Mariupol Defenders Reject Russian Demand for Surrender Setting up the Largest Siege of a City Since WWII
redstate.com
20 Mar 2022 ~~ By Streiff
On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry issued an ultimatum to the Ukrainian garrison defending Mariupol.
“Lay down your arms,” Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the director of the Russian National Center for Defense Management, said in a briefing distributed by the defence ministry.
“A terrible humanitarian catastrophe has developed,” Mizintsev said. “All who lay down their arms are guaranteed safe passage out of Mariupol.”
Mariupol has been surrounded since at least March 2.
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The key question is if the Russian Army can make the threat stick. Trying to bluster defenders into surrender with death threats isn’t generally a smart way to go. There is nothing yet in the war in Ukraine that indicates that the Russians have the skill, motivation, or ability to deliver on the threat. When they fail through conventional means, I think we can expect to see the Russians to escalate to chemical weapons for the terror effect and because they have taken the measure of the mewling old wretch in the White House.
Commentary:
This type of war on countries is not new. In fact, the last time the occurred was during WWII. it is reminiscent to the Von Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact allowing Germany to invade Poland and the division of Poland between Nazi Germany and Russia in 1939. Then near the end of WWII in what is known as the Warsaw uprising, where Russian troops withdrew from Warsaw and allowed the Germans to destroy the city and nearly every civilian in it.
Warsaw Uprising, (August-October 1944), insurrection in Warsaw during World War II by which Poles unsuccessfully tried to oust the German army and seize control of the city before it was occupied by the advancing Soviet army. The uprising’s failure allowed the pro-Soviet Polish administration,
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The Warsaw Uprising, led by General Tadeusz Komorowski lasted from August to October of 1944. The uprising failed for a number of reasons but it is an inspirational story about people trying to overcome the adversity of living under the Nazis by getting rid of them. The Poles had been living...
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No one in the on this side of the line knows what is really going on over there. Discount anything our government says and that goes double for the media. After Trump, Hunter laptop, Covid how could any US citizen think they are informed. It is disgusting all this bull crap has taken the focus off the USA main problem we no longer make anything, our own borders are wide open, our fiat currency is about to take a huge hit, our justice department is out of control, the government has destroyed our small businesses, etc...
Putin claims he invaded because he doesn't want NATO on his border.......
Oops, NATO is already on his border... Has been on his border since the collapse of the USSR.
It is all about Putin being a bad guy, I.E. A dangerous malignant sociopathic megalomaniac. xenophobe, (with ambitions. nukes, and a huge military under his command)
Very much like Hitler was...
Learn this from history tovarich.
One does not befriend, or appease tyrants, it only encourages them to further outrage...