. (International adoption reached an overall historic high that year, with a total of 22,884 foreign-born children adopted by U.S. families.)Your adopted kids were, as you stated, "children no one else wanted" and needing medical interventions. Best I can see from the exchanges, hers were healthy enough, unless there are details not in evidence to the contrary, today probably in their thirties and getting married."Soon after, however, the number of Russian-born children adopted by U.S. families started dropping sharply year after year. Just 748 such adoptions were completed in 2012. The following year, Vladimir Putin signed a law banning U.S. families from adopting children born in Russia. The U.S. Department of State (DOS) logged 250 adoptions completed in 2013 and two in 2014—all of which were in-process before the ban—and zero thereafter."
Russian Adoption: A Brief History & What's Behind the Current Media Attention
So, two similar tales and yet two very dissimilar tales, at the same time.
Alongside this are two seemingly similar and yet very dissimilar beliefs, as you -- in the context of Orthodox Christianity -- and her with a Methodist church deep in theological schism, invoke "Christ" but with different intentions and outcomes.
Similarly some truly unaware comments would ridicule your "Russian" experiences while assiduously not ridiculing UMCrev's very similar "Russian" experiences. This shows that the "game" on these threads is very politically partisan while not reading more closely. Such is the nature of our time.
My participation in these threads is because the promotion of "confirmation bias" YouTube and parallel promotion of Zelensky as a de-facto spokesperson is the greater part of these threads' behavior. Because money -- lots of it -- is evident in much, as Modern Diplomacy wrote, "The whole Ukraine goes for sale - massive profit opportunities being created by the war'." The cottage industry surrounding the Ukraine-Russia war -- or "special military operation" as some call it, recollecting our "police action" and Obama's "kinetic military action" -- coming down to using euphemisms for wholesale death on both sides is bolstered by money. Lots of money.
Money is feeding war. And we have been at non-stop war -- call it any euphemism one wishes -- since 2001. In 23 1/2 years we've gone from $5 trillion in debt to over $33 trillion, as money continues to feed wars, plural.
Would that adoptions replace killings. And building replace destruction. But my take is akin to yours. This would have been over in short order, once upon a time though not to everyone's satisfaction. Without the money to feed it. And continue to feed it. The "world's policeman" fiction is coming to a end, as multi-polarity insists on its reality which the "unipolar" dies by a thousand cuts. Biden's "lead the liberal world order" and von der Leyen's "rules-based order" cannot continue when many other nations simply walk away. As they are doing. Which "Christ" will become more clear. The worldly global, political order "christ" or a different Christ which weeps for all soldiers and all collateral victims thrown into the maw by political leadership -- ours and theirs and someone else's?
It seems most interesting that 2024 is a year of election in Russia as in America, as well as within the United Methodist Church's "election" as to which way it will turn.
Time will tell. A Jubilee year approaches. Mar Mema was a fine example, MarMema. Best wishes.
Go back to Beijing and your masters.
“He strikes me as more of a “bribe someone to get bogus paperwork” type than an “escape through a hole in the border fence” type.”
This comment is so typical for you and others. You create a lying story and present as truth. So sad.
Monterossa24.
I think that is his handle...claims to have family in a town in the donbas area.
I looked it up once.
The Ukrainians had just bombed the crap out of it.
I think it is Artemovsk
Truly most of these folk are the recipients of huge and very risk taking Russian envoys, braving a lot and working 16 hours/day.
Delivering food, other necessities, to these villages.
I have seen hundreds of videos, very touching.
Often it is the Russian soldiers doing the deliveries.
Even a few Chechens now and then.
The thing is, and I remember this from a woman interviewed in Kherson...
The Russians come in, forgive all debt, resume pensions, and hand out money and food and toys.
They rapidly repair homes, restore power often, provide fuel.
Whose government would you choose?
There are reports that the Ukrainian soldiers hide in residential areas and esp in schools.
There was lots of video back always of them in schools.
They kick out the staff and kids.
I saw one video where an older Ukrainian baba scolded the soldiers for hiding near a school. In the playground.
Anyway. Hard to believe his family could hate Russia so much. If it is true, but I think it is.
I might have some videos saved on telegram if you want links.
The Russian army, btw, just left a two week assignment in
Libya, helping people there with the terrible flooding.
It is interesting that the original EuroNews story is not of interest.
'I was afraid of it': the Ukrainians dodging conscription and fleeing the country EuroNew with Agence France Presse, 1 September 2023.
Is one to understand that Davydov is among those 'escape through a hole in the border fence' types? The comment to you, saying you are lying, is also "interesting."
It seems a fumbling attempt to defend her headliner as if the opposite of your opinion. And yet his monetized YouTube channel has been uploaded from Switzerland for many years now. Probably no "bribe" was paid and no "escape" either.
One only need look at Switzerland's requirements for "legal residency" to understand that no heroic holes and no bribes were necessary. Just be unavailable for conscription as an English-speaking pilot.
It is interesting that the original EuroNews story is not of interest.
'I was afraid of it': the Ukrainians dodging conscription and fleeing the country EuroNew with Agence France Presse, 1 September 2023.
Is one to understand that Davydov is among those 'escape through a hole in the border fence' types? The comment to you, saying you are lying, is also "interesting."
It seems a fumbling attempt to defend her headliner as if the opposite of your opinion. And yet his monetized YouTube channel has been uploaded from Switzerland for many years now. Probably no "bribe" was paid and no "escape" either.
One only need look at Switzerland's requirements for "legal residency" to understand that no heroic holes and no bribes were necessary. Just be unavailable for conscription as an English-speaking pilot.
I was wrongfully accused of “celebrating the death of Russians”
-I pray for Putin to withdraw his troops and stop the invasion.
-I pray for the slaughter by Putin of both the Russian and Ukrainian military as well as the Ukrainian civilians.
-I pray for those that are persecuted for protesting, jailed, killed by the FSB, FAPSI, and FPS.
I will not name these individuals. You are respected by them so, perhaps by sharing Ephesians 5: 1-17 will help their discernment
Christ weeps.
You got that right!
Sure got that right!
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