[Diplomad] Just a quick one. I am writing a piece on "isolationism," but couldn't resist a comment on something quite incredible, well, quite credible coming as it does from Biden.
So, the alleged president of the USA has called the president of Russia a war criminal. Them's fighting words, no?
But does Baffled Biden mean it? It seems not. It seems that while Putin is a "war criminal' he also leads the negotiations for the USA with the Persian polecats. Yes, Russia is negotiating a "nuclear deal" with Iran on "our" behalf.
[IsraelTimes] Reports indicate that booms are being heard in several areas of southern Belarus.
There is no confirmed reliable information about the source of the blasts, but speculation over the mystery ranges from sonic booms to a false flag attack by Russia to an internal coup.
An opposition politician opposed to Minsk’s alliance with Moscow claims 30 aircraft recently took off and 6 missiles were shot near Kalinkovich, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the border with Ukraine.
❗️❗️❗️Over the past 3️⃣ hours, about 3️⃣0️⃣ fighter jets, transport planes & helicopters lifted into the sky from #Belarusian airfields in Baranovichi, Gomel, Lida, Luninets❗️ 6️⃣ missiles launched near the city of Kalinkovichi. Explosions are heard in various cities of #Belarus. pic.twitter.com/4OagAmYMN6
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“The festival of Purim commemorates the Divinely orchestrated salvation of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a single day.” It is celebrated with Megillah readings, gifts of food, charity, feasting, and merriment.”
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Not closing off the West Bank is huge. As countries slowly begin to normalize their relations with Israel, even the Palestinians are getting tired of acting like Palestinians.
Happy Purim! (or however you say that)
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Happy Purim, indeed. :-) The proper way to celebrate is Carnival/Fasching style: costumes, pastries (to use up the flour before Passover), listening to the reading of the story, and some insist it is necessary to get so drunk they can’t tell the difference between "Cursed be Haman" and "Blessed be Mordecai."
Cartel del Noreste (Northeast Cartel) and Tropas del Infierno (Troops from Hell) gang leader Juan Treviño, also known as 'El Huevo or 'The Egg,' was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Tuesday
Around here, 'huevos' doesn't mean 'eggs'.
Treviño was arrested Sunday in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas
He is accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of crimes that include money laundering and drug trafficking
Treviño, who has dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship, was turned over to U.S. federal agents in Tijuana
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We don't have "Ukrainian Nazis" on our border, we have just as nasty cartel thugs, just as murderous and tribal as anything elsewhere. So, by the Putin Doctrine we can invade Mexico? /Rhet question
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We need to control our borders and cut off the flow of drugs, trafficked humans and laundeted money. The dirty money taints everything in our country. Our betters are more concerned with the shutting down of free speech and individual rights of citizens.
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"Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has faced criticism from his detractors for his security policy, based on the slogan 'Hugs, not bullets."
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So, by the Putin Doctrine we can invade Mexico? /Rhet question
At least Putin would have sense enough to stay out of it.
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We could definitely invade Mexico if the Chinese had staged a coup in Mexico City, set up their own PLA military bases near the Rio Grande and announced their intention to take back Texas
[FoxNews] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that World War III may have already started when Russian troops invaded his country and that "civilization is at stake" during an American TV interview hours after addressing Congress Wednesday.
"Nobody knows whether it may have already started," he told NBC News’ Lester Holt. "And what is the possibility of this war if Ukraine will fall, in case Ukraine will? It's very hard to say…We've seen this 80 years ago, when the Second World War had started...nobody would be able to predict when the full-scale war would start."
Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine on Feb. 24 – launching what analysts initially predicted would be a quick war to oust Zelenskyy’s government and replace it with Kremlin-friendly puppets.
President Biden announced another $1 billion in defensive aid to Ukraine Wednesday and went as far as to call Putin a "war criminal," but his administration has resisted Zelenskyy’s calls for a no-fly zone over Ukrainian skies, which NATO officials say would put the U.S.-led alliance in direct military conflict with Russia.
[IsraelTimes] White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... says US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... was "speaking from his heart" in reaction to images of Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine when he called Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... a war criminal, indicating that his comment may not have larger policy implications.
"He was answering a direct question that was asked and responding to what he has seen on television," Psaki tells news hounds. "We have all seen barbaric acts, horrific acts by a foreign dictator in a country that is threatening and taking the lives of civilians — impacting hospitals, women who are pregnant, journalists, others."
"His remarks speak for themselves."
She says a review by the State Department regarding the war criminal designation, which has legal ramifications, is still ongoing.
"There is a legal process that... continues to be underway at the State Department," she says.
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Depending on whether you count the Marco Polo bridge attack (1937) the start of WW2 or the invasion of Poland (1939) the start of WW2, we didn't get involved till the Japanese attacked in December 1941 followed a week later when the Germans and Italians declared war on us.
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If Brandon had sense enough to disabuse Zelensky of the notion that NATO troops will come to his rescue this war could end today. That makes me fear that Brandon will drag us all into this mess.
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Best comment of the day was on Instapundit: "I am all emotional about something; so let's take some drastic action without any consideration of consequences."
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Tell that little man, "Here's your kit, good luck, so long now"
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P2K, alot of people, including me think that WW2 started when the Japanese invaded China , Italy invaded Abyssinia, Take over of the Czech lands by Germany.
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Sorry, I'm drunk . Misread your comment.
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Goodness, his homeland has been invaded and the invader has made multiple attempts on his life. Hard to see why he thinks something serious is happening...
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Good luck with that! Not if we have something to say about it. We have hundreds of thousands of armed Alaskans and military members that will see it differently. https://t.co/ji0Hiza1TE
[Red State] On Wednesday, the Financial Times ran an exclusive story on the ongoing peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Those negotiations started only four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There was little progress until March 10, when Turkey announced it was hosting a "high level" meeting between the two parties. On Monday, I posted how the Russians and Ukrainian peace delegations were making pleasing noises about "progress," see Russians and Ukrainians Say Peace Talks Show Progress but ’Getting to Yes’ Seems Very Far Away.
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biding his time
For four weeks? While his people are getting slaughtered? So he can achieve a peace settlement that's much worse than what he rejected in February? Maybe he doesn't think of them as his people
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several points in the 15 pointer are either ambiguous or very problematic
a Russian withdrawal is one point - is it to the pre Feb 24 positions or to pre 2014 or something in between
another point is Ukraine is not allowed to field weapons from other countries - this would cripple them if Putin invaded again
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Maybe so; good sign though. Maybe get something started before Zelensky achieves New Fauci status and somebody does something which cannot just be let go.
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neutrality for Ukraine based on the status of Austria or Sweden was a possibility.
Obvious. That's what Kissinger and every other expert said was the essence of any lasting peace. Kissinger said it in 2014. Nobody in the Obama administration listened.
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Questions for the “We Stand With Ukraine” crowd:
1. What sort of results should we expect from becoming involved in Ukraine compared to the results of our involvement in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq?
2. How many decades should we expect to be involved in Ukraine?
3. How may trillion dollars will we spend on involvement in Ukraine?
4. What sort of results should we expect from our involvement in Ukraine compared to our involvement in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq?
5. What sort of cooperation should we expect from the rest of the free world regarding our involvement in Ukraine?
6. How many American deaths should we be willing to sustain in Ukraine?
7. What would constitute American victory in Ukraine?
8. What would constitute the conditions in which we throw in the towel as we did in Viet Nam and Afghanistan?
9. Assuming a precipitous departure of American involvement, as in Afghanistan, what sort of post involvement unfriendly regime would we be willing to leave behind in Ukraine?
10. How much neglect of American interests and needs at home should we be willing to subject ourselves to while involving ourselves in Ukraine?
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Sorry for points 1 and 4 being repeats.
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#7 Questions for the “We Stand With Ukraine” crowd:
1. What sort of results should we expect from becoming involved in Ukraine compared to the results of our involvement in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq? Worse results - maybe a nuclear attack by the Russians against our homeland
2. How many decades should we expect to be involved in Ukraine? Two at least but probably longer
3. How may trillion dollars will we spend on involvement in Ukraine? Depends on how much loot the MIC wants to make
4. What sort of results should we expect from our involvement in Ukraine compared to our involvement in Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq? See #1. Short answer: much worse.
5. What sort of cooperation should we expect from the rest of the free world regarding our involvement in Ukraine?
6. How many American deaths should we be willing to sustain in Ukraine? Send the poor folk. They eee going hungry anyway
7. What would constitute American victory in Ukraine? Total control and dictatorship at home
8. What would constitute the conditions in which we throw in the towel as we did in Viet Nam and Afghanistan? No more gravy flowing to the Bidens
9. Assuming a precipitous departure of American involvement, as in Afghanistan, what sort of post involvement unfriendly regime would we be willing to leave behind in Ukraine? Any one so long as the money keeps flowing to DC
10. How much neglect of American interests and needs at home should we be willing to subject ourselves to while involving ourselves in Ukraine? "American interests and needs"? What's that?
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I don't really "Stand with Ukraine". While I am sympathetic to the average Ukrainian and Russian conscript, I look at it from a long term strategic view.
Russia's population is collapsing. This is the largest army Russia will be able to field for the rest of its existence. 2 million men. That's it and they are out of draftable age replacements. Russians will not be a huge ethnic majority at this rate by 2060-2070 and the Russian federation is over.
The question for American planners is whether to let them die naturally or bleed them out somewhere. Ukraine is a great place for that. Every poor Russian killed is one less Russian humping and making babies to draw out the slow death of the population.
I am for giving as much man portable weapons to the Ukrainians to do just that. We don't need to beat Russia here, just bleed them. I think Ukraine will agree to Russia's terms eventually, but they won't be as harsh as the ones that Russia put forward at first due to the mauling they got.
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Are you going to keep the sanctions on Russia for years to come? How do the sanctions help promote "American interests" and address "American needs"?
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But, DV, you must understand that others will replace them. Consider that the others will likely be either Muslims or Chinese. As bad as you may think the Russians are, consider the alternatives.
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Russians are not the problem. Putin is.
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"Russians are not the problem"
Putin and Zelensky and Kolomoisky and all the other thieves are the problem. They're all making billions off of the sanctions, just Google "icij.org kolomoisky" and look at the tin of evidence as to why the US sanctioned Zelensky's sugar daddy Igor Kolomoisky. He and Zelensky are gonna make billions now in private deals, as will Putin and the Russian thieves
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Zelensky might not be alive in two weeks.
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Russia's population is collapsing
Ukraine’s is actually worse, and that was before over 2 million mostly women and children fled. A cynical view is that the rest of Europe is happy to get additional Europeans tough enough to face resident Moslem colonists, and hopes to get an even larger portion of Ukraine’s 41 million.
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China is in the same boat as Russia. By 2070-2100 the Chinese population will be half of what it is now depending how how badly they lied about their numbers (last population adjustment the Chinese went "oops, we over counted by 100 million).
The 2050s to the end of this century will be really interesting. Most of the modern nations will be facing or have faced a population collapse and there won't be enough young to support the older generation and there won't be enough workers, tax base or draftable people to support that nation state.
As to your statement Abu Uluque, the Russians are done no matter what we do and the Chinese aren't that far behind. Look at the populations now that are growing and those will be the ones that replace them. Ukraine and western Europe among them.
Right now the Muslim and African population that fled to France over the last 30 years is out populating the native French. France will be a good chunk of of new population in 50 years and the original French will start being displaced.
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"Zelensky might not be alive in two weeks."
He and his patron Igor Kolomoisky have friends in Israel and real estate holdings across London and the US. He'll pop up in one of those locations - with even more loot in his offshore bank account than he stole before he became president
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By 2070-2100 the Chinese population will be half of what it is now depending how how badly they lied about their numbers (last population adjustment the Chinese went "oops, we over counted by 100 million).
It will be interesting to see by how much the African and Middle Eastern countries exaggerated their numbers, too. And what happens to the hordes colonizing Europe when the native Europeans are no longer providing the lifestyle the hordes invaded in order to acquire. Will that portion of them that really do want a chance to work hard and live in peace be able to carry the jizya load the rest of their compatriots demand?
Remember, it was demonstrated over a decade ago that the Palestinian territories, in the few years since Israel allowed them self-rule, had managed to overcount their population by a full million imaginary people, and no doubt it’s only grown since then.
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I had forgotten that TW. Thanks for bringing that back up.
Either way, the majority of the world will have to deal with population aging and decline for the rest of the century. The Europe we knew from the late middle ages to now is rapidly fading away. Most of Asia will be declining as well.
The US will be stable as we replace our population with immigrants and I see a huge influx during the century from Europe as things fail. Mexico is also pretty stable population wise for the next 40 years as well.
The social order that has existed since the end of the Napoleonic wars is coming to an end as well as the last 60 years of Pax Americana. It will be interesting times.
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It must freak Russians out to think about what would happen in nuclear exchange. Moscow would be taken out, no question, and thats it, game over, Russia as we know it is gone and hello greater China. Take out Washington DC and the US would probably be better off in the long run.
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So all of us: Russians, Ukrainians, French, Germans, Brits and Americans need to start thinking (should have started thinking a long time ago) about how to survive in a world full of people who are not particularly sympathetic toward our way of life.
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Thanks to hypersonic missiles Russians have the nuclear advantage now in any exchange with the US. They'd easily wipe out the heartland while our corrupt swine in Washington make sure DC, NY and the left coast remain unscathed
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Looking back at the media that we were made to digest during the 70s and all the talk of the "population bomb" I recall more than a few folk suggesting that "blood sports" would become a way to cull the herd. Flash forward to today, and as we look back to that time, what passes for the "blood sports" becomes apparent. Ukraine can be looked as just the latest coliseum.
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Dead Wrong. if Putin was murdered tonight, whoever the new Russian leader is would NOT immediately withdraw.
By making this statement, you show you know nothing about what's going on in Russia.
They see Ukraine as an existential threat to their existence. It's ridiculous, but, that's what Russians believe to a large extent.
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Col. Doug Macgregor, who was Asst. Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, on our cynical refusal to push Zelensky to engage seriously in peace talks -- its all about trying to overthrow Putin:
"Ukrainians are almost incidental to the operation in the sense that they are there to impale themselves on the Russian army. And die in great numbers, because the real goal of this entire thing is the destruction of the Russian state and Vladimir Putin."
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Pfizer will kill off and make infertile enough Israelis to allow the Palestinian population to catch up
I look forward to seeing how that experiment plays out in about a year. The Palestinians have been vaccinating as quickly as they could get the stuff donated, since the idea of actually paying for it out of the money donated over the decades that slid quietly into private pockets is unthinkable.
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Helmuth, Speaking for Whise3065, I suspect the hypersonic missiles are about as effective as the rest of the Russian war equipment we've seen the last month.
[Zero] The market up-move since March 2020 was caused by massive credit and liquidity creation by the Fed, not traditional fundamentals. In fact, it was the biggest money and credit creation of any central bank in history.
It is amazing what 5-10 TRILLION artificial dollars can do for stocks. The crash of March 2020 turned into a giant stock rally in April 2020. But all good things come to an end. In 2021, the rally faltered, sector by sector. The small cap index of 2000 stocks, the Russell 2000, topped in March 2021, traded sideways until November, and then had a quick breakout to a new high that didn’t last.
At that time we said in our Wellington Letter that if it turned out to be a false upside breakout, as we suspected, it would be an important market top and lead to a painful decline for the bulls.
When the IWM, the ETF for the Russell 2000 Index, turned down in November 2021 and broke strong support (top horizontal blue line), we wrote that the false breakout was now confirmed as it became clear to us that a bear market was ahead. See the 2-day chart of the IWM below, which shows the false upside breakout last November.
The above article suggests the problems have just begun, as the climate change already underway to COOL the planet for the next century of so will make a lot more trouble for everybody at dinner.
We should be positioned for it better than most nations given energy and food independence, but trust the Demokrats to waste all of that if we let them. If they do, I suspect the simple recipe my grandfather learned might help: " hunger, politician, lamppost, rope, stir as needed..."
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WTI's up 8% today. Looks like Russian oil traders have figured out an easy workaround to evade some of the sanctions
"Russian oil market participants have switched their trading tactics, favouring private deals over public offerings due to new Western sanctions"
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It's really easy to bust sanctions if you have the right connections. Like Israel's mining billionaire Dan Gertler
"Gertler may have been able to evade US sanctions and continue to operate freely in DRC’s mining sector. His close connections to those with power and influence in DRC could have helped allow him to continue doing business, as has his apparent use of an international money laundering network."
[American Thinker] Writing in Commentary, neoconservative Joshua Muravchick labels those who believe that the roots of the current Russia-Ukraine War lie at least in part in the post—Cold War expansion of NATO as "Putin apologists." He groups into that category the Democratic Socialists of America (including several members of Congress); some writers at the far-left Nation magazine; members of the Quincy Institute, including its president, Andrew Bacevich and senior fellow Anatol Lieven; The American Conservative's Patrick Buchanan, Rod Dreher, and Scott McConnell; Frontpage Magazine contributor Robert Spencer; frequent Tablet contributor Lee Smith; conservative commentator Candace Owens; Fox News's Tucker Carlson; former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard; and, last but not least, former president Donald Trump.
The "Putin apologists" on the left, Muravchik writes, are motivated by "an anti-war reflex" and a belief that "the American system, as an avatar of capitalism and systemic racism, is inherently malign." Some of the "Putin apologists" on the right, he explains, are "ideological isolationists" who "share the left's contempt for America." Others on what he calls the "Trumpist right" call themselves "patriots," but "their passions focus powerfully on disputes with other Americans" rather than our country's foreign adversaries. Muravchik doesn't appear to realize that the passionate focus of his article is his "disputes with other Americans."
Muravchik calls the NATO expansion argument of the "Putin apologists" flimsy because Putin's view that NATO expansion threatens Russia's security is "nonsensical." "NATO," he writes, "does not threaten Russia and never has threatened it." NATO, he continues, is a defensive alliance, and adding Ukraine to NATO "would not change this a whit." It apparently doesn't matter to Muravchik that Putin's and Russia's perception of NATO differs from his own or even from the reality that NATO is a defensive alliance.
Muravchik ignores what is one of the most important qualities of a statesman — what Halford Mackinder described as "an insight into the minds of other nations than his own." That insight was lacking, for example, during the Vietnam War, when the Johnson administration thought offering Ho Chi Minh massive government aid projects (like the Tennessee Valley Authority) would convince the communist leader to make peace and give up his quest to conquer South Vietnam. It was similarly lacking when that same administration (persuaded by defense secretary Robert McNamara, who knew next to nothing about communism or Russian history and culture) thought slowing or stopping the U.S. deployment of nuclear missiles would convince Soviet leaders to do likewise. More recently, the inability to gain insight into the minds of other nations on the part of the George W. Bush administration led to the delusional and costly policies of trying to spread democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan — policies, it is worth noting, championed by many neoconservatives.
In his famous "Long Telegram" in 1946, George F. Kennan explained that Soviet/Russian foreign policy was motivated by "a neurotic view of world affairs" and an "instinctive Russian sense of insecurity." That traditional Russian insecurity, Kennan noted, grew "as Russia came into contact with [the] economically advanced west," which triggered "fear of more competent, more powerful, more highly organized societies." Russia's rulers, he wrote, "have invariably sensed that their rule was relatively archaic in form, fragile and artificial in its psychological foundation, unable to stand comparison or contact with political systems of western countries." That is why Russian leaders, according to Kennan, "have always feared foreign penetration, feared direct contact between the western world and their own, feared what would happen if Russians learned truth about world without or if foreigners learned truth about world within."
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^ Yeah, pretty much. Either you're in favor of a full-on war with Russia or you're a Putinbot. Just try posting anything that points out the Nazis in Ukraine and watch it get censored.
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^ "Further, the Wilson administration determined that any written materials violating the act or otherwise “urging treason” were “nonmailable matter,” and Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson ordered local postmasters to report any suspicious materials. Along with Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory, Burleson led the way in aggressively enforcing the Espionage Act of 1917 to limit dissent.
"By 1918, in actions that seriously threatened First Amendment freedoms and that likely would not be upheld today, 74 newspapers had been denied mailing privileges."
