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2022-03-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Vicious Street Fighting Video In Mariupol, Ukraine

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Posted by US 2022-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 At the 27 second mark appears a Russian tank crew member fleeing on foot...

Posted by US 2022-03-21 00:23|| 2022-03-21 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 "All of the far-right neo nazi stuff aside, the Azov Battalion has been putting up a heroic last stand"
Why put it 'aside'? Zelensky and Ukrainians don't. They're open supporters of that shit 'far-right neo-Nazi stuff'

Posted by Unavish de Medici8542 2022-03-21 06:48|| 2022-03-21 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Azov Battalion is just the most notorious of several openly bel-Nazi outfits that have been murdering and torturing Russian speaking citizens of the Donbas for at least 8 years. Here is an review of MRI-Nazi Praviy Sektor and its close ties to the Ukrainian Army. They're an important part of Zelensky's government as well.

"On January 16, two more fighters were killed in Peski… The presence of openly neo-Nazi armed formations, barely subordinate to the current government (and numbering up to 2,000 fighters) continues to be a stark characteristic of the contemporary Ukrainian state. As they say, there is no fascism in Ukraine…"

Posted by Dino McCoy6680 2022-03-21 07:04|| 2022-03-21 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Russian Trolls: "We're the victims here!"

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-21 07:27|| 2022-03-21 07:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Mariupol 'will NOT surrender': Besieged Ukrainian city where 300,000 are trapped vows to fight to the LAST soldier and rejects Russia's demand to lay down their arms or face 'humanitarian crisis' - as those who do make it out go to 'filtration camps'

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-21 07:29|| 2022-03-21 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Russia's terrifying vacuum bombs blast Mariupol: Video shows TOS-1a launcher in action for first time as it sets the ground on fire while unleashing a salvo of thermobaric missiles that vaporize bodies

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-21 07:50|| 2022-03-21 07:50|| Front Page Top

#7 I admire the Azov guys. They're fiercely anti-moslem and very committed, fully dedicated to toxic masculinity, just the way I like it. You may not agree but everyone needs such groups nowadays in this age of Loki.

And this Nazi schmazi? I could point you to a hundred outfits in hindoostan that use the swastika [it's ours you see] and are openly militant. Everyone from the BBC to the Indian media itself calls them hitler's spawn and modern wannabe eichmanns.

Of course I'm rootin' for Putin. But talent is talent. And courage is courage. It's like I said to this pashtun merc before ... well I told him I greatly value his bravery and madness.

I wish there could be some easy resolution to all this, the globalLeft could be told to fuck off and Zelensky would content himself with running a sovereign country of industrious people instead of tried to pied piper them into the Eww. And that both would find a way to channel all that slavic energy into culling moslems. Now wouldn't that be great?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-21 11:11|| 2022-03-21 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ I suppose you admire the ones who slaughtered your Kashmiri Hindus too? Because that's what the Azov battalion and other paramilitary organizations like it did in Donetsk, not to muslims but to regular people who only rejected the Globalist appointee Zelensky and wanted to belong to Russia proper. No dialogues no debate or democratic process they are used by Zelensky to silence opposition. Thugs not soldiers.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-21 11:33|| 2022-03-21 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 IIRC, they were the only real effectives last go-around, to the point they were punished for basically showing up everyone else.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-21 14:39|| 2022-03-21 14:39|| Front Page Top

#10 #7 I wish there could be some easy resolution to all this

The traditional "easy solution to all this" is a decisive and crushing victory by one side over the other. This resolves the uncertainty and tension and allows the hegemonic interstate order to be reestablished*: Seventh Coalition over Napoleon at Waterloo. Red Army winning the Battle of Berlin, followed by the US firebombing of Tokyo followed by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And so forth.

*Randall Schweller, Ohio State U.'s brilliant International Relations theorist, builds on Robert Gilpin's theory of hegemonic war and uses a physics analogy to explain.

"According to Schweller, two features of the international system yield increased entropy—the impossibility of hegemonic war and the closed state system. First, Schweller posits that hegemonic wars, a topic most famously theorized by Robert Gilpin, are necessary for the regular maintenance of world order. These calamitous conflicts between dominant powers and rising challengers leave the victor with an institutional tabula rasa and clarify the pecking order among the remaining great powers. That is, a hegemonic war presents an opportunity to impose order. If no such conflict comes to pass, entropy will continue its otherwise inexorable rise."

