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I've seen articles that say the "only" bridge to Crimea was destroyed, but there are at least three ways in. Does Ukraine control the other two?

Bd6r says

2. I am not aware of Ukraine shelling the crap out of ethnic Russian territories for years. I have not seen proofs of that.

It's been shown to you many times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)

Check the history in Wikipedia. I've shown that too. You just can't see what you pretend doesn't exist and you continue to lie.

Patrick says

I've seen articles that say the "only" bridge to Crimea was destroyed, but there are at least three ways in. Does Ukraine control the other two?

The media is stupid, or taking into account that the land bridge is in artillery range. That and the media also ignores that there are porta in Crimea and Russia can still use those

Booger says

The media is stupid, or

The media is propaganda. They aren't stupid, they are dishonest. It's a complete waste of time to look toward "corporate media" for information.

Our media sells wars today. They are directly funded by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, large banks. They make money selling their products. They do not inform the public at all.

As this is posted, Russia is shelling the infrastructure of numerous Ukrainian cities, including Kiev. Gloves are off. Too many to mention, just bombing the shit out of them.
https://t.me/battleinsights/5993

https://t.me/battleinsights/6013

No shit, Sherlock. Scorched infrastructure is on the menu.
https://t.me/battleinsights/6030

"Zelensky declares nothing to worry about. Russians failed to identify and bomb the leadership's reserves of cocaine and opiates."

"It's a lot easier to tolerate the slaughter and freezing of our useless citizens with some nice speedballs. It's all a human sacrifice to Moloch, anyway, and Moloch will assure our success!"

Onvacation says

Eric Holder says

Happy 200 lost T-72B3’s day!

Goes to show that the future is not going to be tanks and fighter bombers.

Imagine a swarm of these

A tank has little hope against a well trained anti tank crew. An autonomous four legged drone designed and programmed to hunt and kill specific target types would give tanks even less hope.

Just wait until some wise ass walks into a restaurant with this thing, telling you it's a "service animal" and therefore must be allowed with him everywhere he goes.

"Say hello to my l'il support friend."

Onvacation says

A tank has little hope against a well trained anti tank crew. An autonomous four legged drone designed and programmed to hunt and kill specific target types would give tanks even less hope.

These will be used against the American population soon enough. That's their real utility.

Really, there's little point to having a manned tank in this day and age. It's stupidity that more drones aren't used. The people in power don't care about the soldiers they are getting killed.

https://unherd.com/2022/10/did-america-cause-europes-energy-war/

Did America cause Europe’s energy war?
Biden doesn't just want to weaken Russia ...

A recession next year is now considered almost certain; industrial production is down 9% on last year; inflation has soared to double digits for the first time since the Second World War. Given Germany’s deep-seated inflation-phobia, all this is problematic enough. But even more traumatic for the country is the fact that Germany is now running a negative trade balance — the first time this has happened in more than 30 years. This is a very tough pill to swallow for a country where export-led growth is more than just an economic model — it’s part of its national identity.

But those days are over. The German economic machine has broken down. First it was battered by the global lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, which disrupted global supply chains, forcing German industries to pay more for increasingly scarce components that they once bought from China. The pandemic also lowered growth in key Asian export markets — first and foremost China. ...

Is Germany just a collateral victim of the United States’ proxy war against Russia? Or could Germany have been a target of economic warfare itself?

This latter question is impossible to ignore following the recent attack on the part-German-owned Nord Stream gas pipelines connecting Russia to Germany. Even though Western governments and commentators have been quick to point the finger at Russia, Jeffrey Sachs, the US economist and Columbia professor, recently voiced an opinion shared by many: that the act of sabotage on the pipeline is more likely to have been “a US action” — one directed first and foremost at Germany. A similar claim was also made by Douglas Macgregor, a retired US Army colonel and former advisor to US Defense Secretary in the Trump administration. And then there’s the now-infamous tweet (subsequently deleted) by Radek Sikorski — Poland’s former foreign minister and current chairman of the European Parliament’s EU-US delegation — who published an image of the Nord Stream leak along with the words “Thank you, USA”.

It’s not hard to see why so many people are inclined to view this as a US action rather than a Russian one. While it’s unclear how Russia would benefit from losing the leverage the pipeline offered it over Germany and other European states, the US, on the other hand, has a lot to gain from putting Nord Stream out of action — possibly forever, according to German sources. (Russia disputes the damage and claims the pipeline could be repaired and reopened soon, but that Western authorities won’t allow Russia to inspect the pipelines.)

It’s no secret that the US has always been opposed to Nord Stream, and in particular to Nord Stream 2, a new pipeline parallel to Nord Stream 1 (in operation since 2011) that was completed in 2021 and was expected to enter into service in 2022, doubling the annual supply of Russian gas to Germany. It’s easy to see why the US establishment wasn’t happy about this development: more gas would have meant stronger Russian-German relations, which would have likely led to an expansion of trade, increased cultural exchanges, and ultimately to a new security architecture that would have made Nato’s security umbrella increasingly redundant and weakened US hegemony over the European continent. ...

