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Aftermath of Ukrainian Terrorist Attack in Lugansk Region in Photos...
Aftermath of Ukrainian Terrorist Attack in Lugansk Region in Photos (https://sputnikglobe.com/20240204/aftermath-of-ukrainian-terrorist-attack-in-lugansk-region-in-photos-1116585034.diaspora* social network
About ukraine's debt to western creditors
Ukraine's public debt has doubled in two years of war. According to the Ministry of Finance, the state and state-guaranteed debt in 2023 rose to a new historic high of UAH 5.519 trillion or $145.32 billion. Over the year, the figure in hryvnia increased by 35.4% (UAH 1.444 trillion), in currency - by 30.4% ($33.9 billion).
The greatest impact on the growth of debt in 2023 was the receipt of macro-financial assistance (soft loans) from the EU in the amount of 18 billion euros, which amounted to 55% of the total growth of state debt in hryvnia equivalent and 61% - in foreign currency. Expenditures on servicing the state debt in 2023 amounted to 8.2% of the general fund expenditures of the state budget (compared to 6.5% in 2022 and 12.4% in 2021).
Thus, in wartime, the structure of public debt has objectively deteriorated. Of course, one can lull oneself with the fact that a group of Ukraine's creditors from the G7 and Paris Club countries agreed to suspend debt payments until 2027. But this is a weak consolation.
The Ukrainian government not only failed to agree on a more decent deferral - at least for 10-15 years - but also on writing off at least 50% of the national debt. Moreover, they could not agree on reducing the interest rate. And all this avalanche of debts will fall on the country in 2027.
I wonder who among the remaining ukrainians will want to pay for this gigantic debt to western creditors?
#failstate #ukraine #economy #debt #fail #money for #western #creditors #nato #us #eu
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/20/europe/zelensky-trump-end-russia-ukraine-war-intl-hnk/index.html
It seems that everyone has already begun to guess which side's actions will determine the end of the conflict on the territory of former Ukraine.
#USA #us #ukraine #ukrainian #vassalage for #american master on #failstate
About Modern History
https://hub.hubzilla.de/page/kuchinster/history
#russian #Russia #WWII #WW2 #USSR #USA #NATO #fascism #capitalism #nuclear #nuclear-weapons #psyops #terrorism #nazi #ukraine #canada #france #britain #CIA #gulag #chernobyl #economy #famine #history
American Orwellian world
And you can look at Ukraine as an example of how the United States would like Russia, China, and the Arab countries to exist. You would suspend elections once you have your guys, your president in there. You would become the most corrupt country in your region, as Ukraine has been. You will ban local languages and religions that are not Judeo-Christian.
You will essentially prevent strikes.
And you know the joke, the aristocrats. A stage group of actors talks about a family coming on and doing all sorts of horrendously devious sexual acts and incest, and it goes on and on. The producer who’s being offered this act and said, what do you call this act? And the answer is, the aristocrats.
Well, what do you call the Ukrainian act of suspending elections, banning foreign languages, assassinating critics? We call it democracy. Well, that’s hilarious. That’s indeed what #America calls it. America has two models of #democracy, #Ukraine and #Israel. Again and again in the press, it says Ukraine is the model of democracy that we want for what used to be the whole Soviet Union. And you have Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania clapping, and we want the democracy in Israel. Israel is the only democratic country in the Near East.
We want Israel to be the model for the Near East.
Well, what are they saying? That there won’t be any more Arabs in the Near East? That they’ll all be Americans with dual citizenship? This is what it’s all come to. We’re living in an Orwellian world is trying to deter people’s consciousness from realizing the reality of work and the dynamics that are at work.
