World War III

[Kristy]

Ukraine just applied for NATO membership

Believe they are going to get it, too

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Apparently mobilized conscripts are now calling Ukraine's mobile "How to Surrender Hotline"...

[FORD]

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Mobilized Russian pros drunk and brawling:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iYtmNedWfyM

[FORD]

"The Call Up"

It's up to you not to heed the call-up
'N' you must not act the way you were brought up
Who knows the reasons why you have grown up?
Who knows the plans or why they were drawn up?

It's up to you not to heed the call-up
I don't wanna die!
It's up to you not to hear the call-up
I don't wanna kill!

For he who will die
Is he who will kill

Maybe I wanna see the wheatfields
Over Kiev and down to the sea

All the young people down the ages
They gladly marched off to die
Proud city fathers used to watch them
Tears in their eyes

There is a rose that I want to live for
Although, God knows, I may not have met her
There is a dance an' I should be with her
There is a town - unlike any other

It's up to you not to hear the call-up
'N' you must not act the way you were brought up
Who give you work an' why should you do it?
At fifty five minutes past eleven
There is a rose...
Yeah!


Writer(s): Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Topper Headon

[Nitro Express]

China has had great success in infiltrating western governments. You only need to look at the current US Congress to see that. You have members of congress sleeping with Chinese spies and nothing happens and the senate majority leader is married to someone with ties to the PRC. Our current president has ties to the PRC.

Why the push on Russia? Who benefits if Russia and NATO go into a prolonged war? China of course. It benefits them. Most these politicians are a bunch of buffoons who do what they are told by who bribes them or has the dirt on them. Someone wants war with Russia and has been baiting Putin into one. Nobody gives a fuck about the Ukraine. To the US it's a none strategic asset. It's not worth the tens of billion of dollars we pumped into it. More bullshit but unlike Afganistahn or Iraq a fuckup in Ukraine can be a nuclear fuckup. It will cost us more than the trillions of dollars we wasted in those places.

[Kristy]

Shit is getting real in RuZZia

[Kristy]

Piece-by-piece

[Kristy]

Putin publicly orders the death of 300,000 RuZZian citizens.

Going straight into a Ukrainian meat grinder.

[FORD]

Did somebody try to take Pooty out & shoot out his front tire??

It's the Daily Mail, so take it for what it's worth.....


dailymail.co.uk
Putin's limousine is 'hit by loud bang' in possible 'attack'
Will Stewart

Vladimir Putin's car was 'attacked' in what may have been an assassination attempt amid the Ukraine war, according to an unconfirmed claim.

His limousine was hit by a 'loud bang' on its 'left front wheel followed by heavy smoke', it is alleged.

The car drove to safety with Putin unharmed but there have been multiple arrests from his security service - while other bodyguards have vanished - amid claims that secret information about the 69-year-old ruler's movements was compromised, says General SVR Telegram channel.

General SVR is a Russian Telegram channel which regularly posts alleged insider information about Putin and the Kremlin.

While some are sceptical of General SVR, others say it is one of the few prominent anti-Putin channels in Russia that provides an insight into the true goings-on at the Kremlin.

The same source claims in a separate post that Putin had ordered his glamorous lover Alina Kabaeva, 39, a former Olympic gymnast, to have an abortion, leading to a 'worsening' of their relations.

It is not immediately possible to verify either extraordinary claim.

The same source claims in a separate post that Putin had ordered his glamorous lover Alina Kabaeva, 39, a former Olympic gymnast, pictured, to have an abortion, leading to a 'worsening' of their relations

According to the anti-Kremlin channel, Putin was travelling back to his official residence on an unspecified date in a decoy or 'backup' motorcade amid deep security fears.

This comprised five armoured cars, with Putin in the third, according to the claim.

'On the way to the residence, a few kilometres away, the first escort car was blocked by an ambulance, [and] the second escort car drove around without stopping [due to the] sudden obstacle, and during the detour of the obstacle.

In Putin's car 'a loud bang sounded from the left front wheel followed by heavy smoke'.

Putin's car 'despite the problems with control' made its way out of the attack scene to reach the safety of the residence.

'Subsequently, the body of a man was found driving [the] ambulance, which blocked the first car from the motorcade,' said SVR General.

