#2
Giving MIGS to Ukraine would have been foolish. I suspect politicians in the US couldn't make enough money off the transfer to make it worth their time. The $10-16 Billion McConnell wants to hand to them is is just as bad. A good sized chunk of it will end up in a democrat bank account.
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Gotta wonder if Ukranians are beginning to understand that they've been played. Played and betrayed. I'd put this down as one of the most shameful chapters in US history.
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They've been played since 2014
We told them they could join NATO. The whole point of NATO is to create a tripwire that brings the US into a war on behalf of its allies. No one is going to trust us again.
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I would think a handful of A-10s might be very useful in the short term. Paint them in the colors of the GI Joe action figure team so that even Putin doesn't believe reports of what happened to his columns.
#12
A handful of A-10s painted in GI Joe colors? I'm in! Let's start a GoFundMe. Let's turn this war into a game of Calvinball where anyone can play. Precedent? The Flying Tigers in China in '42.
#18
Team Brandon pours vodka shots
Is that what they drink in China?
How much are they getting paid by the ChiComs? A gift like us ought to be worth many billions in baksheesh
#20
Ah, the Chinese working with Russia to coordinate the offensive until after the Olympics while calling in a favor from Team Brandon to instigate a regional shooting war theory.
Hawks, Or Pigeons In A Bad Mood? fromThe American Conservative | REALISM & RESTRAINT
March 10, 2022
American elites have squandered our technological and manufacturing advantage over both Russia and China.
Few dispute that the Ukraine crisis brings with it the risk of nuclear escalation. The reverse also might be true: The Ukraine crisis may be the result of a shift in the world’s nuclear balance...
#22
...FWIW, before America entered WWII, at one point Congress passed a law that forbade US-built aircraft from being flown to Canada for delivery to the UK.
The aircraft were then partially dismantled, driven to an isolated spot on the Canadian border, then pushed across.
Mike
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Something like that could have happened, and may have been in the works, except a couple days after kickoff it got talked about Flying Tiger Club.
It was about the same time The Ghost of Keev storied got circulated, which looking back is...odd.
#27
Another Rainbow Warrior - Youth Grooming Division (PS: "Chasten"? Clearly not chaste, or chastened):
Video has emerged of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten Buttigieg, speaking at a camp for kids while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned, “Not Your Typical Gay Camp,” as he led the children in a mock version of the Pledge of Allegiance in which they pledged their “heart to the rainbow.”
#1
I thought in the 80s the American housing areas should have been set up just outside of artillery range from the border. My figuring was the the 'shock' troops would be slowed down for at least one day or more just looting the place.
#2
Maybe they should recruit BLM members to come help them out. Be a good way to get rid of the too.
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Seems someone could manufacture a bunch of phones, laptops, or flatscreens, that would explode after 5-10 minutes of use and leave them strewn about the likely path of the invaders.
Seems an effective Intelligence agency could spread rumors that such a thing exists and has been deployed to slow down the looting.
Russia’s foreign ministry has said they will no longer participate in the Council of Europe, the continent’s leading human rights organisation founded in response to the humanitarian outrages of the second world war. The Council of Europe is not related to the European Union (EU)
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Good idea. Isolate the country that has always been on the fringes of Europe and then act all butt hurt and sanctimonious when they do anti-social things.
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#Ukraine: A huge Russian convoy were struck by the Ukrainian artillery fire in Skybyn, #Kyiv Oblast. As a result, several vehicles were destroyed and damaged. pic.twitter.com/l2jYdByDim
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 10, 2022
And another column:
Another drone video of Ukrainian artillery smashing Russian tanks.
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easier to hit a stationary target than one that is moving
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Ukrainians are using precision drones while the Ruskies are just indiscriminately shelling civilians. I'm betting Russia will say enough pretty soon, declare victory and leave (after Putin is overthrown).
#4
It depends on what you are blowing up. Hard targets like tanks and bunkers need precision munitions. For soft targets like people and vehicles, rocket artillery works great.
Prediction for the end game: NATO membership is off the table, so that is one Russian objective accomplished. The break-away republics will be allowed to break away. Russia keeps that strip along the southern edge of UK. Whether Kiev gets pounded depends on how long Zelensky wants to keep going.
[Lviv Now] From Mar 7 but post worthy for the title alone.
Between Kharkiv and Sumy, a huge group of Russian troops was formed and started moving in the direction of Kyiv. It no more exists, the adviser to the head of the President’s Office Oleksii Arestovych said on the air of the marathon of the Ukrainian channel, — Liga.net reports.
«A huge operative group was disbanded between Kharkiv and Sumy. It has gone now. It was partly killed, partly thrown near Kharkiv and stopped there, partly retreated and licked their wounds,» — he said.
Read also: The twelfth day. Occupiers are taking women and children hostage, creating a humanitarian crisis and preparing provocations of shelling russian cities
Arestovych added that Russia’s operational capabilities are far from massive bombings and final assaults, if not assaults at all. According to him, in the last 24 hours, Russian troops have hardly advanced: in the Kharkiv region, they were driven out of Chuhuiv, beaten near Mykolayiv, and covered with artillery near Kyiv.
«It simply came to our notice then. The Russian army is not strong, it is just long. We will eat them slowly, like salami,» — Arestovych summed up.
It will be recalled that desertion among the occupiers is becoming widespread — the invaders are fleeing the army even on the way to Ukraine. The Russian captured technician made several «walks» from the Crimea to the Kherson and Nikolaev areas and saw well the scale of desertion.
#1
Got to wonder if its not just vehicles. Wonder how 'rugged' a lot of the troops are? If you are humping 100+ lbs a load a day you become a mule and stress injuries start to mount if you are not preconditioned for it. That takes training, training, training. Heavy emphasis of mounted operations leaves troops less than prime for humping their loads (to include food, ammo, water) which may factor in to a road bound mentality.
#2
50-some years ago most of our gear and supply moved on the limited road network. But seemed like most of our fighting was done by small foot units trying to protect the flanks. A 40-mile convoy just sitting there getting blasted? Nobody working the flanks, even by air? Doesn't make sense.
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50-some years ago most of our gear and supply moved on the limited road network.
That was the problem in the beginning of our war in Korea. Road bound. When Ridgeway took over and rebuilt the battered Army in the face of enemy, its one of the things he instituted, getting them out of the vehicles and up on the high ground.
[Lviv Now] Desertion among the occupiers is becoming massive — the invaders are fleeing the army even on the way to Ukraine. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine with reference to the story of a captured Russian technician. His main task was to remove faulty Russian military vehicles from Ukrainian territory.
He made several «walks» from the Crimea to the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions and saw well the scale of desertion.
«A lot of people run away on the road, nobody tells anyone. Even the armed forces are against. We are threatened with 7 years in prison, and this is the only thing that keeps us going,» — the captured occupier admits.
According to him, the Russian Federal Security Service, whose officers are attached to each battalion-tactical reconnaissance group, is powerless here. They simply removed themselves, he continues, do not give specific tasks, but talk about something individually.
[FoxNews] Russia's defense ministry admitted Wednesday to its use of conscripts in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, despite President Vladimir Putin's repeated insistence that Kremlin military forces only consisted of professional fighters, according to a Reuters report.
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Having trouble ith the vid. Question: In the batteries, were there sufficient personnel to run them--trucks, APC, etc?--or were the only personnel besides vehicle crews in the APC?
