WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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This half hour interview with Stanislav Krapivnik was published by The Duran a few hours ago. Stanislav, who speaks perfect American English and is REALLY easy to understand, gives the most concise and easy-to-follow summary of the current state of the conflict that I've heard for a very long time.

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When Stanislav Krapivnik states, starting at the 5:25 mark, that the "battle to look at is Krasnyi Lyman", I think he is referring to what is now marked on Google Maps as just Lyman, which is about 20 km northeast of Slovyansk, which in turn is about 10 to 15 km north of Kramatorsk, the other two cities to which Stanislav refers in that segment.

Later, starting about the 13:12 mark, he refers to cutting off supplies to the southern portion of the front toward Zaporizhia, and a chance of a deep encirclement to someplace north of Kramatorsk that I am not able to identify.

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I suspect (but don't have the expertise to know for sure!) that some of this confusion, that's always been present in the war reporting since the start of the SMO, lies in the differences between the Russian and Ukrainian names for towns and villages.

These differences are sometimes subtle, sometimes distinct. Just one example of the latter that readers might be aware of: Bakhmut is the Ukrainian name for Artemovsk, as the Russians have always known it.

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Thank you all for the name clarification.

Just wanted to mention that Stanislav also mentioned that the Russian army is huge but most are not activated in the SMO and he also said that Russia rotates its smo military every 6 months whereas the AFU have such a shortage they cannot afford to rotate their military.
However the AFU still has a lot of drones to fight with.

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👁🇷🇺⚔️🇷🇺🇺🇦 FSB officers have detained ten individuals suspected of working for Ukrainian call centers.

This was reported by the Russian FSB.

The suspects maintained SIM-boxes, which were used by fraudsters to call people, including with false bomb threat messages.

All detainees are Russian citizens. Additionally, the organizer of the criminal group, also a Russian citizen currently hiding in the UAE, has been placed on the international wanted list.

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"The enemy has launched a new offensive in the Kursk region, trying to cut off Tyotkino

▪️At night the enemy blew up the bridges with rockets and in the morning sent armored groups into the attack.
▪️First, mine clearing vehicles began to make passages in the minefields, and armored vehicles with troops followed them.
▪️There is a heavy battle on the border, our paratroopers and other units are destroying the enemy.
▪️Some of the enemy's equipment has already been burned.
▪️Coming soon details in a new summary."
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1919316918843965660

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺Attacks near Tetkino

What is known by 12:00

Ukrainian formations have again attacked the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the Glushkovsky district. According to Telegram channels, a small group of the enemy, advancing from the direction of Ryzhevka, was spotted in the vicinity of the Tetkino railway station on the southern outskirts of the village of the same name. As a result of a short battle, members of the Ukrainian formations retreated to their original positions.

According to data, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an offensive from the Iskriskivshchyna side with the support of light and heavy armored vehicles, but as of 11:00 a.m., no breakthrough of the defensive lines has been recorded. Russian troops are firing at the enemy's identified positions, including the destruction of several engineering vehicles.

At the same time, activity of Ukrainian formations is also observed on the northern flank. On the opposite bank of the Seim River from Tetkino, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have concentrated manpower and equipment in the Gryadka tract and the village of Otruba, but attempts to force the water barrier have not yet been observed.

It is also known that the bridge in Zvannoye was attacked, but it is not yet clear by whom. Last autumn it was already attacked by the Ukrainian Air Force.

rybar

https://x.com/dana916/status/1919334008615280957

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🇺🇦 Former commander of the Nazi battalion 'Aidar', Evgeny Dikiy, said the planned terrorist attack in Moscow has been canceled because of Xi Jinping:

"News has come that has diminished my hopes that we will strike the Victory Parade in Moscow on May 9. Technically, we can do it, but Xi Jinping has confirmed his participation. One elderly Chinese man will do what Russian air defense cannot do—he will make sure that we do not strike this parade. This is a big loss for us. From a military point of view, this parade is an absolutely legal and ‘fat’ conventional target."

