Archive for the 'War' Category
Pentagon Asks Top 8 U.S. Weapons Makers to Meet on Ukraine
April 13th, 2022Via: Reuters: The Pentagon will host leaders from the top eight U.S. weapons manufacturers on Wednesday to discuss the industry’s capacity to meet Ukraine’s weapons needs if the war with Russia lasts years, two people familiar with the meeting said on Tuesday. Demand for weapons has shot up after Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24 spurred […]
How Do We Deal With a Superpower Led by a War Criminal?
April 12th, 2022Give him a Nobel Peace Prize? pic.twitter.com/U2m9XIJ88C — Garland Hopkins (@GarlandSculptor) April 11, 2022
Finland, Sweden Could Join NATO as Soon as This Summer
April 11th, 2022Via: NY Post: Finland and Sweden are poised to join NATO as early as this summer, a move that a US official said stemmed from Russia’s “massive strategic blunder” of invading Ukraine, according to a report published Monday. ?? Membership of the two Nordic countries in the Atlantic alliance was a “topic of conversation and […]
Czech Republic Provides T-72 Tanks and Armoured Infantry Vehicles to Ukraine
April 6th, 2022Via: Daily Mail: The Czech Republic has become the first NATO country to send tanks to Ukraine, providing T-72 and armoured infantry vehicles following President Zelensky’s plea for help. Several BVP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, howitzer artillery pieces and more than a dozen T-72 tanks were yesterday loaded on a train bound for Slovakia where they […]
Starlink: Roaming = True
April 5th, 2022Via: MikeOnSpace:
U.S. Stops Russian Bond Payments, Raising Risk of Default
April 5th, 2022Via: Reuters: The United States stopped the Russian government on Monday from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600 million from reserves held at U.S. banks, in a move meant to ratchet up pressure on Moscow and eat into its holdings of dollars. Under sanctions put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine on […]
Ukraine: Russian Atrocities in Bucha
April 4th, 2022Via: Daily Mail: On the streets of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, the bodies of civilians have been found scattered, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture, after Russian forces retreated from the area. Ukraine and Western leaders have accused Russia of carrying out the massacre of civilians and dumping their bodies […]
Putin Drafts 134,500 Conscripts, Says They Won’t Go to Ukraine
March 31st, 2022Via: Reuters: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia’s annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. The order came five weeks into Russia’s invasion, which has run into fierce Ukrainian resistance. […]
GERMANY: GAS RATIONING
March 30th, 2022Via: Reuters: Germany triggered an emergency plan to manage gas supplies on Wednesday under which Europe’s largest economy could ration power if a standoff over a Russian demand to pay for fuel with roubles disrupts or halts supplies. Moscow’s insistence on rouble payments for the Russian gas that meets a third of Europe’s annual energy […]
Biden Appears to Reveal the U.S. Is Training Ukrainian Troops in Poland
March 29th, 2022Via: Antiwar: President Biden appeared to reveal on Monday that the US is training Ukrainian troops in Poland. Biden made the comments when trying to explain a recent gaffe. In Poland on Friday, President Biden told members of the 82nd Airborne Division that Ukrainians were “stepping up” against the Russian assault and said, “You’re going […]