Can you run two batteries plus Infantry security with a hundred guys?
Lots of firepower but hauling the projes around is a different issue.
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Doesn't look like those tracks have road pads on. Going to turn those roads into something like I-70 in Illinois.
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Russian rifle squads are very small, seven effectives. Then the vehicle driver and gunner, that's nine total.
So are Russian motorized rifle platoons: three vehicles, one of them a platoon commander's vehicle, per platoon. That's ten with the company commander's vehicle and squad.
You begin to see their problem.
What I found fascinating about the parade is how a tank platoon was sub-attached to the rifle company, along with artillery. That's a lot of firepower.
This unit is task organized, possibly for breakthrough missions, possibly for probes.
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/\ tw, it is a problem as old as the 'Battle Taxi' Vs. Infantry Fighting Vehicle Argument-- How small can an infantry squad be? When you have a 9 man squad and one person is wounded then if two people carry them to safety the squad is now 6 men and practically 'combat ineffective'. One more casualty and somebody has to rescue them!?!
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/\...also this unit is big enough to kill a building or two but too small to hold ground. If it is a 'replacement draft' to reinforce another unit that has lost casualties it might make more sense.
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^ German Kampfgruppe, an amalgamation of worn units and remaining personnel into an ad hoc organization that doesn't quit fit the TO&E of an established unit.
#12
#9 for why the cannon on top of a Bradley (in defilade) to act as the base of fire for its infantry to maneuver, intended to act as the second fire team laying covering fire.
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Thanks P2k, was gonna suggest the same. I might add to that, the RCTs of the US Army during that same conflict.
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Please explain, because I don’t see it. Thank you!
It also is about coverage. Even with a vehicle accompanying a squad with a big gun, you have to cover your frontage. Seven riflemen may be enough but ten is better. Even with the big gun, the big gun has a limited field of view. If the vehicle is rendered immobile, or the gun is damaged, idea behind the big gun making up for the lack of coverage begins to fall apart.
It boils down to what the squad leader can control. Russian officers control everything about their squad whereas in western military rifle squads, the officer has a capable NCO to assist him in all aspects of the squad. The vehicle complicates his responsibilities.
You can add this to the other comments abut the tactical problems with Russians have.
#18
I think I remember this sort of discussion over at Baen's Bar about the Mechanical Infantry dichotomy: do you want to manage all your vehicles or do you want to be good at fighting your war?
See the link in the title for maps of the regions.
[MilitaryLand] Both sides agreed on a silence regime and evacuation of civilian population. The humanitarian corridors worked to some degree on Polesia, Northern and Pryazovia frontline (except not Mariupol).
Russia forces pushed to suburbs of Mariupol and towards Kryvyi Rih, stretching its forces in the south even more.
POLESIA FRONTLINE
includes Kyiv and Zhytomyr Oblast
Kyiv Oblast
The situation in the area was relatively calm. The enemy continue to amass its forces in direction of Bucha, Hostomel and Yasnohorodka. The civilian evacuation from Irpin continued today. According to British/US intel, Russian forces will launch a massive attack on Kyiv no later than Sunday.
Zhytomyr Oblast
A Russian plane conducted an airstrike on Zhytomyr, damaging infrastructure in the vicinity of Berdychivsky Bridge. No ground combat reported from this area.
NORTHERN FRONTLINE
includes Chernhiv and Sumy Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast
The civilian evacuation from Chernihiv did not happen today. Russian forces continue to regroup its forces in the north of the city.
I marked Kozolets as under Russian control because I found evidence that Russian troops indeed reached it a few days ago.
Sumy Oblast
The civilian evacuation from Sumy successfully continued today. Ukrainian sources reports up to 50,000 civilians left the city in total (yesterday and today). Romny is reportedly under siege, confirming that the Russian forces bypassed the city when moving from Sumy towards Pryluky.
SLOBODA FRONTLINE
includes Kharkiv and Luhansk Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast
Russian recon/sabotage group (DRG) attacked a Ukrainian checkpoint in the village of Andriivka at night. The assault was repelled by a Ukrainian Border Guard unit stationed there. Ukrainian forces conducted a successful counter-attack in the direction of Dernachi, liberating the settlement and lifting the enemy pressure in the area.
The situation in Izium reached a critical stage. Some civilians were able to leave towards Slovyansk, but most remained in the town. It’s unclear if there are still some Ukrainian elements in Izium. The town is heavily damaged.
A Russian spearheading element approached Petrivkse and attempted to push towards Hrushuvakha. Ukrainian forces reportedly repulsed the attack, but the situation remain tense.
Luhansk Oblast
Russian forces reached the outskirts of Rubizhne and gained fire control over the road connecting Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk. In the south, Russian troops reportedly entered to Popasna, but we cannot verify it.
PRYAZOVIA FRONTLINE
includes Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Donetsk Oblast
Russian forces gained control of Nikolske. A spearheading element pushed north and reached Staromlynivka, where a Ukrainian ambulance was ambushed. This push puts Ukrainian units at Huliapole under pressure, and it might complicate things for Ukrainian forces stationed south of Donetsk.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
A humanitarian corridor was working today from Enerhodar towards Zaporizhzhia. The frontline remains unchanged in this area.
MARIUPOL
Ukrainian units continue to repel attack from all sides. The planned evacuation of civilians didn’t happen again. Instead, Russian bombed a maternity hospital and damaged several buildings.
Based on the ongoing events in the north of Mariupol, and unless Ukrainian forces suddenly shift its defensive tactics to more offensive ones, the situation for Mariupol doesn’t look good.
SOUTHERN FRONTLINE
includes Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa Oblast
Mykolaiv Oblast
Russian forces shelling Mykolaiv from the north-east and north, Ukrainian forces continue to dig trenches and setting up barricades. The moment of Russian attack on the city is approaching.
Meanwhile, the enemy pushed north of Mykolaiv, alongside Inhulets river and connected with its forces near Bashtanka. Fighting was also reported from Voznesensk, but Ukrainian forces are successfully holding the ground.
Kherson Oblast
Russian troops pushed north towards Kryvyi Rih from Nova Kakhovka. They captured Mylove, Dudchany and Bila Krynytsia, despite Ukrainian air strikes in the area. The cities of Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih prepares for defense.
[NY Post] Italian police are investigating a mysterious $700 million superyacht moored there — amid ongoing rumors that it is owned by warmongering Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Scheherazade’s captain confirmed to the New York Times that Italian investigators boarded the 459-foot vessel in Marina di Carrara on Friday, demanding proof of ownership for what locals have long dubbed "Putin’s yacht."
"They are looking hard. They are looking at every aspect," Captain Guy Bennett-Pearce told the paper amid ongoing moves to seize Russian oligarchs’ yachts.
"This isn’t the local coppers coming down, these are men in dark suits," said the British national, using a UK term for police officers.
Bennett-Pearce refused to reveal the identity of the owner of the yacht, whose crew was at least 70 percent Russian, he said.
But he said he had "no choice" but to this week hand over documents revealing the owner’s identity to the investigating squad, which a source told the Times was led by Italian financial police.
One of the most expensive yachts in the world, Scheherazade has a swimming pool that converts to a dance floor, gold-plated fixtures, two helicopter decks and numerous satellite domes, the report said.