[Politico] The war in Ukraine will end in some form. The longer it persists, the higher the costs to both Ukraine and Russia. Clearly a diplomatic solution is preferable, but it is difficult to identify a diplomatic construct that could provide a sufficient and face-saving off-ramp for Russia as well as the kind of security that Ukraine needs.
The center of gravity of any negotiated settlement to this war will be the question of Ukraine’s status between the Western alliance and Russia. Russia will insist on a neutral Ukraine, not part of any military alliance that could conceivably threaten Russia. Ukraine, on the other hand, cannot possibly agree simply to declare itself neutral, at the mercy of its neighbor, as Russia demands.
If there is an acceptable diplomatic formula to end this war, it would need to involve some secure form of Ukrainian neutrality and an open path for Ukraine toward its democratic and economic aspirations in the European Union.
Most proposals involve commitments for Ukraine to never join NATO or to commit not to do so for some specified time. That may be acceptable to Russia, but would leave a de facto neutral Ukraine without any reassurance in the aftermath of a devastating invasion and no obvious way to pursue an economic and political alignment with the West.
But there’s a present-day model for this kind of balancing: Austria. As part of a deal to end Allied occupation in 1955, the Soviet Union recognized Austria’s sovereignty and Austria pledged permanent military neutrality — it would not join NATO, and it would not allow foreign troops to be stationed on its territory. But at the same time, Austria was free to chart its own economic and political course. That deal has held to this day: Neutral Austria joined the European Union in 1995, including, subsequently, the Union’s Schengen free travel area and the eurozone.
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The war in Ukraine will end in some form.
Maybe not. Been going on for 8 years already in Donbass. About 10,000 dead between the coup in 2014 and end of 2021
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there’s a present-day model for this kind of balancing: Austria. As part of a deal to end Allied occupation in 1955, the Soviet Union recognized Austria’s sovereignty and Austria pledged permanent military neutrality — it would not join NATO, and it would not allow foreign troops to be stationed on its territory.
If Zelensky had accepted this (or the US had forced him to accept this on pain of another US instigated coup in Ukraine), Putin would not have invaded. This was his core demand. Instead Zelensky said he wanted to go on the offensive and conquer Crimea
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Like COVID, the current crisis must end well enough before the midterms for the dems to claim that they had a win and need to be re-elected. If there isn't an actual diplomatic solution in the next few weeks, watch for the media to sbruptly lose interest around the 4th of July and all the bandwagon pols in DC to immediately follow suit.
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If there isn't an actual diplomatic solution in the next few weeks,
They're already talking about war with Russia. Hal Brands in Bloomberg today, Harris's loose talk, Zelensky saying WWIII's "already started"
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Get the old Warsaw pact to drop out of NATO and become swiss-style neutral alliance with that can be a buffer between the Germans and the Russian bear (who seems easily terrified).
Then get this new Pseudo Warsaw Pact to send troops to Africa to end Boka Haram and other troublemakers. This will make the world a better place and provide necessary experience.
[Washington Exmaner] The specialized license plate, for which he paid $700 last year, had initially been recalled, and the department sent a letter saying it considered the license plate — which reads "LGBF JB," implicitly representing "Let's Go Brandon F*** Joe Biden" — to be "offensive to the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama."
The original letter says Kirk’s registration for the personalized license plate would not be issued or renewed and that he would have to return the plate within 10 days or face fines ranging from $500 to $1,000, in addition to having the vehicle’s registration revoked.
Following a wave of media coverage of the license plate, which is yellow and features the "Don’t Tread on Me" Gadsden flag design, Kirk said the department had a change of heart.
"State sent a letter saying, not quote, but, 'We're sorry, Mr. Kirk. We really apologize. You're a lot bigger and stronger than us,'" Kirk joked on The Line with Andrew McLain podcast Monday.
Kirk claimed the "F" in his license plate does not stand for a curse word but instead means "forget." He argued that the state cannot prove otherwise, according to AL.com.
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^ Usually, the states hide behind the explanation that the people who make the decisions are shielded from public attention for safety and reasons, and that they also equally deny stuff that's objectionable to all political and religious viewpoints. Blah, blah, blah...
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[FOX] Republican Sen. Josh Hawley posted a lengthy Twitter thread Wednesday containing several examples that he says demonstrates an "alarming" pattern of lenient treatment of sex offenders who prey on children from Biden Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
"Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker," the Missouri Republican tweeted Wednesday. "She’s been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond ’soft on crime.’ I’m concerned that this a record that endangers our children."
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Brandon is going to have a problem getting picks approved given that the Dem talent pool consists of commies, perverts, and incompetents. Hell, look who they scraped up to be President!
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Region’s counter terrorism department confirmed on Wednesday the arrest of two Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members in Erbil, a day after other ISIS suspects plotting a suicide kaboom were arrested in Kirkuk.
The statement did not specify the conditions under which the two men were arrested, only mentioning that they were "active members of ISIS" and wanted by the Iraqi counter-terrorism service (CTS).
On the request of the Iraqi CTS, the two arrestees were turned over to their department, according to the statement.
In coordination with Sulaimani’s internal security forces (Asayish), the Iraqi forces arrested on Tuesday three ISIS suspects in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... who were plotting to carry out a suicide attack during the month of Ramadan.
Dozens of ISIS suspects have been arrested across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region since last summer.
Two highly sought members were arrested in Kirkuk in early January, two days after three suspects of the terror group were arrested near Erbil.
Several other ISIS suspects, including a health worker, were arrested in Kirkuk in December.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 14 attacks in Iraq from March 3 to March 9, killing and injuring 11 people.
[OneIndia] The security forces have shot full of holes three gunnies in an encounter that broke out in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... early this morning.
The encounter broke out at the Nowgam area of Srinagar. The operation was carried out by the Jammu and Kashmir police and the security forces. The police said that the gunnies who were killed belonged to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and The Resistence Front.
They were involve3d in the recent killing of Khanmoh's sarpanch Sameer Bhat. The security forces managed to trap the gunnies after cordoning off the area.
In the encounter a total of 3 bad boyz were potted. The forces also recovered incriminating materials including arms and ammunition, the Kashmir Zone Police said in a tweet.
[OneIndia] India expressed concern as the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to proclaim March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... . India while expressing concern over phobia against one religion being elevated to the level of an international day.
India also said that there are growing contemporary forms of religiophobia, especially anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist and anti-Sikh phobias. The 193 member UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which was introduced by Pakistain's ambassador Munir Akram.
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On Tuesday, Libya’s Interior Ministry announced that it freed a group of foreign hostages, who had been kidnapped.
In a statement, the ministry said that members of the Western Border Region Investigations Agency were able to free the hostages from the outskirts of Zuwara city.
The ministry added that the kidnappers were caught “red-handed” during the raid. It said that all legal measures were taken, and the culprits were referred to the competent authorities.
The United Nations has repeatedly warned of the dangerous trafficking operations taking place in the city.
Libya is currently facing a political crisis after the Parliament swore in a new government last week. The incumbent administration has refused to cede power, amid the fallout from a failed attempt to hold national elections in December.
Each rival government has support among the armed factions based in Tripoli. The Parliament-backed Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha has said he intends to take over in the capital this week, raising fears of clashes.
Notably, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has recently documented a large number of cases of kidnapping and detention, enforced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial killings of civilians, officials, journalists, civil society members and human rights activists in Tripoli during the past year.
“Under international human rights law, no one may be arbitrarily arrested or detained. Torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings are strictly prohibited, as are abductions and kidnappings,” it added.
“The mission calls on the Libyan authorities to fully investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law, and International Humanitarian Law. Libya must end the entrenched culture of impunity in the country,” it stressed.
Libya has sought to emerge from a decade of chaos since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011.
[AmGreatness] A military medical officer testified in court last week that she was ordered by a superior not to discuss her findings regarding the DoD’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) during the hearing. DMED provides web-based access to active military personnel and medical event data.
On March 10, Liberty Counsel, the law firm representing thirty members of the military who are fighting the military vaccine mandate, returned to federal court to defend the preliminary injunction Judge Steven Merryday granted two military plaintiffs that allowed them to skirt the military vaccine mandate. The Department of Defense (DoD) asked the judge to set aside the injunction while the case was on appeal.
Judge Merryday is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
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"so many soldiers being destroyed by this vaccine. Not a single member of my senior command has discussed my concerns with me … I have nothing to gain and everything to lose by talking about it. I am watching people get absolutely destroyed."
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 16, 2022
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – Two people were wounded, yesterday, as a suicide drone exploded in the village of al-Hoshariya northeast of Manbij city, north Syria.
A brother of one of the wounded said that his brother “Ali al-Taha, who hails from al-Jat village, sustained a shrapnel injury in his right foot while he was selling vegetables in al-Hoshariya village, due to the explosion of the drone near him. He is now in a good health condition and he returned home.”
The drone was launched from the Turkish base overlooking al-Hoshariya village, located at the northern part of the village, a military source said.
The source did not mention the name of the other wounded person or any information about him.
On Saturday, the Turkish forces targeted the village of Boghaz in the eastern countryside of al-Bab with mortar shells.
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[Breitbart] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a report recommending an increased focus on scanning the social media accounts of its employees in order to detect “extremism.”
Among the examples of “extremism” cited by DHS are: a belief that fraud occurred in the 2020 election, and objections to current coronavirus policies.
From the DHS report, obtained by Reclaim The Net:
A March 2021 unclassified threat assessment prepared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Department of Justice, and DHS, noted that domestic violent extremists “who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021.” The assessment pointed to newer “sociopolitical developments such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence” that “will almost certainly spur some [domestic violent extremists] [sic] to try to engage in violence this year.”
The report shows increased DHS concern with rooting out “extremists” within its own ranks, including through monitoring the social media accounts of employees.
From the report:
Studies and pilots have suggested that certain online activity may represent behavior of potential concern to national security and could be useful in assessing an individual’s trustworthiness, judgment, or reliability. [Publicly Available Electronic Information], including social media checks, have proven to be of limited value as stand-alone sources of information. However, when coupled with and corroborated by other data and investigative follow-up, the use of PAEI can be a powerful tool in preventing and detecting domestic violent extremism-related threats.
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The Dems lost the 2016 Meme War to a cartoon frog. I guess this is their Case Yellow.
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"Pilots"? They're performing pilot experiments now -- like the Milgram experiment? Studies and pilots have suggested that certain online activity may represent behavior of potential concern to national security
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Among the examples of “extremism” cited by DHS are: a belief that fraud occurred in the 2020 election
whoa! so I'm a terrorist if I say Democrats cheat?
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whoa! so I'm a terrorist if I say Democrats cheat?
[DW] The local MP of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said the detained aid worker is "on her way home." Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held by Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... since 2016 after being convicted of espionage, a charge she has denied.
United Kingdom aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is leaving Iran, according to her local Labour constituency representative, Tulip Siddiq. The parliamentarian wrote in a Twitter post that Zaghari-Ratcliffe was heading home.
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And what were the Communists doing at Stalin’s orders at that point? I seem to recall all sorts of horrors perpetrated by the Soviets on their own people as well as every country they forced into their loving embrace. The period from about 1918-1989 was full of choices between evils, only some of which were lessor.
[REGNUM] The Federal Security Service (FSB) released documents with data on Ukrainian commanders in SS battalions.
The Ukrainians, who voluntarily began to cooperate with the Nazis, commanded the punitive battalions of the 19th Latvian SS division. Many civilians were killed by their hands, RIA Novosti reports, referring to information from declassified documents of the Russian Federal Security Service for the Omsk region.
According to the Soviet military counterintelligence "Smersh", the Ukrainians Onisenko, Bugrym and Zavaleichuk, being in the Red Army, at various times in 1941, voluntarily surrendered to the Germans. After that, they also voluntarily entered the service in the Wehrmacht.
The case file states that they, “as notorious traitors to the Soviet military personnel,” were appointed to command posts of the 50th and 284th police battalions of the 19th Latvian SS division.
Bugrym took part in punitive actions with the execution of civilians in the Vitebsk region. After that, in July 1943, the Germans appointed him direct commander of the 284th punitive battalion. Zavaleichuk and Onisenko, who received command posts, also took an active part in punitive actions.
"I personally, as an assistant commander of the 3rd platoon of the 3rd company, shot up to 20 people during a punitive expedition against partisans," Bugrym told during interrogations about his participation in punitive actions before being appointed battalion commander.
The Punisher also stated that in February-April 1943 their battalion burned more than 200 villages "in the Sebezhsky district, the Kalinin region, in the Drissinsky and Osveysky regions, the Vitebsk region."
The population of the burned villages was herded into houses, which were then set on fire. Those who tried to escape were shot.
"We burned alive up to 100 civilians, children, women and the elderly," Bugrym admitted during interrogation.
During interrogations, Zavaleichuk said that in Sebezh, during the battles with partisans in the forest, the punishers found a lot of civilians. People were hiding from the Nazis. Most of them were taken to Latvia. Some of the population hiding in the forests was shot and burned.
"I personally saw several huts of burned citizens, where there were women, old people, children and even infants," Zavaleichuk admitted during interrogations.
Possibly the Ukraine has changed since then, as well. A certain Mr. Luttwak tweets something interesting, if true:
Putin declared that it was imperative to fight the neo-Nazis who dominate the politics of the Ukraine. Did nobody in Moscow notice that the Pres is Jewish ...and the leader of the opposition, Rabinovich is also Jewish ?
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Oh, woe! Sure, me wee heart is breakin',
Me faith in humanity shaken!
A truth-lovin' Russian
Engaged in... discussion
Suggests that Ukraine could be fakin'!
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This sounds like complete garbage. The units of the 19th SS division was made up of Latvians (not ukranians). They went on to earn a ferocious reputation during ww2.
The Ukrainians had nothing to do with that unit. This story in completely made up.
[Breitbart] A recent audit from the New York state comptroller has revealed disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo failed to account for 4,100 nursing home deaths during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The audit found that Health Department officials at times underreported the full death toll by as much as 50 percent from April 2020 to February 2021, as Mr. Cuomo faced increasing scrutiny over whether his administration had intentionally concealed the actual number of deaths,” reported the New York Times.
New York state comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli called the 41-page report showing that the Health Department would support Andrew Cuomo’s narrative by suppressing the death “extremely troubling,” charging that the public was intentionally misled:
Families have a right to know if their loved one’s COVID-19 death was counted, but many still don’t have answers from the state Department of Health. Our audit findings are extremely troubling. The public was misled by those at the highest level of state government through distortion and suppression of the facts when New Yorkers deserved the truth.
The pandemic is not over, and I am hopeful the current administration will make changes to improve accountability and protect lives. An important step would be for DOH to provide the families who lost loved ones with answers as to the actual number of nursing homes residents who died. These families are still grieving, and they deserve no less.
Scandal first hit Cuomo in early 2021 when it was revealed that his administration directed nursing homes to accept recovering coronavirus patients, leading to a spike in elderly deaths. Trouble worsened for Cuomo as more and more reports revealed that his administration intentionally suppressed the death toll to protect the governor from political fallout. At the height of the pandemic, Cuomo was a media sensation, with reporters hailing him as the perfect opposite of President Trump.
In November 2020, Cuomo was even presented with the 2020 International Emmy Founders Award for what the International Academy called “his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world.”
That Emmy was later rescinded when Cuomo resigned from office due to a string of sexual assault allegations.
According to the New York Times, the Cuomo administration were able to suppress nursing home death tolls by only counting “only residents who had died in such facilities, excluding residents who died in hospitals,” which lead to “an artificially lower tally of nursing home deaths that Mr. Cuomo used to argue New York had fared better than other states.”
While Cuomo argued that those deaths were being included in the state’s overall death toll, the comptroller report refuted that.
“Rather than providing accurate and reliable information during a public health emergency, the department instead conformed its presentation to the executive’s narrative, often presenting data in a manner that misled the public,” the report said.
Remember it was EX-Gov. Andrew Cuomo Executive Order that placed Covid-19, Infected persons, in NY Nursing Homes. Where it quickly infected others already there.
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We kept hearing about the casualties resulting from this strike. Given what the base was being used for, silence regarding who those casualties actually were is disconcerting.
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Colombian soldier of fortune's had enough: "he is no longer going to fight that war because his group only had one cartridge per magazine and did not have helmets or protection to defend themselves against the Russians."
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Ukrainians have asked the French to stop sending mercenaries to fight in Ukraine after Yavorivsky Training Camp strike
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Anything sent to the Ukraine that has a footprint, aka infrastructure that it needs (training camps, airbases, etc.) WILL be hit by the Russians. If there are any NATO personnel there, that is a great way to escalate the war.
I'm surprised someone put up a camp instead of just breaking them off into training battalions spread all over the place. Juicy target and Russia won't pass it up.
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What was this guy expecting? He's shocked that the Ukrainians would simply hand him a gun plus a box of cartridges and tell him "The Russians are that way. See if you can kill some before they kill you." They're just treating you they same way they're treating themselves!
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Looks like a GoPro video taken by an American legionnaire engaged by the enemy ("indirect fire"?) near a farmhouse. No idea who trained these guys but they're definitely amateurs. The Ukrainians deserve better than this
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Henry Hoeft's fiancé says he told her "The area he was in was under attack, and they were losing way too many people, and it wasn't looking good... [at the Polish border] they had to pose as civilians and use the name of a humanitarian organization to [get across the border and escape fighting] ... the Ukrainians lied. They're not letting any Americans or foreign fighters leave..."
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The Ukrainians deserve better than this
We're not sending our best
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Henry Hoeft is a LARPer, also a member of the Boogaloo Bois (maybe that's redundant).
Operating under the alias “Henry Locke,” the man was among a team of Ohio Boogaloo members who were at a Black Lives Matter protest carrying AK-47s, AR-15s and extra magazines last year. He said he distanced himself from the far-right group after it "got all crazy." However, among the seven people with whom he is traveling to Ukraine, Hoeft said, is Mike Dunn, the former leader of the Last Sons of Liberty, a faction of the Boogaloo Bois. Dunn could not be reached for comment.
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No, they just are easier to lose without domestic repercussions
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If Vlad becomes preoccupied and strips too many assets from Siberia and the Eastern District, the Chinese may say "forget Taiwan, the real estate market has opened up."
The joker in this particular deck would be Khamchatka.
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/\ You can bet such a scenario or course of action has been discussed by Xi's party followers and confidants.
In press statements, Al-Mahjoub said: “We, as soldiers, do not interfere in politics because our goal is to build a strong army that preserves the sovereignty of the country.”
He added that the LNA “supports the assumption of power by the Bashagha government, because we support legitimacy, and this is an issue is not being discussed.” The army’s participation in handing over the ruling Bashagha government or supporting the Dbaiba government are matters that are decided and taken at the leadership level. Removing foreign fighters from Libya is difficult without a government that supports it. I expect some foreign fighters to leave to participate in the battles between Russia and Ukraine, because they are mercenaries looking for money.”
He pointed out that “the removal of foreign mercenaries is a matter of time, and there remains differences on this matter, but the 5 + 5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) reached a consensus with all parties.”
He explained that “the Government of National Unity (GNU) was a party to the conflict and was not a unifying government. It was clearly biased, and therefore it was difficult to achieve the exit of mercenaries.”
The Director stated that “the presence of two governments in Libya is temporary, and preparations are underway for elections. The Dbaiba government thwarted the elections, it did not implement any of its commitments, and now there is an opportunity for another government that Libyans believe will be better. There must be a government that prepares for elections, and conducts them urgently. It must not compete in the elections like the GNU, which ruined the elections.”
He noted that “the LNA has a good number of ‘R-17’ missiles that have been returned to service after their maintenance, they serve us in the war against terrorism. Our enemy is terrorism, where fighters take advantage of the desert region, and try to cross the borders between Libya and neighbouring states.”
“These missiles go to a range of approximately 300 kilometers, and it is possible to hit their targets instead of direct fighting and losing more soldiers. These missiles are a real message to terrorism that we can strike them anywhere. Also, this type of superior weaponry is important for any conventional army. We have benefited from these missiles in promoting peace in Libya, and the wider region by eliminating terrorism that transcends borders and threatens us all.”
