The Struggle For Ukraine

[Trenchcoat]

Looks like Ukraine may be able to stop the Russian Army at Pokrovsk

http://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/24/frontline-report-breaking-russian-lines-tactical-victory-at-kotlyne/

My guess is hear from reports is that Russia may now lack the firepower to destroy and take Pokrovsk. The Russian Army seems to be starting to get into pretty bad shape now as they are forcing soldiers on crutches to fight, are relying on North Korean Armaments and are much down on Artillery and Tanks. It has been reported in some sectors that Ukrainian Tanks may outnumber Russian Tanks.

[Trenchcoat]

Well Trump & Putler are finally doing the discussion thing. The fear here has been as Krim has so often pointed out that it may end as a stitch up for Ukraine:

http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/01/trump-says-white-house-had-serious-discussions-with-russia-about-ukraine-war

I am hoping either that isn't the case or the EU/UK etc will stay firm in their commitment to Ukraine and go against any Trump/Putler stitch up.

[Trenchcoat]

And an interesting Trump story here...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/31/hedge-funds-bet-billions-against-trumps-america/

[olgac]

I don't have a good feeling about it. I think Trump will make Zelensky do whatever Putin wants

[krimster2]

and Putin will pay Trump to do what Putin wants...
Reality Politik
Trump's Rosneft Stock will be kept in a box next to the Top Secret documents
with the documentation for Trump Towers Cirty Center Moscva

I for one, am happy, that the Trump admin has eliminated those price caps on pharma companies
so that a few pharma executives don't get bullied by millions of poor seniors
and IN ADDITION,  Trump voters are FINALLY gonna learn WHO ACTUALLY pays tarriffs
i.e Trump Voters

well gol-ly Mr Oilagarch, yessuh, I be happy to pay yur share of the tax cuts with tarriffs, yes sur
if'n you get rid of racial quotas, so dumb white boyz like me can find a job more easily
thank you suh....

Trump's elimination of DEI will completely change the social contract in America
we will cut welfare and racial and other identity entitlements
it will weaken the cohesion of the democratic party
becuz they depend on these groups that are effected by DEI
so democrats will have to spend all their time focusd on gay people, etc
instead of labor's shrinking share of the economy
or the oligarchy's refusal to raise taxes on themselves to cut the deficit caused by cutting their taxes
and instead search for ways to transfer the cost to the poor and middle class through tarriffs and mass layoffs and inflation


IMHO, we should toss out this old culture war identity politics system
and go to a class based one
and have a a Labor Party in America, that doesn't care about yur orientation
cuz a gay white worker and a straight black worker have more in common than either of them has with any oligarch of any color
and make it all about the economy and how it's being hijacked by oligarchs along with the politics

[krimster2]

in Russia, mafiya becomes oligarchy
in America, oligarchy becomes mafiya
either way, a bunch of rich criminals are gonna do a reverse "Robin Hood" for "the good of the country"
it's purely an accident, that the rich have been getting richer, while the poor have been getting poorer, or is IT?
it's not "a bug", if it was a planned feature, all along...

on tarriffs
it's gonna be really hard, to lie to people, and tell them the average $800 cost per yr/family is a good thing, that's why oligarchs control most of the media, so they can lie this way
but everything the oligarch media tells you is either a lie, a sales pitch for crypto trading cards, or useless BS

Tune In
Turn On
Drop Out

what idjuts don't realize...
is that when the pendulum swings back the other way next election
we're all gonna be wearin CCCP Pioneer shirts and ties
which I'm totally chill with, cuz I totally dig the Soviet Retro Look and style from back in the day, when I used to listen to the English broadcasts of Radio Moscow

za mir robotniki....
instead groups of robotniki are fightin with other group of neighboring robotniki
becuz politicians use the robotniki as pawns to be sacrificed in their quest for more money and power
war is a big business with a lot of money to be made, but mainly by people on top of the Pyramid and not those buried underneath it
fer instance, Hamas's leadership were all Billionaires$
and to fullfill what Iran paid this money to the leadership to do, got 50,000 Gazans killed

same deal in Russia....
Russian oligarchy wants to steal Ukraine and carve it up for themselves
but has gotten 850,000 Russian casualties

having a government that acts for the interests of the top few
always does so at the cost to the people below

and I think the majority of the American people, will finally understand this a few years from now
but they will have to learn the hard and painful way