"Scheherazade" is the title of a symphonic work by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and each of the last two summers the yacht has sailed to Sochi, the Times said of the Russian city where Putin is rumored to own a personal "palace."
"Everybody calls it Putin’s yacht," one local, retired clerk Ernesto Rossi, told the Times. "It’s a rumor that’s been going around for months." It's Putin's, though the paperwork owner is one of his pet oligarchs.
The lies, affairs and greed that made Putin the ’world’s richest man’ Now second richest. Elon Musk recently surpassed Putin and Putin's portfolio has taken a sudden dive.
[NYPost] Putin officially draws a salary of between $115,000 and $225,000 a year as Russia’s head of state. But, in reality, he has amassed incalculable wealth, ranging from $100 billion to $200 billion, making him one of the world’s richest leaders and possibly wealthier than Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates or Elon Musk. Bill Brody, an American financier who ran one of the biggest investment firms in Russia from 1996 to 2005, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2017 that Putin had "accumulated $200 billion of ill-gotten gains."
The fortune of the Russian spymaster is stashed away, however, in offshore tax havens, invested in luxury properties inside and outside Russia, and spread out among the accounts of his family members and trusted friends who hold millions and billions of dollars for their boss.
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The lies, affairs and greed that made Putin the ’world’s richest man’
Took a page from our Congress.
The fortune of the Russian spymaster is stashed away, however, in offshore tax havens, invested in luxury properties inside and outside Russia, and spread out among the accounts of his family members and trusted friends who hold millions and billions of dollars for their boss.
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[KyivPost] A member of Ukrainian territorial defense units talks on a phone during observation of Russian troops movements around the village of Velyka Dymerka, 40km east of Kyiv on March 9, 2022. - Russian troops made significant advances in recent days north-east of the Ukrainian capital, getting closer to Brovary, its main eastern suburb.
Here are the latest developments in Russia’s war in Ukraine:
– FEAR OF KYIV SIEGE –
Fears are mounting that Kyiv will be encircled, with AFP seeing Russian troops pressing closer to the capital as an orchestra played Europe’s anthem “Ode to Joy” in the city’s central square to boost morale.
– CHORNOBYL POWER CUT ‘NOT CRITICAL’ –
Power is entirely cut to the Chornobyl power plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, warns that the plant, now in Russian hands, is no longer transmitting data but says it sees no “critical impact on safety”.
– 12-HOUR CEASEFIRE –
Moscow and Kyiv agree a 12-hour ceasefire to allow civilians to flee five badly battered areas including around Kyiv, with 5,000 making it out of Sumy near the Russian border.
Others hope to escape what the Red Cross calls the “apocalyptic” situation in the besieged southern port of Mariupol, which has been without water and power for nine days.
– 10 DEAD IN RUSSIAN ATTACK –
At least 10 people are killed as Russian military “opened fire” on homes and other buildings in the eastern Ukrainian town of Severodonetsk, a local official says.
– ‘ECONOMIC WAR’ ON RUSSIA –
The United States bans Russian oil imports, “cutting the main artery” of Russia’s economy, with Britain saying it will do the same by the end of this year, and the European Union slashing gas imports by two-thirds.
Moscow accuses Washington of “declaring economic war”.
– NO FIGHTER JETS, SAYS US –
The Pentagon rejects a Polish offer to deliver its Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets to a US base in Germany, to be eventually handed over to Ukraine, fearing a wider conflict with Moscow.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky pleads, “Look, we’re at war! Send us the planes.”
– BUT $14BN IN AID –
US lawmakers are voting on a $14-billion aid package for Ukraine with Canada pledging an extra $50 million of military equipment.
– EU TARGETS MORE OLIGARCHS –
The EU adds 14 more Kremlin-linked Russian oligarchs and more than 146 senators to its sanctions blacklist, tightens controls on cryptocurrency transfers and targets Russia’s maritime sector over the war in Ukraine.
Britain impounds a private jet reportedly linked to Russian oligarch Eugene Shvidler.
– RUSSIA DEFAULT ‘IMMINENT’ –
Ratings agency Fitch downgrades Russia’s sovereign debt rating again, saying a default is “imminent”.
– TURKEY TALKS –
Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers will hold face-to-face talks in southern Turkey Thursday in the first high-level contact since the invasion.
– NORD STREAM 2 ‘DEAD’, US SAYS –
Russia’s controversial $12-billion Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany is “dead”, a senior US official says.
– NO HEINEKEN, MCDONALD’S OR COKE –
Beer giant Heineken halts brewing and sales in Russia, with McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, and Universal Music also suspending operations.
– PUTIN ‘ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED’: US INTEL –
US intelligence chiefs say Russian President Vladimir Putin is “angry and frustrated”, warning he is likely to “double down and try to grind down the Ukrainian military with no regard for civilian casualties.”
– 2,000 PLUS ‘RUSSIAN TROOPS KILLED’ –
The Pentagon says it estimates between 2,000 and 4,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the nearly two-week-old invasion. Russia admitted to 498 killed on March 2.
– 2.15 MILLION FLEE –
The UN says 143,000 fled Ukraine in the last 24 hours, with the number of refugees topping 2.15 million — more than half of those in Poland.
– EUROVISION WINNER NOW REFUGEE –
Ukraine’s 2016 Eurovision Song Contest winner Jamala tells AFP of having to leave her husband behind as she fled Kyiv. The ethnic Tartar said she never thought she would end up like her grandmother, whom the Soviets drove from Crimea in 1944.
#1
From Telegram:
Russia has changed its tactics and strategy of warfare
"They have now switched to another tactic. They changed leadership. About 8 generals were removed from office because they did not complete the task. Now new ones are appointed"
- reported Secretary National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danylov
#3
Fears are mounting that Kyiv will be encircled, with AFP seeing Russian troops pressing closer to the capital as an orchestra played Europe’s anthem “Ode to Joy” in the city’s central square to boost morale
How do they tell the difference between that and Deutschland Uber Alles?
We’ve sacrificed enough to the foreign policy screw-ups of Ivy League incompetents. Who got us into the Vietnam War? Who got us into Iraq? Not a lot of guys with high school diplomas, but those guys got asked to fight those wars.
The same is true here. I see a lot of Twitter tough guys with the yellow and blue flag in their bios and not a lot of them seem to be accepting Ukraine’s appeal for fighters and enlisting in the Bill Kristol Brigade.
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enlisting in the Bill Kristol Brigade
😆🤣😆😛
... or the John McStain Brigade
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You don’t change tactics when you think your current tactics are working
Looking at a map, I'd say the Russians are not doing badly in terms of their strategic objectives. Lots of Oh Noeing! in the press about losses, but in a chess game, exchanging pieces for material advantage or a better position is a common tactic. Sometimes, it is a lot of pieces.
[An Nahar] McDonald's, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and General Electric __ ubiquitous global brands and symbols of U.S. corporate might __ all announced they were temporarily suspending their business in Russia in response to the country's invasion of Ukraine.
"Our values mean we cannot ignore the needless human suffering unfolding in Ukraine," McDonald's President and CEO Chris Kempczinski said in an open letter to employees. and yet, the human suffering of ever-malfunctioning ice cream machines goes unaddressed. The horror. The.Horror.
The reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
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Some Deeper thoughts.
Yes, "Officially" they have done it and it's a good Media PR for these companies.
