[Yahoo] In a sweeping and forceful speech concluding a four-day trip to Europe, President Joe Biden cast the war in Ukraine on Saturday as part of an ongoing battle for freedom and ended with a blunt call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be stopped.
"For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said during a visit to Warsaw, Poland, in his strongest comments to date about his desire to see Putin gone.
Shortly after the speech, a White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity said Biden was not calling for Putin to be removed from office.
"The president’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region," the official said. "He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change."
Biden’s remarks came just a few hours after he bluntly described the Russian leader as "a butcher" while meeting with Ukrainian refugees who had fled to Poland to escape the war in their homeland.
Biden appealed to ordinary Russians, first telling them — "if you’re able to listen" — that "you...are not our enemy."
Biden spoke in the packed courtyard of the Royal Castle in Warsaw where American and Polish flags fluttered in the background and the building was bathed in white, red, blue and yellow lights, the colors of Poland and Ukraine.
He said what they experienced at the hands of invaders in World War II is exactly what is happening to Ukrainians by the Russian military.
"These are not the actions of a great nation," Biden said of the bombings of hospitals, schools and maternity wards. "This war is not worthy of you, the Russian people." Or what? This isn't Iraq where you could bully Saddam out of power. Russia has nukes and WILL use them if they feel they have no more choices or be a rump and subservient power to the West. God we have fucking morons in DC.
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Some of the NeverTrumpers who worked overtime to get Joey in there are freaking out now. It would be fun to watch except for the suffering that's being caused here at home.
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Despite what WH spokesholes say, it's beginning to sound like this was part part of official transcript and not a one of gaffe by Pudding Head, and is most likely official Junta policy.
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As moronic President Harris and Biden are, I don't think these "off-the-cuff" utterances are coincidences.
[ConsortiumNews] As the Russian military intervention rages on, the perceptions of the conflict in Arab newspapers and television news are being shaped by the agendas of the Arab governments that own the media.
Gulf regimes are trying to handle a situation in which they feel they can’t afford to displease either U.S. President Joe Biden or Russian President Vladimir Putin. And their media reflect that.
The rise of satellite television stations and the decline in newspaper readership, has concentrated Arab media ventures in fewer and fewer hands. It was one thing to launch a newspaper with a small staff, and it is another to launch a satellite regional station which costs millions of dollars — and is rarely profitable.
Most television media in the Arab world are controlled by Saudi, UAE and Qatari regimes (or their business affiliates), and by local stations that are controlled either by local governments or by local billionaires. Every Arab country now has a Berlusconi or two (in northern Lebanon alone there are three Berlusconi-style billionaires (Muhammad As-Safadi, Najib Miqati and Isam Faris).
TAKEN BY SURPRISE
The Russian intervention in the Ukraine took Gulf governments by surprise and caused a great deal of anxiety. Here were governments that have tried in recent years to balance their primary loyalty to the U.S. with a new attempt to improve relations with China and Russia.
While Putin intervened in Syria against the wishes of Gulf regimes, which were trying to unseat the Syrian ruler, Bashar al-Asad, the Gulf acknowledged the resolve and determination of the Russian government. Brutality in Russian or American intervention in Syria is of no concern to Gulf despots. They value first and foremost the willingness of the Putin administration to stand by his ally in Damascus in comparison to what they see as a lack of resolve on the part of the U.S. towards its clients in the Gulf.
The Gulf regimes feel Putin is more loyal than the U.S., and the mischievous behavior of UAE and Saudi Arabia in the last few weeks is an expression of their frustration with U.S. role in the region. (Riyadh, for instance, is in talks with China to trade some of its oil in yuan, which would deal a blow to the U.S. dollar that is used in 80 percent of world oil sales. Until now, the Saudis have exclusively used the dollar. And Emirati and Saudi leaders have refused to take Biden’s phone calls.)
Putin of course stood by al-Asad for his own purposes, which included decimating ISIS, and allowed Israel to attack targets inside Syria while aligning with al-Asad and his regional allies, Iran and Hizbullah.
Gulf regimes feel abandoned in light of what they regard as a U.S. retreat from the region. They calculate that Russia’s role will be increasing and that the U.S. will be preoccupied with conflicts in other parts of the world. The U.S. shift to Asia and the preoccupation with China have oriented the U.S. empire away from the Middle East. However, not completely, because the U.S. still controls most of the governments there. The U.S. has all but abandoned the so-called Arab-Israeli peace process and has arranged for Arab normalizations with Israel.
The Gulf regimes have reacted similarly to the Israeli government, which exhibited great apprehension and perplexity in the beginning of the Ukraine crisis.
The only exception has been Qatari media. Without reservations or equivocations, Qatari regime media has adopted the Western narrative in full. Aljazeera is covering Ukraine in the same way it covered Syria – with unabashed advocacy and without any pretense of objectivity or journalistic dispassion.
Clearly, the Qatari government takes seriously its recent designation by the U.S. as a “major non-NATO ally.” It was stunning to see the U.S. ambassador at the UN citing Aljazeera approvingly. This is the same channel that was associated with terrorism in the minds of U.S. officials. Since 2001, successive U.S. administrations have pressured Qatari rulers to lower the tone that bothered Israel and the U.S. Aljazeera continues to cover the Palestinians rather extensively but its coverage of the U.S. has undergone tremendous changes — a far cry from 2003 when U.S. forces in Iraq targeted Aljazeera’s Baghdad office.
The network started with an Arab nationalist bent, before it was overrun with Muslim Brotherhood staff, and now caters to the NATO agenda no matter.
SAUDI MEDIA
Saudi media were more circumspect about Ukraine at first. Muhammad bin Salman (the crown prince and de facto ruler), has been personally shunned by Biden although his government has not been shunned. He received Jake Sullivan, U.S. national security adviser to the president (but pictures of the meeting were not released to the public.) Contacts between the two governments have not lessened from previous administrations but Biden has not spoken to bin Salman directly and has not allowed him to visit the U.S.
The Biden administration has made strong statements in support of security for Saudi Arabia and has been largely uncritical of Saudi and UAE atrocities in Yemen. But MbS feels humiliated by Biden’s treatment and for that he solidified ties with China and Russia. Russian arms are always available in the face of potential U.S. sanctions, and both the UAE and Saudi Arabia wish to keep their arms purchases diverse in origin.
The U.S. clearly pressured Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE to toe the line; Israel voted with the U.S. at the General Assembly against Russia (how meaningless it was for the U.S. to arrange for a vote at the General Assembly when it knew that there was no path for a resolution at the Security Council) while the UAE abstained in the vote. The UAE was displeased with Biden’s recent response to Houthi attacks on the UAE.
The Saudi and UAE regimes can harbor frustrations with the U.S. but only up to a point; they are desperately in need of U.S. protection in the region. Their new alliance with Israel must have boosted their self-confidence but they are keenly aware that Israel does not render services on behalf of allies, especially if those services could ignite a regional war in which Israel cannot guarantee victories.
The Saudi regime media split their coverage: Western-oriented outlets, such as Al-Arabiyya and Hadath TV and the daily newspaper Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat — all under the direct tutelage of Muhammad bin Salman – copy and paste from mainstream Western media and highlight the sensibilities of Western governments, even in the racial and ethnic preference for European victims. At first, this coverage of the Ukraine war was mild. But within a few days, it intensified, displaying scenes of civilian destruction and casualties in hospitals.
Of course, it was highly hypocritical for the Saudi and UAE regimes to be covering Russian atrocities in Ukraine while continuing to commit atrocities in Yemen. Yet, the local Saudi media back home — those newspapers that are published only in Arabic and aren’t directed toward the West, the coverage was more restrained. The Saudi government did not want to spoil its budding relationship with Putin, and just this week the Saudi government extended an invitation to the Chinese president to visit the country.
Like Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia associated themselves too closely with former U.S. President Donald Trump and that has damaged their image among Democrats. Furthermore, Biden — while continuing to sell arms to the Gulf and reassure those regimes about American protection for their security— had spoken too much about the war in Yemen and about the Jamal Khashoggi murder during his campaign to be able to sidestep the issue. Yet, the necessities of the oil market in the wake of the Russian war may force Biden to do just that: to fly to Saudi Arabia and reconcile with MbS in return for higher oil production and for yet more exorbitant arms purchases.
Qatar has won the race among Gulf countries — and indeed among all Arab countries — to become America’s most valuable ally in the region — after Israel. Qatari media’ coverage shows the regime takes its new status as a favored despotic regime rather seriously.
The UAE had long planned to become the new Israel in the region, but Qatar may have won that dubious honor. The Russian-Ukrainian war may lead the U.S. to further overlook those regimes’ despotism and atrocities in return for continued acts of loyalty.
[WSJ] After invading Ukraine, he’s tightening the screws the way the Soviets did—and that will help the CIA recruit Russians.
I spent 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine service, and watching Vladimir Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine from the sidelines fills me with both sadness and a sense of opportunity. Espionage is a predatory business, and there’s blood in the water. Mr. Putin’s self-inflicted damage has done more to turn his own people against him than anything the West could have done.
Mr. Putin’s disastrous choices are causing military strategists to reconsider which tactics could be used against Russia’s overrated and underperforming armed forces. Political experts and economists are rethinking tools for punishing malign behavior. Other potential aggressors—namely China—must take notice. If your job is cultivating spies, I suspect that recruiting must be good.
Russian mystique is gone. Mr. Putin has proved his country is the declining power that the best-informed Russia watchers claimed it was. Fewer pundits will wax poetic over Mr. Putin’s cunning and strategic brilliance. He might have been a capable operations officer during his KGB career, but he clearly missed the classes on self-awareness and counterintelligence. The more he tightens the security screws and covers Russia’s window to the world, the more likely those he depends on will turn against him.
Resurrecting the Soviet empire, as Mr. Putin wants to do, brings with it the same forces that prompted most of the Warsaw Pact’s best CIA agents to turn against the Kremlin. Agents across the Soviet bloc often shared the same desire: to inflict whatever harm they could. They took up the fight not for money, but to undermine a toxic system that enriched a corrupt elite, wrought suffering and economic stagnation, and occasionally brought the world to the brink.
Some of the CIA’s Russian agents were so dedicated that despite years of service and risk, they refused to give up the fight and leave their homeland even when they were in grave danger. One of the most famous was Adolf Georgievich Tolkachev. Known as "The Billion Dollar Spy," Tolkachev was a Soviet electronics engineer. Angered by how dissident family members had suffered under Stalin and by the Kremlin’s corruption, Tolkachev provided the CIA documents on Soviet missile systems, avionics and radar that undermined Soviet air capabilities—information that continues to provide value today.
Another was Maj. Gen. Dmitri Fyodorovich Polyakov of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate. He believed corruption had denied his son vital medical care, leading to the boy’s death. Polyakov helped the U.S. keep the Cold War from ever turning hot by providing key intelligence on the split between Moscow and Beijing that helped persuade President Richard Nixon to undertake the opening with China.
In December 1980, the U.S. used intelligence from Col. Ryszard Kuklinski, a senior officer on the Polish general staff and a CIA agent, to expose Soviet plans to invade Poland. Kuklinski’s decision to turn against his government’s Kremlin masters came after Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring of 1968.
If truth was able to penetrate the Iron Curtain and reach the likes of Tolkachev, who never left the country and had no access to the outside world apart from shortwave radio, Mr. Putin won’t be able to extinguish truth in the digital age. Russians have been watching the puppet show and can see the strings.
Mr. Putin has delivered a rival intelligence officer a great gift: a precipitating crisis. The desire to take control over their own destiny amid crisis drives people to spy. Intelligence officers take advantage of that desire to secure an agent’s cooperation through inspiration, trust and means to make a difference. Mr. Putin’s bumbling has provided the crisis, Ukrainian courage the inspiration, and the response of the U.S. and its allies the trust and tools for Russians to strike back.
Some of the CIA’s best agents have been volunteers who finally are pushed over the edge by a life-altering event and offer their services to an intelligence service. Tolkachev, Polyakov and Kuklinski were volunteers. Thanks to Mr. Putin’s deplorable behavior, I expect an increase in Russian volunteers who have toyed with the idea of doing something to better Russia’s future and might now be receptive to an encouraging nudge.
Mr. Putin will use intimidation, violence, repression and bribery to combat counterintelligence risk and will reward blind loyalty from the incompetent and opportunistic sycophants who lord over his system. But these measures will only create incentives for the brave to act—and it takes only a few to make an extraordinary difference.
He has undermined in weeks what Russia took almost 30 years to achieve. The country survived the perils of near-bankruptcy and a crumbling national defense and used oil-fueled economic leverage to increase its domestic prosperity and international influence. Russian armed forces projected power far from home, and the country’s intelligence services acted with impunity, conducting sabotage, assassination operations, cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns that wreaked economic havoc and polarized liberal democracies.
Only weeks ago, Russians were vacationing in far-off destinations and buying imported cars and other luxury items. Today Russians are lucky if they can get to their own money (what’s left of it after the ruble’s collapse) and keep a job. Soon they may struggle to put food on the table. Weeks ago, the world trembled at Russian power. Mr. Putin is no longer the master chess player; he’s the great and powerful Wizard of Oz hiding behind a curtain.
He still could bring the world to an apocalyptic end. But his Cold War predecessors also had that power. It didn’t make Russia great in the eyes of its own people then, nor does it today.
The Soviet state indiscriminately destroyed instead of built, while the Russian elites immersed themselves in luxury as working people toiled and suffered. That drove some of Russia’s greatest patriots to step forward in the past. Mr. Putin may resurrect the Soviet empire, but he will have to contend with a new generation of patriots who will fight for Russia’s freedom and bring about his doom.
Mr. London, a former CIA operations officer, is author of "The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence." He teaches intelligence studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and is a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute.
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This feels right, but I’m not qualified to judge.
He has undermined in weeks what Russia took almost 30 years to achieve.
Yes. President Biden is mostly undermining what President Trump did in four years, the rest being a continuation of what President Obama set in motion. So we know ours can be quickly reversed, with the right man in office. The Russians can not have the same comfort.
Only weeks ago, Russians were vacationing in far-off destinations and buying imported cars and other luxury items.
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Yeah, it's all bad, bad Putin. OK. He's a bad guy and his army sucks. Now tell me about the CIA...and the Biden family...and the Maidan coup. C'mon, WSJ. I know you know. I wanna hear it from you. Yeah, and what about the bio labs? If WSJ is so great, howcome I had to read about it in the Pulse?
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The CIA have been useless for as long as anyone can remember. More like CYA
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"Trump's obsession in focusing resources against Osama bin Laden's son Hamza is one example of the president's preference for a 'celebrity' targeted killing versus prioritizing options that could prove better for US security," - Douglas London
What those prioritized options were to Mr. Fancypants London only he can tell. Several angerous tangos were killed in Trump's single term, including Hamza. Hamza was not celebrity, he was the one remnant of the UBL family that could rally the AQ for another 9/11. So forgive me if I don't have any confidence in Mr. Fancypants' shadowy expertise.
[Georgia Patriot] Regardless how many times politicians tell you they want to fight corruption, or that they are in politics for the right reasons, time has proven over and over, in the end those same politicians will not resist enriching themselves, given access to the public cash box. And it's always the one's you trust the most who break your heart.
On May 5, 2020, registered agent Justin Hawkins filed the paperwork necessary to incorporate Talitrix, LLC. The product Talitrix would soon market to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies around the country is a sort of high-tech ankle monitor, but in the form of an attractive sports watch, which comes to life when Bluetoothed to a smartphone. The purpose of the Talitrix watch is to communicate continuous bio-metric and GPS data concerning the general state of being and whereabouts of various individuals released "outside the wire" from detention centers associated with agencies purchasing the system. To be clear, there is nothing wrong with that. Under the right circumstances, it might be an idea worth considering.
