Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

Trochę gorzkiej rozrywki. Polski stand-up w wykonaniu Michała Kempy 3 lata temu - "III WW".
https://twitter.com/x/status/1515999663635189767
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Teraz chciałbym coś powiedzieć o Polsce.
Tak, powiedz coś patriotycznego, przyzwoitego.
Otóż my, na wojnach, Polska, jako kraj, jako naród, Polska, jesteśmy najlepsi ze wszystkich krajów na wojnach.
Tak, jesteśmy najlepsi w wojnach.
Nie mówię, że jesteśmy najlepsi w wygrywaniu wojen, z reguły byliśmy w tym cholernie słabi. Historycznie jesteśmy najlepsi w wojnach w kategorii najlepszego kraju, w którym toczą się wojny. To znaczy... cóż... no cóż, taka jest prawda...
I wojna światowa, II wojna światowa, no cóż, mieliśmy najlepsze wojny, taka jest prawda.
Mamy... mamy doświadczenie, mamy "know how", wiemy jak to zrobić, mamy tradycje, wiemy jak to zrobić, mamy infrastrukturę, no cóż... no cóż... to są te fakty, no cóż..., ale...
Hasło: słynna polska gościnność nie wzięła się znikąd, prawda?
Najlepsza wojna to Niemcy-Rosja w Polsce! Mieliśmy najlepsze wojny...
Każdy kraj ma coś własnego, prawda...
Hiszpanie mają korridę, Włosi mają pizzę, u nas można godnie umrzeć, prawda? Dla sprawy.
Cały świat patrzy na Syrię, Kurdystan, cały świat patrzy z niepokojem... patrzymy na to z zazdrością, trochę tak, czy nie dałoby się zorganizować czegoś takiego w naszym kraju, czegoś podobnego , tak! Tu są wojny...
I szczerze mówiąc, szczerze mówiąc myślę, i to jest nasz cel, taka jest polska racja stanu, powinniśmy spróbować zorganizować III wojnę światową!
Tak, powinniśmy próbować, ciężko, nie ma nic za darmo, trzeba podróżować, lobbować, wkurzać te wszystkie kraje, prowokować, dużo pracy, dużo podróży, dużo próbowania. To nie jest łatwa praca! Ale widzę tu polski rząd... no cóż, robią co w ich mocy! Dają z siebie wszystko!
Robią wszystko, co w ich mocy... a naród ostatnio to docenił, więc... Tak! Tak!
Pochylam głowę!
I szczerze mówiąc, powinniśmy to zrobić, bo jak nie, jeśli nie, to przyjdą Ukraińcy, żeby ta wojna była tańsza! Więc to, cóż...

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Some bitter entertainment. Polish stand-up performed 3 years ago by Michał Kempa - "III WW".
https://twitter.com/x/status/1515999663635189767
text:

Now I would like to say something about Poland.
Yes, say something patriotic, decent.
Well, we, in wars, Poland, we as a country, as a nation, Poland, we are the best of all countries in wars.
Yes, we are the best in wars.
I am not saying that we are the best at winning wars, as a rule, we have been -flicking-g bad at it. Historically, we are the best in wars in the category of the best country which hosts wars. I mean... Well... well, that's the truth...
World War I, World War II, well, we had the best wars, that's the truth.
We have... we have experience, we have "know how", we know how to do it, we have traditions, we know how to do it, we have infrastructure, well..., well... these are the facts, well..., but...
The slogan: the famous Polish hospitality did not come from nowhere, did it?
The best war is Germany-Russia in Poland! We had the best wars...
Every country has something of its own, right...
Spaniards have corrida, Italians have pizza, in our country you can die with dignity, right? For the cause.
The whole world is watching Syria, Kurdistan, the whole world is watching with trepidation... we look at it with envy, a little bit like that, whether it wouldn't be possible to organise something like that in our country, something similar, yes! There are wars here...
And frankly speaking, frankly speaking I think, and this is our goal, this is the Polish raison d'état, we should try to organize the third world war!
Yes, we should try, it's hard, there's nothing for free, you have to travel, lobby, piss off all these countries, provoke, a lot of work, a lot of travel, a lot of trying. It's not an easy job! But I see the Polish government here... well, they are doing their best! They are doing their best!
They're doing their best.... and the nation has appreciated it again recently, so that... Yes! Yes!
I bow my head!
And frankly, we should do it, because if we don't, if we don't, the Ukrainians will come make the war cheaper! So that, that, well...

