Breaking Down Ukraine Supporters’ Cognitive Dissonance Over US-Russia Compromises

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by SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER

There are more and more signals from the West and their MSM lapdogs that Ukraine’s mighty offensive will be rescheduled to next year. The public-conditioning operation is already in full force, with NYTimes and other outlets carefully preparing and pre-shaping public reception by slowly introducing lowered expectations.

 
It’s difficult to truly tell how much coming from the West is genuine as opposed to deliberate disinfo to sidetrack Russia in preparation for Ukraine’s true offensives.

There are many such games going on, as reported by Russian forces on the frontlines. For instance, from Russian Two Majors channel:

About radio games and misleading Russian agents in Ukraine.
Two Majors touched upon a rather important topic: the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is conducting a large-scale disinformation campaign against our troops in order to keep both the leadership and military personnel on the ground in suspense.

Since the spring-summer counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is only a matter of time, it is expected, it is being prepared for, and currently the enemy is solving the problem of opening Russian countermeasures and counter-measures and lulling vigilance.

At the same time, in numerous Ukrainian chat rooms — both closed and open — at the level of lower-level employees, rumors about various informational actions are replicated. Roughly speaking, a system of “controlled leaks” has been organized, which in the future will allow localizing the channels of information extraction by Russian law enforcement agencies and using them to their own advantage.

Therefore, you should be skeptical about all messages that indicate the exact time frame, as well as events that look strange and incomprehensible. Alas, the days have passed when you could intercept a document or hear someone else’s conversation, and then immediately take some proactive actions.

This is in addition to major radio games, mentioned above, where Ukrainian forces are now deliberately ‘projecting’ and telegraphing various plans and movements in order to mislead and trick Russian forces. RYBAR reported on how sophisticated these methods from the AFU have gotten in recent times:

The main part in the process is taken by specialists from the 83 center of information and psychological operations, along with volunteer organizations, such as Yuzhnenskoe OTG from Odessa.

They buy working and non-working mobile phones, and then send them to the electronic warfare units for re-flashing. For example, in the south of Ukraine, the 306th electronic warfare battalion in Chornomorsky is engaged in this particular task.

After that, all mobile phones are taken to a certain area near the front line and left either in separate tents in the forest or in the field, or at civilian infrastructure facilities (schools, camp sites, hospitals) in settlements.

❗️At the same time, the same 83rd center provides information support for the alleged transfer of reinforcements to the font, transmitting fake data (https://t.me/dva_majors/13005?single) under the guise of a verified one from a “source who saw everything with his own eyes” . And in the VHF band, the radio game is activated.

🔻 How should this confuse the Russian command?

In such false positions, the enemy creates the appearance of activity. He leaves only a few people there, and sets up mannequins at the rest of the points. They are also purchased with the funds of volunteer organizations obtained through collections in social networks and instant messengers.

Electronic intelligence units or UAV operators of the Russian Armed Forces mark the functioning of a particular object by technical means. A blow is struck at the pseudo-position, and reinforcements are transferred to the site to strengthen the lines.

Meanwhile, the AFU, meanwhile, are concentrating forces in a completely different direction and creating a shock backbone for the offensive.

🔻 How to determine the false activity of the enemy?

To some extent, sending UAVs or advanced reconnaissance teams for direct observation can help. However, in conditions of poor visibility, it is very problematic to determine the accumulation of manpower and equipment.

A comprehensive analysis of the situation in the area should be carried out on the basis of combined reconnaissance, including drones, advanced reconnaissance groups, maneuverable electronic reconnaissance units and a satellite constellation.

The concentration of resources or the demonstrative accumulation of forces in one area does not mean that the strike will be there. As a rule, such actions have the opposite effect. Therefore, an attack should be expected somewhere else, in addition to the visually visible one.

 
So, as can be seen above, the AFU are purchasing old mobile phones with sim cards which their electronics units re-flash and prepare. Then these phones are planted in various ‘false positions’ like tents, forests, facilities, etc., all over the frontlines, particularly near Zaporozhye. This works in conjunction with ‘radio games’, where AFU deliberately uses open or easy to intercept channels to make false transmissions of military movements, units moving to those areas, etc. As well as using chat rooms where someone who claims to have had a ‘source’ leaks information about some major military movement to that precise region.

These three things work in conjunction to create a believable climate of troop movements that are meant to deceive Russian forces into believing that offensive preparations are being done in that given region. Presumably, based on RYBAR’s report above, Russia is already one step ahead of the game in this.

Every day they are pretending to project strength, like the recently shared videos showing a huge brigade moving around that was exposed as being old 2022 footage.

Russia is taking things slowly and patiently. The signaling coming from Russia is that this conflict can go on for a long time, and Russia is concentrating on equipping its economy in a sustainable way that will allow it to successfully conduct the war while simultaneously enjoying economic growth and prosperity.

