TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org

🕯 Zelensky and Sholtz visited Maidan Nezalezhnosti, where they honored the memory of all fallen soldiers.

Still out of missiles

Perhaps Putin wants to eliminate his own army

I agree with Joyce Vance. With anyone else there would have been no charges

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/the-week-ahead-fa9?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Buying a pardon?
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/a-chinese-national-charged-with-fraud?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Ukraine's former president was poisoned by Russia

https://t.me/Kyivpost_official/26804

Taiwan asks US to put Ukraine first for weapons aid

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/42743

Hunter Biden pardon
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/president-biden-pardons-son-hunter?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/what-a-disaster-2/59053/

Goodnight Resisters everywhere

Putin approved a record military budget and cuts in spending on social support for Russians

Russian "President" Vladimir Putin signed the law on the federal budget for 2025-27.

According to the document, next year the government will increase spending on the “national defense” item to a new record of 13.49 trillion rubles. Compared to the current year (10.8 trillion rubles), the military budget will increase by 25%, compared to 2023 (6.8 trillion) - twice, and compared to the pre-war 2021 (3.5 trillion) - almost 4 times.

The share of military spending in the budget - 32.5% - will be unprecedented since the Soviet Union. For comparison: in the first year of the war with Ukraine, the authorities spent 17% of the budget on the army and weapons purchases, in 2023 - 19%, and this year - 29.5%.

The military budget will reach 6.2% of the national GDP - the level of military dictatorships in Africa (6.3% of GDP in South Sudan). At the same time, almost every third ruble in the treasury will be spent on classified items - 12.9 trillion rubles in total.

The article "social policy", which includes spending on pensions and benefits, will decrease by 16% - from 7.731 trillion rubles this year to 6.492 trillion rubles in 2025.

In addition to direct military spending, the government will allocate another 3.459 trillion rubles to the “national security” item, which includes the budgets of the police, the Russian National Guard, the Investigative Committee, and the special services. In total, the army and security forces will “eat up” 40% of the federal budget, or 16.9 trillion rubles.

Viva Le Resistance Flying the bird

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💔Volunteer Rimma Baranenko was killed by the russians.

She was among the passengers of the bus on which the russian terrorists dropped explosives from a drone in the morning.

"I had known Rimma personally for more than 10 years, and we collaborated on various projects. She was a very bright person with an active life position, always ready to help," said Prokudin, the head of the OVA.

Rest in peace Rimma.

https://open.substack.com/pub/reedgalen/p/the-apollo-13-election-part-iii?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Dan Rather
https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/a-note-from-dan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=70k1h

⚡️Syrian rebels seize huge warehouse with russian weapons, ammunition and military equipment

Meanwhile, government troops and officials loyal to Assad are fleeing Aleppo. The rebels are advancing so fast that OSINT analysts can't keep up with the maps.

Remind me how many years putin and Assad fought for Aleppo? How much money did the Kremlin spend on this war? And in the end, the country's largest city practically fell in a matter of days.

@ukrainejournal

russia, having launched a war of conquest against Ukraine, now wants to keep its own territory out of the war. The Kremlin claims the right to use nuclear weapons when conventional forces threaten russian infrastructure or state control.

Let's propose a counter-doctrine, says philosopher Slavoj Žižek. If a nuclear superpower attacks a country, its allies have the right – even the duty – to provide it with nuclear weapons so that it has a chance of deterring an attack.

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@ukrainejournal