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Does any of this sound familiar?
Putin's playbook:
1. Undermine institutions, judiciary, & checks on power
2. Discredit/besmirsh the media by spinning it as "fake", biased, etc
3. Label opposition as traitors, "deep state"
4. Create labels for processes which attempt to check your power or hold you accountable: witch hunt, hoax, etc
5. Spread & feed nonsensical conspiracy theories.
6. Deflection & liberal use of "whataboutism"
7. Lie, lie, lie. And lie some more.
8. Deny, deny, deny And deny some more.
9. Obstruct & refuse to cooperate with any attempts at holding you accountable.
10. Divide the electorate. Sow division, create an "us vs them" narrative
11. Scapegoating: blame others for everything: other parties, other people, other countries. As long as you can assign blame, you can be the hero.
12. Provide an alternate reality.
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Does any of this sound familiar?
Putin's playbook:
1. Undermine institutions, judiciary, & checks on power
2. Discredit/besmirsh the media by spinning it as "fake", biased, etc
3. Label opposition as traitors, "deep state"
4. Create labels for processes which attempt to check your power or hold you accountable: witch hunt, hoax, etc
5. Spread & feed nonsensical conspiracy theories.
6. Deflection & liberal use of "whataboutism"
7. Lie, lie, lie. And lie some more.
8. Deny, deny, deny And deny some more.
9. Obstruct & refuse to cooperate with any attempts at holding you accountable.
10. Divide the electorate. Sow division, create an "us vs them" narrative
11. Scapegoating: blame others for everything: other parties, other people, other countries. As long as you can assign blame, you can be the hero.
12. Provide an alternate reality.
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People much smarter than you say otherwise:
"Economists said the move appeared designed to try to support the ruble, which has collapsed against other currencies since Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and Western countries responded with far-reaching sanctions against Moscow. But some analysts expressed doubt that it would work.
“Demanding payment in rubles is a curious and probably ultimately ineffective approach to attempting an end run around Western financial sanctions,’’ said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University. “Rubles are certainly easier to come by now that the currency is collapsing. But exchanging other currencies for rubles will be quite difficult given the widespread financial sanctions imposed on Russia.”
“The hope that demanding payment in rubles will increase demand for the currency and thereby prop up its value,” Prasad added, “is also a false hope given all the downward pressures on the currency.’’
Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, said: “It’s not an obvious move to me, since the (Russian) economy needs a supply of foreign currency in order to pay for imports — and energy is one of the few sources left.”
Vinicius Romano, a senior analyst at Rystad Energy, suggested that Moscow’s insistence on payments in rubles “may give buyers cause to reopen other aspects of their contracts — such as the duration — and simply speed up their exit from Russian gas altogether.”
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- "And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.” -- Trump, January 22
- “It’s not a pandemic, it’s just 1 person. We have it totally under control, we’re going to be just fine” Trump, January 22
- “China has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. In particular, on behalf of the American people, I want to thank president Xi” Trump, January 26
- “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. … we think it’s going to have a very good ending for it.” -- Trump, January 30
- “I don’t take responsibility at all” -- Trump, March 13
- 4 million Americans infected with coronavirus -- the highest in the world -- July 23
- 160,000 Americans dead from Covid19 -- Aug 5
- 500,000 Americans dead from Covid19 -- Jan 2021
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@comsubpac - it appears you got it right. YouTube keeps deleting the post when I link. From fakehistoryhunter .net --
"... Hugo Boss did not design uniforms for the Nazis.
This myth has been going around for a long time but it simply is not based on fact.
Boss had a clothes manufacturing company and in the 1920s he was commissioned by a textiles distributor called Rudolf Born to supply brown shirts for the NSDAP, the Nazi party.
Eventually the Nazis became a good client but they told Boss what to make and how to make it, they didn’t ask him to design anything. In 1938 Boss won contracts to make army uniforms but by 1940 he was still a relatively small firm, employing about 250 people.
In short; there is no evidence whatsoever that proves that Hugo Boss designed any Nazi uniforms or even parts of uniforms, but he did manufacture them.
But this does not mean his hands were clean, he was a Nazi party member, an follower of Nazism and made use of forced labour.
These forced labourers had to work long days, were not fed properly, didn’t get medical care and also not allowed in the shelters during air raids. Although there were many places were forced labourers were treated a lot worse, the treatment of these people making the uniforms was still shameful.
It took till 2011 for the firm to apologise for its behaviour during the Nazi era. The apology was issued after a book about the company’s history was published, to be fair the book was commissioned by the company itself but they realised that the only way to deal with their past was to allow the researchers to do their work without being influenced. The publication was not flattering for the company.
The Nazi uniforms were mostly based on earlier Prussian models and designed by several people.
For instance, the black SS uniform was designed by SS members Karl Diebitsch (artist) and Walter Heck (graphic designer)."
-- Dutch historian Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse
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@LearnWithVikram7 funny you talk about 4,000 "Russians" killed in the OSCE reports. Those were Ukrainians. And they were killed in a civil war instigated, started, funded, equipped, & armed by Ruzzia.
Flight MH17 and Russia's 'little green men'
"In Donbass, Russia’s approach was characterised by lending implicit support to separatist forces, while depicting them as a bottom-up, local rebellion. This kind of “hybrid warfare” blurs the boundaries between state-controlled regular armed forces and the rogue local and mercenary forces.
This strategy was viable owing to the porous border between the Donbass region and Russia (the demarcation of the Ukrainian-Russian border has long been opposed by Russia), easy transportation routes and ready volunteers within and from beyond Ukraine.
However, it was noticeable that the top commanders of the various self-proclaimed republics were Russian citizens from Moscow – such as Alexander Borodai and Igor Strelkov – the last one with extensive military experience in various hotspots in post-communist Europe."
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"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
- RFE/RL
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@abhroy - I've noticed a lot of Indians bashing China, assigning blame, & moaning about a Chinese coverup.
While China is not blameless, you would be better served by asking yourselves: what did the Indian government do since January, when the data was available? The answer: Nothing.
They did nothing until March 21. Then, in a panic, they shut down, overnight, the entire population of 1.3 billion people without warning or proper planning.
As a result, the poor, migrant workers, & daily wage earners are destitute, homeless, & starving.
A little introspection would be more productive than fingerpointing & propaganda.
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@creatingcalm4408 - so yout point is what? They were wrong? So maybe they were.
But besides shutting down flights from China did the US do any of the following before March? -- stock up PPE, stock up medicines, begin testing, contact tracing, isolation, quarantine, screening of all international passengers, ready hospitals, order lockdowns, shut down public gatherings, mandate social distancing.
Did they do any of that or instead deny the dangers of an epidemic?
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It will be a referendum like this one:
From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@Ricardo Luna. You make a valid point: owners take risk, employ their capital, make decisions, create employment, absorb losses, etc. I agree that they should be rewarded the larger share of the profits.
But there has to be some balance. Take Amazon: $11Billion in profits, zero federal tax.
I'm opposed to mandating higher wages (except maybe in lower paying jobs) because that puts an additional burden on the employer who may already be struggling to break even: not all employers are titans like Amazon.
However, owners need to reinvest a portion of the profits back into the employees.
What will happen to the $11Billion that Amazon made? Will it go into further expansion, stock buybacks, or bonuses to executives? Will at least a tenth go back to the employees?
A handful of corporations may do profit sharing. A few others give out annual bonuses. But even in these cases, the senior management, who already make huge salaries, get the bulk of the bonuses, while the guy at the bottom may end up with a few hundred bucks.
The reason government needs to get involved is it is clear that over the past 4 decades, corporations generally don't share a portion of the profits with their employees, especially those with low paying jobs.
Getting involved does not necessarily mean more tax. Maybe legislation that mandates some form of profit-sharing.
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@quintrankid8045 if they say they "didn't need it", they need to be reminded of some relevant history:
'We Would Have Lost': Did U.S. Lend-Lease Aid Tip The Balance In Soviet Fight Against Nazi Germany?
"Soviet dictator Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
-RFE/RL
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@faithcossu9526 the "referendums"are staged.
From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@Writeous0ne Russia is sanctioned, has a GDP the size of Italy, & is facing the combined economic, financial, industrial, & military resources of the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Japan, Australia, & S.Korea.
Additionally, they have already expended a significant portion of their military arsenal & personnel.
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@chatryna - he "never uttered a careless word"? You mean other than the times he babbles like a buffoon?
No, people who love him fall into 3 groups: a large percentage love him primarily because they see an unsophisticated, ignorant, boorish, bigot, bully, not unlike them, who panders to their insecurities.
Another group (the wealthy, corporations, Wall Strret) love him because he's pulled the wool over the eyes of the working class & has given them everything they want: huge tax cuts & massive deregulation.
A third group love him because he's rich & was on a reality tv show. It's the result of the dumbing down of America. Next up, President Kardashian ...
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yeah, the election was rigged by 60+ judges, SCOTUS, secretaries of state, governors, electors, Congress, Bill Barr, the FBI, Homeland Security's CISA, McConnell, Lindsey Graham, & Pence.
Now take your anti-psychotic meds.
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@adrianlouw2499
Kazakhstan's president Tokayev - "we do not recognize…Luhansk and Donetsk" Jun 20
President of Kazakhstan, Tokayev, explains why he doesn't recognize Luhansk and Donetsk along with several other places.
"Tokayev said that Kazakhstan doesn’t recognize "LPR" and "DPR" and called them quasi-state territories.
He noted that international law based on UN Charter and two fundamental principles- right of nations to self-determination and territorial integrity, came into conflict.
"For this reason, we do not recognize Taiwan, Kosovo, South Ossetia or Abkhazia. Apparently, this principle will also be applied to quasi-state territories, which, in our opinion, are Donetsk and Luhansk," said Tokaev. Putin was present on stage at that moment." (NEXTA TV - Twitter)
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@philipptreffler3572 From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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31 CFR § 2.2 - Access to classified information by historical researchers, former Treasury Presidential and Vice Presidential appointees, and former Presidents and Vice Presidents.
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§ 2.2 Access to classified information by historical researchers, former Treasury Presidential and Vice Presidential appointees, and former Presidents and Vice Presidents.
(a) Access to classified information may be granted only to individuals who have a need-to-know the information. This requirement may be waived, however, for individuals who:
(1) Are engaged in historical research projects;
(2) Previously occupied a position in the Treasury to which they were appointed by the President under 3 U.S.C. 105(a)(2)(A), or the Vice President under 3 U.S.C. 106(a)(1)(A); or
(3) Served as President or Vice President.
(b) Access to classified information may be granted to individuals described in paragraph (a) of this section upon:
(1) A written determination by Treasury's Senior Agency Official, under Section 5.4(d) of Executive Order 13292, that access is consistent with the interest of the national security; and
(2) Receipt of the individual's written agreement to safeguard classified information, including taking all appropriate steps to protect classified information from unauthorized disclosure or compromise. This written agreement must also include the individual's consent to have any and all notes (including those prepared or stored in electronic media, whether written or oral) reviewed by authorized Treasury personnel to ensure that no classified information is contained therein and, if so, that the classified information is not published.
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(A) A historical researcher is not authorized to have access to foreign government information or information classified by another Federal department or agency.
(B) A former Treasury Presidential or Vice Presidential appointee is only authorized access to classified information that the former official originated, reviewed, signed or received while serving as such an appointee.
(C) A former President or Vice President is only authorized access to classified information that was prepared by Treasury while that individual was serving as President or Vice President.
(ii) Granting access to classified information pursuant to this section does not constitute the granting of a security clearance for access to classified information.
