Why do people who wear Ukranian flags in their lapels ignore the dangers Americans face?
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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Why do people who wear Ukranian flags in their lapels ignore the dangers Americans face?
The ukrainian flags on people's facebook pages are being taken down and replaced with remember Jan 6th. It's too uncomfortable when you support this guy who stabbed this Ukranian.
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Doubt that
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Blue cities and Democrats are our problem, not Putin
According to this report, ERAMs seem to be on track for an initial delivery rate to Ukraine of about 70 per month (840 by October 2026), starting with the first 10 next month (Oct 2025).
Defence Industry Europe (5 Sep), https://defence-industry.eu/united-states-speeds-delivery-of-new-eram-cruise-missiles-to-ukraine-under-fast-track-plan/
“Ukraine is set to receive low-cost, long-range, air-launched cruise missiles from the United States, opening a fresh supply line of precision weapons against Russian forces. The Extended-Range Attack Munition (ERAM) marks a new approach to rapid weapons acquisition, development and production by the Pentagon.
The ERAM has appeared within just 14 months of the initial solicitation in August 2024, with prototype deliveries scheduled for October. It is the product of the Weapons Capacity Task Force, an organisation within the U.S. Air Forceās Life Cycle Management Centerās Armament Directorate.
Armed with a $225 million budget, the Task Force awarded contracts to two nontraditional defence companies, CoAspire and Zone 5 Technologies, and tested the weapons on a U.S. Douglas A-4 and a Ukrainian MiG-series fighter. According to Air Force documents obtained by Aviation Week, the first lot of 840 ERAMs is planned for delivery by the end of October 2026.
In late August, U.S. government officials cleared the sale of up to 3,550 ERAMs to Ukraine, with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notifying Congress of the export deal. The notification confirmed the missiles can be operated from Ukraineās Lockheed Martin F-16 and MiG-29 fighters.
Although authorised to purchase thousands of units, Ukraine will initially receive a smaller batch. The first 10 cruise missiles are scheduled for delivery in October.
The Air Force Task Force is also pursuing further projects, including palletised munitions similar to the ERAM, low-cost air-to-air missiles and a classified initiative named Sunrise. Prototyping work for hypersonic and subsonic weapons could begin in the third quarter of fiscal 2026.
Lawmakers have recognised the Task Forceās unconventional approach to procurement. āThe Task Force has taken a fundamentally different approach to weapons development by embracing nontraditional vendors with expertise in digital engineering, modular design and the ability to scale up production rates rapidly,ā a congressional report states.
The ERAM programme contrasts with traditional missile procurement timelines, which can span years. Both CoAspire and Zone 5 completed first flights only four months after the Phase 1 contract award in October 2024, aided by designs from the Enterprise Test Vehicle programme.
The requirement specifies a conventional air-launched cruise missile mounted under a wing or in a weapons bay and compatible with standard bomb racks. Integration can be achieved either through a universal armament interface or via a federated cockpit system.
The U.S. Air Force expects to acquire ERAM alongside at least three foreign buyers, with Ukraine confirmed and two others not yet identified. A related effort, the Family of Affordable Mass Missiles, could add thousands more units, with Anduril and Zone 5 competing to supply the 3,010 systems outlined in the Air Forceās fiscal 2026 budget proposal. (Source: Aviation Week.)”
“OPEC+ meets tomorrow. Letās see if they raise production quotas again, as the new long range precision strike guns are leveled at Russiaās oil industry.”
Well yes they did - another million barrels per day, over the next two months. Conditions are set to replace Russian supply. Send more Drones!
This increase will bring it to 3.5 million BPD of new supply from OPEC+, since April, after President Trump cut a Grand deal with the Saudis, Emiratis and Qataris. That is enough to replace all of Russia’s seaborne crude oil exports, and then some.
Check, if not Checkmate. Masterfully arranged, President Trump. Russia’s oil infrastructure can now be kinetically destroyed, without massive blowback on Western economies.
OilPrice.com (8 Sep):
“OPEC+ confirming at its Sunday meeting that it will wind down more than 1 million barrels per day of extra voluntary cuts over the next two months...
...The expanded cartel endorsed a gradual rollback of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwaitās additional curbs, with Saudi output expected to rise toward 9.5 million bpd in September and Iraq also set to increase exports, according to delegates cited by Bloomberg...
...Goldman Sachs and others have predicted that unwinding the cuts could push Brent below $60 by year-end”
“OPEC+ meets tomorrow. Letās see if they raise production quotas again, as the new long range precision strike guns are leveled at Russiaās oil industry.”
Well yes they did - another million barrels per day, over the next two months. Conditions are set to replace Russian supply. Send more Drones!
This increase will bring it to 3.5 million BPD of new supply from OPEC+, since April, after President Trump cut a Grand deal with the Saudis, Emiratis and Qataris. That is enough to replace all of Russia’s seaborne crude oil exports, and then some.
