Posted on 10/10/2022 8:53:33 AM PDT by Kazan
Back in March I had warned that Lies Do Not Win Wars. Here is another practical example.
After allegedly having 'run out of missiles' and, more importantly, patience, the leadership of the Russian Federation decided to de-electrify Ukrainian cities with a 'barrage of missile strikes'.
But first came the propaganda blubber:
320 missiles in a day: Russia targets short-range ballistic missiles at Ukraine; what is the result? - WION - Mar 2, 2022
Russia running short on guided missiles, firing indiscriminately - Ukraine - Jerusalem Post - March 17, 2022
Russia Running Out of Precision Munitions in Ukraine War Pentagon Official - US News - Mar 24, 2022
Russia running short of precision missiles, say western officials - Financial Times - Apr 29, 2022
SCORCHED EARTH Now humiliated Putin is running out of MISSILES in desperate bid to defeat Ukraine, UK armed forces chief tells TalkTV - Sun - May 5, 2022
Putin ‘running out of missiles’ amid claims quarter of Russian Army now lost - City A.M. - May 6, 2022
Is Russia running out of missiles? US, Russia send mixed messages - Jerusalem Post - May 16, 2022
Explainer: Is Russia Running Low on Missiles? - Moscow Times - May 17, 2022
Has Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Missiles? - SOFREP - May 23, 2022
Russia ‘running out’ of precision weapons - UK Defense Journal - Jun 11, 2022
Russia fires five-and-a-half ton Cold War-era missiles designed to destroy aircraft carriers at Ukrainian forces in the Donbas after running out of precision rockets, MoD says - Daily Mail - Jun 12, 2022
Vladimir Putin running short of missiles as Russian forces turn to old weaponry stock - Mirror - Jul 8, 2022 Putin left scratching head as Russia RUNS OUT of missiles to make ground attacks - Express - Jul 23, 2022
Will Russia Run Out of Precision-Guided Munitions? - National Interest - Aug 11, 2022
Russia Has Run Out of Long-Range Missiles to Terrorize Ukraine - !945 - Aug 20, 2022
No more than 45% missiles that Russia had before the war remain Chief Directorate of Intelligence - Ukrainska Pravda - Aug 27, 2022
Russia 'running out of Iskander and Kalibr missiles’ - The New Voice of Ukraine / Yahoo - Aug 27, 2022
Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Claims Russia Is Running Low On Missiles - The Drive - Aug 27, 2022
Russian Federation will run out of shells, artillery and armoured vehicles by year end - Ukrainska Pravda - Aug 31, 2022
Russia Might Run Out of Weapons, Ammunition By End of Year: Report - Newsweek - Aug 31, 2022
Russia Is Running Out of Missiles. That’s Bad News for Ukraine - Defense Post - Sep 1, 2022
Alexander Kovalenko: when Russia will critically run out of missiles - Odessa Journal - Sep 2, 2022
Russia Resorting to Out of Date Missiles as Weapon Stocks Run Low: Ukraine - Newsweek - Sep 4, 2022
Ukraine believes Russia has less than 50 hypersonic missiles left because it can't get the chips needed to make more: report - Business Insider - Sep 6, 2022
Out Of Missiles! Russia Is Left With ‘Limited Stock’ Of Hypersonic Weapons Due To Microchip Shortage – Ukraine - Eurasian Times - Sep 7, 2022
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Then a warning:
'We Haven't Started Yet,' Putin Says in Hawkish Speech on Ukraine Invasion - Haaretz - Jul 7, 2022
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to defeat it on the battlefield, while insisting that Moscow was still open to the idea of peace talks.
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"Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. What can you say, let them try," he said. "We have heard many times that the West wants to fight us to the last Ukrainian. This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it seems that everything is heading towards this."
... "Everyone should know that, by and large, we haven't started anything yet in earnest," he added. "At the same time, we don't reject peace talks. But those who reject them should know that the further it goes, the harder it will be for them to negotiate with us."
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Total disregard:
U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia - NY Times - Oct 5, 2020
American officials said they were not aware of the plan ahead of time for the attack that killed Daria Dugina and that they had admonished Ukraine over it.