With US aid to Ukraine winding down, and considering that the Trump Administration’s Talking Points are coming straight from Moscow
it's clear that Trump is Putin's Seller's Agent, and not Zelensky's Buyer's Agent
cuz Trump's commission comes from Putin
Trump and Putin have already worked out the deal by phone, and it's not good for Ukraine
 nor is it all that good for the 850,000 KIA/WIA Russians
but it's good for Putin
and eventually will be good for 100 Russian oligarchs who divide it all up and give some to "poppa" and launder some of the proceeds in New York Real Estate


all my gear just arrived from Asia 1 day before start of sanctions!!!!!
so i'm gonna be "pre-occupied"

PS
while projecting on the astral plane, I ended up in the Kremlin
 and accidentally intercepts Putin's plan for Ukraine
and overheard EVERYTHING

Putin wants to have a national election in Ukraine, and use it to force out Zelensky
he wants Trump to make this a requirement
Putin and Trump want to turn the clock back to 2014 with Yanukovich
and have Ukraine join the CIS instead of the EU
and Exxon Mobil will be drillin like it was supposed to be back in 2017 with Rex Tillerson
the election will also legalize the transfer of ukrainian land  to Russia by a voter referendum
this is to clinch the "NO SANCTIONS"

and of course, the election will be interfered with
just like it was here in 2016, what Trump calls "The Russian Hoax"
whereby Oleg Deripaska bribed the FBI's head Russian cyberwar expert
to force the FBI to release publicly about a bogus investigation before the election
about Hillaery's emails stolen by a Russian hackers

political engineering like this is Putin's forte, the only thing he has actual skill in, he sucks at EVERYTHING else!

[krimster2]

Putin doesn't want PEACE
he wants Ukraine
not just a piece of Ukraine, he wants all of it

and he's going to bribe Trump to give it to him, in fact, bribing Trump is the ONLY way Putin can win in Ukraine
Putin's plan is to force Ukraine to have a fraudulent election, that Putin will rig
that replaces Zelensky with a Russian puppet like Yanukovich
who will make Ukraine a puppet state like Belerus
then Russian oligarchs will divide up Ukraine
it takes Ukraine back to 2014, before Maidan

this is what Trump voters voted for, you should be happy
that thanks to Donald Trump
all those who died in Ukraine for freedom
died for nothin...
while Trump will get billions just out of that deal
with plenty more deals to be made

and none of ya care at all
this is why I call you mean names and hurt yur fee fees
becuz you don't care what happens to these people
yur not yur brother's keeper
so ya let a bully throw him under the bus

soon, you will all learn, what a cruel bitch KARMA is
when the same emboldened bullies come for you to

you can castigate me for my behavior on this board
but what of your own indifference to all that's goin on around you
which of us is more "moral"

sticking yur head in the sand, and ignoring reality
or to express with words of anger against the evil in the world

let the judges themselves all be judged by the plaintiffs pleas
for no judge will ever judge himself

PS
if I were Zelensky, I'd tell Putin what the commander of the US Army at Bastogne told the Nazis, when told to surrender
"NUTS"

and not phuquing worry about the consequences of taking the fight to Russia
if any body in Ukraine would like my white paper on sabtotaging the large High Voltage power transformers at generating plants (not the little sub-station or power-line ones)
these gigantic transformers take years to replace
if you know where to look, you can find the location of each one in Russia
and my paper will show ya how to bring that puppy down
and the single factory in Russia that makes them
the backlog in the USA is 3 years for new ones
it only takes a crew of about 5 SBU Soldat to take one down

you need to step up yur recruitment of foreigners, especially "technicals"
instead of putting obstacles. you need to provide assistance
you're missing out on a lot of highly specialized talent that you need

you need to learn to fight "differently"
look at what Mossad did with Pagers to Hezbollah
they took out half of Hezbollah with the same amount of explosive as just two artillery shells

Russia has so many, many different ways to do the same
like yur already doin with fuel depots

I'll show ya the EXACT spot to shoot an RPG-7 at the big High Voltage transformer that are directly fed by a power plant
where it'll spray oil and short blowing up the whole thing spraying liquid copper all over the place
this will generally shut down power that might be partially rerouted
so, if you did a cluster, all at the same time...
or, if you did a deep analysis, you might be able to trigger a chain reaction of plants shutting down, as an added bonus

take the war to Putin and do so using minimal resources
asymetrical is not hypothetical

if Ukraine can continue the war another year, and with ALL SANCTIONS STILL IN PLACE
the Russian economy will start rartioning meat and eggs and freeze all bank accounts over a certain threshold, and 1,000,000+ KIA/WIA
the misery index in Russia, will be at it's highest level since 1945
and the only path you have to victory, is to raise this number SKY HIGH!
for Russians to force Putin to just end the war on ANY terms

the sacrifice of the Ukraine people, no matter how great, will not have been in vain, IF YOU WIN!

just sayin...

