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
Trump claims no empty seats
Fielding a powerful new ballistic missile that could strike as far away as Moscow, Ukraine is about to solve a vexing military problem.
Ukraine’s Hrim-2 missile is nearly ready for action, Yehor Chernev, the chairman of Ukraine’s delegation to NATO, said recently.
“Believe me, there will soon be concrete results that not only Ukraine but also the Russian Federation will see,” Chernev said.
The Hrim-2 is a single-stage, solid-fuel ballistic missile that can carry an 1,100-pound warhead as far as 310 miles, presumably under inertial guidance. It represents a major step up from Ukraine’s best current battlefield rocket – the 1970s-vintage Tochka.
KB Pivdenne, a missile-maker in Dnipro, in eastern Ukraine, has been working on the Hrim-2 for a decade. It was a low priority in the years before Russia widened its war on Ukraine starting in February 2022: funding was a constant problem.
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Moldovan authorities have accused Russia of extensive interference in the country’s elections, alleging actions aimed at influencing the vote’s outcome. Stanislav Sekrieru, national security adviser to President Maia Sandu, highlighted “massive Russian interference” as a significant threat to the integrity of the election process.
One key example cited by Sekrieru involved the organized transport of voters from the breakaway region of Transnistria. This act, deemed illegal under Moldova’s election code, reportedly involved hundreds of individuals brought in to vote. Sekrieru shared footage from a charter flight, initially posted by Russia’s “Sputnik,” showing a plane filled with Moldovan passport holders. “The plane appears to be carrying between 260 and 400 voters,” Sekrieru stated, underscoring what he described as “clear evidence of large-scale, organized voter transport.”
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The current pro-European leader of Moldova, Maya Sandu, won the second round of the presidential elections in Moldova.
After counting almost 100% of the ballots, she won 55.41% of the votes, while her rival, the former Prosecutor General of Moldova Oleksandr Stoianoglo, who represents the opposition pro-Russian "Party of Socialists", won 44.59% of the votes.
Therefore, the advantage of Sandu over Stojanoglo amounted to more than 181,730 votes
In her victory speech, delivered after nearly all votes were tallied, Sandu said that she had listened to the voices of her supporters and those of her opponent, Stoianoglo. She said that her primary goal for the coming years would be to serve as a president for all citizens.
“Today, dear Moldovans, you have given a lesson in democracy, worthy of being written in history books... Freedom, truth, and justice have prevailed,” she said.
Well done Moldova.
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Details of Russia's agreement with North Korea regarding troop deployments have been made public by South Korean intelligence.
▪️Russia pays the North Korean regime around $2,000 per month for each soldier it sends to participate in the war against Ukraine
▪️North Korea gains access to Russian missile and space technology
▪️Russians to fight on its side should war erupt on the Korean Peninsula.
▪️North Korea will receive around 700,000 tons of rice annually to assist its own food production shortfalls.
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🇨🇿 President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel allowed several dozen citizens to join the ranks of the Armed Forces.
In total, more than 180 Czechs appealed to Pavel to allow them to join the Ukrainian army
Currently, it is known that the president allowed 60 citizens of the country to join the ranks of the Armed Forces. At the same time, it is unclear exactly how many Czechs went to Ukraine for the war, because some did so without permission.
This is great news because it means they won't be arrested as mercenaries on their return. Let's hope other countries follow.
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NK troops open fire on Russians
Good Morning. MASTODON ATE MY POST YESTERDAY. I had a little accident hurrying down the stairs from my front deck. I think it's mostly muscle and a kidney punch by a stair. I am staying in bed this morning. I got up to feed the cats and make coffee. Very difficult. Once I am upright it's painful but tolerable. Extreme pain going from horizontal to vertical.
Last night it was a series of storms. Terror went out. But he goes out in rain. Sammie was no go. OKC got tornadoes. We are expecting some in the afternoon. We got a lot of rain. But the major part is this afternoon.
The Georgia GOP gets on a judicial shitlist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/smells-like-gop-desperation-in-georgia?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=70k1h
Seagal, 72, had a distinctly ballooned belly in a newly released Russian propaganda film — “In The Name of Justice”
The images are some of the latest of Seagal, who was granted Russian citizenship in 2016 and has been offloading his vast portfolio of American real estate ever since.
During the documentary, Seagal's bloated belly is so large his untucked shirt hung down from his waist, being pushed out by his massive midriff.
The 30-minute documentary, publicly available on Russian website Smotrim. ru and operated by Russian state-run broadcaster VGTRK, was released on October 10.
It follows the portly Putin partisan wandering around Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, between drone shots of rubble and bombed-out buildings.
It looks like he has eaten all the russian army provisions and is in a very poor state for his martial arts performances.
Segal was raised in America, but his grandparents were Russian immigrants, he is banned from entering Ukraine.
Link to part of the propaganda video in which Segal speaks in English not Russian.
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Documents disclosed in September by the U.S. Department of Justice included one internal plan for Kremlin political strategists to promote a social media campaign to help secure the victory of “US Political Party A” in the presidential elections as its views include “provisions on peace in Ukraine in exchange for territories” as well as “returning troops home from all over the world etc.” Internal Kremlin documents make clear that Political Party A is the Republican Party.
“They have a clear preference for Trump to win. He’s more open to forcing Ukraine to concede and make some disadvantageous deal with Russia to end the war,” said Eric Ciaramella, a former White House official now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “They see him as much more likely to cut off support to Ukraine and as much more likely to damage America’s image abroad.”
Putin would not be satisfied until the United States agrees to rebuild relations with Russia in a way that makes concessions to Moscow’s security concerns and redraws the global security map. Until then, Russia will continue to try to stoke chaos to weaken the United States, Stanovaya said.
Indeed, post-election chaos would greatly benefit Moscow, said the former Kremlin official. “The worse it is in the U.S., the better,” he said.
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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