UN: Ukraine nuclear power plant loses external power link - ABC News - Oct 8, 2022
The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators
Ukraine unveils stamps celebrating Kerch bridge explosion - hours after the attack - Telegraph - Oct 8, 2022 Timing of the Post Office announcement, just hours after the Crimea bridge was destroyed, raises questions about the nature of the damage
Syricide @Syricide - 8:33 UTC · 10 Oct 2022 #Kiev yesterday.
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Consequences:
Russia Unleashes Biggest Barrage of Strikes on Ukraine Since Invasion - WSJ - Oct 10, 2022
Cities throughout Ukraine, including Kyiv, are bombarded after Putin slams Ukraine over Crimea bridge blast
KYIV, Ukraine—Russia carried out waves of strikes on several Ukrainian cities including the capital in the broadest and most intense onslaught since the start of the invasion, after President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of a “terrorist attack” on a critical bridge connecting Russia’s mainland to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had carried out dozens of strikes using missiles as well as Iranian-made drones to target civilian and power infrastructure. “They want panic and chaos,” he said. “They want to destroy our energy system.”
Ukraine "under missile attack" as explosions rock Kyiv and other cities - CBSNews - Oct 10, 2022
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president's office, said on social media Monday that, "Ukraine is under missile attack. There is information about strikes in many cities of our country."
General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said on Twitter that Russia had launched 75 missiles at Ukraine but that "41 of them were neutralized by our air defence."
Zelenskyy later emerged onto a street in Kyiv to record a selfie video with a message to his people and the world, denouncing Russia for the barrage of missiles which he said had targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and its civilians.
Kiev, Lviv, Karkov, Dnipropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog all report damage to their electricity infrastructure.
Silly conclusion since every country currently sanctioned is also breaking the sanctions. Either way, if they are running operations based off these conclusions, all the more reason they shouldn’t be getting free money.
You leftist lie so much you don't even remember your old lie.
“Oh please, nobody in the Ukrainian military is making complex strategy decisions based on what Freepers in their pajamas are saying”
Sure they are. And I don’t say that glibly.
The Russians and the Chinese (and who knows?) for a long time have spent millions and maybe even billions on trying to influence forums like FR because these forums are quite often used by politically connected people to gauge public opinion.
The responses to each article posted here are a kind of public opinion poll.
The responses can be used by politically connected people to formulate policy and other people may also be swayed by what they perceive as “majority” opinions.
So there’s good reason for some people to think they can influence politicians by influencing people on FR and other forums.
That’s why Yahoo and so many other media took down their opinion forums. The spin of their liberal articles was getting destroyed by the conservative responses in the comments. And it was affecting policy...like who got to be President in 2016.
are they still shooting surface to air missiles at the ground???
wasting all that money and technology to use them for bombardment never made any sense to me...
maybe they have more of them
George Galloway called what happened in Kyiv/Ukraine before it even occurred - 1 day before it occurred. Dude steadily calling it like he see’s it.
MOATS Ep 177 with George Galloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1miux9zJXc
Russian is repurposing excess S 300 anti aircraft missiles to attack ground targets
Usually attack civilian targets as are not accurate for use against point targets
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htada/articles/20221002.aspx
Including from the Atlantic. Garbage leftist rags.
>> You leftist <<
Right. I have to be a Leftist to not be cheering the rebirth of the Soviet Empire.
>> lie so much <<
Funny thing is, I only wrote a question and provided a simple sentence as to why I wrote a question. If it’s a false premise, please point it out.
>> you don’t even remember your old lie. <<
It’s true, I guess: I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. I’m guessing you won’t remember this either; that vodka hangover is going to be brutal for you.
You want Freepers to sit through a two-hour video by a man who was called “Red George”? That George knows what Moscow will do ahead of time isn’t because he’s prescient, but because he’s an insider.
Umm, no, its within the first 5 -10 minutes.
But I know how tough it can be for attention deficit folks.
And because you may or may not like an individual, does not infer that he is “an insider” or whatever else you want to label his message to be.
