7 in of snow and in the 20s in Kiev right now...
“On Thursday, Russia pounded Ukraine with a fresh missile barrage, hitting more energy installations and other civilian buildings less than two days after one of its heaviest bombardments yet. “
On Wednesday the Institute for the Study of War said Russia had expended all its precision weapons.
Showing they are not a think tank, but instead a wish palace.
Let’s send them more dollars so they can burn them for light.
Ukraine should return the favor. Why should they suffer alone?
Putin is no slouch at creating Russian enemies for decades to come.
Welcome to Kalifornia. Several times a year they purposely shut off the electricity to areas of high wind. They state they will eventually bury the transmission lines to avoid fires caused by high winds breaking the live transmission lines. But every year they announce more and more shutdowns. DemocRATS love to control the masses. (last time there was a heatwave they asked people not to charge their EVs. The same EVs they will mandate everyone have).
I am truly and deeply sorry for the people in Ukraine.
Let’s not forget we deliberately knocked out power in the FRY in 1999:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/belgrade052599.htm
https://apnews.com/article/6696b485415073caaf4a5eb9e5b42476
We even used this nifty thing: “Nato’s new weapon, a carbon-graphite bomb which sprays electrical power stations with a dust that sparks instant short circuits, was dropped early yesterday morning on five power plants across Serbia.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/may/04/martinwalker1
This is an act of terrorism against the Ukrainian civilian population. And no, unless you are Genghis Khan, all is not fair in war.
10 MILLION without electricity, but I’m sure Zelensky and his cronies each have $10 MILLION tucked away in their Swiss bank accounts, so they’ve got a nice warm feeling.
Whoop dee do. How many were out of power in the US yesterday?
7 people died? That’s much sad. Send more money.
By this math 42 billion should be sent to chicago
Effed around & finding out. A bridge too far.
Ukraine helped Hillary; punked Trump
Politico.com
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and DAVID STERN
01/11/2017
<>Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire; foreign aid billions threatened
<>Kiev scrambles to make amends with president-elect Trump after working to boost Clinton.
<>President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, and the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the presidential race.
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
A Politico investigation found
<><>Ukrainian govt officials helped Hillary and trashed Trump, questioning his fitness for office.
<><>They disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption
<><>They suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election.
<><>They helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don’t think we’ve ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we’ve seen in this case.”
There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election.
And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.
Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against
Trump in 2016 to Stop Putin. The Bet Backfired Badly.
Real Clear Investigations ^
Posted on 3/10/2022, 8:11:28 AM by FarCenter
Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.
Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that’s been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on – and even investigate — their political rival.
Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.
As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also tried to kneecap him publicly. Ukraine’s ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in The Hill, an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on social media.
‘For the Love of God, Someone Tell Putin He’s Out of Precision Missiles!!
https://sonar21.com/for-the-love-of-god-someone-tell-putin-hes-out-of-precision-missiles/
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