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I gotta buy 8 lobsters and about 4 pounds of steamer clams on Saturday to bring to a fraternity reunion at Lake Winnipesaukee this weekend; guaranteed I drop over $200 on that shit. Probably make it $300 after all the other stuff I want to cook with it (grilled potato salad and, yes, grilled corn with butter and chili powder!).
#8
Uncivilized gringos and pochos eat tacos for breakfast.
We eat huaraches for breakfast! green or red.
In my case not every day but I always have a BloodyMary con Don Julio this is my daily intake of lycopene, and also pair very good with the huaraches
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Amen, Aca Joe! These naive, uncultured estadounidenses with their counterfeit comida mexicana make me sick. So greasy, and such ridiculous portions that I'm still stuffed an hour after I finish eating! Which of course leaves no room at all for their terrible "Mexican food," gracias a Dios!
#10
^ I love how at several mall food courts I have been in, there are Mexicans working at the Chinese place, but always a Chinese running the place.
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You are rightly on the spot on how gringos eats fat American food passed as Mexican delicious fresh and organic
I like shopping at Vallarta market for some ingredients or valley market for rare and more exotic ones.
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Whatchoo talk about, you clazee Moochek? Who say anything about Chinese?!?
#14
Actual Chinese food is smelly, wierd tasting and often insipid. Every country has their own palate-adapted foreign foods. Like American sashimi is not the same as japo sashimi. American chinese is sweeter, tangier and has monosodium glutamate added. Most if it.
Indian Chinese will send you to the bathroom running.
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I went to this fancy looking fwanghuawhatchamacallit place in Beijing. Ordered what sounded in English like it would be great. Looked good too. Tasted like boiled chicken slivers dipped in vinegar.
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We can't all be Andrew Zimmern. I know I don't want to be.
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Oh you are just saying that because Chinese will eat the heart of a frog before it croaks.
Got one. Ordered what was raw pork drizzled in oil. I tried to eat it, I swear. Didn't eat enough, and the chef came to me all mad. In my mind, "What does the chef have to do with this?"
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After the whole "macaca" kerfuffle the Dems put us through, I'd say this is grounds for tar and feathers. No excuses, no mercy.
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I've been told Chinese food tastes so much better in China,
Chinese food in America — when prepared by Chinese for Chinese — is better than almost all Chinese food in China because American ingredients are considerably less polluted... and more refrigerated. What was served to the emperor and the top echelon can be assumed to be a different class than what’s available to everyone else.
Commentary by Russian writer Irina Alksnis by Irina Alksnis
[Ria] Kyiv launched a counter-offensive - so far informational, but it has already made a lot of noise. Interviews with the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov were published immediately in the American The Wall Street Journal and the British The Times.
In the first publication, Reznikov, recognizing the heavy losses and depletion of the resources of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, emphasized the need for new arms supplies from the West. But in the second article, he made a statement that received the widest response.
According to the minister, the Ukrainian army is forming "million-strong combat forces equipped with Western weapons" to fulfill Volodymyr Zelensky 's order to "liberate" the southern coastal regions, "vital to the country's economy." He clarified where the figure he named of a million military personnel came from: the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reaches 700 thousand people, plus the National Guard, the police and the border service, which can also be involved in hostilities.
Almost simultaneously with Reznikov's interview, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk appealed to residents of the southern, Russian -controlled territories with an appeal to urgently leave them because of the counteroffensive planned by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. True, she did not specify the timing of this event, but she created the impression that this could happen in the very near future.
In Russia, it is customary to make fun of the Ukrainian elites - and this is largely true. In many ways, but not in everything. What cannot be taken away from Kiev is skillful work in the information field. In its own way, it is logical that a successful showman and comedian turned out to be at the head of Ukraine, that is, a person who professionally works with the audience and knows how to manipulate it.
And there is another point in connection with which the Kyiv authorities are often underestimated. Usually they are perceived as absolute puppets of the West (primarily Washington and London ), completely devoid of their own will and meekly fulfilling the instructions coming from there.
This is a mistake - and a big one.
In fact, the Ukrainian elites are not completely, but to a large extent subjective and always guided primarily by personal interests. At the same time, being frankly narrow-minded and uneducated as statesmen (which, in fact, led the Ukrainian state to a sad result), they compensate for this with cunning and extreme persistence in defending their own.
That is why the West was forced in 2014 to build a complex system of management of the newly acquired vassal in the Ukrainian direction, since he managed to torpedo any initiatives of the overlord, if they contradicted his interests. This mainly concerned the cutting of budgets, theft of assets and valuable resources.
So, the main current interest of the Ukrainian elites is the continuation of the war. And it is no coincidence that right now Kyiv has made a powerful information volley, and at once in all directions: both in the Western audience, and in the intra-Ukrainian, and in the Russian, and in the people living in the liberated territories.
The reason is the steady deterioration of Ukrainian affairs.