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1919313482136117736

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"The enemy has launched a new offensive in the Kursk region, trying to cut off Tyotkino

▪️At night the enemy blew up the bridges with rockets and in the morning sent armored groups into the attack.
▪️First, mine clearing vehicles began to make passages in the minefields, and armored vehicles with troops followed them.
▪️There is a heavy battle on the border, our paratroopers and other units are destroying the enemy.
▪️Some of the enemy's equipment has already been burned.
▪️Coming soon details in a new summary."
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1919316918843965660

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Ukrainian Forces Launch Cross-Border Offensive into Russia’s Kursk Region

Ukrainian forces have launched a renewed assault across the Russian border in Kursk Region, targeting the settlement of Tyotkino, located west of Sudzha—an area where Ukrainian troops previously maintained a foothold for several months.

▪️ Overnight, Ukrainian forces reportedly used missiles to destroy bridges near Tyotkino, aiming to isolate the settlement.
▪️ In the morning, mine-clearing vehicles moved in to create corridors through Russian minefields, followed by armored vehicles carrying infantry.
▪️ Fighting is ongoing near the border, with Russian airborne units and other forces engaging the attackers.
▪️ Some of the Ukrainian armored vehicles have already been destroyed.
▪️ Ukrainian troops are reportedly trying to cross the border in small assault groups of 5–6 soldiers at multiple points to overwhelm defenses.

At the same time, Ukrainian forces appear to be preparing a second attack toward Novy Put’, using the cover of poor weather to attempt another breach with mine-clearing vehicles and mechanized infantry.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1919315954632101963

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‼️🇨🇳🤝🇷🇺 Xi Jinping will visit #Russia for four days :

“Chairman of the People’s Republic of #China Xi Jinping, at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, will pay an official visit to Russia from May 7 to 10 and take part in the ceremonial events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

During the talks, the main issues of further development of relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction, as well as current issues of the international and regional agenda will be discussed.”

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1918951179368669559

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‼️🇺🇦🪖🏳️💬🇷🇺 Captured Ukrainian serviceman Konstantin Taukach speaks about widespread desertion in AFU units

As the POW said, orders of the AFU command are one-way tickets, that is why Ukrainian servicemen are not frightened by criminal liability for being AWOL.

If you go AWOL, you will be imprisoned to up to 7 years. There were different reasons, why people left. People value their lives. No one wants to die needlessly. There were orders like 'go and shut that hole with your body'. People refused to follow such orders. Whole companies refused to launch assaults and went on sick leave,' said the POW.

#Russian Defence Ministry

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🇸🇰🇺🇦🇷🇺 Slovak Prime Minister Blasts #Zelensky’s Threats Against Victory Day Parade

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico called President Zelensky’s recent remarks—hinting at a possible #Ukrainian strike during #Russia’s May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow—“unheard-of” and “unacceptable.”

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1918987496072814597

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kiev's true goal is to "milk" the West and spread neo-Nazi ideology, not a truce, Maria Zakharova told TV Center.

"For the Kiev regime, talk of a ceasefire is a mockery of the efforts of those who want peace.

Their true goal is to milk the West, keep everyone in fear, kill, spread neo-Nazi ideology and exist in a state of legal vacuum," the diplomat said, commenting on Yermak's publication with the burning Kremlin. #Ukraine️

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‼️🇩🇪🇷🇺 “There will be no peace without #Russia”: anti-war rally dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory held in #Berlin #Germany

Hundreds of people gathered at an anti-war rally at the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin to call for peace with Russia and condemn the exclusion of the Russian delegation from Victory Day celebrations.

" The Soviet Union played the biggest role in this victory over Nazism, and the Soviet Union is not only Russia. In fact, this is a reason to celebrate this victory together ," said one of the demonstrators.

" They say that in Ukraine people are fighting for our freedom and democracy. Then I can answer that you are fighting so that the Sorbs cannot speak their language and live their culture here in Germany. Just like people in Ukraine are fighting so that the Russian language is banned and Russian culture is condemned. For me, that is fascism ," another participant in the demonstration emphasized.

