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How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Actually, I think "all wars are terrible' is just the truth.You're all 'war is terrible' and people don't get more platitudinous than that
Actually, I think "all wars are terrible' is just the truth.You're all 'war is terrible' and people don't get more platitudinous than that
it is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of itActually, I think "all wars are terrible' is just the truth.
I have a look every few days at that little bulge where they have been trying to get through the defences - as I understand it with the aim of taking control of Tokmak which is important transport wise.they don't have to progress much further in order to be able to cut off Crimea and the Russian occupation west of Melitopol.
Yep. The problem is that you can't just unilaterally not fight them...Actually, I think "all wars are terrible' is just the truth.
I have a look every few days at that little bulge where they have been trying to get through the defences - as I understand it with the aim of taking control of Tokmak which is important transport wise.
I've been watching the painfully slow progress and am aware that in the last few days they have got through those defenses but there's still quite a way to go. Not being a military person I can't judge how optimistic the hopes are, that they'll take control of that town and succeed in interrupting supplies sufficiently that there is then a widescale Russian retreat from that area.
I was reading this earlier; it doesn't rule it out but also doesn't sound that confident that we'll see much success soon.
Or indeed having English your official language for about a quarter of the world...Yep. The problem is that you can't just unilaterally not fight them...
Well, not if you don't want to end up speaking German, Russian....
english is one of the official languages of the sakha republic, along with russian and yakutOr indeed having English your official language for about a quarter of the world...
But "doing really well considering the circumstances" is very different from "achieving the desired results" and so the former is somewhat irrelevant to arguments about whether the latter is possible.
But that's what happens if you don't have a flag. No flag no countryIt's the rules that we just made up.Or indeed having English your official language for about a quarter of the world...
But that's what happens if you don't have a flag. No flag no countryIt's the rules that we just made up.
Drove an Int Corp officer even more potty than usual after pointing out most of my regiments battle honours were not exactly gained in the pursuit of Freedom (or even just beating up the French which is completely justifiable on the grounds that it's the french) But were mostly taking other people's countries although you could argue assorted Kings and other smaller empires were hardly Beacons of democracy and freedom but the British Empire was hardly democractic either
Was one of your regimental battle honours Umboto Gorge?
Yep. The problem is that you can't just unilaterally not fight them...
Well, not if you don't want to end up speaking German, Russian....
The members of Galicia division were individually screened for security purposes before admission to Canada. Charges of war crimes of Galicia division have never been substantiated, either in 1950 when they were first preferred, or in 1984 when they were renewed, or before this commission.”
Zelensky seemed very pleased to see the Nazi cunt. Punched the air, clapped a lot, cheered.Oh Dear
Canada's House Speaker apologises for praising Ukrainian who fought for Nazis
The House of Commons Speaker apologises for honouring a Ukrainian who served in the Waffen-SS.www.bbc.com
People are making the assumption Ukraine has failed from media reports who have based their interpretation of progress from western generals opinions which are based on how the west would do it, which is very different from how Ukraine can do it even if they wanted to.
The isw link in StoneRoad's post above says russia hasn't established air superiorityEven though Russia has air superiority, they're not using it as much as expected. Ukraine's most effective opponent is the Ka-50 alligator.
I was speaking more generally...Many of the speak Russian already and see it as their patriotic duty to make themselves talk to each other in Ukrainian.
I'm not making that assumption.
It's possible to recognise that Ukraine have had certain considerable successes, including the fact that they have prevented a total annexation, but also to observe that currently their progress in reclaiming territory is very slow.
Having made that observation, there's a bunch of opinions to choose from, perhaps including those from "western generals" but also, I suspect, opinions that result from a degree of wishful thinking.
The isw link in StoneRoad's post above says russia hasn't established air superiority
The 14th Waffen Division only escaped the Soviet Union demands that they be sent to them due to the low level of Allied intelligence on war crimes in the eastern front . They were initially held in Rimini and Scotland . The filtration process was to be kind , ‘light fingered ‘, the deaths of East Europeans wasn’t a priority . Somewhere there’s a quote from an English officer who said the worst were sent to Canada . Those who were sent to the U.K. faced no investigation as there was a severe agrarian labour shortage which the U.K. hoped would be alleviated by the influx of Ukrainian even they they may have been collaborators .“
The decision to allow some 600 members of a volunteer unit that was under the command of the Nazis to live in Canada after the second world war has long been a source of controversy.
It was the subject of a government commission of inquiry in the 1980s into whether Canada had become a haven for war criminals. Members of the division were accused of killing Polish and Jewish civilians.
The Nuremberg tribunals found the Waffen-SS guilty as an organisation of war crimes but not the the First Ukrainian Division, better known as the Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division or the SS 14th Waffen Division.
Only Germans from Germany itself were able to fight in the German army, so non-German volunteers who believed in Nazi aims or sought to use Nazi power for their own ends were organised into SS divisions.
In 1985, Canada’s then prime minister, Brian Mulroney, established the commission of inquiry on war criminals in Canada after an MP claimed the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele might be in the country. On the issue of the Galicia division, the commission’s head, Jules Deschênes, ruled that members “should not be indicted as a group”.
I'm not saying they "should" have. It being described initially as a "spring counteroffensive" perhaps set up some kind of expectation that significant gains might be made in the spring/summer, but none of my comments are supposed to be a criticism of their methods; I'm totally unqualified to criticise. They are just my observations of things that to my eyes seem to make some predictions appear rather over optimistic. I'd be very pleased to find out that's not the case.Still, I think you're following the expectation of those generals and the media who expected it to be done much faster. So the question back to you is, why should Ukraine have reclaimed territory faster? What are you basing that upon?
Russian officers who hadn't been paid by Moscow sold key intel on the Black Sea Fleet to Ukrainian resistance fighters. Then the headquarters blew up.
Resistance fighters told Ukrainian media they obtained sensitive information from the Russian officers in exchange for financial compensation.www.businessinsider.com
After missing their anticipated salary payments, Russian officers decided to leak sensitive information about Moscow's Black Sea Fleet to a Ukrainian partisan movement. The intelligence later paved the way for a devastating missile strike on the fleet's headquarters in the occupied Crimean Peninsula, Ukrainian media reported.