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  1. Then you may be interested in this article: "The OUN, the UPA, and the Nazi Genocide in Ukraine" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3429340 "The analyses of biographic publications, historical studies, and archival documents show that the majority of the OUN-B and UPA leaders and a very large proportion of members collaborated with Nazi Germany, mainly in the beginning of World War II. A significant percentage of the leaders and members of these organizations served in various police formations. They assisted the Nazi occupational authorities in implementing genocidal policies towards the Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, and Poles by helping to carry out mass executions and create conditions intended for the psychical annihilation of the entire Jewish population and significant numbers of Ukrainians, Russians, and Poles"
  2. Haha. Can you elaborate on your respect to SS? Do you possess and wear any Nazi insignia?
  3. That's pure gold. That's Ukraine you are defending from evil Russia, ladies and gentlemen. BBC and CNN prudently hide it from you, but here it is, begging for your attention.
  4. Ok, I got you. Russia = bad, Ukraine = good, other opinions are wrong and "echo chamber". Thank you for your useful input. I advise you to watch more RT ot Sputnik indeed, unless they are banned in your country.
  5. Yeah, it's better to repeat for thousand times more how evil Putin is invading peaceful kingdom of Ukraine in your imagination, that won't contradict mass media BS that they feed you daily.
  6. I'm not going to attempt to read this wall text mess, but I see that you like Twitter.
  7. Those sneaky Russians want to divert our attention from innocent Ukraine SS divisions and righteousness ethnic cleansing plans! Isn't it a despicable whataboutism?
  8. Ukraine President Zelenskiy said in August of 2021: "I believe that if you live in the temporarily occupied territory of Donbas today and you think that "our way is right," "we are heading to Russia," "we are Russians," then it would be a big mistake to stay in Donbas..." No wonder they venerate SS.
  9. So you don't want bring these people back, but you want this territory which would be clean from them, right?
  10. Once again, you mess up miltary propaganda and reality. It's really mad to claim that Putin said it or meant it. By the way Russia is the 2nd trading partner of Ukraine and the 5th trading partner of EU.
  11. I don't know. Do you know? Modern nukes can be deployed in many types of missile warheads or large calibre artillery shells. There is virtually no way to check it.
  12. Why not to try to achieve your goals, like reclaiming Crimea, if you have "big brother backing"? The first thing that Turkey did after shooting down Russian plane in Syria was calling for extraordinary NATO council. That is precisely why NATO rules forbid membership of countries with territorial disputes.
  13. That's great that they are willing to discuss something, I guess, that should be the reason for celebration. The bad thing it doesn't mean anything and doesn't presuppose any obligations on their side. First of all, of course, it's not Ukraine itself that Moscow is nervous about. Ukraine is no more than a tool to harass Russia and to deploy nukes. Second, real life is much more complicated than any documents. All the documents, including NATO charter, are subject to interpretation by politicians and media. Who can guarantee that in the event of Ukrainian provocation the Ukrainian actions wouldn't be interpreted as "Russian aggression" (for example, because US President wouldn't like to look weak in the wake of elections)? Do you wanna try it? I doubt it.
  14. I already tried to explain to you that there are essential 2 main methods of selling gas from Russia to Europe. First, there are long term contracts. All of them are fulfilled 100%. Second, spot market. Basically, its a daily buy-sell process. Russia doesn't have any obligations to sell gas to Europe that had not been contracted. Let's make an example. If you have something, and I want to buy it, there is no obligation on your side to sell it to me. The topic of "Russia is not selling EU gas" was popular all around 2021 when energy crisis broke out. But as data shows, Russia increased gas supply during this period.
  15. The danger of NATO enlargement is not in "hundreds of thousands of amassed" troops, but in nukes, settled on the territories of host countries. Besides, all the national armies of NATO countries should be counted as NATO troops, not only those that came from US.
  16. There are confusing reports on numbers of troops and equipment. Most of the alarmist reports originates in the Western press, that, as I suppose, doesn't have direct access to Russian General Stuff data, but mainly take it from "talking points" of their CIA handlers "governmental sources". If the "amassing troops on the border of another country" is so scary and alarming, what Russia should think of NATO enlargement?