“The arms embargo imposed on Libya resulted in the LNA finding alternatives. I cannot disclose the number of missiles that have been serviced, but it is substantial and secures our needs. We are working to fix other types of weapons, and of course, we are working to service our planes.” Al-Mahjoub explained
Shafaq News / The Spokesman for the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, Maj. Gen Yahya Rasool, revealed that the Counter-Terrorism service had thwarted an ISIS suicide attack that the organization was planning to carry out during the month of Ramadan.
Rasool said in a statement that the service, in cooperation with the Asayish forces, was able to discover the terrorist plan and thwart it.
The two terrorists who were supposed to carry out the attack were attested, in addition to the person who was responsible for taking them to the targeted area.
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Imagine treating escalation of war into nuclear war as the morally correct position, and acting like those who are calling for peace negotiations are the “evil” ones
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Imagine removing Putin and Russia trying to build a stable system of government (for the first time in its history)
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Actually Joe's been relatively restrained. There are actually influential voices in Washington calling for us to start planning for war against the Russians and to "start signaling that we are ready to intervene militarily." Gasoline, flames
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Report 1: Where is the Russian Air power we've heard so much about?
Report 2: Ukrainians are shooting down Russian air assets left and right! Yeah!
Report 3: Ukraine needs a no fly zone now or they are doomed!
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I overheard a segment on Fox where dude was explaining that fighter jets are defensive, so it is legal to overfly Ukraine, but if they got shot at, oh boy its on go get'im! Something to that effect, I was trying to think a problem through.
Anyways, Kayfabe is a suggested read for the day, takes a couple minutes.
My whole life, the people wanting to start World War III with WMD exchanges were always the bad guys - the Bond villain, the terrorist trying to provoke a response, all that. Now, it appears that a global war with nuclear exchanges would be considered a foreign policy success.
But here is Zelensky, thinking the best chance of survival is to turn Ukraine into ground zero, literally, of WWIII. And on cue, the TV monkey is talking it up as the superist footballist play evah, leaving out the fact that all players will be flying MIGs, and the likely only shot against NATO forces will be from US supplied Ukraine MANPAD because they wouldn't have the radar/tracking information. But you know that wouldn't be the story told. "NATO Attacked! It's War!"
OK. Now What? How does this end? All the designated survivors go to Madagascar or wherever and wait out the Armageddon? Foreign Policy Win. Only makes sense if they really believe (skipping mandatory macro text about) Putin is out of his gourd so the plan is to keep flicking his nuts? If he is cool and calculating, he ain't gonna sit there and watch the remnants of his military get Highway of Death either.
And this group, they drone zapped some family to look tough, and the car isn't even cold yet from their 20 year debacle. I know there is some pointing and laughing at Russian Generals, but I don't think our bench looks so hot, full of political socialites and minions dressed in the Military Colors given to them during the 20 year war, the Vindmans, the Buttgigs, the Beaus.
I don't see serious people. I don't see a plan other than score domestic political points and gigs and let them worry about the mess, I got mine.
Everyone wonder why Brandon took a break from drum beating to talk about the poor womens who had nekkid pics taken while they were sleeping, and we need To Do Better protecting them?
Suppose, just suppose, that random thing was done to prevent the worse offending pictures on Hunter's laptop from being distributed. Fucking makes too much sense. Hat tip to who brought that up.
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"So called no fly zone" would be of very limited use. Russia has stand-off weapons systems and aircraft. The obvious other negative is the potential of Putin's escalation.
Putin should encounter other arse biters. His plate is already full, Say nothing and give him additional arse biters.
1. Begin secret meetings with Xi concerning the economic downside Sino-Soviet cooperation. Talk about container shipping, Walmart, Depot, Target. Death by a thousand cuts, etc.
2. Leak the details of the meetings at #1 to selected Russian oligarchs, FSB and SVR.
3. Ask Finnish president Sauli Niinistö to talk to Putin. They used to be pals. Perhaps Niinistö can identify an 'off ramp' for him, A residence in exile. A hunting-fishing lodge, hiking trails, horses, etc.
4. Establish or 'expand' the 'backchannel' information discussions with Chinese Intelligence
Agency (CCP) seniors. Begin with Sino-Soviet border troops displacements and outpost imagery.
5. Encourage Japan to increase pressure on the return to Japan of Iturup, Kunashir Island, Shikotan, and the Habomai Islands currently held by Russia.
6. Quietly challenge Russia's arctic militarization via electronic systems and other means.
7. Encourage African nation expulsion of Russian diplomatic missions. If unproductive, continue the effort via isolation and clandestine monitoring.
8. Establish a globally based Ukraine rebuild agency (external to the UN), possibly in Vienna.
Loans, food, hospitals, industry, and schools should be offered.
9. Map out and begin exercising a NATO Eastern member no-fly-zone.
10. Immediately begin a massive oil and natural gas development campaign aimed at providing energy to Europe at an "at cost" or near "at cost" price.
11. Immediately begin happy-talk with Cuba. Discreetly bribe the bastids to turn their collective backs on anything Russian. The more extreme the measures, the more lucrative the compensation or diplomatic benefit.
12. Offer to send US Special Forces elements (mobile training teams) to Finland for training. Training for them, for us. Makes no difference. If it goes well, establish annual exercises and training for Finnish forces here in the States.
13. Target the intelligence recruitment of selected Russian oligarchs. Restore seized property, banking, and friendly nation access.
14. Establish a clandestine program for the immigration of Russian scientists, doctors, educators, selected military officers, and other professional people.
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All those pretty cargo ships just idling off the west coast....
Well, the mad man would consider those as targets. The rational man could conclude that, since they have already had their ability to make transactions nuked, that every boycott gets bragged about, and Russian oligarchs are being detained without reason, that economic targets are already on the board.
Follow me chairman on this train of thought...say the fires from those ships light up the night sky for months. Maybe it was Russians. Maybe, even evidence it was a Chinese attack. Or just maintenance problems from too much time at sea. Who knows? What I do know, the clamor for those products currently being made in China should be...more local. Big graft local. Perhaps, an invigorated call for a stronger NAFTA...maybe even, heaven forbid, calls for a unified North America? Agricultural exports would diminish, as those resources will be need to replace your factories with ours, over here.
Now, during these, how does it go, unprecedented times, let's talk...assurances...
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Last week NPR/PBS poll said 70% or so supported a no-fly zone.
This week someone had another poll explaining what a no-fly zone truly meant and they had number around 17% in support.
Even Biden can't ignore that kind of number for long.
[Breitbart] Get ready to see more, so much more, of Vice President Kamala Harris. According to a report Wednesday, Harris is being deployed by the White House to tout President Joe Biden’s “achievements” at home while he jets off to Europe and a role on the international stage formerly claimed by her.
Sources familiar with the plans told The Hill the vice president will be spending coming weeks crisscrossing the country and touting the successes of the administration.
Harris will reportedly use the trips to address infrastructure, expanded broadband access and key executive orders signed by Biden.
There is no indication if she will directly talk about the porous southern border or her assumed responsibility for it.
[NYPost] A now-deleted tweet from Vice President Kamala Harris stated Tuesday that the US was supporting Ukraine against invading Russian forces “in defense of the NATO alliance” — wrongly indicating that Ukraine was a member of the 30-nation bloc.
“When I was in Poland, I met with U.S. and Polish service members, thanking them for standing with our NATO allies for freedom, peace, and security,” read the tweet from @KamalaHarris, which was preserved in a screenshot taken by the WayBack Machine internet archive. “The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance.”
The tweet was originally posted around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday evening. A second, nearly identical tweet was posted almost an hour later around 9:20 pm.
“When I was in Poland, I met with U.S. and Polish service members, thanking them for standing with our NATO allies for freedom, peace, and security,” the new tweet read. “The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people and in defense of the NATO alliance.”
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now-deleted tweet from Vice President Kamala Harris stated Tuesday that the US was supporting Ukraine against invading Russian forces “in defense of the NATO alliance”
Sorta gives away the game, don't it?
Who wants to bet we wake up tomorrow and learn that we're at war with Russia?
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Every one of those people will proudly have their time on VP staff at the top of their resume. They like the cache of having worked there. They just didn't like, you know, working there...
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But has Harris been to the US-Mexico border yet?
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Sources familiar with the plans told The Hill the vice president will be spending coming weeks crisscrossing the country and touting the successes of the administration.
The Plan; Deploy Kameltoe to every
that will allow her to enter
Shafaq News/ The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called for a "peaceful solution" for the conflict in Yemen to ease the sufferings of "20 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance".
"A man-made crisis in Yemen has 20 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance," Grandi tweeted on Wednesday, "they need our support now more than ever — but, most of all, they need a peaceful resolution to the conflict that causes their suffering."
The nearly seven-year-old war between Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group and a Saudi-led coalition, and ensuing economic collapse, have left 80% of Yemen's population reliant on help.
Efforts for a ceasefire stalled as the warring sides ramp up military operations and resist compromise. The Houthis want a coalition blockade on areas the group holds lifted ahead of any truce talks, while Riyadh wants a simultaneous deal.
The Saudi-led alliance intervened in Yemen in March 2015 after the Houthis ousted the government from the capital, Sanaa, in a conflict in which several Yemeni factions vie for power.
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[Korrespondent] 23:55 PACE has officially recognized Pridnestrovie as a zone of Russian occupation. 23:24 Zelensky met with representatives of the authorities of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
23:01 According to the Pentagon, since the beginning of the invasion, Russian troops have fired more than 950 missiles at Ukraine.
22:45 The United States has tightened sanctions against Belarus.
21:52 PACE decided to exclude Russia, and also called for air defense systems to be provided to Ukraine. Russia formally remains a member of the organization until the end of the year. PACE also asks to expedite the consideration of claims against the Russian Federation in the ECHR.
21:51 Republican leader in the US Senate Mitch McConnell said that the idea of transferring combat aircraft from Poland to Ukraine is still being discussed.
21:43 Hackers from Anonymous said they hacked into the site of Rosatom, and promised to share "several gigabytes of data" and information about the security of the Russian company.
21:41 Podolyak said that online negotiations with the Russian side will continue tomorrow: "A very complex and tense negotiation process. There are fundamental contradictions. But, of course, there is room for compromise. Work in subgroups will continue during the break."
21:39 Washington plans to increase sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation, but will not announce specific measures, the State Department said.
21:37 EU regulators have ordered some banks to scrutinize the transactions of all Russian and Belarusian clients, including EU residents, to make sure they are not being used to circumvent Western sanctions, writes Reuters.
21:12 According to the experts of the Conflict Intelligence Team, the strike on Donetsk by a missile of the Tochka-U complex, most likely, was carried out from the territory controlled by the Russians. Meanwhile, the "DPR" is trying to accuse Ukraine of using Tochka-U again, this time in Makiivka.
21:10 Zelensky urged global companies to completely stop business relations with Russia. The President also called on Ukrainians from all over the world to contact the government and businesses so that they stop working with the Russian Federation.
20:53 Biden signed the Congressional approved budget for the rest of the year, which includes $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine.
20:48 Russian invaders fired on an evacuation bus that was carrying people from Rubizhne, Luhansk region, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. 200 residents were forced to stay in the city.
At the same time, the bus successfully reached Novozolotarovka from Severodonetsk. Tomorrow's evacuation remains in doubt.
20:44 About 20,000 people have been evacuated from Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor today , Vereshchuk said.
In total, about 29,000 people left the blocked cities today through humanitarian corridors.
20:23 Naval News writes that 14 Russian warships are moving towards the Ukrainian coast. In particular, satellite imagery shows Russian Navy ships approaching the Ukrainian coast. In total, there are three groups of ships: two - from warships (with the participation of the missile cruiser Moskva), the third - from amphibious assault ships.
20:17 The number of checkpoints on the roads of Ukraine has already been reduced to 1,500, they are planned to be reduced to 800 soon, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
19:55 Russian ships began shelling the Odessa region, said the head of the regional administration Maxim Marchenko. Thus, according to him, in the morning one of the settlements was attacked by enemy aircraft and ships, two people were injured.
Around 14:00, the enemy opened fire from naval artillery, using about 90 shells. The Armed Forces of Ukraine adequately hold the defense, Marchenko added.
19:33 The US Congress is preparing a bill allowing the authorities to confiscate the property of Russians who have fallen under sanctions. The proceeds can be used to help Ukraine, said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
19:29 The prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia arrived in Kiev, their meeting with Zelensky will begin at 20:00 Kyiv time, Czech television reports.
19:27 Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu will visit Moscow tomorrow, and on March 17 - Ukraine, Erdogan said.
19:25 The White House has confirmed that Biden will visit Europe at the end of March to attend an extraordinary NATO summit. Earlier, the Secretary General said that the summit of the alliance on the situation in Ukraine will be held on March 24.
19:24 The EU has introduced a new package of anti-Russian sanctions , which affected a total of 15 individuals and nine legal entities.
19:22 The fighting for the liberation of the outskirts of Mariupol continues. The Azov Regiment today defeated one of the units of the 22nd separate special forces brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the General Staff reports.
In the Luhansk region, during the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed five MLRS BM-21 Grad with ammunition, three T-72 tanks, one BMP-3 and more than 15 enemy servicemen.
19:20 Russian invaders kidnapped activist Vitaly Shevchenko for organizing a rally in Berdyansk, local media reported.
19:12 Ukrainian-Russian talks have become "more constructive", a future agreement is being discussed , Igor Zhovkva, deputy head of the Presidential Office, said.
"In the first rounds, Russia was not ready to hear our position, put ultimatums: that Ukraine must surrender, lay down its arms, that our president would sign a surrender. Now Russia speaks in a slightly different tone," he said.
According to Zhovkva, Ukrainian representatives at the talks are "moderately optimistic." He stressed that "a big breakthrough in these negotiations will be achieved with the participation of heads of state."
19:04 Zelensky addressed the Canadian government and parliament: "Russia seeks to destroy everything that makes Ukrainians Ukrainians - our future, our character, our freedom. But it will not succeed."
19:00 NATO convened an extraordinary summit of the alliance on March 24 in connection with the situation in Ukraine , the Secretary General said.
18:58 PACE members from Ukraine, Great Britain, France, Estonia, Georgia, Romania and Turkey proposed to officially recognize the Russian occupation of Transnistria.
18:55 Russian invaders tried to storm Kharkiv from Pyatikhatki today and suffered a "shameful defeat", said the head of the Kharkiv regional administration Oleg Sinegubov.
18:50 The Moscow court fined Marina Ovsyannikova 30,000 rubles for running out with an anti-war poster on Channel One the day before. The accusation was brought for her video message, and criminal proceedings were initiated regarding the release with the poster under the article on "public dissemination of knowingly false information about the Russian military."
18:48 In the UK, more than 100 thousand people and organizations have shown interest in providing housing for Ukrainian refugees, Johnson said.
18:47 Danilov called "complete nonsense" Lukashenka's statement that two days ago a Tochka-U rocket was launched from the territory of Ukraine towards Belarus: "We are a civilized nation, we do not kill children and women, but we protect our land."
18:33 Biden will probably visit Poland soon, the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry said.
18:14 The Ukrainian parliament has increased state budget spending on the army at the expense of a UK loan by 1.7 billion pounds.
18:12 Stoltenberg called "an absolute lie" Russia's accusations against Ukraine and NATO countries in the production of chemical weapons. He also believes that the alliance needs channels of communication with the Russian Federation to prevent "risks and incidents," and China, together with the international community, should condemn Russia's actions.
The Secretary General did not rule out that NATO could convene an emergency summit on Ukraine.
18:09 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that Zelensky had talked with the leaders of Great Britain, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia.
"A coalition of the willing is offering concrete defense support to Ukraine. You are not alone, we are with you, President Zelensky. Ukraine will win!" Nauseda said.
18:06 In the occupied Nova Kakhovka, Kakhovka and Tavriysk, Kherson region, the Russians, who call themselves the "military-civilian administration," announced recruitment to the "police", media reported.
18:00 Moscow is asking the UN Security Council to vote on its draft "humanitarian resolution on Ukraine" on March 16.
17:56 Russia itself decided to withdraw from the Council of Europe, said the head of the Russian delegation to PACE Petr Tolstoy. And the head of the international committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Leonid Slutsky, said that the Russian Federation "will be forced" to declare invalid the European Convention on Human Rights.
17:52 The Rada allowed the National Security and Defense Council to declare certain territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied for the period of martial law.
17:50 The Russian Federation has imposed personal sanctions on 313 Canadian citizens, including Prime Minister Trudeau, the heads of the Foreign and Defense Ministries, as well as more than 300 parliamentarians.
17:45 The Rada voted to recognize the territorial defense fighters as war veterans.
17:20 In the village of Gorenka near Kiev, as a result of Russian shelling, the operator of the FoxNews TV channel, Irish citizen Pierre Zakrevskiy, as well as Ukrainian journalist Alexandra Kurshinova, were killed, Gerashchenko said. Their colleague, FoxNews journalist Benjamin Hall, is injured.
17:17 Israel said that it would be able to let in only 5,000 Ukrainians, and only with the prior permission of the country's Interior Ministry. The head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, said that such a decision "is surprising."
"We consider the suspension of visa-free travel and the introduction of a system of electronic permits from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for entry into Israel for Ukrainian citizens to be an unfriendly step that requires immediate correction. We will respond harshly and promptly to any steps that harm the interests of Ukraine and Ukrainians," Yermak stressed.
17:14 Zelensky changed command of the Ukrainian troops in the Donbas: instead of Oleksandr Pavlyuk, Major General Eduard Moskalev, who was previously the deputy commander of the JFO, became the new commander of the JFO. And Pavlyuk was appointed head of the Kiev military administration.
"The occupiers hope that control over Kiev will give them control over Ukraine. This is absurd. To further strengthen the defense of the capital and the Kiev region, I appointed Oleksandr Pavlyuk as the head of the regional military administration," Zelensky said.
17:10 Russia has imposed sanctions against 13 Americans, including Biden and his son, Blicken, Pentagon chief Austin, presidential adviser Sullivan, CIA director Burns, White House press secretary Psaki, Hillary Clinton and other officials.
16:52 In Mariupol, the occupiers took hostage doctors and patients of the Regional Intensive Care Hospital, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, one of the hospital employees managed to convey such news:
“It’s impossible to get out of the hospital. There’s a lot of shooting, we’re sitting in the basement. Cars can’t drive to the hospital for two days already. High-rise buildings are burning around ... Russians drove 400 people from neighboring houses into our hospital. We can’t get out.”
16:30 Zelensky: "Each of the more than 800 Russian missiles that hit our state is the answer to the old question about NATO. About whether the doors of the alliance are actually open for Ukraine. If they were open, if it were honest , we would not have to convince the alliance for 20 days that the sky over Ukraine should be closed."
16:07 Ukraine needs to conclude a new defense alliance, which must include a country with nuclear weapons , Danilov said. According to him, today it is Great Britain.
16:06 As a result of enemy air attack of school in the Nikolaev area seven people were lost, three more suffered, reports GSChS.
16:04 According to the updated data of the State Emergency Service, as a result of the shelling of a high-rise building in the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, three people were killed, five were injured, 48 people were rescued.
16:01 PACE is discussing the exclusion of Russia from the organization. According to the press service of the Verkhovna Rada, today in Stasburg about 200 deputies from 46 member states of the Council of Europe gathered for an extraordinary debate on the response of the Council of Europe to the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
15:56 The invaders are spreading information that a massive shelling is possible in Kherson. The Ukrainian army does not plan and will not shell Kherson, the governor of the Nikolaev area Vitaliy Kim said. "Perhaps the occupiers are thinking about it. Therefore, follow their movements," he warned.
"After the work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chernobaevka, through Kherson, a column of invaders is moving away from the Nikolaev region. They are running," Kim also said.
15:39 The Rada adopted changes to the Tax Code, which were previously announced by Zelensky . Including fuel exempted from excise duty, and VAT reduced to 7%.
15:35 The Verkhovna Rada extended martial law from March 26 for 30 days.
15:17 In Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 17 rescuers have died, one was captured, Colonel of the State Emergency Service Gennady Gerasimchuk said.
15:16 Podolyak said that negotiations with the Russian delegation are still ongoing: "Consultations have been resumed on the main negotiating platform. General issues of settlement, ceasefire, withdrawal of troops from the country's territory."
