Russian Armed Forces completed the liberation of New York – Town to be Renamed Novgorod
The town of New York has been completely liberated by Russian troops, which means that Novgorod will appear on the map of the DPR.
“New York will now be renamed Novgorod” said the head of the Donetsk republic Denis Pushilin
According to Russian resources, assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces were able to clear out the remnants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and drive the enemy out of the town. As of yesterday, approximately 10% of the city remained under Ukrainian control, the remaining 90% was controlled by Russian troops. Apparently, these remains have been cleared away today. However, the fighting did not end there; ours began an attack on Nelepovka, located between Novgorod and Toretsk.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 18 2024 22:40 utc | 199
Seems the russians are making huge progress in this area.

Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Aug 18 2024 23:46 utc | 203

@Jim Smith ‘213
‘If the Ukrainians are digging in, how will Russia take back the territory the Ukrainins are occupying?
They will just cover them over again with the earth they had dug out.
History of those who invade Russia. Adds to the fertility of the steppes!

Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 18 2024 23:55 utc | 205

@hh #201
Read some history
The Polish-West Ukrainian Conflict Over East Galicia in 1918−1919
Posted on March 2, 2024 by Yves Smith
Yves here. Europeans, and arguably even more so eastern Europeans, are acutely aware of their national and ethnic histories. This short Polish-Ukrainian conflict in east Galacia played a key role in souring relations between the people in the two areas.
By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic, Ex-University Professor, Research Fellow at the Centre for Geostrategic Studies, Belgrade, Serbia (sotirovic1967@gmail.com)
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/the-polish-west-ukrainian-conflict-over-east-galicia-in-1918%e2%88%921919.html

Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 19 2024 0:04 utc | 207

If the Ukrainians are digging in, how will Russia take back the territory the Ukrainins are occupying?
The going rate in the Ukraine battles seems to be months for Russia to capture a village or two. How will they do it any faster in the Kursk area?
Posted by: Jim Smith | Aug 18 2024 23:47 utc | 213
The point is, Mr Smith, the Ukes aint goin anywhere in Kursk. Theyre stuck there now, in a trap. Meanwhile, the depleted uke forces in donbas are being routed as russia moves forward, forward, and forward.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 19 2024 0:19 utc | 209

‘No food or water for days:’ Ukrainian soldier explains why he surrendered to Russia
Aleksandr Makievsky recounts how one unit was told it would be targeted by ‘friendly’ fire if it withdrew from its position
Some Ukrainian soldiers are being left by their commanders without food and water for days at a time while being forbidden to retreat under the threat of death, according to a Ukrainian soldier who surrendered and was interviewed by the Russian Defense Ministry.
On Sunday, the ministry released a three-minute clip featuring Ukrainian soldier and former police officer Aleksandr Makievsky, who said he voluntarily surrendered to Russian forces after experiencing firsthand the hardships on the front line caused by the military leadership’s callous and ruthless attitude toward its own troops.
Makievsky said he was dismissed from the police force after refusing to join a Ukrainian assault brigade. Three months later, he ran out of money and received a draft notice and had little choice but to sign a contract with the military.
He claims he was told that he would be deployed to Donbass on the second line of defense, which was not supposed to directly engage with Russian forces.
“We were immediately taken and dumped there and told to dig in… The spades were blunt, work was impossible,” he recalled. “We had no food or water. By the sixth day, I thought I was going to die.”
He also recounted how one day he heard extremely chaotic and tense radio chatter when one Ukrainian group decided to retreat. “[The group] was told: ‘If you retreat, we will fire a volley of Grad rockets at your position. The war will write everything off.”
READ MORE: Ukraine could be ‘destroyed’ – Lukashenko
Makievsky admitted that he was scared and wanted to leave, but he knew that he would be executed by his fellow troops. “Two brotherly peoples are being pitted against each other… War is hell… The government embezzles money while the common people suffer. They are doing business, and commanders are no better,” he added.
Many of the Ukrainian soldiers who have chosen to surrender have accused Kiev of treating them as “cannon fodder” and failing to support them in combat with basic equipment. They have also complained of a lack of basic training and numerous desertions. Meanwhile, the Russian military has set up a special radio frequency that Ukrainians can use to surrender while guaranteeing prisoners of war humane treatment.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 19 2024 0:36 utc | 211

