Serious Kiev vs Moscow! Showdown! (2022)

[saynotomsm]

This Lindsey Graham explicitly says, quoting Trump, what I've been advocating to confronting this war:

Wow! He has aged alot. Almost can't recognize him at all. Under some kind of stress? Worrying when his time is up like his partner in crime John McCain?

 

[gingerlyn]

Wow! He has aged alot. Almost can't recognize him at all. Under some kind of stress? Worrying when his time is up like his partner in crime John McCain?

Vaccine le

 

[eatshitndie]

2 viet pot belly pigs fight off russian bear.

 

[zhihau]

Berdyansk port given up without a fight, Russkies landing ship can call to port, woon woon jiak bee hoon.

 

[eatshitndie]

see any similarity with this far east pacific theater map?

 

[Rogue Trader]

More idiot nazi POWs taken in. Russians documenting tattoos like CID after rounding up gangsters

 

[JohnTan]

I've been brushing up my Russian. Perhaps my translator skills can be used to bring about a peaceful settlement between Russia and Ukraine before Mariupol gets totally flattened.

LVIV: Russia is pounding the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol into the "ashes of a dead land", its local council said on Tuesday (Mar 22), describing two more huge bombs that fell on the city that has been sealed off for weeks.

The plight of Mariupol, a city of 400,000 before the war, has been the most urgent humanitarian emergency since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly a month ago. Hundreds of thousands of residents are believed to be trapped inside under near-constant shelling, with no access to food, water, power or heat.

"There is nothing left there," Zelenskyy said in a video address to the Italian parliament on Tuesday.

The city council gave no details of casualties or damage from the latest bombing. No independent journalists have been operating inside the Ukrainian-held parts of the city for at least a week, during which Ukraine says Russia struck a theatre, an art school and other public buildings, burying hundreds of women and children sheltering in cellars.

"Once again it is clear that the occupiers are not interested in the city of Mariupol. They want to level it to the ground and make it the ashes of a dead land," the council said in a statement.

Russia denies targeting civilians. Ukraine says Moscow has blocked daily efforts to send in relief convoys with food and other supplies for civilians, or buses to bring them out.

Russia demanded the city surrender by dawn on Monday, an ultimatum that Kyiv defied.

"We demand the opening of a humanitarian corridor for civilians," Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Ukrainian television on Tuesday.

"Our military are defending Mariupol heroically. We did not accept the ultimatum. They offered capitulation under a white flag. This is manipulation, a lie."

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/ukraine-invasion-mariupol-bombing-evacuation-refugees-2579051

 

[JohnTan]

It's nearly official! 10k Russian soldiers uplorried. Many more wounded and maimed.

The pro-Kremlin Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda briefly published a high number of Russian soldiers thought to be killed in Ukraine, before deleting the information.

An online report on Sunday citing the Ministry of Defence reported that 9,861 Russian soldiers had died and 16,153 injured since the beginning of the war, as an archived version circulated on Monday showed.

That would be significantly higher than the 498 dead that Moscow has officially confirmed so far.

A few hours later, however, the corresponding passage from the Komsomolskaya Pravda article disappeared again. There was initially no statement from the newspaper on the report.


Various media and other observers were puzzling over the meaning of the article on, with some pointing out that no information on killed Russians had been given in the Defence Ministry briefing on Sunday.

Journalist Yaroslav Trofimov of The Wall Street Journal wrote on Twitter: “Either [the newspaper’s website] KP.ru has been hacked or someone there got the leaked numbers and posted them.”

The briefly reported toll in Ukraine, if accurate, would mean almost 10,000 Russian soldiers killed in less than one month. In its war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the Soviet army lost some 15,000 soldiers over the space of nine years.

More than a dozen Russian generals and commanders have been reported killed in Ukraine by officials from Ukraine and other countries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged the death of one general, and Nato officials have confirmed the deaths of several others.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meanwhile said Sunday some 14,000 Russians have died since the invasion of his country began. None of the figures on troop deaths could be confirmed.

A recent US intelligence estimate placed the Russian death toll in Ukraine at roughly 7,000.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/eur...n-newspaper-publishes-9861-soldier-death-toll

 

[glockman]

Fyi for bros here when you are fighting in Ukraine. See any of the below symbols, kill it. Slava Ukraini!!

