Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Everybody saw this coming.

Republicans don’t trust women.

You cannot shame the shameless.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

When we show up, we win.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

We’re not going back!

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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War for Ukraine Day 740: Russia Goes Off the Looking Glass as It Debuts Its New Map of Europe & Go

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Painting by NEIVANMADE. It has a black border. There are grey buildings with black windows along the left side. The center is a yellowy-grey, perhaps Ukrainian wheat fields. There is a black shadow figure striding through it. The figure's legs and feet are all that is visible of it. On the right side are red Zs, which symbolize Putin's/Russia's "Z" war/special military operation in Ukraine. The sky above the buildings is light grey. "GENOCIDE IS GOING BUT WHO EVEN CARES?" is painted in black in the upper left hand corner.

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It was very long day today, so I’m going to keep this as brief as possible.

Ten years ago today:

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

We understand what the enemy’s next plan is, and we will counteract it – address by the President of Ukraine

4 March 2024 – 19:32

I wish you health, fellow Ukrainians!

Briefly about this day. Most of the time was dedicated to the military.

Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and Chief of the General Staff Anatoliy Barhylevych. The lengthy meeting was focused on frontline issues and tasks. Our operations and prospects.

Despite all the deficits, the capabilities of our warriors to destroy the occupiers cannot be decreased. The Commander-in-Chief is regularly on the front line. Real battlefield commanders from the frontline, from the brigades are involved in decision-making. Today, I agreed and signed a number of necessary new appointments for the Defense Forces.

Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. I held a separate meeting with him. Supply of weapons, fair and proper provision of brigades. Each combat brigade, each frontline unit should receive more of the available modern weapons.

A separate conversation concerned drones. The content was good. In particular, regarding our long-range drones.

A report from the Defence Intelligence, Budanov. Our special operations. We need a clear result in the destruction of Russian military infrastructure and logistics. A greater result. And it will be achieved.

A report from the Security Service of Ukraine, Maliuk. He reported on our counteraction to Russian subversive reconnaissance groups – these murderers who terrorize our border areas. Maliuk also reported on countering collaborators. There are good results in neutralizing these people.

There was a report by the Foreign Intelligence Service, by Lytvynenko. It concerned sensitive international areas and Russia’s current plans. We understand what documents are on the enemy’s desk, what his next plan is. We will counteract.

There was also a separate report today by Deputy Prime Minister Kubrakov. First of all, it was about the functioning of our maritime export corridor. Almost 30 million tons of cargo have already been transported by sea. This is very significant for such war times. And I am grateful to everyone who works in our ports, on the ships, and to everyone who ensures the operation of the sea corridor and its security.

Today, after a report from the regions on the consequences of Russian shelling, I gave separate instructions regarding Odesa, regarding people who lost their homes as a result of the Russian attack with “Shahed” drones. I instructed to help with new housing to replace the lost one as soon as possible – the local authorities have to resolve the issue.

One more thing.

I signed a decree on the Shevchenko Prize, on the awarding of this year’s prize. The winners are worthy. On March 9, the decree will be published.

I thank everyone who cares about Ukraine and Ukrainians! I thank everyone who fights and works for our country and people! I thank everyone in the world who helps and believes in us. Thank you!

Glory to Ukraine!

The cost:

“Right now, we see America heartbreakingly fractured and in disarray over Ukraine aid.

Hand on heart, knowing what America has always been and stood for, that was the last thing we in Ukraine expected.

As friends and willing partners, we Ukrainians ask the Republicans who are vocal opponents of aid to drop their obstructionism.”
https://time.com/6836750/ukraine-biden-us-congress/

Dmitri Medvedev, after visiting Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s tailor, gave a speech today where he explained that Russia has no borders.

Eez a puzzlement?

He also debuted this whacked map:

And he restated Russia’s genocidal intent regarding Ukraine:

But but but ‘NATO expansion’ but but but ‘all Ukrainians are Nazis’ but but but ‘proxy war’ but but but ‘money laundering’ but but but ‘Ukrainian aggression’.

They’ve been saying this out loud and clear – THIS WAR IS ABOUT THE COMPLETE ELIMINATION OF UKRAINE AS A NATION.

The more vocal Russians are about this, the more funny (or should I say, sickening and enraging) it is to see paid Kremlin stooges and useful idiots spinning around with their mental gymnastics to making lame-ass attempts to justify what is simply the biggest European war of conquest since WWII.

Near Russian occupied Avdiivka:

 

The Kreminna front:

60th Brigade of Ukraine repels Russian attack on the Kreminna front. A column of Russian AFVs, including T-90M, took part in the attack. As well as a column of Chinese Desertcross 1000-3, which were apparently used to transport Russian infantry closer to the front line.
https://facebook.com/watch/?v=3757908171088364

Kherson Oblast:

Russian occupied Crimea:

Ukrainska Pravda has the details:

Russia’s Defence Ministry has claimed that 38 supposedly Ukrainian drones were destroyed over temporarily occupied Crimea on the night of 2-3 March.

Source: Russia’s Defence Ministry

Quote: “An attempt by the Kyiv regime to commit a terrorist attack using 38 aircraft-type UAVs against targets in the Russian Federation was thwarted last night.”

Details: The Russian ministry added that Russian air defence had supposedly “destroyed all Ukrainian uncrewed aerial vehicles over the territory of the Republic of Crimea”.

