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    Post  Serberus Tue May 17, 2022 6:23 am

    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Seen some reports of the Ukie's shelling into Russia around the Khakrov region now they pretty much pushed the Russians out

    Reports of Severodonets under attack, Liman surrounded.
    Troitskoye and Novoselovka liberated, Novogrodskoye reached, and your friends from Azovstal surrendering, must be burning you inside so I understand trying to deflect to Kharkov constantly.

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    Post  SolidarityWithRussia Tue May 17, 2022 6:24 am

    I hope Hungary in the EU and Turkey in Nato will block the suicidal agendas of the organizations they are in. Even if they fail trying, more people will take note that there are no sovereign members in the EU and Nato, only vassals.

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    Post  Serberus Tue May 17, 2022 6:25 am

    SeigSoloyvov wrote:"In regards to being forced to fight I was talking about Azovites, they are volunteers and the worst of the worst anyone showing them sympathy can f themselves.
    In regards to The WEHRMACHT i didnt call them all Nazis, i challenge you to quote me, i know some are forced, even from Donbass and pro Russian areas, calling them that due to a clear parralel with German Wehrmacht…. and you yourselves answered it while attempting to downplay and excuse the crimes of Nazi Germany and the Nazism and its very clear tolerance currently plaguing Ukraine"


    Naw I ain't downplaying the Nazi's made my position clear they need to be shot.

    My comment was about your generalization and comparing Ukraine's forces to the Wehrmacht, "Wehrmacht tank, plane" etc

    I am just calling out what you are pulling and both know why your doing it, so don't play innocent. You didn't outright say it but you are trying to equate it with your words.

    Your smart enough not to directly say it but simply make suggestive remarks like you do.

    I am doing no such thing, you are the one equating me calling them Wehrmacht to calling them all Nazis.
    If i wanted to call all Ukranian Nazis I simply would, as If I need to play mental gymnastics for the likes of trolls on this forum.


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    Post  flamming_python Tue May 17, 2022 6:26 am

    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Seen some reports of the Ukie's shelling into Russia around the Khakrov region now they pretty much pushed the Russians out

    Is that the best they can do?
    Shell more civilians in Russian border villages?
    Launch more Tochkas against populated cities?

    Criminals. They don't need to do that from Kharkov. They can do that from the Chernigov and Sumy regions as well and were earlier. Which tells you all you need to know about this stunt

    About them pushing someone out, I doubt it. It's more likely shelling from the part of Kharkov obl. that they've controlled for 2 months now.


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    Post  SeigSoloyvov Tue May 17, 2022 6:26 am

    Serberus wrote:
    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Seen some reports of the Ukie's shelling into Russia around the Khakrov region now they pretty much pushed the Russians out

    Reports of Severodonets under attack, Liman surrounded.
    Troitskoye and Novoselovka liberated,  Novogrodskoye reached, and your friends from Azovstal surrendering, must be burning you inside so I understand trying to deflect to Kharkov constantly.

    My friends? oh buddy don't be mad you got called out for your BS and try to label me a nazi xD

    You see, I stated already. All of Avoz needs to die, a long long time ago.
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    Post  SeigSoloyvov Tue May 17, 2022 6:27 am

    flamming_python wrote:
    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Seen some reports of the Ukie's shelling into Russia around the Khakrov region now they pretty much pushed the Russians out

    Is that the best they can do?
    Shell more civilians in Russian border villages?
    Launch more Tochkas against populated cities?

    Criminals. They don't need to do that from Kharkov. They can do that from the Chernigov and Sumy regions as well and were earlier. Which tells you all you need to know about this stunt

    About them pushing someone out, I doubt it. It's more likely shelling from the part of Kharkov obl. that they've controlled for 2 months now.

    Sure they can, just said I saw reports of that. You'll notice that was my only remark.
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    Post  ALAMO Tue May 17, 2022 6:27 am

    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Naw I ain't downplaying the Nazi's made my position clear they need to be shot.
    My comment was about your generalization and comparing Ukraine's forces to the Wehrmacht, "Wehrmacht tank, plane" etc
    I am just calling out what you are pulling and both know why your doing it, so don't play innocent.