Posted by Chusoger Thrusosh4089 2022-03-21 14:58|| 2022-03-21 14:58|| Front Page Top

#11 #8 I suppose you admire the ones who slaughtered your Kashmiri Hindus too

Those were thugs now. And moslems, so they're not included in the civilizational spectrum you can co-exist with long term. And I already said I'm with Russia on this. People who haven't fought anything in their life and only cheered or booed others who do will not understand. Everybody can't be guilted into conforming to a single mindset by simply waving the word 'nazi' in their face. By the millennials' definition of the word, I'm a nazi!

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-21 21:57|| 2022-03-21 21:57|| Front Page Top

#12 "And I already said I'm with Russia on this. People who haven't fought anything in their life and only cheered or booed others who do will not understand"

Excellent. Extremely well said.

Have you heard John Mearsheimer? Here is Mearsheimer in 2015: See the 'Consequences' part of the lecture (skip to the 38th minute): "We're effectively driving the Russians into the arms of China! We need the Russians on China. We need the Russians on Iran. on Syria, on a whole host of issues! Russia is not a peer competitor! The CHINESE are a peer competitor. NATO is going to disappear.... The gang in Washington us not one to rely on..

"The Japanese wonder if we're going to be there for me. And they see us picking a fight with Russia, picking a fight with ISIS, picking a fight with Isis ... and they're not going to see us [as reliable]... This is the gang that doesn't shoot straight...THEY HAVE THE MIDAS TOUCH IN REVERSE! Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya...

"The United States since 1989 has been the greatest power in the world. And we are incredibly secure – the most secure power in history. And that has allowed us to pursue all these foolish policies..."

"The US is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to be BE WRECKED. It would be in our interest to BURY this crisis as soon as possible. It would certainly be in Russia's interest to bury this crisis. And it would definitely be in Ukraine's interest ..."

Posted by Injun Glomoth7804 2022-03-21 22:23|| 2022-03-21 22:23|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ I have seen some of his talks with Indian media. One of the voices calling for a stabler, more responsible India and I agree. My view was we should be more aggressive too, but that is obstructed by the representational politics.

His analysis of world governments and states negotiating survival and dominance is based though on the assumption that they are led by rational men at all times, or at least most of the time.

My theory is rather basic, and hopelessly flavored with my conviction in the spiritual, because unlike 'experts' I am free to think outside one limited paradigm.☺ I think Putin would agree with me on this.

Human society, like every system in the universe, moves from desperately enforced order to chaos. It's been happening since the garden of eden. And violence is required to keep re-enforcing order. But every time the irrational bastards who give in to what they call 'liberty' are in control, chaos encroaches a little more. States are brought back to order by say, a Trump or a Modi... but the order imposed is decidedly weaker every successful comeback. Thus everything is moving toward anarchy, with bloated bureaucracies and useless legislatures and figurehead Presidents and Chairmen trying to barely keep things on track, riding their respective tigers.

It is Babylon, mon ami. And it's all going up in mushroom clouds sooner than people here want to believe. Until it does, all we must do is keep our individual spheres of influence in order. And that takes violence. As chaos encroaches everyday it takes greater and fiercer violence. Until we are left with one bullet for ourselves.

Putin spent his life enforcing an order in his realm, and is still trying to push at the chaos represented by Europe and the US. He was not challenged because the west thinks Ukraine is important or because of populist sympathy. He is challenged by chaos itself, which regularly uses the nation States its got its hook into. America is sadly one of these States. But today people will never believe this, they have grown up believing 'Rooshia bad! Bad Rooshia!' They have seen 007 diving out of planes being fired upon by slavic misfits and every russian and his metal teeth out to invade the good ol' countryside. In reality Putin and Trump had the same basic vision. To re-enforce order, and weed out the cretins and devils who serve chaos. Which is why they understood each other.

The US was a great nation. All because of it's silent majority, the solid christian nationalist base which gave it the military, the industry, the economy and the morality imbuing its edifices of justice and force projection. But for the past few decades, that majority was slowly disenfranchised, using violence to impose a different kind of order. One that serves the globalist ideal, the false gods of enacted virtue and self-righteous imposition of some dead mescalin addicts' vision for humanity. An order that intends to unleash chaos to remake nations in some textbook utopia.

No one can fix what is happening. The greater violence, like always, will win. Must win. It is the mark of the beast and it is how those tanks will be filled and that AC will cool. The clever ones in the US know this too. Zelensky was promised great things, a chance to strut in the Louise Weiss, but he was never really getting it. Instead thousands were destined to die over the possibility.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-21 23:23|| 2022-03-21 23:23|| Front Page Top

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