TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian 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 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Don-old wonders why we are even having an election. He should concede now and maybe we won't. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/confused-donald-trump-asks-why-were-even-having-an-election/57770/
Good morning Resisters around the world. An especially good morning to the Valkyries of Ukraine.
A resident of St. Petersburg thought that his neighbor was Ukrainian, and therefore he shot her through the peephole of the front door
A 30-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, who works as a call center operator, went to the police with a complaint about her neighbor in a house on Prospekt Kultury. He came to her door, unscrewed the peephole, stuck a gas pistol in the hole and fired, hitting her left eye.
According to the woman, the neighbor is annoyed with her because he assumes that she is Ukrainian, although this is allegedly not true, writes 78.ru.
A criminal case has not yet been opened.
@freerussia_report
Trump repeats shameless Z-propaganda and hopes to 'get along with Putin' if he wins election
In an interview with Musk, he claimed that the war in Ukraine began because of Biden's "stupidity" - when he spoke about Ukraine's possible accession to NATO. Russia has repeatedly emphasized that this is unacceptable for it, Trump noted. "We have a president with a low IQ. He had a low IQ 30 years ago, and now, probably, he has none at all." He called Putin a "good negotiator."
He also claimed to have tried to dissuade him from starting a war (forgetting totally that this war has been started in 2014): “Don’t do it. You can’t do it, Vladimir. Bad days are coming,” insists that “he would never do that [start a war in Ukraine]. I got along with him. I hope to get along with him now. It will be very good.”
Trump believes that the biggest threat to humanity now is “nuclear warming,” not global warming. “We can’t let something stupid happen because of people like Biden,” he said.
More of his BS
@freerussia_report
Are you still believing in ruZZian fairy tales like Trump? RuZZian war games before 2014.
Russia has been preparing its naval fleet for launching attacks on facilities deep in the territory of Europe using missiles with nuclear warheads in case a conflict with NATO started even before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
FT reported that the same dossier with 29 classified russian military files contained information that Moscow practised launching of tactical nuclear weapons in the early stages of a conflict with a big state. Latest reveals show how russia envisaged the conflict with the West far beyond its direct border with NATO, planning a series of destructive strikes on the entire Western Europe.
The files, created sometime in 2008-2014, include a list of targets for missiles which can carry both ordinary warheads and tactical nuclear weapons. Russian officers listed the advantages of carrying out nuclear strikes at an early stage of the conflict.
The maps of distant targets, such as coastal France and the town of Barrow-in-Furness in the UK, which were made for illustrative purposes and not for operative use, describe 32 possible NATO targets in Europe for the russian Naval Fleet.
The targets of the russian Baltic Fleet are mostly located in Norway and Germany, including a naval base in Bergen, as well as radar sites and special forces facilities.
The leaked documents indicate that russia preserved its capability to carry tactical nuclear weapons on surface ships, despite the 1991 agreement between the Soviet Union and the US about its destruction.
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The SBU and the National Police detained 6 more accomplices who helped the FSB by setting fire to AFU vehicles and relay cabinets.
For this sabotage, the FSB recruited four minors and two 18-year-olds who were looking for "easy money" online.
To show their success, the participants filmed each fire.
In Odessa, two people were arrested while attempting to start fire in a railway relay cabinet.
In Mykolaiv, three minors aged 13, 14 and 16 were detained, who helped the FSB, and successfully set fire to two trucks of the AFU.
They also planned to set fire to local government buildings.
Based on the evidence, three persons from Odesa were charged with organised sabotage under martial law and face life imprisonment.
The 16-year-old suspect from Mykolaiv was charged with obstructing the lawful activities of the AFU, and is under 24-hour house arrest. He faces up to 8 years in prison.
For his younger accomplices aged 13 and 14, the issue of prosecuting them is still being decided.
This woman is very informative
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President Zelensky suggested to The Guardian in May that in reality Downing Street was waiting on the Americans to give their approval.
A final decision by the UK and other partners depended on “consensus”, with the position in Washington being crucial, he suggested. “You know how it works,” he added.
Colby Badhwar, an independent military analyst, told The Times: “The Biden administration continues to maintain their policy that Ukraine is not permitted to use long range fires to strike deep into Russia; a prohibition that applies not just to the American ATACMS, but the British Storm Shadow as well.” Although Ukraine is not permitted to use Storm Shadow to fire at targets inside Russia, it is however allowed to use other western weapons and British Challenger 2 tanks have already been spotted in the Kursk region.
