Ukraine war/President/news

[Tyrian-Quill]

16 min ago

An assembly of representatives drawn from 46 national parliaments across Europe voted overwhelmingly in favor on Thursday for a resolution calling on European countries to “declare the current Russian regime as a terrorist one.”

A total of 99 out of 100 members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted in support of the resolution. Only a Turkish MP from the Republican People’s Party abstained.

“The continued use of long-range artillery by the Russian military to hit towns and cities across Ukraine has caused massive destruction and death,” the resolution said. “With these indiscriminate attacks, Russia aims to advance its terrorist policy to suppress the will of Ukrainians to resist and defend their country and provoke maximum harm to civilians.”

The resolution called on Russian to “completely and unconditionally withdraw its occupying forces.”

PACE is a parliamentary body of the Council of Europe, an international organization separate from the European Union. It has a broader membership, including countries like Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. PACE consists of national parliamentarians drawn from its member nations.

• Image of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen on screen as he remotely addresses a speech to the Members of the political delegations of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, France, on October 13. (Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty Images)
  

• Source: https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ru ... index.html

[Ka-El]

Just repeating that "war criminal" ad nauseum won't advance any argument.

That's what he is.
Sorry if it bothers you.

A lot of cognitive dissonance involved in continually making excuses for a war criminal.

[Mazdatruck]

How can a war criminal call someone else a war criminal?

The US is is absolutely no position to judge anyone after Iraq, Syria and Libya.

The US wasn't easy on civilians during Vietnam if I recall either.

Napalming entire villages, etc.

[Mazdatruck]

[WESTman]

Not Kiev, Belgrade, Serbia NATO bombing 1999.

[gertlush]

I'm going to switch it up a bit. Instead of reading the subtitles in this clip out of Russia, read the body language.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1580678838778204161

There are a couple interesting and new analysts suggesting Moscow is seriously running out of missiles, specifically the KH-101. They're viewing the components in the missile that struck missed the Klitschko Bridge during the October 10 barrage. There are a few different things being looked at, but it's the batch number and date stamp on this relay that I'll run you through.



Basically, the premise is Moscow is liquidating the old stuff first, before dipping into the new stuff. Right now, production capacity of this type of missile is known to be 3/month. This relay chip is showing a production date of March 2019. Then it sat in a warehouse, got shipped, sat in a warehouse and eventually was assembled into a missile. Obviously, the missile is much newer than the relay chip.

There are two different analysts looking at this and the consensus seems to be Russia likely doesn't have a huge stockpile of these missiles if they are making it from the shelf to the field that fast. (Some of the artillery shells they are using were boxed before the Korean war.)

Here's an article on the use and failure rate that is being observed on this particular type of long-range missile.

Russia’s war on Ukraine has exposed problems with Moscow’s long-range air-launched cruise missile inventory, with the weapons suffering from an unexpectedly high failure rate according to the United States.

The Cavell Group is reporting Ukrainian progress, Russia is still putting up a fight (for reasons not so apparent) around Bakhmut and the big news of the day seems to be the mass mutiny/surrender and another ammo storage facility hit hard in Belgorod, Russia last night - which might mean they got the lights back on in that region.


How's the mobilization going? Let's see. This young fellow, who was a department head for the city of Moscow, was drafted on the 23rd of September and is already home on the 13th of October.



Our propaganda campaign has been reduced to "well those missiles you are blowing us up with are *bleep*"

Confidence inspiring.

[DataCruncher]

Musk recently tweeted the Ukrainian "operation has cost SpaceX $80 million and will exceed $100 million by the end of the year."

-But those charitable donations of more than 20,000 Starlink terminals (and counting...) have just come to an abrupt end. CNN obtained a new letter that SpaceX sent the Pentagon, warning about the need for funding to maintain the service in the war-torn country, which costs upwards of $20 million per month (and most of it has been footed by SpaceX).


When asked what the goal of Starlink was at a space conference, I said “not go bankrupt”.
— Elon Musk


>> https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... on-funding

[gertlush]

I like how the article directly underneath by Taibbi is "Does the US have a plan in Ukraine?"

The gist of it being "No"

John Boyd's rolling in his grave

[gertlush]

Lots of interesting news today-

Record migrant flows into the EU, higher than 2016. And this is excluding Ukies

EU unable to fully reimburse member states sending arms to Ukraine

EUs latest sanction plan is to destroy their own shipping and maritime insurance industries, smart!

Tucker Carlson editorial tells Zman to *bleep* off

Putin says no further mobilization and first troops are 2 weeks away.

