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2022-02-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Day 2: Ukrainian Su27 jet shot down over Kyiv as capital comes under attack from 'cruise missiles', Putin's tanks move within 20 MILES of city: Zelensky rages at Biden for leaving his country 'alone', says Kremlin marked him 'target No.1' UPDATED

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 "We stand with Ukraine" LOL

You're not standing with the Ukrainians. You're sitting on your cowardly woke ass in your condo off Dupont Circle, tweeting and bloviating your bullshit

Posted by Modus Ponens6729 2022-02-25 01:03|| 2022-02-25 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Translation: Zelensky has been calling Hunter non-stop but he is not picking up.

Posted by Airandee 2022-02-25 02:16|| 2022-02-25 02:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course Hunter is picking up. It was Putie Poot's Puppets paying off Hunter and the Big Guy. Photos and piss videos available at 2 Bolshaya Lubyanka Street.

Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-02-25 03:21|| 2022-02-25 03:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course Hunter isn't picking up.

Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-02-25 03:21|| 2022-02-25 03:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Set as today’s headline.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-02-25 03:43|| 2022-02-25 03:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Russian forces have sized control of Chernobyl,

Hmm. Which way is the wind blowing? Asking for a friend....

Posted by Mercutio 2022-02-25 06:46|| 2022-02-25 06:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Russian forces have sized control of Chernobyl

It's right near the Belarus border and from there the armored push into Kiev will come.

Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-02-25 07:08|| 2022-02-25 07:08|| Front Page Top

#8 OK, Russia has invaded Ukraine.
I see Biden protected that border as well as he did the USA Southern Border.☻

SERIOUS NOW.
The US vs. USSR Saber rattling is pretty taken the next step and Biden's Admin handlers have Screwed the Pooch again, as usual, or possibly as as planned?

However, I don't see a USA-NATO vs. USSR ground war scenario.

What envision, is "civilian" raiders conducting hit and run operations on high profile and key targets. Much like the VC did in Nam against the USA. Then, the USSR will likely use the raids as justification for more territorial expansions plans to secure people.

Remember the USSR & CCP are allied.
If we take on the USSR, the CCP can cut off roughly 30+% of our important life or death medications or the key ingredients and can cause all types of shortages and price increases on consumer goods here in the USA and the EU.

WHY?
The CCP knows USSR has its back when the CCP decides it wants Taiwan back. Given we are already hearing rumbles to that effect.

Where I see this going
I am leaning towards a USSR/CCP vs the USA/EU Cyber-War.
Having noted the numerous, the increased number of CCP spies outed in key industries and national security areas. Plus a major ramp-up of Cyber probes and Lessons Learned practice attacks on key US & EU industries and infrastructures over the last 2+ years.

Whether Russia goes for a total win (all of Ukraine) or calls a halt after establishing itself a Demilitarized buffer zone for its 2 new acquisitions. The Global Military Complex & certain elitists will make a wad of $$$$$ off this.

Either way,
I still think Biden was and is in it for the deflection that it allows him and the LSD's from the problems he and tey caused here at home.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-02-25 07:13|| 2022-02-25 07:13|| Front Page Top

#9 BTW:
Skidmark and Besoeker,
Thank you both for the information y'all posted.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-02-25 07:15|| 2022-02-25 07:15|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ I still think Biden was and is in it for the deflection that it allows him and the LSD's from the problems he and they caused here at home.

Russian bogeyman and tyrant seizes the news. Bad economy and high gasoline prices are now "the cost of freedom we must pay." Hunter is forgotten. Infrastructure is forgotten. Green New Deal is forgotten. US continues to buy high priced crude oil from Russia. Trump is pushed off the stage. Brandon gets a series of 3-5 minute presser Ukraine updates. John Durham investigation is forgotten. Afghan withdrawal swirls around memory hole.

What's not to like for Brandon ?

Future: Putin discloses US weapons cache. Demands UN financial assistance for clean-up of Chernobyl and other research sites. Levies cost of Ukrainian military operations on Euro and US oil sales. Demands US military augmentation leave the region. Begins importation of new, Russian speaking people.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-25 07:23|| 2022-02-25 07:23|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ If US gummint can't do anything about Ukraine, which is totally an "affairs of men" scenario, where do they come off claiming they can do anything about the climate or COVID?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-25 07:46|| 2022-02-25 07:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Reparations....where have I heard that before?

