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cannabineer said:

I found a lot of conflicting answers.

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i have to, one about the gun, another is the possiblility that he escaped and went the south america cause there was no proof the body that was gotten was actually him....aka no dna evidence

yeah that's not good to do....and guess what israel does in response


and also there Israel's in the Legion too helping out....so there is that

looks like someone is a little angry....

not another fire....say it isn't so.....

might have a little problem at the rocket factory....js

He didn’t make it to South America

bam0813 said:

He didn’t make it to South America

Analysis of Hitler's teeth debunks death conspiracy theories, scientists say

Conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler's death may have been put to rest, with French scientists saying they have conclusively proved he died in 1945.

www.abc.net.au

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false teeth??? and the russian supposed burned his body up in 1970??? and threw it in a german river somewhere??

Make of it what you will, Vlad will either jump off the cliff or pull back on May 9th, war or peace. Vlad's trouble is, peace is no longer up to him while he is on Ukrainian territory, including Crimea.
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DIY-HP-LED said:

Make of it what you will, Vlad will either jump off the cliff or pull back on May 9th, war or peace. Vlad's trouble is, peace is no longer up to him while he is on Ukrainian territory, including Crimea.
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Hungary knew about the attack on Ukraine and wanted to take part of the territory - Ukraine Today .org

According to him, Putin warned Budapest about this. Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that Hungary knew about the preparation of an attack on Ukraine. He said this on the air of the #UAtime telethon . “Hungary openly declares its cooperation with the...

ukrainetoday.org

Pope Francis: Hungarian PM said Russian invasion will end May 9

Pope Francis has revealed that during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktok Orban, he was told that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to end his invasion of Ukraine next week.

nypost.com

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yeah i caught those....

so likely senerios:

1: he pull back and make fake voting areas for false republics and annex them

2: he stay the war continues if he declares

3: he pulls out completely and things are done

From the Linked In page of Robin Horsfall, Former SAS soldier
May 2, 2022
The only way that Putin can win is if Zelensky makes a settlement.

Russia’s campaign in Ukraine has exposed the ineptness of the Russian armed forces. All their operations thus far have failed, their technology either doesn’t work or is thirty years behind the systems owned by the western powers. Every day that Ukraine resists is a nail in Russia’s coffin. Russia cannot maintain a long war, it is losing too much equipment and men and it doesn’t have the ability to replace them.

The Rouble is being artificially held up, the Russian stock market has been banned from selling, foreign business assets are being stolen. These short term funding attempts will run out in a matter of months and Russian will struggle to raise capital to rebuild, they will have bitten the hand that feeds them. No one will invest in them twice.

The money Russia earns from fossil fuels will diminish as the west gradually reduces their dependence on Russian oil. That will not return. In the long term Russia is already screwed. Financially Russia is small fry compared to NATO. The economies of the united democracies can outbuy him a hundred times. They have more money, more stuff and more people. On top of that Russia is bleeding experts, the young professionals are running for the door.

In the short term Putin needs a military victory but it’s hard to see how that can be achieved now that western arms and training are arriving in the war zone. The mud (as I previously mentioned) is slowing the Russian advance. Moving in the Spring was simply foolish.

Russian troops are dissatisfied and demoralised. Generals are either in prison or in the ground, every time a Russian HQ sets up it gets hit (No one is asking why?). The ships in the Black Sea have withdrawn out of range of Odessa for fear of Neptune Missiles.

If Zelensky holds his nerve and stays in the fight for another ten weeks Russia will be unable to hold Ukraine or the Black Sea. They will threaten terrible consequences, they will stamp their feet, they will look to save face but it will be too late.

The best hope for Putin is to take his troops home and salvage what he can, but he won’t. He will send his armies into a futile battle and drag his country back a hundred years. His brutal actions might be the catalyst that finally finishes the Russian Empire once and for all.

