Posted on 05/13/2023 9:37:36 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced his arrival in Berlin for an official visit Sunday, having flown out of Rome after meetings with Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
"Already in Berlin," he wrote on Twitter. "Weapons. Powerful package. Air defense. Reconstruction. EU. NATO. Security."
The German government is preparing a 2.7 billion-euro arms delivery for Ukraine, it announced on Saturday.
The package is expected to include 30 Leopard 1 tanks, armoured vehicles, drones, air defence systems, missiles and ammunition.
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Update on the conflict in Ukraine for May 13, 2023:
- Russian media space panics over false claims of Ukraine’s offensive beginning;
- The trading of territory in Bakhmut is typical of urban combat operations and does not indicate a “momentum shift” until the vector sum of the fighting begins favoring Ukraine rather than Russian forces;
- Additional evidence has surfaced that Ukraine is using some of its best military hardware in and around Bakhmut including German-made self-propelled howitzers, indicating that Russian plans to draw in and destroy Ukraine’s best troops and equipment is working;
- Ahead of Ukraine’s offensive, both sides are conducting long-range strikes. For Russia it is about disrupting Ukraine’s offensive potential. For Ukraine it is about shaping the psychological and media landscape of the conflict;
- The Storm Shadow cruise missile is air-launched and for targets deep inside Russian territory to be under threat, Ukrainian warplanes must travel dangerously close ot the line of contact and expose themselves to Russian air defenses. The missiles themselves must circumvent Russian air defense systems and electronic warfare measures;
- The terrain mapping feature most likely will require intelligence sharing between Ukraine and the US-UK in order to make the missile’s use most effective;
- While Storm Shadow missiles and other long-range weapons Ukraine may have will inevitably make it through to their targets these are not capabilities Russia doesn’t already have and in greater abundance. If these are war-winning capabilities, Russia is going to win the war first;
More good news for the black market and laundering facilities in Ukraine.
I wonder if Samsonite is trading on the stock market because the briefcase market has been brisk.
LOL! Might be something worth checking out.
In the middle of a war in which Youcrayne cities are being demolished and its citizens being slaughtered like pigs, the little, gay-dancing, grifting scumbag has the time to voice his support for the Leftist/Globalist/UN/WEF homosexual agenda? Seriously?
Zelenskyyyy, Master of the Flesh Torpedo!
Ukrainian civilians executed by Russian soldiers
You sound like a jihadi. Are you trying to claim that genocide is a legitimate way of fighting sexual deviance (in case most Ukrainians were actually pro-deviance, which isn’t proven at all)? Because genocide is what Putin has been trying to accomplish in Ukraine - to rob the Ukrainians of their national identity. In his view, they will either submit or they must be killed.
Do you sincerely believe that you would succeed with such arguments in a respectable conservative institution such as Hillsdale College?
IDGAF what anyone in any institution has to say about anything at this point. At this point in the corruption and downfall of America I rely on my own (deadly) instincts and my finely-tuned senses to figure things out as far as they actually can be figured out.
And yeah, I effin' loathe eggheads, especially when one surveys the utter economic and societal wreckage that class of losers has caused in recent history. Eff the so-called "experts," who, more often than not, are experts in one thing: feathering their own nests no matter the cost to the rest of mankind.
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