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-02-25 09:02|| 2022-02-25 09:02|| Front Page Top

#13 P.S. - Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-02-25 09:03|| 2022-02-25 09:03|| Front Page Top

#14 The truly valuable part of this crisis, for America, is that opinionators on the right as well as the left who have no business opining when we should spray for bugs, let alone when we should go to war, are all out in the open now.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-25 09:32|| 2022-02-25 09:32|| Front Page Top

#15 CNN has just hired me to assure All Ukrainians worldwide, that Russia has not invaded your country, what you are seeing are Russian Tourists, very bad and impolite Russian Tourists on Hunting Safaris. They have no manners and will shoot at anything that moves. Please stay in your homes, or if you can head West as fast as you can, the speed limits in the Ukraine have been lifted - Please stay tuned to CNN, for further, honest reporting, by CNN & me Kiev Bob.

Posted by BagdadBob2-25-22 2022-02-25 10:34|| 2022-02-25 10:34|| Front Page Top

#16 US troops are there to secure the border and prevent partisan actions basing from a NATO member, namely Poland. judging by the markets and lead up behaviour, Ukraine was negotiated away a while ago. US and other NATO members don't want anything testing the fragile NATO resolve and unity. The publicized loss of Germany would be catastrophic, even though they are already gone. The dow seems to like the war and Russian control of all gas lines into Europe.
A cyber war would be very complex, we no longer have "American" tech comapnies, it would be hard to identify origin and how/who would you retaliate against?

Posted by jefe101 2022-02-25 11:06|| 2022-02-25 11:06|| Front Page Top

#17 ..we have freelancers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-25 13:39|| 2022-02-25 13:39|| Front Page Top

#18 From Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov:
My remarks are italicized

7:07 a.m., the Armed Forces are fighting in the Dymer and Ivankiv districts. Defense forces hold Gostomel airfield. The Air Force is protecting the sky over Kyiv.

08:00 - The overwhelming forces of the Russian army were stopped on the border of the river Teteriv in Kyiv region. The bridge was destroyed to block the way for Russian tanks.

08:40 , enemy DRGs that were trying to enter the rear in the area of Shchastya, Stanytsia Luhanska, Lobachevo and Belovodsk were destroyed.
DRGs are special task forces, not elites but group of men select to perform a job typical of special forces

9:57 a.m. - Antonivsky Bridge near Kherson remains under Ukrainian control.

10:29 a.m. - Russian IL-76s with paratroopers landed in Gomel. Konotop has been lost, the battle for Melitopol is underway, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
Russian airborne commanders got tired of waiting for the main Kiev airport to fall.
12:55 - The most dangerous situation is in the north-west of Kyiv. The enemy's offensive was stopped in Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv

2:54 p.m. , Russian troops have lost more than a thousand servicemen in Ukraine.
I'd wager a fair number of them died trying to take the airport at Gostomel, and in the breakaway republics.
14:58 - Our soldiers gave battle to the Russian occupiers in the area of Belovodsk in the Luhansk region. The enemy is fleeing in the direction of Russia.

16:12 - Losses of the occupiers: 2800 people, up to 80 tanks, 516 armored vehicles, 10 aircraft, 7 helicopters.
They're gonna keep coming anyway
7:15 p.m. The landing party of the aggressor tried to land in Nikolaev, there was a fight.

Russian authorities restrict access to Facebook.
Truth hurts, I guess.

Posted by badanov 2022-02-25 16:37|| 2022-02-25 16:37|| Front Page Top

#19 #9 BTW:
Skidmark and Besoeker,
Thank you both for the information y'all posted.

Don't forget badanov.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-02-25 18:50|| 2022-02-25 18:50|| Front Page Top

#20 Yes, thank you.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-25 18:56|| 2022-02-25 18:56|| Front Page Top

#21 Also my heartfelt thanks to Angaiper Ulavins1210, who dropped a bunch of articles in the hopper overnight, allowing this morning’s update.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-02-25 19:21|| 2022-02-25 19:21|| Front Page Top

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