15:15 The US wants all countries, including China, to state their position on the situation in Ukraine. "This is not the time to pretend to be neutral," says the US envoy to NATO.
15:12 The head of the personnel department of the headquarters of the Command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Roman Gorbach said that almost 100% of the reservists of the first stage, that is, those who had previously participated in hostilities, have already been sent to military units. Now, according to him, the mobilization of those liable for military service, who were not among the reservists of the first stage, is being carried out.
15:08 Zelensky: "Ukraine has realized that it will not become a NATO member now. We understand this, we are adequate people. Our people understand this, and we are starting to rely on our own strength."
15:02 In the Balearic Islands (Spain), the yacht Lady Anastasia was detained, which is allegedly associated with the general director of Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev. This is the same yacht that was partially sunk by a Ukrainian sailor at the end of February .
14:47 There are from 500 to 900 invaders at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant , said the head of Energoatom Petr Kotin. According to him, the station is still operated by Ukrainian personnel, but they must coordinate all their actions with the Russian military.
14:41 Arestovich said that Zelensky refused to evacuate on the first day of the war, despite the requests of his personal guards and the West.
According to him, "when the troops landed on Gostomel, we had 100% information that the next troops were landing on Pechersk." But Zelensky then said: "I will pick up a machine gun and fight. Even if you land ten troops here, I will not go anywhere."
14:35 Ilya Kiva wrote a statement about the resignation of the deputy mandate; four more deputies (Igor Abramovich, Tatyana Plachkova, Alexander Feldman and Vadim Stolar) announced their withdrawal from the Opposition Platform for Life faction, MP Goncharenko said.
14:33 Two thousand cars have already left Mariupol, and the same number are standing at the exit from the city, the city council said.
14:16 Since the beginning of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, at least 35 journalists have been injured during the hostilities, three have died, Denisova said.
14:14 At the Ukrainian border during the period of the Russian invasion, about 700 men of military age were detained, who tried to leave the country, reports the State Bureau of Investigation.
14:13 Great Britain imposed sanctions against Shoigu, Vaino, Reshetnikov, Khusnullin, Zakharova, Solovyov, Simonyan, as well as Medvedev and Mishustin.
14:01 Lukashenka once again stated that the troops of Belarus will not take part in the war in Ukraine. "We have nothing to do there, we are not invited there," he said.
Lukashenka also said that two days ago a Tochka-U missile was launched from the territory of Ukraine in the direction of Belarus, it was intercepted.
14:00 In the Luhansk region, 36 settlements are de-energized, 30 are without gas supply. Almost 100 thousand people were left without electricity and heat, said the head of the regional administration Serhiy Gaidai.
13:57 The General Staff reports that the invaders tried to break through the defense of the Ukrainian troops in the Kiev region, but failed. They are also trying to resume the attack on Chernigov, surround Sumy and Kharkov and continue to storm Mariupol with aircraft and artillery.
In the Lisichansk region of the Lugansk region, the Russian army suffered losses and retreated; in the Rubizhne region, it is trying to gain a foothold on the western outskirts of the city.
13:55 There were no offensives from the enemy today, the Russians are trying to make up for losses, recruiting mercenaries and solving problems with logistics, the General Staff reports. Thus, there is information about the organization of training centers for mercenaries in Russian Smolensk and Belarusian Gomel and Bobruisk.
13:42 As a result of a shell hitting a multi-storey building in the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, four people have already died, Klitschko said. Rescuers have been putting out the fire since early morning.
13:28 In Ukraine, conscripts will be involved in the defense of the state only in case of hostilities on a previously peaceful territory, Roman Gorbach, head of the personnel department of the headquarters of the Ground Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said.
13:26 In the Nikolaev area for the past day 80 people are wounded, from them two children. There are also those who died after an airstrike on the school on March 13, the governor said.
13:23 The Ukrainian army managed to stop the aggressor, deploy parts of the reserve and even go on the counteroffensive in certain areas, Zaluzhny said. According to him, Ukraine suffers losses - they are several times less than that of the enemy.
"But the life and health of each of our soldiers are priceless," he stressed and expressed his condolences to the relatives of the victims.
13:14 In Kharkiv, Russian invaders attacked civilians right during the evacuation, local media report.
13:09 Arakhamia said that the fourth round of negotiations, which began the day before, resumed after a break. Recall that the negotiations are held in video format.
13:08 The damage to Ukraine from the Russian invasion is about 500 billion dollars, Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said.
12:55 The SBU announced that it had detained 60 collaborators in a day and exposed 20 enemy DRGs in different regions of Ukraine.
12:53 US Vice President Camilla Harris and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Poland and discussed the situation in Ukraine. "Our coordinated response - from sanctions to other economic measures - is based on our shared propensity to support the people of Ukraine," Harris said.
12:51 More than three million Ukrainians have gone abroad because of the Russian invasion , the UN has calculated.
12:47 According to a poll by the Rating group, 56% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that the main goal of the Russian invasion is the complete destruction of the Ukrainian people. This opinion dominates in all areas. Only 2% believe that Russia is trying to protect the Russian-speaking population.
72% of those polled are in favor of Ukraine's accession to NATO, compared with the previous result of 76%. The main reason for the decline in support is the unwillingness of the alliance to close the sky.
The absolute majority believes that Ukraine should use every opportunity to return the occupied territories of Donbass (86%) and Crimea (80%). This figure is now higher than before the war.
12:43 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a grouping of enemy troops is accumulating in three directions: Novovorontsovka, Velyka Aleksandrovka, Arkhangelsk. The Russians planned to strike at Nikopol, but they were successfully driven back by Ukrainian forces, said Gennady Korban, head of the Dnieper defense headquarters.
He assured that the Dnepropetrovsk region now has enough strength to fortify and prevent the advance of Russian troops: "The region is protected along its borders and holds three fronts - the southern front, the JFO, the northern direction."
12:30 NBU warned Ukrainians about new fraudulent schemes in wartime:
under the guise of evacuation transportation, the attackers ask for an advance payment on the card and disappear;
publish fake ads for renting apartments in safe regions and ask for an advance payment on the card, after which they turn off the phone;
collect money allegedly for the treatment of children affected by the war;
create phishing sites that look like real charitable foundations, as well as fake pages on social networks and instant messengers.
12:28 The head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration Oleksiy Kuleba specified that a curfew has been introduced not only in the capital, but throughout the region. It will be valid for 35 hours: from 20:00 Tuesday, March 15 to 07:00 Thursday, March 17.
12:26 Norway's largest oil company Equinor stops trading in Russian oil and oil products, as well as transporting oil and oil products from Russia.
12:21 Klitschko called on all Kiev men to return to the capital and help defend it, "and not sit somewhere and sympathize."
"Today, the efforts of every Kiev citizen are important. Someone with weapons in their hands is in the terrorist defense. Someone helps build fortifications in the city. We need to cook food for our defenders and socially unprotected Kiev residents. Deliver food. There is a lot of other work. Everyone who loves Kyiv and wants him to survive, he must help as best he can!" - called the mayor of the capital.
12:18 Russia is planning massive deforestation of Ukrainian forests. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, this is discussed in a letter from Minister Shoigu, addressed personally to Putin.
The purpose of the document is to obtain permission for the total cutting of Ukrainian "forests, trees, shrubs and green spaces." The wood not used for the needs of the RF Armed Forces is planned to be sold, and the funds will be used to support the Russian army.
12:02 Occupants are holding hostage the village head of Chulakovka, Kherson region, Oleksandr Musiyenko. He himself stated this in his morning address to the villagers. He also warned that the Russians would conduct searches in the village.
12:00 Johnson called the West's reaction to the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 and the hybrid invasion of the Donbass a "terrible mistake"
11:52 Most of the Belarusian servicemen, in the event of an order to cross the border with Ukraine, will be ready to lay down their arms. This information is confirmed by the families whose men are in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, writes Anton Gerashchenko.
11:50 There will be no humanitarian corridor in the Lugansk region today due to the disrupted regime of silence, said the head of the Regional State Administration Gaidai.
11:49 Since the beginning of the invasion, the invaders have damaged at least 28 buildings of spiritual significance in six regions, most of them are Orthodox churches, the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience said.
11:46 Russian "ultra-modern" and "super-valuable" Kh-101 strategic air-to-ground cruise missile was shot down in the Vinnitsa region from a conventional machine gun, said the head of the regional administration, Sergei Borzov. He urged "everyone who has something - try to shoot down: they fly low and almost always at the same time."
11:44 Great Britain bans the export of luxury goods to Russia and introduces an additional 35% tax on the import of a number of goods from the Russian Federation.
11:29 Deputy Mayor of Izyum Vladimir Matsokin announced a humanitarian catastrophe in the city, which has been under siege for two weeks without water, light, heat and food. According to him, the situation in Izyum is no better than in Mariupol.
"Those who survived the shelling are dying from diseases and lack of medicines. There is no one to bury the dead," he wrote and asked to immediately open humanitarian corridors.
11:26 New EU anti-Russian sanctions include a ban on new investments in the energy sector, exceptions are made for peaceful nuclear power and the transportation of energy resources to the European Union. There will also be a ban on any transactions with some Russian state-owned enterprises.
The EU will ban European rating agencies from assigning ratings to the Russian Federation and Russian companies, the European Commission said.
The EU will impose a ban on the import of certain steel products, which could result in a loss of 3.3 billion euros in export earnings from Russia, the European Commission said.
11:16 Tonight, Russian invaders fired rockets at the airport in Dnipro, the head of the regional administration, Valentin Reznichenko, said. According to him, the runway was destroyed, the terminal was damaged.
11:13 100 buses left Poltava towards Sumy to evacuate local residents. In the column - doctors and representatives of the Red Cross. Almost 100 tons of humanitarian aid were also sent, the head of the Poltava OVA said.
11:09 Ukrainian artillery destroyed the multiple launch rocket system of the Russian invaders, which fired at the residential areas of Chernihiv, the Operational Command of Pivnich reported.
11:06 A curfew has been announced in Kyiv from 20:00 on March 15 to 07:00 on March 17. Thus, residents of the capital should not leave their homes or shelters for a day and a half. As Klitschko explained, today in the capital is "a difficult and dangerous moment."
It is forbidden to move around the city without special passes. You can only go out to reach the shelter.
10:59 The Parliament of Belarus has ratified an agreement with the Russian Federation on the deployment of two military facilities - a missile attack warning system node in Baranovichi and a Navy radio station in Vileyka. The contract was signed for 25 years.
10:56 China said it "always stands for respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states and respect for the purposes and principles of the UN Charter." Beijing also assured that "with all its might it promotes negotiations to achieve peace" and calls on the international community to join forces for de-escalation.
China also strongly opposes "spreading false information about it, distorting and discrediting its positions."
10:46 Today you can leave Mariupol by private transport, the humanitarian corridor is open from 09:00, said the head of the Donetsk region Pavel Kirilenko. Corridor route: Mariupol, Mangush, Berdyansk, Tokmak, Vasylivka, Zaporozhye.
The governor advised for personal safety to remove instant messengers and photos, to arrive in Vasilievka no later than 18:00, and for those who do not have time, find a safe place and spend the night in Berdyansk or Tokmak.
10:45 The death toll from a strike on a TV tower near Rivne has risen to 19 people, the head of the regional administration said. Nine people were injured.
10:40 Zelensky signed a law on criminal liability for cooperation with the Russian Federation, said the first vice-speaker of the Rada Alexander Kornienko. Changes to the legislation provide for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 15 years for cooperation with Russia, as well as the ability to close parties and organizations associated with those convicted under this article.
10:32 Ukrzaliznytsia begins the nationalization of Russian railcars located in Ukraine. According to UZ, currently 15,000 Russian railcars are on the Ukrainian tracks, they belong to 250 companies.
10:24 The European Aviation Safety Agency has deprived Russian airlines of certificates for flights in the skies of the EU countries.
09:56 A new package of EU sanctions against Russia will be adopted today, the head of the French Ministry of Finance said.
09:54 The prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia will arrive in Kiev today for meetings with Zelensky and Shmyhal , the Polish government said.
09:31 The General Staff announced the approximate combat losses of the enemy on the morning of March 15:
personnel - more than 13,500 people
tanks - 404
armored combat vehicles - 1279
artillery systems - 150
RSZV - 64
air defense systems - 36
aircraft - 81
helicopters - 95
automotive equipment - 640
ships/boats - 3
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 60
UAV operational-tactical level - 9
09:29 Vereshchuk reported on humanitarian corridors and evacuation routes for March 15:
Berdyansk - Mariupol (convoy with humanitarian cargo and empty buses will continue to move to Mariupol);
Bogdanovka, Novaya Bogdanovka, Bobrik - Brovary;
Sumy, Lebedin, Shostka, Konotop, Trostyanets - Poltava;
Oskol - Donetsk region.
09:20 In Kharkov over the past day, three people were rescued from the rubble, the bodies of seven dead were seized from under the rubble of destroyed houses.
09:11 The Ministry of Internal Affairs told how to get a machine gun: "Every citizen of Ukraine can apply to the police department, prove that he really works to protect Ukraine, works or is in the ranks of territorial defense, volunteer formations, territorial communities, and receive the appropriate weapon. We are talking primarily about automatic weapons. We have already issued several tens of thousands of automatic weapons throughout the country."
09:08 In Rubizhne, Luhansk region, as a result of shelling by the invaders, a boarding school for children with visual problems, a city hospital and three schools were destroyed. Four people died.
09:06 In the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, as a result of ammunition getting into a 16-storey residential building, two people died, 27 were rescued, the State Emergency Service reports.
08:50 Extra checkpoints on the roads will be removed in Ukraine, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said. According to him, this will improve the movement of traffic flows and save time, fuel, and most importantly, the strength and nerves of both civilians and the military.
At the same time, he added that in wartime, checkpoints are indispensable, so documents and cars will be checked at the entrances to cities.
08:48 Russian forces are attacking the civilian population and infrastructure in an attempt to break the spirit of the Ukrainian people. "This is deplorable, shameful and tantamount to state terrorism," OSCE Chairman Zbigniew Rau said.
08:38 The Russians are launching a decoy missile designed to "deceive" air defense systems, writes The New York Times. The use of such "decoys" helps explain why Ukrainian air defenses have difficulty intercepting Russian Iskander-M missiles.
08:33 Spain temporarily seized the yacht of the Russian oligarch worth 140 million dollars, which was in Barcelona. It is assumed that the 85-meter superyacht Valerie belongs to the former KGB officer, head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov.
08:31 In Chernihiv, as a result of yesterday's shelling, ten people were killed, according to preliminary information, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported.
08:28 In ORDLO, the invaders are forced to suspend the mobilization of public utilities workers due to the impossibility of maintaining the life of settlements, the General Staff reports.
08:21 Russia has begun military training of reservists in the Far East, the press service of the Eastern Military District reported. "Reservists will have to carry out shooting from small arms, to study the combat capabilities of modern weapons and military equipment."
A distinctive feature of the training camp is the introduction to the program of performing fire missions with the help of mortar systems. In addition, the reservists will continue to improve their skills in driving wheeled and armored tracked vehicles.
08:16 As a result of the shelling of Kiev, the blast wave damaged the facade of the building of the Lukyanovskaya metro station and office premises.
According to the Kyiv City State Administration, two residential buildings (9 and 16 floors) in the Svyatoshinsky district, a 10-storey residential building in the Podolsky district, as well as a house in the private sector of the Darnitsa district were damaged overnight. According to preliminary information, there were no deaths. Information about the victims is being specified, evacuation is underway.
08:15 In the Osokorki area in Kiev, ammunition hit a two-story private residential building, it caught fire. At 06:40, the fire was extinguished, there were no victims or injured, the State Emergency Service reported.
08:07 In the Sumy region, on March 15, green corridors from Sumy, Konotop, Shostka, Trostyanets and Lebedin were agreed. Corridors will work from 9 am to 9 pm, said the head of the Sumy Regional State Administration Dmitry Zhivitsky.
07:29 The State Emergency Service reported that in the Podolsky district of the capital, a shell hit a ten-story residential building . The fire spread from the first to the fifth floor. One person was rescued and hospitalized. There is no information about the victims.
06:09 Power supply at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been restored, the IAEA reports.
05:58 In Kharkiv, Russian invaders also continue shelling the city center, local telegram channels report.
05:50 Russia fired missiles at a residential area in the center of Kiev , eyewitnesses report. This information was confirmed by the People's Deputy Goncharenko, and then by the State Emergency Service.
05:49 The UK Ministry of Defense admits that the Russian Federation may plan to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine in order to stage an attack on its own troops.
05:40 The United States is considering imposing a complete embargo on trade with Russia, as well as blocking Russia's access to international waterways, CNBC reports, citing US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo.
05:38 Arestovich says that 75% of China's economy depends on the West, so "any sanctions from the West - and China will sell Russia three times."
05:34 Western media continue to write that Russia is asking for help from China. So, CNN reports that the Russian Federation asked to provide dry rations to its army . According to the Financial Times and the New York Times, Moscow also wants to receive air defense systems, drones, reconnaissance equipment, armored vehicles and logistics vehicles from Beijing.
The United States has repeatedly warned that if China helps Russia, it will face serious consequences.
05:24 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has already fired 900 missiles at Ukraine, the Pentagon said.
05:06 The Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius, said that defending yourself and killing the enemy is not a sin: "We protect, we do not strive for someone else's. And whoever comes to us with a sword will die from the same sword."
"We, as a people, do not seek the death of our neighbors. But since they came to our house, we are protecting our family, our Motherland, our land. Our soldiers protect all Ukrainians," he explained.
05:03 In Trostyanets, Sumy region, the invaders drove local residents into fake green corridors and took away their mobile phones, said the head of the Regional State Administration Dmitry Zhivitsky.
04:58 The former commander of the US Army in Europe, retired General Ben Godges believes that in ten days Russia will run out of opportunities to conduct active military operations in Ukraine.
04:55 The Pentagon says that Russia has deployed all 100% of the troops that were supposed to invade Ukraine and occupy all of its territory as soon as possible. The Russian advance has stalled in almost every direction. In a number of cases, Russian troops deliberately stopped to regroup, but in most cases this is the result of Ukrainian resistance. This also applies to the attack on Kyiv from Gostomel.
The Pentagon also reported that the attack on the Yavoriv test site near the Polish border did not affect the supply of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine. There were no US citizens there.
04:00 Zelensky announced a tax reform in Ukraine , which includes, among other things, the abolition of all checks for all businesses.
"Instead of VAT and income tax, we give a rate of 2% of turnover and simplified accounting. For small businesses - and these are the first and second groups of sole proprietors - we set the voluntary payment of a single tax. If you can - pay, if you can't - there are no questions," the president explained .
03:05 Radar facilities of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded the fact that a Russian drone crossed the state border of Ukraine in the direction of Poland.
02:40 Japan imposed personal sanctions against 17 Russian citizens, including State Duma deputies, businessman Vekselberg and relatives of businessman Kovalchuk.
02:37 In Mariupol, the number of victims of the Russian invasion reaches 20 thousand civilians, said the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko. According to him, in the coming days, the number of victims could increase many times over and everyone who did not leave the city could die.
Andryushchenko added that today 80% of the city's housing stock is uninhabitable, of which at least 80% cannot even be restored.
At the same time, the Mariupol City Council said: "The official and confirmed information as of the end of March 14, 2022 is approximately 2,357,000 dead Mariupol residents."
02:09 Zelensky: "Russian troops today are actually one of the suppliers of equipment for our army. They could not even see this in a nightmare."
02:04 The US State Department has imposed sanctions on 11 high-ranking representatives of the Russian defense sector. The head of the National Guard Zolotov, Shugaev from the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Mikheev from Rosoboronexport, as well as several deputy defense ministers of the Russian Federation fell under the sanctions.
01:42 Biden said that the United States will make sure that Ukraine has weapons and money, as well as the Americans "with open arms" are ready to welcome Ukrainian refugees.
01:15 Zelensky introduced a visa-free regime for employees of international medical or humanitarian organizations, which will operate during martial law.
00:14 The World Bank has allocated an additional $200 million to Ukraine to support social services for vulnerable groups.