Slava Ukraine!
Slava Zelensky!
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Robin Horsfall

Russia’s Propaganda Textbooks Go up in Flames in Spate of Mystery Fires
Anti-Ukrainian textbooks published by an education company with ties to Vladimir Putin burst into flames early Tuesday when a warehouse on the outskirts of Moscow became the latest site to be destroyed amid a spate of mysterious fires across the country.
Video released by Russia's Emergencies Ministry shows the warehouse of Prosveshcheniye (“Reconnaissance” in English) publishing house completely ablaze.

More than 100 firefighters were required to bring the 8-acre blaze under control, and even then it took four and a half hours, according to local media reports.

"When firefighters arrived, the whole area was on fire," a witness was quoted as saying by Russia's TASS news agency.
Citing a source in the Emergencies Ministry, TASS said the fire started right in an area housing textbooks and other printed materials. According to REN TV, the burned premises were rented out by Prosveshcheniye and another company called Stock Trading, which stored equipment on the premises.

The publisher, whose board is reportedly headed by Putin pal and former judo partner Arkady Rotenberg, recently made headlines for a decision to remove Ukraine from schoolchildren's textbooks in the wake of the February 24 Russian invasion.

"Our task is to pretend that Ukraine simply doesn't exist," said a publisher of the independent news agency MediaZona about the campaign.
The cause of the warehouse inferno was not immediately known, but it followed a series of fires on Russian territory near the border with Ukraine.
Ukraine spy boss declares war will end with Putin's death

Explosions were reported in the Russian city of Belgorod just hours before the bonfire, while a day earlier a railway bridge in the Kursk region was destroyed. Fires also broke out in oil storage facilities in Bryansk, from which Russian troops in Ukraine are believed to have drawn their supplies.
In April, Russian authorities announced that a fire at a Russian military research institute northwest of Moscow killed 17 people.
Authorities said preliminary information suggested faulty wiring may have been to blame for the incident.

Russia has blamed Ukraine for many of the other fires, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denied that Ukrainian forces were behind it.
His advisor Mykhailo Podolyak called it karma and described it as an "absolutely natural process".

Valentyna Romanenko - Tuesday, 3 May 2022, 00:10 On Monday, 2 May, Ukrainian Air Defence destroyed eight aggressors' drones, one of which is worth $7 million. Source: Yurii Ihnat, Air Force Command spokesman, on Facebook Quote: "The aggressors' manned aircraft did not actually enter the range of Ukrainian Air Defence on 2 May. Instead, the enemy continues to launch missile strikes and to increase the presence of unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukrainian airspace, which provide targeting instructions to artillery, carry out air reconnaissance and fire correction.

On 2 May, the Air Defence of the Air Force and the Land Forces shot down eight aerial targets - one 'Forpost' and seven 'Orlan-10' UAVs. It is worth noting that the 'Forpost' drone, shot down by the antiaircraft missile troops unit of 'Pivden' (South) Task Force, is an expensive device valued at $7 million.

This is a licensed Israeli copy of the 'Searcher' UAV (its basic version is capable of reconnaissance at altitudes up to 5 km for 16 hours with a range of up to 400 km - ed.).

70 year old Hero ……

Olena Barsukova, "Ukrainska Pravda. Zhyttia" - TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022 In Motyzhyn, Kyiv region, a 70-year-old woman "aimed" the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at Russian equipment. She reported the invaders' location to Ukrainian soldiers.

This story was told by a serviceman on the Facebook page of the Territorial Defence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The pensioner helped the Ukrainian Armed Forces to destroy several dozen units of enemy equipment. Unfortunately, the woman's heroism cost her life.

"She had a remote house in the village and she saw the equipment moving. She went out to the enemy, counted the pieces of equipment, then explained to her son on the phone what she saw. There were cases when she would go out, get lost, come back and count again," said the Ukrainian defender. The pensioner was helping the Ukrainian military for more than 2 weeks. During this time she recorded "Buk" anti-aircraft missile systems - 2 units of this equipment were destroyed. The woman also helped the artillery destroy a radar station that was jamming communications.

