Conquer Club

saxitoxin wrote:Ukraine's LAMEL cosmetics brand a couple days ago announced the release of a new lineup of makeup products to celebrate as revenge for the bombing of the Crimean bridge.

Today LAMEL's warehouse MANY civilian targets were destroyed by a Russian cruise missiles. MANY civilian were killed in Kyiv, too.

At least 11 people are reported to have been killed and scores more injured after Russia launched a massive wave of strikes targeting cities across Ukraine. Many of the locations hit by cruise missiles and kamikaze drones in the midst of the morning rush hour appeared to be solely civilian sites or key pieces of infrastructure, including the country’s electric grid, apparently chosen to terrorise Ukrainians. Six people were killed and 51 more were injured in Monday’s strikes on Kyiv, according to city officials.

President Vladimir Putin said the wave of strikes on Ukraine was a response to an attack on the Kerch bridge linking Russia and Crimea. The Russian leader warned of even more “severe retaliation” in the event of further Ukrainian attacks. “Let there be no doubt,” Putin said in televised comments addressed to his security council, “if attempts at terrorist attacks continue, the response from Russia will be severe.”

After reading a Post report from Bucha, where Russian occupiers beheaded a man, then “burned his head and left it out for all to see”. After reading the Associated Press report on the 10 torture sites its reporters visited in Izyum after this Ukrainian city was liberated from Russian occupation. (“They beat him, over and over: Legs, arms, a hammer to the knees, all accompanied by furious diatribes against Ukraine”.) After reading the Wall Street Journal report from Izyum. (“Most of the 436 bodies had signs of violent death including gunshot wounds, broken limbs, bound hands and amputated genitalia”.) After reading the Journal’s report from the city of Vovchansk. (“They were beaten, their heads slammed between the door and the door frame”.) After reading in the New York Times snippets of phone calls, intercepted by Ukrainian agencies, from Russian soldiers to friends and family in Russia. (“They gave us the order to kill everyone we see. … I’ve already become a murderer”.) And after reading Putin’s speech on the “outright Satanism” of “the West”, this is the question:

Is Russia’s endemic cruelty (and the related, rabble-like looting by Russian soldiers, stealing everything portable, from screwdrivers to televisions) germane to U.S. policy regarding Ukraine? The answer:

Putin has correctly cast this as a civilizational conflict. Were he visiting violence and corruption only on Russians, the West would have neither prudential reason nor practical means to restrain him. The history of the previous century, however, teaches the pertinence of a nation’s internal dynamics to its external behavior. Putin’s Russia has a metabolic urge to export its pathologies, becoming the collectivist alternative to open societies of rights-bearing individuals fulfilled through private rather than nationalist aspirations. If this export is not defeated — if the West chooses, in the name of “realism”, to let it metastasize, which it may — the West will wither from self-loathing, and will deserve to.

saxitoxin wrote:528

The number of women and children NATO killed during their terror bombing campaign of Serbia.

When Russia kills less than 1/4 that number it's a rampaging, out of control barbarian with no regard for human life.

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced she is leaving the Democratic Party, denouncing it as an "elitist cabal of warmongers," while calling upon other "common sense independent minded Democrats" to exit with her.

Chief among the reasons her 20-year stint as a member of the Democratic Party will be cut short, she said, is her fear that "President Biden and Democratic Party elites have pushed us to the precipice of nuclear war, risking starting World War III and destroying the world as we know it."

Gabbard said that her entrance into the 2020 presidential cycle was also because of imminent "nuclear holocaust."

"I ran for president in 2020 because I knew that this is where we were headed. All the signs were there. I raised this issue every single day during the campaign and on the national debate stage for those of you who may have come to a town hall or who were watching, I'm sure you noticed, but the politicians and the media completely ignored it," she said.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tulsi-g ... d=91326164

jusplay4fun wrote:Edited:

When Russia kills less than 1/4 that number it's a rampaging, out of control barbarian with no regard for human life.

It is; NOTE the very little editing I had to do. Good, saxi, you are learning.

The activity on Tuesday was less intense than the day before when dozens of strikes killed 19 people, wounded more than 100 and knocked out power across the country in Moscow's biggest aerial offensive since the start of its invasion on Feb. 24.

More missile strikes on Tuesday killed seven people in the southeastern Ukrainian town of Zaporizhzhia, a presidential aide said, and left part of the western city of Lviv without power, according to local officials.

10 Oct 2022
Updated: 10 Oct 2022, 07:29 PM (GMT)

Dozens of explosions have rocked cities across Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv, in an intensification of Russia’s attacks that could spell a major escalation in the nearly eight-month war.

“This morning, 75 missiles were launched. 41 of them were neutralised by our air defence,” General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, wrote on Twitter on Monday.

Russia Just Showed Why It’s Floundering in Ukraine
Opinion by Phillips Payson O’Brien - 5h ago

On Saturday, Ukraine showed why it is winning its war against Russia. On Monday, Russia showed why it is losing. Those two days revealed sharp contrasts between the two militaries. One is clever, well prepared, willing to undertake complex operations, and focused on maximally damaging its enemy’s ability to fight. The other is prone to bursts of rage and is open to committing any crime possible, but its actions are ultimately self-defeating.

The Ukrainian attack on the Crimean Bridge was typical of how the Ukrainian high command has waged war. Also known as the Kerch Bridge, the span was a legitimate military target. The road link between Russian-occupied Crimea and Russia itself has been helpful to the invaders’ war effort, but far more important are the railroad lines that run across it. The Russian army depends on trains for its supply of heavy equipment and ammunition. This reliance is a major liability. Especially after the Ukrainians have captured or destroyed so many Russian vehicles, the invasion force lacks enough trucks to ship supplies to locations remote from working rail lines. Though the level of damage to the tracks on the Crimean Bridge is unclear, their capacity to carry freight was reduced at least temporarily. Another attack might rupture them completely.

GaryDenton wrote:Saxi is toxic and foolish. I try to ignore him.

bigtoughralf wrote:jp4 is unusually quiet in response to a saxi Ukraine post.

bigtoughralf wrote:jp4 is unusually quiet in response to a saxi Ukraine post. It must be dawning on him that maybe he was fooled by Washington propaganda and that arming Ukraine isn't as noble as he thought it was.

saxitoxin wrote:

bigtoughralf wrote:jp4 is unusually quiet in response to a saxi Ukraine post.

To be fair, though, he rarely responds top any of my posts.

Moscow's deadly strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine continued Thursday, including a "kamikaze" drone attack on the Kyiv region and shelling of residential buildings in the southern city of Mykolaiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his plea for more air defense capacities Thursday as NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels, saying Kyiv has only about 10% of what it needs to combat Moscow’s blitz.

New satellite images show some traffic has resumed on a key bridge in annexed Crimea after Russian state media said eight people had been arrested in connection with the massive explosion that damaged the structure.

US President Joe Biden said "the world has sent a clear message," after the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution telling Russia its annexation of four Ukrainian zones is illegal and not valid.

The Guardian wrote:Elon Musk’s SpaceX says it can no longer fund Starlink internet in Ukraine

Maxleod wrote:

The Guardian wrote:Elon Musk’s SpaceX says it can no longer fund Starlink internet in Ukraine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... et-ukraine

saxitoxin wrote:Their friendship is purely transactional and ends the moment you stop feeding them.