 

[Rogue Trader]

I've been brushing up my Russian. Perhaps my translator skills can be used to bring about a peaceful settlement between Russia and Ukraine before Mariupol gets totally flattened.

It's quite clear now Mariupol is an important target and will have to be taken before Russia sits down again to negotiate.

 

[glockman]

Whoops, guess we shouldn't be rushing to join the Ukrainian international legion???

 

[yinyang]

 

[yinyang]

Editor's choice

Marian Kamensky
21 March 2022

Brainwash​

Russians are subject to Putin's propaganda.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

A good point..for the Ukrainians, not loosing is winning

 

[bart12]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/putin-sends-execution-squads-kill-26534705

Putin sends in 'execution squads' to kill own troops if they try to flee Ukraine war​

The shocking claims come after a string of reports of incredibly low morale amongst Russian troops after what was supposed to be a 'lightning invasion' comes towards its second month of bitter fighting

 

[bart12]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/up-...killed-wounded-captured-or-mia-nato-says.html

POLITICS

Up to 40,000 Russian soldiers killed, wounded, captured or MIA in Ukraine, NATO estimates​

PUBLISHED WED, MAR 23 20221:57 PM EDTUPDATED AN HOUR AGO

 

[eatshitndie]

sergei shoigu, head of defense ministry in kremlin, has “disappeared” for nearly 2 weeks. could be under house arrest.

 

[yinyang]

Ivailo Tsvetkov
23 March 2022

Kremlin`s nights​

 

[syed putra]

Thursday, March 24, 2022​

Military assessment by ex CIA intelligence officer. It’s game over for Ukraine​

Larry C Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and the left, which means he must be doing something right. His analysis and commentary can be found at his blog..

Question 1– Can you explain why you think Russia is winning the war in Ukraine?

Larry C. Johnson – Within the first 24 hours of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all Ukrainian Ground Radar Intercept capabilities were wiped out. Without those radars, the Ukrainian Air Force lost its ability to do air to air intercept.
In the intervening three weeks, Russia has established a de facto No Fly Zone over Ukraine. While still vulnerable to shoulder fired Surface to Air Missiles supplied by the U.S. and NATO to the Ukrainians, there is no evidence that Russia has had to curtail Combat Air Operations.

(OSTB : What is more relevant is that there have been no serious aerial bombing of Ukraine. Some Ukrainian refugees in Hungary have begun going home. They realised that their civilian neighborhoods are not being bombed from the air.)
Russia’s arrival in Kiev within three days of the invasion also caught my attention. I recalled that the Nazi’s in Operation Barbarossa took seven weeks to reach Kiev and they required 7 more weeks to subdue the city. The Nazis had the advantage of not pulling punches to avoid civilian casualties and were eager to destroy critical infrastructure.
Yet many so-called American military experts claimed that Russia was bogged down. When a 24 mile (or 40 mile, depends on the news source) was positioned north of Kiev for more than a week, it was clear that Ukraine’s ability to launch significant military operations had been eliminated.
If their artillery was intact, then that column was easy pickings for massive destruction. That did not happen. Alternatively, if the Ukrainian’s had a viable fixed wing or rotary wing capability they should have destroyed that column from the air. That did not happen. Or, if they had a viable cruise missile capability they should have rained down hell on the supposedly stalled Russian column. That did not happen. The Ukrainians did not even mount a significant infantry ambush of the column with their newly supplied U.S. Javelins.
(OSTB :The Russians are still parked outside Kiev. They have not launched any "final assault" on the capital Kiev.)
The scale and scope of the Russian attack is remarkable. They captured territory in three weeks that is larger than the land mass of the United Kingdom. They then proceeded to carry out targeted attacks on key cities and military installations.
We have not seen a single instance of a Ukrainian regiment or brigade size unit attacking and defeating a comparable Russian unit.
(OSTB : Hence I asked where is the combat footage from this Ukrainian war? Mr Putin is being very cautious to minimise Ukrainian casualties.)
Instead, the Russians have split the Ukrainian Army into fragments and cut their lines of communication. The Russians are consolidating their control of Mariupol and have secured all approaches on the Black Sea. Ukraine is now cut off in the South and the North.
(OSTB : The Russians took Mariupol, Odessa and other ports within the first two weeks. They control all sea approaches into Ukraine. Plus the Russians have an effective No Fly zone over Ukraine.)
I would note that the U.S. had a tougher time capturing this much territory in Iraq in 2003 while fighting against a far inferior, less capable military force. If anything, this Russian operation should scare the hell out of U.S. military and political leaders.

