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The grift continues unabated!
Drumpf is filth!
Expect more pressure on Ukraine to accept a "Deal" soon.
Rare video of Ukrainian French Mirage-2000 shooting down a Russian air target last night. The French Mirage 2000s according to some recent reports have had a 99% interception rate.
Reports Ukrainian spy chief Krylo Budanov headed to DC.
Waterford Whispers?
Very much so. Belgium is dead right. This talk of release Russian assets is, or should be imho, a non starter. Keep them frozen by all means, but releasing them would be right up there with the Kremlin idiocy of stealing all those leased airliners at the start of this war. A populist kneejerk move that will do little actual good, but huge actual long term harm to financial confidence in the EU/Europe.
The world is currently re-alligning and confidence in the US is falling. What confidence there was in Russia is gone. China waits in the wings. Europe for all its faults is seen as stable and somewhere broadly trustworthy. That would be seriously impacted by what would be seen in much of the world as stealing sovereign assets. America can, or rather could, get away with stuff like that as the sole superpower and world currency, Europe can't to nearly the same degree, nor should we try.
There are many other ways Europe can thwart Russian and increasingly American plans to carve up Ukraine(and The World Order©) for their own ends while leaving Europe sidelined. That's the bloody danger, a danger that grabbing a few billion Kremlin assets won't fix and will make worse. Again imho.
Just shows how nervous the regime is getting.
If this was the Russian army from 2022 they'd all be riding in armoured vehicles. Progress takes time but Ukraine is making it. Those last few thousand armoured vehicles being pulled out of storage for repairs will arrive in dribs or drabs so without a long ceasefire the Russian army isn't recovering.
Isn't that just the same fear as when the USSR collapsed? It's the same as we hear with Trump, far worse in waiting. There maybe far worse in waiting, but they won't have the same control. You can't live in fear ffs. What's next wishing Putin thoughts and prayers if he get a cold for fear of him dying. hate to break it to you, he won't live forever.
I believe this is an increase of about 20BN dollars. I'd say he'd love to put it up by more but can't A third of all spending and social programs to be cut.
As a commander in a forward base if he does. In which case he'll probably survive but not guaranteed.
https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA?t=Gn4CblXoNb7Ks3l1b4jKfw&s=09
Check out a tweet from this guy about 5 hours ago. Russian's littered all over the place with another exploding on them. Can't link for obvious reasons.
I wouldn't hope for that if I were you.
There are far worse than him waiting in wings if Putin falls, and the very worse thing for the whole region of Europe is a disorderly transition in Moscow, or a fracturing of the Russian Federation. Not while there are badly maintained nuclear weapons scattered about.
Putin has finally being assassinated in a hail of gunfire, is the update I'm hoping to see every time I enter this thread for an update
It wouldn't collapse it, but it would dent confidence in Europe I feel (although I think it would restore itself pretty quickly). I do however understand that Belgium isn't really jumping at the bit to be the only one to seize Russian assets while other countries watch on and do nothing.
What sort of person puts that thumbnail on a video.
Kasparov
The simple way to deal with the Russian assets and also avoid them falling foul of corruption in Ukraine, is to hold them back as reparations, eventually, and pay them out to EU contractors undertaking reconstruction work in Ukraine. They can be managed by the European Investment Bank.
I dont think it would collapse the Euro. Of course the fear might be that other authoritarian regimes would remove their assets. But the vast majority of them are not interested in building empires, unlike Russia. I think the EU could make the case that this situation is unique. There is precedent for reparations including after WW1 and WW2. This is payback for what Russia did and compensation.
I'm actually Belgian so I'm pretty aware of what's been happening. I think it's important to say that Belgium is all for releasing those assets to Ukraine, but the problem is that the rest of Europe wants them to do it on their own.
Basically if this would lead to a loss of confidence in international trade etc. then Belgium would be left alone to deal with it. They are asking for support from the rest of the EU in this.
