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
He had no choice. They would have kept slipping them around him and he would have looked like the weak weasel that he is.
https://theconversation.com/tuberville-ends-holdout-on-most-high-ranking-military-nominations-217769
If you own a new car, it may be watching you. My car is 18 years old so I am safe.
The stupidest of all of them was blaming BLM. How many black faces do you see in that crowd????
Already wishing him goodbye.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/bon-voyage-kevin-mccarthy/53482/
🔱 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces:
Dear combat brothers and sisters!
Today, on the day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, I thank everyone who does their hard work.
I bow my head before your feat! In front of every soldier, sergeant and officer. Especially in front of those who today, in the heat of battle and under fire, in cold, frozen trenches and ruins, firmly hold the defense and destroy the insidious enemy.
It is you, regardless of titles and positions, who stand for the future of our children. This is what we fight for, not having the right to lose.
Proud of everyone who is in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine today.
Ukraine does not give up - thanks to you. And thanks to you, I am convinced again and again - no matter how difficult it is for us, there will definitely be no shame!
Thank you for your service!
Happy Armed Forces of Ukraine Day!
StratCom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in social networks
YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE.
Top collaborator "Kiva" eliminated
One of the biggest scum-traitors was shot dead in the village of Suponeve, Odintsovo district, near Moscow. The elite cottage town of Agalarov Estate is located there, where the collaborator lived.
"And such a fate will befall other traitors of Ukraine, as well as the followers of the Putin regime," said Andriy Yusov, a representative of the press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate.
The former deputy from the Ilya Kiva district fled to Moscow in the beginning of the full-scale invasion by Russia. He actively advocated the occupation of Ukraine and engaged in Kremlin propaganda.
The Ukrainian court sentenced Kiva in absentia to 14 years in prison for treason.
This operation was developed and implemented by the Security Service of Ukraine under the personal leadership of Vasyl Malyuk.
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"He doesn’t even want to have a negotiation about it. He wouldn’t bring anybody in here to talk about it,” Senator Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, told reporters heatedly.
“Clearly the military people in the room don’t want to talk about it.”
Mr. Cramer confronted General Brown on the matter during the briefing, accusing him of never having been to the border, according to a congressional aide familiar with what transpired, who described the confidential meeting on the condition of anonymity.
Mr. Schumer told reporters that Republicans had “hijacked” the briefing, using it to grandstand about measures to clamp down on border crossings that Democrats have rejected. “They are feeling a little bit beleaguered because they’re stuck,” he said. “They’re in a box. They don’t know what to do. But we’re going to keep pursuing this.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Mr. Schumer tried to rally G.O.P. support to move forward with the bill by offering them a vote on a border proposal of their choosing. But Republicans said that was not enough.
“I hope all of our members vote no,” Mr. McConnell told reporters. He has been the most outspoken Republican in favor of continuing to arm Ukraine, but he said his party’s opposition to the bill was “to make the point, hopefully for the final time, that we insist on meaningful changes to the border.” G.O.P. senators have sought to buttress their demands by pointing to a surge in recent border crossings, and a hardening of sentiments in the Republican-led House, where Speaker Mike Johnson has been adamant that a spending measure that does not incorporate major border measures stands no chance of passing.
"Rather than engaging with congressional Republicans to discuss logical reforms, the Biden administration has ignored reality, choosing instead to engage in political posturing,” Mr. Johnson, who has repeatedly voted against Ukraine aid, wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Shalanda D. Young, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
He was responding to a letter Ms. Young sent congressional leaders on Monday warning that the U.S. coffers for Ukraine were about to run dry.
“Supplemental Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation’s border security laws,” Mr. Johnson said, adding that the administration also must provide lawmakers with specifics about how the assistance to Ukraine was being used.
Under pressure from the House, Republicans have twice refused to include military aid for Ukraine in stopgap spending bills to keep the government funded this autumn. That has raised alarms among Ukrainian officials, who swarmed Washington on Tuesday in an attempt to get lawmakers to put aside their political differences.
In remarks at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Andriy Yermak, the head of the presidential office of Ukraine, said on Tuesday that if Congress fails to approve military assistance for Ukraine swiftly, there is a “very high possibility” that Ukraine will lose the war. It would be “impossible to continue to liberate, and give the big risk to lose this war,” Mr. Yermak said, addressing the audience in English.
Some Pentagon officials have pushed back against the White House’s claims that military assistance to Ukraine is about to run out, saying that they expected to make the remaining $4.8 billion in aid authority last through the winter. But Ukrainian officials insist that without an influx of more, they are doomed at best to a stalemate.
As weapons shipments have slowed, Ukrainian troops have struggled to advance on the battlefield — and are facing recruitment and training challenges as the loss of soldiers mounts.
Mr. Putin has made it clear he is investing in a long war: Nearly a third of the country’s spending next year, roughly $109 billion, will be devoted to “national defense,” according to a budget he signed into law last week.
Ukraine Aid Falters in Senate as Republicans Insist on Border Restrictions - New York Times
Legislation to send military aid to Ukraine and Israel was on the brink of collapse, after a briefing devolved into a screaming match one day before a critical test vote in the Senate.
A classified briefing with administration officials called to shore up support devolved into a partisan screaming match on Tuesday afternoon, with Republicans angrily accusing Democrats of trying to steamroller over their demands for a border crackdown.
The meltdown, which took place on the eve of a critical test vote in the Senate on a $110.5 billion emergency spending bill, not only made it clear that the measure would fail, but severely dimmed the prospects for any bipartisan agreement soon.
A vote to block aid would spotlight flagging U.S. resolve at a critical time in Ukraine’s war against President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia.
“We are about to abandon Ukraine,” Senator Christopher S. Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who played a leading role in negotiations with Republicans over the past few weeks, said as he left the briefing with cabinet-level officials.
