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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 25, 2023 at 3:58 pm
(March 25, 2023 at 3:26 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I have to wonder what Russia would do if Ukraine invaded Belarus. I'm imagining Jack and Squat.
I bet they'd counterpunch somewhere else in the east or south, to both relive pressure and capture further Ukrainian territory.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 28, 2023 at 6:17 am
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Pirates of the Carribean star Orlando bloom who is a UNICEF ambassador had visited Vlodimyr Zellensky yesterday (Video in link at the end of the post). He recited him a beautiful poem from the Japanese philosopher Daisaku İkeda which I transliterated bellow. I think it’s worth reading and watching
Quote: The times are changing from an age where power is justice to an age in which justice is power. In this new age the supreme guiding principle will be the will be the benefit of all humanity rather than the interest of one particular nation or ethnic group. We will see the transformation of history from the revolution of the external environment to that of the inner self, the inner human nature. This will be an age in which the action of leaders will naturally be based on guidelines of making all mothers happy. A great future lies ahead of you. You must fix your eyes ahead of you, never loosing sight of your goal, not even for a single moment. Centuries, tens of centuries have waited for you to arrive and have been preparing for you. You are the ones who have appeared now do mystically. Your victory will be the victory of humanism. Your defeat will be the defeat of hope. Hence, you must win, in everything. You must fight with an indomitable spirit.
Once fortune was against a knight who was captured in battle by his enemies and had his castle confiscated. “Where is your castle now?” They asked laughing scornfully. “You have lost everything” they implied. The knight answered resolutely holding his head high “My castle is in my hearth”.
[He hits the chest of Vlodimyr Zellensky]
- You have a hearth
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-Kyiv.html
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 28, 2023 at 7:28 am
"Change was inevitable"
Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 28, 2023 at 8:32 am
(March 28, 2023 at 7:28 am)Helios Wrote: The Leopard tank has arrived in Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65095126
...and Ukrainian crews finished their training with some shooting exercises.
Challenger, Stryker and Marders arrived as well.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 28, 2023 at 12:08 pm
(March 22, 2023 at 5:36 am)pocaracas Wrote: (March 21, 2023 at 9:25 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: WW3, lol. Russia has it's hands full invading a country the size of texas. It's day 392 of a three day war and russia is still struggling, mightily, to attempt to occupy two counties worth of territory with it's entire military committed.
As unlikely as it may seem, the WWIII issue is not Russia vs The World, it's whatever countries join Russia, like China and India, African countries and South American.
China won't join in, they've too much to lose and nothing to gain from the Ukraine war escalating. India are far more likely to continue fence sitting while Russian commodities are ultra cheap, but try to swing back towards the US afterwards, especially now that they know the Russian weapons systems they invested into are vapourware. And any African nations stupid enough to side with Russia would be as useful as a chocolate teapot in a volcano if a wider war broke out.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 28, 2023 at 12:30 pm
There are lots of videos made by Russian soldiers urging Putin to do something so that they don't just be sent to the slaughter as canon fodder. Soldiers seem to think that Putin gives a fuck about them and that only the leadership on the front is corrupt because they are being told by the officers that they were sent to die on the front.
Similar videos are being made by their wives and mothers.
So who knows, maybe Russians finally take matters into their own hands and remove the SOB.
https://youtu.be/fignUvTwig8
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 28, 2023 at 12:39 pm
Battle For Bakhmut Is 'Stabilizing'
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-claims-b...35795.html
Another failure for Russia
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 28, 2023 at 1:17 pm
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(March 28, 2023 at 12:30 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: There are lots of videos made by Russian soldiers urging Putin to do something so that they don't just be sent to the slaughter as canon fodder. Soldiers seem to think that Putin gives a fuck about them and that only the leadership on the front is corrupt because they are being told by the officers that they were sent to die on the front.
Similar videos are being made by their wives and mothers.
So who knows, maybe Russians finally take matters into their own hands and remove the SOB.
https://youtu.be/fignUvTwig8
"If only dear leader knew" isn't a bug, it's a feature. That's not an indication that they're going to take things into their own hands or get rid of him. It's a demonstration that instead of that, they're gonna do this other thing. A year of getting their asses handed to them has gotten them from "i don't watch the news" to "i'm not political" to "i can't know these things" to..well...this. Hell, just a few months ago wives and moms were posting videos about how...actually...their sons and husbands and brothers were abusive drunks anyway, so good riddance.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 28, 2023 at 1:22 pm
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The Ukranians are fighting for what's theirs. The Russians are fighting because someone said they had to...I'm figuring the former is a reason that will last longer.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 28, 2023 at 1:23 pm
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In a better world, maybe - but in this world both ukranians and russian soldiers are hostages. The ukranians will keep fighting as long as a russian rifle is pointed at them...and in this, the russian forces are in a completely equivalent position. They've got ukranian nazi supersoldiers on one side, and invincible russian blocking forces on the other.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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