Russia and Ukraine

[Fake Messiah]

‘Coffins Are Already Coming’: The Toll of Russia’s Chaotic Draft

“They are giving them at best basics and at worst nothing and throwing them into combat, which suggests that these guys are just literally cannon fodder,” said William Alberque, a specialist in the Russian armed forces and the director of the arms control program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a research organization based in London.

Elsewhere, scores of relatives of freshly drafted Russian soldiers crowd outside a training center, passing items through its fence to the recruits — boots, berets, bulletproof vests, backpacks, sleeping bags, camping mats, medicine, bandages and food.

“This is not how it’s done,” a woman named Elena told the news outlet Samara Online. “We buy everything.”

Despite draconian laws against criticizing the “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian social media is awash with scenes like those above captured in widely circulating videos. Such posts are taking the Ministry of Defense to task for acting just as Western military experts predicted: rushing thousands of newly drafted, untrained, ill-equipped soldiers to Ukraine, too desperate to plug holes in its defensive lines to mold the men into cohesive units.

In theory, the draft was of men in the reserves with military skills that needed refreshing, but in practice it pulled in virtually anybody, critics said.
“The result of the mobilization is that untrained guys are thrown onto the front line,” Anastasia Kashevarova, a military blogger who has supported the war, wrote in an angry post, one of several such broadsides.

“Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Moscow — zinc coffins are already coming,” she added. “You told us that there would be training, that they would not be sent to the front line in a week. Were you lying again?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/16/world...raine.html

[Belacqua]

Editorial from former diplomat from India:

Plainly put, the Europeans have been nicely played by the Americans. India should take note of the US’ sense of entitlement. Basically, the Biden administration created a contrived energy crisis whose real aim is war profiteering.

[...]

India should expect the defeat of the US and NATO, which completes the transition to a multipolar world order. Sadly, Indian elites are yet to purge their ‘unipolar predicament’. Europe, including Britain, is devastated and there is palpable discontent over the US’s ‘transatlantic leadership’. Indo-Pacific strategy is hopelessly adrift. New power centres are emerging in India’s extended neighbourhood, as the OPEC’s rebuff to Washington shows. A profound adjustment is needed in the Indian strategic calculus.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/commen...win-441926

[The Architect Of Fate]

M K Bhadrakumar the same person who was sure that Russia wasn't going to invade and called it hysterics and that Russia's only goal was stopping Ukraine from joining NATO (which they never did so why is Russia still there?) And he's totally coping over Russia's military defeats in a war he said it was hysterical to believe would happen.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinio...n-7777227/


https://savageminds.substack.com/p/ukraine-faces-defeat

M K Bhadrakumar writes: Though war hysteria has been dialled down, differences between Russia and NATO remain. India’s moderate stance has been commendable.

Clearly, this guy knows all 

And won't even start listing all the articles of this guy simping for Russia and China and engaging in endless America bashing (independent journalist my ass)

[The Grand Nudger]

Right. Lets imagine that the secret societies and shadowy elites are all serviced by the war in ukraine....and... that the us is just, like, the worst.

So what?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Why limit it to the world? Aliens are people too! We -- uh, I meant they, they -- have shadowy elites as well.

The world is run by the Jewish Stone Mason  Illuminati Communist Space lizard lead by Bill Gates and George Soros and Cyborg Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama 

Don't forget the Rosicruciams!

[Fake Messiah]

Putin kills the wrong civilians

A Russian air force fighter jet has reportedly flown straight into a residential building in the Russian town of Yeysk close to the border with Ukraine.



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...g-donetsk/

[Leonardo17]

Why limit it to the world? Aliens are people too! We -- uh, I meant they, they -- have shadowy elites as well.

The world is run by the Jewish Stone Mason  Illuminati Communist Space lizard lead by Bill Gates and George Soros and Cyborg Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama 

Man. I was such a fool thinking that the İranian Mafia was posing as demontrators...

[Leonardo17]

G9 group has engaged in Extortion, Kidnapping, Human Trafficking, Illegal Arms Dealing, Drug Trafficking, and Forced Prostitution....Etc

They were also drug addicts and Nazis (with secret SS rituals etc...) 

We just had to... I don't know.... 

[Leonardo17]

Editorial from former diplomat from India:

Plainly put, the Europeans have been nicely played by the Americans. India should take note of the US’ sense of entitlement. Basically, the Biden administration created a contrived energy crisis whose real aim is war profiteering.

