Russia has lost more than 300 officers during its war in Ukraine, analysis of public records reveals

FOR MAILONLINE ^ | 26 April 2022 | By CHRIS PLEASANCE

[buwaya]

I am going to repeat an answer I just gave another fellow on a very similar topic -

Welcome to the actual world. There is always trouble somewhere. And there was world-class, global trouble at times, notably 1945-1991.

There is no retreating to the shire or Fortress America for the USA. It would be nice, but thats not the way the world works. We still exist in the days of the Pax Americana, where the US is the implicit guarantor of the general peace and of the freedom of navigation. The problem is that this is much like riding a tiger. You may want to get off, but if you do you are likely to get bit.

A good place to start on the course of all this is the classic history of the Cold War, by John Lewis Gaddis “The Cold War: A New History”.

[higgmeister]

You are a rather simplistic fellow it seems.

I don't need for you to tell me about the Cold War.   I grew up in it.   I served in the USAF with A TS clearance and was briefed on the Soviets.   I knew that the Soviet Union was on its last legs over a decade before it happened.

I'll never forget when my Uncle George, an Air Force Reserve Colonel, visiting at my Grandmother's cabin at Thanksgiving wearing a Soviet Army lumberjack type hat with the Red Star on the bill.   I asked him why he was wearing it and he said it was his souvenir trophy from Berlin.   He said they were giving them away on the streets.

I know that any conflict between these two former Soviet Republics should be met with stoic forbearance on our part.

I put this together days ago and have posted it on a couple of other threads.

I thought of the fact that what is happening in the Ukraine is very close to what happened in Ireland with the English for a millennia.

One hundred years after the Norman invasion, the Normans invaded part of Ireland which was the start of more than 800 years of English political and military dominance in Ireland. Henry VIII proclaimed himself King of Ireland in 1541.

With English colonies going back to the 1550s, Ireland was arguably the first English and then British territory colonised by a group known as the West Country Men [English and Scottish Protestant settlers]. Gaelic Ireland was finally defeated at the battle of Kinsale in 1601 which marked the collapse of the Gaelic system and the beginning of Ireland's history as fully part of the English and later British Empire.

Compare and contrast the English and Irish with the Russian and Ukraine relationships over a close to a thousand years.

On 1 January 1801, in the wake of the republican United Irishmen Rebellion, the Irish Parliament was abolished and Ireland became part of a new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland formed by the Acts of Union 1800.

Now consider the absorption of the Ukraine into the Soviet Union.

In 1916 the Easter Rising succeeded in turning public opinion against the British establishment after the execution of the leaders by British authorities. It also eclipsed the home rule movement. In 1922, after the Irish War of Independence most of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom to become the independent Irish Free State but under the Anglo-Irish Treaty the six northeastern counties, known as Northern Ireland, remained within the United Kingdom, creating the partition of Ireland.

Now consider the fall of the Soviets and the rebirth of the Ukraine yet some areas with Russian populations wanted to remain with the Russian Mother Country.

These divisions erupted into the Troubles in the late 1960s, after civil rights marches were met with opposition by authorities. The violence escalated after the deployment of the British Army to maintain authority led to clashes with nationalist communities. The violence continued for 28 years until an uneasy, but largely successful peace was finally achieved with the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

Here we are right now in the middle of the war in Northern Ireland, I'm sorry, I mean the middle of the war in East Ukraine.   It is so sad that the resolution was a negotiated peace between the interested parties, but now in this case some people want to bring on WWIII.

Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk equate to the Northern Ireland in this case.   We need to stay out of it and let peace happen as it will with out Joe Biden, his little bought and payed for buddy Voldemort Zelenskyy and the Globalist Elites orchestrating this civil war.

[buwaya]

The Russians orchestrated this war, no one else.

All the excuses made in this have been ridiculous arm-waving.
There was no grand anti-Russian conspiracy. All those countries who wanted out of the Russian orbit and which sought protection under an alliance were absolutely correct, then and now, and justified in doing so. Russia is a long term threat to every one of its nieighbors, and will forever be a threat.

The problem is a sick interplay between Russian psychology and sociology, which cannot be solved short of moving the Russian ethnos entirely into a different social environment. And that isnt going to happen. So there we are.

Putin decided on war, twice, for his own reasons using his own cost-benefit analysis, which proved in the end to be very flawed.

[higgmeister]

You still need to explain all of the millions of dollars that the Biden Crime family extorted from Russians, Ukrainians and the Chinese Communist Party.

It proves that all you have just typed is lie upon lie.

President Putin responded the only way left to him after Biden and his CFR globalist masters intentionally encroached on Russia's borders, in the same way Khrushchev encroached on us by putting nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962.

I'll never forget my oldest brother drafting us siblings to help him build a bomb shelter out on the Georgia red clay bluffs.   He only dug down about five feet.

Watch Biden brag to the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) about extorting the firing of the Ukrainian Federal Prosecutor who was investigating Burisma Group, the company where Hunter Biden served on the board of directors.