It appears, then, this cannot be written off as a conspiracy theory. In fact, one of America’s best-known geostrategists, George Friedman, former chairman of the private intelligence firm Stratfor, wrote in his 2010 bestselling book The Next Decade: “Russia does not threaten America’s global position, but the mere possibility that it might collaborate with Europe and particularly Germany opens up the most significant threat in the decade, a long-term threat that needs to be nipped in the bud”. ...

At the same time, Germany, as it strives to replace Russian gas, has turned to the United States, which now provides (at “astronomical prices”, according to the German economy minister) 45% of European LNG imports — up from 28% in 2021. So overall, it’s hard to deny that the US is clearly benefiting from the European energy crisis in general, and from the recent pipeline attack in particular. No doubt that’s why US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Nord Stream attack offers a “tremendous opportunity” to end Europe’s dependency on Russian energy — a strange choice of language for what effectively amounts to a terrorist attack on a strategic infrastructure of a Nato ally. He also confirmed that the action would directly benefit the US: “We’re now the leading supplier of LNG to Europe,” Blinken added.

It should also be noted that the attack came at a time when the German government was coming under growing pressure to end the sanctions. Just a week before, large demonstrations had taken place in Germany calling for the commissioning of Nord Stream 2 to resolve the energy crisis.

Now, all this may very well be a case of unintended benefit for America. However, the mounting evidence forces us to ask an uncomfortable question: could the US strategy in Ukraine be aimed not only at weakening Russia, but Germany as well? It’s a terrifying prospect, but one that German elites can’t afford to discount.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-warns-risking-world-war-iii-stupid-people-dont-clue/

Trump Warns We're Risking World War III: 'Stupid People' Don't Have a Clue

Former President Donald Trump has become increasingly worried about the war between Russia and Ukraine fearing that it can all too easily spin out of control and pull the rest of the world into a terrible world war.

At a Saturday rally in Minden, Nevada, Trump spoke about Russia’s unprovoked US-provoked attack on Ukraine and noted that he fears a worse conflagration if Ukraine does not at least try to negotiate with Russia. ...

But during the rally, Trump noted that the fight in Ukraine could very easily metastasize into the next world war.

“We must demand the immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, or we will end up in World War III, and there will be nothing left of our planet all because stupid people didn’t have a clue. They didn’t have a clue,” Trump said according to Raw Story. “They don’t understand, they really don’t understand.”

Trump has proven to have had good instincts for foreign policy. Indeed, the Germans may have snickered at Trump in 2018 when the president warned them about relying too much on Russia energy exports, but his words were clearly prophetic. ...

Add in our suffering economy that is now in the worst shape it has been in decades, and the U.S. is in a very precarious spot as the winds of war blow across the globe.

Donald Trump’s warnings that the world is on the brink of war should not be dismissed. His record of success on the world stage demands he be taken seriously. All it takes is one stupid move, and the world could be plunged into World War III.

And as Barack Obama once said, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to [screw] things up.”

Patrick says

this is the illogical thing about war. If I give Ukrainian soldier a gun, train him, and send him off to go kill Russian soldiers its not war, but if I use a gun myself then it's war. This doesn't make sense to me.

Because I know that if I give someone a gun to go kill someone, I'd be prosecuted as accessory to murder. That's the law.

World is a weird fucking place with lots of posturing and pretend.

https://www.academia.edu/8776021/The_Snipers_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukraine

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

this is the illogical thing about war. If I give Ukrainian soldier a gun, train him, and send him off to go kill Russian soldiers its not war, but if I use a gun myself then it's war. This doesn't make sense to me.

There's no rules. You realize, the last war the United States has been in was WWII. Nothing else was declared a war. It's just words. If you try to make sense of what habitual liars say, you'll go nuts. Our government constantly lies and redefines meaning. The are like a child that continually changes rules in the middle of a game.

richwicks says

Nothing else was declared a war.

Russia is also doing this with its "special military operation".

Why? What's the reason for not calling a war a war?

Patrick says

https://www.academia.edu/8776021/The_Snipers_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukraine

This has been known for quite some time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEgJ0oo3OA8

That's the intercepted phone call. This was posted on Mar 5, 2014.

Patrick says

richwicks says

Nothing else was declared a war.

Russia is also doing this with its "special military operation".

Why? What's the reason for not calling a war a war?

Putin had no intention of occupying the Ukraine. The initial assault had about 190000 military personnel. It would take about 1 million personnel to occupy a country the size of Ukraine.

Russia just recently called up an extra 300000 personnel. This would be about the right number to fortify and control the 4 areas they recently annexed.

Putin has not called for WARTIME production and/or conscription. During WWII Russia had an army in excess of 11 million people. If he went to WAR, he would scare the bejeesus out of Europe and Europe would need to mobilize against this size of threat. Right now Russia has about 1 million military personnel.

The size and scale of a true WAR is something that hasn't been seen since 1945.

This liberator needed a new pair of glasses.... Not anymore.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1580293815357042688

A Russian MT-LB drives into a line of TM-62 anti-vehicle landmines.

Patrick says

No we didn't. The US alone was bombing Syria, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen during that time, it was also supplying Ukraine with weaponry.

It was relatively peaceful, compared to this administration.

