Comments by "PNH 6000" (@PNH-sf4jz) on "Jake Broe"
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Your comment, those of others and mine appear to agree. It is really up to each of us to continue to support Ukraine through our communities, states and countries, individually and collectively, to the extent that we can and, within reason, as far as our capacity allows.
When the countering "Special Military operation" by Ukraine, against RuZZian forces and the political and military establishment of RuZZia, that i refer to as the Moscow menagerie, be successful and completed as we hope, Ukraine wil go through individual and national grieving processes. It will be during those times that they will very likely need the most support.
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It is, in military terms, a huge waste of the use of available ammunition in the form of artillery rounds. They are not intended for use in deestroying the use of land and making it unusable for the future, unless the military firing the ammunition is not intending to be around to use the land for agriculture, which is what your interpretation suggests.
On the other hand, that may possibly be the intention of the Russian political and military establishment; to destroy land, residential, civil, cultural, education and health, commercial and industrial infrastructure, which is exactly what they have done. consequently, leaving the Ukrainians with the results of the Russian efforts. That intended outcome would be in line with your argument.
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Yes. I agree. I appreciate and value the contributions offered by Jake and by Georgijs of Ukraine Matters.
However, the predominent circumstances, perceptions and perspectives, held ten or more years ago, were very different from what subsequently existed in February 2022. Since Russia's secondary full-scale invasion following the initial insurgency in 2014, Ukraine has positively changed the minds of the majority of people in more that 60 Free World countries. That change of minds, through the demonstrations of courage, determination, sound military tactics and other attributes, has earned the Ukrainians the admiration, support and assistance of those countries.
I likewise question the idea that "the war was preventable". Any war can be said to have been preventable, if we postulate any of the inumerable possible conditions and ways in which any war could have been prevented. "Hindsight is normally viewed as if with 20/20 vision.
{The word hindsight refers to looking back or reflecting on things in the past, and 20/20 refers to perfect vision. So when we look back on situations in the past, we see things clearly that were not clear to us at the time.}
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While I am inclined to agree, I believe that Ukraine should be able to use the same munitions that russia is using, except Nuclear weapons, In their own territory and against all legitimate military targets on Russian territory. However, I am a proponent of the "non escalation by Ukraine" perspective.
Many people are saying, "We could have ended this WAR last year, if Ukraine had been given all they needed". What people seem to forget, or simply do not know, is that:
#** February 2022 Russia had nearly 3 times as many tanks as Ukraine had prior to Feb 2022.
Russia 3,400 tanks Ukraine 1,400 tanks {60% advantage to Russians}
July 2023 Today, Ukraine's tank inventory is believed to be considerably better equipped and have greater capacity and firepower than the Russians and they now have more, outnumbering the Russians by ~50%.
Russia 990 tanks Ukraine 1,500 tanks {50% advantage to Ukrainians} #+++
#** February 2022 Russia had 14% more heavy guns and artillery in Feb 2022
Russia 2,200 Artillery/Heavy guns Ukraine 1,900 Artillery/Heavy guns {14% advantage to Russians}
July 2023 Today, the Artillery and heavy guns inventories are:
Russia 773 Artillery/Heavy guns Ukraine 1,100 Artillery/Heavy guns {42% advantage to Ukrainians} #+++
#** February 2022 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems {MLRS}
Russia 1,100 MLRS Ukraine 840 MLRS {25% advantage to Russians}
July 2023 Today, the numbers of MLRS are:
Russia 354 MLRS Ukraine 427 MLRS {20% advantage to Ukrainians} #+++
Had an all out WAR been fought in the early months of 2022, Russia would have had an advantage of nearly 3:1 against Ukraine in terms of military hardware, not including jet fighter air-craft, SU-95 heavy bombers and ships in the caspian and Black Seas, from which Kalabr and Cruise missiles are fired. That advantage may well have been greater because of levels of training of military personnel on the various platforms, and the elements of logistics and supply.
Today, Russia's inventory of military hardware is believed to actually be less than that of Ukraine in all the land-based hardware categories above. Ukraine has depleted Russia of much of its hardware, probably most of the best of the Russian troops and massive amounts of ammunition and also a lot of the infrastructure; railways, roads and bridges that Russia relies on for movement of troops, hardware and ammunition. That depletion of Russian military assets continues.