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Heather said:
Interesting to note, independent journalist George Webb, who has just arrived in Ukraine in the past few days, was asked on Twitter about Gonzalo Lira, and he replied that he himself is "gathering information to try to arrange his release."

I didn't expect to see that response, that's for sure (!).

Any case, I'll keep an eye out for further developments.

Webb has been doing some excellent work related to Ukraine; he's been physically plotting the bio weapons industry, visiting a lot of European countries, and commenting on the role each of them has been playing while appearing on camera in front of the administrative offices, labs, companies, government buildings, etc., involved. [@RealGeorgeWebb1]

He threw me and others off some time ago when he stated he took the vax. I've since decided that he needed to state as much since he was having to travel and needed to have in hand the necessary documentation to do so. Again, that's just my opinion, but it would stand to reason I think. In his weighing what was most important -- namely, his getting the word out re: the bio weapons labs -- he decided to take this route in order to proceed.

I believe he's going to Turkey (may even arrange a high profile interview there) and plans to then proceed to the Azovstal Steel plant in Mariupol (speaking of).

Anyway, sounds like dangerous work. Lots of talk about Ukrainian/NATO false flags, etc. Hopefully he stays safe.
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Meg said:
Would you provide a source for the Twitter post? I scrolled through his posts and didn't see anything.
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Here it is (penultimate reply at the end):

https://twitter.com/x/status/1516349744112668674
 
In a strange turn with the Aiden Aslin situation, he was given a phone by ?. One surmises, it could be Grahanm Philips, given the recent interview. He made a call to a news organization, which was not named, requesting an interview be set up on British media to make his case known to the British public, and also to bring his case to the attention of Boris Johnson. He was told, she could not really do anything because she represented an international news organization.

 
Possibility of Being said:
In the meantime... Residents of the Rozivka Raion (district), a tiny part of Zaporizhzhya Oblast declared their intention to join the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR). With the area of 610 sq km its population used to be a bit over 8000 people in 2020, most likely much less now. As part of administrative reforms that took place in 2020, Rozivka Raion was merged into much bigger Polohy Raion. Not sure how, or if, it is going to work. DNR has its borders defined in the Constitution.
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Zaporizhzhya should make their own republic.
 
Persej said:
Zaporizhzhya should make their own republic.
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Step by step, I guess. As far as I know, its northern part is still controlled by Ukrainians.

BTW, Pushilin commented:

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Пушилин прокомментировал запрос Розовского района Запорожья о присоединении

Запрос жителей Розовского района Запорожской области о временном присоединении к Донецкой Народной республике не останется без внимания, заявил глава ДНР Денис... РИА Новости, 19.04.2022
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Pushilin promised to consider the request of residents of the Rozov district to join the DNR

The request of the residents of the Rozovsky district of the Zaporozhye region to temporarily join the Donetsk People's Republic will not go unheeded, said the head of the DNR Denis Pushilin on the air of "Russia 24".

"This is not the first appeal. But definitely the first public and so zealous appeal that deserves special respect, it is a kind of civil feat. People have really suffered for all these eight years, people are tired of the Nazi regime, and they want change in a positive direction," he said.

He said such issues, given that the DNR is recognized within its constitutional borders, will be addressed later.

"We will give our full support. Support not only in the restoration of economic ties, which is already happening at the moment, support not only in the restoration of mobile communication, the Internet, which has been implemented so far, but, of course, we will support the resumption of pensions, social benefits, building administrative management, that is, salaries of state employees, of course, there should work fully medical service, rescue workers, law enforcement agencies," explained Pushilin.

He added that the DNR will start by providing all-round support, and then will "see how the situation develops."
"But people will definitely not be abandoned," concluded the head of the republic.
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Laurentien2 said:
here is an article from southfront about this.

southfront.org

Russian T-72B3 Tank Survived Three Missile Hits On Donbass Frontline (Photos)

On April 16, Russian sources shared photos showing a T-72B3 obr.2016 battle tank of the Russian Armed Forces that survived...
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first the link to picture on tweeter of the T72B3 as it appear that it won't show on the original article.
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There was an article on Sputniknews yesterday about the Javelin and how the US is (sort of) running out of them because they sent so many to Ukraine. And these things are not cheap! But of course, there's always money for weapons, even when there's no money.

