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2022-03-07 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Cut down as they run for their lives: Heartbreaking scenes as Putin rains bombs on Irpin's 'green corridor', killing civilians as they flee while ceasefire to protect 400,000 evacuating Mariupol is shattered within minutes by heavy shelling
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Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Haha, Russians are losing! They can't surround anything!
Hisssss, Russians are evil! They've surrounded the cities!

Try harder, "Angaiper Ulavins1210"

Go join the John McStain Brigade. Shipping out tomorrow to Mariupol, oops, I meant Odessa, oops I meant Archangelsk
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-07 00:19||   2022-03-07 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 ...looks like Vlad's new second man is the Chinese ambassador. That's the sound of the Mongols or as the Chinese call it Yuan Empire come a knocking, particularly big if you are on historical claims. Maybe Vlad can get the same deal as Alexander Nevsky, keep to local business while being a nice vassal.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-07 07:58||   2022-03-07 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 ^^ Times of Troubles Part II
Posted by badanov 2022-03-07 08:06||   2022-03-07 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Market rumors say Russia throws in the towel today. As they are not a "face culture" their Chinese controllers are completely flummoxed.

Watch out for neocons spontaneously combusting if you're inside the beltway.

Grains of salt? By the truck load, oh, yeah...
Posted by M. Murcek  2022-03-07 08:09||   2022-03-07 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Unfortunate One seems angered over a Daily Mail report of Russian atrocities. It could be incorrect, but yesterday you were claiming you weren't a Putin fanboi.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-07 08:31||   2022-03-07 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Market rumors say Russia throws in the towel today.........

I saw inklings of that (thanks MM, thought I was misinterpreting their anxiety), but not holding my breath.

Another 12 yards of NaCl.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-03-07 08:40||   2022-03-07 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 
#4 Market rumors say Russia throws in the towel today.
Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-07 08:09

M. Murcek,

Do you have any sources on that, even if not confirmed?

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-03-07 08:41||   2022-03-07 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Every day is day zero and time to return to the base argument and forget all the temporary acknowledgements and concessions from the previous shift.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-07 08:42||   2022-03-07 08:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Sitrep implies fresh pot of coffee...
Posted by M. Murcek  2022-03-07 08:44||   2022-03-07 08:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Sigh. So disappointing, "Thing." And here I thought we could be friends. Tell me when you're shipping out to Ukraine with the JMcSB so I can ask Miss Lindsey and Miss Amy to greet you and wave their hankies from the dock. Newport News? When?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 08:59||   2022-03-07 08:59|| Front Page Top

#11 ...And this just in: the Nazis can stay if they renounce NATO and officially hand over the Crimea, Donbass and Lugansk.

https://mobile.twitter.com/shashj/status/1500806113725501441?s=20&t=NwcyjPxvvTMgtItIZC9dmA

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-03-07 09:02||   2022-03-07 09:02|| Front Page Top

#12 It could be incorrect

Wow! Signs of independent thought! Skepticism, logic, even. There's hope after all for us

but yesterday you were claiming you weren't a Putin fanboi.

"AND," you numbskull. A-N-D

One can oppose the neocons, their billionaire's puppet Zelensky AND Putin. Just as one could oppose Saddam AND the neocons in 2003

Our spooks AND Russia's spooks can assassinate Putin AND assassinate Zelensky ... Win-AND-Win.

Embracez le pouvoir de l'ET, mon vieux

Know whuttamean, Vern?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 09:13||   2022-03-07 09:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Embracez merde! Embrassez
Where's muh coffee, Vern?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 09:25||   2022-03-07 09:25|| Front Page Top

#14 #7, peryour request
Posted by M. Murcek  2022-03-07 09:26||   2022-03-07 09:26|| Front Page Top

#15 "ZeroHedge"?
🙄
That's a 💩 site for Reddiots

We need to know where the neocon chicken hawk Bill Ackman put his money last week

Oh wait... 3 minutes ago, the king of market manipulation's changed his tune.

Peace is in sight now, is it, Bill? That's quite the 180-degree turn from Mr. flood-the-zone with No Fly Zone.