(d) Treasury personnel will coordinate access to classified information by individuals described in paragraph (a) of this section with the Director, Office of Security Programs, who will ensure that the written agreement described in paragraph (b)(2) of this section is signed as a condition of being granted access to classified information.
(e) Any review of classified information by an individual described in paragraph (a) of this section shall take place in a location designated by the Director, Office of Security Programs. Such persons must be accompanied at all times by appropriately authorized Treasury personnel authorized to have access to the classified information being reviewed. All notes (including those prepared or stored in electronic media, whether written or oral) made by an individual described in paragraph (a) of this section shall remain in the custody of the Office of Security Programs pending a determination by appropriately cleared subject matter experts that no classified information is contained therein.
(f) An individual described in paragraph (a) of this section is subject to search, as are all packages or carrying cases prior to entering or leaving Treasury. Access to Treasury-originated classified information at another Federal department or agency, as may be authorized by the Director, Office of Security Programs shall be governed by security protocols in effect at the other Federal department or agency.
(g) Treasury personnel must perform a physical verification and an accounting of all classified information each time such information is viewed by an individual described in paragraph (a) of this section. Physical verification and an accounting of all classified information shall be made both prior to and after viewing. Any discrepancy must be immediately reported to the Director, Office of Security Programs.
(h) An individual described in paragraph (a) of this section may be charged reasonable fees for services rendered by Treasury in connection with the review of classified information under this section. To the extent such services involve searching, reviewing, and copying material, the provisions of § 2.1(b)(8) shall apply.
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@michelschimek8648 From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
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@Tiera Sky - present any evidence for ghosts, spirits, fairies, angels, goblins, elves, pixies, Santa, unicorns, or the tooth fairy -- if you can provide incontrovertible evidence, you will convince me they exist.
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@cryMoreLoL 😁
From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@pinch857 - totally disagree with you on Trump's response. He has been an utter, abysmal failure.
South Korea & the US had their first documented case at the same time. Look at their response & ours.
Trump was briefed in January, but he did next to nothing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html
Trump has been lying his ass off to avoid spooking Wall Street. That strategy backfired because they're not stupid. Every time he opened his mouth at a press conference, the market tanked -- because by then it was evident that he was lying.
His administration has decimated the very centers of government designed to handle such epidemics. The Pandemic Response Unit in the NSC was dissolved. Personnel in the CDC & NIH were gutted to the point that the very "institutional memory" required for continued functionality was impacted. This was largely due to the "deep state paranoia.
He has been ineffectual in his own leadership & in delegation. Rather than appoint a competent leader to manage the Task Force, he appointed Pence -- who has a poor record of crisis management as Governor. Now he's assigned his unqualified son-in-law to be involved in the task force.
The equipment, supplies, logistics, have been in shambles. There is insufficient testing. Coordination with States & leadership by the federal government is a circus.
The pettiness, squabbling, name calling, blame assignment, & divisiveness emanating from the WH in this crisis is corrosive & demoralizing.
When questioned over the lack of PPE, to divert from his ineptitude, Trump insinuated, without a shred of proof, that masks are being stolen in NY.
There are several credible reports of him playing favorites with certain states with regard to allocation of supplies. Trump himself said "if they're not nice I don't call them" & then turned on the gaslighting when he got called out on it.
The governors are the only ones holding things together.
I could go on but I'd run out room ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-trump-closed/2020/03/13/a70de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/trump-defended-cuts-public-health-agencies/608158/
https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/news/jared-kushner-is-reportedly-leading-a-chaotic-coronavirus-shadow-task-force-after-telling-trump-in-the-outbreaks-early-days-the-crisis-was-overblown/articleshow/74712798.cms
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It would be along these lines:
"Economists said the move appeared designed to try to support the ruble, which has collapsed against other currencies since Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and Western countries responded with far-reaching sanctions against Moscow. But some analysts expressed doubt that it would work.
“Demanding payment in rubles is a curious and probably ultimately ineffective approach to attempting an end run around Western financial sanctions,’’ said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University. “Rubles are certainly easier to come by now that the currency is collapsing. But exchanging other currencies for rubles will be quite difficult given the widespread financial sanctions imposed on Russia.”
“The hope that demanding payment in rubles will increase demand for the currency and thereby prop up its value,” Prasad added, “is also a false hope given all the downward pressures on the currency.’’
Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, said: “It’s not an obvious move to me, since the (Russian) economy needs a supply of foreign currency in order to pay for imports — and energy is one of the few sources left.”
Vinicius Romano, a senior analyst at Rystad Energy, suggested that Moscow’s insistence on payments in rubles “may give buyers cause to reopen other aspects of their contracts — such as the duration — and simply speed up their exit from Russian gas altogether.”
-- WSJ
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@hendricklenius7983 illegal refers to one that is done without following the constitution or one that is not internationally recognized as being legitimate.
Along these lines:
From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@PerceivedREALITY999
Ukraine accuses Russian soldiers of ‘kidnapping teachers and burning books’ in Kherson
Thursday 18 August 2022
Vladimir Putin’s soldiers are kidnapping teachers and burning books in Russian-held Ukraine, Kyiv has claimed.
Russian occupiers are reportedly attempting to force school leaders in captured areas such as Kherson to teach pro-Kremlin material.
Under plans for the new school year, lessons will have to be taught in Russian, and certain historical events will not be taught at length, including Holodomor, the famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s. The deaths were the result of Joseph Stalin’s agricultural policies.
However, it appears that Ukrainian teachers are resisting the changes and have been targeted as a result.
“They [the Russians] are making arrests in Kherson region for teaching the Ukrainian school curriculum, and burning Ukrainian books. It’s barbaric, in the 21st century,” said Ukraine’s education minister, Serhiy Shkarlet.
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@chico9805 From The Guardian:
"The Russian navy has been given orders to lay mines at the ports of Odesa and Ochakiv, and has already mined the Dnieper River, as part of a blockade of Ukrainian grain exports, according to newly declassified US intelligence.
US officials also released satellite images showing the damage inflicted by Russian missile strikes earlier this month on Ukraine’s second biggest grain terminal at nearby Mykolaiv, at a time when the interruption of grain exports threatens to trigger a global famine. Sunflower oil storage tanks at Mykolaiv came under attack on Wednesday.
Russia has denied laying mines around the Black Sea ports, and has turned around the allegations on Kyiv, claiming instead the Ukrainians have mined their own ports.
The US says its intelligence points to a concerted Russian strategy to cut off the stretch of the coast still under Ukrainian control. “The United States has information that the Black Sea fleet is under orders to effectively blockade the Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Ochakiv,” a US official said.
“We can confirm that despite Russia’s public claims that it is not mining the north-western Black Sea, Russia actually is deploying mines in the Black Sea near Ochakiv. We also have indication that Russian forces previously mined the Dnieper River.”
“The impact of Russia’s actions, which have caused a cessation of maritime trade in the northern third of the Black Sea and made the region unsafe for navigation, cannot be understated, as Ukraine’s seaborne exports are vital to global food security,” the official said, pointing out that Ukraine supplied a 10th of global wheat exports and about 95% of those exports left the country through the Black Sea ports."
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@seliris5941 - unfortunately your example is vague.
Gates doesn't "dictate" to countries. His foundation works with governments, WHO, the CDC, etc
Here's an example:
Forty million children in Africa Region vaccinated against polio following re-start of campaigns
"N’Djamena – One of the largest polio immunization campaigns in the African Region this year has just concluded in Chad, where over 3.3 million children in 91 districts were vaccinated. This pushes the total number of children vaccinated against polio to over forty million across 16 countries in the Region, since campaigns resumed following a necessary pause in immunizations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While Africa was declared free of the wild poliovirus in August 2020, another form of polio continues to affect children: circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, or cVDPV. This type of polio is rare and can only occur in areas where not enough children are immunized. The only way to stop spread of cVDPV is through immunization.
The current type 2 cVDPV outbreak in Chad was detected in February 2020—yet immunizations were halted due to COVID-19 and the virus spread to 36 districts across the country, paralyzing more than 80 children and even leading to cases in neighbouring Sudan and the Central African Republic.
About polio eradication
》》》》 The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is spearheaded by WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Source: ReliefWeb
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from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
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@Julie Ann Myers - I couldn't agree with you more. This is a short checklist that I post often:
Does any of this sound familiar?
Putin's playbook:
1. Undermine institutions, judiciary, & checks on power
2. Discredit/besmirsh the media by spinning it as "fake", biased, etc
3. Label opposition as traitors, "deep state"
4. Create labels for processes which attempt to check your power or hold you accountable: witch hunt, hoax, etc
5. Spread & feed nonsensical conspiracy theories.
6. Deflection & liberal use of "whataboutism"
7. Lie, lie, lie. And lie some more.
8. Deny, deny, deny And deny some more.
9. Obstruct & refuse to cooperate with any attempts at holding you accountable.
10. Divide the electorate. Sow division, create an "us vs them" narrative
11. Scapegoating: blame others for everything: other parties, other people, other countries. As long as you can assign blame, you can be the hero.
12. Provide an alternate reality.
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@@user-df2sw4gd5hhe should not have been honored in Parliament. That was a big-time screw up.
But people in the audience cannot be blamed. Some are saying anyone who fought against the Soviets was a German collaborator & that the audience should have known this & not applauded. Utter nonsense.
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian: Українська повстанська армія, УПА, romanized: Ukrayins'ka Povstans'ka Armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and partisan formation founded by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists on October 14, 1942.[1] During World War II, it was engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Soviet Union, the Polish Underground State, Communist Poland, and Nazi Germany.[2] ⬅️
OUN's goal was to drive out occupying powers and set up an independent government, it would be achieved by a national revolution led by a leader with dictatorial power; OUN accepted violence as a political tool against enemies of their cause.[3] In order to achieve this goal, a number of partisan units were formed, merged into a single structure in the form of the UPA, which was created on 14 October 1942. From February 1943, the organization fought against the Germans in Volhynia and Polesia.[4] At the same time, its forces fought an evenly matched war against the Polish resistance,[5] during which the UPA carried out an ethnic cleansing of the Polish population of Volhynia and eastern Galicia, resulting in between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths.[6][7][8][9] From late spring 1944, the UPA and OUN-B – faced with Soviet advances – cooperated with German forces against the Soviets and Poles in the hope of creating an independent Ukrainian state.[10]
After the Germans were pushed out, Soviet NKVD units fought against the UPA, which led armed resistance against Soviets until 1949. On the territory of communist Poland, the UPA tried to prevent the forced deportation of Ukrainians from western Galicia to the Soviet Union until 1947.[5]
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leonardimas1 - "explorer", huh?
"Christopher Columbus, who never set foot on the mainland of North America, instead oversaw the colonization of Hispaniola, a Caribbean island that would become the Dominican Republic and Haiti. There, according to David Treuer’s The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, published earlier this year: “Columbus was regularly shipping Indians back to Spain, where they were sold in Andalusian markets.” In addition to trafficking in slaves, Columbus and his brothers maintained colonial rule, according to Treuer’s book, through such brutality as cutting off the noses of thieves and the tongues of those who dared to criticize them."
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/14/us-columbus-day-holiday-celebrates-shameful-past#
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@gerri577 another ruzzian simp rewriting history.
"when the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, the resulting independent states recognized one another in their then-existing borders. Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine violated, among other agreements, the UN Charter, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, the 1994 Budapest Memorandum of Security Assurances for Ukraine and the 1997 Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Ukraine and Russia."
And they didn't "leave their base there" -- the base was leased from Ukraine.