Disorder and vacillation have begun in the Western establishment, and they are becoming more and more obvious and visible even to the naked eye. If on February 24 all political forces there merged in an anti-Russian rage, now Russophobic enthusiasm is waning day by day.
Western Europe , which beat its chest and swore that it was about to give up Russian gas and oil, is now hysterical at the prospect that this can indeed happen - and is trying to carefully disown the most radical anti-Russian steps. The opinion of Eastern Europe , of course, does not interest anyone.
The British, led by the frantic Boris, were Ukraine's mainstay in the Old World. But Johnson has "gone", and there are disturbing rumors that the British, who are being swept up by the socio-economic storm, may now prefer a less "hawkish" figure in the premier's chair, who will deal primarily with domestic problems.
Overseas, their difficulties, which threaten a grandiose failure of the Democratic Party in the November midterm elections. And the course of the Ukrainian campaign does not help in any way in solving problems and, on the contrary, threatens to become another weight by the fall that will drown Biden's party comrades.
At the same time, the entire Western media mainstream is already declaring in unison that Ukraine is not only losing at the front, but in principle has no chance of winning.
Of course, there are forces in the West - and very influential ones - who still rely on the continuation of hostilities and a military victory for Ukraine, but the anti-Russian consensus of the West is crumbling before our eyes. Moreover, one does not have to be a visionary to predict that the situation will worsen in this sense every week. This means that Kyiv will receive less and less support - for him, this is just a disaster.
That is why Reznikov's statement that Ukraine is assembling a millionth military fist, and even equipped with Western weapons, sounded right now. It should contain the processes of disintegration of the anti-Russian coalition and push the doubting governments to a new wave of assistance to Kyiv, both military and financial.
It is no coincidence that the emphasis on the fact that the goal of the coming counter-offensive is the southern coastal territories, which are key to the Ukrainian economy. Over the months of the NMD, the West has managed to feel how heavy a suitcase without a handle is Ukraine, deprived of the most important regions from an economic point of view. After all, what was good about the post-Maidan period - thanks to its geographical location and Soviet legacy, Ukraine not only supported itself, but was also a Klondike for plunder by the Western establishment. Now, in order for Kyiv to continue to serve as a weapon against Russia, it has to give money. And the fact that it is formally on credit does not console anyone - it is clear that these debts are irrecoverable.
So the West, or rather, the Western elites that have begun to waver, are the main target of the current information attack. In front of them, Ukraine hung a carrot: here we have a million-strong army almost at the ready, which will liberate Kherson and Mariupol , just give us more money and weapons.
However, being the main one, the West is not Kyiv's only target. In parallel, he tries to kill a few more birds with one stone.
Bravura statements about the coming counteroffensive work to support public mobilization within Ukraine. This is becoming more and more relevant as information about the plight at the front and the huge losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine leaks out, despite heavy censorship and the operation of the Ukrainian brainwashing machine at full capacity.
In addition, this is an attempt to demoralize Russian society and - especially - people in the liberated territories, to sow anxiety and uncertainty in them. There are regular terrorist attacks against officials working in the new administrations. Plus, rumors are being actively launched that Russia will leave there, and Kyiv will return and massacre everyone who somehow cooperated and came into contact with the Russians.
So the speeches of Reznikov and Vereshchuk in this sense are a competent informational sabotage, which should not be underestimated. Such actions of Kyiv must be given a powerful and qualified rebuff.
As for the feasibility of Kyiv's plans for a real "reconquest" of the southern regions, then it is worth advising him not to say "gop."
Direct Translation via Google translate. Edited. by Stanislav Stremidlovsky
[REGNUM] Judging by the mood that spills over into social networks, the Polish society is tired of waiting for “historical justice” to be restored, and the Ukrainian society is not ready to fulfill it in the Polish version. It takes time, a lot of time and subtle decisions. Do Warsaw and Kyiv have them? Does not look like it.
Joint historical dates continue to be a kind of stress test for Polish and Ukrainian societies. This was once again shown by Monday, July 11, the day when Poland remembers the victims of the Volyn genocide and waits for an adequate reaction from Ukraine, recognition of the sinister role of Ukrainian nationalists in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of peaceful Poles in 1943-1944. But for obvious reasons, in Kyiv they are trying to cover up this topic. This was typical for the Ukrainian leadership before, when the country still respected the norms of decency and there was no such revelry of aggressive nationalism as it is now, especially since Volyn is hushed up today. This creates big problems for the Polish authorities, who are under pressure from Polish public opinion.
Thus, on the eve of July 11, reports appeared in the Polish press that on the day of remembrance of the victims of the Volyn genocide, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky would make a statement and, perhaps, recognize historical responsibility for the events of those years. Therefore, since Monday morning, many in Poland have been attentively waiting for news from Kyiv. But in the end, Volyn was spoken about that day only in Warsaw. Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki delivered their speeches.