[WSJ] In the two-day battle of Voznesensk, local volunteers and the military repelled the invaders, who fled leaving behind armor and dead soldiers.
A Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder, Voznesensk’s funeral director, Mykhailo Sokurenko, spent this Tuesday driving through fields and forests, picking up dead Russian soldiers and taking them to a freezer railway car piled with Russian bodies—the casualties of one of the most comprehensive routs President Vladimir Putin’s forces have suffered since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine.
A rapid Russian advance into the strategic southern town of 35,000 people, a gateway to a Ukrainian nuclear power station and pathway to attack Odessa from the back, would have showcased the Russian military’s abilities and severed Ukraine’s key communications lines.
The rest is paywalled, but I found it can be read if the title is dropped in the Google search app. The next two paragraphs of the very long article with map and photos:
Instead, the two-day battle of Voznesensk, details of which are only now emerging, turned decisively against the Russians. Judging from the destroyed and abandoned armor, Ukrainian forces, which comprised local volunteers and the professional military, eliminated most of a Russian battalion tactical group on March 2 and 3.
The Ukrainian defenders’ performance against a much-better-armed enemy in an overwhelmingly Russian-speaking region was successful in part because of widespread popular support for the Ukrainian cause—one reason the Russian invasion across the country has failed to achieve its principal goals so far. Ukraine on Wednesday said it was launching a counteroffensive on several fronts.
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I've sort of missed those vids of locals standing by the road cheering, throwing flowers, hugging their 'liberators'. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[IsraelTimes] US environmental group says it made decision ‘hastily’ without enough consultation with outside groups, after being accused of ‘greenwashing’ alleged Israeli crimes.
The Sierra Club Leadership, having appeared to have bowed to and/or adopted the Progressive Anti-Semitic Ideology agenda. Is now getting a %^&* storm of negative attention, which is hurting membership and donations.
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If they had permanently nixed the Israel trips they would have faced pressure to nix trips to China and Russia for example.
A lot of old line groups are using luxury trips as a revenue source. I got a brochure the other day from the National Geographic for a tour that would cost about $100k/person (it was for a half dozen premium venues around the world on a private plane)
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[CityJournal] The classical music establishment demands that Russian musicians condemn their nation’s invasion of Ukraine in order to retain jobs and engagements in the West.
[DW] The Bolshoi's prima ballerina, Olga Smirnova, will join the Dutch National Ballet after her criticism of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She is the biggest Russian star to quit over the war.
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This bullshit is just an extension of the BLM anti white cancel culture.
Classical music’s recent self-abasement for its “whiteness” laid the groundwork for this presumptive group guilt. Since the George Floyd race riots in May and June 2020, directors of orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories have lambasted their own field for its historical demographics, said to be inextricably linked to racism. Music critics have sneered at Beethoven and other composers for having allegedly leveraged their whiteness to achieve undeserved acclaim. Mea culpas and promises of fealty to Black Lives Matter have become de rigeuer in mission statements and fundraising pitches. Now these coerced confessions are demanded of a subset of musicians whose Russianness makes them as suspect as whiteness does the entire Caucasian population
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The west had too long consorted with islamics and the cultism has rubbed off on them. This cancel business and sanction madness is more and more like the kaffar and blasphemy dogmas of the donkey fuckers. First you denounce your elected president, then apologize to blacks for their inability to live decently where does it end? Social media and unions of artists and showbiz today owns your right to make any choice whatsoever! One day they'll ask you to spit on crosses too.
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Complete bullshit, yeah. They're canceling Gergiev who's neutral, and they're canceling Anna Netrebko, who's against the war. The cancel culture predates the war, they're just seizing on it as the next reason to trash western civilisation
One Mr Bulama Geidam, a health worker assigned to the General Hospital Gubio, in the Gubio Local Government Area of Borno State has been abducted by the members of the Islamic State of West African Province faction of the Boko Haram terrorists.
The ISWAP insurgents attacked Gubio early hours of Wednesday, carting away a load of food items and fuel from a humanitarian truck.
Confirming the abduction, the state Commissioner for Health, Juliana Bitruce, described the incident as “unfortunate and disturbing.”
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Commissioner said that the abducted health worker was among those who remained at their duty posts despite the palpable insecurity within the area.
“The ministry will write to officially inform all the concerned security agencies, including the Theater Command, Operation Hadin Kai,” she said.
The commissioner prayed for the safe release of the health worker.
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[Rudaw] Four Swedish nationals, including children, affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) were repatriated from the notorious al-Hol camp
...sometimes spelt al-Hawl camp...
in northeast Syria (Rojava), a senior Kurdish official said on Wednesday.
Two Swedish women and two children "from ISIS families were handed over to a delegation from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs," read a tweet from Abdulkarim Omar, co-chair of the Kurdish administration’s foreign office.
Nine orphaned Russian children from ISIS families were repatriated from Rojava in late February.
Dozens of shells fell on the village of al-Hoshan and the M4 highway in #Syria’s #Ain_Issa by the Turkish forces, causing damage to the villagers’ property.https://t.co/5r5xYe2Ic9
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AIN ISSA, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday evening, Turkish forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions bombed the western countryside of Ain Issa town and the M4 highway, north of Raqqa, north Syria, with missiles and heavy weapons.
“The village of al-Hoshan and the M4 highway were bombed by the Turkish forces and opposition factions. The shelling came in tandem with the flight of the Turkish drone over Ain Issa town,” a military source told North Press.
“Dozens of shells fell on the village of al-Hoshan and the M4 highway by the Turkish forces stationed in the adjacent villages,” the source added.
The bombing also resulted in material damage to the property of the residents of those villages, according to the source.
Hours ago, a civilian car was bombed by a Turkish drone in the vicinity of the village in the countryside of Ain Issa, causing only material damage.
The town of Ain Issa and the surrounding villages are daily bombarded by the Turkish forces and the opposition factions.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:47 All the assigned tasks in the special operation will certainly be solved, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. 21:46 Distribution of humanitarian aid in Volchansk, Kharkiv region.
21:43 The Ukrainian side fired at a convoy with refugees moving along the humanitarian corridor towards the Russian Federation in the Kharkiv direction, four people were killed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
21:30 Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko said at a meeting with EU Ambassador to Moscow Markus Ederer that military-technical assistance to Kiev will not remain without consequences for the European Union.
21:00 The United States will send 9,000 anti-tank systems, 800 air defense systems, 20 million pieces of ammunition to Ukraine, Biden said.
20:47 The Ukrainian side is equipping firing positions on the territory of the Odessa Marine Station. Local residents note a large accumulation of armored vehicles and equipment for firing positions.
20:46 The armed forces of the Russian Federation do not leave the homeless without humanitarian assistance. Representatives of the Russian army continue to provide security in the liberated Berdyansk. To maintain a peaceful life for the civilian population, comprehensive support is provided to city shelters.
20:45 Quiet life in the liberated Kherson continues. All socially important infrastructure works in the city. Children with parents walk in the parks. The maintenance of order is provided by Russian troops.Video.
20:34 Broken equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov.Video.
20:27 American kamikaze UAVs Switchblade 300 and Switchblade 600 will be delivered to Ukraine. They are designed to destroy both equipment and infantry.
20:10 The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional $800 million in military assistance, which will bring it to $1 billion this week, Biden said.
20:07 Germany does not have enough surplus defensive weapons to fully meet the needs of Ukraine, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock.
19:45 One Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter, six drones were shot down in the air - the Russian Defense Ministry.
19:38 The new authorities of Kherson said they want to improve relations with Russia, reportsRT. Social activists and politicians of the city created a new body - the Committee of Salvation for Peace and Order. Committee representative Kirill Stremousov said that the region wants to establish trade, economic, social and cultural ties with Russia. In addition, the Crimean authorities have already assured of their readiness to supply products to Kherson: from vegetables and fruits to toilet paper and fuels and lubricants.
19:35 The SBU, with the support of Western countries, is preparing a provocation in Ukraine using toxic substances to accuse Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The department also reported that there are no chemical munitions in the Russian units participating in the special operation in Ukraine, and that in order to suppress the provocations of Ukrainian nationalists with poisonous substances, the RF Armed Forces are taking dangerous objects in Ukraine under control.
19:20 D-30 howitzer of the "Crimean Battalion" of the Territorial Defense Forces in a residential area.
18:58 US Senator Lindsey Graham announced that the United States intends to transfer aircraft and air defense systems to Ukraine.
18:40 Appeared on the webvideothe destruction of two units of infantry fighting vehicles by artillery in the suburbs of Kyiv and the destruction of a disguised command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kiev region with a high-precision Krasnopol projectile.
18:10 The Kiev regime is indifferent to the fate of the people of Ukraine, they were given the task of creating "anti-Russia", Putin said. The Russian leader noted that the Kiev regime is indifferent to the fact that civilians are dying, that hundreds of thousands, millions of people have become refugees, that in the cities held by neo-Nazis and their armed accomplices released from prisons, “a real humanitarian catastrophe is taking place.”
17:30 The entrance to the Dnieper Bay from Ochakov is blocked by various ships. Thus, the exit of ships from the entire Dnieper basin to the Black Sea is impossible, writes Telegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya".
17:03 Russian soldiers are doing everything to avoid losses among the civilian population of Ukrainian cities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
17:00 Another facility has been discovered near Kharkiv associated with American programs to work with potentially dangerous strains and study pathogens of potentially dangerous diseases. In the forest near N. p. Merefa at coordinates 49.797476, 36.086781 there are two buildings of a disguised biological laboratory.
16:53 A precision missile attack was launched on the "Kiev Automation Plant". An enterprise that produced remotely controlled weapon modules.Video.
16:47 CNN reports that the US and NATO are sending several anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine. A senior US official said these systems include the Soviet-era SA-8, SA-10, SA-12 and SA-14 mobile air defense systems, which have a longer range than the Stingers (but less than the S-300 system) , which generally makes it possible to hit cruise missiles.
16:15 Photos of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in residential areas of Odessa have appeared on the network. Our team managed to identify the places where the pictures were taken: BMP-2 at the intersection of Lanzheronovskaya and Yekaterininskaya streets near the building of Skarzhinskaya's house. Tank T-64 at the monument to Duke on Primorsky Boulevard. Tank T-64 on Primorsky Boulevard near the Vorontsov Palace.
All positions are located in the historical buildings of the city.
16:00 The Economist (UK) Internet publication criticized Kyiv forcing volunteers to sign long-term contracts if they do not have the necessary experience in combat operations, writes Telegram-channel "Kremlin laundress". Along with this, the unprofessionalism of unit commanders and instructors is pointed out, who train recruits in an extremely short time (3-5 days) and doom them to death. Most of the foreign mercenaries fighting on the side of Ukraine openly adhere to Nazi views and are war criminals.
15:56 A consolidated detachment of volunteers in Crimea is collecting humanitarian aid for residents of the Kherson region. Food packages are being formed in warehouses, said Igor Kastyukevich, head of the Youth Volunteer Corps "We Are Together", coordinator of United Russia on youth policy, State Duma deputy.
15:54 Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to investigate appeals Ukrainian journalist Fakhrudin Sharafmal to kill Russians.
15:27 Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov promised 10 million rubles to the Russian military, the National Guard and residents of Ukraine for the capture of a Ukrainian journalist who called for the killing of Russian children.
15:05 FSB published video survey of a former serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He stated that the nationalists shot the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who fled under the blows of Russian troops. “An armored personnel carrier drove up, literally a hundred meters away, and started shooting at the boys who were running across the field,” the soldier said.
14:32 The US administration is considering the possibility of providing Ukraine with drones to fight tanks and artillery - NBC. The article talks about two versions of the UAV - Switchblade 300 and 600. The first of them is designed for pinpoint strikes on personnel, and the second - for the destruction of tanks and other armored vehicles.
14:28 In the Sea of Azov near Berdyansk, the National Guard began patrolling.
14:10 The Russian Ministry of Defense showed a missile and artillery depot in the Kherson region that came under the control of the Russian military: there are more than 10 thousand boxes with F-1 grenades, hundreds of boxes with shots for anti-tank grenade launchers, thousands with cartridges. It is expected that they will be handed over to the forces of the DNR and LNR.
13:52 American radicals from the paramilitary group Boogaloo Boys are going to Ukraine to participate in hostilities on the side of Kyiv.
13:30 The armored train of the RF Armed Forces went to the front in the Kherson region.
13:16 On the morning of March 16, the TV tower in Vinnitsa was shelled, according to the State Service for Communications. On-air broadcasting in the city and neighboring settlements is temporarily not available.
13:05 The Kakhovskaya HPP was taken under guard without a fight, the local paramilitary guards laid down their arms and went home, the National Guard reported.
13:04 The Russian Federation is not ready to consider proposals for mediation in negotiations with Ukraine from countries that have joined the anti-Russian sanctions, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
12:06 Negotiations with Ukraine are going hard and slowly, said the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky. According to him, the main points of the position of the Russian Federation are the preservation and development of the neutral status of Ukraine - demilitarization, a whole range of issues related to the size of the Ukrainian army is being discussed.
He also added that Ukraine offers an Austrian, Swedish version of a neutral, demilitarized state.
12:00 Israeli snipers are working in the city of Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region. This was reported by a local resident writes Telegram channel "Southern bridgehead". Recall that Israel acted as a peacekeeping country that tried to maintain neutrality with respect to Russia's special operation in Ukraine, but continues to send its mercenaries there.
11:17 The decision to start a special operation in Ukraine was based on an extremely accurate assessment of the situation in the world, the slightest delay in relation to the openly Russophobic Kiev regime would turn into a big tragedy in the near future, said Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.
11:15 Residents of the city of Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region) continue to report that Ukrainian nationalists are mining fields in the city and its environs.
10:45 At one of the sites, our units managed to force the Irpen River (Kyiv region). We have entrenched ourselves on the other side, we will expand the bridgehead there, according to military commander Alexander Kots.
10:45 At one of the sites, our units managed to force the Irpen River (Kyiv region). We have entrenched ourselves on the other side, we will expand the bridgehead there, according to military commander Alexander Kots.
10:41 Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said that Germany is supplying Kiev with "insufficient defensive weapons."
10:40 An artillery unit of the Russian Armed Forces, in the course of carrying out a fire mission, with an accurate hit, destroyed a combined warehouse of missile and artillery weapons and up to 20 units of military equipment and weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
10:30 NATO will continue to supply weapons to Ukraine in a variety of ways, said British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.
10:05 The team of the Rybar Telegram channel managed to identify one of the targets of the morning attack on Kiev - the territory of the NPO "Kyiv Automation Plant" on Starokievskaya Street in the city center.
10:05 The team of the Rybar Telegram channel managed to identify one of the targets of the morning attack on Kiev - the territory of the NPO "Kyiv Automation Plant" on Starokievskaya Street in the city center.
The enterprise produced hydraulic devices and other elements of control systems for the needs of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.
09:45 Eyewitnesses report that huge echelons with tanks and other equipment are moving through Germany towards Ukraine.
09:29 The Russian army has delivered over 90 tons of humanitarian aid to residents of the Dergachev district of the Kharkiv region.
09:00 A cruise missile strikes a military facility in Kyiv.
08:40 Footage appeared on the web from the Inohodets drone, which strikes at the fortifications and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:00 Russia delivered more than 90 tons of humanitarian aid to the Kharkiv region - people lined up in long lines. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation clarified that among the humanitarian aid are food, bottled water and medicines for hospitals. In addition, warm clothes for adults and children were distributed to the residents of the Dergachev district.
Shafaq News / The spokesman for the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, Maj. Gen Yahya Rasool, announced today arresting eight ISIS terrorists in six Iraqi governorates.
Rasool said in a statement today that two terrorists were arrested in Baghdad, while four others were arrested in a military campaign that covered al-Anbar, al-Fallujah, Saladin, al-Shirqat, Diyala, Kirkuk, and Hawija.
In coordination with the Asayish forces in al-Sulaymaniyah, two terrorists were arrested, according to Rasool.
The statement noted that the Counter-Terrorism service is continuously carrying out successful military missions, indicating that its members receive advanced mental and physical training.
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Is it still "charity" when the money that could have gone to widows and orphans goes to scammers instead? As for the "donors," Riverboat Slim's dictum remains in effect: "Suckers aren't supposed to have money..."
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Hey, didn't I see that story on MSNBC? No, wait a minute...never mind. I must be confusing that with the expose they did on Hunter Biden. Snark O'The Day
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To no one's surprise, the outfit that awarded this grifter 'Bostonian of the Year' is... The Boston Globe, her primary cheerleader the past two years. Plenty of more dirt on this cow at the link.
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Eric Hoffer
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
apparently true even for phony causes
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My rule of thumb concerning BLOM and/or other organizations, groups, Media outlets, churches, or Person(s) that exist solely by blaming another group for their problems while not working within their collective on ways to solve the issue.
Are just typical previvors of Hate speech and Pimping Racism for fame and/or fortune. That the media loves to flaunt for viewership and AD $$$$
I believe we all could recite a dozen examples off the tops of our heads.
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To no one's surprise, the outfit that awarded this grifter 'Bostonian of the Year' is the Boston Globe.
Well no shit. She followed the rules exactly. They should give her even more awards, maybe the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The AFU, developing its defensive strategy, relied heavily on Soviet plans to organize a system of “fortress cities”, which were supposed to deplete the offensive potential of NATO and give the Soviet Army time to mobilize and redeploy reserves.
[BabylonBee] In an emotional plea before Congress today, Ukrainian president Zalinsky made a common-sense request for America to institute a no-fly zone and start WWIII.
"Please," said Zelensky through a translator. "This shouldn't be that hard. All I'm asking for is for an all-out war between the nuclear powers of Russia, America, and China. It's that easy! What's there to even think about here?"
According to sources, most members of Congress weren't entirely convinced until Zelensky whipped out his guitar and sang a lovely Ukrainian ballad, causing the many of the politicians in the room to squeal and swoon with delight.
As the lovely song sung by the dreamy Ukrainian leader progressed, Nancy Pelosi began chanting "WORLD WAR THREE! WORLD WAR THREE!" The chant spread throughout the room as the rest of Congress began pumping their fists and shouting "WORLD WAR THREE! WORLD WAR THREE! WORLD WAR THREE!"
Witnesses reported that a gaggle of lobbyists from Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics were later seen high-fiving in the back of the room.
This woman is an angry feminist -- but she's quickly changing her tune as World War 3 starts and she faces the possibility of getting drafted.
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Nancy Pelosi began chanting "WORLD WAR THREE! WORLD WAR THREE!"
They need to remake Strangelove with that old c*nt in the Slim Pickens role
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Actually it's not satire. Dude was interviewed on MBC News and actually said if we don't escalate and save his bacon, then we're just denying that World War III has "already started."
Yeah, he actually said that. He's out of control
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Washington's Military Industrial Complex has become something of an economic dialysis since the end of WWII. Stop going to treatments, and you will surely die.
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Jesus Christ... he really did tell Lester Holt that we're already in WWIII and we're supposed to intervene in Russia and Ukraine's war. Life imitates satire
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"Tony Blair understandably wants to help start World War III — a catastrophe so big, it’ll erase the memory of the blunder in Iraq. Maybe literally erase the whole world."
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You're losing the Tiktok Influencer crowd Lord Garth; WW11111.
[WDAF] KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There’s a new warning about a crime that some are linking to the high price of gas — thieves drilling into vehicle gas tanks to steal fuel.
Oh c’mon — all they need to do is weld a small patch over the hole, right?
Newer vehicles have an anti-rollover valve that relieves pressure in the tank and also prevents would-be thieves from siphoning gas, according to AAA, so crooks are bypassing the valve and drilling right into the underside of the car.
In Kansas City, police in Overland Park and Independence are investigating multiple such reports. Police say the crimes happened overnight last week and left at least two pickup trucks and a third vehicle damaged.
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Have seen the 10 penny nail, rubber hammer, and a few Mop buckets used for "emergency collection">
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Read a story some years back of two guys trying to steal gas with a shop vac. That didn't end well either.
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Many years ago I caught 2 weinerheads doing that to my car. I heard some noise outside my house around 1:00 AM. My dogs woke me up. They were very afraid of my .45 colt. They were both 18. I don't think they enjoyed their stay in the County jail.
