Posted on 04/10/2023 6:42:24 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
VIDEOS
1. Ukrainian howitzer fires shells in northern Donbas
The Sun
3.89M subscribers
Apr 10, 2023 2:00 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri56kSApB-U
Ukrainian howitzers fired rounds of artillery shells from a forest near recaptured Lyman in northern Donetsk region on Friday (April 7).
The town of Lyman was recaptured in October 2022 by Ukrainian troops during the first large Ukrainian counter offensive in east Ukraine.
Unit commander Viktor, 27 years old, told Reuters that using a self-driving howitzer was convenient as it allowed for quick maneuvres.
“We can quickly move into our position, quickly aim for the target, quickly fire, and then quickly leave, so that the enemy can’t hit us.”
His brother-in-arm Oleksandr praised the servicemen’s professionalism, rating their level of motivation higher than that of newly mobilised soldiers.
“These guys attempt to attack 24 hours, seven days a week.”
A division commander at only 22 years, Oleksandr added that Russian artillery strikes on the Lyman front section had increased over the last days.
2. Russian tanks approaching Ukrainian army positions up to 100 meters were destroyed into pieces
Kanal13
1.53M subscribers
Apr 10, 2023 1:00 a.m. DST
LOL! We have been hearing this for over a year, and yet Ukraine still stands. Check your clock, I think its mainspring is broken.
That will not stop our prog "government" from sending more hardware so our supplies will be just about gone when China decides to have a go at Taiwan in `25-`26.
After all, Bagram Air Base was just a warm-up for depleting the US military stockpile. Also, the SPR is at about half capacity.
But the prog will have Crapping-in-pants there to stand in front of the cameras and mumble about not being able to help despite saying we will support Taiwan.
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It’s more like America fighting a proxy war to the last Ukrainian life. Btw, your Ukrainian virtue signaling flag says a world about you.
Russian Advances On Several Fronts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu3PgWyE00E&t=45s
Recap map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1-2Smeu-61CyCCdbHQ32Z6uJ6wbGdsZE&entry=yt&ll=48.65453714671094%2C38.14357594328998&z=9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1u5PQufd8&t=281s
The Russians let go of their “Texas” voluntarily back in 1991 and signed treaties to that effect.
Ukraine has been independent for over 30 years.
And there is the little point in that the Ukrainian people don’t want to be part of Russia.
There is no argument here. Russian claims are as illegitimate as those of China in re the “nine dash line”.
Well, there is an easy out. Why don’t you, yourself, take the job of putting together a daily news compendium of southern border issues? That should be of interest.
And moreover keep you busy doing something productive.
Complaining about other people’s interests is absurd.
If you had a conscience you would die of shame.
“The Russians are actually fighting to bring back a breakaway province that was part of Russia for over 250 years.”
WRONG.
You may appreciate this article for a historical context:
“Russian strategic culture: Why Russia does things the way it does”
By Martti J. Kari, former intelligence Colonel in the Finnish Defence Forces
[Background
My background is that I have served in military intelligence for most of my career. I am an officer and an intelligence colonel who retired last fall. I started here in January at the university as a teacher. I teach intelligence. As I have spent most of my career in intelligence, Russia and the Soviet Union have always been my point of interest.
As a young lieutenant, I was sent to what was then Leningrad to study the Russian language. Even then I started to wonder why the Russians were doing things differently than we do? Why do they see the world differently than we see it? Since then, I have worked with the Russians and with the Soviets until my retirement. I’ve been to the Soviet Union and to Russia a lot during my career and have been in a lot of contact with them.
When I started writing my Ph.D. here at the university, I discovered the theory of strategic culture. That theory opened up how to rationalize and think about why Russians do things differently than we do.]
*** “Russia has a messianic mission, regional enlargement efforts, and a belief in Russianness.”
If we look at when Russia was liberated from the Mongols to the present day, it is all the same. If you think Russia will change, you can think so, but I don’t agree. Levada surveyed Russians about the most significant people in world history. Most chose Stalin, even though millions were executed or died in his camps. The majority said Putin is the toughest man in world history. An increasing number of Russians know nothing of Stalin’s purges.”
Published in Foreign Policy
https://ricochet.com/category/foreign-policy/
The stuff going to Ukraine is irrelevant wrt an Air-Naval war with China.
“supplies will be just about gone when China decides to have a go at Taiwan”
I keep asking this - which supplies will be gone? With details please.
Also re equipment in Afghanistan. Specifics please.
Whole I cannot speak for BulwyfnI can probably surmise his motives. He is not a propagandists and, due to the lack of honest western reporting, doesn’t have much to post. Neocons trust the main stream media far too much. You Zeepers are a prolific lot posting all kinds of MSM crap that is divorced from reality.
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth, Putin-lover?
F**k Putin and f**k Russia. I have never been there and I don't care to go. What p!sses me off is morons like you who do not understand history and the current situation regarding the leftist takeover of America. You morons push this useless war while Americans are being enslaved at home I have a problem with you and your fellow travelers, disgusting morons all, who push for another installment of the Forever War to enslave Americans. Sod off and die in shame.
BEWARE Author of video:Alexander Mercouris
“ALEXANDER MERCOURIS [COUNTRY CYPRUS] is a morally defective, disbarred attorney in London. Became a “pro-Russian commentator on world affairs for Russian TV news outlets and websites.”
*LOW CREDIBILITY with promotion of Russian propaganda, a lack of transparency, use of poor sources, plagiarism, and failed fact checks.
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