Avenger
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And also taken way out of context as usual. At least for anybody who actually bothered the read past the headline.
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And also taken way out of context as usual. At least for anybody who actually bothered the read past the headline.
wader
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read the whole article that was available at the link provided - my same assessment holds - sorry Mr. A
Never a fan of the man or Mr. Biden for that matter.
Avenger
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Maybe not your personal reaction, but the reaction of many people who don't tend to look at policy or actual actions, but make their decisions based on how they feel instead of what they can observe. Sadly our lack of objectivity often leads to poor choices. Like our current administration, for example.
wader
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'Things Will Only Get Worse.' Putin's War Sends Russians Into Exile.
Anton Troianovski and Patrick Kingsley
Mon, March 14, 2022, 7:39 AM
Russians who fled to Turkey at the apartment of a volunteer in Istanbul, March 12, 2022. (The New York Times)
ISTANBUL — They lined up at ATMs, desperate for cash after Visa and Mastercard suspended operations in Russia, swapping intelligence on where they could still get dollars. At Istanbul cafes, they sat quietly studying Telegram chats or Google Maps on their phones. They organized support groups to help other Russian exiles find housing.
Tens of thousands of Russians have fled to Istanbul since Russia invaded Ukraine last month, outraged about what they see as a criminal war, worried about conscription or the possibility of a closed Russian border, or concerned that their livelihoods are no longer viable back home.
And they are just the tip of the iceberg. Tens of thousands more traveled to countries like Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan that are better known as sources of migration to Russia. At the land border with Latvia — open only to those with European visas — travelers reported waits lasting hours.
While the exodus of about 2.7 million Ukrainians from their war-torn country has focused the world on a burgeoning humanitarian crisis, the descent of Russia into new depths of authoritarianism has many Russians despairing of their future. That has created a flight — though much smaller than in Ukraine — that some are comparing to 1920, when more than 100,000 opponents of the Communist Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War left to seek refuge in what was then Constantinople.
“There has never been anything like this before in peacetime,” said Konstantin Sonin, a Russian economist at the University of Chicago. “There is no war on Russian territory. As a single event, it is pretty huge.”
Some who have fled are bloggers, journalists or activists who feared arrest under Russia’s draconian new law criminalizing what the state deems “false information” about the war.
Others are musicians and artists who see no future for their crafts in Russia. And there are workers in tech, law and other industries who saw the prospect of comfortable, middle-class lives — let alone any possibility for moral acceptance of their government — dissipate overnight.
They left behind jobs and family and money stuck in Russian bank accounts that they can no longer access. They fear being tarred as Russians abroad as the West isolates the country for its deadly invasion, and they reel over the loss of a positive Russian identity.
“They didn’t just take away our future,” Polina Borodina, a Moscow playwright, said of her government’s war in Ukraine. “They took away our past.”
The speed and scale of the flight reflect the tectonic shift the invasion touched off inside Russia. For all of President Vladimir Putin’s repression, Russia until last month remained a place with extensive travel connections to the rest of the world, a mostly uncensored internet giving a platform to independent media, a thriving tech industry and a world-class arts scene. Slices of Western middle-class life — Ikea, Starbucks, affordable foreign cars — were widely available.
But when they woke up Feb. 24, many Russians knew that all that was over. Dmitry Aleshkovsky, a journalist who spent years promoting Russia’s emerging culture of charitable giving, got in his car the next day and drove to Latvia.
“It became totally clear that if this red line has been crossed, nothing will hold him back anymore,” Aleshkovsky said of Putin. “Things will only get worse.”
'Things Will Only Get Worse.' Putin's War Sends Russians Into Exile.
ISTANBUL — They lined up at ATMs, desperate for cash after Visa and Mastercard suspended operations in Russia, swapping intelligence on where they could still get dollars. At Istanbul cafes, they sat quietly studying Telegram chats or Google Maps on their phones. They organized support groups to...
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more at the link above
wader
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movetheboat
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US says Putin's forces have stalled and are now turning to long-range missiles as White House considers sending Biden to Europe and NATO forces conduct huge military games in Russia's back yard
- A senior defense official said Russia's advance on Ukraine's cities remained largely stalled on Monday
- Instead, he described how its planes were firing cruise missiles from inside its airspace at targets
- More than two dozen hit the base in Yavoriv - just 12 miles from the Polish border, the official said
- In other places fierce Ukrainian resistance meant the Russian advance moved little over the weekend
- Meanwhile, NATO is putting on a show of force a few hundred miles from the Russian border
wader
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and then of course there's this - just to put emphasis on the word "WORLD"
Ukraine crisis: US warns China against helping Russia
Mon, March 14, 2022, 3:11 PM
China will face consequences if it helps Russia evade sanctions in its invasion of Ukraine, the US says.