    If we take for granted that you are perfectly right (and that is my opinion either), then it makes them a perfect match for Wehrmacht.
    They were just conscripted soldiers fighting for their country.
    And sure that there was a nazi element among them, but not everybody was a nazi.
    Even the nazis were back for duty, in West Germany, as soon as the late 40s.
    Russia won't be able to "denazify" Ukraine, just the same way the Soviet Union failed even with enormous efforts.
    Nazi ideology was active in the Ukrainian SSSR masqueraded as "nationalist", and the Soviet Union even cheered.
    The most radical elements hold their heads up as only SU ceased to exist, and the first marches with torches were performed in 1992 already.
    They can reduce the number of nazis, pushing them to emigrate to other EU countries, which will just repeat the case of the US and Canada-based Ukrainian nazi diaspora, ending with generations of nationalized nazis among the population of nominally normal countries.
    Erasing the nazi ideology would require another nation-building material, which they lack at the moment because throwing away any participation of Poland and Russia in the process.

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    Post  Serberus Tue May 17, 2022 6:29 am

    SeigSoloyvov wrote:
    Serberus wrote:
    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Seen some reports of the Ukie's shelling into Russia around the Khakrov region now they pretty much pushed the Russians out

    Reports of Severodonets under attack, Liman surrounded.
    Troitskoye and Novoselovka liberated,  Novogrodskoye reached, and your friends from Azovstal surrendering, must be burning you inside so I understand trying to deflect to Kharkov constantly.

    My friends? oh buddy don't be mad you got called out for your BS and try to label me a nazi xD

    You see, I stated already. All of Avoz needs to die, a long long time ago.

    Yeah and I stated not all Ukranians are Nazis a long time ago so you called out nothing,
    All you do  constantly is attempt to deflect from the collapse of the Wehrmacht in Donbass.
    Enjoy the show…

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    Post  SeigSoloyvov Tue May 17, 2022 6:33 am

    Serberus wrote:
    SeigSoloyvov wrote:
    Serberus wrote:
    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Seen some reports of the Ukie's shelling into Russia around the Khakrov region now they pretty much pushed the Russians out

    Reports of Severodonets under attack, Liman surrounded.
    Troitskoye and Novoselovka liberated,  Novogrodskoye reached, and your friends from Azovstal surrendering, must be burning you inside so I understand trying to deflect to Kharkov constantly.

    My friends? oh buddy don't be mad you got called out for your BS and try to label me a nazi xD

    You see, I stated already. All of Avoz needs to die, a long long time ago.

    Yeah and I stated not all Ukranians are Nazis a long time ago so you called out nothing,
    All you do  constantly is attempt to deflect from the collapse of the Wehrmacht in Donbass.
    Enjoy the show…

    Cuuuuuute redirect all you wish.

    I have called out dumb russian mistakes, that they shouldn't be making but I have also stated they will win the war, well unless the higher ups **** up that is.

    Ukrainian failures? a failure implies they had a chance, in this case there is none they can either die quick or go death by 1000 cuts and they choose 1000 cuts.

    I really cannot fault an enemy for failure if they did their best despite being put in a situation they had no hope of winning.

    Your rather narrow sighted aren't you.
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    Post  limb Tue May 17, 2022 6:35 am

    Serberus wrote:
    flamming_python wrote:
    limb wrote:
    So you're calling for genocide?
    Russia can't waste money for years, and it can't allow the Ukrainians to calmy bombard and terrorize the Belgorod oblast.

    Also how do you know that more Ukrainians are getting killed compared to in the first few weeks of the war?

    No, he's just too into his WH40K

    So now its “genocide” to kill the Wehrmacht soldiers and Azov SS troops were “poor guys who were forced to fight”
    Get off your own dick mate

    It's a numbers game. There are millions of Ukrainians who can be combat trained and be used in a nearly endless meat grinder, until the Russian economy starts to suffer from constant war expenditure.

