What I've been telling you guys about Kadyrov's greater role?
Negotiations and military force both have track records in this conflict and it is pretty obvious that the former simply didn't work and there is no reason to think it might work any better now.
The other party are a bunch of slimy liars who will say anything but revert back to natural evil when given the chance... sign an agreement to find peaceful solutions and then shell the oppositions while blaming Russia for not living up to its obligations (when it has none).
What's even more striking in that WaPo article is the wording that betray their foregone conclusion that Russia is "committing war crimes" and that they are worried that evidence suggest otherwise.
Ignoring the fundamental fact that Russia doesn't care what western media thinks or the western public thinks any more... they are no longer relevant.
Agreed, Russia handles the Ukraine delicately like a retarded half-brother who got confused and forgot his Russian roots due to an overdose of Galician Krokodil. They won't treat Poland the same way as an extremely Russophobic NATO lapdog. Even if Article 5 is invoked, is the US, France and Britain (the only nuclear armed NATO members) willing to fight Russia head-on? I think this conflict between Russia and the Ukraine will effectively destroy NATO if Poland gets involved and exposes (again) that the US/UK will only fight Russia down to the last Non-Anglophone European.
The thing with HATO is interpretation of its articles is very selective and broad... if Poland involves itself in this conflict directly then... well lets face it... the US can either say Article 5 is only about defence and Poland chose to get involved in a conflict that has "nothing" to do with HATO (hahahahaahaha), or the US can say under article 5 we are obliged to help our ally no matter what... I doubt the other members will get a say in this... they don't normally get much of a say anyway.
But Biden has already said no HATO troops and getting involved would quickly spiral to WWIII, which is something no one will win because everyone will lose.
This suggests to me that Poland getting involved one way or another (ie willfully or with a faked false flag incident) will lead to them being exposed and hung out to dry like their Afghan allies...
Not jamming the communications and the internet allowed the forces of LNR and DNR to use their infrastructure and mobile phones. It also allowed partisans and people in the occupied territories to have access to Russian information, and report enemy activity as in 2014. It also helps to demoralize the Ukrops as they get plenty info of how bad things goings, and it helped the civilians.
In the final cost benefit analysis it was decided to save the "magic tricks" for later.
Another aspect is jamming enemy communication makes it much harder to find comms centres and HQs and even weapon and fuel dumps because it effects all communications. Often the location of an HQ can be exposed because of the cellphone traffic in the area or other signals and special antenna present.
Any location with HATO standard comms systems is worth listening to and the locations it communicates with is worth sending drones and satellites to too.
Equally when a war criminal is accidentally claimed to be in custody publicly and he then transmits video of himself alive and well you very quickly get information about where he is in real time which makes the hunt for him much easier...
Jamming everything and you get nothing and they might start using direct satellite link stuff that is harder to deal with.
If Medinsky does somehow pull a rabbit out of a hat, so be glad.
There is no negotiated solution possible, they lie, and they don't adhere to agreements signed.
1) Polish Deputy Prime Minister: Russia is preparing to launch a new attack in Ukraine, and all indications are that we are facing a long war
Hahaha... state the obvious, but then put in a barb that is intended to make the Russians scared, the actions of the ukrainian soldiers to use their own civilian population as meat shields to try to frame Russian soldiers as war criminals will backfire and lead to a hostile environment... mobile guerilla forces need the support and help of the local population even just to provide food and more ammo so they can continue doing what they do. Hurt the locals and they will shop you the first chance they get for peace.
My nephew was in Afghanistan and he told be that one of the local village elders confided in him that the taliban had approached him to join forces to attack my nephews unit to kick them out of the place but that the elder told the taliban group that my nephews unit were helping them with building infrastructure like building new wells and fixing existing ones and helping with schools for children and the healthcare needs of the locals... so the taliban moved on... without support from the locals they can't operate.
The Russians did this in Chechnia and Syria and now in Ukraine...
3) The Russians destroyed a big food warehouse (?) on the eastern side of Kyiv. Hit most likely by more than one missile
Suspect there was more than just food there...
7) A column of Russian equipment with "V" marks was moving from Rechitsa towards Gomel along the M10 highway. There were at least 8 Tochka-U, several BTR-82a, about 9 KamAZ trucks, some of which are carrying Tochka-U missiles, communication vehicle and a crane
Good. The Tochka is a good system, they retired it prematurely IMHO...
If I have to, I will do it again. I serve. I am Russian. Not American. I am Russian Soldier.
Congrats on the upgrade...
Boys laughed at Militsiya, and us, continuing to mark and post Mat. So some local lads broke their fingers couple nights ago. End of problem.
It is a real culture change.... when I was a kid if you got caught doing something wrong you got a clip around the ears by the police and they took you home and you got a hiding from your father. These days the kids have rights and lawyers and fathers defend the kids till proven otherwise.
A totally different attitude from parents and children and certainly not better at all.
Twitter war' don't mean squat, all 'social media' are just verbal masturbation concealing massive boredom and misery. A pox on the lot of them, it's not for me.
It is further evidence if any was needed that this generation are sheep and listen to what they are told without question and without using reason or common sense.... they don't question that the Russian Army would allow soldiers to take cellphones in to combat despite already taking out enemy leadership in previous wars using triangulation of their position by using said cell phone signals.
Personally i'd like to glass the West Ukies... but I guess Russians would then need to deal with the ongoing radiation hazard, and would have border control problems with having to hold the line against an invasion of brain-eating mutant zombies... On a positive note, so would the Poolanders
Could claim it was a manifestation of the game Stalker... radiation hazards... they could get tourists in...