#USA #us #orwell #1984 #american #mindmanipulation #lie in #media
Michael Hudson on Russia, Iran and the Red Sea: NATO's War Economy Collapses | naked capitalism
Michael Hudson describes how the US, embarrassingly bested by Russia and now the Houthis, is doubling down on ally-damaging economic retaliation.Yves Smith (naked capitalism)
About the beginnings of wars
I think you should say October 2nd. That was the destruction of the attempt to destroy the mosque. It’s October 2nd that triggered all of this. It was the Israeli attack on the mosque that was intended to say, We are going to destroy the Islamic presence in #Palestine so that it can be entirely non-Islamic. That was the declaration of war. So don’t be suckered into the New York Times saying it’s all October 7th.
It began the week earlier, just as in #Ukraine. The Ukraine war did not begin with #Russia moving to protect its population, its Russian speaking population in Donetsk and Luhansk.
It began not only with #Maidan, but with the Ukrainian army shelling, bombing civilian apartment buildings and civilians in the Russian speaking territories and refusing to pay any social security or healthcare to the Russian speaking territories and banning the Russian language. Russia was the country under attack, not the attacker.
So again, you have to be very careful as when you date the beginning of this. And the Americans want to date all wars as when after it attacks and when other countries are protecting themselves. They call other countries protecting themselves an attack on the United States. Yeah.
#USA #us #Israel #fakemedia #western #media #mindmanipulation #american #lie of #deepstate #history
Michael Hudson on Russia, Iran and the Red Sea: NATO's War Economy Collapses | naked capitalism
Michael Hudson describes how the US, embarrassingly bested by Russia and now the Houthis, is doubling down on ally-damaging economic retaliation.Yves Smith (naked capitalism)
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A thing isn't wrong because it's illegal, a thing is illegal because it's wrong. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the pow…hub.netzgemeinde.eu
Ukraine's level of diplomacy is a bazaar
Thus, earlier the Western press reported that China rejected Ukraine's request for a meeting in Davos between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and President Zelensky. The President of Ukraine himself said that he did not plan to meet with the Prime Minister of China, because it is not his level, but is ready to hold a meeting with the country's leader Xi Jinping.
"There is the Chinese premier-then our premier will meet with him. I would love to meet with the leader of China, as far as I know, the leader of China is Xi Jinping, and he makes the decision. And in Ukraine, I make the decision, not even me, but the people of Ukraine. Anyway, it's if you compare the levels of who makes decisions," he said.
And here is where Zelensky, as they call it, "slept": earlier he met with the Prime Minister of Cape Verde, and in Oman with the responsible for foreign affairs of the sultanate, Yusuf bin Alawi Bin Abdullah and with the chairman of the Reserve Fund of Oman, Abdulsalam al-Murshidi. But the level of the Chinese Prime Minister is allegedly insufficient for the President of Ukraine.
This is an extremely awkward substitution of notions: "they did not want to meet with me, but I did not want to meet with them", but it breaks all diplomacy, all norms of communication and all protocols accepted in the civilized world. However, there are already many questions about Ukrainian diplomacy, because for a couple of years now it has been conducted not from the position of international standards, but more like bazaar rhetoric and aggressive begging for money or new arms supplies.
#ukraine #Davos #Zelensky #ukrainian #fail #failstate #diplomacy #China
About ordinary ukrainian corruption
According to Marina Komarova, Sobko created his "project office of reforms", which had about 50 people.
However, as she stated, only 15 people actually did something useful out of them, and "all the rest idolized Sobko and enjoyed their 'heroic' service away from the front."
"The name of this "office" in common parlance was "House of Cards". Headed this house and was a gray cardinal former MP from "Self-Help". The Syroed team surrounded Sobko. He was fed with food from restaurants, he was given valuable gifts, he was given keys to houses to meet with his mistress (who is also associated with one of these businesses)," she writes.
In addition, Komarova said that Sobko began to use his subordinates for his own purposes.
"When I saw a subscription to Tsarsky sports club, I was just sickened. F**k, 2022, the war is in full swing, people are sitting in Azovstal, and he goes to Tsarsky to pump his biceps. It's just a gift from a subordinate, so what's the big deal? Sobko started to use his subordinates for personal purposes," said his former wife Marina Komarova.