The patent application for the Talitrix monitoring system is in the name of Mr. Hawkins, but also in the names of Robert Todd Jones and Eric Brice Bennett. Of the three, Mr. Jones is the Georgia House Representative for the 25th District located in a southern part of Forsyth County.
Although the gentlemen referred above are listed as the system’s inventors, and hold the potential patent rights to the Talitrix system, the system itself is designed and produced by a foreign entity, Thundercomm Technology Co., Ltd. Located in Chongqing, in the heart of communist China. But again, that’s all legal and I doubt those facts really shock anyone, at least not these days.
[ET] An Oklahoma Democrat running for a U.S. House of Representatives seat announced March 24 she is ending her campaign after getting drunk and berating middle school girls at a sleepover. and throwing up in a hamper and a girl's shoe and denying she was there and... Abby Broyles had been accused of berating young girls during a slumber party. Broyles eventually confirmed the events, though she has also said she can’t remember what she said after drinking wine and using a medication "that helps you relax."
"I want to say sorry from the bottom of my heart, I apologize for any hurt or damage or trauma that my behavior, when I didn’t know what I was doing, caused. I’m deeply sorry," Broyles previously told KFOR-TV.
In her announcement, Broyles said she received a bombardment of calls from people after the incident, including calls to kill herself. She said she later "drank heavily" and took sleeping pills in a suicide attempt that was unsuccessful.
Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), who currently holds the seat, is running for re-election.
Signals intercepts, and why Ukraine communication systems were NOT taken out by invading Russian forces.
[YouTube] Retired Four Star General Barry McCaffrey and former consultant to the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division Clint Watts discuss the Russian army struggling with logistics, communication, and resources.
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Agree on credible and informative. Most of the General's comments ranged from rational to rational-ish.
THEN he started in on sending S300's (I didn't know we had any) and having the US send in M1 tanks. That strikes me as irrational. It takes a lot of training time to get a tank crew up to speed. Is he implying that US personnel should man those Abrams? God, I hope not. Is he a Biden regime mouthpiece? Kinda sounds it to me.
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Send them some M1-A1 tanks, General? How would that work?
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THEN he started in on sending S300's (I didn't know we had any) and having the US send in M1 tanks. That strikes me as irrational. It takes a lot of training time to get a tank crew up to speed. Is he implying that US personnel should man those Abrams? God, I hope not. Is he a Biden regime mouthpiece? Kinda sounds it to me.
...There are a LOT of nations that use S-300s who would happily trade it for a US or UK system, and those are the people we're talking to about transferring them. That's at least doable.
The M1s...no. Just. No. Even the smartest and most motivated trainees - and the Ukranians qualify on both counts - would take months to be able to competently handle an M1. Now if we're talking about giving them M1s after this settles down, that's something else entirely.
Mike
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Is McCaffrey a credible source? He was a leading voice in the 'Trump is a Russian asset' narrative.
Former Soviet block nations still have them. Romania and Hungary both do and I think Slovakia does as well. It make sense to send these instead of other systems as the Ukrainians know how to use them.
Sending tanks may be needed after the mud dries up, but I would rather just send them a shit load more anti-tank missiles and artillery. With the Russians digging in they make great targets.
Ray McGovern's post-retirement work includes commenting for Consortium News, RT, and Sputnik News, among other outlets, on intelligence and foreign policy issues. In 2003 he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
Friend of “Short Eyes” Scott Ritter, whom he brought into VIPS.
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#12 The only nat-sec'y figure in Washington with any credibility is Ray McGovern
Thanks! That's an awesome discussion. 1 million views, wow. That subtitled clip of Putin explaining Russia's opposition to Tomahawk missiles is fascinating. Really valuable context.
Personally I found John Mearsheimer's analysis to be the clearest and most convincing of any I've heard. Amazing how he makes sense of everything that's happened. He's also totally realistic about what's likely to happen.
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Utterly unsurprising that the anonymous cowards gush over McGovern. Same funding source, I'd bet.
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LOL McGovern is a bit of a kook, sure. But John Mearsheimer is brilliant. It's a damn shame that Mearsheimer wasn't making America's foreign policy in the last decade. None of this mess would have happened. He's also one of the rational people in the US when it comes to the Israeli lobby.
This Mearsheimer video has gone viral. 23 million views and 237k likes. Amazing, everyone in the US government should see it
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#16 It's a damn shame that Mearsheimer wasn't making America's foreign policy in the last decade. None of this mess would have happened. He's also one of the rational people in the US when it comes to the Israeli lobby.
Thank you for this. John Mearsheimer is the only American foreign policy expert who speaks sensibly about this conflict. Mearsheimer is very well regarded in India and China. He has no illusions about "human rights" and "spreading democracy." A clear-eyed realist who accepts and understands national pride.
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Retired General Barry McCaffery is a traitor and a genuinely calculatingly evil man, a traitor to America and Americans. Maybe even have convinced himself that what he is doing is correct—disregarding facts available to every American who reads current events about the Russian Z operation against the nazis supported by the USA and NATO on the doorsteps of his country.
He's a paid consultant for MSNBC and part of the army of grifters in the civil servants swamp. Hey is just shilling for MIC downplaying the Russian success, so he maybe can get a bone to chewy.
The reality is many countries have start to order Russian armaments after seeing how powerful and effective they are compared to the overpriced and all the string attached of the American ones. What kind of epic dirt do they have on 'this Barry' to go on record like this? America now is a broken country and will take years to repair and return to it's once great and respected standing in the world. If ever ….
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[FOX] More than half of U.S. households paid no federal income taxes in 2021, a temporary spike attributed to massive COVID-19 relief spending in the form of tax credits and stimulus payments.
A recent analysis from the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center estimated that 57% of Americans paid no taxes last year. While that's down slightly from last year's 60%, it marks a significant increase from the 44% recorded before the pandemic began.
"The number of households who paid no income tax last year truly was eye-popping," Tax Policy Center Senior Fellow Howard Gleckman wrote. "But keep in mind: It was only temporary."
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Well I remember that Saint Rush the Limbaugh once said that the top five percent of wage earners pay ninety something percent of the income taxes
So this doesn’t surprise me
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Pay up, wage earners. Pay up for covid relief.. for "Build Back Better"...for "temporary" inflation... for Ukraine
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@#10 - not quite. 2019 data from TaxFoundation.org shows the top 5% paid just under 60% of the taxes. This pre-Brandon so that % will likely go up in 21 n 22. Still not paying their fair share.....
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Total number of media outlets which spread the CIA's pre-election lie that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation" and have now retracted their falsehoods in light of the NYT's statement 8 days ago that they authenticated the laptop's key emails:
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If they all committed to total honesty going forward and publicly executed 3/4 of their staff to show they are serious, I still would not resume any consumption of their product.
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Do you believe anything these liars say about Ukraine?
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I don't consume any MSM news product at all. It's impossible not to see it as you move about the intertubes, but I see it only as a source of cynical amusement, myself.
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[NU] Anyone showing the pro-Russian Z symbol in Bavaria can count on criminal prosecution. That says the Minister of Justice of the southern German state Georg Eisenreich. Criminal law allows prosecution of people who defend certain crimes, including violent crimes, he says.
The war that Russia is waging in Ukraine is against international law and is criminal, the minister said. The Public Prosecution Service therefore takes action against anyone who expresses ideological support for that war.
"Freedom of expression is a great asset in our constitution," Eisenreich told DPA news agency . "However, freedom of expression ends where criminal law begins."
Many Russian army vehicles participating in the battle in Ukraine are painted with a letter Z. Why is not clear. Possibly the letter stands for the word "zapad", which means west. The letter has quickly become a pro-Russian symbol.
Anyone walking around with the Z symbol in Bavaria risks a fine or a prison sentence of up to three years.
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These are the same Bavarian fascists who get their thrills from the mob scapegoating and exiling of the unvaccinated. They have just transferred the same sentiment onto Russia. The doctors are the worst. Bavaria is drenched with Covid hysteria.
Munich anesthesiogists announced, "We will not treat Russian and Belarusian citizens. Our solidarity is with the Ukrainian people!"
Munich, 4 March 2022
Dear Colleagues:
We strongly condemn the invasion of the Russian army with the help of the Belarusian government. Russia is not only attacking Ukraine militarily without any justification – this country also threatens Europe, this country threatens our freedom and democracy.
Therefore, from now on and until further notice, we will not treat Russian and Belarusian citizens.
You can save yourself the trouble of registering.
There will be no exceptions, just as Covid-19 and Mr Putin make no exceptions.
In case of doubt, we will dismiss the patients on the day of surgery.
This also applies to patients who have already registered.
Our solidarity is with the Ukrainian people and our measures are the consequences of the military invasion of the Russian army!
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Germans, Canadians and Australians seem to enjoy being ruled by fascists
The Bavarian fascists will have a grand time spreading their Gospel of Covid to the heathen Ukrainian refugees. The Ukrainians (with good reason) don't trust the "vaccine" and hardly any are vaccinated. One said, "I fear Russian billets less than I fear German needles."
But that's not stopping the mad Bavarians: Ukrainische Geflüchtete und Corona: Angst vor "Zwangsimpfung"
Nur wenige Ukrainer sind gegen Corona geimpft. Das könnte in Sammelunterkünften ein Problem werden. Städte wie Nürnberg und Fürth versuchen, das Thema sensibel anzugehen, denn einige Geflüchtete haben Angst vor einer "Zwangsimpfung".
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4th, no. I can't complain. Even the sniffles avoid me.
It's spring. The cherry trees are starting to bloom.
People are out, enjoying the sun, having drinks.
Many are helping Ukrainian refugees (and most are women with small children).
Even US tourists are back ;-)
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My, but someone is thin-skinned. Bavarian Covid fascists can't take a joke. Must be connected to the Bavarian authorities.
He'll have lots of fun trying to persuade those Ukrainian refugees to get jabbed
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Caution: the Ukrainians don't like to be ordered around. (They hate German needles even more than Russian bullets.) They're not Bavarians, after all
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You misunderstand. It's a Bavarian Covid thing (also an Austrian Covid thing). Have you been to the region recently? They've gone off the rails with their Covid hysteria.
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As I said people are enjoying spring. No hysteria to be noticed.
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Perhaps Bavaria's bureaucrats have moved on from Covid-hysteria to demonising Russia. The Austrian people fought back recently, maybe the Bavarians are developing a spine too.
"We are being vaccinated like pigs"
The backlash against Austria's mandatory COVID-19 vaccine law
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#5 The Germans, Canadians and Australians seem to enjoy being ruled by fascists.
Not just the Germans, the German-speaking peoples. The Austrians are the worst covidians. Don't know how to explain the Canucks and Aussies however. Maybe they were too loyal to the Crown.
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I think the Aussies suffered from having an already nany-state type eurine style gummint coupled with irrational fear of COVID due to their proximity to Asia and Asian travelers. In not so many words, 'em rayciss blokes was afraid of wogs, mate...
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the German-speaking peoples. The Austrians are the worst covidians
No need for us to bash Turkey, Zenobia Flase5021. We’ve just been keeping track since 2003, so have a pretty good idea of what President Erdogan (and before that Prime Minister Erdogan) has been doing to your poor country. The question is whether he will go full neo-Ottoman and declare himself sultan.
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"Tis springtime! The heavens are brightening
All over Ukraine!" "Ain't it frightening?"
"The kvetching, the kvelling--"
"The bombing and shelling--"
"It's Blitzkrieg, for sure!"
"Russian lightning."
[ZERO] Update(11:43ET): In what's looking like a hugely significant first sign that Russia could be pulling back on the scope of its Ukraine operations, Bloomberg reports Friday that the Kremlin may be limiting its key military objectives to taking full control over the Donbas region. This despite multiple parts of the county, including outside the capital of Kiev, still witnessing intense fighting and shelling.
The hugely important Friday Bloomberg report says that "After a month of fighting that’s yielded limited territorial gains, the Russian military said it’s focusing efforts on taking full control of Ukraine’s Donbas region, potentially a sign it’s backing away from hopes of taking larger swathes of the country."
The Russian military's first deputy chief of the General Staff Sergei Rudskoi said the following as quoted in Interfax: "Our forces will focus on the main thing - the complete liberation of Donbas."
Bloomberg writes further of the Russian commander's surprising words, "Rudskoi claimed Russian troops have surrounded several major cities but deliberately didn’t seek to take them, instead aiming to pin Ukrainian troops down. His comments were the most detailed official accounting of Russian military performance since the Feb. 24 invasion." "We'll just leave the tip in"
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Certainly looks like a signal that the map of Ukraine will be altered after a cease-fire, but it will remain a chastened but sovereign nation. What remains is a huge cleanup and rebuild for a nation essentially ruined by war, and a new Cold War against a diminished Russia firmly self-exiled into the Chinese orbit, with decades of cultural and economic isolation ahead. Their energy profits will come with pictures of Mao printed on them, and the much smaller profit margins will reflect their increasingly client/vassal status. Not what Pootie planned, and heads will roll shortly throughout the nomenclatura , perhaps over time including his. The opportunity from all this might well be the significant growth of European self-defense spending, and a far more western orientation of their energy policy from our hemisphere, providing we want that wealth for the USA. Not a certainty given the economic/cultural suicide path of our demokrat polity.
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Biden said today that his goal is regime change. He's out of his fricking mind.
Has this lunatic ever handled any successful negotiation? There will be peace talks at some point. What incentive does the other side have to negotiate when you said you want him dead? When did America ever negotiate like this?
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Arnab is a hothead but it's still great fun to watch an even bigger fool, Charles Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations, get bashed. The hypocrisy of American liberal interventionists knows no bounds.
"While debating the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, Goswami lashed out at an American panelist. Addressing his American guest, a professor, Goswami said, “Now I tell you something….First of all, with the greatest of respect, you have no moral standing to talk. You have no position, you as in America, America is in no position to pretend to be the guardian of democracy and human rights.”
Goswami did not stop here as he highlighted the human rights violations committed by the US and its allied forces in several parts of the world including Iraq and Libya. “You are the worst perpetrators of atrocities. You and Barack Obama in 2011 intervened in the nascent Libyan civil war using the NATO and Arab League partners to prolong the war…You launched an armed conflict in at least six countries.”
Soon the video of Goswami’s rant began to be fervently shared by the Chinese embassy in France and other social media influencers. Sharing Goswami’s video with Chinese subtitles and dramatic music, the official Twitter account of the Chinese embassy in France wrote, “America is in no position to pretend to be the guardian of democracy and human rights!” Indian anchor debating with an American professor.”
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"You are the worst perpetrators of atrocities. You and Barack Obama in 2011 intervened in the nascent Libyan civil war using the NATO and Arab League partners to prolong the war…You launched an armed conflict in at least six countries.”
Ouch. That is an epic bitch slapping. Why did Kupchan agree to appear on the show? What did he expect?
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Nine of the Borei class subs sortied from their base in Kamchatka over Thanksgiving weekend. Believe they “normally” remain at sea 120 days before resupply of fresh food (perhaps one of the other readers has more insight on this they could share).
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...Let's use the USN's Trident boats as a yardstick here - they go out on 60 day patrols, and with sufficient warning can tweak that by another week or so. It's entirely possible that you can stuff enough gear for a 120 day patrol into a missile boat, but at that point it's going to be flatly hazardous for the crew just to get their jobs done and get around. There's also the reality that as sound and reliable as the Tridents are, things start to break at the 60 day mark. In short, there would have to be one hell of a reason to have a tour past 60 days.
Russian boats could in theory and principle, do just as well, but there's a problem:
The Soviet and Russian leadership has never, EVER trusted the officers and crews of their boomers. Since the Sixties - and I don't believe this has changed - the crews' families are kept under very close watch when they're on patrol 'so the CIA terrorists don't get them.' Translation, of course, is that the families are effective hostages until everybody gets back. I can't imagine the Russian leadership quite trusting the boomers to be out that long without direct supervision, and the skippers must be terrified of the thought of something going so terribly wrong that they have to surface and call for help.
