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
Republicans did something incredibly stupid. Now that are just hoping it will go away
Truth Social went crashing down. Little Donnie was using it to live rebut Joe Biden.
Someone paired him up with another infamous woman hater. Ted.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trumps-nemesis/54869/
That weird creep at the nursing home
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/the-weird-creep-at-the-nursing-home/54872/
And they are already poor
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/bad-news-for-the-rnc/54873/
Even Fox admits Trump is broke
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/fox-news-admits-donald-trump-is-out-of-money/54879/
Trump just gave a prebuttal to the SOTU
Tomorrow is International Women's day
https://us20.campaign-archive.com/?e=7763f0b74a&u=5ede1a4645edfb08941f4a9f9&id=0f009cfcd8
Macron called the world leaders cowards and called on them to step up in the war against Russia.
Tensions between Berlin and Paris spilled into the open Tuesday as German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius hit back at President Emmanuel Macron for urging Europe not to be "cowards" in the defense of Ukraine.
Speaking at a meeting with the French community, Macron said: "Europe clearly faces a moment when it will be necessary not to be cowards." He added that people "never want to see the tragedies that are coming".
Pistorius retorted that Macron's language was counterproductive. "We don't need really, from my perspective at least, talk about boots on the ground or having more courage or less courage," Pistorius told reporters during a press conference with his Swedish counterpart Pål Jonson.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of his visit to Prague, Macron said later that Germany had not been the target of his comments, but that it was "necessary" to shake up France's allies. “If we are passive … we run the risk of suffering setbacks on the field, suffering possible disappointments in the U.S.,” he said.
France and the Czech Republic are "well aware that war is back on our soil [in Europe], that some powers have become unstoppable and are threatening us more everyday, attacking us even more, and that we ... need the courage that it requires", said Macron.
The Czech government is leading a campaign to finance the purchase of 800,000 shells for Kyiv from non-EU suppliers to help plug the war-stricken country's ammunition gap.
France has already supported the Czech plan to supply shells.
Macron asked Petr Pavel “Is this or is it not our war? Can we look away in the belief that we can let things run their course? I don’t believe so, and therefore I called for a strategic surge and I fully stand behind that … We want no escalation, we’ve never been belligerent".
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Update FRR
A resident of Tolyatti, detained last year for anti-war posts on social networks and publishing “instructions for surrendering,” was finally charged - under six articles she could face up to 22.5 years in prison.
Polina Yevtushenko supported Ukraine openly and ran her social networks accordingly. She published a petition demanding to initiate impeachment of Putin, photos of banknotes with anti-war slogans and links to the telegram channel of the Legion “Freedom of Russia”.
Initially, she was accused of "preparing treason" - according to investigators, she allegedly persuaded a resident of Samara to join the “Russian Freedom Legion”.
However, in the end, Polina was charged with six counts (preparing for treason, promoting terrorism, calls for extremism, justifying terrorism, fakes about the army)
Polina left a daughter behind, she turned six years on March 1.
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The women taking on Putin, one flower at a time .
A growing number of women in Russia are protesting the fact their husbands and sons have been called up to fight in Ukraine.
The group, led by Maria Andreyeva, are risking the ire of the Kremlin by holding weekly gatherings.
Each Saturday she dons her white scarf and heads to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow to protest her husband's prolonged absence on the battlefield in Ukraine.
"I simply no longer want my husband to give precious years of his life to the army of the Russian Federation, which — I'm sorry — will not take care of us after."
It's an act of defiance in a country where dissent is crushed on a daily basis, particularly when it relates to President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
Tensions are even higher than usual in Russia, following the death in custody of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in the lead-up to this month's presidential election.
Speaking out against any aspect of Putin's war in Ukraine is highly risky in Russia. But the mothers and wives of mobilised soldiers are granted liberties that other protesters don't get, explains
Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political scientist at the Carnegie Centre in Berlin.
"You can't beat up a group of women, especially women whose husbands are on the front line."
"Even the Nazis tolerated the protest of the wives of Jewish husbands who were to be deported. It was the one single case of public political protest in Nazi Germany — the famous wives of the Rosenstrasse."
It's far harder for authorities to crack down on the women attending these protests than if they were the actions of students or Navalny supporters.
"They possess a certain moral capital which no one else has. You can't say that they are Western agents. They are in a sense, supporting traditional family values. They want their husbands back," she said. "There is a palpable, evident injustice in the way their husbands were treated. They agreed to be mobilised almost a year-and-a-half ago, and now they are still there on the frontline."
The women had become bolder with their messaging in recent months and it resonates with many people. "During the months that this movement became active, the popularity of the SMO has sharply declined. We may now state, based on various polling data, that by the end of 2023, the core militaristic support base has shrunk to 10 to 12 per cent."
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North Korea has handed over 1.5 million artillery shells to Russia, but half of them are either unusable or need at least a thorough inspection — The Times.
"As of today, given the available statistics, Russia has already imported 1.5 million rounds of ammunition from North Korea, but these shells were manufactured in the 70s and 80s. Half of them do not work, and the rest need to be either repaired or tested before use.
North Korea is giving away old things... North Korea is increasing domestic production and asking for certain technologies in exchange, particularly missile and submarine technologies, to develop its own defense industry. This proves once again that Russia lacks the production capacity to rapidly and strongly increase missile production.
If they didn't, why would they ask North Korea to do so?" says Vadym Skibitsky, a representative of the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence.
Today, I approved the candidate for the position of our country's ambassador to the UK. General Valerii Zaluzhnyi told me that this is the direction he would like to take – diplomacy. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has sent a corresponding request for agreement. Our alliance with Britain should only get stronger.
And today there are several decrees worth mentioning. I have signed two decrees on awarding state decorations to our warriors – 520 more servicemen of the Armed Forces. And today there is also a decree to discharge conscripts – those who were called up for military service before the start of the full-scale invasion.
Now, at the request of the military command, a few weeks are needed for preparatory procedures – for replacing people in terms of defense tasks, and from April, the conscripts will be sent to the reserve. I know that some of them have signed a contract to serve in the Defense Forces. I am grateful to everyone.
Glory to Ukraine!
@ukrainejournal
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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