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Roger A. Shrubber said:
she has it right...if putin profits in any way from this shit, he'll do it again. it has to cost them, and cost them BIG. they shouldn't be able to stage this kind of effort again for at least a decade, and they should WANT to for longer than that..
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Make it hurt as bad as ya can and continue to make him pay for past aggression and crimes. What about those murders in London using weapons of mass destruction as tools of assassination, they traced the radio active polonium right back to Russia with Geiger counters FFS, then there were chemical weapons attacks. This is the asshole you are dealing with, he didn't suddenly turn bad, Germany tried to sup with the Devil and got burned, eventually they would have been enslaved, they were dancing to his tune already.

The policy is the right one, break Vlad's army and Ukraine ain't the end of it now that the snowball is rolling down hill, gaining mass and momentum. The war goals have changed to the whole nine yards, Vlad has no wiggle room and his army will be destroyed along with his prize bridge at Kerch. Next up trouble in Belarus to drain off even more of what he has left and really fuck Russia. If Vlad continues to want trouble, shift the focus to other places, like Belarus and Georgia, make him go to war and stay under sanctions, while destroying irreplaceable equipment, his economy and draining his treasury.

America won't need forces in Europe except for a token presence and it will pay for itself pretty quick with that alone.
 
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Roger A. Shrubber said:
she has it right...if putin profits in any way from this shit, he'll do it again. it has to cost them, and cost them BIG. they shouldn't be able to stage this kind of effort again for at least a decade, and they should WANT to for longer than that..
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She sees the chance to fatally weaken Putin and the destruction of Vlad's army will ensure that, most eastern European powers and the UK have caught on to this, but France and Germany are slow to realize the potential future savings in military costs. If Ukraine defeats Russia and destroys their army in a humiliating defeat, they will be the best security that these countries have, especially if Belarus goes too. Vlad will have his buffer between Russia and NATO, but he won't like it and will wish NATO was his neighbor by the time Ukraine is done with the fucker. Vlad and his regime are Ukraine's biggest national security threat too and they aren't finished with the fucker until he and his cronies are gone. I figure Zelenskiy will be reelected along with his party in 2023 and when that bunch get their teeth in Vlad's ass they won't let go, fucking Russia will be very politically popular in Ukraine for a long time to come.
 
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This war has helped Zelenskiy and his party to lead Ukraine more to the west and into the future, he wasn't alone in this desire and education is one of the things that are increasingly making them different than the Russians. The people and army see the value of liberal democracy and the value it brings to a society, liberals ain't pussies and you see it everyday in Ukraine, they fight well in fact. They can also lead a country at war to victory over formidable odds and are much better at making vital international friends, than assholes like Trump and Putin. Everyday of this war Zelenskiy made new friends and Vlad made new enemies, friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
 
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Well it gets them out of their holes so ya can shoot them at least! A couple of hundred grams of plastic explosive in a foxhole or machine gun nest should do the job with concussion. A few hundred of these over their dug in positions would either force them out or keep them in underground bunkers until your troops arrived. Every guy carries a drone and some bombs in addition to his rifle. First ya soften them up from a couple of miles away before landing the drone, leaving the shit there with yer pack and move on the position. While others with drones wait for the enemy to poke their heads out of the bunkers and provide a heads up to the guys approaching the dug in position. Cheaper than switch blades, ya wanna kill the fuckers in large numbers, so cost per corpse is important! :lol:
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The Carpathian Sich (Ukrainian nationalist fighters) dropping tiny improvised bombs on dug-in troops

 
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Word has it that Russian soldiers are calling mommy at home for money to buy “ better “ body armor.

Ratnik armor is apparently some sketchy ass protection …. In August 2019, it was reported that Ratnik has been tested by soldiers from Belarus, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Mongolia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan .
 
