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the-nomadicone · 2 years

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Melitopol // Ukraine

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fapangel · 2 years

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D+48 to D+61 (April 14-27th) Update Latest update on my Google Docs

Latest Update on my Google Docs

Please note that after this latest failed attempt I will not even to try to cross-post my updates to this useless shithole of a site. It's taking too much time to copy/paste it over and add the images again only to find tumblr won't let me post, and fucking refuses to tell me why. From now on this will only be used as a convenient way of letting people know a new update is out.

#ukraine #russo ukrainian crisis #russo ukrainian war

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sparkles-and-trash · 2 years

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Tonight at dinner we sat next to this big family with an adorable dog, so we started talking to them and noticed that the dog had the Ukrainian flag colors on his collar, and it turned out their whole family, including their elderly grandma, the dog and two boys around age 6-8, were refugees from Kiev.

We ended up talking to them the whole night, and there were so sweet and in such good spirits, but every time I looked over at the kids playing at the beach and saw the haunted look in their dads eyes my soul just snapped in half.

Idk what I want with this post, I was just very moved by being faced directly with people who were in the middle of all this hell when it broke lose, especially such young kids, with such kind and open spirits and souls.

Their home bombed and gone, just like that. Their friends and family they had to leave. The joy over simply being alive. The way the staff at this pretty fancy restaurant heard us talking and comped their meals, no questions asked.

The world is scary and cruel, but luckily, there are some wonderful, kind, brave souls among us. I’m really greatful I got to meet a few of them tonight.

#irl tag #ukraine #russo ukrainian crisis #cw war mention #personal #ukrainian people #ukrainian refugees #Greece

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scouse1g · 2 years

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No side has the right to call the other ones Nazis in this conflict.

#russia #ukraine #usa #russo ukrainian war #russo ukrainian crisis

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flexpeel · 2 years

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Wow Ukraine really did get the full on school shooter treatment

#thoughts and prayers #ukraine #glory ukraine #russo ukrainian crisis #biden administration #congress

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opanas-opanasovych-opanasenko · 2 months

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After seeing Westerners bully a 14-year old boy from Odesa for not wanting to potentially interact with people who are committing genocide of his people on twitter, I felt compelled to return to that hellsite for a while to write a thread to explain why we might feel that way. Here it is, I feel it might be useful for those who don't understand why we're like this when it's "not all russians":

Thread screenshots after the break:

#russia is a terrorist state #demilitarize russia #disarm russia #russia #ukraine #russian invasion #russo ukrainian war #russia ukraine conflict #russia ukraine invasion #russia ukraine war #russia ukraine crisis

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workersolidarity · 3 days

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UNITED STATES CONGRESS PASSES SERIES OF ANTI-DEMOCRATIC AND PRO-WAR BILLS DESPITE PUBLIC OPPOSITION

The United States Congress and Senate passed a series of bills, including three controversial anti-democratic and pro-war bills, two of which were tied together, on Saturday, bypassing public opinion and popular opposition to the profligate, pro-war, globalist, Neolib/Neocon agenda currently driving United States domestic and foreign policy.

Included in the bills passed was a bill to force TikTok to divest from its connections with China at risk of being banned immediately, which naturally was tied to a Foreign aid bill.

However, as even Republican Senator Rand Paul mentioned in an opinion piece in Reason Magazine, the Bill is almost certain to lead to more power for American political elites and their administrations to pressure companies like Apple and Google to further ban apps and sites that offer contradictory opinions to that of the invented narratives of the American Political class.

Before long, Americans, many of whom are already poorly informed, and heavily misinformed by their mainstream media, could lose access to critical information that contradicts the narratives of the United States government and corporate elites.

Horrifically, this only the start. The US Congress also extended the newly revised FISA spy laws, which gives the United States government the power to spy on the electronic communications of foreigners, while also conveniently sweeping up the conversations of millions of Americans, as we learned years ago thanks to the sacrifices of whistle blowers and journalists like Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.

The new FISA Law goes further than this, however, granting US Intelligence agencies the power to spy on the wireless communications of Americans in completely new ways.

A recent Jacobin article describes these new powers as a, "radical expansion of government surveillance that would be ripe for abuse by a future authoritarian leader", or it could just be used by the authoritarian leadership we have right now, and have had for decades.

In fact, when one commentator described the new powers as "Stasi-like," Edward Snowden himself replied with a long post in which he remarked, "invocation of "Stasi-like" is not only a fair characterization of Himes' amendment, it's probably generous. The Stasi dared not even dream of what the Himes amendment provides."

