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
Seems everything I hear about Pete Hegseth is objectionable. Just the fact that he does not wash his hands should bar him from both the office and polite society. As for not seeing germs, has he ever looked through a microscope? I bet he uses a scope hunting. Same tech in a microscope.
The main competitor of Scholz promises to deliver Taurus missiles to Ukraine if Putin does not stop the war.
The candidate for chancellor from the Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, stated that in case of his victory in the elections, he will present an ultimatum to Putin.
Merz will demand that Russia stop the war within 24 hours, threatening that otherwise Germany will deliver Taurus missiles to Ukraine and allow strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation.
"Our position must be clear: Germany must help Ukraine successfully defend itself.". @ukrainejournal
The main competitor of Scholz promises to deliver Taurus missiles to Ukraine if Putin does not stop the war.
The candidate for chancellor from the Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, stated that in case of his victory in the elections, he will present an ultimatum to Putin.
Merz will demand that Russia stop the war within 24 hours, threatening that otherwise Germany will deliver Taurus missiles to Ukraine and allow strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation.
"Our position must be clear: Germany must help Ukraine successfully defend itself.". @ukrainejournal
Marco Rubio's stance on Russia's war in Ukraine — what we know
Republican Senator Marco Rubio is likely to be the next U.S. secretary of state, according to reports on Nov. 12 that mark the latest insight into how President-elect Donald Trump's White House will approach Russia's war in Ukraine.
Rubio's public statements on Ukraine appear to be very much in line with Trump's broad plans for the war — a swift end to it.
"I think the Ukrainians have been incredibly brave and strong in standing up to Russia," Rubio said on Nov. 6.
"But at the end of the day, what we are funding here is a stalemate war, and it needs to be brought to a conclusion, or that country is going to be set back 100 years.
Read more here.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Russia preparing a 50,000-people-strong offensive in latest attempt to push Ukrainian army out of Kursk Oblast
Over the past week, Russia had been gathering forces in what appears to be preparations for a decisive push in the country's Kursk Oblast.
"The situation is changing every day. Not long ago, we were on the offensive, and now we are on the defensive," a 35-year-old artilleryman with the callsign Spys, fighting in the area, told the Kyiv Independent.
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Photo: Oleg Palchyk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
⚡️ SBU behind car bombing that killed Russian navy officer in Crimea, source says.
The car bombing that killed Russian Navy officer Valery Trankovsky in occupied Sevastopol on Nov. 13 was an operation carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent.
Trankovsky was chief of staff of the 41st Missile Boat Brigade and a "war criminal who has ordered cruise missile launches from the Black Sea against civilian sites in Ukraine," the source said.
Showing how the people are willing to follow all kind of orders blindly
Voronezh teachers made tin foil hats for "protection from NATO" on the "order" of United Russia.
In the Voronezh region, teachers of seven schools, following a false order, organized the "Helmet of the Fatherland" campaign, during which they made and put on foil hats to "protect themselves from the effects of NATO satellites." The author of the prank was the Belarusian prankster Vladislav Bokhan, who sent out "orders" on behalf of United Russia.
Bohan explained the essence of his joke: "According to our legend, evil NATO members are going to irradiate the Russian people. Our teachers must learn to resist this impact with simple protective equipment, such as a foil cap."
To enhance the effect, the activist used an old letterhead with the United Russia logo and created an "order" through a neural network, which he specially taught the "bureaucratic language". The document described the possible consequences in case of non-compliance with the instructions, and also indicated the purpose of the action - "strengthening patriotism, raising awareness and skills of teachers in the field of civil defense, the ability to use improvised materials to create primitive means of protection in the face of threats from NATO."
He also added a photo of people in foil hats near one of the Moscow metro stations, presenting them as participants in a similar flash mob in a school in the capital. The message was also accompanied by detailed instructions for making hats.
The action found a response in seven schools. In a video sent from the Bobrovsky Educational Center "Leader", one of the teachers called making hats an interesting creative activity and an "important patriotic act" symbolizing the readiness to defend the homeland from external threats. At the same time, she stressed: the foil cap should become "a symbol of unity and resilience in the face of external challenges."
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"For 72 days, I was electrocuted, beaten, and not allowed to eat or sleep."
How convicts are driven into "meat assaults"
In October, Putin signed a law that will greatly simplify the recruitment of convicts or those under criminal prosecution to the front. The contract can now be concluded already at the investigation stage and the Z-regime plans to call up to 40% of prisoners.
In the war, convicts are assigned to so-called "Storm" units, which, according to the website of the Ministry of Deceit, "were created to break through the most difficult and echeloned areas of the defense of the AFU." In fact, stormtroopers, once an well-trained elite unit, are used as expendable material in areas where fighting is the toughest and the most desperate, and they bear the brunt of the infamous “meat-grinder assaults.” Storm units also serve as punishment battalions, where commanders of regular army units exile fighters who, from the point of view of the commanders, are guilty of transgressions.
The Inside spoke to former Storm unit fighters and learned how their commanders had ripped them off, tortured and beaten them, and forced them into suicide assaults. Fearing a long and agonizing death, many shoot themselves even before they are sent to the battlefield.
The Russian army has suffered incredibly high personnel losses since the first day of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Among the reasons are poor coordination and planning. But as Russian prisoners of war and deserters have confirmed, an even more important factor is their commanders’ indifference to the human costs of accomplishing tasks assigned from the top. The approach to fighting has led to the development of “expendable” Russian infantry, whose only purpose is to carry out “meat assaults,” in which the overwhelming majority of the participants will inevitably die. At the same time, as the last year has shown, this tactic does not bring any large-scale achievements, and its final goal is not clear. Yet the top military brass is visibly in no hurry to change it.
In the first months of the full-scale war, Russia's huge losses looked to be unintentional. Starting from the summer of 2022, however, a division became apparent: some soldiers were used for suicidal assaults, while others remained on the second line and performed different tasks.
“Our unit was there to scare the mobilized and volunteers,” says Grigory Kirsanov, one of the prisoners who fought as part of Storm V. “We had a deep hole nearby. Newcomers were beaten and thrown into the pit until they came to their senses."
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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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