TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
❗️If Putin captures Kyiv, it will be a disaster worse than the war in Vietnam, — Boris Johnson for The Telegraph
💬 "If this happens, I think it will be an absolute disaster for the West, a disaster for America and any concept of American leadership."
It's a pity that only a few people in the West understand this. They say out loud that they understand, but in reality, they don't. Because if it were otherwise, Kuleba would not have written in desperation that in response to the request to provide the Patriots, a deaf wall appears in front of him.
More footage from the scene of the explosion of Prozorov’s car in Moscow
The main version of what has transpired, reportedly, was the detonation of homemade explosives at the moment when the former SBU officer turned on the ignition.
Prozorov worked in the Ukrainian special services until 2018, transmitting data to the FSB on the progress of the war in Donbass.
Judging by the footage, the injuries appear limited.
❕ Russia has a stock of tanks and combat vehicles only until the middle of 2025, — Forbes
The year 2024 is the last significant opportunity for the Russian Federation to achieve significant success in Ukraine from a military point of view. Ukraine is actively working on solving its problems, and significant progress is expected by 2025. After the adoption of the law on mobilization, it is expected that by the end of 2024, the improvement on all fronts will gradually unfold at all levels, - writes the Estonian military and analyst.
Belarus moves to classify depiction of ‘non-traditional relations’ as ‘pornography’, and representatives of the LGBT community have been equated to necrophiles and bestiality.
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus has amended the instructions regulating the distribution of erotic products.
Now in Belarus, homosexuality, polyamory, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, sadism and exhibitionism, as well as “the practice of cross-dressing for the purpose of arousal and transgenderism itself” are on the same list.
In February, Belarus’ Prosecutor General Andrey Shved said that the country’s parliament was set to review a draft law punishing the promotion of “abnormal relationships, pedophilia and the voluntary refusal to have children”.
The self-proclaimed dictator Lukashenko said in March 2023 that “non-traditional trends”, including families choosing not to have children, represented an attempt to “depopulate and weaken” Belarus.
Experts have noted a tendency for russia and its belarusian satelite to copy each other’s repressive legislation in recent years.
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@freerussia_report
The Kremlin’s Creeping Nationalizations Hit Chelyabinsk Businesses.
Metals plants, agribusinesses and food firms owned by Chelyabinsk’s top businessmen and politicians have been subject to nationalization suits brought in hasty proceedings in courts.
The Kremlin’s wartime campaign of forced nationalization has hit the Ural Mountains region of Chelyabinsk, a major industrial center, harder than most.
Since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russian prosecutors have targeted 55 enterprises — metals, chemicals, agribusiness and even a major car dealership — for compulsory state takeover, according to figures from sate-controlled RBC.
But in recent weeks, metals plants, agribusinesses and food firms owned by Chelyabinsk’s top businessmen and politicians have been subject to nationalization suits brought in hasty proceedings in Russian courts.
These assets are likely destined to be transferred to regime loyalists, analysts agreed, in order to create a new generation of loyal oligarchs.
In late March, prosecutors announced two nationalizations of Chelyabinsk businesses — of the most famous pasta brand Makfa and the country’s largest winemaker the Ariant group — on the same day.
Those cases followed prosecutors laying claim to the Chelyabinsk Electro-Metallurgical Plant, which produces 80% of russia’s ferroalloys, in late February.
The pretexts for these wartime nationalization suits range from claims of “unlawful privatization” to enterprises “coming under foreign control” and alleged breaches of anti-corruption legislation.
“Where once the state was raiding foreign investors’ pockets, now it’s open season domestically,” Nicholas Trickett, a senior analyst at S&P. The nationalization trend could thus be seen as “creating a new interest group” of “winners” among the ruZZian elite “who are fully invested in [the war’s] continuation.”
Forced nationalizations have caused disquiet in russia’s big business community, with leading businessmen reportedly bringing the issue to Putin at a closed-door meeting in November 2023, according to the Vedomosti business daily.