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‼️🇬🇧🇺🇦 Two #Ukrainian student societies at UK universities have been suspended by their student unions over concerns that charity rules may have been violated — specifically, that money raised was used to buy drones for #Ukraine’s military.

The unions are now investigating whether these activities breach the legal framework around charitable fundraising. Under UK law, funds raised under charitable status can’t go toward military efforts, even if the cause is politically popular. #UnitedKingdom

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‼️🇷🇺🗞 Important news by Monday morning, May 5:

🟢 26 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed overnight over #Russian regions, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. 17 drones were shot down over the Bryansk region, 5 over the Kaluga region, and 4 more over the Moscow region.

🟢 Over the past week, 266 air attacks by the #Ukrainian Armed Forces have been thwarted over major cities of the DPR, the FSB Directorate for the DPR reports.

🟢 #Trump said he was in talks with #Putin but declined to provide details when the question was directed to him by a Wall Street Journal representative.

🟢 Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh will come to Moscow to celebrate the anniversary of Victory, the Montsame agency reported.

🟢 Russia is publicly warning Tokyo that its participation in Kiev's adventures will not be without sensitive and long-term consequences, Russian Ambassador to Japan Nikolai Nozdrev told RIA Novosti.

🟢 In Romania, 100% of the votes from polling stations within the country have been counted following the first round of the presidential elections. The leader of the nationalist party "Alliance for the Unification of Romanians" George Simion has 40.96%, followed by an independent candidate, Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan. The ruling coalition candidate Crin Antonescu is only third. Simion has already stated that he dedicates his victory in the first round to Calin Georgescu, who won the elections in the fall, but then the Constitutional Court overturned the results of the vote.

🟢 Trump ordered the introduction of a 100% duty on foreign films as the film industry in America is dying very quickly because of a concerted effort by other countries, and therefore it's a threat to national security. Also Trump ordered rebuilding and reopening of famed Alcatraz prison to house the world's most dangerous criminals.

🟢 Chinese companies are shipping their goods to the US via third countries to avoid Trump's tariffs, the FT claims. Southeast Asian countries are issuing new certificates of origin to Chinese products, which are then shipped

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🇺🇦 Former commander of the Nazi battalion 'Aidar', Evgeny Dikiy, said the planned terrorist attack in Moscow has been canceled because of Xi Jinping:

"News has come that has diminished my hopes that we will strike the Victory Parade in Moscow on May 9. Technically, we can do it, but Xi Jinping has confirmed his participation. One elderly Chinese man will do what Russian air defense cannot do—he will make sure that we do not strike this parade. This is a big loss for us. From a military point of view, this parade is an absolutely legal and ‘fat’ conventional target."

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1919313482136117736

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This was a great missed opportunity for Maria Zakharova. She should have posted:

We're proud to invite Vladimir Zelensky to personally attend the 9 May Victory Day Parade in Moscow. But we regret to inform him that we cannot guarantee his safety.

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

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‼️🇷🇺 The first video shows the situation at the scene of the shooting in Makhachkala, where unknown persons attacked police officers.

Two of the attackers were reportedly killed, information is being verified. Two more stole a patrol car and are still on the run. The city has launched an "Intercept" plan.

"According to preliminary information, the Interior Ministry officers tried to stop the car, but the driver did not comply and opened fire on them. There are casualties. Law enforcement agencies are currently working," said the head of the Republic of #dagestan, Sergei Melikov

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1919381984620515621

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian army carried out more than 200 assaults on the front today — a record in recent months, Zelensky said, expressing concern over the intensification of the Russian offensive.

He also unexpectedly claimed that Russia might stage provocations on May 9, while rejecting the idea of a ceasefire for Victory Day.
- RVvoenkor
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1919054679532597532

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🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦 Russian Army Storms Nova Poltavka, Advancing Towards Mirnograd

On the Mirnograd front, following the liberation of Beryozovka, Russian forces, supported by armored units, have broken through to Nova Poltavka and captured part of the settlement in the southeast. The assault is ongoing.

-RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1919109221280366882

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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Russian Forces Closing In on Full Control of Belovody as Offensive Expands in Sumy Region

▪️Following the liberation of Zhuravka, Russian troops advanced further and launched an assault on the settlement of Belovody.

▪️Airborne units have already taken control of most of Belovody, dealing heavy blows to Ukrainian forces and pushing forward to expand the buffer zone along the border.
-RVvoenko

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1919118869912043983

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‼️🇷🇺 “The Valiant” Storm Kotlyarovka, Advancing Toward the Dnipropetrovsk Border

▪️On the Novopavlovsk front, assault groups from the “Center” military formation recently launched a fearless attack across open fields and entered Kotlyarovka, overcoming a deep trench using ladders.
▪️During the assault, Russian forces advanced through the eastern part of Kotlyarovka and continue their offensive toward the west and south.
▪️Northeast of Kotlyarovka, Russian troops are storming forest belts near the Shirokaya ravine.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1919138553331855698

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🫡"Immortal Regiment" marches around the world — the procession with portraits of heroic ancestors took place in Australia, Argentina, the Netherlands, China, the USA and other countries.

In Washington (1 video), the event took place for the first time in six years. There, Russians laid flowers at the memorial inscription "Murmansk" and the bas-relief "Meeting on the Elbe". Wartime songs were heard on the main square of Amsterdam (2 videos), and in Buenos Aires (3 videos), more than a hundred people walked along one of the central squares of the city.

Some other cities where the "Immortal Regiment" took place:

🇹🇷Ankara: not only Russians, but also many representatives of the CIS countries joined the event. Security measures were strengthened around the Russian embassy due to the large number of people wishing to participate;

🇻🇪Caracas: About 450 people took to the streets of the Venezuelan capital. The event was attended by high-ranking representatives of the Venezuelan authorities, including the deputy chairman of the United Socialist Party for International Affairs, Rander Peña;

🇮🇳Calcutta: Participants in a march in India carried an exact copy of the Victory Banner through the streets;

🇨🇳Beijing: More than 1,200 people took to the streets with red banners (4 videos). Among them were descendants of both Soviet and Chinese soldiers.

- ZN
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This is page 1000 of the thread. The SMO, which started on 24 February 2022, has lasted 1166 days.

(I was curious to see if between us we'd managed to post one new page per day, but apparently not quite so. If Mashika was still active, however, no doubt we'd be well in the 1200s. :):P:heart2:)

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🇺🇦🇪🇺EU wants to double aid to Kiev if negotiations drag on, Lithuanian European Commissioner says

"If Trump doesn't convince Putin to make peace, we could very quickly make a more compelling case for peace - by significantly increasing our military support for Ukraine," – noted Andrius Kubilius.

According to him, it is possible to increase the "real cost of support" to 80 billion euros if weapons are purchased in Ukraine, and not in the EU and the US.

BALTNEWS

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🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪⚔️🇷🇺 On the eve of May 9, the Balts do not forget to complain about their "hard fate"

As always, the USSR is accused of trying to "distort history." But the real outrage against history was that the Baltic authorities forgot how many concentration camps on the territory of the Baltic republics became epicenters of inhuman cruelty and how many civilians were killed by the fascists.

During the period of occupation, 313,798 Soviet citizens were killed by German troops and their accomplices, including 39,835 children and 330 thousand Soviet prisoners of war.

Despite all this, the Balts decided to put the Nazis on a pedestal, just so as not to remember the Soviet Union with a kind word.

However, those who do not accept Nazism and do not believe in the "liberation" under the Third Reich remember the true heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

BALTNEWS

https://x.com/dana916/status/1919362696165597598

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🇱🇹Lithuania to allocate over 1 billion euros to strengthen borders

This was reported in a press release from the Ministry of National Defense.

More than 800 million euros are earmarked for the purchase of anti-tank mines and their systems. In addition, it is planned to equip the republic's army with engineering means and improve counter-drone systems.

