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Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

The transcript is here and I think he needs a cup of tea.

I never generally rated musicians views on non music subjects. Always wondered why people paid much attention. This confirms it really. It was a rambling speech with truth and bollox.

Thanks for the effort in putting up the whole speech though
 
He condemned the illegal invasion by Russia. He criticised NATO for edging eastwards and said it was provocative. Just echoing the views of much of the world.
I haven'y bothered to listen to the speech I was more referring to you talking about ppl on here as 'war boys'.
 
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I never generally rated musicians views on non music subjects. Always wondered why people paid much attention. This confirms it really. It was a rambling speech with truth and bollox.

Thanks for the effort in putting up the whole speech though
He's got a tour pending. ;)
 
The indications are there that Russia is planning, and seeking to enact, a large scale, wide front attack. They are dragging absolutely everything in - it's not going to a finessed piece of the military art, it's going to a meat grinder. The plan looks simply to be to overwhelm Ukrainian defences with shere mass: they seek to present the Ukrainians with more tanks and infantry than the Ukrainians have missiles to cope with - and once you've run out of Javelins, or NLAW's, or AT-4 or whatever, even a T-34 that paraded past Stalin is enough to roll past you.
Ah General Melchet at his finest.

Same as last time, let it roll on by and hit the logistic support
 
It can join his Bin Laden conspiracies and pro-Assad shit.
I've seen so many people defending the article elsewhere because of his work in the past.

Stopping the recitation of Hersh's professional history at Abu Ghraib--twenty years ago--is the equivalent of "Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, and the KKK was started by Democrats?" It ignores a whole lot of history in between those events and the present.

Nobody is denying that Hersh has an illustrious past. The problem is that over the last 20 years, he's gone down a series of conspiracy theory rabbit holes that have seriously diminished his credibility. He reminds me of that guy who won a Nobel Prize for discovering HIV and then spent the next 20 years spouting homeopathy nonsense and died with his reputation in tatters.
 
Ukraine's PTSD center is extremely busy but it seems like the attitude toward PTSD is changing for the better.

The centre opened its doors in July and so far some 2,000 soldiers have passed through it. All this is new for Ukraine. Before the first phase of the war in 2014-15, when Russia seized Crimea and supported separatists in Donbas, few who needed to see a psychologist wanted to, says Colonel Vasylkivskiy, because it was akin to admitting to “being crazy”. Until then, psychologists were also, in Ukraine’s inherited Soviet military tradition, part of its political section. Their job was not to treat soldiers with problems but rather, says Major Maksym Baida, to punish them for not being up to their job. Now the job of military psychologists like him is help soldiers and persuade them that they are not to blame.

Much has changed since 2014-15. Some soldiers returning from the front with psychological problems, exactly like Western soldiers coming home from Iraq or Afghanistan, have turned to drink and drugs and can become aggressive and violent. As a result, says Colonel Vasylkivskiy, the number of psychologists in the army has been increased by about 40%, and soldiers in training are told not to be shy about turning to them.



In Russia, meanwhile, the returning soldiers include murderers and rapists who somehow survived six months service in the Wagner Group.

The releases are likely to accelerate as Wagner’s six-month service contracts expire, potentially confronting Russian society with the challenge of reintegrating thousands of traumatized men with military training, a history of crime and few job prospects.
“These are psychologically broken people who are returning with a sense of righteousness, a belief that they have killed to defend the Motherland,” said Yana Gelmel, a Russian prisoner rights lawyer who works with enlisted inmates. “These can be very dangerous people.”


 
Ukraine's PTSD center is extremely busy but it seems like the attitude toward PTSD is changing for the better.

The centre opened its doors in July and so far some 2,000 soldiers have passed through it. All this is new for Ukraine. Before the first phase of the war in 2014-15, when Russia seized Crimea and supported separatists in Donbas, few who needed to see a psychologist wanted to, says Colonel Vasylkivskiy, because it was akin to admitting to “being crazy”. Until then, psychologists were also, in Ukraine’s inherited Soviet military tradition, part of its political section. Their job was not to treat soldiers with problems but rather, says Major Maksym Baida, to punish them for not being up to their job. Now the job of military psychologists like him is help soldiers and persuade them that they are not to blame.

Much has changed since 2014-15. Some soldiers returning from the front with psychological problems, exactly like Western soldiers coming home from Iraq or Afghanistan, have turned to drink and drugs and can become aggressive and violent. As a result, says Colonel Vasylkivskiy, the number of psychologists in the army has been increased by about 40%, and soldiers in training are told not to be shy about turning to them.



In Russia, meanwhile, the returning soldiers include murderers and rapists who somehow survived six months service in the Wagner Group.

The releases are likely to accelerate as Wagner’s six-month service contracts expire, potentially confronting Russian society with the challenge of reintegrating thousands of traumatized men with military training, a history of crime and few job prospects.
“These are psychologically broken people who are returning with a sense of righteousness, a belief that they have killed to defend the Motherland,” said Yana Gelmel, a Russian prisoner rights lawyer who works with enlisted inmates. “These can be very dangerous people.”


Russia already a home for some very vicious murders, over the years I've seen quite a few crop up on the mail website some of unspeakable cruelty - or rather the dm very happy to report details of things too vile to retell
 
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Ukraine's PTSD center is extremely busy but it seems like the attitude toward PTSD is changing for the better.

The centre opened its doors in July and so far some 2,000 soldiers have passed through it. All this is new for Ukraine. Before the first phase of the war in 2014-15, when Russia seized Crimea and supported separatists in Donbas, few who needed to see a psychologist wanted to, says Colonel Vasylkivskiy, because it was akin to admitting to “being crazy”. Until then, psychologists were also, in Ukraine’s inherited Soviet military tradition, part of its political section. Their job was not to treat soldiers with problems but rather, says Major Maksym Baida, to punish them for not being up to their job. Now the job of military psychologists like him is help soldiers and persuade them that they are not to blame.

Much has changed since 2014-15. Some soldiers returning from the front with psychological problems, exactly like Western soldiers coming home from Iraq or Afghanistan, have turned to drink and drugs and can become aggressive and violent. As a result, says Colonel Vasylkivskiy, the number of psychologists in the army has been increased by about 40%, and soldiers in training are told not to be shy about turning to them.



In Russia, meanwhile, the returning soldiers include murderers and rapists who somehow survived six months service in the Wagner Group.

The releases are likely to accelerate as Wagner’s six-month service contracts expire, potentially confronting Russian society with the challenge of reintegrating thousands of traumatized men with military training, a history of crime and few job prospects.
“These are psychologically broken people who are returning with a sense of righteousness, a belief that they have killed to defend the Motherland,” said Yana Gelmel, a Russian prisoner rights lawyer who works with enlisted inmates. “These can be very dangerous people.”


According to western reports hardly any prisoners survived. Now thousands of cut throats are returning home. Which is it?
 
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