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2022-06-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Zelensky: Ukraine’s military gradually liberating Kherson Oblast,

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Posted by Fred 2022-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Unlikely to happen. Everyone is focused on the Donbas right now, but Kherson is too important to Russia.
Nice BBC map

Kherson anchors one end of the land bridge to Crimea, a major objective of this 'special operation'. Also, there is a canal near Kherson that brings fresh water to Crimea. The Ukrainians blocked the canal after the 2014 troubles. Restoring the canal was another Russian goal.

Posted by SteveS 2022-06-12 09:23|| 2022-06-12 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 This is the same asshole who lied about Ukraine not having any casualties to speak of.

Last week, panicking and trying again to extort more billions from us, he suddenly changed his tune and said "60 to 100" per day.

The next day, his spokesman upped that to "100 to 200" per day. Yesterday his top military official revised it to 300 Ukrainian casualties suffered each day.

Which tells you the real number is at least twice that.

Posted by Elmineck Spoluck2528 2022-06-12 09:44|| 2022-06-12 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Diogenes ain't looking in the camp of either side there for his one honest man.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-12 09:49|| 2022-06-12 09:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Biden will do to Ukraine what he did to Afghanistan. This should be obviousl to anyone who's been following this reptile over his career.

"When he was trying to persuade Barack Obama to pull out of Afghanistan, the vice-president, Joe Biden, drew an unfortunate analogy with the disgraced former US president Richard Nixon. “We have to be on our way out,” Biden told the veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, “to do what we did in Vietnam.”

Holbrooke, Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, replied that he “thought we had a certain obligation to the people who had trusted us”.

Biden’s response was revealing: “F*** that,” Biden reportedly told Holbrooke. “We don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam. Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.”

Posted by Palmerston 2022-06-12 12:28|| 2022-06-12 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Biden to Ukraine: "Lie back and think of Kissinger!"

Posted by Palmerston 2022-06-12 12:29|| 2022-06-12 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 So y'all finally admit that y'all and Presnident Zheimer are on the same side?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-06-12 19:00|| 2022-06-12 19:00|| Front Page Top

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