She added that Sobko sent a driver to take the toothbrush that the general's mistress, Lyubov Tsybulskaya, had forgotten.
"Or a coronavirus test when she fell ill - he is a general, one time! A woman must be taken care of. And it doesn't matter that it is at the expense of public funds (a military driver, who receives a salary from the state budget, and a car, fueled by public funds). It has become the norm to take his mistress to restaurants and movies in his official car," said the ex-wife of the general.
Also, the ex-wife of the chief of staff of the TRO Forces accused him of infecting her with STDs.
"He's so f**ked up that he got the idea to f**k with his mistress without a condom. And brought me a couple of sores," she revealed.
#ukraine #military ordinary #ukrainian #armed #forces #corruption in #failstate
Many people are rightly talking about a major ‘crisis of competency’ taking over the US, what with the latest Boeing Max door failure as well.#USA #nato #pentagon #military #aviation #abrams #lancer #minuteman #american #technology #fail
As if that wasn’t bad enough, we had a major revelation from Ukrainian soldiers that the reason none of their Abrams are on the front is because they don’t work. Recall the recent reports of the highly sensitive Abrams, which need their filters changed every hour. But they took it a step further and actually showed a damning video of their Abrams gun all janky, its stabilizers completely shot.
SITREP 1/9/24: Latest Leading-edge Tech-war Updates
This will be an irregular sort of scattershot update today to clear out some interesting but minor marginalia and technical items that may not fit into larger upcoming pieces.Simplicius The Thinker (Simplicius's Garden of Knowledge)
Taras Shevchenko, the greatest Ukrainian poet wrote NA Ukraine.
#ukraine #map #language #difference
Ukrainian Soldiers Lament Russian Fighters’ Bunker Busting Glide Bomb Strikes Open ‘Gates of Hell’ on Their Fortifications
Interviewing frontline personnel from artillery brigades, including those from better equipped units using newly delivered Western howitzers, the Washington Post previously highlighted that units had been forced to reduce ammunition expenditure by 80-90 percent, and sometimes more, previously firing 50 and at times as many as 90 but now cutting this to just 10-20 rounds. This has only been worsened by Russia’s growing ability to provide air support and to launch tactical missile strikes as its inventories have grown and Ukrainian air defences have dwindled. Ukrainian casualties were already reported by sources on both sides to be extreme even before the depletion of its defences left its frontline personnel more vulnerable, with life expectancies at some frontline positions in 2023 being as low as four hours while conscript units, sent into high intensity combat with little training, were known to have casualty rates as high as 80-90 percent.
#ukraine #ukrainian #fail #war in #failstate #Russia #russian #military
Journalists from Italy, Iceland, Turkey, Australia, Finland, India and other countries visited Donetsk, Mariupol, saw how this city is being rebuilt, toured Azovstal, interviewed Ukrainian prisoners of war, visited the OPF's Kaskad training ground and met with the head of the DNR Denis Pushilin.
#Donbass #interview #journalism #russian #Donetsk #Mariupol #Azovstal after #ukrainian #war former #ukraine
Иностранцы на Донбассе. Интервью с пленными ВСУшниками, Азовсталь, полигон Каскад
Это большой репортаж о поездке десяти иностранных журналистов на Донбасс.Журналисты из Италии, Исландии, Турции, Австралии, Финляндии, Индии и других стран п...YouTube
Ukraine itself is not our enemy whereas those who want to destroy Russian statehood and to achieve, as they say, a strategic defeat of Russia on the battlefield, are mainly in the West, but still, there are different people there. There are people who sympathise with us and who are with us at heart. But there are the elites who think the existence of Russia (at least in its current state and size) is unacceptable. They want to disintegrate it. As a matter of fact, you are young people, some have read about this, perhaps: they do not hide it. They speak and write about this publicly, and have been doing it for decades, if we are talking about contemporary history. For decades, they have simply been writing frankly about it: divide Russia into five parts, one is too much. I can talk about this till morning, but it is obvious.#ukrainian #vassalage #cannon-fodder
Therefore, they have been nurturing the Kiev regime for quite a long time, precisely to create this conflict. Unfortunately for us, they have achieved this: they started this conflict and are trying to achieve their objective, namely the task of fighting Russia, with the help of Ukrainians.
