I thought maybe I’d start a new series where, to fill in the gaps between longer articles and SITREPS, we can parse out a few of the top daily/weekly videos with commentary, perhaps discuss the absurdity of them, etc.
The true extent of the evil horror that is the Ukie regime will be told in full complete with overwhelming evidence; but here's the problem, the majority of "westerners, the sheeple, will not believe it. They will shrug their shoulders and shuffle forth to get their eighth 'rona mRNA booster.
Full denazification is needed more than ever. Fat bitch Nuland, Blinken and the clique of their own oligarchs (mostly from the same 'tribe'), stole all their money in dozens of billions for years, their land.. they don't care.They should better fight them + zelensky and his clique of thieves.Ukrainians are comiting collective suicide, nothing will be left of this country, they will also bear a very big responsability like politicos + journos in the West who know this but say nothing.
Northwestern Ukraine (the word Ukraine means "border region") was the interface between various empires for over a thousand years so the peoples living there were constantly being overrun by one or another army. To preserve their culture they had to be ultra nationalists within whichever empire was currently dominant. They hate not only Russians, but also Poles, Hungarians, and Jews.
South and Eastern Ukraine are actually Russian, not "Ukrainian", and loath the Nazis in northwest Ukraine with their Banderaite OUN worship. Russian civilization and culture originated in South and Eastern Ukraine around 850 AD and slowly spread north and east. You could say that Russia is actually Greater Ukraine. After 9 years of war and Nazi occupation the surviving people of southern and eastern Ukraine are more bona fide "Russian" than most people born in Moscow, Novosibirsk, or St. Petersburg.
The current over-the-top fanatical Nazi hatred espoused by the nominal "Ukrainians" is mostly the result of three decades of pumping up Ukrainian ultra nationalism to create a new "Ukrainian" identity, pushed in particular by the Ukonazi diaspora in Canada including our Deputy PM, herself directly descended from a Nazi propaganda newspaper editor who fled with the retreating German army in 1944. He obviously succeeded in passing his pathological Nazi beliefs onto his granddaughter who espouses them from her position of power in Ottawa.
While this ongoing "Ukrainization" of the population was carried on even under the Party of Regions gov'ts, it really took off after the 2014 coup put the Nazi militias and Right Sector in power, backed by billions in US money to create an "anti-Russia" just as they have done in the Baltics and are trying to do in all the post-Soviet countries ringing Russia. That is 9 years of Nazi propaganda and brainwashing schoolchildren: longer than Hitler and Goebbels had in Nazi Germany to nazify the population before launching WW II. That is where the deranged hate comes from: both ancient and recent history.
"They hate not only Russians, but also Poles, Hungarians, and Jews."
They hate Greeks too. The Greeks around Mariupol were terribly abused by the Nazi militias for eight years. Basically anyone in Ukraine who's not a Ukrainian.
There are some issues with the Romanians in Bukovina too, not sure how bad they are.
And don't forget the Gypsies! They REALLY hate Gypsies. OTOH, that's a pretty typical sentiment across Eastern Europe, especially in places like Romania and Slovakia. It's also a longstanding tradition in the region. Even centuries ago, villages would hang the body of a dead Gypsy outside their village for months at a time to discourage other Gypsies from showing up.
But the Gypsies themselves haven't done a lot to disabuse people of the notion that they're bad actors.
"Basically anyone in Ukraine who's not a Ukrainian." That about sums it up. There is no real racial difference, but the northwest "Ukrainian" linguistic and cultural group is Catholic, a spillover from Poland and Germany pushing east, while the south and eastern Ukrainians are Orthodox Christian culture from Byzantium spreading across the Black Sea and up the river valleys. Their religion is the primary basis of the different cultures which met in Ukraine - the Border Region of both. Later the Turks seized Constantinople for Islam and pushed into eastern Europe and Crimea, but that is a story for another conversation.
All of Eastern Europe is a petri dish for hate-thy-neighbor. They would rather kill their neighbor than live on their current piece of dirt. Centuries of hate.
And via the 'refugees' many will not return they will contaminate Europe as they did in Canada for exemple, perfect future nato gladio à la 'stay behind' terrorists.
Study the history of Western Ukraine to find out. This stuff goes back hundreds of years to a split between the eastern (Orthodox) and western (Roman) Catholic Churches. Western Ukraine went to the west and started cutting themselves off from the rest of Ukraine. They had a separate evolution from the rest of the country.
