Russian special military operation in Ukraine #45

JohninMK wrote:@vicktop55
The Ukrainian regime hit Kurchatov.  There are industrial sites of two Russian nuclear power plants at once.  Kursk NPP-1 and 2. The second one is under construction.  muted

flamming_python wrote:

Regular wrote:“ Russian President Putin agreed to extend the Ukraine grain deal, Turkish President Erdogan announced.

(Anadolu)”

Weird, Russia was all but ready to bury it per what we heard.

Well, it seems they had a change of heart  

And all it took was Erdogan giving a friendly slap across Putin's face to remind him who's who in the relationship

So was …  attacks on Russia proper, then attacks on Crimea,  then sending ammo, then sending weapons, then planes and helos,   then tanks,  then Himars, then intelligence, then targeting data, then long range missiles, now f16 …  spare me your fantasies. Russia should either shut up and just do whatever they are prepared to do or actually back up their words and do something about the constant escalation. As i said complete clowns.

There is a reason many nato countries were reluctant to pledge military support in the initial stages, because they actually feared what RUS might do in response but step by step with no pushback , here we are. All in and flaunting it.

And why the **** would they accept ukrops into nato and be forced to send their own men to die while they have these useful idiots in kiev who seem more than happy to die for the US empire. Nothing to do with Russian red lines just a sensible decision on their part.

lancelot wrote:A huge fraction of the political leadership in the Soviet Union had been co-opted by US interests. Gaidar and Chubais are examples of this.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html

calripson wrote:

lancelot wrote:A huge fraction of the political leadership in the Soviet Union had been co-opted by US interests. Gaidar and Chubais are examples of this.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html

RFK Jr gave an interesting interview where he stated that in the early 1960s the CIA had already placed scores of operatives in the highest levels of Soviet government. They kept getting discovered and presumably killed because the KGB had a mole in DC. Basically, as soon as Stalin was gone and Khruschev came to power (denouncing Stalin in 1957 and liberalizing academia and the intelligentsia)  the system rapidly became corrupted. The USSR survived for as long as it did simply on inertia.

VARGR198 wrote:

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1679873550474158082

https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1679873848139718658

calripson wrote:

RFK Jr gave an interesting interview where he stated that in the early 1960s the CIA had already placed scores of operatives in the highest levels of Soviet government. They kept getting discovered and presumably killed because the KGB had a mole in DC. Basically, as soon as Stalin was gone and Khruschev came to power (denouncing Stalin in 1957 and liberalizing academia and the intelligentsia)  the system rapidly became corrupted. The USSR survived for as long as it did simply on inertia.

Odin of Ossetia wrote:

When Hrushchev took over the bulk of the reconstruction from the destruction of the Second World War was already done by Stalin.

It is not that surprising that he could concentrate a bit more on improving the overall standard of living, as the most difficult part was already done by someone else.

flamming_python wrote:

mnztr wrote:So Ukraine should be grateful for being suckered into a war that has utterly trashed their nation and jeopardized its very existence in addition to slaughtering an entire generation of youth? **** me. Wallace is a scumbag criminal liar.  

You need to thank Zelensky himself for that too, he was the one who walked away from the peace negotiations under the influence of their sweet-talk.

ALAMO wrote:Poland shipped own Mi-24s, too. At least two spotted en route.
Those need to be replaced.
And gues what? Nobody is talking about Euro made stuff anymore.
That is one of the side indications about the general condition of Euro industry shape&condition.