Given the enormous political capital that the ruling Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS) had invested in support of Kyiv, Duda and Morawiecki had a difficult task ahead. They had, on the one hand, to play on the feelings of the Poles, who demand repentance from the Ukrainians for the genocide, on the other hand, not to alienate their Ukrainian partners. This task was undertaken by the Polish Prime Minister, marked by two sharp theses. First, he said that "today Ukraine sees that the successor of the nationalist organizations and the UPA is the Russian World." Secondly, I saw the "responsibility of the Germans" for the massacre of the Poles, organized by the Ukrainians in Volhynia.
According to Morawiecki, "the atrocities in Volhynia intensified in 1942-1944. Who then ruled these lands? Germany. They were the masters of life and death of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews. And they are responsible for the Volyn crime."
The prime minister's statement fits in with the dominant line of the ruling party in recent years, which has opened a political war on two fronts - against Russia and Germany. But the problem for Law and Justice here is that in the case of the Volyn genocide, it has to convince, first of all, its voters, who are keenly interested in this topic, while the opposition electorate is deeply indifferent to this tragedy.
And among PiS supporters and representatives of more right-wing radical forces, including Polish nationalists, there are now those who would make concessions to Kyiv on the issue of the Volyn genocide, even in the current Ukrainian crisis. The Ukrainian authorities could make it easier for their Polish partners if they showed at least some form of public reaction that satisfied the Polish society. But they didn't.
On the evening of July 11, Zelensky’s appeal to Ukrainians appeared on the website of the President of Ukraine, where the Polish topic was voiced, but in the context of the “very important bill on legal and social guarantees for Polish citizens who are in Ukraine” that he submitted to the Verkhovna Rada. It, in particular, proposes "to give our Polish brothers the opportunity to legally stay in Ukraine for 18 months, the right to employment, economic activity, education in our universities, medical care."
Motivating the need to approve this bill, Zelensky said that "we have achieved the highest level of trust and cooperation in relations with Poland not just over decades, but during the lifetime of many generations of our peoples." However, it does not seem that his optimistic assessment is shared by the societies of both countries.
In Ukrainian-language social networks, they are perplexed why only the Poles should receive a special status, while "during the war, all conscious people help us, then let’s give the British such a status, and everyone else."
They ask themselves whether it will not turn out that the special "status of them (the Poles - S.S.) obliges to annex, for example, the western part of Ukraine to Poland," and also admit that "after the war, the Poles will return for their property and land to Western Ukraine."
Polish commentators, in turn, cannot understand who and why will go from Poland to Ukraine in order to take advantage of the privileges of a "special status," because millions of refugees go from Ukraine to Poland, and not vice versa.
One could, of course, explain Kyiv's initiative by the fact that it will help Polish firms claiming to restore Ukrainian territories after the conflict is resolved. However, after the international conference in Switzerland, where Poland was offered to restore the Donbas together with Italy, it is unlikely that anyone will take this seriously.
As noted on the pages of the portal Ukraine.ru political scientist Vasily Stoyakin, "The Kyiv regime has found a way to ask its Western partners for forgiveness for the "exploits" of its ideological predecessors, without formally asking for forgiveness."
At the same time, he admits that, "Zelensky is acting step by step, proposing at first harmless norms that will not cause much indignation among nationalists and that can be easily passed through parliament. Everything else can be implemented gradually, with an eye on the position of parliamentarians and public opinion."
But such a strategy presupposes the political survival of the Zelenskiy administration and tight control over the country.
Because the decisions of Kyiv will have to be recognized and implemented by Lviv, which has its own regional subjectivity. Meanwhile, judging by the mood that spills out on social networks, and the Polish society is tired of waiting for "historical justice" to be restored, and the Ukrainian society is not ready to fulfill it in the Polish version. It takes time, a lot of time and subtle decisions. Do Warsaw and Kyiv have them? Does not look like it.
[REGNUM] The reunification of the five Western Ukrainian regions with Poland will be supported by Romania - as they say, the ashes of Bukovina are knocking in her heart.
As already mentioned at the very beginning of this series of articles, the highest officials of Russia, in particular, Messrs . Naryshkin and Patrushev, express extreme concern about the possible irredenta of Western Ukraine and are ready to stand up in defense of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. That is, it can be assumed that Russia, in the event of the secession of five Western Ukrainian regions and their reunification with Poland, will strongly protest against this action - however, as it seems to the author, more playing for the public than seriously attending to the change in European borders.
Both Yalta and Helsinki are in the distant past, the treaties of those times are irrelevant, the borders, as we know from the example of Central Europe and the Balkans, tend to collapse for smaller reasons. So Russia will most likely eventually accept Polish sovereignty over the territories along the Zbruch - restoring the status quo of the Peace of Riga. The Russians understand that in the west of Ukraine they are unlikely to be welcomed by anyone.
But not only Poland borders Ukraine. And what's more, the rest of the border states have much greater grounds for territorial claims against Ukraine - at least no less than Poland, that's for sure. And Hungary is number one here: it alone has a sufficiently large national minority in the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine - after all, twelve percent, this is not gibberish-hahanki for you.
