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Update from Ukraine | The Upcoming Big Landing Operation in Crimea | Ukraine Nails it
Youtube.com ^ | 10-1-2023 | Denys Davydov

Posted on 10/01/2023 6:31:24 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
NATO Testing Waters on Buffer Zone as Ukraine Offensive Grinds to Halt

Update for the conflict in Ukraine for October 2, 2023

< - Ukraine’s offensive is now at the 4 month mark, exhausting its potential and failing to achieve any of its objectives;

- The Western media admits that Russia has actually gained more territory this year including during the Ukrainian offensive despite being on the defensive;

- Russia continues degrading a variety of Ukrainian military capabilities the West cannot sufficiently replace while maintaining pressure along the line of contact;

- Both the Russian economy and its military industrial base are admittedly growing while Ukraine and its Western sponsors exhaust their stockpiles, lacking the ability to renew them;

- The West continues talking about building military industrial projects within Ukrainian territory, with the UK recently claiming they may send British troops to “train” Ukrainians in Ukraine;

- This appears to be the foundation for creating a “buffer zone” within western Ukraine, similar to the US-Turkish occupation in Syria, meant to freeze the conflict;

81 posted on 10/02/2023 8:20:46 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
That the AfD and other "populist" parties are doing well electorally and growing in adherents is a deep and principles threat to the European Commission of the EU. They [the European Commission] appoint themselves more or less, and as the EC work to make a new USSEu sort of entity, with its control over a centralized military and administration. Thus, the "federal" member states of Europe would be shoe-horned into a "federalized" top-down entity, and this the populist all around Europe are resisting. LNG issues are only part of the problem today.

This is talked about on The Duran continually [European Commission self-dealing].

Thanks for your clarification - even though it is only "an attempt to influence public opinion".   

The peddlers of Globalist propagenda on this thread are shameless, ain't they?

82 posted on 10/02/2023 9:22:40 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Widget Jr

“Its kind of hard for the AFD to focus on getting cheap Russian LNG, when Germany is importing next to no Russian LNG at all. Maybe people should try looking up some facts about a accusation before spreading them?”

TRUTH!

THIS INFO ON FUEL PRICES MAY HELP [Unless of course the data has been ‘adjusted’... again!]

SOURCE: Central Federal District Moscow
https://fuelprices.ru/en/cfo/moskva


83 posted on 10/02/2023 10:15:10 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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To: Kazan

Thanks for directing your Comment #81 to me

However, I consider The New Atlas (previously Land Destroyer) [Country: Thailand] an unreliable source.

CAUTION:
IMO, this source is noted for inaccuracy & unreliability: systematic misinformation. Typical references from legitimately sourced news will appear only to appear within an overview summary of deceptive misstatements.

IMO, Berletic [AKA Tony Cartalucci] definitely does not use a balanced geopolitics perspective to the point that his commentary is active disinformation. Anyhow, it is his way to make a living.

As it is your prerogative to select your own sources for information... as is mine. I reject his posts/articles/videos on the other Russian sites as well.


84 posted on 10/02/2023 10:31:42 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
The good news is the hard core Azov nazis are being decimated via the ongoing SMO.

For example Vladamir Ishchenko (co-founder of the Aidar battalion and an infamous nazi) was sent to meet Bandera over the weekend.


85 posted on 10/02/2023 12:15:45 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Have you not noticed though that until Ukraine arrested Ihor Kolomoisky and Viktor Medvedchuk (Putin’s really really good i.e. corrupt to the bone Ukrainian oligarch mate) in 2021, plus a whole bunch of other figures known to be responsible for bankrolling the oligarchy,

1. Putin was still talking to Zelenskyy and not preparing to invade Ukraine,

2.There were no more than a few thousand “real” Nazis in Ukraine for Russia to feel worried about,

3. Being pro-European in Ukraine wasn’t enough for Moscow to accuse you of being a Nazi,

4. Some of the confirmed Nazis in Ukraine were heading up the DPR and LPR muscle - on Russia’s or Wagner’s dime, and finally

5. Russia didn’t mention Ukronazis at all in relation to the Special Military Operation until a few weeks into the war, presumably because they thought once those 5000 Nazis were sent to hell the rest of Ukraine would fall on its knees sobbing with gratitude, throwing flowers at the soldiers and welcoming that victory parade in Kyiv.

It’s almost as if this whole “they’re all nazis!” stuff from Moscow is just a reaction to finding out that there were maybe 25,000 paramilitaries in eastern Ukraine, half of ‘em pro-Ukrainian with Banderite leanings and the other half being equally nasty pro-Russian mercs.

Sticking pictures of Stalin up on your bedroom wall and shooting your fellow countrymen isn’t any better than sticking pictures of Bandera up and doing it.


