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Very interesting post. I'd read previously that the Wagners were called back from Bakhmut to assist elsewhere but did their own thing.

Command post of the Russian army near Liman"

General Lapin on the wire.

The Orcs are confirmed to have mined the first and second reactors of the ZNPP.

I think this comes from a Ukrainian inspector who I am assuming accompanied the IAEA inspection team.

I saw a video of Ukrainian medics working on one of those POS, using forceps to retrieve a bullet or shrapnel from his side, while he was conscious.

Both sides. Reality and fantasy. Facts and bullshít. Spherical earth and flat earth. Consuming information from "both sides" as you put it isn't always the best way to remain informed. If on the one hand you have facts that are backed up with evidence from one crowd and on the other you have absolute drivel that's contradicted by reality from another, the truth isn't somewhere in between. The trick to being informed is to use reliable sources and discard useless ones. You probably know this already, which is why you don't bother with both sides in the flat earth debate to get a fuller picture. This war needs the same basic idea as that to be understood. Listening to the side that's drunk and lying all the time can only make you less informed.

Regarding ns2, I don't know but I would want to know who said it and in what context and what they mean by sooner.

Appreciate your input here cnoc but have to say that I hate the term "Orcs". I despise everything about Russia but that word grates on me. A bit like the cnut word here. Call them what they are - invaders.

It's what the Ukrainians call them, along with rashists and other terms. They never call them Russians. Personally I am quite comfortable in taking their direction as to appropriate nomenclature, and feel they have several times over earned the right to define it.

That would be big alright

Ukraine forces would be at Inhulets nearer Kherson City if true

Putin has been the master troll for years. He has normalised brazen behaviour and I think he's been the poster boy for the likes of Trump and Orban etc. That he normalised having the Chechnans and the Wagner group committing atrocities for him, murdering opponents all over the world.

Destroying Putin is massively important, and possibly more important is to destroy the networks he built round the world, whose only role is to ferment trouble, support loons that will challenge the establishment and try and sow dissent of any kind throughout Europe and god knows where.

It is more of a parody at wokeism these days. Indo describes Musk in their article as:

Elon Musk is a very wealthy white guy. And very wealthy white guys believe they are entitled to weigh in on everything. Ideally, wealthy white guys would be ridiculed for this, and sometimes they are. But there are also times when their wealth and power allows them to force others to take them seriously. And that can be dangerous.

While other very wealthy white guys like Bill get a free pass when they offer their view take on world affairs. That is funny.

You don't have to like it ,

They have been called orcs early on and will continue to be called orcs till every last one has been anilated and all of Ukraine is liberated

I do wonder if this guy is directly paid by russia ?

It is effective though. I have heard this theory that putin was actually provoked into this invasion/genocide on various US platforms and Americans believe it. They then go the Joe Rogan experience and recycle this theory and sound very adamant about, like they have the real truth and the main stream media isn’t given putin fair and balanced coverage.