Tag: attrition
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[Sharing] Ultra-nationalist linked to Maidan false flag assassinated – The Grayzone, Kit Klarenberg
The killing of ultra-nationalist Ukrainian politician Iryna Farion at the hands of a Neo-Nazi is filled with irony. Linked to the Maidan false flag massacre, Farion was instrumental in bringing fascist forces into the mainstream On July 19, prominent Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Iryna Farion, a former lawmaker with the fascist Svoboda party, was shot dead in…
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[Sharing] Russo-Ukrainian war: The Deluge – Big Serge
Z World Turns Two As the calendar barrels into another year and we tick away the days of February, notable anniversaries are marked off in sequence. It is now 2/22/2022 +2: two years since Putin’s address on the historic status of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, followed on 2/24/2022 by the commencement of the Special…
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[Sharing] Biden Fails to Explain Why U.S. Should Fight Proxy War Against Russia – Doug Bandow, The American Conservative
A deal needs to be made. It won’t be a good one, but the longer Ukraine waits, the worse the deal is likely to become President Biden can’t stop talking about Ukraine. Three weeks ago, in the aftermath of Congress’ failure to include Ukraine money in the stopgap budget bill, he declared, “I want to…
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[Sharing] Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice – Big Serge
The Zaporizhia Summer Blockbuster It has been a while since I published anything long-form commenting on the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, and I confess that writing this article gave me a modicum of trouble. Ukraine’s much anticipated grand summer counteroffensive has now been underway for about eighty days with little to show for it. The summer…
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History, on this day : one year ago, the assassination of journalist Daria Dugina
terrorism is a NATO asymmetric strategy He had won the presidential election in February 2010, but on February 21, 2014, a right-wing coup overthrown Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. Maidan revolution is how Western media are still naming the event. Fans and legatees of WW2 war criminal Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian Nazis held one third of…
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[Sharing] After Bakhmut – Douglas Macgregor, The American Conservative
Russia turned Bakhmut into the graveyard of Ukrainian military power. What comes next? Until the fighting begins, national military strategy developed in peacetime shapes thinking about warfare and its objectives. Then the fighting creates a new logic of its own. Strategy is adjusted. Objectives change. The battle for Bakhmut illustrates this point very well. When…
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The Ukrainian terrorism is targeting cultural figures in Russia
five attacks and attempts since August 20, 2022 On May 6, 2023, an explosion blows up a car near Nizhny Novgorod, 400 km east of Moscow. One victim is killed. Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin, the target, is injured. The terrorist attack is the third one against cultural figures in Russia, since February 24, 2022, beginning…
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Ukrainian assassination attempt of Vladimir Putin
two drones attacked the Kremlin last night On May 3, 2023, at 2:27 then 2:43 am, the air defense shoots down two successive drones above the Kremlin. Moscow is more than 450 km northeast of the front line. The UAVs have likely taken off in Russia. Vladimir Putin is not injured, his working schedule remains…
