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Ukraine has taken back 50% of the territory that was originally taken by Putin the Stronk Genius and his Fearsome Generals.


Next Up: Crimea.





1 posted on 11/21/2022 8:24:15 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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ZelenskyyIdiot Under Pressure to Deliver on Battlefield After Retreat

There, fixed/corrected.

Not calling it, but I can foresee Zaluzhnyi taking over in place of ZelenskyyIdiot here in the near future.


2 posted on 11/21/2022 8:26:09 AM PST by cranked
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The war is entering a new phase and kherson was a hard to defend area requiring resources better applied to the final offensive. This article is deep state propaganda. Wake me up when Ukraine controls any air space. Any.


5 posted on 11/21/2022 8:31:45 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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More like General Disarray...


8 posted on 11/21/2022 8:42:40 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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“Margarita Simonyan, the hawkish editor-in-chief of RT TV and one of the main public proponents of the war”

She’s also the employer of Douglas Macgregor and Scott Ritter.


10 posted on 11/21/2022 8:45:32 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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yesterday, lots of videos

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?entry=yt&mid=1_OCzvlHRvPpQR5v0xRdchuZIb4ljUTw&ll=47.595718122375104%2C36.145017172288014&z=7


13 posted on 11/21/2022 8:50:50 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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The war hawks should retreat back into their playpens. They’re doing nothing but killing children and making fools of themselves.


23 posted on 11/21/2022 9:04:10 AM PST by bgill
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Ukraine - No Way To Peace Without Further War

“Another problem with talks is that there is no one to talk to. The Ukrainian comedian Zelensky is not in a position where he can give up and stay alive:

And one of the biggest impediments to any settlement, other than Russia eventually dictating terms, is the leader the collective West has put on a pedestal: Zelensky, with the additional baggage of his Banderite inner circle.”
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“Smith affirmatively quotes the former Russian president Medvedev who had explained the issue:

Vice Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, in a recent Telegram comment summarized in TASS, correctly depicted how Zelensky is boxed in:

Nevertheless, “Zelensky does not want any negotiations for quite obvious selfish reasons. Moreover, they [negotiations] are very dangerous for him,” Medvedev continued.

“After all, unless he acknowledges the realities of Ukraine’s break-up, it makes no sense to sit down at the [negotiating] table. Once he admits it, he will be bumped off by his own nationalists who are connected with the army top brass, and of whom he is scared out of his wits,” Medvedev said, describing the situation by the chess term ‘Zugzwang’ (in which each move of a player will worsen his/her position).”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-no-way-to-peace-without-further-war.html#more


36 posted on 11/21/2022 9:43:26 AM PST by cranked
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Surovikin, the rest of the story.

War in Ukraine, Oct 8, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos:

The new Commander is Sergey Surovikin; he used to command troops near Luchans’k.

That was actually credited to Surovikin; that was his so-called biggest achievement during the war so far. Prior to that, he served in Syria two times; he served most of 2017 in Syria, and then also again in 2019. He was accredited in 2017 with military success which allowed Russia and its allies, including Iran, to regain control of almost all of Syria.

He was and he was awarded the Hero of Russia award for that success the war in Syria. That was a totally different experience and is pretty much irrelevant to what’s going on in Ukraine. Nevertheless, he’s apparently seen as someone who is capable, and if we go back to his prior history, we actually can see there is something to it.

Let’s go all the way back to how he started his career. His career began in the Soviet Army in 1983. Then he become well not famous, but negatively famous in August of 1991. The coup attempt by the Soviet military in August in the Soviet Union failed after two or three days because most of the military didn’t follow the direction.

Sergey Surovikin was a captain at that time, and he did follow orders: he brought in 15-20 Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Moscow, to the streets of Moscow, and when he engaged in fighting with the civilians who were protesting at that time. As a result of that, three of them died something one of the IFVs got burned by the civilians as well. He was just following the orders. even it was clear that was definitely not much support and for those members of the coupe.

He was in jail for 7 months after that because the coup failed, which is interesting as the new Russian President Yeltsin freed him from the jail, and promoted him to a major. Apparently, Yeltsin needed people like that, which is also very interesting because Yeltsin got power as a result of the failure of that coup.

The Soviet Union dissolved on December 1991 and Yeltsin, who was also protesting & participating in all of the activities against the coup, gained power, full power of t Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and also participating on the other side of the coup.

Nonetheless, Yeltsin promoted Surovikin to major, then he went on to get a high level military education, was caught selling weapons, I don’t know who he was selling them illegally to, obviously.

He was sentenced to a year and in prison; he did not serve it, as it was just conditional. At the same time, he graduated with honors from the military school. He’s not dumb; he’s intelligent, but there is some level of cruelty, I guess maybe that’s probably right way to describe it, in him.

He climbing up the ladders; he was commander of 42nd Infantry Division which is on the front line in Ukraine right now. There was a a couple accidents while he was there: in one in instance, one of the people who are responsible for arms in the Division and overseas all of the arms - Surovikin had some conversation with him, and after that conversation, he killed himself, which was very strange and unusual. There were allegations that as a result of the conversation with him, it was murder, but nobody knows.

It was also very interesting because it was related to someone who’s supervising arms in the unit, he was in charge all of the weapons, and going back to Surovikin’s illegal sales of the weapons during his military education period, and the rest there is a scale I guess you already know he was just climbing up, and then eventually he served in Syria. Then he’s promoted again; he is in charge of the whole Russian forces in Ukraine.


44 posted on 11/21/2022 10:08:33 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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The funniest thing about these threads is when each side calls the other “trolls”.

They’re all trolls. Neither side is being honest.


48 posted on 11/21/2022 11:00:12 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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The Putinistas here will claim that is all going 100% according to the plan. LOL.


49 posted on 11/21/2022 11:12:41 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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52 posted on 11/21/2022 12:42:48 PM PST by cranked
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53 posted on 11/21/2022 12:43:34 PM PST by cranked
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54 posted on 11/21/2022 12:44:11 PM PST by cranked
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They have REPEATEDLY warned that nukes are on the table.

Watch for strategic withdrawal of their own troops before deployment.


55 posted on 11/21/2022 12:44:54 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare its ? And the ambassador to Ukraineelf)
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