The channel - which boasts an inside track to the Kremlin yet provides no hard evidence for its allegations - said details of the supposed attack are 'classified'.
According to the anti-Kremlin channel, Putin was travelling back to his official residence on an unspecified date in a decoy or 'backup' motorcade amid deep security fears. Pictured: Putin's motorcade on June 25

'The head of the president's bodyguard [service] and several other people have been suspended and are in custody,' claimed the channel, without naming anyone.

'A narrow circle of people knew about the movement of the president in this cortege, and all of them were from the presidential security service.

'After the incident, three of them disappeared.

'These were exactly the people who were in the first car of the motorcade.

'Their fate is currently unknown.

'The car on which they were traveling was found empty a few kilometres from the incident.'


In another post, the channel claimed that a Kabaeva pregnancy - which it 'revealed' in May - had now been terminated.

This was the reason Kabaeva - rumoured to have several children with the Kremlin leader, who will be 70 next month - had gone into hiding in recent weeks.

She was last seen in the first half of June in St Petersburg but has not appeared in public since.

'We already talked at the beginning of May this year that Alina Kabaeva was pregnant, and after the sex of the unborn child became known, we reported that Putin and Kabaeva would soon have a girl,' posted the channel today.

Kabaeva, pictured with Putin, was last seen in the first half of June in St Petersburg but has not appeared in public since

'But Russian President Vladimir Putin considered Kabaeva's pregnancy untimely, and the birth of another, unplanned child, undesirable.

'As a result, relations between Putin and Kabaeva worsened.

'And at the end of August, the president insisted that Alina have an abortion, despite the fact that the pregnancy was already more than 20 weeks and there were no medical and social indications for abortion.

'After the abortion, complications arose and for some time Kabaeva could not appear in public.

'By order of Russian President Vladimir Putin, thousands of women and children are being killed [in Ukraine', whose fate is indifferent to him.

'But he also wanted to spit on people close to him, including his common-law wife and children.'

Kabaeva refused a request from her mentor Irina Viner - longtime wife of ex-Arsenal FC part-owner Alisher Usmanov - to take part in a gala concert last weekend in Moscow.

Putin has never confirmed a relationship with Kabaeva, pictured together, and his officials have issued denials which are not believed by many Russians

The Telegram channel General SVR has previously published claims about Putin's alleged illnesses and other oil tycoons who have died mysteriously in recent months.

Putin has two officially acknowledged children — Maria, 37, and Katerina, 35, both from first wife Lyudmila.

Dr Maria Vorontsova, a year younger than Kabaeva, was born when the Russian president was a KGB spy in Germany, is an expert in rare genetic diseases in children.

She is a leading researcher at the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology of the Ministry of Health of Russia.

Her divorced sister Katerina is deputy director of the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems at Moscow State University.

She is a former high-kicking 'rock'n'roll' dancer.

Both elder daughters have been sanctioned by the West, unlike Kabaeva, and Putin's unacknowledged 'love child' Luiza Rozova, 19.

Luiza is the daughter of cleaner-turned-multimillionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, 45, now part-owner of a major Russian bank, one of the country's wealthiest women with an estimated £74 million financial and property fortune.

[Nickdfresh]

We just need to be careful we don’t go out of the frying pan into the fire regarding Russia. There’s going to be a coup against Putin in Russia. There’s two problems with Russia. You can’t have a weak incompetent leader there because it’s a country full of nukes surrounded by countries you don’t want getting them. You need a tough guy running Russia. Just tough enough to keep things under control but not too tough and thuggish. We had that with Putin for awhile. We could keep him under control with the oil prices which we used to control.

The situation now is a fuck up. Everything is chaotic. Geopolitically it’s a pooch screw.

I agree overall with your sentiments but you are confusing a couple things here. One does not need to be a 'tough guy" to not be a weak, incompetent leader. I would argue the tough guys are very much weak and incompetent by their very nature and insecurity. Look at that Chechen lackey cunt with his "tough guy" Tik Tok army of f@ggits that would be eviscerated if they actually fought a Ukrainian unit. Macho posturing isn't going to secure anything, being very smart is. Zelensky isn't beating Russia because he's a "badass", his nation is beating them with quiet confidence and by just fucking being smarter and more motivated than the denizens of a Kleptocracy/oligarchy...