Mike
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/\ Very interesting Mike. My knowledge of things maritime ends at the rope as you exit the theater.
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Mike -- Speaking as a rank amateur, one impression I've gotten over the last 30 days is that the terms "Russian military" and "maintenance" are mutually exclusive. Are their boomers any better than their tanks?
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Well, subs don't use tires, so that isn't a problem. Leaky Chinese made seals are definitely a problem on a sub.
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^ LOL
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We have a problem, though. The wretched corrupt Americanski Globalist Communist screen doors are much worse than ours Our screen doors are quite inferior to theirs.
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I personally think their nukes are about as maintained as their MRE's. Like the bottle rocket you saved from 20 years ago, good luck setting it off.
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#4 Mike -- Speaking as a rank amateur, one impression I've gotten over the last 30 days is that the terms "Russian military" and "maintenance" are mutually exclusive. Are their boomers any better than their tanks?
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Right now that's the subject of a LOT of discussion. I have no access to anything classified, but there is word from the herd that we are starting to think that their weapons reliability is now south of 60%...and dropping as they dig into the older stuff.
And we've known for years that their fleet's maintenance was getting progressively sketchier - see also their carrier. I shudder to think right now that their boomers might not be capable of anything more than straight, silent running...and God alone knows what will happen if they pull the launch triggers.
NOTE: Actually, I do - they won't get that far, because when they come up to launch depth the USN and RN subs tracking them will blow them out of the water.
Mike
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Thanks, Mike. I don't know whether to be pleased or frightened.
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Going to guess the harness was not big enough for someone that size and the nobody on the staff wanted to get called out for being rayciss by making an issue of it.
"You must be at least this tall must at least fit on it to ride this ride."
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[IsraelTimes] Some 3.7 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion a month ago, the UN says.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says 3,725,806 Ukrainians had fled the country — an increase of 50,854 from the previous day’s figure.
Around 90 percent of them are women and kiddies, it adds.
Of those who have left, 2.2 million have fled for neighboring Poland while more than half a million have made it to Romania. Around 20,000 have gone to Russia.
Before the crisis sparked a month ago, EU member Poland was home to around 1.5 million Ukrainians.
In total, more than 10 million people — over a quarter of the population in regions under government control before the February 24 invasion — are now thought to have fled their homes, including nearly 6.5 million who are internally displaced.
Ukraine’s refugee crisis is Europe’s worst since World War II.
The UN children’s agency Unicef said Thursday that 4.3 million children — more than half of Ukraine’s estimated 7.5 million child population — had been forced to leave their homes.
It puts at some 1.5 million the number of those children who have become refugees, while another 2.5 million are displaced inside their war-ravaged country, it said.
As leaving becomes ever more perilous even as living conditions in their country worsen, the UNHCR calculated that since Tuesday the number leaving daily has dropped below 100,000.
The figures do not include citizens of neighboring states who have left Ukraine to return home.
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Well, silly-con valley was the home of the $30,000 / yr coffee room attendant back during the dotcom boom. they never quite got around to going the toilet attendant route.
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I still see so many "We're hiring" signs in front of these establishments when I'm out and about. I guess sitting up in the exec suites, they miss that all.
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Mighty easy to walk out the door and go next door for a job these days.
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Brilliant grasp of the idea of inflation by a highly educated executive. Maybe he got his idea from a counterpart at ChiChi's or Ponderossa.
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If you read most of the e-mail, you'll see it's not all sensationally bad.
If they have to get a second job, make sure Applebee's is their favorite. That's the jist of that part of the lengthy e-mail, suggesting even the DM can sensationalize information.
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Stand up and take bow all of you smug graduates of high priced elite B-schools and your maximizing stockholders equity paradigm
#8
I'd heard that Applebees and their entire category of restaurants are having real trouble these days as Gen Z prefers non franchise local foods. Perhaps the exec is lashing out a bit at his Gen Z employees.
[IsraelTimes] The United States has cancelled planned talks in Doha with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... after the hardline Islamist rulers of Afghanistan shut girls secondary schools, US officials say.
Finally! We thought they’d never give up.
"On Tuesday, we joined millions of Afghan families in expressing our deep disappointment with the Taliban’s decision to not allow women and girls to return to secondary school," a State Department spokesperson says.
"We have canceled some of our engagements, including planned meetings in Doha around the Doha Forum, and made clear that we see this decision as a potential turning point in our engagement," the spokesperson says.
The Taliban, which seized power in August and is eager for international recognition, shut down girls schools this week just hours after reopening them.
"This decision by the Taliban, if it is not swiftly reversed, will profoundly harm the Afghan people, the country’s prospects for economic growth, and the Taliban’s ambition to improve their relations with the international community," the spokesperson says.
"We stand with Afghan girls and their families, who see education as a path to realizing the full potential of Afghanistan’s society and economy."
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How can we tell they are discriminating against "girls" when SCROTUS nominee is unable to define "woman" and top "female" collegiate swimmer is a guy?
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^ Don't ask me -- I'm not a biologist.
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^ So, staying at a Holiday Inn Express™ last night doesn't help anymore?
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We seriously don't have bigger shit to worry about than this?
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Just keeping track of events in Afghanistan as best we can, Chris. Not much news is allowed to get out.
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#5 We seriously don't have bigger shit to worry about than this?
US foreign adventures and bogeymen (Taliban, Putin) are a diversion from the Great Reset. All designed to distract us while they drive us into the poor house and make us dependent
#Russia’s defense ministry says the first phase of its military operation in #Ukraine is mostly complete and that it would focus on completely “liberating” eastern Ukraine’s #Donbass region.https://t.co/VmO34tAIVS
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Tales of the Moving Goal Posts (Russian language version)
[NYPOST] President Biden told US troops in Poland Friday that they will witness the bravery of Ukrainians fighting off Russia’s invasion "when you’re there" — making a significant gaffe after he previously said the US must stay out of the European conflict to avoid triggering "World War III."
Biden made the remark while addressing members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division after lunching on pizza and posing for selfies with dozens of paratroopers at a mess hall in Rzeszow, southeastern Poland.
"You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see — you’re gonna see women, young people standing in the middle in front of a damned tank just saying, ’I’m not leaving, I’m holding my ground,’" Biden said.
A White House official quickly clarified that Biden wasn’t changing his stance on deploying the military into Ukraine.
"The president has been clear we are not sending US troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position," a Biden front man told The Post.
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Here we go, dragged into a pointless war by a stammering fool over a shithole country against a nuclear-armed fascist country that can blow us to smithereens. What insanity. Fuck this idiot. Fuck his warmongers.
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@#7 - Probably was mandatory attendance, but it probably wouldn't be the first time Harris-Biden used trickery to make it looked like there was a strong showing.
I guess Harris was too busy conducting job interviews to fill all of those vacancies on her staff to make the trip.
[IsraelTimes] Legal complaint alleges Eric Zemmour ’distorted history to support his homophobic positions’ by claiming in manifesto that deportations of homosexuals to camps were a ’legend’
French “far-right” presidential candidate Eric Zemmour
...the eminent, contrary Le Figaro columnist and nationalist, anti-migrant public intellectual whose Jewish Berber parents left Algeria for la belle France in the 1950s. He wants to reduce immigration to almost zero, tighten the naturalization process, and expel failed asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants colonists. His big concern is the Great Replacement...
is being targeted with legal action by gay rights groups, who say he denied that homosexuals were rounded up and deported during the Nazi occupation of La Belle La Belle France in World War II.
Six gay rights associations told AFP on Wednesday that their criminal complaint for "denial of crimes against humanity" stemmed from Zemmour’s campaign manifesto, "La Belle La Belle France has not said its final word," published in September.
In it, Zemmour agreed with another politician who claimed that deportations of homosexuals to concentration camps were a "legend."
Zemmour "distorted history to support his homophobic positions," the associations alleged in their complaint.
People close to the candidate retorted that "it is not Zemmour’s words that are cited in the book," and called the legal move a smear attempt ahead of the first round of voting in the presidential election on April 10.
Typical move against those of the non-Left persuasion.
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Zemmour, 63, has for his part cited past declarations from Jewish associations that deported homosexuals were actually targeted as members of other persecuted categories, like Jews or members of the anti-Nazi resistance.
The candidate has in the past escaped conviction for another complaint of denying crimes against humanity, after he said that Marshal Petain, head of the Nazi vassal state based in Vichy during World War II, had "saved" French Jews.
An appeals court is set to render a new judgment in that case after the presidential vote.
Also Wednesday, Zemmour presented an outline of his budget plans if he were elected, claiming that he could find 20 billion euros ($22 billion) of savings by removing state aid to foreigners from outside the EU.
But the authority responsible for such payouts has said that the total for Europeans and non-Europeans combined was less than half the figure in 2019.
Zemmour’s spending priorities would include defense, internal security, the legal system and health — though his calculations did not include plans announced this week for a "remigration ministry" that he vowed would deport a million people within five years.
The idea of "remigration" is borrowed from white nationalist thinking, in line with Zemmour’s belief in the conspiracy theory of a "great replacement" of white Europeans by immigrants colonists from Africa and the Middle East.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited By Aleksandr Kots
[KP] - We do everything quickly - we drive up, jump out of the car, roll into the bunker, - the guide instructs.
Outside the window, the Gostomel sign whistles. We are swiftly rushing along the “landscape” familiar to Donbass. Trees mutilated by shells, mangled buildings of the airfield, hangars turned outward with metal, asphalt broken by mortars ... Cars brake sharply at the bomb shelter, and we quickly go down.
Yes, the Soviet Union knew how to prepare for a nuclear war. A solid bunker with a whole system of rooms is located under the airfield of the Antonov center. Whatever the Ukrainian artillerymen have been trying to break through this underground citadel all month, it is useless. The real epic heroes of a special military operation have been living here for the last month - paratroopers who landed here, deep behind enemy lines, near the capital itself, on the first day of the conflict.
- On the 24th, we loaded into helicopters , MANPADS, heavy machine guns were working on us, - one of the officers recalls. “But there were combat helicopters in front of us, so the landing went well.
After the capture of the airfield, shelling from mortars immediately began, and by nightfall infantry units went on the offensive. Plus their aviation - helicopters, planes. The shelling didn't stop. But everything was well planned for us, all attacks were repelled. Yes, there were small losses, but they had much more of them.
Two days later, our columns approached, a grouping was created here, the enemy was pushed back. There is no environment, we regularly receive letters from home, parcels, personnel leave to rest in Belarus.
- Well, this is not the first time you have been “married”, are there any features of the enemy here?
- Here, in addition to regular formations, irregular ones operate against us. After capturing prisoners and inspecting the dead, we found out that there are foreign private military companies here, well motivated, paid, trained and operating from settlements. They put mortars in the yards, MLRS and work from the peaceful sector. We try to do with minimal damage and provide assistance to the civilian population.
Alexander does not speak, but I know that the main body was supposed to come up on the ground a few hours after they landed. But they met fierce resistance from the national battalions and the defense units. As a result, the paratroopers at the airfield spent two days in a real fire hell, holding their positions.
It was an unprecedented operation. We have not carried out such tactical landings, perhaps, since 1943, when a detachment of volunteer sailors of 275 people under the command of Major Caesar Kunikov landed on the fortified coast of Novorossiysk occupied by the Nazis. He knocked out the German from the opornik, entrenched himself on the bridgehead and repulsed 18 attacks on the first night. And when the ammunition began to run low, he captured the enemy’s artillery battery and fought off the enemy for a week until the main forces approached. Russian naval light infantry fought for seven months in early 1943 at Novorossiysk. Never made their objective, less than 10 miles away.
Military work is in full swing at the command post. A picture from several drones was displayed on large screens, which in real time give out the location of enemy guns, at that moment hitting the airfield and the forward positions of paratroopers fighting in the city of Irpin. The topographer immediately takes the coordinates and transfers them to the attached long-range artillery. In a matter of seconds, the shells first plowed through the howitzer battery, then covered a couple of self-propelled artillery mounts. The drone is sent to look for new "prey". No one celebrates or rejoices - a combat routine.
The commander of one of the groups leads us to his location: "Here we wash ourselves, here we sleep, and this is our bathhouse, we made a steam room, today, by the way, is a bath day."
Steam comes out from under a tent with a powerful potbelly stove installed in one of the rooms. Wherever I meet Russian paratroopers, they always have a bathhouse. And if it is supposed to take a steam bath today, then they will do it with heroic calmness, regardless of the plans of enemy artillery.
We get out of the "bunker" during a lull and go on a "tour" in short dashes. "Shoot every meter" - this is not a metaphor. I was shown a Ukrainian map, on which the airfield is divided into numbered squares, all coordinates are known in advance, the Ukrainians were actually being prepared for war.
Around - piles of burnt equipment - both ours and Ukrainian, on the take-off - a Ka-52 helicopter, which made an emergency landing during the landing. In the far hangar, the remains of the largest aircraft in the world, the An-225 Mriya, are visible. It was the only instance capable of taking to the skies.
"In the early days, there was a powerful shelling here, we managed to save a lot of equipment, but part of it was behind this hangar and the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit there, hit the Mriya and the fuel depot behind it," the paratrooper explained.
Destroyed the largest aircraft in the world - AN-225 "Mriya"
In Ukraine, at the Gostomel airport, the largest aircraft in the world, the AN-225 Mriya, was destroyed. Military correspondent "KP" Alexander Kots came to say goodbye to this miracle of Soviet engineering
Former Antonov pilots said that shortly before the conflict, Germany offered to move the plane to itself, but Kyiv refused. Today, groups of enthusiasts in Ukraine advocate the establishment of an international consortium that would recreate the documentation project. However, if she was at this Antonov airfield, then she was unlikely to have survived the shelling - Ukrainian artillerymen probably destroyed her along with the Dream (Mriya - Ukrainian).
So that we don’t get the feeling that the Russian troops on Gostomel are only doing what they heroically hide in the bunker, the guys take us to positions around the perimeter. I would never have thought that BMD (airborne combat vehicle - Auth.) Can develop such speed.
On the runway we flew at least 80 kilometers per hour, looking at the rising black columns of smoke near the city of Irpen. "Armor" throws us off somewhere on the outskirts near the trenches and is carried away to the shelter. The inhabitants of the positions meet with surprising cheerfulness - for people who live in the trenches for a month.
- This is a fortified firing point. Here is the position of the "Korda" (heavy machine gun), here is a place for shelter and rest of personnel, - the soldier shows a dugout dug at a depth and laughs, - it's quite comfortable.
- How do you feel about the enemy?
- Prepared, you can not underestimate him. Artillerymen hit accurately. But our mood is excellent, all are contract soldiers, not the first time in business. All grown men.
- Where are you from?
- From Ulyanovsk. Say hello to children, wife, mom, dad. I love, kiss, your me.
From above it methodically boomed - "these are our Grads on them." Then there was a rustle in the air - "this is the self-propelled guns for us." And no fuss, the cold-blooded calmness of the Gostomel heroes.
Who do not yet know that they have inscribed themselves in the history of the real Russian army, along with Bayazet and the Brest Fortress or the sixth and ninth companies, if you like. Gostomel is our new place of power, a place of Russian military glory.
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Fort Benning?
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nah, south west Atlanta.
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If the first string can't get it done in a month, what do you expect from the 2nd string?
[DefenseNews] Widely circulated videos of Russian armored vehicles being destroyed from the air have thrust forward a lesser known drone called the Bayraktar TB2.
