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Putin Invades Ukraine II

Post by dualstow » Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:36 am

Did you know we had a Putin Invades Ukraine thread?

I’ll just leave this here in case any of our friends at Bogleheads are anxious to post their thoughts.
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Post by Xan » Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:27 am

Zelenskiy is turning out to be, potentially, a truly inspiring leader. Reminds me of what Queen Elizabeth (the Queen mother) said when Buckingham Palace was bombed in 1940, and was asked whether they'd send the children away.
The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances, whatever.

Zelenskiy, when offered to be evacuated by US forces (from the end of Desert's article):
The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.
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Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Post by dualstow » Sat Feb 26, 2022 10:14 am

Desert wrote:
Sat Feb 26, 2022 8:36 am

{article}Putin also underestimated Zelenskiy.

A former comedian and actor with humble roots, Zelenskiy entered politics in 2019 on an anti-corruption campaign, after playing a history teacher elected as president on an anti-corruption platform in the sitcom “Servant of the People.”
I used to watch Servant of the People on netflix, a kind of Ukrainian West Wing ( I think. I never watched West Wing ). I felt like I was missing the real flavor depending on English subtitles and dropped out early on, but I like that it’s out there.

Looking at Putin’s pre-invasion speeches and watching all of this unfold is fascinating. Horrible, but fascinating.
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Post by Xan » Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:18 am

More:
This night will be hard, very hard, but morning will come.

This night the enemy will be using all available means to break our resistance. This night they will launch an assault.

This night we must persevere. The fate of Ukraine is being decided right now.
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Post by vnatale » Sat Feb 26, 2022 12:21 pm

From yesterday's Washington Journal two excellent, highly informative segments:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?518046-3/ ... ty-threats

FEBRUARY 25, 2022 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 02/25/2022
Washington Journal
Michael Daniel on Russian Cybersecurity Threats
Cyber Threat Alliance’s Michael Daniel talked about the threat Russia poses when it comes to potential retaliatory cyberattacks.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?518046-4/ ... on-ukraine

FEBRUARY 25, 2022 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 02/25/2022
Washington Journal
Brad Bowman on Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Brad Bowman talked about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and potential U.S. and NATO responses.
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Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Post by Maddy » Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:19 am

When a story line is advanced by all of the New World Order political puppets (and right on cue, on the heels of the dissolving CoVid narrative) and when that story line is adopted hook, line and sinker by the mainstream media and the Hollywood elites, you can pretty reliably figure that the truth lies somewhere else.

Here's a very different perspective, put forward by Paul Craig Roberts, former U.S. Treasury Secretary: https://usawatchdog.com/no-shooting-war ... g-roberts/
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Post by dualstow » Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:44 am

Uh, Maddy, that is from Feb 22nd.
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The minute Russian troops moved in, the shelling stopped. It completely stopped, and it won’t start back.”
No idea what year that line is referring to.

In any case, it’s Feb 27 today. Did you notice that Putin has launched a full-scale assault on Ukraine?

Kiev/Kiyv, east, west, north, south. After all this talk about protecting Russian enclaves, breakaway regions, he has decided to try to decapitate the regime and install pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine.

The fact that Ukrainian citizens are taking up arms against him belies Putin’s premise that he is freeing them from “nazis.”

The expansion of NATO, something the U.S. promised wouldn’t happen and then reneged on while Russia was weak- that’s the one thing that doesn’t come up too often in mainstream media. Everything else- well, there’s video, Maddy.

What am I missing here?
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Post by vnatale » Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:52 am

I assume that all things being equal in war that defense has an advantage over offense.

It is always going to take more offense to overtake an entrenched defense.

Is there any kind of accepted range of the ratio of this defense advantage over offense?

I know that Russia's military might on every level dwarf Ukraine's by any measure.

