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2022-05-31 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian soldier's heroic last stand against Russian troops who have killed everyone else in his trench is caught on video in bloody fight for Donbas

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Evolution of a propaganda campaign, MI6 / Daily Mail style:

1 - Stupid Russians! Look how many tanks we destroyed! Ha ha ha!!

2 - Brutal Russians! Look at all the civilians they killed! S-s-s-s-s!!!

3. Ukrainians are outgunned and outnumbered!

4. Gallant Ukrainians -- valiant even when being completely destroyed! Victory in defeat!

Next: change the subject. Uvalde! NRA! Trump!

Posted by Palmerston 2022-05-31 01:14|| 2022-05-31 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 ^^^ Cockroach...

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-31 04:38|| 2022-05-31 04:38|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ 🤣

For the uninitiated, "cockroach" is the Azov Nazis' preferred epithet for the Russian-speaking Donbas citizens whom they ~~have been terrorising~~ used to terrorise. Used to, before those Azov Nazis surrendered or were killed at Mariupol -- what the Daily Mail laughably called the "evacuation" by Ukraine after their "mission concluded."

Posted by Palmerston 2022-05-31 06:48|| 2022-05-31 06:48|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^^ Cockroach.

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-31 13:19|| 2022-05-31 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Bot.

Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-31 13:33|| 2022-05-31 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ тролль

Posted by Nero 2022-05-31 13:49|| 2022-05-31 13:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Back on earth... Severodonetsk is surrounded. Ukrainian resistance is collapsing. Lysychansk will fall next.

US General Mark Milley is calling for negotiations as what Gen. Milley argues is "the logical outcome" based on the military situation today. Biden ruled out any shipment of long range weaponry.

It's basically over. Negotiations must begin soon, or else all of Ukraine's east and south will be completely devastated.

Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-05-31 14:22|| 2022-05-31 14:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Ron Klain and Biden's other puppetmasters want to get Ukraine off their plate before November so they can talk about "gun violence," abortion rights, and Trump.

It's over. On to the next CurrentThing.

"Don't Cry For Me, Mariupol...."

Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-31 14:28|| 2022-05-31 14:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Meanwhile, the guy in the trench fights tough (regardless of his flavor). Could you guys?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-31 15:23|| 2022-05-31 15:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Could you?
Oh, and: he's dead.

Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-31 15:42|| 2022-05-31 15:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Another defection to the New Narrative - former Chief Propagandist at the Telegraph, columnist / blatherer / pseudo-"Defence Editor" and professional clown Con Coughlin:

FEB. 24: "Vladimir Putin may have just made the error that ends his bloody rule"

APR. 3: "The West is beating Russia at its own game"

APR. 21: "Putin's War has been a fiasco. It's about to get worse"

MAY 5: "Humiliated Russia faces an epoch-defining defeat"

MAY 12: "Total victory over Putin cannot be bought cheap"

MAY 26: "PUTIN COULD BE ABOUT TO PULL OFF A SHOCK TRIUMPH"

"shock" LOL
🤡

Posted by Palmerston 2022-05-31 15:55|| 2022-05-31 15:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Meanwhile, the guy in the trench fights tough

Polly (sigh) majors understand the difference between the present and the past tense.*

Also between the fantasy world as rendered in the pixels of Daily Mail and the actual world of real combat.

*Correction: He fought. He's dead.

Posted by Palmerston 2022-05-31 15:59|| 2022-05-31 15:59|| Front Page Top

#13 No surrender. Especially not to orcs.

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-31 19:54|| 2022-05-31 19:54|| Front Page Top

#14 No surrender, yes. Use the Zelensky / GWB-speak: "be evacuated" after "completing their mission"

🤣

Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-31 21:26|| 2022-05-31 21:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Could you?

Me? I have no idea, though I hope — should the time come — that I would be as useful as my parents and grandparents (and all but one of the boy cousins — Cousin Robert rode Mama’s bike past the SS office in Amsterdam and was never seen again. Neither was the bike) were when war was thrust upon them. On the other hand, though Rantburg is a warblog, not a milblog, quite a few here see events through the lens of personal experience.

*Correction: He fought. He's dead.

Yes, but how many did he make casualties before he succumbed? In this war between two countries with shrinking populations, both winning and losing are Pyrrhic. And China’s population is also shrinking, so even if they are the last of the three left standing, their triumph will not be measured in centuries.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-31 21:39|| 2022-05-31 21:39|| Front Page Top

#16 #11 Another defection to the New Narrative:

MAY 26: "PUTIN COULD BE ABOUT TO PULL OFF A SHOCK TRIUMPH"

MAY 31: "Russians control 70% of Key City of Severodonetsk, according to Ukrainians"

Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-31 21:48|| 2022-05-31 21:48|| Front Page Top

#17 Russian National Guard soldiers from Krasnodar, who took part in the war against Ukraine in February-April and whom the National Guard tried to send there again, submitted reports with a refusal to go to fight, mass media reports say. AP

Posted by Crons Tholush7614 2022-05-31 22:31|| 2022-05-31 22:31|| Front Page Top

#18 THE VEGETABLE SPEAKS!

So the New York Times Editorial board demanded that the Biden Administration define exactly what it was willing and unwilling to do for and in Ukraine...and now, something called "Joseph R. Biden, Jr." pens a NYT op-ed piece!

This is really funny.

Also disgusting. Ron Klain or Ben Rhodes or someone on Avril Haines's staff penned this DIRECT CONTRADICTION of everything Joe the Moron has been blathering for weeks.

Read it and laugh (or weep, as you choose):

"We do not seek a war between NATO and Russia. As much as I disagree with Mr. Putin, and find his actions an outrage, *** the United States will not try to bring about his ouster in Moscow. ***

"So long as the United States or our allies are not attacked, we will not be directly engaged in this conflict, either by sending American troops to fight in Ukraine or by attacking Russian forces.

" *** We are not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders. We do not want to prolong the war just to inflict pain on Russia *** ."

You lying sack of shit.
FJB

Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-31 22:57|| 2022-05-31 22:57|| Front Page Top

#19 That is a truly extraordinary about-face. We expect Biden to lie but this is unprecedented.

Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-05-31 23:19|| 2022-05-31 23:19|| Front Page Top

#20 A schizophrenic administration.

"We do not want to prolong the war just to inflict pain on Russia" - President Joseph R Biden Jr., June 1, 2022

"We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine" - Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, April 26, 2022

Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-05-31 23:24|| 2022-05-31 23:24|| Front Page Top

#21 "The United States will not try to bring about [President Putin's] ouster in Moscow." - President Joseph R Biden Jr., June 1, 2022

"For God’s sake this man cannot remain in power" - Biden in Poland, March 26, 2022

For God's and the world's sake, this mendacious buffoon cannot remain in power.

He is extraordinarily reckless, and foolish, and his lies and somersaults have made the world an extremely dangerous place. Please remove him before it's too late.

Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-05-31 23:34|| 2022-05-31 23:34|| Front Page Top

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