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
Norway and the U.K. will launch a joint coalition for support for Ukraine on Dec. 11, the Norwegian Defense Ministry said on Dec. 6.
Both states are NATO members but not EU member states, and regularly cooperate on military training and defense matters.
Few details have been announced before the coalition's launch, which will take place in London.
U.K. Defense Minister Grant Shapps and Norwegian Defense Minister Bjorn Arild Gram will provide more information during the event, the Defense Ministry said. Norway launched the Nansen Support Program for Ukraine in February to provide Ukraine with $7 billion in military and humanitarian aid over the next five years. U.K. Foreign Minister David Cameron pledged on Dec. 5 that the U.K. will maintain its military support to Ukraine. London has already provided more than 4.7 billion pounds ($5.9 billion) in humanitarian and economic assistance to Ukraine, Cameron said.
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They took him out.
A passenger plane landing in Israel is fired up on.
Venezuela is merely following Russia's lead.
https://t.me/pilotblog/8367
Russian soldiers have their orders. Make Putin look good by election time.
Good morning Resisters everywhere. Thinking of those brave souls in Iran resisting a very brutal regime.
And the brave warriors of Ukraine, they are protecting the world from a brutal dictator
Russia’s mercenary recruiters are detained in Nepal.
Police in Nepal have detained ten people on suspicion of illegally recruiting the country’s residents into the Russian military.
Reuters reported on this with reference to Kathmandu District Police Chief Bhupendra Khatri.
According to Khatri, the detainees illegally charged each person up to $9,000 and sent them to Russia on “tourist visas”, mainly through the UAE.
They were then recruited into the Russian military. In October of this year, Ukrainian troops captured a Russian mercenary from Nepal in the Avdiyivka direction.
Nepal has also asked Russia to pay compensation to the families of Nepalese citizens killed during the hostilities.
(The photo shows Nepali mercenaries in the ranks of the Russian army, 2023)
Russia has brought in more than 40,000 troops to the Avdiyiv direction.
"The occupiers are suffering heavy losses there, but despite this, the reserves - Storm-Z and newly mobilized - are being brought up very quickly", Oleksandr Shtupun, the spokesman of the Defense Forces of the Tavria Region, said on the air of the telethon.
"The attitude of the command towards them is just like animals. It is recorded that they are sometimes even left without food and water, and they are forced to eat just snow. Lots of frostbite at the moment. But for some reason they are moving forward - they fear their leadership more than death ," Shtupun said.
🇺🇦 The military collects ammunition and items received at a logistics center on the territory of Great Britain.
This is the assistance of the United Kingdom to the Armed Forces of Ukraine within the framework of the multinational training operation "INTERFLEX"
📌Ukrainian recruits, participants of leadership courses and instructor courses, immediately after arriving at the airport, go to the HAP logistics center, and there they receive all the necessary items for service worth about $3,000. These are uniforms, shoes, protective equipment, a first-aid kit, a multitool, a bag and a backpack and many useful "little things" that will be needed both during training and on the front line.
📌 The Minister of Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Grant Shapps, announced a new large support package for Ukraine of more than 100 million pounds.
📌 Britain will provide Ukraine with air defense systems, equipment for building bridges and means for safe movement through minefields.
Be careful out there. There is a new Covid running around.
The current trajectory of the GOP
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/whats-really-going-on-with-the-gop/53497/
Latest statement from the IDF:
"We launched a rapid, powerful, and focused operation, moving from tunnel to tunnel, from house to house"; step by step, this is how the 98th Division is operating in Khan Yunis
The forces of the 98th Division continue to fight in the Khan Yunis area, a main stronghold of the Hamas terrorist organization. The division's troops have eliminated dozens of terrorists, conducted searches, destroyed tunnels and directed precise strikes from the ground and air.
The 7th Brigade began operations to break through Hamas' lines, targeting dozens of anti-aircraft positions and enemy observation points. The soldiers raided the military post of Hamas' 'Dir al-Balah' battalion and located weapons and intelligence.
The Givati Brigade, the 55th Brigade, and the 4th Brigade are encircling the city and conducting operations and raids on the battalions of the Khan Yunis Brigade of the Hamas terrorist organization. In a sustained raid by the forces, many weapons were found in a school, including rocket and mortar launchers, RPGs, explosives, and intelligence materials.