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I have seen a weld done on a fuel tank containing fuel, TW. Heard of such a couple of times by some old timers. Nitrogen or CO2 purges to force out Oxygen. Still very unsafe. Only done for dire straits. Lots of tight buttholes on the one I saw. The weld was below the fuel line too. A brass punch and brass hammer are faster than a drill and dont spark. I was reluctant to say that, but any thief reading here will know that. The good folks here should know how for myriad reasons.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Disgraced 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett has been released from jail after just six days behind bars so he can appeal his conviction for faking a hate crime - with his lawyer saying the 39-year-old was refusing food behind bars, and had 'nearly given up'.
Smollett did not speak as he left the Cook County Jail, and was flanked by bodyguards as he walked out and into a waiting SUV.
He was freed after he posts the required $150,000 personal recognizance bond.
Nenye Uche, Smollett's lawyer, said that the actor put his hands on the glass separating him from his client when the news was broken to him, and reacted with 'shock'.
'He was shocked,' said Uche. 'He had nearly given up.'
Smollett spent just two of his days with the general jail population, and four in a psychiatric unit over fears for his mental wellbeing.
Judges ruled that he should go free while his lawyers work on the appeal of his conviction on five felony counts of lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack. He was jailed for 150 days.Uche, his lawyer, told the waiting press: 'Obviously the Smollett family are very, very happy about this. We are elated.'
He then criticized the judge who presided over Smollett's December trial, and who sentenced him on Thursday. Uche accused Judge James Linn of having politicized the trial, and responded to the intense public interest in the case. Read the rest at the link
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interesting to see whether Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris and his other celebrity supporters return his phone calls.
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Many here on RANTBURG saw it coming and called it days ago...
Slap on the wrist, and released after a few days and etc...
I wonder what the Judge got or will get in return?
Because I doubt the judge does this for the average Racist Criminal Riot provokers coming into his courtroom.
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If that sleeze ball Smollett's career is over and can't find meaningful employment, then that's good enough for me (but a few more days in jail wouldn't hurt).
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For decades they have said that hate crimes are uniquely bad because they send fear throughout the targeted community. Clearly this judge disagrees.
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DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Two Syrian government soldiers were killed, on Wednesday, in an IED explosion that targeted their car in a town east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
An IED unknown individuals planted in a dirt route, which leads to a military point of the Air Force Intelligence, exploded when a military vehicle loading logistical supplies passed by, a military source of the 4th Armored Division affiliated with the Syrian government in al-Asharah town, 55 kilometers east of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press.
The explosion claimed lives of two soldiers, who hailed from the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, who were inside the car, in addition to damaging the car, the source added.
Despite the intensive combing campaigns, areas in the Syrian desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor increase concerns of Iran-backed militias and the government forces because those areas occasionally witness operations launched by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cells causing massive loses for the government forces and the militias.
On March 7, several government forces’ members were killed and wounded in a missile attack carried out by unknown on a military point of the government forces in the town of Boqrus east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
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Shafaq News / On Tuesday, an explosion targeted a convoy carrying logistical support equipment for the US-led Coalition in Basra, southern Iraq.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency that an explosive device blew up near the Jreishan border crossing without causing causalities.
Hours later, another device exploded near a convoy on Samawa Highway, southern Iraq.
There was no claim for responsibility.
The Iraqi authorities issued several warnings of repeated targeting of foreign forces and diplomatic missions in the country.
On January 5, the Iraqi parliament voted by the majority to end the foreign military presence on the country's territory, following the Iranian Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, and the deputy head Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, in an American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport.
Washington accuses armed Iraqi factions linked to Iran of being behind the attacks
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QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, a Turkish drone bombed a car in the western countryside of Ain Issa town, north Syria.
“A Turkish drone bombed a civilian car in the village of Hoshan, west of Ain Issa, causing only material damage,” the media center of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said.
On Tuesday, a Turkish drone targeted the hill of the town of Tel-Rifaat in the north countryside of Aleppo, but no casualties were reported.
On Saturday, three children were injured in the bombing of the Turkish forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions on the village of al-Heisha in the western countryside of the town of Ain Issa.
The town of Ain Issa and the surrounding villages are daily bombarded by the Turkish forces and the opposition factions.
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The Jerusalem Post gives the Babylon Bee a run for its money.
[JPost] Russian President Vladimir Putin was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Sunday for his novel approach to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pandemic, which had killed millions worldwide and brought the world to a standstill for over two years, was itself brought to a sudden halt on February 24, when Russia conducted a "special medical operation" in Ukraine.
Global medical and scientific experts expressed astonishment that the pandemic had been virtually eliminated from websites, twitter feeds and newspaper headlines.
"It’s amazing, we haven’t heard anything about the COVID-19 pandemic since Russia’s ’operation’ in Ukraine," said Dr. Fauxi of the US National Institutes of Health, who nominated the world leader. "All traces of the virus are gone from newspapers, television and Internet — which are all chief vectors of transmission. At least I think so. We’ll see what the science says next week."
In other new related to the war in Ukraine, the United States decided to ban White Russian cocktails from all bars throughout the country in what is being perceived as a crippling blow to the Russian war effort.
Following a prolonged debate in the Senate, in which Republican senators who opposed the move because they really like White Russians brought in expert Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski to testify on their behalf, the bill passed by a narrow majority.
In a surprise move, instead of supporting those that opposed the bill, Lebowski reversed his position.
"I guess I could get used to drinking Black Russian cocktails instead," he testified. However, when told that both drinks would be banned to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people, Lebowski responded, "In that case, I could get used to drinking rum and cokes or Screwdrivers. I’m in."
That move, together with the decision to bar Russia from participating in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, could prove to be the tipping point for Putin, said former IDF Chief of General Staff Gabi Eyes-on-Top, a senior researcher for cushy positions at the Institute for International Insecurity Studies and Paper Wasting.
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"The pandemic, which had killed millions worldwide and brought the world to a standstill for over two years, was itself brought to a sudden halt on February 24"
Yeah, that's funny. What happened to all the covid mask avatars on Twitter? Suddenly they all became Ukrainian flag avatars
[Townhall] White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that he expects Republican lawmakers to attack him during Congressional hearings come 2023 should the party take control of the House and Senate.
During an interview with The Washington Post, Fauci said he predicts to be the subject of a lot of public grillings but that nothing will come out of it.
"It's Benghazi hearings all over again," he said of Republicans vowing to issue subpoenas in an attempt to push the doctor providing information about his alleged funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director continued, "They’ll try to beat me up in public, and there'll be nothing there. But it will distract me from doing my job, the way it’s doing right now."
Fauci's mention of the Benghazi hearings was in reference to a two-year investigation by the GOP-controlled House into the 2012 attacks in Libya that resulted in four Americans dying. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the focus of the Benghazi hearings.
Members of a radical Islamic militant group carried out a coordinated attack on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. The attack killed four Americans – U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
Shortly after the attack, Clinton and then-U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice falsely attributed militants storming the compound to a poorly produced YouTube video, claiming it incited the militants.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi did not find any evidence that Clinton was responsible when it issued its final report on the investigation in 2016. Lawmakers did, however, rebuke her State Department, along with the Defense Department and the CIA for failures in anticipating the security needs of the Benghazi diplomatic mission.
Now, Republicans are preparing to target Fauci for his alleged role in funding gain-of-function research in China, with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul saying in December that he plans to issue subpoenas in order to determine the origin of the coronavirus.
"If we take over the Senate next year, I’ll be chairman of the health committee, and I pledge to use the subpoena power to get every last record about the origin of the virus, about Fauci," Paul said at the time.
And on Monday, Paul introduced legislation that would eliminate Fauci's role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"We've learned a lot over the past two years, but one lesson in particular is that no one person should be deemed 'dictator-in-chief.' No one person should have unilateral authority to make decisions for millions of Americans," Paul said in a statement. "To ensure that ineffective, unscientific lockdowns and mandates are never foisted on the American people ever again, I've introduced this amendment to eliminate Dr. Anthony Fauci's position as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and divide his power into three separate new institutes."
Fauci and Paul have had heated exchanges during several Senate hearings about allegations that Fauci's NIAID funded gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the global pandemic. The doctor has repeatedly denied these accusations.
But in September, released records showed that EcoHealth Alliance, the NIAID grantee that gave funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study bat-based coronaviruses, developed a chimeric coronavirus in Wuhan labs that caused mice with humanized cells to become sicker than those infected with the natural strain of the virus.
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Fauci said he predicts to be the subject of a lot of public grillings but that nothing will come of it.
He's not wrong.
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Should the Pubs gain power I hope they don't just diddle the dog forever and actually hold people accountable. There is plenty of corruption and illegality to go after.
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[Korrespondent] 21:40 An An-124 (Ruslan) cargo plane of the Volga-Dnepr airline was arrested in Canada, writes ZN.UA. It is planned that now it will be used to deliver military cargo from the US and Canada to Ukraine. 21:38 About the possible consequences of Russia's exclusion from the Council of Europe - in the article Russians are going to be executed?
21:35 The Ministry of Defense of Poland presented NATO with a project to create a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, writes UP. At the same time, the US State Department, in response to this proposal, stated that the presence of American soldiers on the territory of Ukraine would only prolong the war.
21:30 Slovakia tentatively agreed to provide Ukraine with the S-300 air defense system on the condition that NATO countries replace these systems with it, writes CNN. Germany and the Netherlands said they were ready to provide Slovakia with an American Patriot air defense system in return. There are no official decisions on this yet.
21:24 Kuleba admits that Russia may not comply with the decision of the International Court of Justice, which ordered it to immediately stop hostilities in Ukraine. According to him, "this will negatively affect the final decision of the court in this case, in particular, in the context of determining by the court the amount of compensation that Ukraine should receive."
"And the second important point - legal and political: now anyone who wants to say that there is no Russian aggression, or that Russia is doing everything right - these arguments will be smashed against the decision of the International Court of Justice, which we received today."
21:22 In the Vinnytsia Regional Council, following the Kherson City Council, the local faction of the Opposition Platform for Life has dissolved itself. The Servant of the People party also called on other local deputies from the Opposition Platform for Life to join this flash mob.
21:20 The UN commented on Russia's complaints about widespread Russophobia: "Problems with Russophobia will disappear when a ceasefire in Ukraine is achieved."
21:19 Ukraine and the IAEA are preparing an agreement on security guarantees for nuclear facilities, Energoatom President Petr Kotin said.
21:17 In Italy, the assets of Alisher Usmanov, who fell under the sanctions, have been frozen for 66 million euros, the media write.
21:16 Biden personally stated that he considers Putin a war criminal.
20:54 The SBU commented on a new fake from the Russian Defense Ministry that the Security Service of Ukraine "with the support of Western countries is preparing a provocation with the use of toxic substances against civilians."
"The SBU, even in theory, cannot prepare any provocations with toxic substances. Because we do not act by the methods of the occupiers," the SBU said.
20:49 In Mariupol, the Russians attacked not only the Drama Theater, but also the Neptune pool, in which people were also hiding. While it is impossible to get information about the victims and victims, said the head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Pavel Kirilenko.
20:23 In the temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in connection with the forced mobilization of men, a critical situation has developed, bringing the region closer to a humanitarian catastrophe, the General Staff reports.
20:04 When dismantling the structures of a hostel in Chernihiv, rescuers found the bodies of five dead, including three children.
20:02 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace confirmed that Ukraine will receive portable Starstreak MANPADS, which can shoot down air targets at a distance of up to 5000 meters. Currently, they are in service only in Britain and South Africa.
19:56 The Russians are not planning to attack Nikolaev in the near future, the city will be in the rear. The invaders are moving beyond Kherson, said the head of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration Vitaly Kim.
19:29 Kiev again came under enemy fire in the evening. According to the Kyiv City State Administration, the shells hit several private houses in the Podolsk region. Rescuers and paramedics are on the scene and no one has been injured yet.
The low-pressure gas pipeline was also damaged, and the accident is being eliminated by gas service specialists.
19:26 Before the attack on the Drama Theater in Mariupol, the Russian media wrote that the building was "crammed with civilians" who were allegedly "guarded by 12 militants of the Azov regiment."
19:18 Biden announced that the United States will transfer $1 billion worth of defense assistance to Ukraine this week. It includes 800 air defense systems and 9 thousand anti-tank systems, drones, 7 thousand small arms, 20 million ammunition.
19:15 Medinsky said that the negotiations of the Ukrainian and Russian delegations are ongoing, they involve lawyers, international affairs and the military. "Literally every number and every letter," he said, is discussed carefully, because it should be "an agreement for generations to come."
Discussed, in particular, the neutral status of Ukraine, demilitarization and everything related to the size of the Ukrainian army, as well as the status of Crimea and Donbass, denazification, the rights of the Russian-speaking population, said the head of the Russian delegation.
Negotiations, according to him, "go hard and slowly." "Russia needs a peaceful, free and independent Ukraine - a friend and a neighbor," he explained.
19:11 The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov , who was kidnapped on March 11 by the Russian occupiers , has been released , deputy head of the Presidential Office Kirill Timoshenko said. Later, a video appeared on the network in which Zelensky communicates with Fedorov on the phone.
About the kidnapping of the heads of Ukrainian cities - in the article Theft of mayors .
19:08 Stoltenberg said that by unleashing a war against Ukraine, Putin underestimated the Ukrainians. At the same time, the NATO Secretary General warned that the Kremlin's ability to "continue this war with brutal methods" should not be underestimated.
“Russia is a nuclear force and we have seen them threaten with nuclear rhetoric – both – NATO allies and Ukraine. We should not underestimate the danger of Russia’s military capabilities, including their desire to use force to destroy others,” he stressed.
18:55 Podolyak said that the information published by the Financial Times about the Ukrainian-Russian negotiations is "a draft demonstrating the request of the Russian side - and no more."
"The Ukrainian side has its own positions. The only thing we confirm at this stage is a ceasefire, the withdrawal of Russian troops and security guarantees from a number of states."
18:47 Medvedchuk's 92-meter yacht Royal Romance, which was moored in the city of Rijeka, was arrested in Croatia, local media write. This is one of the five largest yachts in the world, used exclusively for the needs of the owners. The annual maintenance, repair and fuel costs of such a yacht range from 15 to 20 million dollars.
18:34 Western media write about serious progress in the negotiations between Kiev and Moscow. Read more about this in the article Neutral status of Ukraine. What is discussed with the Russian Federation .
18:32 Statement by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Twitter: "We will return Crimea and every piece of our land temporarily occupied by Russia, and hold Russia and its leadership responsible for all the crimes committed by it in Ukraine."
18:15 Kuleba said that today's decision of the International Court of Justice is "exactly what Ukraine demanded." He explained that now the fact of Russia's invasion has been ascertained at the highest legal level.
This decision also means that the court did not find any evidence for Russia's allegations of genocide on the territory of Ukraine.
The decision was supported by 13 judges, only two were against - Russia and China, "this is a powerful result that gives weight to the decision."
The court's decision is legally binding in accordance with the norms of international law and will become a starting point for other legal and political assessments of Russian aggression.
"International legal responsibility takes time, and the consideration of the case will continue, but the responsibility of Russia is inevitable. At the last stage of the consideration of the case, the issue of reparations will be decided. I have no doubt that we will win here too, and in the end Russia will also pay with money. Today's decision is an act of justice against the Ukrainian people," Kuleba said.
18:13 In Mariupol, the Russians dropped a super-powerful bomb on the Drama Theater, where thousands of citizens were hiding. Because of the shelling, they cannot dismantle the rubble, according to Sergey Taruta.
18:04 Zelensky said that Ukraine "won a complete victory in the case against Russia in the International Court of Justice."
The court has ordered Russia to immediately stop its invasion of Ukraine, and the order is binding under international law. "Ignoring the decision will drive the Russian Federation into even greater isolation," the president stressed.
18:02 The American embassy in Ukraine on the anniversary of the Crimean "referendum" stated that "Crimea is Ukraine, and the United States will never recognize the illegal occupation of the territory of Ukraine by Russia."
17:58 As a result of the shelling of a column of refugees in the area of the village of Stepnogorsk near Zaporozhye, five people were injured, among them one child in serious condition.
17:40 NATO next week will consider the long-term consequences of Russia's attack on Ukraine for the defense of the alliance, said Stoltenberg.
The Secretary General also stressed that the NATO countries will continue to provide military and financial assistance to Ukraine, but the alliance forces will not be present on the territory or in the airspace of Ukraine.
Stoltenberg added that NATO should review the measures of collective deterrence, increase forces in the eastern part of the alliance.
17:35 The International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that Russia should stop hostilities in Ukraine.
17:17 The morning explosion in the area of the Kiev zoo is the result of the work of the Ukrainian air defense forces, which shot down the Kalibr cruise missile, Gerashchenko said. The fragments of the rocket caught the attic and the upper floors of one of the houses on the street. Gavrylyshyn.
17:07 Auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's canceled the auction of Russian works of art.
17:05 Podolyak, in an interview with the American PBS channel, expressed confidence that "a ceasefire will be achieved in the coming days . " He also announced the preparation of documents for direct negotiations between Zelensky and Putin.
17:01 Peskov told RIA Novosti that the presidents of Ukraine and Russia "can and should meet not to discuss, but to fix agreements."
16:46 The "government" of the so-called "LPR" issued a "decision" according to which, from March 17, the Ukrainian hryvnia can be used throughout the "republic" in parallel with the Russian ruble. The document will remain in effect until further notice.
16:45 WHO has suspended the evaluation of the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V due to "technical difficulties caused by sanctions."
16:36 Near Zaporozhye, Russian invaders shot from Gradov a convoy of cars that was moving from Mariupol to Zaporozhye. There are dead and wounded, reports Ukraine 24.
In total, more than 1,565 cars arrived from Mariupol to Zaporozhye - 4,329 people were evacuated, including 1,033 children. Now they are getting the help they need.
16:35 Ukraine has captured about a thousand Russian servicemen, Zelensky told the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Karim Khan.
16:34 Speaker of the Rada Stefanchuk said that the law on collaborationism has come into force.
16:33 The HLE faction in the Kherson city council has dissolved itself: nine deputies included in it wrote a statement about their withdrawal and condemned Russia's aggression, writes Gerashchenko.
16:28 Podolyak says that Ukraine's position in negotiations with Russia is legally verified security guarantees, a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops. All this, according to him, is possible only with a direct dialogue between Zelensky and Putin.
16:25 Putin said that if the Russian troops stopped at the borders of the "LDNR", "this would not be the final decision, it would not remove the threat to Russia."
He added that "in the foreseeable future, the pro-Nazi regime in Kyiv could get nuclear weapons, the target would be Russia."
16:24 CNN reports that the US and NATO countries are sending Ukraine several anti-aircraft missile systems - in particular, Soviet-era air defense systems SA-8, SA-10, SA-12 and SA-14. These systems have a longer range than the Stingers, giving them the ability to hit cruise missiles.
16:03 Ukraine has become a member of the energy European Union - the unification of the Ukrainian and European energy systems has been completed . "Now our electricity flows to Europe, and European electricity to Ukraine," Zelensky wrote on Twitter and thanked Ukraine's partners.
Today Ukraine will start synchronization with ENTSO-E.
15:52 The Serbian airline Air Serbia, under pressure from public opinion, supported Western sanctions and canceled flights to Russia.
15:39 In Strasbourg, in front of the building of the Council of Europe, the Russian flag was removed from the flagpole. The Russian Federation became the first country in the history of the Council of Europe, which was expelled from the organization.
15:38 Putin said that the tactics of the Russian Defense Ministry in Ukraine have fully justified themselves: "everything is being done to avoid losses among the civilian population."
15:34 Russian conscripts who were sent to fight in Ukraine are forced to sign contracts after the fact, the SBU reports, referring to the intercepted conversations of the invaders.
15:32 Zelensky said that "now it is not enough to be the leader of the country, now you need to be the leader of the world, such a leader strives for peace." According to him, today the Ukrainian people are fighting for values in Europe and the world.
15:26 Zelensky called for the creation of a new international structure - the Union of Responsible Countries. According to him, the institutions created after the last war did not work.