If Zelensky resigns without an election, then Putin will use that to say the leader of Ukraine is unelected and illegitimate. Its a trap. But it does show the problem when there isnt a Vice President. Russia abolished its Vice President Alexander Rutskoy during the conflict between Yeltsin and the Russian Parliament in 1993 when he supported impeaching Yeltsin. The constitutional changes introduced by referendum (when Russia was a democracy) passed wuth 56% support. The cheering on of Yeltsin in the West during this conflict seems to have done a lot of damage to support for democracy in Russia, according to the Canadian series "The Putin System".
Anyway, update on the situation on the Lyman front from RFU news. Says Russia has not advanced in this area in over a month.
Jaysis, but in a world of stupidity, this is one of the stupidest statements I've heard from a non-MAGA person. No need to lay out the rebuttal of this idiocy all over again so I'll simply quote from my last post on the matter…..
''Millions of the population are far away from their electoral areas, refugees in the west of the country. Millions are refugees abroad. A fifth of the country is occupied. Hundreds of thousands are in the armed forces.The administration and manpower required to overcome those chaotic conditions would challenge the capabilities of a much larger and wealthier state even in peacetime. Chaos and disruption and the destruction of hundreds of public buildings has made the tranquility required for the voting and subsequent vote counting next to impossible, not to imagine that it would require the diversions of many thousands of personnel from essential tasks: firefighting, the armed forces, medical facilities, rescue operations. Would the remaining population would be content to queue up all day in voting centres waiting for a Ruzzian missile to fall on their heads…something the Ruzzian vermin would be happy to take advantage of, to kill more Ukrainians.''
Belgium blocking confiscation of frozen Russian assets to secure a loan for Ukraine. Most of the Russian assets frozen are in Belgium. I think some see the assets as leverage over Russia, but we are 4 years in and that hasnt worked. I say confiscate and give the money to Ukraine - but obviously trace it so those involved in the recent corruption scandal dont get their hands on it.
The Plantation of Mariupol. Districts in the city have been renamed after the USSR and Lenin. Population being replaced with Russians.
Vacant properties are being claimed by the state as abandoned in order to seize them. Most of the 400,000 inhabitants of the city fled during the war. Apartment blocks are being built on areas that were graves during the siege. To encourage Russian colonists to move there, loans with 2% interest rates over 30 years are being granted.
Obvious echoes of the Plantations in Ireland in the 16th/17th centuries.
Reports from RFU news (a pro Ukraine channel) that Russia has lost ground in Kupiansk, only controlling 30% of the town. Ukraine's control of the heights southwest of the city is better for drones.
In the 1917 election in Russia the Bolsheviks got 183 seats out of 767 and mostly in the constituencies near Moscow.
Elections are possible , "but somehow things got worse"
Lord Glasman on The Times Radio is wrong in my opinion to argue elections during the war are possible. He says Ukraine is "overdue an election". In peacetime I would agree. He says that the UK had one in 1945. Thats true but the Nazis were already defeated by then and Japan was at the other end of the world. In 1944 the US had an election but Japan was an ocean away. The US is protected by the two oceans and that has also played a major role in their rise as a superpower, which is now being challenged.
it’s not shocking it away, away, away away BEYOND shocking
Concern Russia rebuilding its Tu-22 strategic bomber fleet, after Ukraine destroyed 11-12 of them in Operation Spider's Web last year. They are moving them near to NATO's borders, reducing the distance from Ukraine from 4500km to 1500km..
The commander of theives!
Looks like an ammo dump
I think it likely Trump wanted the Nobel Peace Prize by now simply to throw it back in their faces, discrediting it - The prize Obama got. He was always planing to carry out what he wanted in Venezuela.
I also think it likely many US career soldiers are ruing being at the behest of the worst president, by some distance, in US history. There is no honour in serving under this Commander in Chief.
To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
No wonder trump wanted ukraine's capitulation by thanks giving
Shocking what America and Russia are doing and conspiring against Ukraine.
Darth on point as always