Ex-Russian General and now State Duma deputy Andrei Gurulyov said the following yesterday:

State Duma deputy Gurulev said that the conflict in Ukraine will end by 2030. According to him, by that time Ukraine will basically cease to exist: “We see how Orthodox priests are being bullied, hatred for Russia is being hammered into children’s heads, this is done by people who used to live in Russia – a country that was once called the Soviet Union. If they are going to drown the whole Crimea in blood, then we have only one way out – by force. No monetary hubs of Poland will help, or thoughts that there will be another Ukraine somewhere. She won’t. Basically, it won’t. This project will be closed one way or another, this is clear to all sane people. There are questions about the time it will take: a year, two, three, five. The deadline is 2027-2030.” I agree with Gurulev that Ukraine will cease to exist. Moreover, it will cease to exist not “in principle”, but in reality. Ukraine will disappear from the world map. And until this happens, the war will not end. How long it will take no one knows. The Russian leadership today says that it does not want to destroy Ukraine. Therefore, first the Russian leadership must rethink its position and declare that the Ukrainian state will be liquidated. And continue to work on resolving this issue.

He states the deadline to eliminate Ukraine is 2027-2030. This is a realistic timeline and I see little fault with it. Only young, wet-eared followers of the conflict could balk at such a date. Russia fought in Afghanistan for 10 years, prosecuted the Chechen Wars for a combined 3 years of intense conflict, or over 10 years if you count the insurgency period of the second war. Why should a country far more powerful than Afghanistan and Chechnya combined, and supported by the full force of NATO, take less than those?

I’ve outlined before that barring any big black swan events which could always occur at any time and completely reshape the conflict into an unexpected direction or conclusion, I could see it developing in roughly this way: Bakhmut falls in April-May. Then is Seversk and other areas around it which could take months just to get to the precipice of the large Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomerate. That huge agglomerate itself could take very well into the middle of 2024 or even later to capture. One of the reasons is that in order to fully capture them, you’d likely have to come in from the north, capturing everything in the Kharkov region and Izyum.

Izyum and Slavyansk circled in green above.

 
That could take a very long time to do. Realistically, I wouldn’t even expect the battles for the agglomerate to begin until sometime in 2024. The capture could take most of the year or even until 2025. Then we haven’t even gotten west of the Dnieper yet. If you’ve read my previous articles that go into this operation in much more detail, you’ll know that a massive re-orientation of Russian forces from Belarus-Kiev area would likely have to happen to begin marching on Odessa, due to the fact that should everything east of the Dnieper fall to Russian forces, the AFU would likely blow the bridges across the Dnieper, and there’s no real way to move an entire army of 500k+ troops (and resupply them) by way of pontoons only.

This is an unprecedented scale operation which itself could take another two or more years. Depending what shape the AFU is in by that point, then maybe 2026-2027 the battles for Odessa could begin.

But that’s just to give a rough example of a potential timeline to inculcate in your mind the idea that these large scale movements take time. Of course, it could go a lot quicker depending on the AFU’s morale and how much of their forces they squander or, conversely, are able to save in the coming battles of this year.

Some will balk and say well, if it takes Russia til 2030 to beat Ukraine then that means Russia is weak. To that I say, so be it. Russia will be ‘weak’ then, and NATO will have been even weaker for losing to it over the course of 10 years. The juvenile banter about ‘weak or strong’ is not what this war is about. For Russia it’s about survival. If Russia has to take 10 years to maximize its strengths and win in the way that serves its interests best, then that’s how long it will take.

At the end of the day, if Russia was so ‘weak’ for its handling of the current conflict, then NATO would likely have already pounced and finished Russia off. But instead, NATO is shiftily waffling around and acting really nervous—that should tell you something.

As I’ve mentioned before, for Russia the purely kinetic side of this war is not even the most important. More important than that are the larger economic shifts, societal reorientations in terms of a society finding itself, a people re-discovering their collective destiny and place in the world: a grand awakening. The movements which are taking place beneath the surface of the minor kinetic trifles are far more profound and long-reaching. Russia’s goal is to emerge in 2027-2030 not as a mere ‘victor’ standing over the ruins of some already-forgotten country, but as a state that has re-connected with its historic arc, has found itself, re-established its principles, its courage in defending its vision of the world. The societal shifts and intangible developments currently underlying the purely kinetic aspects of the war are bridging Russia towards a true civilizational rebirth, and this will take time. But it’s best to take it slow and gradual.

Anyway, I realize the 2D Bloggers will read that as hardcore pro-Russian ‘cope’. But the truth is, we’re now coming up to the six month anniversary of Ukraine’s last victory. That’s right—the Kharkov Counter-offensive ended in early October 2022, and Russia’s Kherson pullout was in November.

