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2022-03-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-13 09:47|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Coffee to keyboard, some cleanup required.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2022-03-13 13:14|| 2022-03-13 13:14|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm a stamp collector. I don't usually collect stamps issued after 2000, but I might make an exception in this case.

Posted by Old Patriot 2022-03-13 15:08|| 2022-03-13 15:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Exception noted and wise

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-13 16:09|| 2022-03-13 16:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Will there be a stamp commemorating the John McStain Brigade (martyrs? freedom fighters? mercenaries? peacekeepers? lunatics?) who were killed yesterday in the Russian missile strike on their training base near the Polish border

So much for the "benign hegemon" argument justifying NATO's encroachment:
The base has hosted international NATO drills and a senior NATO official, Admiral Rob Bauer, previously hailed it as embodying “the spirit of military cooperation” between Ukraine and international forces. As such, the site symbolizes Russia’s longstanding concerns that the 30-member Western military alliance poses a threat to Moscow by operating so close to its territory.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 16:25|| 2022-03-13 16:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Simon Shuster of Time magazine is on the scene in Yaroviv. Shyster tweeted that it's highly likely that volunteers from one or more of the US, UK and Australia were hit by the Russian missiles. Here's Shuster:

"When Russia bombed the base near Lviv last night, it had to assume Americans were likely to be killed or injured. A coordinator of foreign volunteers in Ukraine told me the base was a hub for 1000s of them, coming from all over to help Ukraine. I met some from US, UK, Australia."

Like Harding of the Guardian has also been tweeting on the scene in Yavoriv (though Harding said today he's now heading back to the U.K.).

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 16:54|| 2022-03-13 16:54|| Front Page Top

#6 * Yavoriv

I remember when it was our Special Forces killing Russian mercenaries in Syria. Now it's the Russians who are killing American mercenaries in Ukraine. Of course, the former occurred under Trump, when instead of provoking Russia we were preventing Russia from invading.

What an absolute fucking disaster this administration is.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 17:01|| 2022-03-13 17:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Confirmation from their own leader that Dutch Foreign Legion fighters killed, injured at Yavoriv

Gert Snitselaar, who coordinates the Dutch members of the Foreign Legion, told the Telegraaf and AD that it was clear Dutch people were killed in the attack. He did not want to offer a specific number just yet for fear of a disinformation campaign. "I was in contact with a few this morning, but since then there has been no communication," he told AD.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 17:10|| 2022-03-13 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Can't verify this for authenticity but the attached video at this link is apparently a Brazilian Foreign Legionnaire who, if my rusty Portuguese is correct, clearly confirms that a significant number of foreign fighters were killed in the strike on the Yavoriv training facility where they had been gathering.

The source of this video identified the speaker as "Thiago Rossi, ex Brasilian soldier that was part of #InternationalLegion in #Ukraine, [who] said that most of his Foreign unit was wiped in yesterday's Russian airstrike on their base in #Yavoriv near #Lvov."

In that Brazilian Legionnaire's video - presumably filmed today, he's fleeing on a bus to Poland and his voice his shaking - he says fue extermindos and keeps repeating the phrases mundo enteiro and todo gente and cabo -- the last IIRC is used often to mean the end, as in "wiped out."

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 18:06|| 2022-03-13 18:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Looks like the Russians were indeed telling the truth when they said their cruise missiles killed about 180 foreign legionnaires in Yavoriv.

Here is a series of desperate messages by a foreign volunteer fighter, courtesy of Nolan Peterson (@nolanwpeterson on Twitter): "From an American volunteer on the front lines outside of Kyiv:
"Sitting close to the frontline, the last safe mode of transportation leaves for greener pastures. A core group of about 30 foreign fighters remains out of around 200 people who were here just minutes ago.. 1/"

"The base we came from was struck by rockets in the early morning hours. People we lived with for a couple days are confirmed dead. It is only a matter of time before our location is targeted. We are about to be cut off by a Russian tank column any day now..." 2/

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 19:08|| 2022-03-13 19:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Perhaps time to ship out, comrades? A grave matter, this business of poking the bear and stomping "Ivan"...

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 19:11|| 2022-03-13 19:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Cruelly destroyed by the false promises and mindless amateurism of an entire generation of American policy makers:
9h ago
Replying to @nolanwpeterson
"Food, water, and ammunition dwindle slowly. The mood is somber, people are sending their last messages to friends and family." 3/
"Where is NATO? Where is the supposed good of western civilization?" end

Noland Peterson: An important note: this American is a special ops veteran who completed combat deployments to Afghanistan. He came to Ukraine before Russia's full-scale war on Feb. 24. He is an experienced, well-trained soldier who gave up his lucrative career in the US in order to help Ukraine

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 19:26|| 2022-03-13 19:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Comments #4 - 11 a monologue. Get a Blog, Lex

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-13 19:41|| 2022-03-13 19:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Try harder, Frank

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 19:47|| 2022-03-13 19:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Heh. C'mon, man, have a heart! I'm almost sold. Another few hundred posts should do it.

Posted by Boss Glusort6259 2022-03-13 19:50|| 2022-03-13 19:50|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Now that was a worthy effort!
Орден «За заслуги перед Отечеством» вам!

Posted by Ebbinerong Ebbinerongovich Стаханов 2022-03-13 20:05|| 2022-03-13 20:05|| Front Page Top

#16 and yet, another. On to your shit, "Lex". Get a therapist

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-13 21:35|| 2022-03-13 21:35|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ Shoot, he could be one... of a sort... nudge nudge shock shock. Could certainly fake it, anyway.

Posted by Boss Glusort6259 2022-03-13 21:56|| 2022-03-13 21:56|| Front Page Top

#18 And speaking of Russian medicine...

Doc Stalinstein, maddened by pride,
Made a monster, then added a bride
That mauled his creation --
"Mein Soviet nation!" --
So badly it g-ddamn near died.

Posted by Boss Glusort6259 2022-03-13 22:01|| 2022-03-13 22:01|| Front Page Top

#19 ... and heroes of Soviet labor...

In Donbas a babe, born a man of
The people, at birth mined a ton of
Our black Russian coal,
Then ran back in the hole
To blast more! Rest in peace, Ms. Stakhanov.

Posted by Boss Glusort6259 2022-03-13 23:55|| 2022-03-13 23:55|| Front Page Top

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