On August 16, 2021, the world watched in awe as the Taliban marched into Kabul unopposed and nonchalantly shot photos in the Afghan presidential palace. The group’s rapid seizure of territory and capture of Kabul so stunned the world that the United States failed to evacuate thousands of its Afghan allies in time (though it did get some 120,000 people out before leaving). But the Taliban’s lightning advance should not have been a surprise. Despite an entrenched tendency to conceptualize jihadist groups as intrinsically irregular combatants—born out of two decades of US military experience during the post-9/11 wars—several such organizations have demonstrated a capability to effectively adopt conventional warfighting methods.
The Islamic State (IS) group achieved similar feats in its military campaigns several years earlier, marking a decades-long culmination of jihadist conventionalization, or adaptation of jihadist fighting styles to conventional warfare. The jihadist ideology has always sought the establishment and preservation of a caliphate by force, necessitating the development of robust conventional warfare capabilities to seize and defend territory. The case of IS reveals the most important characteristics of this jihadist way of war and how to fight against it. It also illuminates major lessons about the future jihadist threat and how the United States can more effectively work with its allies to meet it.
The IS way of war developed out of an ideological divergence between IS and its former parent organization, al-Qaeda. Having witnessed the swift demise of Afghanistan’s Taliban regime following the 2001 US-led invasion, al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden urged his followers to refrain from openly holding territory and confronting larger, more advanced forces like the US military until their adversaries were sufficiently weakened and the jihadists gained enough public support.
Nonetheless, the foundational jihadist principle of tamkin (a degree of empowerment that, in this context, enables consolidation of land to govern) proved stronger in the minds of al-Qaeda affiliates than their leader’s advice and it would remain the norm for jihadist groups to attempt to hold territory through campaigns of conventional warfare. Such was the case with al-Qaeda-affiliated groups in Iraq, Mali, Somalia, and Yemen. IS, developing out of al-Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate, ventured further than any other jihadist group, taking on an apocalyptic outlook and labeling al-Qaeda and its supporters apostates for delaying the return of the caliphate. Indeed, IS saw the caliphate as not only its vision of a just society based on sharia (Islamic law), but also the base of the supposed forces of good against the antichrist in an imminent apocalypse.
With this sense of urgency, IS went about devising a strategy for seizing the considerable territories it would need to build its caliphate. The group’s early-2013 entrance into the ongoing Syrian civil war marked its definitive shift toward conventional warfare, and patterns in its operational style began to emerge. Four variables informed the IS way of war: organizational innovation, shaping operations, will to fight, and retention of the initiative.
The 2012–14 period featured extensive reorganization and expansion of the IS military (the group was known at this time first as the Islamic State of Iraq and later as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). Most significant were the group’s creation of battalions, each with 300–350 fighters, all governed by a formalized bureaucracy called the Department of Soldiers and an improved military industry apparatus under its Committee for Military Manufacturing and Development. This augmented organization enabled the group to grow exponentially, absorbing more than forty thousand foreign fighters from over 110 countries and bringing its total numbers of fighters and their dependents possibly into the hundreds of thousands. The new arrivals often came with technical education and military experience that helped further boost IS military capabilities. At the same time, the group’s expanded military industrial capacity allowed it to build small arms, mortars, rockets, and—most importantly—suicide bombs on a large scale with a high degree of standardization.
High explosives production and other innovations fueled IS’s most important battle tactic: the frequent use of suicide car bombs (SVBIEDs, or suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device), often so heavily up-armored that they were nearly impervious to small arms fire and RPGs. The group used these SVBIEDs as shock weapons followed by a light infantry assaults. On the offensive, IS deployed SVBIEDs much like a regular army might use artillery or airstrikes—to soften up and demoralize targets in preparation for or close support of a ground assault. Exemplary of this tactic were IS attacks on Menagh Air Base (August 2013), Tabqa Airbase (August 2014), and the Ramadi city center (May 2015). On the defensive, IS frequently used SVBIEDs and follow-on light infantry advances in brutal tactical and operational counterattacks, particularly in eastern Mosul (October–December 2016) and, as I recount in my book, throughout the Hajin pocket along the Euphrates River in northeastern Syria (November 2018–March 2019).
Key to IS military success was the group’s ability to weaken targets before engaging them in combat. As Craig Whiteside has shown, a flexible tribal engagement strategy, hostile to some Arab tribes and conciliatory with more amenable ones, facilitated IS gains particularly in Iraq’s Anbar province by winning a degree of acquiescence and support from tribes that could have blocked the group. One example is the mid-2014 IS alliance with the Albu Karbuli and al-Salmani tribes against the more hostile Albu Mahal in al-Qaim in exchange for plunder and governance responsibilities. In contrast, as at Haditha, tribes and local populations that remained staunchly opposed to the organization largely held out against IS attacks, though jihadist assassination campaigns against hostile tribes, such as the Albu Nimr, at times helped tip the balance in IS’s favor. Infiltration of enemy security forces and insertion of sleeper cells were additional effective shaping tactics that helped cause Iraqi units to collapse during the IS assault on Mosul in June 2014 and a year earlier at the IS-orchestrated Abu Ghraib prison break. In defensive operations, IS shaping capabilities were much diminished over time, especially when it could no longer plan to attack targets far in advance and had to invest resources in preparing to meet adversary offensives. This helps explain why IS was far less successful in defending its territory than it was in seizing it.
The most essential and consistent characteristic of the IS way of war was the high will to fight of its fighters along with a preference for engaging significantly demoralized foes. Shaping operations, coupled with information warfare and high IS determination, aimed to maximize the morale differential between IS and its adversaries so that when combat ensued, the latter would already be so brittle that victory would come quickly. American veterans of battles against IS remarked to me that IS fighters showed consistently high levels of determination and rarely fled or surrendered in disarray. Azad Cudi, a member of the US-backed People’s Protection Units (YPG), even recalls an instance of foolhardy jihadist determination at the battle of Kobane (September 2014–March 2015), with fighters reinforcing a position no less than four times despite airstrikes vaporizing it each time. IS won major, quick gains when it achieved a wide morale differential and suffered when it could not. Indeed, with some exceptions (like the sixteen-month IS offensive on Ramadi), the group’s most significant victories were won in a matter of days or weeks; getting bogged down against a determined foe or in a defensive posture forced IS to rely more heavily on the inconsistent tactical combat proficiency of its fighters, which reduced their success even though these fighters would mostly stand their ground and fight to the death unless they decided to retreat.
With organized, highly determined fighters and weakened adversaries, taking the initiative and keeping enemy forces on their toes was essential. Accordingly, IS fighters generally fought aggressively, with high mobility and frequent fighting patrols. This aggressive style kept IS adversaries constantly guessing, often paralyzing them, as at Ramadi in early 2015. Michael Knights and Alexander Mello aptly characterized the IS operational style as “tactical restlessness,” an “almost pathological need to take the initiative and attack the enemy. This approach can and does help sustain morale and extend the operational experience of surviving troops, but it also tires troops and continually erodes overall force strength.”
The resulting self-attrition of the IS operational style is further reason for IS to prefer fast-paced operations, and its persistence even on the defensive ultimately contributed to the group’s inability to win virtually any defensive battles, when its enemies held the initiative. Moreover, an intensifying air campaign from late 2014 onward considerably reduced the organization’s mobility and exacerbated the self-attritional effects of its aggressive approach, notably at Kobane.
While IS remains in an insurgent posture, we should not forget that its ultimate goal, like that of all jihadists, is to control and govern territory. If given the opportunity, IS is likely to pursue conventionalization again. The organization’s entrenchment in Iraq and Syria in 2013–19 necessitated intensive military efforts to dislodge the jihadists from their territories and led to the deaths of tens of thousands as well as widespread displacement and devastation.
Although IS is now deprived of its territories in Iraq and Syria, its style of conventional warfare was on display with the Taliban’s recent recapture of Afghanistan. The rapid weeklong offensive culminating in the fall of Kabul followed months of surrenders to the Taliban, negotiations with tribes to acquiesce to the group’s rule, and buyoffs of police and militias as US forces departed. These efforts were strikingly similar to the IS tribal engagement campaign in Iraq. Where the Afghan army had a presence, the Taliban infiltrated its ranks, assassinated important military figures, and threatened soldiers’ families to instigate desertions, just as IS had done to Iraqi security forces. Demoralized by the American withdrawal and without hope for reinforcement, any remaining army units collapsed quickly and the Taliban entered Kabul without any fighting, reminiscent of the fall of Mosul to IS in less than a week.
Hence, the Taliban’s aggressive retention of the initiative in a fast-paced, merely weeklong nationwide offensive after such a sweeping shaping campaign resembled—likely inadvertently—the IS style of territorial acquisition, indicating the emergence of an increasingly effective jihadist way of war.
In its former territories, IS has reverted to an insurgent posture, but is re-conventionalization possible? On the organizational front, the group’s ranks in Iraq and Syria are decimated, down to only ten thousand according to the latest US Department of Defense estimates.
At the same time, the group has maintained a steady pace of attacks since 2019, including complex high-casualty strikes such as a bombing in Baghdad in July 2021 and regular deadly ambushes in Syria’s Badia desert region on forces loyal to embattled dictator Bashar al-Assad. If Assad regime forces are unable to retain control over the Badia, that region could become a flashpoint for IS recruitment and territorial rebuilding, with IS already performing shaping operations there like extortion and intimidation of locals and tribal communities. Despite considerable Russian and Iranian military support and access to armor and airpower, the regime has recently made virtually no progress against any major rebel faction, raising questions over its forces’ morale and continued willingness to fight. With morale and some shaping activities in its favor, IS might use a small territorial enclave (in the event of a reduced regime presence) in the Badia as a base for organizational rebuilding and future conventionalization.
Moreover, IS might attempt larger operations at al-Hawl refugee camp or prisons holding IS fighters in northeast Syria under the control of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The camp holds some 59,000 people, including an estimated 8,555 individuals linked to IS per camp administration statistics, while SDF detention centers hold thousands of IS members. The camp’s horrendous conditions, as well as IS efforts to enforce its extreme interpretation of sharia in the camps, like punitive killings, leave camp residents more vulnerable to radicalization and cooptation by IS.
A significant escape from al-Hawl or the prisons would help replenish the group’s ranks and reenergize its conventionalization. However, the SDF—with vital US support—has managed to keep IS activity down, and attacks in SDF territories are considerably less lethal than those in regime-held ones. Also, a large SDF counterterrorism operation in al-Hawl in March greatly reduced killings in the camp. An exceptionally large IS assault on al-Sinaa Prison in January 2022 in SDF-controlled Hasakah that led to seven days of heavy fighting is a stark reminder of the enduring threat the jihadist group poses, but the coalition and SDF response rendered the assault a failure, indicative of the robust cooperation between the two and the SDF’s strong development.
Hence, the SDF is a major obstacle for IS activities in al-Hawl and prisons, but the potentially grave consequences of a successful IS breakout operation still make them a point of concern for IS re-conventionalizing.
Finally, IS could find resources for a resurgence outside Iraq and Syria. In 2014, when IS was still accumulating territory, it sent many of its fighters to help establish territories in Libya, which they did successfully. Today, the group’s West Africa Province still controls territory in Nigeria and carries out major military operations against the Nigerian army and the forces of neighboring countries.
During the past two years in Mozambique, IS-affiliated fighters seized and then lost the towns of Mocimboa da Praia and Palma. IS-linked jihadists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo staged a complex breakout of 1,300 inmates. Of particular concern is the activity of IS-Khorasan Province (IS-K), the IS affiliate in Afghanistan. One of IS’s more lethal and tactically proficient provinces, IS-K was formed largely by defectors from the Taliban and other jihadist groups and seized territory from the Taliban in 2014–15 before being repulsed by the Taliban and US-backed Afghan security forces.
IS-K has benefitted from the US withdrawal, perpetrating dozens of attacks since August 2021, and now wages a fierce insurgency against the Taliban. The growth of IS-K or other provinces could give IS the opportunity to once again transfer experienced fighters to places where it seeks to conventionalize.
This analysis has identified three flashpoints for a potential IS resurgence: Assad regime territories in the Badia; al-Hawl and prisons under SDF control; and the growth of IS provinces outside of Iraq and Syria, IS-K in particular. Just as US support has been crucial for defeating the caliphate, so too will it remain paramount for continuing effective counter-IS operations in Iraq and Syria.
In areas where the United States has lesser or no presence, such as West Africa, Afghanistan, and Assad regime territory, it might exert some pressure through limited airstrikes when needed, but it can also foster its partners’ capabilities so that when the next jihadist conventional campaign begins, we will be prepared to meet it—as we were not in Afghanistan.
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Nice islamic fellating article. The 'IS way of war'. The IS way of war' is successful only so long as it is being challenged by unmotivated, confused people. People who think there are good muslims and bad muslims and Ally muslims and non Ally muslims. That muslims can be hired as interpreters and intermediaries and contractors during war operations against muslims. That muslim intelligence can be treated as clean and muslims can be aided to fight their own little battles in order to accomplish the larger objective.
That's the extent of the islamic 'art of war'. Fight only fools and weaklings with notions of nobility that outweigh prudence.
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The piece is actually by Ido Levy, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Shafaq are actually a pro Kurdistan agency, they don't fellatio jihaders. It's just a well written and better researched piece of analysis.
You should have read it more carefully instead of being triggered at the certain words used. In fact, Levy's book 'Soldiers of End-Times' should be required reading for officers facing any islamic regime's fighters and even counter intelligence operators.
Hatred is good. One cannot dominate physically without adequate hatred. But underestimation of the enemy is foolishness. This is the one lesson the western world refuses to learn, since their view of anything west of the pacific was never based on righteous rage or smart appraisal but racial contempt and indifference. And they always faced it with the same industrial 'efficiency' the IR had taught them was next to divine. Think Skynet, it's thoughtless machines rolling over things it considers beneath itself and too stupid to counter it. [Art unconsciously imitates life] But the manifesto thumping commie, the sunnah bearded moslem, the hitherto disenfranchised lésbian loon, the Jordan Peel-ed wakandan ... they all hate with a fervent malice. Malice and supremacist angst is inherent in islam, which is drilled into moslems from infancy. Violence is prescribed in the marxist bases of most anti-America sentiment today.
There are valuable lessons in the way rag-tag groups of opponents and activists unite under a single criminal philosophy and motivated by only burning hatred they bring down teched-up giants defended by only lumbering bureaucracies. And once they do, they generally tend to replace the old order with their own. This applies to armies too. On the field, a guerilla culture of opportunity and plodding, sacrificial fighting is necessary only up to the point you don't have dominance. Once dominance is established, forces integrate conventionally and streamline their efforts, put better tactics into use, they now control rather than extort local economies. They become armies, they recruit professionally, they establish standards and regimens and routines. The daesh was shown a crushing momentum of marching death with over two thousand precision guided WMDs by the coalition, starting with the Kobani seige. It only ramped up from there and drove them into hiding or surrender. And that's where you may be right. Taking prisoners, especially trusting the Kurds and Iraqi moslems to deal with the survivors... again, self-righteous hubris writ into the many Magna Cartas and Bills of Rights and UNDHRs and Geneva and the complex ROEs that emasculate any credible response to islamist militarism. That's something that serves the islamist well. The west essentially forgot the principles of the bible and replaced them with some faggot philosophies of humanism couched in psychosocial verbiage. [A topic for another day, old bugbear of mine.]
But the teach is good. Levy's analysis describes how the guerilla type asymmetric thingy evolves into a full fledged militarized platform of administration and established emirates. This has been proven and shall be again. One must learn from this before simply saying 'Hmpf!' and sucking on that vape stick content in the knowledge that there is a soldier out there ensuring this never happens to them. Hatred. It takes adequate hatred. An overpowering compulsion to see scores of dead bodies of the young and old of those that endanger your young. To make it happen. Unless we have that we shall suffer from a proliferation of ISISes and commie outfits and militants and their lawfaring enablers until all is lost. The scales shall not always be evenly balanced, they will tip one day. The islamist is confident they will in his favour because he, his wife, his goddamn children and his ass... they're all invested in it. Are we? How many jihaders have you offed personally, dweller of the accursed deep?