Background: It was reported that explosions had occurred in the temporarily occupied city of Feodosiia, Crimea, on the night of 2-3 March.

Samara Oblast, Russia:

Someone blew up a railway bridge in Samara Oblast, Russia, deep in the Russian rear, that was used for transporting military equipment from a local military factory.

Russian online sources claim the bridge between Zvezda and Chapayevka: 52.95066244949683, 49.66118790743285 was blown up. FSB characterised the explosion as “bavovna”.

Just a few hours after the incident, Ukrainian HUR claimed that the “movement of trains was paralysed” and would be unavailable for a long time.

That’s enough for tonight.

Your daily Patron!

There are no new Patron tweets or videos today. Here is some adjacent material from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense:

That’s an aviation attack beagle! You know what that means!!!

Open thread!

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23Comments

  2. 2.

    hrprogressive

    Commentators like Mr. Ponomarenko are being way, way, way too kind to the Fascist GOP.

    America the country isn’t “heartbreakingly fractured”.

    A small, tiny portion of our countrymen are aligned with Putin, and pretty openly so, and want western liberal democracy to fail, and for them as Fascist Overlords to take over.

    Be nice if more people would say this out loud. The time for niceties in the diplomatic sphere are long since over, IMO.

  4. 4.

    jackmac

    Just what year does Medvedev think it is? Is he channeling 1968 and the glory years of the Warsaw Pact?  He must have had to dig deep in his closet to find that Nehru jacket.

  5. 5.

    Gin & Tonic

    Medvedev’s historiography is weird as fuck. The one area left for Ukraine is “Kiev” – yet for their history to work, that has to be the cradle of Mother Russia.

  6. 6.

    Jay

    And Apartheid Clyde has made it even easier for ruZZian’s to get Starlinks, by eliminating the need to give a location by introducing Starlink Roam.

  7. 7.

    Jager

    Can somebody ask the goddamn Russians who Prince Oleg was? Or ask pig-eyed Putin about the Varangian Guards? His Slavs were living in twig huts when the Norsemen showed up.

  8. 8.

    japa21

    Thanks again, Adam (no “you’re welcome” necessary).

    I have to think that the administration has everything they want to send stockpiled so it can be moved quickly the moment aid is approved.

  9. 9.

    Jay

    @Jager:

    ruZZian mythology is not history, it’s propaganda for ruZZians, Vatnicks and Tankies.

    There are unconfirmed reports that the Kerch Bridge is closed.

  10. 10.

    Jay

    Also, unconfirmed reports that another ruZZian warship has been promoted to submarine.

    Tomorrow’s news should be interesting.

  11. 11.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Gin & Tonic: Heh, when I saw the map I thought it was bizarre that Medvedev was “generous” enough to leave Kyiv to the rump Ukraine. Of course, such a rump Ukraine would be as independent as Transnistria, Abkhazia & South Ossetia are/were (before the latter two’s formal absorption into Russia).

    The farther Russia is away from realizing their preferred goals, they more extravagant their claims have become (or the more transparent w/ their preferred goals they have become). I remember that after the Russian Army was driven from Kyiv & Kharkiv, the stated war aims out of Russia became seizing everything east of the Dnipro & along the Black Sea coast, & leave the west of Dnipro to a landlocked rump Ukrainian puppet state.

  12. 12.

    Jager

    @Jay:

    When Putin was in his early 60s he played in the KLH All-Star Game. He scored 8 goals that night. He seems to be impossible to embarrass or shame. His military hasn’t performed worth a damn against Ukraine. The Poles would be drinking vodka in Red Square in a week or so if they were provoked. A close friend of mine is married to the granddaughter of Ukrainians who escaped Stalin’s starvation plan. If you mention Russia they spit and glare.

  14. 14.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    Thank you Adam.

    I was excited to be matched with my Ukrainian ‘language buddy’ for conversational English practice by email just now. If anyone else is already volunteering with ENGin I’d be interested to hear your experiences. Of if you’re interested in helping a Ukrainian young person improve their English you can sign up here: https://app.enginprogram.org/#/

  15. 15.

    AlaskaReader

    @Jager:

    If you mention Russia they spit and glare.

    Same as Americans ought do if someone mentions Republicans.

  16. 16.

    Citizen_X

    “new realities must be recognized”

    An earlier version:

    “[You] believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality…That’s not the way the world really works anymore…We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

    And just how well did that bloody imperialist delusion work?
    Face it, Make Russia/America/Britain/what-the-fuck-ever Great Again jerks, the age of empires is over.

  20. 20.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    @Manyakitty: no, they will have some minimal level of English and just need to practice with an English speaker.

    If you Google ENGin I think you can probably get a general idea of it.

    Good luck!

  23. 23.

    Bill Arnold

    This is a big step. Attacks on Ukraine’s [civilian] electric infrastructure are now considered to be war crimes by the ICC.
    ICC issues arrest warrants for two top Russian commanders (Stephanie van den Berg, March 5, 2024)
    Emphasis mine:

    THE HAGUE, March 5 (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for top Russian commanders Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov for suspected war crimes in Ukraine, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
    The ICC, based in The Hague, said there were reasonable grounds to believe that the two were responsible for “missile strikes carried out by the forces under their command against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure from at least 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023”.
    This is the second set of warrants for the arrest of Russian officials related to the war in Ukraine.

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