Trying to get an idea of how much that diminishes due to the inherent defense advantage.
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Post by I Shrugged » Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:56 am

I think it is good to be skeptical of the stories we are seeing. I'd definitely like to get some less biased sources to help see what's really happening. Maybe it's the same as what the state press is giving us. Dunno.

In any event, it appears that armed citizens can make it harder to invade one's country.
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Post by I Shrugged » Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:58 am

It seems (again with the skeptic's disclaimers) that Putin has made a big blunder here. If the world really clamps down on Russia, the Russian people will probably dump him.
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Post by I Shrugged » Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:09 am

Nonetheless Desert, there is a propaganda war going on right now in the mainstream world press. I understand that there is a good guy and a bad guy. But the stories have that war propaganda angle in full swing.
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Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Post by Maddy » Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:35 am

Desert wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:05 am
When one can deny a worldwide pandemic and an invasion in progress, it's evidence that the total radicalization in the QAnon/Infowars/far-right disinformation ecosystem is complete. It's both sad and evil. Unfortunately, arguing will not help, because the propaganda sources are too plentiful, entertaining, and profitable.
And you have absolutely nothing to say about the merits of his argument? Has it now become sufficient on the PP forum to substitute for actual argument derogatory, culturally-resonant attributions? As if the truth is so sophomorically apparent that you need not even talk about facts?

Why not cut to the chase and simply call me a poopie pants?
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Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Post by Xan » Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:36 am

Maddy wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:35 am
Desert wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:05 am
When one can deny a worldwide pandemic and an invasion in progress, it's evidence that the total radicalization in the QAnon/Infowars/far-right disinformation ecosystem is complete. It's both sad and evil. Unfortunately, arguing will not help, because the propaganda sources are too plentiful, entertaining, and profitable.
And you have absolutely nothing to say about the merits of his argument? Has it now become sufficient on the PP forum to substitute for actual argument derogatory, culturally-resonant attributions? As if the truth is so sophomorically apparent that you need not even talk about facts?
What is the argument? The only specific thing in the article you linked that I found contradicts the "mainstream" facts is the prediction that there would not be a shooting war in Ukraine. Since it was written, the shooting has started.
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Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II

Post by Maddy » Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:41 am

Xan wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:36 am
Maddy wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:35 am
Desert wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:05 am
When one can deny a worldwide pandemic and an invasion in progress, it's evidence that the total radicalization in the QAnon/Infowars/far-right disinformation ecosystem is complete. It's both sad and evil. Unfortunately, arguing will not help, because the propaganda sources are too plentiful, entertaining, and profitable.
And you have absolutely nothing to say about the merits of his argument? Has it now become sufficient on the PP forum to substitute for actual argument derogatory, culturally-resonant attributions? As if the truth is so sophomorically apparent that you need not even talk about facts?
What is the argument? The only specific thing in the article you linked that I found contradicts the "mainstream" facts is the prediction that there would not be a shooting war in Ukraine. Since it was written, the shooting has started.
It was not an article, Xan. It was a podcast. Aside from the title of the podcast, he had very little to say about a "shooting war." What he DID talk about was why this is all occurring and whose wheels are being greased.
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Post by glennds » Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:39 am

I think the article linked might be an abstract of a longer podcast with the author they're quoting. Maddy may be talking about the podcast discussion more than the article abstract.

Either way, if you want some entertainment, scroll through some of the comments. One guy makes an argument for why the US should invade Canada under the Monroe doctrine and topple the existing dictator government in order to pre-empt their eventual alliance with China against the US.
And another points out how much of what is going on was prophesied in the Old Testament, specifically the books of Ezekiel, Daniel and Deuteronomy.
There's some high proof crazy among those commentators
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Post by vnatale » Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:04 pm

glennds wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:39 am

I think the article linked might be an abstract of a longer podcast with the author they're quoting. Maddy may be talking about the podcast discussion more than the article abstract.