    Remind yourself of the Vietnam war. Every day, the US would brag about number of killed viet's, but in the end it was all for nothing because the US forces never cut weapons supplies. Vietnam lost 10% of it's population, but there was never a desire to surrender despite constant Viet losses. The same is happening in Ukraine.

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    Post  JohninMK Tue May 17, 2022 6:39 am

    lancelot wrote:
    The reason the Russians are taking a long time to take those lines is that they are trying to minimize their own casualties. Basically. And the trenches were never the issue, the issue is that is a major built up area. Try looking at a map, it is a bunch of 100k population sized cities nearly contiguous to each other.

    Also the Russians probably wanted to keep the Ukies in position so being a continual threat meant that they had to stay and not be redeployed to bolster forces somewhere else.
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    Post  limb Tue May 17, 2022 6:40 am

    flamming_python wrote:
    sepheronx wrote:the last time a MiG from Ukraine was flying even near Donetsk, it was shot down moments not long after the showboating done with pics of it.

    Not quickly enough for the likes of limb to claim that Russia's air defenses are non-functional, Russian fighters are braindead and the Russian air campaign has been a complete joke clown

    Yeah, 404 aircraft fly in from Romania, and are replenished by Su-27s, MiG-29s from whatever old Asian or African stocks. Deal with it.

    Where did I complain about Russian aircraft not destroying aircraft? I think the air defense and cruise missile troops are one of the only branches that's performing competently so far.
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    Post  Sujoy Tue May 17, 2022 6:40 am

    A joke doing the rounds on the internet:

    Macron met an accident that left him in a coma. He woke up after twenty years, and goes out for a cup of coffee. He asked the waiter “How did the war in Ukraine end?”. Waiter: “It ended well.” Macron was happy, and asked: “How much is the coffee?” Waiter: 30 Rubles!

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    Post  Serberus Tue May 17, 2022 6:44 am

    SeigSoloyvov wrote:
    Serberus wrote:
    SeigSoloyvov wrote:
    Serberus wrote:
    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Seen some reports of the Ukie's shelling into Russia around the Khakrov region now they pretty much pushed the Russians out

    Reports of Severodonets under attack, Liman surrounded.
    Troitskoye and Novoselovka liberated,  Novogrodskoye reached, and your friends from Azovstal surrendering, must be burning you inside so I understand trying to deflect to Kharkov constantly.

    My friends? oh buddy don't be mad you got called out for your BS and try to label me a nazi xD

    You see, I stated already. All of Avoz needs to die, a long long time ago.

    Yeah and I stated not all Ukranians are Nazis a long time ago so you called out nothing,
    All you do  constantly is attempt to deflect from the collapse of the Wehrmacht in Donbass.
    Enjoy the show…

    Cuuuuuute redirect all you wish.

    I have called out dumb russian mistakes, that they shouldn't be making but I have also stated they will win the war, well unless the higher ups **** up that is.

    Ukrainian failures? a failure implies they had a chance, in this case there is none they can either die quick or go death by 1000 cuts and they choose 1000 cuts.

    I really cannot fault an enemy for failure if they did their best despite being put in a situation they had no hope of winning.

    Your rather narrow sighted aren't you.

    You cutely attempted to explain that not all Wehrmacht were Nazis, then accused me of calling all Ukros Nazis by comparing them to Wehrmacht, which makes no sense, and your own logic got twisted in itself in a pretty sad attempt to undermine my pro Russian stand. Not only did it not work, frankly it makes you look pathetic.

    Also, focusing on Kharkov repeatedly but completely ignoring the other couple of 1000s of KM of front where Wehrmacht are being turned to fertilised, is just a “tiny” bit more narrow sighted than anything I said.

    Anyway as I said enjoy the show, troll has been overfed today.