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. - GaWd!
PS: 'Tis R'lyeh, dude. Cthulhu is imprisoned in R'lyeh, which is located somewhere in the baltic sea. Clever that.
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R'lyeh is in the Pacific, somewhere "north and east" of Australia. I read the damned books; Lovecraft never mentions the Baltics.
And let them hate, so long as they die.
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^ I stand corrected. Charles Stross put it in the Baltic somewhere, Rob. A newer re-telling, not canon I agree. Yes, Howard placed it in the Pacific.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The Nigerian Army says troops of Operation Desert Sanity have killed an unspecified number of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... (BH) and 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.... West Africa Province (ISWAP) snuffies in Borno State.
According to the army on its Twitter page, several enclaves of the snuffies around Ukuba and Zairo in Sambisa forest were also destroyed.
"Ongoing offensive clearance operations records another feat as troops of Operation Desert Sanity destroyed ISWAP/BokoHaram enclaves around Ukuba & Camp Zairo in Sambisa forest, Borno State. Several snuffies were neutralized as troops recovered equipment & weapons," the army tweeted.
Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau ...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka... , ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.
Last year, it appointed Wali Sani Shuwaram, a 45-year-old as the new Leader (Wali) of ISWAP in Lake Chad.
Nigerian forces obliterated Shuwaram at a hideout around Kirta Wulgo near the Marte Local Government Area of Borno State recently.
Bako Gorgore, a top ISWAP commander was said to be in line to become the new leader.
Shuwaram died months after installation in Kurnawa, Lake Chad.
[NYPOST] Moderate Democratic Sen Joe Manchin announced Friday that he intended to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, all but ensuring Senate Democrats have the votes to elevate the first black woman to the nation’s highest court.
"Senators have a constitutional obligation to advise and consent on a nominee to fill a Supreme Court vacancy and this is a responsibility I take very seriously," Manchin (D-WV) announced via Twitter.
"Just as I have with previous Supreme Court nominees, I met with Judge Jackson and evaluated her qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. After meeting with her, considering her record, and closely monitoring her testimony and questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, I have determined I intend to vote for her nomination to serve on the Supreme Court."
Jackson can be confirmed without a single Republican vote in the 50-50 Senate, since Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut... would be able to break a tie in the nominee’s favor. But a single Democratic defection coupled with united GOP opposition would doom the nomination..
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
City fights. The enemy continues to retreat in the direction of Azovstal. The encirclement ring is constantly shrinking. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, more than 7,000 people continue to defend themselves in the city. The rest of the group has virtually ceased to exist.
2. Ugledar direction.
Battles for Novomikhailovka. By evening, the enemy held most of the village, the fighting continues. Holding Novomikhailovka is critically important for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to continue holding Maryinka. In Marinka itself, fighting in the ruins of the village. The pace of advancement of the DPR army is not high here.
3.Zaporozhye direction.
There were fights to the southeast and east of Gulyaipole, as well as in the Malinovka area. No changes on the Kamenskoye-Orekhov line. Nikopol also has no promotion.
4.Nikolaev-Odessa.
No major changes. The grouping of the RF Armed Forces, which advanced to Krivoy Rog, is located 15-20 km from the city. In addition to the ongoing missile strikes, it is worth noting the information that has appeared about the preparation of a large-scale flooding of the area in the Odessa region in order to complicate the operations of the RF Armed Forces to blockade the city, around which some of the bridges have already been destroyed. Local residents are seriously worried, as residential areas may be flooded.
5. Avdievka.
Some progress in the Verkhnetoretsky area, fighting near Novobakhmutovka and Troitsky. Novoselka-2 is still under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are no fights in the New York area yet.
6. LPR.
There are no major changes in the area of Severdonetsk and Lysichansk.
Ukrainian DRGs reappeared in the southern part of Rubizhne. The city itself is shelled from artillery. In the area of Popasnaya, the LPR troops made some progress. The fighting for the city continues. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 93% of the territory of the republic has already been liberated.
7. Sumy-Chernihiv.
There are battles for Slavutych to the west of Chernigov. The city is blocked, the Armed Forces of Ukraine left their positions on the outskirts and retreated to Slavutych. They are also hammering the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Chernihiv.
In the Sumy region of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Akhtyrka region, the enemy launched a counterattack on Trostyanets (a town north of Akhtyrka), fighting was going on in the southern part of the city.
8. Kyiv.
In the absence of the mythical encirclement of the Russian group, fighting continued in the area of the settlement. Irpen, Bucha, Moshchuny, Vyshgorod. To the east of Kyiv, the fighting went to the northeast and east of the Brovary region. The Armed Forces of Ukraine announce the occupation of the village of Lukyanovka.
9. .Kharkov.
Medium-intensity fighting to the north and east of the city. Chuguev is still under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the MLRS were targeted in the northern regions of Kharkov. At night there were hits in the area of Kharkov airport.
10. Izyum.
According to a number of reports, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine yesterday gave the order to leave Izyum and concentrate on the battles for Kamenka. Fighting from there is gradually shifting south towards Barvenkovo and towards Slavyansk. The objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Artemovsk were subjected to heavy blows.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is concentrating forces in the Artemovsk region in order to be able both to fend off the breakthrough of the Donetsk Front and to counteract the RF Armed Forces after the breakthrough of the Izyum line.
Provincial govts in China are mandating univ teachers to attend "lectures correcting one's thoughts on Ru-Ukr situation", where attendees are told Russian military action is legitimate & it's all NATO/US/Ukr's fault. Meanwhile, univ students are "reporting" their teachers who... pic.twitter.com/BHXTalVkkZ
Vladimir Putin defends JK Rowling in speech condemning ‘cancel culture’ in the west
“They cancelled Joanne Rowling recently - the children’s author, her books are published all over the world - just because she didn’t satisfy the demands of gender rights,” he said during a televised speech.
He continued: “They are now trying to cancel our country. I’m talking about the progressive discrimination of everything to do with Russia.”
The government forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions intensively exchanged shelling in #Syria’s #Idlib, one civilian was killed. #HTShttps://t.co/Px6qQmSOut
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[Korrespondent] 21:31 The mayor of Vinnitsa said that there were no casualties as a result of a missile attack on the territory of the Air Force Command. 21:27 Czech Defense Minister Yana Chernokhova said she would not go to Budapest for a meeting of ministers of the Visegrad Four countries, because she did not agree with Hungary's position on Ukraine.
21:25 The EU will act as a single buyer of gas so that countries do not compete with each other, Ursula von der Leyen said.
21:21 Gerashchenko writes that the Ukrainian military attacked the Melitopol airfield, which, like Chernobaevka, was used by the Russians as a base for combat helicopters and aircraft.
21:19 The Prime Minister of Poland suggested that the EU stop issuing visas to Russians.
21:17 The Russian military began the transfer of reinforcements to Ukraine from Georgia, according to the Washington Post, citing a senior Pentagon official. According to him, the US Department of Defense saw the movement of "a certain number" of military personnel from Georgia, there are no exact figures.
20:55 Yermak said that the permanent members of the UN, as well as Turkey, Germany, Canada, Israel and Italy, should become guarantors of security for Ukraine. He stressed that Ukraine deserves to be one of the founders of the new security system, because it is opposed to one of the largest armies in the world.
20:33 The Russian occupiers no longer have full control over Kherson, writes The New York Times, citing a Pentagon official. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now conducting fierce battles in the city and are pushing back the Russian invaders there, once again turning the city into a "disputed territory."
20:31 The UN promises to negotiate with the Russians on the opening of a humanitarian corridor to Kherson on March 26 to deliver medicines and food to the city, Vereshchuk said.
20:28 Novaya Gazeta writes that members of Hezbollah are flying to Belarus. In total, we are talking about 800 militants. The first group of 200 militants will arrive next week - they will be transferred from Damascus to a military base in the Gomel region, and on March 29 they will go to Ukraine to fight for Russia. They were each promised to be paid $1,500 a month.
20:25 Russian troops fired six cruise missiles at Vinnitsa, the Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. Part of the missiles were shot down by air defense, the rest hit several structures. The infrastructure of the city was badly damaged, there is no information about the victims yet.
20:21 The Armed Forces of Ukraine captured the "LDNR" sniper, known as "Bagheera". She has been an accomplice of the "DNR" militants since 2014, she is responsible for the death of at least 40 people. According to "Bagheera" herself, she was thrown onto the battlefield wounded by her own people. Now she has received medical attention and is being interrogated. According to volunteer Vlad Ivanov, the captive is in contact with the investigation.
20:19 Kuleba said that there is no consensus in negotiations with Russia yet. He stressed that in order to "stimulate a more constructive approach, we need two things: more sanctions and more military assistance to Ukraine."
20:16 Biden, at a meeting with the US military in Poland, expressed admiration for the courage and strength of the Ukrainian people and said that the stakes in the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine go far beyond Ukrainian borders.
He also again called Putin a "war criminal", specifying that his personal opinion on this issue coincides with the legal point of view.
20:14 The governor of the Nikolaev area Vitaly Kim reported that the Russian invaders left Snigirevka and "hid".
20:12 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the electronic warfare complex, with which the Russian military jammed communications and blocked the work of Ukrainian UAVs and air defense, said the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov. Together with the APU complex, they destroyed about 50 enemies who directly worked with the equipment.
20:00 The United States delivered the first part to Ukraine as part of the largest aid package for $ 800 million, three more similar deliveries are expected in the coming days, the Pentagon said.
19:45 Tiffany stopped buying rough and polished diamonds mined in Russia from March 21. Earlier, Brilliant Earth and Signet Jewelers announced the termination of work with Russian stones.
The Russian group of companies Alrosa supplies 28% of the world's diamonds to the market.
19:27 The head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov said that this morning the 92nd mechanized brigade and the military personnel of the Kharkiv garrison destroyed enemy intelligence officers, including the company commander. 17 invaders were taken prisoner, 15 of which were mobilized from the "LDNR".
Also in the Kharkiv region, mobile units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed an enemy helicopter with artillery, which was standing right on the ground.
19:11 The mayor of Trostyanets, Sumy region, Yuriy Bova, reports that the Ukrainian military is liberating the city from Russian invaders.
19:09 Three enemy cruise missiles were shot down over Odessa today, Air Command Pivden reports.
19:02 Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland have created a joint investigation team to investigate war crimes in the Russian Federation, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
18:46 In Luhansk, in a local hospital, the occupiers placed a military hospital, which is completely occupied by wounded Russian servicemen. Part of the hospital is reserved for the storage of corpses - due to the fact that local morgues are overloaded, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
18:37 Russian invaders entered the resort Kyrylivka, Zaporozhye region. The local authorities refused to cooperate with them, said the head of the village, Ivan Maleev.
18:35 Zelensky published information about the states that, in closed discussions, expressed skepticism about Ukraine's entry into the European Union. Read more in the material Who is in the EU for Ukraine's entry, and who is not yet .
18:22 Biden said that the toughest "punitive sanctions" in world history are already in force against Russia, but new ones will follow.
18:09 Switzerland from 00:00 on March 26 introduces full sanctions against Russia, which were previously approved by the EU as part of the fourth sanctions package. This includes a ban on the export of "goods and services for the Russian energy sector", as well as iron and steel goods from Russia. In addition, the export of luxury goods to the Russian Federation is prohibited.
18:03 The Ukrainian Navy announced another Russian manipulation in connection with the alleged creation of a humanitarian corridor for the withdrawal of foreign ships from Ukrainian ports.
We are talking about the case when a Russian ship fired at the village of Sanzhyka near Odessa, and three hours later announced the so-called security guarantees for the passage of ships.
18:01 The head of Ukrainian intelligence, Kirill Budanov, said that one of the most important tasks of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense is the organization of a partisan movement behind enemy lines. He did not specify the details, noting only that this is "a very large number of people" and "spring will come soon, our forests will turn green, and a real hell will open for the aggressor."
17:48 In Kharkov, the Barabashovo market caught fire again after enemy shelling.
17:42 The United States is planning actions in case of possible Russian strikes on NATO territory, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.
17:35 In Melitopol, the Russian invaders blocked the distribution of humanitarian aid to local residents, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, the "head" of the occupation administration, Galina Danilchenko, personally forbade the issuance of humanitarian aid.
"There is information that they are planning to steal part of the humanitarian aid in order to implement it - to feed their pro-Russian fans and military personnel of the occupying army," Fedorov said.
17:33 The fighters of one of the subdivisions of the TRO of the Zaporozhye region carried out an offensive operation and liberated the village of Malinovka, Pohovsky district. Currently, the cleaning of the settlement from saboteurs and the remnants of the Russian military continues, writes UP.
17:30 In Melitopol, 70 Russian soldiers staged a riot and refused to follow the orders of their leadership, the Zaporozhye regional administration reported.
17:26 The State Bureau of Investigation opened criminal proceedings on the fact of high treason of the former mayor of Izyum of the Kharkiv region, as well as two current deputies of the Izyum City Council and a former police officer.
17:23 Severstal of the Russian oligarch Alexei Mordashov was the first to enter a technical default: the company was unable to pay its debts due to sanctions, its grace period has ended.
17:15 The Pope promised to facilitate the opening of humanitarian corridors from dangerous regions of Ukraine, Vereshchuk said.
16:40 A village in the Kherson region has become a symbol of the destruction of Russian troops on Ukrainian soil. Details about the place, which has already become fatal for Russians, are in the material What is the phenomenon of the legendary Chernobaevka .
16:19 Kuleba denied Erdogan's information about the consensus of Kyiv and Moscow on four out of six points. In particular, the only state language in Ukraine is and will be Ukrainian, the Foreign Minister said in a commentary to the UP.
Kuleba added that the classification of the key topics of negotiations into four or another number of points is incorrect. He again stressed that the negotiation process is going very hard, but the Ukrainian delegation will not give up its demands.
16:17 The Russians have already captured 14 Ukrainian mayors , Vereshchuk said. At the same time, she clarified that the Russian Federation agrees to the exchange of prisoners exclusively on parity terms, that is, border guards for border guards, sailors for sailors, etc.
"I have a logical question: for whom will we change the mayors, of whom there are already 14 held hostage by Russia? For now, we are solving this issue at the international level," she added.
16:10 Medinsky said that without the "demilitarization", "denazification" of Ukraine, the recognition of Crimea and Donbass, the conclusion of an agreement with Kiev is unlikely. He also said that Ukraine is primarily concerned about security guarantees from third powers in the event of not joining NATO, and this, according to him, is "a completely understandable position."
16:04 Xi Jinping in a telephone conversation with Boris Johnson said that China is ready to play a "constructive role" for the return of peace to Ukraine.
15:51 Medinsky said that Ukraine and Russia at the talks are bringing their positions closer "on minor issues," and on major political issues "in fact, they are marking time."
15:49 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called the losses of the Russians: 1351 servicemen allegedly died, 3825 were injured.
15:48 Russian Ministry of Defense declares that "LPR" "liberated" 93% of the territory of the "republic", "DPR" - 54%, battles for Mariupol continue
15:47 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that "in general, the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed." Now the main efforts will be focused on achieving the main goal - "the liberation of Donbass."
15:45 The Russian Defense Ministry has counted 6,595 "foreign mercenaries and terrorists" from 62 states in Ukraine.
15:43 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called the "losses" of the Ukrainian army: "out of 2,416 tanks and other combat armored vehicles that were in the Ukrainian army on February 24, 1,587 were destroyed. 112 out of 152 military aircraft were destroyed, 75 out of 149 helicopters, 36 Bayraktar TB2 drones - 35, out of 180 S-300 and Buk M1 - 148, out of 300 radars for various purposes - 117 ".
15:41 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that over the month the "losses" of Ukrainian troops amounted to about 30,000 people, including "more than 14,000 - irretrievable and about 16,000 - sanitary."