Either way, if you want some entertainment, scroll through some of the comments. One guy makes an argument for why the US should invade Canada under the Monroe doctrine and topple the existing dictator government in order to pre-empt their eventual alliance with China against the US.
And another points out how much of what is going on was predicted in the Old Testament, specifically the books of Ezekiel, Daniel and Deuteronomy.


As a sideline .... how many here were aware that as recently as around World War I times and President Wilson Canada was considered a threat to the United States? I had been completely unaware of them until over the last recent years I read about it a few times in different books.
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Post by vnatale » Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:05 pm

Anyone have anything more recent than this?


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Post by dualstow » Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:58 pm

Ok, then.
Some more facts:

* Russian citizens are carrying pro-peace anti-war signs with the full knowledge that they'll be arrested and gainful employment will be more difficult in the near future because of it. (Assuming my wet dream doesn't come true and Putin is not deposed). There is less domestic support for the war than in 2014 with the easy takeover of the Crimea.

*The U.S. is giving the Ukraine tens of millions of dollars' worth of aid. Earlier, the Netherlands secured permission from Germany to provide weapons to the Ukrainians. Why do they need Germany's permission? Because they are German-made arms, e.g. Howitzers, and there are strings attached (as there probably should be).

*Israel has offered to help the two countries negotiate as it has good relations with both. Putin said he's ready for the call. (Yes, there are some psychos on the net suggesting that Israel or Soros installed Zelensky, that NATO countries "killed or destroyed" on the instructions of Israel (that's from former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney). Whatever).

*EU sanctions will be extended to Belarus.

*Wiki says that
Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces on a high alert, a "special regime of combat duty", in response to what he called "aggressive statements" by NATO
Russia is not a superpower without nukes.

Certainly too early to call this, but it does appear that Putin's narrative is falling apart somewhat.
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Post by Xan » Sun Feb 27, 2022 3:34 pm

vnatale wrote:
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I assume that all things being equal in war that defense has an advantage over offense.
It's gone back and forth historically. For example, a castle was largely impregnable, at least without a siege. Advantage: defense. But then the cannon was invented and the walls could just be shot down. Advantage: offense.

At the moment I agree with you, Vinny, that today in terms of putting boots on the ground and occupying territory, the defense has the advantage. But overall we're in an era where offense has the trump card: the nuclear bomb.
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Post by Xan » Sun Feb 27, 2022 3:40 pm

Maddy wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 9:41 am
It was not an article, Xan. It was a podcast. Aside from the title of the podcast, he had very little to say about a "shooting war." What he DID talk about was why this is all occurring and whose wheels are being greased.
You did link to an article. Looking deeply at it, I do see that there's a link to what's maybe a podcast at the very end. Why didn't you just link to that if the article is so confusing?

Can you summarize what he's saying? Most folks aren't likely to be up for 50 minutes just in order to have this discussion.
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Post by glennds » Sun Feb 27, 2022 3:51 pm

vnatale wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:52 am
I assume that all things being equal in war that defense has an advantage over offense.

It is always going to take more offense to overtake an entrenched defense.

Interestingly, the calculus is different when it comes to cyber war. Offense has a number of advantages and it takes a disproportionate effort to erect effective defense.
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Post by dualstow » Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:02 pm

glennds wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 3:51 pm

Interestingly, the calculus is different when it comes to cyber war. Offense has a number of advantages and it takes a disproportionate effort to erect effective defense.
That's a good point!

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Post by dualstow » Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:30 pm

The Russian space agency known as Roscosmos said it would suspend cooperation on launches from the European spaceport in French Guiana.
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Post by dualstow » Sun Feb 27, 2022 5:54 pm

Fun gyroscopic Putin thread from 2012.
Chock full of classic Medium Tex humor.
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Post by Xan » Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:45 pm

dualstow wrote:
Sun Feb 27, 2022 5:54 pm
Fun gyroscopic Putin thread from 2012.
Chock full of classic Medium Tex humor.
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2937
Hmm, I see my character-set fix from years ago applied to neither thread titles nor signatures.
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