Archive for the 'War' Category
Turkey Blocks Sweden, Finland NATO Accession Talks; Issues List Of Demands
May 18th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Turkey has issued its “list” of demands that must happen before it would accede to granting formal NATO membership to Scandinavian countries Finland and Sweden. This coming on the same day both countries handed in their formal applications. In a photo op with the Finnish and Swedish ambassadors, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg hailed […]
Experts Warn Arms for Ukraine Could End Up in Wrong Hands
May 17th, 2022#blowback Via: AFP: Western countries have been ramping up weapons and ammunition shipments to Ukraine as Kyiv fights off a Russian invasion, but arms trade experts warn some of the lethal assistance could end up falling into the wrong hands. Ukraine in particular has a history as a hub of the arms trade during the […]
Congressional Hearing on UFOs
May 17th, 2022This is a huge waste of time, but possibly useful as #comedygold. Via: cnet:
Russia Defeated In Months-Long Battle For Kharkiv
May 16th, 2022Via: The Warzone: Ukrainian forces reportedly reached the Russian border in a successful counterattack on the now-abandoned Kharkiv frontline. Ukrainian units have spent the last week or more pushing north and east from the besieged city, working to knock the Russians out of artillery range to protect the city. The Kharkiv front is the latest […]
Finland AND Sweden Announce Plans to Join NATO
May 16th, 2022In other news, Russia moves nuclear missiles towards Finland: Russia has started moving nuclear-capable missiles towards its border with Finland hours after Moscow vowed not to tolerate Helsinki’s plans to join Nato. The Kremlin issued a chilling warning that plans for both Finland and Sweden to sign up to the Atlantic alliance were a ‘grave […]
British Military Intelligence Claims Russia Has Lost a Third of Ground Forces in Ukraine Invasion
May 15th, 2022Via: The Week: United Kingdom military intelligence said Sunday that Russia has lost around one-third of the ground combat forces it deployed when the invasion began in February, Reuters and Al Jazeera report. U.K. intelligence also concluded that Russia’s offensive in the Donbas had “lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule” and that units engaged […]
Finland Could Apply to Join NATO Military Alliance Within Days
May 12th, 2022Via: NY Post: Finland must apply to join the NATO military alliance “without delay”, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Thursday, a major policy shift triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Finland, which shares an 810-mile border and a difficult past with Russia, has gradually stepped up its cooperation with […]
Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised it to $40B. Who Benefits?
May 11th, 2022Via: Glenn Greenwald: While it is extremely difficult to isolate any benefit to ordinary American citizens from all of this, it requires no effort to see that there is a tiny group of Americans who do benefit greatly from this massive expenditure of funds. That is the industry of weapons manufacturers. So fortunate are they […]
Spring Wheat Hits 14-Year High On World War 3 & Weather Woes
May 9th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: A combination of delayed plantings in Northern U.S. Plains and Canada due to soggy weather, a dry spell in Western Europe, chaos in Ukraine, and severe weather in India, have disrupted global wheat markets, sending prices in Minneapolis to the highest levels since 2008. Spring wheat is used to make bagels, pizza crust, […]
Musk Tweets, “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya”
May 9th, 2022If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022 The word “Nazi” doesn’t mean what he seems to think it does pic.twitter.com/pk9SQhBOsG — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022
