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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 pm
57 countries abstained. 12 voted against returning abducted Ukrainian children to their families.
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Quote:The United States joined 90 other countries at the United Nations on Wednesday to demand Russia "ensure the immediate, safe and unconditional return of all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported" and urge Moscow to stop the practice.
Russia urged countries to oppose the U.N. resolution, which was drafted by Ukraine, Canada and the European Union.
"Each vote for the resolution is support for lies, war and confrontation. Every vote against is a vote for peace," Russia's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Maria Zabolotskaya told the General Assembly ahead of the vote.
Russia and 11 other countries voted against the resolution, while 57 countries abstained. General Assembly resolutions are not binding but carry weight as a reflection of the global view.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine accuses Russia of abducting tens of thousands of its children to Russia or Russian-occupied territory without the consent of family or guardians. Previously Moscow has said it has been protecting vulnerable children from a war zone.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-backs-u...025-12-03/
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 pm
Imagine being the target audience for the lies, war, and confrontation bit. Mind numbingly stupid, and the people lying to you because they know that about you are disgusted by you for it.
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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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 pm
(December 4, 2025 at 11:22 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Imagine being the target audience for the lies, war, and confrontation bit. Mind numbingly stupid, and the people lying to you because they know that about you are disgusted by you for it.
Right, the condescendence is lost upon them. Not only are the rubes being played, they're being mocked in the cigar-smoke rooms.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 am
Putin's bitch already took off sanctions before they even took effect.
Quote:The Trump administration on Thursday allowed transactions with Lukoil (LKOH.MM), opens new tab gas stations outside of Russia with a narrow waiver to sanctions the U.S. imposed in October for the role the company's revenues play in supporting Moscow's war in Ukraine.
The transactions for about 2,000 stations throughout Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, were authorized through April 29, 2026, a posting on the Treasury Department site said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/...025-12-04/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 pm
Canada announces $235M in funding, will purchase US military equipment for Ukraine
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SqN0gF3H75Q
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2025 at 5:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
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Grozny City Complex after a UKR drone strike. RU claims to have intercepted the drones. Cool Story Vlad, but if that's what success looks like....
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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RE: Russia and Ukraine
Yesterday at 5:12 am
(This post was last modified: Yesterday at 5:13 am by Belacqua.)
Ukraine's ambassador to the US said in an interview that Putin is only pretending to negotiate, while really he's stalling for time because he knows that militarily he's winning.
She said that the Russians can continue the war a lot longer, while Ukraine can't. (This is what I pointed out a while back: in a war of attrition, Russia wins.)
I don't know how much of this kind of news gets through to English-speaking people. Any positive news for the Ukrainian side gets played up in the media, but I suspect that what they report is intentionally unbalanced.
For example, yesterday Ukraine hit a building in Grozny. It appears to have had no military significance, and an empty police station was damaged.
Russia, on the other hand, is sending wave after wave of drones and missiles that target the Ukrainian energy grid. Currently the oil refinery and power plant at Kremenchuk are burning. A week ago about 600,000 people in and around Kiev had no electricity.
One thing that's changed: The New York Times (and other papers that tell us what the powerful people want us to know) is starting to warn us that things are not going well for Ukraine. This is no surprise, obviously, but some people have been in denial.
https://archive.md/F4HkP
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
Yesterday at 7:18 am
Belacqua Wrote:Putin is only pretending to negotiate, while really he's stalling for time because he knows that militarily he's winning.
She said that the Russians can continue the war a lot longer, while Ukraine can't. (This is what I pointed out a while back: in a war of attrition, Russia wins.)
LOL, why would Putin be stalling with the peace negotiations if it is going so great for him? Why not just conquer Ukraine if he's such a great warrior and has such a great army? Why waste time with these shenanigans?
Putin is stalling because he's in trouble and needs more time and more money that he doesn't have anymore because of the sanctions.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
Yesterday at 1:02 pm
(Yesterday at 5:12 am)Belacqua Wrote: Any positive news for the Ukrainian side gets played up in the media, but I suspect that what they report is intentionally unbalanced.
Hahahahaha, what a fucking nutter, lol.
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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RE: Russia and Ukraine
Yesterday at 1:17 pm
Looks like the russian troll is starting to give up any pretense of nott being one. We are making progress. Slowly, but steady.
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