Posted on 04/22/2022 3:57:03 AM PDT by GonzoII
April 22 (Reuters) - Russia plans to take full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine during the second phase of what it calls its special military operation, the deputy commander of Russia's central military district said on Friday, Russian news agencies reported….
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Please welcome, stalemate.
Ukraine has shown amazing resiliency to defend, and even repel Russian forces, but Donbas is strongly Russian and near their border, and southern Ukraine is also relatively near and also on the black sea.
So all the talk of “Ukrainians are Nazis”, “they have biolabs”, “they will attack mother Rossiya” are shown to be more Putin gas.
I gave up on my first $million, it was too hard...
“So all the talk of “Ukrainians are Nazis”, “they have biolabs”, “they will attack mother Rossiya” are shown to be more Putin gas.”
The first two were from the Western press and Neuland herself, and the last one is speculation with plenty of history to support it.
Yep.
Go back to the 1990s, Putin and Zhirinovsky were both signed up to a romantic vision of restoring the old Imperial Russia, with Ukraine and other Soviet vassal states disburdened of their pretence of autonomy.
The plan imcluded jokes about shipping Ukrainians off to Siberia
No more a joke; they’re already doing it.
Two generations of “shaming” along with forced education and adoption to kill off any legacy aspirations of freedom.
We in the UK all thought this was fanciful nonsense until Yanukovych was set up to take control of Ukraine. When that failed, the Russkies mobilised two bogus referendums in Donbass, excluding over half the eligible plebiscite from their inalienable constitutional right to even vote at all. Never mind vote to remain in Ukraine. Poroshenko went full tilt Nazi enabling in retaliation.
Since Zelenskyy took over, civilian deaths at the hands of Azov dropped to less than two a month, Azov lost ALL its MPs, several small Nazi parties were banned, and Russia was in danger of having DPR/LPR see peace restored. The only armistice that was broken, was broken by Russian separatists.
Why? Obvious. You can’t create a military corridor and coastline all the way to Moldova without taking Donbass.
Zhirinovsky, Putin, Russian state news, Lavrov, and Medvedev, collectively spun the untenable Nazi myth to useful idiots in the West while telling the folks at home through official sources that when they say “Nazi” they actually mean pro-democracy, pro-west, pro-Europe. all opposition to subjugation by a new Imperial Russia is anti-Russian and therefore Nazi.
A paper published by their national press, and approved by the Kremlin, provides the blueprint. “What to do with Ukraine” explains ethnic and cultural erasure, forced deportations, collective punishment.
Pundits on state TV relay what the regime tells them. And it fits with what Belarus’ president accidentally broadcast.
Once Ukraine has been destroyed, onto the Baltics. Poland. Moldova.
To do all this, the Ukrainian coast needs to become a Soviet military corridor. Mariupol was in the way, and full of Western sympathisers. So over a month ago Putin gave the ultimatum to its civilians... leave or be considered enemy.
Kadyrov troops just had the victory speech saying that his and Putin’s orders to “destroy and purge”Mariupol has now been fulfilled. There are holdouts in Azovstal... So Putin has effectively ordered they be sealed in to die slowly from thirst and starvation.
And the next objective - land corridor to Moldova - is firmly out in the open.
Seriously, all of this is going exactly according to plan. Putin doesn’t care about the conscripts who died pointlessly in the north of Ukraine; that whole thing was a sacrificial pawn to divide attention.
Biolabs - like Nazis - was another false flag, planted by Russia, to divide and conquer. Why attack the West directly when you can get gullible morons to do it for you.
Isn’t that the creep who was DQ’d for biting off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear?
The Ukrainians are Nazis was from Putin and his coterie
https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2022-04-05/medvedev-escalates-anti-ukrainian-rhetoric
- “Ukraine has mentally become a second Third Reich and will suffer the same fate”; “this also applies to the monsters who usurp the right to represent Ukraine”; the current “special operation” should teach them a lesson, as should one episode of the “glorious past”. In this context, Medvedev mentions the NKVD officer, Pavel Sudoplatov, who killed the head of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yevhen Konovalets, with a bomb planted in a box of chocolates [Sudoplatov also organised the assassination of Lev Trotsky]; “There will be many more such gifts for Nazi criminals
You are entirely mistaken.
Putin is restating his original objective.
The question is will Ukraine accept the limited Russian conquest or continue to fight.
Yesterday, the Moscow ministry that controls all the Russian air operations burned. Moscow was certainly attacked. That was I believe a message. Quit or Moscow and St Petersburg will be burned one surreptisus fire after another.
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Trevor Burbick taking a nap…
You keep giving us the RE-WRITES of history...all AFTER the war started. Now it's the line of the Nazis are 'Putin's Imagination'. Don't you get tired of being shown to be a non-stop LIAR here, time after time with headlines BEFORE the war from the WESTERN PRESS?
Anyway, I hope you guys in Poland like Drag Queen shows in your grade schools, because you're next in the EU's sights.
Yep, Iron Mike Tyson.
They’ve had a lot of plans, lately.
They may be lucky to hold Crimea.
Whereupon the rest of the nation becomes the Rump State of Ukraine. Putin’s doggie bag for later.
Reagan is definitely rolling over in his grave that some seem to be cheering on the restoration of the Evil Empire.
I have a dress ready to go to dinner with Kevin Costner.
IT is still on the hanger in the garment bag.
Hmmm. I was just thinking of you not 2 hours ago!
He should have just did that in the beginning. Stupid.
Nice that Putin admits what its really trying to do:
Steal land from a sovereign country thru naked aggression.
Cue the Putards to defend.
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