Very curious what theyll do next - I imagine wait for the ground to freeze and the Ukies to weaken further, so probably still not much action for a few months.

[alanjh595]

14 Oct 2022

Russia’s leader said he has no plans “for now” to launch massive air raids such as those carried out this week, in which more than 100 long-range missiles were fired at targets across Ukraine.

“We do not set ourselves the task of destroying Ukraine. No, of course not,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday at the end of a summit in Kazakhstan.

He added the call-up of reservists would be finished in two weeks, promising an end to the divisive mobilisation that has seen hundreds of thousands of men summoned to fight in Ukraine and huge numbers fleeing the country.

Defending the mobilisation order, Putin told a news conference the front line was too long to defend solely with contract soldiers. He ordered the call-up to bolster the fight along a 1,100-km (684-mile) front line where Ukrainian counteroffensives have inflicted blows to Moscow’s military prestige.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/ ... bilisation

[Mazdatruck]

If the war was not going in the West's favour, we'd never know about it.

We are only shown pro-war propaganda.

"The war in Eurasia is going well I hear!"

[gertlush]

The Russians are sure keyed in on Bahkmut, to the detriment of other areas as we've seen. their best troops deployed there and the Ukrainians spent years building extensive fortifications there. I don't know enough about Ukraine to understand. Maybe its like seizing Hope or Merritt, some key highway node?

Definitely Syrian war tactics on that front... creep forward, contact enemy, flatten with artillery, repeat.

Assuming the exercises with Belarus are just to keep Ukies looking over their shoulders.

[Mazdatruck]

Musk recently tweeted the Ukrainian "operation has cost SpaceX $80 million and will exceed $100 million by the end of the year."
-But those charitable donations of more than 20,000 Starlink terminals (and counting...) have just come to an abrupt end. CNN obtained a new letter that SpaceX sent the Pentagon, warning about the need for funding to maintain the service in the war-torn country, which costs upwards of $20 million per month (and most of it has been footed by SpaceX).

When asked what the goal of Starlink was at a space conference, I said “not go bankrupt”.
— Elon Musk

Has anyone questioned why we are giving billions of dollars to the Ukrainian Government leaders who seem to be belligerent and not rational actors?

A senior Ukrainian Government official told Elon Musk publicly in a tweet for the whole world to see to "f-off".

Telling off the guy that was paying for his countries critical internet services during this war is not a smart move.

Elon pulled the plug. Now the US taxpayer will pay.

"Give that, calm, rational, smart fellow another billion and a boat load of modern weapons!"

[Drip_Torch]

Musk recently tweeted the Ukrainian "operation has cost SpaceX $80 million and will exceed $100 million by the end of the year."
-But those charitable donations of more than 20,000 Starlink terminals (and counting...) have just come to an abrupt end. CNN obtained a new letter that SpaceX sent the Pentagon, warning about the need for funding to maintain the service in the war-torn country, which costs upwards of $20 million per month (and most of it has been footed by SpaceX).

When asked what the goal of Starlink was at a space conference, I said “not go bankrupt”.
— Elon Musk

Has anyone questioned why we are giving billions of dollars to the Ukrainian Government leaders who seem to be belligerent and not rational actors?

A senior Ukrainian Government official told Elon Musk publicly in a tweet for the whole world to see to "f-off".

Telling off the guy that was paying for his countries critical internet services during this war is not a smart move.

Elon pulled the plug. Now the US taxpayer will pay.

"Give that, calm, rational, smart fellow another billion and a boat load of modern weapons!"

Don't ever change! Facts shouldn't play into any of your narratives, because if that day ever comes, I will be bewildered. Melnyk was dismissed on July 9th, 2022. To be clear, not that I believe for a second you don't know what being dismissed means, he's not a senior Ukrainian Government official.

“The gall to look like heroes”

SpaceX’s request that the US military foot the bill has rankled top brass at the Pentagon, with one senior defense official telling CNN that SpaceX has “the gall to look like heroes” while having others pay so much and now presenting them with a bill for tens of millions per month.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics ... nk-ukraine

[Mazdatruck]

Ukraine's entire cabinet from President himself down, all told off Elon Musk on Twitter. That's why Elon Musk tweeted what he did and why he yanked away their internet. Obviously feeling very unappreciated.

The president of Ukraine even suggested preemptive strikes against nuclear armed Russia. This is the second or third time he's called for outright World War III. We have to keep retracting what he says and reinterpreting what he meant.

Far, far from rational.

Our little puppet solider barks too loud that sometimes we have to yank the chain around his neck. This is at the same time that we pour more arms into his country and under his control than during the Vietnam war. Hey what could go wrong!