[GatewayPundit] The confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court is only historic in the sense that she is an illegitimate justice, nominated by an illegitimate occupant of the White House, and a nomination in violation of U.S. law prohibiting hiring people on the basis of race and gender. She is also a Groomer, friendly to pedophiles and child pornographers, and placed on the Court to normalize that behavior.
For expressing those sentiments, I was permanently suspended from Twitter.
I did not post anything obscene or threaten anyone, but, in the eyes of the Stalinists at Twitter, I did something worse.
Exercising my freedom of speech, I challenged the narrative that buttresses the goal of the de facto political and cultural civil war being waged by those who, in the words of Barack Obama, want to fundamentally transform the United States of America.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He had a civilian career in international business and medical research. Dr. Sellin is the author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution.
#4
We also had no compelling interest in Afghanistan when the soviets invaded but for the impish desire to make it hell for the soviets. I have no issue doing the same here, but no troops. Golden opportunities for field testing our hardware vs theirs.
#5
Except we're making it hell for ourselves and for the poor Ukrainians. It's not like Afghanistan because fucking bleeding hearts have adopted Ukraine as their next Holy Mission.
We will be on the hook to clean up Putin's mess. Billions every year for the next 30 years at least. While they make us poor and push ration cards on us
#6
A classic example of unintended consequences came out of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. We interfered and provided weapons to the Afghans. Eventually the Soviets had enough and left. But then we got Osama bin Laden. Recent history is littered with the tragedies that result from American interventionism.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/09/2022 13:24 Comments ||
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#9
#1 Not our circus. Not our monkeys.
Stay the fuck out.
Damn straight. If they're going to put up another botchjob in a shithole country that's none of our business, they can bloody well sink their own money. Not ours. Stay the fuck out.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladimir Kornilov
[RIA] Recently, a fashion has appeared in the West for direct appeals to the Russian people, sometimes using clumsy Russian-language phrases. This tradition was founded a couple of weeks ago by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and in recent days has been creatively developed by the British media and Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally. The Daily Mirror newspaper even came out with the Russian-language headline "You Need to Know" on the front page. This is not counting the regular inclusions of such appeals to the Russians in the daily televised addresses of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
All authors of fiery speeches constantly proceed from one postulate: the inhabitants of Russia are deprived of the opportunity to receive "the truth about the events in Ukraine."
Compare here:
—Arnold Schwarzenegger : "I am writing to you today because events are taking place in the world that are being hidden from you."
—Daily Mirror: "Dear Russian friend. We are writing to you because we want you to know the truth about the war in Ukraine ... But we also know that there is no free press in Russia and you are being fed lies about the war in Ukraine every day."
—Boris Johnson : "Russians deserve the truth . You deserve to know the facts."
That is, they seriously decided there that the citizens of Russia are cut off from world news and, as in the good old days, they still listen to foreign "voices" through tube radios, trying to catch the sound that sometimes breaks through the "jammers". How badly they know our people and understand the situation in Russia!
This was clearly confirmed by Johnson, who imagines himself to be Prometheus, carrying secret knowledge about "fire" to the Russian people - in this case, about the mysterious abbreviation VPN. And how, one wonders, before Boris, we could guess about such a miracle of modern technology? If necessary, our people are ready to share this knowledge with the British, we do not mind.
I would like to remind Western critics who have suddenly "beloved the Russian people" that it is not Russia that has begun to turn on the "jammers", as it was during the Cold War. It is in the West, contrary to all their fairy tales about "freedom of speech" and their own laws, that they mercilessly began to clean up the information space from the Russian media and even from social media users who sympathize with Russia, who were branded with a single label "Kremlin propaganda". And our measures were just responsive and symmetrical.
Schwarzenegger and Co. really think that we have not seen footage of the destruction in Mariupol or other cities. Confessing his "love for the Russian people", Arnold refers to his childhood memories of a meeting with our great weightlifter Yuri Vlasov.
