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2022-03-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Interview: What To Expect In The Next Phase Of The Ukraine War

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Posted by 3dc 2022-03-18 00:45|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Coming soon: "Fauxi says Russian army must boost Ukraine invasion, five total boosters may be necessary..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-18 07:20|| 2022-03-18 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 4 Russian amphibious ships loaded with trucks spotted leaving eastern Russia by Japan.

Maybe trying to bring reinforcements and supplies to southern Ukraine.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-18 08:52|| 2022-03-18 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Am I just missing it or does Rand Paul's usually keen and outspoken opposition to foreign entanglements by the US currently seem to be on hiatus?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-18 11:02|| 2022-03-18 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 All of Washington is hysterically in favor of war with Russia: huge profits for the MIC, speculators and Ukraine's "influencers" in DC, right wingers get to posture and look tough, left wingers get to shake their little fists at the scourge of LGBTQ+ people, journalists get ready-made copy. No one in Washington dares to go against the tide

Posted by Glith Shuck2076 2022-03-18 11:17|| 2022-03-18 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Putting together a casualty figure is inexact and relies on combing through satellite images and videos of battles, U.S. officials and independent analysts say

"So this is what we do. We sit in a circle and everybody puts his hand up the next guy's ass. We pull out a number and if the number repeats even once, that's it. There's a whole science to it."

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-18 11:59|| 2022-03-18 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ That is why we call it a SWAG - a Scientific Wild-Ass Guess.
Pro tip: decimal points make your numbers much more believable.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-18 12:06|| 2022-03-18 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ 87.25% of Internet ~~posts~~ studies are factually based

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-18 13:59|| 2022-03-18 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 All of Washington is hysterically in favor of war with Russia: huge profits for the MIC, speculators and Ukraine's "influencers" in DC, right wingers get to posture and look tough, left wingers get to shake their little fists at the scourge of LGBTQ+ people, journalists get ready-made copy. No one in Washington dares to go against the tide

Then all they had to do was transfer the Polish Migs to Ukraine and let her rip. They didn't.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-18 14:32|| 2022-03-18 14:32|| Front Page Top

#9 My professional guess.

People will die and more shit will get blown up.

Thank you.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-18 15:21|| 2022-03-18 15:21|| Front Page Top

#10 They didn't want their fingerprints on it. When Duda said, "Fine, we send them to a US Base and The USA can do what they like." is when it fell apart, and would account for the very uncomfortable Harris, who is not very good in friendly circumstances.

I think Duda lied about no US contacts only reporter questions to help de-escalate the situation. The reporter questions were there obviously to bully and create expectation.

And the propaganda machine is still calling for Defensive Flight Containment or some such shit the Fox guy was peddling after the (awful) Zelensky plea.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-18 17:23|| 2022-03-18 17:23|| Front Page Top

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