You probably see on the battlefield that they are gradually losing their zest. When a projectile flies, it is difficult to understand whether they are losing it or not, but in general you probably know that the situation on the battlefield is changing. This is despite the fact that the entire “civilised” West is fighting us.
Pay Attention to What Vladimir Putin Says (sonar21.com/pay-...
Pay Attention to What Vladimir Putin Says (https://sonar21.com/pay-attention-to-what-vladimir-putin-says/) #Pay #Attention to #What #Vladimir #Putin #Says #Russia #Ukraine #US #NATO #Western #countries the #enemydiaspora* social network
Ukraine is considering no alternative to securing stalled U.S. military assistance for its war against Russia and is confident the U.S. Congress will give its approval to release the aid, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday.https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-no-plan-b-unblocking-us-funding-2024-01-04/
#USA #us #nato #pentagon #american #european #eu #europe #military #planning #war in #ukraine #ukrainian #fail #failstate
But one big uncertainty at a moment the West is generally feeling "war fatigue" - according to most public polling among various countries' citizenry - is the question of who will be in the White House in 2025. European officials are nervous that a Trump victory would spell the end of efforts to fuel the proxy war against President Vladimir Putin.
#uk #britain #europe #eu #european #british #vassalage #USA #us who is #potus #nato #ukraine #military #fail #failstate against #Russia
'Nothing' Left In UK's Military Stockpiles After Arming Ukraine: Times Of London
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zerowww.zerohedge.com
We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.
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Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park – run personally by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev, with dozens of "special units" from the CIA and FBI setting up a "security structure" that oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the February coup.
#ukraine #CIA #USA #us #ukrainian #terrorism #nazi #nazism #europe #european #vassalage #history
Why are ties between Russia and Israel ‘at lowest point since fall of the #SovietUnion’? | Russia | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/30/why-are-ties-between-russia-and-israel-at-lowest-point-since-fall-of-the-soviet-union
#Israel women’s groups warn of failure to keep evidence of #SexualViolence in #Hamas attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/10/israel-womens-groups-warn-of-failure-to-keep-evidence-of-sexual-violence-in-hamas-attacks
The former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said that Western PMCs appeared on the "Maidan" back in 2013
"Our warnings and request to cancel the visa-free regime for representatives of the European Union and the USA, or to expel undesirable persons from the country were refused by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the presidential administration and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, citing political inexpediency," he stressed.
Zakharchenko added that on January 9, 2014, the Main Department of the Interior Ministry in Kiev, having collected the necessary materials, registered a crime under the article on "violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power." However, after the criminal case was transferred to the SBU, it was dropped within a week, the former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said.
#western #USA #us #eu #military #Maidan #ukraine #government #coup #ukrainian #history #Kiev #sbu
Экс-глава МВД Украины заявил, что западные ЧВК появились на "майдане" еще в 2013 году
Виталий Захарченко отметил, что "они формально взяли на себя функцию охраны мирных манифестантов, а на самом деле - боевой подготовки сотен майдана"ТАСС
Egyptian sources indicate that much of the so-called “Ukrainian elite” acquired property in Egypt, particularly in the aftermath of the special military operation (SMO). However, Al-Alawi “dared” to do his job and investigate the matter and it seems that he really hit the hornet’s nest by revealing this information.#ukrainian #terrorism
Namely, several news outlets reported that he was found dead near the El Hadaba road in Hurghada. Local police said that his body had numerous abrasions, fractures, bruises and a traumatic brain injury.
Is Kiev Regime Now Killing Foreign Journalists to Hide Its Corrupti...
