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2022-03-30 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukraine's Military Says Russia Now Partially Withdrawn From Kiev; Pentagon Calls It Deceptive ‘Repositioning’

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-30 02:13|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Ukrainian forces should hug the withdrawing RU elements. Could be preparation or protective measure for a much larger attack. Obviously something that should be monitored closely.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-30 02:20|| 2022-03-30 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Kiev was never the focus. The base that matters is Sevastopol. Securing it by creating a cordon across the Black Sea coast and the Sea of Azov was the essential goal for Russia, along with ending the torture and slaughter of Russian speakers in the East. The Russians are very closed to finally securing all of their goals and are just toying with Zelensky now. Putin isn't even bothering to make plans to come to Istanbul.

Posted by Hupaith Dark Lord of the Gepids4661 2022-03-30 02:27|| 2022-03-30 02:27|| Front Page Top

#3 When the Pentagon successfuly finish off a war the they should offer up their analysis or advice.

Posted by Chris 2022-03-30 10:03|| 2022-03-30 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 It's when wars are over that the Pentagon does its finest strategizing. In hindsight.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-30 10:38|| 2022-03-30 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Kiev was never the focus

Gee, could have fooled me by all the trolls posting here a couple weeks back. We were always at war with Eastasia.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-30 15:33|| 2022-03-30 15:33|| Front Page Top

#6 could have fooled me
Yes, you were fooled. Zelensky is now desperate and dying for peace. Putin is playing with him like a cat with a wounded mouse.

Russia has achieved all its war aims in the south and is nearly finished in the east. Biden has disgraced himself on the world stage. People are calling for his removal, while Putin's grip on power is strong as ever.

Russia is dictating terms to his German and other western customers. The rouble has already made up all of its losses and hit 79 today. The resistance mark is around 85 which means that readers expect it to continue making gains.

The OPEC nations are solidly behind Russia and China refuse to join the West in punishing Russia. China, India and all the non western nations are avoiding or busting the sanctions, which are actually punishing the West. Germany announced today it will begin to ration gas to its citizens. The US policy is a total failure.

Posted by Lonzo Glater9634 2022-03-30 15:49|| 2022-03-30 15:49|| Front Page Top

#7 EPIC FAIL:
Germany braces for GAS RATIONING as Putin’s rouble payment deadline approaches

Russia’s top lawmaker suggested that Russia should also switch to rouble payments for other commodities. Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, said in a post on Telegram: “If you want gas, find roubles,” before suggesting that rouble payments should be extended to oil, grains, metals, fertiliser, coal and timber for roubles on global markets

Posted by Lonzo Glater9634 2022-03-30 16:08|| 2022-03-30 16:08|| Front Page Top

#8 China refuses to join the West in punishing Russia

China's foreign ministry is joining the West in denouncing Biden's dangerous fantasies of regime change:

"Far from backing away from an anti-Western position, top Chinese diplomats are pressing their case. Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng have made statements since the invasion blaming the U.S. for not considering Russia’s security concerns and denouncing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s eastward expansion.

In China’s telling, the world should have sympathy for Ukraine not because it was attacked by Russia, but because it is the victim of a reckless U.S. bid to maintain geopolitical dominance.

According to Beijing, the lesson for small countries is don’t be used as a pawn. The U.S. will manipulate them into fighting proxy wars against its adversaries.

Posted by Jumbo Stalin2643 2022-03-30 16:23|| 2022-03-30 16:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Germany announced today it will begin to ration gas to its citizens. The US policy is a total failure.

German rationing is a German failure. President Trump’s observation a few years ago that focussing on energy contracts with Russia would leave Germany at Russia’s mercy when diplomatic winds changed, while his offer to significantly increase shipments of American liquified natural gas was scornfully rejected. And somehow nothing came of Israeli proposals for a pipeline as well.

And of course all those wind power windmills were not able to take up the slack when Germany’s coal-powered and nuclear power plants were decommissioned. So Germany must ration while reversing course. Again, all German policies — nothing to do with America.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-30 16:29|| 2022-03-30 16:29|| Front Page Top

#10 According to Beijing, the lesson for small countries is don’t be used as a pawn. The U.S. will manipulate them into fighting proxy wars against its adversaries.

