Ukraine / Russia - Actions and Reactions
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“Barry McCaffrey – “military expert” on MSDNC is using video game footage and saying it is war footage from Ukraine – Hey @MSNBC – this is pathetic and unbelievable even for you,” one Twitter user said.
“Gen McCaffrey was on leftie cable news praising incredible accuracy by Ukrainian ground forces attacking Russian jets,” another user tweeted. “A Problem here is that he is praising a Video Game. Ole fart needs to retire again.”
Others mocked McCaffrey by posting cruder video game scenes and suggesting he might confuse them with real war footage.
20,000 Ukrainians jumped U.S. border in April
More than 20,000 Ukrainians stormed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, showing up at border crossings and asking to be let in under a new leniency policy from the Biden administration.
Some 1,500 others snuck across the border between ports of entry and were apprehended by Border Patrol agents, according to new Homeland Security statistics released Tuesday.
The Ukrainians were part of a record surge of non-traditional migrants who reached the border in April, exposing new challenges for the Biden administration.
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HOW MARIUPOL WAS DESTROYED / ugly TRUTH
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What is the official count of US and NATO backed infiltrators supporting and supplying a proxy war with Russia via Ukraine, or do we not talk about that bunch?
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“The cost alone is startling,” said Hawley. “It is three times what all of Europe has contributed to date and roughly the size of Ukraine’s entire national budget. Speaking of which, the bill includes funds for Ukraine’s treasury to the tune of $8.8 billion. And Biden administration officials suggest they will soon ask for more. This goes far beyond targeted military assistance. This package treats Ukraine as a client state of America, a fraught relationship that will put us on the hook for financing the war and then the reconstruction.”
Hawley chalked up Republican support of the bill to a neoconservative ideology that holds America has a duty to use its resources to aid struggling foreign countries and intervene in their wars. Hawley, however, believes the package is an example of Republicans’ skewed priorities stemming from the dogma that America should rebuild other nations in our image.
He wrote:
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Hawley chalked up Republican support of the bill to a neoconservative ideology that holds America has a duty to use its resources to aid struggling foreign countries and intervene in their wars. Hawley, however, believes the package is an example of Republicans’ skewed priorities stemming from the dogma that America should rebuild other nations in our image.
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Hawley: $40 Billion To Ukraine Is Nation-Building That Hoses US Interests
In an op-ed, Sen. Josh Hawley condemned his fellow Republicans who supported the recently passed $40 billion Ukraine package.
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Ukrainians Are Selling US Heavy Duty Arms On The Black Market – Can Take Out A Tank/Helicopter, Discount Sale Price 30K
Russia is being hit hard by Ukraine‘s Javelin anti-tank missiles. What makes this weapon so powerful? The U.S.-made FGM-148 Javelin is one of the premier portable anti-tank missile systems in the world. It’s also an expensive piece of kit, with each missile typically costing more than the targets it eliminates.
However, corruption is the main problem that every country has to fight with and the Ukrainians are no different!
The expensive javelins have allegedly found their way into the black market on the Internet.
Telegram channels have repeatedly reported that military equipment is being sold by the Ukrainians. The sales market is often the Middle East or North Africa.
The information already has more than one confirmation. For example, you can inquire about this ad on the Internet, where you can buy the expensive weapon for a discounted price.
If the Russians keep their slow western push Zelensky will split will all his hidden money and seek asylum somewhere.
Up To 500 Soldiers Killed Daily In Battles Against Russia - Arakhamia
https://ukranews.com/en/selling/indexThis was reported by the Axios edition, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
“Up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are being killed or wounded each day in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, with 200 to 500 killed on average and many more wounded,” the edition reports, citing Arakhamia's words.
The MP said that over the past two weeks, the number of losses has increased significantly compared to the estimates of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who spoke of losses of 60-100 Ukrainian servicemen daily.
At that, Arakhamia noted that Ukraine has already mobilized about a million people and has the capacity to recruit about 2 million more, so the country has the strength to continue the struggle in the Donbas.
The MP also stressed that although Ukraine has enough strength, we are very lacking in weapons.
"We have the people trained to attack, to counterattack, but we need weapons for this," he said.
Still, there are brief moments of clarity inside the Washington establishment. Having lied prolifically for months to the American public about the origins and conduct of the war in Ukraine, the media are now preparing the American, British, and other Western publics for Ukraine’s military collapse. It is long overdue.