Care to guess who scooped up Russian bonds at the bottom, kids?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 09:36||   2022-03-07 09:36|| Front Page Top

#16 How long did it take you to learn to sound like an idiot, or does it come naturally?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-07 09:43||   2022-03-07 09:43|| Front Page Top

#17 The guy says something for everybody who is not in favor of WW III. It's a good sales position, but not a deal closer when all the spittle starts flying.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-07 09:47||   2022-03-07 09:47|| Front Page Top

#18 As I noted in another thread, even Marco got the "no escalation by NATO" memo. It's all over but the crying by the neocon guests on the squawk shows.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-07 09:50||   2022-03-07 09:50|| Front Page Top

#19 Can we auction off setting Fiona Hill's hair on fire on pay per view?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-07 09:51||   2022-03-07 09:51|| Front Page Top

#20 #17 Ha. Comedy Today!!

Zero Mostel was a hoot. Funnier than ZeroHedge anyway

Fun fact: his son Josh played ''Caiaphas' in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar:
"So you are the Christ, you're the great Jesus Christ, Prove to me that you're no fool - walk across my swimming pool" 😄
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 10:03||   2022-03-07 10:03|| Front Page Top

#21 The Bee sums it up...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-07 10:07||   2022-03-07 10:07|| Front Page Top

#22 ^ YES. Nails it

Except they missed the die-for-corrupt billionaires part. Next BB article maybe
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 10:13||   2022-03-07 10:13|| Front Page Top

#23 Let's you and him fight. The motto of brave c*cks*ckers everywhere.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-07 10:15||   2022-03-07 10:15|| Front Page Top

#24 Every cop novel you can read: "Where'd he get the gun?"
"Not from me, officer..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-07 10:16||   2022-03-07 10:16|| Front Page Top

#25 What "government oppression" did you guys "cower" under? I did no such thing.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-07 10:23||   2022-03-07 10:23|| Front Page Top

#26 Um, I shared the story, Rob. Never said I was part of it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-07 10:24||   2022-03-07 10:24|| Front Page Top

#27 To M.M:

Captain Dudley Smith: It's best to stay away from a man when his blood is up.

Ed Exley: His blood's always up.

Captain Dudley Smith: Then perhaps you should stay away from him altogether.
Posted by No Ignorant Son 2022-03-07 11:00||   2022-03-07 11:00|| Front Page Top

#28 Your speaking my language, Son.
Posted by M. Murcek  2022-03-07 11:06||   2022-03-07 11:06|| Front Page Top

#29 Your welcome
Posted by No Ignorant Son 2022-03-07 11:09||   2022-03-07 11:09|| Front Page Top

#30 TeamPutin's forces have annihilated TeamZelensky's ellie 81st
Airborne Assault Brigade. Strategic of Izyum secured now by YeamPutin. That's the key to controlling the Donbas (and Kharkov).

Reports now that TeamPutin's assault is "progressing rapidly."

Looks like the John McStain Brigade won't have anything to do by the time they reach Kherson, oops, Kharkov, er, Warsaw.

Maybe catch a tourbus to Krakow and check out Old Town?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 11:27||   2022-03-07 11:27|| Front Page Top

#31 ^ correction: "TeamZelensky's elite 81st Airborne Assault Brigade ..."

Zelensky was really, REALLY stupid to walk away from Minsk II. Who could he have been listening to? Oh. Right.

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 11:31||   2022-03-07 11:31|| Front Page Top

#32 accused the West of abandoning millions of his people to their deaths

Wait a minute. Zelensky pushed them to their deaths. Was making Ukrainians part of the whole 'EU experience' really that important? What did people expect would happen when open society Nazis installed this fruitcake and they accepted?
Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-07 11:39||   2022-03-07 11:39|| Front Page Top

#33 (Western) Markets are in free fall now. Another neocon cock-up.

Reminds me of that Jamaican waiter's comment to us in 2004: "That Boosh, he's wastin' yer money, mon!"

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 12:24||   2022-03-07 12:24|| Front Page Top

#34 I said it last week, Putin should settle for Donbass and call it a day. The PR is really bad for business, Vlad.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-07 12:25||   2022-03-07 12:25|| Front Page Top

#35 BREAKING: Russian Army has captured Izyum. End is near in the Donbas.

So fucking stupid of us to encourage Littke Big Man to walk away from Minsk. Now Izyum is in ruins, 10,000+ people are dead - and Zelensky will have Minsk II's terms shoved down his throat.