The department believes that this will strengthen Lithuania’s deterrent potential against Russia.

Previously, the republic installed "dragon's teeth" along the borders for this purpose.

BALTNEWS

https://x.com/dana916/status/1919363599052443726

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🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪🇵🇱Baltic States Prepare to Evacuate Their Population to Poland

The Baltic republics and Poland intend to sign a memorandum of cooperation in June to strengthen civil protection in the region.

"The main goal of the memorandum is to strengthen regional cooperation in the evacuation of populations within the country and in carrying out cross-border evacuations,"– reported the Lithuanian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Earlier, a plan for the evacuation of Vilnius was presented to the public, but it is unknown what part of Lithuanians will be able to escape according to it.

BALTNEWS

https://x.com/dana916/status/1919363805252895047

• Col Doug Macgregor: PUTIN TAKING KYIV: a Real Possibility:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fut9yXL8AKc

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FJKrj1Hn77c

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⚔️🇱🇹❗️ "What do they call the Nuremberg Trials then?" Maria Zakharova commented for Baltnews on the statement of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, which called the USSR an "occupier"

"Some people now call Salaspils not a concentration camp, where the Nazis pumped blood from children for the soldiers of the Reich, but a labor camp, and Bandera and Shukhevych are not collaborators, but heroes of Ukraine. This is precisely why we fight fakes with the help of facts, placing special emphasis on history," – stated the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

BALTNEWS

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🇬🇧👉🇺🇦Veteran British journalist Peter Hitchens published a column today in the Mail on Sunday. He writes:

In my profession, I have long been used to governments lying and getting others to lie for them. That is what they do. But I have rarely seen such a sea of lies as we are now confronted with. Hardly anyone in this country knows the truth about Ukraine. There has been nothing like it since we were all lied to about the invasion of Iraq while they babbled about invented “weapons of mass destruction.” The liars were caught. And they have learned from it. They have learned to lie more skillfully.

Hitchens exposes the lies of his colleagues that Russia was not provoked by the West, recalling the Ukrainian coup that overthrew the democratically elected government. And he concludes with the statement: “Demand proper debates. Demand the truth. Don’t get drawn into more stupidity, or we will end up with bomb craters and not just potholes on the roads.”

We like how he reminds the Brits that their authorities cannot cope with their internal problems but are meddling in Ukraine: “Has anyone in the government explained why Britain, plagued by crime, rundown, littered with rubbish, and swarming with rats, should interfere? Never.”

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Belgorod Border Region .

On the border with Krasnoyarsk Krai, fighters of the 🇷🇺 128th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 44th Army encountered and prevented another attempt to cross the state border of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

https://x.com/LoneWolfV_/status/1919448408063938766

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In August, Abkhaz, as part of the "Eagle" unit of the Donbass Volunteer Union, took positions on the Ugledar direction, where they immediately engaged in heavy fighting. This video is from those days. Abkhaz was seriously wounded, having taken out 6 enemy fighters. But now he’s back in action as a leader! Congratulations!

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I suspect (but don't have the expertise to know for sure!) that some of this confusion, that's always been present in the war reporting since the start of the SMO, lies in the differences between the Russian and Ukrainian names for towns and villages.

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Yes, that's a source of confusions, but my confusions had a simpler cause. I was listening with half deaf Yankee ears to someone speaking proper nouns with a fluent Russian accent ... with no accurate spelling available of what he was saying. He could have said "Moscow" and it might have taken me a couple of rewinds and re-listens to be sure he hadn't just said "Kyiv" (well, not quite that bad ... but close.)

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This is page 1000 of the thread. The SMO, which started on 24 February 2022, has lasted 1166 days.

(I was curious to see if between us we'd managed to post one new page per day, but apparently not quite so. If Mashika was still active, however, no doubt we'd be well in the 1200s. :):P:heart2:)

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Please don't forget that it was started (actually by Yours Truly) far ahead of the war on April 3rd 2001. So one page per day could still be approximately the correct rate (too lazy to calculate right now).