A resident of Sudzha, already surrounded by enemies, was able to walk 60 km to save his own mother, and survived. An incredible story of courage from Kursk (and no less incredible footage)
Residents of the Kursk region are experiencing the disaster happening in their land in different ways, but mostly, as many episodes have shown, steadfastly and courageously. However, the story of Ivan from Sudzha will give goosebumps to anyone, even the most sophisticated reader and viewer. The guy realized that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were actively attacking Sudzha after they began intensively shelling the city. On August 7, Ivan, hearing the characteristic crackle of small arms, hid in a brick building. The Ukrainian terrorists were already so close that he could hear their conversations.
Having reached home, the guy began to persuade his mother to flee the city, but she did not want to leave her favorite cat Murenka and the house. The son reluctantly decided to temporarily leave alone, and after spending the night in Bolshoy Soldatskoye, he again headed towards Sudzha. At the checkpoint, Russian soldiers stopped him and warned him that returning to the city was mortally dangerous – the young man himself understood this, but he could not leave his mother. The soldiers understood the situation and let him through, telling him to be careful.
Ivan got to Sudzha and put his mother on the evacuation bus – there was only one seat left, so the boy decided to go back himself. His dangerous route, first by bike and then on foot, was 60 km, and all this time the young man was literally right next to the enemy, only miraculously not catching his eye and more than once finding himself a hair’s breadth from death – for example, when Ivan was caught in the middle of a field by a Ukrainian drone, from which he managed to hide in a concrete pipe.
The boy recorded all the details of his “voyage” on camera. This is probably the most complete video chronicle of the initial stage of the Ukrainian terrorist attack on the Kursk region, filmed in the first person by a simple but incredibly brave local resident.

Posted by: MiniMo | Aug 19 2024 0:43 utc | 213

LightYearsFromHome | Aug 18 2024 19:50 utc | 148
***The corruption of the Zelensky regime is so extensive that they will be executed if caught. And the global “force” pushing for escalation apparently wants World War III,
— Tuomas Malinen wrote on the social network X. ***
Maybe the increasingly desperate Kiev regime and its UK string-pullers will try something quite different … such as a missile attack on Belarus, but set up so as to blame (a not involved) Poland for it.

Posted by: Cynic | Aug 19 2024 0:57 utc | 215

HERMIUS | Aug 19 2024 0:51 utc | 226
Such things are meaningless. Of no value. Unimportant and irrelevant. A distraction. Makes no difference to anything. A waste of space here or anywhere.
Posted by: Desiderata | Aug 19 2024 1:02 utc | 230
Ive no problem with genuine debate from any side. But I can’t stand downright lies!

Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 19 2024 1:14 utc | 217

boneless | Aug 18 2024 23:24 utc | 207
*** It is weird to witness a special forces commander do more of positive yet grounded propaganda for his country than the entire government and MoD. ***
Major-General Alaudinov has from the beginning of the SMO impressed as a genuinely good, thoughtful and very intelligent man.
A huge contrast to the deranged, ignorant and degenerate brain-dead clockwork NATO-pimping garbage that British senior officers appear to be nowadays.

Posted by: Cynic | Aug 19 2024 1:32 utc | 219

…there are dozens here totally out of control and carrying on like two years olds in a fight at kindergarten – all those complaining about Trolls are also TROLLS and even worse than those they cannot stand.
Not agreeing with what someone says does NOT make them a troll for crying out loud!
Posted by: Desiderata | Aug 19 2024 1:23 utc | 233
The authoritarians here have their own definition of troll, and you won’t change them by pointing out the obvious. I used to come here for the discussion, now I mainly drop in for the laughs.

Posted by: Crater | Aug 19 2024 1:37 utc | 221

Which working class? There is no working class in western countries, because there is no class consciousness. The wsw is a parasite unable to change anything in their own countries.
Posted by: Naive | Aug 19 2024 0:09 utc | 218
Agreed of wsws coverage of the Imperialist war on Russia via zombie Ukraine. They have been shit on the topic since day 1. Every article was written at the outset scolding Russia for its terrible “blunder” in using military force to halt the Nazi genocide in the Donbass. More recently they only write on the conflict when Imperialism pulls off one of its supposed game changing terror attacks and again to scold Russia.
They claim to be Leninist, but seem to have created some exception to his revolutionary defeatist line for the Ukie conflict, even while acknowledging that Russia is not an imperialist nation.
Nonetheless, it’s coverage is still better than anything coming from what passes for the left in the west.
Finally, your assertion that there is no working class in the west has to be the single stupidest thing I’ve read at the bar and that ain’t easy. It’s so stupid, I’m not even going to argue the point. The fact will be self evident to most sentient humans.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 19 2024 1:41 utc | 223

Posted by: Urban Fox | Aug 19 2024 1:43 utc | 240
Agree. NATO is afraid of putting real “skin” in the game. The kind of skin that means body bags coming home to America, in small towns where people still fear God.
No decent man or woman wants to die for a corrupt, decadent, Godless death-cult that worships mammon like the psychos in power in the US, UK, and parts of W. Europe. Some criminal types who sign up to be mercs, maybe. They only know killing anyways. They’ll be a net plus anyways for society when they’re dead and rotting in a shallow grave in Ukraine, rather than committing felonies in Paris, New York, or London.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 19 2024 1:50 utc | 225