The really big news came this week with the Russian missile strikes on what are de facto NATO bases in Yavoriv and Zhytomyr.
NATO conducted cyber security training at Zhytomyr in September 2018 and described Ukraine as a “NATO partner.” Zhytomyr was destroyed with hypersonic missiles on Saturday. Yavoriv suffered a similar fate last Sunday. It was the primary training and logistics center that NATO and EUCOM used to supply fighters and weapons to Ukraine. A large number of the military and civilian personnel at that base became casualties.

Not only is Russia striking and destroying bases used by NATO regularly since 2015, but there was no air raid warning and there was no shutdown of the attacking missiles.

Question 2– Why is the media trying to convince the Ukrainian people that they can prevail in their war against Russia? If what you say is correct, then all the civilians that are being sent to fight the Russian army, are dying in a war they can’t win. I don’t understand why the media would want to mislead people on something so serious. What are your thoughts on the matter?

Larry C. Johnson– This is a combination of ignorance and laziness. Rather than do real reporting, the vast majority of the media (print and electronic) as well as Big Tech are supporting a massive propaganda campaign. I remember when George W. Bush was Hitler. I remember when Donald Trump was Hitler. And now we have a new Hitler, Vladimir Putin. This is a tired, failed playbook. Anyone who dares to raise legitimate questions is immediately tarred as a Putin puppet or a Russia stooge. When you cannot argue facts the only recourse is name calling.

Question 3 – Last week, Colonel Douglas MacGregor was a guest on the Tucker Carlson Show. His views on the war are strikingly similar to your own. Here’s what he said in the interview:

“The war is really over for the Ukrainians. They have been ground into bits, there is no question about that despite what we hear from our mainstream media. So, the real question for us at this stage is, Tucker, are we going to live with the Russian people and their government or are we going to continue to pursue this sort of regime change dressed up as a Ukrainian war? Are we going to stop using Ukraine as a battering ram against Moscow, which is effectively what we’ve done.” (Tucker Carlson– MacGregor Interview)

Do you agree with MacGregor that the real purpose of goading Russia into a war in Ukraine was “regime change”?

Second, do you agree that Ukraine is being used as a staging ground for the US to carry out a proxy-war on Russia?

Larry C. Johnson– Doug is a great analyst but I disagree with him—I don’t think there is anyone in the Biden Administration that is smart enough to think and plan in those strategic terms. In my view the last 7 years have been the inertia of the NATO status quo. What I mean by that is that NATO and Washington, believed they could continue to creep east on Russia’s borders without provoking a reaction. NATO and EUCOM regularly carried out exercises—including providing “offensive” training—and supplied equipment. I believe reports in the United States that the CIA was providing paramilitary training to Ukrainian units operating in the Donbass are credible. But I have trouble believing that after our debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, we suddenly have Sun Tzu level strategists pulling the strings in Washington.

There is an air of desperation in Washington. Besides trying to ban all things Russian, the Biden Administration is trying to bully China, India and Saudi Arabia. I do not see any of those countries falling into line. I believe the Biden crew made a fatal mistake by trying to demonize all things and all people Russian. If anything, this is uniting the Russian people behind Putin and they are ready to dig in for a long struggle.

I am shocked at the miscalculation in thinking economic sanctions on Russia would bring them to their knees. The opposite is true. Russia is self-sufficient and is not dependent on imports. Russia's exports are critical to the economic well-being of the West. If they withhold wheat, potash, gas, oil, palladium, finished nickel and other key minerals from the West, the European and U.S. economies will be savaged. And this attempt to coerce Russia with sanctions has now made it very likely that the U.S. dollar’s role as the international reserve currency will show up in the dustbin of history.

