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Russian commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District: Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev was eliminated today
Twitter | 3/18/2022 | Sputnik ATO via Allen@SquireDigital

Posted on 03/18/2022 3:30:34 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 8thguards; 8thguardsarmy; biden; putin; russia; seals; sealteam; sealteam6; sealteamsix; ukraine; usn
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To: Bulwyf

Look who supports Russia - long list of US enemies.

The world rarely neatly arranges ones enemies on one “side”.

The Romans often had to deal with rebel generals at the same time as barbarians coming over the border.


61 posted on 03/18/2022 4:16:32 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: Bulwyf

The Afghans overcame the Red Army. The Ukrainians should keep fighting to push these invaders out.


62 posted on 03/18/2022 4:16:34 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: delta7

[Soros, Zelensky, the Demoncrats are all calling for war, never heard a call for negotiations yet. ]


It wasn’t Ukraine that invaded Russia, but the other way around. What more is there to talk about, but the return of Ukrainian territory and the payment of reparations from Russia’s forex reserves?


63 posted on 03/18/2022 4:16:34 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Also the US Army doesn’t have Field Marshalls. Four stars are General of the Army. Five stars don’t happen often but they’re not Field Marshall. That’s a European thing...


64 posted on 03/18/2022 4:18:39 PM PDT by OKSooner ("Nucular combat, toe to toe with the Rooskies.")
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To: mosaicwolf
"Propaganda. I don’t believe it. Need some proof besides the media BS."

Maybe it's true, but we have been repeated lied to by our government and media. I no longer trust anything they say.
"In war, truth is the first casualty." ― Aeschylus (Agamemnon).
65 posted on 03/18/2022 4:19:09 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Zhang Fei

Good riddance.


66 posted on 03/18/2022 4:19:25 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: delta7

Putin did tear up the Belgrade Memorandum, which explicitly guaranteed Ukrainian territorial integrity. That was a vastly important promise, trading nuclear weaons for security guarantees. What nation will ever accept such a promise again?


67 posted on 03/18/2022 4:19:40 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: Bulwyf

[Thanks for some common sense. Zelensky needs to stop sacrificing his people if he cares. Surrender. It’s the only way to stop it.]


I agree that surrender would stop the slaughter. Problem is a Russian surrender might dent Putin’s reputation. He wants to be known as Vladimir the Greater, not Vladimir the Special (as in Special Olympics).


68 posted on 03/18/2022 4:19:56 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: entropy12

Just think of who is for Ukraine:

(1) Soros
(2) every democrat including Brandon
(3) every republican neocon having orgasms at prospects of war with Russia
(4) almost all MSM including 90% of Fox news.

Just based on that list, my knee jerk reaction is to not pick sides. We certainly do not need another foreign war with $30T in debt and climbing.

Looking at actual video’s on news, I see building after building in Ukraine turned to rubble, while all buildings in Russia not even had glass windows shattered. If this war continues for another 10 days, Ukraine will look like Germany during WWII.

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Exactly, I have seen a war, lived it. Ukraine is toast. They have lost. Having lived, worked in a Moscow, and trained Russians, I know they will support Vlad with their first born sons. Russians know war, shortages, deprivation…last time I was there they laughed at sanctions.
Time for Zelensky to seriously negotiate, and put to rest his calls for war, war, war. He is destroying Ukraine.


69 posted on 03/18/2022 4:21:12 PM PDT by delta7
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To: Hiddigeigei

Thats why you have to turn to third parties, “open source” compilations, and do your own analysis. Actual analysis, takes some work, not hot-headed negativity.


70 posted on 03/18/2022 4:22:02 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: delta7

We will see of course, but such certainties have a habit of wearing away. Ukraine is not an existential matter for Russia, obviously not after 30 years away.


71 posted on 03/18/2022 4:25:01 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: OKSooner

It’s settled then. Mordvichev was, at the very least, a “big deal”, and so, his death, a big loss.