April 2010
"Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovych, today agreed to extend the lease on Russia's naval base in the Crimea, in the most explicit sign yet of his new administration's tilt towards Moscow.
Yanukovych said the lease on Russia's Black Sea fleet that was due to expire in 2017 will be prolonged for 25 years, until 2042 at least.
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Don't be too hard on them. It's really a tough choice between a pathogical liar, s3xual predator, divisive name-caller, corrupt, nepotistic, egomaniac who tried to overturn an election, incited an insurrection that led to deaths, who stole classified documents, conspired to hide that fact from investigators, who mishandled the pandemic that resulted in crashing the economy & the deaths of over a million Americans, & felon -- and a former VP & prosecutor.
Tough choice ...
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@rainphantom7024 - you're supporting an incoherent, babbling fool.
Trump, on his 2nd term agenda:
"Well, one of the things that will be really great, you know, the word experience is still good,” Trump said while turning to the audience. “I always say talent is more important than experience. I’ve always said that. But the word experience is a very important word. It’s an, a very important meaning.”
"I never did this before. I never slept over in Washington. I was in Washington, I think, 17 times. All of a sudden, I’m president of the United States. You know the story. I’m riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our first lady and I say, ‘This is great,'” Trump said. “But I didn’t know very many people in Washington, it wasn’t my thing. I was from Manhattan, from New York. Now, I know everybody, and I have great people in the administration.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-cant-name-one-priority-if-re-elected-1020846/
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@nickngunjiri4282 I highly doubt you would be maintaining that position if it were a white apartheid government being caught supplying weapons to Russia.
For the record:
Mandela’s South Africa makes case for potency of economic sanctions
ByJonathan Zimmerman, PBS December 19, 2013
"In 1993, on the eve of black majority rule in South Africa, Time magazine asked Nelson Mandela if economic sanctions against the country helped speed the demise of its apartheid system. “Oh, there is no doubt,” Mandela replied.
Throughout his 27 years in prison — and right up until he assumed leadership of the new South Africa — Mandela was an unequivocal supporter of sanctions as a weapon of global justice. Yet we’ve heard almost nothing about that legacy amid all the paeans to Mandela, who died on Dec. 5 at the age of 95.
Exiled African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo told Nelson Mandela in the 1980s, near the end of Mandela’s prison term. “Don’t maneuver yourself into a situation where we have to abandon sanctions,” Tambo wrote Mandela, who had opened secret negotiations with South African president P. W. Botha. “We are very concerned that we should not get stripped of our weapons of struggle, and the most important of these is sanctions.”
So Mandela held firm on that. And after he was released in 1990, he continued to press for sanctions against South Africa. “To lift sanctions now would be to run the risk of aborting the process towards the complete eradication of apartheid,” Mandela declared, in his first public speech upon leaving prison.
And he repeated the message later that year in his triumphal trip to the United States, which had instituted sanctions on South Africa, over president Ronald Reagan’s veto, in 1986. Like many opponents of sanctions today, Reagan insisted that they would harm — not protect — the victims of oppression.
Mandela wasn’t having it. “We still have a struggle on our hands,” Mandela told a joint session of Congress, insisting that sanctions should remain in place. And the following year, when President George H. W. Bush lifted them, Mandela blasted him for acting prematurely.
Only with the establishment of a 1993 transitional executive council in South Africa would Mandela call for an end to sanctions. Yet he continued to claim that they had provided an important boost for black freedom in South Africa, praising the “millions of people across the globe” who had demanded them.
Those people included a young African-American at Occidental College named Barack Obama, who spoke at a 1981 rally condemning the college’s investments in companies that worked in South Africa. “I am one of the countless millions who drew inspiration from Nelson Mandela’s life,” President Obama recalled, after Mandela died. “My very first political action, the first thing I ever did that involved an issue or a policy or politics, was a protest against apartheid.”
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Roger Jones
Ms. Harris also serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and “President Trump continues to make judicial nominations during the lame-duck period, and she would want to participate in the hearings,” said Ross Baker, a professor at Rutgers University and expert on the Senate.
Moreover, experts said they were unaware of any set timeline or requirement for the incoming administration to leave their old posts.
President Trump ran his private business before his inauguration. Indiana’s official website lists Vice President Mike Pence as its governor until Jan. 9, 2017, the day that its current governor was inaugurated.
Former President George W. Bush resigned as governor of Texas in late December 2000 while his vice president, Dick Cheney, retired from Halliburton before the election.
Former President Bill Clinton stepped down as governor of Arkansas in late December 1992, and former Vice President Al Gore as senator in early January 1993.
Former President George H.W. Bush never resigned from his previous post as vice president to Ronald Reagan before he stepped up to the top job. His own vice president, Dan Quayle, left the Senate in early January 1989.
Mr. Reagan and his predecessor, former President Jimmy Carter, had been out of office before their elections. Mr. Carter’s vice president, Walter Mondale, resigned from the Senate in late December 1976.
Former President Richard Nixon worked as a private lawyer before his election, and his first vice president, Spiro Agnew, left his post as governor of Maryland in January 1969.
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The Oxford English dictionary defines it like this:
"In Latin, data is the plural of datum and, historically and in specialized scientific fields , it is also treated as a plural in English, taking a plural verb, as in the data were collected and classified . In modern non-scientific use, however , despite the complaints of traditionalists, it is often not treated as a plural. Instead, it is treated as a mass noun, similar to a word like information, which cannot normally have a plural and which takes a singular verb. Sentences such as data was (as well as data were ) collected over a number of years are now widely accepted in standard English."
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Here's how they conduct "referendums":
from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@VariantAEC "have floated around the same price for the past 5 decades" -- I don't know where you get your data from about prices of robots, but FWIW:
"The average cost of industrial robots worldwide declined steadily over the past decade, from about 46,000 U.S. dollars in 2010 to 27,000 U.S. dollars in 2017. According to a recent forecast, related costs are expected to decrease to 10,856 dollars by 2025"
Source - Statista
Also, logically, they would not be in increasing use if they were not ultimately cheaper than labor.
To my point about Amazon: they obviously have found it cost effective. That explains the previous deployment of automation in their facilities AND the current testing of next gen robotics.
If you don't agree, that's fine, I have no intention of belaboring this discussion. We each are entitled to our opinions.
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@lavrentichudakoff2519 ruSSia has Nazis too, Igor.
From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@HendrikPlukaard ah, yes, because "Nazis". Of course, in this case, the ones perpetrating war crimes, genocide, territorial expansion, ethnic cleansing, torture, rape, intentional targeting of civilians -- you know the stuff actual Nazis do -- are, wait for it ... the ruzzians.
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@АлександрДухин-р3ц putin staged the civil war in Ukraine.
from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@Stevie-J I just posted the definition of the word that contradicts your post & you're calling me brainwashed? Delusional much?
You may "hate both parties", but you are definitely a Trump simp.
He said "peacefully"? 😁 yeah, that makes it ok, doesn't it?
He manipulated his half-wit followers, whipped them into a frenzy, & sent them to protest.
If he had truly intended it to be peaceful, why did he not join them, as he said he would?
If he intended it be peaceful, why did he sit on his a$$, watch it unfold on TV, & not bother to take action to prevent it escalating?
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@r.u.sirius7423 ffs, are you seriously peddling that conspiracy theory?
Ray Epps, Arizona man at U.S. Capitol riot, will be interviewed by Jan. 6 committee
--Arizona Republic, Jan 19, 2022
Ray Epps, the Arizona man who has become the central figure in a viral conspiracy theory after videos showed him encouraging people to go into the U.S. Capitol last January, will be interviewed Friday by the special House committee investigating the Capitol riot.
Within hours, the special House Committee investigating the Capitol insurrection disclosed that it had interviewed Epps and that he had denied taking part in any such government operation.
The committee said on Twitter, “Epps informed us that he was not employed by, working with, or acting at the direction of any law enforcement agency on Jan 5th or 6th or at any other time, & that he has never been an informant for the FBI or any other law enforcement agency.”
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@mikesampson3467
insurgent
/ɪnˈsəːdʒ(ə)nt/
noun
a person fighting against a government or invading force; a rebel or revolutionary.
synonyms: rebel, revolutionary, revolutionist, mutineer, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, anarchist, terrorist, bioterrorist, narco-terrorist, ecoterrorist, cyberterrorist, agroterrorist, rioter, freedom fighter, resistance fighter, traitor, renegade, Zapatista, Montonero, insurrectionist, insurrectionary
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@tonyadams2668 From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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Weak analysis, tovarisch.
It's not a war of Russian artillery vs Ukrainian artillery. It's a war of economies: Russia against the combined industrial production, military assets, & economic power of the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, & S.Korea.
Russia will not only lose, it will be humiliated.
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@fredgarvinMP on the subject of Nazis:
From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@oddvardmyrnes9040
March 25, 2022, RIA Novosti quoted Macgregor as falsely claiming in an interview with the “Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom” show, that a majority of the residents of eastern Ukraine were Russians. Calling the Russia-occupied regions of eastern Ukraine “these republics,” in language used by the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign, Macgregor said:
“These republics are fundamentally pro-Russian. And, in general, mostly Russians live in eastern Ukraine. … They should not be forced to speak Ukrainian, write Ukrainian, they are not Ukrainians.”
But the 2001 census, the last before Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, showed that most of eastern Ukraine residents are ethnic Ukrainians, with ethnic Russians the region’s largest minority.
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@hiramabiff2017 get your head out from Putin's rear end.
From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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Oh, such a poorly informed comment 🙄
from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@yellowtunes2756 fraudulent referendums, Vanya.
From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@benbailey1174 wait, what???
1. Countries don't need to launder money, unless they are trying to do something that is prohibited by law -- like the Iran Contra affair. Ukraine aid is not covert -- it is declared openly, & funded by Congress.
2. "the US issues debt..." which department or body of government are you specifically referring to?
3. "... that is purchased by the Federal Reserve" -- from whom, or from which part of government are they purchasing this debt?
4. "The proceeds from those sales are sent to Ukraine" - nope that's factually incorrect. Funding for Ukraine/Israel is approved by Congress. The funding is allocated by the Treasury to the DOD which decides which equipment from its inventory will be sent & the cost is offset against the funding grant. If it is not in inventory, a DOD requisition is issued to the supplier & paid for by DOD.
The US already has close to a trillion dollar Pentagon budget so your convoluted "money laundering" scheme is not necessary, nor is it reality. Yes, defense contractors are contributing to politicians' campaigns -- but so are every other special interests group, including the NRA & Elon Musk.
I don't know where you got those claims from, but it is nothing but misinformation. However, if you have a legitimate source for it, I'd be interested in seeing it.
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@benbailey1174 wait, what???
1. Countries don't need to launder money, unless they are trying to do something that is prohibited by law -- like the Iran Contra affair. Ukraine aid is not covert -- it is declared openly, & funded by Congress.
2. "the US issues debt..." which department or body of government are you specifically referring to?
3. "... that is purchased by the Federal Reserve" -- from whom, or from which part of government are they purchasing this debt?
4. "The proceeds from those sales are sent to Ukraine" - nope that's factually incorrect. Funding for Ukraine/Israel is approved by Congress. The funding is allocated by the Treasury to the DOD which decides which equipment from its inventory will be sent & the cost is offset against the funding grant. If it is not in inventory, a DOD requisition is issued to the supplier & paid for by DOD.
The US already has close to a trillion dollar Pentagon budget so your convoluted "money laundering" scheme is not necessary, nor is it reality. Yes, defense contractors are contributing to politicians' campaigns -- but so are every other special interests group, including the NRA & Elon Musk.