They also think they're different racially. They're actually LITERAL Nazis (Aryan Supremacists and Lebensraum supporters). They don't think they're Slavs. They think Slavs are a racially tainted people due to mixing with Asiatic, or as they put it, Hunnish, blood. They REALLY hate those Asiatic Russians like Buryats and Tuvans.
I don’t guess it matters at this point. Too many very tough soldiers (Ukraine) are dead. Why they haven’t turned is a puzzle. Again it’s a mystery and I’m sure there’s not an easy answer. What were these people thinking they were going to get in return? No doubt most of the money being tossed around went to high levels of command. I’m sure it was dispersed a good way down on the totem pole to keep Ukie soldiers in line.
Very sad we could have used them when shit takes off on the world stage. Such a waste. Seem like great fighters; very tough but not so bright. They are up there with Americans when it comes to succumbing to brainwash tactics.
I'd say there is something similar going on in Ukraine, 80+ years of Übermensch, it plays well on that sort of mentality. The country is shit, everything is still going to hell in a handbasket, so the only way to keep a bit of self-respect is to believe one is a superior being who due to bad luck is being held down by the Untermensch, and the only hope is to remove the Untermensch. That, plus Stockholm Syndrome, where the victims of kidnapping model the behavior their captors want and thanks to human plasticity, after modeling it long enough it's easier to believe in it than to keep living with the cognitive dissonance.
Listening to your video appreciate you sending. One of the reasons perhaps they continued on to fight the Soviets was because the leadership was full of Jewish Communists (Bolsheviks). Maybe they trusted the US/Britain side more or at least enough to lay down their arms?
Have had my head snapped around over the last year or so in many directions. Have heard that a certain man with a mustache booted out the Bankers (Central) he believed responsible for WW1, Great Depression, and Weimar inflation. One account of history said he turned the country around and ended up on the cover of Time Magazine's Man of the Year. Supposedly these bankers feared others might get the same idea and organized blockades and boycotts to strangle Germany.
Once that shit starts regular Germans got very mad at regular Jews. Its not hard to see how things went forward from that point. If that indeed is the way it went down. I could see Ukrainians hating Soviet era government but cannot understand why so much now?
That reminds me of an interview I saw with Arestovich (sp?) before he fell out of favor with the Ukrainian government. Something to the effect of, Ukraine (the idea of the nation) is held together with lies, the moment the lies stop the whole things falls apart.
I think the surgeon is real. Anyway, we have the official medical officer of the Ukrainian army giving an order to castrate all Russian POW's, so this isn't really out of line. Look at his eyes and the rage in them. Look at how his voice picks up when he starts talking about this. Most people are not very good actors. He's not doing this for shits and giggles. He said, "When a soldier comes to me missing a leg, to me he's dead already." That sounds quite authentic and a faker probably would not have made up something like that.
With an admitted 7 Ukrainians, not counting the Foreign Mercenaries, killed for every Russian, though not morally acceptable, the Uke Doktor might have reason to dislike what Russia is doing.
I actually think it is 13 Ukrainians for every Russian.
Ukrainian KIA: 317,000 (high estimate).
Russian KIA: 25,000
That's a 12.5-1 ratio.
I don't think it has much to do with the KIA totals. I think it's more that it's just a Nazi country. They're all been imbibing 100 proof "Kill All Russians" vodka since 2014, and they didn't like them much before then. It's what I would call a "criminally insane country." Your average citizen is basically a homicidal (or genocidal) psychopath in a sense. Whenever there's a rumor of the Ukrainians doing something criminally insane, ask yourself, "Is that something a Nazi would do?" If the answer is yes, then Ukraine probably did it.
If we apply four wounded to every one killed ratio, then we get total Ukraine losses of 317,000 KIA and 1,280,000 wounded. Total casualties of 1.6 million! Good Lord!
Russian casualties, last I checked, were 25,000 KIA and I suppose 100K wounded for 125,000 total.
Ratio is just as I said above: 13-1 KIA in Russia's favor. Wow!
Ukraine started the conflict with 250k troops and 450k reserves. That's their baseline of 700k trained personnel.
The line of contact has been largely static, except for the two voluntary withdrawals Russia made in Kherson and Kharkov. This means outside of offensives there's no real need for Ukraine to vastly increase the density of troops per mile.
I stopped following it, however its worthwhile building a table with the approximate date and size of each round of mobilization Ukraine has had.