. George Floyd with an overwhelming force kneeing on it’s neck. It can’t move. Can’t get away. Has no where to go for safety.
Posted by: Desiderata | Aug 19 2024 1:13 utc | 231
Only a Fed would still push this agitprop by now – not because it still believes in it but because of the All-Bureau Memoranda.
Next time try better, Glowie
Posted by: Poslan1 | Aug 19 2024 1:41 utc | 238
True, but get used to it. The feds run the western media and they have a historic black female they need to install to keep the Ukie debacle going. They need to crank up the racial division to convince the black vote that sister Kamala and the dem masta is there to aid the black community, despite the fact that police killings of workers (blacks included) in the US continues apace and will likely increase in the coming period.
The trick is, when a Dem is in office they just stop talking about police brutality. When they’re out of power, of course, it’s a world shattering crisis of jim crow lynching in every corner of the country.
The good news, workers are starting to see the game and have developed some immunity to this pernicious racial divide and rule strategy of the woke billionaires.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 19 2024 1:55 utc | 227

WSWS had some fine articles about Ukraine, but yes, it was, like C. Hedges and Chomsky, against Russia’s military operation, while I was (silently) criticising Russia for the delay.

Posted by: burak | Aug 19 2024 1:57 utc | 229

‘No food or water for days:’ Ukrainian soldier explains why he surrendered to Russia
Aleksandr Makievsky recounts how one unit was told it would be targeted by ‘friendly’ fire if it withdrew from its position
Some Ukrainian soldiers are being left by their commanders without food and water for days at a time while being forbidden to retreat under the threat of death, according to a Ukrainian soldier who surrendered and was interviewed by the Russian Defense Ministry.
On Sunday, the ministry released a three-minute clip featuring Ukrainian soldier and former police officer Aleksandr Makievsky, who said he voluntarily surrendered to Russian forces after experiencing firsthand the hardships on the front line caused by the military leadership’s callous and ruthless attitude toward its own troops.
Makievsky said he was dismissed from the police force after refusing to join a Ukrainian assault brigade. Three months later, he ran out of money and received a draft notice and had little choice but to sign a contract with the military.
He claims he was told that he would be deployed to Donbass on the second line of defense, which was not supposed to directly engage with Russian forces.
“We were immediately taken and dumped there and told to dig in… The spades were blunt, work was impossible,” he recalled. “We had no food or water. By the sixth day, I thought I was going to die.”
He also recounted how one day he heard extremely chaotic and tense radio chatter when one Ukrainian group decided to retreat. “[The group] was told: ‘If you retreat, we will fire a volley of Grad rockets at your position. The war will write everything off.”
READ MORE: Ukraine could be ‘destroyed’ – Lukashenko
Makievsky admitted that he was scared and wanted to leave, but he knew that he would be executed by his fellow troops. “Two brotherly peoples are being pitted against each other… War is hell… The government embezzles money while the common people suffer. They are doing business, and commanders are no better,” he added.
Many of the Ukrainian soldiers who have chosen to surrender have accused Kiev of treating them as “cannon fodder” and failing to support them in combat with basic equipment. They have also complained of a lack of basic training and numerous desertions. Meanwhile, the Russian military has set up a special radio frequency that Ukrainians can use to surrender while guaranteeing prisoners of war humane treatment.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 19 2024 0:36 utc | 222

Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 19 2024 2:02 utc | 231

Russia has no interest in crossing the Dnieper.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 19 2024 2:07 utc | 249
____
If the western half of 404 doesn’t denazify itself, Russia might have to. I imagine Russia realizes this.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 19 2024 2:27 utc | 233

Desiderata @ @ @
The Pomegranate
by Kahlil Gibran (abridged)
Once when I was living in the heart of a pomegranate, I heard a seed
saying,
**************************************************************
Then an eight spoke—and a ninth—and a tenth—and then many—until
all were speaking, and I could distinguish nothing for the many
voices.
And so I moved that very day into the heart of a quince, where the
seeds are few and almost silent.