User Clip: Biden Tells Story of Getting the Ukraine Prosecutor Fired

Joe Biden's lies are legendary. He's still the same dishonest plagiarist he was 33 years ago.

Total chronic braggadocio of a moron President forced this invasion intentionally to destroy Russian sovereignty and accelerate progressive global hegemony, with Chinese approval.

[higgmeister]

Here is one of the financial benefits to the elite puppet masters.

War is a racket, to be sure. The US has been meddling in Ukraine since the end of the Cold War, going so far as overthrowing the government in 2014 and planting the seeds of the war we are witnessing today. The only way out of a hole is to stop digging. Don’t expect that any time soon. War is too profitable.

The Ukraine War is a Racket

[buwaya]

The US (and the Euros) has been “meddling” in ALL the ex-Soviet states since 1991. For excellent reasons. Its been in the interest of the Pax Americana, and the general welfare, for all these countries to emerge from the disastrous Soviet and post-Soviet misery as well as possible.

In general these policies have succeeded, or at least just about everyone has muddled through as well as can be hoped for under the circumstances. It has, on the whole, been a tremendous achievement. Thats a lot of people living better and more happily than ever before.

The biggest problem among all these states was Ukraine, due to the malign influence of the rump Soviet era state, Russia, under Putin. The insistence that Ukraine eschew the free world and remain within the zombie economy and society of Russia is perverse.

[buwaya]

I dont need to explain it - these people are the usual petty grifters that attach themselves to the US Federal tit, engage in influence peddling, take bribes, and etc. Biden and co are the usual penny-ante tools these creatures have always been. They take piddly sums where they can.

That is some tens of millions out of a 20-trillion economy. A nice payday for trivial crooks, but in the big picture they are meaningless.

They are not at the center of policy, they are just opportunists. They are just a facade over much greater forces that dont give a #%&@$ about whatever actually is in Ukraine. All the real money is in the US.

[higgmeister]

I posted to you:

You still need to explain all of the millions of dollars that the Biden Crime family extorted from Russians, Ukrainians and the Chinese Communist Party. It proves that all you have just typed is lie upon lie.

Then you reply:

I dont need to explain it - these people are the usual petty grifters that attach themselves to the US Federal tit, engage in influence peddling, take bribes, and etc. Biden and co are the usual penny-ante tools these creatures have always been. They take piddly sums where they can.

They are not at the center of policy, they are just opportunists.

Joe Biden makes policy.   He has sent $3 billion in military aide to Ukraine including:

800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;

2,000 Javelin, 1,000 light anti-armor weapons, and 6,000 AT-4 anti-armor systems;

100 Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;

100 grenade launchers, 5,000 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 400 machine guns, and 400 shotguns;

Over 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenade launcher and mortar rounds;

25,000 sets of body armor; and 25,000 helmets.

A pretty good tradeoff on Ukraine's millions of dollars in bribe money to Joe Biden through the rest of his family.

You probably should include the $1 billion loan guarantee that Obama gave Ukraine through Biden to keep them on retainer as documented in the video I linked to above.

Whatever you reply you can never explain this corruption away.

Senator Ron Johnson asked, "Why did Hunter Biden’s company receive a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow?"

Just one of many questions raised in our investigation out today(Sep 23, 2020).

[buwaya]

Biden makes no decisions. He is a semi-functional puppet.
All of these things are supremely minor in terms of the US Federal spending anyway. Its a rounding error.

And all these decisions are collective. Actual power belongs in a mass of committees of committees. You complain of one man; if you have a beef, it is with a whole leadership subculture.

[buwaya]

The corruption that matters in the US is of a corporatist nature, the matter of regulatory capture, well explained and precisely predicted by Schumpeter.
Manipulation of regulation to limit competition and thereby achieve monopoly positions; guaranteed returns to financial interests through monetary manipulation; “flexible” rules for financial reserves in re derivatives; the list is very long.

Compared to the mass of all that you are talking about rounding errors. Us corruption is almost too vast to imagine.

[JimRed]

Leading from the front, or are the Ukes targeting the guys who give the orders?

[JimRed]

...this insane old world "none of our business" madness.

Insane would be MAKING IT our business, risking a nuclear confrontation that will destroy both of us.

[JimRed]

In 1916 the Easter Rising succeeded in turning public opinion against the British establishment after the execution of the leaders by British authorities.

It also eclipsed the home rule movement. In 1922, after the Irish War of Independence most of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom to become the independent Irish Free State but under the Anglo-Irish Treaty the six northeastern counties, known as Northern Ireland, remained within the United Kingdom, creating the partition of Ireland.

And we still sing the songs of their martyrdom in our pub every Tuesday and Sunday evening.

[higgmeister]

Insane would be MAKING IT our business, risking a nuclear confrontation that will destroy both of us.

Exactly so!

[higgmeister]

And we still sing the songs of their martyrdom in our pub every Tuesday and Sunday evening.

Veneration of a Martyr is a powerful thing.