RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Aug 24, 2022 8:07:24 GMT -5
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Aug 24, 2022 12:37:11 GMT -5
Post by SSHoya on Aug 24, 2022 12:37:11 GMT -5
Putin's family separation policy . . . Russian government sources confirmed that Russia is bringing Ukrainian children to Russia and having Russian families adopt them. Russian federal subject (region) Krasnodar Krai’s Family and Childhood Administration posted about a program under which Russian authorities transferred over 1,000 children from Mariupol to Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerov, and Altay Krai where Russian families have adopted them.[1] The Administration stated that over 300 children are still waiting to “meet their new families” and that citizens who decide to adopt these children will be provided with a one-time bonus by the state.[2] Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) additionally reported that Russian officials transferred 30 Ukrainian children from Khartsyzk, Ilovaysk, and Zuhres in occupied Donetsk Oblast to Nizhny Novgorod under the guise of having the children participate in youth educational-training programs.[3] The forcible transfer of children of one group to another “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group“ is a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.[4] www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-23
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Sept 11, 2022 13:42:52 GMT -5
Post by SSHoya on Sept 11, 2022 13:42:52 GMT -5
WWMD? (What Would Mango Do?) Or traitorous Mike Pompeo who descibred murderous thug Putin as "elegantly sophisticated." (As an aside, the Russian MOD "confused explanations" parallel Fox Prop and the MAGA GOPers "confused explanations" for mango's mishandling and criminal conduct of classified information at MAL). The Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast is routing Russian forces and collapsing Russia’s northern Donbas axis. Russian forces are not conducting a controlled withdrawal and are hurriedly fleeing southeastern Kharkiv Oblast to escape encirclement around Izyum. Russian forces have previously weakened the northern Donbas axis by redeploying units from this area to Southern Ukraine, complicating efforts to slow the Ukrainian advance or at minimum deploy a covering force for the retreat. Ukrainian gains are not confined to the Izyum area; Ukrainian forces reportedly captured Velikiy Burluk on September 10, which would place Ukrainian forces within 15 kilometers of the international border.[1] Ukrainian forces have penetrated Russian lines to a depth of up to 70 kilometers in some places and captured over 3,000 square kilometers of territory in the past five days since September 6 – more territory than Russian forces have captured in all their operations since April. Ukrainian forces will likely capture the city of Izyum itself in the next 48 hours if they have not already done so. The liberation of Izyum would be the most significant Ukrainian military achievement since winning the Battle of Kyiv in March. It would eliminate the Russian advance in northwest Donetsk Oblast along the E40 highway that the Russian military sought to use to outflank Ukrainian positions along the Slovyansk – Kramatorsk line. A successful encirclement of Russian forces fleeing Izyum would result in the destruction or capture of significant Russian forces and exacerbate Russian manpower and morale issues. Russian war correspondents and milbloggers have also reported facing challenges when evacuating from Izyum, indicating Ukrainian forces are at least partially closing a cauldron in some areas.[2] The Russian MoD’s inability to admit Russian failures in Kharkiv Oblast and effectively set information conditions is collapsing the Russian information space. Kremlin-sponsored TV propagandists offered a wide range of confused explanations for Ukrainian successes ranging from justifications that Russian forces are fighting against the entire Western Bloc, to downplaying the importance of Russian ground lines of communication (GLOCS) in Kupyansk.[4] The Kremlin’s propagandists appeared unusually disorganized in their narratives, with some confirming the liberation of certain towns and others refuting such reports. Guest experts also were unable to reaffirm the hosts’ narratives that Ukrainian successes are not significant for the Donbas axis. Such programming may reveal the true progress of the Russian “special military operation” to the general Russian public that relies on state media and the Russian MoD for updates. www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-10
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Sept 11, 2022 15:17:54 GMT -5
Post by SSHoya on Sept 11, 2022 15:17:54 GMT -5
