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Posted on 08/08/2024 6:02:00 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Nancy loves her some grifty-kisses.
Mommy, are your copy and paste sources foreign?
I ask because the grammar/composition track in that statement is horrific.
If you would have posted your source, I wouldn’t have had to ask.
>>>>Nancy loves her some grifty-kisses.<<<<
Look at how Nancy’s lips are pulled back in disgust.
Harris is thinking, “Better you than me”.
>>>>Time for beddie-bye!<<<<
Me too.
Sweet dreams.
(Alright mommy, you can come out of lurk mode and start posting your crap again.)
Ukraine has propaganda. Ukrainian propagandists are served by less talented stenographers such as yourself. Propaganda does not win military conflicts. Russia has soldiers and guns. That is what wins military conflicts.
The Russians are destroying Ukrainian cities, soldiers and equipment. The Ukrainian losses have become horrific. Dragging grandfathers off the street and pressing them directly into service is no way to fight a war.
God does not start wars or intervene in them. The thought that God would intervene to help some of His children to beat others to death is ungodly.
However these small steps forward are achieved through the approach of high attrition and the inevitable operational exhaustion is just a matter of time which will be followed up by a slowdown. These slowdowns allow Ukrainians to create new fortifications annihilating any Russian chance of achieving an operational break-through and success like Ukrainians recently managed to achieve in the KK direction.”
The corrupt Ukrainian kleptocracy has proved repeatedly that it took money meant for fortifications, supposedly spent the money on fortifications, the money disappeared, and when Russians approached, the fortifications were nowhere to be found. The result was rich dirtbags and dead Ukrainian soldiers.
There has been no success in the Kursk disaster. There were a few rah-rah press releases followed by the halting and entrapment of the Ukrainian troops. The Russians have no need to rush in and fight them in their trenches. They can just seal the border again and observe as the Ukro-Nazis replicate the last stand at Avostal. Even that group of nitwits finally figured out they had nothing better to do than crawl out of their hole in the ground and get on the bus. They surrendered, or as the Ukrainian propagandists/stenographers put it, they successfully executed the evacuation manuever.
While the Ukrainians ponder their plight, the Russians can fly over and drop 500Kg bombs on their heads until tey get their minds right.
It’s that cabbage and cheap vodka smell. Sort of Hillary-ish.
“Despite your rah-rah nonsense, the Ukrainian front lines are crumbling everywhere.”
You have an interesting take on the situation. :)
VIDEO
Putin Is Afraid Of Ukrainian Troops Advancing! The Chief Of General Staff is Replaced With KGB Boss
INSIDE RUSSIA
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8-12-2024 7:00 p.m. EDT
Minutes 37:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp9hh_3oODA
“Ukrainian troops are advancing inside Russia! Putin is in panic - he replaces the Chief of General Staff Gerasimov with KGB’s boss Bortnikov! This is madness!”
Thanks for adding to my already lengthy list of Russian "victories"! 😉
Ukraine drone strikes on Russian oil refineries:
The Russian GDP is said to be growing at a rapid rate -- 3.5% if I remember correctly -- but that is 100% focused on war production, none of it goes for basic needs like roads, bridges, dams, hospitals, central heating systems, etc. and those are in advanced stages of collapse.
In an effort to control inflation, Russia's central bank recently raised basic interest rates to 18%, one of the highest in the world.
The Biden-Harris Federal Reserve current interest rate is about 5.5%, up from Pres. Trump's 2019 rate of 1.5%.
Western economic sanctions on Russia have hurt but not shut down Russia's economy, thanks to funding from China and increased exports to India.
Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries have all but eliminated Russian exports of high-margin refined oil products, leaving only crude exports, about half of those via Russia's surreptitious Shadow Fleet.
Russia's unemployment rate is quite low, low enough to force Russian military recruiters to pay increasingly high bonuses for enlistment contracts, up to levels which are now approaching compensation in Western peacetime armies.
