Ukraine Crisis

[Peachy]

Crash course in Russian cuss words


View: https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1560554455518523394?s=21&t=5dHQSPd-qquOu60efX98Qw

 

[Peachy]

“If you tried to explain the situation Ukrainian soldiers are facing to an American soldier, they would think you were insane,” said Ivan. “Imagine telling an American soldier that we are using our personal cars in the war, and we’re also responsible for paying for repairs and fuel. We’re buying our own body armor and helmets. We don’t have observation tools or cameras, so soldiers have to pop their heads out to see what’s coming, which means at any moment, a rocket or tank can tear their heads off.

Samantha Morris*, a doctor from Maine, went to Ukraine in May to try to help provide medical training for soldiers. “The first time I crossed the border from Poland, I had to hide my medical supplies under mattresses and diapers to prevent them from being stolen,” she said. “The border guards on the Ukrainian side will just take things, and tell you, ‘we need this for our war,’ but then, they just steal the items and resell them. Honestly, if you don’t hand-deliver donations to the intended recipients, the items will never reach them.”

Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war - The Grayzone

“The weapons are stolen, the humanitarian aid is stolen, and we have no idea where the billions sent to this country have gone,” a Ukrainian complained to The Grayzone. In a video sent via Facebook messenger in July, Ivan* can be seen standing next to his car, an early 2010s model Mitsubishi...

thegrayzone.com

 

[Perry Staltic]

Crash course in Russian cuss words


View: https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1560554455518523394?s=21&t=5dHQSPd-qquOu60efX98Qw

When all fight back and resist the war ends


View: https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/8703

 

[Peachy]

When all fight back and resist the war ends


View: https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/8703

“I would fight you but darnit. Need to put on these shoes.”

 

[Peachy]

An anti-Russian liberal Russian gets red-pilled about the war. She considered the ubiquitous 'Z' a Russian swastika. Paradigm shifts are hard.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OysQ7yQl_o

A couple of videos that go into more detail about the things she witnessed.

This one is about the civilians living in the hospital basement for months. The part where the elderly woman sings a song was touching. I’d just read in a history book that Russians have a song for everything.


View: https://youtu.be/aQbbcRcnCDA


And this one is about the books that were found in a Mariupol school. I’m finding this piece of the story fascinating


View: https://youtu.be/6e-JmagITPQ

 

[rockarolla]

METAVERSE NEWS

TIME released a report on the "secret Ukrainian center" for training pilots of the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft.

In fact, the "training center" is nothing more than an initiative computer class with virtual simulators based on commercial VR glasses from Google, game joysticks and an aviation simulator for computers. The entire center consists of a 5-seat room where Ukrainian pilots fly a playable A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft simulator in anticipation that the US will one day supply them to the needs of the Ukrainian army.

According to the reporter, in order to arrive at this center, the Ukrainians staged a clownery with a blindfold and classifying information about the location.

 

[rockarolla]

"Conflict in Ukraine must be concluded by negotiations, and its prolongation will lead to escalation." Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stated this in an interview with CNN: "Because in that case everything will be like the First World War."

Kissinger stressed that the proposal to Ukraine to join NATO was a mistake, but "that is already in the past." He also expressed hope that the countries of the alliance will be able to agree among themselves.

Earlier, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was included in the Peacemaker Database as an "accomplice in crimes against Ukraine" because he advised Kyiv to make concessions in negotiations with Moscow.

 

[rockarolla]

 

[rockarolla]

LIVING ON THE EDGE

Moscow brought to the yankees attention that the explosion of Zaporozhye will be equated to a nuclear strike on Russian territory with a corresponding response. Yankees, in turn, said that they would interpret the explosion at the nuclear power plant as an attack on NATO (i.e. via radioactive fallout) with automatic activation of the Doomsday Article 5.

 

[LeeLemonoil]

LIVING ON THE EDGE

Moscow brought to the yankees attention that the explosion of Zaporozhye will be equated to a nuclear strike on Russian territory with a corresponding response. Yankees, in turn, said that they would interpret the explosion at the nuclear power plant as an attack on NATO (i.e. via radioactive fallout) with automatic activation of the Doomsday Article 5.

Source ?

 

[BRMarshall]

Here's the article. I found his musings interesting - on what/how North Koreans might contribute.

North Korea’s offer to send 100,000 peace workers to Eastern Ukraine is as much a game changer as was the appearance of the Red Army’s Siberian Divisions during the 1941-2 Battle of Moscow when Hitler’s exhausted Wehrmacht seemed on the verge of victory. Irrespective of whether Russia takes them up on the offer or not, because North Korea’s offer to trade their brawn for oil and grain has changed the status quo not only in Ukraine but in Syria, Iran and all other front line states as well, their offer is worth studying in more detail than that Newsweek and other discredited NATO outlets gave it.

In doing some basic math, let’s treat this proposal like the path breaking 1981 win-win swap between IBM and the World Bank. We have, thus, two key sides to this transaction, North Korea, which has an impressive work force to offer in exchange for scarce resources Russia, thanks to NATO’s criminal sanctions, has in abundance. Working at a price of $100 for a mixed basket of oil and grain, we see that Russia would be contracted to supply 100,000 baskets per stipulated time period when the North Korea work force reaches its full complement in Donbas, Damascus or wherever else they are deployed.