Unnamed US officials told multiple news outlets that China had signalled willingness to provide military assistance to Russia.
The Chinese foreign ministry accused the US of spreading disinformation. Russia denied asking Beijing for military help.
The exchanges came before top US and Chinese officials met in Rome.
Media outlets, citing Washington officials, say that Russia has in recent days asked China specifically for military equipment, including drones.
On Monday, the US warned allies that China had suggested it was open to a move to provide military and economic support, media reports said.
The report came as US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met China's top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, for talks in Rome.
"Mr Sullivan raised a range of issues in US-China relations, with substantial discussion of Russia's war against Ukraine," a readout of the meeting said. "They also underscored the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between the United States and China."
In an earlier CNN interview, Mr Sullivan said the US was "communicating directly, privately to Beijing that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them".
"We will not allow that to go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to Russia from these economic sanctions from any country, anywhere in the world," he said.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said the US raised concerns with the Chinese delegation "directly and very clearly".
China has so far refrained from condemning Russia for the invasion and has said Moscow's "legitimate security concerns" should be taken seriously.
When the United Nations General Assembly voted to condemn Russia's invasion earlier this month, China was one of 35 countries that abstained.
OVERBORED
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At some point, you're gonna have to back up your warning with action because no one respects you.and then of course there's this - just to put emphasis on the word "WORLD"
Ukraine crisis: US warns China against helping Russia
Mon, March 14, 2022, 3:11 PM
China will face consequences if it helps Russia evade sanctions in its invasion of Ukraine, the US says.
Unnamed US officials told multiple news outlets that China had signalled willingness to provide military assistance to Russia.
The Chinese foreign ministry accused the US of spreading disinformation. Russia denied asking Beijing for military help.
The exchanges came before top US and Chinese officials met in Rome.
Media outlets, citing Washington officials, say that Russia has in recent days asked China specifically for military equipment, including drones.
On Monday, the US warned allies that China had suggested it was open to a move to provide military and economic support, media reports said.
The report came as US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met China's top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, for talks in Rome.
"Mr Sullivan raised a range of issues in US-China relations, with substantial discussion of Russia's war against Ukraine," a readout of the meeting said. "They also underscored the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between the United States and China."
In an earlier CNN interview, Mr Sullivan said the US was "communicating directly, privately to Beijing that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them".
"We will not allow that to go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to Russia from these economic sanctions from any country, anywhere in the world," he said.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said the US raised concerns with the Chinese delegation "directly and very clearly".
China has so far refrained from condemning Russia for the invasion and has said Moscow's "legitimate security concerns" should be taken seriously.
When the United Nations General Assembly voted to condemn Russia's invasion earlier this month, China was one of 35 countries that abstained.
movetheboat
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Trump floats expanded presidential powers during rally speech, saying he would make every executive-branch employee 'fireable' by POTUS
Cheryl TehMar 14, 2022, 3:57 AM
sick mofo
Trump floats expanded presidential powers during rally speech, saying he would make every executive-branch employee 'fireable' by POTUS
movetheboat
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Russia Has 'Lost' Ukraine War, Analyst Says, but Poll Shows Most Blame U.S.
BY LORA KORPAR ON 3/14/22 AT 10:29 AM EDTAs the conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate, one Russian political analyst said on social media that the war is "lost" and that Russia made many mistakes when deciding to invade.
The war, which has been raging in the region for nearly three weeks, has turned out to be extremely costly for Russia in terms of both the number of Russian casualties and the financial repercussions. Some Russians have reportedly accepted their country's responsibility for the crisis, while others say they believe outside forces are to blame.
Kirill Rogov, the analyst, posted a statement to his Telegram account saying the war was an "epic failure" for Russia, the Associated Press reported. The statement outlined four key mistakes he believes the Russian government made in invading Ukraine.
The first was assuming that the West "was unwilling to resist aggression" and "that it was lethargic, greedy and divided." Rogov also said Russia made mistakes in judging "the quality of the Russian army" and in thinking the Russian economy "is self-sufficient and secure."
"And the main mistake was the idea that Ukraine is a failed state, and Ukrainians are not a nation," he wrote, adding that "four mistakes in making one decision is a lot."
However, not everyone in Russia was as quick to blame their country for the war. Shortly before the invasion began, the Levada Center, an independent Russian opinion research company, conducted a poll that found 60 percent of people thought the "initiators" of conflict in eastern Ukraine were the United States and NATO. Another 14 percent said Ukraine initiated the conflict, and 3 percent said Russia was responsible.