Ask Schwarzenegger now if he has heard anything about what has been going on for eight years and is still going on in Makeevka , the city where his childhood idol was born, the ex-governor of California will certainly be surprised.
Show him the footage of how the Ukrainian troops ironed this city in 2014-15, and ask why he didn’t remember the name of the great Vlasov then, he will shrug his shoulders, and nothing more. Kindergartens, schools, and hospitals in Makiivka were all subjected to shelling. But there were no such appeals to the Ukrainian people and to the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Western actors, politicians, writers. They were not interested in it.
Boris Johnson believes that the Russian viewer or reader has not heard anything about the events in Bucha at all. And as soon as we turn on the VPN and read the British press, the veil will immediately fall from our eyes.
Come on, he doesn’t even suspect that somewhere, but in our media the events in the town near Kiev are analyzed frame by frame, minute by minute, with reference to primary sources, including, first of all, Ukrainian ones. I have not seen in any Western publication such a detailed analysis of these horrific shots as we have. Perhaps that is why I did not see that a thorough analysis of the chronology of events in Bucha refutes the myths about "cruel Russians who executed defenseless people."
ZAKHAROVA ACCUSED WESTERN JOURNALISTS OF COMPLICITY IN CRIMES IN BUCHA
For example, it is shown everywhere here by the mayor of Bucha, who solemnly declared on March 31 the city "liberated from Russian orcs." This is what we have shown footage in which this mayor (note, together with Ukrainian police detachments) is already on April 1 in the center of the town.
We are wondering where the heap of dead bodies is on the streets of a small settlement, which received the status of a city quite recently. It is in our media that the video of the National Police of Ukraine about the cleansing of Bucha, filmed on April 2, is being played. And at the same time, they quote a Ukrainian militant who asked for permission to shoot at people "without blue bandages."
For some reason, they are actively trying to clean up this video from the networks, but it is our media that bring it. Schwarzenegger and Johnson do not want to ask.
Or does someone in the West think that our public is not shown the "sensational" satellite images from Bucha that The New York Times shared and which allegedly prove that the bodies on the streets have been lying untouched since at least March 19? It was the Western media that obediently, without any critical analysis, repeated this thesis after the "enemy of the American people" (as Donald Trump lovingly called this newspaper).
Our journalists, however, analyzed these pictures in detail, posing questions that you just will not find on the pages of either this newspaper or any other Western one.
MOSKALKOVA COMMENTED ON THE FAKES ABOUT THE PROVOCATION IN BUCHA
For example, none of the numerous analysts in the West raised the question of how the bodies could have been so preserved and not decomposed for more than two weeks of warm weather. It was we who carefully analyzed the daily temperature in Kyiv and its environs starting from March 19 and found out that sometimes these days it reached 20 degrees Celsius there.
But the hordes of Western journalists who have flooded Bucha in recent days are calmly filming these bodies and do not even wonder why they do not need respirators to be near a place where the putrid smell should simply knock you down. There were no questions anywhere about why in more than two weeks none of the townspeople, neighbors, relatives, acquaintances of the dead missed them, found them on the streets, did not call for help, did not call the same police, who worked in the city even while the Russian units were there. It is we who want to know the whole truth about the tragedy of the inhabitants of Bucha, not they.
And now let's ask Johnson: why does a Russian user need a VPN? What additional information can he learn about the events in Bucha that they don't say and don't analyze in detail on Russian TV? Here, the British viewer would discover a lot of new things if for a moment he renounced the Russophobic propaganda and fakes of his media and got acquainted with Russian materials. Both in London and Washington understand this very well, and therefore they are actively cleaning up any information from Russia.
KYIV WANTS TO ACHIEVE A COMPLETE BAN ON RUSSIAN TV CHANNELS IN EUROPE
Although it doesn't always work. The Dutch press, for example, laments the fact that the Forum for Democracy party, which recently boycotted Zelensky's virtual speech in their parliament, continues to accuse the West of unleashing the conflict in Ukraine even after the events in Bucha.