Check, if not Checkmate. Masterfully arranged, President Trump. Russia’s oil infrastructure can now be kinetically destroyed, without massive blowback on Western economies.
OilPrice.com (8 Sep):
“OPEC+ confirming at its Sunday meeting that it will wind down more than 1 million barrels per day of extra voluntary cuts over the next two months...
...The expanded cartel endorsed a gradual rollback of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwaitās additional curbs, with Saudi output expected to rise toward 9.5 million bpd in September and Iraq also set to increase exports, according to delegates cited by Bloomberg...
...Goldman Sachs and others have predicted that unwinding the cuts could push Brent below $60 by year-end”
Russian Security Council Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev directly threatened Finland and used language that directly mirrors the Kremlin's false justifications for its invasions of Ukraine. Medvedev claimed in an opinion piece for Kremlin newswire TASS on September 8 that the āmain thingā that Finland should not āforgetā is that confrontation with Russia ācould lead to the collapse of Finnish statehood forever.ā[1] Medvedev claimed that Finland is historically tied to Nazi Germany and that Finnish authorities in the 1940s wanted to expand Finland's borders to include Eastern Karelia, Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg), and the Kola Peninsula ā areas in modern-day Russia. Medvedev claimed that the current Finnish government is āRussophobic,ā and that āthe thirst for profit at the expense of Russia was installed in Finnish minds back in the days of Hitler.ā Medvedev claimed that Finnish authorities historically attempted to erase the āhistorical and cultural identityā of ethnic Russians and to commit genocide against the Slavic population. Medvedev claimed that Finland joined NATO under the āguiseā of defense but is actually preparing for war against Russia ā ignoring the fact that Finland abandoned its long held military neutrality to join NATO in direct response to Russia's full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in 2022. Medvedev claimed that NATO will use Finland as āa springboard for an attackā on Russia.
Medvedevās September 8 claims about Finland's alleged persecution of ethnic Russians, destruction of Russian culture, ties to Nazism, and threat to Russia's securitydirectly parallel claims that the Kremlin has used to justify its invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. Medvedev claimed that the āroot causesā of the current state of Russian-Finnish relations go back to the Second World War.[2] Medvedevās use of the phrase āroot causesā mirrors that which Kremlin officials have repeatedly invoked to justify Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Kremlin officials have claimed that any future peace settlement in Ukraine must eliminate the āroot causesā of the war, which Kremlin officials have defined as NATO's eastward expansion and Ukraine's alleged discrimination against Russian-speakers.[3]
Medvedevās threat against Finland is not unique but rather part of an ongoing Kremlin effort to threaten NATO states and justify future Russian aggression. Russian Presidential Aide and former Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev similarly claimed on March 13 that Finland tried to āexterminateā the Slavic population and that the West is āagain turning [Finland] into a springboardā for aggression against Russia.[4] Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Finland in December 2023, claiming that NATO ādraggedā Finland into the alliance and that āthere will be problemsā with Finland.[5] Russian officials have been increasingly invoking narratives about Finland's historic ties to Russia, and Russian information operations targeting Finland have long covered topics such as Finland's history as a Nazi ally during the Second World War, Finnish intent to gain lost territories, and the West's preparations to use Finland to threaten northwestern Russia.[6] The Kremlin has been employing the same playbook that it used against Ukraine towards NATO states, such as Finland and the Baltics, to set informational conditions for possible future Russian aggression.[7]
Russia continues to expand its defense industrial base (DIB) and take measures to safeguard defense industrial enterprises against long-range Ukrainian strikes. Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Deputy Chief Major General Vadym Skibitskyi reported on September 7 that Russia plans to produce 2,500 high-precision missiles, including Iskander cruise and ballistic missiles and Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles in 2025.[8] Skibitskyi noted that the GUR has observed a significant increase in Russian drone production, especially Geran (Russian analogues of the Iranian Shahed drone), Garpiya (Shahed analogues with components from the Peoplesā Republic of China [PRC]), and first-person view (FPV) drones, and that Ukrainian military intelligence indicates that the Russian military has a rearmament plan for 2026 to 2037. Skibitskyi reported that most of the āpowerfulā Russian defense enterprises are located 750 kilometers or further away from the Ukrainian border and that only 25 percent at within the 250-to-500-kilometer range. Skibitskyi stated that Ukraine has not observed signs that Russia is relocating defense industrial enterprises, but that Russia is building its new defense industrial enterprises 1,500 to 2,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Skibitskyi stated that Russia has diversified its defense industrial production such that more than 100 enterprises can be involved in the production of one type of weapon. The construction of defense industrial enterprises far from the Ukrainian border are attempts to protect the DIB from long-range Ukrainian strikes, and Russia's diversification of its production line likely aims to prevent Ukrainian strikes from interrupting the entire production process.
