Like the Russian elite, the Chinese elite squirrel away their stolen gains and send their kids to elite schools in the West. They are just much less conspicuous. They must be getting nervous.
I agree, I think there was a certain presumption that countries would tend not to hurt themselves with sanctions. That they would not be unified and they would be slow. I don’t think anyone thought that within 2 weeks a country could become as isolated as North Korea.
The risk of the supply chains have always been there, but I think the rules of the game have now changed.
Awful. The obvious parallels with WW2 are extremely disturbing
And another one…
Looks like the Russian government found a boogeyman…
Disgusting
May or may not be true. Sounds like propaganda though.
Normally I would agree with you, because it is so unbelievably horrible, but after everything that is happening at the moment and was communicated by the Russian side just today, one can probably no longer rule out anything. I really hope that’s not true.
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Makes no sense for Russia to destroy these assets if they think they will win. What will be left for them to take over? I know they want the port but what will they ship from there?
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Found this on Reddit
Captain First rank (equal to Colonel). He goes on the list.
Andrey Paily heads the personal department of the Black Sea fleet. He’s a war criminal. He’s from Kyiv. He’s a traitor to Ukraine based on what info we have of him.
Edit: he and his family are traitors to Ukraine. This was on the obituary posted via VK. Paliy’s grandson was in command of Landing ship Saratov that was used in the seizure of Crimea, and this landing ship was put to used against Georgia as well.
You, a resident of Kiev, fell for the liberation of Ukraine from Nazism, NATO extremism in our ancestral territory of Little Russia, occupied by revanchists by the enemies of Russia!
Through Andrey’s death, I regret - we donated and handed over our primordial Russian land to the management of the wrong people, forming the Ukrainian SSR from it in 1918, and then after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, calling it Ukraine, we gave it to rogues and traitors who became nationalists, living in fear for their future, gaining it, living in envy of Europe and Russia’s hatred of us. Here is the fault and the price of the mistake that caused your death Andrey and the death of thousands of Russians. Betrayal gave rise to the collapse of the USSR and betrayal gave rise to the creation of an enemy Ukraine - you are Andrei, a servant of God and a defender of Russian lands, who died for the liberation of the land of Little Russia!
Edit: Paily left the Ukrainian National Guard in March 1993 when he refused to take the oath. Initially joining the Baltic fleet, he joined the Northern Fleet in 1994. He was responsible for the Georgian occupation in 2008. He’s been head of personal for the Black Sea Fleet since 2011. https://myrotvorets-
It’s a an area perfect for waging war in. In all likelihood Azov and the marines are using the industrial plants as positions. I am just guessing. Otherwise you are right, but Russian doctrine is all about destroying the enemy with concentrated artillery and so on. This has also been targeted by missiles I think. As for winning, Russia may not be winning strategically, but tactically Mariupol will fall. It is just a question of days now. The city is isolated and battle space for the defenders is shrinking daily. Which is horrible since Russia can then, if pocket gets small enough, raze the part of the city where the defenders are, to the ground. I think this is what they are doing now.
Video of RU using TOS Heavy Flamethrower system: