Posted on 01/19/2024 6:15:54 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis Every week we wrap up essential coverage of the war in Ukraine, from news and features to analysis, and more. [Excerpt]
‘Music is to me the light’ For this piece Charlotte Higgins sets the scene at the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, where the stakes are very high for everyone on stage. Violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Dalia Stasevska are on an intensely focused mission to get the opening bars of a concerto just right – and not just any concerto, but one by the virtually forgotten Ukrainian-born composer Thomas de Hartmann. The musicians of the International Symphony Orchestra Lviv (INSO-Lviv) are giving it its first commercial recording since the work’s premiere in 1943. They will then perform it in a concert of Ukrainian and Polish music in Warsaw.
Ukraine shoots down two Russian warplanes Ukraine’s military shot down two of Russia’s command planes on Sunday, one of the most disastrous days for the Kremlin’s air power since the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion, Luke Harding reported. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s commander in chief, said his air force had destroyed an A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft and an Il-22 control centre plane. Both were flying above the Sea of Azov on Sunday when they were hit at 9.10pm local time.
‘Spend Russia’s money now for Ukraine’s good’ The rich G7 countries froze Russian central bank reserves after the invasion of February 2022, and there have been growing demands from Kyiv for the assets to be seized and spent on reconstruction. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s chief economist Beata Javorcik
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You mean the ones directed towards her or referencing her, seems you want your cake and eat it too.
“At the end of the day, Russia is going to have to pay reparations for its illegal invasion, so why not spend some of the money now, rather than wait till the war is over and have all the legal wrangling about reparations”.
Make it so!
Do not *ever* ping me to your finger-wagging posts. I don’t believe I have addressed you or RevMom.
Thank you.
I’ve only had it at a restaurant. I wouldn’t trust myself to boil it enough to get all of the toxins.
>You might remember Parma and “a certain ethnic background”.<
White sox.
Big Chuck.
JD Vance on the murder of Gonzalo Lira:
J.D. Vance
@JDVance1
I'm sure the sociopaths will argue, in effect, that Lira deserved it. But count me as one of those who thinks our welfare clients shouldn't execute our citizens.
He’s right. Military might will not do it, no matter how much. What will finally defeat Russia is Russian internal politics and economics, in which the “special military operation” is already a corrosive catalyst. What’s needed for Ukraine to win is enough basic military kit, timely provided, to keep the Russians on the back foot, while their economy deteriorates and the mothers and wives of the cannon fodder they so cavalierly mobilize get mad enough to speak out. That’s already happening.
The “military aid” that Brandon is providing does not include air power, just drones and missiles. The tanks provided were so loudly proclaimed months in advance, that the Russians had time to plant hectare after hectare of mines and fortifications. But that means that they are just defending grounds already taken, not significantly advancing.
Militarily, that’s totally half-a@@ed. But so long as Russia remains bogged down, and Crimea has become an arcade shooting gallery, the politics and economics have a chance to undo Putin, making further military adventures by the big bear more unlikely.
All that will be left of the Ukie Marines in Krynky will be frozen corpses, food for the stray dogs until the Russians bury them.
YOU’RE STILL HERE?
I am in compliance Mr. Robinson.
Wagging-your-finger & calling someone despicable is over your pay-grade.
“left of the Ukie Marines in Krynky will be frozen corpses, food for the stray dogs until the Russians bury them.”
These thoughts are not kind
Expat Gonzalo Lira chose to reside outside their country of citizenship with perhaps intentions to return to their country of origin.
However, the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations defines the term as ‘a person who voluntarily renounces his or her nationality’.
Apparently, Lira had been arrested after allegedly spreading pro-Russian propaganda and then breaking his bail conditions. Newsweek said Lira was “formerly a pick-up artist who posted videos to YouTube.”
https://www.newsweek.com/who-gonzalo-lira-pro-putin-american-expat-dies-ukrainian-jail-1860496
Other than this, I have little knowledge of Lira his life, crimes, or death.
“Military might will not do it, no matter how much. What will finally defeat Russia is Russian internal politics and economics, in which the “special military operation” is already a corrosive catalyst.”
Thank you.
I appreciate and totally agree with your comment.
He only stayed in Ukraine between he had two children that lived there.
Dissent is not allowed in Ukraine. It's absurd to try to pass it off as a democracy. It's as repressive as the old Soviet Union.
“Gonzalo was arrested and killed for saying nothing more than what Don Jr. and JD Vance have said about the war in Ukraine. He only stayed in Ukraine between he had two children that lived there.”
I appreciate your comment. I shared my basic source of info.
https://www.newsweek.com/who-gonzalo-lira-pro-putin-american-expat-dies-ukrainian-jail-1860496
Other than that, I cannot agree or disagree with you.
Newsweek said Lira was “FORMERLY A PICK-UP ARTIST who posted videos to YouTube.” What exactly does that refer to?
Hopefuly, it is not this googled definition:
1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_artist.
2- https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/negging-pick-up-artist-meaning???????
“Get all those ‘frozen assets’ to Ukraine now!”
Total agreement. Even to just use the interest!!!
May it be so!
I stand by what I said. You’re calling for continued support of a war a world away from our own shores with money we don’t have while we’re being inundated with an influx of the unwashed the likes America has never seen and we’ve no money for that.
All the while our own homeless, homeless vets and American school kids being put out of the schools their parents pay taxes for to house these border jumpers. I thought you couldn’t use a school as a domicile?
Zeepers don’t care if the taxpayers of this country are stripped of every cent they have.
According to a Feb. 2023 report by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), we are funding the salaries of 618,000 Ukrainian educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders.
We are paying to sustain Ukraine’s critical healthcare services, meet its pension responsibilities for 9.8 million people, assist 1.3 million internally displaced persons, provide housing assistance to 4.1 million people, and provide social assistance to 240,000 low-income families and 480,000 persons with disabilities.
We subsidize Ukraine’s small businesses, buy seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers and fund divers who clear unexploded ammunition from the country’s rivers to make them safe again for swimming and fishing.
This, while MILLIONS Of Americans can’t pay for food, heating bills, gas, housing, medical insurance, etc., due to our government’s policies. Also, while thousands of Americans including Veterans are homeless and living on the streets!
Zeepers only care about funding the Zelensky/Biden Money Laundering Machine. They view this country as Host for the Parasite known as Ukraine.
Our Free Republic means nothing to them.
Note: I will now be insulted, mocked, and called named such as Putinpoofer, Ruzzzzzzian Farm Bot Troll, muscovite, an “America-hating pro-Russian propagandist, whose purpose is to see America defeated anywhere and everywhere possible” (as zeeper BroJoek labeled me) and worse, only because I don’t worship at the altar of Zelensky as they do.
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