Taking it from a different angle, North Korea could be contracted on a piecemeal basis, with per diem allowances and other such perks offered. Let’s take the farmyards of Latakia in Northern Syria as an important illustrative example. North Koreans could plant and harvest crops, with a substantial, stipulated amount being fermented for better nutritional effect before being shipped off to North Korea. Such agreements would have the added benefit of resurrecting Northern Syria’s agricultural sector which NATO’s murderous sanctions and ongoing thefts by the U.S. military have all but destroyed.

More to the point, with Chinese financial backing, this proposal would supply the necessary lubricant needed to allow Syrians and North Koreans to once more have full stomachs. Currently, Syrian farmers cannot hire staff as NATO dragooned many of the workers, who formerly did such work, into their terrorist proxy gangs and the farmers lack both the finances to hire replacement workers and the markets to sell their products into as NATO has destroyed all of that. North Korean labor and Chinese seed finance, to be repaid both in cash and in kind over time, would solve those problems.

To see how this would work in both Donbas and Syria, let’s consider hypothetical building projects in Syria where the cement and glass industries were such high priority targets of NATO’s rebel proxies that they were a major catalyst for early stages of their entire campaign. Under this proposal, China, the world’s biggest cement producer, and Iran, whose cement exports have been hard hit by NATO’s criminal sanctions, would supply the raw materials by both exporting them and reinvigorating local Syrian (Donbas) production.

Those houses, apartments and basic infrastructure the North Koreans build in Syria (Donbas) would be paid for by a mixture of cash and kind. The value of a house is, in communities like those of Donbas and Syria, in its rental value, which is determined by such factors as its access to employment opportunities and basic services, such as schools, shops and so on.

If we assume, for exemplary purposes, the monthly rental value of an apartment is $100, this can be decreased by government grants and the renter paying for some of the rent in kind. If, for example, Chinese retail outlets were to be given franchises in these developments, then war widows, war veterans and the like could be hired in their outlets, with some of their pay being in kind.

Although similar schemes have worked in post War Japan and other countries as well, the key point for now is to concentrate on the dynamics of North Korea’s proposal and let the various parties to its implementation hammer out the details as to who does what and for how much, which are crucial in all such joint ventures. That said, because North Korea’s proposal has advantages for all sides, it deserves serious consideration. Because it is based on barter and not on the U.S. $, it can act as a deflationary measure, a not inconsiderable attribute, given today’s current economic implosion of the NATO block. It also plays directly into China’s Belt and Road Initiative which, to be as successful as one might wish it to be, must lift all the boats, those of Syria, Donbas and North Korea included.

We have, of course, other noteworthy precedents. Sanctioned Cuba has earned crucial foreign exchange by sending medical teams overseas and the German Democratic Republic’s ‘Afrika Corps’ left a marked impression on the many African armies it trained. Perhaps the North Koreans, with Chinese logistical help, can do something similar.

Plus, if we are totally honest, North Korea’s proposal tweaks NATO’s tail in the most delightful of ways. Although the North Koreans will not be quite turning the swords of Iran, China and Russia into Syrian ploughshares, they will be showing that, for all NATO’s war crimes in Ukraine, Syria and Korea itself, there is an alternative, more civilized way to do things and those, like the Koreans, who have suffered the most from NATO criminality are still in the fight and will be until NATO gets off their backs.

interesting strategic thinking on the Ray Peat forum....beating other discussions....such flexibility is vital to survival

 

[rockarolla]

Source ?

 

[Perry Staltic]

Source ?

British MP too. This is just the next step in their plan. There's nothing to it, just bluff trying to gain leverage to enable a UN peacekeeping mission to take control of the area, which Russia will never agree to. The west are like children in their schemes. Below is a graphic showing the attacks that have taken place.


View: https://twitter.com/Tobias_Ellwood/status/1560505699179925509

 

[LeeLemonoil]

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Hahaha. Poor Idiots believing and of this ***t.

And the countless idiots believing this ***t. Reinforcing their misconceptions and ***t they believe.

This is the west 2022.
„Ally“ Ukraine is firing at a Nuclear power plant.

And people want to invoke article 5 against Russia.

Surreal.

 

[Peachy]

Russian soldiers at znpp hospitalized.

Edit: they were not stationed at the znpp but near the village of Vasilyevka in Zaporozhye Region on July 31. So this is chemical-weapon related poisoning unrelated to the power plant.

Russian soldiers in Ukraine hospitalized with severe chemical poisoning – Moscow

Several Russian soldiers in Ukraine have been hospitalized with severe chemical poisoning, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

www.rt.com

 

[rockarolla]

 

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[Peachy]

A missed opportunity of epic proportions


View: https://twitter.com/alicescrambled/status/1560666798692786177?s=21&t=IsJvkRpVTFO1z2sAj2SGuQ

 

[Perry Staltic]

Russian soldiers at znpp hospitalized

Russian soldiers in Ukraine hospitalized with severe chemical poisoning – Moscow

Several Russian soldiers in Ukraine have been hospitalized with severe chemical poisoning, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

www.rt.com

They weren't stationed at the nuke plant

 

[Peachy]

They weren't stationed at the nuke plant

Thank you! I edited it. Don’t know how my brain cobbled that together. Relieved it’s not related to the power plant