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Cont: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine part 9

Sky Australia has an each way bet. Reasonable during the day then it goes "after dark" with a stream of right wing fascists.
I get Sky News Australia on my YouTube feed and it looks insane. Don't think I've ever clicked on it.

Normal Sky News is quite good for new on Ukraine.
 
the US will start to support Russia.

I've told you before that this is a completely ludicrous claim with absolutely nothing to support it. Even if Trump supports Putin himself the US will never send military aid or intelligence to Russia openly. I have no idea why you repeatedly say this but it makes no sense.
 
Who is talking about openly?
Trump will just hand it over to a "trusted friend" at Mar-a-lago, just like before.
Who remembers the Iran-Contra case? There are many ways of circumventing official policies, and you can always claim that you don’t remember having ordered it.
 
Who remembers the Iran-Contra case? There are many ways of circumventing official policies, and you can always claim that you don’t remember having ordered it.
Trump won't even have to claim he doesn't remember it: presidents now enjoy immunity to the law if the crimes they commit are "official duties".
 
Trump won't even have to claim he doesn't remember it: presidents now enjoy immunity to the law if the crimes they commit are "official duties".
Recent history seems to show that presidents and ex presidents enjoy immunity to the law, or at least to the consequences of their crimes, under all circumstances.
 
Recent history seems to show that presidents and ex presidents enjoy immunity to the law, or at least to the consequences of their crimes, under all circumstances.
Well, some of them do. I'm sure as patriarch of a "crime family" Biden won't get immunity for his "crimes".
 
It's been owned by Comcast since 2018, and is no longer owned by Murdoch, and has no connection with Sky News Australia any more.
Indeed, and there is a marked contrast between Sky News UK and its Australian counterpart.
Overall, we rate Sky News [UK] Least Biased based on balanced news coverage and a reasonably balanced op-ed page. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to a reasonable fact check record.
Compared with:
Overall, we rate Sky News Australia Right-Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that mostly favor the right. We also rate them borderline Questionable and Mixed for factual reporting due to several failed fact checks, unproven claims, and the promotion of conspiracy theories and misinformation.
 
Those are not tactics that the Red Army made much use of later in the war. Ie the Battle of Kursk, or Operation Bagration. They would've been bled out had they relied on human wave tactics to retake all of their lost land, plus The Third Reich.
There is no doubt the Red Army tactics shows vast improvement as the war went on.
In the end, the human wave tactics were stopped simply because they did not work.
It took the Japanese a bit longer to figure out that the Banzai Charges also did not work.
Of course ti could be argues that the Japanese substituted "SPecial Attacks" for the Banzai charges.
 
I've told you before that this is a completely ludicrous claim with absolutely nothing to support it. Even if Trump supports Putin himself the US will never send military aid or intelligence to Russia openly. I have no idea why you repeatedly say this but it makes no sense.
I think the uS taking a neutral postion is alo tmore likely. Openly supporting Russia is bit much even for a lot of Republicans to swallow.
And I have to wonder if Trump;s fodness for Putin has gone down since Putin is now a "loser".
 
Agreed, but his constan being eeyore/Cassandra gets to be bit annoyning.
Pointing out inconvenient facts can be annoying, I agree.

I'd much rather there was unremitting good news coming out of Ukraine but as it stands, the Russians are still grinding out gains and running down the clock until they have a compliant party in the White House.

Trump may be able to coerce Ukraine into accepting a peace deal in which they lose a large chunk of their territory and most of their self determination. Then Russia can spend a few years building up their forces (and degrading Ukraine's) before having another go.
 
I doubt Trump will come up with anything Russia would accept.
Yup, they've already rejected the "leaked" plans.

An interesting thing I saw pointed out. Russia almost certainly has "kompromat" on Trump, but Trump has now learned it doesn't matter. He literally could shoot someone on 1st Avenue and he wouldn't lose support. I don't think Trump knew that in his 1st term. He does now, so Russia has a lot less sway over Trump - though of course, money still talks.
 
An interesting thing I saw pointed out. Russia almost certainly has "kompromat" on Trump, but Trump has now learned it doesn't matter. He literally could shoot someone on 1st Avenue and he wouldn't lose support. I don't think Trump knew that in his 1st term. He does now, so Russia has a lot less sway over Trump - though of course, money still talks.
That actually makes sense, his cult being what it is. Hadn't thought of that.
 
Yup, they've already rejected the "leaked" plans.

An interesting thing I saw pointed out. Russia almost certainly has "kompromat" on Trump, but Trump has now learned it doesn't matter. He literally could shoot someone on 1st Avenue and he wouldn't lose support. I don't think Trump knew that in his 1st term. He does now, so Russia has a lot less sway over Trump - though of course, money still talks.
He's always known that. It might not have been true in his first term, but he believed it was. Because he believes he's the most important person in the universe and by definition nothing he does can be wrong.
 