Hungarians make up the majority of the population in the Beregovsky district, half of the population of the Vinogradovsky district, as well as a noticeable minority in the Uzhgorod and Mukachevo districts. And there is a well-founded suspicion that in the case of irredenta in Western Ukraine, the Hungarians of Transcarpathia will decide to return to the arms of mother Hungary ...
But not only Hungarians live in Transcarpathia - there are quite a lot of Rusyns there as well. Which, it just so happens, make up a large part of the population of eastern Slovakia. And which, on this basis, can also raise the issue of restoring the national unity of the Ruthenian people.
By the way, the Rusyns, as an independent ethnic group that created the first Czechoslovakia together with the Czechs and Slovaks, had their own administration on their territory. In December 1938, the Rusyns received autonomy (Podkarpackie Rus). So the Slovaks should not be discounted at all - they may well support the irredenta of western Ukraine in their own interests.
Moreover, the reunification of the five Western Ukrainian regions with Poland will be supported by Romania - as they say, the ashes of Bukovina are knocking in her heart. Chernivtsi are crying out for the return to their native harbor! And therefore, Bucharest can quite realistically support Warsaw - because it also has interests in Ukraine ...
And only Belarus alone will stubbornly talk about the inviolability of borders, the preservation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine and other fiction in the style of Pacta sunt servanda - but only because Old Man Lukashenko , firstly, has no interest in the wooded and marshy sandy soils of Volhynia and, in Secondly, there are no forces for the de-Ukrainization of these territories. And therefore, in the event of an irredenta in Western Ukraine, Belarus will pretend to be a staunch champion of international law - that is, to put a good face on a bad game ...
#1
...Let me gently point out to Stanislav the existence of the Katyn Forest and the Holodomor.
Russia has a great deal to answer for, gospodin Stremidlovsky. You had better hope and pray that the Poles and Ukranians don't decide to pay it back with interest.
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#2 Russians have acknowledged the executions of Polish officers in WWII, most of which took place in areas other than Katyn Forest.
Those acknowledgements include memorials on sites where the executions have taken place.
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Badanov,
You are absolutely right, and I should have probably included that detail. As see it though - and this is IMHO, YMMV of course - that a sculpture, and one probably put up with less than a willing heart, simply cannot cover the damage that Russia inflicted upon Poland over the last few centuries. It's even less likely to do so given that the Russians really, really seem to want to go all Ivan Grozny on the Ukranians and the Poles again.
The Poles and the Ukranians have a 'Never Again' attitude every bit as strong as that of Israel. The Russians would do well to understand that, though at this point I'm not sure they will short of a bloody defeat.
Which drives one to ask, why did Russia choose to add insult to injury by taking down the Polish flag at the Katyn Massacre memorial? What message does that send?
This strikes me as a combination of special pleading and Lets you and him fight in an attempt to fracture the anti-Russia sentiment across nearly the entirety of the former Russian conquests.
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It's even less likely to do so given that the Russians really, really seem to want to go all Ivan Grozny on the Ukrainians and the Poles again.
You get no argument from me. Russians seem to want to enforce what I call the Slavic pecking order, at the bottom of which are the Poles. Below them are the Ukrainians.
This strikes me as a combination of special pleading and Lets you and him fight in an attempt to fracture the anti-Russia sentiment across nearly the entirety of the former Russian conquests.
See the Russian film "White Tiger" The subtext of that film is that the Russians blame not just Nazi Germany for the invasion in 1941, but the entirety of Europe.
They want secure borders and if they have to grind the bones of every Ukrainian into clay, by God, they'll have it.
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Bejayzus, what a lovely thread to (sorta) wake up to. Seriously, thank you all for being you... and for tolerating me.
A modern day "nazi" might say
That that grinding Ukes' bones into clay
Had been two decades done
Before German gun one
Opened fire in its comradely way.
Speaking as a geo-political idiot: The thing that puzzles me is that Russia's longest and most dangerous border is with China. Now I know Putin and Xi have pledged to be Best Friends Forever, but that reminds me of of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or two scorpions in a bottle. And Putin seems to be stripping his eastern defenses to support the Special Military Operation.
Would the Chinese actually attack? I don't think so, but I'm willing to bet that whoever commands the Chinese forces in the east has had an erection lasting more than four hours.
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Would the Chinese actually attack? I don't think so, but I'm willing to bet that whoever commands the Chinese forces in the east has had an erection lasting more than four hours.
It could well be the whole basis for Putin's war is to secure his western flanks, before the Chinese wake up one morning and decide the dude ain't worth it.
I’ve read that empty Siberian villages (or whatever that part of Russia nearest the Chinese border is called) have been quietly housing illegal Chinese settlers for a generation or more. Why should China attack what they already have?