But as par, let’s always try to kill the messenger and not the message.
Heads up for you Christian oriented people:
Messenger: Jesus: Crucified.
Message: Still lives on today.
And let’s not forget how he sees it:
He saw Saddam Hussein as a truly great and noble leader, who has unified his people, and establish peace, justice, prosperity, education and liberty.
“Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability,” Galloway said [to Hussein]. “I can honestly tell you that there was not a single person to whom I told I was coming to Iraq and hoping to meet with yourself who did not wish me to convey their heartfelt, fraternal greetings and support.”
Not that he won’t lie about it after the fact:
“I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.”
He also loved the Soviet Union itself:
“Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.”
And just about anyone who wants to see you dead and your loved ones raped and murdered in front of your eyes.
Dude, information on and within the internet is like your TV, if you don’t agree with what the person is saying, etc., turn the damn channel?
The man called the hit in Kyiv and Ukraine a day before it ever happened. Simple as that.
Good grief.
>> Heads up for you Christian oriented people: <<
>> Messenger: Jesus: Crucified. <<
>> Message: Still lives on today. <<
The message is that HE still lives on today, that the Resurrection is truth. But it is a typically communist-party thing to insist that Jesus is dead, but that some “message” of his is what lives on today.
Galloway’s message lives on.
Please keep trying to kill him though.
>> The man called the hit in Kyiv and Ukraine a day before it ever happened. Simple as that. <<
Ah yes, but your also praised the depraved, bloodthirsty, genocidal, terrorist-loving enemy of all things American, Christian or pro-freedom as a truth-teller, implying he knew because he was just so gosh-darned insightful, and I’m getting sick of Free Republic being polluted by unreconstructed Stalinists... when in fact, given his former role as spokesperson for Hussein and his past coordination with Moscow, he quite plausibly is simply delivering threats on behalf of his heroes.
“.... and I’m getting sick of Free Republic being polluted by unreconstructed Stalinists...”
Just as I am “getting sick of Free Republic being polluted by unreconstructed” clueless neo-Nazi sympathizing and supporting ZelenskyyIdiot Regime fools.
Here is a novel thought to that “I’m getting sick of Free Republic being polluted by” personal issue you have: Leave FR?
And let me know when FR starts censoring anything that cause butthurt, etc., kthx.
>> Galloway’s message lives on. Please keep trying to kill him though. <<
Just so as we’re straight who YOU worship.
Idiocy is often spouted by butthurt and clueless people too, snowflake.
No, you believe the globalist/deep-state.
Enjoy your jab and eat ze bugz.
yup.... let’s see. Call for Putin’s death... check
kill the daughter of one of his advisors.... not the advisor but the daughter....check
If someone killed my kid, my hobby for the rest of my life would be repaying that favor to every single person involved for the rest of my short life.
Do yourselves a favor... listen to the interviews of the Taliban fighters after the fall of Kabul...... I can clearly remember that one of them had been fighting and killing Americans for 12 YEARS since “Americans killed two of my family”.....that’s how you really harden an enemy... give them no options and kill their family.
Everyone has a hardon for starting WW3. Well you may get your wish. Raytheon, Boeing, McDonald Douglas, Pratt-Whitney and inumerable other corporations involved in logistics and production of weapons and material are loving this...... think any of the board member’s sons are going to strap on a rucksack and hump into Ukraine, Poland or the Baltics?
Think that the Biden, Bush, McCain, Graham(never mind he’s gay), or any senator/congressman is going to sign up and have his sons defend Ukrainian democracy.....
This is all about the money that the Ukes paid Biden/McCain/Romey/Graham/(enter federal and DOD names). F#@k all of them. I hope that all the heads of state enjoy watching the world burn.... it’s going to be a doozy of a fight.
Any bets on when GPS, BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, and GLONASS get destroyed? All them pilots and ship officers had better be practicing inertial or celestial navigation, cause it’s going to get froggy.
Then the electricity from Sweden to Poland is cut and now Poland is asking for nukes..... hahahahaha like that is going to happen.
It’s gonna get real cold this winter.
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