“We propose to create a Union of Responsible Countries, capable of immediately reacting and doing everything to quickly achieve peace. Such an alliance will be able to help those who are also experiencing natural disasters, who have become victims of epidemics. Remember how difficult it was for the world to create vaccines to protect against a pandemic. If such an alliance existed, we could save thousands of lives in our country and countries where people suffer," Zelensky argued.
15:24 Zelensky asked the US Congress to provide Ukraine with air defense systems, including the S-300, and also to provide a humanitarian no-fly zone over Ukraine.
15:21 Zelensky called for the closure of American ports for Russian goods and other measures to stop the Russian Federation: "We must create new rapid response tools and stop a full-scale Russian invasion. It will be fair if the evil is punished in the next 24 hours."
15:10 Zelensky speaks in the US Congress:
15:01 In Kharkiv, the market was shelled, there are dead and wounded, Suspіlna reported, citing data from the emergency medical center.
14:45 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe finally excluded Russia from its membership.
14:34 The Italian Finguardia has arrested the real estate of Russian businessman Pyotr Aven in Sardinia for four million euros, Russian media write.
14:27 The mayor of Skadovsk, Alexander Yakovlev, said that the invaders had released him, and asked people not to panic.
14:24 A deepfake from the Russian occupiers appeared on the network, in which Zelensky allegedly declares surrender:
14:21 In Skadovsk, the invaders opened fire and used tear gas on people who were standing on the square in front of the City Council.
14:10 Switzerland has included more than 200 individuals and legal entities of the Russian Federation in the sanctions list. Thus, now it completely repeats the EU sanctions list.
13:54 Ukraine has attracted the best lawyers in the world in order to obtain reparations and indemnities from Russia, Oksana Zolotareva, director of the international law department of the Foreign Ministry, said at a hearing at the International Court of Justice.
13:52 The spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly was moved from Kiev to Vilnius. It will take place at the end of May, informs the Baltic Times.
13:48 Another Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber, which bombed the city, was shot down over Chernihiv. The pilots landed, they are being searched for, OK Pivnich reported.
13:45 The Buchansk City Council reported that the hostages who were taken by the invaders today are alive and well, they were released, they returned to their families. Everyone's SIM cards were taken away, so they are not in touch now.
13:41 Zelensky announced his speech to Congress today - it will be an important speech "from all of us," he said.
The President recalled that today is the anniversary of the “referendum” in Crimea: “If the world had reacted at least half the way it should react now, I am sure that there would be no invasion and eight years of war in Donbas. All this evil was born from the occupation of Crimea, our weakness, brutal actions of the Russian Federation. Now we are stronger."
13:39 In Chernihiv, the invaders fired at people who were standing in line for bread. At least ten people died, Anton Gerashchenko said.
13:32 Russia showed top-secret weapons in Ukraine, previously unknown to Western military experts. According to the New York Times, we are talking about false targets for deceiving air defenses, which are fired by the Iskander-M missile system. After detecting decoys, Western missile defense systems can be adapted to recognize such projectiles.
"The Russians, by demonstrating these projectiles, jeopardized their ability to penetrate NATO and US missile defense systems with them," said Geoffrey Lewis, an arms expert at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies.
13:27 Every morning at 09:00 throughout Ukraine there will be a nationwide minute of silence in memory of all Ukrainians who died in our Patriotic War, Zelensky said.
13:26 Zelensky: "The world is already beginning to understand that without recognizing Russia as a terrorist state, it will be impossible to restore justice in relation to Ukraine."
The President also said that he spoke with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, who arrived in Ukraine. An investigative group of the International Criminal Court has started its work in Ukraine.
13:07 According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the invaders do not pay compensation for the killed mobilized from the "LDNR" and burn the bodies. Relatives of the victims are given only a death certificate and a burial permit - and no documents about where and under what circumstances they died. Relatives are also explained that no payments are provided even if they have a Russian passport.
Forced recruitment of invaders into the 1st Army Corps also continues in ORDLO. The vast majority of "recruits" are sent to the hottest spots without preparation. Losses among them reach 70-80%.
To hide the real number of dead, the occupiers use the Donetsk Metallurgical Plant to burn corpses.
13:03 Zelensky commented on the hacking of the Ukrainian TV channel and the appearance of a fake message of surrender: "I can only offer to lay down their arms to the Russian military. And we are at home, we are defending our country. We are not going to lay down any weapons - until our victory."
12:59 In Chernobyl, the invaders robbed all the offices of enterprises - they centrally take out system units, office equipment, workwear. Vehicles left on the territory of the enterprises were destroyed. There is no light in Chernobyl, in total there are about 300 people left in the city, said the head of the Public Council under the State Agency of Ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone Oleksandr Syrota.
12:52 On the air of the TV channel Ukraine 24 today they launched a running line with a fake appeal by Zelensky, who allegedly calls on the Armed Forces of Ukraine to lay down their arms. The channel itself said that this was a hacker attack, and urged not to believe the fakes.
12:45 Podolyak said that the Ukrainian model of security guarantees should be accompanied by "a tough agreement with a number of guarantor countries that assume clear legal obligations to actively prevent attacks on Ukraine."
"We understand our partners' attempt to remain the proactive side in the negotiation process. Hence the words about the Swedish or Austrian models of neutrality. But Ukraine is now in a state of direct war with the Russian Federation. Therefore, the model can only be Ukrainian and only about legally verified security guarantees. And no other models or options," the adviser to the head of the OP emphasized.
According to him, we are talking about "absolute security guarantees", not protocol or "Budapest". "And this means that the signatories of the guarantees do not stand aside in the event of an attack on Ukraine, as they do today," he explained.
In addition, according to him, "Ukraine no longer wants to depend on bureaucratic procedures that allow or do not allow closing the sky from the same cruise missiles." "We need direct and tough guarantees that the sky will definitely be closed," Podolyak stressed.
12:41 The International Energy Agency expects a drop in oil production in the Russian Federation by three million barrels per day since April due to sanctions and importers' refusals to purchase. This is approximately 35% of the volume produced in the country.
12:40 According to the Ministry of Health, the occupiers have damaged 117 hospitals since the beginning of the war, seven of them cannot be restored.
12:36 Japan has deprived Russia of the status of the most favored nation in trade, said Prime Minister Fumio Kushida.
12:35 Explosives defused more than 350 unexploded ordnance dropped by Russian invaders on Ukrainian soil, the National Police reported.
12:33 President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer arrived in Kiev. In his Twitter, he said that he plans to meet with the Ukrainian people and the leadership of the country.
12:18 Lavrov said that Moscow supports the initiative of Israel and Turkey to mediate in negotiations with Ukraine. At the same time, he stressed that Russia does not want to see countries that have imposed sanctions against it as mediators.
12:17 Abramovich, a few hours after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, transferred control of his assets in the US, UK and Israel to one of his business partners, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing data from financial regulators.
12:15 Two-thirds of the missiles fired by Russia hit civilian targets, "and this is probably being done deliberately," Arestovich said.
12:14 Russian invaders kidnapped the mayor of Skadovsk, Kherson region, Alexander Yakovlev, and his deputy, Yuri Paliukh, activists report.
12:13 Ukraine, in dialogue with Western partners, insists on recognizing Russia as a sponsor of terrorism, as well as on the abolition of visas issued for Russians and the closure of seaports for Russian ships, Shmyhal said.
12:11 The press service of the National Security and Defense Council published a list of senior and senior officers of the Russian army liquidated in Ukraine . At the moment it has 11 names. Among them are army commanders and commanders of regiments, divisions and brigades.
12:06 Fighting is going on in the forest near Kiev, the Russians are retreating, Gerashchenko reports.
11:58 In Ukraine, representatives of the elite of the Russian Guard - "maroon berets" - have been destroyed. According to Russian media, at least seven of them died.
11:56 Zaluzhny said that the forces of the ground forces, territorial defense, air assault troops, special operations forces and others were involved in the defense of the capital from attacks and the offensive of the Russian occupier. "Kyiv will survive!" - assured the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:52 More than 500 civilians have been killed in Kharkiv since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the State Emergency Service reports.
11:50 In Ukraine, the son of the deputy governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation was killed. His death was reported in the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, and the chairman of the Investigative Committee Bastrykin posthumously awarded him a medal.
The occupant was the deputy commander of the reconnaissance company for military-political work of the 137th regiment of the 106th Tula Guards Airborne Division.
11:47 The Armed Forces assured that no one sends unprepared people to the front line, everyone undergoes the necessary training. Thus, the training of privates and sergeants in training centers ranges from seven to 20 days, depending on the complexity of the specialty.
11:40 The head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, Medinsky, said that there is progress on some positions. In particular, according to him, this is "the preservation and development of the neutral status of Ukraine, demilitarization, a whole range of issues related to the size of the Ukrainian army is being discussed. Ukraine offers an Austrian, Swedish version of a neutral demilitarized state ."
At the same time, he acknowledged that everything is not so simple on other issues: "The key issue for us is the status of Crimea and Donbass. A number of humanitarian issues, including denazification, the right of the Russian-speaking population and the status of the Russian language."
11:27 Lavrov said that in the negotiations with Ukraine "there is hope for a compromise."
11:25 Germany's largest energy concern E.ON has stopped purchasing new volumes of gas from Russian companies, writes Bloomberg.
11:24 In Vinnitsa this morning, the invaders fired at the TV tower of the Concern PRT, the State Special Communications Service reported. Broadcasting in the city temporarily does not work.
11:22 In Izyum, where a catastrophic humanitarian situation has developed, they have not been able to deliver humanitarian cargo, the work of the corridor has been disrupted, local authorities report. It was not possible to evacuate residents either.
11:19 Military physicians from Canada, the USA, Australia and the Great Britain arrived to the Nikolaev area who will train physicians in Nikolaev, the governor Vitaly Kim reported.
He also said that reserves are being restored in Nikolaev, protection is being strengthened; humanitarian cargo is sent to the liberated villages, people who have lost their homes are being evacuated. Kim added that the fighting in the area "is heavy, not without casualties."
11:13 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss promised new sanctions against Russia: "And against more banks, and a complete SWIFT freeze for them, and new personal sanctions and restrictions for their companies, and the complete destruction of the world's dependence on their oil and gas. Britain will stop all imports by the end of the year, we will help others to reduce this dependence. The Russian Federation must lose the funds to finance its military machine."
11:10 AvtoVAZ sends employees on vacation for 20 days due to the crisis in the supply of electronic components.
11:09 Dow Jones decided to exclude bonds of Russian and Belarusian issuers from the calculated indices.
11:02 There were about a thousand Kadyrovites in Ukraine, most of them "have already gone to Allah," MP Venislavsky said.
10:53 NATO defense ministers, as well as Finland, Sweden, Georgia, Ukraine and the European Union, will hold an extraordinary meeting today to discuss "the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the long-term consequences for NATO," the British delegation said.
10:47 Rescuers have completed the analysis of the rubble at the TV tower near Rivne, where two Russian missiles hit. The death toll rose to 21, while the number of injured remained unchanged at nine.
10:43 The head of Energoatom said that the Russian invaders, following the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, tried to seize the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped the offensive, and the enemy retreated.
10:21 Russian occupiers abducted six people who were in the building of the Buchansk City Council and provided assistance to residents to the last. Among the prisoners are employees of the City Council and volunteers, the press service of the City Council reported.
10:20 Fitch agency announced that it will consider Russia's coupon payments on Eurobonds in rubles as a default.
10:16 NATO will continue to supply weapons to Ukraine "in various directions," said the head of the British Ministry of Defense.
10:15 Podolyak briefly described what is happening: "What is happening right now. 1. The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a number of operational areas. This radically changes the dispositions of the parties. 2. The flight of Russian journalists from TV channels begins. 3. The leadership of the Russian Federation is trying to find allies whose soldiers are ready to die in Ukrainian fields".
10:11 Ukraine cannot yet open humanitarian corridors, since the Red Cross has not agreed on them, Vereshchuk said.
10:08 Two Russian Su-30cm fighters tried to attack one of the villages in the Odessa region today at about five in the morning. Anti-aircraft missile unit Air Command Pivden destroyed both aircraft. The pilots ejected and after the planes fell into the Black Sea.
10:05 In Kharkiv, a school came under fire at night, one person was injured, the State Emergency Service reports.
10:00 Russian media report mass layoffs from propaganda media.
09:54 The head of the Lugansk Regional State Administration Gaidai reports that the Russian army once again wanted to capture Rubizhne, Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, but suffered significant losses and retreated. In the area of Popasna, the enemy is trying to hold his positions. In Severodonetsk, Rubizhne and Lisichansk, dozens of residential buildings burned at night, and a gas pipeline was also broken in Lisichansk. In Rubizhne, one person was killed, eight adults and one child were injured.
09:45 Psaki noted that Russia has imposed sanctions against the late father of the current US president: “President Biden is Jr., so they may have imposed sanctions on his father, let him rest in peace. None of us are planning tourist trips to Russia. None of us have bank accounts that we can't access."
09:31 Blinken says that Kiev's refusal of NATO is not a concession to Russia: "In my opinion, this is only a reflection of the real state of affairs, which lies in the fact that even before the Russian aggression, Ukraine was not going to join NATO the next day."
09:26 The UN predicts the impoverishment of 90% of Ukrainians in the event of a protracted war.
09:20 The General Staff named the approximate combat losses of the enemy on the morning of March 16:
personnel - about 13,800 people,
tanks - 430,
armored combat vehicles - 1375,
artillery systems - 190,
MLRS - 70,
air defense systems - 43,
aircraft - 84,
helicopters - 108,
automotive equipment - 819,
ships/boats - 3,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 60,
UAV operational-tactical level - 11.
special equipment - 10.
09:06 Russian troops fired from ships on the Ukrainian coast in the Odessa region near the village of Tuzla, "released a huge amount of ammunition from a long distance," Gerashchenko said.
09:05 Because of the curfew, there will be no evacuation from the Kiev region today, Vereshchuk said.
09:01 The head of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration Oleksandr Starukh reports that today civilian objects were bombed in Zaporozhye for the first time. One rocket hit the area of the Zaporozhye 2 station, the second - in the area of the botanical garden. According to preliminary data, there were no deaths.
08:53 Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar urges Ukrainians not to believe any information about Russians allegedly loyal to Ukraine: “Do not believe in protests on the central Russian channel, the programming network of which is written in the Kremlin. about historical roots, common past, place of birth in Ukraine, etc. Do not believe during the war the public condemnation of Putin by his fellow citizens. It could be an ambush. Do not believe the opposition of an enemy country."
"Imagine that the information field is mined. And so that a delayed-action mine does not get into your mind, go only along the road of official information from Ukrainian sources and do not contact information from enemy territory," she stressed.
08:30 In certain areas, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a counteroffensive, the General Staff reports.
08:07 Zelensky signed a law banning the production and distribution of information products aimed at promoting Russia's actions.
07:50 In the Shevchenkovsky district of Kiev, as a result of enemy shelling, a collapse occurred in a residential building, the State Emergency Service reports. According to preliminary information, two people were injured, 35 were evacuated.
07:12 According to the General Staff, the enemy continues to suffer losses and retreats in separate directions; its main efforts are concentrated on securing and holding previously occupied lines and defense areas.
06:40 Funds of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the amount of 300 billion dollars have already been reserved for Ukraine, said presidential adviser Oleg Ustenko.
06:29 After the end of the war, Ukraine will need several years just to clear mines, Monastyrsky said.
06:20 During the 20 days of the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated four major generals, three colonels and three lieutenant colonels.
05:59 Japan strengthens sanctions against Russia and Belarus and allows simplified entry for Ukrainian refugees.
05:27 Mariupol is being fired upon by Russian ships that are standing near the village of Belosarayskaya Spit, said the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko.
03:16 The US Senate unanimously passed a resolution demanding an investigation into Putin as a war criminal.
02:25 Danilov said that the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine has already become the beginning of World War III. And if China decides to support the Russian Federation with military assistance, then World War III will be inevitable.
01:47 Zelensky says that "positions in the negotiations already sound more realistic." Nevertheless, according to him, time is still needed "for decisions to be in the interests of Ukraine."
01:35 Blinken said that an independent Ukraine will exist "much longer" than Russian President Putin.
01:23 Zelensky invited all friends of Ukraine to visit Kiev: “It can be dangerous here, because our skies are not yet closed from Russian missiles and aircraft. The decision to strengthen our arsenal in the air has not yet been made. We have not received aircraft. But the views of all people of the world are now focused precisely on our capital, on the Ukrainians. Everyone who is with us will receive gratitude. Not only ours, but also other peoples."
00:48 According to the General Staff, the enemy has lost up to 40% of the units involved in the war - they are completely destroyed or have lost their combat capability.
00:47 The Russian military leadership has decided on the early release of cadets of higher military educational institutions in order to involve them in military operations against Ukraine, the General Staff reports.
00:08 Polish Deputy Prime Minister Yaroslav Kaczynski proposed sending a NATO peacekeeping mission to Ukraine.
00:02 The United States has allocated additional assistance in the amount of $186 million to support Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced persons.
[Garowe] A controversial religious scholar from Somaliland who has been missing for days now has reportedly been found in a town in southern Somalia which is controlled by al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , the Interior and Security ministry of the breakaway region has confirmed.
"The holy man and his entire family have fled to southern Somalia and he may have joined al-Shabaab in Jilib, Middle Jubba region," said Somaliland's Deputy Minister of Security Abdullahi Hussein Mohammed.
Sheikh Adan Sunne, who was recently released from jail on bail has been on the radar of security forces in Somaliland on suspicions of having links with al-Shabaab, according to the sources. He is now in Jilib which serves as headquarters of the al-Qaeda linked group.
The Islamic scholar had gone missing and efforts to locate him have been futile, forcing authorities in Somaliland to launch a man haunt which ended up locating him in the al-Shabaab stronghold. He traveled to the al-Shabaab bastion by land, per Mohammed.
Al-Shabaab is yet to confirm that Sunne settled in Jilib town after his defection from the breakaway region, Somaliland.
Al-Shabaab has been closely working with some religious scholars as it pushes to topple the fragile UN-backed Somalia government in the Horn of Africa nation which is protected by AU troops.
Last month, the group grabbed credit for the death of Islamic scholar Sheikh Abdinasir who died in a bomb fitted to his car in Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... , Jubaland state.
Jilib town has been one of the no-go zones in Somalia with the security forces and the US Africa Command often targeting the town with missiles and drown strikes. A number of key al-Shabaab holy warriors have been killed in the town.
On Monday, US ambassador to Somalia Larry Andre admitted that the group has become stronger in recent months, adding that there is a need to change strategy in tackling it. The envoy blamed politicians for focusing too much on delayed elections instead of assisting stakeholders to contain the situation.
It is estimated that there are close to 7,000 active al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia who are fairly empowered given the huge taxes they collect from the people. In Somaliland, the group does not have any recognizable presence according to intelligence sources.
[Wash Examiner] Staff turnover continues in the office of Vice President Kamala Harris, with another top member departing for other opportunities.
Deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh
...she appears to be one of those quiet functionaries who rarely appear in the news...
is leaving for the Defense Department, according to Politico, leaving only one of the four top communications positions in the hands of the same person who held it on Inauguration Day
Communications Director Ashley Etienne left team Harris in November, followed by the departure of Harris's press secretary in December. Kate Childs Graham, one of the vice president's top speechwriters, left in February. Only deputy press secretary Herbie Ziskend remains from the original top four.
Rachel Palermo has now been promoted to deputy communications director, while Ernesto Apreza is the new deputy press secretary, according to Politico.
There has been a broad communication reset for Harris’s team, which has been plagued with problems. In January, Harris’s new communications director was forced to apologize after old tweets about undocumented migrants prompted strong criticism from activists.
Harris’s scripted remarks have also sometimes drawn criticism. Earlier this year, the vice president compared last year's Capitol riot to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, eliciting immediate rebuke.
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Sabrina Singh, you leave behind others, who are green with envy, that you escaped Cackle Lady's deplorable press dungeon.
[Reason] The White House's latest attempt to scapegoat rising prices ignores everything that happened before the past three weeks.
Ten months ago, Jeremy Siegel issued a dire warning about the trajectory of prices.