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    Post  lancelot Tue May 17, 2022 6:45 am

    limb wrote:Remind yourself of the Vietnam war. Every day, the US would brag about number of killed viet's, but in the end it was all for nothing because the US forces never cut weapons supplies. Vietnam lost 10% of it's population, but there was never a desire to surrender despite constant Viet losses. The same is happening in Ukraine.
    There are just a couple issues with that assumption. Vietnam has almost triple the population of Ukraine. It is on the other side of the ocean from the US. And good luck finding jungle in Ukraine to hide in.

    South Vietnam could never hold its own against the North and the Donbass resisted the much larger population of the rest of Ukraine for a long time.
    Now that the Donbass is connected to Crimea, and with the rest of the areas Russia will capture. You can pretty much bet the rest of Ukraine will fall sooner or later.

    Just look at a map. If Russia controls the sea, the Russian border, and Belarus, what is left has a smaller border to patrol than the current Russian border. Half of it is nearly impassable and easy to police mountains.

    You are also in the XXIst century. The US tried to pull that stitch in China both in Tibet and Xinjiang. Make them a Chechen like insurgency.
    They failed twice. In Tibet China made a bunch of police stations and controlled the population Cuba style. In Xinjiang the Chinese blanketed the whole place with security cameras and made huge correctional facilities. Now they are building up both places. Huge infrastructure spend with high speed rail and job training programs. Those places will lose their isolation and be absorbed sooner or later.


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    Post  flamming_python Tue May 17, 2022 6:52 am

    ALAMO wrote:
    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Naw I ain't downplaying the Nazi's made my position clear they need to be shot.
    My comment was about your generalization and comparing Ukraine's forces to the Wehrmacht, "Wehrmacht tank, plane" etc
    I am just calling out what you are pulling and both know why your doing it, so don't play innocent.

    If we take for granted that you are perfectly right (and that is my opinion either), then it makes them a perfect match for Wehrmacht.
    They were just conscripted soldiers fighting for their country.
    And sure that there was a nazi element among them, but not everybody was a nazi.
    Even the nazis were back for duty, in West Germany, as soon as the late 40s.
    Russia won't be able to "denazify" Ukraine, just the same way the Soviet Union failed even with enormous efforts.
    Nazi ideology was active in the Ukrainian SSSR masqueraded as "nationalist", and the Soviet Union even cheered.
    The most radical elements hold their heads up as only SU ceased to exist, and the first marches with torches were performed in 1992 already.
    They can reduce the number of nazis, pushing them to emigrate to other EU countries, which will just repeat the case of the US and Canada-based Ukrainian nazi diaspora, ending with generations of nationalized nazis among the population of nominally normal countries.
    Erasing the nazi ideology would require another nation-building material, which they lack at the moment because throwing away any participation of Poland and Russia in the process.

    My vision for an ultimate political solution to the conflict, if we are to be realistic, is as follows

    - Ukrainian nationalism is here to stay, and the Ukraine will always be defined by it at least throughout the 21st century. It did not arrive by accident, and the loyalty of Ukrainians will be to their own elites, no matter how oligarchial, sell-out of otherwise they are. It should be noted however that the Ukrainian elites do promise their lower classes something Russia does not - and that is the freedom to work and live in the EU, earn a European-level wage and then buy whatever home or invest in whatever business in the Ukraine. Russia could have competed with this in time, to win back over the Ukrainian elites, or enough of the population to bring pressure on the elites. However, the West did not need a Ukraine that can pick and choose for its own prosperity, but one that's an armed bulwark against Russia, and thus pushed it towards conflict instead before its usefulness ended.
    - Nazism is a thing in the Ukraine but at present time it's incorrect to call the Ukraine any more Nazi than Cuba or Vietnam were communist (at least at first). It's mainly a banner for them, decided upon by the elite who has decided that the US/EU proposal of becoming an anti-Russia is profitable. And during the conflict with Russia it becomes an ideology of national-liberation for the elite and the wider population. Hence it is problematic to liberate the Ukraine from Nazism as such, the population does not itself ask Russia for this. The population wants Russia gone. It is however a major problem one way or the other, as if the Ukrainian state continues under this ideology, it will solidify - just as Cuba and Vietnam became revolutionary socialist countries growing from out of their anti-colonial movements against the Americans & French respectively

    Liberation is applicable mainly to the ethnic Russian areas in the Ukraine, for whom living in a Ukrainian state that's defined by Ukrainian ethno-nationalism is pretty undesirable. Such territory includes most of the Donbass region; with the exception of the northern part of Lugansk obl. which was not part of the LNR initially and which belongs to a historically different region than the Donbass does. It includes part of the Kharkov region, if not Kharkov itself. Includes Melitopol, Berdyansk. Probably not Kherson and Zaporozhie themselves though, and doubtfully Odessa by now either.