By this gradual process of attrition of the hardware, equipment, ammunition and {unfortunately, from a humanitarian perspective} Russian military personnel, I believe that many lives, particularly of Ukrainian civilians and military personnel, have been saved.
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BS.
On 19 February 1954, the oblast was transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR jurisdiction, on the basis of "the integral character of the economy, the territorial proximity and the close economic and cultural ties between the Crimea Province and the Ukrainian SSR".
The transfer of the Crimean oblast in the Soviet Union in 1954 was an administrative action of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet that transferred the government of Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
Background
See also: History of Crimea and Crimea in the Soviet Union
Prior to being incorporated into the Russian Empire, the Crimean Peninsula was independent under the Crimean Khanate. The Muslim Turkic Crimean Tatars were under the influence of the Ottoman Empire, while also bordering Russian Empire. In 1774, following the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74, the Russian and Ottoman empires agreed to refrain from interfering with the Crimean Khanate through the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca. In 1783, following the increasing decline of the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate.
Within Russia, the peninsula was transferred between multiple internal administrations. Through its time in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, up to its transfer to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, Crimea was administered by 14 administrations.
Throughout its time the Soviet Union, Crimea underwent a population change. As a result of alleged collaboration with the Germans by Crimean Tatars during World War II, all Crimean Tatars were deported by the Soviet regime and the peninsula was resettled with other peoples, mainly Russians and Ukrainians. Modern experts say that the deportation was part of the Soviet plan to gain access to the Dardanelles and acquire territory in Turkey, where the Tatars had Turkic ethnic kin, or to remove minorities from the Soviet Union's border regions.[1]
Nearly 8,000 Crimean Tatars died during the deportation, and tens of thousands perished subsequently due to the harsh exile conditions.[2] The Crimean Tatar deportation resulted in the abandonment of 80,000 households and 150,000 hectares (360,000 acres) of land.
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My observation is to consider Russia's possiible next moves.
Following the attack on Moldova {not a member country of the NATO Defensive Aliance}, via the lower reaches of the Danube, and connecting with the Russian troops in Transnistria, I expect that Russia would then attempt to take control of Romania and Bulgaria. Those countries would be difficult for the West to assist and support because of the Carpathians and the Pyrenees Mountains, especially in winter. Since Russia has effectively hobbled Georgia, the only other country with a Black Sea border, while Russia maintains control of the eastern portions of Ukraine, would then be Turkey. If Russia controlled the rest of the Black Sea, I wonder what the response of Turkey would be to Russian pressure.
I would consider the Suwalkii Gap between Belarus and Kaliningrad would be the next target after control of the Black Sea. Then Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The more control of Western Europe that Russia acquires, the less safe are the countires to the East of Russia and within Central Asia.
"Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north."
Russia appears to regard the sovereignty of Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other countries, even those in Western Europe, with equal disdain. They are, according to him, not sovereign states, having no rights other than those granted and controlled by Russia. In other words he tolerates their present state of existence with barely concealed dismissiveness.
TASHKENT, Dec 22
"Uzbekistan's foreign ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador over a call by a Russian politician to annex the former Soviet republic, it said late on Thursday."
"Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, who is co-chair of the "A Just Russia - For Truth" party, said this week he believed Russia should annex Uzbekistan and other countries whose citizens travel en masse to Russia for work."
Zakhar Prilepin is an upstart, but dangerous all the same. Prilepin is also connected with Igor Girkin/Strelkov and others in what I would call an extremely unholy alliance. Both Prilepin and Girkin/Strelkov have alluded to future potential Russian attacks on Kazakhstan. Both were involved in Crimea and the Donbas Region. Girkin/Strelkov claims responsibility for initiating the WAR waged by Russia against Ukraine.
Russia already has tacit control of most of the countries to the East of the Black and Caspian Seas {Central Asia}. Uzbekistan is neither in what is considered Eastern Europe nor on the Black and Azov Seas, or on the Caspian Sea. However, I am concerned about all countries over which Russia may have a menacing and malevolent influence.
The following test relates to the attitude of Putin and the political, military and media establishment of Russia towards other countries, possibly all other countries. Please Be Aware.
