[W:#23,579]Ukraine War Thread

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Hungary Could Free Itself from Orbánism Next Spring

An upstart opposition leader, Péter Magyar, is shrewdly capitalizing on the prime minister’s blunders.

www.thebulwark.com

 

[911Sparky]

I miss Darth Putin this is clealry one of his ideas

We haven't seen many Darth Putin posts lately, I miss them.

 

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Hungary Could Free Itself from Orbánism Next Spring

An upstart opposition leader, Péter Magyar, is shrewdly capitalizing on the prime minister’s blunders.

www.thebulwark.com

Fingers crossed. I plan on being in Budapest next June.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Rostov hit by multiple Ukrainian drones, commercial and residential buildings hit.
So far, nothing in the US news media.
Story developing.

 

[coyote505]

Rostov hit by multiple Ukrainian drones, commercial and residential buildings hit.
So far, nothing in the US news media.
Story developing.

This film appears to be an attempt to get us to sympathize with Russian civilians. It Fails. What it does show is that the payload of current Ukrainian drones is not sufficient to do major structural damage to buildings. Targeting needs to remain on refineries and such, where a small warhead can set off a Big explosion/fire, like cat crackers. Let Russian AD create the civilian damage.

 

[H. E. Panqui]

Not from you

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Backatcha times 1000...

"...The resurgence of Ukraine’s right-wing extremist forces is inseparable from U.S. policy since 2014, when the U.S. facilitated the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Kiev. While Ukrainian liberals participated in the “Maidan Revolution,” the muscle was provided by right-wing extremist groups, which the West bestowed with legitimacy and, eventually, access to arms and funding. What began as the whitewashing of neo-Nazi vigilantes became the normalization of neo-Nazi battalions, which are now embedded in Ukraine’s security elite.

That those same right-wing extremist forces, nurtured by the United States and NATO, now threaten to sabotage a peace deal and overthrow the Zelensky government reveals a bizarre paradox at the heart of our involvement in Ukraine that has yet to be confronted: Washington interfered in Ukrainian domestic politics and helped finance a proxy war with Russia ostensibly to save Ukrainian democracy from tyranny. But under U.S. tutelage—and in service of proxy war aims—Ukraine has rapidly descended into a more authoritarian state.

Western whitewashing of Ukrainian Nazis is not an aberration of the past decade. Rather, it is consistent with a U.S. strategy that began during the Cold War of recruiting, laundering, and weaponizing extremist forces. One of the earliest and clearest cases of this strategy was the CIA’s decision to protect rather than prosecute Ukraine’s wartime nationalists, who had openly collaborated with Nazi Germany and perpetrated the mass murder of Jews and Poles. Among them was Stepan Bandera and his OUN-B militant group, which aligned itself with Ukraine’s Nazi “liberators” within the first days of Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa in 1941, when the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union.

America’s nascent post-war national security state, despite its awareness of Bandera’s Nazi crimes and his organization's status as “primarily a terrorist organization,” protected Bandera from extradition to the Soviet Union, recruiting him and other known OUN-B Nazi collaborators through programs like the CIA’s Project AERODYNAMIC, aimed at “exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes.” Rather than being a source of national shame for Ukraine, its Nazi collaborators are the core icons of Ukrainian nationalism and a source of pride...."

How U.S. Support for Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis Imperils Diplomacy

Since the Cold War, Washington has empowered violent anti-Russian extremists.

www.theamericanconservative.com

 

[Rogue Valley]

Donald Trump's 50-day deadline to Russia expires

The U.S. president threatened tariffs on Moscow if there was no deal to end to the war within the seven-week time frame.

www.newsweek.com

>President Donald Trump's original 50-day deadline he gave Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war he started in Ukraine has expired, with no end in sight to the fighting. On July 14, the U.S. president threatened "secondary tariffs" on Russia if Putin did not agree to a deal to end the war in the 50-day time frame, which has just ended.<

:::crickets::: TACO Trump is more feckless than Joe Biden.