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From that article:
But perhaps the biggest factor that predicts a reduced Chinese presence in the future is the dire economic conditions in the Russian Far East. When asked about their businesses, Chinese traders in the region unanimously state that it has become less profitable over the past few years, citing local consumers’ waning purchasing power as the primary cause. More specifically, they point out that the Russian ruble has lost half its value relative to the dollar since 2014, making goods imported from China more expensive for locals suffering stagnant nominal wages. Combined with continuing depopulation, the local consumer base is shrinking fast, with little prospect for a sustained rebound in the future. As profits suffer, all traders mention many colleagues closing up shop and leaving Russia for good, with ever fewer newcomers to replace them.
So the argument would be that the Chinese won't invade because the Russian Far East is not worth having. Sure you want to go there, Joe?
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My learning for today — an important update over what I used to know. Thank you for that exchange, gentlemen. :-)
There is also the issue of the coming depopulation of China...
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@Matt that’s was no my point. I been in China even when was real China and everyone was dressed in blue and the Chinese give to us a vip treatment tours a the jade Buddha temple, friendship store tours, the Chinese gift us with a lot of presents mostly vials of ginseng I never like China
Our company never did business with them.
Mexican textile industry amigo.
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^ You should outsource to Bangladesh, Joe. Make a profit, honest. India is second cheapest.
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I never like China
Our company never did business with them.
Smart. Jordan and Viet Nam are other labels I’ve been seeing in recent years. and Egypt has been working on expanding from growing their long staple cotton to weaving it, though Mr. Wife reported a uniquely inshallah approach in their factories that took Third World to a new level — he was working with chemical suppliers rather than sewing fabric, but the attitude is no doubt consistent.
Lots of possibilities to turn our backs on the Chinese factory floor after accepting the need to walk away from investments there.
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[REGNUM] A year ago, on July 12, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin published an article "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians." The material first appeared on the president's official portal kremlin.ru and was immediately available not only in Russian, but also in Ukrainian. The translated text of Putin's article can be found here.
Putin cited historical excerpts and analyzed important milestones of the past, posing the main question of Russian history - the unity of the people. And although the article concerned a bygone era, it predetermined and explained the further course of events.
The head of state is convinced that Russians and Ukrainians are one people who were together in the days of Ancient Russia, but were artificially divided. The dominant table in those years was located precisely in Kyiv, and later, when it was time to collect Russian lands, in Moscow.
"Both Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians are the heirs of Ancient Russia, which was the largest state in Europe. Slavic and other tribes in a vast area - from Ladoga, Novgorod, Pskov to Kyiv and Chernigov - were united by one language (now we call it Old Russian), economic ties, and the power of the princes of the Rurik dynasty. And after the baptism of Russia - and one Orthodox faith. The spiritual choice of St. Vladimir, who was both Novgorod and the great Kiev prince, and today largely determines our relationship," the president wrote.
As a result of fragmentation and after the invasion of Batu, the western lands ended up first in Lithuania, and then in the Commonwealth. For several centuries in these lands of Russia there were processes of Polonization and Latinization, the transition of the Orthodox flock to Catholicism. The response was the outbreak of a liberation movement, when supporters of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky tried to achieve rights for the Russian Orthodox population and autonomy. As a result, together with Moscow, they managed to liberate a vast part of the occupied Russian territories, including Kyiv, Chernigov and Zaporozhye.
Further processes of "Ukrainization", attempts to divide the Russian people, took place under the influence of other countries. Primarily Poland and Austria-Hungary. At the same time, the current state of Ukraine was formed already in the Soviet years. It included part of Bessarabia, the Russian lands returned by Poland, Northern Bukovina, Transcarpathia, Snake Island, and the Crimean peninsula.
"Thus, modern Ukraine is entirely the brainchild of the Soviet era. We know and remember that to a large extent it was created at the expense of historical Russia. It is enough to compare which lands were reunited with the Russian state in the 17th century and with which territories the Ukrainian SSR left the Soviet Union," the article says.
The President explained why Ukraine could not take place as a separate state. Having turned away from Russia, it has become an instrument in the hands of the West, with which it is trying to put pressure on our country. The huge wealth that the Soviet republic possessed was squandered, the economy was destroyed, and the rupture of economic ties between Ukraine and the Russian Federation was a blow. Weakened state institutions, increased external influence on decision-making. Against this background, radicals behaved more and more impudently in society, and threats against Moscow were heard more and more clearly from Kyiv.
Does the West need the inhabitants of Western Russia? As history shows, part of the Russian people, which is called Ukrainians, is just a geopolitical tool, whose interests are not thought of in foreign capitals. Poland, as once the Commonwealth, is not ready for the autonomy of Ukraine, in Austria-Hungary the Russian lands were the poorest and were mercilessly exploited. Washington, London and Brussels have built an “anti-Russia” and are throwing Ukrainians under bullets and shells like cannon fodder.
For Russia, Ukrainians are native. Another confirmation of this was the recent decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the simplified acquisition of Russian citizenship by Ukrainians. Previously, residents of the DPR, LPR, as well as the liberated territories of the Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions had such an opportunity. Now everyone who was born in Ukraine is equal in rights.