"Unfortunately, the "orcs" [Russian soldiers] realised who was doing it and razed this house to the ground. She (the woman - ed.) died. When they bombed it, they drove their tanks over where the house had stood," the military man said. According to him, information provided by the elderly resident of the Kyiv region had helped the military. "It was thanks to her, to be honest, that they did not move on. They were able to reach Yasnohorodka, , but their reconnaissance got kicked in the teeth there and left. Then they didn't dig trenches in other villages," the man added.

#FuckRussia
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Posted today in NPR's Morning Edition. An interview with an military analyst regarding the current state of Russian military capabilities.

A closer look at some of Russia's military failures in the war on Ukraine


Jeff Edmonds is a senior analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses. He previously focused on Russia and Central Asia as a member of the National Security Council. Jeff, welcome to the show.

JEFF EDMONDS: Thanks so much for having me.

MARTINEZ: All right. The British say that a quarter of Russian units have been rendered combat ineffective. So if that's true, what does that mean for the war?

EDMONDS: I think what it means is that, you know, the operation that we're seeing now in the east, many military analysts believe that this is the last large operation that the Russian military is able to conduct right now. I mean, it really is staggering. You know, we often think that, you know, 10 to - you know, 20% to 30% losses, a unit is no longer able to conduct offensive operations, and that's where we think the Russian military is right now. And we're seeing this operation in the east, and it's really not producing a lot of results, and that's probably likely a result of these staggering losses.

MARTINEZ: So if this is a last operation for Russia, does it suggest that maybe their war in Ukraine, in particular, where it's focused in the east right now, might be something that they might dig in on?

EDMONDS: They might dig in on it, but there's a real solid chance that the Russian military will not be able to achieve even these revised strategic goals of taking over these two provinces in the east. It's not clear at all that they'll actually be able to, you know, break through and control both regions.

MARTINEZ: So it could be something that is not as prolonged as maybe we thought.

EDMONDS: It may not be. I mean, one big question is what do the Ukrainians want to do? Do they want to try to push the Russians completely out of the east? Or do they want to just push the Russians back to, you know, kind of where they were when they came into this conflict, which would actually be a staggering defeat for the Russians?


Edmonds went on to speculate that Putin might want to drag NATO into this mess and would do so by firing missiles into one of the NATO countries near Russia, such as Poland. It would be an escalation that would raise the stakes of NATO's support of Ukraine. That kind of act would force the alliance to choose to either stop sending aid to the Ukrainian military or go all in.

Edmonds doesn't think Russia will use nukes.

He also says Putin has strong support inside Russia for now.

Fogdog said:

Posted today in NPR's Morning Edition. An interview with an military analyst regarding the current state of Russian military capabilities.

A closer look at some of Russia's military failures in the war on Ukraine

A closer look at some of Russia's military failures in the war on Ukraine

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Jeff Edmonds, a researcher at the Center for Naval Analyses, about what Russia's invasion of Ukraine says about its military power at large.

www.npr.org

Jeff Edmonds is a senior analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses. He previously focused on Russia and Central Asia as a member of the National Security Council. Jeff, welcome to the show.

JEFF EDMONDS: Thanks so much for having me.

MARTINEZ: All right. The British say that a quarter of Russian units have been rendered combat ineffective. So if that's true, what does that mean for the war?

EDMONDS: I think what it means is that, you know, the operation that we're seeing now in the east, many military analysts believe that this is the last large operation that the Russian military is able to conduct right now. I mean, it really is staggering. You know, we often think that, you know, 10 to - you know, 20% to 30% losses, a unit is no longer able to conduct offensive operations, and that's where we think the Russian military is right now. And we're seeing this operation in the east, and it's really not producing a lot of results, and that's probably likely a result of these staggering losses.

MARTINEZ: So if this is a last operation for Russia, does it suggest that maybe their war in Ukraine, in particular, where it's focused in the east right now, might be something that they might dig in on?

EDMONDS: They might dig in on it, but there's a real solid chance that the Russian military will not be able to achieve even these revised strategic goals of taking over these two provinces in the east. It's not clear at all that they'll actually be able to, you know, break through and control both regions.