We never "controlled" Putin via oil prices. Putin was a ruthless but somewhat sensible technocrat for a while but probably changed as he became increasing corrupt and the wealthiest of oligarchs that he pretended to hate. His real fear isn't NATO or the West, he hates the "Orange" Ukraine because while very corrupt, they at least are starting the pretention of being a democratic society not run by strongmen and kleptocrat cunts. Putin's fear is being overthrown in a "colored" revolution and thrown on the trash pile of history: something that may well be a self-fulfilling prophecy now....

[Nitro Express]

We just need to be careful we don’t go out of the frying pan into the fire regarding Russia. There’s going to be a coup against Putin in Russia. There’s two problems with Russia. You can’t have a weak incompetent leader there because it’s a country full of nukes surrounded by countries you don’t want getting them. You need a tough guy running Russia. Just tough enough to keep things under control but not too tough and thuggish. We had that with Putin for awhile. We could keep him under control with the oil prices which we used to control.

The situation now is a fuck up. Everything is chaotic. Geopolitically it’s a pooch screw.

[FORD]

[Nickdfresh]

Putin is finished. The Ukrainians have him on the ropes with a stunning victory in their sights
Mike Martin
Sun, September 11, 2022 at 4:45 AM


Vladimir Putin
President of Russia

Ukrainian troops pose in the recently liberated settlement of Vasylenkove, in the Kharkiv region - TERRITORIAL DEFENCE OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

By the time you read this article it will most probably be out of date, such is the speed of the advance of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Most likely the last 72 hours of warfare in Ukraine are going to be studied by generations of future military officers and historians. In summary, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have retaken over 2,500 sq km of Russian-occupied Ukraine.

And they have done this by punching a hole through thinly-guarded Russian front lines east of Kharkiv, and severing the Russian lines of logistics, forcing the withdrawal of large contingents of Russian soldiers from multiple locations, but most importantly Izyum and Kupyansk.

Without these two cities, Russia cannot effectively supply its forces in the north-east or the east of the country, and so further collapses, withdrawals and surrenders of Russian forces are to be expected.

In fact, as this article was being written, reports are emerging that the Ukrainians have retaken Donetsk Airport, and are heading for the Black Sea coast—either Mariupol, or Melitopol. It is a quite stunning success.

So what does this mean?

For the war, it means that we are seeing the disintegration of Russian forces in Ukraine. They may be able to stabilise their lines temporarily, but we have crossed a point of no return. Russia's forces were previously poorly equipped, supplied and of low morale. To that list you can now add terrified of encirclement.

Some are worried that this will force Putin to use nuclear weapons, but as long as the Ukrainians stay within their borders this is unlikely—for Putin knows it will be the end of him, and potentially of Russia too.

Only a matter of time
Geographically, the Ukrainians are carving up the Russian forces into small pockets which they will deal with individually. The hardest of those pockets to defeat will be Russian forces in Crimea, but once Ukraine has isolated them by destroying the Kerch bridge that runs between Crimea and Russia, it is only a matter of time.

The Russians are not going to be able to pull this together - we are witnessing an army in rapid decline, it is just a question of the speed at which it declines.

Of course, for Ukraine, this means that they are getting closer to their overall strategic goal: the removal of all Russian forces from the sovereignty territory of Ukraine.

This has been achieved with exceptional skill and bravery on their part, and huge losses of civilians and soldiers, including an estimated 1.5million Ukrainians who have been transferred to Russia. (Luckily they have captured and are capturing thousands of Russian soldiers and so these two groups may well be swapped.)

It has also been done with billions of dollars of weaponry, terabytes of intelligence data, and discrete operational advice from western countries, and especially the US and the UK.

But what does this mean for Russia?

Well, first and foremost it means that Putin could be finished. This has been his war. And it has not only failed, but achieved the opposite of what he said it would: Russia is now ostracised, sanctioned, has unified its enemies, and is about to have its army defeated in the field. This may seem like a good thing but there is only one thing worse than a strong Russia, and that is a weak one.

A weak Russia, with its leader defenestrated, leaves many unknown questions. Could there be a coup? Who takes over after Putin? Does Russia stay whole? What happens to the nuclear weapons — and Russia has over 5,000 of them while all of this is happening?

So while everyone’s eyes are focused on what is happening in Ukraine, I hope someone is thinking about what may be shortly to happen to Russia.

Dr Mike Martin is a War Studies Visiting Fellow at King's College London and author of Why We Fight.

https://news.yahoo.com/putin-finished-ukrainians-him-ropes-084514600.html

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Note the above video was made a full 5 months before the Ukraine Russian-special-abortion...