15:38 The Russian Ministry of Defense states that the presence of Russian troops in the area of "blockaded cities" of Ukraine fetters the forces of Kiev, "does not allow to strengthen the group in the Donbass." Moscow claims that Kyiv was going to attack the Donbass on February 28.
“Initially, we didn’t plan to storm them in order to prevent destruction and minimize losses among personnel and civilians,” the Russian Defense Ministry says. forces and means will be concentrated on the main thing - the complete liberation of Donbass."
15:37 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that Russian troops "blocked Kiev, Kharkov, Chernihiv, Sumy and Nikolaev, Kherson and most of the Zaporozhye region are under full control."
15:34 Rumors that Russia is running out of forces and missiles are not true, said Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Gruzevich.
According to him, the enemy has now changed tactics and is tracking Ukrainian air defense, air force and artillery. He also said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have information about mobilization in Dagestan.
15:30 Erdogan said that Kiev and Moscow are close to reaching a consensus on four of the six points. In particular, we are talking about Ukraine's refusal from the course of joining NATO, giving official status to the Russian language, demilitarization in the sense of refusing to deploy offensive weapons, as well as issues of collective security.
At the same time, Ukraine does not make concessions on the issues of recognizing Crimea as Russian and recognizing the LDNR.
15:21 In the Zaporizhia region, Russian invaders fired at a brigade of power engineers of Zaporizhoblenergo during the liquidation of an accident in the power supply system of a settlement in the Vasilyevsky district. According to the press service of the company, two people were injured.
15:03 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council confirms that every day there is more and more evidence of the intentions of the Russian Federation to use poisonous substances against Ukraine.
In particular, InformNapalm experts report on the possible use of sarin (it is used for military purposes as a poisonous nerve agent) in those cities where the occupiers cannot break through the defenses.
According to intelligence, on March 17, Russian officers fighting in Ukraine received an injection of Pralidoxime (an antidote for organophosphorus compounds), and on March 20, enemy command personnel received ampoules with atropine (an antidote for chemical poisoning).
14:57 The street in Prague, where the Russian Embassy is located, will be named Ukrainian Heroes.
14:55 Biden is going to make a "significant" speech about the events in Ukraine.
14:53 Washington does not yet see Beijing providing military assistance to Moscow or helping to circumvent sanctions, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. She also sees no point in imposing preventive sanctions against China.
14:47 Arestovich reported that the 200th motorized rifle brigade of Russia had been destroyed. Of the 648 soldiers who arrived in Ukraine with it, 645 invaders were killed, three survived.
He also said that 50 percent of one of the regiments of the 7th Airborne Battalion of the Russian Federation wrote a report refusing to participate in hostilities.
14:46 Arestovich confirmed the destruction of Russian Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev and clarified that this happened in Chernobaevka.
14:42 The Biden administration called fake trading on the Moscow Exchange, which opened this week after almost a month of inactivity. The White House explained that only 15% of the listing is traded, non-residents do not participate, shorts are prohibited. This is not a real market, and such a model is unsustainable, Washington said.
14:36 Poland, together with Slovenia and the Czech Republic, have prepared a ten-point action plan that the EU must fulfill if it really wants to end the war in Ukraine:
disconnect all Russian banks from SWIFT;
introduce a unified asylum policy for Russian soldiers who refuse to serve the criminal regime in Moscow;
completely stop Russian propaganda in Europe;
to block Russian ships in European ports;
impose the same blockade of road transport to and from Russia;
impose sanctions on not only the oligarchs, but also their entire business environment;
suspend the issuance of visas to all citizens of the Russian Federation;
impose sanctions on all members of Putin's United Russia party;
introduce a complete ban on the export to Russia of technologies that can be used for military purposes;
exclude Russia from all international organizations.
If this does not stop the war, it is necessary to move on, the authors of the idea believe.
14:30 Most Ukrainians (83 percent) are in favor of Ukrainian being the only state language in the country, according to a poll by the Rating group .
14:28 Xi Jinping said that the world community should facilitate negotiations on the Ukrainian issue.
14:10 The chairman of the occupied village of Nizhniye Serogozy, Genichesk district, Kherson region, Dmitry Takadzhi, has disappeared, the local council reported.
14:05 Germany, Austria and Hungary oppose the termination of purchases of Russian energy resources, said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
14:01 The media have calculated that the yachts of Russian oligarchs worth a total of two billion dollars have already been arrested in the world.
13:56 Canada will increase oil exports by 5% to help the EU overcome dependence on Russian energy imports. Canada is the world's fourth largest oil supplier.
13:53 In Izyum, Kharkiv region, four officials committed high treason and became collaborators, said city council deputy Maxim Strelnik. We are talking about the deputies Anatoly Fomichevskiy and Yuri Kozlov, as well as the former mayor of the city Alexander Bozhkov and ex-policeman Vladislav Sokolov.
13:49 Russia is building up the ship fleet in the Sea of Azov. The small minesweeper Valentin Pikul, the missile boat Naberezhnye Chelny and two landing craft passed through the Kerch Strait in a northerly direction, the General Staff reports.
13:47 In the Chernobyl area, the Russians deployed a rear area (field camp) of a group of troops from the eastern military district, the General Staff reports.
13:42 The occupiers form and send to Belarus consolidated units from the 37th Motorized Rifle Brigade (Kyakhta), the 5th Specialized Rifle Brigade (Ulan-Ude) of the 36th Army, the 38th Motorized Rifle Brigade (Yekaterinoslavka) of the 35th Army, 40 Separate Brigade Marine Corps (Petropavlovsk-Komiysky), reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:36 Great Britain clarified that sanctions on operations with foreign exchange reserves of the Russian Federation also apply to operations with gold.
13:34 Girkin-Strelkov openly announced the failure of Russian troops in Ukraine and criticized the activities of the Russian Defense Ministry and intelligence.
13:13 In Slavutych, which is surrounded by Russian troops, the townspeople were forbidden to take to the streets and move around the city, even in cars. Such measures were introduced due to the work of snipers, the City Council reports.
12:51 Ukraine has denounced an agreement with Russia on the recognition of diplomas and academic titles.
12:36 The EU and the US have signed an agreement to supply Europe with more liquefied natural gas from the US. Thus, this year the United States will supply an additional 15 billion cubic meters of LNG. The long-term goal will be to provide about 50 billion cubic meters per year of additional LNG from the US until at least 2030.
12:20 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated another top general of the Russian Federation - lieutenant general, commander of the 49th combined arms army of the Southern Military District Yakov Ryazantsev, MP Goncharenko said.
12:17 Deputy head of the National Police, General Vyacheslav Abroskin, said he was ready to personally surrender to the invaders in exchange for children from Mariupol. He asks the Russians for three days to organize the removal of children, after which he is ready to surrender.
12:15 The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine asks the EU to completely block land and sea transport links with Russia and Belarus, block the possibility of transporting goods and people to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus through the territory of the EU and its borders, and also prohibit the provision of customs services for goods delivered to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus .
12:05 In the Osnovyansky district of Kharkiv today at 7:45 Russian troops fired at the city clinic, killing four people, the National Police reported. The hospital has a distribution center for humanitarian aid.
12:02 Yesterday, the leaders of NATO, the G7 and the EU spent the whole day discussing the month of Russia's war against Ukraine. What Zelensky spoke about at each of the three summits and what he was told in Brussels - details in the material Did they hear Ukraine in the West .
11:55 Erdogan once again confirmed that he will not transfer the Russian S-400 air defense system to Ukraine, which the United States asked him to do.
11:47 Since the beginning of the war, the SBU has liquidated more than 20 enemy DRGs and detained more than 350 of their participants.
11:29 Finland canceled passenger trains to Russia. The Ministry of European Affairs and Property Management reported that the further operation of Allegro high-speed trains that ran to the Russian Federation is "inappropriate".
11:25 In Mariupol, in the premises of the Metro shopping center, the invaders opened the headquarters of United Russia, the city council reports with reference to local residents. According to Mariupol residents, party newspapers are being distributed at the headquarters, campaigning for the Russian Federation, they are issuing cards of the Phoenix mobile operator, which has been working in the DPR since 2014.
11:05 Kommersant writes that out of a billion rubles allocated by the state for the repair of anti-aircraft missile systems in 2013-2016, officials stole 692 million. Captain of the first rank Igor Supranovich for money admitted dubious enterprises to the competition for a state contract, whose leaders plundered budgets.
10:56 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of March 25:
personnel - about 16,100 people
tanks - 561
armored fighting vehicles - 1625
artillery systems - 291
MLRS - 90
air defense systems - 49
aircraft - 115
helicopters - 125
automotive equipment - 1089
ships / boats - 5
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 72
UAV operational-tactical level - 53
special equipment - 18
10:50 In the Drama Theater of Mariupol, which was bombed by Russians on March 16, 300 people were killed , the city council said, citing eyewitnesses.
10:47 The Russian military has problems with funding. As it turned out, the payment of these expenses is not provided for in the budget, and due to the sanctions imposed, it is impossible to find additional funds, according to Ukrainian intelligence.
In particular, in Crimea, after the payment of “travel allowances” to participants in the war against Ukraine in February, the limit of funds for military units has been completely exhausted, and there is no funding for March.
The situation is similar with the payment for the participation in the war of mercenaries of Russian PMCs, among which cases of refusal to travel to Ukraine are becoming more frequent. The militants do not receive funds for participation in hostilities, compensation for injuries and the promised "social guarantees".
10:43 Johnson believes that Putin's talk about the use of nuclear weapons is a way to divert attention from what weapons and how exactly Russian troops are using in Ukraine.
Johnson also doesn't believe that Putin wants peace: "I think Putin is going to do to Ukrainian cities what he did to Grozny." At the same time, he is convinced that Ukraine will win this war, although it will not be easy.
10:34 Switzerland froze Russian assets worth $6.17 billion. According to the Swiss civil servant, this amount will increase over time.
10:24 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that last night Caliber sea-based cruise missiles attacked the fuel base in Kalinovka near Kiev.
10:19 In Chernihiv, the only pedestrian bridge across the Desna is closed - its condition was recognized as emergency as a result of shelling, Governor Vyacheslav Chaus said.
10:13 Arestovich says that many invaders are already fleeing Gostomel, some of them are changing into civilian clothes for this. He added that Gostomel is still partially captured by the Russians, "but they won't sit there for long."
09:58 Japan and Australia have imposed new sanctions against Russia. In particular, Japan added 81 more organizations and 25 individuals from the Russian Federation to the list and banned the export of luxury goods to Russia.
Australia has added 22 "Russian propagandists and disseminators of disinformation" to the sanctions list. Lukashenka and his eldest son also made the list.
09:48 In Kharkiv, Russians fired at the airport terminal at night, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to him, the Metro supermarket was under fire in the morning. During the night, as a result of shelling in the region, six people were killed, 17 were injured.
09:33 During the month of the war in Ukraine, Russia lost at least 39 billion rubles of heavy equipment, the opposition telegram channel calculated. We can explain. These are only visually confirmed losses of modern models of tanks and armored personnel carriers, not counting old modifications, whose cost cannot be estimated.
Among the most painful losses for Russia is the loss of at least 74 T-80 tanks - this is one of the most expensive tanks in service with the Russian army. The cost of these losses alone reaches 185 million dollars.
09:27 British intelligence announced the success of the Ukrainian army in the defense of Kiev. In addition, yesterday's successful strike on the occupying ships in the port of Berdyansk lowers the morale of Russian soldiers.
09:22 To date, two humanitarian corridors have been agreed: from Mariupol to Zaporozhye and from Melitopol to Zaporozhye.
09:09 There were 20 tanks, 45 armored personnel carriers and 400 personnel in the Saratov ship destroyed in Berdyansk by landing, Arestovich specified. Two more large landing ships, Novocherkask and Tsezar Kunikov, were also damaged.
08:47 Near Kiev, Ukrainian troops hold the defense and go on the counteroffensive, said Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs. According to him, the key battles that night took place in the Kiev region. There were strikes in the area of Vasilkov, Belaya Tserkov. Very serious battles were fought near Baryshevka and in the area of Bucha, Gostomel, Irpin.
08:28 In the Kiev region, an oil depot in the village of Kalinovka came under fire last night. According to the State Emergency Service, the remains of oil products continued to burn in the morning. There is no information about the victims.
08:27 A sharp rise in world food prices due to the war in Ukraine could provoke food riots in poor countries, the World Trade Organization said.
08:25 In Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 135 children have been killed, 184 children have been injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports. Children suffered the most in the Kiev and Kharkov regions.
08:24 The leaders of the EU countries pledged to support Ukraine and assist in the reconstruction after the war - for this a Solidarity Trust Fund will be created.
07:55 In Zaporozhye, an enhanced curfew will begin at 20:00 on March 26 and end at 05:00 on March 28, said the head of the Regional State Administration Oleksandr Starukh.
07:40 Ex-commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Wesley Clark, suggested that Russia could launch a nuclear strike on Poland: "If Putin really wants to contain NATO, if he believes that he can destroy NATO, he can use tactical nuclear weapons. Where is he will it be used? Perhaps not in Ukraine, but somewhere in a crowded place in Poland."
06:50 Over the past day, the Ukrainian military repulsed nine enemy attacks, destroyed 12 tanks, about 20 armored and automotive vehicles and nine artillery systems, as well as more than 200 Russian military personnel, two aircraft, two UAVs and four cruise missiles, the General Staff reports.
06:17 Deputy Prime Minister of Poland said that the country will continue to accept Ukrainian refugees and will not forcibly send them to other EU countries.
05:09 The Russian military not only lay down their arms, but also go over to fight on the side of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said.
04:00 In Kherson, the Russian military abducted a deputy of the Ship District Council, head of the European Solidarity faction Dmitry Afanasiev.
02:42 Zelensky, addressing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, urged him "not to hesitate in making decisions on sanctions, at a time when Russian occupiers in Ukraine are engaged in massacres."
01:12 Zelensky awarded the title of Hero City of Ukraine to four more cities: Bucha, Irpin, Nikolaev and Akhtyrka.
00:49 The Armed Forces of Ukraine specified that not the large landing ship Orsk, but Saratov, was destroyed in the port of Berdyansk.
00:31 Russia fired two missile attacks on one of the military units on the outskirts of the Dnieper in the evening, the State Emergency Service reports. Information about the victims is established.
A few days ago we thought we knew that TNTJ is a dawa (Muslim outreach) group established in 2004 that claims to be apolitical. Oddly enough, they found it necessary a few years ago to fire the founder for getting taped interfering with a plural number of women. Here’s what the Indians say:
[OneIndia] Courtesy the hijab issue created by some motivated individuals in Karnataka, the Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath (TNTJ) is back in the news. Three members of the TNTJ, Rahamatullah from Madurai, Covai Rahamathulla from Tirunelveli and S Jamal Mohammad Usmani from Thanjavur were arrested for threatening the judges of the Karnataka High Court over the hijab case.
These persons had issued a death threat to the judges who delivered the verdict in the case.
This group was formed in 2004 and was in the news following the Sri Lankan suicide kabooms of 2019.
However the group clarified that it had no role in the attack. The Indian connection to the blasts were found by the Intelligence agencies. The criminal mastermind behind the attack, Zahran Hashm was a follower of the TNTJ's founder P Jainulabdeen. However Jainulabdeen was expelled from the outfit for alleged sexual misconduct and misappropriation of funds in 2019.
The Bengaluru police had filed a case after a video of Rahamatullah surfaced in which he is heard saying that if the judges get killed they themselves will be responsible for the same. He also cites an incident from Jharkhand when a judge was mowed down while going on a morning walk. He says that people know where the CJ goes for a walk in the morning.