If he's still alive by then.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 12:38||   2022-03-07 12:38|| Front Page Top

#36 It's hard for me to say this with Unfortunate Son chewing gum in my ear but I think Zelensky should take the deal. Yes, the bear is clumsy and Ukrainians have resisted with great courage. Putin may be finding that he's bitten off more than he can chew and if he tries to swallow it won't go down well. But this nonsense needs to stop.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-07 12:44||   2022-03-07 12:44|| Front Page Top

#37  Who could he have been listening to? Oh. Right.

My dear Mr. No v.2: surely you have noticed that President Biden and his team are Democrats, not Neocons.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-07 12:44||   2022-03-07 12:44|| Front Page Top

#38 Oh this is rich: Lt. Col. Flounder is on Capitol Hill now, trying to blame Republicans for causing the war!

Now we hear BS and wretched lies from our resident Ukrainian troll and his fellow neocon DeepStaters who tried to bring down Trump - the only sane person in the asylum - because he wanted to AVOID war.

Unfuckingbelievable

#FuckFlounder
#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 12:50||   2022-03-07 12:50|| Front Page Top

#39 My dear Wife*,

Neocons hated Trump. The worst neocons are fervent Biden supporters: Miss Lindsey has thrown her tiny fists behind Biden. So have David Frum, Anne Applebaum, Bill Ackman et al. Victoria Nuland is the most notorious of the crew - that bitch stirred up the whole hornets nest with her scheming in 2014.

These are the brave champions of Stout Little Zelensky. Lt. Col. Flounder is their hero.

*that does sound awkward, doesn't it? Or is hubby on another of his business trips? (goose/gander, nudge nudge wink wink)
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 13:01||   2022-03-07 13:01|| Front Page Top

#40 Zelensky should take the deal.

Well, (chew) every day that passes (chew) pushes Little Big Man further (chew) and further (chew) from the very nice deal he had with Minsk III (chomp-chew-chomp).

No wonder he's getting so hysterical.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 13:15||   2022-03-07 13:15|| Front Page Top

#41 Now the cauldron in the East is established. Russian Army can now close in along three axes:
1 from Krasnograd in the west
2 from Kramatorsk in the east
3 from Pavlograd in the south

Ukrainians in Pokrovsk, other pockets will be totally surrounded very soon

Who the fuck told Zelensky to walk away from Minsk II?

The same geniuses who forced Pfizer's useless vaccine on us, apparently
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 13:30||   2022-03-07 13:30|| Front Page Top

#42 ^^^^
Why are you spending so much time here Ivan? Instead of psyops and cheerleading in the moment, perhaps you might consider the future this mess will have on the quality of life where you and yours live. A massive disconnection from the West seems likely and I suspect, given your clear cultural connection to it, that won’t be your preference. Where was your US immersion training? I doubt you will see it again.
Posted by Angavising Forkbeard2228 2022-03-07 14:29||   2022-03-07 14:29|| Front Page Top

#43 Ivan - hah
Maybe you're thinking of Ivan Dixon? Not enough melanin for this harp. Wrong Stalag
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-07 14:37||   2022-03-07 14:37|| Front Page Top

#44  My dear Wife*,

Neocons hated Trump...

*that does sound awkward

Not awkward in the least, merely incorrect. Mrs. Wife or trailing, were we on a first name basis, is the proper salutation. TW or tw is what some here have chosen, though it makes me feel very 1960s corporate senior management. Wife is actually my married nym, you see, trailing being the given, (not “Christian name” because I’m not), the whole being a term of art for my role during that delightful period in our lives when Mr. Wife’s career took us far from American shores. Mr. Wife, who finds the whole thing immensely amusing, is indeed away at the moment, helping his parents in what appears to be his father’s final decline.

I’m afraid I don’t understand your goose/gander reference in this context. If you would be so kind as to explain, I’ll happily answer.

I agree that many in the National Review/Weekly Standard crowd became vocal NeverTrumpers, and Bill Krystal, at least, went over to loudly advocating voting for Joe Biden in 2020, while his failed Weekly Standard replacement was quietly funded by various Democratic/Progressive sources. But in doing so they removed themselves from positions of influence with either side of the aisle — I’ve not noticed anything about their thoughts on this or any other subject for a while. President Zelensky is hearing directly from President Biden and the US State Department, any other voices being much smaller in comparison.

Senator Graham goes his own way, as far as I can tell, sometimes supporting Trump/Republican initiatives, sometimes Biden/Democratic ones, using a logic opaque to me that may be the emergent behaviour of sausage making in smoky back rooms.