And the Financial Times pointed to the most serious problem in Asia and Africa : they say, like Twitternor bans accounts for the hashtag @IStandWithPutin ("I'm with Putin"), where the audience still believes "Russian propaganda" and again blames the West for everything. It would seem to be asking why people, who have more access to information than the British or Americans with their carefully censored social networks, tend to trust the Russian media? Maybe because they immediately understand who the truth is behind?
But the conclusion is unequivocal: so much the worse for the truth - we need to further strengthen censorship for our media and spread more lies about Russia.
The example of the Russian-language appeal of the British Daily Mirror is the most indicative, since it was drawn up in the worst traditions of Goebbels' propaganda. Eighty years ago, the trenches of the Red Army were constantly bombarded with leaflets: "The political instructor is lying to you. In German captivity, you are not tortured or killed, but treated well!" So the Mirror writes without a twinge of conscience : "Your president is lying when he says that Ukraine poses a threat to Russia and is full of Nazis."
And the same newspaper cites the most monstrous fake under the heading "A woman raped and killed by Russian soldiers who marked her body with a swastika." The lie is terribly cynical, since the article cites a photo of the body of a woman found in the basement of Mariupol School No. 18, which was turned into a base for Azov militants.
The picture has long bypassed all the Russian media, caused a wide resonance, about the fact of the atrocity, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a case on March 28, and the Mirror writes a week later that it was unable to determine "where the photo was taken". But the newspaper already knows, you see, that the girl was allegedly raped and killed by the Russian military.
Since, you understand, admit that this is the victim of the Nazis of "Azov", the leaflet "The political instructor is lying to you that Ukraine is full of Nazis" immediately loses all meaning. And how, tell me, are the methods of Mirror in this case different from the methods of Goebbels?!
And now let Johnson answer the question for himself: how would accessing British sites via a VPN change the mind of an informed reader who knows (thanks to the Russian media, he knows!), Where and when the terrible photo of a tortured woman was taken? For some reason, this photo was hidden from the British audience for a week, and not from the Russian one.
If a resident of London or Edinburgh had access to our TV channels blocked by the Johnson government, he would be able to receive truthful information about events in Ukraine and Donbass , and not these primitive fakes of his yellow newspapers. But that's why "Prometheus" Johnson explains to us, not to them, what a VPN is.
#2
Can I have a penny for every time I'm told I "need to educate myself?" Even with inflation it would add up these days.
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#3
More stupid Russian self-pity and delusions. Yes, Vladimir, you're the real victim of Putin's terrorist campaign against the Ukraine. So sorry it happened to you.
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#4
Macron calls Polish PM a Hitler lookalike.
Polish PM calls Macron a Hitler enabler.
Hitler, Hitler, everyone is Hitler.
"French President Emmanuel Macron called Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki “an extreme-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people.” In an interview with French daily Le Parisien, Macron also described as “shameful” comments by Morawiecki comparing the French president’s frequent phone calls with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to talking with Hitler.
The Polish premier earlier this week criticized Macron for achieving little in his discussions with Putin. “Mr. President Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin, what have you achieved? Have you stopped any of the actions that have taken place?” Morawiecki said at a press conference Monday. “One should not negotiate with criminals … Nobody negotiated with Hitler. Would you negotiate with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot?”
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. As a result of the arrival of a tactical missile at the Kramatorsk railway station, 30 civilians were killed and about 100 wounded.
2. Ukraine immediately stated that it was Russia that fired at people who were in a hurry to evacuate, and that it was an Iskander with a cluster warhead.
3. When photos of rocket fragments appeared, it turned out that this was Tochka-U, which is used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After that, Zelensky changed his shoes and began to assert that this was not an Iskander, as Arestovich and Kirilenko broadcast, but Tochka-U, only Russian.