What does Comsypm #ucker Carlson have to say for himself now? How about mango about his best buddy Putin? Over the past six days, Ukraine’s armed forces have broken through the Russian lines in the northeastern corner of the country, swept eastward, and liberated town after town in what had been occupied territory. First Balakliya, then Kupyansk, then Izium, a city that sits on major supply routes. These names won’t mean much to a foreign audience, but they are places that have been beyond reach, impossible for Ukrainians to contact for months. Now they have fallen in hours. As I write this, Ukrainian forces are said to be fighting on the outskirts of Donetsk, a city that Russia has occupied since 2014. Many things about this advance are unexpected, especially the location: For many weeks, the Ukrainians loudly telegraphed their intention to launch a major offensive farther south. The biggest shock is not Ukraine’s tactics but Russia’s response. “What really surprises us,” Lieutenant General Yevhen Moisiuk, the deputy commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, told me in Kyiv yesterday morning, “is that the Russian troops are not fighting back.” Russian troops are not fighting back. More than that: Offered the choice of fighting or fleeing, many of them appear to be escaping as fast as they can. For several days, soldiers and others have posted photographs of hastily abandoned military vehicles and equipment, as well as videos showing lines of cars, presumably belonging to collaborators, fleeing the occupied territories. A Ukrainian General Staff report said that Russian soldiers were ditching their uniforms, donning civilian clothes, and trying to slip back into Russian territory. The Ukrainian security service has set up a hotline that Russian soldiers can call if they want to surrender, and it has also posted recordings of some of the calls. The fundamental difference between Ukrainian soldiers, who are fighting for their country’s existence, and Russian soldiers, who are fighting for their salary, has finally begun to matter. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/ukraine-victory-russia-putin/671405/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2022 4:23:12 GMT -5
According to MAGA GOP cultist Mike "Moron" Pompeo Putin is an "elegantly sophisticated counterpart." As top Russian officials on Sunday warned of problems in Moscow’s rushed mobilization of men to fight in Ukraine, Russia launched new attacks on Odessa, where three Iranian kamikaze drones hit an administration building, and on the Zaporizhzhia region, which was struck by multiple Russian missiles overnight. Russia’s mobilization drive, and the Kremlin’s staging of illegal “referendums” over five days in four occupied regions of Ukraine, mark a sharp escalation by President Vladimir Putin in his effort to hold the line in the war against Ukraine in response to multiple Russian military failures, including a major retreat in Kharkiv region earlier this month. Scuffles broke out Sunday in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, where screaming women struggled with police, trying to prevent them from dragging male protesters to police vans, in rare signs of dissent that underscored the dangers of regional unrest over the mobilization. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/25/russia-ukraine-mobilization-referendums/
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Sept 29, 2022 9:13:47 GMT -5
Post by 1789 on Sept 29, 2022 9:13:47 GMT -5
Who gains most from the Nordstream damage? There are reports that the Russians, terrorists and even the US may have been responsible. Would love to hear the board's thoughts.
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Sept 29, 2022 9:45:02 GMT -5
Post by SSHoya on Sept 29, 2022 9:45:02 GMT -5
Who gains most from the Nordstream damage? There are reports that the Russians, terrorists and even the US may have been responsible. Would love to hear the board's thoughts. According to Fox Prop and *ucker Carlson, Biden is responsible. Carlson is a witting agent of the Russian Federation and an absolute disgrace. Of course, he is also the chief propagandist for the MAGA GOP. More likely Russia. RUS can run it as a false flag operation and blame the US per Carlson. If you are curious, here is how you transliterate “Tucker Carlson” into Russian: Такер Карлсон. I know this because on Wednesday those characters appeared on Russian TV over and over again, as broadcasters blessed by authorities in that country eagerly embraced Carlson’s effort to pin the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage on President Biden’s administration. If you are less dedicated to tracking rhetoric that might be embraced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, you may have missed Carlson’s riff on Tuesday. The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake walked through it in detail, but the short version is that Carlson suggested that damage to two underwater gas pipelines in Europe was possibly a function of U.S. saboteurs. There’s no evidence of this, of course. Carlson leveraged statements from administration officials opposing the activation of the pipeline to suggest they had committed to destroying it. But the point, as usual, was to frame the actions of Biden and his aides as inherently dangerous for the American people — in this case because there would be a cascading effect after Russia retaliated. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/29/russia-nord-stream-tucker-carlson-fox-news/Max Boot: The assumption among European officials is that Russia is responsible, and that makes sense. No other nation would have both the motive and the means for an attack. The means are easy: Moscow could have sent an undersea drone, as reported by the Times of London, or a submarine with Naval Spetsnaz (special forces) frogmen to plant the charges. The motive is more speculative, because it would seem counterproductive for Russia to sabotage its own pipeline. But Russia has a long history of using gas interruptions as a geopolitical tool. Indeed, the Kremlin had already announced in early September that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would be closed indefinitely for repairs, in a move that was widely interpreted as an attempt to ratchet up the pressure on Europe to stop supporting Ukraine. (The Nord Stream 2 pipeline, completed last year, has not opened — and likely never will.) Mark Galeotti, a British expert on Russian criminal and security affairs (subjects that are closely intertwined), argues in the Spectator that the pipeline attack was a warning shot from Putin: If the Russians could sabotage Nord Stream 1 and 2, they could do the same to the new Baltic Pipe carrying Norwegian natural gas from the North Sea to Poland or to the many underwater internet pipelines upon which the United States and Europe so heavily depend. Other Russia analysts, including Dmitri Alperovitch, agree that the Kremlin is the culprit. