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
The commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces, Popov, lost 30 million rubles (about 330 thousand dollars) betting on an online bookmaker site. To cover expenses, the general took kickbacks (compensate) from the construction of fortified positions on the Zaporozhye sector of the front. Apparently, all the money that the Russian commander was able to steal was bet on Fury to win the boxing 🥊 😅
🇺🇸 Abrams tanks in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces became the reality of a fantastic scenario that couldn’t be imagined a few years ago.
Militarnyi will tell how Abrams showed themselves on the Ukrainian battlefield.
👉🏻 Scroll the slides and read our special article to know more!
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A very good article by SPIEGEL about the war in Ukraine through the "eyes" of the German top political beaumond in the context of pre-election processes in Germany itself.
ℹ️ It clearly demonstrates how Scholz's position may fundamentally disagree with the position of other German senior officials.
There was contempt in the chancellor's words. With a trembling voice , Olaf Scholz spoke last Saturday on the market square in Karlsruhe about what he thought of many military experts. About those who believe that the West should provide Ukraine with more military support in its struggle with Russia.
And there are always those who say: we must do this and we must do that! I have a feeling that foaming at the mouth doesn't get any better! There is no reason and nothing that makes any sense!
This was the devastating verdict of the document published a few days earlier by former NATO Secretary General Rasmussen together with Andriy Yermak, the head of the president's office in Kyiv. One of the demands: Western neighboring countries must install an air defense shield on their territory along the border with Ukraine to protect Western Ukraine from Russian missiles and drones. This would allow moving Ukrainian air defense systems to the east and south of the country to protect cities located near the front line.
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin are among the signatories, who are not "hawks" of war, but Scholz, obviously, would be annoyed by it. This is his European election campaign, SPD is gaining only 14-15 percent, and staging of "peace" is gaining momentum in the country's squares.
💬 We do not want and will not become a party of war - shouted the chancellor in Karlsruhe to the applause of the crowd.
ℹ️ Scholz's call for restraint contrasts with the bitter reality in Ukraine. The Russians went on the offensive in eastern Ukraine. They ruthlessly exploit the weakness of the Ukrainian army, which lacks soldiers and ammunition. The situation was particularly tense in Kharkiv Oblast. In recent weeks, the Russians have been advancing with the goal of getting within artillery range of the regional center in order to terrorize its residents and force them to flee en masse. Although at the moment the Ukrainians seem to have managed to stabilize the situation, they had to withdraw troops from other areas of the front.
A central question in the foreign policy debate of the past two years is back on the agenda: Is the war with Putin escalating because the West is providing too little military aid, or could the war escalate if Germany and the US get even more involved in military action?
ℹ️ Like US President Biden, Scholz says he is taking a measured approach. He believes that Putin may retaliate if a country like Germany supplies weapons systems that will hit too far. That is why he opposes the supply of Taurus cruise missiles. And that is why he rejects the protection of Ukraine's airspace from NATO territory or the training of Ukrainian soldiers by NATO personnel in Ukraine.
ℹ️ But while the chancellor is in campaign mode, warning against escalating the war and praising German and American restraint, NATO's eastern European frontline powers fear that this very policy could provoke further escalation.
ℹ️ Last week, on the sidelines of a conference on foreign policy and security policy held in the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, deputies of the parliaments of the Baltic countries warned government representatives from Berlin about the consequences of German policy. Their argument is as follows: if the Russians manage to make a strategic breakthrough in the east of Ukraine due to the fact that the West is only half helping Kyiv, the situation could escalate sharply.
❗️ In this case, the Baltic states and Poland will not wait for the deployment of Russian troops on their borders - they will send troops to Ukraine themselves. And what this would mean was clear: NATO would become a party to the war.....
🗣🇵🇱 Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview published on May 25 that the U.S. has told Russia that if it uses nuclear weapons, there will be an American response using conventional weapons on Russian forces in Ukraine
💬 The Americans have told the Russians that if you explode a nuke, even if it doesn't kill anybody, we will hit all your targets (positions) in Ukraine with conventional weapons, we'll destroy all of them
Ukrainian forces have halted the Russian advance in the Kharkiv region, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, the situation remains challenging. UNITED24 Media journalist Philip Malzahn has returned from the frontline, here’s an update on the situation.
Romania has arrested a spy who has been passing data on military equipment for Ukraine to the Kremlin for 2 years.
Since 2022, the defendant has been observing Romanian or NATO military facilities located on the outskirts of Tulcea. He collected military information and photographed military equipment and military vehicles, and the movement of personnel in the border area with Ukraine. He sent the data to the staff of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, according to the DIICOT (Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism).
This is the first arrest in Romania, the center of Western military and humanitarian supplies to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion of the country.
Watch the Russian S-400 system fire its load, and then an entire S-400 battery — four launchers and a radar — get wiped out by Ukrainian-operated ATACMS missiles.
❗️ Russia and North Korea may be preparing a provocation on the eve of the US presidential election.
US officials are bracing for North Korea's most provocative military action in a decade ahead of the US presidential election in October, possibly at the urging of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Biden administration is increasingly concerned that a deepening military alliance between Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could greatly expand Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities and heighten tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.
Putin is expected to visit North Korea in the coming weeks to meet with Kim, and US officials predict they will strike a new deal to expand the transfer of military technology to Pyongyang.
A serious cyber attack on a NATO country can activate Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, stated NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
In an interview with The Economist, Stoltenberg noted that NATO member states can intensify joint defense actions not only in the case of direct armed aggression.
"Cyber attacks can reach the threshold of Article 5 if they are serious. If it is large-scale, then we can apply Article 5 and respond not only in cyberspace, but also in other areas to protect NATO allies," Stoltenberg said.
He emphasized that Russia is the main threat in this area.
The Russians are holding 403 Ukrainian women captive, including civilians, according to the Coordinating Staff for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
It is reported that the Russian Federation is also detaining women whose fate has been unknown since 2014. The conditions of their detention do not comply with the Third Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
According to women released from captivity, the Russians humiliated them, kept them in inhumane conditions with insufficient food, refused medical care, and did not allow them to contact their relatives. Additionally, Russia does not grant representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross access to places of detention of prisoners of war and civilians.
"The Ukrainian side has more than once offered Russia to release the women first, but instead the representatives of the aggressor country engage in manipulations, in particular by publishing various lists. Behind all this is the reluctance to continue the exchanges," the report states.
The Headquarters emphasized that women, as well as seriously wounded and seriously ill individuals, should be freed from captivity or repatriated to neutral countries as a matter of priority according to international humanitarian law. However, the aggressor country ignores this.
Heroes. Second time posting this. Want to make sure a lot of people see it. They were hit as they came in to rescue. Did not abort.
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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