TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@social.cleverlibre.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 71 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs.
This announcement is the Biden Administration's fifty-first tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
This package includes additional air defense capabilities, artillery ammunition, anti-tank weapons, and other equipment to help Ukraine defend its sovereign territory and fight for its freedom from Russia's ongoing war of aggression.
This package utilizes assistance previously authorized for Ukraine during prior fiscal years under Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) that remained after the PDA revaluation process.
The capabilities in this package, valued at up to $100 million, include:
▪ Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;
▪ One High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and additional ammunition;
▪ 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
▪ Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
▪ Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
▪ More than 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition;
▪ Demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing;
▪ Cold weather gear; and
▪ Spare parts, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment.
Kirby tore antisemitic demonstrators a new one.https://t.me/NewsWorld_23/2315
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/15645
Translated summary from a Ukrainian open source channel. Bear in mind it's journalism, not necessarily fact.
🟢 Polish intelligence services realized that the invasion had begun when they recorded a radio silence zone from the Belarusian border, which meant that the invasion would take place in a few hours.
🟢 Lukashenko planned to leave Belarus in early March. He contacted the Poles, requesting permission to travel through Poland. Because he couldn’t fly; Russian air defense was all over Belarus.
🟢 On March 25, Duda's presidential Boeing encountered technical problems and an emergency landing occurred; Poland suspects Russia of sabotage.
🟢 Until February 24, American UAVs conducted reconnaissance in the Donbass.
🟢 In the first days, Sullivan (USA) told Duda that Ukraine would soon disappear.
🟢 The Poles dismantled the planes in the border forests of Ukraine, from where we took them, and assembled them again. The same thing happened with transport aircraft. The Polish military said that the MiGs would not take off after reassembly (they were wrong).
🟢 Poland painted planes in civilian colors, and in this way transported them to Ukraine.
🟢 When Biden was traveling to Ukraine, the United States warned the Russian Federation that if the train was fired upon, World War 3 would begin.
🟢 The Polish side was involved in the Medvedchuk exchange. He was transported from Poland to Moscow.
🟢 After the start of a full-scale war, NATO planned to withdraw its instructors from Ukraine, but many of them, on the contrary, went to Kharkov and the Donbass.
🟢 Poland did not like some aspects of Ukrainian politics. They wanted to get some samples of Russian equipment for research, but the Ukrainian side demanded to pay money for them.
The new president of Argentina wants to switch to the dollar to slow the inflation.
@ArmyGirl Never did the combat thing. When I was in medic training they came down looking for volunteers to Pharmacy school. Someone had screwed up in typical fashion and sent them 3 instead of 30. I volunteered. Volunteering worked well for me despite all the warnings. We were 2 weeks short of graduation at that time. 2 week later I went down and looked. The orders said "Oakland Army Depot en route". I asked a sergeant. Viet Nam.
I did see plenty who had gone. Not pretty. My hat is off to you.
https://t.me/visegrad24official/2364
New president in Argentina wants to align with United States and Israel. Carries a pick handle.
Shifa hospital has been neck deep in HAMAS
Here’s what our forces have revealed over the last couple of weeks:
*Hamas used the Shifa Hospital as a command center
*Hamas stored weapons and explosives in the hospital
* Hamas built a 55 meter terror tunnel under the hospital
* Hamas murdered 19 year old Noa Marciano on the grounds of Shifa
* Hamas forcefully transported hostages through the hospital.
The Shifa Hospital is one long list of Hamas war crimes.
Sorry, not going to post the video
Documentation from the massacre at Kibbutz Alumim on October 7:
A group of citizens who ran away from the party thought they had reached a safe place in Kibbutz Alumim.
• At 00:27 the terrorists enter the kibbutz
• At 00:46 the citizens flee from the kibbutz to the main road.
• At 01:10 a terrorist (dressed in black) grabs a young woman (dressed in black) by her hair as she fights for her life and tries to escape.
• At 01:14 the terrorist kills her at point blank range.
• At 01:17 a friend of the young woman who was murdered freezes in place and begs for mercy. The terrorist shoots at civilians above her head.
• At 01:40 the terrorist also executes her.
Coca-Cola and Pepsi have reached Novorossiya in Russia and the shelves in the occupied territories - imported from Afghanistan and Iran
Ruzzian media reports:
"After the start of the SVO [Special Military Operation] they stopped importing drinks into the Russian Federation - sanctions and all that. But a solution was immediately found, and more than one: parallel imports and supplies from Kabul and Tehran, which were accustomed to “isolation.”
The plant in Afghanistan appeared back in 2012, the ingredients there are taken from neighboring Pakistan, and the capacity has now reached 360 million bottles per year. In Iran the situation is similar.
As a result, agreements were concluded with them, supplies through Crimea were established - and soda appeared on Russian shelves again. Now it has even reached the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions - with prices the same as in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Coca-Cola is straight from Afghanistan, and Pepsi is from Iran. In a glass bottle - 74-75 rubles, in plastic - from 55 rubles."
- Apparently they go through great troubles sourcing the evil western drinks!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/florida-pro-palestinian-student-lawsuit-desantis-sjp
The group was stripped of official recognition. They can still speak
This is one of the bodies recovered near the hospital. There has been another.
Here they are bringing abductees into the hospital
The jeep used by HAMAS to abduct people is parked at the hospital
Ukraine has been sending out damaged tanks all over Europe
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/a-damaged-russian-tank-was-brought-to-finland-for-an-exhibition/
More about Russian sabotage of Bulgarian arms industry
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russians-are-preparing-sabotage-at-bulgarian-defense-industry-enterprises/
Russia is conducting a large-scale russification of the Ukrainian territories it has occupied. This is what it looks like:
◾️ Forced passportization
In April 2023, Russia passed a law according to which the residents of the occupied territories must obtain Russian citizenship by July 2024, otherwise they can be deported.
The occupation authorities have created a system in which the receipt of basic services such as access to food, education, work, healthcare and life-saving medicines, as well as pensions or property, depends on having a Russian passport.
◾️ Military mobilization
A Russian passport is also a "ticket to war" for men. About 80,000 residents of Luhansk and Donetsk regions have been forced to fight against Ukraine. According to refugees who managed to flee from occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, the occupation military commissions there are also beginning to draft men.
◾️ Censorship and propaganda
The Russian Federation is trying to control access to information for residents of the occupied territories. Broadcasting of Ukrainian television channels and radio stations has been stopped in the occupied towns and villages and access to Internet has been restricted. Cell phones and computers are constantly checked.
In schools, textbooks with sections on the "special military operation" are used to try to convince future conscripts to "go to war". Schoolchildren are forced to join Young Army Cadets National Movement and parents are forced to send their children to cadet classes.
◾️ Torture
The UN Independent International Commission reported on the systematic use of torture by Russians in the occupied territories in its report of October 2023. Leonid Remyha, the head doctor of Kherson City Hospital, who himself went through torture, said that people were beaten with sticks on their knees, fingers, hands and ribs in pre-trial detention centers. There are thousands of such testimonies.
Discussion of terms like Socialism vs Communism. CRT and how the idiots were misled into believing it was being taught in grade school.
https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/defining-some-republican-terms/53234/
Let's help Repúblicans "almost win" in 2024.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/youve-got-to-be-kidding-4/53245/
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 71 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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