    So we're left with a certain territory that has a desire to be absorbed into Russia and that are loyal to Russia. This is basically a Donbass expanded west well into the Kharkov region (minus the Lugansk region's northern area) + a slim land bridge to the Crimea.
    As for the rest, absorbing it into Russia against its will, can prove problematic and should best be avoided. But it is necessary to demilitarize and denazify this territory, so as to prevent any continuation of the war. When this is done, some sort of political agreement can be reached, in return for a withdrawal of Russian forces, and the integration of Russia with Pridnestrovie over Ukraine's territory. This Ukraine can then do what it wants and join whatever economic union it wants, as long as it keeps to the strictest military neutrality, and does not rearm.

    What's more likely to happen though is that Russia will in addition to the Donbass, directly annex in their entirety the Kherson, Zaporozhie, Nikolayev, Odessa, and Kharkov regions at a minimum. Which will bring problems as there are a considerable amount of anti-Russians there, including the relatives of many soldiers who've died in this war.
    But it's still basically manageable for Russia over time.

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    Post  lancelot Tue May 17, 2022 7:11 am

    flamming_python wrote:- Ukrainian nationalism is here to stay, and the Ukraine will always be defined by it at least throughout the 21st century. It did not arrive by accident, and the loyalty of Ukrainians will be to their own elites, no matter how oligarchial, sell-out of otherwise they are. It should be noted however that the Ukrainian elites do promise their lower classes something Russia does not - and that is the freedom to work and live in the EU, earn a European-level wage and then buy whatever home or invest in whatever business in the Ukraine. Russia could have competed with this in time, to win back over the Ukrainian elites, or enough of the population to bring pressure on the elites. However, the West did not need a Ukraine that can pick and choose for its own prosperity, but one that's an armed bulwark against Russia, and thus pushed it towards conflict instead before its usefulness ended.
    - Nazism is a thing in the Ukraine but at present time it's incorrect to call the Ukraine any more Nazi than Cuba or Vietnam were communist (at least at first). It's mainly a banner for them, decided upon by the elite who has decided that the US/EU proposal of becoming an anti-Russia is profitable. And during the conflict with Russia it becomes an ideology of national-liberation for the elite and the wider population. Hence it is problematic to liberate the Ukraine from Nazism as such, the population does not itself ask Russia for this. The population wants Russia gone. It is however a major problem one way or the other, as if the Ukrainian state continues under this ideology, it will solidify - just as Cuba and Vietnam became revolutionary socialist countries growing from out of their anti-colonial movements against the Americans & French respectively

    Liberation is applicable mainly to the ethnic Russian areas in the Ukraine, for whom living in a Ukrainian state that's defined by Ukrainian ethno-nationalism is pretty undesirable. Such territory includes most of the Donbass region; with the exception of the northern part of Lugansk obl. which was not part of the LNR initially and which belongs to a historically different region than the Donbass does. It includes part of the Kharkov region, if not Kharkov itself. Includes Melitopol, Berdyansk. Probably not Kherson and Zaporozhie themselves though, and doubtfully Odessa by now either.

    So we're left with a certain territory that has a desire to be absorbed into Russia and that are loyal to Russia. This is basically a slightly expanded Donbass (minus it's northern-most strip) + a slim land bridge to the Crimea.
    As for the rest, absorbing it into Russia against its will, can prove problematic and should best be avoided. But it is necessary to demilitarize and denazify this territory, so as to prevent any continuation of the war. When this is done, some sort of political agreement can be reached, in return for a withdrawal of Russian forces, and the integration of Russia with Pridnestrovie over Ukraine's territory. This Ukraine can then do what it wants and join whatever economic union it wants, as long as it keeps to the strictest military neutrality, and does not rearm.

