Ukraine doesn't release its number of war casualties — at this cemetery, the real toll is on show
www.abc.net.au
At the Krasnopilske military cemetery in eastern Ukraine, one of the first things you hear is weeping — the women here all know each other, but they're bound together for devastating reasons.

Has anyone noticed a shift in tone on Ukraine war reporting? I wonder if the West is looking to prime people for a way out. All of a sudden we might find it IS a humanitarian crisis after all.

      • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        1 year ago

        They’ll fund and man ECOWAS with whatever’s left of their stock to try keep Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and now Gabon from rippling out through the rest of Africa; because while they’re posturing and blowing hot wind at China, everyone knows that we’re a paper tiger that’s not prepared for a fight with a nation that dwarfs us near three men to one, if the population data I’m remembering is accurate. When presented with two boulders, yankees will always pick the smaller one, then swagger around afterwards like they did something.

        • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
          6·
          1 year ago

          They only know how to fight wars when its against militaries a fraction of the size, technology, ordinance, and support, with a fraction of a fraction of the money. They like to bully the vulnerable, not pick a fair fight. Cowardly as always.

          • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
            5·
            1 year ago

            Funny you mention that, 'cause that’s not even the case! tl;dr of the link, that’s just ONE accounting of a crooked US war simulation where a lower tech-level OPFOR should’ve kicked the shit out of Amerikan forces only for the simulation runners to either forbid movements of OPFOR against Amerikan movements, or just unkill or undestroy targets that OPFOR took all of about ten minutes to TPK.

            This has happened BEFORE MC’02 and AFTER it. Basically, there’s a reason Amerika’s gotten its ass repeatedly kicked by rice farmers, shepherds, and poppy pickers.

            The red team was ready to begin shooting down the V-22s when Van Riper’s chief of staff received a message from the white cell. Hostile fire against the V-22s or blue’s C-130 troop transport planes was forbidden. The white cell also directed the chief of staff that the red team had to position its air defense assets out in the open so the blue forces could easily destroy them. Even after some were not destroyed, the red team was forbidden to fire upon blue forces as they conducted a live airborne drop. Van Riper asked the white cell if his forces could at least deploy the chemical weapons that he possessed, but he was again denied.

            Van Riper was furious. Not only had the white cell’s instructions compromised the integrity of the entire process, but also his own chief of staff — a retired Army colonel — was receiving conflicting orders about how his force should be deployed. When Van Riper went to Kernan to complain, he was told: “You are playing out of character. The OPFOR would never have done what you did.” Van Riper subsequently gathered the red team and told them to follow the chief of staff’s orders. The independence that he believed a red team must be granted to do its job had been corrupted.

    • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      1 year ago

      It’s not so much about peace. USians are starting to get real angry that so much money is spent on Ukraine, especially after the debacle of the Maui wildfires.

      Trump’s promises of peace are tracting for exactly this reason.