I just saw this watching the morning local news. Look at his arm.

Russia is beginning to evacuate Kherson?

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1580582953104859136

What were the lies about Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba and Nicaragua? Were there not Marxist insurgencies (funded by the USSR) fucking those countries up and spreading instability in the Western Hemisphere through the 70's, 80' and 90's?

What are the lies about Iran? Are they not run by Islamist anti-Semitic theocrat nutters who have set that country back half a century?

Finally, what are the lies about North Korea?

Geesh - it is a clown show that we have Americans defending Marxists, Islamist and whatever the fuck mutant shit that is going on in North Korea all in an effort to defend Russia's murderous cock-up in Ukraine.

socal2 says

What were the lies about Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba and Nicaragua?

* Venezuela: Nicolás Maduro was elected, Juan Guaidó is just a CIA cutout. He's not the president of Venezuela.
* Guatemala: didn't have a revolution, in 1953, and Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown so that United Fruit Company (what you know as Chiquita) could continue to exploit the entire country. This destroyed Gautemala's democracy. This was Operation PBSuccess
* Honduras: I don't know, but if the US government was involved with it, it's a good bet they were lying about it
* Cuba: The people of Cuba wanted Western interests out of the country because the government was so corrupt and bad. They had a genuine communist revolution.
* Nicaragua: The Contras were not on the side of the people. Don't you remember the Iran-Contra scandal? The US we selling weapons to Iran to pay for the conflict.

socal2 says

Were there not Marxist insurgencies (funded by the USSR) fucking those countries up and spreading instability in the Western Hemisphere through the 70's, 80' and 90's?

Not with the case of Iran, or Guatemala. In the 1950's the US would just lie about somebody being communist if they were a little be left of straight out fascist. It's like how the US now labels anybody a terrorist they don't like, or state sponsor of terrorism.

socal2 says

What are the lies about Iran? Are they not run by Islamist anti-Semitic theocrat nutters who have set that country back half a century?

They were overthrown by the United States in Operation Ajax to prevent Mohammad Mosaddegh from nationalizing oil interests when England (they developed the wells) was doing the same thing in Britain (hence we have British Petroleum). The US called this an operation to prevent communism, but it wasn't. Also Iran isn't developing a nuclear weapon.

socal2 says

Geesh - it is a clown show that we have Americans defending Marxists, Islamist and whatever the fuck mutant shit that is going on in North Korea all in an effort to defend Russia's murderous cock-up in Ukraine.

The clown show is that the US is even involved with any of this shit, and continues to lie about it. Central economies collapse. The real clown show is that the US acts like the fucking communists did 50 years ago and calls it freedumb.

richwicks says

The real clown show is that the US acts like the fucking communists did 50 years ago and calls it freedumb.

Like I said, people are aping Marxist/Islamist propaganda world-view to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

How about North Korea? Surely you have a way to blame America for North Korea's horrific regime and abuses.

socal2 says

richwicks says

The real clown show is that the US acts like the fucking communists did 50 years ago and calls it freedumb.

Like I said, people are aping Marxist/Islamist propaganda world-view to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The US has invaded Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.

You tell me why

The weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq was KNOWN not to exist in 2003, but it continued to 2013 and is still ongoing with mercenaries. What's the mission?

Bashi al-Assad is NOT gassing his own people, we know this because two whistleblowers from the OPCW came forward and explained, in detail, how they knew with certainty the Douma chemical attacks were faked. So, why is the US still attacking Syria?

Qaddafi was NOT about to cause a humanitarian crisis in Iraq, but it's in one now that Qaddafi is dead with slavery markets and civil war.

I'm tired of the stupidity. You bitch and whine and moan about Ukraine, and you don't say SHIT about the US doing the same fucking thing.

The US set the precedent and you didn't say a FUCKING THING against it - so here we are FUCKING HYPOCRITE.

You could have spoken out against FORMING precedent, but you didn't did you?

Is Russia acting awfully? SURE THE FUCK IS, just like the US is, when you said NOTHING about it. Only 2 decades for you to figure it out. Only 20 years allowed for you piece it together. What sort of GENIUS would you have to be to figure it out in only 2 FUCKING decades? I guess you'd have to be some sort of fucking Einstein Squared to figure it out..

Don't give me this fucking shit that you care about what Russia is doing to Ukraine, because you don't. You're just being a pussy and sucking government propaganda cock.

socal2 says

How about North Korea? Surely you have a way to blame America for North Korea's horrific regime and abuses.

Yes, normalize relations and start engaging in trade, and the regime will fall.

It's as fucking simple as that.

China no longer has people going to work on bicycles now. Don't outsource labor to these nations though, either. That's how our government betrayed US workers. The US federal government didn't have to do this, but they did. The US decided to import goods from SLAVE LABOR in China. Slap a 100% tariff on China, see how long that lasts?

I don't know what it takes before you realize "hey, maybe my government is betraying the nation for their own selfish short term interests, and are selling me and my children and grandchildren into slavery?" That's what they are doing. But your TV cost $300, you know, that device you have for 10 years. $30 versus $60, well, one you can afford apparently. That's the difference between $5 a month and $2.50...