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 will send a unit of rescuers to Poland to eliminate the consequences of devastating floods
A state of emergency has been declared in the regions affected by the weather. Many infrastructure facilities were destroyed and bridges were flooded in general.
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🗣🇺🇦 Ukraine is bleeding. It can't fight forever. Supporting Ukraine "for as long as it takes" doesn't match the reality of this conflict, — The Washington Post
*The article was written by columnist David Ignatius from the WP, a well-known American journalist and writer, which completely reflects my thoughts, which you may have seen in the comments under the posts for a long time
✍️ 📰 We visited treatment centers with wounded Ukrainian soldiers. Like soldiers everywhere, they’re kids, with sleeves of tattoos and T-shirts promoting heavy metal bands. But they got old in a hurry
We don’t have a choice. If we stop fighting, we’ll stop existing, said one of the soldiers
Listening to their stories, you realize that Ukraine is bleeding out. Its will to fight is as strong as ever, but its army is exhausted by a ceaseless drone war that’s unlike anything in the history of combat
🇺🇸🇺🇸 The Biden administration’s rubric of support — "as long as it takes" — simply doesn’t match the reality of this conflict. Ukraine doesn’t have enough soldiers to fight an indefinite war of attrition. It needs to escalate to be strong enough to reach a decent settlement
Without additional firepower, Ukraine may be forced to agree to Putin’s terms to stop his brutal advance
The United States should take more risks to help Ukraine. How this war ends matters. If Putin prevails, it will harm the interests of America and Europe for decades
"I have no announcement to make" on the ATACMS issue, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a video interview with the group
That’s fine with me. Don’t announce anything. Leave Putin guessing. But if Russia’s surge continues, Putin’s bases within ATACMS range should be legitimate targets. He’s the one crossing the "red line" every day he continues his unprovoked aggression
🇺🇦 🇺🇸 In a week, Zelenskyy will meet Biden in New York to make this request in person
Deeper American support for Ukraine is not based on sentimentality, but on U.S. national interests
Rostov region russia at the beginning of the day 50 fires have been reported. They don't give the source of the fires. @ukrainejournal
Daily routine in Ukraine
Time to go to work!
Good morning frontline heroes and supporters of Ukraine. We are all heroes! 💛
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Rostov region russia at the beginning of the day 50 fires have been reported. They don't give the source of the fires. @ukrainejournal
This man fought for the freedom of Ukraine, he was imprisoned for defending his country, after months of deprivation, imprisoned, humiliated, starved, probably tortured, look at him holding his flag
So moving❤️
Source: Oriannalyla
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Dad sees his little son and his wife for the first time after years in russian captivity.
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‼️Rescue efforts are ongoing in Kharkiv after Russians targeted a residential high rise building.
Among the dozens of victims, at least three are children.
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After unsuccessfully attempting to join the Ukrainian Army, the suspect in yesterday's attempted assassination of former President Trump, Ryan Routh spent a few months in Kyiv with intent of associating himself with the war effort.
Publically available social media sources from the time of his visit warned that Routh was misrepresenting himself as a "recruiter" for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to the New York Post and CNN, the man actively supported Ukraine on social media. In 2022, he wrote that he was ready to volunteer in Ukraine, and in 2023, he mentioned spending several months in the country after the start of the Russian invasion.
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In 2023, 58-year-old sniper of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vyacheslav Kovalsky set a new world record by hitting a Russian soldier at a distance of 3,800 meters.
The historic shot was fired on November 18 on the frontline in the Kherson region. It took the bullet 9 seconds to reach the target at this record distance.
The shot was made using the Horizon Lord sniper rifle, developed by the Ukrainian company of the same name.
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📍Russians deployed a GPS jamming system near the port of Gelendzhik in Novorossiysk
From "The Analyst":
RUSSIA EXPECTS TO WIN BY MID 2026
The Russians have laid out their overall strategic intention to have reached their objectives in a decisive victory by the middle of 2026.
In an oddly frank playing out of the challenges, including manpower issues and state budgets, they believe that by that time they have acquired the land they want the war can be concluded on their terms by mid-2026.
There was no talk of conquering Ukraine, but securing the ‘annexed’ oblasts in full seems to be the aim, even though they’re nowhere near some of the objectives or likely even capable of taking cities like Zaporhizia and Dnipro.
While the Russians are saying things like this, Forbes magazine in the US highlighted that the new Ukrainian brigades are being equipped with vehicles from the 1960’s and 1970’s, because no newer equipment is available.
American aid is now only being released in smaller tranches and while a few vehicles are being supplied here and there, no major vehicle donations have been made in an age. They need hundreds of M2 Bradley’s yet only a couple of dozen are sent at a time if that.
It’s difficult to understand quite what game the Americans are playing.
Ammunition for the army seems to be adequate. Air defence missiles are subject to logjams of production.
Yet there is no surge of weapons to Ukraine even as it fights for its life in the central front regions.
Elsewhere the Russians are waging their asymmetric war not just against infrastructure but against bloggers and journalists - this was highlighted a month or so ago. A Daily Telegraph journalist on holiday in Gibraltar who ran a successful pro-Ukraine blog, died suddenly and anti-terrorist police have been called in to investigate.
The FSB stated it was going to go after influential influencers and those who helped raise money for Ukrainian drone operators and so on.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
~ HISTORY POST ~
❌On September 11, 1969, Mustafa Dzhemilev, an activist of the Crimean Tatar national movement, was arrested by the KGB.
At that time, Mustafa was one of the founders of the Human Rights Protection Initiative Group. An activist of the Crimean Tatar movement, a dissident, a political prisoner, who later became a national hero and led the movement of Crimean Tatars for repatriation.
He was convicted in January 1970 under Article 190-1 to 3 years in prison. He devoted his whole life to the national struggle, and was tried for the first time in 1966, then in 1970, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1983 and the last time - in 1986.
The movement of the Crimean Tatars for the return to Crimea was the most massive dissident movement in the USSR - the actions of this movement alone numbered hundreds of thousands of participants. He played a major role in the fight against Soviet totalitarianism.
Knight of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise IV and V degrees, the Order "For Intellectual Courage" and the Order of the Republic of Turkey, laureate of the award: Fritjof Nansen of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Pylyp Orlyk "For the Democratization of Ukrainian Society", "Light of Justice" and "Solidarity", the owner of the "Cross of Solidarity of Struggle".
He is an honorary doctor of law from Seljuk University and the Higher Institute of Technology, an honorary doctor in the field of international relations from Canakkale University named after the Eighteenth of March, an honorary citizen of the Turkish cities of Kastamonu and Kirikkale. Poland nominated Mustafa Dzhemilev for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
Currently, Mustafa Dzhemilev is a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the "European Solidarity" party. He is a supporter of the European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine, the establishment of the fundamental principles of democracy in Ukrainian society, which is the basis for the restoration of the rights of the Crimean Tatar people, who will once again return to their historical land — Crimea — a constituent part of the Ukrainian state.
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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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