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2022-03-29 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-03-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 Excellent. Need to read more of Benjamin Braddock's stuff.
This passage should open some eyes:

A Russian acquaintance of mine volunteered to go fight for the “Donetsk People’s Republic.” From the way he talked about the conditions there, I assumed it was a lost cause, but as a Southerner, I’m a sucker for lost causes. My friend feared that he was a marked man, that if he ever returned to Russia he might be arrested for his participation. Undermanned, underfed, and underarmed, he and his fellow patriots have held on throughout a brutal war that has raged since 2014, with numerous atrocities carried out by both the Ukrainian government and the neo-Nazi “punisher battalions” against the civilian population of Donetsk and Luhansk.

In one such atrocity, a man was nailed to a cross soaked in gasoline and burned alive. In another, a man and a pregnant woman had ropes tied around their necks, the ropes went over a crossbeam suspended between two trees and tied to the back of a car. The car was slowly driven forward and the two victims were slowly lifted into the air and strangled to death. Ukrainian forces have intermittently shelled the inhabitants in Luhansk and Donetsk, including with white phosphorus munitions against civilian targets.

Overall, the war in the Donbass claimed at least 14,000 lives, injured tens of thousands more, and has subjected the population of more than 2.3 million people in Donetsk and Luhansk to the hardship of life in a war zone. This has been a bone in the throat of many Russian people, who view the ethnically Russian inhabitants of Donetsk and Luhansk as their kin. But up until this point, Putin chose not to get militarily involved in a significant way. The tipping point to the invasion was not the survival of Donbass, but the survival of Russia itself.

Posted by Lionel Platypus7180 2022-03-29 01:04|| 2022-03-29 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 A number of Rantburg regulars saw that crucifixion video.

I read a few writings by Russian militiamen who fought in Donbas, describing some of the atrocities committed by the Ukrainians against Russian speakers, beginning with the May, 2014 Odessa fire. Some of them were/are my Facebook acquaintances.

And before we get too for into this discussion, a young man, a graphical artist based in Donetsk produced a book on mistreatment he and others suffered at the hands of the separatists.

Bottom line: no one wore angel wings in this thing. Ukrainians and the leaders of both Donetsk and Lugansk had strong ties with local organized crime.

Posted by badanov 2022-03-29 01:30|| 2022-03-29 01:30|| Front Page Top

#3 no one wore angel wings in this

True, but no one ever does, badanov. The lesser evil, that's all it's about.

PS: What was the book by the artist, if you remember?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-29 04:05|| 2022-03-29 04:05|| Front Page Top

#4 It would appear Braddock has nailed it. The question now is, how do we escape the trap.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-29 04:18|| 2022-03-29 04:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Sergey Zakharov (Russian spelling)

Dunno the name of his book, though. Sorry.

His style reminded me in many ways of the 19th century Spanish painter Francisco Goya.

The powers that be in Donetsk knew he was ridiculing them and they responded, poorly.

Posted by badanov 2022-03-29 04:44|| 2022-03-29 04:44|| Front Page Top

#6 A little more in depth about Zakharov. Follow the links

Posted by badanov 2022-03-29 06:47|| 2022-03-29 06:47|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 It would appear Braddock has nailed it. The question now is, how do we escape the trap.

Replace these freaks with sane people -- another marvelous Braddock passage:

A month later, investigative journalist Darren Beattie published an investigation warning that the same constellation of NGOs and Washington apparatchiks that coordinated color revolutions abroad were actively plotting one right here at home. Election Night came and it happened: The infamous halt of the vote count; the coordinated declaration by the media that Biden had been elected president before the vote count was complete. Then came the instant social media bans of anyone posting evidence of voter fraud. It was a surreal moment in American history. Anyone questioning the details or pointing out the coordinated nature of this operation was branded a conspiracy theorist or even a traitor attempting to subvert democracy.

Months later, Time published an article titled, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.” It explained, “There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans” and it described “a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election.” That’s how brazen the people who are doing this are. They gaslight anyone who notices what they’re doing when they’re doing it, and then turn around and brag about what they did after the fact.