I don't know where you got those claims from, but it is nothing but misinformation. However, if you have a legitimate source for it, I'd be interested in seeing it.
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@parkerrowe4687 dude, there are media sources that are honest but are sometimes misled by sources. To lump them all as "msm can't be trusted" & then consume news from sources that are "independent journalists" is stupidity at the highest level.
No one can tell who funds these "independent journalists", what their agenda is, & what their sources are.
Lancaster, for example, is clearly biased & a propagandist. His videos are often staged, his reporting is one sided, he asks leading questions & suggests answers when he wants a certain response. He is embedded with Russian forces -- which other western journalists are embedded with Russian forces? That alone should raise red flags. And on top of that, his reports are constantly used in Russian State TV propaganda.
Scott Ritter, who has become a Kremlin shill, is a convicted sex offender. He was in debt, had no income from TV appearances because MSM would not use him. Guess who bailed him out? RT. Now he appears on sites like the Duran, & Grayzone, cheerleading this invasion. So why would I trust those outlets either?
Not to mention Mercouris, a co-founder of Duran, is a disgraced, disbarred barrister who was convicted of forgery. He also was in debt, then, lo & behold, he was resurrected as a Russia "expert".
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Well said. I might also add that Putin has engineered the civil war in Ukraine.
from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@dankoebel7603 there was no plot set. But after he lost, he made moves that look suspiciously malicious. Follow this time line:
Nov. 16, 2020 — Congressional Republicans, responding to news reports that the Trump administration will rapidly reduce forces in Afghanistan, warn of what Sen. Marco Rubio calls “a Saigon-type of situation” in Afghanistan. “A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says.
Nov. 17, 2020 — Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller formally announces that the U.S. will reduce U.S. forces in Afghanistan to 2,500 by Jan. 15, 2021.
On the same day, the Defense Department IG’s office released a report for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 2020, that said the peace negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives had stalled and violence increased. “At the same time, the Taliban increased its attacks against Afghan forces, leading to ‘distressingly high’ levels of violence that could threaten the peace agreement,” the report said.
Dec. 2, 2020 — After past false starts, Afghan and Taliban negotiators agree on a framework to govern peace negotiations. “At the same time, the Taliban continued its ‘fight and talk’ strategy, increasing violence across the country to increase its leverage with the Afghan government in negotiations,” the Defense Department IG’s office said a quarterly report covering this period.
The IG report also continued to warn that the Taliban was apparently violating the withdrawal agreement. “This withdrawal is contingent on the Taliban abiding by its commitments under the agreement, which include not allowing terrorists to use Afghan soil to threaten the United States and its allies,” the report said. “However, it was unclear whether the Taliban was in compliance with the agreement, as members of al-Qaeda were integrated into the Taliban’s leadership and command structure.”
Jan. 15 — “Today, U.S. force levels in Afghanistan have reached 2,500,” Miller, the acting defense secretary, says in a statement. “[T]his drawdown brings U.S. forces in the country to their lowest levels since 2001.”
Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh tells the BBC that the Trump administration made too many concessions to the Taliban. “I am telling [the United States] as a friend and as an ally that trusting the Taliban without putting in a verification mechanism is going to be a fatal mistake,” Saleh says, adding that Afghanistan leaders warned the U.S. that “violence will spike” as the 5,000 Taliban prisoners were released. “Violence has spiked,” he added.
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To all the armchair economists on this thread:
People much smarter than you say otherwise:
"Economists said the move appeared designed to try to support the ruble, which has collapsed against other currencies since Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and Western countries responded with far-reaching sanctions against Moscow. But some analysts expressed doubt that it would work.
“Demanding payment in rubles is a curious and probably ultimately ineffective approach to attempting an end run around Western financial sanctions,’’ said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University. “Rubles are certainly easier to come by now that the currency is collapsing. But exchanging other currencies for rubles will be quite difficult given the widespread financial sanctions imposed on Russia.”
“The hope that demanding payment in rubles will increase demand for the currency and thereby prop up its value,” Prasad added, “is also a false hope given all the downward pressures on the currency.’’
Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, said: “It’s not an obvious move to me, since the (Russian) economy needs a supply of foreign currency in order to pay for imports — and energy is one of the few sources left.”
Vinicius Romano, a senior analyst at Rystad Energy, suggested that Moscow’s insistence on payments in rubles “may give buyers cause to reopen other aspects of their contracts — such as the duration — and simply speed up their exit from Russian gas altogether.”
-- WSJ
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@worldcitizen4000 sh1tholes like Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua,Brazil support the Moscow Midget Murderer.
"The governments of Argentina, Colombia, and Chile have strongly condemned the Russian invasion with Colombian President, Iván Duque, speaking out against Russia’s authoritative misuse of power. The foreign ministry of Argentina further called for Russia to cease all military actions while Chile gave its support to the heavy sanctions imposed on Russia by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Furthermore, the Latin American leaders from Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay signed a joint letter denouncing the invasion. On 24 February 2022, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for Russia “not to invade.” Due to Mexico’s foreign policy being regulated under the Estrada Doctrine, Mexico is unable to intervene or impose sanctions on Russia."
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@odinbiflindi From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@YG1935 trump usually lies when he opens his mouth. He's not fit to be president. According to economists, his China tariffs will increase inflation.
He promised he'd fix the border issue in his first term. He lied. Instead he passed tax cuts for himself, his cronies, corporations, & the 1%.
I'm voting for no insurrections, no corruption, no fraudulent overturning of elections, no nepotism, no cozying up to dictators, no divisiveness, no childish name calling, no Project 2025, & a stronger manufacturing industry, strongest stock market, & a government that cares about the middle class instead of billionaires.
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@YG1935 trump usually lies when he opens his mouth. He's not fit to be president. According to economists, his China tariffs will increase inflation.
He promised he'd fix the border issue in his first term. He lied. Instead he passed tax cuts for himself, his cronies, corporations, & the 1%.
I'm voting for no insurrections, no corruption, no felons, no fraudulent overturning of elections, no nepotism, no cozying up to dictators, no divisiveness, no childish name calling, no Project 2025, & a stronger manufacturing industry, strongest stock market, & a government that cares about the middle class instead of billionaires.
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@adrianlouw2499 From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@jamiefarrahi4398
In late July, Trump had a falling out with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson in a heated phone call when the president chided the casino mogul for not doing enough to help his reelection bid. The conversation, apparently initiated by Adelson, was meant to be over the coronavirus relief bill and the economy but quickly degenerated with Republican Party officials left to try and salvage the situation.
Adelson – who has been one of Trump and the Republican Party's aces for years – has cut the president off financially and is privately telling people in Las Vegas that he personally blames him for having lost billions, according to an unverified claim by Pesach Lattin, a Las Vegas-based online advertising and media expert.
If this were true, it would be a serious blow to Trump and other billionaire donors are either afraid to or refuse to get on board. For example, in 2019, fitness company executive Stephen Ross was famously boycotted by Equinox and SoulCycle for hosting a Hamptons fundraiser for Trump's campaign. Ross is not alone as top donors continue to see consequences – personally or financially – for supporting the president, which makes backing Trump a serious liability. Other donors are simply fed up with Trump's coronavirus response.
To no surprise, Trump's America First Action Super PAC is being out-raised by pro-Biden Super PAC Priorities USA, which has been attacking the president nonstop in scorching ads.
It appears that wealthy donors who admire the president are focusing on maintaining the Senate majority and licking their wounds if Trump ends up losing. Other wealthy donors, reflected as well in a huge wave of Republican officials endorsing Biden, are jumping ship and timidly supporting Biden after seeing the president's disastrous coronavirus response that has no doubt affected their revenue.
From the NY Times
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@jamiefarrahi4398 - You're all over the place with your post. But I'll address 2 aspects of it:
-The US is, & has always been, an oligarchy.
-The 2 parties are 2 sides of the same coin
- It's better for the oligarchy under the Republicans, but when the Dems are in power, they too cater to the oligarchy albeit to a slightly lower extent.
- The dems have a left wing that attempts to push for working class issues: Medicare for all, eliminating student debt, a living minimum wage, etc.
The Republicans don't even make an attempt at working for the working class. The last 4 years are testament to that, but go to the Reagan era & it was evident back then.
So why does the oligarchy back dems? Wouldn't you want your interests protected?
Does it work differently in any other countries? Let me know which ones ...
Censorship: private companies have the right to regulate their platforms. Censorship by the government is an entirely different animal. Apples & oranges.
The free market has allowed certain platforms to grow. But if their power is deemed inappropriate, the free market can change that. People unhappy with Twitter policies are free to express their views on Parler. Likewise, there is a YouTube alternative.
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@Angiebaby99 dig a little deeper, darlin'
from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@ahmedvawda1282 from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@alasdairmmorrison74 ahhm, ah, erm, err, I'll, er am, get, ar, back, erm ah, uh, to , er, you, erm, ah, uhm, er, on, ehm, ah, um that ...
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Unfortunately there are few western fools that have become Kremlin mouthpieces. MacGregor, Mearsheimer, Oliver Stone, Roger Waters, Scott Ritter, Tucker Carlson, etc.
And of course the propaganda shills like Mercouris, Christoforou, Lancaster, Duggan, etc
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"Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
From: 'We Would Have Lost': Did U.S. Lend-Lease Aid Tip The Balance In Soviet Fight Against Nazi Germany? - Rferl
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@jeffbradley876 - Trump said he'd bring back coal jobs. You can go work in a coal mine now. Oh, wait that didn't happen ...
He's played clowns like you with bullsh*t promises. All his tacky merchandise is made in China. Everything in his hotels is from China.
He's not done a damn thing other than enrich himself, his family, & his cronies, & play golf. The most corrupt administration ever.
How's his healthcare plan? Oh wait, that didn't happen.
How's the wall that Mexico paid for? Oh wait, that didn't happen.
How's Hillary in lock up? Oh wait, that didn't happen.
How's the steel jobs & auto manufacturing jobs that came back? Oh wait, that didn't happen.
How's the management of the pandemic? Oh wait, that didn't happen.
But, but, but communism ...
Ironically, if there was actual socialism, you'd benefit the most. But thanks to your brainwashing, you'll continue to vote against your own interests. Can't say I feel sorry for you.
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Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian: Українська повстанська армія, УПА, romanized: Ukrayins'ka Povstans'ka Armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and partisan formation founded by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists on October 14, 1942.[1] During World War II, it was engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Soviet Union, the Polish Underground State, Communist Poland, and Nazi Germany.[2] ⬅️
OUN's goal was to drive out occupying powers and set up an independent government, it would be achieved by a national revolution led by a leader with dictatorial power; OUN accepted violence as a political tool against enemies of their cause.[3] In order to achieve this goal, a number of partisan units were formed, merged into a single structure in the form of the UPA, which was created on 14 October 1942. From February 1943, the organization fought against the Germans in Volhynia and Polesia.[4] At the same time, its forces fought an evenly matched war against the Polish resistance,[5] during which the UPA carried out an ethnic cleansing of the Polish population of Volhynia and eastern Galicia, resulting in between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths.[6][7][8][9] From late spring 1944, the UPA and OUN-B – faced with Soviet advances – cooperated with German forces against the Soviets and Poles in the hope of creating an independent Ukrainian state.[10]
After the Germans were pushed out, Soviet NKVD units fought against the UPA, which led armed resistance against Soviets until 1949. On the territory of communist Poland, the UPA tried to prevent the forced deportation of Ukrainians from western Galicia to the Soviet Union until 1947.[5]
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From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@MuxauJ7 as usual, Russians simply LIE.
