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  • Ukraine game over? Ukraine needs $3Bn per month in 2024, What are its options? | In-Live Discussion

    02/29/2024 12:00:40 PM PST · by delta7 · 45 replies
    Wion News ^ | 28 Feb24 | Shiv an Chanana
    Ukraine needs $3 bln in financial aid per month to survive the war in 2024. This was shared by the Ukrainian Finance Minister. Till now, Ukraine has received more than $73 billion in financial aid from its western partners but now the inflow of funds and weapons has slowed down. What are Ukraine's options? Are European nations in danger as Russia gains ground in Ukraine? Watch WION's Shivan Chanana have an in-depth discussion with Dr. Gilbert Doctorow, international affairs analyst, author, and historian from Brussels.
  • Euromaidan Was Part of West's Proxy War Against Russia – CIA Veteran

    02/21/2024 9:52:29 AM PST · by marshmallow · 24 replies
    Sputnik News ^ | 2/21/24 | Ekaterina Blinova
    Exactly ten years ago, former President Viktor Yanukovych signed an agreement with the Euromaidan opposition to resolve the political crisis in Ukraine. The very next day, the opposition tore up the agreement and seized power by force. Months of Euromaidan riots ended with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych agreeing to reform the constitution, form a "government of national unity," and hold early elections in December 2014. The then-Ukrainian president also agreed to pardon rioters and launch investigations into violent acts by law enforcement officials. How West & Ukrainian Opposition Derailed Peace AccordsThe February 21 agreements to end the political crisis in...
  • Kremlin threatens to unleash Armageddon on the West if it loses in Ukraine: Moscow warns it will fire nuclear missiles on London, Washington, Berlin and Kyiv if Russia is forced to give up territory

    02/18/2024 2:47:04 PM PST · by dennisw · 160 replies
    MAILONLINE ^ | 18 February 2024 | WILL STEWART
    Kremlin threatens to unleash Armageddon on the West if it loses in Ukraine: Moscow warns it will fire nuclear missiles on London, Washington, Berlin and Kyiv if Russia is forced to give up territory READ MORE: Putin snarls Ukraine war is a 'matter of life and death' for Russia The Kremlin today threatened to fire nuclear missiles on London, Washington, Berlin and Kyiv if Russia is forced to give up the Ukrainian territory it has invaded. Dmitry Medvedev - a close Putin ally who served as president from 2008 to 2012 - said if a military defeat led to a...
  • Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at ‘Sneaker Con,’ a day after a $355 million ruling against him

    02/17/2024 3:34:01 PM PST · by Trump20162020 · 75 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | February 17, 2024 | Claudia Lauer
    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop Saturday, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con,” a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.” Trump was met with loud boos as well as cheers at the Philadelphia Convention Center as he introduced what he called the first official Trump footwear. The shoes, gold lame high tops with an American flag detail on the back, are being sold as “Never Surrender High-Tops” for $399 on a new website that also sells Trump-branded “Victory47”...
  • In Carlson Interview, Putin Outlined ‘Concrete Conditions’ for Resolution of Ukrainian Crisis

    02/09/2024 8:32:19 AM PST · by marshmallow · 23 replies
    Sputnik News ^ | 2/9/23 | Ilya Tsukanov
    In his two-hour-long interview with Tucker Carlson, the Russian president listed Moscow’s conditions for bringing the two-year-old NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine to an end. Now, the ball is in the West’s court, according to Russian international affairs expert Dmitry Suslov.President Putin has confirmed to Tucker Carlson that Russia favors a “negotiated settlement” to the crisis in Ukraine, saying that it will be up to Kiev and its Western partners whether or not to accept it. “We prepared a huge document in Istanbul [during peace talks in the spring of 2022, ed.] that was initialed by the head of the...
  • 74 Ukrainian POWs killed in Russia plane crash

    01/24/2024 3:36:20 AM PST · by janetjanet998 · 76 replies
    74 people killed in Russia plane crash, no survivor Ministry says 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war on plane that crashed
  • Ron DeSantis Criticizes Trump on Eve of Iowa Caucus — Accuses Him of Self-Serving Politician