So, there's no doubt that Russia's economy is struggling, but can it survive such challenges?
Yes, absolutely it can... until suddenly the day comes when it can't.
JonPreston?
ransomnote: "Western nations are beginning to *facepalm* as Zelensky has sent some of his best soldiers to die in Kursk." Maybe, we really don't know yet, because the fog of war is still far too thick in Kursk and different reports are literally all over the map.
Nobody outside Moscow's Ministry for Agitation and Propaganda has ever made such a claim.
ransomnote: "The hint is ther e- Zelensky gets more money/weapons are he's going to 'do' something to the nuke plant.
Z actually claimed the Russians started a TIRE FIRE at the nuke plant.
Really! that's the best he could come up with?"
Black smoke from Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant:
Ukrainians have only reported accurately that, despite the plume of black smoke from one cooling tower, there was no increase in radioactivity, suggesting whatever caused the smoke was not nuclear related.
The claim of Russians burning tires to make smoke at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant came from the mayor of Nikopol, Ukraine, about four miles away from the plant, not from Zelenskyy.
ransomnote: "Even supporters are starting to say it's time for him to go!"
As for Zelenskyy's future, we might well remember that even Winston Churchill himself was defeated for reelection in July 1945, three months after the German surrender at the end of WWII.
But also remember the German WWII surrender was unconditional, meaning they represented no further threat, so the British voters wanted serious peace and social welfare while Churchill could only think of war-related problems.
Churchill was reelected as Prime Minister in 1951.
Zelinsky and Churchill, both 5 feet 7 inches:
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I don't see Russians ever surrendering unconditionally to Ukrainians, the way Germans did in WWII, so I don't see how the benefits of peace will ever be prioritized above the needs of national security for average Ukrainian voters.
By the way, it's interesting to notice that the population of Britain in 1940 (48 million) was roughly the same as Ukraine in 2013.
And it turns out that Churchill and Zelenskyy were/are the same height.
Both Britain in WWII and Ukraine today depended for victory on their own indefatigable courage and massive foreign aid -- as had Americans from 1776-1781.
Brits paid a huge price for WWII victory, namely human and physical destruction, plus the loss of their great empire.
Ukraine's price, so far, is incalculable, though also immense.
Thanks for adding to my already lengthy list of Russian "victories"! 😉
Ukraine drone strikes on Russian oil refineries:
The Russian GDP is said to be growing at a rapid rate -- 3.5% if I remember correctly -- but that is 100% focused on war production, none of it goes for basic needs like roads, bridges, dams, hospitals, central heating systems, etc. and those are in advanced stages of collapse.
In an effort to control inflation, Russia's central bank recently raised basic interest rates to 18%, one of the highest in the world.
The Biden-Harris Federal Reserve current interest rate is about 5.5%, up from Pres. Trump's 2019 rate of 1.5%.
Western economic sanctions on Russia have hurt but not shut down Russia's economy, thanks to funding from China and increased exports to India.
Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries have all but eliminated Russian exports of high-margin refined oil products, leaving only crude exports, about half of those via Russia's surreptitious Shadow Fleet.
Russia's unemployment rate is quite low, low enough to force Russian military recruiters to pay increasingly high bonuses for enlistment contracts, up to levels which are now approaching compensation in Western peacetime armies.
So, there's no doubt that Russia's economy is struggling, but can it survive such challenges?
Yes, absolutely it can... until suddenly the day comes when it can't.
Ivan presto, you keep deflecting from the question about your living place in St. Petersburg, Russian federation, right?
Why do you deflect?
I see you live in a fantasy world, fed by information sewer pipes from Moscow's Ministry for Agitation and Propaganda, and I'm sorry to learn it.
The fact is, there was never an agreement between Vlad the Invader and Ukraine's elected government, Putin's 2023 claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
There were preliminary proposals, but never an agreement signed by the government in Kiev.
