Here we go again-Ukraine once again

[Ostfriese]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

The rot from within is beginning to manifest itself; Putin's regime kills women and children??!! 5 oligarchs have recently died "by suicide" including family members."

Nothing new here, and there're still more than enough oligarchs left.

[Skybird]

NZZ:


Weapons deliveries no longer serve only to defend Ukraine, but also to weaken Russia's threat potential for the West. The goals cannot be separated; to renounce them would be irresponsible.

28 prominent German cultural figures published an open letter to Chancellor Scholz on the website of the magazine "Emma" on Friday. In it, they express their fear that the war in Ukraine could spread across Europe and even to a third world war. "The responsibility for the danger of an escalation to a nuclear conflict" is also borne by those, they argue, who "with their eyes open, provide the aggressor with a motive to act in a criminal manner, if necessary." They therefore call on Chancellor Scholz not to allow any further deliveries of heavy weapons to Ukraine and instead to help conclude a ceasefire as quickly as possible.

The concerned German celebrities' letter is in response to an escalation of the Ukraine war, which has crossed national borders in various ways in recent days. Last weekend in Kiev, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had bluntly stated his goal of seeing Russia weakened to the point that it "could not do such things as invade Ukraine in the future." Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov then issued a dully threatening reminder on Russian television of "the serious, real and not to be underestimated danger" of a nuclear conflict.

Concerns about the catastrophe of a nuclear escalation of the Ukraine war are serious and respectable. But such warnings must not be allowed to dominate the West's political actions - because that would turn it into a puppet, remotely controlled by the brutal regime in Moscow against a deliberately constructed nuclear threat backdrop.

How should the West represent its interests vis-à-vis Russia - or any other nuclear power - in the future if it shrank from a tactically threatened nuclear escalation in every conflict? Such a maxim of action would be dangerous and would merely invite a dictator like President Putin to "criminal action." The United States and its allies have correctly recognized this.

They know that there is very little risk of Moscow directly attacking the all-powerful NATO alliance. U.S. President Biden on Thursday dismissed Russian talk of its nuclear weapons as irresponsible. Undeterred, he announced a huge further $33 billion aid package for Ukraine, of which the lion's share of more than $20 billion would go to further arms deliveries. At the same time, Congress activated a World War II law designed to facilitate the rapid delivery of weapons to Europe. Several European governments also reiterated their efforts to deliver heavy weapons such as tanks and artillery to Ukraine as soon as possible. They were not deterred from doing so by Russia's abrupt halt in the supply of natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria.

For the strategists in the White House, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the last two months has turned from a mere threat into an opportunity. And President Biden seems determined to seize that opportunity. Thanks to the Ukrainians' valiant will to defend themselves and the unexpected shortcomings of Russian forces, a scenario has suddenly emerged that Western geostrategists would hardly have dreamed of just a few months ago: The West can contribute to a possible - by no means certain yet - defeat and long-lasting weakening of Russia's military and political aggression potential by simply supplying money and weapons, without a significant risk of its own loss of life. It would be naïve to believe that a responsible U.S. government would pass up this opportunity.

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[Skybird]

After the value of the Gepard delivery has meanwheile been relativized due to long training times and unsolved questions of ammunition supply, it is now reported that Germany is once again putting on the brakes, this time in the tank transfer action with Poland. Poland wanted and still wants to deliver P-91s, modernized T-72s from Polish production, to Ukraine in exchange for Leopard-2s from Germany. This has been planned and agreed with the Germans for weeks. However, as reported yesterday, the Poles are increasingly complaining that since then the Chancellor's Office has been mercilessly stonewalling and leaving any inquiries in this regard unanswered. In other words, nothing has been done since the decision and the Germans are currently doing nothing to implement this project.

In general, it must be noted that Blasen-Olaf is by no means leading in any way, but only pretends to move when he has been put under such massive pressure that he couldn't avoid having to move for the life of him - or at least to give the impression that he was doing so.

Miserable, shameful, disgusting.

It gets further reportet the Germans were checking whether they can and want send PZH-2000 howitzers. This time it is the German military warning against doing so. The german army has only 119 of these left - but of these only 39 are operational After the military warned of this, the government was all fire and flame for shifting attention to this. I assume it is another distraciton only, they know they cannot really afford to send any of these 39 howitzers, due to the already ridiculously low number available. So: all pose, no risk involved.



Polls show that Olaf the Procrestinator has nosedived in Germans' popularity, faster and steeper than any chancellor ever before him. Now the Greens' and SPD's youth organisations mull frontal and total opposition to raising spendings for the military. One cannot rule out that this government will not last over this year. Ironically, its weakest member is especially the caricature of a chancellor and his far left-leaning party whose Russophile wing still is strong and full of understanding for Russia's needs and wishes.



The Ukraine hears it and would turn away from these false friends in horror - if onloy it could afford it.