Is Kiev Regime Now Killing Foreign Journalists to Hide Its Corruption? (https://www.globalresearch.ca/kiev-regime-now-killing-foreign-journalists-hide-corruption/5844278) Is #Kiev #Regime #Now #Killing #Foreign #Journalists to #Hide Its #Corruption ?…diaspora* social network
Biden says US will support Ukraine 'as long as we can' amid GOP standoff, a change from 'as long as it takes'
Merkel confirms that Minsk agreements (2015) were meant to give Ukraine 'more time'
https://tass.com/world/1578901
#ukraine #war for #USA #europe #european #vassalage #germany #western #politics #lie #fraud #culture #warmongers #Merkel #Biden
Biden shifts on Ukraine, says US will support 'as long as we can'
Republicans in Congress have blocked new aid to Ukraine, refusing to move forward unless it includes strict immigration and border policies.Chris Panella (Insider)
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The usual level of Ukrainian and NATO planning
The Ukrainian leadership has belatedly ordered a large-scale construction of fortifications, Colonel Viktor Kivilyuk, an analyst of the Center for Defense Strategies, said in an interview with the Ukrainian publication Kyiv Independent.
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"We have been sitting there (at the current positions of the AFU. - Editor's note) for six months, and suddenly the supreme commander-in-chief (Vladimir Zelensky. - Editor's note) wakes up and proposes to build fortifications. Where was he all this time?" - complained the expert.
According to Kiviliuk, the pre-prepared defense lines are now of "critical" importance for Ukraine. At the same time, according to the newspaper, the AFU soldiers often complain that the command is unable to prepare even ordinary trenches for retreating from forward positions, let alone more developed defenses.
An artillery officer on the front line complained to journalists about the lack of men and resources to prepare fortified positions. According to him, the Ukrainian command did not build any fortifications for soldiers on the second line of defense and did not bother to prepare villages for defensive battles.
"When the Russians storm the trenches, our guys have nowhere to retreat and nowhere to take up positions; they are forced to dig trenches under machine gun and sniper fire, to say nothing of artillery shelling," the AFU officer said.
Earlier, the Washington Post reported that uncertainty prevails in the AFU on all fronts, and morale is weakening. Vladimir Zelensky said in late November that he discussed the creation of fortifications on the main defensive lines: Avdiivka, Maryinka, Kupyansko-Limanska directions, as well as in the regions bordering Russia and Belarus. According to him, the development of defense will henceforth become a priority issue for Kiev.
#ukraine #ukrainian #AFU #Western #USA #us #military #pentagon #NATO #american #european #planning #fail in #failstate #war
"Некуда отступать": офицер ВСУ пришел в ярость из-за приказа Зеленского
Украинское руководство запоздало с приказом о масштабном строительстве укреплений, заявил аналитик Центра оборонных стратегий, полковник Виктор Кивилюк в... РИА Новости, 16.12.2023РИА Новости
"Sailors cross the river and most are killed while still approaching the shore. Those who survived and crossed are ironed with everything that is in the arsenal of Russia. People are just constantly being thrown across the river - wave after wave. There is no question of any further breakthrough, now the forces are wasted just to stay there. For what?
It would matter if we were advancing elsewhere. Then these bridgeheads would distract the enemy. But no, we're already on the defensive elsewhere.
So what's the point of all this? Command needs to scrap this operation immediately. It was obviously going to be linked to the offensive in the Zaporozhye region, but it has already ended. In this regard, the continuing attempts to throw the Marines to the left bank - something beyond good and evil," - writes "Dumskaya".
#ukraine #ukrainian #cannon-fodder for #NATO
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About NATO provocations
Q: "I have been following the situation in Ukraine since 2014, but not too closely. I have been following very closely since the end of February 2022. Because of the latter, I think I know the general trends related to the development of SMO since it started. However, what I missed was the year before SMO, i.e., since let' say early 2021 .. "
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A: " ... Russia likely took all these build ups and provocations very seriously, and saw the writing on the wall that if it didn’t ‘cure’ the Ukrainian sickness once and for all, it would only escalate until Russia was totally surrounded by NATO aggression.
