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2022-04-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin calls in the Butcher of Syria: General who helped Assad as he used chemical weapons is tasked with rescuing disastrous Ukraine invasion after '19,000 troops' died in push to Kyiv - as Russia prepares new assault in East

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 For the good of his health, I’d suggest he not enter Ukraine.

Posted by KBK 2022-04-10 00:16|| 2022-04-10 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 "Disastrous"? "Seizing all of Donbas"?
What bullshit. He's already "seized" 90% or more of the Donbas. This is just mopping up. It's so obvious that the Russians have achieved their main objectives that even this shit tabloid has to under the qualifier "all of" as a way of recognizing the fact that it's practically finished in the Donbas. Even the notorious liars at the London tabloids aren't willing to deny that Russia us just finishing up now in the East and South.

Ukraine's Defense Minister is hysterically begging the EU for more weapons, saying that they're on their last legs and nearly out of supplies and materiel. Why does this site link to bullshit planted in the garbage press instead of interviews with the desperate Ukrainian officials?

Who are these trolls that think British tabloids are anything other than propaganda outlets for the U.K. Intelligence services?

Posted by Omiting Fleager8653 2022-04-10 00:46|| 2022-04-10 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Number 2: How come you do not call the Ukrainian forces Nazis?

Posted by Goober Choluque6459! 2022-04-10 01:07|| 2022-04-10 01:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Because everyone from the New York Times to The Independent to The Guardian to Newsweek to right-wing pro-Trump publications like the New York Post and American Greatness is calling them war criminals.

"Grisly video footage emerged Wednesday showing Ukrainian forces shooting and killing a wounded Russian soldier on a road west of Kyiv."

""Look, he's still alive. He's gasping," a man in the video says while an apparent Russian soldier with a jacket covering his head, is seen breathing heavily, surrounded by a pool of blood. A soldier then shoots the man in the head twice. The man keeps moving, so the soldier shoots him again, and he stops"

Posted by Omiting Fleager8653 2022-04-10 01:54|| 2022-04-10 01:54|| Front Page Top

#5 A soldier then shoots the man in the head twice. The man keeps moving,

Yupp. That's a Russian.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 02:10|| 2022-04-10 02:10|| Front Page Top

#6 His SF units offed more ISIS and Al-Nusra than regular Syrians, so maybe he's their butcher. As I said everybody is somebody's Nazi.

Hell, I'd do anything to get that moniker before I croak. The butcher of Kashmir, or the butcher of west bengal... Sigh!

intervention in the middle east that helped Syrian president Bashar al-Assad ~~crush his enemies in the civil war~~ prevent regime change. There are some overly 'wise' people who believe upending functional dictatorships in favour of Sunni sasquatchery and calling it islamic democracy is a noble ideal. Anyone who prevents it by mass murdering said sasquatches is a butcher to them.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 03:01|| 2022-04-10 03:01|| Front Page Top

#7 the butcher of Kashmir

Either you're trolling us, or you're not acquainted with concepts like Karma or nemesis. Those who actually have been to war would never toss around that horrific term of scorn. A real butcher of men will be butchered by others in due course.

Posted by Lionel Omereth5412 2022-04-10 06:35|| 2022-04-10 06:35|| Front Page Top

#8 That was just my point. These days all one has to do to earn that 'orrific term of scorn is kill enough of those Mohammed pushers. Or Maoist militants. Or commie or mohammed pushing afri-cans. Kill 'em in enough numbers together and voila, you're a 'butcher'! Internationally infamous and... scorned. Which is why Dvornikov's a butcher for you and your brothers. But at home he's a hero. See? Everyone is somebody's Hitler.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 09:04|| 2022-04-10 09:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh right then. Got it.

Posted by Lionel Omereth5412 2022-04-10 09:15|| 2022-04-10 09:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Hunt for the 'Butchers of Bucha': Ukrainian researchers claim they've identified 80 out of 1,060 Russian soldiers who were at site of massacre that shocked the world

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-10 09:36|| 2022-04-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Re#2 If this site offends you so much, why are you here?

Posted by Chris 2022-04-10 09:48|| 2022-04-10 09:48|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ $$$

Posted by Matt 2022-04-10 10:02|| 2022-04-10 10:02|| Front Page Top

#13 While you're "mopping" up Fleager, you mind picking up all your dead corpses and tank turrets?

Posted by Slappy 2022-04-10 10:09|| 2022-04-10 10:09|| Front Page Top

#14 I dunno about the corpses, but you can sell the tank turrets on eBay.

