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Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?

There were reports yesterday about another Russian major general killed in Ukraine. Now turns out that he was part of a big Russian HQ meeting including Chief of the General Staff Gen Gerasimov (Shoigu's deputy) in "Russian-controlled" Izyum which the Ukrainians attacked. Allegedly 20 officers killed and Gerasimov wounded.

https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/stat...89KQ6cqzw&s=19
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There were reports yesterday about another Russian major general killed in Ukraine. Now turns out that he was part of a big Russian HQ meeting including Chief of the General Staff Gen Gerasimov (Shoigu's deputy) in "Russian-controlled" Izyum which the Ukrainians attacked. Allegedly 20 officers killed and Gerasimov wounded.

https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/stat...89KQ6cqzw&s=19
I believe that the last time so many Russian generals were killed was during the Stalinist purges, where the Germans relayed information that the generals were traitors. Stalin‘s paranoia did the rest.
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Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?

almost comedic article detailing two germans who wanted to volunteer for ukraine
https://www.businessinsider.com/they...22-4?r=US&IR=T

He whispered urgently that he had overheard some of the Ukrainian officers talking. Behind their backs, officers were referring to recruits like them—those without combat training but with a will to fight—as "cannon fodder" and "mine meat." They'd be used to open up the battlefield and test their enemy's capabilities before risking more valuable, better-trained troops, he said.
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Old 01.05.2022, 20:12
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There were reports yesterday about another Russian major general killed in Ukraine. Now turns out that he was part of a big Russian HQ meeting including Chief of the General Staff Gen Gerasimov (Shoigu's deputy) in "Russian-controlled" Izyum which the Ukrainians attacked. Allegedly 20 officers killed and Gerasimov wounded.

https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/stat...89KQ6cqzw&s=19
This NATO comment was made before the latest info above.
It is unbelievable that Russia keeps organising these face to face meetings of their senior officers that provide juicy targets for Ukraine. It is like they never heard of the telephone or online meetings.
Alternatively, the security of their communications is so poor they have to meet face to face.

"Retired Adm. James Stavridis, former NATO supreme allied commander for Europe, claims that the Russian military’s “amazing incompetence” in Ukraine has resulted in a loss of generals and other top officers that is unprecedented in modern history.

“In modern history, there is no situation comparable in terms of the deaths of generals. … Here, on the Russian side, in a two-month period, we’ve seen at least a dozen, if not more, Russian generals killed,” Stavridis told John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM in an interview that aired Sunday.

For comparison, Stavridis cited recent American conflicts, saying that “not a single general was lost in actual combat” in the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."
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Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?

after reports on the weekend that the mythical ghost of kiev had been killed, ukraine now admits he was never real
https://nypost.com/2022/05/01/heroic...kraine-admits/
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Looking forward to a couple cruise missiles hitting the Red Square during the parade.

No idea if Ukraine even have any, let alone with the necessary range of ~1000km. But it would be cool if they did.
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Old 01.05.2022, 23:06
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Looking forward to a couple cruise missiles hitting the Red Square during the parade.

No idea if Ukraine even have any, let alone with the necessary range of ~1000km. But it would be cool if they did.
Less than 600Km from Sumy but probably still too long for anything Ukraine has.
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Old 02.05.2022, 06:47
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Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?

Just been watching the news. Nancy Pelosi was in Kiev, there she promised 33 billion in financial aid and more importantly in a few words declared that Russia will not win. For me that is a hidden threat and a direct declaration to Russia.
In another news yesterday May first Germany´s number one Olaf Scholz tried to defend the decision to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine, he looked weak and almost pleading in the face of opposition from the crowd.
What a shit show.
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Looking forward to a couple cruise missiles hitting the Red Square during the parade.
There'd be civilians around. Putin supporters or not, they are civilians that Ukraine would very much not want to harm or be seen doing harm.
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Old 02.05.2022, 08:14
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Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?

Interesting planned false-flag operation by enemy asset within General staff of Armed forces of Ukraine involving a passenger plane.
Every reason not to fly anywhere near this region, my dentist is in Hungary.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato...ice-chief.html
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In another news yesterday May first Germany´s number one Olaf Scholz tried to defend the decision to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine, he looked weak and almost pleading in the face of opposition from the crowd.
Saw like a 30 second clip of this. There was the crowd of yelling "peace activist" who are of course against any weapon deliveries, and he got upset and shouted back at them that asking the Ukrainians to defend themselves with nothing couldn't possibly be a real proposal (my words paraphrasing). Actually, this sounded more genuine and engaged than anything I had heard him say before.,
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Saw like a 30 second clip of this. There was the crowd of yelling "peace activist" who are of course against any weapon deliveries, and he got upset and shouted back at them that asking the Ukrainians to defend themselves with nothing couldn't possibly be a real proposal (my words paraphrasing). Actually, this sounded more genuine and engaged than anything I had heard him say before.,
It did indeed, but that is not the way it was perceived. Sadly mob rule applied.
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Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?