Posted by: Jerr | Aug 19 2024 2:31 utc | 235

Light YFH@1826
Whether or not Caesar was primarily a samesexer or some form of bi is still open to question. My primary reference point is that during the days when Rome was still a Republic, Caesar was referred to as “every woman’s man and every man’s woman”. In that historical era, it was common for nations to exchange hostages from prominent families. Can’t recall the name of the particular tyrant who was at that time somewhat of an ally to Rome. At the time, that offspring of the prominent Julian line was sent as a hostage. He must have been fetching, because his “recipient” frequently engaged his probably receptive services.
Did not respond to one poster who insisted that bisexuality is usually one or the other as for identification. Not so in my experience, both directly and indirectly, as I tend to be a bit particular in my preferences and many of those married fathers, grandfathers et al simply do not stir my interest. There are virtually an infinite number of “types” amongst samesexers of both iterations…a realm in which pure oppos have comparatively fewer variations…even though, in today’s deeply deracinated consumer culture…they remain as a huge majority…except, apparently amongst the two younger generations, where women are far more comfortable with occasional samesex experiences.
After all, women have no “womanhood” to shield and protect. They do tend to be far more comfortable with their own feelings and experiences than most males. One recent observation I’ve made on the basis of several personal encounters. In relatively recent years, I’ve become more flexible with “letting it flow” and have essentially “come out” as a hot-dancer to vibrant music, mostly traditional rock n’ roll. Major body movements, somewhat similar to lead musicians. Several times now, very attractive young women, including in group dancing, either smoothly begin dancing with me or inducing me to join their circles for that particular tune.
Observation: Today’s younger women have difficulties with their boyfriends at the dance floor. Most oppo-sex guys in the younger generations seem incapable of letting it flow like this soon to be Octogenarian.
Though statistical surveys have reported that specifically gay men’s numbers are about double those of lesbians. On the other hand there are far more women who waaay outnumber the majority of males who are genuinely comfortable with their own bodies. Attribution: A post Victorian cultural hold on herd mentality as one factor. Another is that the repressive tentacles of organized religion still possess a usually subconscious hold on even younger males. Perhaps foremost though, is the unfortunate fact that most American males have seriously injured psyches due to the Unkindest Cut.
Lacking the lubricious sensitivity and smooth propulsion particular to the foreskin; an estimable proportion of American males ultimately “get off” better via oral gratification than by the traditional exchange. THAT is America’s “dirty little secret”.

Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 19 2024 2:51 utc | 237

Today, Zelensky “reveals the purpose of the Kursk incursion/invasion”.
Lmao.
Over the 2 weeks since its beginning, I’ve been tallying up all the different suppositions, analyses, punditry, opinions, theories, strategies, etc, etc by all sorts of people — within the Kiev regime; connected to the Kiev regime; actually within the Kremlin; connected to Russian media; Western military professionals; armchair amateurs; MSM media; alt-media … so much semi-correct pontification. So here’s my list of possible purposes given thus far, by both sides:
* To capture the Kursk NPP;
* To show “we can win with more weapons gifts”;
* To embarrass the Kremlin by showing RFAF weakness;
* To foment a populist overthrow of Putin;
* To distract before some bigger attack elsewhere;
* To cause transfer of RF Donbass troops thus causing a weakening of RF defences there;
* To provocate a big RF response to cause escalation and thus bring NATO openly into the SMO;
* To capture RF borderland territory to use as a bargaining tool;
* To capture numerous tiny borderland villages, grab and hold civilian hostages to use as bargaining blackmail;
* To draw attention away from the Donbass routing;
* To expend the RF forces which were poised to enter Kharkov and/or Sumy oblasts from the north;
* To frighten the Russian people (?);
* Just a random act of desperation;
* Any I’ve forgotten? Lol.
But today, Zelensky provides the dumbest reasoning of all — “to create a buffer zone against future Russian incursions”. This is pure delusion, pure fiction, pure damage control PR. And funny, since only AFTER the ensuing failure of their operation does he say this, tacitly denying all the other possible reasons everyone else has put forward in the meantime, but now he’s promoting some domestic spin rationale. Lol.
Of course, we could say that the overall sum of all reasons was why they did it. But in the end, none of the ostensible reasons for it will come true. Truly delusional. But I guess it makes him and his goons look like winners.

Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Aug 19 2024 2:56 utc | 239

If Putin and all of Russia is not preparing right now for an all out war with the US and Europe in the very near future then they are being ruled by idiots.
Posted by: Desiderata | Aug 19 2024 3:07 utc | 259
Yes, Putin is in Azerbaijan now instead of with his generals about strengthening Russia’s border and getting the Ukrainian troops out of Kursk.

Posted by: MiniMo | Aug 19 2024 3:11 utc | 241

ref. trolls:
Pls. note that this is also an informational channel that relies on its THREAD TOPIC (see above on entering this site) – so MoA commenters should please stick on that.
All those trolls like Anonymous, frkorz, Victor, Newbie, NemesisCalling, etc. with teir HTML like, sexual/gay waste and off-topic issues should leave here immediately.
By the way,
WOW impressive : Your trolls making a remarkable distraction from the main issue (the War in UKR) by performing such a small non-intelligent DoS-Attack here .. Great psychops !

