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I'm seeing this story, posted as many as 10 hours ago, and not on any mainstream media sites.
Is it possible this is incorrect? If you google thermobaric weapons over Cherkasy, you can see some private people sharing this back and forth, and again, up to 10 hours ago.
If that's all he wanted, he could have gone in, taken the provinces, and never gone to Kyiv. So the philosophy doesn't add up.
Kyiv comes with symbolic religo-historical importance.
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Originally Posted by NoMansLands
It was pathetic watching the Russian representative at the UN. All they could come up with for their reasons was that aggressive Russian separatists in the two provinces on the border had found aggression throw right back at them. That is a local problem, usually solved with lawsuits, vandalism, the usual petty stuff when neighbors don't agree, unless you're Israel, in which case you believe you are entitled to other people's land.
So it was telling. Russia has no valid argument for this invasion. If the Russian representative's speech had said something like "All we want is it in writing that Ukraine will never be allowed into NATO, be neutral and we will retreat...." he would have made more sense.
So why didn't he?
Instead he did the very thing that NATO was formed to defend--invasion, a bit ironic.
This is about more than Donbas and NATO. During the 20th century there was a resorting of ethnicities and redrawing of borders that still left "untidy" multicultural areas. Russia's geography does leave it potentially exposed to military incursion. The answer is not to send tanks into another country. Russia now has become THAT European country.
Then there is also water for the Crimea and the Dnieper River valley. And the Ukrainian shale gas reserves.
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Originally Posted by RICANRICAN
Some have speculated that Putin is secretly in poor health and wants to retake Ukraine to cement his legacy as a great Russian leader before he dies. )from article) https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/...rapped-n451480
Never underestimate the chaos from even a shrewd man who seeks a legacy.
Another must read. From al jaz and one of the more world wide renown analysts (read: non US MSM). It is about the view of america on the world stage and includes admins previous to biden, but most critical on biden.
In short: this is why our constant bleating on woke and equity is why no one takes us serious.
This writing is what objective reporting looks like, coming from someone with strong views, but does not interject them
read every word. its not that long, should take most no more than 5 minutes.
btw, as I typed this, excellent analyst jennifer griffin, a woman, explained nearly word for word russian nuclear doctrine, exactly as I described it 50 pages ago. Tell me, since no one thinks women can be smart, how do we have adults like her who understand it TODAY, as well as we were taught it over 40 years ago, coexist with the morons, yes morons who are not seeing this as the most dangerous moment in our time? I am swearing at tv screens when she speaks first, and then jen comes on with her drug induced drivel about being less reliant on oil
Zelenskyy is weaing body armor and carrying side arms, broadcasting to his people from a cell phone, being a leader.
where is ours? I have heard nothing...
Where is our "leader"?
He has his own kind of armor going on, and I think it protects a very specialized type of spot.
It's imo a slightly less dignified situation, but hey that's just me, ymmv, yada yada, ...
The nations of eastern Europe have embraced NATO membership precisely because they remember Russian depredations. The shameless attack on Finland in 1939. The secret protocols in the odious Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact that allowed Stalin to brutally seize the Baltic states. The horrific occupation and oppression from 1945 until 1989 of the bulk of eastern Europe. The opportunistic invasion of Georgia in 1989. The annexation and invasion of Crimea in 2014. And the current ongoing naked aggression. ...
The Putin fanboys, as is their wont, have bet on the wrong horse.
Spent some time in Romania a few years back that came complete with geopolitical discussions - some highlighting the naiveté of many Westerners, particularly Americans. A theme was Putin was dangerous, and Russians may well follow him. These Eastern Europeans FEARED Russia. They know in their bones that dictators can spew oppression and chaos.
Just like Russia worries about sharing the Northern European plain with other political philosophies so do its neighbors. Sending in the tanks is a tactic used by Russia before.
This hurt Putin more than Biden’s actions to date.
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