Posted on 10/16/2023 8:00:23 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Looks like Jordan is pledging aid to Ukraine to win speaker votes.
Some people on FR going to be upset...
Many are appreciative of their reliable efforts. Not sad.
I am certain that many in the Biden Regime and the Military Industrial Complex are very happy with Speedy's efforts.
I doubt they are getting their intelligence here.
Are you assuming that I meant that there is actual military intelligence in Speedy's posts? I'm talking about Speedy's blatant propaganda on behalf of the. Keen Regime because ORYX is nothing but propaganda.
I don’t know what the “.Keen Regime” is, but I know many here are thankful for the information provided by the OP. If you are not, why not just pass on by? Lord knows, I have to take a deep breath and bypass some of the slavish Putin/Russian adoration posts here.
The entourage of Russian President Vladimir Putin was pleased with his Double’s visit to Bishkek.
The behavior of the Double, and the way he was accepted and perceived, fully corresponded to the expectations of the “deuce”’s curators.
Despite some nuances, those who identified the Double, the receiving party and the heads of state present at the meeting, preferred to believe that they were communicating with Putin.
The Understudy himself, in the end, received praise from the trustees and received additional recommendations on adjusting his behavior and preparing for the visit to China.
If the visit to China turns out to be successful and the Chinese comrades, having satisfied their curiosity, agree to the presence of a Double as a person representing the President of Russia, then the current Russian leadership will have broad prospects for the possibility of remaining in power for some time using a Double of Vladimir Putin.
It is interesting that no one pays much attention to the opinion of the Russian President himself on this issue.
But there is an opinion, and over the weekend Putin once again stated, in a conversation with relatives, that he is categorically against the use of a Double after his death.
At the same time, the President became quite nervous, realizing that his words were unlikely to be carried out.
The state of nervous excitement during this conversation had a negative impact on the already deplorable state of health of the head of state.
Doctors were urgently called to him, who stayed with him for more than an hour, but even after that, until late Sunday evening, Putin felt unwell, completely refused to eat, and only drank water.
People around the President are trying to decide what to do with his family after his death or removal from power.
If the elites, in principle, try to find a consensus by rallying around a Double, then it will be more difficult to come to an agreement with the family, at least to remain silent and not interfere.
https://t.me/s/generalsvr
Wow 2 minute response
Fascinating
Yes. I will cop to that. It's pathetic that the main concern of many RINOs, who are the ones holding out on Jordan, is Ukraine and NOT - you know the Texas / Mexico border, the inflation, the millions of unvetted immigrants.
The good news is we should have a better idea who to primary and replace after this vote is done, one way OR THE OTHER.
Yes, I am sad that the Ukrainians have such a stranglehold on our political system. You can't help but wonder if the millions in Ukrainian bribes paid to Biden and other (which?) politicians has worked
Jordan has to be coerced to want to protect our borders?
- Ukrainian men cannot leave the country under martial law and face being drafted into war service.
- But some Ukrainians are attempting to dodge the draft.
- Insider spoke with a 21-year-old who attempted to flee but was stopped at the border and sent back.
At the start of its summer counteroffensive, Ukraine recruited soldiers with the slogan, "Bravery conquers fear." But as the war heads for its 600th day with no end in sight, some Ukrainians have renounced their nation's call to arms and are looking for ways to avoid being drafted.
Artem, a 21-year-old whose name has been changed to protect his identity but is known to Insider, was born and raised just outside Kyiv. He told Insider he's desperate to leave Ukraine to escape being drafted and had already attempted one escape.
His family has been deeply affected by the conflict. He spoke with Insider alongside his father, Bohdan, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, a carpenter in peacetime who speaks English. Bohdan, a soldier of the National Guard of Ukraine, had recently returned after surviving intense fighting on the eastern front.
Bohdan's unit suffered significant casualties while stationed near Svatove and the Serebryansky forest, he told Insider, and he was one of the few who survived without injuries. He said he didn't want his son to endure the same fate.
Recently, Artem decided to try and flee despite martial law prohibiting him from leaving Ukraine.
Bohdan, a witness to the horrors of war, supports his son's attempts to avoid being called up. "He was partly motivated by fear that the law could be changed at any time and oblige him to join the military," Bohdan said.