Since 90+% of the items are not being shipped overseas from the USA to Moscow. eg. Mickey D's has a Russian Processing plant that supplies its 850+/- Russian locations. So how many of these items are actually made in RUSSIA and with the stroke of PUTIN's pen can "forced" to restart and resupply Russian businesses?
Note: Mikey D's has been in there since the 1990's when it was the USSR and invading other countries then.
Legal Question: Since the war is a STATE matter and NOT A commercial / operations related issue? Doesn't this place each of these companies in violation of their franchise agreements, open to Lawsuits, or at the least financial reparations once this PR stunt is over?
#10
Pretty ironic if the rest of the world got the notion that better health comes from kicking the US junk food / US shit culture habit. sheesh... talk about unintended consequences
#12
Why waste the fridge. I pulled a half order of McNuggets and some fries out from under one of the kid's seats in the car. Kids haven't eaten that in years.
#13
I know Trump liked McDonald's and Diet Coke but I seriously doubt Putin and the oligarchs do. So this just hurts the little guy-ruskie and does nothing to convince anyone to end the war.
#19
Rampant alcoholism was a Soviet thing: a consequence of proud men being forced to live with a totalitarian regime's crushing lies and stupidity.
Now we're going to suffer the same under our own repressive regime here at home. It's already started with the opiod crisis and it's going to get a lot worse
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^
Ukraine should bombard the Russian troops with Vodka. That would stop them
#21
Actually, considering the looting article... If vodka delivery truck was found in the line of the Russian march it might do a lot to slow their progress.
#22
Been mostly offline; on vacation. Is Brandon still sending $50 M a day to Russia for oil?
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You missed the breaking story about the severe lithium shortage. Our bipolar leaders to be taken off their meds.
SHANGHAI, Mar 10 (SMM) - The SMM spot prices of ge price up by 100,000 yuan/mt. Since the beginning of the year, the averagespot price of lithium metal has risen by 1.59 million yuan/mt or 113.91%.
[TWITTER] Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of breaking a mutually agreed-upon ceasefire to prevent the evacuation of civilians in Mariupol while adding that an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by Russian forces destroyed a hospital complex in the same city. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said that women and kiddies are trapped in the rubble and, according to local authorities, the number of victims is not yet known. Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria again dodged the questing tip of the giant frog's tongue and ran for her life... the US, UK and EU have all committed to phasing out imports of Russian oil and gas, and several global brands including McDonalds, Coca-Cola and Starbucks have agreed to close Russian operations.
Serhiy Orlov, deputy mayor of the city of Mariupol, has said that the city of around 500,000 people continues to be under “continuous Russian shelling” and that genocide of locals is taking place at the hands of Russian invaders.
At least 1,170 people have been killed, with 47 buried today in a mass grave, he confirmed. There is no water, heat, power or gas. Residents are drinking snow and burning firewood, he added, saying "it’s medieval."
Britain is exploring donating anti-aircraft missiles made by Thales to #Ukraine to help it defend its skies from #Russia-n invasion, defense minister Ben Wallace says, adding the technology falls within the definition of defensive weapons.https://t.co/nO9gHFIUiI
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The Russian stance has always been that defensive systems, especially missile defenses, are "destabilizing," because they blunt the Russian offensive threat.
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^ "How DARE you protect yourself from our aggressive bullying threats!"
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America's 'stand your ground' principle*
* "I'm Joe Biden and these are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
#6
If stuff sent to Poland ends up pointed at the west, I'd say NATO is finished.
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^ As planned.
No US administration could possibly be so incompetent as this. The economic, political diplomatic blowback was totally predictable. The point of sanctions is obviously to reduce our influence in the world and make us poorer.
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EU just sanctioned Poland so that's more complicated.
THE EUROPEAN UNION has been criticised after MEPs voted to sanction Poland and Hungary where more than one million refugees have found sanctuary from the war in Ukraine.
By JON KING
19:23, Thu, Mar 10, 2022
More than two million people have fled Ukraine after Russia's invasion, with 1.4 million welcomed by Poland and 214,000 by Hungary up to March 9, according to the United Nations. But that did not stop 478 MEPs voting on Thursday in favour of punishing both countries.
#13
The EUrines are punishing the Poles and Hungarians because of their supposedly cruel persecution of the sacred alphabet people. When the Poles are taking in millions of refugees.
Wow.
Meanwhile, a top Polish court ruled on Thursday that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) could not question the appointment of Polish judges in a verdict which could further strain Warsaw's relations with the EU. Poland's conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party is now calling for European solidarity and EU funds to help deal with the influx of refugees.
[NY Post] Hand-to-hand combat has broken out in the streets of the Kyiv suburb of Irpin, which has been devastated by relentless Russian bombing and shortages of food, water and electricity.
"There is real street fighting now," a Ukrainian paratrooper named Stas told AFP. "In some places, there is hand-to-hand combat." The paratrooper, who did not provide his full name, said the Russians have staged "a huge column, 200 men, 50 light armored vehicles, several tanks" in the small town.
Russian troops, hoping to advance to the capital, Kyiv, need to make their way through Irpin first. "We are trying to push them out, but I don’t know if we’ll be fully able to do it," Stas said. "The situation is very unstable."
Images from the town show it in ruins. On Sunday, Tatiana Perebeynos, 43, her two children, Alise, 9, and Nikita, 18, and a man they were traveling with were killed when Russian forces indiscriminately fired at them as they were fleeing Irpin.
"The Russians are positioning themselves in residential buildings, apartments, shops," soldier Konstantyn Lokhmitskiy told AFP. "After that, they started shooting exclusively at civilians. ... This is my third war. But this never used to happen. No one shot at civilians back then."
[Ukrinform] Over the past day, the Russian military launched more than 50 missile and artillery attacks on Kharkiv.
"Kharkiv is completely under the defense of Ukraine’s Armed Forces. The enemy does not make active offensive operations, continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on residential infrastructure on the outskirts of the city. Over the past 24 hours, the Russian-occupation forces launched more than 50 artillery and MLRS attacks on Oleksiyivka, Pyatykhatky, Pivnichne Shosse, Belgorodske Shosse, Kholodna Hora, Derhachi, Pivnichna and Pivdenna Saltivka districts," Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Synegubov posted on Telegram on March 9, Ukrinform reports.
According to Synegubov, at about 21:25, an enemy fighter jet took off from the Russian city of Belgorod towards Izium, Kharkiv region. As a result of coordinated actions of the air defense units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the planes retreated and took the opposite course. There are no casualties among the personnel of the Armed Forces.
Fighting continues in the area of Izium. The enemy constructs pontoon-bridge crossings over the rivers Siversky Donets and Bereka.
"Our military gave another rebuff to the enemy in the direction of Derhachi. At night, the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with units of the National Guard and Territorial Defense, launched a counteroffensive towards the artillery and multiple-launch rocket system positions of the enemy from which systematic attacks are launched on the outskirts of Kharkiv. After unsuccessful resistance, the enemy fled, leaving its heavy weapons. Part of the enemy's personnel managed to escape to the forests in the direction of Belgorod, we ask the local population to be careful and, if possible, to facilitate the search," the head of the regional administration noted.