The amendment in question just "tweaks" the current law's definition of an "electronic communication provider," which is being changed to "any service provider," something extremely likely to be abused by the government to force anyone with a business, a modem and people using their broadband to collect the electronic communications of those people, while also forcing their victims into silence.

The government could essentially force Americans to spy on other people and remain silent about it. Cafe's, restaurants, hotels, business landlords, shared workspaces all could get swept up into the investigations of the Intelligence agencies.

Worse still, because picking out the communications of a single user would be next to impossible, all of their victim's data would end up being surrendered to the authorities.

Sadly, the assault on Americans by their own political elites didn't end there, to top this historic day in Congress, at time when the United States public debt is growing at an astounding rate of $1 trillion every 100 days, US lawmakers also passed a series of pro-war aid packages to American allies (vassals) totalling some $95 billion.

Included in the foreign aid bill are aid packages totalling $61 billion for the Ukraine scam, $26 billion for Israel's special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, and $8 billion to the Indo-Pacific to provoke WWIII with China, at the same time we're also provoking a nuclear holocaust with the Russian Federation.

Also buried in these aid packages is the authorization for the United States government to outright steal the oversees investments of the Russian Federation, and thereby the Russian taxpayers.

Astonishingly, and in direct opposition to the wishes of their own voters, Republican support was won without the possibility of conditioning the aid to any kind of border security, this despite the issue being among the top biggest concerns of Republican voters.

Although much of the money is to be used replenishing the heavily depleted stocks of America's weapons and munitions, it remains unclear where the munitions are expected to come from, as US defense production has remained sluggish and slow to expand despite heavy investments and demand in recent years, despite the rapid urgency with which the policy elite describe the situation.

It bodes poorly for working Americans that only a relatively small handful of lawmakers opposed the bills, producing unlikely bedfellows like Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Mike Lee in the Senate, opposing the FISA bill.

While in the House, the loudest opposition to the foreign aid bill mostly came from populist Republicans such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie and Paul Goser. Only 58 Congresmembers voted against the Foreign Aid Bill in which the TikTok ban was tucked.

Not one word from American politicians about the need to raise the minimum wage, which hasn't been increased since 2009 despite considerable inflation, nor a word about America's endlessly growing homelessness crises, property crime increases, or the 40-year stagnation of American wages, the deterioration of infrastructure, and precious little was said besides complaints about border security over the immigration crises sparked by American Imperialist adventures and US sanctions.

What we've learned today is that we are highly unlikely to see any changes to the insane behavior of the US and its allies any time soon, neither with regards to the absolutely bonkers Neocon foreign policy leading us to the edge of abyss, nor the spending-for-the-rich/austerity-for-the-poor Neoliberal domestic policy of the last 45 years.

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ohsalome · 2 years

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#ukraine #russia #war in ukraine #russo ukrainian war #climate crisis #stand with ukraine #politics #war

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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#european politics #europe #ukraine #ukrainian crisis #russo ukrainian war #imperial russia #russia #2022 #adam something #vladimir putin #fuck putin #memes #shitpost #war #maps

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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Former President Donald Trump blamed the United States for "almost forcing" Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

Trump's remarks came as Russia continued to stall in their struggling "special military operation," ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin more than seven months earlier on February 24, 2022. The ex-President has been critical of how President Joe Biden, who he may run against in the 2024 presidential election, has handled diplomatic relations with Russia. But critics accuse Trump of taking positions seen as favorable to Putin.

During an interview on Real America's Voice, a right-wing network favorable to Trump, the former President criticized the Biden administration. He argued that their "rhetoric" in the months leading up to the Ukraine invasion contributed to Putin's decision.

"They actually taunted him, if you really look at it. Our country, and our so-called leadership, taunted Putin. I said, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying. The rhetoric was so dumb."

He claimed, without evidence, that the Ukraine invasion would have "never" happened if he were still President. He also did not provide any specific examples of how the U.S. "taunted" Putin into invading Ukraine.

Trump also touted his working relationship with both Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky when Real America's Voice host Wayne Root suggested Biden could send Trump to negotiate a peace deal.

"I got along very well with both Zelensky and Putin," Trump said. "If you remember, Zelensky was very nice because when they asked him about the Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax—that was the phone call—he looked at them and said 'What was wrong with the call? He did nothing wrong.'"

William Pomeranz, the Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, cast doubt on Trump's comments in an interview with Newsweek, pointing out that Biden said Ukraine would need to work on its corruption in order to gain entry to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) but that Putin's given justification for the invasion was unrelated to NATO.