[Jimbuna]

Russia has been forced to merge and redeploy depleted and disparate units in eastern Ukraine, the UK's Ministry of Defence says.

Fighting continues in the Donbas region in the east. But the Russian campaign to seize it is behind schedule and moving slowly, a senior US defence official says.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the chances of peace talks ending are "high" because of Russia's "playbook on murdering people"

More than a million people have been "evacuated" from Ukraine to Russia since the invasion began, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.

Ukraine has previously accused Russia of taking people across the border against their will and allegedly using them as hostages.

[mapuc]

from the Danish newspaper EB

A clip from Russian state television in which the host and two guests discuss whether Russia should send nuclear missiles to the European capitals.
The clip has generated interest because the discussion is based on sending missiles from Kaliningrad, a Russian area between Lithuania and Poland, located 300 kilometers from Bornholm.
Russia has never confirmed that there are nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad, so the discussion about how long it would take the missiles to reach European hotspots has led to the clip being widely and widely shared.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

from the Danish newspaper EB

A clip from Russian state television in which the host and two guests discuss whether Russia should send nuclear missiles to the European capitals.
The clip has generated interest because the discussion is based on sending missiles from Kaliningrad, a Russian area between Lithuania and Poland, located 300 kilometers from Bornholm.
Russia has never confirmed that there are nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad, so the discussion about how long it would take the missiles to reach European hotspots has led to the clip being widely and widely shared.

Markus

Its known since quite some time now that they have tactical nukies there. Flight time from Kalioningrad to west of Berlin: less than 4:30. That leaves practically nill political early warning time to "decide" anything. Either you have an interception system installed and it is in auto mode and springs to life by itself, or you haven't (Germany hasn'). If you still need political decision making done and any such system switched on and then being used, you can as well put your hands down and just watch things happening.



That is why I have mentioned the Kaliningrad enclave again and again in recent years, it is a deep wound in NATO's front line, peppered with long range SAM sites, long range radar, ELINT, and missiles. NATO warned years ago that it would not be able to stop a ground offensive from here against the Baltic States and Poland.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Its known since quite some time now that they have tactical nukies there. Flight time from Kalioningrad to west of Berlin: less than 4:30. That leaves practically nill political early warning time to "decide" anything. Either you have an interception system installed and it is in auto mode and springs to life by itself, or you haven't (Germany hasn'). If you still need political decision making done and any such system switched on and then being used, you can as well put your hands down and just watch things happening.



That is why I have mentioned the Kaliningrad enclave again and again in recent years, it is a deep wound in NATO's front line, peppered with long range SAM sites, long range radar, ELINT, and missiles. NATO warned years ago that it would not be able to stop a ground offensive from here against the Baltic States and Poland.

Thank you Skybird for your comments I found an English article about the same

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...survivors.html

Markus

[tmccarthy]

Ihor Kolomoisky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi

According to Putin, Roman Abramovich has been cheated by Igor Kolomoyskyi. Putin claimed that Kolomoyskyi had reneged on a contract with Abramovich, saying "He [Kolomoyskyi] even managed to cheat our Roman Abramovich two or three years ago. Scammed him, as our intellectuals like to say. They signed some deal, Abramovich transferred several billion dollars, while this guy never delivered and pocketed the money. When I asked him [Abramovich]: 'Why did you do it?' he said: 'I never thought this was possible"

Ihor Kolomoyskyi: The Most Powerful Ukrainian Oligarch

[tmccarthy]

Col. Richard Black: U.S. Leading World to Nuclear War:

[Skybird]

Russia announes the end of cooperation regarding the ISS. Talk is "of a year's notice".



A Russian recce plane has violated Swedish airspace east of Bornholm, then turned for Swedish mainland and violated airspace there again. If that was to make Sweden rethink the apparent decision to join NATO, I predict Russia will instead get the opposite of the wanted effect.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Russia announes the end of cooperation regarding the ISS. Talk is "of a year's notice".



A Russian recce plane has violated Swedish airspace east of Bornholm, then turned for Swedish mainland and violated airspace there again. If that was to make Sweden rethink the apparent decision to join NATO, I predict Russia will instead get the opposite of the wanted effect.

Some days Ago I read following in A Swedish newspaper
(From memory)

The Swedish security police (Säpo) have said that Sweden can expect pressure from Russia and it will be everything from violations of airspace and sea to the influence of the media, as well as politicians

Markus

[Buddahaid]

Putin is the one leading the world into nuclear war, the one violating agreements, the one attacking another sovereign state with imperialistic goals. We all know appeasment doesn't work.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Putin is the one leading the world into nuclear war, the one violating agreements, the one attacking another sovereign state with imperialistic goals. We all know appeasment doesn't work.

Well if former NATO leader is correct

as ex-Nato chief warns Russia could declare 'all-out war' in days

Then we must ask our self is it all-out war in Ukraine or against West(NATO) ?

Markus

[Buddahaid]

So let the bastard have his way now and then do it all over again when he picks his next target. Better now.