I know, easy for me to say, moy jhoppa aint't on the line (YET, but I expect it to be...and as a geezer, I got no problems with dyin this way)

liberty!
equality!
brotherhood!

the banners will be unfurled before Trump's Fox News tin soldiers
you know that day's a comin...right?

I can already hear the shots ringin out and the screams

naaaaaaahhh....it's probably the drugs have messed me up and I'm seein things....yeah...thats's what it is....

PS2
if ya'll ain't figured it out...
the same people who put Trump in power, are the same people who are now short sellin the markets
the bets are so huge, brokers will have to scramble, if they're the ones who lose the bets
illiquid brokers will cause the market to fall
and will effect the banks that loan them money the banks get from the Federal Reserve
Trump and Musk have played ya'll almost as much as Trump and Putin have
and they're just getting started
and STILL...ya'll don't understand how phuqued-up this is
cuz we're alla about ...should I write one or many....read the TOS...can't say that here...

so I can't get NO Satisfaction

[Admin]

and none of ya care at all
this is why I call you mean names and hurt yur fee fees
becuz you don't care what happens to these people
yur not yur brother's keeper
so ya let a bully throw him under the bus

soon, you will all learn, what a cruel bitch KARMA is
when the same emboldened bullies come for you to

you can castigate me for my behavior on this board
but what of your own indifference to all that's goin on around you
which of us is more "moral"

sticking yur head in the sand, and ignoring reality
or to express with words of anger against the evil in the world


...

and STILL...ya'll don't understand how phuqued-up this iscuz we're alla about ...should I write one or many....read the TOS...can't say that here...

so I can't get NO Satisfaction

Accusations/rants directed at no one in particular and seemingly anyone but yourself is nothing more than a troll post. On the off-chance that you have some meaningful point you care to make, drop the use of the colloquial "you" and present your position sans baiting and self-aggrandizement. And yes, insure any messages posted are on-topic for this site, lest they are candidates for removal.

[Trenchcoat]

Well the war in Ukraine hasn't worked out well for this for chap:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9w5nyz71x7o

This poor young Brit guy lost his left arm and left leg whilst working as a Medic near the front just a few days ago. He had been serving in Ukraine did two years as a Medic after going there as a potential Rambo.

Anyway he backed out of being a Rambo when the risks looked too great and I guess thought a Medic would be a less risky role but with much the same hero status

My guess is that apart from possible excitement it looks like he may have decided to go out there to land himself a Ukrainian woman as part of this escapade. Looks like he got one who already had a daughter (child) possibly as he mentions god-daughter of possibly the woman he got with is without children since he mentions he has family out there.

Now of course he is upbeat for the news reporter it doesn't help him not to be. I wonder though what the odds are of the Ukrainian woman he is with that she will stick with him? I don't reckon they are too high and she'll probably stick him on the first flight back to blighty for his own good lol. I can't see any other Ukrainian woman getting with him now that he has lost both an arm and a leg either.

Disability benefit might be one advantage he might have that Ukrainian men sing have access too. Even for that though it looks like they have cut back on a lot of it and he may struggle to get it as PIP (Personal Independence Allowance) is now replacing it and potentially they might say with bionic or whatever else fitted along with his good writing arm and leg still being in place that he can do everything without requiring extra help, so he doesn't qualify for PIP payment either. In fact he was silly to state for a national broadcaster that his right arm is his good writing arm lol

Anyhow, the main take away point here is that he went off to play the risky game of hero to impress a FSW when all of that was unnecessary. An unnecessary risk that he didn't need to take but didn't realise I assume that he didn't need to take it. He could have gotten a Ukrainian Woman without all of that carry on just by meeting and dating them as a civilian lol. The woman would think no less of him if she was really into him so the extra risk he took was pointless.

