Ukraine started this year {2024} on the brink of disaster. A lot has changed since.

Business Insider ^ | September 9, 2024 | Thibault Spirlet

[Cronos]

After entering 2024 in a sorry state, Ukraine has notched up a series of notable achievements since the start of the year, giving fresh impetus to its fight back against Russia.

... Western allies have let it use some of the missile systems they've supplied to hit targets inside Russia, with notable caveats, giving it a better chance to defend itself against incoming Russian attacks.

And it also regained the initiative with its surprise incursion into the Russian region of Kursk in August, even while gradually losing ground in eastern Ukraine.

"What Ukraine has done in the past month, starting with Kursk, is not going to turn around the war by any means," Abishur Prakash, the founder of The Geopolitical Business, Inc., a strategy advisory firm in Toronto, told BI.

"But it's definitely changed the war," he added.

...Russia, meanwhile, has struggled to respond quickly and effectively, partly due to its complex military structures, a lack of contingency plans, and poor command and control.

...Putin still believes Russia can slowly and indefinitely take over Ukraine through grinding advances and accomplish its objectives by fighting a war of attrition and outlasting Western support, it said. Ukraine's emphasis on regaining territory and reluctance to mobilize more soldiers may have complicated its defenses.

[bimboeruption]

>>>>GET THE PARODY: The rugged, tough Cossacks shown as feminized DRAG queens?!?!!

If you don’t get it, that’s OK. The audience found it hysterical!<<<<

Right, I don’t get it. I’m a heterosexual female and I don’t find men, wearing revealing women’s clothing and prancing around like women, hysterical. I find it repulsive.

It’s telling that you as a “REVEREND” don’t.

>>>>You take images from other people to make into your memes.<<<<

And you broke into my image hosting account and swiped my images and doxxed me on this site, which is why the images I use now are watermarked.

[Allegra]

Take your hypocritical finger wagging elsewhere. When you start keeping Jim’s rules, let me know.

Thank you! Spot on.

[Allegra]

Where, oh where is my nightcap? I’m getting all sleepy and stuff.

[ANKE69]

WRONG, mother.
The correct term is THE 'Ukie Mofia’ is used regarding criminal activity

[BroJoeK]

cronos to Worldtraveler once upon a time: "I’m not sure where you are going on that youtube videos watched.
UN can recommend youtube videos (as do others), but most of us don’t have the time to siphon through minutes of talk, even if we do support a cause."

Worldtraveler once upon a time: "In the thread, 150 minutes of "talk." Lots of "talk" is posted in long threads, promoting monetized videos.
As an example most recent:..
...One observes that my simple question went without response, a question to someone who responds to others in long comments."

Like cronos, I didn't see the point of the question or a value in answering it.
But since it seems to be a matter of some concern, the answer is: I have time to watch a lot of videos on Ukraine, some monetized, others not.

Different YouTube videos can overlap, and some are easier to watch than others, so I end up watching parts of videos, until they seem repetitive or if they move onto subjects that don't interest me.
I try to watch videos the same way we used to read the old newspapers -- scan the headlines, read the first few paragraphs of an interesting article, then move onto the next article unless something is particularly interesting in this one, worth reading the entire piece.
I should mention that some Ukraine videos rabbit-hole into their anti-Trump political views and then I shut them off, "dislike" them and don't see any more of their work.

So, specifically, the answer is "yes" for many of the items listed, I've at least seen them and for some have taken the time to watch the beginning minutes.
Occasionally I watch one all the way through, if its exceptionally interesting.

[ANKE69]

>>>>>GET THE PARODY: The rugged, tough Cossacks shown as feminized DRAG queens?!?!! If you don’t get it, that’s OK. The audience found it hysterical! The initial Cossack costume was torn off before dancing.<<<<

The rugged, tough Cossacks??? 🤣😂🤣😅
He is the same wanne-be rugged, tough dictator who ran nacked through a grocery store and through streets, while children were watching it.
He's the pervert who dropped his pants to play the piano with his little wanker.
Come to think of it..... Do you have drag queen shows and reading hours for little ones, Reverend? You find this hysterically funny too, don't you?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "Like cronos, I didn't see the point of the question or a value in answering it. But since it seems to be a matter of some concern, the answer is: I have time to watch a lot of videos on Ukraine, some monetized, others not."