That means we are now already six months past the Kharkov counter-offensive, and in just a few more weeks will be six months past the Kherson pullout. Which means: Ukraine has not had a single even semi-significant ‘victory’, whether morale, psychological, or physically tangible, in six months. Meanwhile, Russia is set to stud its crown with a major victory in Bakhmut—another in a long line of hard-fought urban wins.

It must be hard to be a 2D Blogger these days.

Ukrainian supporters are crying now that the U.S. apparently approved a sale of ATACMs to Morocco, while claiming they’re too low on missiles to send to Ukraine.

 
Firstly, the key word there is “sale”. Does Ukraine understand what that word means? Ukraine wants handouts. Those missiles are expensive. Do the math.

Secondly, the things in that tweet don’t have to be mutually exclusive. You can sell missiles to one customer, but still be ‘low’ in regard to another type of operational requirement. 40 ATACMs missiles is a tiny amount and would do next to nothing for Ukraine.

Lastly, it’s still surprising how little Ukrainian supporters understand about the true dynamics of behind the scenes compromise that exists between the superpowers of Russia and the U.S. vis a vis the conflict. Many people like Paul “Mighty Mouse” Massaro have been in fantods over this, yet they puerilely refuse to acknowledge the cold, hard facts of the U.S. having many behind the scenes compromises and ‘unspoken agreements’ with Russia in regard to weapon allowances for Ukraine.

I’ve written before about how there are many subtle deals and concessions that Russia continues to allow in exchange for secret agreements and red lines regarding the supply of key weapon systems. Both U.S. and Russia retain many types of pressures and ‘levers’ they can still use against each other. The grain deal is one of them, and there are many others. The supply of ATACMs is clearly part of such deals.

The reason these dull ‘Westoids’ refuse to acknowledge this is because it shatters their idealized ivory tower conception of the U.S. as monolithic superpower which only dictates and never compromises, particularly not against the ostensibly much ‘weaker’ Russia. But the reality on the ground, the realpolitik of the situation is far different. The U.S. infact compromises heavily and has many secret deals for the very reason that they fear Russia’s response and escalations in certain key areas.

Here’s one of the levers in action.

 
This is a paradigm too difficult to bear for many Ukrainian supporters, because to shatter their image of the U.S. as mighty, unstoppable ally would be to shatter their entire worldview. For them, they can’t conceive of the U.S. as being weaker than it portrays because that would mean to consider the unthinkable. If the U.S. is not all-powerful that would mean Russia stands a chance, Russia could actually win; and for these people, this is an unfathomable, unallowable thought.

So they retreat into their comfortable cognitive dissonance that the U.S. is all powerful, that it dictates all the rules of the game, and the entire Ukrainian theater is totally under its control, etc., etc. But this creates a heavy mental friction then when they’re unable to reconcile how it’s possible that the U.S. will not fully arm Ukraine with everything it needs; how it’s possible that the U.S. won’t give F-16s and Abrams and ATACMs and nuclear missiles.

It’s akin to a child finding out Santa Clause isn’t real. Akin to a teenager’s painful realization that his dad isn’t the toughest dad on the block, and that a friend’s dad might in fact be able to kick his ass. That the U.S. isn’t all powerful, isn’t completely in control of the situation, isn’t able to guarantee their victory, and—most shockingly—isn’t able to fully stand up to Russia, is an extremely difficult and painful pill to swallow for Ukraine supporters.

One day, when they realize that for over an entire year, everything they’ve been told was a lie, that they’ve been fed nothing but phony propaganda about Russia and its putative ‘weakness’, and conversely, U.S. and its putative ‘strength’. When that house of cards comes down, there will be a collective psychic undoing on the Ukraine-supporter side that will be awe-inspiring to witness.

Yes, Billy, your dad isn’t as tough as you thought he was—Bobby’s dad kicked his ass. Cue the existential angst.

As an example of the type of mental leaps and insane constructs they’re now forced to shore up their disastrous losses with, we have this brilliant exhibition of ‘cope’.

 
And with that we transition to Bakhmut. There’s nothing revolutionary to say here, other than that Wagner continues to advance, capturing several more blocks since last time, still inching forward to the inevitable conclusion.

They advanced a few blocks from the north as seen here:

 
With the general map looking like so:

 

 
It’s really down to one last small section of the city. And many of the advances are made under increased usage of Russia’s new glide bombs. Much larger explosions are seen and heard all around the city, and new evidence has emerged showing massive mushroom clouds, funnels, and huge depressions in the ground where 1500kg-sized bombs apparently have hit.

