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
This is the one about Japan eager to do repairs on ships and aircraft plus supply ammunition for Ukraine
This cat was totally feral 4 years ago. Used to sneak in at night to eat from the cat dish. She used to sleep on one corner at the foot of the bed. This month she is about chest level.
Trump just repeated the remarks that cost him 5 million first time and 83 million second time. How much for third time???
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-may-owe-e-jean-carroll-even-more-money/54936/
Here is a guy I want to run again. Just to make sure most people see him.
Here is a list of men and women in Congress who need your help.
Good morning Resisters. It's a cold day. I am in bed with the electric blanket on.
Have you had any come ply mints lately
Santos is running for Congress in NY#1
🇬🇧🇩🇪 Britain offers help to Germany to supply missiles to Ukraine.
As explained by the head of the British Foreign Ministry, David Cameron, a possible circular exchange is allowed. For example, Germany will transfer Taurus missiles to Britain, and London, in turn, will provide Ukraine with additional Storm Shadow missiles.
"We are determined to work closely with our German partners in this, as in all other issues, to help Ukraine," the foreign minister said.
"We are ready to consider all options in order to achieve the maximum effect for Ukraine... But we will not disclose any details and we will not tell our opponents what we are planning," the minister added.
Cameron dismissed fears that the cruise missile transfer could lead to escalation.
"It is absolutely possible to set limits on the use of these weapons to ensure that they do not contribute to escalation in any way," he said, adding that Britain trusted Ukraine's assurances.
🇺🇦@ukraine_report🇺🇦🔱
How is the russian economy ?
The number of companies in Russia that have gone bankrupt has soared in the first two months of 2024, Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Thursday.
In January, 571 companies in Russia declared bankruptcy — a rise of 57% from 364 a year ago, Kommersant reported, citing data from the federal register for bankruptcy.
The Spectator reports :
As Putin prepares for his fifth term, the truth is that Putin is a hollow tsar.
He invaded Ukraine to assert Russia’s greatness in its backyard as well as on the international stage. Instead, the war showed that Putin’s much-vaunted army is incapable of defeating a far smaller Ukrainian force. Instead of halting Nato expansion, he has massively extended it to formerly neutral Sweden and Finland.
The invasion has erased key sectors of the Russian economy (notably gas exports and automotives), brought foreign investment to an abrupt halt and made Russia an economic vassal of China.
The war has forced up to a million of the country’s best educated and brightest into exile and broken the Kremlin’s implicit contract with Russia’s elites that they would be able to enrich themselves and enjoy their earnings unhindered in exchange for political submission. Most fatefully, war has allowed Putin and the elderly securocrats who surround him to fulfill a dream that many old men may aspire to but very few achieve – to create a future that reflects an idealised version of their country’s past.
Spectator Article
🇺🇦@ukraine_report🇺🇦🔱Liz
This is ' Phsyco " from Brigade 80
He threw a grenade at russian occupiers to evade capture.
The second time he persuaded three russian occupiers to surrender and go with him to Ukrainian positions, they had been unable to leave because of Russian snipers and had no food.
The commanders of these occupiers did not even suspect that the Russians were already in captivity. Thanks to this, our guys regained their position that same evening.
It's hard to translate but it seems he is fearless.
🇺🇦@ukraine_report🇺🇦🔱Liz
Trump admits he likes to rip people off
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/senile-donald-trump-admits-he-likes-to-rip-people-off/54920/
A lowlife mocking Joe Bidrn's stutter
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/trump-is-at-it-again/54919/
France is building an alliance of countries open to potentially sending Western troops to Ukraine — and in the process deepening its clash with a more cautious Berlin.
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné was in Lithuania on Friday, where he met his Baltic and Ukrainian counterparts to buttress the idea that foreign troops could end up helping Ukraine in areas like demining.
"It is not for Russia to tell us how we should help Ukraine in the coming months or years," Séjourné said, "it is not for Russia to organize how we deploy our actions, or to set red lines. So we decide it among us.
Ukraine did not ask us to send troops. Ukraine is asking us to send ammunition at the moment," the French minister concluded. "We do not exclude anything for the coming months."
The Baltic ministers praised France for "thinking out of the box", also Warsaw is shifting position. After stating not to have such plans like sending troops short after Macron's statement, the Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on Friday that "the presence of NATO forces in Ukraine is not unthinkable," adding that he appreciated Macron's initiative, "because it is about [Russian President Vladimir] Putin being afraid, not us being afraid of Putin."
Séjourné raised concerns about Moscow setting its sights on the Baltic countries, which used to be part of the Soviet empire but are now members of the EU and NATO.
Lithuania's Gabrielius Landsbergis echoed Séjourné. "There cannot be any 'buts.' We must draw red lines for Russia, not ourselves. No form of support for Ukraine can be excluded. We need to continue supporting Ukraine wherever it's most needed," he said.
Although Germany is by far the largest European military aid donor to Ukraine, it has come under fierce pressure for its reluctance to send Kyiv long range Taurus cruise missiles for fear of provoking Moscow. Kuleba took a subtle swipe at that reticence on Friday.