The successful overthrow of the Trump presidency returned to power the same cast of characters that had carried out the color revolution in Ukraine in 2014. Joe Biden, who as vice president had shepherded the deal to set up a puppet regime in Ukraine is now president. Victoria Nuland has returned as undersecretary of State for political affairs. Jen Psaki, who served as propaganda mouthpiece for the State Department during the Obama Administration, is now the propaganda mouthpiece for the Biden White House. Biden declared upon taking office, “America’s back,” which is only true if you define America as a government run by insane kleptocratic clowns whose problem-solving abilities amount to those of a farmer who sets fire to his cotton fields to drive out the boll weevils.

Posted by Lionel Platypus7180 2022-03-29 07:07|| 2022-03-29 07:07|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Replace these freaks with sane people -- another marvelous Braddock passage:

The Deep State now shamelessly controls the process. Haw is 'replacement' to be accomplished? The entire country has now become Cook County, IL.

Until I see the voting process enforced (poll watchers present and engaged), great piles of Dominion voting machines headed to salvage yards, absentee voting cleansed, the dead removed from voting registrations, an end to ballot harvesting, a return to paper ballots, voter 'drop-off' boxes smashed, and a single election day or two....I am least of all hopeful.

Perhaps I missed all of this, and it is actually taking place. Someone, please set me straight if that is the case.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-29 07:34|| 2022-03-29 07:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Simple: no absentee voting. No vote counting machines. All done by people.

Posted by irish rage boy 2022-03-29 11:43|| 2022-03-29 11:43|| Front Page Top

#10 You want genuine, honest, government that is dedicated to the Constitution, we need to define voter eligibility based on two simple criteria. Either you demonstrate a net tax-payer status, in simple terms you pay more in income taxes than you get, or a period of genuine national service to earn the vote.(Heinlein-esque, I know)

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-29 12:28|| 2022-03-29 12:28|| Front Page Top

#11 The entire country has now become Cook County, IL.

Picnic ant lady's got nothin' on Biden's freaks.

And the Russkies have definitely got somethin on Shaky Joe and Freaky Hunter

Posted by Angolet Uninemble5303 2022-03-29 12:45|| 2022-03-29 12:45|| Front Page Top

#12 I think a much shorter list is who doesn't have somethin on Shaky Joe and Freaky Hunter

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-03-29 14:39|| 2022-03-29 14:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Donetsk and Lugansk is bleeding Kansas.

Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2022-03-29 17:07|| 2022-03-29 17:07|| Front Page Top

#14 The ruble is now at 87 to the dollar. Close to pre-invasion levels. Biden's sanctions are an epic fail

Posted by Jegum Flans3034 2022-03-29 20:09|| 2022-03-29 20:09|| Front Page Top

#15 and the stock market is ..... so Open

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-29 20:19|| 2022-03-29 20:19|| Front Page Top

#16 the Russkies have definitely got somethin on Shaky Joe and Freaky Hunter

Where's Freaky Huinter's second laptop? The one he said was stolen by the Russians? He said they were "drug dealers." Yeah, sure.

Posted by Jegum Flans3034 2022-03-29 21:54|| 2022-03-29 21:54|| Front Page Top

#17 the Russkies have definitely got somethin on Shaky Joe

The Saudis and Emirates delivered another "Fuck you, mate" to Shaky Joe today.

"Two influential OPEC members, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, rebuffed calls to expel Russia from a larger oil-production alliance with almost two dozen countries, saying the group had a long history of working together through armed conflicts.

"A partnership, dubbed OPEC+, between the Saudi-led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia has refused to pump more oil than planned at a time when oil prices have rocketed above $100 a barrel. Producing more crude could bring prices down, some analysts say."

Posted by Jegum Flans3034 2022-03-29 22:03|| 2022-03-29 22:03|| Front Page Top

#18 What will it take for Shaky Joe's puppetmasters to wake up and understand that the threat of nuclear war is real? Maybe if Putin retreated to a nuclear bunker after earning he will use nukes? Can Joe's shriveled brain process the term, existential threat?

Putin and his high command 'are already hunkering in secret bunkers' - after Kremlin spokesman said Russia would use nukes in face of 'existential threat'

Posted by Sheans Spavimble3866 2022-03-29 22:17|| 2022-03-29 22:17|| Front Page Top

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