“When Vladimir Putin marches into a NATO country, they will rue the day they decided to play politics with the future of Ukraine’s security,” he said of Republicans.
Republican senators leaving the briefing said they were outraged that administration officials had refused to answer their questions about border security, which they said was a prerequisite for any plan to send emergency help to American allies.
“They want tens of billions of dollars to help our friends and allies overseas, but they’re not willing to do what’s necessary to prevent a potential crisis at the border,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.
“The Biden administration just does not seem to care.”
Even Republicans who have argued vociferously for helping Ukraine amid waning support in their party for doing so said there was no appetite for a bill to do so unless it also clamped down on immigration.
“Count me in on Ukraine; if we do not help Ukraine and Putin gets away with this, you’ll be in a war with NATO — I got all that,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.
“You will get a robust Republican vote for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan if you have real border security to deal with what I think is one of the biggest national security problems I’ve seen since I’ve been up here.”
Mr. Biden called the prospect of allowing aid to lapse “just wrong” on Tuesday night.
“The failure to support Ukraine is just absolutely crazy,” he told reporters. “It’s against U.S. interests.”
"We’re going to get that in,” he vowed.
The planned vote, coming just days after the White House warned that the United States would soon run out of money to send weapons to Ukraine, comes at perhaps the most uncertain moment for the beleaguered nation since the first chaotic months of the war.
Ukraine urgently needs more ammunition and other weapons to try to turn the tide on the battlefield.
The country’s counteroffensive against entrenched Russian forces in southern Ukraine has so far failed to meet its objectives, and Moscow’s forces have been going on the offensive in the east.
Senators had expected that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine would join their briefing via secure video to make a personal appeal for more aid. But Mr. Zelensky canceled at the last minute, leaving the pitch to Biden administration officials: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken; Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III; Gen. Charles Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and leaders from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Republicans complained that the roster of speakers included no border officials, accusing Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, of refusing to engage on the issue.
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Rustem Umerov in the USA: "Ukraine and the civilized world can stop the Kremlin's terrorist regime today"
Defense Minister Rustem Umerov is on a working trip to the United States of America.
During the trip, the Minister and the delegation met with the heads of the Committees of the House of Representatives of the US Congress:
▪️Committee on Armed Forces by Michael Rogers
▪️Foreign Affairs Committee by Michael McCall
▪️Intelligence Committee by Michael Turner
"He stressed the importance of continuing to support Ukraine in 2024. Air superiority, strengthening of air defense capabilities, drones, means of electronic warfare, artillery and ammunition are what our soldiers need on the battlefield today," said Rustem Umyerov.
Separately, the head of the Ministry of Defense emphasized the importance of increasing sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation and monitoring compliance with sanctions, the Ministry of Defense reports.
There is a big risk of losing the war, - Yermak speaking in the USA
“If the aid that is being discussed in Congress is simply postponed, then there is a big risk that we will remain in the same positions as we are now. It will become impossible to advance, and there will be a great risk of losing in this conflict.”
Ukrainian troops, although more motivated, are forced to go on the defensive, said the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak. Today he, together with Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov are in the USA.
🇺🇦🇺🇸 I started my working visit to the USA with a meeting with members of the US House of Representatives, in the Senate Ukraine Caucus.
First of all, I am grateful to the U.S. Congress and the entire American people for the assistance provided to us.
I am grateful for USD 22.9 billion of direct budget support. Especially for defence assistance, which has already reached more than $44 billion.
Further support cannot be stopped, as we are fighting for democratic values that unite the whole world.
I asked to urgently consider the budget request of the US Presidential Administration to finance additional expenditures for assistance to Ukraine in the amount of more than $61 billion, which is vital for the continued liberation of Ukraine from russian invaders.
Another request of Ukraine is for additional military and defence assistance.
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk
Very optimistic Russian plans for a roadway.https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/15962
People are actually fighting over eggs in Russia.
Rheinmetall is building in Ukraine.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/10/business/rheinmetall-german-tank-factory-ukraine/index.html
IDF spokesperson:
Near a clinic and a school: hundreds of missiles and launchers, long-range rockets, drones and explosive charges ready for use - one of the largest stockpiles of weapons found in the Gaza Strip.
In the activity of the combat team fighters of the 460th brigade of the 50th battalion, one of the largest stockpiles of weapons was located, near a clinic and a school in the northern Gaza Strip. The stockpile contained hundreds of missiles and RPG launchers of various types, dozens of anti-tank missiles, dozens of explosive charges, long-range missiles aimed at the center of the State of Israel, dozens of grenades and unmanned aerial vehicles.
The weapons were taken by the forces, some were bombed in the field and some were sent for further investigation. All of the terrorist infrastructures were found near civilian buildings in the heart of a civilian population. This is further proof of the cynical use that the terrorist organization Hamas makes of the residents of the Gaza Strip as a human shield.
Attached is documentation of the weapons found: https://bit.ly/46NFtnA
Attached is the sync of the commander of the 50th battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Tomer: https://bit.ly/3Ne9qq8
https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/15918
The high point of some guy's week
Russia involves quite creepy non-governmental organizations in the deportation of Ukrainian children, - US diplomat Beth Van Skaak
" We have information about the involvement of Belarusians in the abduction of children. Children from Ukraine are transported through the occupied territories to Russia, and then to Belarus. It involves some pretty creepy non-governmental organizations, such as far-right biker communities," US Ambassador-at-Large Beth Van Skaak said at the United for Justice conference. War Crimes against Ukrainian Children in Toronto, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports.
Van Skaaak emphasized that the US remains unwavering in its support for Ukraine and its pursuit of justice, even against the background of other conflicts in the world. But justice requires long-term efforts.
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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