I can’t imagine that Lt. Col. Flounder, as you so picturesquely name him, has President Zelensky’s ear. It was his malicious testimony about the conversation between Zelensky and President Trump’s ambassador, aimed to protect then-former Vice President Joe Biden’s peculiar business arrangements with President Zelensky’s predecessor, that triggered that failed Congressional impeachment, after all.

Russian Army can now close in along three axes:

That does depend on what percentage of the Russian army is fed, fueled, and mobile due to a complete set of working parts. The after action reports for this exercise are going to be educational for all interested parties, regardless how it turns out.

Well reasoned discourse, indeed, Angavising Forkbeard2228.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-07 15:32||   2022-03-07 15:32|| Front Page Top

#45 Sorry for the above being anonymous TW. Fat fingers.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-07 15:43||   2022-03-07 15:43|| Front Page Top

#46 An Indian political expert's view

The Russia sanctions, although they hold no promise of changing P---n's behavior, constitute one of the biggest gifts American policymakers have delivered to Beijing.

By effectively putting Russia, the world’s richest country in natural resources, in Beijing’s pocket, the sanctions will yield major dividends for a resource-hungry China, including allowing it to dictate the terms of the bilateral relationship and secure greater access to Russian military technology.

After Biden’s Afghan debacle and failure to deter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, could Taiwan become his next foreign policy disaster? Xi will likely bide his time and wait for an opportune moment before moving on Taiwan, taking a distracted U.S. by utter surprise and bringing down the curtain on the West’s long ascendancy.
Posted by Herman Scourge of the Wee Folk1555 2022-03-07 17:22||   2022-03-07 17:22|| Front Page Top

#47 Beginning to wonder if regime change in Russia doesn't happen in the not distant future due to internal forces as the oligarch/kleptocrats and nomenklatura really consider how the descent into the Chinese orbit as a vassal state might feel individually.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-07 17:44||   2022-03-07 17:44|| Front Page Top

#48 we need regime change in America
before we're all in the poorhouse FFS
Posted by Fleremp Cloluck7116 2022-03-07 17:52||   2022-03-07 17:52|| Front Page Top

#49 The Russian trolls are less obnoxious today.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-07 18:30||   2022-03-07 18:30|| Front Page Top

#50 ya think?
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-07 20:09||   2022-03-07 20:09|| Front Page Top

#51 Liars
Posted by Menhadden Spaviger9342 2022-03-07 20:39||   2022-03-07 20:39|| Front Page Top

#52 ^ Nice post. Gonna put it up for tomorrow
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-07 20:57||   2022-03-07 20:57|| Front Page Top

#53 Migs from Poland will need logistics and maintenance. That maintenance tail lies in Poland. Are we to believe the Migs will NOT be returning to their maintenance bases ?

This is becoming rather ominous. Will US involvement in a Euro war result in a national emergency, martial law, the postponement of midterm elections ?
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-07 21:20||   2022-03-07 21:20|| Front Page Top

#54 Ima buy me gold, potash, titanium, coal, palladium platinum an lotsa oil n gas, sell the house and light out fer the territories

Where there's water and power and lamb and beef and bison and venison

Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a dental-floss tycoon
Riding the range
With my zircon-encrusted tweezers by my side
Posted by No Fortunate Son of Mother of Invention 2022-03-07 21:43||   2022-03-07 21:43|| Front Page Top

#55 Ok that's it. Ah'm tapped out. It's the end of the world as we know it Frank Zappa PJ O'Rourke Michael O'Donohue Rudyard Kipling Geoffrey Palmer Geoffrey Parker Annette Hanshaw Jim Varney Ernest P. Sorrel Gen. Haig Commander Cody Ricky Skaggs Ivan Dixon Hogan's Heroes Michael Stipe Johnny Pesky and
..Van
....Lingle
......Mungo

It's the end of the world as we know it - and I feel fine

g'night and god bless tw and mistah fred
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 21:53||   2022-03-07 21:53|| Front Page Top

#56 The Russian trolls are less obnoxious today.

It's a team effort. Depends on which shift is posting at the moment.
Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-07 21:55||   2022-03-07 21:55|| Front Page Top

#57 #55 g'night and god bless tw and mistah fred

Good lord, I thought he was Fred.
Posted by Bigfoot Clolurong9717 2022-03-07 22:32||   2022-03-07 22:32|| Front Page Top

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