Russia is also reportedly increasing its production of FPVs with fiber optic cables, which Russian forces have successfully leveraged in recent months to achieve some effects of battlefield air interdiction (BAI) in Ukraine. Ushkuynik Scientific and Production Center General Director Alexey Chadayev claimed on September 6 that Russia produces more than 50,000 fiber optic drones every month.[9] Chadayev claimed that Russia's fiber optic drone production doubled in 2025. Chadayev claimed that Russia has established production in three unspecified regions, with more than one factory in each region. The proliferation of Russia's use of fiber optic drones, which are resistant to Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) and jamming, has given Russian forces important advantages on the battlefield.[10] Fiber optic drones, which Russia has been able to scale up in 2025 due to the drone's simplicity, have enabled Russian forces to conduct precision strikes against Ukrainian armored equipment, ground lines of communication (GLOCs), troop movements, and EW systems. Russia's use of fiber optic drones has also allowed Russian forces to improve their ability to interdict Ukrainian GLOCs in forested areas, such as the Serebryanske forest area.
The Kremlin appears set to institutionalize its long-held practice of torturing and abusing Ukrainian civilian prisoners and prisoners of war (POWs). Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the Russian State Duma on September 8 that would denounce the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.[11] The convention calls for international inspections of detention centers and prisons.[12] The bill's explanatory note cited Russia's lack of representation in the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment since 2023 as the reason for the denouncement.[13] Russian State Duma Chairperson Vyacheslav Volodin claimed that the Duma will consider the bill as a āmatter of priority,ā signifying that the bill will likely pass the Duma and that Russia will likely withdraw from the convention in the near future.[14] Russia, however, has already been barring international inspectors from its prisons holding Ukrainian civilian prisoners and POWs ā likely to cover up Russia's systemic mistreatment and torture of Ukrainians.[15] ISW has also observed numerous indications that the Russian military command is endorsing war crimes on the battlefield, including the execution of Ukrainian POWs.[16] Russia's denouncement of the convention and likely subsequent withdrawal will further formalize these already systemic practices and prevent international efforts to expose them.
The background is investigations on suspicion of espionage and sabotage. This was announced by the authority on Monday. āThe searched ship is suspected of having acted as a base for drone flights over critical infrastructure in northern Germany,ā said Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Daniela Behrens (57, SPD). According to information available to BILD, it is said to be a Russian Espionagedrone.
Does the 40-year-old āScanlarkā belong to the Russian Shadow Fleet? Officially, she sails under the flag of the Caribbean island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. According to the Flensburg public prosecutor's office and the LKA Schleswig-Holstein, it is about āaverting dangers to Germany's maritime critical infrastructureā. Allegation: āThere is a suspicion that a Drone was launched from the searched ship on August 26, 2025 and steered over a naval ship in order to scout it out and take pictures.ā
Endangering again and again enemy drone overflights our security, sensitive information threatens to Russia . So far, the security authorities have puzzled far too often how the drones get into the airspace over our coasts, now the police have probably succeeded in striking a blow after an agent freighter apparently calmly attacked the northernBaltic Seachannel.
A brutally barbaric Russian airstrike with a bomb hit the village of Yarova in Donetsk region.
Directly on people. Ordinary civilians. At the very moment when pensions were being distributed. According to preliminary reports, the death toll exceeds 20 people.
Russia is a terrorist state.
https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3lyfg2jwvb22r
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š¤” Russians throw in that France plans to take away minerals, Britain - logistics hubs, Poland and Romania - territories and access to the sea. They showed a map of the location of 50 thousand Western peacekeepersā¦
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lyfa7kfwik2c
But, the map is made by sloppy Muscovians, read the comments:
I've never seen the word āBiĆ©larusā in French. āBiĆ©lorussieā, yes. āBĆ©larusā, also yes. āBiĆ©larusā, no.
Yes, I definitely believe the French made this map that shows a border between Crimea and Ukraine
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lyfm4h7ogk2u
Last year alone, āveteransā of the war in Ukraine killed at least 242 people and seriously injured 227. Kremlin is hastily employing the so-called āheroesā - giving them seats in parliament, positions in the administration and instructing them to lead youth movements.
Russians claim they found the facility in southern Kyiv, and a UAV is already above the target.
Claimed Iskander is already being directed there, now we waithttps://t.co/rI8XNgPDhI pic.twitter.com/NnsMhAMKZYā WarVehicleTrackeršµš± ā§ (@WarVehicle) August 22, 2025
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini sharply criticized Macron in response to the proposal to send Italian troops to support Kiev
"Italian soldiers in Ukraine? Absolutely not. If Emmanuel Macron wants it so much, let him go there himself. Put on a helmet, take a rifle, and go to Ukraine alone," he said.
France responded by summoning the Italian ambassador Emanuela Alessandri for explanations. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Salvini's statements unacceptable and harmful to the trust between the countries.
Salvini is not the first to speak out loudly against the militarization of Europe in general and Macron's short-sighted policy in particular.
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