4. In the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, "Tochki-U" was officially withdrawn from the armament of missile brigades in connection with the transition to the "Iskander". There is not a single video showing the combat use of Tochek-U by the RF Armed Forces or the armies of the DPR and LPR in the Donbass (even if we assume that they will be taken from long-term storage bases). At the same time, there are a lot of videos of the combat use of the Iskander and other types of missiles. At the same time, Ukraine uses Tochki-U everywhere, including to strike at Donetsk, where the SBU gathered a rally specifically for this strike through front men in social networks.
5. The missile, presumably, flew in from the southwest. According to one data. was hit. For others, it worked just fine. On the rocket everything was inscribed "For the children"
6. It is also worth noting that the population of Donbass, including Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, is considered by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be disloyal (in Ukraine, residents of Donbass are actually deprived of voting rights), so they can easily be sacrificed.
The strike on the railway station of Kramatorsk was carried out by a missile division of the Ukrainian armed forces from the area of the settlement of Dobropolye, 45 kilometers southwest of the city.
This follows from the statement of the Russian military, who established the place from which the strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk was carried out.
If the rocket went off course, that's one thing. But if the rocket flew purposefully to Kramatorsk, and it looks like it did, then this is a provocation in order to catch up with the emotions of the highest European commissioners who are coming to Kyiv today.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Aleksandr Kots
[KP] - Is your phone turned off? - ask the gunners at the positions of self-propelled artillery mounts.
- You offend, - I show the airplane icon on the screen - airplane mode.
- We even pulled out sim cards just in case. The Americans stuffed them with all sorts of fashionable devices. Calculate at a time.
Nearby, the fighters are puffing at the KamAZ - they are changing a punctured tire. Recently, a Hurricane cluster munition flew into position, slightly shaking the trucks. This roving multiple launch rocket launcher has been rattling nerves for days now.
Either Izyum will cover, then they will “throw” on the positions. Constantly moves and manages to get away from return fire. Of course, one "Hurricane" cannot undermine the combat capability of the Russian troops. Moreover, judging by the single launches, there is not much ammunition on the other side.
- To the trench! Fast! - cluster munitions begin to burst in the sky, we pour ourselves into a prudently dug shelter in advance. – Again he!
It subsides. We get to the surface. Long-range artillery changes location. "Saushki" (self-propelled artillery mounts) begin to hit the positions of Ukrainian troops, which slowly roll back to the south, along the Kharkiv-Slavyansk highway. The main efforts of the Russian troops in this direction are now focused on moving towards the city - a symbol of Russian resistance in Donbass in 2014. And there will definitely not be an easy walk here.
- They work smart. If they see that it is pointless to defend themselves, they roll back to previously prepared positions, the scouts of the Vistula division tell me.
- If the next echelon of defense is not yet ready, then they will resist to the last, as here, in Kamenka. They have these Javelins and NLAWs (anti-tank missile systems) here, like a grandmother of pickles in the cellar. At each hut, at each crossroads, they were simply piled up. They ran up, pulnuli - and into the basement. Moreover, Javelins in most cases do not penetrate the armor of our tanks. So they hit the guns and rollers. And snipers - on sights. And what is a tank without an aiming system?
HERO WARRIORS
Kamenka itself today differs little from Nikishino in the Donetsk region, or Khryashchevaty in the Luhansk region in 2014. All the villages, through which the war swept in full force, are similar to each other. When almost every house has been turned into a firing point, there is no time for sentimentality.
Both sides are thinking about how to complete the task and survive, and not about the safety of the civilian sector. Although the Russian side is still trying to maintain a peaceful infrastructure. But the Ukrainians, as if in retaliation, retreating, burns all the bridges behind her. Both literally and figuratively. After all, we got here by a pontoon ferry, built instead of a blown-up bridge.
- You are talking about doctors, write about our heroes! - the soldiers of the Vistula division, operating in this direction, meet us. How many people have they saved?
The commander of the second medical platoon, as befits a real hero, modestly reports:
- The fighting here was heavy, the number of sanitary losses was greater - mine-blast injuries, shrapnel wounds, penetrating, blind, through. They provided assistance, evacuated to a helipad and then to hospitals in Russia.