Posted by: spare_truth_01 | Aug 19 2024 3:18 utc | 243

Desiderata @ 254
Desiderata
If you do start your own blog do post the URL here. Would be interested in checking it out.
However, if you want to
create “an ALT MoA Forum using a decent software system and Moderating the vile disrespectful abusers out of the place before they even get a toe in the door”, Facebook would be a good place to start. It has all the tools available you want and will help you “fact check and ban”.
I don’t believe in “Russian is Evil”, but there are evil people that started and promised this war and they are the globalist of the USA, EU and Eastern Mediterranean areas. Also, what has been happening in Gaza over the last two decades is an outgrowth of this evil.
I’mthe contarian here and say this war has nothing to do with Minsk, Nato, Dombas, Ukrainian nationality, Nazi or historic Russia. (Apologies ahead to those that had heard this before). It has to do with getting Europe off Russia oil and gas so the EU countries will buy oil and gas from Israeli. Its estimated israel has more oil in the Golan Heights than Saudi Arabia and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas off its shores in the Eastern Mediterranean.
2013 was the pivotal year for the implementation of this strategy, where a modest company called Genie Energy was given exclusive rights to drill there and an agreement was signed between Greece, Cyprus and Israel for joint developed.
A look at Genie’s strategic planning board shows you the importance of this company’s:
Dick Cheney since 2009 (former vice president of the United States), Rupert Murdoch (media oligarch), James Woolsey (former CIA director), Larry Summers (former head US Treasury), Bill Richardson (former Governor of New Mexico, ex-ambassador to the United Nations and United States Energy Secretary), Michael Steinhardt, Jacob Rothschild, and Mary Landrieu, former United States Senator from Louisiana.
Also, Greek Prime Minister Samaras on 8 August 2013 at a meeting at the White House that Israel has a special role to play in supplying Europe with energy resources and supported that it can become a key energy hub. Many other EU leaders have supported the same idea.
The following year the ukraine color revolution occurred, Crimea was occupied and dombass separated from Ukraine.
In 2017 a hugh pipeline deal signed by most major continental energy actors to bring gas from Eastern Med to Europe.
The US recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel through a presidential proclamation signed by President Trump on March 25, 2019, guaranteeing Israeli sovereignty.
In my opinionthe “Evil Actors” in Ukraine and Gaza do not include Russia.
Best of luck on your new venture.
Following two links you may find of interesting.
1) An American Thinker analysis of the Russia and Israeli territorial claims.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/russia_and_israel_annexation_and_international_law.html
2) Israel’s self’declared Divine right to Golan oil and Mediterranean oil/gas
https://www.israel365news.com/353623/israel-to-supply-natural-gas-to-europe-and-its-connection-to-a-blessing-from-deuteronomy/
3) Israel’s first shipment oil to Europe.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-exports-crude-oil-for-first-time-with-shipment-heading-for-europe/

Posted by: Jerr | Aug 19 2024 3:21 utc | 245

Eighthman@2124
Strikes me that you are a materialist. Evolution is not strictly a matter of human breeding practices. Further, there are devolutions on a cultural basis as well as cultural evolution. What you appear to fear is the latter. Ignorance of the variations of creativeness within cultural evolution indicates either or both a not fully-digested religious upbringing OR an academicist programming in some institution of “Higher” edjumacasion, in which you did some hard time and became culturally institutionalized.
Within three weeks I shall likely become an Octogenerian…as a WarBaby who is still exploring and questing. I fear that your perspective on evolution is retrogressive and stumbling while dealing with cultural evolution, which in many instances is predicated upon a term which is a Dylan lyric: “He not busy being born is busy dying”.

Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 19 2024 3:48 utc | 247

neofeudalist@2158
When it comes to a genuine cultural revolution you are obviously a reactionary.

Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 19 2024 3:52 utc | 249

HERMIUS | Aug 19 2024 1:56 utc | 244
Unless b can clean up the sockpuppets and username trolls, these comment sections are a waste of space. The empire has now hit hard here, so I wont be bothering with this site until b cleans it up.
Australian daylight hours used to be OK but now even that is today filled with the clowns along with long posts.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 19 2024 4:03 utc | 251

Posted by: Ново З | Aug 19 2024 3:13 utc | 263
I don’t know what to make of Corbett. He did some great stuff – one of the first – after 9/11. And his timeline of the runup to the current Russia-NATO war in Ukraine is accurate. But then he couldn’t help himself and had to inject his garden variety Western bullshit about Xi and Putin. I get it to some extent. He’s extremely anti-war and libertarian in the “Reason” sense. But to use the word “tyrant” is a step too far for me. As earlier noted, I will continue to check in on his blog when I want to get the skeptic’s view on events (and it’s feeling like a new major false flag is imminent), but yeah I lost a lot of respect for him since the start of the SMO. I do still recommend his series on media interpretation, though. Just won’t suggest actually paying for it. At the least he touts a few good books on the topic.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 19 2024 4:15 utc | 253

Calling free folk cultures “Pagan” evidences retrogressive attitudes swallowed whole and regurgitated in this public forum.
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 19 2024 3:36 utc | 269
Let us not forget: The majority of the Bible and doctrinal Christianity is straight up stolen from Pagan and other previous religions and customs. Everything from The Christ to Christmas Day. It’s a totally cribbed religion with a bunch of evil shit thrown in (OT) for good measure. Name me any canonical Christian precept or practice and I can easily point to a preceding religion from which it was almost assuredly “borrowed”…
And this isn’t even controversial to say within the ranks of the Church. They gave specific orders not to tear down “Pagan” places of worship in what’s now Great Britain (just one example I’m familiar with) but rather to maintain them, albeit with a Crucifix in place of whatever was there before once they’d purged the “Old Gods” from the minds of the peasants.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 19 2024 4:23 utc | 255

Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 19 2024 4:10 utc | 278
It was sarcasm but also sort of trial balloon.

