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The Russians have been doing this ever since they got their noses bloodied in the first weeks of the war. They slowly extend pincers of armor and motorized infantry, protected by artillery and air power, around concentrations of Ukrainian forces. Then they sit and wait for any troops caught once the pocket has closed to get hungry and thirsty and…[Read more]

There were 14,000 or so killed from 2014-early 2022, and unknown tens of thousands from February 24 – I read an estimate of 30,000 Ukrainians so far just this year.

And that doesn’t count the massive destruction of infrastructure, now including civilian transportation infrastructure and civilian facilities used by the Ukrainian military.

As @eart…[Read more]

Thanks, @Earthartist for posting this.

Do I really think I have to ask others at JPR to do the same? Probably not, because they should be the most encouraged by your OP. We are a critically thinking set of humans here… unlike SV or anything like that.

Finland and Russia both signed a “Peace Treaty” at the end of WWII back in 1946.

Since Finland joined Germany back in WWII, thus took up arms fighting against Russia and lost.

Finland declared in the “Peace Treaty” with Russia they would be a “Neutral Country” with no time limit.

Since the “Peace Treaty” between Finland and Russia had been…[Read more]

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I have listened to Democracy Now! during my lunch for twenty years. In the past year I have exclaimed, “WTF” too many times at her MSM promotion of an issue. Also her modulation has changed. She is sounding more and more like Walter Cronkite. lol

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Western media and our ‘isolation’/exceptionalism is forcing a very narrow and self-serving pov on this crisis….I’m a fan of Andrei Martyanov….

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It’s that Russian humor buisness. Gets ya in the funny bone every

Oh and obviously the Russians have paid attention to our James Bond movies because that Russian co-ed I dated was seriously hot!

@enthusiast I really wish that like last March and April, this just winds down.

What she’d really, really like is for the Ukrainian government to take care of its people. The standard of living continues to decline after the Maidan revolution and ongoing civil war.

Maybe if the US and UK would send billions in economic aid instead of weapons,…[Read more]

@earthartist it is appreciated. Yes, eastern Ukraine would be a recovery effort for Russia, as Crimea was.  However, you can see the bridge Russia built quickly to Crimea!

And yes – we are proceeding with immigration to the US for my family, but she’s not certain with issues such as gun violence (incredibly rare there) and how expensive…[Read more]

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Nor is it even remotely defensible as a paraphrase of or inference from anything I’ve written.

@earthartist,depending on what day of the week it is,you’re supposed to hate Russia or China or both.

I’ve actually talked to people who don’t realize China has been an authoritarian country long before the news played it up.They have only vaguely heard of Mao and never Chiang.

Yet another reason not to watch the news.

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I’ve been reading and listening to this sort of propaganda for over fifty years now. The problem is getting worse, not better. I should probably go back to translating song lyrics and posting little cultural reviews to chill.

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You write:

Obama and the dems made no real effort to push through their nomination they just did a lot of hand wringing.

I read stuff like this over and over on JPR.  It’s a criticism of the Democrats, so on this board it’s widely presumed to be true with no need of supporting evidence. Perhaps my query is therefore futile, but I’d l…[Read more]

@earthartist You nailed it!

@earthartist Thanks so much for your comments.

I lived in South Korea for almost three years. It renewed my skepticism about US portrayals of foreign countries which began during the Vietnam era. I think the thing that affected me the most was how impervious the US officials were to how the people of the country they were occupying felt about…[Read more]

@salemcourt, @PassionateProgressive, @NVWino, @retiredliberal, @Yanath, @doh1304, @DavidtheGnome, @gamemeat, @Earthartist,

Nah…. You've always been a Democrat Party Bro Mr. Justice Democrat

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A friend of the Duopoly through and through

— Hector Rivera 🌺 (@HRivera72964164) August 16, 2021

The AP article shamelessly doesn’t mention the Atlantic Council as its ultimate source, and just casually mentions the source as DFLab, fka Digital Forensic Laboratory.

Fucking pack of neolibcon warmongers they are. And they’ll make lots of money off of all that new surveillance equipment Biden’s proposed Domestic Terrorism Act will require. One…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian writes: “Lol! So the longer explanation is the more likely it is to be right?”

No, I did not say that and do not believe that.

@earthartist writes: “I suppose you are all in on the rules based order where the US says what is and that is that.”

No, I did not say that and do not believe that.

thanks @earthartist

“This 1000 year old dream of the western ruling elites” This was the best description of US/UK fractured politics on Russia policy and defense I’ve seen in a long time.

I didn’t spot it —

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