TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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
Over rather quickly. Secret Service appear to be better shots than the would be assassin.
Some dumb assumptions just took shots at Trump. Killed an audience member
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/did-donald-trump-just-get-shot-whats-really-going-on/57088/
Joyce Vance plus The Podcast Sisters
⚡️ In June, Ukraine spent $79 million on electricity purchases from neighboring countries, doubling the amount spent in May, according to Forbes.
In the first days of July, these purchases reached the maximum technical capacity.
Currently, during peak hours, the imported electricity covers only about 15% of the country's needs.
The Kremlin has decided to rewrite "Wikipedia" and create a new version of history, reports The Economist.
Specifically, Moscow aims to achieve this through its own censored version of the RuWiki resource.
"Wikipedia" has faced challenges from the Kremlin before, with Russian censors threatening it almost from the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine in 2014. However, the publication noted that it only became clear at the end of 2023 that Moscow was serious about replacing it.
RuWiki, as Russian censors call the project, is largely a direct copy of "Wikipedia." However, in the Russian version, the most sensitive historical moments are omitted or rewritten. Kremlin ideologues hope that millions of Russians will now accept these revised versions as truth.
The RuWiki project could be called Orwellian if the British author were not subject to periodic censorship himself. For example, the article about "1984" lacks the site's usual description of Winston Smith's Ministry of Truth, which "corrects" the historical record.
The atrocities committed by Russians in Bucha near Kyiv in 2022 are reinterpreted as a "Ukrainian and Western disinformation campaign." Kherson, destroyed by Russian bombs, is mentioned without any reference to the war. The execution of nearly 22,000 Polish officers in Katyn in 1940 has been rewritten to cast doubt on archival documents proving it was carried out by Soviet special services.
There is no mention of "Putin h..ylo!" — a contemptuous catchphrase mocking the Russian leader. All references to Alexei Navalny, considered a Russian opposition leader, have been changed to describe him merely as a "blogger."
An analysis of the site by the independent Russian media organization Mediazona shows that the vast majority of new edits are made during business hours on weekdays. This suggests that the editing is done by teams of paid authors, unlike Wikipedia's volunteer model.
US and Germany thwart Russian assassination attempt on Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger over his arms support for Ukraine, — CNN.
According to sources, this attack was part of a series of Russian plots to assassinate defense industry executives across Europe who supported Ukraine’s war effort.
When the Americans discovered the plot, they informed Germany, whose security services were able to protect Papperger and foil the attempt. A senior German government official confirmed that Berlin had been warned about the plot by the US.
The intelligence officers who testified about Russia’s willingness to target private individuals highlighted to Western officials the extent of Moscow’s actions in the shadow war it is waging in the West.
“We see sabotage, assassination plots, and arson. We see actions that cost human lives. I strongly believe that we are witnessing a campaign of covert Russian sabotage with strategic implications,” a high-ranking NATO representative told journalists on Tuesday.
The National Security Council refused to comment on the existence of the Russian conspiracy or the US warning to Germany. However, NSC spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement:
“Russia’s escalating subversive campaign is something we take extremely seriously and have been closely monitoring over the past few months. The United States is discussing this matter with our NATO allies, and we are actively working together to expose and stop this activity. We have also made it clear that Russia’s actions will not prevent Alliance members from continuing to support Ukraine.”
Russia conducts a campaign of intimidation against NATO members, but the result is the opposite, — Stoltenberg
The Secretary General emphasized that this campaign targets multiple allied states simultaneously.
“We see a campaign organized by the special services of the Russian Federation directed against allies in various parts of the Alliance. The goal of this campaign is to intimidate allies so that they do not help Ukraine,” he said.
Stoltenberg noted, however, that he considers these actions by the Russian Federation to be unsuccessful: “The actions of the allies in recent months have shown that they are not subject to intimidation.”
NATO helps Ukraine fight, but not win — Foreign Policy.
The newspaper notes that the Russian army has recovered faster than expected after the first months of the full-scale war and is quickly learning to counter the Western high-tech weapons systems that Ukraine is receiving from its allies.
“Ukrainians need more than just what we have created to win,” said Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, following the summit in Washington.
Liana Fix, a researcher at the European Council on International Relations, agrees with him:
“There is no real strategy. We, in fact, support Ukraine so that it remains combat-ready and achieves certain successes, but does not win the war.”
The publication notes that the West’s strategy seems to be to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses while waiting for Moscow’s exhaustion. The problem is that Russia is also trying to wait out Ukraine and its Western allies.
“To expect that the current level of support from allies can last indefinitely would be magical thinking. The challenge facing the Allies is greater than anything they have faced since the Cold War. It is not about keeping Ukraine in the fight in the long term, but about finding a way to end this war without sacrificing Ukraine,” says Eugene Rumer, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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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