In a statement, the TNTJ said, "we want to make it clear that the actions of these few individuals who have been arrested do not reflect the views of the TNTJ outfit as a whole in any manner. Further, we don't even resort to protests that go as far as road rokos as it would cause inconvenience to the common public. There are untrue messages being spread tarnishing the image of the TNTJ."
The outfit's name had cropped when the NIA filed a chargesheet against one Mohammad Naseer in 2016. Naseer was heading to Libya from Sudan, but was apprehended and later deported to India.
He did his computer engineering from the MNM college in Chennai. It was at this time that he would visit a mosque at Chennai which was run by the Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath, non-political Islamic Organisation that preaches a puritanical version of Islam.
In 2015, the NIA had raided three locations of the TNTJ for their alleged terror links. In 2015, the Chennai police an FIR against the group following a complaint by an American national who accused the group of assaulting him for attempting to convert Moslems to Christianity. In 2019, a member of the group Faisal was arrested for his hate speech against Union Home Minister, Amit Shah.
In January 2021 tensions prevailed in the Mannady area of Chennai after members of the TNTJ protested actions of the Deputy Custodian of the Enemy Property Act of trying to seal their office. The officials alleged that the headquarters was being used for purposes other than what is declared. The TNTJ however said that the party pays Rs 4 lakh rent every year to the Union Government and is ready to purchase the property if the government is ready to sell it.
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So Gerasimov will run the show. That’s what a chain of succession is for
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Here's a video purportedly of Shoigu chairing a meeting. This looks like the locker room of a team that's down 42-0 at the half.
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Matt's link. He's right. You can smell the "enthusiasm and confidence".
Russian defense ministry releases this video showing country’s military chief following questions about Sergei Shoigu’s whereaboutspic.twitter.com/lVvde4IjSW
[MAIL] Moscow’s claim that Hunter Biden helped finance a US military 'bioweapons' research program in Ukraine is at least partially true, according to new emails obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
The commander of the Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces, claimed there was a 'scheme of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian biological objects' and pointed to the 'financing of such activities by structures close to the current US leadership, in particular the investment fund Rosemont Seneca, which is headed by Hunter Biden.'
Intelligence experts say the Russian military leader's allegations were a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and sow discord in the US.
But emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop show he helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons.
He also introduced Metabiota to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma, for a 'science project' involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine.
And although Metabiota is ostensibly a medical data company, its vice president emailed Hunter in 2014 describing how they could 'assert Ukraine's cultural and economic independence from Russia' — an unusual goal for a biotech firm.
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This is all Russian misinformation, right? Right? The laptop, the bioweapons, the money...all Putin's lies, right? Right? Biden wouldn't engineer a coup in Ukraine so he and his crooked cronies could turn the place into a bio-weapons lab. Would he? Would he?
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Federal Law Enforcement and US Intelligence Community difficulty with Hunter's laptop explained.
Global Viral (GV), previously known as Global Viral Forecasting Institute (GVFI),[1] is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 2007 by Nathan Wolfe[2] to study infectious diseases, their transmission between animals and humans, and the risk involved with their global spread. An original goal of the organization was to develop an early warning system for pandemics and at one point Global Viral coordinated a staff of over 100 scientists in China, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, Republic of the Congo, Laos, Gabon, Central African Republic, Malaysia, Madagascar and Sao Tome.
However, as of 2019 the organization has "shifted" these areas of research to Metabiota, an independent for-profit company that focuses on risk analysis of pandemics. GV appears to have "now focuse[d] its research on studying the diversity, ecology and evolution of microbes".
Anyone really believe Metabiota's funding comes from the Department of Defense, Bill and Melinda, or concerned philanthropists? No, me neither.
Anyone really believe Dr. Anthony Fauci had no knowledge of Metabiota's funding and extensive research? No, me neither.
Anyone read... "research on studying the diversity, ecology and evolution of microbes" (above para closing sentence) and NOT immediately default to...'gain of function?' No, me neither.
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Yes, anything that goes against the deep state is certainly Putin's lies. You may go back to sleep now. Our intelligence community has your interests at heart and would never deceive you.
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[GenesiusTimes] MARTHA’S VINEYARD— After testing positive for COVID-19, former President Barack Obama says he will continue to social distance from Michelle, just as he has done for the last 4 years.
"We, as good Americans, were cautioned about the possibility that one day a hostile virus would invade and it was then that Michelle and I decided to take precautions. We have practiced good social distancing procedures since I left the Oval Office. To no ones surprise except maybe Hillary’s, upon doing so, a dastardly virus assumed the presidency.
"Michelle and I both have had several ’caregivers’ that assist us in maintaining a healthy separation of at least a 6 foot, although I myself prefer New Jersey," Obama said.
The president also said he will continue to quarantine on the couch in the downstairs family room which is the only place he can get away with occasionally catching FOX when he wants to find out what is really going on with the Ukraine and that crazy moron. We believe he may have been referring to Biden, not Putin but our reporter wasn’t 100% sure.
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Maybe we should put everything posted about the CDC under War on Terrorism because they’ve killed more Americans than the jihadis have
New satellite imagery this morning of southeastern Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov that shows a Russian alligator-class landing ship burned and partially submerged. Ukraine says it hit the ship yesterday. Also looks to be fire at nearby fuel tanks. 📸 @Maxarpic.twitter.com/b0Dr6lDwdp
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] The United States has sanctioned six Nigerians convicted by an Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over alleged funding of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorism.
The convicts were tried and convicted in 2019 after being found guilty of funding the deadly sect.
Two of the convicts, Surajo Abubakar Muhammad and Saleh Yusuf Adamu were sentenced to life imprisonment while the remaining four, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, AbdurRahman Ado Musa, Bashir Ali Yusuf and Muhammad Ibrahim Isa were handed ten-year imprisonment respectively.
Court documents also showed that between 2015 and 2016, the convicts were involved in different cash transfers allegedly in favour of Boko Haram to the tune of USD782,000
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the U.S, in a statement by Department of States spokesperson, Ned Price said Musa, Adamu, Yusuf, Isa, Alhassan and Muhammad had been added to the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, pursuant to Executive Order 13224, as amended, for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Boko Haram.
The statement reads, "Today’s action follows the United Arab Emirates’ prosecutions, convictions, and designations of these individuals for supporting terrorism. The Department of State designated Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation and Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization on November 14, 2013.
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[DW] Chechen warlord and Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov boasted of his soldiers' part in Russia's war in Ukraine. But many Chechen and Tatar Moslems are defending Ukraine and settling scores with the rulers of their homelands.
The number of these fighters deployed to Ukraine is unknown, but their reputation for brutality and ruthlessness in enforcing domestic rule is well-known, and their presence has raised memories of grisly urban combat and guerilla fighting from the Chechen wars in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, known as one of the most loyal allies of President Vladimir Putin
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Distorted news is a toolbox for the fascist or heroin for brainwashed.
Even after many readers complained in the comments section,about the continuous barrage of British or nato fake articles lately rantburg is continuously linking nato or cia disinformation articles and aggregate this trash as news this is anti-American,
Stop pushing your racist Russophobia fake news and shilling for the criminals in the nato cia globalists!
IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A INCOMPETENT OR A LIAR
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Russian trolls are active on this website but not terribly convincing.
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Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham or HTS is a designated terrorist organization the Syrian grunts of which have been massacred by Russian and other forces, justifiably so. I'm sure many moslems wanna get back at Russia. Some chechens would too. I never understood Kadyrov's loyalty to the Kremlin, probably a typical moslem opportunist thing.
What I appreciate is the large numbers of moslems being used as fodder. You have to like that.
[India Today] Dell has updated its premium laptop offerings under the XPS series with the latest Intel chipsets. Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17 will now be equipped with Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake-H processors. With this, the Dell laptops will be available in a total of three new CPU configurations.
These will include an option between Intel Core i5-12500H, Core i7-12700H, and Core i9-12900HK. These chips have been clocked at 4.5GHz, 4.7GHz, and 5GHz respectively. The top-end i9-12900HK option is only available on XPS 15 as of now.
Other than the new CPUs, Dell's XPS lineup now gets an upgraded DDR5-4800 RAM. Interestingly, this will be configurable up to 64GB of memory. Everything else about the laptops remains the same as before.
For those unaware, Dell had launched the XPS 15 and XPS 17 in India back in August last year, at a starting price of Rs 2,23,990. The premium laptops from the house of Dell came with 11th Gen Intel Core i9H processors and featured up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics on the XPS 17.
Except for the 12th-gen Intel chips, things remain largely the same with the revised models. The new XPS 15 and XPS 17 still carry a durable, lightweight design, with a 15.6-inch 16:10 display on the XPS 15, which extends to 17-inch on the XPS 17. There are both touchscreen and non-touchscreen options on the two laptops, with a 3840 x 2400 pixels and a 1920 x 1200 pixels resolution respectively.
As mentioned, memory onboard the new Dell laptops extends to up to 64GB of DDR5-4800 RAM across two channels. There are also storage options between 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. The XPS laptops support up to 8TB of total storage expansion. Other features on the XPS 15 and XPS 17 include Thunderbolt 4 ports, a 3.5 mm audio jack, and an SD card reader. Around $1900. USD.
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[GenesiusTimes] US—A recent poll by the Pew Pew Center found that a majority of Americans are "pretty sure" that the people who lied about everything regarding the COVID pandemic are now telling the truth about the Ukraine crisis.
The result spanned all demographics.
"I know the mainstream media, the government, and all the big corporations lied their asses off about COVID. But that was then. I know they’re telling the truth about Ukraine," Philadelphia resident and Ukraine supporter Phil Adolph said.
In a total coincidence, the pandemic, which had occupied the entire news cycle for 2 years was replaced overnight by the Russian invasion. Now the same people who spread misinformation about COVID is telling people what to think about Ukraine.
"Look, I know the media and government lie about everything. But this is different. They wouldn’t lie about a war," Adolph said. "We gotta trust them this time." The joke is not far from the truth.
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Yeah, haha, but it's not funny anymore. These fuckheads really do want to drag us into a war with Russia. Let them go fight. Send Hunter Biden to the front lines. Fuck these foolish warmongers
#2
Maybe it would make sense to do a colleration study on the relationship between the ink used to print mail in ballots and the infection rate from exposure to the Covid virus.
#3
I have it confirmed our government has been orchestrating this Ukraine business since mid summer. Cutting off the cash cow was a big Putin no no. Government agencies have been keyed up and prepped. You don't want to mess with the swamp people. An example must be made.
[Dawn] The law-enforcement personnel killed a terrorist belonging to the Death EaterIslamic 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.... group in an intelligence-based operation in Urmar area of the bustling provincial capital on Thursday.
In a statement, the Counter-Terrorism Department said that the operation was carried out by the police, CTD and intelligence personnel.
It said that the law-enforcement agencies raided a hideout of murderous Moslems in Urmar area on the outskirts of city on an intelligence report that Lions of Islam identified as Khalid, Daniyal, Hassn Shah and others were hiding there.
The statement said that exchange of fire between the LEAs and murderous Moslems continued for about two hours. It said a terrorist identified as Daniyal was killed in exchange of fire with police while two to three others escaped.
It said the slain terrorist was a member of IS-K and involved in the Kocha Risaldar suicide kaboom, which resulted in the death of 67 people.
The CTD said that the terrorist was also involved in assassination of police personnel, Sikh homeopath Satnam Singh and Christian pastor William Siraj.
It said a search operation was under way in the area to nab the fleeing Death Eaters.
#2
They will do whatever it takes to wreck Ukraine. This matter is existential for Russia. They will not give up until Ukraine is in ruins. When will Biden and his people get it through their heads?
I have to ask:
What has happened to the Super Bad A$$ Russian Military that we were constantly told was a threat to world peace?
Did the USA Taxpayers really need to pump & dump $$ TRILLIONS of dollars into defending against this mess?
It seems clear Russia does not have:
* the claimed Ground Forces,
* the ability to quickly stage, mass and attack,
* lacks Skilled Sr. Level Combat Leadership,
* lacks tactical equipment in numbers needed for any mass Invasion of Western Europe. At best Russia, it seems, can pick off a smaller country every 5 to 10 years between rebuilding.
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"Russia's huge and threatening. Therefore we need to expand NATO to the edge of Russia."
"Russia's not a threat to us. Therefore we need to expand NATO the edge of Russia."
#8
It's not like Russia wasn't spending huge amounts on its military -- they were just not bothering to spend it on training and maintenance. You assess threats on capability -- and on paper, the Russian military has huge capabilities -- not on performance.
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I don't think anybody had "Seven Russian generals will be killed in the first 30 days" on their Bingo card.
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I had 5. But I thought they'd be killed by Putin
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So much for the theory that Putin was going to restore the Soviet Union...or the Russian Empire.
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Did the USA Taxpayers really need to pump & dump $$ TRILLIONS of dollars into defending against this mess?
OPFOR at the NTC.
However, the OPFOR practice many times a year with every unit that goes through the NTC.
OPFOR has contractor personnel to keep the vehicles running.f
OPFOR gets resupplied in the field.
OPFOR does not drive through kilometers of their own burning vehicles.
As security chaos in #Syria's #Daraa continues, assassinations against people joined the settlement and government members has increased. #Russiahttps://t.co/dx4Zg71Trn
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 25, 2022
[MilitaryLand] The summary of the 29th day of Russian invasion to Ukraine, as of 23:59 – 24th of March 2022 (Kyiv time).
It’s been a month since the Russian invasion of Ukraine has begun. Iconically, it marks the first day when Ukrainian troops reported more successful operations than the invading force. Go to the site. They have improved greatly the graphics presentation of the maps.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A "limited fire" broke out at an electricity distribution plant in the town of Samtah in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s Jazan following a rocket attack, the Arab Coalition said on Friday.
The coalition said that there were no fatalities, according to state news agency (SPA).
"We are practicing self-restraint, and we reserve the right to respond at the right time," the coalition added.
The coalition also said that a "hostile" attack targeted the National Water Company tanks in the Kingdom’s Dhahran Al Janub.
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[FoxNews] A Colorado jury on Friday awarded a $14 million judgment to 12 protesters after finding Denver police officers violated their constitutional rights amid chaotic demonstrations in 2020 over police brutality and racial injustice.
Jurors found Denver violated the First and Fourth Amendment rights of protesters, who claimed police officers injured them during the gatherings that were sparked by the death of George Floyd, the Denver Post reported. They heard testimony about the alleged failure of police to coordinate during the law enforcement response during the three-week civil trial.
The 12 plaintiffs were injured with bean bags and pepper-sprayed during several days of gatherings in downtown Denver. At the end of the trial, attorneys asked the jury to award $17.5 million in damages.
"I think we established that when there are people committing acts of violence, what the police should do is take action against those people. What you can't do is take it out on the peaceful protesters," Tim Macdonald, attorney for seven plaintiffs, told Fox News. "The acts of violence against peaceful protesters by the police were so extensive, I think that's what persuaded the jury.
He added that the city never presented evidence or argued that the plaintiffs had acted violently.
"The Denver protests in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder were unprecedented – the city had never seen that level of sustained violence and destruction before," the Denver Department of Public Safety said in a statement to Fox News. "We were prepared for a worst-case scenario, but we weren’t fully prepared for what transpired."
The agency said it recognizes "some mistakes were made" and that all officers have received additional training on crowd control response and rapid deployment tactics.
High-ranking officers testified about the police department's response, with some saying it was difficult to discern who was throwing projectiles or causing property damage.
"In 40 years I never saw such anger against police," Patrick Phelan, the now-retired Denver police commander who oversaw protest response, said during his testimony, the Post reported.
One plaintiff claimed she was bruised during protests and was targeted by police for recording them with her cellphone, Fox affiliate KDVR reported.
"It shouldn't be a weapons-first policy against peaceful protesters by the police and unfortunately, at least in significant respects, that is what happened here," Macdonald said.
