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
⚡⚡Ukraine got back 75 defenders from Russian captivity.
The President said that these were soldiers of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, border guards, and four civilians - all of them were already on their native land.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the exchange took place in a 75-for-75 format.
All of these survivors of the horrors of Russian Torture Camps will need help putting both mind and body back together.
Maryana Chechelyuk, a police officer from Mariupol, is among 75 POWs freed from Russian captivity today.
She was captured from the Azovstal Steelworks, where she was during the siege with her family.
According to her mother, she was tortured, beaten and starved regularly.
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He is now banned from the United Kingdom.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-finally-got-his-travel-ban/56379/
No. Not potato salad. I eat potato salad but want nothing to do with his diseased brain.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trumps-brain-is-potato-salad/56384/
Good morning Resisters. That was a pretty big storm last night . Arrived pretty late considering the weather lady said 3PM and it got here around 10PM
This isn't really my cup of tea. But they sent it to me unsolicited, so I figured someone might like it.
https://eliflife.substack.com/p/the-case-of-the-paving-stones
The US officials explained that the authorization to strike with US weapons was given in relation to the entire Russian border area, not just the Kharkiv region.
This statement was made by Michael Carpenter, spokesman for the US National Security Council.
“This includes enabling Ukrainians to defend themselves. Yes, across the border against Russian attacks coming from there,” Carpenter emphasized.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has officially confirmed that Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American weapons to strike military targets in Russia.
“Over the last few weeks, Ukraine has come to us and asked for permission to use the weapons we are providing to defend against this aggression, including against Russian forces that are concentrating on the Russian side of the border and then attacking Ukraine. This is a right to the president, and as you heard, he approved the use of our weapons for this purpose,” Blinken said during the press conference.
According to a declassified Pentagon report, North Korean missile debris has been found throughout Ukraine. The report reveals that Russia is extensively using North Korean missiles to attack Ukraine, targeting not only front-line cities, Reuters writes.
The report details various aspects of North Korea's short-range solid-fuel ballistic missiles and includes comparisons of the wreckage found in Ukraine with images of missiles displayed by North Korean state media.
A radical Islamist terrorist attack in Mannheim, Germany.
An Islamist man stabbed people who criticized the Islamization of Europe and attacked police until he shot.
The war in Ukraine has exposed a critical vulnerability in the allies' plans to arm Ukraine: a shortage of explosives needed to produce shells and missiles. Each artillery shell requires approximately 10.8 kg of high explosives, such as TNT, Octogen, or Hexogen, and throwing projectiles over long distances also necessitates significant amounts of propellants.
The situation is even more dire for other munitions, such as the Storm Shadow missile, which has a high-explosive warhead weighing 450 kg. The challenge lies in the limited capacity of explosives manufacturers to ramp up production. The end of the Cold War led many European manufacturers to scale down or cease operations, resulting in the closure of plants and the privatization or mothballing of state enterprises. For example, the UK closed its last explosives plant in 2008.
Restarting these mothballed plants is not a simple task. It requires significant retooling and rebuilding of capacity. Additionally, the industry faces a shortage of skilled workers, as older engineers retire and fewer young people enter the profession. The supply chain for critical raw materials, such as chemical precursors and cotton fibers, is also strained. Nitric acid, essential for producing nitrocellulose, is in short supply due to its use in fertilizer production. Cotton fibers are predominantly imported from China, adding to the supply chain complexity.
This shortage presents a significant obstacle to the allies' efforts to support Ukraine's defense against Russia's aggression, highlighting the need for strategic planning and investment in the defense industry's infrastructure and workforce.
Source:
https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05/26/there-is-an-explosive-flaw-in-the-plan-to-rearm-ukraine#
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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