Soldiers of the 4th Brigade secured a Hamas command post inside a mosque where a terrorist cell was hiding. The terrorists were eliminated. Additionally, the forces eliminated a terrorist cell that tried to escape towards an underground tunnel.
Soldiers from the Commando Brigade raided the Hamas strongholds in Khan Yunis. Weapons, artillery launchers and intelligence materials were found in the residence of senior Hamas operatives. In addition, the soldiers are deploying the use of the precise 'Iron Sting' munition and are directing airstrikes and ground operations using accurate and precise fire.
https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/16147
One of these four will become Russia's President.
What Russia really wants
🇺🇸 The Biden administration is ready to make concessions to the Republicans in order to unblock aid to Ukraine, – Reuters.
Among their demands are new restrictions on asylum seekers and the expansion of the deportation process. According to the news agency, a bipartisan group of senators is already working on an agreement, but time is running out.
"Republicans have refused to approve more Ukraine funding without additional measures to reduce the record number of migrants attempting to cross the U.S. border illegally, leading to a complex negotiation pairing the largely unrelated issues.", Reuters writes.
White House spokesperson Angelo Fernandez Hernandez said Biden has made it clear "the border is broken" and that Congress should take action to fix it.
"The president has said he is open to compromise," he said in a statement.
Democratic Senator Chris Coons said Thursday the gap between his party and Republicans remains "stubbornly large" but that he remains optimistic they can find common ground.
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre criticized Republicans during a press briefing on Thursday.
"They are playing chicken with our national security," she said.
"History will remember them harshly."
Republican Senator Thom Tillis, part of the bipartisan group trying to hash out a border security compromise, told reporters on Wednesday that any proposal would have to cut illegal immigration at least by half and that he did not know if a deal could be reached before Christmas.
"We’ve got a lot more work to do," he said.
🗓Congress will go on vacation after December 14, and military aid must be approved by then to avoid funds running out to support Ukraine.
Putin’s buddy Orbán pushes EU to the brink over Ukraine - Politico
This month’s summit will be a decisive test of how far Budapest will go to thwart EU support for Kyiv.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán regularly pushes the EU to the cliff edge, but diplomats are panicking that his hostility to Ukraine is now about to finally kick the bloc over the precipice.
A brewing political crisis is set to boil over at a summit in mid-December when EU leaders are due to make a historic decision on bringing Ukraine into the 27-nation club and seal a key budget deal to throw a €50 billion lifeline to Kyiv’s flailing war economy.
The meeting is supposed to signal to the U.S. that, despite the political distraction over the war in the Middle East, the EU is fully committed to Ukraine.
Those hopes look likely to be knocked off course by Orbán, a strongman who cultivates close ties with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and who is widely seen as having undermined democracy and rule of law at home. He is demanding the whole political and financial process should be put on ice until leaders agree to a wholesale review of EU support for Kyiv.
That gives EU leaders a massive headache. Although Hungary only represents 2 percent of the EU population, Orbán can hold the bloc hostage as it is supposed to act unanimously on big strategic decisions — and they hardly come bigger than initiating accession talks with Ukraine.
It’s far from the first time Orbán is throwing a spanner in the works of the EU’s sausage making machine. Indeed, he has been the most vocal opponent of sanctions against Russia ever since Putin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. But this time is different, EU diplomats and officials said.
“We are heading toward a major crisis,” one EU official said, who was granted anonymity to discuss confidential deliberations. One senior EU diplomat warned this could become “one of the most difficult European Councils.”
Some EU diplomats interpret Orbán’s threats as a strategy to raise pressure on the European Commission, which is holding back €13 billion in EU funds for Hungary over concerns that the country is falling foul of the EU’s standards on rule of law.
Others however said it’s a mistake not to look beyond the immediate transactional tactics. Orbán has long been questioning the EU’s Ukraine strategy, but was largely ignored or portrayed as a puppet for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In theory, Brussels could come out with the big guns and use the EU’s so-called Article 7 procedure against Hungary, used when a country is considered at risk of breaching the bloc’s core values.
The procedure is sometimes called the EU’s “nuclear option” as it provides for the most serious political sanction the bloc can impose on a member country — the suspension of the right to vote on EU decisions.
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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