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Ukraine Rocked by Overnight Barrage of Missiles, Drones – Poland Scrambles Warplanes

The Ukrainian Air Force posted that its air defense system radars tracked 526 aerial targets during the overnight attack, beginning on the evening of Sept. 2 and lasting into early morning on Sept. 3.

www.kyivpost.com

>The Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) said its air defense system tracked 526 aerial targets on radar during the attack, which began on the evening of Sept. 2 and lasted into early Sept. 3. In an official Telegram post, the UAF said the total included 502 Shahed drones and decoys, launched from Russian territory and occupied Crimea, as well as 16 Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea and eight Kh-101 cruise missiles from strategic bombers over Saratov and Krasnodar regions.<

Putin's "shotgun" approach to killing Ukrainian civilians.

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Fuel Crisis in Russia Worsens, No Let Up in Ukrainian Drone Bombardment

As the West dithers with its sanctions on Russian petroleum products, Ukraine has been honing its own, very effective, “drone sanctions” on Russian energy output.

www.kyivpost.com

>Ukraine’s punishing bombardment of Russian oil refineries is triggering downstream shortages and outages – with motorists from western Russia to the Pacific Ocean reporting spot shortages and empty gas stations. In the Russian-occupied territory of Ukraine, gasoline shortages and outages also were reported, with pricing for gasoline and diesel shooting up 20% over the weekend. Most stations were simply out of fuel in Russian-controlled portions of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions.<

Strike 4 military targets within Russia every day, and strike 4 energy targets within Russia every night. Something like the US/UK day/night raids over Nazi Germany.

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Ukraine unveils new "JET MAX" bomber drone: What to know

Having stocks of heavy bomber drones is "very important," said Samuel Bendett, a senior non-resident associate at the CSIS think tank.

www.newsweek.com

>Ukrainian developers have unveiled a new "bomber drone" designed to target Russian soldiers and armored targets like tanks, according to local reports, as Moscow works to catch up on Ukraine's lead in drones able to carry large amounts of explosives. The "JET MAX" can carry a payload of up to 20 kilograms (44 pounds) and can stay in the air for 40 minutes, according to Ukrainian media. This means the drone can carry 20 kilograms' worth of material, which is typically explosives. It is designed to "destroy enemy equipment, communications and personnel" up to a distance of 15 kilometers, or just under 10 miles.<

I assume this weapon would mostly be used near the front lines within Ukraine. The Pokrovsk front etc.

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Nearly One-Third of Russia’s Biggest Companies Report Losses in 2025

Russia’s corporate losses have hit pandemic highs amid sanctions, soaring military spending and broader economic strain, Russian media reported on Tuesday.

www.kyivpost.com

>Nearly one in three of Russia’s top companies posted losses in the first half of 2025, the highest share since the Covid-19 pandemic, Russian media reported on Tuesday. Kremlin-aligned newspaper Izvestia, citing figures from state statistics agency Rosstat, wrote that around 19,000 companies had collectively lost more than five trillion rubles ($62 billion) between January and June. Analysts speaking to Izvestia attributed the poor results to Western sanctions and inflation driven by bloated military spending, as well as corporate tax increases and steep interest rates from Russia’s Central Bank.<

Russian banks also don't have the liquidity to loan these companies "stay afloat" money. Bankruptcies will be swamping the court system in short order.

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[Checkerboard Strangler]

This film appears to be an attempt to get us to sympathize with Russian civilians. It Fails. What it does show is that the payload of current Ukrainian drones is not sufficient to do major structural damage to buildings. Targeting needs to remain on refineries and such, where a small warhead can set off a Big explosion/fire, like cat crackers. Let Russian AD create the civilian damage.

True, however it nevertheless signals to Russians that their war can indeed come home to them, and that they can expect more in the near future.

 

[coyote505]

Last year, some of you were bristling at my spelling it as "Bidet". Understand why now? As for T. Rump, a metaphor for T.Rex, another animal with a large mouth, tiny hands, and a bad temperament, that seems obvious.

Serious indictment of our politics, that we weren't capable of coming up with better choices than this, or another crooked NYC politician, also responsible for the arson at Waco.

Unfortunately, when you are the leader of the Free World, your domestic F*ups become the whole world's problem.

 

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