    What's more likely to happen though is that Russia will in addition to the Donbass, directly annex in their entirety the Kherson, Zaporozhie, Nikolayev, Odessa, and Kharkov regions at a minimum. Which will bring problems as there are a considerable amount of anti-Russians there, including the relatives of many soldiers who've died in this war.
    But it's still basically manageable for Russia over time.
    I think you are being overly pessimistic. The solution is pretty simple. Russia annexes Novorussia. And this includes the entire coast including Odessa. The population there does not like the current regime either. Remember the massacre in the trade union. Zaporizhzhia and Kharkov Oblasts should also, I think, be integrated. The whole of Zaporizhzhia including the capital. It will provide control over yet another crossing over the Dnieper. And tear Motor Sich out of Ukraine. So Russia will get one of the former large tank manufacture centers of the Soviet Union and a huge center for turbine production. Getting control of these is less important than denying their use by Ukraine, or NATO, now or ever in the future.

    And the rest of Ukraine is broken up into separate pieces like HATO did to Yugoslavia. Galicia and the Hungarian majority areas become their own statelets. All weapons manufacture facilities in Galicia, the Hungarian majority areas, or the central "Ukraine" i.e. Kiev should all be dismantled and the equipment, if any, sent back into Russia or destroyed. And Kiev is turned into a buffer state. Kind of like a modern East Germany like concept.


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    Post  Erk Tue May 17, 2022 7:12 am

    flamming_python wrote:...
    What's more likely to happen though is that Russia will in addition to the Donbass, directly annex in their entirety the Kherson, Zaporozhie, Nikolayev, Odessa, and Kharkov regions at a minimum. Which will bring problems as there are a considerable amount of anti-Russians there, including the relatives of many soldiers who've died in this war.
    But it's still basically manageable for Russia over time.

    Annexation wont solve the NATO encroachment problem, all you are doing is moving your border closer to NATO.
    A better solution is to leave Kherson, Zaporozhie, Nikolayev, Odessa, Kharkov regions etc, as independent and neutral.
    They can federate, come up with a fancy name, but they need to be a buffer zone between NATO and the Russian Federation.


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    Post  flamming_python Tue May 17, 2022 7:13 am

    Erk wrote:
    flamming_python wrote:...
    What's more likely to happen though is that Russia will in addition to the Donbass, directly annex in their entirety the Kherson, Zaporozhie, Nikolayev, Odessa, and Kharkov regions at a minimum. Which will bring problems as there are a considerable amount of anti-Russians there, including the relatives of many soldiers who've died in this war.
    But it's still basically manageable for Russia over time.

    Annexation wont solve the NATO encroachment problem, all you are doing is moving your border closes to NATO.
    A better solution is to leave Kherson, Zaporozhie, Nikolayev, Odessa, and Kharkov regions as independent and neutral.
    They can federate and come up with a fancy name but they need to be buffer zone between NATO and the Russian Federation.

    Possibly something like that

    In which case the Donbass will be part of this Novorussia state as well, forming its loyalist core

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    Post  ALAMO Tue May 17, 2022 7:16 am

    It won't bring the problem if a massive relocation program will be applied.
    No matter if we like it or not, this is a way Kosovo was resolved. We can cry "Kosovo je Srbija" as loud as we want, but it won't change the fact that it is not Serbia, because there are hardly any Serbs left.
    They have just made an ethnic cleansing that was going on for 20 years, under the supervision of "peacekeeping forces".
    If you don't want to live in Russia, you can sell your property getting a decent price from a governmental relocation agency, and I mean a real fair one. And go to live a great life in Galychyna!
    Later on, those assets can be offered to the Russian Federation citizens to be bought with some discounts, making the whole process less expensive.
    And replacing the population with the loyal ones.
    Resolving the problems needs establishing them first, and making a cold blood and practical approach to them.
    Brain, not the heart.

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    Post  lancelot Tue May 17, 2022 7:20 am

    flamming_python wrote:Possibly something like that
    In which case the Donbass will be part of this Novorussia state as well, forming its loyalist core
    Putin himself has said he didn't like the Soviet Union concept of the nationalities. If this "Novorussia" is created I think it won't last. And at the very least it should join the Union State or something like that.

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    Post  limb Tue May 17, 2022 7:20 am

    flamming_python wrote:
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    SeigSoloyvov wrote:Naw I ain't downplaying the Nazi's made my position clear they need to be shot.
    My comment was about your generalization and comparing Ukraine's forces to the Wehrmacht, "Wehrmacht tank, plane" etc
    I am just calling out what you are pulling and both know why your doing it, so don't play innocent.

    If we take for granted that you are perfectly right (and that is my opinion either), then it makes them a perfect match for Wehrmacht.
    They were just conscripted soldiers fighting for their country.
    And sure that there was a nazi element among them, but not everybody was a nazi.
    Even the nazis were back for duty, in West Germany, as soon as the late 40s.
    Russia won't be able to "denazify" Ukraine, just the same way the Soviet Union failed even with enormous efforts.
    Nazi ideology was active in the Ukrainian SSSR masqueraded as "nationalist", and the Soviet Union even cheered.
    The most radical elements hold their heads up as only SU ceased to exist, and the first marches with torches were performed in 1992 already.
    They can reduce the number of nazis, pushing them to emigrate to other EU countries, which will just repeat the case of the US and Canada-based Ukrainian nazi diaspora, ending with generations of nationalized nazis among the population of nominally normal countries.
    Erasing the nazi ideology would require another nation-building material, which they lack at the moment because throwing away any participation of Poland and Russia in the process.

    My vision for an ultimate political solution to the conflict, if we are to be realistic, is as follows

    - Ukrainian nationalism is here to stay, and the Ukraine will always be defined by it at least throughout the 21st century. It did not arrive by accident, and the loyalty of Ukrainians will be to their own elites, no matter how oligarchial, sell-out of otherwise they are. It should be noted however that the Ukrainian elites do promise their lower classes something Russia does not - and that is the freedom to work and live in the EU, earn a European-level wage and then buy whatever home or invest in whatever business in the Ukraine. Russia could have competed with this in time, to win back over the Ukrainian elites, or enough of the population to bring pressure on the elites. However, the West did not need a Ukraine that can pick and choose for its own prosperity, but one that's an armed bulwark against Russia, and thus pushed it towards conflict instead before its usefulness ended.
    - Nazism is a thing in the Ukraine but at present time it's incorrect to call the Ukraine any more Nazi than Cuba or Vietnam were communist (at least at first). It's mainly a banner for them, decided upon by the elite who has decided that the US/EU proposal of becoming an anti-Russia is profitable. And during the conflict with Russia it becomes an ideology of national-liberation for the elite and the wider population. Hence it is problematic to liberate the Ukraine from Nazism as such, the population does not itself ask Russia for this. The population wants Russia gone. It is however a major problem one way or the other, as if the Ukrainian state continues under this ideology, it will solidify - just as Cuba and Vietnam became revolutionary socialist countries growing from out of their anti-colonial movements against the Americans & French respectively

    Liberation is applicable mainly to the ethnic Russian areas in the Ukraine, for whom living in a Ukrainian state that's defined by Ukrainian ethno-nationalism is pretty undesirable. Such territory includes most of the Donbass region; with the exception of the northern part of Lugansk obl. which was not part of the LNR initially and which belongs to a historically different region than the Donbass does. It includes part of the Kharkov region, if not Kharkov itself. Includes Melitopol, Berdyansk. Probably not Kherson and Zaporozhie themselves though, and doubtfully Odessa by now either.

