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Author Topic: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.  (Read 100769 times)

Jaeger

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #930 on: August 05, 2022, 12:28:03 PM »
More pro-Russia propaganda:

Amnesty International UK
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Ukraine: military endangering civilians by locating forces in residential areas - new research
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-military-endangering-civilians-locating-forces-residential-areas-new

Translation: Ukraine defends cities from Russian attacks instead of abandoning them. This results in Russians hitting those cities with artillery barrages. Somehow this is Ukraine's fault.

And with one article, Amnesty International became a "puppet" of the Kremlin...
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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #931 on: August 05, 2022, 12:33:16 PM »
More pro-Russia propaganda:

Amnesty International UK
Press releases

Ukraine: military endangering civilians by locating forces in residential areas - new research
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-military-endangering-civilians-locating-forces-residential-areas-new

Translation: Ukraine defends cities from Russian attacks instead of abandoning them. This results in Russians hitting those cities with artillery barrages. Somehow this is Ukraine's fault.
Ukraine should've just let Russia run roughshod over them, as is proper.

(/sarc, obviously)

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #932 on: August 05, 2022, 12:47:32 PM »
More pro-Russia propaganda:

Amnesty International UK
Press releases

Ukraine: military endangering civilians by locating forces in residential areas - new research
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-military-endangering-civilians-locating-forces-residential-areas-new

Translation: Ukraine defends cities from Russian attacks instead of abandoning them. This results in Russians hitting those cities with artillery barrages. Somehow this is Ukraine's fault.

And with one article, Amnesty International became a "puppet" of the Kremlin...

Don't forget to add the Associated Press to your list of puppets.  Their own reporters pretty much confirmed everything in Amnesty's report:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-donetsk-amnesty-international-7eb46d7e7cd2205403f7bf45ad7122cc

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #933 on: August 07, 2022, 05:37:13 AM »
More pro-Russia propaganda:

Amnesty International UK
Press releases

Ukraine: military endangering civilians by locating forces in residential areas - new research
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-military-endangering-civilians-locating-forces-residential-areas-new

Translation: Ukraine defends cities from Russian attacks instead of abandoning them. This results in Russians hitting those cities with artillery barrages. Somehow this is Ukraine's fault.

And with one article, Amnesty International became a "puppet" of the Kremlin...

In other news a home owner recently encouraged violent theft by allowing themselves to be beaten up by a burglar breaking into their house.

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #934 on: August 07, 2022, 08:06:34 AM »
What AI doesn't understand is that Ukraine is damned if they do, but double-damned if they don't.

Yes, it's true that deploying in a city close to civilians will put them in harms way, but if they don't deploy in the city, the russians will shell civilians anyway (as they are already doing everywhere else) as well as leaving them defenseless against raping, murdering and kidnapping.

It is moronic to more or less accuse Ukraine to use civilians as human shields because that would assume russians care.

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #935 on: August 07, 2022, 03:33:12 PM »
Speaking of puppets, where's Zelensky been lately?  Haven't seen too much of him in the news recently.  I suppose he's resting up from that positively exhausting Vogue fashion photo shoot.  Good article.  It reminded me of that time Churchill took a vacation from defending Britain to go down and model men's beachwear at El Alamein for the fashion season of '42.

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #936 on: August 08, 2022, 12:41:46 AM »
More pro-Russia propaganda:

Amnesty International UK
Press releases

Ukraine: military endangering civilians by locating forces in residential areas - new research
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-military-endangering-civilians-locating-forces-residential-areas-new

Translation: Ukraine defends cities from Russian attacks instead of abandoning them. This results in Russians hitting those cities with artillery barrages. Somehow this is Ukraine's fault.

And with one article, Amnesty International became a "puppet" of the Kremlin...

You don't have to be a puppet of the Kremlin to be an idiot. What the fuck were the Ukrainians supposed to do? Leave all urban areas completely undefended?

Jaeger

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #937 on: August 08, 2022, 01:53:05 PM »
You don't have to be a puppet of the Kremlin to be an idiot. What the fuck were the Ukrainians supposed to do? Leave all urban areas completely undefended?

I dunno, maybe they could evacuate the civilian buildings around their defensive emplacements to give the people that they are ostensibly defending half a chance?

Just tossing that out there.
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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #938 on: September 01, 2022, 09:07:05 AM »
The fog of war and censorship is thick over the progress or disappointment of the Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive toward Kherson. God willing, the Ukraine will prevail and the undermotivated Russians will flee or surrender, but Putin's mercenaries and Muslim soldiers might fight to the death out of desperation.

(Fun fact I learned: Kherson is not Cherson, the Byzantine name for Chersonesus which was an ancient Greek colony near Sevastopol, but is rather a creation of Catherine the Great and named after the ancient city.)

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #939 on: September 02, 2022, 11:51:51 PM »
(Fun fact I learned: Kherson is not Cherson, the Byzantine name for Chersonesus which was an ancient Greek colony near Sevastopol, but is rather a creation of Catherine the Great and named after the ancient city.)
So it does belong to Russian empire.  Kitty wants it back.


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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #940 on: September 03, 2022, 06:46:05 AM »
(Fun fact I learned: Kherson is not Cherson, the Byzantine name for Chersonesus which was an ancient Greek colony near Sevastopol, but is rather a creation of Catherine the Great and named after the ancient city.)
So it does belong to Russian empire.  Kitty wants it back.

<laughs> By that reasoning, the entire east coast of America (except for Nieu Amsterdam) belongs to Britain. And all the cities founded by Alexander and named after himself belong to Greece. But Istanbul belongs neither to Greece nor Turkey but to Italy since it was founded by the Roman emperor Constantine.

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #941 on: September 06, 2022, 08:47:43 AM »

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #942 on: September 13, 2022, 10:09:11 AM »
My spirits have been lifted by the recent news from Ukraine. Who else is heartened by the successful Ukrainian counter-offensive to liberate the Kharkiv oblast?

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #943 on: September 13, 2022, 10:25:24 AM »
My spirits have been lifted by the recent news from Ukraine. Who else is heartened by the successful Ukrainian counter-offensive to liberate the Kharkiv oblast?
While I'm not the biggest fan of Ukraine due to the endemic corruption, it amuses me to watch the Russians get their teeth kicked in.

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Re: Ukraine is under attack. It's a full on war.
« Reply #944 on: September 13, 2022, 11:05:45 AM »
I'm in the same fan club.  Putin seems concerned about eating a bullet lately and has curtailed some of his public appearances.
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