From The Guardian:
"The Russian navy has been given orders to lay mines at the ports of Odesa and Ochakiv, and has already mined the Dnieper River, as part of a blockade of Ukrainian grain exports, according to newly declassified US intelligence.
US officials also released satellite images showing the damage inflicted by Russian missile strikes earlier this month on Ukraine’s second biggest grain terminal at nearby Mykolaiv, at a time when the interruption of grain exports threatens to trigger a global famine. Sunflower oil storage tanks at Mykolaiv came under attack on Wednesday.
Russia has denied laying mines around the Black Sea ports, and has turned around the allegations on Kyiv, claiming instead the Ukrainians have mined their own ports.
The US says its intelligence points to a concerted Russian strategy to cut off the stretch of the coast still under Ukrainian control. “The United States has information that the Black Sea fleet is under orders to effectively blockade the Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Ochakiv,” a US official said.
“We can confirm that despite Russia’s public claims that it is not mining the north-western Black Sea, Russia actually is deploying mines in the Black Sea near Ochakiv. We also have indication that Russian forces previously mined the Dnieper River.”
“The impact of Russia’s actions, which have caused a cessation of maritime trade in the northern third of the Black Sea and made the region unsafe for navigation, cannot be understated, as Ukraine’s seaborne exports are vital to global food security,” the official said, pointing out that Ukraine supplied a 10th of global wheat exports and about 95% of those exports left the country through the Black Sea ports."
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@LeonAllanDavis while you ponder on my previous reply, here are some fact checks:
"The US claims all the credit ..." -- that's news to me. On the contrary, the Russians claim they defeated Germany & as evidence cite their casualty numbers, all the while ignoring or minimizing the support of the Allies -- from Lend-Lease to the Normandy landings that opened up a 2nd front.
"The Russians lost maybe 25% of their people" ... no, the figure is 12.7% -- literally half of what you claim
"The Russians lost upwards of 27 million ..." -- er, no, that's the SOVIET UNION. You are falling for the current Kremlin revisionist narrative that it was solely Russia that fought, bled, & died -- when it was the members of the Soviet Union -- that includes Ukrainians & Belarusians who suffered the highest casualties as a percentage of their populations -- Russia ranks 6th on that list:
Deaths as % of 1940 Population
Belorussian SSR: 25.3%
Ukrainian SSR: 16.3%
Latvian SSR: 13.7%
Armenian SSR: 13.6%
Lithuanian SSR: 12.7%
Russian SFSR: 12.7%
"Baerbock: ...at war with Russia" -- interesting that you'd bring up something that is clearly being twisted by Russian propaganda. Her wording was bad, no doubt, but the context was that she was saying that infighting within EU must stop in order to concentrate on the Russia-Ukraine war. The German Government & Chancellor further clarified her remarks & reiterated that neither Germany nor NATO are parties to the conflict. Source: "Germany says it is not a warring party in Ukraine" - DW
"Azov": yes, neo nazis formed Azov as a result of the weak Ukrainian military & its inability to defend the country from Russian-backed separatists in 2014. They are no longer a "neo nazi unit" -- though undoubtedly some neo nazis are still within its ranks, as I'm sure there are some covert elements of neo-Nazis among all European, American, & Russian forces. To focus on this 1 unit & label the entire country as nazis, is once again Kremlin propaganda.
Sources:
"Much Azov about nothing: How the ‘Ukrainian neo-Nazis’ canard fooled the world"
-Alasdair McCallum, Monash University
&
"What is Azov Regiment? Honest answers to the most common questions"
- Vyacheslav Likhachev, Euromaidan Press
Finally, "For Russians the trauma ... memories are raw ..." -- curiously, the memories of the Soviet contributions to starting WW2 -- in particular, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact & Stalin's alliance with Germany to invade & carve up Poland; as well as Soviet annexation of the Baltic States, & Soviet invasion of Finland -- seem to have suffered from severe bouts of amnesia.
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@earlwoody7084 those intentions were set up in the Trump negotiations with the Taliban. Stop your partisan bullsh*t.
"it was the Trump administration that brokered a deal with the Taliban to pull out US troops. The agreement, signed in February 2020, stipulated that US troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan within 14 months ; the deal was much criticized for acceding to the Taliban demand of not including the Afghan government. At the time, the Taliban already controlled nearly half of the country.
Biden largely upheld the Trump-era deal, though he didn't follow that exact timeline. Many observers argued the US's agreement in principle to depart cost it leverage it could have used to compel the Taliban to adhere to the peace deal and the possibly of a cessation of hostilities.
After the negotiations, Trump began slimming down the US' presence. By mid-January, there were only about 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. To put this into perspective, there were more US troops deployed to Washington, DC, as a result of the January 6 insurrection than the number deployed in Afghanistan.
An Afghan special forces officer told the Washington Post that Trump's withdrawal deal demoralized Afghan troops and made them feel as though a Taliban takeover was inevitable. "The day the deal was signed we saw the change. Everyone was just looking out for himself," the officer said.
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@redacted7060
"Russia has grabbed roughly one million square miles from China in the treaties of Aigun and Beijing in 1858-1860 – an area called “Outer Manchuria,” the northern periphery of Manchuria up until that point – and the territory has hitherto been known as the Russian Far East, with Vladivostok and Khabarovsk established there by Russian colonists. Chinese historiography still considers these treaties as “unequal treaties,” the Western humiliation of China, and thus even if legally legitimate, they are at least morally illegitimate. Mongolia as well as the Tuvan autonomous republic of Russia were parts of China until the fall of the Qing Empire in 1911. Russia first supported them gaining de facto independence in the 1910s with Mongolia serving as a strategic buffer state against China. Then, the Bolsheviks expanded communist rule to Mongolia and Tuva as well. After the Second World War, the Soviet Union achieved formal recognition of Mongolia’s independence by the People’s Republic of China, and annexed Tuva directly. Sino-Soviet cooperation after the communist victory in China in 1949 lasted a mere decade, and after the Sino-Soviet split occurred in the late 1950s, the two great powers even fought a brief border war in 1969 alongside the very sections of the border that Russia acquired in the unequal treaties of 1858-1860."
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@v.l.sirjunior5768 from 2014
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@veemo8405 if you look at the actual numbers, which I guarantee you haven't, you'll find that oil imports from Russia have been fairly consistent for the past three years.
So that pathetic dig at Biden is nothing but partisan hyperbole.
The Germans, otoh, are fully dependent on Russian gas, & they, more than anyone else, are funding Russia.
As for the allegation about meeting Zelinskyy, that's no different from Kushner meeting the Saudis, Qataris, & Israelis. Were you concerned about his & his father-in-law's investments then or since?
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I see Hillary is locked up, the wall is built, Mexico paid for it, coal jobs are back, manufacturing is back, the "American carnage" is over, the world isn't laughing at us, China isn't building all the cr*p we buy, Wall Street elites aren't getting bailouts, corporations are no longer influencing politicians, government corruption has ceased, the opioid crisis is over, "much better" healthcare is implemented, we're no longer fighting overseas wars, our 800 based in 70 countries are reduced, our infrastructure is rebuilt ... and Trump's sh*tty merchandise & my MAGA hat are made in the good ol' US of A.
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@tugrulgul570
Al-Monitor October 31, 2019
"When Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring into northeastern Syria on Oct. 9, one of the objectives cited was the creation of a safe zone to accommodate a good part of the nearly 3.7 million Syrian refugees the country hosts. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly asserted that the refugees have cost Ankara $40 billion and slammed Western countries for allegedly contributing next to nothing. Did Turkey really spend $40 billion on Syrian refugees? Are the Syrians living off of assistance or working under harsh conditions to earn a living?
The alleged $40 billion is not clearly identifiable in official records. Certain expenditures have been officially cited over the years, but the total is nowhere close to $40 billion. Even the Court of Accounts, the country’s top public auditor, has flagged ambiguities in spending and documentation.
After the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, Turkey adopted an “open-door policy” toward Syrians fleeing the conflict, granting them “temporary protection” status. It offered them various forms of assistance and helped coordinate international aid. According to the Interior Ministry, 3,667,000 Syrians were registered as individuals under temporary protection as of September, while some 360,000 refugees had returned home.
At an international gathering in February, Erdogan said Turkey had spent more than $37 billion of its own national resources on the refugees. By October, the figure had grown to $40 billion. The day after launching Operation Peace Spring, Erdogan threatened to unleash millions of refugees on Europe if the European Union labeled the operation an “invasion.” He charged that the EU had failed to deliver the “money it had promised” for supporting the refugees in Turkey. He added, “We have spent $40 billion so far. We could continue to spend, but we could also open the gates.”
How Erdogan arrived at $40 billion remains a mystery. Figures available in budgets and annual programs simply do not match that sum. The opposition parties claim that the amount of assistance extended to the refugees is exaggerated, with most Syrians providing for themselves, working as cheap labor. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party, was questioning the figures even two years ago, when officials put the refugee bill at $30 billion. “We still don’t know how the money was spent,” he said. “Even a grocer would keep books on revenues and expenses. But here no one knows.”
The problem of accounting has been highlighted in reports by the Court of Accounts. In 2016 after auditing the Disaster and Emergency Management Agency, which is heavily involved in the refugee effort, the court noted the lack of proper accounting of how “cash donations collected in campaigns as part of national and international humanitarian assistance” had been spent. The report called for “setting up an accounting system to provide the necessary information on national and international humanitarian aid spending to administrative and auditing authorities and the public.”
What do official documents say about the money spent on Syrian refugees? According to the 2019 Annual Program issued by the president's office, “The amount of Turkey’s humanitarian aid qualifying as official development assistance rose to $7.3 billion in 2017 from $5.9 billion in 2016. The humanitarian assistance for Syrians in our country, meanwhile, totaled $7.2 billion in 2017.”
A 2017 report by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency, meanwhile, indicates that Turkey’s official development assistance reached about $21 million for the period 2013-17, with Syrians being the primary beneficiary. Assuming that as much as 80% of that money was spent on Syrians, the average spending per year would be some $3.4 billion, totaling about $17 billion for the five years. Assuming that similar amounts were spent in 2018 and 2019, the sum for the seven years from 2013 to 2019 would total slightly less than $24 billion, some $16 billion short of the $40 billion claim.
The EU, meanwhile, had pledged 3 billion euros ($3.35 billion) for 2016 and 2017 to support humanitarian aid, education, health care and labor programs for Syrian refugees in Turkey. The money was tied to contracts for 72 projects, and eventually 1.94 billion euros ($2.2 billion) were transferred to the accounts of implementing agencies. For 2018 and 2019, the EU committed 450 million euros ($501.9 million) to five contracted projects.
According to official figures, only about 145,000 of the nearly 3.7 million Syrians in Turkey remain in refugee camps. The overwhelming majority have scattered across the country, struggling to earn a living.
In other words, the Syrians are living less on assistance and relying more on their own labor, including as employers. According to Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan’s response to a written parliamentary question, as of late February, 15,159 companies had at least one Syrian partner. The companies were mostly in Istanbul, nearby Bursa, the Mediterranean port city of Mersin and the border provinces of Gaziantep and Hatay. They deal mostly in wholesale and retail trade.
Pekcan cited official figures indicating that companies set up by Syrians employ some 10,000 Syrian workers. She added that 31,185 Syrians had work permits as of March 31, representing nearly a third of all foreigners with work permits in the country. In comparison, the figure dwarfs the number of Syrians working illegally for meager wages, which is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands."