Back then in spring 2021 I never hoped this thread to survive for long since of course I hoped that this looming war would never really fully start.

Damned, I've never been so wrong before.

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Ok, just a correction: Of course I miscalculated, it's the other way round, It would of course be less than 1000 now. Sorry, it's late here and I'm tired. :bigsmile:

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Posted by Bill Ryan

This is page 1000 of the thread. The SMO, which started on 24 February 2022, has lasted 1166 days.

(I was curious to see if between us we'd managed to post one new page per day, but apparently not quite so. If Mashika was still active, however, no doubt we'd be well in the 1200s. :):P:heart2:)

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Please don't forget that it was started (actually by Yours Truly) far ahead of the war on April 3rd 2001. So one page per day could still be approximately the correct rate (too lazy to calculate right now).

Back then in spring 2021 I never hoped this thread to survive for long since of course I hoped that this looming war would never really fully start.

Damned, I've never been so wrong before.

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Ok, just a correction: Of course I miscalculated, it's the other way round, It would of course be less than 1000 now. Sorry, it's late here and I'm tired. :bigsmile:

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Of course, you're quite right! But all the 2021 posts were contained to just the first page.

So the difference isn't really that much. Page 2 started with your own post of 22 Jan 2022. :highfive: After that, the thread began to quickly accelerate with 14 fast-moving pages in the next month. (We were on 16 Feb by page 8, just a week before the declared start of the SMO.)

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In this short video you can see the principal problem Germany affect today: young generations.

There is NO young people in this video, NONE!

Meaning the brain washing is "mission accomplish" , but that is only on the "West" literal /mind place of been from Germans,the old "Ossis " derogatory named from the west for the Est 44 years long Germans,where the Soviet army was 44 years "at home" has already other "reality" figured out...

From there come the AFD, the all winner in last elections...currently if you say something positive about them: you are a NAZI...ejem! please tell me what are the Ukros? Democrats?

Well, so funny may be , this party is the only one in Germany opposed to the aggression toward Russia and forded peace with them!

If that isn't a perfect oxymoron I don't know what it is! maybe just REALITY!

WTF is that? (asking the "controllers") :sherlock:

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I suspect (but don't have the expertise to know for sure!) that some of this confusion, that's always been present in the war reporting since the start of the SMO, lies in the differences between the Russian and Ukrainian names for towns and villages.

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Yes, that's a source of confusions, but my confusions had a simpler cause. I was listening with half deaf Yankee ears to someone speaking proper nouns with a fluent Russian accent ... with no accurate spelling available of what he was saying. He could have said "Moscow" and it might have taken me a couple of rewinds and re-listens to be sure he hadn't just said "Kyiv" (well, not quite that bad ... but close.)

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Exactly, me too! Lol, it took me a couple of minutes and a couple of short reruns of the beginning of the video. No wonder Alex Christoforou was listening so intently throughout the whole video with eyes wide open.:chuckle:

Judge Napolitano Judging Freedom

Scott Ritter: can Trump bring peace to Ukraine

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G3Q0Y96mO3k

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From there come the AFD, the all winner in last elections...currently if you say something positive about them: you are a NAZI...ejem! please tell me what are the Ukros? Democrats?
Well, so funny may be , this party is the only one in Germany opposed to the aggression toward Russia and forded peace with them!

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It's true if we look at the current/new German parliament (Bundestag). But the BSW (a leftist party that split off from the Linke (Left) Party) is also pro-peace and good relations with Russia.
They did not make it into the Bundestag by a hair's breadth with slightly under 5% (which is the hurdle to take). They were actually very strong months before the General Election (10 % or more) but made some vital mistakes in a state (Bundesland) election, and then the Linke Party (who were weak) could steal lots of voters from them and reached the Bundestag instead (unfortunately).
With the BSW in the Bundestag and the AfD at nearly 25% we could have almost a 30% resistance potential.

Here's their party program about peace in Europe:

https://bsw--vg-de.translate.goog/pr..._x_tr_pto=wapp