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2022-11-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by badanov 2022-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 "From the territory controlled by Russia, such a missile WILL NOT FLY due to purely physical reasons."

Some versions of the S-300 have a range of up to 200 km. Enough for them to be fired from Belarus (and Russia has done that before).

The real question of course is: What were the Ukrainians shooting at (i.e. defending themselves against?).

And no, nobody was starting WW3 because of a stray missile. The only ones promoting this panic were - once again - the Russians.

Can we talk now about electricity and heating plants systematically destroyed by Russia? That's a war crime.

Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-17 06:00|| 2022-11-17 06:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Targeting infrastructure (and not civilians) is a far cry from placing weaponry in public places such as train stations, shopping malls, etc. I mean, the Ukrainians would never do such a thing.

Don't hear much about that report about the Ukrainians from Amnesty International, either.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-11-17 06:05|| 2022-11-17 06:05|| Front Page Top

#3 A Dichotomy Paradox (Zeno’s) in Polish notation ☺?

Posted by NN2N1 2022-11-17 06:31|| 2022-11-17 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4 "placing weaponry in public places such as train stations, shopping malls, etc. I mean, the Ukrainians would never do such a thing."

Oh they do. In Russian propaganda, that is. I'm sure they put a lot of weapons in electricity and heating plants, too. Otherwise the Russians would have no justification to blow them up.

Right?

Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-17 07:22|| 2022-11-17 07:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Creating armorys inside / near hospitals, schools, "baby milk factories," etc. is a muzz thing, but any turd can do it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-17 08:37|| 2022-11-17 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 I really don't give a rat's a$$ if Russia blows Kiev to smithereens. This is not a US problem.

I also don't care if they blow up every power Trafo station in Ukraine. I might be ticked off if they tried to blow up one of my bridges to Crimea or a NATGAS pipeline or two.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-11-17 09:07|| 2022-11-17 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 "The only ones promoting this panic were - once again - the Russians."

Fibs, fibs, fibbing. There's a meme going around of the photographer who uploaded the proofs that it was ukr missile, meme is saying he didnt kill himself.

The first half of the day, there was absolutely noise that Poland should declare Article 4, absolutely noise from Zelensky's mouth that needs no repeating. The whole narrative for half the day was that the missile strike was a deliberate russian provocation. Silly to say otherwise. We all read it.

Posted by mossomo 2022-11-17 12:46|| 2022-11-17 12:46|| Front Page Top

#8 "Can we talk now about electricity and heating plants systematically destroyed by Russia? That's a war crime."

Can we talk about ukr damming the water ways, the water canals to Crimea?

Can we talk about how Zelensky went on ukr public television an mocked crimae for not having drinking water after ukr damned the canals while the audience laughed.

One of the first things Russia did on ukr territory was to blow all those damns up.

And I'll say, shelling Donbass for 8 years seems like a war crime too.

Posted by mossomo 2022-11-17 12:52|| 2022-11-17 12:52|| Front Page Top

#9 The breaking news about 'missile strikes' was in an article literally justifying preemptive nuclear strikes.

About 2 months ago Elyskyyy gave a speech pleading for a NATO nuclear first-strike which had to be clarified as awkschually attacking Russian nuclear targets using conventional weapons. Sure.

Child came home from school thinking Russia had just nuked Poland.

Say what you will about the merits and pitfalls of an Official NATO conflict with Russia, so say there isn't a propaganda effort at all on this side of the line to justify a nuclear exchange is bullshit.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-11-17 13:21|| 2022-11-17 13:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Ukraine never was going to be a good fit for NATO. They just keep showing more and more why they are not.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-17 13:23|| 2022-11-17 13:23|| Front Page Top

#11

Dump this Islamic moron from NATO and tell the Uki's call a truce. Tell Vlad we're concerned about the SINO-RU border. Offer the SOB a 5 year conditional NATO membership and a private suite at the MAYO Clinic.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-17 13:47|| 2022-11-17 13:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Isn’t an attack by Ukraine on Poland an Article 5 event. Shouldn’t NATO member countries be figuring out what retaliation is appropriate against Ukraine?

Posted by Phailet Poodle4316 2022-11-17 14:59|| 2022-11-17 14:59|| Front Page Top

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