Posted on 11/15/2023 4:22:28 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Continue to Push the Ruzzian Army on the South | Verbove is next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqrvqOtXZQ
Recap Deployment Map changes – Week 45 November 13, 2023
https://militaryland.net/news/recap-deployment-map-changes-week-45/
[NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday]
*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front!
https://militaryland.net/maps/
there are no Ukraine voters. Dictator Zelenskyyy prohibits elections along with the practice of Christianity ✝️
Wooooo...that there is a real narrative killer, right down to why the Russians backed off from Kyiv. Holy smokes!
True - but The Ukraine is the Eternal Fountain of Lies, along with her apologists.
The Consortium will twist every word that it can.
Ping to #78
forgot to ping you to #106... :)
Ping to #78
Zelensky, unlike Biden and Putin, was elected in a free and fair election. He is even one of those Russian speakers that Russians claim to stand up for. My family there are Russian speakers too.
Russian-speaking Ukrainians love Russia just as much as English-speaking Andrew Jackson loved the English.
If he's so popular, why has he suspended elections? And the free press? And opposition political parties? And civil rights?
And why does he skid on the floor like a dog?
What you say is far from the truth and you know it. There are political opposition parties in Ukraine but United Russia is not one of them. Before the 2022 all-out invasion, city administrators, public employees, hospital workers, and teachers in the so-called Lugansk People’s Republic were forced to join United Russia (Putin’s Party). The Russian created and enforced separatist movement was never separatist. It was always Russian and created by Russian mafia tactics and could not be established without the “green men” Russian troops without insignia.
Yes, Zelensky’s television show was wildly popular in Russia and I guess that is why you Russian-lovers keep showing clips of it.
Mom sure is a FAST typist, only took 11 seconds to write and post her response to you in Post 99 after posting Post 98.
Thanks for the ping - this report is very interesting:
Apparently we (as in Biden and his puppets in Europe) figured that Russia was on a land grab and wouldn’t budge in negotiations with Ukraine. So we let them ‘negotiate’, knowing it would come to nothing.
Russia then gave Ukraine a good deal and Ukraine ACCEPTED it.
So we had to go into overdrive to PREVENT PEACE.
Half a million dead later and still no referrals of Western leaders to the ICC for criminal prosecution. Go figure.
Confirms what many already knew, but in great detail. What sickening evil. So much death and grief could have been averted had the deal been allowed to proceed. A pox on all who put the brakes on it.
REPEAT:
Read https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4197170/posts?page=99#99
Constitutional law
1. This site may help resolve your research conflict with Ukraine Constitutional Law noted in your comment:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4195270/posts?page=48#48
2. Ukraine: Martial Law Introduced in Response to Russian Invasion
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2022-03-03/ukraine-martial-law-introduced-in-response-to-russian-invasion/
BTW:
Ukraine is following their rule of law: the Ukrainian “Constitution”
WHY MARTIAL LAW
1. The general population is displaced &/or at war.
2. Putin would bomb any election site.
3. “In this situation, can we have the elections?” Ukraine’s ambassador in Washington, Oksana Markarova, asked in a discussion last week at USIP.
“Well, definitely not, if you believe in free and fair elections.”
She compared Ukraine’s situation with that of Britain during World War II, in which the BRITISH PARLIAMENT voted annually to POSTPONE overdue 1940 elections until after the war’s end.
4. INCIDENTLY, In the United States, martial law can be declared on a national level by the President or Congress, or within the borders of a particular state by that state’s governor.
Martial law was first declared in New Orleans, Louisiana by then General Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812. Since then, it has been declared multiple times, notably by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and by Governor Poindexter in Hawaii following the attacks on Pearl Harbor during World War II.
According to E. W. Killam’s Martial Law in Times of Civil Disorder, martial law has been declared nine times since World War II, most often in response to resistance of desegregation decrees during the Civil Rights era.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/martial_law
5. Oleksii Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), expressed frustration that PACE was telling Ukraine to ignore its own constitution, as Ukrainian Pravda reported:
I want to stress that we will handle this [i.e., the question of elections - ed.] ourselves, in accordance with our laws and our Constitution. When the [martial law] is in effect, as it currently is, no elections can take place.
In June 2023, 77% of Ukrainians supported Zelenskyy’s reelection. Because Zelenskyy did make this announcement, and because the Ukrainian law does indeed prohibit elections during martial law.
The Washington-based International Republican Institute (IRI) published an opinion survey last week that found:
- 62% of Ukrainians favoring an indefinite postponement of elections until after the war,
- a total of 71 % favoring postponement at least until a year from now or longer.
- A similar poll issued by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology finds 81% of Ukrainians favoring a postponement of elections until “after the end of the war.”
- A total of nine recent opinion surveys have consistently found most Ukrainians — in majorities measured at 65 to 80% favoring postponement of elections, said Peter Erben, who directs the Ukraine operations of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).
Erben and Aivazovska spoke alongside Markarova at the USIP discussion last week, co-sponsored by IFES and the National Endowment for Democracy.
Even [Ukrainian] OPPOSITIONAL POLITICAL FIGURES discourage any attempt to hold elections under Russian attack.
Political analysts note that a presidential vote as scheduled next March would give extraordinary advantages to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, letting him use his wartime boost in popularity to lock in a new five-year term.
- Dmytro Razumkov, a parliament member with an opposition party who is discussed by analysts as a possible presidential candidate, told Politico in September that in part because “a huge amount of territory is either under occupation, or the infrastructure there is destroyed,” Ukraine has “no possibility to organize the election process on the ground” during the war.
Nice!
I have often thought that “Jon Preston” was a fake.
Don’t act like a jerk.
That’s your opinion, it’s not everybody’s opinion.
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