Whereas China historically has financed Maoist terror groups to overthrow the governments of small countries including India, and in recent years has been fomenting BLM actions in the U.S.

Don’t listen to China, “small” countries! China is asshole.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-30 16:35|| 2022-03-30 16:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Failing with India, too:

"While most of the world’s major democracies have rallied to Ukraine’s cause, the world’s largest democracy has conspicuously declined to publicly take sides in the conflict.

Earlier this month, India joined with 34 other countries that abstained from the United Nations’ motion condemning Russia’s attack, and it has continued to abstain from U.N. General Assembly motions taking stances against Moscow’s aggression. India’s [Western] allies have firmly, yet fruitlessly, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to reconsider its stance.

Shortly after India’s first U.N. vote abstention, the U.S. State Department dispatched, then retracted, a diplomatic cable referring to the subcontinent as being “in Russia’s camp.” The European Union, United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan later held multiple mostly hopeless discussions with New Delhi to persuade it to fully divest from Russia. Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden claimed in a public address that the United States and its allies “presented a united front” against Russian President Vladimir Putin—then called out India, exclusively, for “being somewhat shaky” on the issue.

Posted by Waldemar Phealing8417 2022-03-30 19:13|| 2022-03-30 19:13|| Front Page Top

#12 "mostly hopeless discussions" ha

Posted by Waldemar Phealing8417 2022-03-30 19:17|| 2022-03-30 19:17|| Front Page Top

#13 TOTAL FAIL

Russia's ruble rebound raises questions of sanctions' impact

"The ruble’s recovery could be a sign that the sanctions in their current form are not working as powerfully as Ukraine's allies counted on when it comes to pressuring Putin to pull his troops from Ukraine.

😂😂😂😂 "not working as powerfully as counted upon"

"It also could be a sign that Russia's efforts to artificially prop up its currency are working by leveraging its oil and gas sector. The ruble was trading at roughly 85 to the U.S. dollar, roughly where it was before Russia started its invasion a month ago."

Posted by Omomons Craviper9249 2022-03-30 19:34|| 2022-03-30 19:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Singapore's PM dismisses USA as a "supplicant" begging and pleading humbly for assistance from China

"Richard Haass, who heads the Council on Foreign Relations, interviewed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore about the impact of the war in Ukraine on the U.S. and its allies' relationships with China.

"I'm not a Beijing whisperer," the Prime Minister of Singapore noted. "We cannot [help you with China]. We are not part of the family. We are an ethnic Chinese-majority country in Southeast Asia. Multiracial, multireligious, with independent national interest and priorities, and they treat us as such and we remind them that is so."

"The Chinese have taken their own position" on Ukraine and Taiwan "and they consider you a supplicant asking them to help solve the Russian problem," he explained.

Posted by Pearl Fleash3467 2022-03-30 19:48|| 2022-03-30 19:48|| Front Page Top

#15 LOL - I still think our trolls take their payments in dollars

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-30 20:01|| 2022-03-30 20:01|| Front Page Top

#16 anonymous troll's boastful chauvinistic lies from loser cultures and empires, keep it up

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-30 20:05|| 2022-03-30 20:05|| Front Page Top

#17

Posted by Pearl Fleash3467 2022-03-30 20:12|| 2022-03-30 20:12|| Front Page Top

#18 Rationing gas in Germany

Vouchers for gas in California

Talk of food shortages and hunger in the US

"France's government is considering food vouchers to help residents afford to eat."

"A commodities trading company said diesel is in such short supply it may soon have to be rationed."

"The chance of a US recession in 2023 has risen to 35%, according to Goldman Sachs"

"CEO of Dutch trading company Vitol said this week pulling Russian oil off the Western market will force drivers and truckers to ration diesel fuel"

Way to go, Brandon - you stupid fuck

Posted by Waldemar Phealing8417 2022-03-30 20:47|| 2022-03-30 20:47|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Pearl Fleash3467 2022-03-30 20:55|| 2022-03-30 20:55|| Front Page Top

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