[...]

India should expect the defeat of the US and NATO, which completes the transition to a multipolar world order. Sadly, Indian elites are yet to purge their ‘unipolar predicament’. Europe, including Britain, is devastated and there is palpable discontent over the US’s ‘transatlantic leadership’. Indo-Pacific strategy is hopelessly adrift. New power centres are emerging in India’s extended neighbourhood, as the OPEC’s rebuff to Washington shows. A profound adjustment is needed in the Indian strategic calculus.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/commen...win-441926

This part of Russian Propaganda is also a farce.
1) Russia and China have always been rivals. They have very deep conflicts with one another.
2) China cares more about itself than it cares about Russia. There is no ideological partnership between the two.
3) China is not doing so well either. With Xi-Chi-Ping being elected for a third term in office there is a strong possibility that this country will suffer Russia-like instabilities in the future and perhaps even resort to a war with Taiwan in order to focus the public’s attention elsewhere. The China Miracle of the 00’s and the 10’s seems to have come to an end. Still I hope for a smoother transition than Russia’s for that country of 2 Billion citizens.
 
/ These are arguments from the 90’s. There is no polarity anymore. There is a globalized economy with many players and we are in an era in which the limits and disadvantages of globalization are becoming more visible.
The East vs. West power struggle is another dream.
But one thing is real: No one wants to be dependent on fossil fuels anymore. At least not in the long term. Saudi Arabia is also proving itself to be an unreliable partner. Germany is regretting its massive investments on Russian energy. So there is an increase of prestige for Nuclear Energy. Many Environmentalists are no longer opposing it. And in fact, we might be able to use this “dictators gone crazy” crisis to accelerate our transition to cleaner energy.

[Belacqua]

1) Russia and China have always been rivals. They have very deep conflicts with one another.
2) China cares more about itself than it cares about Russia. There is no ideological partnership between the two.

They're not in lockstep, that's for sure. On the other hand they can work together when it suits them. Ideology tends to get downplayed when both sides can make money.

Recent American actions are working hard to push Russia and China closer together. As US firms pull out of Russia, China is happy to take up the slack. Chinese financial services, like electronic payment services, are now popular in Russia and are gaining ground in other areas as well.

American efforts to hold back Chinese development of their high-tech sector is also having unintended consequences. For example Germany has announced that it has no intention to follow America's orders to turn their back on Chinese products which would help them. Just another small step in former partners discovering that obedience to America is not in their own interests. 

As more countries find that the US is an unreliable partner which only works for the benefit of the US, it only strengthens alliances among other countries. It looks as though Saudi Arabia, for example, will join the BRICS nations. That's a significant realignment.

3) China is not doing so well either. With Xi-Chi-Ping being elected for a third term in office there is a strong possibility that this country will suffer Russia-like instabilities in the future and perhaps even resort to a war with Taiwan in order to focus the public’s attention elsewhere. The China Miracle of the 00’s and the 10’s seems to have come to an end. Still I hope for a smoother transition than Russia’s for that country of 2 Billion citizens.

Here we have to be especially wary, because Anglophone propaganda concerning China is even more blatant than that against Russia. 

What is the evidence that Xi's election will cause "Russia-like" instabilities? What is the evidence that its rapidly expanding economy has ended its rise? 

Millions have been lifted out of poverty, and life expectancy is now longer than that of the US. 

Xi is popular at home. Is there any sort of large-scale movement in China that will cause us to worry about a "smoother transition"? Smoother transition from what to what? 

The Taiwan situation is unfortunate, and it's pretty certain that not everyone will get what he wants. It will only result in a major war, however, if the US gets involved. 

China plans for a longer game than the US, and they also have a longer memory. How many Americans know that there were US soldiers among the troops which sacked the Forbidden City in 1900 and carried away anything they could. If you go to the Asian art department of a US museum, chances are that the collection was begun due to this looting. How many know that John Jacob Astor became a multi-millionaire by breaking Chinese import bans and dealing drugs to China, ruining many many lives? Chinese people remember this. History, plus recent US efforts to harm China's economy, push the BRICS countries closer together, making the US less relevant. 

A cold winter in Europe, when everyone knows it's the US that made energy prices go through the roof, will not make the US more popular.