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Posted on 09/11/2022 11:38:07 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Russian nationalists called angrily on Sunday for President Vladimir Putin to make immediate changes to ensure ultimate victory in the Ukraine war, a day after Moscow was forced to abandon its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine.
The swift fall of Izium in Kharkiv province was Russia's worst military defeat since its troops were forced back from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in March.
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Moscow's almost total silence on the defeat - or any explanation for what had taken place in northeastern Ukraine - provoked significant anger among some pro-war commentators and Russian nationalists on social media.
Neither Putin, who is Russia's supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces, nor Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had publicly commented on the defeat as of midday on Sunday.
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Putin condemnations are expected.
Knee-jerk reactions are expected from pundits, nationalists, etc. as well.
Conversely:
“Saturday’s Telegram howl and the hard truth about ourselves
Would have we won the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1945 if we had Telegram and mobile phones with video cameras? Very unlikely.
I just imagined minute-by-minute tantrums of anonymous authors like “The Red Army retreated from the village of Vinogradovo” or “Pavlov’s building was left without windows: did ours surrender?”. Dozens of photos would be attached to everything, of which: 5 archived, 3 photoshopped, and 2 stolen from somewhere.
While our soldiers do the real fighting, losing limbs and lives, someone is sitting and criticizing like “Kupyansk and Izyum surrendered! Cowards!”. Let me remind you that from 1941-1943 Red Army soldiers retreated from Kiev and Sevastopol, and motorcycles with Wehrmacht soldiers generally drove to the outskirts of Moscow. So what? And no one whined but went about their business: they made production rates of 1000%, getting a ration of 300 grams of bread. They were happy that they were helping the Motherland.
And now everyone imagines themselves as either a political expert or a military strategist, sitting with a smoothie or latte in cozy cafes in Moscow or Kherson.
Compatriots, the leadership of the country gave us the opportunity to restore historical justice without the hardships of 1941-1945. Everyone can professionally(!) write about the situation at the front, restore public services and health care, or establish the financial system in the liberated territories. Do it.
In short, alarmists, instead of whining in comments and posts, sign up as volunteers or come to work in the Kherson Joint Civil and Military Administration. In my social affairs department, be sure I’ll give that many challenges in your life that there will be no time to criticize and whine.
Thanks to the Russian soldier preserving the peaceful sky over the liberated territories, that allows me and the team to work calmly for the sake of the future!
— Ekaterina Gubareva, the vice-governor of Kherson oblast for social welfare affairs.”
https://t.me/war_subtitled_en/625
So that’s your story now, Comrade Cranked, and you’re sticking to it?
The Soviets were defending their motherland during WW2.
The Russians are invading Ukraine. And they are poorly motivated in that. They have no reason for being there. So they will lose. The Russians got by on brute strength from cannon fodder alone for so long. That kind of warfare is not going to succeed in the 21st Century.
In short, alarmists, instead of whining in comments and posts, sign up as volunteers or come to work in the Kherson Joint Civil and Military Administration where your execution as a collaborator is assured.
Russia now hitting power plants with much of eastern Ukraine dark
They should have done this on day 1 and also knock out all the bridges to slow resupply like we did in Gulf War 1
Your lack of knowledge of what was occurring prior to that alleged Western generated ‘Russia invaded Ukraine’ meme is obvious.
Their endsieg isn’t working out so great it seems.
Steer clear of them when they’re raging.
I hope Ekaterina gets the Mussolini treatment when the Russian are forced out of Kherson.
Don’t need to worry about the Russians hunting me down or putting me on a Kill List yo, be assured.
‘Ukrainian police [specifically the SBU] promise ‘reckoning’ for civilians’
https://swentr.site/russia/562530-ukraine-balakleya-filtration-civilians/
It's 9:48 PM in your cubicle in St. Petersburg, Russia. You must be working the second shift.
I wish this Uke deluge was limited to Reuters.
But, there is plenty of company - CNN, WashCompost, Slimes, NPR (non-stop, btw), WSJ, MSLSD, and so many others.
The other side? Banned here in the USA.
Today:
Russian forces are on the bring of collapse.
Ukrainian victory is in sight.
Tomorrow:
Ukrainian forces are on the bring of collapse.
Russian victory is in sight.
Next day:
Russian forces are on the bring of collapse.
Ukrainian victory is in sight.
Etc.
Your daily propaganda from the Soviet side is expected, your support for the motherland is noted. (And ignored by most of us.)
Years ago you’d have been zotted, along with most of your fellow travelers.
2:28Pm at my house.
Not sure about your time in the basement of your parents home tho.
But the daily propaganda from pro-Ukrainian junkies within FR is A-OK, yeah?
Hypocrite.
How many Russian-speaking people live in Ukraine?
I bet you don't have a clue.
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