Posted by: Jerr | Aug 19 2024 4:30 utc | 257

In response to
”
Within three weeks I shall likely become an Octogenerian…as a WarBaby who is still exploring and questing. I fear that your perspective on evolution is retrogressive and stumbling while dealing with cultural evolution, which in many instances is predicated upon a term which is a Dylan lyric: “He not busy being born is busy dying”.
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 19 2024 3:48 utc | 271
”
I turn 76 a week or so after your birthday and am writing this to note that my version all these years is “Those not busy being born are busy dying” and credit your taste in culling Dylan lyrics.
Hey Unnamed, nate, Desiderata and other johnny-come-recently to the MoA bar. Do you not see how boldly your BS stands out here? You may pollute the comment sections at blogs like this but the folks that pay you to push BS like you do are losing and you will need to find merit worth work when that happens….good luck with that.
I agree with your taking time off Peter AU1….lets these barfleas contaminate each other with group masturbation

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 19 2024 4:36 utc | 259

Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 19 2024 4:10 utc | 278
Its getting tough to even lurk here.

Posted by: circumspect | Aug 19 2024 4:49 utc | 261

Its getting tough to even lurk here.
Posted by: circumspect | Aug 19 2024 4:49 utc | 292

As a fellow lurker, I hear you. That’s the entire purpose of these trolls though. Sparetruth nailed it when he called it the thread equivalent of a DoS attack, although DDoS would be more accurate. They want MoA readers to get frustrated and move on. Don’t give them the satisfaction by giving up. Identify them and just scroll past. Don’t engage and they’ll fade away like the many, many, many others before.

Posted by: Dystopian | Aug 19 2024 4:58 utc | 263

why they so desperately need us to read it.
Posted by: Poslan1 | Aug 19 2024 5:02 utc | 297
And in the case in point, why they use so many keystrokes to prove to us that their shit absolutely is not worth reading (again with the disclaimer that POSSIBLY that person has something useful to say?).
BOLD FACE. Italics. Blockquotes. MASSIVE PARAGRAPHS of EMPTY BULLSHIT. I just don’t get it. Maybe we’re not “on the spectrum” – no offense intended to those who are, but still happen to be well meaning and genuine.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 19 2024 5:06 utc | 265

Posted by: Desiderata | Aug 19 2024 5:06 utc | 299
Cocaine or Adderall or Alcohol are all helluva drugs.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 19 2024 5:18 utc | 267

why is this place allowed to exist in the first place? big bro is fine with everyone exposing everything in this forum for everyone to read? why is it allowed to exist?

Posted by: fart | Aug 19 2024 5:30 utc | 269

I doubt it. Plenty of different opinions by genuine people are very much part and parcel of what b set up.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 19 2024 5:26 utc | 305
Rare to find people with thick skins these days. And all of us normal people will occasionally say what might be considered stupid shit. Myself obviously included.
Take it easy Peter. You’re a guy who lets crap roll off his back, as am I. Glad I’m not pissing off any of the real regulars, but even then I’ll be occasionally happy when I do. Good night (here anyway, it’s late).

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 19 2024 5:59 utc | 271

“I believe the existing God Of Mammon cult of private finance is Flintstones-like, and we of the West are living the barbarian life” [very lightly edited for punctuation and spelling]
“Do you?”
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 19 2024 1:35 utc | 236
“I do! The Zionazis that run the US don’t just call you a troll when you simply disagree with their genocide in Gaza.”
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 19 2024 1:58 utc | 246
Worthy and thoughtful posts. Had to scroll through a lot of junk on this thread see a few scattered gems like these.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 19 2024 6:15 utc | 273

“They (we) cant’ even stop their govt’s support of Israel carrying out an inhuman genocide, so they sure won’t get them to stop attacking Russia unjustly and starting endless proxy wars, or an all out war against Russia. The ‘people’ in the west and others will back their govts for all out war on Russia.” [very lightly edited for grammar and punctuation to improve clarity].
“Russia is ‘evil’ and Putin is a ‘dictator’, you see. You can’t actually fight such successful unrelenting propaganda and lies which have become entrenched beliefs and self-evident ‘truths’ to the majority.”
“Without major help that is backed by overwhelming military force – in the long term, Putin’s govt and Russia are fucked.”
“That’s my say.”
Posted by: Desiderata | Aug 19 2024 1:58 utc | 247
You make some very good points. You may be too black-pilled, though.

