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Russia fires 500 drones at Ukraine in deadly overnight attack, Zelenskyy says
ABC News ^ | Oct 5, 2025 | David Brennan

Posted on 10/05/2025 3:19:24 AM PDT by McGruff

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To: McGruff

“America and Europe must act to force Putin to stop.”

Ever since the twerking dwarf made it clear he considers everything he has received to be a “grant” we don’t gotta do nothing.


21 posted on 10/05/2025 7:15:25 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: McGruff

How does launching a computer controlled aircraft become, “firing”?


22 posted on 10/05/2025 7:38:54 AM PDT by Flint
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To: dforest
You didn’t want a peace settlement so more war is what you get.

You must've been thinking about Putin when you wrote that.
23 posted on 10/05/2025 8:13:50 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: dforest
Smart people never believe Zelensky and his Euro familiars.

The 'smart' Ukrainian military is doing things such as this:

Russia shot down 230 Ukrainian drones...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqgfRYEtmFI
24 posted on 10/05/2025 8:24:15 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: BroJoeK
Those are complete Russian propaganda lies, and you well know it.

Well stated! (Your whole psst).

Of course now you can expect the pro-Putin/anti-Ukraine FR members to inundate you with personal attacks and insults. Get ready.
25 posted on 10/05/2025 8:31:19 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: Uncle Lonny
If “peace is given a chance” on Putin’s terms, it will be like what happened in Cambodia after “peace was given a chance” and the communist Khmer Rouge murdered millions of Cambodians in the Killing Fields.

The USSR, now known as the Russian Federation, had already 'murdered' millions of Ukrainians, and Putin is of the same mindset as Stalin was in that time, so it's a certainty it will happen again, if Russia does win in Ukraine; it was GENOCIDE, and the Ukrainians remember the history and know that Russia cannot be allowed even the chance to do that again:

The Soviet Union caused a catastrophic famine in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of people. This event, known as the Holodomor, or "death by hunger," was a man-made famine engineered by Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime and was not the result of natural disaster.

Causes and execution

Stalin's regime deliberately created the Holodomor through a series of policies aimed at punishing independence-minded Ukrainians and enforcing agricultural collectivization.

The policy of collectivization:

Forced collectivization: Beginning in 1929, Stalin forced independent Ukrainian farmers, or peasants, to surrender their land and livestock to work on state-run collective farms.

Elimination of "kulaks": The Soviet regime labeled successful, land-owning peasants as "kulaks" and "enemies of the state." Tens of thousands were arrested, executed, or deported to labor camps in Siberia.

High grain quotas:

Unrealistic demands: The Soviet government imposed impossibly high grain quotas on Ukraine, which was historically known as the "breadbasket of Europe".

Confiscation: When farms failed to meet these quotas, Soviet officials confiscated the remaining grain, including seed grain set aside for future harvests, leaving nothing for the local population.

Export over aid: The Soviet government rejected offers of foreign humanitarian aid and continued to export millions of tons of Ukrainian grain for profit as its people starved.

Repressive measures:

The Law of Spikelets: In August 1932, a decree made taking even a handful of grain from a collective field a crime punishable by death or long-term imprisonment.

Internal blockade: Soviet authorities sealed Ukraine's borders to prevent starving peasants from fleeing in search of food.

Blacklisting: Villages that failed to meet grain quotas were "blacklisted," isolated by troops, and completely blockaded from all supplies.

Was the Holodomor a genocide?

Ukrainian and many Western historians, along with dozens of governments, have recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide.

Evidence of intent:

Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide," called the Holodomor a "classic example of Soviet genocide" against the Ukrainian nation.

Research has revealed that Soviet authorities, including Stalin, implemented policies specifically targeting Ukraine with the knowledge that mass starvation would be the result.

Russian government's position: The Russian government, as the legal successor to the Soviet Union, acknowledges that famines occurred in the 1930s but denies that the Holodomor was a deliberate genocide targeting Ukrainians.

26 posted on 10/05/2025 8:48:35 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: McGruff
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

You realize that Trump's message does not favor Putin or Russia, right?

It's the opposite of what you've been posting many times here on FR.
27 posted on 10/05/2025 8:53:20 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: Karl Spooner
the Russians are "running out of missiles", and other weapons and men and money.

Completed the statement for you. Can't leave any of the truth out.
28 posted on 10/05/2025 8:57:13 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: McGruff

Bkmk


29 posted on 10/05/2025 10:14:59 AM PDT by sauropod
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