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@ДанилВоробьёв-к6л from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@seliris5941 - here's another example, this one involving the UN, PATH & WHO:
Affordable and effective vaccine brings Africa close to elimination of meningitis A
The meningitis A vaccine for Africa, MenAfriVac, was developed in response to a plea for help from ministers of health in sub-Saharan Africa after an outbreak of meningitis A in 1996 infected over 250 000 people and killed over 25 000 in just a few months. The vaccine costs less than US$ 0.50 a dose and wherever it has been rolled out, meningitis A has disappeared.
Eliminating a deadly disease with routine immunization
“We have nearly eliminated meningitis A epidemics from Africa, but the fact is the job is not yet done,” said Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO. “Our dramatic gains against meningitis A through mass vaccination campaigns will be jeopardized unless countries maintain a high level of protection by incorporating the meningitis A vaccine into their routine childhood immunization schedules.”
The findings are reported in a special collection of 29 articles in the journal "Clinical Infectious Diseases" —with guest editors from the former Meningitis Vaccine Project, a partnership between WHO and the international health non-profit organization, PATH. The supplement, titled “The Meningitis Vaccine Project: The development, licensure, introduction and impact of a new Group A meningococcal conjugate vaccine for Africa,” was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In the opening article of the supplement, WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan, together with public health leaders from PATH UNICEF Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, among others, called the vaccine a “stunning success.” As of today, the vaccination campaigns reached more than 237 million people aged 1 through 29 years in 16 countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, and Togo). Of the 26 countries in the African meningitis belt, 10 still need to fully roll out vaccination.
“Our partnership allowed us to develop an affordable, tailor-made vaccine for use against meningitis A in sub-Saharan Africa in record time and at less than one-tenth the cost of a typical new vaccine,” said Steve Davis, president and Chief Executive Officer of PATH. “The global community should not risk squandering this amazing lifesaving investment.”
Long-term protection
Before 2010, meningitis epidemics were becoming more frequent and widespread throughout Africa, placing a great burden on individuals, families, and the health systems of affected countries.
Source: UN
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@chuckthomas1872 you're talking out of your a$$. First of all he hasn't been in power for 8 years. 2nd, the Civil War was originally orchestrated by Putin.
From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@annabellelee4535
April 27, 2018 "Pompeo also had harsh words for Moscow, as NATO alliance members put on a united front in an effort to counter Russian “aggression” conducted through military actions, cyberattacks, and other means.
“We had a lot of discussions on how to push back on Russia,” said Pompeo, who was sworn in one day earlier as the top U.S. diplomat. “The choice is really up to [President] Vladimir Putin and the Russians.”
“We would love nothing more than to have them rejoin…the democratic world and behave in ways they are not doing today,” he said.
“Russia threatens allies and partners, both militarily -- as seen through its invasions of Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 -- and through an aggressive campaign to undermine Western institutions.
“In light of Russia’s unacceptable actions, NATO is more indispensable than ever,” he said.
In response to a question from a Ukrainian reporter, he said there had been “some discussion” of Ukraine’s “potential entry to be a NATO partner,” but that “there is much work to do along the way to achieve that.”
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Does any of this sound familiar?
Putin's playbook:
1. Undermine institutions, judiciary, & checks on power
2. Discredit/besmirsh the media by spinning it as "fake", biased, etc
3. Label opposition as traitors, "deep state"
4. Create labels for processes which attempt to check your power or hold you accountable: witch hunt, hoax, etc
5. Spread & feed nonsensical conspiracy theories.
6. Deflection & liberal use of "whataboutism"
7. Lie, lie, lie. And lie some more.
8. Deny, deny, deny And deny some more.
9. Obstruct & refuse to cooperate with any attempts at holding you accountable.
10. Divide the electorate. Sow division, create an "us vs them" narrative
11. Scapegoating: blame others for everything: other parties, other people, other countries. As long as you can assign blame, you can be the hero.
12. Provide an alternate reality.
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From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@Dave Blackman - another idiotic comment. They've already been thru phase 1, 2, & 3 clinical trials & have been given EUA.
PRECLINICAL TESTING: Scientists test a new vaccine on cells and then give it to animals such as mice or monkeys to see if it produces an immune response.
PHASE 1 SAFETY TRIALS: Scientists give the vaccine to a small number of people to test safety and dosage, as well as to confirm that it stimulates the immune system.
PHASE 2 EXPANDED TRIALS: Scientists give the vaccine to hundreds of people split into groups, such as children and the elderly, to see if the vaccine acts differently in them. These trials further test the vaccine’s safety.
PHASE 3 EFFICACY TRIALS: Scientists give the vaccine to thousands of people and wait to see how many become infected, compared with volunteers who received a placebo. These trials can determine if the vaccine protects against the coronavirus, measuring what’s known as the efficacy rate. Phase 3 trials are also large enough to reveal evidence of relatively rare side effects.
EARLY OR LIMITED APPROVAL: Many countries have procedures for providing emergency authorizations for vaccines, based on preliminary evidence that they are safe and effective. In addition, some countries such as China and Russia began administering vaccines before detailed Phase 3 trial data was made public. Experts have warned of serious risks from jumping ahead of these results.
APPROVAL: Regulators review the complete trial results and plans for a vaccine’s manufacturing, and decide whether to give it full approval.
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@porkbacon4everyone227 that argument has some merits -- if independence is sought peacefully & democratically & within the rule of law.
Unfortunately, that's not what we are dealing with in Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine did not use any democratic means to seek independence. Instead they took up arms. Any country will respond with force to an armed rebellion, especially if the rebels are colluding with a foreign state.
Additionally, Eastern Ukraine was not interested in "separation" until pootin instigated the fake "separatist" movement after he invaded & annexed Crimea in 2014.
The Donbas was infiltrated with FSB & GRU agents with funding, arms, & supplies to equip the separatists pulled from the criminal element of the area. People like Igor Girkin, a former Spetsnaz soldier, & Alexander Barkashov, a RNE/RNU leader, were involved in leading this movement.
Additionally, "little green men" -- actual russian nationals & thugs like "Motorola" -- were inserted covertly to boost the ranks & present it to the world as an organic local movement. This was all documented real-time in the Vice series, "Russian Roulette". I have saved some early episodes on my channel. I suggest watching them.
If ruzzia believes Eastern Ukraine has the right to secede, why was Chechnya put down brutally when they sought independence? Why are Tartars not allowed independence?
I would appreciate an answer to those 2 questions.
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I'd like to add:
"Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
From: 'We Would Have Lost': Did U.S. Lend-Lease Aid Tip The Balance In Soviet Fight Against Nazi Germany? - Rferl
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Ok, maybe you're right. But there are other countries in the world that can come to their aid, right? China, Russia, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, UAE, to name a few.
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Speaking of nuance:
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian: Українська повстанська армія, УПА, romanized: Ukrayins'ka Povstans'ka Armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and partisan formation founded by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists on October 14, 1942.[1] During World War II, it was engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Soviet Union, the Polish Underground State, Communist Poland, and Nazi Germany.[2] ⬅️
OUN's goal was to drive out occupying powers and set up an independent government, it would be achieved by a national revolution led by a leader with dictatorial power; OUN accepted violence as a political tool against enemies of their cause.[3] In order to achieve this goal, a number of partisan units were formed, merged into a single structure in the form of the UPA, which was created on 14 October 1942. From February 1943, the organization fought against the Germans in Volhynia and Polesia.[4] At the same time, its forces fought an evenly matched war against the Polish resistance,[5] during which the UPA carried out an ethnic cleansing of the Polish population of Volhynia and eastern Galicia, resulting in between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths.[6][7][8][9] From late spring 1944, the UPA and OUN-B – faced with Soviet advances – cooperated with German forces against the Soviets and Poles in the hope of creating an independent Ukrainian state.[10]
After the Germans were pushed out, Soviet NKVD units fought against the UPA, which led armed resistance against Soviets until 1949. On the territory of communist Poland, the UPA tried to prevent the forced deportation of Ukrainians from western Galicia to the Soviet Union until 1947.[5]
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@nyali2 without the US, USSR would be speaking German today.
Learn some history & quit reciting Russian propaganda 🙄
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
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In barely 3 years, Trump has upended the system: violated norms, ethical standards, moral obligations, his oath of office, rule of law, & the Constitution. And yet he has paid no price nor suffered any consequences.
We can survive another year of this ongoing catastrophe, but beyond that, I fear for the future of the country.
Because if he survives impeachment & wins reelection, he will have shed the guardrails. And like we have seen in his 2nd & 3rd years in office, he will continue to purge the government of career service patriots, replacing them with inept sycophants & enablers. This is how autocracies begin.
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Yup.
from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@ScrappyXFL
"After a twenty-year hiatus, during which the existence of the Budapest Memorandum was all but forgotten, Russia, one of the Memorandum’s signatories, used military force to annex Ukraine’s peninsula of Crimea in March 2014. Billing Ukraine’s popular protests, which deposed its Russia-backed president Viktor Yanukovych, as a CIA-backed “coup” meant to complete the encirclement of Russia and eventually lead to Ukraine’s accession to NATO, Russia deemed its actions justified on the basis of its national security imperatives.
The United States and the United Kingdom fulfilled the letter of the Memorandum by immediately bringing the issue of the Russian violation before the UN Security Council. As noted by Ukraine’s former Ambassador to the UN Yuriy Sergeyev, despite Russia’s veto of the Security Council resolution denouncing Russian actions in Crimea in March 2014, the overwhelming support of the UN General Assembly for Ukraine’s territorial integrity left no doubt regarding the illegal nature of Russia’s land-grab.[17] The United States, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine also convened consultations of the signatories, as the memorandum envisions, but Russia refused to take part. None of these actions, however, prevented further Russian military action in Ukraine’s eastern province of Donbas, which fueled a war that so far has taken 13,000 military and civilian lives.
-- Budapest Memorandum at 25: Between Past and Future
Authors: Mariana Budjeryn Matthew Bunn
Harvard Kennedy School | March 2020
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@louiekiwi you could at least try to get your facts right before regurgitating Kremlin propaganda.
After pootin's puppet Yanukovich fled to Moscow in 2014, pootin sent his agents to destabilize, arm, & equip separatists in the Donbas. Then unmarked ruzzian forces & equipment rolled in, & ruzzia began a covert, undeclared war in the Donbas.
The "14,000 civilians" includes the civilians AND combatants on BOTH SIDES over EIGHT YEARS. Go read the OSCE reports
As a comparison, how many civilians were killed in the first 3 months of the invasion?
Also, there is a process for Secession. Taking up arms, killing government forces, colluding with a foreign power are not that process -- that's rebellion & treason. And any government anywhere in the world will respond with force. How did pootin respond to Chechens seeking independence?
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Jason Kennedy - lol ... now do trump
Actually, I'll save you the trouble, here's a sampling:
Las Vegas Sands $45,010,352
Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment & Research$45,005,600
America First $37,186,291
Walt Disney Co $10,587,474
Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation $10,500,000
Energy Transfer Equity $10,033,339
Marcus Foundation $10,000,000
Eshelman Ventures LLC $7,000,000
GH Palmer Assoc $6,005,600
Hendricks Holding Co $5,007,548
Uline Inc $4,093,652
Stephens Inc $3,519,887
Blackstone Group $3,040,361
Mountaire Corp $1,500,100
Irving Moskowitz Foundation $1,300,000
Beal Bank (Employees) $1,109,552
Cerberus Capital Management $1,089,142
RDV Corp $1,034,369
Intercontinental Exchange Inc $1,013,680
Silver Lake Partners $1,013,644
--Center for Responsive Politics
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From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@nfineon funny how all of that is regurgitated Kremlin propaganda talking points.