    01/14/2024 9:00:59 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 55 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | January 14, 2024 | Jim Hoft
    On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, a former ally of Donald J. Trump, delivered a blistering critique of the former President, implying that Trump prioritizes personal loyalty over the nation’s welfare. In 2017, Donald Trump, who was then serving as President, threw his support behind Ron DeSantis in the race for Florida’s governorship. This endorsement from Trump was a significant boost for DeSantis, a tea-party conservative, enabling him to surpass the right-wing GOP candidate Adam Putnam, who was serving as Florida’s agriculture commissioner at the time, Politico reported. “Congressman Ron DeSantis is a brilliant...
  • “It Will Be A Shock”: Ukraine Lost 500,000 Soldiers In War So Far, Nearly 30,000 Per Month: Lutsenko Claims

    01/08/2024 10:40:35 AM PST · by Kazan · 23 replies
    The Eurasian Times ^ | January 7, 2024 | Staff
    Ukraine lost 500,000 soldiers, killed or seriously wounded, since the beginning of the Russian special military operation/invasion, former Prosecutor General and ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said on the YouTube channel. “I think that they should name the number of dead Ukrainians. I know that they don’t want this, and it will be taken seriously. Yes, it will be a shock,” he said.According to Lutsenko, Ukraine loses tens of thousands of fighters per month, which is why the Ukrainian military proposed to mobilize half a million people.“We must honestly say that the 500,000 that...
  • Hamas calls for demonstrations for Gaza throughout the world

    01/04/2024 6:11:51 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 16 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 4/1/24
    Hamas has called for the Arab, Muslim, and free communities of the world to increase solidarity activities for Gaza over the next few days, specifically over the weekend. Hamas says the activities must become a symbol of protest against aggression, genocide, and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and a denunciation of the murder of the leader and murderer Saleh al-Arouri, and Western, specifically American, support of the Zionist occupation. Zahar Jabareen, the deputy commander of Hamas' operations in Judea and Samaria, said that the assassination will only support the Hamas path of jihad.
  • New Raft of Articles Tighten the Screws on Zelensky, Plead for Course Correction

    11/21/2023 2:57:00 PM PST · by delta7 · 25 replies
    Simplicious 76 ^ | 19 Nov 23 | Simplicious
    Mainstream publications have fired another salvo of articles this week conveying a cratering outlook for Ukraine. Let’s take a run through the gamut to see just how urgently the tone has shifted, and what it portends. The first piece is from Foreign Affairs—the official journal of the CFR—written by CFR ex-president Richard Haass (remember him?). Note the deliberately chosen cemetery motif to define the tone: It lays out the urgency in no uncertain terms, using very direct language to exhort the U.S. and allies into immediately reorienting Ukraine’s posture from an offensive to a defensive one. Ukraine and the West...
  • HOW THE UNITED STATES AND ITS NATO ALLIES SABOTAGED PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

    11/17/2023 5:55:10 PM PST · by delta7 · 46 replies
    Sonar 21 ^ | 14 Nov 23 | Larry Johnson
    We now know that the United States played the primary role in sabotaging the March 29, 2022 tentative peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine thanks to the recently published article by Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat, HOW THE CHANCE WAS LOST FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT OF THE UKRAINE WAR — AND THE WEST WANTED TO CONTINUE THE WAR INSTEAD. The United States persuaded its NATO allies that pursuing the war against Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy, offered a legitimate opportunity to destroy Russia. You want a definition of evil? This is it. Instead of helping end the war between...
  • Putin offers staggering sum for new recruits as Russia desperate to bolster shriveling forces

    11/17/2023 10:56:28 AM PST · by Chad C. Mulligan · 38 replies
    Fox ^ | 17 Nov 2023 | Peter Aitkin
    Moscow is trying to bribe its citizens into signing up to serve in the military as Russian President Vladimir Putin watches his forces continue to shrivel up in Ukraine the longer the conflict lasts. "Putin has launched a full-on recruitment drive," Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and the author of "Putin’s Playbook," told Fox News Digital. An analysis from The Atlantic Council found that Russian armed forces have turned to the civilian population to help fundraise for additional equipment, including drones, thermal sights, vehicles and medicine, through a group called "All for Victory," run by propagandist Vladimir Solovyov....
  • 0:11 / 11:24Russians Advance North Of Avdeevka, As Ukrainian Counter Attacks Fail Dramatically!