Like this one: Video Link“Arrival of a very powerful bomb (apparently a FAB-1500 with an UMPK) at a military target in Orekhov, Zaporizhia region”

An interesting interview with a Russian Su-34 pilot was released by VZ.RU which confirms the usage of such ‘planning bombs’ as they’re being called, after the ‘universal planning and correction module’ name (UMPC). The interview can be found here: https://vz.ru/society/2023/4/15/1207573.html

He states, for instance, that Ukraine has no answer to this and the bomb is virtually invisible to their radars.

Some other excerpts:

“Ukrainian troops have nothing to shoot down such a bomb with, and its effectiveness is the highest.” The pilot of the Russian Aerospace Forces told the newspaper VZGLYAD about new types of ammunition used by Russian combat aircraft, about awarding flight personnel for defeating enemy targets and how they managed to knock out the best Ukrainian pilots.

The pilot also makes some interesting statements regarding Ukrainian air and anti-air capabilities. Firstly, he emphasizes the huge difference between flying in Syria and Ukraine, and goes on to praise the Ukrainian foe:

The Ukrainian army is a strong opponent. We are confronted by professionals of the Soviet school, who studied in the same academies as us. At first, we also met highly motivated fighters. And in war, the main thing is morale. The most dangerous ones were those with crosses and swastikas on their chests and brainwashed heads. These butted heads very hard. But now the staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is gradually being ground up. The initiative is on our side, and it is important not to lose it.

He also makes the following interesting statement regarding Ukraine’s pilot attrition:

As far as I know, last year there was a third-year graduate from the only Ukrainian military aviation school in Kharkiv. And you’re supposed to study for five years. What is the third year? This is when they taught takeoff and landing in an abbreviated course – and that’s all. Until you work for 10-15 years as a real military pilot and learn how to perform combat tasks automatically, you are just a flying target.

Therefore, the period of flight activity of Ukrainian pilots has been greatly reduced. Now we see that in fact the Ukrainian pilot is a suicide bomber.

The most interesting section is where he discusses Russian airforce tactics in combating Ukraine. He confirms exactly the conclusions I made in this article

Which is that Ukraine is forced to ‘loft’ its bombs by flying low then making a high altitude ‘jump’. But as soon as their planes go above 50-100 meters, they are spotted by Russian radars which send two missiles ‘into their forehead’.

Forbes also released a new article bemoaning the ‘usefulness’ of new American Avenger missiles—the same ones that failed to protect America’s own troops in Syria recently.

 
The article makes a few eye-opening, but predictable, admissions:

The U.S. Army decades ago grew overly comfortable with the U.S. Air Force’s assurance that it would control the sky over any conceivable battlefield. The Army ceased developing new armored air-defense vehicles and consigned most of its hundreds of unarmored Avengers to National Guard units.

But Russia’s wider war on Ukraine has underscored how tenuous air-superiority can be, even for the bigger air force in a lopsided fight.

The current air-defense organization is a relic of the past two decades of static, theater-level, defensive deployments and needs to be seriously reevaluated in the face of new threats,” U.S. Army captain Peter Mitchell wrote for West Point’s Modern War Institute.

The U.S. Army has rushed development of a new armored air-defense vehicle based on the hull of a 20-ton Stryker fighting vehicle.

Once again, the naive U.S. military learns a hard lesson from this war.

The article ends with another stunning admission, that due to their vulnerability—quelle surprise!—the Avengers may never actually see true combat:

If this all seems like a giant headache—well, that might explain why the Ukrainians so far have consigned their Avengers to a sector of the country where there’s no major ground combat.

They might never deploy the Avengers to do what they were designed to do: escort front-line brigades.

Truth is, the U.S. has to get its own house in order. Just yesterday a score of U.S. troops were injured in a major accident, when their Stryker vehicle collided with a MaxxPro MRAP in Germany:

 
And this comes after news broke that Ukrainians have already lost their first one or two Leopards in a training collision.

In this video, a Polish officer can be seen describing what he saw, and his quite frank estimation of Ukrainian tankers:

“I’ll be honest, I’ve never seen such clumsy [tank] control anywhere before.”

 
So that’s one confirmed, and possibly a second Leopard already heavily damaged or destroyed, seeing as how some photos seem to possibly show a damaged barrel of another tank.

But how can one be surprised, seeing Ukrainian tankers train like this: VIDEO.

And this comes after reports from the Russian side that Russian saboteurs have already destroyed their first Leopard in the wild by drowning it in a swamp:

A Russian sabotage group captured and sank a Leopard tank supplied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a swamp. This was told to RIA Novosti by an officer of the volunteer battalion “Falcon”, the commander of one of its units with the call sign “Bull”.

“There is a story from colleagues, we communicate with them when a sabotage detachment captured a Leopard tank. They could not drag it to the rear, they took it and drowned it in a swamp. This fact already exists. The Leopards are here, they are already visiting,” he said. serviceman.

The officer noted that Russian fighters also recorded the use of German air defense systems by the Ukrainian side. Presumably, they were controlled by German mercenaries.

