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DIY-HP-LED
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Explaining the tactics behind Ukraine's rapid counter-offensive
28,345 views Sep 23, 2022 A Ukrainian counter-offensive has forced Russia out of key eastern positions they had taken months to occupy. Speaking to Forces News reporter Tom Sables, former US Army Major John Spencer, now Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Maddison Policy Forum, has explored the secrets to the success.
DIY-HP-LED
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'He's in trouble and he knows it': CNN analyst explains Putin's mindset
175,019 views Sep 23, 2022 CNN reports on "sham" voting in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and the throngs of Russians attempting to flee Putin's military mobilization. Former Director of National Intelligence and CNN National Security Analyst James Clapper weighs in.
DIY-HP-LED
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A small part of the price of living in a fascist state run by a psychopathic despot. These guys votes won't mean much, make sure yours count in November! I wonder how beds along a road will work out when it rains, and it will.
Roger A. Shrubber
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when your enemy is shooting themselves in the foot, all you can do is get out of the way and offer more ammo
Roger A. Shrubber
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Ah, yes, that would be our "Rasputin special". Castration and defenestration available for a small extra fee.
(in my best Rowan Atkinson playing the devil welcoming the damned to hell voice)
Roger A. Shrubber
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why do they bother to even take a vote? just say they did, and they won. everyone on the entire planet knows it's a lie, even the fuckers in moscow know it by now...so who is he bothering to lie for?Intercepted documents show pro-Russian officials allowing teenagers as young as 13 to vote in 'sham' referendums, Ukraine's security service says
The votes — on if the regions should join Russia — have been slammed by Ukraine and the West.
Pro-Russian officials holding illegitimate referendums in occupied Ukrainian territories are planning to encourage "minors" to vote so they can give the appearance of boosted participation, Ukraine's security service said.
Beginning on Friday and lasting through early next week, Moscow-backed separatists in four occupied regions in eastern and southern Ukraine — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia — are holding referendums on joining Russia.
In eastern Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region, pro-Russian officials plan to include teenagers ages 13 through 17 in the voting process of the "sham referendum," Ukraine's security service — or SBU — shared in a Thursday statement. Citing intercepted documents, the SBU said "minors" will be accompanied by their parents, guardians, or orphanage representatives to polling stations.
The SBU said doing so will allow Russian proxies to build a more widespread voter base and "strengthen control" of the referendum's turnout.
"At the expense of minor 'voters,' the occupiers are trying to artificially increase the catastrophic lack of 'votes' in order to legitimize the fake [referendum]," the SBU said, adding that Russian proxies plan to involve families who registered to vote in Donetsk but now live in Russia so they can "rig the results."
As voting got underway on Friday, Russian soldiers and their proxies stood guard around election workers as Ukrainians voted and even showed up at people's homes, according to a report from the New York Times. One CNN report said some residents have ignored the call to vote, while others were forced to cast their ballots.
Ukrainian and Western officials have widely slammed the referendums as illegal and said the outcomes of any votes will never be recognized.
"Sham referendums have no legitimacy & do not change the nature of #Russia's war of aggression against #Ukraine. This is a further escalation in Putin's war," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said earlier this week.
During an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, President Joe Biden said the "sham referendum to try to annex parts of Ukraine" is an "extremely significant violation of the UN charter."
Britain's defense ministry shared in an intelligence update that the votes are "likely driven by fears of imminent Ukrainian attack and an expectation of greater security after formally becoming part of Russia."
The announcement of the referendums earlier this week came after several weeks of Ukrainian advances along the war's eastern and southern fronts, including a punishing counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region, which has seen the eastern European country liberate thousands of square miles of territory that was previously under Russian occupation.
In response to the battlefield setbacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced the partial military mobilization of his country's reservists — a move that Western officials and war researchers have said will likely not have any tangible impact on the seven-month-long conflict for months.
Intercepted documents show pro-Russian officials allowing teenagers as young as 13 to vote in 'sham' referendums, Ukraine's security service says
Russian proxies "are trying to artificially increase the catastrophic lack of 'votes,'" in the occupied Donetsk region, Ukraine's SBU said.news.yahoo.com
DIY-HP-LED
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How do we know they haven't? It is technically possible to target the rails and wait for an approaching train, if the flight time of the missile is known. It should be possible to drop one 100 meters in front of a moving train, and a train derailing on a bridge will often bring it down. A pile up causes more damage to rails and has to be cleared before they can be repaired.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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isn't it? it's the responsibility of the people to pick good leaders. it's the responsibility of the people to call those leaders out if they fuck up. it's the responsibility of the people to inform themselves about what their leaders are doing...
tell me how ignoring those responsibilities is not being your own enemy?
DIY-HP-LED
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You could end up sleeping on a cot in the forest during winter, if your vote doesn't count.
cannabineer
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tell me why I have to put up with McCarthy. Despite voting contra.
printer
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My question again, why have we not heard of what would be a major win for Ukraine?
doublejj
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Isolated' Putin likely to be 'killed' by own generals if he tries to use nuclear weapon
www.express.co.uk
Putin likely to be 'killed' by own generals over nuclear weapon
Vladimir Putin and his allies have, in recent days, upped their nuclear threats against Ukraine and the West, however any attempt to use the weapons could lead to Putin's downfall, according to an expert.
doublejj
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If you leave your enemy an easy way out, there is a good chance they laydown their arms and take it...