I recall a couple of years or so ago on this thread making the same point to CB who just didn't get it and I am sad to see doesn't come here anymore.

[krimster2]

Dear Admin,

indeed, you prevent me from saying, and then chastize me for not sayin...
'ave ya ever been to Hyde Park on a rare sunny Saturday?
I envoke the same manner of  public speaking as these fine Gentleman and Ladies
the bully pulpit (soap box)
but the freedom expressed there is not allowed here
so my speech is more vague
and I TOTALLY expect this to be deleted or relegated to Rants

it don't matter....
I aint baitin NOBODY, and I ain't self aggrandizing
it ain't bragging, just stating what's probably gonna happen to me and a lot of other Americans in America's upcoming summer of violence and Crystal nacht for Mexicans
Deportation Kamp das is Mein Kampf, if someone is being oppressed, das ist mein bruder
free the children locked in cages
Fox News Host rages
shotguns fire, all 12 guages
that's MY rap
you call it crap

all in all
the admin on RWD, is just Another Brick In The Wall

the world will in the future learn...
that an army of geezers, who are NOT afraid to die, can stop a tyrant
whether in Ukraine or "some other place"

Trump sellin Ukraine out to Putin, is a total betrayal of everything decent and moral
and none of ya'll are thinkin about complaining about it here on RWD...

my question to ya'll is WTF?
and somehow, I'm "The Bad Guy"
really?

I see it quite differently, I see selfish people who are indifferent to the fate of those around them
who instead, could choose to make a difference
instead of blocking discussion
becuz the people who enabled this to happen, by voting for it,  will get upset by my words if I speak out against it here

in other words, no matter how mcuh Trump's actions hurt the Ukrainian people
nor Trump's Deportation Camps, nor Trump's Tarriffs, nor how the sellout of Ukraine will hurt US, nor the takeover of our government by Elon Musk, nor the purge of FBI and Government Accounting Watch Dogs
NONE of that can be discussed here...
I can't talk about it here, cuz it will upset Trump Voters if I do
and since the majority of the Americans on this board are Trump Voters...
you don't wanna piss 'em off
and I think that about sums it up

and you consider this a moral decision, cuz it's in yur best interests not to piss off Trump Voters
did I miss anything...

we're afraid to upset muslims
and afraid to upset Trump Voters
for the same reason
but ya have no objection to nailin me to the cross
where I find myself in good company self aggrandizing with all the other Crucified
"hey look at me, I'm up here"
"I think I can see my house from up here"

ok...quick question...when yur up there on the cross, and ya gotta pee, do they let ya down for a break and then put ya back up again?
WHAT!!!!
yur kiddin me!!!!
JESUS CHRIST!!!

it may sound random, but I was just thinkin  how Ecce Homo and Homo Erectus are the ideal fictional names for a gay bar on Castro Street in San Francisco!!!!
disclaimer: I took LSD in the 80s at the DNA Lounge with famous people whose names I'm not allowed to say, on Albert Hoffman's Birthday in San Fran
it was a freak's paradise, I was barely allowed inside, ya had to know someone, I was the least famous person there
OMG!! Halloween was always Amazing there...what's weird was that despite such a HUGE volume of freaks, it was always peaceful
no idea, what's it's like now...

back then, you were supposed to leave yur aluminum cans by the curb, so homeless street kids can easily see and collect them
I think they called these kids "tribes" cuz they all lived in some abandoned places as a group
they were low key hustlers, not dangerous, and didn't steal from within their own neighborhood
they did DO a LOT of DRUGS however
and that's how a lot of 'em picked up HIV and died from it

having sex in San Francisco required me to put on 2 condoms at one time, in case one was just not enuff for protection
but other than having Bubble Boy Sex with below average lookin wimiin....

and I went from that to Kiev in 1996
and there were freakin super models out on the street smiling at me

I mean, really, all ya gotta do isa just GO THERE
haven't ya ever gotten a stray cat to approach you for you to pet it
you can do the EXACT same thing there with the wimmin
and they will puuuurrrr for you
if you know WTF you're doin

addendum
Trump is a cult figurehead, and if you say anything bad about the cult leader, the cultists will get mad
same for Elon
so anybody making cultists mad, why that's inciting anti-ethnic hatred, you think I don't see through that, and what's REALLY behind it

Elon is gonna tear down the government
and everything the government did, the oligaarch are gonna do instead, by privitizing it to themselves...JUST LIKE THEY DID IN RUSSIA
but...can't talk about it....

what borscht is yur favorite? green or red?