Posted by: Wisco | Aug 19 2024 6:33 utc | 275

Zelensky in desperation just reverses the idea, which he took from the Russians.
Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 19 2024 6:34 utc | 332
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Well yes, from a point of rhetoric. And in reality, it’s laughable. Little 404 could never have a “protection zone” from big ol’ Russia. They haven’t held LDR and DRP borders thus far!!! And what fkn good would a 20 kms buffer zone be against even Kursk Oblast. Lololol. It’s just domestic audience cope.

Posted by: Jake Blanchard | Aug 19 2024 7:01 utc | 277

🇷🇺🇺🇦Toretsk and Pokrovsk direction: what the enemy writes…
Judging by the post of this Ukrainian officer, the enemy command in the Toretsk and Pokrovsk directions has lost control over its troops.
Which leads to a rapid retreat and the impossibility of building a new line of defense, disorganization and segmentation of the enemy’s defensive formations, among other things, leads to our rapid advance here.
And also new tactics for carrying out attacks. No columns, only small assault groups equipped with good electronic warfare and new FPV drones, which sometimes cause panic in Ukrainian military (since their electronic warfare is not yet capable of fighting them)
Plus they (like us) still have the problem of fake reports, which, given the dire situation, only adds to the confusion and problems.
To sum up all of the above, I am satisfied with the enemy’s hysteria.
– ISZ

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1825423022800408951

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 19 2024 7:14 utc | 279

Lord Bebo
@MyLordBebo
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukrainian POW promised that he did not loot the Pyatorochka grocery store in Kursk region, but that video was found on his phone.
Every single person who was in that store is found.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1825276182826238228
Video from the phone at the link. Incredible how dumb the Ukroids are having enough evidence on their phone or gopro to convict them.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 19 2024 7:24 utc | 281

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 19 2024 6:51 utc | 335

It proves that the ordinary discussion here is considered a value to be destroyed.

Quite likely, considering they put so much effort into this disruption.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Aug 19 2024 7:37 utc | 283

I now understand why Larry Johnson over at SONAR21.COM decided to introduce user registration.
Just to get a grip on those select people with too much time on their hands who just post to insult other posters.

Posted by: Martina | Aug 19 2024 7:40 utc | 285

🇺🇦🇷🇺📝 With the frontline inching ever closer and two of the three defensive lines in front of the city having been broken through, let’s talk about the importance of Pokrovsk.
🔸 Pokrovsk is located in the western Donbass, on the M30 highway. The Donbass is often depicted as the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts, but that is not correct — the Donets Coal Basin stretches all the way to Pavlograd in Dnepropetrovsk oblast. The M30 highway connects Donetsk to Pokrovsk to Pavlograd to Dnepropetrovsk; it is also the main route from Kiev to Donetsk. It is the central supply artery for all supply that reaches the Ukrainian forces in the Donbass (there’s still the M03 from Kharkov, but it’s less convenient and has always been secondary, particularly for the southern half of the Donbass).
🔸 When it was further from the frontlines, Pokrovsk was a perfect operational rear for the AFU in the Donbass, capable of quickly supplying Ukrainian troops near Donetsk, Gorlovka, and Artemovsk/Bakhmut. It has a perfect connection to the AFU’s strategic rear in Pavlograd (you may remember various Russian air strikes against railway infrastructure in Pavlograd).
🔸 West of Pokrovsk, there are a hundred kilometers of nothing. Empty steppes until you hit Pavlograd in the northwest, Zaporozhye in the southwest. There are various operations RuAF could employ after capturing Pokrovsk; we will look at them later, when the deed is actually done. But what’s important is that it opens up operational space for the Russian “Center” group and gives them freedom of movement.
🔸 Additionally, Pokrovsk is a major railway hub, and is located on one of the two rail arteries that can be used to supply the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration, and control over it would unlock the entire Donbass railway junction for Russia.

https://t.me/intelslava/65217

Posted by: Down South | Aug 19 2024 7:52 utc | 287

🔥 Kursk
The last bridge across the Seim River has been destroyed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Therefore, we can say that Kyiv’s immediate task in this area will be an attempt to cut off part of the Glushkovsky districts, which we wrote about the other day.
If we believe the Western press that Zelensky demands to deepen the breakthrough, and Syrsky advocates for expanding the flanks, then this is Syrsky’s concept. It’s a bird in the hand.
The choice of such a simple task indicates a shortage of reserves. Perhaps they are being saved for another place, or perhaps they are simply running out.