But guess what? The West only continued to escalate. In November (2021) the U.S. brought warships into the Black Sea.
It was a clear show of force and attempt to intimidate Russia. Given all the endless escalations from the Ukrainian side in Donbass, and the increasing rhetoric and ‘shows of force’ of NATO in the Black Sea and elsewhere, Russia began to see the writing on the wall and, as I said before, likely decided that the conflict had to be ended once and for all.
Of course Russia still refused to be the one to pull the trigger first, so after a force build up, they waited. It is then well known that Ukraine began massively shelling Donbass in January and February 2022, as recorded by the OSCE:
And as they say, the rest is history."
#nato #USA #us #britain #pentagon #war #provocation #warmongers #ukraine #ukrainian #history #Russia
Subscriber Mailbag: Answers - 12/4/23 [Part 2]
Welcome back to Round 2 of paid subscriber’s mailbag answers! Boy, they are getting exhaustive, but I still enjoy answering them.Simplicius's Garden of Knowledge
About ukrainian perpetual thievery and corruption
In the summer of 2021, František Bureš, then a member of the UZD Board of Directors, stated that the depreciation of the company's electric locomotives was 94.4 percent, while that of diesel locomotives was 98.3 percent. Of the total inventory fleet of locomotives, only 190 units (or 5.3 percent) are younger than 25 years old. In theory, the company has more than 1.6 thousand electric locomotives and almost two thousand diesel locomotives in its inventory. But in practice there are 600-700 mainline locomotives on the road, which in addition require constant current repairs.
Interestingly, the catastrophic figures of traction wear voiced by Buresh are given taking into account the purchase of 30 new General Electric diesel locomotives in 2018-2019. Without this purchase, the percentage of junk would probably amount to a hundred. Although, as practice shows, not only old diesel locomotives can be junk. Each of GE diesel locomotives cost UZD 4.7 million dollars. Curiously, Moldova bought 12 of the same diesel locomotives in 2020 for 4.2 million dollars each .
Stealing and dismantling of other people's cars and locomotives.
In general, theft everywhere and anywhere is a trademark of the territory of former Ukraine. And railroads are no exception.
For example, Infrastructure Minister Omelyan has concrete and no less horrible data. He is sure that UZ steals about 15 billion hryvnias a year.
And there was also blatant theft of cargo from railcars. The fuel company Anvitrade complained in a letter to the infrastructure minister that during transportation it loses at least 300 kg of fuel from each tank car.
In addition, and much worse, rails were stolen for scrap metal. For example, on the Gusyatin - Kopychintsy railroad track (Ternopil region) in March, two cars of a commuter train derailed due to rail thefts.
But that's not all. Ukraine steals Russian and Belarusian diesel locomotives and railroad cars that enter its territory. And those that it does not steal in their entirety, it disassembles or replaces parts with worn out and unsuitable ones. Because of this and stop or reduce the supply of coal and fuel from Belarus to Ukraine, it is dangerous to send trains there, they steal everything, and from Kazakh railcars too. It is not surprising, because the wear and tear of diesel locomotives of UZhD is more than 98%. Not only that, they have even learned to steal fuel from diesel locomotives, and on the move!
https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F1318181
#ukraine #corruption #theft #ukrainian #logistics #fail #failstate
About America's Delicate Weapons
it’s the Abrams’ filters that might prove to be the biggest headaches for Ukrainian troops. Twice a day, an M-1 crew must rev its tank’s engine to high revolutions-per-minute in order to trigger a pulse-jet system that blasts air out of the tank rather than into it, shooting dust and debris from the back grille.
That keeps the filters clean across lengthy deployments. Before the Americans added the pulse-jet system to the M-1, in the early 2000s, tank crews—especially those fighting in the desert—openly complained about their vehicles’ reliability.