US Running Out of Javelin Anti-Tank Missiles to Send to Ukraine: Report​


Apr. 18, 2022

The United States and its allies have sent up to 17,000 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine over the past month-and-a-half, ranging from old Soviet-era inventory cluttering up NATO stockpiles, to FGM-148 Javelins, the advanced US portable anti-tank missile system which made its combat debut after the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Having transferred about a third of its inventory of Javelin missile systems to Ukraine, the Pentagon may be running out of stocks critical for the security of the homeland and possible US wars abroad, Center for Strategic and International Studies researcher Mark Cancian has calculated.

In a press release put out earlier this month, the Pentagon announced that it had committed over 5,000 Javelins to Ukraine.

The US military does not publicise its inventory of the anti-armour missile system at any given time. However, according to an unclassified DoD summary of the missile systems’ production, some 37,739 Javelins were produced over the past quarter century since Raytheon and Lockheed Martin began churning them out in 1996.

DoD summary of Javelin production. - Sputnik International, 1920, 18.04.2022

DoD summary of Javelin production. © Photo : US Department of Defense

2,717 Javelins were delivered to the US military between 2019 and 2021. The Pentagon has projected the production of 3,622 more between 2022 and 2025. The missiles have a per-unit price tag of between $216,700 and $249,700, depending on modification.

Cancian estimates that when accounting for missiles expended in US forces’ training and testing, the US military probably had about 20,000-25,000 Javelins in its inventory before the Ukraine deliveries, which cut that number by at least one third.

“That fraction doesn’t sound like much; after all, two-thirds of the inventory remains. However military planners are likely getting nervous. The United States maintains stocks for a variety of possible global conflicts that may occur against North Korea, Iran or Russia itself. At some point, these stocks will get low enough that military planners will question whether the war plans can be executed. The United States is likely approaching that point,” the analyst believes.

With current production averaging about 1,000 Javelins a year, the Pentagon assures that up to 6,480 can be made per year in an emergency. However, Cancian says this production rate would take years to reach, given the 32 month delivery time from when a missile is ordered and the time that it’s delivered. “This means that it will take about three or four years to replace the missiles that have been delivered so far. If the United States delivers more missiles to Ukraine, this time to replace extends,” he stresses.

Another weapon which the US may find difficult replenishing is the Stinger anti-aircraft missile system. The Pentagon says it has delivered over 1,400 Stingers to Ukraine to date. Produced since 1981, a total of 11,600 Stingers have been churned out between then and 2003, when production for use by the US military was stopped. Accounting for testing and training use of 1 percent per year, Cancian estimates that the US probably had about 8,000 Stingers in its inventory before sending 1,400 of them to Ukraine. Those weapons have a production lead of two years, and a maximum annual production rate of 720. On top of that, if the Pentagon dumps Stingers in favour of more modern man-portable anti-aircraft systems, production capability could plummet further, Cancian believes.

Before their delivery to Ukraine, Javelins were used in the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with engineers create a special multipurpose variant warhead for the anti-tank missiles for so-called counter-insurgency (COIN) operations, since America’s rebel adversaries were not equipped with any tanks. Daesh (ISIS)* and other jihadist groups somehow got their hands on parties of Javelins during the 2014-2017 wars in Syria and Iraq. US media have speculated that they were “captured” by the jihadists from Iraqi army stocks.

In 2016, a Washington Post reporter spotted Javelins in the hands of Syria’s US-backed, Kurdish majority Syrian Democratic Forces militia.

Javelins have also been seen in Libya, with US media alleging that they were sent to the North African nation by the UAE.

US media have boasted about the supposed fantastical effectiveness of Javelin missiles in Ukraine, with Ukraine claiming that Russia has lost over 680 tanks and 2,000 other armoured vehicle thanks to the US anti-tank missiles and other weapons. Russian media have dismissed these figures as ludicrously high.
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This is a propaganda video from the Ukrainian news network targeting the English speaking audience. The commentators of the video are so blinded it defies reality. It is obviously staged, and is verbal garbage, vocalizing how Ukraine is winning the war. At one point it shows a segment of an SBU call intercept of someone calling to inform that the Azov plant is under fire the response was F**ck! The video about 7 mins long it's unbelievable

Defenders of Mariupol. The battle rages on​


And by contrast a look at reality from the Russian side. Soldiers in Mariupol surrendering


A commentator, posted translation of the comments made by the soldiers Ican't verify the accuracy, I don't understand the language

What the captured soldiers are saying: 0:05 "there was nothing left but to wait for death, we were simply doing nothing but to sit in the bunker" 0:13 "I hope I'll get medical treatment and it's all going to be ok." 0:34 "we are tired... of the war. Tired of burying our comrades"

And this humane treatment of Ukrainians captured. A warm place and a hot meal.

 
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