I believe Ukraine is on the 11th mobilization, and now they are talking about total mobilization. I haven't seen details on what "total mobilization" means, but to me suggests that most troops from the start as well as prior rounds were largely killed / wounded / MIA.
Russia on the other hand has only had one mobilization of 300,000 (most of whom haven't been sent to the line of contact) along with the initial 190,000 who started the special military operation. The non-sending of the mobilized into battle makes me suspect Russian total attrition is maybe only in the range of 75k.
Such a table I believe would provide a pretty good troop attrition ratio for both sides.
I am certain the Russians are taking names, and not just in the (nearly) former Ukraine.
As in post WWII, the victors will run the trials. I am looking forward to seeing some high ranking scum convicted and sentenced, and executed. I would pay a month's salary to observe the entire process.
I do have a query for any that know; now that the four Donbass provinces are legally Russia now does that mean the death sentence penalty no longer applies there.
A profession (surgeon) which is well known for attracting sadists. Along with soldier, marine, policeman, prison guard etc. Leading profession among psychopaths is politician. Doctors, lawyers, CEOs, judges are well represented too. I suppose reporter has a special place amongst the damned as well. In legend and myth it's the evil vizier or second in command see 1001 Arabian Nights, Lucifer, and especially the criminally insane vice presidents of the US who went on to the presidency - Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon. Many others. Oh - and beware of bureaucrats with coke-bottle thick glasses. People have never been anything but blurry buzzing mosquitoes to them. They've never even seen a human face.
I'm not aware that surgery attracts sadists, though I would not be surprised. I had a procedure done once and the guy seemed to get off on the idea that he was hurting me.
The professions that attract psychopaths (what I call "legal criminals") are medicine, law, law enforcement, the military, politics, and business. Politics and especially business are especially prominent. You are probably correct that politics leads in psychopaths if we leave out business. In medicine, psychopaths are particularly represented among surgeons, so you are correct. A lot of surgeons seem to be arrogant pricks or aholes.
I'm not aware that journalism attracts psychopaths. I have a degree in Journalism. If anything, the classic journalist is sort of weird or eccentric or at least they were back in the day anyway. For some reason, newsrooms put up with this perhaps just because they figured this was the way they are.
Lyndon Johnson was absolutely a psychopath. Don't know about the others. My grandfather knew Henry Truman. He grew up in Kansas City and Truman ran a shoe store there!
Very well said. You're right that journalists are usually excluded from the list of professions which attract psychopaths. I proposed to consider their inclusion because of the profound assistance journalistic work had provided to entities promoting some very awful and dubious wars, both in our time and earlier in the days of so-called yellow journalism. There's a famous exchange between Einstein and Freud from 1931 usually called "Why War?" but I can't these days find the introductory parts on the web where he speaks to the issue which is that the intelligentsia of society are , surprisingly at first glance, the easiest to delude precisely because of their great faith in, lifelong immersion in and inurement to the written word. He recounted some of the better known examples from his era, I wish I still had the text. Kindly excuse my lack of clarity. By the way - "Henry" or "Harry?" Parapraxis or Spell checker, however it may be, yes, many people have come around to regarding LBJ as a typical psychopath in a position of great power, especially after the publication of several popular books recently. It's difficult to disagree. He was the wealthiest president by far except for the recent Donald Trump and possibly George Washington, a fact hidden from the common folk quite effectively in those days as I recall even my highly educated father believing that JFK was far wealthier. Truman was in legend connected to the Kansas City mob, their man in DC essentially, though I don't really know it wouldn't surprise me. I'm a bit obsessive over the exact names though because of a fascination with historical coincidence. For example, we know Truman dropped the bomb twice and was the only president to do so. Now name another president whose name began with T r u m. Didn't take long, right? Now focus harder on Vice Presidents who became President during a critical time. Harry (Truman), right? Now think of a Vice President who might very well become President during a critical period of history whose name begins with H a r r ... if phonetic equivalents are allowed we can make allowance for H a r r i ... Or H a r r y. Did time traveling aliens edit Wikipedia entries to change Henry Truman to Harry Truman for purposes of diplomatic signaling in the years 2020/2024/2028? Somehow I doubt it.
Well, I entertain myself at least. Including by entertainming the strictly verboten thought, based upon my readings of Gore Vidal, for one, and Seymour Hersh but Vidal especially, that JFK may have been psychopathic too. though pigeonholing is not my preference, regarding very powerful individuals it's a category to keep in mind.
Rather than vote in the poll, I'll just tell you my thoughts (big surprise, I know!)...