    11/03/2023 9:04:23 PM PDT · by ganeemead · 12 replies
    Ukraine joins Xi-Xia and Carthage in the dumpster of history...
  • Here’s Why Mike Johnson Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump

    10/26/2023 1:54:28 PM PDT · by Mariner · 142 replies
    The Daily Beast via Yahoo ^ | October 26th, 2023 | David Rothkopf
    The most dangerous movement in American politics today is not Trumpism. It is Christofascism. With the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the organized effort to impose the extreme religious views of a minority of Americans on the entire country, at the expense of many of our most basic freedoms, took a disturbing step forward.Despite Speaker Johnson’s claims of being a constitutional “originalist,” via his elevation by a unanimous vote of his Republican colleagues he has moved America closer to having precisely the kind of government America’s founders most feared.Thomas Jefferson said...
  • No stock trading, a hefty home mortgage, and more than $120,000 from Liberty University: Here's what we know about newly-elected Speaker Mike Johnson's personal finances

    10/26/2023 9:48:54 AM PDT · by Mariner · 69 replies
    Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | October 26th, 2023 | Bryan Metzger
    House Speaker Mike Johnson is much less wealthy than other members of Congress. He doesn't trade any stocks and has a home mortgage valued between $250,000 and $500,000. He's made more than $120,000 since 2018 teaching online classes at Liberty University.The new speaker of the House is not as wealthy as most of his colleagues.That's perhaps the biggest insight one can draw from eight years of financial disclosures filed by Rep. Mike Johnson since 2016, when he first ran to represent Louisiana's 4th congressional district.
  • Arms Sent to Ukraine Potentially Used Against Israel

    10/08/2023 4:11:30 PM PDT · by Rattlesnake_Snook · 82 replies
    Adviser to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Yan Gagin, has suggested that weaponry sent to aid Ukraine could be being used against Israel. "It is quite bizarre that it was Israel, along with its NATO counterparts, that recently supplied all kinds of arms to Ukraine. Some of the military aid ended up being resold by Ukraine’s military personnel and army officials. The great number of it was resold in a completely unmonitored way. Ironically, Israeli soldiers are now being shot with their own guns and weapons, transferred to Ukraine by NATO,"
  • Russia signals intent to exit nuclear test ban in threat to West

    10/06/2023 9:29:02 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 54 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | October 06, 2023 11:52 AM | by Joel Gehrke, Foreign Affairs Reporter
    Russia’s parliamentary leaders plan to consider exiting an international treaty banning nuclear tests as a means of retaliation against Western support for Ukraine. “We are talking about the withdrawal of ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,” State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote Friday on social media. “The situation in the world has changed. Washington and Brussels have launched a war against our country. Today's challenges require new solutions.” Volodin embraced the idea after Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled his interest in the exit during his address to the Valdai Discussion Club. The Kremlin chief also positioned the withdrawal...
  • 'Gay furry hackers' brag of second NATO break-in, steal and leak more data

    10/04/2023 6:36:51 PM PDT · by FarCenter · 20 replies
    NATO is "actively addressing" multiple IT security incidents after a hacktivist group claimed it once again breached some of the military alliance's websites, this time stealing what's claimed to be more than 3,000 files and 9GB of data. When asked about this alleged intrusion, a NATO official declined to answer specific questions and told The Register: NATO is facing persistent cyber threats and takes cyber security seriously. NATO cyber experts are actively addressing incidents affecting some unclassified NATO websites. Additional cyber security measures have been put in place. There has been no impact on NATO missions, operations and military deployments....
  • Russians Deploy Cold War Amphib To Battle Sea Drones

    10/03/2023 7:35:47 AM PDT · by billorites · 10 replies
    AvWeb ^ | October 3, 2023 | Russ Niles
    The Russian Air Force has dusted off a 60-year-old relic to meet a thoroughly modern threat. A Beriev BE-12 amphibious patrol aircraft has been spotted over the Black Sea and it’s apparently looking for Ukrainian boat drones. The uncrewed boats have had some success in carrying loads of explosives to damage Russian warships. The drones are apparently more than a match for the gangly Soviet-era flying boats, which lack the modern sensor systems needed to track the stealthy little floating bombs. “Except for some very lucky sightings, the handful of Be-12s the Black Sea Fleet has available should not be...
  • Sam Bankman-Fried considered paying Trump $5 billion not to run for president, Michael Lewis tells "60 Minutes"

    10/02/2023 1:31:01 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 25 replies
    CNBC ^ | 02 October 2023 | MacKenzie Sigalos
    "Sam's thinking, We could pay Donald Trump not to run for president. Like, how much would it take?" Lewis said. "He did get an answer. He was floated - there was a number that was kicking around. And the number that was kicking around when I was talking to Sam about this was $5 billion. Sam was not sure that number came directly from Trump."