Russia & Ukraine

Discussion in 'Politics' started by UsualName, Jan 18, 2022.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Nothing but a bunch of looters...

     
    #4161     Apr 25, 2022
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  3. Howz that United Nations support for enforcing a civlian evacuation corridor coming along?

    UN = Worthless as tits on nun. I would not be surprised if they actually get in involved to help evacuate some civilians next week or so. Their operating rule is that they like to wait until at least 98% are dead.

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    #4163     Apr 25, 2022
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  4. ph1l

    ph1l

    With a headline like that, one might think it was satire from The Babylon Bee. But it appears to be a real story!

    Politics may be the root of this knotty problem, but that lumbering decision to have us bough to this way of branching off to crown a new leader in Europe leaves a big stump inside the trunks of treedom lovers everywhere. :D
     
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  6. MORE TO COME in regard to rail attacks before this war is over.

    The Donbass from the Russian side is the rail system that is most vulnerable. They will be all set as long as Ukraine does not increase its missile capability in the coming days. I would not count on that.

    MORE TO COME.

    Also of note:

    The Belarusian railway workers who helped thwart Russia’s attack on Kyiv
    A clandestine network of railway workers, hackers and dissident security forces wreaked havoc on supply lines
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/23/ukraine-belarus-railway-saboteurs-russia/

    Russia’s Military Has a Railroad Problem
    Moscow must hope that a refocused war strategy will fix its antiquated logistics.

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/21/russias-military-has-a-railroad-problem/
     
    #4166     Apr 25, 2022
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  7. UsualName

    UsualName

    Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.

    I highly doubt, with all of the American help the Ukrainians are getting, that they don’t have more than one supply line.
     
    #4167     Apr 25, 2022
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    Day 61 of my 3 day war. I lost a dozen generals, French election, a flag ship & more than 20,000 soldiers. It is going according to plan. I remain a master strategist
     
    #4168     Apr 25, 2022
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  9. themickey

    themickey

    Explosions hit Transnistria, a Russian-allied region of Moldova, amid fears of a new front in the war.
    April 25, 2022 5 hours ago https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/world/europe/explosions-transnistria-moldova-ukraine.html
    Ivan Nechepurenko

    Explosions on Monday shook Transnistria, a Russia-aligned breakaway region of Moldova that borders Ukraine, and the local government said a security agency building in the region’s capital, Tiraspol, had possibly been attacked using grenade launchers.

    In a statement, the local internal affairs ministry said no one was injured because of the incident. Pictures posted on social media, and claimed to be from the scene, appeared to show smoke billowing out of broken windows with rescue workers in the streets below.

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    TRANSNISTRIA
    By The New York Times

    While the fighting in Ukraine is concentrated in the east, Transnistria, which hosts hundreds of Russian troops and has a large ethnic Russian population, occupies a strategically important spot on Ukraine’s western flank, reaching within about 25 miles of Ukraine’s chief port city, Odesa.

    On Friday, a Russian general said one of Moscow’s current aims in Ukraine is to establish “yet another point of access” to Transnistria, a claim that echoed Ukrainian fears that Russia wants to seize Ukraine’s entire Black Sea coast, including Odesa, linking itself to Transnistria. Military experts questioned whether the general’s comments reflected Kremlin policy, and whether the Russian military could carry out such a mission.

    During the buildup to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian officials warned of Russian “provocations,” including in Transnistria — attacks that it said Moscow might stage but blame on Kyiv as a pretext for military action.

    Transnistria, a thin strip of land with fewer than 500,000 people, broke away from Moldova with support from Moscow in a brief war in the early 1990s. It has a repressive government, heavily dependent on Russia, and Russian state-run television is dominant there.

    Since the Ukraine war erupted, the Moldovan and Ukrainian militaries have been concerned about whether Transnistria would enter the fighting as a base for attacking Ukraine from the west.
     
    #4169     Apr 25, 2022
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  10. Overnight

    Overnight

    I hope those Russians are proud of their genocidal actions. Fuckers. They are decimating their standing as a great nation that could stand strong against a Nazi takeover. After that, they went stupid with the Iron Curtain. They got through that. Now, here we are again.



    It is such a shame, because their national anthem is quite beautiful, if you are an audiophile.
     
    #4170     Apr 25, 2022
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