I don't mind videos per se. But if they're mostly going to be Ukrainians bitching and moaning, I'd rather not. Given a choice between "human interest stories" or "war porn" (tanks blowing things up or blowing up themselves, missiles obliterating half of Kiev, or Russian artillery wiping out an entire Ukrainian battalion), I'd rather see the latter.
Yes, I'm bloody-minded. Everyone at MoA already knows that. I'm like Martyanov: for most of this stuff, I'm like "Well, there you go...You asked for it, you got it." As an individualist anarchist and radical Transhumanist, I don't really care how many Ukrainians end up dead. As long as someone doesn't drop a nuke on San Francisco, I'm good. I don't even care about anything east of the Sierra Nevadas. :-)
Alternatively, maybe you could arrange to get permission to put up either the videos themselves (or fair use clips from them) or at least links to them, of the best analysis videos for the week. Most of us probably have already seen them, but perhaps some of your readers haven't. Even we fanatics can't keep up with them all, Duran, Napolitano, Berletic, etc. You could also slip in a couple MSM video clips just to lambast them in order to provide a little humor to this disaster.
Not good. Benjamin Tucker? I'll pass. It gets worse. You're probably a Stirnerist. There're also tender souls like Nietzsche, Aliester Crowley, Chernyshevskii, Hobbes, and Ayn Rand, who belongs with Crowley if you ask me. Egoism is dangerous!
"radical Transhumanist"
Actually even worse. Donna Haraway is unintelligible. And the tranny nonsense is postgenderism.
"I don't really care how many Ukrainians end up dead"
Which of course follows from your politics.
But then again, I'm a Leftist, so you would expect me to dislike such moral cancers.
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Posting videos like this will definitely draw attract new eyes. I guess that’s the idea. But I urge against it. This seriously degrades your brand. Please reconsider. Deciding based on a poll is not a good move for a real thinker, which you are.
This is good. Posterity. Record keeping. This is precisely what Russia has been doing since 2014 and perhaps earlier: documenting all injustices, crimes, etc. Compiling what I can imagine an extensive archive of crimes against humanity.
This might seem a bland response to what is happening, but one day this war will be over, Ukraine will be gone, and Russia will have a compendium of NATO’s complicity in Ukraine’s Nazi atrocities.
This gives them the moral high ground.
This vindicates their survival defence and actions.
A real pity. This young American could be alive now, perhaps sharing a few beers with Russian friends in St. Petersburg or anywhere in Russia. It was not the Russians but his irrational hatred that has cut off his life.
I did not watch the full video: too depressing from the perspective of destroying my faith in humanity but good that you are posting these.
It seems quite easy to teach people to hate. The classic South Pacific number: “You have to be taught” sums it up. You just need to get the young in a society such as Ukraine, then you fill their heads with nationalist, anti Russian propaganda and accompany it with a one sided version of history. Then make sure they speak a distinct language that is positioned as different from Russian, rather than being part of a dialectical continuum. Then within the space of a generation or so you have conjured up true hatred.
As a linguist, I assure you that Ukrainian is a separate language from Russian. Are Spanish and Portuguese dialects of one language? Russian and Ukrainian are as far apart as those two. Mutual intelligibility is ~50%. Everything below 90% is a separate language.
I can't watch a lot of these types of videos. It is a reminder that hate begets more hate. When does the carousel stop, or even slow down. As far as the young merc, "well kid this ain't Call of Duty".
The true extent of the evil horror that is the Ukie regime will be told in full complete with overwhelming evidence; but here's the problem, the majority of "westerners, the sheeple, will not believe it. They will shrug their shoulders and shuffle forth to get their eighth 'rona mRNA booster.
Scary stuff. I wonder where such hatred comes from for people who did so much for Ukrainians
Full denazification is needed more than ever. Fat bitch Nuland, Blinken and the clique of their own oligarchs (mostly from the same 'tribe'), stole all their money in dozens of billions for years, their land.. they don't care.They should better fight them + zelensky and his clique of thieves.Ukrainians are comiting collective suicide, nothing will be left of this country, they will also bear a very big responsability like politicos + journos in the West who know this but say nothing.
They were taught that hatred by craddle-to-grave brainwashing.
Northwestern Ukraine (the word Ukraine means "border region") was the interface between various empires for over a thousand years so the peoples living there were constantly being overrun by one or another army. To preserve their culture they had to be ultra nationalists within whichever empire was currently dominant. They hate not only Russians, but also Poles, Hungarians, and Jews.