The Levada Center has not released any polls on the topic since the invasion began, though Russian media has worked to maintain the message that the invasion was justified. Roskomnadzor, the Russian media and communications watchdog, has restricted terms like "war," "invasion" and "assault" when describing the conflict, instead favoring terms like "special military operation."
Roskomnadzor also blocked access to sites like Facebook, causing VPN sales in Russia to skyrocket as citizens look to use the internet freely.
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Western measures have had severe negative effects on Russia's economy, with a credit rating agency slashing the country's credit rating to "junk status," multiple nations removing Russia from its "most favored nation" trade status and the ruble dramatically falling in value. All this comes in addition to a multitude of sanctions imposed on Russian officials and oligarchs.
Besides economic losses, the estimated loss of Russian life continues to increase. Though Russian officials last estimated that just under 500 troops have been lost, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry puts its estimate closer to 12,000. A U.S. official gave an estimate of between 5,000 and 6,000 Russian troops.
wader
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Activists say they broke into a French seaside villa owned by Putin's former son-in-law and changed the locks so Ukrainian refugees can live there
The activists flew a Ukrainian flag from the balcony of the eight-bedroom villa in Biarritz reportedly owned by the ex-husband of Putin's daughters.
An activist flying the Ukrainian flag from the balcony of a villa linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Biarritz, France.Russia Today
- activists said they seized an eight-bedroom villa in southwestern France and posted videos from inside.
- It is owned by Kirill Shamalov, the ex-husband of Putin's daughter, Russian news site The Insider reported.
- The activists, who were briefly arrested, say they want to house Ukrainian refugees in the villa.
wader
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British public will be asked to take Ukrainian refugees into their homes
Charles Hymas
Thu, March 10, 2022, 3:48 PM
The British public will be asked to offer homes to tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion under plans to be announced this weekend.
Ministers will launch a hotline and webpage enabling individuals, charities, businesses and community groups to offer rooms to refugees with no family links to the UK.
Michael Gove, the Communities Secretary, will unveil the new "sponsored" humanitarian refugee route on Monday. It will grant Ukrainians without family links leave to stay in the UK for an initial 12 months, in which they will be entitled to work, claim benefits and access public services.
Civil servants will match them with offers of free housing from the sponsoring individuals, charities and businesses, who will be vetted to ensure that they are providing safe and secure accommodation.
People offering homes will have to agree to take Ukrainian refugees for a minimum period of potentially six months, demonstrate that the accommodation meets appropriate standards and, if necessary, undergo criminal record checks because many of those fleeing the conflict are likely to be women and children.
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The Brit mentioned he was thinking of doing this last week. He has a dozen properties in Yorkshire that he could do this in. Then a moment ago - I saw the above.
movetheboat
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Anonymous claims it has successfully carried out new cyberattack on Russian government websites including the FSB
- The hacking collective claimed they have taken down four government websites
- Anonymous ended their announcement of successful hacking with 'Blyat Putin!'
- Last week, they hacked into Russia's media censorship agency and released 340,000 files from Roskomnadzor federal agency, stealing classified documents
PUBLISHED: 12:15 EDT, 15 March 2022 | UPDATED: 12:21 EDT, 15 March 2022
movetheboat
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Russian state TV calls for REPARATIONS from the US over sanctions: Putin's lapdogs demand return of 'Alaska and California's Fort Ross', threaten nuclear strikes on US, and call for public hangings in Ukraine
- Moscow-backed pundits have also begun normalizing the idea of publicly hanging Ukrainians who are fighting against Russia's war
- State Duma member and Kremlin 'spin doctor' Oleg Matveychev appeared on a Sunday news program to she a list of demands 'after Ukraine’s demilitarization'
- It includes the dissolution of NATO, lifting of sanctions, and extradition of 'war criminals' President Volodymyr Zelensky, Petro Poroshenko and others
- A Russian TV host railed against the US's sanctions after his two Italian villas were seized, offering a threat of nuclear strikes if not lifted in 24 hours
- 'You’re the thieves, our talk is short with you: a bullet to the head,' he said
PUBLISHED: 11:14 EDT, 15 March 2022 | UPDATED: 12:48 EDT, 15 March 2022
wader
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they're getting desperate as it begins falling apart - this really ramps up the possibilty of direct NATO/Russian conflict - also gives a veiw into their mindset - they seem to be losing most rational thinking - that's when it gets really dangerous
OVERBORED
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or........they want everyone to think they're on tilt. Biden has already shown he will not provoke Putin and back down.
Great strategy when you're biggest adversary has already showed his hand by saying he will not enter ww3.
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