And Vlad the Invader's withdrawals from Kiev, Kharkiv and Kherson had nothing to do with alleged negotiations and everything to do with Vlad's defeats on the battlefield.
woodpusher: "Moreover, you failed to see the Russians execute a planned retreat as the conflict transitioned to one of attrition as the Western world started a failed plan to throw money and equipment at Ukraine in their failed attempt to make other than a durational difference."
My goodness, FRiend, you really are guzzling down the Kremlin's propaganda KoolAid, aren't you?
Seriously, why would you do that, surely you realize it's all pure nonsense?
The facts are, that after Vlad's failed invasion, Spring and Summer of 2022, Ukrainians pushed Russians out of about half the territories Russians had occupied, and the battle-lines have not changed much since, despite Russians throwing hundreds of thousands of "Meat Wave" troops at Ukrainian defenses.
In the past year, Russian advances have averaged about a square mile per day at a cost of around 1,000 Russian casualties and 100 military vehicles per day, with a ratio of roughly six Russian casualties when Russians attack to every one Ukrainian, when Ukrainians defend.
Sure, dispute those numbers if you want, but they are as good as any I can find from other sources.
woodpusher: "Because you operate in a fog, you failed to notice that Russia has a fleet and Ukraine does not.
It follows the old adage, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Russia remains the undisputed king of the Black Sea, as Ukraine does not have one ship, much less a navy."
Yeah... sure, but not so much anymore.
Roughly 1/3 of Russia's Black Sea Fleet has been sunk or damaged beyond repair by Ukraine's non-fleet.
Russia's remaining ships were pulled out of Crimea and other forward positions to safer places, some to the Caspian Sea!
woodpusher: "Because you operate in a fog, you missed that some planes moved out of range of missile attacks, something Ukraine has no capability of doing.
And you missed they remain quite capable of launching attacks on Ukraine. "
I'm certain that Ukrainians are fully aware of Russia's remaining air force capabilities, and those are not insignificant.
What Russians cannot do is fly over Ukraine or anywhere near the front lines, nor are Russian aircraft based in Crimea anymore.
Of course, all the hype over F-16s will be meaningless if the missiles they carry don't have enough range to reach out and touch their Russian air force enemies.
We'll have to see...
woodpusher: "Moreover you missed that the Ukrainian power grid as been destroyed and Ukrainians are sitting in the dark, and just have to deal with heat and cold without electricity."
You know, of course, that attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure such as power plants is a war-crime, right?
Can you explain why you're OK with that?
Russians have certainly damaged Ukraine's civilian power grid, by some reports up to 80% in some areas.
So now thousands of Ukrainians are at work restoring lines and adding new, highly dispersed, power sources, including imports of power from neighboring countries.
Hopefully, someday Russian war-criminals will be brought to trial for their crimes in Ukraine.
woodpusher: "The fog interfered with you seeing that they formed an economic coalition called BRICS+, implemented a SWIFT replacement, and moved off the dollar as the reserve currency.
BRICS+ consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Saudi Arabia also participates as an invited member which has not yet officially joined.
In its relatively short life, it now includes nearly half the population of the world."
BRICS GDP measured by Purchase Price Parity (PPP) totals roughly 1/3 of global GDP, but China alone represents nearly 3/5 of that.
And BRICS is far from a tight nit trade cartel.
Indeed, at least 80% of BRICS countries' trade is with non-BRICS countries, and for China and Russia, that number is well over 90%.
Further, countries like Brazil and India are western style democracies and partners with US allies in national defense.
The US is India's and China's biggest trading partner, Brazil's second biggest after China.
So, India and Brazil are far from insane dictatorships bent on dominating or destroying the world!
woodpusher: "It seems the fog of war led you to include North Korea as a member."
No, NoKo's Little Kim is Russia's client and military ally, supplying Russia with military equipment and ammunition.