During the night, in the village of Andriivna, Balakliia district, a battle took place between the officers of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups. The enemy attacked the checkpoint. As a result of the battle, the enemy group was completely defeated, its members began to flee. They left a wounded soldier in the middle of the field, who was captured by Ukrainian defenders.
Ukrainians of the 72 Brigade damaged 2 D-30 and 120 mm mortar, two infantry fighting vehicles near Vyshhorod . https://t.co/IE9m8UyS56
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:33 The Ukrainian embassy in Moldova on its official page in facebook recruits volunteers to participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.
It doesn't violate Facebook's rules, of course.
When the dust settles, Facebook definitely should not return to Russia. Actually never again. Or until we put a normal silovika in the leadership. 23:29 The United States has been funding research on laboratory pathogens and biological weapons in Ukraine since 2005.
23:17 Zelensky signed a law that allows all residents of Ukraine to use weapons during martial law.
22:16 Russian Aerospace Forces working on military facilities in Zhytomyr.
22:13 In the village of Guta to the north of Uzhgorod Zakarpattiaareas(border of Ukraine and Slovakia) a battle took place between the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense.
In pursuit of the “saboteurs”, the AFU servicemen opened fire on territorial defense units, and the bridge was disabled. The command is completely restructuring the system of interaction between territorial defense detachments and law enforcement agencies.
20:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the substation and power lines supplying the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Pankov.
20:03 Ukrainian nationalists have committed an extremely dangerous provocation - they attacked facilities that provide power to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - the RF Ministry of Defense.
18:50 At the disposal of the military correspondent@wargonzothere were shots from a drone, which recorded the fact that neo-Nazis from "Azov" use the high-rise buildings of Mariupol to equip firing positions. In addition, the aerial footage shows heavy equipment driven by right-wing radical militants right into the peaceful quarters of the city.
18:00 Ukrainian gunner in residential development of Mariupol.
17:58 At the intersection of Nikolskaya and Potemkinskaya streets in the Nikolaev district of Dry Fountainappeareda tire screen and stocks of Molotov cocktails. The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are also preparing firing points in low-rise residential buildings around. The work on this site is led by Maxim Senkov, a veteran of the ATO and one of the leaders of the local territorial defense.
17:56 Abandoned or hidden inforestAPU missile OTRK 9K79 "Tochka-U" in the vicinity of Kramatorsk.
17:51 The IAEA responded to the message of representatives of Ukraine about the blackout at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: The International Atomic Energy Agency does not see critical security breaches, media reports.
17:27 Russia guarded all nuclear facilities in Ukraine to prevent provocations from militants - Russian Foreign Ministry.
17:20 At a briefing, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that during the operation, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 137 S-300, Buk M-1 and S-125 anti-aircraft missile systems.
This is more than 90% of the long-range and medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems in service. 81 Ukrainian air defense radar posts were destroyed. This led to the loss of combat control of aviation and air defense of Ukraine. At present, the air defense system is only of a focal nature and is not capable of providing significant counteraction to Russian aviation.
17:13 Subdivisions of the Russian Armed Forces have taken control of the settlements of Krasnaya Polyana and Stepnoye - the RF Ministry of Defense.
17:10 Russian Defense Ministry: By the beginning of the special operation, the Ukrainian armed forces had up to 250 serviceable combat aircraft and helicopters. Russian forces on the ground and in the air destroyed 89 combat aircraft and 57 helicopters.
Part of the Ukrainian aircraft flew to Romania and does not participate in the battles. 90% of the Ukrainian military airfields, where the main part of the military aviation was based, have been put out of action. There are almost no trained Ukrainian pilots of the first and second class. Only single attempts of sorties by Ukrainian military aviation are recorded.
16:55 Telegram channel informs that the Russian military entered Skadovsk, Kherson region.
15:47 "Polite people" near Odessa intercepted Ukrainian military rescue ship and lead it to Sevastopol.
15:30 In France in the army warn officers that foreigners who leave for Ukraine do not reach the front line. A significant part of foreign mercenaries are found killed before or they are covered in areas of concentration or barracks. The French Armed Forces directly blame the leadership of the nationalist battalions in Ukraine for this
15:20 Ukrainian air defense is deployed in Natalka Parkin the east of the metropolitan area Obolon.
15:03 Command of the 25th Air Assault Brigaderefusedobey his orders and go to Kyiv to protect state institutions from marauders and Nazis.
14:50 The situation in the Sumy region as of 14:00 on March 9: a map from the media.
14:25 At the northern entrance to Nikolaev in a multi-storey building at 97B, Heroes of Ukraine Avenue,positionsAPU. There are MANPADS crews on the roof of the building.
14:10 The Kharkiv Z telegram channel writes that in Kharkiv, the so-called “world eaters” are asking for 4,500 UAH for one seat in a minibus to the Dnieper. We understand that a significant part of this price is included in the "rollback" to the Nazis, "Volkssturm" and other "zahysnyks". And what? Many people these "vans" will not be taken out, the "human shield" will not suffer. And the money is here.
13:54 Information from localsresidents: A detachment of terrorists, called the "battalion of Dzhokhar Dudayev", posing as units of the Russian Federation, broke into the villages near Vugledar (so far the controlled territory of Ukraine). These nonhumans entered under the flag of Russia. They kill domestic animals, rob civilians. The provocation is aimed at discrediting the Russian armed forces, but that territory, unfortunately, remains under the control of Ukraine and everything that happens there is on the conscience of the Kiev scum. Sooner or later, this detachment of terrorists will be defeated and they will answer for all their crimes.
13:22 Soldiers of the National Guard distribute humanitarian aid in Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region.
12:58 Telegram channel Southern Bridgeheadinformsthat on March 8, a humanitarian aid for the city emergency hospital arrived in Nikolaev.
In addition to medicines, there was food and clothing for 300 poor and elderly residents. Residents of Nikolaev report that the mayor of the city takes away humanitarian aid in order to sell goods to entrepreneurs at a higher price.
At the direction of the mayor Alexander Senkevich, the police withdrew all the aid and placed it in the personal warehouses of the head of the city. This is already the fourth humanitarian aid that Senkevich wrested from volunteers. Thus, he earns - he transports the cargo to his side, and then resells the goods to entrepreneurs at an inflated cost.
PS: The stolen property is sold directly from warehouses to entrepreneurs, and all the money goes personally to Senkevich. Finally, he tries to cash in on the inhabitants of the city as much as possible.
12:44 Voenkor informs that the 9th regiment of the NM of the DPR was cleaning up the outskirts of Mariupol. The fighters really fight heroically, successfully wedging into the enemy's defenses.
12:40 Messages from places: the city of Skadovsk (Kherson region) was taken “according to the Crimean scenario” without a single shot being fired, the RF Armed Forces control the administration and the local police department.
11:00 In the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine placed an armored personnel carrier-3 in a residential area of the city.
10:55 This is what the cars of civilians look like after Zelensky's decision to distribute 20,000 machine guns to criminals and drug addicts. The owner of the car was fired upon and robbed by gangs. Kyiv region.
10:47 Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Vereshchuk confirms the opening of new humanitarian corridors:
Energodar - Zaporozhye;
Sumy - Poltava;
Mariupol - Zaporozhye;
Volnovakha - Pokrovsk;
Raisins - Lozovaya;
Vorzel, Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpen, Gostomel - Kyiv.
10:36 In the Chernihiv region, a column of the Ukrainian army with the 9K33 Osa air defense system was destroyed.
