re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

I listened to the Perun podcast/video on corruption in the Russian military, and while it does not state any final conclusions, it strongly suggests that the top down corruption pervasive in the Russian military has left them with just a shell of a military. Examples cited were pulling copper wiring out of tanks to sell for scrap along with optics. Additionally, there is the suggestion that required maintenance would not be performed so that the money could be used instead to supplement the supply master’s wages.

“The intent of Russia’s “special military operation” is to protect the Russian language and culture. At that point Lavrov made the comparison with our country. He told the French journalist: “For the West, it was all the same thing that happened with the Russian language, Russian education, with the Russian media, which were banned by law. For example, how would France react if Belgium banned the French language?””



The French would clearly turn Bruges and Ghent into rubble, rape a bunch of Belgian woman that have no idea what is happening, and pillage Belgium of all its waffles.

I finally understand. Thank you Lavrov for putting this in terms I can understand. Those Ukrainians deserve to lose their houses and dignity.

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The French would clearly turn Bruges and Ghent into rubble, rape a bunch of Belgian woman that have no idea what is happening, and pillage Belgium of all its waffles.

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With their culinary acumen, Paris would just instigate a war between the Liege waffle disciples and the Brussels waffle apostles and watch Belgium implode from within. In case it starts I want to be on record supporting Liege so as not to be called a bandwagon jumper. Everyone that has visited Belgium knows the Liege waffle is superior.

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Who else is celebrating the recent Russian victories over that globalist fraud Zelenskyy?

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You and maybe a few others, comrade.

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And Russians are banning it now in occupied territories such as Kherson.

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It goes way beyond language. They are changing school curriculum to rewrite history being taught.

Excerpt from linked article.

Ukrainian Teachers Balk As Moscow Seeks To Impose 'Russian Standards' In Occupied Territories

If there is further resistance in Kherson, then Russia will send a “landing force” of volunteer teachers, said Vladimir Konstantinov, the speaker of the Russian parliament of Crimea.

He said Crimea has already started "collecting literature for students of schools in the liberated territories."

Konstantinov did not give details on the “literature” Crimea is preparing to give to teachers and students in the newly occupied territories but an analysis of educational practices since Russia seized the peninsula indicates it is likely to focus on history, literature, and language.

Russia had been forcing educators in Crimea to teach Ukrainian students Russian history, not Ukrainian. Russian history books paper over the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, an event known as the 'Holodomor,' which Ukraine and several other nations consider to be genocide. Russian school books have also replaced the historical term 'Kievan Rus,' the ancient state that gave rise to both Ukraine and Russia, with just 'Rus.'

Russia has also cut back on teaching Ukrainian language and literature in Crimea while expanding Russian "patriotic" indoctrination, including promoting youth paramilitary organizations.

Prominent Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov said the education system is a "very important" tool for Russia as it seeks to hold on to the occupied regions.

He said he expects the "rewriting of history" to come next.

RadioFreeEurope

They can destroy those T-62’s without needed if their JAVELINS or NLAWs. They also have a large quantity of RPG’s and Gustaf anti tank weapons that can easily destroy an old T-62. Any trained soldier can tell the older tanks apart from the “newer” ones even though Russia hardly has anything new in the sense that we know that word. They aren’t going to run out of anti-tank weapons with so many countries sending large stockpiles.

Neil Hauer

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Talking with a few exhausted soldiers in Bakhmut, just back from the frontlines. "We don't have any new weapons here, new forces, nothing," says one of them. Another, who fought in 2014: "I'm expected to fight a tank with my Kalashnikov. We're just cannon fodder. We're fricked."

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Very pessimistic towards Ukrainian leadership: "You have to understand that there are two castes in this country: the upper, and the lower. We're the lower. They get the money, and we're expected to just march forward and die."

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There has been a lot of focus, rightly, on Russian casualty rates to date. But Ukrainian forces have also been mauled, with Russian troops better utilizing combined arms efforts and superior firepower. As any Ukrainian soldier out here will tell you, they're badly outgunned.

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The road from Bakhmut to Lysychansk is a deathtrap at best and even the road from Siversk sounds very dangerous now. After capture of Lyman, there's fear for the next stage of the Russian offensive.

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Then try and explain the Russification period of 1933-1957. Explain the Executed RennaIssance of 1920-30's. Explains Stalins policy of the "Great Turn" Explain the Great Purge of the 1930's.

Todays Russian society is the product of decades of purging/murdering your intellectual class… all that’s left are a sacks of potatoes.