Ukraine launches largest attack of war so far, Kyiv claims

Ukraine struck several targets deep inside Russia on Tuesday in what it says is its "most massive" attack of the war so far.

Ammunition depots and chemical plants were hit across several regions, some of which were hundreds of kilometres from the border, according to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces.

Sources in Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency told the BBC the overnight attack was a "painful blow" to Russia's ability to wage war.

 
That actually makes sense, his cult being what it is. Hadn't thought of that.
I think that Trump sees Putin as a loser because of his failure in Ukraine, and nothing Trump likes less then a loser.
And it might have actually dawned on Trump that Putin is out to wreck the United States...and Trum pin the process.
 
Not sure if this has been posted, but it's important. A translation from the beginning -

The Defence Ministry has also built a modern hospital at the Voronov Centre, which we originally planned to fight COVID, but today, thank God, it has been vacated. A modern complex, provided with all surgical, therapeutic, diagnostic capacities, and so on, we decided to repurpose this center into a rehabilitation center for participants in the special military operation. Today, about 600 thousand participants in the special military operation are already being rehabilitated there. In general, I think it is the largest in our country and unique in terms of technology.

 
Not sure if this has been posted, but it's important. A translation from the beginning -

The Defence Ministry has also built a modern hospital at the Voronov Centre, which we originally planned to fight COVID, but today, thank God, it has been vacated. A modern complex, provided with all surgical, therapeutic, diagnostic capacities, and so on, we decided to repurpose this center into a rehabilitation center for participants in the special military operation. Today, about 600 thousand participants in the special military operation are already being rehabilitated there. In general, I think it is the largest in our country and unique in terms of technology.

600,000? I'm no expert on hospitals, but . . . that's a big ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ hospital.

(yeah, yeah, I'm probably focusing on the wrong thing there)
 
As with all things Russian and "modern" (Armata, Su-57, etc), I assume there's one or two display articles and a lot of unfinished, remarkably primitive stuff behind it.

In this particular case, I also assume that when they say about 600k soldiers are being served by the facility, they mean the grounds and unfinished buildings are being used to store about 600k bodies.
 
600,000? I'm no expert on hospitals, but . . . that's a big ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ hospital.

(yeah, yeah, I'm probably focusing on the wrong thing there)

I guess they could have had 600k patients in various kinds of treatments but if it means sowing up a missing limb and tying a stick to it as a "prosthetic" maybe that sorta counts?
 
Russia is clearly understating its capacity to rehabilitate wounded soldiers using the latest technology, so that we will underestimate their true power. They probably have three such modern facilities, and are treating four times as many casualties.
You mean ‘overstating’ ?
 
As with all things Russian and "modern" (Armata, Su-57, etc), I assume there's one or two display articles and a lot of unfinished, remarkably primitive stuff behind it.

In this particular case, I also assume that when they say about 600k soldiers are being served by the facility, they mean the grounds and unfinished buildings are being used to store about 600k bodies.
I agree that the number of injured soldiers who have been treated in that facility is so low that as a proportion of the claim of 600,000 it's effectively zero.

I also think that the number of injured soldiers is far, far higher than 600,000 but Putin doesn't give a stuff about them unless they can be patched up and shoved into the front line again. Hundreds of thousands of horribly mutilated ex-servicemen wouldn't be good publicity even in a country as bizarre as Russia.
 
Perhaps this is one of those Russian corruption things where the oligarch who owns the hospital billed the state for 600,000 patients but actually they only had 6. Or it could have been an honest mistake, if you drag a cell in Excel it sometimes autopopulates the next cell quite wrongly.
 
An article in Washington Post describes how North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia are better equipped, and learn fast: What the North Koreans took into battle against Ukraine
I found it interesting to read, and it is clear they have much higher fighting spirit than the Russians, who surrender willingly. They probably also know what awaits at home if they do.

One North Korean soldier had papers on him criticising that they had killed Ukrainian prisoners which angered the Ukrainians, and prolonged the battler (presumably the other Ukrainians were less willing to surrender).

The Russians have also equipped the North Koreans with better gear than their own soldiers, and the North Koreans have quickly learnt not to move in tight groups on the battlefield.

Currently, they are not active, probably because they are assessing the situation, and learning from their mistakes,

I find it very likely that these are troops that are later going back to North Korea, and will be used to impart the lessons in the rest of the North Korean army.

Maybe the South Koreans should send troops to Ukraine so that it is not only the North Koreans who will have battle-experienced soldiers?
 
Trump statement on Russia, the war and Tariffs.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
I'm not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin - and this despite the Radical Left's Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX.
We must never forget that Russia helped us win the Second World War, losing almost 60,000,000 lives in the process. All of that being said, I'm going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR.
Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE. If we don't make a "deal," and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.
Let's get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with! We can do it the easy way, or the hard way - and the easy way is always better. It's time to "MAKE A DEAL. "NO MORE LIVES SHOULD BE LOST!!!
 

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