June 14, 2022

Pope Francis says Ukraine war was 'perhaps somehow provoked'

Pontiff condemns ‘cruelty’ of Russian troops while warning against perception of conflict as good v evil

Pope Francis has said Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine was “perhaps somehow provoked” as he recalled a conversation in the run-up to the war in which he was warned Nato was “barking at the gates of Russia”.

In an interview with the Jesuit magazine La Civiltà Cattolica, conducted last month and published on Tuesday, the pontiff condemned the “ferocity and cruelty of the Russian troops” while warning against what he said was a fairytale perception of the conflict as good versus evil.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/pope-francis-ukraine-war-provoked-russian-troops


Um, yes, it is good fighting fucking evil, please don't try to sugarcoat it while Ukrainians are being slaughtered

June 6, 2022

occupied Mariupol has shut down for quarantine over a possible cholera outbreak do to dead bodies

Russian officials in occupied Mariupol have shut down the southern port city for quarantine over a possible cholera outbreak, according to Ukrainian authorities. Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said the Russian-occupied city is bracing itself for an epidemic as dead bodies and litter are piling up in the city.

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June 2, 2022

Ukraine more than doubled interest rates to 25% on Thursday

Ukraine more than doubled interest rates to 25% on Thursday in a move to try to stem double-digit inflation and protect its currency, which has collapsed since Russia’s invasion

In the first interest rates intervention since Vladimir Putin’s troops attacked on 24 February, the Ukrainian central bank’s governor, Kyrylo Shevchenko, increased the benchmark interest rate from 10% to 25%.

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May 30, 2022

So elon musk reposted a Hard Drive article without credit, got called out and whined about it

So elon musk reposted a Hard Drive article without credit and when he got called out for it (and ratio'd) he deleted the original post and whined about wokeness.

To top it all off he then declared the meme wasn't that funny anyway so THERE. Actual spoiled child behavior lmao.


https://twitter.com/woot_master/status/1531346663498842112

Elon keeps stealing shit from Hard Drive Mag and goes full meltdown right wing culture warrior when called out on it. If they're so unfunny and woke why does he keep stealing their shit

https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1531339915530850304

is posting
@HardDriveMag
articles without credit the worst thing that Elon Musk has done? not even close. but is it fun that we probably made the richest man on earth feel shitty today? a little bit, yea. a little bit

https://twitter.com/jeremysmiles/status/1531328808699183106

May 30, 2022

Biden: US will not send Ukraine rockets that can reach Russia

Source: aljazeera

The United States will not send Ukraine rocket systems that can reach Russia, President Joe Biden said on Monday.

The US president’s comments followed reports that the Biden administration was preparing to send advanced long-range rocket systems to Kyiv for its fight against Russia.

CNN and The Washington Post reported on Friday the Biden administration was leaning towards sending the MLRS and another system, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, as part of a larger military aid package to Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government has urged the West to provide it with more longer-range weapons in order to turn the tide in the war, now in its fourth month. US officials had said such weapons systems are actively being considered.


Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/30/biden-us-will-not-send-ukraine-rockets-that-can-reach-russia

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This is a BIG mistake IMO. Some Biden advisers were for it, some against, sadly, this will just help monster putin destroy Ukraine.

May 30, 2022

Nato has the right to deploy in eastern Europe, deputy chief says

Nato is no longer bound by past commitments to hold back from deploying its forces in eastern Europe, the US-led alliance’s deputy secretary general has said.

Moscow itself has “voided of any content” the Nato-Russia Founding Act, by attacking Ukraine and halting dialogue with the alliance, Mircea Geoana told Agence France-Presse.

Under the 1997 Founding Act, intended to reset the relationship between Russia and the Alliance, both sides agreed to work to “prevent any potentially threatening build-up of conventional forces in agreed regions of Europe, to include Central and Eastern Europe”. Geoana, speaking in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, said:

Geoana did not give details of any such planned deployment, but said he anticipated “a robust, flexible and sustainable presence”.

May 28, 2022

Russia has resorted to crowdsourcing food, clothes and even military supplies for its troops

“No one expected there to be such a war,” Tatyana Plotnikova, a business owner in the city of Novokuybyshevsk, told the Times in a phone interview.

“I think no one was ready for this”.

The article suggests Russia’s $66bn (£52.2bn) defence budget was woefully inadequate for such a large scale undertaking as the invasion of Ukraine.

A grass-roots network of citizens is donating roubles to pay for, among other items, drones, crutches and potatoes to be sent to the front line.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/28/world/europe/russian-soldiers-military-supplies.html

May 28, 2022

Some of President Joe Biden's national security advisers are said to be fearful Ukraine may use the

long range rockets to hit targets inside Russia.
per the observer

Ukraine is in a race against time to save the eastern Donbas region as relentless Russian artillery and air strikes threaten to turn the tide of the war, and support for Kyiv’s continued defiance among some west European allies appears to be slipping.

Ukrainian officials say they urgently need advanced US-made mobile multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) to halt Russian advances in Luhansk and Donetsk. The rockets would be capable of striking Russian firing positions, military bases, air strips and supply lines at a range of up to 300km (185 miles).

Ongoing disagreements in Washington have held up MLRS deliveries. Some of President Joe Biden’s national security advisers are said to be fearful Ukraine may use the rockets to hit targets inside Russia, a development that could spark an escalation drawing in the US and Nato. Kyiv has previously launched attacks on Russian soil.

Moscow, keenly aware of the game-changing potential of the rocket systems, has already voiced strong objections. “If the Americans do this, they will clearly cross a red line,” said Olga Skabeeva, an influential Russian state TV host whose views reflect the Kremlin’s. Russia’s response could be “very harsh”, she warned.


IMHO those advisers need to understand that this is a fight for our survival too. If I were president Biden those advisers would be history.

May 27, 2022

Musk has a twitter poll that's trending asking who do you trust more politicians or billionaires

of coarse, its just another tool that fascists use to undermine government. That rich brat is dangerous, I tagged the thread as offensive.

May 26, 2022

US to send long-range rocket systems to Ukraine -

The US is preparing to send advanced, long-range rocket systems to Ukraine after an urgent request from Ukrainian officials, multiple officials reportedly told CNN.

The Biden administration is leaning toward sending the systems as part of a larger package of military and security assistance to Ukraine, which could be announced as soon as next week, the outlet reported.

Senior Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, have pleaded in recent weeks for the US and its allies to provide the Multiple Launch Rocket System, or MLRS.

The US-made weapon systems can fire a barrage of rockets hundreds of kilometres — much farther than any of the systems Ukraine already has — which the Ukrainians argue could be a game-changer in their war against