I don’t know how believable it is, but it’s worth a reprint in the case it turns out to be true. There is a video of the soldier who recounted this tale on the frontline, so it’s not just some Telegram fantasy someone typed up, but for now it remains impossible to corroborate.

So, out of only a small handful of about ~30 Leopards delivered to Ukraine, there’s upwards of three, representing 10%, already out of action before they even saw combat. Not too shabby. Another 10-30% will likely have mechanical problems before they see action, leaving probably a dozen or so to do the actual “fightin’ and dyin’”.

The above jape characterizes the absurdity of the coming AFU ‘offensive’. Even the allies no longer believe it will bring any results.

Days ago, a Canadian outlet released a damaging report highlighting the complete chaos inside the AFU. ‘The White Papers’, as it’s called, is a report written by three retired NATO officers who spent the last nine months fighting in Ukraine.

The lengthy report outlines a Ukrainian military command structure that, at times, is in disarray and a crumbling military communication system that could result in losing “generations of Ukrainians” if intervention in military tactics isn’t taken.

Two of the authors are former high ranking members of the U.S. Special Forces. The third, who spoke to CTV News on the condition of anonymity, is a former major with the Canadian Armed Forces. In an effort to conceal his identity, CTV News has agreed to refer to him as Matthew.

The officers relay that Ukraine has had massive losses of its officer corps:

“They (the Ukrainian army) have had huge losses with their junior officers. It’s well documented.” He’s also points out by releasing the White Papers, “We’re striving for the better outcome. We’re not striving to criticize the Ukrainian military.”

Another report from Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant goes off on a similar beat:

 
You can read the jaw-dropping highlights for yourself:

“The army of Ukraine is bursting at the seams”!

Honestly, I’ll tell you, I have never seen such a report in the Western media about the situation on the Ukrainian front! The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant writes in three pages about the miserable state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The author talked with a number of wounded Ukrainian soldiers and concludes: Ukraine sends completely unprepared soldiers to the front. One of them, named Oleksiy, said that all his “combat training” came down to one evening with a drunken instructor and a Kalashnikov assault rifle with three rounds!

This Oleksy says that there were 27 people in his detachment, of which, after 8 hours of battle, eight remained alive! According to him, the whole “battle” came down to the fact that after each arrival of Russian shells, he and his friend shouted to each other in the trench whether they were alive or not. And so it continued until the friend stopped answering.

The author of the material questions the ability of Ukraine to launch a serious offensive with the army in such a state.

I’ve previously written about how many Western publications are softening their readership up for the inevitable down-scaling of Ukraine’s offensive. Headlines like those below continue to pour out from the mainstream press:

 

 
Ukraine is really in the furnace; the pressure for an offensive is higher than ever, to produce some tangible results for their masters. Ukraine’s own GUR head Kiril Budanov recently stated that:

“Without victories, sooner or later, questions will be asked whether it’s worth continuing to support Ukraine,” he told ABC News.” Budanov said.

But some officials in the AFU have said that the only thing holding them back is the weather. They have even begun blaming Russia for conducting secret weather modification programs in order to hamper the Ukrainian army. This is based on the fact that it has rained “like never before” in the current time period of the year, and Ukrainian forces find themselves increasingly bogged down in historic levels of mud and slog. They believe Russia is causing this to deliberately delay their offensives.

As ridiculous as it sounds, it’s at least plausible. Cloud seeding technology has existed for a long time and is not difficult to do. In fact, I’ve previously written on how Russia could employ this to counter U.S. C4ISR due to the fact that one could put perpetual cloud cover over the theater of operations, completely nullifying most drones, satellite capabilities, etc. The only problem with that is, it nullifies your own as well.

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Notice how the media talk around Ukraine’s upcoming counteroffensive has gone from “They’ll breakthrough to Crimea” to “The goal is Melitopol” to now “At best modest gains”… Reality is the Pentagon knows Russia is dug in on every front and has large reserves and fire support.

The above Tweet references some of the recent reports, like this one from Bloomberg:

According to sources, the counteroffensive is supposed to be aimed at Melitopol in the Zaporozhye region, but, according to Bloomberg, Ukrainian forces are unlikely to be able to capture the city.

A more realistic goal is to advance 30 kilometers in the direction of the city in order to take up positions from which Ukrainian artillery can bombard the main supply routes of Russian forces in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

With that said, Russia is taking threats of the offensive seriously. There are reports like the following:

Rumor goes on Russian forums that everything that can shoot Into air and is in storages is sent towards Zaporozye, ZSU-23s on trucks and MTLBs, all kinds of trucks with DSHKs etc. Because there is growing fear of Ukraine preparing big swarm drone attacks with help of companies from Taiwan and US.

