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"Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory." https://nu.federati.net/url/285679 [www newstatesman com]
#Russia #Ukraine #war #invasion #Putin #NATO #China #geopolitics #RU #UA
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Russian military conscripts say they were sent out with non-functioning 1940s rifles https://nu.federati.net/url/285614 [www dailymail co uk]
I don't know how reliable the Daily Mail is (not being from the UK), especially about #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine. With this article, they're probably not on #Putin's payroll.
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Someone posted a screenshot saying that Zurich insurance is getting rid of its 'Z' logo to avoid appearing to support #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine.
Me: The letter Z was always an evil symbol. Haven't you heard of Lord Zed?
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https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-lashes-out-at-poland-for-siding-with-ukraine-134545060.html
Kremlin lashes out at #Poland for supporting #Ukraine against invasion.
#RU #UA
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Neo-Nazis are jizzing all over themselves over the #Russia vs #Ukraine war, rushing to join the Azov Battalion fringe group in hopes of establishing a White ethnostate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/14/neo-nazi-ukraine-war/ [www washingtonpost com]
(I had this in my tabs, so I don't know where I found the link.)
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In 2014. Putin was already claiming that #Ukrainian was just an illiterate dialect of #Russian. He has long held that #Ukraine should not be its own nation. https://nu.federati.net/url/285427 [www bostonglobe com]
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Note: I had to use a JS-free browser.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/285424 [www atlanticcouncil org]
The weapons #Ukraine needs most to win the war.
#Russia #invasion #war
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https://news.yahoo.com/former-kgb-spy-offers-insights-220900817.html [news yahoo com]
I don't know how much one should trust the words of a known spy, but it is interesting nonetheless to get his insights into what Vladimir Putin may be thinking.
#Russia #Ukraine #invasion #war
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https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/fcd85d06-4833-419a-8911-eaaa8b67c854
Vladimir #Putin discussing the #Russia versus #Ukraine war and sanctions' collective effect of purifying Russian society of those whose values come from elsewhere.
If a group of Russian military leaders are going to overthrow him, they'd better hurry. He's starting the purges.
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https://the-blindspot.com/ww3-watch-the-fertiliser-angle/ [the-blindspot com]
#Russia may already have been struggling to feed itself; which may be extra motivation to conquer "the breadbasket of Europe" known as #Ukraine.
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A year ago, the writer said that "Putin's 'Russian World' was falling apart because of his multi-year attack against Ukraine:{https://nu.federati.net/url/285227}.
> Ukraine’s geopolitical turn away from Russia enjoys overwhelming public backing. Indeed, with Ukrainian opinion polls consistently indicating majority support for future membership of both the European Union and NATO, it is difficult to imagine any way back for Russia. Instead, Vladimir Putin looks destined to enter the Russian history books as the man who lost Ukraine.
> The loss of Ukraine is a crushing blow to Putin’s dreams of imperial revival and his obsession with reversing the humiliations of the Soviet collapse. It also represents a resounding defeat for the “Russian World” doctrine that has served as the unofficial ideology of the Putin regime for more than a decade.
> Putin’s commitment to a so-called “Russian World” that extends beyond the borders of modern Russia first began to take shape in the mid-2000s and gained considerable momentum following Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia.
> According to Putin and other prominent advocates, the “Russian World” encompasses populations throughout the former Czarist and Soviet empires who are bound together with Russia by the Russian language along with a common religion, culture, history, and world view.
> Ukraine lies at the very heart of Putin’s “Russian World” and is central to his imperial ambitions. Nor is he alone in such thinking. Indeed, widespread assumptions regarding Ukraine’s natural place within the “Russian World” played a crucial role in Moscow’s decision to invade the country in 2014. This deep-rooted belief has since helped to maintain high levels of Russian public support for the separatist republics created and maintained by the Kremlin in eastern Ukraine.
> Putin and fellow “Russian World” devotees such as Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill believe Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians are all part of the same “Russian civilization” and share common ancestral origins in the medieval Kyiv Rus, which is depicted as “the first Russian state.” They view today’s separation into individual post-Soviet states as a mistake of history and blame the West for artificially dividing the “Russian World.”
> This Russian narrative dismisses Ukraine’s centuries of struggle for statehood as a betrayal of Russian-Ukrainian “brotherhood.” Ukrainian leaders ranging from eighteenth century Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa to modern-day presidents Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are portrayed as traitors and separatists collaborating with Western enemies of Russia in order to divide and weaken the “Russian World.”
> In reality, the “Russian World” ideology promoted by the Putin regime has been out of touch with Ukrainian public opinion for many years. This gap has widened significantly as attitudes have hardened in response to the undeclared and ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War.
While I think it is obvious that the writer is biased toward #Ukraine and against #Russia, the widespread and strong resistance to this year's invasion indicates that the writer is not entirely wrong.
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@adcock I would guess that Mr Putin is preparing a justification for #Russia to absorb and digest #Ukraine into itself.
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If France still makes the Exocet anti-ship missile, I think they should arm #Ukraine with them and let them sink a few Russian ships. If the RU navy is afraid to come near and resupply the Southern part of the invasion, it could put a substantial hurting on Putin’s plan to gobble up #UA into #Russia.
Also, bomb the bridge that crosses from Russia to Crimea.
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Putin threatens to end #Ukraine nation-state ... https://nu.federati.net/url/285191 [nypost com]
I assume he's brazenly admitting that he wants to absorb #UA into #Russia, as I thought all along since they deposed #RU's Ukrainian puppet ruler in 2014.
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https://news.yahoo.com/russia-without-evidence-says-ukraine-060619443.html [news yahoo com] Government of #Russia accuses #Ukraine of trying to build a "dirty bomb".
https://news.yahoo.com/russian-tactics-ukraine-invasion-similar-084240238.html [news yahoo com] #NATO nations allowed to provide planes to #UA air force, still not supporting "no fly zone".
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Doing a little reading about the #Euromaidan protests and the Revolution of Dignity in #Ukraine. But only a little, as I'm more focused on the family member visiting #NYC this weekend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2014_Euromaidan_clashes
Also, I kept wondering what an "Oblast" was, so I finally looked it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(November_1994)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1994%E2%80%931995)
I think it is likely that some of the same tactics that #Russia used in #Chechnya and #Georgia will be employed in #Ukraine.
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A Russian writes about the #Russia versus #Ukraine war. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-ukraine-most-senseless-war-nato-history/ [www opendemocracy net]
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#E40 waterway construction includes dredging near the #Chernobyl nuclear site https://nu.federati.net/url/279618 [www theguardian com]
Fears of nuclear contamination sparked by project. Also fears of loss of biodiversity in the Polesia region.
#Ukraine #Poland #Belarus #Pripyat #Polesia
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You'll soon see that #Belarus neighbor on the East is #Russia, on the Northwest its neighbors are #Latvia and #Lithuania, on the West is #Poland, on the South is #Ukraine.
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