NoKo has no economy to speak of.
woodpusher: "While Russia is involved in building such an economic alliance, Ukraine cannot pay salaries or pensions without being given the money to do so.
They have become a beggar nation.
Or as Napolean Joe would say, "We're winning!""
Sure, Vlad the Invader spent the past 20+ years building up a huge war-chest of nearly $1 trillion dollars, to pay for his foreign adventures.
Unfortunately for Vlad, he forgot to tell his financial people what he planned to do with all that money, and so they invested about half of it in foreign accounts, which are now frozen and will eventually be used to pay reparations to help rebuild Ukraine.
New Axis of Evil Dictators
Vlad the Invader, Annexed Lukashenko, Xi-Snake, Moolah Mullah & Little Kim:
Still, Vlad had a huge war-chest built up in Russia, maybe $400 billion to throw at Ukraine and he is now rapidly depleting it.
That's why Vlad went hat-in-hand to visit NoKo's Little Kim and Vietnam's ToLam to beg for their support -- and that's not even to mention Vlad's "unlimited partnership" with CCP's Xi-snake and buddy-buddies with Iran's Moolah-Mullahs.
woodpusher: "Hidden in the fog of war, Ukraine is losing to the extent that it may well lose status as a nation state, and that Russian Wagner are not mercs."
Yeah, I understand the Wagners "won" a big battle in, where was that, Mali?
Anyway, they seem to have lost some of their leaders and Ukrainians were somehow involved...
As for Ukraine losing status as a nation state... where does that fantasy even come from?
woodpusher: "Hidden in your fog is the source of your false statistics from western propaganda mills.
The casualty ratio is vastly greater on the side of the Ukrainians, on an order of magnitude.
Such is the result of fighting a conflict with no navy, a barely there air force, begged and borrowed equipment, and a general lack of artillery and shells, complemented by an air defense system that used to exist."
See? This exactly is your problem, because your words are only true in the information sewer pipes of Moscow's Ministry for Agitation and Propaganda -- nowhere else are they confirmed or even somewhat supported.
All of the western and independent sources -- including Mediazona -- more or less support Ukraine's estimates of Russian casualties and their own estimates of Ukraine's.
In 2023 Ukrainians on defense reported roughly three Russian casualties to every one of their own.
In 2024 that ratio, when Ukraine is on defense, rose to six to one and occasionally ten to one during Russia's insane "Meat Wave" assaults.
woodpusher: "Cutting through the fog, the latest claims say that the desperate Ukrainian attempt to take the NPP was stopped after 18 miles in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by Russians on three sides in a cauldron of their own making.
It was reported that they are digging trenches and do not know how long they will stay.
I can cut through the fog and say they will stay for the rest of the lives."
So, you've just confirmed some the most optimistic Ukrainian reports!
About 20 miles deep, times 25 miles wide is 500 square miles of Kursk taken by Ukrainian troops.
Some of the most optimistic Ukraine reports said they've taken 1,000 square kilometers, which is roughly 400 square miles.
Sounds like we're reading the same page on this, if on nothing else.
woodpusher: "The Russian army is doing what armies do — killing people and breaking things.
They are killing Ukrainian soldiers and breaking their toys.
There is no waiting.
There is no cease fire.
There is no Minsk III.
There is no electricity.
There are no longer any lines holding.
In a war of attrition, it is about destroying the opposing army and its toys.
Ukraine is losing."
Sure, if you call what Russia does "winning", including, according to Ukraine's estimates, since February 2022:
So, sure, if you call all that "winning", then I'd have to guess that "winning", like beauty is in the eyes of the beholder?
To me it looks pretty ugly for Russia right now.
With you squinty eyesight and aversion to long posts, you surely made a mockery of your former claims with this very long post.
Please stop sending me group texts.
Thanks. I didn’t subscribe to you list bro.
I see you live in a fantasy world, fed by information sewer pipes from Moscow's Ministry for Agitation and Propaganda, and I'm sorry to learn it.