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/29/baltic-nordstream-pipeline-sabotage-putin-russia/Heritage Foundation: The sabotage is also meant to showcase Russia’s ability to sabotage underwater infrastructure. The timing is no accident; alongside the recently announced Russian mobilization, the leaders of Denmark, Norway, and Poland just joined together at a ceremony to open a new pipeline bringing Norwegian gas to Poland via the Baltic Sea. 2 The Nord Stream dress rehearsal could presage future attacks against pipelines feeding Europe with energy. If Europe wants to import gas from Algeria, or Azerbaijan, or Norway to replace Russian molecules, then Putin may take efforts to staunch the supply via attacks on pipelines. Taking no chances, today, Norway announced it was raising security at oil and gas facilities. www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/russias-attack-nord-stream-pipelines-means-putin-has-truly-weaponizedUS Naval Institute, November 2021 (capability and intention used in threat assessments): Tensions between Washington and Moscow are rising with a marked increase in competition in the undersea domain, as Russia continues to invest in a fleet of specialized submarines. Russia is the only country with a fleet of special mission subs for seabed warfare and espionage and is expanding the capability. Other countries, like the U.S., also work well in this arena and have specialist capabilities, but these capabilities reside on multi-mission platforms. Russia’s fleet includes two massive submarine motherships that each carry one or two deep-diving submersibles. These can be employed for covert seabed missions, including wreck plundering. The largest of these is BS-64, a stretched DELTA-IV-class submarine. This is one of the largest submarines in the world – bigger than the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class nuclear ballistic nuclear submarine. It will be joined by an even larger mothership, Belgorod, which conducted sea trials in June. This is second only to the 30,000-ton Typhoon class in terms of size. The size and complexity of the specialized submarine force speaks to the importance and investment that Russia places on these capabilities. The deep-diving submersibles are operated on several nuclear-powered vessels. Three of them, two Paltus-class boats, and the better known Losharik, are compatible with BS-64. These submarines are operated for the Main Directorate of Deep Sea Research. This is generally known by the Russian acronym GUGI, (Glavnoye Upravleniye Glubokovodnykh Issledovaniy). Missions are believed to include work on undersea communications and sensor networks, hydrocarbon exploitation, submarine rescue and investigating wreckage. news.usni.org/2021/11/30/russia-growing-secret-submarine-fleet-key-to-moscows-undersea-future
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 4, 2022 8:18:23 GMT -5
So much for Mike "Moron" Pompeo's "elegantly sophisticated counterpart". A disgrace to the USMA. Pootie is a loser like mango and the MAGA GOPers. Ukrainian troops on Tuesday accelerated their military advances on two fronts, pushing Russian forces into retreat in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to the east and Kherson region to the south as Kyiv continued to recapture occupied territory on the same day that President Vladimir Putin and his rubber-stamp parliament sought to formalize their increasingly far-fetched annexation claims. “The Ukrainian armed forces commanders in the south and east are throwing problems at the Russian chain of command faster than the Russians can effectively respond,” a Western official said, describing the recent Ukrainian advances. “And this is compounding the existing dysfunction within the Russian invasion force.” Ukraine has been pushing to take back as much of its occupied territory as it can before Russia potentially sends hundreds of thousands of reinforcements to the battlefield, following a recent mobilization effort. The Ukrainian counteroffensive, which had moved far more slowly in the south compared to the lightning push through the northeast Kharkiv region in September, has suddenly picked up speed, with Russian units retreating in recent days from a large swath of territory along the west bank of the Dnieper River. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/04/russia-retreat-kherson-lyman-ukraine/And of course, mango thinks his best friend Pootie is a "genius": “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful... He used the word ‘independent’ and ‘we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.” Mango, February 23, 2022 A shame we can't hear from any "Republicans" on this. Echo echo echo . . . chamber chamber chamber . . .