86 posted on 10/02/2023 1:31:41 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson, A Scandal in Bohemia)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

LOL

“Recently released footage by the Russian side shows that Ukrainian drone operators hunted down so many Russian vehicles inside the city that Russians were forced to put nets every 30 meters above the road in order to minimize the losses. Unfortunately for Russians, Ukrainians quickly adjusted and made their final maneuver right after the vehicle passed the net.”


87 posted on 10/02/2023 3:24:23 PM PDT by Sunsong
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com; Widget Jr

Last I heard Germany and others were importing a lot of their LNG from the US. I remember about 10 years ago some communist sympathizers I was acquainted with were promoting action against LNG export infrastructure being developed in Chesapeake Bay. I guess this was just before Putin annexed Crimea and begain sending his “little Green men” into eastern Ukraine. Also in 2012 some American oil companies had signed exploration contracts with Ukraine for oil and gas. I guess when Russia calls, our embedded Communists still jump. At the time I wondered why all the fuss about the LNG, now it all makes sense.


89 posted on 10/02/2023 10:40:32 PM PDT by gleeaikin ( Question authority!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I don’t know if this will interest you, but as a mother of one US soldier and grandmother of 3, I was horrified to read what was revealed about former President Trump’s attitude toward our military and casualties therein. I do remember being quite shocked at what he said to and about Gold Star parents early in his presidency, considering that my son had been serving in both Iraq and Afghaanistan and would do so again before retiring which he finally did last year. No cheer here. ;-(

https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-john-kelly-goes-record-210022043.htm


90 posted on 10/02/2023 10:48:40 PM PDT by gleeaikin ( Question authority!)
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dznutz: "Not “Pro-Putin” I’m anti giving our money to a Country that has been through a succession of Gregory Soros color revolutions."

The claim that Soros organized Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution is standard Russian agit-prop, but I've seen no actual evidence proving whatever Soros contributed had any material effect on events, or that things would have gone differently without Soros.

You have seen no evidence, maybe you don’t want to see, Sorazz prints are all over Ukraine, even Ray Charles can see.

91 posted on 10/03/2023 5:55:27 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: MalPearce
I am no expert on European or Russian politics, internal, external, or behind closed doors. How Putin has acted seems more like a mafia godfather who happens to run a country on the side of running a crime family. The idea that if the Ukrainian oligarchs could not turn Ukraine over to him, he would take it by force is not too far fetched.
92 posted on 10/05/2023 3:06:41 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: Widget Jr

I think it’s not as simple as that.

Putin, Dugin, Zhirinovsky and Medvedev formed their opinions in the early 90s, in the bitterness they felt toward the collapse of the USSR, the “humiliation” of the Mighty Soviet Union being unable to keep itself together. They may have blamed the West for the aftermath of its collapse, but they also blamed Gorbachev and Yeltsin for enabling it.

And people should never forget that the oligarchs in Russia were allowed to continue robbing their country blind as long as they bent their knees to Putin, the guy elected on an anti-corruption ticket. He’s now a ruble trillionaire because the oligarchs that swore unconditional loyalty to him paid him a cut. Putin even had tame oligarchs in Ukraine. Medvechuk was one. Funny how the Putin puffers whingeing about corruption in Ukraine never seem to remember, half of the oligarchs and people on the take in Ukraine were in Putin’s pocket - including Yanukovych.

Even if Putin didn’t believe in Communism, he’s still a true believer in the mission of restoring a Great Russian Empire over eastern Europe and Eurasia. He knew all along he’d have to commit atrocities to build it, but that didn’t bother him in the slightest.

Putin really doesn’t care if he causes another Holodomor, or has to set up more concentration camps than Hitler. The Russian people - and their useful idiot mates around the world - will buy any excuse he comes up with. And to Putin these are trivial concerns compared to him restoring Empire to the Motherland. So strategically he had to come up with a narrative that discredited the role NATO had in keeping Russia on the east side of the Iron Curtain, and discredited its role after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact.

Putin’s neofascism in Russia today is just like German/Italian fascism in the WW2 Axis and Stalinism in the USSR. Same mentality, different flag. Hitler had his Jewish Conspiracy and the humiliation of Versailles, Putin has “NATO wants to destroy Russia” and the perceived humiliation of the Belovezha Accords.

Everything else is vranyo based on cognitive bias.

Ukraine has biolabs. Russia has biolabs. Russia’s biolabs keep leaking nasty stuff (anthrax for example) and gassing the towns they’re in because they’re so poorly maintained. Ukraine’s didn’t because Ukraine maintained higher standards. Ukraine’s were inspected by external and impartial observers, Russia’s ones certainly are not.

But because the inspectors weren’t bribed Russians giving Putin a slice of the pie, obviously it’s a conspiracy - a corrupt Ukraine creating bioweapons to use against Russia. All rubbish, of course.


93 posted on 10/05/2023 4:28:26 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson, A Scandal in Bohemia)
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