"It's something Putin has been thinking about for many years," he said. "I think Putin basically launched this campaign to annex what was two territories—but is now four territories—to expand the Russian Federation. I think this was an example of imperial intent. He wanted to expand his territory and the Russian empire."

He said it will never be known if the invasion would have occurred if Trump won the 2020 election but that he did not believe Trump would have "stood up for Ukraine."

"Did Trump think that he had such a great relationship that he could dismay him from attacking, I just don't think so," he said.

TRUMP FACED CRITICISM FOR PAST RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR COMMENTS

Trump has faced criticism for several comments about the Russia-Ukraine war. In the days leading up to the conflict, Trump said Putin was a "genius" for moving troops into Ukraine.

"Here's a guy that says, you know, 'I'm gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent.' He used the word 'independent,' 'and we're gonna go out and we're gonna go in and we're gonna help keep peace.' You gotta say that's pretty savvy," Trump told Clay Travis and Buck Sexton in February.

In March, he again renewed controversy after appearing to push Putin to release any information he has about Hunter Biden's alleged business dealings in Russia during a conversation on Real America's Voice about an accusation that Biden's company received $3.5 million from the widow of a former Moscow mayor.

"She gave him three and half million dollars. So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer," he said.

Newsweek reached out to Trump's office and the White House for comment.

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the-nomadicone · 2 years

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Zaporizhzhya // Ukraine

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fapangel · 2 years

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May 6th to May 12th (D+70-D+76) Updates – Materiel and Strategic

This is a massive Strategic update covering significant territory dating back to the end of April to present. I’m posting this now because if I delay to add the significant Maneuver developments I fear I will be overtaken by events, as there’s a fleet underway in the Black Sea that’s likely to do something staggeringly stupid. Standby for Maneuver update later today.

#ukraine #russo ukrainian crisis #russo ukrainian war

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satan-incarnate-666 · 2 years

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yall idiot motherfuckers who are out here defending isra3l because "THEY'RE JUST RETAKING THEIR LAND!!!!" better be russia-defenders too. by comparison, russia has just as much right to ukraine's land as isra3l does palestine's ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

disclaimer: i do not actually think russia has ANY right to ukraine's territory. this post is a comparison between two bullshit arguments. geopolitics are ever changing, and as such, both russia and isra3l need to GET OVER IT

#caw caw caw #important #free palestine #fuck israel #russo-ukrainian crisis #russia #ukraine #palestine #zionism //

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ammg-old2 · 1 year

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It’s been a year since the Russians invaded Ukraine and launched the biggest conventional war in Europe since the Nazis. One of the things that I think we’ve all worried about in that time is the underlying problem of nuclear weapons.

This is a nuclear-armed power at war with hundreds of thousands of people in the middle of Europe. This is the nightmare that American foreign policy has dreaded since the beginning of the nuclear age.

And I think people have kind of put it out of their mind, how potentially dangerous this conflict is, which is understandable, but also, I think, takes us away from thinking about something that is really the most important foreign problem in the world today.

During the Cold War, we would’ve thought about that every day, but these days, people just don’t think about it, and I think they should.

#history #military history #politics #nuclear warfare #cold war #russo-ukrainian war #2022 russian invasion of ukraine #cuban missile crisis #korean air lines flight 007 #1983 soviet nuclear false alarm incident #ussr #usa #russia #vladimir putin

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gamer2002 · 2 years

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In fact, the rods could have been acquired even more quickly than 15 months. In February, just days after Putin’s invasion, the German government asked the US nuclear fuel manufacturer, Westinghouse, an established supplier of German nuclear plants, whether it could make fuel rods on short notice. Westinghouse managers said they could — and that they could deliver them by the end of 2022.

Lemke and Habeck declined both the offer from Westinghouse and from nuclear operators. As such, it’s now clear that Habeck, Lemke, and other German officials have repeatedly lied, not only about the nuclear fuel rods, but also thus about the broader energy crisis.

Fucking hell.

#germany #nuclear energy #russia #energy crisis #european union #eu #russo ukrainian war #war in ukraine #ukraine #ukraine war

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opanas-opanasovych-opanasenko · 26 days

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there are russian strategic bombers in the air again in the dead of night most likely to launch missiles at power stations again and I am just so tired

#russia is a terrorist state #russia must burn #demilitarize russia #disarm russia #russia #russian imperialism #ukraine #fuck russia #russian invasion #russia ukraine crisis #russo ukrainian war

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