"The money supply since the beginning of the pandemic, so a little over a year, has gone up almost 30 percent. Now, that money is not going to disappear. That money is going to find its way into spending and into higher prices," Siegel, a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, told CNBC during an interview on May 14. "Over the next two, three years we could easily have 20 percent inflation with this increase in the money supply."
The honourable senatrix is just a tad behind the times. We’ve moved on to a new theme now.
[NEWSMAX] Sen. Elizabeth Warren avoided blaming fallout from Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine or the Biden administration's policies while discussing rising inflation Wednesday on CNBC's "The Exchange."
The Massachusetts Democrat instead attributed skyrocketing prices around the country to the COVID-19 pandemic and companies passing costs on to consumers.
"I think the primary cause of this bout of pricing increases starts with COVID," Warren told host Tyler Mathisen.
"And the fact that we have supply chain kinks, and that people rapidly shifted the demand curves so that demand for services went down and demand for goods went up. So those two forced prices up, that's part one."
Warren then asserted that companies are offloading costs through price gouging, citing the consolidation of major industries.
"What has also happened is that now that we're living in America where there's a lot more concentration in certain industries. Look at the oil industry, look at the meat industry, look at groceries generally.
''What's happened is that these companies have said, 'you know, we'll pass along costs, but while we're at it and everyone's talking about rising costs, let's just add an extra big dollop of cost increases to expand our profits,'" Warren said.
"Part one, yes, very much the pandemic. Part two, companies that recognize that because they don't face a lot of competition can goose those prices up," she added.
President Joe Biden has frequently blamed Russia for soaring prices, specifically on oil and gas. The White House did, however, flirt with rhetoric similar to Warren's earlier this month.
"We understand Putin's war against the people of Ukraine is causing prices to rise. We get that. That's self-evident. But ... it's no excuse to exercise excessive price increases or padding profits or any kind of effort to exploit this situation or American consumers," Biden said in a March 8 press briefing.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Forget WW3, it’s WWW or World War Woke now.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones," Einstein famously observed.
Much as with quantum theory, the famous physicist was wrong.
Whatever world war we're currently on is going to be fought by disinviting Russian cats from the International Cat Federation and removing digital images of Russian soccer players from video games, even as Putin’s tanks and infantry keep advancing across Ukraine.
Putin might threaten to go nuclear, but the Lego company already pushed the red button by halting shipments of bricks to Russia. If that doesn’t stop Putin, I don’t know what will.
When virtue signaling goes up against tanks, especially by people thousands of miles away who, unlike a nameless Chinese protester, would never have the guts to actually get in their way, then the tanks win. Virtue signaling, like most of wokeness, is all about feelings, while tanks are mechanical beasts that project force in the real world. Twitter is not the real world.
Wars are a serious business and woke societies are profoundly unserious. Wokeness, like Putin’s regime or Xi’s China, punishes political dissent, but it is convinced that social shaming is the ultimate power in the universe because of how powerful it makes the shamers feel.
Megalomaniacs are obsessed with wielding power over others and in our democratically crowdsourced megalomania anyone can live the dream by canceling someone else. Entire internet subcultures are based around collecting damaging information about targets and then unleashing it in one strategic reputational assault that leaves the victim broken and jobless.
This sadistic social justice fetish makes the perpetrators feel righteous and powerful.
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"Putin might threaten to go nuclear, but the Lego company already pushed the red button by halting shipments of bricks to Russia. If that doesn’t stop Putin, I don’t know what will."
nice
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Wokeness is not a war it's a weapon. And it has been used successfully by the parties that regularly infuse money into chaos breeding think tanks and popular culture. For the purpose of hollowing out strong societies so they can be virtually enslaved. Cancel culture is the new power of coercion and Twitter and litigation over petty things is the law enforcement. The law is 'you shall not be yourself anymore, you shall be what the current thing tells you to be'. And the current thing is set by the new rulers almost every year. This makes the citizen an unwilling footsoldier in whatever campaign the rulers take up. A man or woman without his or her own voice, just the script given everybody.
It was actually better if it was a religion, with some opium for the mind. Promises like salvation and enjoyment in the afterlife. Because this way all it produces are desperate, scared, chronic depressive zombies trying to play intelligent and assertive men and women.
Only the countries that did not allow this to be introduced in their mainstream. Where the religion or the state or ideology is greater than entertainment, freedoms, culture or even progress will survive. The rest will self destruct.
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Wokeness is behind all the Russophobia. There's no other explanation for why our policy makers bend over for China which is even more corrupt and nastier than Putin's Russia.
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[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol. Stubborn battles continue in the city, but signs of an imminent collapse of the defense appear more and more often. The fighting has already approached "Azovstal", from the west the troops have advanced deep into the city blocks. There is a desire to cut the boiler into 2 parts, which will facilitate its further liquidation. The enemy understands this and seeks to slow down our advance and inflict as many losses as possible. Along the way, more and more hysterical calls for salvation are being aired. The deblockade of Mariupol is no longer possible.
2. Ugledar. The enemy continues to try to cling to the south of the Maryinka-Kurakhovo highway and puts up stubborn resistance. Progress in this direction has slowed down.
3. Maryinka-Avdeevka. The DPR army was able, after serious artillery preparation, to advance 2 km in the area of the village. Apparently, a direct assault on Maryinka will begin in the near future. Positional battles near Avdiivka.
4. Gorlovka. There was no breakthrough in the Verkhnetoretsky area, the enemy is trying to prevent further advance to the ring road and to Dzerzhinsk.
5. Severodonetsk-Lysichansk. Fights are going on in Severodonetsk and Rubizhne. The enemy is slowly pressed, but he defends himself in a fairly organized manner. There are no direct attacks on Lisichansk yet. Fighting continues in the Popasna area.
6. Kharkov. No major changes. Arrivals in the city, fighting to the north and east of Kharkov.
7. RIzyum-Balakleya. Fighting on the southern bank of the Donets and the southern regions of Izyum. The city was seriously damaged. The enemy, having blown up part of the bridges, is preparing to withdraw to the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration, where he is planning a more or less long-term resistance. There is an accumulation of forces in the Pavlograd region for a possible counterattack, like an unsuccessful attempt to attack the RF Armed Forces near Balakleya.
8. Zaporozhye. The front is at Kamensky. Gulyaipole is still holding out, and it has not yet been possible to push through the barrier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine here. Fighting continues east of Gulyaipole.
9. Kyiv. The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Gostamel and Bucha turned out to be virtual. Already this afternoon, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced to admit that Gostomel is being held by the RF Armed Forces. Due to ongoing fighting and shelling, Gostomel, Bucha and Irpin continue to collapse.
10. Nikolaev. Fighting north of the city. An attempt to attack in the direction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was repulsed. In Nikolaev itself, the enemy has serious losses - mainly due to the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces and MLRS. As a result of a recent shelling of an airfield in the Kherson region, 3 Russian helicopters and several trucks were destroyed/damaged.
PS. in the evening there were reports that the enemy was withdrawing from Ugledar, and Novotoretskoye had been cleared of the enemy.
[IsraelTimes] More than 40,000 register to fight at Syrian recruitment centers, as poverty and lack of jobs push soldiers to look for a better life
Russia has drawn up lists of 40,000 fighters from the Syrian army and allied militias to be put on standby for deployment in Ukraine, a war monitor said Tuesday. The Kremlin said last week that volunteers, including those from Syria, were welcome to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists said Russian officers, in coordination with the Syrian military and allied militia, had set up registration offices in regime-held areas.
"More than 40,000 Syrians have registered to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine so far," said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the UK-based monitor.
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Putin is actually killing two birds with one stone here: renewed push in Ukraine and removing thousands of useless mercenaries from his payroll. Think roach hotel.
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more than 40,000 register to fight at Syrian recruitment centers, as poverty and lack of jobs push soldiers to look for a better life
He'll have ten times that many signups when bread becomes scarce in the Middle East.
He can pay them the way the Romans did - salt, bread, maybe some gold if they kill Zelenskyy
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It seems to me Putin would get the most bang for the ruble by shipping these poor bastards to the Mexican border, where they could advance north without any opposition. He'd get 4,000,000 signups for that.
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Well, they can't send Poles to clear minefields anymore...
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Every two dead Syrians means another dead Ukrainian. A fair trade in Putin's and Assad's book. Wonder how high we're willing to go .. another 20,000 dead Ukrainians?
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Zelensky uses:
-Ukrainian people as human shields
-Executes people trying to leave the war zone
-Shells his own cities
-Puts his military equipment around hospitals, schools, apartments etc
and he gets a Standing Ovation from Congress...and accolades from the media ….like this blog.
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Zelenskyy just did an interview with one of the major networks in which he said the US needs to join his war because "World War 3 has already started"
The guy is insane
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-Ukrainian people as human shields
-Executes people trying to leave the war zone
-Shells his own cities
-Puts his military equipment around hospitals, schools, apartments etc
The Taliban did that for 20 years and everyone was generally silent. Wonder why people might copy that behavior?
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A very long history of western industrialists and bankers trading with the enemy, making billions off of the Soviet Union especially. Standard Oil, Chase Manhattan Bank, Henry Ford, Kuhn Loeb investment bank, Armand Hammer's many industries incl what's today called Occidental Petroleum (16% owned by Buffett)...Now it's the Bidens' turn. No better way to turn a small fortune into a large one. PrivatBank's very busy these days
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:00 The DPR units drove the enemy out of Verkhnetoretsk, which, during the years of the war in the Donbass, the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned into a fortified area. At the moment, the APU militants are trying to counterattack. 21:56 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction: n.p. Metalist (Ukrainian: Travnevoe) – n.p. Golmovsky: 3 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired.
21:49 The rescued residents of Mariupol talk about the mass atrocities and crimes of Ukrainian nationalists, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
21:43 According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 99% of civilians evacuated from Mariupol have expressed a desire to go to Russia and the territories controlled by the Russian Armed Forces. In total, the RF Armed Forces evacuated more than 31 thousand citizens from Mariupol per day.
21:40 The official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Ivan Filiponenko, said that the People's Militia of the LPR had liberated about 80% of the territory of the republic.
21:32 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 40 shells from the Grad multiple launch rocket system at the city of Dokuchaevsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime said.
21:22 Pushilin said that the Azov militants (banned in the Russian Federation) are trying to escape from Mariupol in civilian clothes, but they are given out by tattoos with a swastika and other Nazi symbols.
20:59 The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that Mariupol is almost completely under the control of Russian troops.
20:57 The Zvezda correspondent showed what Volnovakha looks like now. The city is slowly returning to peaceful life, but the people who suffered during the shelling of the Ukrainian Nazis still have a very difficult time - in dilapidated houses there is no heating, no electricity, no communications.
20:49 Ukronazis are being forced to peace in many parts of the front line in the DPR.
20:11 Mariupol, DPR fighters with a captured American grenade launcher based on RPG-7.
Mariupol, DNR fighters with a captured American RPG-7 based grenade launcher.
20:07 A grouping of LPR troops is moving forward from several directions inside Severodonetsk, said Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.
19:38 The Russian fleet supports the operation to liberate Mariupol. The ships are located in the area of the Belosarayskaya Spit, from where they carry out pinpoint strikes on the positions of the Nazis.
19:37 Today, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR have advanced 2 kilometers deep into the republic. Now there are fights for the liberation of the village of Maryinka.
19:30 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian Nazis have fired more than a hundred shells and artillery installations with a caliber of 122 mm and mortars with a caliber of 120 and 82 mm across the DPR. Nine settlements were under fire. Two civilians were killed and four others were injured. 20 residential buildings, one infrastructure facility and one car were damaged. Five transformer substations are also de-energized.
19:30 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR forced the Ukrainian militants from the 54th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to abandon their positions and leave all their weapons on them. The defenders of the republic had German grenade launchers at their disposal. They didn't even get unloaded.
19:19 In the liberated Volnovakha (DPR), they found parts of the Smerch system missiles, as well as Tochka-U. It was loaded with banned cluster munitions.
18:54 Kiev militants opened fire on Gorlovka and Donetsk. The Nazis used the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
18:53 Ukrainian Nazis fired from the Grad MLRS at the village of Kremenets in the DPR. They fired ten rounds. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
18:44 Ukrainian nationalists fired from artillery guns and mortars fired at the urban-type settlement of Donetsk and the settlement of Golubovskoye in the LPR. They fired shells of 122mm and 82mm caliber at the settlements. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
18:02 There is an advance of the assault groups of the RF Armed Forces and the NM of the DPR in the western part of Mariupol. Losses in the formations of the Ukronazis, the dissection of their strongholds. Fighting in the central part of the city.
18:00 Today, two civilians of the DPR (Vasilyevka village) have already died. Four more people were injured: two women born in 1934 and 1947, and two men born in 1963 and 1976.
17:59 An apartment building in the urban-type settlement of Panteleimonovka was damaged by a blow from Ukrainian Nazis. There was a direct hit by a projectile.
16:43 Local sources report that the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR and the Russian army are advancing on the western coast of Mariupol towards the city center. Residents noticed armored vehicles of the Allied Forces on the streets of 17, 20 and 23 microdistricts. A strong point has been set up near the building of the Police Academy on Builders Avenue. On the territory of Azovstal, where yesterday Russian units broke through from the north-east, stubborn battles continue.
16:33 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR have already liberated 95 settlements from the Ukrainian Nazis.
16:05 A Ukrainian militant from the Azov Regiment* escaped from positions and went over to the side of the DPR. he said that the headquarters of the Nazis is located in the basement of the Mariupol Drama Theater, and the theater hall is completely packed with civilians, who are guarded by 12 militants of the Azov regiment so that they do not run away.
15:15 Ukrainian Nazis from "Azov" * understand that the issue of their liquidation in Mariupol has already been resolved. The Kyiv criminal regime is not going to, and indeed cannot help its militants. Now one of the leaders of the groupaskscivilians take to the streets. Apparently, in this way he hopes to influence the authorities.
14:59 Ukrainian Nazis fired artillery at Yasinovataya in the DPR. The militants fired five 122mm shells and damaged the school and kindergarten.
14:59 Ukrainian Nazis fired artillery at Yasinovataya in the DPR. The militants fired five 122 mm shells and damaged the school and kindergarten.
14:57 The Pyatnashka volunteer unit, led by the Abkhaz battalion commander, is knocking out Ukrainian Nazis from their positions in Avdiivka in the DPR. The liberation of this settlement will make it possible to push back the militants and secure Donetsk, which is being shelled from Avdiivka.
13:46 During the day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR destroyed more than 70 militants of the 54th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They also captured four tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and two armored vehicles.
13:44 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Red Partizan in the Yasinovatsky district of the DPR. Houses and outbuildings along Olimpiyskaya Street were damaged. Detailed information is being specified.
13:42 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR liberated the settlements of Stepnoe and Taramchuk from the Nazis. The front line is moving away from Dokuchaevsk, which was badly damaged by the Kiev militants.
13:40 Two Russian Su-25s in the Gorlovka region support the offensive of the People's Militia of the DPR.
13:35 More than 10 thousand boxes with hand grenades and other weapons seized from nationalists will be handed over to the troops of the LPR and DPR - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
11:40 Luhansk People's Republic received 30 UAZ vehicles from the Chechen Republic. Chechen UAZ vehicles will replenish the fleet of the medical service of the People's Militia of the LPR today.
11:33 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR and DPR are already mastering captured Javelins and NLAWs. In addition, it is known that the 9th Marine Regiment of the DPR received captured US-made PSRL-1 RPGs. It is an upgraded version of the Russian RPG-7 anti-tank hand grenade launcher and features a reduced weight, as well as the ability to install modern sights and use specially designed improved ammunition.
11:32 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Aleksandrovka in the DPR. They fired three shells of 122 mm caliber at the settlements. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:02 More than 20,000 volunteers, including from the United States, have proposed to participate in the operation in the Donbass on the side of the DPR - the head of the republic Denis Pushilin.
11:00 over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis fired more than 170 ammunition on the territory of the DPR. They used MLRS, 122 mm artillery, 120 and 82 mm mortars, and tanks. 15 settlements came under shelling, 11 residential buildings and 12 infrastructure facilities were damaged.
10:52 The People's Militia of the DPR began to storm Avdiivka and Maryinka.
10:41 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR took control of the settlements of Mikhailovka, Stavka, Botmanka, Vasilievka in a day and are fighting for Verkhnetoretskoye.
10:41 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR, continuing offensive operations, are fighting in the city limits in the northwest, northeast and east of the city of Severodonetsk.
09:49 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Pantleymonovka in the DPR. they used 120 mm mortars and fired four rounds of ammunition at the village. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:38 A Ukrainian shell hit a residential building in Vasilievka (DPR). Under the rubble are people, two of whom show no signs of life.
09:37 Ukrainian sources massively report that the ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet are supporting the operation to capture Mariupol with fire.
09:36 The Russian Federation handed over new weapons and equipment to the People's Militia of the DPR: BMP-3, cars, night vision systems, body armor and unloading for fighters. In addition, trophy equipment recaptured from the Ukrainian Nazis was also adopted.
09:33 The grouping of Ukrainian militants in the still occupied part of the LPR has been dissected. The forces of the republic divided the Kiev punishers: some of them are surrounded in Rubizhne, where a cleansing is already underway, and some are in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk. The enemy has significant losses.
09:30 The People's Militia of the LPR entered Rubizhne. Now there is a cleansing of the city and the evacuation of the civilian population. This morning, the defenders of the republic have already been able to take out of the city about a thousand people. All of them were delivered to the rear of the LPR and provided with everything necessary.
08:58 Ukrainian punishers fired at the settlement Dacha - n.p. Golmovsky: fired 6 shells of 122 mmcaliber; n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: 5 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:45 A grouping of Ukrainian security forces in the west of the LPR has been dissected and destroyed, writes Telegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya". The grouping in Severodonetsk/Lysichansk is surrounded separately, and separately in Rubizhne. Units of the People's Militia have already entered Rubizhne and are conducting a liberation battle. Simultaneously rescue civilians. The neo-Nazis have significant losses and those who do not lay down their arms will obviously be finalized.
08:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of the settlement. Trinity - n.p. Mikhailovka: fired 10 mines in 120mm caliber; n.p. Trinity - n.p. Panteleimonovka: four mines of 120mm caliber were fired.
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So if they had sent all the forces and resources just into these regions instead, would they not have removed all opposition by now and occupied the place?
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For what it's worth, it has been reported that Biden has said he will not run in 2024. It is more likely that he won't be able to. Of course, he never really ran in 2020 but somehow through the magic of counting after the election, we are asked to believe the unbelievable.
#7
Why aren't their children fighting alongside Ukrainians with the foreign legion?
Probably got waxed in that Russian hit on the foreign legion training camp a few days ago. Hunter -> Hunted
If the NYTs now concedes the Laptop is legitimate, then the fraud and kickbacks alleged will demand a DoJ heightened investigation. Does this signal a deal with the Cackle-Jackal to accept the Kalorama Kompound leadership and the move to 25th JoJo is underway? Or does this mean a pre-preemptive pardon by Daddy for all things Hunter? Or has the NYT sold its soul to Hillary and the fix is in for the Mid-terms with unlimited big-tech/Chinese money. So many options and 2nd and 3rd level unintended outcomes, with little hope any one of them actually good for America ...
#10
Biden laundered money for Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs. Funny that the shell company he used is the same one Zelensky used to launder $41 million he got from the most corrupt man in Ukraine. Also Deutsche Bank for getting the loot into US real estate. No wonder Putin, Zelensky and the Bidens want their war to keep going. Business is good
#12
Biden laundered money for Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs.
This is why *we* should have invaded Ukraine (and immediately offered Russia NATO membership). It would have cross-footed the Russians, secured any loose records of Biden family business, and created new grifting opportunities for our political class. What's not to love!
Russia and Ukraine has been a piggy bank for some in the U.S. Hunter and the Big Guy have also taken money from both. Corruption is rampant on both sides of the pond. Uranium One has never been addressed. Our criminals in bed with their criminals.
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Our criminals in bed with their criminals.
Clinton Foundation's back in business. Putin Zelensky and Biden are creating thousands of revenue-generating opportunities for themselves and their cronies. The bigger the sanctions, the bigger the Grift
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