South and Eastern Ukraine are actually Russian, not "Ukrainian", and loath the Nazis in northwest Ukraine with their Banderaite OUN worship. Russian civilization and culture originated in South and Eastern Ukraine around 850 AD and slowly spread north and east. You could say that Russia is actually Greater Ukraine. After 9 years of war and Nazi occupation the surviving people of southern and eastern Ukraine are more bona fide "Russian" than most people born in Moscow, Novosibirsk, or St. Petersburg.
The current over-the-top fanatical Nazi hatred espoused by the nominal "Ukrainians" is mostly the result of three decades of pumping up Ukrainian ultra nationalism to create a new "Ukrainian" identity, pushed in particular by the Ukonazi diaspora in Canada including our Deputy PM, herself directly descended from a Nazi propaganda newspaper editor who fled with the retreating German army in 1944. He obviously succeeded in passing his pathological Nazi beliefs onto his granddaughter who espouses them from her position of power in Ottawa.
While this ongoing "Ukrainization" of the population was carried on even under the Party of Regions gov'ts, it really took off after the 2014 coup put the Nazi militias and Right Sector in power, backed by billions in US money to create an "anti-Russia" just as they have done in the Baltics and are trying to do in all the post-Soviet countries ringing Russia. That is 9 years of Nazi propaganda and brainwashing schoolchildren: longer than Hitler and Goebbels had in Nazi Germany to nazify the population before launching WW II. That is where the deranged hate comes from: both ancient and recent history.
"They hate not only Russians, but also Poles, Hungarians, and Jews."
They hate Greeks too. The Greeks around Mariupol were terribly abused by the Nazi militias for eight years. Basically anyone in Ukraine who's not a Ukrainian.
There are some issues with the Romanians in Bukovina too, not sure how bad they are.
And don't forget the Gypsies! They REALLY hate Gypsies. OTOH, that's a pretty typical sentiment across Eastern Europe, especially in places like Romania and Slovakia. It's also a longstanding tradition in the region. Even centuries ago, villages would hang the body of a dead Gypsy outside their village for months at a time to discourage other Gypsies from showing up.
But the Gypsies themselves haven't done a lot to disabuse people of the notion that they're bad actors.
"Basically anyone in Ukraine who's not a Ukrainian." That about sums it up. There is no real racial difference, but the northwest "Ukrainian" linguistic and cultural group is Catholic, a spillover from Poland and Germany pushing east, while the south and eastern Ukrainians are Orthodox Christian culture from Byzantium spreading across the Black Sea and up the river valleys. Their religion is the primary basis of the different cultures which met in Ukraine - the Border Region of both. Later the Turks seized Constantinople for Islam and pushed into eastern Europe and Crimea, but that is a story for another conversation.
All of Eastern Europe is a petri dish for hate-thy-neighbor. They would rather kill their neighbor than live on their current piece of dirt. Centuries of hate.
It's called nationalism. All they see is the bad. They're blinded to the good. They were already massacring Russians in the 1940's.
Ukrainians have been indoctrinating their children with this vile ideology for years, you just have to look at the summer camps by Plast and Azov.
And via the 'refugees' many will not return they will contaminate Europe as they did in Canada for exemple, perfect future nato gladio à la 'stay behind' terrorists.
Study the history of Western Ukraine to find out. This stuff goes back hundreds of years to a split between the eastern (Orthodox) and western (Roman) Catholic Churches. Western Ukraine went to the west and started cutting themselves off from the rest of Ukraine. They had a separate evolution from the rest of the country.
They also think they're different racially. They're actually LITERAL Nazis (Aryan Supremacists and Lebensraum supporters). They don't think they're Slavs. They think Slavs are a racially tainted people due to mixing with Asiatic, or as they put it, Hunnish, blood. They REALLY hate those Asiatic Russians like Buryats and Tuvans.
I don’t guess it matters at this point. Too many very tough soldiers (Ukraine) are dead. Why they haven’t turned is a puzzle. Again it’s a mystery and I’m sure there’s not an easy answer. What were these people thinking they were going to get in return? No doubt most of the money being tossed around went to high levels of command. I’m sure it was dispersed a good way down on the totem pole to keep Ukie soldiers in line.
Very sad we could have used them when shit takes off on the world stage. Such a waste. Seem like great fighters; very tough but not so bright. They are up there with Americans when it comes to succumbing to brainwash tactics.