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 8, 2022 8:18:20 GMT -5
But mango called Pootie's invasion of Ukraine "genius" and Moron Pompeo described Pootie as an "elegantly sophisticated counterpart." Were they possibly wrong??? I assess that there is a better than even chance that CIA paramilitaries are in Ukraine assisting the special services/SBU. KYIV, Ukraine — A giant explosion ripped across the Crimean Bridge, a strategic link between mainland Russia and Crimea, in what appeared to be a stunning blow early Saturday morning to a symbol of President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to control Ukraine. The damage to the bridge, which provided a road and rail connection between Russia and the Ukrainian peninsula the Kremlin illegally annexed in 2014, is another serious setback to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, disrupting a crucial supply route. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged that the government had no timeline for repairing the 12-mile bridge. Mykhailo Podoloyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky called it “the beginning.” “Everything illegal must be destroyed,” Podolyak added on Twitter. The Ukrainian government provided no immediate official statement on the cause of the blast. But in a taunt, the government’s official Twitter account posted: “sick burn.” A Ukrainian government official told The Washington Post on Saturday that Ukrainian special services were behind the bridge attack. The Ukrainska Pravda news site first reported the government’s purported role, citing an unidentified law enforcement official who said Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, was involved. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/08/crimea-kerch-bridge-attack-explosion-russia-ukraine/
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Post by hoyarooter on Oct 10, 2022 19:33:43 GMT -5
But mango called Pootie's invasion of Ukraine "genius" and Moron Pompeo described Pootie as an "elegantly sophisticated counterpart." Were they possibly wrong??? I assess that there is a better than even chance that CIA paramilitaries are in Ukraine assisting the special services/SBU. KYIV, Ukraine — A giant explosion ripped across the Crimean Bridge, a strategic link between mainland Russia and Crimea, in what appeared to be a stunning blow early Saturday morning to a symbol of President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to control Ukraine. The damage to the bridge, which provided a road and rail connection between Russia and the Ukrainian peninsula the Kremlin illegally annexed in 2014, is another serious setback to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, disrupting a crucial supply route. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged that the government had no timeline for repairing the 12-mile bridge. Mykhailo Podoloyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky called it “the beginning.” “Everything illegal must be destroyed,” Podolyak added on Twitter. The Ukrainian government provided no immediate official statement on the cause of the blast. But in a taunt, the government’s official Twitter account posted: “sick burn.” A Ukrainian government official told The Washington Post on Saturday that Ukrainian special services were behind the bridge attack. The Ukrainska Pravda news site first reported the government’s purported role, citing an unidentified law enforcement official who said Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, was involved. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/08/crimea-kerch-bridge-attack-explosion-russia-ukraine/How dare the Ukrainians resort to terrorism (Putin's word, not mine) to ward off Russia's legitimate attack on Ukraine?
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Post by DallasHoya on Dec 23, 2022 12:41:29 GMT -5
Interesting combination.
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Jan 25, 2023 8:08:04 GMT -5
Post by SSHoya on Jan 25, 2023 8:08:04 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 6, 2023 14:57:44 GMT -5
Amb. John Herbst, SFS '74. The key to ending the war in Ukraine? Attacking Crimea. John E. Herbst, the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006. Daniel Fried, a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council, served as assistant secretary of state for European affairs and was on the National Security Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. In the coming weeks and months, Ukrainian forces have a real chance at achieving victory on the battlefield. The path to victory is anything but straightforward. But one way or another, it likely passes through Crimea. Ever since Russia first invaded and occupied parts of Ukraine in 2014, far too many Western policymakers assumed that Crimea was Russia’s real red line — the one territorial conquest it could never part with. Russia itself has spent considerable energy stressing this to Western interlocutors since then. In reality, Crimea represents a point of maximum leverage. It is exactly where Ukraine needs to make battlefield gains to bring this war to a successful conclusion. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/06/ukraine-counteroffensive-crimea-russia/
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Jun 23, 2023 17:15:54 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 23, 2023 17:15:54 GMT -5
Russia unraveling? Wagner mercenary boss faces arrest over ‘incitement to armed rebellion’ RIGA, Latvia — Russia’s Federal Security Service late Friday announced a criminal case against Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin, accusing him of “incitement to armed rebellion” after he declared an open conflict with Russia’s military leadership and called on Russians to join 25,000 Wagner fighters against Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and other top commanders. Prigozhin, whose private military company helped Russia seize the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Moscow’s only significant territorial gain this year, accused the Russian military on Friday of carrying out a strike on a Wagner camp, and appeared to threaten Shoigu, declaring “This scum will be stopped!” In a rare late-night statement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that President Vladimir Putin had been informed about the situation and that “all necessary measures” were being taken. The announcement of the criminal case by the Federal Security Service, or FSB, signaled that Prigozhin could face imminent arrest for comments in which he declared that he would lead a “march of justice” against his enemies in Russia’s Ministry of Defense. The Wagner leader denied that he was attempting a military coup. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/23/prigozhin-wagner-mercenary-russia-military/
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