The special military operation that Russia is conducting in Ukraine is directed against the neo-Nazi regime. Civilians can count not only on the support and protection of a strong state, the opportunity to return to Russian society and culture, but also on equal rights with other Russians. Russian citizenship will open the freedom of employment and independent economic activity, provide access to social services and pensions.
The fact that Russians and Ukrainians are one people is not only spoken in Russia, but also shown in practice.
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Many that do not desire re-unification are showing up as refugees - including at America's southern border.
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Many that do not desire re-unification are showing up as refugees - including at America's southern border.
That…. teaches the idiots in this country that allowing our governance in to build terrorist biolabs in other countries has a price tag
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Seversk.
After the liberation of Grigorovka, fighting continues in the direction of Serebryanka, the capture of which will allow them to advance to Dronovka and bypass Seversk from the north.
Fighting in the Verkhnekamensky area.
The enemy continues to level the village with artillery, trying to slow down the advance of the RF Armed Forces towards the eastern outskirts of Seversk.
2. Soledar.
After the capture of the Disputable Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, battles began for Ivano-Daryevka in order to further advance to the Seversk-Soledar highway.
The enemy is strengthening the defenses on the line of the settlements of Zvanovka-Razdolovka.
In the area of Berestovoye and Belogorovka - positional battles.
To the east of Soledar, the enemy has been driven out of Vladimirovka and is being driven out of Stryapovka.
3. Artemovsk.
Fighting in the Pokrovsky area.
The enemy suffered heavy losses as a result of strikes against concentrations of manpower in Artemovsk and Chasov Yar.
In turn, missile strikes continue deep into the territory of the DPR and LPR against ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants.
In the area of Svetlodarsk, attempts continue to cut off enemy forces that have settled at the Uglegorsk TPP.
The enemy still holds Kodema and Semigorye.
4. Avdievka.
Positional battles near the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway and in the Avdievka industrial zone.
There is no serious progress towards Krasnogorovka and Ocheretino. On the outskirts of New York - also without significant changes.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to shell Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and other settlements.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the DPR, in turn, are increasingly working on the Avdievka fortified area.
5. Slavyansk.
Fighting in the area of the Valley, Bogorodichny, Sidorovo. The enemy is gradually pushed back to the city.
According to the statements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the advanced positions of the RF Armed Forces are 10 km from the outskirts of the city.
The advance is hampered by forests that cover Slavyansk from the northwest.
The enemy continues to rotate badly battered units in the area of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
6. Kharkov.
Positional battles in the direction of Zolochev, Uda, Dementievka, Upper Passages and Upper Saltov.
The enemy shells Cossack Lopan and Tsupovka.
The RF Armed Forces are actively working on targets in Kharkov.
7. Carbon.
Positional battles in the area of Pavlovka and Yegorovka.
In Maryinka and Novomikhailovka - no significant changes.
8. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole - no significant changes. Fights continue in a positional manner.
In the area of Kamensky, another exchange of bodies of the dead took place - they changed 40 for 40.
The enemy is trying to accumulate forces in Zaporozhye for active operations in the direction of Vasilyevka and Pologi.
9. Nikolaev.
In response to the shelling of Energodar and Novaya Kakhovka, the RF Armed Forces delivered massive strikes on Nikolaev, as well as in the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog directions.
The high activity of artillery and MLRS on both sides hinders active offensive operations and at this stage forms a tendency towards positioning.
But political statements from Kyiv indicate that a possible offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krivoy Rog direction may fit not only into purely military parameters.
Attempts to advance to Kherson will be dictated by the declared political goals and the desire to achieve tactical or even operational success before mid-autumn.
10. Odessa, Izyum, Dzerzhinsk - no significant changes.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Chervonec] As a result of yesterday's strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Novaya Kakhovka, about 10 people were killed and about 60 injured
Why such a quantity of this very explosive substance was in the frontline zone and who is responsible for this is a separate question.
It is worth noting that under Stalin this would have been sorted out very quickly. But the question is different. I will make two main points.
The first -
Saltpeter is fertilizer. It's not ammunition. Do you remember the explosion in Beirut? And its consequences? Do you think the ragoulli did not know where it was aiming? It knew. And the calculation was to blow up half of the city. Because Ukraine is a terrorist country
July Ukrainian artillery hit the saltpeter warehouses near the village of Druzhba in the LPR. With the same calculation. Because Ukraine is a terrorist country " (C) .
Second -
I'm interested, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Of course, I am not a person in your place and do not have your experience, knowledge and information. But can I ask a simple question? And what else should the terrorist state of Svidomo Ukraine do in order for it to receive a blow to the decision-making centers?
At least at the level of the Ministry of Defense? Or are we only ready for "good will gestures", as has been done on numerous occasions and with sad consequences for us because of these "gestures", are we ready? You say, "We haven't really started yet." It is not clear why such statements and games, as you say, giveaway.