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I'd say there is something similar going on in Ukraine, 80+ years of Übermensch, it plays well on that sort of mentality. The country is shit, everything is still going to hell in a handbasket, so the only way to keep a bit of self-respect is to believe one is a superior being who due to bad luck is being held down by the Untermensch, and the only hope is to remove the Untermensch. That, plus Stockholm Syndrome, where the victims of kidnapping model the behavior their captors want and thanks to human plasticity, after modeling it long enough it's easier to believe in it than to keep living with the cognitive dissonance.
Listening to your video appreciate you sending. One of the reasons perhaps they continued on to fight the Soviets was because the leadership was full of Jewish Communists (Bolsheviks). Maybe they trusted the US/Britain side more or at least enough to lay down their arms?
Have had my head snapped around over the last year or so in many directions. Have heard that a certain man with a mustache booted out the Bankers (Central) he believed responsible for WW1, Great Depression, and Weimar inflation. One account of history said he turned the country around and ended up on the cover of Time Magazine's Man of the Year. Supposedly these bankers feared others might get the same idea and organized blockades and boycotts to strangle Germany.
Once that shit starts regular Germans got very mad at regular Jews. Its not hard to see how things went forward from that point. If that indeed is the way it went down. I could see Ukrainians hating Soviet era government but cannot understand why so much now?
That reminds me of an interview I saw with Arestovich (sp?) before he fell out of favor with the Ukrainian government. Something to the effect of, Ukraine (the idea of the nation) is held together with lies, the moment the lies stop the whole things falls apart.
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I think the surgeon is real. Anyway, we have the official medical officer of the Ukrainian army giving an order to castrate all Russian POW's, so this isn't really out of line. Look at his eyes and the rage in them. Look at how his voice picks up when he starts talking about this. Most people are not very good actors. He's not doing this for shits and giggles. He said, "When a soldier comes to me missing a leg, to me he's dead already." That sounds quite authentic and a faker probably would not have made up something like that.
With an admitted 7 Ukrainians, not counting the Foreign Mercenaries, killed for every Russian, though not morally acceptable, the Uke Doktor might have reason to dislike what Russia is doing.
BUT, diplomacy was offered and rejected.
I actually think it is 13 Ukrainians for every Russian.
Ukrainian KIA: 317,000 (high estimate).
Russian KIA: 25,000
That's a 12.5-1 ratio.
I don't think it has much to do with the KIA totals. I think it's more that it's just a Nazi country. They're all been imbibing 100 proof "Kill All Russians" vodka since 2014, and they didn't like them much before then. It's what I would call a "criminally insane country." Your average citizen is basically a homicidal (or genocidal) psychopath in a sense. Whenever there's a rumor of the Ukrainians doing something criminally insane, ask yourself, "Is that something a Nazi would do?" If the answer is yes, then Ukraine probably did it.
Andrei Martyanov did a video a week or so ago where he estimated the total KIA / WIA / MIA Ukrainians is currently at around 1 million.
Your 314k estimate isn't even high. I read other comments which suggest its somewhere around 400-450k at present.
Personally I estimate it's around 600k based on the numbers reported from the various fronts and extrapolated out.
If we apply four wounded to every one killed ratio, then we get total Ukraine losses of 317,000 KIA and 1,280,000 wounded. Total casualties of 1.6 million! Good Lord!
Russian casualties, last I checked, were 25,000 KIA and I suppose 100K wounded for 125,000 total.
Ratio is just as I said above: 13-1 KIA in Russia's favor. Wow!
Ukraine started the conflict with 250k troops and 450k reserves. That's their baseline of 700k trained personnel.
The line of contact has been largely static, except for the two voluntary withdrawals Russia made in Kherson and Kharkov. This means outside of offensives there's no real need for Ukraine to vastly increase the density of troops per mile.
I stopped following it, however its worthwhile building a table with the approximate date and size of each round of mobilization Ukraine has had.
I believe Ukraine is on the 11th mobilization, and now they are talking about total mobilization. I haven't seen details on what "total mobilization" means, but to me suggests that most troops from the start as well as prior rounds were largely killed / wounded / MIA.
Russia on the other hand has only had one mobilization of 300,000 (most of whom haven't been sent to the line of contact) along with the initial 190,000 who started the special military operation. The non-sending of the mobilized into battle makes me suspect Russian total attrition is maybe only in the range of 75k.
Such a table I believe would provide a pretty good troop attrition ratio for both sides.