Military authorities in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Friday urged civilians to speed up their evacuation because the Russian army was quickly closing in on what has been one of Moscow’s key targets for months.
Pokrovsk officials said in a Telegram post that Russian troops were “advancing at a fast pace. With every passing day there is less and less time to collect personal belongings and leave for safer regions.”
Ukrainian troops have been trying to divert the Kremlin’s military focus away from the front line in Ukraine by launching a bold cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. But Zelenskyy warned Thursday that Pokrovsk and other nearby towns in the Donetsk region were “facing the most intense Russian assaults.”
US blocks Ukraine from firing British missiles into Russia - The Times
UK government source says request sent to Washington more than a month ago to allow the Storm Shadow missile to be fired into Russia still awaits a reply.
Washington is effectively blocking Britain from allowing Kyiv to fire Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia, amid fears in the Biden administration of an escalation in the Ukraine war.
As pressure grows on the West to relax its rules around the use of long range weapons, Britain is waiting for US approval before it gives the Ukrainians the green light. However, the request went into the system more than a month ago and officials are still waiting, a UK government source said.
They said their understanding was that the topic was effectively “stuck in their system”. A second UK government source confirmed that “discussions were still ongoing” and a third defence source described it as “routine US process”.
It is understood that although the UK wants to give Ukraine the freedom to do what they want with the long-range weapon, it requires consensus from allies, including the US, France and a third undisclosed Nato country.
Storm Shadows can fire at targets more than 155 miles away and could be used to hit military bases deeper inside Russia that have been crucial for Moscow’s war effort inside Ukraine.
Sabrina Singh, the deputy spokeswoman for the US department of defence admitted in a briefing on Thursday that the US was “worried about escalation” when it came to Ukraine’s use of long range strikes.
She also suggested long range weapons were not needed to help Ukraine liberate its territory.
Matthew Palmer, chargé d’affaires of the US to the UK, in a Times Radio interview to be broadcast on Sunday, distanced himself from the notion that the US had any say in the matter, saying that the terms under which UK weapons could be used were a matter for London and Kyiv. “I’m not going to insert myself into that conversation,” he told Theo Usherwood.
One theory inside the UK military is that the US may be waiting to assess the impact or the consequences of the Ukrainian operation into Russia before making a decision, although they said they expected the matter to be quickly resolved.
A member of Ukraine’s defence committee told The Times that Ukraine had been forced to undertake its cross-border operation into Kursk due to the west’s refusal to allow Kyiv to use long-range cruise missiles on targets in Russia,
President Zelensky has repeatedly requested permission to use American-donated ATACMS and British Storm Shadows to strike targets deep within Russia, but each time has been rebuffed over fears that it could lead to an escalation in the conflict.
Solomiia Bobrovska, a Ukrainian MP, said that Russian gains made on the eastern front since the start of this year could have been stopped had Ukraine been able to use these weapons to destroy military and logistics targets deep behind the frontlines.
The assault on the Russian region of Kursk, now entering its 12th (AS OF SAT) day, she said, was a defensive action necessitated by Russia’s incremental but steady progress, and the continual aerial attacks on its civilians who live in cities close to the border, such as Sumy and Kharkiv.
Bobrovska last week returned from Washington where she was representing the Ukrainian parliament’s defence and security committee to press American senators and congressmen to allow for the use of ATACMS.
“If we had been allowed to use these long-range missiles in Russia, we would have been able to prevent a lot of their attacks and offensive operations,” she said. “And I truly believe that the map now would be like it was in 2023, or even better.”
She said that Britain and the US’s refusal to grant permission amounted to a “betrayal” of the security guarantees that Ukraine was given as part of the Budapest memorandum in 1994 in return for destroying the nuclear weapons left in the country following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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We wonder how Elon Musk will comment on this?
Considering that war criminal Kadyrov is under US sanctions, that doesn't look like a good ad campaign for Tesla Cybertruck.
As for Kadyrov's claim that Elon Musk gave it to him and that he will send it for use in the war against Ukraine, well that would make Musk and/or Tesla a sponsor of war.
Then there is the question of US export controls..
Messages left with Tesla by Associated Press and Reuters, seeking a comment, were not immediately returned.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian 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 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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