MARTINEZ: So it could be something that is not as prolonged as maybe we thought.

EDMONDS: It may not be. I mean, one big question is what do the Ukrainians want to do? Do they want to try to push the Russians completely out of the east? Or do they want to just push the Russians back to, you know, kind of where they were when they came into this conflict, which would actually be a staggering defeat for the Russians?


Edmonds went on to speculate that Putin might want to drag NATO into this mess and would do so by firing missiles into one of the NATO countries near Russia, such as Poland. It would be an escalation that would raise the stakes of NATO's support of Ukraine. That kind of act would force the alliance to choose to either stop sending aid to the Ukrainian military or go all in.

Edmonds doesn't think Russia will use nukes.

He also says Putin has strong support inside Russia for now.

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It would be interesting to know how many Russians are suffering from long Covid, they seem inflected.

I can't believe how little Western Europe cares about Putin being on their doorstep. Hardly even helping Ukraine with hardware making Zelensky continually beg America for what those in the crosshairs should be giving freely to- Poland only one country away.

Cough it up Euro-trash!

Fogdog said:

You said meeting objectives is winning. What objective did Putin fulfill when he retreated from Kyiv?

What was Putin's objective when he first invaded? What the fuck did Putin think he was going to accomplish when he invaded in late Feb? Remember, he sent columns into Ukraine from the northern border and they have all but abandoned every km they crossed, leaving thousands of dead Russian soldiers, some of them at the hands of their own either through fragging of officers or officers shooting soldiers who they thought were being insubordinate.

"not 25,000 dead" How many dead soldiers would you say would be acceptable given the outcome of that first wave of attacks that failed?

You lost track of time, btw. It's been two months. 25,000 dead in two months. Those are estimates from many sources. I'd laugh at your weak denial but it's a terrible tragedy.


I am sorry for your losses at the hands of Russian aggressors. I don't understand why you are taking Putin's side in this war, given what you say happened to "your people".

But this time its different. NATO is supporting Ukraine. Military hardware is streaming into Ukraine while Russia is losing men, weapons, equipment, ships that it cannot replace. Sanctions will not be lifted any time soon either. Russia will never replace it's losses in high tech weaponry. Russia's military capability is already showing significant degradation. Replacement troops are less trained. The replacement weapons and equipment that they are able to make are anachronisms. Even so, Russia can't replace the aircraft, tanks, trucks or ships at the rate they are being destroyed. The war is costing Russia between 10 and 20 billion dollars a day. Oil money doesn't make up for that. Russia can't borrow the money either. Sooner or later, the Russian military-industrial complex will collapse. Time is on Ukraine's side and not on Putin's side. The longer Putin continues this war, the weaker Russia becomes. Sanctions will continue, thus ensuring Putin's Russia does not recover from its losses.

This war was Putin's choice. The fault lies at Putin's feet. He was warned that this would happen to him and Russia if he invaded Ukraine. It's still not too late for him to withdraw. We both know he won't. And so Russia will be ground down until the Russian people decide they have had enough and internal conflicts inside of Russia ends their aggression in Ukraine.

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Don't worry about Putin!

They have scheduled a surgery they say is for Putin's cancer but I think we all know they are looking for a Brain. To quote Trump "A really big Ah-brain."

AntoMaria7 said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1521484749461725188

how i’m looking at my buds

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I just use control-shift-plus (+) to make my text bigger.
What gives with the magnifier?
Are they running Windows 2000?

BudmanTX said:

Russia doubles down, says Israel 'supports neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine'

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www.haaretz.com

yeah that's not good to do....and guess what israel does in response

Israel reportedly leaning toward sending defensive military aid to Ukraine

Officials expected to support sending defensive equipment only at symbolic levels in bid to keep Russia ties intact; Israel recently agreed to send defensive aid to civilian teams

www.timesofisrael.com

and also there Israel's in the Legion too helping out....so there is that

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putin and lavrov should write a book, "how to lose friends and influence people to hate you.".....because they couldn't do a better job of either task if they were trying.