Long prose without simply answering whether you'd watches the now 2 & 1/2 hours worth of church lady recommended videos on this thread.

You can find another of her recommendations on another thread:

9/16/2024, 9:31:53 PM · 6,369 of 6,378 UMCRevMom@aol.com to AdmSmith

More than six thousand comments, as the war porn club meets in FR rabbit-holes. And the content creators -- YouTube's term -- get clicks and AdSense income, Google/YouTube earning the major portion. Click, subscribe, even "partner" with their hours of entertainment.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

—> GET THE PARODY: The rugged, tough Cossacks shown as feminized DRAG queens?!?!!
he’s a homo perv.

Simple as that.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Once again... you are wrong.
Simple as that :)

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

“And you broke into my image hosting account and swiped my images and doxxed me on this site, which is why the images I use now are watermarked.”

I explained this thoroughly to you.

I clicked on one of your famous memes. Apparently, you had set up your on-line meme storage account incorrectly that gave exposure to entire internet.

I dared to tell you to help you protect yourself.
And, as normal, you falsely accused me of “hacking your account.

However, I am glad for you that you are safe now & have corrected you error. :)

[BroJoeK]

bimboeruption: "The reason is you’re too much of a yellow-bellied coward to post directly to Allegra because you know her truthful and factual response will rip out your throat and hurt your overly sensitive feelings."

Sadly, your comments here are as brazen as they are ignorant.
First of all, there's nothing "truthful and factual" in Cheerful's posts, because, like bimboeruption's, they are instead intended as outrageous personal attacks on Ukraine's supporters here.
And the fact is that your FRiend, Cheerful, creates dilemmas/double binds that I've never seen before in 20+ years of happily reading and posting on Free Republic.
That's because, as everyone understands, FR is a moderated forum and we are all here conditioned on our good behavior -- we have to follow a few relatively simple and basic rules which begin here:

"Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts."

Understood that definitions of those words can reasonably vary, for example, in most threads we can get away with posting words like "sh*t" or "d*mn", but on a religious thread, even astericked, such words will get the post deleted.

Shun the frumious bandersnatch:

And what's a "personal attack"?
In my mind "you’re too much of a yellow-bellied coward" is a clear personal attack which should get your post deleted and you permanently zotted.
And yet, somehow that doesn't happen, why?

So, my practice for 20+ years has been to return kind for kind, meaning: if it's perfectly acceptable for you to attack me personally as a "yellow-bellied coward", then it should be just as acceptable for me to call you a "blue-bellied bandersnatch", right?
So that's how I've done from the beginning, and generally it works, though occasionally I do get a little too creative in designing returning insults.

Also, there are old informal guidelines of general civility and politeness, one of which is, if I mention bimboeruption in a post, then I should include bimboeruption in my addressees.
Plus, now there are relatively new rules, intended to prevent flame-wars, in which a poster, such as Cheerful, can demand that another, such as yours truly, never respond to his/her posts.
But here we begin to see opportunities for maliciously intended double binds, wherein a poster first demands another not respond and then goes on to personally attack that same person -- in effect, misusing rules to create a shield behind which to launch their own attacks.

Allegra is an Italian word which means Cheerful in English, so, out of respect for the new rules, I normally try not to respond directly or include her in my addressees.
However, along with bimboeruption and the now less seen rocco dipippo, she is among the most blatant abusers of the old rule about "no personal attacks".
And some of that really should not be required to go unanswered.

So, you see here my compromise response to this double bind.

