This isn’t the first time Ukraine 🇺🇦 fought like hell for its freedom. Now that Russian 🇷🇺 propaganda no longer aligns with the vast influence of communist propaganda, the world can see things for what they are.
Example:
When I was in public school in NYC in the 80s, we had some international day where everyone celebrated their roots. My teacher told me I could be either Russian or Soviet, but there was no such thing as Ukrainian. I don’t think my teacher was Russian.
It seems like this 2021 analysis of Russian logistics weaknesses is playing out. It’s a shockingly accurate prediction:
https://warontherocks.com/2021/11/feeding-the-bear-a-closer-look-at-russian-army-logistics/
U.S. paratroopers from the @82ndABNDiv
have been training in Poland with the soldiers of the Polish “Steel Division” @Zelazna_Dywizja
Their propaganda is really a wonder of the modern world.
Systemic collapse coming to Russia.
“Can’t you understand if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometres through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?”
Yevgeny Khaldei, the author of this iconic photograph of Red Army servicemen raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, had some editing to do before it got published.
Notice how in the unedited one on the left, one of the soldiers is wearing wristwatches on both wrists?
(ie. he probably stole one or both)
This is perfectly consistent with the story about MH-17 Mascara from 2014.
Russian soldiers stealing Ukrainian chickens.
When the Russian Army marches West, things always look the same.
Doesn’t matter if the year is 1815, 1914, 1939 or 2022.
Are those Georgian Accents I hear?
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1501841660505837572
My translation of the 3rd letter in the series from an active FSB analyst to Vladimir Osechkin, Russian human rights activist exiled in France. Dated March 5th. Buckle up for a long thread and definitely please share far & wide. The text is over 1400 words.
“I will start with the big picture. There are people with particular talents in the field of analytics (inside the FSB), who are retained here in the bureau not just for the value they bring, but to ensure that they remain under “control” (of the Russian government).
For example, and I am one of them, such people may never return to an ordinary life, the system does not allow for such a shift. “There” (outside the FSB) we are considered dangerous. This is my department’s policy.
Belarus was widely expected to join the Russian invasion of Ukraine but indications are growing that the Belarusian military is strongly opposed to any involvement in Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka has turned Belarus into a staging area for Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Russian military supplies are flowing by rail and road into Ukraine via the country’s northern frontier with Belarus, while missiles are raining down on Ukrainian cities from across the Belarusian border.
Until recently, it was widely expected that Belarusian troops would also be joining Russian forces in the invasion. However, there are signs of a rebellion within the ranks of the Belarusian military.
Franak Viačorka, an adviser to exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, told the newspaper Israel Hayom that several senior military officers have resigned, fled the country, and contacted him and other opposition figures living abroad.
According to Viačorka, “there is a high degree of demoralization” among both officers and conscripts. He claimed that many “are fleeing the country’s borders en masse to any destination possible.” Viačorka added, “We have seen growing pressure from commanders of military units not to intervene in the fighting in Ukraine. There are officers who took sick leave and others who have asked to end their contracts with the military.”
As a result of this opposition, Viačorka reported that Belarusian units have yet to enter Ukrainian territory and units stationed adjacent to the border with Ukraine have been returned to their bases. “It seems the decision to involve the Belarusian military in fighting was changed as a result of pressure from top brass and the refusal by soldiers to fight,” he claimed.
Saluting youths in a shopping mall in Kazan wearing the Z Russian army logo.
Russian students; Ukrainians and Russians are one people. Our grandfathers fought the Nazis together. We want to live as brothers. You can end this war. Putin’s army does not kill the population, P has the right to invade a neighboring country and demand “denazification, demilitarization, neutral status and the legalization of the seizure of Crimea” under the threat of continued massacres. Nobody wants peace more than us. Nazism has lifted its head again.
Apparently this is a video of a Ukrainian soldier telling Russians to get out of their APC. He says, “get out, and you’ll live”.
He also trolls them by speaking German.