Although, in reference to the infamous ‘Taiwanese drone swarm’ news we’ve already reported on, it must be said that Taiwan itself has officially denied this:

 
Not that we’d necessarily expect for them to admit it, but it’s worth mentioning.

A report posted by the AFU’s 35th Brigade on their channel stated that they will have absolutely no remorse for cowards and quitters. Not only did they openly say anyone who turns back will be shot:

Ukrainian army threatens to kill any soldier who deserts or refuses to fight.

“Those who are afraid to go on offensive, we will kill onspot. In new and strong Ukraine there is no place for cowards.” -Ukraine Army 35th brigade on Telegram.

But they even admitted that they will weld cold-footed tankers into their tanks to make sure they don’t run away at inopportune times:

In the 35th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, skeptical soldiers will be brewed in tanks

“Those who are afraid to go on the offensive, we will kill on the spot. In the new and strong Ukraine there is no place for cowards. We will weld the doubters in tanks so that they do not run away at a difficult moment. Time requires such actions,” the Ukrainian telegram channel says.

Striking as that may seem, it has already been a well-documented tactic of the AFU. Not only do we have videos like this one, of Russian soldiers describing seeing this at the front:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1603865701332181017

But there is even a direct video showing a Ukrainian tank captured with its hatch welded shut and its surrendered crew trapped inside by Ukrainian blocking officers:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1601866882356846592

It is a pretty crazy and inhuman tactic, but at this point nothing less is to be expected from the savage AFU.

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04/21/23 – Ukraine war: Russian warplane accidentally bombs own city

The defence ministry in Moscow says a Russian fighter jet accidentally bombed the city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine.

Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the blast had left a huge crater about 20 metres (60 ft) wide in the city centre.

Three people were injured and several buildings were damaged, he said. One apartment block was evacuated.

A Su-34 fighter-bomber jet accidentally released the bomb, the ministry said.

The defence ministry said the bomb fell at 22:15 local time (19:15 GMT) on Thursday. There was no explanation for the bombing other than what it described as an “abnormal descent of aviation ammunition”.

The bomb landed at an intersection of two roads not far from the city centre and next to residential buildings.

Two women were taken to hospital for treatment and a nine-storey apartment block was evacuated because of potential structural damage, Mr Gladkov said.

An investigation is under way.

Photos and videos on social media show apartments damaged by the blast, and one car ended up on the roof of a local shop next door to a block of flats.

The regional governor said Belgorod’s residents had endured a difficult night but would get through it.

Belgorod – a city of 370,000 – is around 25 miles (40 km) from the Ukrainian border. It lies just north of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, and people there have been living in fear of Ukrainian shelling since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year.

Russian jets also regularly fly over the city on their way to Ukraine.

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A Russian jet should bomb the Kremlin. One should bomb Putin’s armored train, and Putin’s $1.4 billion palace in Gelendzhik.

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Thankfully biden is losing his war to Putin.
How do we get the embezzled money back from zelensky?

Why would anyone but an anti-democratic supporter of Putin’s murderous military aggression be thankful for that?

Thankfully biden is losing his war to Putin.

Putin just routed more Ukrainians in the East, and liberated 5000 Russian orphans.

Is that why you’ve been so quiet with your Leftist propaganda?

I suppose this is what you really support, Nazi.

I support Putin bombing his own Russian cities. It will speed up his demise.

A Russian bomb hit a major intersection at the center of a Russian city of 384,000. An accident, or precise targeting and an internal message to the people of Russia?

It has surely never been lost on the residents of Belgorod that their city is easily within range of Ukrainian artillery and missile bombardment.

What if that were to change? That’s the grim possibility that Putin’s continuing war holds for them. Why should they continue to support such bullshit?

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04/17/23 – International Outcry After Kremlin Critic Kara-Murza Sentenced To 25 Years For Denouncing Invasion Of Ukraine

Journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian-British dual national and one of the Kremlin’s most vocal critics, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Moscow court after a closed-door trial for treason and other offenses, sparking an international outcry and calls for his immediate release.

The Moscow City Court, overflowing with reporters, diplomats, and supporters, handed down its verdict in the trial on April 17, just over a year after Kara-Murza, who twice nearly died after what he says were deliberate poisoning attacks, was arrested on the charge of spreading “false information” about Russia’s armed forces. He denies the charges

After his sentence was pronounced, Kara-Murza, who reporters said sat almost motionless inside a glass cage in the courtroom while listening to the judge, proclaimed that “Russia will be free,” an opposition slogan…

The only way Russia will be free is to free herself of Putin.

Now do an article or two about how the WH regime is trying to jail Trump for calling out their corrupt, corporate-fused bullshit.

The Trump effect: 04/21/23 – Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That’s over now

Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier this month to denigrate Ukraine in a post using language reminiscent of genocidal regimes.

And Twitter didn’t stop him.