The Western media did everything in its power to give the Ukrainian defense the appearance of far greater strength than it really possessed. Careful observers noted that the same video clips of Russian tanks under attack were shown repeatedly. Local counterattacks were reported as though they were operational maneuvers.
Russian errors were exaggerated out of all proportion to their significance. Russian losses and the true extent of Ukraine’s own losses were distorted, fabricated, or simply ignored. But conditions on the battlefield changed little over time. Once Ukrainian forces immobilized themselves in static defensive positions inside urban areas and the central Donbas, the Ukrainian position was hopeless. But this development was portrayed as failure by the Russians to gain “their objectives.”
Ground-combat forces that immobilize soldiers in prepared defenses will be identified, targeted, and destroyed from a distance. When persistent overhead intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets, whether manned or unmanned, are linked to precision guided-strike weapons or modern artillery systems informed by accurate targeting data, “holding ground” is fatal to any ground force. This is all the more true in Ukraine, because it was apparent from the first action that Moscow focused on the destruction of Ukrainian forces, not on the occupation of cities or the capture of Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper River.
The result has been the piecemeal annihilation of Ukrainian forces. Only the episodic infusion of U.S. and allied weapons kept Kiev’s battered legions in the field; legions that are now dying in great numbers thanks to Washington’s proxy war.
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The Western media did everything in its power to give the Ukrainian defense the appearance of far greater strength than it really possessed. Careful observers noted that the same video clips of Russian tanks under attack were shown repeatedly. Local counterattacks were reported as though they were operational maneuvers.
Russian errors were exaggerated out of all proportion to their significance. Russian losses and the true extent of Ukraine’s own losses were distorted, fabricated, or simply ignored. But conditions on the battlefield changed little over time. Once Ukrainian forces immobilized themselves in static defensive positions inside urban areas and the central Donbas, the Ukrainian position was hopeless. But this development was portrayed as failure by the Russians to gain “their objectives.”
Ground-combat forces that immobilize soldiers in prepared defenses will be identified, targeted, and destroyed from a distance. When persistent overhead intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets, whether manned or unmanned, are linked to precision guided-strike weapons or modern artillery systems informed by accurate targeting data, “holding ground” is fatal to any ground force. This is all the more true in Ukraine, because it was apparent from the first action that Moscow focused on the destruction of Ukrainian forces, not on the occupation of cities or the capture of Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper River.
The result has been the piecemeal annihilation of Ukrainian forces. Only the episodic infusion of U.S. and allied weapons kept Kiev’s battered legions in the field; legions that are now dying in great numbers thanks to Washington’s proxy war.
When the Lies Come Home
After lying for months, the media are preparing the public for Ukraine’s military collapse.
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Last week, Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice announced an official ban on the country’s main opposition party and seized all its assets. Because democracy. The now-defunct party was the second largest political party in Ukraine, following President Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, which is named after his popular TV series. This week, Ukraine requested extradition of a YouTuber living in Spain on treason charges. He was arrested in May, and EuroWeekly News ran a story on the arrest headlined, “Popular Pro-Russian blogger Anatoly Shariy Detained in Spain.”Shariy, a popular Ukrainian YouTuber with 3M followers, was arrested in Spain after Ukraine charged him for “high treason.” Apparently Shariy had been posting videos critical of President Zelensky and his policies.
Ukraine is looking less and less like a shining example of democracy and freedom, and more and more like a dictatorial hellhole. Given the fact that, if you criticize the government you can get arrested, even if you live in an EU country, apparently, how can we trust that all Ukrainian voices are being heard?
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It's time to shut down the Ukraine money spigot
The Volodymr Zelensky-led administration is now demanding over $5 billion dollars a month just to cover the costs of its government, which includes the many bureaucrats and government employee salaries. That’s over $60 billion a year just to finance the operating costs of its government, which has historically been ranked the most corrupt in all of Europe.
This latest demand comes in addition to the estimated $100 billion in recent European and American dollars already allocated to propping up its collapsing military.
The Ukrainian military is being routed in the field, and now losing badly to the Russian military, which has successfully employed old-school industrial warfare to vacuum up territory that provides Moscow with port access. Time is no longer on the side of Kiev, which continues to lose territory, and has failed to chalk up a significant battlefield victory for many weeks.
Similar to the trillions in “pandemic expenditures,” the costs related to the war have officially entered sunk costs territory. The Ukrainian military is on its heels, and it has no hope of independently regaining territory from Russia. Thankfully, there is no appetite in the West for direct confrontation, which could lead to a World War 3-like outcome.