10:18 Military commissar Kotenok reports that by the morning of March 09, 2022, the situation in Kharkiv has changed little. As before, the Ukronazis are firing periodic mortar and artillery fire from residential areas in the direction of the ring road.
MLRS installations, also located in the courtyards of multi-storey buildings, have not yet opened fire today, as reported by sources in the city.
9:11 MO RF showed secret documents of the command of the National Guard of Ukraine dated January 22 this year, which confirm the covert preparation by the Kiev regime of an offensive operation in the Donbass in March 2022.
7:39 The media said that the Russian Guard fully controls the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Energodar: During the operation at the station, 240 Ukrainians laid down their arms. They also signed documents on non-participation in hostilities. Then they were sent home. More than 500 weapons were found at the station.
7:28 Another direct evidence of the use of civilian infrastructure by the Ukrainian army from a representative of the Odessa administration. On thevideohe talks about the unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kuchurgan, which is located right in the building of the village school.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:42 On the operational line from the administration of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, information was received about the wounding of a civilian born in 1979 as a result of the shelling of the VFU. in n.p. Staromikhaylovka. 23:35 Reporter Rudenko V: Petrovsky district of Donetsk under artillery fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They hit the village of Trudovskiye with d-30 howitzers.
22:39 Vostok Battalion a few hours ago got hooked for the district "Vostochny" of the city of Mariupol.
21:07 The LPR group took control of the Ukrainian settlements of Zatishnoe, Peschanka and Surovtsevka - the Russian Defense Ministry.
20:30 On March 9, 143 people were evacuated from Volnovakha, including 42 children.
18:10 Shelling of the territory of the DPR was recorded from the VFU in the direction: 18:00 - n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber. — SCCC.
17:40 Situation in Donbass remains difficult, but controllable – DPR head Pushilin
17:20 At a briefing, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that during the operation, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 137 S-300, Buk M-1 and S-125 anti-aircraft missile systems. This is more than 90% of the long-range and medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems in service. 81 Ukrainian air defense radar posts were destroyed. This led to the loss of combat control of aviation and air defense of Ukraine. At present, the air defense system is only of a focal nature and is not capable of providing significant counteraction to Russian aviation.
17:13 Subdivisions of the Russian Armed Forces have taken control of the settlements of Krasnaya Polyana and Stepnoye - the RF Ministry of Defense.
17:10 Russian Defense Ministry: By the beginning of the special operation, the Ukrainian armed forces had up to 250 serviceable combat aircraft and helicopters. Russian forces on the ground and in the air destroyed 89 combat aircraft and 57 helicopters.
Part of the Ukrainian aircraft flew to Romania and does not participate in the battles. 90% of the Ukrainian military airfields, where the main part of the military aviation was based, have been put out of action. There are almost no trained Ukrainian pilots of the first and second class. Only single attempts of sorties by Ukrainian military aviation are recorded.
16:50 JCCC DPR recorded shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Chigiri - n.p. Gorlovka (village of sh-you named after Gagarin): 6 RPG grenades were fired; n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Lugansk: 2 RPG grenades and 29 AGS grenades were fired, small arms were also used.
16:30 According to the representative office of the DPR in the JCCC, as a result of today's shelling by the Ukrainian armed formations of the Petrovsky district, destruction was recorded
: Trudovskie:
- st. Karnavalnaya, 95: damaged gas pipe, outbuilding;
- st. Karnavalnaya, 93: damaged gas pipe in the yard;
- st. Karnavalnaya, 70: damaged glazing, roof of the house;
- st. Inguletskaya, 4/1: the glazing in the house was damaged, the garage was destroyed;
- per. Lilinoy, 34: direct hit on the roof (completely destroyed), 6 window blocks damaged;
- st. Klimashkina, 11: direct hit on the roof, glazing damaged;
- st. Briketnaya, 16/2: damaged roof, 2 window blocks, fence, broken gas pipe, broken electrical wires;
- st. Lukyanenko, 36: the wall of the house was broken;
- st. Lukyanenko, 48: st. Krasnaya Zvezda, 11: glazing damaged;
In addition, in the village Oleksandrivka along Gorky, Shevchenko and Zemlyanichnaya streets, windows and roofs of residential buildings and outbuildings were damaged. On the territory of the temple, 3 cars were broken, windows were damaged, walls and roof were beaten with fragments.
15:41 Since 2014, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed about 30 thousand infrastructure facilities of the Republic - the Ministry of Construction of the DPR.
15:19 Shelling of the LPR by the armed formations of Ukraine from the direction of the settlement Svetlodarsk to the area of n.p. Dairy: MLRS BM-21 (40 shells) - STsKK.
13:49 Soldiers of the NM DPR crushed the base of the well-known in Ukraine combat group "Bears", which was engaged in the manufacture of IEDs and their dropping from UAVs into the territory of the DPR.
13:14 At the moment, 115 Ukrainian servicemen have laid down their arms, there would have been much more of them if it were not for the nationalists shooting in the back - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on KP radio.
13:06 The operation is going according to plan, despite certain difficulties, said the Head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin.
12:44 The 9th regiment of the NM of the DPR is cleaning up the outskirts of Mariupol. The fighters really fight heroically, successfully wedging into the enemy's defenses.
12:40 The DPR JCCC reports that the VFU opened fire on the settlement. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of Gagarin sh-ty): 7 LNG grenades were fired.
12:39 "In those high-rise buildings in which the National Battalions are deployed on the upper floors, people are forbidden to leave their homes and even go down to the basements" - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of "60 minutes".
12:10 The DPR said that the Ukrainian authorities deliberately keep silent about the humanitarian corridors from Mariupol and Volnovakha towards Russia and the DPR.
12:09 The DPR claims that Kyiv is preparing provocations with humanitarian corridors in Mariupol and Volnovakha - exits from cities can be mined.
11:40 Above the administrative building of VolnovakhahoistedDNR flag. The cleansing of the city from VFU continues.
11:35 There is no electricity, no water, no gas in Mariupol, there is no delivery of products, the situation is very difficult - Head of the DPR.
11:28 At the moment, a little more than 50% of the territory of the DPR has been liberated - Denis Pushilin.
11:22 Over DonetsksbitaOTR "Tochka-U" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the NM DPR reported.
11:20 Yesterday, a civilian car was blown up on the minefields of the VFU, trying to leave Mariupol, said the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
11:17 In social networks they write that there was a powerful explosion in Luhansk. Details are being specified.
11:16 As of March 9 DPRfreedMalinovka (Volnovakhsky district), Zatishnoye, Berezovoe, Novotroitskoye, Olginka. The Zachatievskaya railway station was taken under control.
11:14 Social networks report that the military of the LPR and Russia launched an assault on Severodonetsk, temporarily occupied by Ukraine.
11:03 The Nazis continue to fire on the civilian population of the LPR. In the photo, Bryanka, at home - st. Sovkhoznaya, 17 and 19. Lomovotskaya mine.
10:22 Local residents of Mariupol who managed to escape from the city say that Ukrainian militants do not let anyone out of the city.
10:14 Several hundred people in Mariupol continue to be a "human shield" for the national battalions of Ukraine - the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
8:38 Ukrainian soldiers are firing on the outskirts of Donetsk from heavy weapons. Residents of the village of Trudovskaya mine in Donetsk are back in shelters.