Denver has already paid out $1.3 million tied to lawsuits over protests.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:49 In Vinnitsa inflicted missile attack on the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the air forces of the Russian Federation. 20:51 The Ukrainian Air Force announces a missile strike in Vinnitsa on the command of the air forces. The missiles hit several buildings, causing significant damage to infrastructure, the consequences are still being assessed.
17:00 The city of Slavutych is blocked by units of the Russian Armed Forces. This confirm by authorities of the Kiev region. Most of the inhabitants of Slavutych were and are employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
16:50 RF Armed Forces put out of action 30 key plants of the defense industry complex of Ukraine with high-precision weapons, repairing 68% of weapons and equipment - RF Ministry of Defense.
16:08 Kyiv, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and Nikolaev are blocked by Russian troops, Kherson and most of the Zaporozhye region are under full control - the Russian Defense Ministry.
15:34 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the fighting in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Tikhotskoye in the Kharkiv region - this small village is located south of Izyum in the vicinity of Kamenka, where clashes have been going on for several days.
15:30 The administration of the Kiev region declares that the city of Slavutych near Chernobyl is occupied by Russian troops.
13:44 More and more coming data on the use of social infrastructure facilities in Odessa for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense units. If anyone closely followed the Syrian conflict, then he remembers what fierce battles unfolded for the buildings of hospitals, hospitals and schools, which turned into powerful strongholds. Here is a list of the next objects privatized by territorial defense detachments:
School No. 1 - Mikhailovskaya Square 10
School No. 57 - Yamchitsky 7
School No. 59 - Kanatnaya 89
School No. 94 - Marzliyvskaya 60
School No. 101 - Bolshaya Arnautskaya 9
City Hospital No. 8 - Fontanskaya Road 110
Maternity hospital No. 1 - Slepneva 3
Maternity hospital No. 4 - Pavel Kravtsov 7
School number 14 at the address Crimean, 56A.
And if everything is easier with schools - students have long been sent on vacation or remote work - then the hospital and maternity hospitals continue to work while the territorial defense units replenish stocks of Molotov Cocktails and equip long-term firing points in buildings.
13:40 "Odessa can be encircled" - the mayor of the city Gennady Trukhanov.
13:10 In the liberated Genichesk, they began to make social payments to public sector employees. According to media reports, pensioners and state employees received 10,000 rubles each.
10:51 A group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed 24 units of military equipment, including 7 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 armored personnel carriers, during night strikes.
During the night, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 51 military facilities of Ukraine, among them: two command posts, three installations of multiple launch rocket systems, two Buk M-1 anti-aircraft missile systems and one S-300 illumination and guidance radar in the Dnepropetrovsk region, three D-30 artillery pieces, two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition, 26 areas of concentration of military equipment - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
10:50 On the evening of March 24, Kalibr high-precision sea-based cruise missiles attacked a fuel base in the Kalinovka settlement near Kiev, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. The largest of the remaining fuel bases of the armed forces of Ukraine, from which fuel was supplied to military units in the central part of the country, was destroyed.
09:34 In Kharkiv, a local resident filmed the work of artillery VSU from a residential area and a few seconds later an answer arrived.
09:30 Ukrainian media and TG channels report a missile attack on a military unit in Dnepropetrovsk.
09:07 The calculations of the Iskander complex destroyed the training base for foreign mercenaries in Ukraine - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
07:13 Servicemen of the Russian Defense Ministry continue to provide help to the local population (Chernobaevka and Antonovka in the Kherson region) in the form of gum delivery. help.
07:05 Mi-28UB attack helicopters destroyed goals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region.
07:04 The company stronghold of Ukrainian nationalists has been destroyed. Interview with the commander of the lead crew of the Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter.
[YouTube] Excerpt from Podcast with Jordan Harbinger.
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On this episode, we discuss the developing situation with Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical strategist.
Here, we examine how the current Russia-Ukraine conflict became a “now or never” option for Putin, the downsides for Russia if it “wins” and what we expect its next steps to be, what NATO is doing to avoid turning this into a nuclear-escalated World War III, why Putin’s actions leading up to this point in time don’t bode well for Russia in any scenario, and what a country like China with expansionist goals of its own might take away from Russia’s hard-earned lessons.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23.55 Ukrainian troops fired mortars at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 23.25 — n. Pobeda village - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells fired with a caliber of 122mm 21:46 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of six civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the territories liberated earlier:
n.p. Vladimirovka:
- a woman born in 1950
n.p. Mariupol:
- man born in 1979
- man born in 1975
- woman born in 1947
- woman born in 1946
- man born in 1970
The victims were taken to medical institutions of the Republic, where they receive the necessary medical care.
Also, through the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about damage as a result of morning shelling from the side of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk at the address: st. Podlesnaya, 4.
21:30 Police of the People's Republic of Chinafindslots of technology. An infantry fighting vehicle was found near Starobelsk, inside of which a shell flew, killing 5 soldiers. Local residents reported that the Aidar battalion (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) hit the retreating column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:57 According to subscribers of various TV channels, the Kyiv region is covered with phosphorus shells of the Armed Forces of Ukraine!
20:25 The People's Militia of the DPR reported the destruction of 43 Ukrainian nationalists since the beginning of the day.
18:52 In total, 93 percent of the territory of the LPR and 54 percent of the DPR have been liberated - the Russian Ministry of Defense. The defense department also published the text of the secret order of the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine Balan with a plan to prepare for an offensive in the Donbass.
18:21 As a result of the shelling, the building of the Gorlovsky meat processing plant, located on the street. Khlebozavodskaya, 1a.
17:52 As a result of shelling by Ukrainian nationalist gangs, the building of branch No. 1 "Gorlivka Meat Processing Plant of Profgarant LLC" along Hlebozavodskaya Street, 1 was damaged. A 3m2 wall, glazing (7 plastic window blocks), 2 interior partitions made of plastic, building sheathing were damaged from corrugated board 20m2, the floor slab was displaced - Prikhodko.
17:09 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of another civilian born in 1967. at the address: st. Stepana Shchipachev, 2/17 as a result of shelling from the VFU of the village "Tikhiy" of the Petrovsky district of the city of Donetsk.
16:50 The representative office of the DPR stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired four shells at Yasinovataya.
15:06 Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a pinpoint hit at the base of fuel and lubricants and the military warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Konstantinovka.
15:05 DPR troops, with the fire support of the RF Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 132 settlements, including: Aslanovo, Khersones, Kellerovka, Yalta, Yuryevka, Azov, Melekino, Belosarayskaya Spit, Buryakovaya Balka, Portovskoye, Glubokoe, Ogorodnoye, Demyanovka, Urzuf, Kamyshevatoe, Starodubovka, Red Ukraine, Zakharovka, Babakh-Taramu, Novoyanisol, Lesnoye, Malovodnoye, Zaporizhzhya, Bakhchevik, Druzhnoye, Abundant, Regimental, Kirovskoye, Privolnoe, Vesele (Volnovakhsky district) - Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.
13:48 DPR forces continue to liberate Mariupol, the liberated areas receive assistance. In Mariupol, relevant departments, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Health of the DPR, volunteers are already working, a headquarters for providing assistance has been organized - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
13:30 Shelling of VFU settlement Novozvanovka - Pervomaisk: artillery gun 122mm (10 shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
13:26 As a result of the shelling of the VFU of the village of Ozeryanovka and the village of Mikhailovka, in the Central City district of Gorlovka, a field fire was recorded in the area of the Gorlovka paper mill - Prikhodko.
13:01 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Trinity - n.p. Ozeryanovka: 7 LNG grenades were fired, small arms were also used;
— n.p. Victory - n.p. Aleksandrovka: 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
12:30 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received that as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk on the street. Dagestanskaya, 50, a civilian was mortally wounded. The personal data of the deceased are being established.
Also, information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the village of the Lidievka mine of the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk at the address: st. Bastionnaya, 6.
Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.
12:14 Ukrainian armed formations fired at the village of Ozeryanovka and the village of Mikhailovka, in the Central City district of Gorlovka.
11:25 Today, Donetsk was attacked by two shells fired by Ukrainian punishers from the Tochka-U tactical missile system. In the photo - traces of a fallen shell in the village of Avdotino on the street. Novozavodskaya. A funnel with a diameter of 15 m, a depth of 5 m and the consequences of the arrival of the second shell on Leninsky Prospekt.
11:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of Trudovskaya mine): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC.
10:53 School in the center of Mariupol. In it and in neighboring houses there were Nazis from Azov at night. The "Azovites" were hiding behind civilians, and kept the equipment in the courtyard of this school.
10:30 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR destroyed the fortified area of Ukrainian troops near the city of Popasnaya.
10:27 A 17-year-old Mariupol girl was killed by a Ukrainian sniper when she went with her father to get water.
10:13 AFU shelled the Nikitovsky district of Horlivka. A shell rupture was recorded between the residential area "Komsomolets" and the village named after Kirov. Residents - to go into hiding - the mayor of Gorlovka.
09:15 As a result of the night shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district, an apartment building on the street received significant damage. Petrovsky, 129. A part of the outer wall on the 8th floor was destroyed by a direct hit by a shell. The wall between the apartments on the 7th floor was also damaged, window blocks and balcony doors were knocked out - Kulemzin.
As a result of the night shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district, an apartment building on the street was significantly damaged. Petrovsky, 129.
09:06 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about the wounding of a civilian in the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk as a result of shelling from the VFU: a woman born in 1984.
Information was also received about the wounding of ten civilians as a result of shelling by the VFU of the previously liberated part of the settlement. Mariupol:
- man born in 1972
- man born in 1965
- man born in 1990
- woman born in 1978
- man born in 1947
- woman born in 1978
- man born in 1983
- woman born in 1972
- man born in 1968
- woman born in 1972
The victims were taken to medical institutions of the Republic, where they receive the necessary medical care.
08:21 This is what residential buildings look like on Schipachev Street in the Petrovsky District after the night shelling of the VFU.
This is how residential buildings on Shchipachev Street in the Petrovsky district look like after the night shelling of the VFU.This is what residential buildings look like on Schipachev Street in the Petrovsky district after the night shelling of the VFU
08:04 Evacuated from Mariupol children whose parents were shot by Ukrainian Nazis. The elder gathered the kids in the yard and hid them in the basement until the liberators of Donbass found them. The children were afraid to the last that they would be killed, not realizing that they had actually been saved.
07:57 Ukrainian punitive battalions continue to kill civilians in Donetsk. As a result of a direct hit in a residential building on the street. Dargomyzhskogo, 22 in the Petrovsky district (settlement of mine 29) a woman died - Kulemzin.
07:35 AFU fired at the settlement Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC.
[WIRE] A Russian brigade commander was allegedly killed by his own troops in response to the staggering number of losses the unit had suffered during its invasion of Ukraine under his leadership.
"A Russian brigade commander has been killed deliberately by his own troops after his unit suffered many losses in Ukraine," Sky News reporter Deborah Haynes reported. "Colonel Medvechek, commander of 37 Motor Rifle Brigade, was run over by his soldiers."
"The brigade commander of one of the units was killed by his own troops...we believe, as a consequence of the scale of loss that had been taken by his brigade," a Western official reportedly told Haynes. "That just gives an insight into perhaps some of the morale challenges that Russian forces are having."
"We believe he was killed by his own troops deliberately," the official reportedly added. "Indeed we believe he was run over by his own troops and I believe he was the commander of the 37 Motor Rifle Brigade."
Reuters, using claims from Ukrainian officials, reported that up to six Russian generals had been killed during the war along with dozens of colonels and other officers.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) revealed this week that it believes that the Russian military has suffered up to 40,000 casualties during its invasion of Ukraine, which began one month ago.
#11
Yes indeed, here we are!
At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
Where I stole the mar-juh-reen
An' wheedled on the Bingo Cards
and blew up the latrine
I saw a handsome parish lady
Make her entrance like a queen
Why she was totally chenille
And her old man was a Marine
As she abused a sausage pattie
And said why don't you treat me mean?
(Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, ooh)
At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
(Hah! Good God! Get off the bus!)
Where I stole the mar-juh-reen
Saint Alfonzo
Saint Alfonzo
Saint Alfonzo
Saint Alfonzo
Oo-oo-wah
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] Russia has lost another of its generals in the war in Ukraine, Kyiv military sources said, as Ukraine inflicts punishing losses on Moscow's war machine, Daily Mail reports.
Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, 48, commander of the army's 49th combined arms division, became the fifth general to be killed after being taken out in a strike by the Ukrainian armed forces.
The general's death means the Russian army has now lost a staggering 15 military commanders in a month, as 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... 's invading forces suffer heavy losses at the hands of dogged Ukrainian defenders.
Rezantsev, who bragged on just the fourth day of the war that it would be over in a matter of hours, was apparently killed after the Ukrainian army destroyed the commanding post of the 49th Russian Army in Southern Ukraine.
It is not clear the exact location of the strike.
A soldier claimed Rezantsev told them on the fourth day of their deployment, "It's no secret to anyone that there are only a few hours until this special operation is over.
[IsraelTimes] Another Russian military general has been killed and a senior commander murdered by his own troops in Ukraine, The National reports, citing Western officials.
Yakov Rezantsev was the seventh Russian general killed since the start of the invasion. Only 13 others remain.
Separately, a colonel in charge of the 37th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade was killed by his own soldiers, The National reports.
"We believe he was killed by his own troops deliberately as a consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade," a Western security official says during a briefing. "That gives an insight into some of the morale challenges that Russian forces are having."
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We believe he was killed by his own troops deliberately as a consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade
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Didn't see Enemy at the Gates? Don't give them the rifle or ammo till you shove them across the line of departure. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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[IsraelTimes] The Saudi-led coalition early is launching Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s "against sources of threat in Sanaa and Hodeida" following attacks by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in the kingdom, the official Saudi news agency SPA tweets.
"The military operation will continue until its objectives are achieved," the coalition says in a statement quoted by SPA.
The strikes come a day after an attack by Yemeni rebels on an oil facility near Jeddah which set off a huge fire.
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^The coalition is basically the Saudis and the UAE backed specifically by the USA. 400,000 people are thought to have died so far, mostly from hunger and preventable diseases like cholera. Roughly 11,000 of these are estimated to be children. Our support for the war began during the Obama administration and continues to this day, like a cancer on the American soul.
#4
And before anyone says anything: I'm not a Russian troll. I've been here since the beginning after 9-11. I don't like the war in Yemen; which doesn't mean I support in Russians in Ukraine.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Wife of US Army veteran, 47, who left Connecticut to join Ukraine's battle against Russia says 'it's in his DNA' as a soldier to fight and that he 'couldn't sit and watch the war on TV'
American veteran James Vasquez, 47, joined Ukraine's military as a foreign volunteer earlier this month
He has been fighting on the front lines alongside Ukrainians to repel Russia's invasion forces
Vasquez left his work as a home renovation contractor in Connecticut to join the fight
Now he posts harrowing updates on Twitter showing his unit's battle triumphs over the Russians
On Thursday Vasquez shared video of a decimated Russian tank, saying an occupied village was liberated
His wife Tina tells DailyMail.com that being a soldier is 'in his DNA' and she supports his decision to fight
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Yahoo] In a sweeping and forceful speech concluding a four-day trip to Europe, President Joe Biden cast the war in Ukraine on Saturday as part of an ongoing battle for freedom and ended with a blunt call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be stopped.
[ET] An Oklahoma Democrat running for a U.S. House of Representatives seat announced March 24 she is ending her campaign after getting drunk and berating middle school girls at a sleepover.
Rode one of these years ago. Never rode anything since. With a few exceptions, if I ain't drive'n, I ain't ride'n. 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...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 
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...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 
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Russia has lost another of its generals in the war in Ukraine, Kyiv military sources said, as Ukraine inflicts punishing losses on Moscow's war machine, Daily Mail reports.
...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 Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
