Posted on 10/08/2022 1:11:46 AM PDT by dennisw
I assumed Putin also did this, asking with the pipelines?
So Al Qaeda suicide bombings are just retaliations for what they see as infidel invasion of moslem regions
“Make that two dropped spans.”
Just a technical note. I went and zoomed in on it and there are actually three down. The third one back is also dropped loose about twelve feet but didn’t completely fall off.
Seems a bit odd you declare yourself a racist in the context of a comment about slavs. Given your Ukrainian sympathies. Do you know any Ukrainians and have you informed them that they suicide bombing etched into their national identity
Interesting photo credits and lack of same.
If anyone else cares.
“Deliberately killing civilians is vastly worse.”
Wait, what?
The circumstances were:
Military train heading from Russia to Crimea. Legit target.
Middle of the night, minimal traffic.
Couple of military vehicles. Legit target.
Bridge completely under Russian control from both sides.
Bridge under 24/7 surveillance.
If it was misadventure or freak accident, the timing couldn’t have been more convenient. If it was not an accident, then who did it and why?
Ukrainian motive: imminent suspicion that something very big is going to happen in Kherson - Stremousov (allegedly) said that over the half term period ALL schoolchildren in occupied Kherson will be sent to Crimea- with or without their parent’s consent. What kind of Big Thing could happen in Kherson that only kids should be evacuated? Why not their parents? Are there no pro-Russian adults there, only pro-Russian kids?
None of that makes sense unless you consider the possibility that Russia is planning to Groznify Kherson or Zaporizhzha oblast. Get the kids into the adoption system via Crimea, then flatten what’s left.
As for Russia: this doesn’t make sense as a Ukrainian attack (unless they had massive support from inside the Russian camp), and “preventing a mass retreat PR disaster” is a bit of a crazy theory - but, how about this?
One thing unites both the Putin faction and its critics - they do not want to admit that there is widespread oppposition to the war inside Russia. There are partisans inside Russia actively sabotaging the war effort, and they probably have contacts inside the Russian forces in Crimea. Russia’s made a good fist at suppressing reports of their activity, but it’s going to be very difficult to pretend that the Kursk Bridge hasn’t just given Putin an amphibious off-ramp as a birthday present.
And I have to correct myself again... It was the box truck headed westbound from Russia. So if it was a suicide bomb it came from the Russian side. Or... It was a munitions transport and was taken out somehow.
The Ukrainians are probably just as capable of this as the Russians. They all share a lot of horrible history.
Clear eyes and no sentimentality. As I used to tell my teams, when in solution space, take your feelings out back and shoot them.
Very good assessment. It was a box truck headed west to Crimea from the mainland. So more than likely a munitions transport. Accident? Self sabotage? or a well timed external hit?
Worse than some lone person committing suicide.
There was a case in Thailand the other day. Some insane cop murdered 30+people, 2/3rds of them kids, then killed his own wife and child before killing himself.
Is that just as evil as quietly killing himself? Or much, much worse?
I am in the camp of its much much worse.
You’re wasting your time. These threads have the same 20 or so people posting the same shit over and over.
They act is if everything in life is binary.
They’re propagandists with the maturity of children.
(Memes, name calling, purposefully lying to elicit an emotional response, etc.)
A Uke sabotage operation makes sense. A sabotage operation in cahoots with disaffected Russians makes even more sense. A bomb in an ammo truck would be easy with “institutional assistance”.
Here’s hoping for very cold winter in the Crimea for Russian conscripts.
Why are there so many pro Putin people on FR? Yes Biden is a demented fool and has handled the situation poorly and Zilensky is corrupt.
That still doesn’t exonerate Putin’s very dangerous and desperate statements and moves that raise the possibility of WW3.
I think they’ll go into mourning if Putin is eliminated.
The anti-invader Resistance is on!
I like a challenge of taking a neocon down a peg or two.
Impressive! Nice work Ukraine. A major hit to Russian pride and logistics.
They’re delusional. If you make a valid point, then they’ll just call you a Putinista.
They’re children.
Apparently, you have missed ZelenskyyIdiot calling for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Russia? That the White House keeps up with its own nuclear rhetoric? Why is FR filled with so many NEOCONs? Will they likewise mourn the passing of ZelenskyyIdiot?
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