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
Putin threatens Seoul: "if South Korea supplies weapons to Ukraine, it will not like the answer. I hope they won’t do it, it would be a big mistake."
As the maZter ZtrategiZt decided to reenact good old Soviet times with North Korea - obviously thinking that he could thereby add weight to his now worn out nuke threats to scare the West into not supporting Ukraine anymore, he obviously forgot to take into consideration that this could bring South Korea to consider the possibility of supporting Ukraine directly with lethal weapons.
Ups... so he hasten to resort to his default response that then HE would arm NK. All fine and dandy... if he would be living in Soviet times, but not as he is currently on beggar trip to GET ammo and weapons. So what? He will give NK nuclear technology and rile China up?
If Seoul supplies Kyiv now directly with weapons, the maZter ZtrategiZt has achieved a radical shift in the country’s longstanding policy, as he did before with Sweden and Finland.
Well done!
@freerussia_report
In Tuva, a policeman who burned a detainee alive was released to war
Former deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Tuva, Orlan Saryg-Dongak, who received 18 years in prison for the brutal murder of a detainee, enlisted in the war with Ukraine. Together with him, another defendant in the case, police officer Alim Kenden, sentenced to 14 years, went to the front, the representative of the mother of the murdered, Sergei Konviz, told Sibirsky Express.
The court sentenced Saryg-Dongak in October 2023. Thus, the policeman spent less than a year in the colony. At the same time, neither he nor his accomplice have yet paid compensation for moral damage to the family of the murdered in the amount of 1 and 0.5 million rubles, respectively.
In 2008, Saryg-Dongak, who served as head of the criminal investigation department of Kyzyl, together with his subordinate Kenden, interrogated 30-year-old Alisher Makhmutov, suspected of theft. Subsequently, the police took the detainee to the city wasteland, put him in a pit and forced him to kneel.
Saryg-Dongak claimed that he did this in an attempt to get Makhmutov to apologize for the threats against his family, and when the detainee refused to ask for forgiveness, he poured gasoline on him and set him on fire. "Makhmutov's body and head instantly caught fire. Experiencing unbearable pain, he began to scream loudly, somersaulted on the ground, trying to extinguish the fire and save himself, but he did not succeed," the verdict says.
Seeing this, Kenden decided to kill the detainee: he took a hammer from the car, ran up to Makhmutov, who was burning alive, and inflicted "multiple blows" on his head. The policeman said that he did this "wanting to end the torment" of Makhmutov as soon as possible, "out of a sense of compassion for the latter." The corpse of the deceased was burned by the operatives. To cover up the traces of the crime, Kenden wrote a report on the "escape" of the victim.
It is noteworthy that a few years after the murder, Orlan Saryg-Dongak won the republican competition "The Most Polite Policeman".
Now the "polite policeman" is running free in Ukraine.
Source
@freerussia_report
From "The Analyst" (Military & Strategic):
NORTH KOREA SENDS ENGINEERING TROOPS TO RUSSIA
The latest statements from Russia and N.Korea suggest that, following a a statement from Pyongyang, an engineering division is to be sent to the Ukraine front to support Russian forces. In exchange Russia is said to be providing long range missile technology to Pyongyang.
This is unlikely to be something the Chinese approve of, they cannot abide it when N.Korea manages to get outside of its box and their influence over it is superseded by Russia. This is not how the Chinese like to do things and will be causing them considerable disquiet. They like things done on their timetable not someone else’s.
Putin of course knows all this. He’s playing a careful game and reminding the Chinese that while they may think they have him by the economic short and curlies, he is still more than capable of wielding his own power regardless of Chinese leverage, if not in spite of it.
China is increasingly afraid of N.Korea going too far, possibly even triggering a conflict with an increasingly twitchy S.Korea, which is already moving quietly to an early but still low stage of readiness.
All of this comes as an increasingly desperate Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, trying to stay in power to avoid prosecution for corruption, looks to be set on an offensive against Southern Lebanon and Hezbollah. This will not be a pretty conflict and it seems almost inevitable. There has long been a feeling in Israel that Hezbollah ‘needs dealing with’ sooner rather than later.
Things are getting tense.
Rest in Peace Volodymyr
Volodymyr Tolipov was 56 years old. He died on February 8, 2023 as a result of a Russian missile attack on the village of Kuty Drugi, which is near the city of Semenivka on the border with Russia in the Chernihiv region.
The enemy hit the territory of the peat briquette factory where Volodymyr worked.
"It happened around 4:00 p.m. Rockets flew at the factory. Volodymyr was still alive for some time under the rubble. People who were nearby talked to him... He took off his watch to give to the children as a memory. They didn't have time to pull Volodya out, he bled." until the crane arrived, it was impossible to lift those heavy slabs with jacks."
- said Olena's sister.
Snyder is well worth reading. Extreme Court in action.
Good morning Resisters. Terrible debate. Worst moderators ever. There might as well not have been moderators.
China is not neutral! Gee, I never would have guessed.
https://t.me/Kyivpost_official/23690
Ruthless drones
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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