Text of an interview of Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin by Yuri Kotenok. Rozhin's commentary in plain typeface. by Yuri Kotenok
[ASDNews] Russia has not yet used its potential in the Ukrainian theater
Military expert on the nature of hostilities in the former Ukraine, threats and prospects for a protracted conflict on the southwestern borders of Russia, the chances of the parties and the new Iron Curtain.
- How much has the counteroffensive potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decreased compared to the plans for July and August, which were announced in April and early May?
- Obviously, this process is a two-way traffic. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to form reserves for offensive operations, and the RF Armed Forces both strike at these reserves and force the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to transfer reserves to strengthen the front and compensate for losses.
Nevertheless, the intentions of the enemy are obvious, and by the end of the summer he will probably try to organize a local offensive operation.
The most likely directions are Krivorozhsko-Nikopolskoye (in order to cut off the bridgehead of the RF Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper and reach Kherson) and Zaporozhye (Vasilyevka-Orekhov-Gulyaipole section) by the forces of several battalion tactical groups, which will be supported by a significant artillery grouping and the remaining aircraft.
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to work precisely on military warehouses. There is an opinion that the Russian Army can be covered by shell hunger. Is it so?
- Taking into account the fact that the main calibers are 122-152mm plus missiles for the Grad MLRS, the destruction of several warehouses from the point of view of the total stocks is not very important. It is fundamental that the destruction of front-line warehouses makes it difficult to develop offensive operations, since artillerymen have to simply wait for new ammunition cars to be delivered to them together with the destroyed wagons of ammunition, and at this time the intensity of the work of artillery and MLRS in some areas may decrease.
So far, this has more of a tactical effect, but in the future, the systematic nature of such attacks on ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants may also have operational consequences in some areas.
- Why didn’t they hit Zmeiny right at the moment of landing, not even allowing them to be photographed with the flag? No opportunities? Or overlooked?
- According to official data, the blow was delivered after the photo shoot. Just like the group that installed the border post stolen in the Kharkiv shopping center was fired upon after the photo session and suffered losses.
From a military point of view, these are few fundamental points, since in the current realities it is fully controllable about. Serpentine can not both sides. The RF Armed Forces can also deliver their flag there for photographs, take it off and leave at the risk of receiving ammunition from the UAV.
- Will it be possible to drive the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of Slavyansk according to the "Lysychansk" scenario, or will a "second Mariupol" and the complete destruction of the city await us?
Promising is the semi-coverage of Slavyansk with the occupation of the adjacent heights, starting from the same Karachun.
Ultimately, Slavyansk itself is less suitable for defense than Severodonetsk or Mariupol. As it appears.
The main stake of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be placed on the defense of the Kramatorsk region, and in the event of a threat of encirclement, they may well surrender Slavyansk, as they surrendered most of Rubizhne and Severodonetsk. The city itself, in any case, will certainly suffer greatly during the fighting, so it is better for civilians to leave Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Artemovsk and Soledar in advance. These n.p. are the unconditional targets of the 2nd stage of the NWO, and they will be released one way or another, regardless of the resistance of the enemy.
- How likely is it that after the final liberation of the DPR and Zaporizhia, the SVO will be suspended in favor of political games?
It seems that the war will not be stopped by the United States, and it will continue after the liberation of the occupied territories of the DPR.
The military-political leadership of the Russian Federation, most likely, after the completion of the 2nd stage, will once again probe the possibility of negotiations with even worse conditions for Ukraine and, in the event of a completely expected refusal, will proceed to the 3rd stage of the NWO.
Perhaps the political changes in the United States this autumn may change this vector of events. But so far, there are no visible prerequisites for the end of the war after the completion of operations in the Donbass.
- Kyiv, the West announce strikes on the Crimean bridge. How real are the threats? What will Russia do and will these measures be belated given the enemy's attempts to seize the initiative?
In the case of receiving new long-range missiles, such a strike is quite likely from Zaporozhye. Of course, such a strike will be carried out with the knowledge and approval of NATO, with all possible assistance with target designation.
The probability of attempting such a strike in the coming months should be regarded as quite high.
The lack of clear reactions to such an attack, if it occurs, in practical terms, is likely to lead to further strikes deep into the territory of the Russian Federation. Information preparation for the possibility of such a development of events is already being carried out by mainstream Western media.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are reasonably taking measures to strengthen the protection of such facilities.
“Looks like we're in for a long war. Calculation of the enemy on the depletion of the Russian Federation. And what are our reserves, given the shortage of human resources?
The Russian Federation does not have a shortage of human resources, as such. The numerical disproportion is formed from the limitations of the SVO format and the decision not to mobilize.
The mobilization potential of the Russian Federation is significantly higher than that of Ukraine. This is the huge reserve of Russia, which has not even been used even close, since at the current stage the stake is made on the contract army, various volunteer formations and PMCs.
In the long run, with the involvement of the Russian mob potential, Ukraine will lose in any case, especially if the pace and volume of grinding the enemy’s manpower is increased.
- Speaking to the leaders of the factions of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin made it clear that Russia has not really started a war yet. What do we have in stock from a military point of view?