In his 645-word tweet titled, “WHY WILL UKRAINE DISAPPEAR? BECAUSE NOBODY NEEDS IT,” Medvedev called Ukraine a “Nazi regime,” “blood-sucking parasites” and “a threadbare quilt, torn, shaggy, and greasy.”

The post garnered more than 7,000 retweets and 11,000 likes.

One response, though, asked Twitter CEO Elon Musk why he allowed Russian officials to broadcast tweets like this, especially when they used language often associated with genocide.

“All news is to some degree propaganda,” Musk responded. “Let people decide for themselves.” …

The entire point of propaganda, you dumb South African twit, is to erode people’s ability to make any valid objective decisions, by burying truth and facts with an avalanche of lies.

In the context of mass media, truth and lies DO NOT deserve equal First Amendment protection, any more than the Second Amendment guarantees mentally unbalanced people an uninfringeable right to possess firearms.

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Greg you asked why we dont have high speed rail well they tried hard in California, the parasites screwed it for everyone
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The entire point of propaganda, you dumb South African twit, is to erode people’s ability to make any valid objective decisions, by burying truth and facts with an avalanche of lies.

Yeah, Musk is a dumb South African “twit” compared to you, a prime example of idiocy.

In the context of mass media, truth and lies DO NOT deserve equal First Amendment protection, 

And the Constitution says that where, you dumb f*cking twit?

By Elon not stating he will be the grand puba of what is truth is somehow a bad thing, what the Russian said was true Ukraine is a cesspool of thieves and Nazis not important, at least not so important as to strip the middle and lower classes from the basics of affordable utilities and food. Both in Europe and the USA.
Have you seen the rip off marketing bull shit Plant Based Butter, (we call it oleo or margarine)now 12 bucks for less than a pound. Vegans must be dumber than a box of rocks.
Livlo Organic Vegan Ghee – Plant Based Butter – No Refrigeration Necessary – Dairy Free, Soy Free, Gluten Free Substitute to Ghee and Butter – 14 oz.

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kitt, you have to see the humor in a coward like Comrade Greggie calling Elon Musk a “twit” when Comrade Greggie is a classic example of an idiot.

Greg regularly sends supplies to the space station and Has thousands of high tech employees. I mark it all up to multiple vaxx and still getting covid I bet he buys plant based butter.

Replacing factual news with self-serving propaganda is a goal of every authoritarian dictatorship.

It’s how Trump’s special-relationship buddy Vladimir Putin controls a hypnotized Russian population.

It’s what allows him to kill tens-of-thousands of young Russians and Ukrainians, with the moronic pretext that he’s ridding a neighboring country of dangerous NAZIs.

If only it were just Ukraine. Putin is behind the outbreak of war in Sudan. It’s another grab for control and wealth. Putin is essentially the head of a criminal government. Trump is a wannabe American version of the same damn thing. It’s all about authoritarian rule and billionaire oligarchs.

If you want to see STUPID, look in a mirror.

How Wagner plundered Sudan’s gold

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Replacing factual news with self-serving propaganda is a goal of every authoritarian dictatorship.

Yes. Including the one you support.

We’ve watched that play out for decades, running up to the Twitter files which effectively declared our fed goverment to be a totalitarian police state and not a Constitutional Republic anymore.

Replacing factual news with self-serving propaganda is a goal of every authoritarian dictatorship.

aka the Democrat Party.

Someone will eventually muzzle you, greg.

Thankfully biden is losing his war to Putin.
How do we get the embezzled money back from zelensky?

The real question is this:

Will Biden hang before Putin?

It’s really a toss up, isn’t it…

BREAKING: Biden Signs Order Enforcing Social Justice “Credit Scores”

Doesn’t really sound like what an American would do.

Will Putin hang before Trump?

Will Biden hang before Putin?

Biden Says He’s Best Known For His Ray-Ban Sunglasses and Chocolate Ice Cream (VIDEO)

And his surrender in Afghanistan.

Under Biden “Communist China…is Running this Country…Into Destruction” – Former US Rep. and Current Dean Michele Bachmann

That’s the goal.

Greg’s goal. It’s why he’s being paid to post here.

Looks like Russia is finding that fighting Ukrainians and NATO on the ground in Ukraine is pretty easy.
Ukrainians are fleeing.
The elite globalists are pouring money into Ukraine but the corrupt leaders there just steal it all.
You have to feel sorry for those Ukrainian soldiers welded into their tanks and pilots sent out unprepared for battle who end up just being killed.
NATO is piss-poor at a real battle.
I guess all they really do well is rape girls in third world hellholes.

And our poster boy for zelensky is blind to the charnel house of death that is the Ukraine war.

Russian mercenaries to stop taking POWs, ‘kill everyone on battlefield’

Remember–Trump and the evil bastard doing this have “a very good relationship.”