Posted by SteveS 2022-04-10 10:27|| 2022-04-10 10:27|| Front Page Top

#15 ...slightly used, only popped once.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-04-10 11:11|| 2022-04-10 11:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Trump yesterday: Putin Probably Knows Why The Mayor Of Moscow's Wife Gave The Biden Family $3.5 Million, "I Think He Should Release It”

Posted by Spaiper Jones9442 2022-04-10 12:58|| 2022-04-10 12:58|| Front Page Top

#17 there are large and important cities in the Donbas that are currently controlled by Ukraine

they are:

Slovyansk
Kramatorst
Sievierodonetsk

the last of these is very close to the Russian position but all three have considerable defense in place

Ukraine is evacuating civilians from these places as well as the smaller cities and towns in anticipation of Russian attacks.

On the other hand there are some cities in Russian occupied territory that are close to the Ukrainian lines and could be taken if matters go that way

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-04-10 13:06|| 2022-04-10 13:06|| Front Page Top

#18 Putin Probably Knows Why The Mayor Of Moscow's Wife Gave The Biden Family $3.5 Million

Of course he does. This is why the Biden Administration and its media mouthpieces are so hysterically trying to distract us with fake news about the course of the war.

Calling Putin a "war criminal" is the ultimate redirect from the fact that Biden and his family are themselves real criminals.

Posted by Spereth Ebbavitle2593 2022-04-10 13:14|| 2022-04-10 13:14|| Front Page Top

#19 The best way to try to keep everyone off the trail that leads to Biden being convicted of influence-peddling is to keep the war on the front pages for as long as possible. Any normal or rational leader would want to end the war and end the sanctions, but Biden is doing everything possible to prolong the killing.

This keeps Biden's family's crimes off the front page and allows Biden to pretend to be a serious leader instead of being seen as the compromised criminal he is.

Posted by Spereth Ebbavitle2593 2022-04-10 13:21|| 2022-04-10 13:21|| Front Page Top

#20 ^
Who is Moscow's Wife and why does she have her own Mayor?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 13:21|| 2022-04-10 13:21|| Front Page Top

#21 Yuri Luzhkov was Putin's rival for the presidency back at the end of the Yeltsin era. He was the most corrupt politician in Russia. His ex-wife wired $3.5 million directly to Hunter Biden - for what, the Bidens have never said.

Putin obviously has the goods on Hunter Biden and his dad. The Chinese obviously do as well ... see Hunter's comments about how his partner Philip Ho was "the f*ckin' spy chief of China". Not true literally but Ho and CEFC were in fact agents of the CCP and instruments by which it entraps corrupt foreign politicians.

The point is, Joe Biden has been compromised by both the Chinese and the Russians.

Everything we hear from them and their media tools about this war has to be adjusted for this fact.

Posted by Spereth Ebbavitle2593 2022-04-10 13:31|| 2022-04-10 13:31|| Front Page Top

#22
I think you've gotta be a total slût to be called Moscow's Wife.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 13:43|| 2022-04-10 13:43|| Front Page Top

#23 Don't mind me, folks. I'm on painkillers. Damn this stuff is hokay...

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 13:47|| 2022-04-10 13:47|| Front Page Top

#24 #19 Any normal or rational leader would want to end the war and end the sanctions, but Biden is doing everything possible to prolong the killing.

Yes, ending the war and relieving the burden of sanctions on the French publique (and the world) is exactly what Macron and Le Pen are trying to achieve. It's crazy to prolong the war. The only reason for doing so, is that Biden personally stands to gain from it.

Posted by Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-04-10 13:48|| 2022-04-10 13:48|| Front Page Top

#25 It's crazy to prolong the war

Actually it makes sense if you're a Washington lobbyist or part of the MIC. When Ukraine is completely destroyed and Congress (plus Nato, the EU, the World Bank etc) allocates hundreds of billions in reconstruction and defense contracts, the opportunities for graft will be immense.

Remember James Biden's three-man "construction" company that miraculously won a billion dollar contract to help rebuild Iraq?

Rebuilding and rearming Ukraine will be the Mother of All Boondoggles for our swamp critters. The worse the Ukrainians get pounded, the more money flowing into the pockets of the Bidens and other D.C. grifters.

Posted by Spereth Ebbavitle2593 2022-04-10 13:57|| 2022-04-10 13:57|| Front Page Top

#26 it makes sense if you're a Washington lobbyist or part of the MIC

"MIC"?

