The War in the Ukraine

Who Will Win

  • Ukraine

    Votes: 2 28.6%

  • Russia

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Nato

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • The West

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • America

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Right

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Wrong

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Good

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Evil

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Putin

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Zelensky

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • God

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Prigozhin

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Chechnya

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Trump

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    7
www.bbc.com

Ukraine war: Donbas tourist town braces for Russian assault

Sviatohirsk was a tourist trail staple but is now just another place in the Donbas where people flee war.
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"He says those who have remained regularly call to check he's not leaving. He is not. He is staying put and organising food parcels for the town's dwindling population. These are people who are tired, hungry and scared, too scared sometimes to apportion any blame on Russia.

'I will not talk about it,' one woman tells me, 'because we still have to go home.'"

Get on the good side of the new overlords.

"One man proudly tells us he was trained by British troops before the latest war started. He's confident that Ukraine can win this war.

But I meet another soldier who sounds less assured. The unrelenting Russian bombardment is taking its toll. Another soldier tells us that the Russians have been targeting their positions with white phosphorous shells - which burn into the flesh."
 
I'm sure the British are being vilified because Boris Johnson has taken over from Emmanuel Macron as the voice of European opposition to the war showing the greatest support and care for Ukrainian self-determination and its people.

(...and sometimes to occupy the papers from talking about covid parties and dodgy Tory cabinet members)
 
formby002 said:
Inside the head of the Russian media:

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There's a line being drawn in the sand with the Russian/Ukrainian diaspora here. There's those that buy into that propaganda and proclaim not convincingly that the Ukrainians are bombing their own people and are indeed, neo-Nazis. But not that many, as you would expect, their naturally environment is not Western Europe.

It started before the invasion. Many from the Russian diaspora would not believe that Putin would invade and commit such atrocities. Most of them have realised their error. But in the run-up my wife lost some friends temporally as they wouldn't believe what she was telling them, and indeed, I didn't think he would invade. Considering it all bluff.

Putin has successfully turned Russia into a toxic brand, even amongst the diaspora, except for a few lower class zealots. The educated, middle class Russian expats certainly were ready to believe that there was no sinister plans for Ukraine and internally within Russia, but not now. The truth is too explicit.
 
Pimpernel Smith said:
There's a line being drawn in the sand with the Russian/Ukrainian diaspora here. There's those that buy into that propaganda and proclaim not convincingly that the Ukrainians are bombing their own people and are indeed, neo-Nazis. But not that many, as you would expect, their naturally environment is not Western Europe.

It started before the invasion. Many from the Russian diaspora would not believe that Putin would invade and commit such atrocities. Most of them have realised their error. But in the run-up my wife lost some friends temporally as they wouldn't believe what she was telling them, and indeed, I didn't think he would invade. Considering it all bluff.

Putin has successfully turned Russia into a toxic brand, even amongst the diaspora, except for a few lower class zealots. The educated, middle class Russian expats certainly were ready to believe that there was no sinister plans for Ukraine and internally within Russia, but not now. The truth is too explicit.
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You could make an argument, and a good one that those talking heads don't believe a word that they are saying, that its theater, a mere, confection.

It does, however, give us a peak inside the Russian psyche...
 
Grand Potentate said:
jacobinmag.com

Occupied Palestine Is as Entitled to the World’s Solidarity as Occupied Ukraine

We could soon see another brutal Israeli war on Palestinians after this weekend’s shocking attacks on Ramadan worshippers by Israeli forces. Yet the Western solidarity that’s rightly been forthcoming for Ukraine is now nowhere to be seen.
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figured this was as good a place as any for this.
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Because Zelensky does daily briefings to keep his country in the news. The story also evolves so it's not always I'm a pauper please help me. It's please help me, you could be next, I will join NATO/EU, no you're not helping so NATO/EU is weak so I'm not joining, back to please help me.
 
Fwiffo said:
Because Zelensky does daily briefings to keep his country in the news. The story also evolves so it's not always I'm a pauper please help me. It's please help me, you could be next, I will join NATO/EU, no you're not helping so NATO/EU is weak so I'm not joining, back to please help me.
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Two separate and distinct issues. I see there's a lot of activists trying to draw equivalence that the raid on the mosque is equivalent to Putin's actions in the Ukraine. It isn't. If the Palestine cause and plight is so great, they should have no need to latch onto Ukraine and try and piggy-back of it. It should be self-evident.
 
Fwiffo said:
www.bbc.com

British men captured in Ukraine being looked after, says Russia

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were captured last week while defending the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
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"They are fed, watered, and given the necessary assistance. Just like other foreigners who have surrendered or been detained."

Does watered mean they have access to water or they can bathe?
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Waterboarded.

The fuckers beat the shit out of him, dressed him in an Azov shirt (he was serving with the regular Marines) and forced him to record a ‘confession’.
 
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The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, visit the Ukrainian city of Borodianka.
 


pochemu pochemu

Eto normalno?
 
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Dropbear said:
I think both of those would bring their own equipment, so I’m guessing she is local. Police protection unit, maybe?
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Please please please don't send the President there. The sheer amount of logistics planning with the nuclear football and the doomsday plane will probably drive one man insane.
 
www.nbcnews.com

Ukrainians far from the front lines drop everything to join war effort

“I just do what I can here to push the Russians out of our borders, to help people who actually do it,” said Dmytro Zhluktenko.
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“'If Russian invaders come here, I understand there will be no business, there will be no life,' Andrushchyshyn said, noting that most employees are working for free as he struggles to pay the workshop’s rent and utilities. 'This is a serious danger because they will not stop. This crazy Putin kills us like animals. We saw what he did in Bucha and other cities, and so we support our military. If they need us to stop here and go to war, we will go to war. Until then, we work every day, 24/7, through the night.'"
 
Fwiffo said:


From Moldova
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There's a lot of in-breds there in Transnistria. The mother-in-law visited some distant relations there - her sister - and promptly got dumped out of the car because she mentioned it was obvious why the Ukrainians had blown up one of the bridges into their most prestigious of nations.
formby002 said:
www.newstatesman.com

Why Putin’s war in Ukraine turned into a military disaster

The Russian president is a prisoner of his own delusions – and the similarities with Hitler are hard to ignore.
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There's another element: both Hitler and Putin likely have Parkinson's.
 
Pimpernel Smith said:
There's a lot of in-breds there in Transnistria. The mother-in-law visited some distant relations there - her sister - and promptly got dumped out of the car because she mentioned it was obvious why the Ukrainians had blown up one of the bridges into their most prestigious of nations.
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A sister dumped another sister out of the car because of a difference in politics?

I don't know how eastern Europeans are but in my family, family comes first above all including the state and rule of law.
 
Fwiffo said:
A sister dumped another sister out of the car because of a difference in politics?

I don't know how eastern Europeans are but in my family, family comes first above all including the state and rule of law.
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This is not politics - unless you consider war as politics continued by other means - this is war of annihilation of a culture and people, not like the Commies haven't tried before in the 1930s...



Dropbear said:
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The Canadians are doing a superlative job too.
 
Freedom of Russia Legion is a new TDF unit fighting with the Ukrainian-backed forces, comprised of Russian former POWs. It might be two men and a publicity stunt or it might by the start of some real resistance to Putin.

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