Question 4– Ever since he delivered his famous speech in Munich in 2007, Putin has been complaining about the “architecture of global security”. In Ukraine we can see how these nagging security issues can evolve into a full-blown war. As you know, in December Putin made a number of demands related to Russian security, but the Biden administration shrugged them off and never responded. Putin wanted written assurances that NATO expansion would not include Ukraine (membership) and that nuclear missile systems would not be deployed to Romania or Poland. Do you think Putin’s demands are unreasonable?

Larry C. Johnson– I think Putin’s demands are quite reasonable. The problem is that 99% of Americans have no idea of the kind of military provocation that NATO and the U.S. have carried out over the last 7 years. The public was always told the military exercises were “defensive.” That simply is not true. Now we have news that DTRA was funding biolabs in Ukraine. I guess Putin could agree to allow U.S. nuclear missile systems in Poland and Romania if Biden agrees to allow comparable Russian systems to be deployed in Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico. When we look at it in those terms we can begin to understand that Putin’s demands are not crazy nor unreasonable.

Question 5– Russian media reports that Russian “high precision, air-launched” missiles struck a facility in west Ukraine “killing more than 100 local troops and foreign mercenaries.” Apparently, the Special Operations training center was located near the town of Ovruch which is just 15 miles from the Polish border. What can you tell us about this incident? Was Russia trying to send a message to NATO?

Larry C. Johnson– Short answer—YES! Russian military strikes in Western Ukraine during the past week have shocked and alarmed NATO officials. The first blow came on Sunday, March 13 at Yavoriv, Ukraine. Russia hit the base with several missiles, some reportedly hypersonic. Over 200 personnel were killed, which included American and British military and intelligence personnel, and hundreds more wounded. Many suffered catastrophic wounds, such as amputations, and are in hospital. NATO and the western media have hushed up on this disaster.

Yavoriv was an important forward base for NATO . Until February (prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine), the U.S. 7th Army Training Command was operating from Yavoriv as late as mid-February. Russia has not stopped there. ASB Military news reports Russia hit another site, Delyatyn, which is 60 miles southeast of Yavoriv (on Thursday I believe). Yesterday, Russia hit Zytomyr, another site where NATO previously had a presence. Putin has sent a very clear message—NATO forces in Ukraine will be viewed and treated as combatants. Period.

Question 6– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been lionized in the western media as a “wartime leader” and a modern-day “Winston Churchill”. What the media fails to tell its readers is that Zelensky has taken a number of steps to strengthen his grip on power while damaging fragile democratic institutions in Ukraine. For example, Zelensky has “banned eleven opposition-owned news organizations” and tried to bar the head of Ukraine’s largest opposition party, Viktor Medvedchuk, from running for office on a bogus “terrorist financing” charge. This is not the behavior of a leader that is seriously committed to democracy.

What’s your take on Zelensky? Is he really the “patriotic leader” the media makes him out to be?

Larry C. Johnson– Zelensky is a comedian and an actor. Not a very good one at that in my view. The West is cynically using the fact he is Jewish as a diversion from the size-able contingent of Neo-Nazis (and I mean genuine Nazis who still celebrate the Ukrainian Waffen SS unit’s accomplishments while fighting with the Nazis in WW II). The facts are clear—he is banning opposition political parties and shutting down opposition media. I guess that is the new definition of “democracy.”

Question 7– How does this end? There’s an excellent post at the Moon of Alabama site titled “What Will Be The Geographic End State Of The War In Ukraine“. The author of the post, Bernard, seems to think that Ukraine will eventually be partitioned along the Dnieper River “and south along the coast that holds a majority ethnic Russian population.” He also says this:

“This would eliminate Ukrainian access to the Black Sea and create a land bridge towards the Moldavian breakaway Transnistria which is under Russian protection. The rest of the Ukraine would be a land confined, mostly agricultural state, disarmed and too poor to be build up to a new threat to Russia anytime soon. Politically it would be dominated by fascists from Galicia which would then become a major problem for the European Union.”

What do you think? Will Putin impose his own territorial settlement on Ukraine in order to reinforce Russian security and bring the hostilities to an end or is a different scenario more likely?

Larry C. Johnson– I agree with Moon. Putin’s primary objective is to secure Russia from foreign threats and effect a divorce with the West. Russia has the physical resources to be an independent sovereign and is in the process of making that vision come true.

 

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