1. Cuban missile crisis is not a remotely close analogy. That was about nuclear weapons placed 90 miles off the US coast, not "bases". Name a single country bordering ruzzia that has nukes stationed on it.
2. If the propaganda of "8 years of bombing Donbas" were remotely true, look at pictures of Donbas before & after ruzzia invaded -- it would have looked like the aftermath of Ruzzia flattening entire cities -- & it didn't.
The war started in 2014 when the Kremlin instigated, funded, supplied, & armed separatists in the Donbas & when ruzzia annexed Crimea. FSB, GRU, & neo-nazi groups like RNU & RIM were involved in destabilizing the region.
The Ukrainian government, as would any sovereign government, responded with military force in Donbas. But they were outgunned by the separatists who had -- surprise, surprise -- heavy artillery from ruzzia. In addition, unmarked ruzzian forces & equipment aka 'little green men', participated in the hostilities while ruzzia flatly denied they were involved with troops on the ground in an undeclared, covert war on a sovereign country.
The war was intentionally waged from behind civilian areas to blame Ukrainian forces for shelling civilians targets.
Read the OSCE reports. None of them accuse the Ukrainian forces of targeting civilians. The bombing of civilians is a tactic ruzzia uses -- they did it in Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol, & now throughout Ukraine. Then they use disinformation to blame the other side, a technique called maskirovka. Read the Wikipedia entry for "Russian military deception".
3. "US supported coup": Apparently it's OK for the Kremlin to meddle in Ukraine's affairs but when it blows up in their faces, they whine about a "western coup".
Do you know why Yanukovich was ousted? Because he went against his campaign promises to apply for EU membership & instead cozied up to his puppet master in the Kremlin.
How many democratically-held elections have taken place in Ukraine since the Maidan revolution?
After Yanukovich fled, pootin sent his agents to destabilize, arm, & equip separatists in the Donbas. That's how a civil war started.
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@TheEric5050
"Kenya’s Railway is at the Center of Struggle with China over Debt"
April 4, 2023
Africa Defense Forum
Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway was billed as a major economic driver that would benefit the region. However, six years after it opened, the railway has become a financial burden for the country and a key part of its deteriorating relationship with China.
The railway was built by the China Road and Bridge Corporation under former President Uhuru Kenyatta based on a no-bid contract and with a $3.6 billion loan from China’s Exim Bank.
The China Road and Bridge feasibility study claimed the railway would be profitable by moving 22 million tons of freight a year, or 20 trains a day, every day. That’s more than double the line’s actual operating capacity, according to a study by the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis.
Instead, the railway carries a quarter of that, making it impossible for the line to pay for itself. In 2021, the railway lost $200 million. That was after Kenyatta decreed in 2019 that cargo traffic would travel by rail rather than trucks — a decision that created upheavals in the livelihood of Mombasa’s trucker community.
Shortly after being elected in 2022, President William Ruto reversed Kenyatta’s order but the government is still on the hook for repaying the loan. After several years of deferred payments, Kenya’s first payment to China in 2021 was more than $237 million. In 2022, it more than doubled to $558 million.
While Kenya’s financial leaders say its debt remains sustainable, they emphasize that the country must take action before debt crushes the economy.
“We need to be clear in the direction debt is taking us,” Patrick Njoroge, governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, said in September. “The time is now. We don’t need to wait until it is crushing us.”
Chinese loans make up 67% of Kenya’s debt, which has reached a historic $82 billion, or about three-quarters of the national gross domestic product. As Kenya’s debt payments increase, they leave less money for other purposes, such as health care and security.
Shortly after taking office, Ruto revealed three portions of the Chinese loan, which had been declared illegal by the country’s highest court because it was undertaken without a competitive process. The loan documents required the conditions be secret.
Kenya’s government has asked its Chinese lenders to extend their repayment period another 30 years on what has grown to a $5 billion loan with the addition of the $1.4 billion extension to the Naivasha Inland Container Depot. In June 2022, China fined Kenya nearly $11 million, saying it had defaulted on its railway payments. Kenya has denied that claim.
Under pressure from increasingly troubled loans around the world, China has begun pulling back on new lending and is hardening its stance on repaying its existing ones. Last year, China said it would not loan more money to extend the railway to Uganda and beyond. The railway now ends in an empty field in the Rift Valley about 320 kilometers from the Ugandan border.
In January 2023, Uganda announced it was abandoning its contract with a Chinese company in favor of a Turkish one to build its own railway from Kampala to the Kenyan border.
Njoroge told a legislative committee last fall that the railway and other Chinese-funded infrastructure projects were a drain on the economy when they should be the opposite.
“Investment in infrastructure should stimulate the economy,” he said. “Why is it that we cannot capture more turns on the investment in infrastructure?”
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@luxordfaith8506 - yeah, it was rigged by 60+ judges, SCOTUS, secretaries of state, governors, electors, Congress, Bill Barr, the FBI, Homeland Security's CISA, McConnell, Lindsey Graham, & Pence.
Now take your anti-psychotic meds.
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The oil, gas, & mineral deposits in Donbas, & control of the Black Sea.
From 2014:
2014-09-03
The Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine
"After nearly six months of fighting, Moscow’s sloppy war has yielded at least one big reward: expanded control over some of the most mineral-rich lands in Europe. Ukraine harbors some of the world’s largest reserves of titanium and iron ore, fields of untapped lithium and massive deposits of coal. Collectively, they are worth tens of trillions of dollars.
SecDev’s analysis indicates that at least $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine’s energy deposits, metals and minerals are now under Russian control. That figure accounts for nearly half the dollar value of the 2,209 deposits reviewed by the company. In addition to 63 percent of the country’s coal deposits, Moscow has seized 11 percent of its oil deposits, 20 percent of its natural gas deposits, 42 percent of its metals and 33 percent of its deposits of rare earth and other critical minerals including lithium."
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@KayInMaine -
- "And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.” -- Trump, January 22
- “It’s not a pandemic, it’s just 1 person. We have it totally under control, we’re going to be just fine” Trump, January 22
- “China has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. In particular, on behalf of the American people, I want to thank president Xi” Trump, January 26
- “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. … we think it’s going to have a very good ending for it.” -- Trump, January 30
- “I don’t take responsibility at all” -- Trump, March 13
- 4 million Americans infected with coronavirus -- the highest in the world -- July 23
- 160,000 Americans dead from Covid19 -- Aug 5
- 309,000 Americans dead from Covid19 -- Dec 18
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@TheDiamond2009 Kremlin simps talk about Maidan but ignore the fact that Russia started the separatist movement & the resulting civil war.
From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@Trudeausucks2024 Trump isn't a "weak leader"? 😄
Who do you think signed the withdrawal agreement?
Biden owns the chaotic last few weeks, but the withdrawal plan originated with Trump.
He made a terrible deal that threw away a 20 year investment the country in return for cutting & running. He caved to the Taliban, & sold out the Afghan government, in return for a promise not to harm US servicemen. John Ratliff, Trump's NSA, revealed that they were aware, while in office, that the Afghan army would collapse. Not surprising given that negotiations with the taliban were conducted without involvement of the Afghan government
• The Trump administration secured the release of the leader of the Taliban from a Pakistani jail in 2018.
• He made the withdrawal deal with the Taliban -- without including the Afghan government in negotiations.
• He continued the withdrawal despite the Taliban attacking Afghan government forces & taking over cities.
• He made the Afghan government release 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
• He withdrew almost all the troops except for 2,500 before he left office.
• And he failed to evacuate civilians, Afghan allies, & equipment simultaneously as he was drawing down the troops.
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Pity you're not smart enough to understand economics. But then, trumptards are rarely the sharpest knives in the drawer.
"Economists said the move appeared designed to try to support the ruble, which has collapsed against other currencies since Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and Western countries responded with far-reaching sanctions against Moscow. But some analysts expressed doubt that it would work.
“Demanding payment in rubles is a curious and probably ultimately ineffective approach to attempting an end run around Western financial sanctions,’’ said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University. “Rubles are certainly easier to come by now that the currency is collapsing. But exchanging other currencies for rubles will be quite difficult given the widespread financial sanctions imposed on Russia.”
“The hope that demanding payment in rubles will increase demand for the currency and thereby prop up its value,” Prasad added, “is also a false hope given all the downward pressures on the currency.’’
Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, said: “It’s not an obvious move to me, since the (Russian) economy needs a supply of foreign currency in order to pay for imports — and energy is one of the few sources left.”
Vinicius Romano, a senior analyst at Rystad Energy, suggested that Moscow’s insistence on payments in rubles “may give buyers cause to reopen other aspects of their contracts — such as the duration — and simply speed up their exit from Russian gas altogether.”
-- WSJ
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I'll offer:
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian: Українська повстанська армія, УПА, romanized: Ukrayins'ka Povstans'ka Armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and partisan formation founded by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists on October 14, 1942.[1] During World War II, it was engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Soviet Union, the Polish Underground State, Communist Poland, and Nazi Germany.[2] ⬅️
OUN's goal was to drive out occupying powers and set up an independent government, it would be achieved by a national revolution led by a leader with dictatorial power; OUN accepted violence as a political tool against enemies of their cause.[3] In order to achieve this goal, a number of partisan units were formed, merged into a single structure in the form of the UPA, which was created on 14 October 1942. From February 1943, the organization fought against the Germans in Volhynia and Polesia.[4] At the same time, its forces fought an evenly matched war against the Polish resistance,[5] during which the UPA carried out an ethnic cleansing of the Polish population of Volhynia and eastern Galicia, resulting in between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths.[6][7][8][9] From late spring 1944, the UPA and OUN-B – faced with Soviet advances – cooperated with German forces against the Soviets and Poles in the hope of creating an independent Ukrainian state.[10]
After the Germans were pushed out, Soviet NKVD units fought against the UPA, which led armed resistance against Soviets until 1949. On the territory of communist Poland, the UPA tried to prevent the forced deportation of Ukrainians from western Galicia to the Soviet Union until 1947.[5]
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@KhumatMiBra From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@YG1935 trump usually lies when he opens his mouth. He's not fit to be president. According to economists, his China tariffs will increase inflation.
He promised he'd fix the border issue in his first term. He lied. Instead he passed tax cuts for himself, his cronies, corporations, & the 1%.
I'm voting for no insurrections, no corruption, no fraudulent overturning of elections, no nepotism, no cozying up to dictators, no divisiveness, no childish name calling, no Project 2025, & a stronger manufacturing industry, strongest stock market, & a government that cares about the middle class instead of billionaires.
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Uh, no. The civil war was STARTED by Putin in 2014. FSB & GRU agents instigated, funded, supplied, & armed separatists & started the war. Then they sent their troops, aka little green men, without marking or insignia & engaged in an undeclared war against the Ukrainian government forces.
Flight MH17 and Russia's 'little green men'
"In Donbass, Russia’s approach was characterised by lending implicit support to separatist forces, while depicting them as a bottom-up, local rebellion. This kind of “hybrid warfare” blurs the boundaries between state-controlled regular armed forces and the rogue local and mercenary forces.
This strategy was viable owing to the porous border between the Donbass region and Russia (the demarcation of the Ukrainian-Russian border has long been opposed by Russia), easy transportation routes and ready volunteers within and from beyond Ukraine.
However, it was noticeable that the top commanders of the various self-proclaimed republics were Russian citizens from Moscow – such as Alexander Borodai and Igor Strelkov – the last one with extensive military experience in various hotspots in post-communist Europe."