Noam Chomsky: Trump Is The "One Western Statesman" Pushing For Diplomacy To End Ukraine War
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...n_ukraine.html
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Re: World War 3 or just a local spat in Ukraine?

Well, the weekend was curious. It's a bit weird to listen to this in the voice of the italian translator: Anche Hitler aveva origini ebree.

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"Zelensky was a Jew? Hitler was too" In #ZonaBianca Sergej #Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, on the Nazi influence on Ukrainian territory.
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Curious weekend indeed. I guess the proper tagline should be Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!....but not like that!!!
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(30.04.2022)Amsterdam port employees refuse to unload a ship with Russian diesel

A tanker with Russian diesel, also called gas oil, which was previously refused by port workers in Sweden, dropped anchor off the Dutch coast last night, near the sea lock in IJmuiden. The intention was for the ship to enter the port of Amsterdam, but port employees there refuse to unload it.

Russian ships or ships affiliated with Russia flying the flag of another country are not allowed to dock anywhere in Europe. However, the Sunny Liger flies under the flag of the Marshall Islands and is exempt from sanctions. It could not go to Sweden, because the Swedish dock workers did not want to unload it. The same is now happening in Amsterdam.

Trade union FNV Havens has persuaded the parties involved to refuse the ship access to the port of Amsterdam. Yesterday, the union made the same appeal to port workers in Rotterdam. According to the Port of Amsterdam, it is up to the terminal and other port-related companies such as the tugs and employees of the pilot to decide whether they want to unload the cargo from the ship. The personnel of the port authority, such as the lock keepers and traffic controllers, are obliged to handle the ship when it comes to Amsterdam.

"This ship is not welcome, because we declare it to be infected," said director Asmae Hajjari of the FNV Havens union in the NOS Radio 1 Journaal. She acknowledges that there is no legal basis for refusing the ship: "Colleagues in Sweden have refused it. We do not believe that if port workers elsewhere have not dealt with it, we should carry out the work. In the context of corporate social responsibility, we believe that the companies involved should lead by example and not unload the ship."
https://nos.nl/index.php/artikel/242...esel-te-lossen

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More than 3,500 Rotterdam dock workers demonstrated against Franco Spain today, but their banners merely proclaimed enigmatically: “Down with …” Leaders explained that Rotterdam’s Mayor, Pieter Jacobus, had forbidden mention of the name Franco because Spain’s Caudillo still was head of a state with which The Netherlands had friendly relations.
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Noam Chomsky: Trump Is The "One Western Statesman" Pushing For Diplomacy To End Ukraine War
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...n_ukraine.html
Also from Chomsky, “Because of Trump’s fanaticism, the worshipful base of the Republican Party barely regards climate change as a serious problem. That’s a death warrant to the species.”
He is 93 years old so we can forgive him for lack of consistency.
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Well, the weekend was curious. It's a bit weird to listen to this in the voice of the italian translator: Anche Hitler aveva origini ebree.



https://twitter.com/zona_bianca/stat...53822771503111
https://www.timesofisrael.com/lapid-...-jewish-blood/

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“This is an unforgivable and scandalous comment, a terrible historical error and we expect an apology,” [Foreign Minister Yair] Lapid said. “The Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust. The lowest form of racism against Jews is blaming the Jews themselves for antisemitism.”

Persistent conspiracy theories that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had some Jewish ancestry that may have motivated his antisemitism and the murder of six million Jews have been repeatedly debunked by historians.
Coming up next from The Kremlin - The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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Also from Chomsky, “Because of Trump’s fanaticism, the worshipful base of the Republican Party barely regards climate change as a serious problem. That’s a death warrant to the species.”
He is 93 years old so we can forgive him for lack of consistency.
during the election he even compared trump to hitler!

that being said, it is possible to disagree with his stance on climate change yet agree with his stance on war.
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I don't even want to think about where we would be now if Trump was still president.
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There'd be civilians around. Putin supporters or not, they are civilians that Ukraine would very much not want to harm or be seen doing harm.
That should be preventable. The civilians are be cordonned off and the Square is rather large.
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Less than 600Km from Sumy but probably still too long for anything Ukraine has.
On second thought the Neptuns (which sank the Moskwa) are cruise missiles. But their range is too short.
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