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Moscow Outraged That Kazakhstan Becoming ‘a Second Ukraine’
Moscow-based commentators who remain convinced that Russia saved the current government in Kazakhstan by intervening there in January (see EDM, January 19, 21) are outraged that the Central Asian country is not supporting Russia in the Ukrainian conflict but rather publicly taking positions that challenge all of the Kremlin’s claims. Some, like Regnum journalist Bogdan Bezpalko, are beginning to use increasingly bellicose language, such as calling the Kazakhs “little Nazis” and arguing that “Kazakhstan is on its way to becoming a second Ukraine.” Unless this large steppe republic that Russia has long counted on as its closest partner in Central Asia changes course, such writers argue, Kazakhstan will suffer mightily for its failure to support Moscow now (Regnum, April 1). Senior Russian officials have not yet used equally incendiary language, and there is little prospect that Russia, its forces already overextended in Ukraine, will move militarily against Kazakhstan anytime soon. But it seems certain that the Kremlin is equally outraged by Kazakhstan’s stance and, when it can, will take measures to try to force Nur-Sultan to change its position (Politnavigator.net, March 4).

Russian writers have a long list of complaints about how Kazakhstan is responding to the Ukrainian crisis. They are upset that Kazakhstan has permitted pro-Ukrainian demonstrations while banning pro-Russian ones, angry that the Kazakhstani authorities have allowed their citizens to organize humanitarian assistance to Ukraine but not to (Russian-occupied) Donbas, and furious that instead of eliminating “Russophobes” from the government after January, the national authorities have allegedly brought more of them onboard and even allowed groups that Moscow views as anti-Russian to form new political parties (Regnum, April 1). But in the “patriotic” Russians’ minds, those actions pale in comparison to the remarks that Timur Suleymenov, the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration in Kazakhstan, made in a recent interview, during a visit to European Union officials in Brussels (EurActiv, March 29; Moskovsky Komsomolets, April 1).

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Moscow Outraged That Kazakhstan Becoming ‘a Second Ukraine’

Moscow-based commentators who remain convinced that Russia saved the current government in Kazakhstan by intervening there in January (see EDM, January 19, 21) are outraged that the Central Asian country is not supporting Russia in the Ukrainian conflict but rather publicly taking positions that...
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A little longer, in three parts.

In Southern Ukraine, Russian Occupation Policy Takes Shape (Part One)

Russian forces invaded southern Ukraine on February 24, 2022, from two convergent directions, Crimea and Donetsk, both already occupied since 2014 (see EDM, April 6). Russia’s second invasion resulted, by mid-March 2022, in the capture of Ukraine’s entire Kherson province, a considerable part of...
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Moscow Outraged That Kazakhstan Becoming ‘a Second Ukraine’
Moscow-based commentators who remain convinced that Russia saved the current government in Kazakhstan by intervening there in January (see EDM, January 19, 21) are outraged that the Central Asian country is not supporting Russia in the Ukrainian conflict but rather publicly taking positions that challenge all of the Kremlin’s claims. Some, like Regnum journalist Bogdan Bezpalko, are beginning to use increasingly bellicose language, such as calling the Kazakhs “little Nazis” and arguing that “Kazakhstan is on its way to becoming a second Ukraine.” Unless this large steppe republic that Russia has long counted on as its closest partner in Central Asia changes course, such writers argue, Kazakhstan will suffer mightily for its failure to support Moscow now (Regnum, April 1). Senior Russian officials have not yet used equally incendiary language, and there is little prospect that Russia, its forces already overextended in Ukraine, will move militarily against Kazakhstan anytime soon. But it seems certain that the Kremlin is equally outraged by Kazakhstan’s stance and, when it can, will take measures to try to force Nur-Sultan to change its position (Politnavigator.net, March 4).

Russian writers have a long list of complaints about how Kazakhstan is responding to the Ukrainian crisis. They are upset that Kazakhstan has permitted pro-Ukrainian demonstrations while banning pro-Russian ones, angry that the Kazakhstani authorities have allowed their citizens to organize humanitarian assistance to Ukraine but not to (Russian-occupied) Donbas, and furious that instead of eliminating “Russophobes” from the government after January, the national authorities have allegedly brought more of them onboard and even allowed groups that Moscow views as anti-Russian to form new political parties (Regnum, April 1). But in the “patriotic” Russians’ minds, those actions pale in comparison to the remarks that Timur Suleymenov, the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration in Kazakhstan, made in a recent interview, during a visit to European Union officials in Brussels (EurActiv, March 29; Moskovsky Komsomolets, April 1).