The fact is, there was never an agreement between Vlad the Invader and Ukraine's elected government, Putin's 2023 claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
There were preliminary proposals, but never an agreement signed by the government in Kiev.
And Vlad the Invader's withdrawals from Kiev, Kharkiv and Kherson had nothing to do with alleged negotiations and everything to do with Vlad's defeats on the battlefield.
woodpusher: "Moreover, you failed to see the Russians execute a planned retreat as the conflict transitioned to one of attrition as the Western world started a failed plan to throw money and equipment at Ukraine in their failed attempt to make other than a durational difference."
My goodness, FRiend, you really are guzzling down the Kremlin's propaganda KoolAid, aren't you?
Seriously, why would you do that, surely you realize it's all pure nonsense?
The facts are, that after Vlad's failed invasion, Spring and Summer of 2022, Ukrainians pushed Russians out of about half the territories Russians had occupied, and the battle-lines have not changed much since, despite Russians throwing hundreds of thousands of "Meat Wave" troops at Ukrainian defenses.
In the past year, Russian advances have averaged about a square mile per day at a cost of around 1,000 Russian casualties and 100 military vehicles per day, with a ratio of roughly six Russian casualties when Russians attack to every one Ukrainian, when Ukrainians defend.
Sure, dispute those numbers if you want, but they are as good as any I can find from other sources.
woodpusher: "Because you operate in a fog, you failed to notice that Russia has a fleet and Ukraine does not.
It follows the old adage, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Russia remains the undisputed king of the Black Sea, as Ukraine does not have one ship, much less a navy."
Yeah... sure, but not so much anymore.
Roughly 1/3 of Russia's Black Sea Fleet has been sunk or damaged beyond repair by Ukraine's non-fleet.
Russia's remaining ships were pulled out of Crimea and other forward positions to safer places, some to the Caspian Sea!
woodpusher: "Because you operate in a fog, you missed that some planes moved out of range of missile attacks, something Ukraine has no capability of doing.
And you missed they remain quite capable of launching attacks on Ukraine. "
I'm certain that Ukrainians are fully aware of Russia's remaining air force capabilities, and those are not insignificant.
What Russians cannot do is fly over Ukraine or anywhere near the front lines, nor are Russian aircraft based in Crimea anymore.
Of course, all the hype over F-16s will be meaningless if the missiles they carry don't have enough range to reach out and touch their Russian air force enemies.
We'll have to see...
woodpusher: "Moreover you missed that the Ukrainian power grid as been destroyed and Ukrainians are sitting in the dark, and just have to deal with heat and cold without electricity."
You know, of course, that attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure such as power plants is a war-crime, right?
Can you explain why you're OK with that?
Russians have certainly damaged Ukraine's civilian power grid, by some reports up to 80% in some areas.
So now thousands of Ukrainians are at work restoring lines and adding new, highly dispersed, power sources, including imports of power from neighboring countries.
Hopefully, someday Russian war-criminals will be brought to trial for their crimes in Ukraine.
woodpusher: "The fog interfered with you seeing that they formed an economic coalition called BRICS+, implemented a SWIFT replacement, and moved off the dollar as the reserve currency.
BRICS+ consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Saudi Arabia also participates as an invited member which has not yet officially joined.
In its relatively short life, it now includes nearly half the population of the world."
BRICS GDP measured by Purchase Price Parity (PPP) totals roughly 1/3 of global GDP, but China alone represents nearly 3/5 of that.
And BRICS is far from a tight nit trade cartel.
Indeed, at least 80% of BRICS countries' trade is with non-BRICS countries, and for China and Russia, that number is well over 90%.
Further, countries like Brazil and India are western style democracies and partners with US allies in national defense.
The US is India's and China's biggest trading partner, Brazil's second biggest after China.