“Army officials are aware of the problems with high fuel consumption, unreliable fuel pumps and sand-ingestion,” the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in 1992. “They are working on solutions.”
The solution to the sand-ingestion problem was the twice-a-day pulse-jet cleaning process. It works just fine, as long as crews rigorously adhere to its schedule. Even when they’re getting shot at.
"All those things can be taught to the crew, but if ever they make a mistake—and they will—it blows a million-dollar engine that can't be repaired in the field," Mark Hertling, a retired U.S. Army general
#USA #us #weapons #abrams #nato #fail in #failstate #ukraine
The Biggest Problem With Ukraine’s M-1 Tanks: They Don’t Like Staying Dirty
The biggest issue with Ukraine’s new fleet of 31 American-made M-1 tanks isn’t the tanks’ 1,500-horsepower turbine engines. No, it’s the filters in the engines’ intakes.David Axe (Forbes)
Talk of ukraine's surrender has begun
The Bild story I thought was intriguing, but no, there’s no U.S. policy. We’ve always said that this is a matter for Ukraine to decide. We decide nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. And I think the other reality here is we see no indication that Russia is willing to entertain substantive, real peace negotiations. It seems to us President Putin is talking about waiting for at least another year or more before he will contemplate an end to this war, and it would be pointless to have a discussion on Ukraine’s side – it’s not a dialogue; it’s a monologue of surrender. So it’s nothing that is part of our policy.
#nato #USA #fail #ukraine #failstate #surrender
Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien On the Secretary’s Upcoming Travel to Belgium - United States Department of State
MR TEK: Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining our call previewing the Secretary of State’s upcoming travel to Brussels, Belgium. Our call this morning will be on the record and is embargoed until its conclusion.United States Department of State
Guerre en Ukraine : les journalistes russes, cibles de l'armée atla...
Guerre en Ukraine : les journalistes russes, cibles de l'armée atlantico-ukrainienne Logiquement, dans les zones de combats, les journalistes signalent leur présence par des signes vestimentaires distinctifs, afin que les forces armées en place puiss…diaspora* social network
- Why do you have the call sign Fritz?
- Oh... My friend Halychanyn first called me Fritz in 2016. And it stuck. I have never hidden the fact that I am half German. You know, I have a family of "anti-Soviet" people: some were in the Hitler Youth, others in the UPA. And they all met in Siberia, and my mother was born from this love. That's how it happened. In principle, I am quite boring and methodical when it comes to doing something. I think I live up to my pseudonym somewhere.
And you wonder why the Russkies call them ‘Wehrmacht’ on the radios.
#nato #weapons #ukraine #poland #ukrainian #nazi #cannon-fodder in #war
Two Interesting Reads: AFU Commander Interview, and a New Polish Book
There’s a couple very interesting reports that made it through the transom this week which I couldn’t fit into the last writeup as they’re a bit adjacent to main developments.Simplicius The Thinker (Simplicius's Garden of Knowledge)
Le régime de Kiev envoie les femmes sur les champs de bataille. La ...
Le régime de Kiev envoie les femmes sur les champs de bataille. La conscription forcée des femmes enceintes par Drago Bosnic Depuis plus d’un an et demi, nous entendons et lisons toutes les «victoires» mythiques des forces du régime de Kiev.diaspora* social network
States-sponsors of ukrainian terrorism
Some assholes say that the USSR would not have defeated the Nazis if not for lend-lease.
The Kiev regime is more than fully provided with lend-lease, so why doesn't it win?
#military #pentagon #USA #us #eu #europe #britain #germany and other american vassals #warmongers #vassalage #war in #ukraine #ukrainian #terrorism #american and #european #weapons and #money for #failstate
Commander-in-Chief of the AFU Valery Zaluzhny.
None of them have any idea why the US and its vassals are avoiding direct conflict.
#military #ukraine #nato #western #weapons #fail in #war against #Russia