[krimster2]

the silence of the board is shattering



when the only tool you have is a hammer
every problem looks like a nail

when the only skill you have is to rig elections
then every problem you have is solved by rigging elections

Putin to Elon - make USAID go away, and you can own a pice of Nornickel for Tesla and yur Rockets after SANCTIONS are removed

Government Efficiency is a cover for what Elon's really doing
getting rid of everything that's pro-democratic
their goals and Putin's overlap 100%
the goal is to privitize the American government to the oligarchs like Elon and others who will join forces with Russian oligarchs
and the oligarchs skim off their cut
in economics, this is called "rent seeking behavior"
a subject ya'll have deliberatly been kept ignorant about
there's a reason why educationg slaves was illegal
it's the same reason Americans are ignorant about economics

anybody, ever put just a "dash" of paprika in their Borscht
you lnow with a name like Borshit, it's gotta be good!
freakin Russians....

I did a study on this a long, long, time ago
of how the most common letter pairs, tend to end up in swear words
"sh" would be an example in English
but in Russian, it would be different glyphs
I never checked to see if it correlated...to much work...back in the pre-internet period

[ML]

Donald says USA should get right to mine rare earth minerals in Ukraine as payment for equipment USA sends to Ukraine.

So Ukraine has said OK . . .  go to it in Donbass.

[ML]

Civilized nations have not recognized Russia's right to Crimea.

So Ukraine is to give USA right to build and operate military bases in Crimea to protect shipments of rare earth minerals.

[krimster2]

mineral resource map of Ukraine...

the time has come...
to talk of...
rare earths, and windmills,
and sharks and batteries,
Haitian Pet Eaters,
Greenland and Panama,
Gaza real estate,
USA soverign crypto fund, after crypto deregulation
purge of all American Russian-counter intelligence officers from Intelligence agencies and governemnt watchdogs
tarriffs paid by poor and middle class to offset tax cuts to the rich
and how Trump was persecuted by the Deep State for trying to help poor Americans

you picked THIS!!
you're responsible!!
WTF are you gonna do aboit it NOW?
do you even recognize that YOU and every other American has a VERY big problem right now?

please...do enlighten the board with your quaint rustic hillbilly discourse regarding the enlightened despotism of the grifter-in-chief who you helped put in power
I eagerly await yur words...



PS
everybody wants Ukraine's Scandium comin from Dnipro
you can't build the next generation of micro-nukes without scandium polynitride
and it's pretty rare

[Trenchcoat]

So has Trump been swayed into supporting Ukraine against Russia with a deal on minerals for weapons?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/trump-wants-rare-earth-resources-from-ukraine-in-exchange-for-aid

Just shortly prior to this Trump & Putler were pushing for Elections in Ukraine but Ukraine wasn't falling for it and would have none of it. Putler of course rigs his Elections anyway so can hardly call out Ukraine in being undemocratic. Ukraine's constitution meanwhile states that no elections can be called under a state of emergency such as war time so Zelensky as it stands doesn't have a choice anyway if in fact he even wanted to which he doesn't fearing Russian interference. Putler would probably insist on the Russian controlled Donbas region voting and likely it would be a stitch up to replace Zelensky and he would probably end up being knocked off afterwards. So Zelensky sees this and isn't taking the bait and being a fool by going along with it. So with that avenue now shut off is Trump instead willing to swing behind Zelensky and continue military aid in exchange for mineral rights? Putler is now facing defeat in Ukraine through a shortage of Armaments and a failing economy so Trump's "friend" may be an easy victim now:

http://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-freak-out-us-russia-push-election/


The Gaza thing I can see that area could be very lucrative as the area by the sea is a potential paradise minus Muslim nutters. So potentially an area where Trump could gain for corporate America to invest and do well. Not sure but I think I heard there might be oil there also. I think in fairness it would end the hostilities that go around in periodic cycles there with Israel. Population transfer at the end of WWII with Poland sending Germans across the Oder river border into current day Germany seems to have gotten rid of the hostilities there and no real problems there now. I'm surprised you are not in favour of Gazans being pushed out of Gaza Krim, being Jewish and having been in the military there I thought you might have supported Israel with this?