Moscow will shut down the Black Sea Grain deal that allows Ukraine to feed much of the developing world if the Group of Seven nations decides to ban all exports to Russia, a top Russian official said Sunday.

The G-7 countries – the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, and Japan – are considering a near-total ban on exports to Russia, media outlets in multiple countries reported last week. Russia has for months threatened to halt the grain deal now set to expire next month.

“This idea from the idiots at the G7 about a total ban of exports to our country by default is beautiful in that it implies a reciprocal ban on imports from our country,” former Russian president and current deputy of its security council Dmitry Medvedev said in a post on his Telegram channel, adding “In such a case, the grain deal – and many other things that they need – will end for them.”

Ukraine is not “your country”, you stupid shit.

Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said Sunday he is instructing his mercenaries not to capture prisoners of the war, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing a translation from video Prigohzin posted on social media.

Prigozhin made the comment in response to what Russian officials have described as an “intercepted conversation” posted to an unofficial Wagner-affiliated social media account. The post claims the conversation was between two Ukrainian soldiers deciding to shoot a prisoner of war.

“We will kill everyone on the battlefield,” Prigozhin said Sunday in the audio recording. “Take no more prisoners of the war!”

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Georgia Democrat Activist Who Ran for State House of Representatives Arrested for Kidnapping and Third-Degree Cruelty to Children

New NBC Poll: 76% of Democrat Voters Under 35 Think Joe Biden Shouldn’t Run Again Because He is Too Old

That is a lot of fraudulent votes to be made up in State Farm arena

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After Disastrous Debates in 2020, Democrats Have Decided to Not Hold Presidential Debates in 2024

I wonder if the Biden/Trump debates could be conducted on Zoom, if Trump is in prison or under house arrest?

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A name you haven’t heard in Burisma…

United States energy envoy Amos Hochstein played a crucial and secretive role in the ObamaBiden Burisma kickback scheme, Biden Laptop emails reveal.

And he should be investigated, indicted, and jailed for breaking the law by lying about it to Congress.

Here’s a link to Hochstein’s interview before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Committee on Finance, on September 17th, 2020. Since it’s a whopping 216 pages, I’ll go through and pull out the juicy bits and compare them to the facts as expressed in the Biden Laptop.

We’re at the part where Trump destroys all alternative republican candidates before self-destructing.

Where did you get your glass ball, Comrade Greggie?
Perhaps you can get it to tell you where to find your honesty and courage.

Think the new hat will catch on?

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Back to your tired tactic of answering a question with a question, Comrade Greggie?

You guys understand Greg is a chatbot, right?

Not likely.

A resurgence of devout Christianity will, however.

You’d honor us all if you could just type the name “Jesus Christ”.

It would be transformative.

Maybe the resurgence would be helped by Special Hats. Special Hats would be a simple and familiar alternative to closely reading his words.

No need. Eventually people like you get out the chalk…

I understand why you would object to hats. They really are hard to put on when your head is shoved up your a$$.

How many illegals do you think we can float back across the Rio on that thing?

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They’re doing the jobs that you, your kids, and your grandkids won’t do. Many who want to become citizens have lived here and done so for most of their lives. Many are young, ambitious, talented, family oriented, and highly educated.

Trump wanted to deport such people wholesale. He criticized Obama for prioritizing deportation to integrate the best with a clear path to citizenship, and remove the worst.

It was STUPID to do otherwise, because you can’t deport everybody. That might be a Trump Cult fantasy, but this isn’t NAZI Germany. America is not going to turn Donald Trump in our very own domestic version of Vladimir Putin.

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Go fuck yourself with the Nazi tripe.
Poor little Angels
Facts from 2018.
https://www.uscis.gov/archive/new-data-shows-criminal-arrest-histories-of-daca-requestors
They should have deported then.
Fine anyone hiring without a green card. Huge fines that will deter them.
No public assistance of any kind.
Always running out of social security money but not welfare for illegals.

Obama built cages for kids.

Trump tore them down.

Biden rebuilt them.

Trump wanted to deport those being invited by the Left for the explicit purpose of weakening our country. Even during Trump, we continued to make OVER A MILLION NEW CITIZENS a year, while protecting our own citizens and protecting those in vulnerable nations by helping them stay there safely.

because you can’t deport everybody.

Sure you can. It’s easy if you don’t openly invite people to invade our southern border, like your boy Biden is doing.

America is not going to turn Donald Trump in our very own domestic version of Vladimir Putin.

Putin arrests his opponents on made-up charges.

The Biden puppet regime is doing the same.

You are the same as Putin.

Greg take off your 2 masks the recycled CO2 is causing further brain damage, the democrats will not debate at all FFS how can they? I heard today its up to 12 Biden crime family members. Ukraine never had a chance but was great for money laundering, grift and outright theft.