Although Artem cannot leave the country, he is not of conscription age, so he will not be drafted immediately, but this could change if mobilization laws are enacted to widen the recruitment net.
Artem added that he's also disenchanted by the lack of opportunities in the country's war-crippled economy.
His escape plan involved crossing over into Romania. He took a westbound train to a town near the border, but when he got off, he and the other men on board were confronted by police officers about why they were traveling within 20 miles of the frontier.
Artem said that several of them were taken to a police station and questioned further before being put on a bus that took them back deeper into Ukraine.
One of the men caught was in his 50s and traveling with his wife and children. Artem later learnt that he was taken straight to a military-registration and enlistment office to join the army, Artem said.
The father and son live together in the family home Bohdan built himself. His wife and daughter are refugees in Belgium. "My family is divided," Bohdan told Insider.
Bohdan agreed that prospects were grim for his only son, even if he's not sent to the front. "There is not much work or quality education for young men during wartime, so some of them want to leave, but they can't," he said.
In the meantime, Artem said he was contemplating whether it's worth trying to flee Ukraine again.
"Young men at a checkpoint near the border told me not to bother trying," Artem told Insider. "They warned that the forests ahead were full of bears and snipers." Insider could not verify the claim regarding snipers. The route into Romania often involves a risky crossing over the Carpathian Mountains, which is home to brown bears and wolves.
While Artem considers his next moves, he awaits a fine for his attempt to leave Ukraine unlawfully — it's not an imprisonable offense. He hasn't received a letter yet but estimates it will be about 1,000 hryvnia, or about $27
. Bohdan told Insider that last week, a friend of his managed to cross the border into Hungary. He paid about $6,400 to get instructions from a people smuggler who told him where to cut through barbed wire with pliers, his friend told him. He made it across and is now in Montenegro.
He chose Hungary over Romania or Moldova, his friend said, because he believed the border guards were less likely to beat him up and perceived Hungary as more accepting of Ukrainian refugees.
Ukrainian men ages 18 to 60 have been barred from leaving the country since martial law was imposed at the start of Russia's invasion on February 24, 2022.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, voted again in July to extend martial law and general mobilization by another 90 days, Ukrainska Pravda reported. It's the eighth extension since the invasion began and is in place until November 15.
In August, The New York Times reported that US officials, who spoke anonymously, estimated 70,000 Ukrainian troops had been killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded. In the first days of the war, hundreds of thousands volunteered to fight, but Ukraine is now more dependent on enlistments. The Armed Forces of Ukraine need to replace their dwindling numbers, and men leaving the country despite martial law could have long-term consequences for military mobilizations.
In Poland alone, an estimated 80,000 men — the equivalent to 20 military brigades in Ukraine's army — ages 18 to 60 who may have been eligible for military service entered the country between February 24, 2022, and August 31 this year, according to data from Poland's Border Guard. The whereabouts of the men are not known, the Polish news outlet Rzeczpospolita reported.
A spokesperson for the Polish Border Guard, Lt. Anna Michalska, said it was not known how many met the exemption requirements, the Kyiv Post reported.
Ukraine authorities say they have caught 6,100 men attempting to leave the country at border crossings using fraudulent or unauthorized documents. Over 13,000 who wanted to slip out of Ukraine have been caught, often, like Artem, collared at bus and train stations before they reach the border, The Economist reported in September.
Trekking across the country to escape via remote parts of the border can end in disaster. For example, 19 have drowned in the Tisza river, which flows along part of Ukraine's border with Hungary and Romania, The Economist reported.
The most common ruse for hopeful draft dodgers is to bribe doctors to sign what's known as a "white ticket" medical exemption from military service.
Business Insider previously reported that a 39-year-old from Odesa had paid a fixer to arrange for a hospital in southern Ukraine to diagnose him with a severe spinal injury to exempt him from military duty.
More than 50,000 "white tickets" were granted by commissions under the jurisdiction of Yevhen Borysov, the former head of Odesa's regional military-mobilization office, an anti-corruption nongovernmental organization in Odesa told The New York Times.
It is alleged the bribery system enabled the top mobilization official to buy a $4.35 million villa in Marbella, on Spain's Costa del Sol, The Times of London reported. He was arrested in July and is under investigation, the Kyiv Independent reported.