In a rare burst of criticism, the Moscow Stock Exchange expressed concern over a specific nationalization case, the Solikamsk Magnesium Works, in December. Prosecutors claim that around 10% of the shares in the factory were acquired by private investors unlawfully.
“It turns out that the law is not being observed at all,” a top exchange official said on the Solikamsk matter.
Meanwhile, Putin had been till trying to reassure russian big business over the past year, saying there would be "no full-scale deprivatization.”
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He said the same about the war... 🤥
@freerussia_report
Election deniers are idiots-or they think we are.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/lara-trumps-dangerous-lie?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The discharge petition needs 25 more signatures
https://t.me/noel_reports/10761
Zelenskyi's evening speech
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I held a meeting regarding our missile program with the Commander-in-Chief, Minister of Defence, Minister of Strategic Industries, and heads of relevant enterprises. Serial production, and new samples of missiles. The details aren’t public, but our "defence industry" has the necessary results. And the main thing is for the army to implement these results now. Today, I also discussed the current situation on the frontline with the Commander-in-Chief. There was also a report by the Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine.
I am grateful to everyone who gives strength to Ukraine! I am grateful to everyone who fights and works for the sake of our state and our people.
Glory to Ukraine!
Hungarian rulership optima-forma. It extended the state of emergency for another 6 six months due to the war in Ukraine by a (Fidesz) majority in Parliament. In Hungary, the state of emergency has been ongoing for more than four years. It allows the government to take more power.
⚡️ Bloomberg: Ukrainian army collapse 'cannot be ruled out,' US official says.
The possibility of a collapse of Ukraine's army "cannot be ruled out" and Ukraine is at its "most fragile moment in over two years of war," according to U.S. officials, Bloomberg reported on April 11.
According to the official, who spoke to Bloomberg on condition of anonymity, the U.S. "doesn't see any signs of an imminent breakthrough by Russian forces."
Ukraine is, however, at its "most fragile moment in over two years of war, according to Western officials with knowledge of the situation," Bloomberg said.
BREAKING NEWS
In Moscow, the car of ex-SBU employee and traitor, Vasyl Proznorov, was blown up, the russian media write.
It is reported that a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado exploded when a man tried to start it.
As a result, the collaborator was injured and is now in hospital.
Note: In 2014, Prozorov sided with the russian federation and cooperated with russian special services. A few years ago, he fled to the russian federation.
So, when a Toyota is blown up, the windscreen wipers go into action. Good to know 🤣
Pity they hadn't used a more powerful bomb. Toyota's are indestructible, according to TV show Top Gear 😄
@ukrainejournal
Forbes is very inaccurate. Probably relying on Russian propaganda. Russia loses a minimum of 10 per day which is 3600 per year
Russia will use up its stocks of old tanks and combat vehicles by mid-2025 — Forbes.
“Russian industry produces 500 or 600 new tanks and maybe a little more than a thousand new fighting vehicles every year. The Russian military loses more than a thousand tanks and close to 2,000 fighting vehicles every year—and the loss rate is increasing,” the article states.
They added that "there’s a gap — one the Kremlin fills by pulling out of long-term storage tanks and fighting vehicles dating back to the 1970s, or even the ’60s or ’50s in some cases. But these old vehicles are a finite resource. Built during the Soviet Union’s industrial heyday, they cannot be replaced with new production."
The Analyst:
SPEAKER JOHNSON SNUBBS BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER
Former Prime Minister and now Foreign Minister David Cameron has already been to meet Trump, a common courtesy for candidates facing off. He then met the US Secretary of State. He was due to meet the House Speaker - only to find that he wasn’t welcome. The first time a House Speaker has ever done this to a British government representative since WW1. Cameron then went to see Mitch McConnell in the senate.
The problem as usual is the extreme right wing nutcase Marjorie Traitor Greene. She moans and Johnson jumps. It’s bad news for aid to Ukraine.
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@ukrainejournal
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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