War in Ukraine (World War III)

gc70 said:
So Zelensky wants to build about 1,400 miles of fortifications ... right now ... in the middle of a war.

The Maginot Line was 280 miles long and took France 9 years to build in peacetime.
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And was absolutely pointless. Thank God noone does mechanized or airmobile warfare any more.

Plus I bet our scumbag rulers can pay for that <redacted> wall, no problem.
 
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gc70 said:
So Zelensky wants to build about 1,400 miles of fortifications ... right now ... in the middle of a war.

The Maginot Line was 280 miles long and took France 9 years to build in peacetime.
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They gonna build it out of air dropped pallets of $100 bills?
 




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gc70 said:
So Zelensky wants to build about 1,400 miles of fortifications ... right now ... in the middle of a war.

The Maginot Line was 280 miles long and took France 9 years to build in peacetime.
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No, he just wants the money to pretend build it. He doesn’t really plan on ever building anything.
 
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☕️ SHIFTY SHIFTING ☙ Thursday, December 28, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Biden shifting Ukraine strategy as election season heats up; Russian high school history textbook on the 2020 election; persistent covid preprint predicts pandemic of heart attacks; and lots more.
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Yesterday, Politico ran a shifty Proxy War story headlined, “The Biden Administration Is Quietly Shifting Its Strategy in Ukraine.” Holy Shakespeare, Batman, the strategy is changing! No, it’s Evolving! I mean Pivoting! Of course, I mean Biden’s strategy is Shifting. Quietly. Whichever synonym they want to use, it appears our favorite C&C proxy war propagandists may soon need to polish up their resumes.

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Unironically and without sense of history, Politico reported as though it were just a slight change in messaging that Biden is breaking his many grand promises to Ukraine and to woke liberal democrats. Politico also helpfully suggested that another way to spin the imminent betrayal is: Biden did keep his promise because — I am not making this up — Ukraine has already beaten the Russians:

Over the past year — with U.S. military support flagging fast on Capitol Hill and Zelenskyy’s once-vaunted counteroffensive failing since it was launched in June — Biden has shifted from promising the U.S. would back Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” to saying the U.S. will provide support “as long as we can” and contending that Ukraine has won “an enormous victory already. Putin has failed.”​

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It’s over! Ukraine won! Ah, the sweet, sweet smell of victory. And you didn’t even notice how fast Ukraine won, did you? Pay attention, silly.

Oops, wait a sec. Biden said “an” enormous victory. “A victory.” Not “the victory.” Tricky! It appears things aren’t quite that, well, victorious in general over in Eastern Europe this month. For example, the Washington Post ran a story just last week reporting, “Ukrainian cities are still under constant bombardment by Russian missiles and explosive drones, and Moscow’s troops are pushing to advance at several points along the front line in the east and south.”

Anyway. Yesterday’s news was that shifty Biden “shifted” his slogan from “as long as it takes” to “as long as we can.” It was just the teensiest semantic shift, but it was still kind of a shocking shift in meaning. And it wasn’t just me who noticed Biden’s sloganeering shiftiness:

Some analysts believe that is code for: Get ready to declare a partial victory and find a way to at least a truce or ceasefire with Moscow, one that would leave Ukraine partially divided.​

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For fun, take a quick moment and imagine, if President Trump had said it, how differently Politico would have reported a quote that “Putin has already failed.” On second thought, don’t aggravate yourself. Anyway, deploying a hopelessly mangled anonymous quote to avoid sounding negative, Politico stated the obvious: As usual, Biden is lying about what’s really going on, as though “politics” were a complete justification for the moral failure of lying your butt off.

Oh, and by the way. The most important thing is for it not to look like Putin won:

“Those discussions [about peace talks] are starting, but [the administration] can’t back down publicly because of the political risk” to Biden, said a congressional official who is familiar with the administration’s thinking and who was granted anonymity to speak freely. The Biden administration can’t appear to be handing the advantage to Putin after insisting since the war began in February 2022 that it stands fully behind Zelenskyy’s pledge of victory over Moscow.​

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On a quick aside, what on Earth does “granted anonymity” mean? How does keeping the speaker’s name out of the story help protect the integrity of peace negotiations? Here’s an idea: a quick way to improve the psyop media problem would be to reject the use of shady “anonymous” sources. But I digress.

Biden’s problems are mounting up. The Administration faces a brand-new, unpopular-with-the-base, kinetic war in the Middle East. Kiev’s a political ghost town these days, but Tel Aviv has basically become a revolving door for Biden Administration spooks and regulars. Plus another war stirs in the Taiwan straits, and hot disputes require attention in Africa and South America. Lloyd Austin can’t be everywhere at once.