He does appear to be "hopped up" on something. I thought it was just rage and adrenaline, but maybe not.
There are rumors that the Ukrainians are using Captagon, the stimulant of Syrian War fame.
I am certain the Russians are taking names, and not just in the (nearly) former Ukraine.
As in post WWII, the victors will run the trials. I am looking forward to seeing some high ranking scum convicted and sentenced, and executed. I would pay a month's salary to observe the entire process.
I do have a query for any that know; now that the four Donbass provinces are legally Russia now does that mean the death sentence penalty no longer applies there.
A profession (surgeon) which is well known for attracting sadists. Along with soldier, marine, policeman, prison guard etc. Leading profession among psychopaths is politician. Doctors, lawyers, CEOs, judges are well represented too. I suppose reporter has a special place amongst the damned as well. In legend and myth it's the evil vizier or second in command see 1001 Arabian Nights, Lucifer, and especially the criminally insane vice presidents of the US who went on to the presidency - Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon. Many others. Oh - and beware of bureaucrats with coke-bottle thick glasses. People have never been anything but blurry buzzing mosquitoes to them. They've never even seen a human face.
I forgot to mention that Bob Marley figured it out too: "I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy." But maybe not.
I'm not aware that surgery attracts sadists, though I would not be surprised. I had a procedure done once and the guy seemed to get off on the idea that he was hurting me.
The professions that attract psychopaths (what I call "legal criminals") are medicine, law, law enforcement, the military, politics, and business. Politics and especially business are especially prominent. You are probably correct that politics leads in psychopaths if we leave out business. In medicine, psychopaths are particularly represented among surgeons, so you are correct. A lot of surgeons seem to be arrogant pricks or aholes.
I'm not aware that journalism attracts psychopaths. I have a degree in Journalism. If anything, the classic journalist is sort of weird or eccentric or at least they were back in the day anyway. For some reason, newsrooms put up with this perhaps just because they figured this was the way they are.
Lyndon Johnson was absolutely a psychopath. Don't know about the others. My grandfather knew Henry Truman. He grew up in Kansas City and Truman ran a shoe store there!
Very well said. You're right that journalists are usually excluded from the list of professions which attract psychopaths. I proposed to consider their inclusion because of the profound assistance journalistic work had provided to entities promoting some very awful and dubious wars, both in our time and earlier in the days of so-called yellow journalism. There's a famous exchange between Einstein and Freud from 1931 usually called "Why War?" but I can't these days find the introductory parts on the web where he speaks to the issue which is that the intelligentsia of society are , surprisingly at first glance, the easiest to delude precisely because of their great faith in, lifelong immersion in and inurement to the written word. He recounted some of the better known examples from his era, I wish I still had the text. Kindly excuse my lack of clarity. By the way - "Henry" or "Harry?" Parapraxis or Spell checker, however it may be, yes, many people have come around to regarding LBJ as a typical psychopath in a position of great power, especially after the publication of several popular books recently. It's difficult to disagree. He was the wealthiest president by far except for the recent Donald Trump and possibly George Washington, a fact hidden from the common folk quite effectively in those days as I recall even my highly educated father believing that JFK was far wealthier. Truman was in legend connected to the Kansas City mob, their man in DC essentially, though I don't really know it wouldn't surprise me. I'm a bit obsessive over the exact names though because of a fascination with historical coincidence. For example, we know Truman dropped the bomb twice and was the only president to do so. Now name another president whose name began with T r u m. Didn't take long, right? Now focus harder on Vice Presidents who became President during a critical time. Harry (Truman), right? Now think of a Vice President who might very well become President during a critical period of history whose name begins with H a r r ... if phonetic equivalents are allowed we can make allowance for H a r r i ... Or H a r r y. Did time traveling aliens edit Wikipedia entries to change Henry Truman to Harry Truman for purposes of diplomatic signaling in the years 2020/2024/2028? Somehow I doubt it.
Well, I entertain myself at least. Including by entertainming the strictly verboten thought, based upon my readings of Gore Vidal, for one, and Seymour Hersh but Vidal especially, that JFK may have been psychopathic too. though pigeonholing is not my preference, regarding very powerful individuals it's a category to keep in mind.
Truman and Kennedy were the best Presidents of the last 100 years IMO
Bat shit crazy. And ZERO sympathy for Mercs.
Rather than vote in the poll, I'll just tell you my thoughts (big surprise, I know!)...