8:06 According to information from the Ministry of Health of the DPR, during yesterday's shelling of the VFU, four civilians were injured from the territories previously liberated by the NM of the DPR. Proceedings will be held on all facts of war crimes of the VFU, and the results will be transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR.
07:50 Shelling of VFU settlement Maryinka - Donetsk (settlement of Trudovskoy mine): 2 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired - JCCC DPR.
07.20 VFU fired at the territory of the LPR, n.p. Lugansk - Logvinovo: 120mm mortar (20 min); n.p. Mironovsky - Nizhne Lozovoe: 122mm artillery gun (5 rounds).
06:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Verkhnetoretskoye (upper) - n.p. Panteleymonovka: fired 15 mines in 120 mm caliber.
[NY Post] A Russian warship that fired on a group of Ukrainian border guards after being told to "go f—k yourself" was destroyed in battle, according to a report Tuesday.
"We f—king hit them," a man is heard saying on a recording of the conflict, the Times of London said.
Another man reportedly echoed the famous words of the Ukrainian soldier who defiantly resisted a Russian order to surrender a military outpost on Snake Island in the Black Sea during Day One of the invasion. "Russian warship, go f—k yourself," the man said.
The Valisy Bykov, a small type of warship known as a corvette, was one of two Russian vessels that opened fire on Snake Island on Feb. 24, the Times said, citing the Janes military intelligence group.
The Vasily Bykov was hit during an exchange of rockets early Monday, possibly by a missile fired by land-based Ukrainian forces defending the port city of Odessa, which for days has been bracing for a Russian attack, the Times said.
"Ship was destroyed, it is confirmed," a Ukrainian military source told the British paper. The Ukrainian navy also reportedly said units defending Odessa had "struck an enemy ship," adding: "The enemy has retreated again."
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Last I heard, the Valisy Bykov was caught in an artillery rocket barrage and chased off. Definitely a mission kill, but not the same thing as sinking him.
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So The Ghost of Keev was flying xer Mig-29 Panbow and had The Spetsnav Sniper attached to a pylon, and made a 2 mile shot with her AK-15 to avenge the deaths of Guardians of the Island of Transgender Misfits, of which the last remaining said, "Go Git'em!" before being atomized by The Nuke Train.
[AP] Ukraine’s government has banned the export of wheat, oats and other staples that are crucial for global food supplies as authorities try to ensure they can feed people during Russia’s intensifying war.
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That'll teach those evil Egyptians. Let 'em starve.
We're now looking at actual hunger across the nations that depend on grain shipped through the Black Sea.
A pointless war over nothing - Ukraine doesn't even want NATO membership anymore, and has totally forgotten about Zekebsky's insane delusion of taking back Sevastopol. A war that will without question cause a huge and lasting increase in global poverty, hunger and freedom.
For what?
Why is our government supporting these deranged and corrupt little shits who are setting the world ablaze?
#3
Economist David P Goldman today in PJ Media about the disturbing parallels betweeen this war and WWI:
Reliving the Nightmare of WWI
WWI had no good guys, no winners, just mediocre, small-minded politicians unable to step back from the brink
The United States could have averted a crisis by adhering to the Minsk II framework of local rule for the Russophone provinces of Eastern Ukraine within a sovereign Ukrainian state but chose instead to keep open Ukraine’s option to join NATO.
That was rational, but also stupid: It backed Putin into a corner.There is no excuse for Putin’s action, but there is an explanation that’s similar to one that applied to his forbears of 1914: Putin chose to attack before the West had the opportunity to arm Ukraine with sophisticated weapons that would raise the future cost of military action.
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Amazing how desperate some people are to blame anyone except Putin.
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^ Don't bite the hand that beats feeds you?
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OK, so we can expect a run on flour and cereals next, as Biden ships #### tons of US Wheat to _______.
Question: While stocking up for the next C-19 Strain, likely due in 6 to 7 months.
While shopping we have been noticing shortened/reduced "BEST IF USED BY", "SELL BY", and expiration dates on a lot of products in the stores. We initially figured it had to do with the C-19/21 Pandemic and the related issues it caused on harvesting, production, and transportation to markets.
But when storing the newly purchased items with previously purchased same brand name items. We quickly noticed the older purchased items had further out Expiration Dates stamped on them than the newly purchased items????????
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This is deliberate. No one could be so stupid as to fail to see how nuclear sanctions would blow back against us. They want us to be poor and dependent on the gummint.
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And now here come the regime's propagandists - from Slate yesterday:
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Learn the Rules:
Your car's too big
Your house is too big and warm (North) or cool (South)
Your children have the wrong kind of immunity and are too patriotic
Your thoughts are incorrect
The U.S. and Europe are using sanctions to try and stop a war that’s already underway. It’s a huge gamble....
Julia Friedlander is the C. Boyden Gray senior fellow & director of the Economic Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council. She previously served as senior policy advisor for Europe in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and as director for the European Union, Southern Europe and Economic Affairs at the National Security Council.
But the West’s response is no longer just pressure — it’s financial war.
As opposed to previous sanctions campaigns, which sought to use pressure over time to bring a country to the table or prompt a longer-term behavior change, the goal of these Russia sanctions is to change military strategy in a war that is already happening.
Can financial pressure force a leader bent on war to alter battle plans — a decision that would need to play out in days, not months or years? Can the U.S. and its partners wreak enough havoc on the Russian economy in time to make war unsustainable? No one can answer that.
[NY Post] A South Korean naval ship fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat that crossed into contested waters west of the Korean Peninsula, according to a report on Tuesday.
The patrol boat retreated after the South Korean vessel opened fire, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Seoul’s military.
The South Koreans then seized a second ship with seven North Koreans on board, all but one of whom were wearing military uniforms.
The encounter occurred near the western sea boundary known at the Northern Limit Line, an area that has seen a number of clashes over the years.
The South Korean military said the North Koreans had claimed under questioning that they were not intending to defect and their ship had crossed the Northern Limit Line by accident, according to the Journal.
Spiegel reports that the U.N.’s food and agriculture org. is withholding a report warning of the impact of Putin’s war on food supplies to Africa & Middle East. According to Der Spiegel, the Chinese head of the organization is burying the report on Beijing’s orders. #Dragonbear
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...A related thought: I don't particularly care what pronouns/gender/letters you use, but it occurs to me that America - pretty much the most tolerant country on the planet - has never known actual, no-shiat food shortages.
And if they happen here...if you can't buy enough (or any) bread or staples with what little money you have...I suspect that the tolerance for a great deal of things is going to go right out the window. People are simply not going to accept being screamed at when they can't eat.
Mike
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..One other thing - the Chinese are actually saying that they expect a bad harvest this year. They may be assholes, but I'm not going to be grudge a nation trying to buy the food it needs for its people, and you know they're going to do it, whatever and however much money it takes.
Which means they - and everybody else trying to buy food - won't have the money to buy our debt.
Sleep tight.
Mike
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Food instability has been a persistent cause of political instability in Egypt. One of many second-order effects of our sanctions will be at least one, probably several, revolutions and/or civil wars across the the Mideast and Africa.
Which means our globalists will soon have their tits in a vise grip: punishing Russia means causing millions of Egyptians, Syrians, other Arabs and Africans to starve.