Sadly, Biden can’t just pull an Irish Goodbye in Ukraine like he did in Afghanistan. Too many promises.

Another big Biden problem is that Ukraine is getting its clock cleaned right now. Which means it has little or nothing to trade with in any peace talks. In other words, the Administration needs some new leverage with which to negotiate with Moscow. That need for leverage explains all Biden’s recent bellicose grandstanding and the drumbeat of threats to broaden NATO involvement.

It’s all been for show, to give negotiators something to trade with.

But Biden’s biggest problem is time’s running out. There’s just not that much time left on the clock and Putin knows it. The war continues. Ukraine could suffer a serious setback any second, making already-difficult negotiations even harder. Russia already surprised sleepy American generals by seemingly-overnight constructing a massive, impenetrable defensive perimeter all the way down Ukraine. Our best and brightest, preoccupied with high-tech AI drone swarms and state-of-the-art networked missile systems, never even thought of a 600-mile concrete ditch.

Who knows what could fall out of Putin’s well-manicured cuffs next?

The much-ballyhooed, glorious Spring Counteroffensive, which was their first scheme to create some leverage for dickering with the Russians, failed worse than an off-teleprompter Biden speech. It created zero leverage. So it’s Plan B time, boys. Behold, the State Department’s two best ideas to threaten Russia with so they’ll offer reasonable terms: a long, expensive “stalemate” on one hand and the threat of Ukraine’s possible NATO/EU membership on the other:

Biden faces political peril if the war goes badly for the Ukrainians.​

A shift to defense could buy Ukraine the time it needs to eventually force Putin into an acceptable compromise (by) allowing the Ukrainians to conserve resources while making future Russian progress look unlikely. The European Union is also raising the threat of expediting Ukraine’s membership in NATO to “put the Ukrainians in the best situation possible to negotiate” with Moscow.​

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Note the explicit recognition that Biden’s political fortunes are tied together with a good result for Ukraine.

However it ends, it should be over soon. It looks like Team Biden is extremely eager to get started with the much-more politically-fruitful job of putting back together whatever is left of Ukraine, before the elections start in earnest, so that Biden can show voters it wasn’t all for nothing.

In fact, I’m predicting a media stew of astounding “rebuilding Ukraine” articles praising Biden, featuring interviews with grateful Ukrainians, and mounting headlines like: Pfizer’s New State-of-the-Art Ukraine Pharma Labs Help World Prepare for Next Pandemic, Gates and Blackrock Build Beetle Flour Manufacturing Plants in Donbass, Clinton Foundation Constructs Kiev Schools with Cool Underground Tunnels, and Marina Abromovic Chaperones Bahkmut Children on Educational Field Trip to Hades.

Get ready for the new Narrative: Joe Biden’s Proxy War was the best thing that ever happened to Ukraine.
 
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Ukraine buys 50,000 women’s military uniforms

Last month a Ukrainian MP said the government should consider drafting women if necessary in the conflict with Russia
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“For the first time, the Ministry of Defense purchased 50,000 sets of women’s uniforms, 100,000 electric heaters, and 15,000 active headphones,” Defense Minister Rustem Umerov wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.

Last month, Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun said the government should consider drafting women if deemed necessary. She suggested the provision of uniforms for women as among the preparations needed to implement the plan. Last October, requirements for the military registration of women with a medical degree entered into force.
 
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Ukraine buys 50,000 women’s military uniforms

Last month a Ukrainian MP said the government should consider drafting women if necessary in the conflict with Russia
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“For the first time, the Ministry of Defense purchased 50,000 sets of women’s uniforms, 100,000 electric heaters, and 15,000 active headphones,” Defense Minister Rustem Umerov wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.

Last month, Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun said the government should consider drafting women if deemed necessary. She suggested the provision of uniforms for women as among the preparations needed to implement the plan. Last October, requirements for the military registration of women with a medical degree entered into force.
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Wonder if she would go first before sending 50,000 women to their deaths?

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gc70 said:
Ukraine apparently views losing the war as a negotiating advantage.

Ukraine obviously does not consider the possibility that Russia will give an ultimatum rather than negotiate.
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Ukraine is a bust out scam to launder money and weapons donated by the West. The longer the war, the richer the payoff for the elites.
 
I will say it is nice to see US equipment doing well against near peer opponents.



 
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