Now, to take the conversation a bit further, I fully understand that you guys are here as agents provocateurs, whose basic purpose, if possible, is to blow up Ukraine related threads, get posts deleted, threads frozen and get pro-Ukraine posters zotted by using your own outrageous behavior to provoke unacceptable responses.

As evidence, I note the gloating and victory dances y'all do whenever a pro-Ukrainian gets zotted.

I also understand that you guys think you represent JR's best interests here, but I don't agree you necessarily do, and the fact that I'm still here after 20+ years and some 20,000 posts, suggests that not everyone reading my posts agrees with your restricted vision of Free Republic.

bimboeruption: "BTW, what is it with you and your mommy?
You two always have your noses up each other’s butts."

Personal attacks like this are the reason I've assumed from the beginning that bimboeruption is a man, not a woman, certainly not a lady.
And I was shocked and surprised to see a few weeks ago where you claimed to be a woman of a certain age -- incomprehensible.

Nevertheless, your claims to be a woman do not make your unacceptable behavior suddenly ignorable, imho.

UMCRevMom@aol.com #291: "BroJoeK, I have been told by many the depth of your knowledge reflected by your comments is greatly appreciated.
The ‘other-side’ is at a loss to further discuss issues.
Perhaps, their envy is the cause for them to engage in personal attacks against you.
Just ignore.
FReepers know them by their self-made reputations ."

Thanks for your very wise advice, I swear I intend to follow it from now on... 😉

[BroJoeK]

Thanks, it's a point worth repeating, though ultimately falls into the same category of discussion as how much blame Germans deserved for Nazi crimes, or how much responsibility all Americans had for slavery, etc.
It's a tough question and the answers are... ah... "complicated" but as a percentage, it's not zero.

[bert]

Russia is still a nation of serfs governed by a czar and oligarchical nobility

[bimboeruption]

>>>>I clicked on one of your famous memes. Apparently, you had set up your on-line meme storage account incorrectly that gave exposure to entire internet.

I dared to tell you to help you protect yourself. And, as normal, you falsely accused me of “hacking your account.

However, I am glad for you that you are safe now & have corrected you error. :)<<<<

___________________________________________________

PONDER: You lie with such ease "REVEREND". And your insincerity could gag an elephant.

REMINDER:

TRUTH: You broke into my image hosting account, posted my entire album and doxxed me.

NOTE: The screenshot has my name and the dates of the posts blurred.

PONDER AGAIN: So there you have the truth, "REVEREND", right before your piggy, little eyes.

You can't lie your way out of this one.

And you call yourself a "REVEREND".

[bimboeruption]

>>>>Russia is still a nation of serfs governed by a czar and oligarchical nobility<<<<

Ukraine is a still a nation of the downtrodden governed by an iron fisted dictator.

There, fixed it.

[bimboeruption]

>>>>Personal attacks like this are the reason I've assumed from the beginning that bimboeruption is a man, not a woman, certainly not a lady. And I was shocked and surprised to see a few weeks ago where you claimed to be a woman of a certain age -- incomprehensible.<<<<

__________________________________________________

That's sexist and age discriminatory, mommy's boy. (wink wink)

(I think you're jealous.)

BTW, you used 756 words to say absolutely nothing of any worth.

[bimboeruption]

[Allegra]

Nailed it. :)

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

FALSE: You broke into my image hosting account

I never posted your memes nor doxed your account. I had wondered whenI clicked on one of your famous memes that opened this storage of your memes. I asked more techie Freepers at the time what it meant. They explained to me that apparently you had incorrectly set up this meme account incorrectly. And in fact, was giving exposure of your account to entire internet.

I was the only Freeper that tried to help rescue your meme account. When I tried to share this info with you, all you did was ask for more details. Not surprisingly, you falsely accused me of “hacking” your meme account! Perhaps, that is why no one else attempted to inform you.

The Freepers with knowledge of these events could provide witness. However, apparently the truth does not interest you.

It may help you if you went back to original comments... I think I may still have your original FR comments for this. Perhaps, then you would thank me. However, I’m not holding my breath! LOL