Is that what our globalist goofs actually want - to make the entire Arab and African world dependent on exports of US wheat?
Perhaps. All of this will cause the US price of basic staples will continue to soar, which means more subsidies and more inflation and more poverty in the US.
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The Arab Spring like so many uprisings in the Middle East over the last half century was caused by food shortages. was A good overview: The Arab Spring was a revolution of the hungry
The brittle, undemocratic regimes had, however, no mechanism of oversight and little resilience to withstand outside shocks. So distant events like a bad crop on the Black Sea or low rainfall in Canada could quickly translate into a political crisis in the Levant or North Africa.
In 2008, world food prices spiked, and, once again, bread riots broke out across the Middle East. Regimes scrambled to cover the shortfall with handouts and subsidies, on the assumption that their populations might tolerate repression but not hunger.
Indeed, rising commodity prices were one of the triggers in the 2010 to 2011 uprisings. Protesters in Tunisia brandished baguettes. In Egypt, many of the revolutionary chants talked about food, and a central demand was for “bread, freedom, social justice” (it rhymes in Arabic).
The first Syrians to rise up against Bashar Assad included many poor farmers who had been displaced by drought and the government’s neoliberal disinvestment from agriculture. Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia at the Center for Climate and Security in Washington, D.C., argue that a series of droughts in Syria from 2006 to 2010 created the preconditions for the uprisings — crop failures drove farmers off their land and raised the level of desperation until Syrians directly challenged their ruler.
Why are we doing this? Are we actually trying to set the Middle East and Africa on fire?
Or does Biden and his loopy crew really think that starving Arabs and Africans will rally to our side rather than side with Russia and demand an end to, or get around, the sanctions?
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There will be huge food shortages in Africa, Middle East and China. Fertilizer shortage, wheat shortage, droughts and floods have all wreaked havoc with food production. Add fuel costs and shortages to food distribution and you have the perfect storm of global famine.
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The blowback from this retarded botch job will be 100x greater than the blowback from the Iraq War fuckup.
It is not possible that this is not by design.
No one could possibly be so stupid as to fail to see the obvious, predictable blowback from trying to extinguish the planet's greatest natural resource producing economy.
Makes you think of the recent Russell Crowe movie about Noah in which God is played by a sadistic little child who throws dice. Was this insane policy cooked up by sadistic little Neocon children indulging their war fantasies?
How do we stop these deranged little children before they destroy us all?
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The USA is the Saudi Arabia of food. We won't starve.
And if we did, the alphabet people would be right there insisting that their interests come before us being able to eat. They hate us and want us dead.
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#10 "The USA is the Saudi Arabia of food. We won't starve."
Providing we are willing to stop the massive purchase of agricultural assets and food processing industries by the Chinese. I have no doubt that they plan to ship food home in increasing amounts as this worsens. In the same way, finish the wall to prevent most of central America from moving in when it gets hungry out at home. Time to return to America First in every aspect of our thinking, and fire any public official who doesn't get that! I'm all for global charity and compassion, right after Americans are safe and healthy. And for those who think my attitude if jingoistic and nationalist....it is!
#17
The first step is regime change
The American people get it. We don't give a fuck about Ukraine. Get rid of our globo-homos and our MIC and we can't at least start to undo some of the damage
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*we can at least start
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#19
First you have to ditch the grifters at Conservatism Inc. - like CPAC head Matt Schlap. Rod Dreher today:
More and more, people know that a “Republican Congress” for two years did nothing to stem the tide of illegal immigration invasion and endless wars. They know that Republican political operators will use the term “America First” as little more than a mantra hoping you will fall in line.
But they can’t define what it means to put America first, let alone believe in it. Today we are being subjected to demands that America protect the borders of Ukraine, from politicians who have done nothing to protect our own borders and fellow citizens.
But more and more people have seen the path forward, and it does not include any of the major GOP organizations, which do not provide the promised results but only enrich their ranks.
#22
As for that I don't think anyone had any idea of just how deep and widespread the DC-Swamp really was. Or what kind of truly monstrous monsters inhabit its deeper depths.
#3
The Abraham Accords have too many benefits for the Arab countries that signed on to give them up, no matter how much — thus far — the Joe Biden’s people try to sabotage them.
#6
Psaki: "This price increase wouldn't have happened if Putin hadn't cancelled the XL Pipeline"
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#7
Cut off nose*
Spite face
Rinse
Repeat
*does not apply to the Pelosi's, the Bidens and other war profiteering families
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#8
$4.51 in Minden NV yesterday, and food prces at Wally World continue to increase. Most interestingly to me is the continued product shrinkage on items priced higher, Sargento Muenster Cheese 11 slices, and former 1 lb shredder cheeze now 14 oz, Guiness Stout now 14.9 OZ not a pint, etc. Also noted end of last month the increasing number of EBT patrons at the end of the month whose EBT card balances were insufficient and either resorting to cash or taking items out of the cart. The bite is increasing harder on those at the bottom...
#1
Yes mull it. Mull it well. And while at it, insist on Swift and severe actions on antisemitic crime and BDS activism in Europe. Make it a prerequisite to any productive mulling.
[Dawn] A fact-finding mission of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain (HRCP) to southern Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... has found that women in the tribal areas are still subjected to karo-kari ...the Pak practice of murdering women on suspicion of having had 'illicit relations' with other than a close relative... and vani while law enforcement agencies have failed to provide them any protection.
HRCP has concluded a high-profile fact-finding mission to southern Punjab, comprising chairperson Hina Jilani, vice-chair Punjab Raja Ashraf, council member Nazir Ahmed, and regional coordinator Faisal Tangwani.
The team has noted that women in the tribal areas of Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur remain subjected to harmful customary practices, with karo-kari and vani still entrenched in the fabric of their society — to the extent that even the Border Military Police does not provide the protection that victims are entitled to.
Moreover, many women are denied the right to citizenship documents by male members of their families and, as a result, have no political voice.
HRCP sees common use of blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... laws to intimidate Hindu, Christian families for land grabbing
Of particular concern is the situation of religious minorities in the province: the blasphemy laws are commonly used to intimidate Hindu and Christian families for purposes of land grabbing. Forced conversions remain common: in one case brought to the team’s attention, a landlord forcibly married the daughter of a Hindu tenant.
HRCP was alarmed to learn that the district vigilance committees that were set up to monitor and report the use of bonded labour remain non-functional. The restoration of the peshgi system by the Punjab government, amending the Punjab Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1992, is deplorable and must be rolled back immediately.
It is also of grave concern that, according to the bonded labourers HRCP spoke to, they receive a daily wage of Rs800 while the minimum wage is Rs1,300. Additionally, in the power loom industry, workers allege that they are compelled to work 16-hour a day and have no recourse to social security or compensation in case of accidental death or injury.
A serious allegation made by residents of Cholistan is that their applications for allotment of the land they have been settled on for centuries remain pending, with reports that the military have taken over large areas of this land. In addition, the severe scarcity of water and lack of schools for residents need to be addressed.
The team has also noted that lady health workers have continued to struggle without adequate security during their work, often putting their lives at risk in the line of duty and with negligible benefits to compensate them.
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McDonald's, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and General Electric __ ubiquitous global brands and symbols of U.S. corporate might __ all announced they were temporarily suspending their business in Russia in response to the country's invasion of Ukraine.
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...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