    So we're left with a certain territory that has a desire to be absorbed into Russia and that are loyal to Russia. This is basically a Donbass expanded west well into the Kharkov region (minus the Lugansk region's northern area) + a slim land bridge to the Crimea.
    As for the rest, absorbing it into Russia against its will, can prove problematic and should best be avoided. But it is necessary to demilitarize and denazify this territory, so as to prevent any continuation of the war. When this is done, some sort of political agreement can be reached, in return for a withdrawal of Russian forces, and the integration of Russia with Pridnestrovie over Ukraine's territory. This Ukraine can then do what it wants and join whatever economic union it wants, as long as it keeps to the strictest military neutrality, and does not rearm.

    What's more likely to happen though is that Russia will in addition to the Donbass, directly annex in their entirety the Kherson, Zaporozhie, Nikolayev, Odessa, and Kharkov regions at a minimum. Which will bring problems as there are a considerable amount of anti-Russians there, including the relatives of many soldiers who've died in this war.
    But it's still basically manageable for Russia over time.

    The key to stopping an insurgency is for there to be a sizeable native population supporting the ruling government. In most of Ukraine up to vinnitsa and rovno, such a population exists. It can also be motivated by the memories of extreme persecution that it recieved from the Ukrainian state and would be willing to constantly grind down the insurgency.
    Russia would do well to rally various members of the Ukrainian proletariat to take revenge upon the neoliberal antihuman policies of the maidan regime. In central Ukraine, anti-capitalism and anti-oligarchy would be a better ideology to attract the population than with Russian nationalism, because in the eyes of the locals Russian nationalism has little to no meaning and solutions for the economic inequality they suffer from.

    That's how china dealt with the islamists. It had enough basic cheaply equipped, poorly trained militias to throw at the meat grinder of insurgency warfare. Meanwhile the US thought it could win Afghanistan with specops and guided munitions massacring insurgents, and it didn't work.

    We must remember how the USSR dealt with the banderists in the late 40s-50s. They ground down the pigs gradually through attrition warfare with local poorly equipped militias, making them desperate and more willing to conduct terror operations on civilians who they viewed as collaboratibg with the soviets. This caused a feedback loop where the banderists  lost civilian aid, and the west Ukrainian civilians viewed the communist militias as protectors rather than occupiers.

    So hope is not lost. Most of Ukraine can be gradually pacified,as long as the Russians can succeed in advancing far enough instead of getting bogged down.

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    Post  franco Tue May 17, 2022 7:24 am

    In the LPR, they announced that 16,000 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine got into the “cauldron” near Severodonetsk and Lisichansk

    About 15,000-16,000 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries ended up in a pocket near Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in the Luhansk People's Republic. This was stated by Assistant Foreign Minister of the LPR Vitaly Kiselev , RIA Novosti reports .

    The diplomat suggests that the Ukrainian military intends to destroy civilian life support infrastructure.

    “To demolish as much as possible, to cause harm and then to lay all this burden (restoration - ed.) on the Russian Federation - this is their task,” Kiselev said.

    According to him, the commanders of the Ukrainian servicemen left Severodonetsk and Lysychansk “a month ago”, while the soldiers themselves remain in place, as they were ordered to stand to the death.

    On May 15, LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik said that Severodonetsk and Lisichansk would soon be surrounded, so the Ukrainian military is looking at the example of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol to understand what awaits them.

    On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a military special operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the heads of the LPR and DPR.

    The decision to conduct the operation was the reason for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.

    https://www-gazeta-ru.translate.goog/army/news/2022/05/17/17754002.shtml?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

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    Post  Serberus Tue May 17, 2022 7:27 am

    https://t.me/anna_news/32152
    Drone footage of that first batch to “evacuate” Azovstal
    Reports say another group is about to come out, considering the comments from Kiev and MSM labelling this an evacuation, this is pretty much the wrap up. I assume their commanders and nato officers, if they are indeed down there, will come out last , possibly considering offing themselves, hope they don’t and face justice through war crimes trials in DNR.

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    Post  JohninMK Tue May 17, 2022 7:29 am

    To be expected I suppose if true.

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