- This is your first war, what hooked you the most? I ask the young paramedic standing next to me.
- A lot of comrades were killed. And so ... Well, it was not in vain that I was taught medical science, I was prepared for everything. I calculated everything, understood what I was doing point by point.
TROPHY TANK
For many of these young guys, Kamenka has become a baptism of fire. Here they looked death in the eyes for the first time in their lives. They were able to survive and even show ingenuity in battle. The scouts are calling to show their main trophy - the T-72B tank, which they took without a single shot. It already flaunts tactical signs "Z".
- They went to us, - says a young Caucasian officer. - At first they wanted to “blow it out” with an RPG. But I took off my Russian equipment, I went up to the tank, the commander was riding in the hatch.
I start to improvise: “Sanya, hello! Where is Leha? He relaxed, completely crawls out, the gunner too. I jump on a tank with a peam (Makarov pistol): everyone, come on, guys, get out. We arrived. "Don't shoot!" they shout. Threw them out of the tank, the mechanic had to be smoked out. So they took the car.
HOW "ANTI RUSSIA" HAS BEEN TEMPERED
The fighters lay out other trophies - grenade launchers, a machine gun and ... books.
- Look what they read - "Invasion of Ukraine: a chronicle of Russian aggression." Edition 2016. Did you know beforehand?
- Where did you get it? I ask the guy.
- In the club, let's go and take you.
We get to know each other along the way. Lekha is a 19-year-old mobilized from the LPR, a resident of Lugansk. In 2014-15, during active battles in the Donbass, he did not leave the city anywhere and imagines what artillery shelling is. Studied in the second year of a local ped. I decided not to run from mobilization. Lyokha leads me to the second floor - to the library. To find a book in Russian, you have to work hard.
The bulk of the reading is on the move. And what's not here. "Airport" - about the Ukrainian "cyborgs" who fought at the Donetsk airport. "Anexia" - about the Crimea. There are more exotic options - here is a thick volume “Ukraine. Chronology of development - from ancient times to late antiquity. Or, for example, "The Wars of Russia against Ukraine in the XII-XXI centuries."
Here you have the "expansion" of Muscovy to the lands of Kievan Rus, and "special military operations" against the Hetmanate, and the struggle with Bolshevik Russia for independence in 1917-1921, and the struggle for the independence of Ukraine in 1941-mid-1950s ... And this pseudo-scientific slag filled half the library. If suddenly someone else had questions about how the Anti-Russia project was formed. And these books were published not somewhere in Poland, but in Kyiv, in Lvov, in the Poltava region ... True, judging by the empty library insert, such works were not very popular in Kamenka.
- But they are driven in all this at school, - Lech complains. “Something had to be done about it sooner or later.
We say goodbye to the peasants, they go further, to where the front rumbles continuously, continuing to approach Slavyansk.
Aleksandr Kots is prior service Russian airborne and a writer for Komsomol Pravda
#3
He seems most upset over the Ukrainian histories. Maybe he should travel more, maybe read something not Kremlin-blessed.
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Moreover, Javelins in most cases do not penetrate the armor of our tanks.
...You sure about that, Gospodin?
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
04/09/2022 13:12 Comments ||
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#5
DeepL translates technical vocabularies better than Google and will let you create and save a glossary so you don't have to go back and translate all of the idioms manually each time.
[NavalNews] On the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian warships appeared off a small rock in the Black Sea. Snake Island was, it turned out, minimally defended. But it is strategically located and could potentially provide intelligence to Ukrainian forces about shipping in the area. And taking the island could be symbolic of Russia’s expected victory.
History will remember the reaction of the defenders. Border guard Roman Hrybov famously replied to demands to surrender “Russian warship, go F*** yourself!“. The warship sitting off the island was none other than Moskva, the most powerful warship in the Black Sea.
A Slava class cruiser, Moskva is imposing in both size and armament. She is also, naturally, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. Once the island was taken, and Moskva settled in to a wartime routine. Read the rest at the link
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