Posted by Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-04-10 14:00|| 2022-04-10 14:00|| Front Page Top

#27 Military Industrial Complex.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 14:17|| 2022-04-10 14:17|| Front Page Top

#28 I think that’s Military-Industrial Complex, Vespasian Omereque5237. President Eisenhower, former general that he was, and therefore presumably knowledgeable about such things, warned against allowing it too much influence in his farewell address in 1961.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-10 14:18|| 2022-04-10 14:18|| Front Page Top

#29 Or Mickey's Intersex Club, these days you can't be sure.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 14:18|| 2022-04-10 14:18|| Front Page Top

#30 Thanks!

Posted by Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-04-10 14:26|| 2022-04-10 14:26|| Front Page Top

#31 Yes, the Military-Industrial Complex. Trailing Wife is correct.

The MIC will make tens of billions off of arms sales to Ukraine.

The reconstruction effort will cost at least as much, probably 2x as much, as Washington pissed away on rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan.

As of 2013 Iraq had already cost the US over $60 billion - $40 billion for reconstruction, $20 billion for training Iraqi troops. The Special IG for Iraq Reconstruction found that much of that $60 billion was wasted.

Same for Afghanistan, where we threw away $90 billion by 2013.

Not unreasonable to expect that we and the EU will waste $200 billion in reconstruction and military aid to Ukraine over the next 10 years. If Biden can keep the war going another year, then the piñata could swell to $300 billion.

Brother James Biden must be salivating at the thought.

Posted by Spereth Ebbavitle2593 2022-04-10 14:35|| 2022-04-10 14:35|| Front Page Top

#32 expect that we and the EU will waste $200 billion in reconstruction and military aid to Ukraine over the next 10 years. If Biden can keep the war going another year, then the piñata could swell to $300 billion.

So "Build Back Better" will happen after all!

More billions for D.C. grifters, none for American cities or states. What's not to like?
🤑

Posted by Elmearong Bourbon6232 2022-04-10 14:40|| 2022-04-10 14:40|| Front Page Top

#33 So "Build Back Better" will happen after all!
"Stuff Back Pocket"
Ukraine will be the biggest grift in history. Piggies already lining up at Biden's trough. 100 times bigger than Burisma, Paul Manafort and Sally Painter

Posted by Lemuel Craing3136 2022-04-10 15:13|| 2022-04-10 15:13|| Front Page Top

#34 Calling Putin a "war criminal" is the ultimate redirect from the fact that Biden and his family are themselves real criminals.

I'm quite sure BOTH can be classified as real criminals.

Posted by Slappy 2022-04-10 15:36|| 2022-04-10 15:36|| Front Page Top

#35 BOTH can be classified as real criminals
Yes but Putin's not costing us any money. Biden is gonna bankrupt America and make us all poorer

Posted by Lemuel Craing3136 2022-04-10 16:26|| 2022-04-10 16:26|| Front Page Top

#36 #31 The reconstruction effort will cost at least as much, probably 2x as much, as Washington pissed away on rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan. As of 2013 Iraq had already cost the US over $60 billion Same for Afghanistan, where we threw away $90 billion by 2013. If Biden can keep the war going another year, then the piñata could swell to $300 billion.

Definitely the higher figure. MUCH higher. Think about it. Ukraine's an industrial nation. Putin's already trashed much of it, and the longer the war goes on the more it will cost us to rebuild.

You know these grifters are gonna waste our money the way did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Half a trillion to a trillion $, easily, will go down the toilet. BUILD BACK BETTER!!

Posted by Lemuel Craing3136 2022-04-10 16:41|| 2022-04-10 16:41|| Front Page Top

#37 "Bartender, I'll have what Dron66046 is having."

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2022-04-10 17:08|| 2022-04-10 17:08|| Front Page Top

#38 Yes but Putin's not costing us any money

Yes, I'm sure those weapons NATO is giving Ukraine were free.

Posted by Slappy 2022-04-10 17:48|| 2022-04-10 17:48|| Front Page Top

#39 I didn't vote for giving them weapons. Was there even a vote?

Biden is wasting our money. He's making us poorer. For what, exactly? To drag out the worth and get more people killed and reduce Ukraine to ashes? Not with my money.

Posted by Lemuel Craing3136 2022-04-10 17:59|| 2022-04-10 17:59|| Front Page Top

#40 Soros should pay for those weapons. Agree, this is a complete waste of our money.

Posted by Elmearong Bourbon6232 2022-04-10 18:02|| 2022-04-10 18:02|| Front Page Top

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