Current Affairs Ukraine

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Putin and his mobs view of Russians, they're just meat.

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'They're just meat': Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin

Drunk recruits, insubordinate soldiers and convicts are among hundreds of military and civilian offenders pressed into Russian penal units known as "Storm-Z" squads and sent to the frontlines in Ukraine this year. Few live to tell their tale.
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Good job she got out in time.

A Russian court sentenced former state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who burst into a news broadcast with a placard that read “Stop the war” and “They’re lying to you”, to eight and half years in jail in absentia on Wednesday.

Ovsyannikova was found guilty of “spreading knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces”, according to a statement posted by the court on Telegram.

Ovsyannikova, 45, fled Russia with her daughter for an unspecified European country a year ago after escaping from house arrest, according to her lawyer, saying she had no case to answer.
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Ukraine has caused a political crisis in the United States, which could lead to a complete blocking of financial and military assistance.

Kevin McCarthy was removed from the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives by a vote of 216-210, he was accused by fellow party members of secret agreements with Biden on Ukraine.
It is noteworthy that the Democrats helped remove him from office, which means that in the future no one will risk their career for the sake of supporting Ukraine.
Now the House of Representatives must elect a new speaker. Last time it took 15 rounds of voting and 4 days...
We can only guess under what conditions to choose a new speaker.
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“Will make support for Ukraine more difficult” - Economist on the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives​


Kevin McCarthy's tenure as Speaker of the House of Representatives ended the same way it began: extremely humiliatingly, writes The Economist. For the first time in American history, members of the lower house of the US Congress removed their leader from office.
But the biggest concern for those outside America is the issue of aid to Ukraine, which was not included in the US government's government funding agreement to appease radical Republicans.
Ukraine supporters in Congress, who make up majorities in both chambers, are pushing for a vote that would guarantee funding for Ukraine during the 2024 race. However, “pushing this legislative needle” may be even more difficult than avoiding a government shutdown.
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davek said:
This is an important development regarding continued funding for Kyiv. Even among Democrats now there's a greater insistence on accounting for where the cash goes when it gets to Ukraine amid concerns of existing levels of corruption.

Its going to be THE issue at the next presidential election and before that in the primaries...US tax dollars going to Ukraine, that is.

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the whole thing is unraveling at a rate of knots now

There's no one left to round up and send to certain death, NATO can't afford to spare more equipment and ammunition. Money is running low or out completely. The "cope" narratives are making the media a laughingstock. RoW or Global South has not only refused to submit but turned their backs to the Collective West.

Iraq was bad, Afghanistan was worse, but this is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Russia has effectively destroyed NATO's biggest army with 1 hand tied behind it's back and blindfolded. Not once or twice, but thrice.

There's a sense of frantic desperation from both NATO and the EU countries. Fractures are appearing, people are voting current regimes out, the US itself is hair trigger away from a civil war.

"But, but what about inroads to Russia's backyard? Armenia? The central Stans? Moldova?"

When the West is humiliated completely, those sitting on the fence will jump
 
Kev The Rat said:
the whole thing is unraveling at a rate of knots now

There's no one left to round up and send to certain death, NATO can't afford to spare more equipment and ammunition. Money is running low or out completely. The "cope" narratives are making the media a laughingstock. RoW or Global South has not only refused to submit but turned their backs to the Collective West.

Iraq was bad, Afghanistan was worse, but this is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Russia has effectively destroyed NATO's biggest army with 1 hand tied behind it's back and blindfolded. Not once or twice, but thrice.

There's a sense of frantic desperation from both NATO and the EU countries. Fractures are appearing, people are voting current regimes out, the US itself is hair trigger away from a civil war.

"But, but what about inroads to Russia's backyard? Armenia? The central Stans? Moldova?"

When the West is humiliated completely, those sitting on the fence will jump
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There's certainly a ring of truth to all that. The west being the west and with political classes who are handcuffed by their own political cycles and where for society consumption is paramount there's a limit to how long and far they go. But I think there's plenty of road left in this war sadly and tens of thousands more will perish because of that.

This will take years to settle. Possibly another 2 or 3.
 
Kev The Rat said:
the whole thing is unraveling at a rate of knots now

There's no one left to round up and send to certain death, NATO can't afford to spare more equipment and ammunition. Money is running low or out completely. The "cope" narratives are making the media a laughingstock. RoW or Global South has not only refused to submit but turned their backs to the Collective West.

Iraq was bad, Afghanistan was worse, but this is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Russia has effectively destroyed NATO's biggest army with 1 hand tied behind it's back and blindfolded. Not once or twice, but thrice.

There's a sense of frantic desperation from both NATO and the EU countries. Fractures are appearing, people are voting current regimes out, the US itself is hair trigger away from a civil war.

"But, but what about inroads to Russia's backyard? Armenia? The central Stans? Moldova?"

When the West is humiliated completely, those sitting on the fence will jump
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