72 posted on 03/18/2022 4:26:27 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: delta7

Putin is destroying Ukraine.


73 posted on 03/18/2022 4:26:48 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Hey, about that tagline:

Blockade of Cuba by USA was OK, but NATO weapons seeking Ukraine invasion not acceptable to Neocons!)

The U.S. permitted Soviet troops and conventional weapons to be in Cuba for decades, both before and after the Crisia. We only drew the line at nukes.

Russia, in contrast, believes it has the right to prevent NATO troops or weapons in Ukraine. So if you were trying to demonstrate hypocrisy with your tagline, that hypocrisy in on the Russian end.

Entropy12 is Indian. I think there's a part of the Indian psyche that's been brainwashed by self-serving Indian ruling class propaganda about how the Soviets helped keep the neo-Mughals to the north in line, so Bharat wouldn't end up being butchered the way Bangladesh (aka East Pakistan) was, by Yahya Khan.

In reality, the Indians allied with the Russians from the start because of some chip on their shoulder about the Brits and the notion that as the seed of Albion, the US was somehow tainted by association. This instinctive revulsion makes me dubious about India being an ally on anything other than a Chinese invasion of India.

I understand entropy12's take on things - he was born in and grew up in India. What else is he going to think about Russia? The problem is this weltanschaaung pervades every aspect of Indian strategic thinking. Maybe things will change in a couple of generations. We'll see.

74 posted on 03/18/2022 4:30:25 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: delta7

I’m still willing to give Zelensky some slack. Maybe he’s dirty but he’s only been there since 2019. And he wasn’t anywhere near politics before that. No question about the dirt level in the Uke tho: Obamadingdong and Bidumbdum made sure of that-—not to mention klintoon getting it started. Note that Z-man doesn’t yet have a Dacha. So I’ll hold off on him, at least.


75 posted on 03/18/2022 4:32:46 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: Gen.Blather
The Russians will revert to smoke signals.
They can do because a lot of their destroyed armor is smoking.
76 posted on 03/18/2022 4:32:46 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Bulwyf

Zelensky needs to stop sacrificing his people if he cares. Surrender. It’s the only way to stop it.
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Not entirely so, Vlad invaded because the Ethnic Russians in the break away eastern provinces were being shelled by the Ukies since 2016. The UN recorded 22,000 deaths by Ukraine. The Donbas provinces have been a thorn in the Ukies side for years…..common sense would tell me if they were such a problem, let them have their independence- ditch them- war over….no need to “ surrender “, just let the Donbas have their independence.
The calls for war, war, war, backing the black hats , is getting annoying. Both sides deserve no support. How about calls for peace, peace peace?

Zelensky needs to get negotiating before his entire eastern countryside is turned to a smoking pile of ruble- he is failing his nation, and goading the west to a world war.


77 posted on 03/18/2022 4:35:41 PM PDT by delta7
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To: Zhang Fei

That’s a lot of fruit salad going bad.


78 posted on 03/18/2022 4:37:48 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Zhang Fei

I read an article on Russian demographics. The average age of the Russian citizen is 40. The country has a shortage of young males to take the casualties it did during WW2...and partly because of the killing off of a generation of young men that would have fathered more children.

The Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan in part because of its losses that led to what was called “the revolt of the mothers.” I’ve seen reporting that a second ‘revolt of the mothers’ may be brewing right now. And link that to the anti-war movement that appears to have started.

Putin is bringing in Chechens and Syrians because he can’t afford the losses he is taking.


79 posted on 03/18/2022 4:39:02 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Zhang Fei

Well, sucks to be him.

I’m curious as to why so many freepers think they have some God-given right to all the accurate sensitive truth of all sides?

We are looking at the fog of war through a glass darkly - the best we can finagle out of the void is the best we’ll have today. It may change, it may not.

C’mon, people, it’s nothing personal.


80 posted on 03/18/2022 4:39:48 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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