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Don't be too hard on them. It's really a tough choice between a pathogical liar, sexual predator, divisive name-caller, corrupt, nepotistic, egomaniac who tried to overturn an election, incited an insurrection that led to deaths, who stole classified documents, conspired to hide that fact from investigators, who mishandled the pandemic that resulted in crashing the economy & the deaths of over a million Americans, & felon -- and a former VP & prosecutor.
Tough choice ...
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@milo2324 if you had any self awareness you'd look in a mirror for a close-up view of lazy thinking, as you mindlessly churn out the Kremlin propaganda talking points.
1. "Ukraine never stood a chance" ... funny, considering that 11 months later they're still taking territory back from the invader
2. No one has to listen to ruzzia. They're a chihuahua that thinks it's a pit bull. That imperialistic mindset died out in the mid 20th century. But ruzzia still thinks it can dictate, bully, & have a veto over the sovereign decisions of its neighbors.
On the one hand they keep whining about their security. Laughable when they cite a defensive alliance as a potential threat. And on the other hand, they tout their invincibility as a nuclear-armed power. So which is it? Who in their right mind is going to invade a nuclear power & for what reason?
3. Ukraine never had a chance to join NATO & ruzzia is well aware of that. That talking point is just more cattle manure to muddy the waters & brainwash simpletons like you.
Germany & France said they would not back Ukrainian membership to NATO in 2008 & that application ended up in limbo.
And then there's the glaring inconvenient fact that Russia's annexation of Crimea, & the separatist war in the Donbas, made it impossible for Ukraine to join, since NATO specifically precludes any country with border disputes or internal conflicts from joining.
4. Removal of nukes was a separate issue from NATO membership. That was to prevent proliferation. And besides, ruzzia was a party to that agreement -- an agreement that said all signatories would ensure Ukraine's sovereignty. Guess who violated it?
5. Ruzzia was also interfering -- & well before 2014. Yet thst somehow is not an issue. After their puppet Yanukovich went against his election mandate -- to join the EU -- a revolution occurred. Whether it was aided by the west is irrelevant -- & certainly none of ruzzia's business. It was the wish of the majority. And since then 2 elections have taken place.
6. I don't know what the relevance of that point is to this discussion. In any event, half of those reserves are locked in the west.
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Lazarus II - yes dummy I've heard of it ...
Professor Releases Definitive Antrim County Election Report
"After becoming the center of the controversy over the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, Antrim County and their polling systems may have some closure.
Recently, a University of Michigan professor finished his report on the discrepancies in the county election system and came to a clear conclusion, there was no fraud. All issues were human error that was quickly fixed.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel turned to UOFM professor of computer science and engineering, J. Alex Halderman to do a comprehensive analysis of what went wrong in Antrim County and how it was fixed.
The thought was to put to sleep, for certain, any more claims of fraud in the election.
The night after Election Day, the results out of Antrim County caught attention. The usually very conservative county had gone for former Vice President Joe Biden in a landslide while down ballot Republicans still did expectedly well.
That next day, county officials looked into the issue and found major discrepancies and quickly moved to a hand counting system.
With the new count, then President Donald Trump won the county by a large margin. This was in line with expectations and other races.
This spurred controversy and claims of fraud that spread to other counties across the country but all tied back to Antrim.
The results were repeatedly canvassed and approved but the claims didn’t stop, so the state turned to Halderman.
In his 54-page report, he laid out exactly what went wrong. Why and how it was fixed and most importantly, clearing any claims of fraud.
In the report, he says the county noticed errors on the ballots for parts of Central Lake, Mancelona and Warner townships.
The county turned to the election system provider to fix the issues. They sent back the corrected election information and the county clerk, Sheryl Guy, and her staff uploaded the new ballot information in those three precincts. What they should have done was upload the new software to every precinct.
The changes were not uploaded countywide which lead to votes getting skewed when entered into the computer program. Votes intended for Trump, went to Biden. So many of them, that it was easily noticed.
During his analysis, Halderman reproduced the errors and received very similar results, showing that was indeed the issue.
Antrim County is going to turn to hand counting ballots in the upcoming May election and work towards a program for the major elections, that is more reliable and double checked for human error.
As for the state, Secretary Benson says this is the definitive answer for the issues in Antrim County and there should be no doubt of fraud occurring in the 2020 election in Michigan. "
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@XgiannettoX - hold up ... you're right, there really was election fraud ...
Pennsylvania Man Charged With Voter Fraud For Casting Ballot For Trump Under Dead Mother’s Name
"A supporter of President Donald Trump in Marple Township, Pennsylvania, has been charged with voting for the president under the name of his deceased mother, the Delaware County District Attorney announced Monday, becoming the third Republican to be prosecuted for voter fraud in the battleground state.
Bruce Bartman, 70, allegedly registered his deceased mother and mother-in-law to vote using Pennsylvania’s online voter registration portal, both as Republicans, and subsequently requested and returned an absentee ballot on behalf of his late mother.
Bartman confessed to casting a ballot on behalf of his mother, the district attorney’s office said in a statement, and “explained that he cast a vote in the name of his deceased mother to reelect President Donald Trump.”
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@harisyoung4110 will Propaganda Lancaster tell you about Russian Nazis?
from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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Did you listen to every word he said about building the wall, getting Mexico to pay for it, locking up Hillary, denuclearizing North Korea, bringing coal jobs back, having a better health care plan, ending the opioid crisis, bringing manufacturing back, ending the "American carnage", draining the swamp, ending corruption ...
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@ZeroCool33 let's just ignore all the children Dolt45 killed:
"Hundreds of children have been killed and hundreds more injured by US and Afghan airstrikes in the past five years, UN data analysed by AOAV can reveal.
Between 2016-2020 (inclusive) there have, in Afghanistan, been:
3,977 total civilian casualties from airstrikes: 2,122 civilians killed, 1,855 civilians injured
1,598 total child casualties from airstrikes: 785 children killed, 813 children injured
40% of all civilian airstrike casualties were children (1,598 of 3,977)
37% of those civilians killed by airstrikes were children (785 of 2,122)
44% of those civilians injured by airstrikes were children (813 children of 1,855 total)
The majority (62% – 1,309 of 2,122) of civilian deaths from airstrikes were caused by international forces.
The majority (50% – 2,000 of 3,977) of overall civilian casualties (deaths and injuries) were also caused by international forces.
Overall casualties from international airstrikes more than tripled between 2017 and 2019, from 247 to 757."
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@operationredpill2081 - Trump was the most divisive, hateful, & hated president in modern times.
Biden's popularity is NOT what got him 81 million votes -- it was the utter disgust with the incumbent that delivered that result.
I was one of those Biden votes -- I'm almost 60, had never voted ever, was not even registered to vote prior to 2018, & I expatriated years ago.
When Trump won in 2016, I was mildly disappointed that Hillary lost but being agnostic on the race, I was actually rather optimistic on Trump's upcoming term. Of course I had not followed the campaigns at all & didn't know exactly what a colossal POS he was. That quickly became apparent in early 2017.
By 2018, I was so outraged that I registered as an overseas voter & voted in the midterms for the 1st time.
And as for "filling stadiums" as a metric, that is laughable -- we were in the midst of a pandemic, & only brainwashed Trump supporters were dumb enough to crowd public venues. The rest of us stayed at home & voted by mail. That's why Trump did his utmost to sabotage the postal service & mail-in voting.
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From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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Russia won't admit to their own Nazis. Ironic.
from 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@valleychatter2195 From The Guardian:
"The Russian navy has been given orders to lay mines at the ports of Odesa and Ochakiv, and has already mined the Dnieper River, as part of a blockade of Ukrainian grain exports, according to newly declassified US intelligence.
US officials also released satellite images showing the damage inflicted by Russian missile strikes earlier this month on Ukraine’s second biggest grain terminal at nearby Mykolaiv, at a time when the interruption of grain exports threatens to trigger a global famine. Sunflower oil storage tanks at Mykolaiv came under attack on Wednesday.
Russia has denied laying mines around the Black Sea ports, and has turned around the allegations on Kyiv, claiming instead the Ukrainians have mined their own ports.
The US says its intelligence points to a concerted Russian strategy to cut off the stretch of the coast still under Ukrainian control. “The United States has information that the Black Sea fleet is under orders to effectively blockade the Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Ochakiv,” a US official said.
“We can confirm that despite Russia’s public claims that it is not mining the north-western Black Sea, Russia actually is deploying mines in the Black Sea near Ochakiv. We also have indication that Russian forces previously mined the Dnieper River.”
“The impact of Russia’s actions, which have caused a cessation of maritime trade in the northern third of the Black Sea and made the region unsafe for navigation, cannot be understated, as Ukraine’s seaborne exports are vital to global food security,” the official said, pointing out that Ukraine supplied a 10th of global wheat exports and about 95% of those exports left the country through the Black Sea ports."
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@polkudr4828 load of crap. Those referendums were faked.
From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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Lawrence DeHarde - "In 2015, The Washington Post launched a real-time database to track fatal police shootings, and the project continues this year. As of Sunday, 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since Jan. 1, 2015. Of them, 732 were white, and 381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race).
But as data scientists and policing experts often note, comparing how many or how often white people are killed by police to how many or how often black people are killed by the police is statistically dubious unless you first adjust for population.
According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.
U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times larger than the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/
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@floridagirl9064 to be clear, both Biden & Trump bear responsibility. It's not one or the other.
This withdrawal deal was struck in Feb last year. The groundwork of the deal goes back to 2018 when he secured the release of the current Taliban leader from a Pakistani jail.
"The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal.
And the Trump administration kept to the pact, reducing U.S. troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership."
Acccording to Trump:
“I started the process. All the troops are coming back home. They couldn’t stop the process. Twenty-one years is enough, don’t we think? Twenty-one years. They [the Biden administration] couldn’t stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process.”
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"Economists said the move appeared designed to try to support the ruble, which has collapsed against other currencies since Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and Western countries responded with far-reaching sanctions against Moscow. But some analysts expressed doubt that it would work.
“Demanding payment in rubles is a curious and probably ultimately ineffective approach to attempting an end run around Western financial sanctions,’’ said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University. “Rubles are certainly easier to come by now that the currency is collapsing. But exchanging other currencies for rubles will be quite difficult given the widespread financial sanctions imposed on Russia.”
“The hope that demanding payment in rubles will increase demand for the currency and thereby prop up its value,” Prasad added, “is also a false hope given all the downward pressures on the currency.’’
Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, said: “It’s not an obvious move to me, since the (Russian) economy needs a supply of foreign currency in order to pay for imports — and energy is one of the few sources left.”
Vinicius Romano, a senior analyst at Rystad Energy, suggested that Moscow’s insistence on payments in rubles “may give buyers cause to reopen other aspects of their contracts — such as the duration — and simply speed up their exit from Russian gas altogether.”
-- WSJ
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@User-dc6sm guess you haven't heard of the RNU & their involvement in staging the "referendum" in 2014
From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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Those numbers are rigged
From 2014:
"Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result" -- Atlantic Council
Excerpt:
" .... with the release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@josephchophy895 The reason the Afghan army simply walked away is now becoming clear. The Trump administration basically caved to the Taliban, & sold out the Afghan government, in return for a promise not to harm US servicemen. John Ratliff, Trump's NSA, revealed that while they were in office they were aware that the Afghan army would collapse. Not surprising given that negotiations with the taliban were conducted without involvement of the Afghan government.
The deal goes back to 2018 when Trump secured the release of the current Taliban leader from a Pakistani jail.
"The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal.
And the Trump administration kept to the pact, reducing U.S. troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership."
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