"Putin's 2013 comments on Kazakh statehood
"In 2013, President Vladimir Putin raised controversy when he claimed that “Kazakhs had never had statehood”, in what seemed to be an apparent response to growing nationalism among Kazakhstanis.[15][16][17][18][19][20] "Putin's remarks on the matter led to a severe response from President Nazarbayev, who announced that the country would celebrate the 550th anniversary of the Kazakh Khanate, which effectively refutes Putin's claim that a Kazakh nation has never existed. He also threatened to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union, saying that the independence of the country is his "most precious treasure" and that Kazakhs "will never surrender" their independence.[21][22][23]
"In December 2020, Putin's derogatory comments were repeated by at least two Russian lawmakers.[24]
"Kazakhstan–Russia relations deteriorated greatly upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kazakh leadership including Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi did not condemn the Russian invasion and abstained on the UN vote to condemn it, but at the same time they refused to recognize the Russian states of Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic.[32]
"In addition to sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine, the Kazakh military increased spending and training.[33] Although Russia never showed any particular interest for Northern Kazakhstan, a region with a sizeable Russian minority, there is still the fear the same arguments used in Ukraine can be used to bolster Russian irredentism in the North."
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Hi Jake and others in this site, during the last six months, it has become increasingly apparent to me how easy it is to "allow the sales operator to "stick the toe of their boot in the door." An old door-to-door sales technique that has many newer versions and applications in this more recent age of technology.
It is through the information that you and others offer, that I, and I hope other viewers and participants in these sites, become more aware of sly, snake-oil styles, techniques and tactics, that are used by various characters in the social media web space. I am slowly becoming more aware of the things that I do, such as continuing to engage and debate with such operators, in spite of the fact that I have been, albeit unknowingly, contributing weight to their cause and increasing their apparent and real public exposure. My education is developing, so that I get caught less often and consequently give away less and less of my time and resources, and therefore waste less of other people's time, by responding to these tricksters and hucsters.
Some of the tactics are similar to what you describe, such as
----Offering information that is marginal and which, at first, seems inoffensive and relatively innocuous, even if just a tad challenging. In this way, the operator engages the hapless responder, {unfortunately, me at times} into what appears to be a logical debate, but which is in essence just a ploy to gain increased exposure through numbers on the algorithms.
----As you have described, another tactic is to appear to be "calling the responder out", either as a coward, or as being "unable or unwilling to provide facts" to support the responders own arguments, thereby sucking the responder into a carefully baited trap.
----An easy trick to fall for is when events are retold in ways that directly contradict or challenge information that has been reported in "western" media as being, in some way, incorrect. Obviously, in such situations, there can be no counter argument with regard to information offered by Russian media, because all such information is clearly in accordance with and does not deviate from Kremlin rules and direction.
----Another is to Invite a "thumbs down"👎from responders, by making a confrontational statement. I understand that even a "thumbs down" adds numbers to their algorithm rating. (please correct me if I am wrong on that)
----And when someone challenges you with a comment, such as "Dude… you really call “Z” a swastika…", that is totally irrelevant to or a false connection between statements made in the topic being discussed, or at the very least, not a true reflection of information offered, with the obvious desire to draw a response refuting the statement proferred.
In these ways, the number of interactions, with each "thumbs up👍" , "thumbs down👎" or subscription recorded on their site/s increases, as a result of which, so does their exposure.
Suggestion:
It may be useful for others to offer information about the types of challenges they have seen, fallen for {such as I have described having done myself} or knowing of through other sources. Most of my computer experience has been on the hardware side and the last six months in the "interactive media space", particularly with regard to the Invasion by Russia and the continuing WAR waged by Russia against Ukraine, has been a steep learning curve for me.
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Absolutely Agreed and Supported. Very pleased, also, that President Zelensky and President Andrzej Duda met in Poland. All respect to the way that Polish people have responded with the immense support offered and provided to the people of Ukraine.
Such criticisms, about dress and attire, simply show that those people have no idea that protocols and arrangements are made hours, { and days or weeks, in some cases } before any such meetings take place. Representatives do not just turn up in what ever attire they may wish or have simply taken out of the cupbourd that morning.
It would, in the case of the meeting between the two presidents in the US, on this occasion, presumably, as all such meetings are arranged, have been the topic of discussion and considered part of the appropriate protocols well before these meetings took place.
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