https://t.me/ZeRada1/21062

🇺🇦🔥🇷🇺 Novogrodsko-Selidovo offensive operation of the Russian Armed Forces
On the Pokrovsk sector of the front, the cascade of Karlovsk reservoirs was a very powerful natural line of defense, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces counted on. Covered by a high bank from the western part, it was considered practically impregnable from the east.
This is almost 12 km from north to south, which in the north were fixed by the hill on which the village of Progres is located. In the south, the Volchya River reached the Kurakhovsk reservoir.
In general, the last, but very powerful natural line on this section of the front.
After taking Ocheretino, the Russian Armed Forces went further along the railway line, which runs along the ridge. Of course, the most dangerous direction was the northwest, which threatened to cut the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway. There they were stopped, but they moved to the southwest, which created a crisis at the operational-strategic level, since it threatens the loss of the last natural line of defense in the South Donbass direction.
This maneuver allows the Russian Armed Forces to bypass the entire cascade of the Karlovskoye reservoirs and attack along it from north to south. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are simply forced to retreat in this area. The territory to the east of the Karlovskoye reservoir is already lost, since it is systematically cut off from the north.
If the situation is not stabilized in the coming days and the Russian Armed Forces take Selidovo or Novogrodovka, then a crisis will occur for the entire territory located to the east (approximately 50 km2). Moreover, these settlements are located on the western slope of the ridge, which means that the Russian Armed Forces will simply gradually “roll” onto the huge flat territory to the west all the way to the Dnipropetrovsk region.
That is why we believe that the coming days will be decisive for this section of the front. If the Ukrainian Armed Forces lose Novogrodovka or Selilovo at the current pace of retreat, then everything described is a matter of time.

https://t.me/ZeRada1/21065

Posted by: Down South | Aug 19 2024 7:56 utc | 289

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Front #Report for the Morning of 19 August 2024⚡️
🔴On the #Zaporozhye Front, positional fighting continues, and with it, information about the concentration of AFU forces and means in this direction continues to be received. (Fig. 1)
🔴On the #Donetsk Front, heavy fighting continues in #Konstantinovka.
🟡In #Krasnogorovka, the RFAF continue to drive the Ukrainian garrison out of the town. In #Karlovka, fighting also continues, with no significant changes.
🟡In #Grodovka, there are advances of Russian troops. The RFAF are also advancing towards #Kamyshevka, #Marinovka and #Novogrodovka.
🟡#NyuYork settlement was liberated. There are active offensive operations of the RFAF in #Dzerzhinsk. (Fig. 2)
🔴On the #Kharkov Front, no significant changes. Fighting continues in #Volchansk and in the area of #Glubokoye. (Fig. 3)
🔴In the #Kursk Region, there are no significant changes on the ground. However, according to reports from the field, in some areas the RFAF are methodically knocking the AFU out of the occupied territories. This is most likely due to the fact that small groups were moving deep into the territory and did not have enough time and personnel to consolidate their positions.
📜 Wargonzo

https://t.me/sitreports/33196

Posted by: Down South | Aug 19 2024 7:58 utc | 291

Resident
⚡️⚡️⚡️#Insider information
Our source in the OP said that Zelensky is satisfied with the results of the Kursk operation and demands that Syrsky not slow down. Bankova is confident that they will be able to get permission from the West to launch missile strikes on Russian territory as early as September, when the US elections are at the finish line and the Biden Administration needs to win on the Ukrainian track, and that Democratic candidate Camilla Harris could beat Trump.,
Resident
⚡️⚡️⚡️#Insider information
Our source in the General Staff said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost 400 units of equipment during the Kursk operation and are forced to constantly transfer new equipment to the region to hold their positions and continue the attack. Syrsky personally oversees all the processes and transfers the best brigades/units from the Eastern Front in order to continue the onslaught of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and not repeat the fate of Bakhmut.

https://t.me/s/rezident_ua

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 19 2024 8:03 utc | 293

Posted by: Down South | Aug 19 2024 7:56 utc | 361
Glushkovo and Tetkino IMO can be ceded. These villages inherently have no strategic value for the AFU, as the main effort is NW and SE of Sudzha and that is where most AFU reserves are plowed. If the RUAF holds them there then AFU then Glushkovo and Tetkino can be taken back at leisure, after Sudzha. In fact, a potential offensive into Sumy will most likely force AFU to abandon Glushkovo and Tetkino and much more.

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 19 2024 8:11 utc | 295

https://t.me/s/rezid | Aug 19 2024 8:08 utc | 368
Not sure what happened there. That was mine.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 19 2024 8:17 utc | 297

Wisco
In b’s about page
“Moon Of Alabama was opened as an independent, open forum for members of the Whiskey Bar community.”
That became the MoA community. Since I started hitting the trolls that were destroying these Kursk threads, the Nafo talking point they have been told to push here is “cult’.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 19 2024 8:28 utc | 299