So, India and Brazil are far from insane dictatorships bent on dominating or destroying the world!
woodpusher: "It seems the fog of war led you to include North Korea as a member."
No, NoKo's Little Kim is Russia's client and military ally, supplying Russia with military equipment and ammunition.
NoKo has no economy to speak of.
woodpusher: "While Russia is involved in building such an economic alliance, Ukraine cannot pay salaries or pensions without being given the money to do so.
They have become a beggar nation.
Or as Napolean Joe would say, "We're winning!""
Sure, Vlad the Invader spent the past 20+ years building up a huge war-chest of nearly $1 trillion dollars, to pay for his foreign adventures.
Unfortunately for Vlad, he forgot to tell his financial people what he planned to do with all that money, and so they invested about half of it in foreign accounts, which are now frozen and will eventually be used to pay reparations to help rebuild Ukraine.
New Axis of Evil Dictators
Vlad the Invader, Annexed Lukashenko, Xi-Snake, Moolah Mullah & Little Kim:
Still, Vlad had a huge war-chest built up in Russia, maybe $400 billion to throw at Ukraine and he is now rapidly depleting it.
That's why Vlad went hat-in-hand to visit NoKo's Little Kim and Vietnam's ToLam to beg for their support -- and that's not even to mention Vlad's "unlimited partnership" with CCP's Xi-snake and buddy-buddies with Iran's Moolah-Mullahs.
woodpusher: "Hidden in the fog of war, Ukraine is losing to the extent that it may well lose status as a nation state, and that Russian Wagner are not mercs."
Yeah, I understand the Wagners "won" a big battle in, where was that, Mali?
Anyway, they seem to have lost some of their leaders and Ukrainians were somehow involved...
As for Ukraine losing status as a nation state... where does that fantasy even come from?
woodpusher: "Hidden in your fog is the source of your false statistics from western propaganda mills.
The casualty ratio is vastly greater on the side of the Ukrainians, on an order of magnitude.
Such is the result of fighting a conflict with no navy, a barely there air force, begged and borrowed equipment, and a general lack of artillery and shells, complemented by an air defense system that used to exist."
See? This exactly is your problem, because your words are only true in the information sewer pipes of Moscow's Ministry for Agitation and Propaganda -- nowhere else are they confirmed or even somewhat supported.
All of the western and independent sources -- including Mediazona -- more or less support Ukraine's estimates of Russian casualties and their own estimates of Ukraine's.
In 2023 Ukrainians on defense reported roughly three Russian casualties to every one of their own.
In 2024 that ratio, when Ukraine is on defense, rose to six to one and occasionally ten to one during Russia's insane "Meat Wave" assaults.
woodpusher: "Cutting through the fog, the latest claims say that the desperate Ukrainian attempt to take the NPP was stopped after 18 miles in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by Russians on three sides in a cauldron of their own making.
It was reported that they are digging trenches and do not know how long they will stay.
I can cut through the fog and say they will stay for the rest of the lives."
So, you've just confirmed some the most optimistic Ukrainian reports!
About 20 miles deep, times 25 miles wide is 500 square miles of Kursk taken by Ukrainian troops.
Some of the most optimistic Ukraine reports said they've taken 1,000 square kilometers, which is roughly 400 square miles.
Sounds like we're reading the same page on this, if on nothing else.
woodpusher: "The Russian army is doing what armies do — killing people and breaking things.
They are killing Ukrainian soldiers and breaking their toys.
There is no waiting.
There is no cease fire.
There is no Minsk III.
There is no electricity.
There are no longer any lines holding.
In a war of attrition, it is about destroying the opposing army and its toys.
Ukraine is losing."
Sure, if you call what Russia does "winning", including, according to Ukraine's estimates, since February 2022:
So, sure, if you call all that "winning", then I'd have to guess that "winning", like beauty is in the eyes of the beholder?
To me it looks pretty ugly for Russia right now.
Fielding Mellish used the word mockery best: "I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham."
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