  17. It's not surprising that CMCW and his report have a lot in common. As for how Soviet commanders employ their forces... Frankly I'm confused, since a) this is absolutely theoretical alternative history topic b) it has even less documentary confirmed basis that tanks performance. At least, tanks exits to he present day and their performance can be measured. That couldn't be said about Soviet commanders. Unfortunately, in my opinion, there is a certain truth to the assessment of Soviet command quality in this document. It was abyssal in the initial stages of WW2 and absolute awful during first war in Chechnya. On the other hand it showed itself as quite capable during Afghanistan, in Korea and in Vietnam.
  18. That's not "ultimatum" of course, no matter how many time you call it so. It's a mere discussion of security guarantees and propositions that Moscow made. There is no time limit, and there is no clause "if you don't make A we will make B". The full quote: "We are convinced that it is possible to achieve a de-escalation of the situation around Ukraine, which our Western partners talk and write about so much, can be achieved very quickly. To do this, we need to stop deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, recall Western military advisers, instructors from its territory, stop joint exercises of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and countries NATO, as well as to remove all foreign weapons previously delivered to Kiev outside Ukrainian territory". It's hard to disagree with her. Above mentioned measures will certainly make contribution to de-escalation and pacification of the region. Once again, it's not a demand, not an ultimatum, it's an innocent observation that is absolutely correct. That is brilliant and it's better to leave as it is and not to comment.
  19. Sure https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA392790 By the way, while googling for this report, I found @John Kettler had already presented this document here.
  20. Russia didn't make any ultimatums to US, NATO or Ukraine. If you are aware of one, please share a link. What I'm aware of is that in 2015 Ukraine signed Minsk agreements, but Kiev refused to fulfill it to the present day. As for Ukraine large scale operation in Donbass it is, unfortunately, quite possible. In my opinion, there are 2 possible outcomes of present day crisis: 1) Good one. Nothing happens. After several month of war hysteria and military propaganda the US will claim that it prevented the war and Joe will get his Peace Nobel Prize. 2) Bad one. Ukraine will launch large scale assault in Donbass and if Russia tries to meddle all Western media will cry about "Russian aggression against aspiring democracy". Concerning TV shows. As far as I know, young Ukrainian democracy has shut down several Ukrainian TV stations lately, since they were in opposition to Kiev policy. https://www.ft.com/content/176c0332-b927-465d-9eac-3b2d7eb9706a https://tass.com/world/1382559
  21. There is no point in comparing T-55 and M60A1. M60A1 should be compared with T-62, as both tanks were mass produced in 60s and became classical competitors. There is nothing criminal in doing couch expertise ourselves (basically, the main thing we are engaged here), but it's better when it's done by professionals. So, as always, I suggest to refer to real documents. The evaluation of T-62 and its comparison with M60A1 have been done TRADOC bulletin 10. Strangely enough, experts of US Army didn't mention anything about T-62 being much inferior to M60A1 in terms of spotting abilities, while stating that M60A1 is more effective at beyond 1500 meters ranges. They describe T-62 as very capable tank, in line with CIA\Army report that I had cited before. In "Vision devices" section they note, that "the T-62 is equipped with vision devices that enable it to fight effectively with all hatches closed and in conditions of reduced visibility". As we can see the real evaluation is far from claiming the Western tanks enjoy absolute superiority comparing to Soviet "metal junk", which is blind, unsophisticated and crude.
  22. There is no mobilization in Russia. And no mobilization in Ukraine.
  23. In fact in 2021 Russia increased gas supply to Europe. In January-November 2021 Russia increased exports to Europe to 171.5 billion cubic meters, which is 6.6% (10.6 billion cubic meters) more than in the same period of 2020. In particular, the company increased gas supplies to Turkey (by 83.7%), Germany (by 16.8%), Italy (by 19.5%), Romania (by 221.8%), Serbia (by 85.8%). %), Bulgaria (by 43.8%), Poland (by 7.5%), Greece (by 12.2%), Slovenia (by 53.9%), Finland (by 9.1%). The 2021 result was ranked fourth among Gazprom historical records. 15 countries have increased their purchases of Russian pipeline gas. In January export dropped. The long term contracts with European countries are fulfilled 100%. Russia fulfills all of her contract obligations. The main cause of decrease was the spot contracts, e.g. those that conducted on market daily, to which Gazprom has no obligations. https://www.gazprom.ru/press/news/2021/december/article543987/ https://www.gazprom.ru/press/news/2021/november/article542728/ https://www.interfax.ru/business/813725
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