"We don't know how many of these have been issued illegally or how many were issued due to real health issues," Valeriy Bolhan, an associate at the anti-corruption NGO, told the Times. "Until the scandal broke and the investigations began, the price for an illegal white ticket for someone wanting to escape mobilization was around $7,000 to $8,000."
Serhii Mytkalyk, the chair of Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Headquarters, told Insider that Zelenskyy's government had made obtaining a military exemption more complex to deter forged exemptions and corruption in the military-exemption system.
Mytkalyk added that Zelenskyy firing military-recruitment chiefs amid corruption concerns showed a shift toward higher accountability and a concerted effort to tackle corruption, even against the backdrop of war.
"When we have transparency, the situation improves," Mytkalyk told Insider. "Civil society and NGOs need to talk about corruption because this is one of the ways to solve this problem."
Mytkalyk added: "We want to develop an anti-corruption bureau after the war to address this problem in the long term."
In an August survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, 89% of Ukrainians polled said corruption was the country's most serious problem after the war against Russia.
Ukraine has said it'll pay people who report corruption and bribery 10% of the cash that gets recovered.
Since the authorities began clamping down, "the price of a white ticket has risen to more like $20,000," Bolhan told the Times.
A 38-year-old Ukrainian reserve officer dodging the draft in Warsaw, Poland, with his young family, told Euronews: "Above all, I must take care of them."
He now works as a taxi driver in the Polish capital and described picking up Ukrainian women in his cab.
"I have been told, 'Our husbands are at the front, they are fighting, and you cowards are staying here? You're hiding behind our husbands' backs,'" he said.
No, I think not. But the traitors who are threatening to vote the Dems into leadership, many of them could care less about the border.
Remember when the GOP controlled both Houses of Congress they said the USA couldn't afford to pay $7 Billion to build Trump's border wall.
But those same people have had no problem sending $100 billion to Zelensky and Ukraine.
I'm sure you know who the "soft on immigration" GOP crowd are.
McCarthy had the same problem dealing with them, you can read about it, if you don't know. (But I am pretty sure you do).
Washington Post:
Early rift over immigration exposes House GOP’s tough path to consensus
(excerpt)
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and two other members of the Main Street Caucus, a group of self-described pragmatic Republicans, secured a commitment from McCarthy’s aides on Friday that the bill would go back to the House Homeland Security Committee rather than being fast-tracked to the floor, according to Bacon.
Here they are, most of the immigration squishes are part of this group, but some of the group may not be as bad (squishy) as others.
The mass exodus of young men from the Gaza Strip
EXCERPTS:
In recent years, the desire to emigrate from the Gaza Strip, with the overwhelming majority of the émigrés’ being young men, has increased; it is difficult to estimate its scope because Hamas does not publish exact numbers. However, according to several reports, since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007, between about 250,000 and 350,000 young adults have left and gone abroad. Their initial destination is Turkey, from where their intention is to continue to other countries, primarily European countries and Canada.
Apparently the exodus is increasing and the events at the travel agency’s offices was a manifestation of the growing demand for visas. For example, according to reports, in one week 18,000 applications for visas to Turkey were submitted and there was a waiting list of 83,000 to leave the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Crossing. In addition, Internet data showed a significant increase in searches for the word “emigration” by Palestinian surfers.
The most prominent causes are the lack of hope and employment possibilities . . .
Hamas tries to minimize and obscure the extent of emigration . . .
We still have to deal with the threat of Russia and China no matter what, and if Jordan doesn’t need to be persuaded on the border then that would account for why no Republicans are trying to persuade him about the border.
The relatively small amount we are spending in Europe that is accomplishing so much for our national defense and the future stability and safety of Europe in regard to the Russian threat, would not be transferred to the border.
I don’t know why you guys keep acting like the money to build the wall is the same money that is being spent on national defense interests in this massive European war that Russia is so bogged down in.
I almost entirely skip posts with colors and large text and neon lights treatment.
Tells you something about the post and the poster, pretty sure you will see same post on every Russia/Ukraine thread
It is easy if you can read and type well. Obviously you have an illiterate, hunt-and-peck moron doing your responses.
“Three SU-25s in one week.”
Just Wow!
That can’t go on forever...
The de-militarization of Russia is achieving Warp speed.
A sound practice.
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