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
Ukraine fighting NK in Kursk
In what would have amounted to a forced disarming of the country enabling Russia to more easily destroy the country, the terms of Russia's 2022 proposed "peace agreement" have been made public for the first time, according to documents released by Radio Liberty.
Terms of the proposed agreement were as follows:
• Reduce Ukraine's army to 50,000 troops—five times less than before 2022.
• Refrain from deploying weapons with a range greater than 250 km.
• Recognize the independence of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk “republics” within Ukraine’s administrative borders.
• Cover the costs of restoring the infrastructure in Donbas destroyed by Russia since 2014.
• Lifting of all sanctions on Russia—both Ukrainian and international.
• Grant the Russian language official status in Ukraine.
• Legalize symbols of the USSR and other communist regalia.
The draft was dated March 7, 2022. These negotiations took place at the residence of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, near the Polish-Belarusian border.
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💭🇺🇦🇺🇦 Ukraine needs a sufficient number of weapons, not support in negotiations: hugging Putin will not help – some have been hugging him for 20 years, and everything is only getting worse, — Zelenskyy at the summit of the European Political Community
One of the reasons for the collapse of the German ruling coalition was allegedly the reluctance of the chancellor to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner from the FDP, who was dismissed by Olaf Scholz, called the chancellor's reluctance to supply Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine one of the reasons for the collapse of the "traffic light" coalition, writes Berliner Zeitung.
To a clear request from Lindner, whose party "has never hesitated in supporting Ukraine," Scholz refused and offered to transfer three billion dollars to Kyiv. The former finance minister, in turn, pointed out that Germany itself needs money, and Ukraine, on the contrary, needs weapons, not financial injections, to effectively defend itself against Russia.
After Lindner's dismissal, his party negotiated with the opposition Christian Democratic Union that Taurus would be delivered. He stressed:
"Our country needs a government that not only holds office, but is also able to act. The right thing for our country would be to immediately announce new elections and a vote of confidence in the government. In a democracy, no one should be afraid of voters. <... >Our country should not waste time."
Vice-Chancellor and Economics Minister Robert Habeck and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock also made joint statements. “This is as logical as it is unnecessary at this point,” said Habeck. It feels wrong and not right. Following the election of Donald Trump as US President, Germany and Europe must show the ability to act. There were possible solutions on the table. According to him, the best solution would have been to give Ukraine more support. The FDP was not prepared to go down this path.
For the time being the Greens will remain part of a minority government with the SPD. “We will now quickly clear the way for new elections,” said Habeck.
Scholz announced a vote of confidence for January 15, and new elections could take place by the end of March at the latest.
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🇷🇺 Top notch build quality on russian Su-57 stealth aircraft at Zhuhai Airshow.
What's a rivet? 🤷🏻♂🤣
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Rivet? Isn't that what a frog says? This is a jet. Don't worry about rivets.
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Missionary for Satan
🤡 "Missionary" from the USA stated in Moscow that for two years he had been passing data on the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Russia from Ukraine: now he is asking to be granted Russian citizenship
According to Martindale, for two years he has been passing on the coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities to Moscow. There are currently no confirmations of this information from other sources, the Ukrainian command did not comment on it.
"For the past two years, I have done everything to save the lives of Russian soldiers and provide some kind of future for Russians in Ukraine. I would like to continue doing this," Russian media quoted the American as saying.
A press conference with Daniel Martindale was held at the press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group – he introduced himself as a citizen of the United States and said that he had been in Ukraine since February 11, 2022.
During the meeting with reporters, Daniel Martindale said that he had asked for Russian citizenship. He showed his current passport, saying that he had gone through the war with it. Martindale said he was not coerced.
Martindale stated that while in Ukraine, he made contact with pro-Russian forces via Telegram and relayed information to them from the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
The U.S. Embassy in Russia has not yet commented on the information about Martindale, Reuters notes.
Igor Sikorsky, who created the first multifunctional helicopter, was Ukrainian, born in Kyiv, and later emigrated to the United States.
Many sources, unfamiliar with history and its nuances and who are unaware of the distinction between Russians and Ukrainians or of Ukrainians’ long struggle for independence, refer to him as Russian, simply because Kyiv was part of the Russian Empire at the time. Due to this lack of knowledge, they would call a Buryat, a Ukrainian, or a Chechen “Russian” alike. And if the socialist bloc in Eastern Europe that was formed after World War II had not collapsed, they would probably be saying today that Poles, Bulgarians, Czechs, Hungarians, Romanians, Albanians, and Ukrainians are also Russians. Never mind…
Igor Sikorsky’s company is still operating in the United States nearly 100 years later.
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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