I don't mind videos per se. But if they're mostly going to be Ukrainians bitching and moaning, I'd rather not. Given a choice between "human interest stories" or "war porn" (tanks blowing things up or blowing up themselves, missiles obliterating half of Kiev, or Russian artillery wiping out an entire Ukrainian battalion), I'd rather see the latter.
Yes, I'm bloody-minded. Everyone at MoA already knows that. I'm like Martyanov: for most of this stuff, I'm like "Well, there you go...You asked for it, you got it." As an individualist anarchist and radical Transhumanist, I don't really care how many Ukrainians end up dead. As long as someone doesn't drop a nuke on San Francisco, I'm good. I don't even care about anything east of the Sierra Nevadas. :-)
Alternatively, maybe you could arrange to get permission to put up either the videos themselves (or fair use clips from them) or at least links to them, of the best analysis videos for the week. Most of us probably have already seen them, but perhaps some of your readers haven't. Even we fanatics can't keep up with them all, Duran, Napolitano, Berletic, etc. You could also slip in a couple MSM video clips just to lambast them in order to provide a little humor to this disaster.
Funny that I don’t care about anything east of the Sierra Nevada and together we have the country covered.
I was just going to post the same thing. :-)
Funny, I HOPE THEY DROP A BOMB ON SF…
You idiots in the cities, think you’re above everyone.
Jokes on you morons, you’re “Big Cities” are trash.
Come out to the boonies, we’ll show you a REAL GOOD TIME!!!
YEE YEE
Now go find some fentanyl
"individualist anarchist"
Not good. Benjamin Tucker? I'll pass. It gets worse. You're probably a Stirnerist. There're also tender souls like Nietzsche, Aliester Crowley, Chernyshevskii, Hobbes, and Ayn Rand, who belongs with Crowley if you ask me. Egoism is dangerous!
"radical Transhumanist"
Actually even worse. Donna Haraway is unintelligible. And the tranny nonsense is postgenderism.
"I don't really care how many Ukrainians end up dead"
Which of course follows from your politics.
But then again, I'm a Leftist, so you would expect me to dislike such moral cancers.
A Spiritual “War”. My time is short; the generations to come, have their work laid before them. GodSpeed, Mother Russia💙🇷🇺❤️ My practice is to stay impeccably grounded, moment to moment. Do not be distracted from the Great Work. 🧡🔥🧡 Stay the course.
Excellent
Watching this while taking a massive shit. Best experience ever. Keep up the good work.
Posting videos like this will definitely draw attract new eyes. I guess that’s the idea. But I urge against it. This seriously degrades your brand. Please reconsider. Deciding based on a poll is not a good move for a real thinker, which you are.
This is good. Posterity. Record keeping. This is precisely what Russia has been doing since 2014 and perhaps earlier: documenting all injustices, crimes, etc. Compiling what I can imagine an extensive archive of crimes against humanity.
This might seem a bland response to what is happening, but one day this war will be over, Ukraine will be gone, and Russia will have a compendium of NATO’s complicity in Ukraine’s Nazi atrocities.
This gives them the moral high ground.
This vindicates their survival defence and actions.
Russia is not the only one keeping a record...
A real pity. This young American could be alive now, perhaps sharing a few beers with Russian friends in St. Petersburg or anywhere in Russia. It was not the Russians but his irrational hatred that has cut off his life.
Whatever you put up is fine. , long or short .
I did not watch the full video: too depressing from the perspective of destroying my faith in humanity but good that you are posting these.
It seems quite easy to teach people to hate. The classic South Pacific number: “You have to be taught” sums it up. You just need to get the young in a society such as Ukraine, then you fill their heads with nationalist, anti Russian propaganda and accompany it with a one sided version of history. Then make sure they speak a distinct language that is positioned as different from Russian, rather than being part of a dialectical continuum. Then within the space of a generation or so you have conjured up true hatred.
“ Faith in humanity”
I gotta implore you faith in humans is extremely misplaced. Men are incapable of any consistency that warrants faith in them.
As a linguist, I assure you that Ukrainian is a separate language from Russian. Are Spanish and Portuguese dialects of one language? Russian and Ukrainian are as far apart as those two. Mutual intelligibility is ~50%. Everything below 90% is a separate language.
I can't watch a lot of these types of videos. It is a reminder that hate begets more hate. When does the carousel stop, or even slow down. As far as the young merc, "well kid this ain't Call of Duty".
Ukraine is the result of demonic propaganda and an utterly Godless environment. Very sad.