In addition to a huge mobilization resource, the Russian Federation can also use huge stocks of conventional weapons and ammunition for a long time as part of the process of grinding the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Unlike Ukraine, the Russian Federation has every opportunity to produce the necessary weapons domestically, while most of the Ukrainian military industry has already been destroyed. For the most part, Ukraine depends on foreign supplies, which even now cannot compensate for all the losses incurred.
Of course, all this does not negate the use of the latest types of non-nuclear weapons within the framework of the military-industrial complex's ability to increase their production.
- If the statement about a new redistribution of the world in connection with the hostilities in Ukraine is true, then what configurations in the Eurasian space and at its borders should Russia be ready for? And where will its borders be?
The new borders of the Russian Federation in Ukraine will pass where our Armed Forces stop. The further they move west, the better.
It is important to understand that the final line of contact by the end of the war will become part of the New Iron Curtain, which will most likely be mothballed for decades. Therefore, without achieving the desired goals by military means, it is not advisable to make peace in an unsuitable configuration of the future state border.
Ultimately, now a lot depends on our army, which solves problems of a historical nature and directly affects what the fate of Russia will be in the 20-30s. XXI century.
[ConservativeTreehouse] You might have heard about an online grocery distribution center called Picnic in the Netherlands burning to the ground {LINK}. The backstory of how the Picnic operation connects to the Dutch government is fascinating, and with context it looks like Picnic was targeted as part of the Dutch farmer protest.
In the Netherlands the government official who organized the regulations to take farmland from farmers and reduce their livestock is a politician named Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink {wiki link}. Mrs van der Wal-Zeggelink is the current Minister for Nature and Nitrogen Policy in the Dutch cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Minister Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink and Prime Minister Mark Rutte are climate activists, so it makes sense that the "Minister of Nitrogen Policy" would be the person who would attempt to reduce nitrogen by targeting the farmers. It is Mrs. van der Wal-Zeggelink who created the regulations that the farmers are protesting.
Now, stay with me... Christianne van der Wall-Zeggelink is married to Piet van der Wal, an heir to the wealth of the family who owns a supermarket chain called Boni. {citation} So, when Dutch farmers sell product to Boni they are directly funding the wealth of the government minister who seeks to destroy their livelihoods.
Additionally, when Dutch shoppers spend their money at the Boni supermarket they are funding the family of the government minister who is seeking to destroy the farmers who provide the food to the supermarkets. Do the Dutch farmer blockades of the supermarkets and distribution centers make more sense now?
Here is where it gets interesting.... The supermarket chain Boni is one of a small group of four big investors in the online supermarket chain Picnic. {citation} The van der Wal family was part of a group of investors in 2015 and 2019 who generated €450 million for the Picnic grocery operation. More at the link.
[American Greatness] Marie Antoinette, the beheaded wife of the beheaded French Bourbon King Charles Louis XVI, did not really say "Let them eat cake."
But in the short time that the French Revolution became utterly unhinged, toxic, and nihilistic, she became nonetheless iconic as an out-of-touch elite who had lived in a make-believe world at Versailles, without a clue (or care?) about the ordeal of the masses.
Rather than worry about the drudgery of the French peasant, Marie dressed up as one. And she roamed about in her idyllic faux peasant "farm" at the Hameau de la Reine, near the palace at Versailles.
Apparently, during these brief rustic interludes, Marie felt that the more she might act out a sort of aristocratic peasant life, the more she could find simplicity and escape the drama of court life, but without the real-life, crushing poverty of the poor.
The modern left-wing elite are becoming our version of Antoinettes. Thirty-eight-year-old Mark Zuckerberg is worth over $60 billion. But he enjoys T-shirts, jeans, and apparent simplicity in his many landed estates. He is so worried about the wrong voting tendencies of the clueless middle classes that he poured nearly $420 million of dark money from his vast fortune into the 2020 election—de facto absorbing the work of key precinct registrars—to ensure the "right" result for the unthinking multitudes.
Americans, almost uniquely among modern nations, mostly do not envy, much less despise the rich. But there is a certain sort of privilege that they do not like: the sanctimonious and hypercritical rich whose rhetoric is at odds with their own lifestyles and the methods by which they inherited or made vast sums. And they especially are turned off by those who exude open disdain for the clinger/deplorable/dregs class—to paraphrase the Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden nomenclature.
An especially grating habit of the left-wing wealthy is to lecture the middle class on their supposed illiberality. Often, those struggling are told they need to pay more for what White House economic advisor Brian Deese recently called the "liberal world order."
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, or George Soros, to take a few examples, are multibillionaires who live lives unlike any in the history of civilization. They also fund various agendas through multibillion-dollar foundations and their own personal riches.
Their causes are all deemed critical to the nation and planet, but unfortunately not fully appreciated as so vital by the peasant classes—whether they be global governance, massive restructuring of the economy to stop carbon releases, radical abortion on demand, or the sponsoring of critical legal theory prosecutors who feel crime is but a rich man’s construct.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