"I'm personally fed up with the ... fear of escalation," he said. "Our problem is that we still have people who think of this war in terms of the fear of escalation."
Kuleba continued: "What kind of escalation are you afraid of? What else has to happen to Ukraine for you to understand that this fear is useless? What do you expect Putin to do? 'Well I sent tanks but I did not send the missiles or troops, so maybe you'll be nicer to me than to others?' That's not how Putin thinks, that's not how he treats Europe."
👉 read the full article in Politico: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-finds-baltic-allies-in-its-spat-with-germany-over-ukraine-aid-sikorski-nato-macron-troops-war/
@ukrainejournal
Great Britain offers Germany a circular supply of weapons to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles, — Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Journalists spoke with the Foreign Minister of Great Britain David Cameron during his visit to Berlin. In a conversation with journalists, he indicated that London is looking for a way to arrange the supply of Taurus for the armed forces.
"We are determined to work closely with our German partners on this and all other issues to help Ukraine," Cameron said.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung reports that one of the possible options is a round of deliveries: Germany will give the Taurus to the British side, which will send the Storm Shadow cruise missiles to the Ukrainians.
"We are ready to explore all options to achieve the maximum effect for Ukraine," Cameron emphasized.
At the same time, he refused to give any details in order "not to inform our opponents what we are up to".
The United States has threatened Austria's largest bank, Raiffeisen Bank, with sanctions for doing business in Russia.
EUOberver reports this with reference to a document from the US Treasury Department.
As it follows from it, the department warned that Raiffeisen Bank International risks "being cut off from the U.S. financial system" if it continues to service trade transactions related to the Russian military-industrial complex.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in 2022 Raiffeisen Bank paid a total of 559 million euros in taxes to the Russian treasury.
As the resource writes, RBI is one of the eight leading EU banks still operating in Russia. The rest: the Dutch ING, the German Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank, the Hungarian OTP Bank, the Italian Intesa SanPaolo and Unicerdit and the Swedish SEB.
For Ukraine, this may be interesting in terms of possible and unpredictable consequences for Ukrainian Raiffeisen Bank.
France is building an alliance of countries open to potentially sending Western troops to Ukraine — and in the process deepening its clash with a more cautious Berlin.
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné was in Lithuania on Friday, where he met his Baltic and Ukrainian counterparts to buttress the idea that foreign troops could end up helping Ukraine in areas like demining.
"It is not for Russia to tell us how we should help Ukraine in the coming months or years," Séjourné said, "it is not for Russia to organize how we deploy our actions, or to set red lines. So we decide it among us.
Ukraine did not ask us to send troops. Ukraine is asking us to send ammunition at the moment," the French minister concluded. "We do not exclude anything for the coming months."
The Baltic ministers praised France for "thinking out of the box", also Warsaw is shifting position. After stating not to have such plans like sending troops short after Macron's statement, the Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on Friday that "the presence of NATO forces in Ukraine is not unthinkable," adding that he appreciated Macron's initiative, "because it is about [Russian President Vladimir] Putin being afraid, not us being afraid of Putin."
Séjourné raised concerns about Moscow setting its sights on the Baltic countries, which used to be part of the Soviet empire but are now members of the EU and NATO.
Lithuania's Gabrielius Landsbergis echoed Séjourné. "There cannot be any 'buts.' We must draw red lines for Russia, not ourselves. No form of support for Ukraine can be excluded. We need to continue supporting Ukraine wherever it's most needed," he said.
Although Germany is by far the largest European military aid donor to Ukraine, it has come under fierce pressure for its reluctance to send Kyiv long range Taurus cruise missiles for fear of provoking Moscow. Kuleba took a subtle swipe at that reticence on Friday.
"I'm personally fed up with the ... fear of escalation," he said. "Our problem is that we still have people who think of this war in terms of the fear of escalation."
Kuleba continued: "What kind of escalation are you afraid of? What else has to happen to Ukraine for you to understand that this fear is useless? What do you expect Putin to do? 'Well I sent tanks but I did not send the missiles or troops, so maybe you'll be nicer to me than to others?' That's not how Putin thinks, that's not how he treats Europe."
👉 read the full article in Politico: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-finds-baltic-allies-in-its-spat-with-germany-over-ukraine-aid-sikorski-nato-macron-troops-war/
@ukrainejournal
A captured occupier from the "Storm-V" detachment was suspected of shooting a soldier of the Armed Forces.
Dmytro Kurashov, who has been convicted many times, faces life imprisonment for violation of the customs of war, combined with intentional murder.
Kurashov was a rifleman of the assault squad of the 127th motorized rifle division of the Eastern Military District. On January 6 of this year, he shot a Ukrainian soldier who was captured by the russians during a "meat" assault. Soon, Kurashov himself was captured along with his colleagues. During the interrogation at the SBU, another captured russian "turned in" Kurashov, and later the SBU received other evidence of his guilt.
@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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