Speaking with EurActiv, Suleymenov rejected all of Moscow’s positions on Ukraine. He said that “Kazakhstan will not be a tool to circumvent sanctions on Russia [passed] by the [United States] and the EU,” that Kazakhstan will label what Russia is doing in Ukraine a war regardless of what Moscow says, that Kazakhstan has not and will not recognize Crimea as part of Russia, and that Kazakhstan is working hard to diversity its export routes so as to bypass Russian territory. The senior Kazakhstani official, who has the ear of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, added that Kazakhstan does not want to be put “in the same basket” with Russia and that both its status as an independent country and its membership in the United Nations are more important as far as these issues are concerned than its membership in the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (EurActiv, March 29). Suleymenov’s remarks suggest that Kazakhstan is perhaps further from Russia on the Ukrainian conflict than almost any other post-Soviet state, despite the fact that Moscow had clearly expected it to be among its closest backers (Thinktanks.by, March 18).

Moscow is most upset by Kazakhstan’s positions on the war itself and the sanctions regime, but it almost certainly faces two larger, longer-term challenges there. On the one hand, Kazakhstan is now seeking, as Suleymenov said, to end the biggest leverage Russia has on that country. At present, more than 90 percent of the oil from Kazakhstan passes through Russia; but as President Tokayev’s deputy noted, the administration is working hard to change that, looking both eastward to China and even more to the countries of the South Caucasus. It recently signed an agreement with Georgia to expand trade through that region, bypassing Russia to the south (Regnum, April 1). And it is seeking to do the same thing with Azerbaijan, expanding its shipping capacity on the Caspian to make the achievement of those goals possible (Casp-geo.ru, March 12, April 2).
And on the other hand, Kazakhstan is not only progressively resembling the other Central Asian countries but, in many ways, those of Europe’s East as well, at least as far as nation building is concerned. In Soviet times, Russians habitually referred to the federation’s southern region as “Central Asia and Kazakhstan” because the latter uniquely had an ethnic-Russian plurality. But due to massive Russian departures since the 1990s and a higher growth rate among Kazakhs, that is no longer the case; ethnically, Kazakhstan is on its way to being like the other Central Asian states, with the overwhelming majority of the population made up of the titular nationality. The Russian minority there is now too small to ensure that Kazakhstan stays forever in the Russian column (Pravda.ru, April 28, 2021; see EDM, September 9, 2021, January 20, February 17).

Perhaps even more important, as Gulnar Dadabayeva, a Kazakh specialist on nation building, recently pointed out, Kazakhstan is becoming like Ukraine and other East European countries in that it, too, is successfully building a national identity based on culture, history and language rather than just on territory, as the Russian Federation has sought to do (see EDM, March 29, 2022). Those divergent patterns of nation building, she argues, underly the conflict Moscow has with Ukraine and point to similar problems in the Russian relationship with Kazakhstan in the future (CAA-network.org, March 25). To the extent she is correct, Kazakhstan is at risk of being a second Ukraine in a double sense, both as another country that is moving rapidly away from Russia and one that Russia is unlikely to be able to stop despite the threat these departures represent to its own self-conception.
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Moscow Outraged That Kazakhstan Becoming ‘a Second Ukraine’

Moscow-based commentators who remain convinced that Russia saved the current government in Kazakhstan by intervening there in January (see EDM, January 19, 21) are outraged that the Central Asian country is not supporting Russia in the Ukrainian conflict but rather publicly taking positions that...
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Another country that might want to change it's rail gauge to stop Russia at the border. It's another problem for Vlad and ally for Ukraine, Vlad had to send troops to there, but he doesn't have any to send now. I'm sure Uncle Sam is watching closely and supporting the right folks openly and clandestinely, perhaps some military training by Ukraine or NATO countries is in order along with an appropriate arms package.

The Ukrainians want it all and have left Vlad no wiggle room, he as to give it up or 80% of his total combat power will be destroyed, perhaps trapped in Ukraine by lack of fuel and a blown bridge at Kerch. In the east they can walk back, pounded by Ukrainian artillery on the roads inside Ukraine and Russia as the run. In the northeast the Ukrainians have cut the main logistic supply route from Belgorod in Russia to the south to Isiyum at Kharkyiv and the huge Russian troop concentration they have there (cellphone data). They might turn the tables on the Russia in the north east sector and strangle them.
 
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