The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Sunday that 10 million people have either been displaced from their home in Ukraine, or have left the country. Over 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an invasion into the country...
So 3.5 million have fled the country and another 6.5 million have had to flee their homes and take shelter elsewhere within Ukraine. That, boys and girls, is the equivalent of 85 million Americans having to leave their homes because of a foreign invasion.
Think about that for a minute or two and then try to defend the position that there is no need to risk anything to help them more because Ukraine is already winning the war. Apparently they got the Russians right where they want them and these people just want to get out of the way and let their military take over.
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Your sarcasm is out of place. As for risking more, it is becoming clearer and clearer that we are already doing that, and may do more.
You have lost your mind.
Ronald Reagan and even Barry Goldwater would have hated your sorry ass.
U.S. Sending Soviet Air Defense Systems to Ukraine
12:50 pm
“The U.S. is sending some of the Soviet-made air defense equipment it secretly acquired decades ago to bolster the Ukrainian military as it seeks to fend off Russian air and missile attacks,”
the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The systems, which one U.S. official said include the SA-8, are decades old and were obtained by the U.S. so it could examine the technology used by the Russian military and which Moscow has exported around the world.”
Fun stuff , Biden War is going poorly.
Remember Trump will get us into War.
Lol @ the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT.
What does The U.N. actually do?
Money Scam.
U.k. dumps the stupid economy killing green fairy dust and unicorn farts because they don't work .
They issue usable oil permits to drill on known underground oil lakes.
Oil jumps $4 a barrel.
James , Roger and Denny get thier higher gas prices .
Republican Voters Are Now America’s Foreign Policy Doves
What polling tells us about the GOP and Ukraine.
by William Saletan
March 21, 2022 5:22 am
Republican Voters Are Now America’s Foreign Policy Doves
Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) speaks about the Russian invasion in Ukraine, during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol March 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. Portman and his GOP colleagues urged the Biden administration to provide additional weapons and other support to Ukraine immediately. Also pictured, L-R, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE), Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE). (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
On Wednesday, 15 Republican senators held a press conference to criticize President Biden for insufficient boldness in Ukraine. John Kennedy likened the president to “Bambi’s baby brother.” Ben Sasse accused the administration of treating the war like a “nerd-lawyer” dispute, not “a moral battle.” John Cornyn sternly declared, “The Biden administration’s timidity in the face of this evil needs to end.”
From Richard Nixon in 1968 to Mitt Romney in 2012, this is how Republican politicians talked about foreign policy: They were the party of strength, and Democrats were the party of weakness. But that formulation is no longer true. The GOP, as measured by the expressed beliefs of its voters, has become the more dovish party.
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For more than a century, Republicans have had an isolationist wing. The power of that faction has waxed and waned. But in the Trump era, for the first time since before World War II, it has taken over the party.
In an Echelon Insights poll taken from February 19 to 23, as Russian troops surrounded and prepared to invade Ukraine, most Democratic voters affirmed that “It’s best for the future of our country to be active in world affairs.” Republicans, by a ratio of 2 to 1, chose the alternative answer: “We should pay less attention to problems overseas and concentrate on problems here at home.” In the same poll, 47 percent of Democrats said human rights should be a top priority in foreign policy. Only 27 percent of Republicans agreed.
Republicans aren’t just less interested than Democrats in fighting for universal values, such as democracy. They’re also less likely to support allies. In the Echelon Insights poll, Republicans were less willing than Democrats to “provide military support to defend allies’ security” or to “participate in and provide resources to international military alliances like NATO.”
In an Economist/YouGov survey taken in early February, 27 percent of Republicans—compared to only 8 percent of Democrats—said the United States should withdraw from NATO. A month later—more than a week into the Russian invasion, as NATO countries rallied to help Ukraine—34 percent of Democrats expressed a very favorable view of NATO. Only 12 percent of Republicans agreed.
This rising isolationism on the right has converged with Trumpist sympathy for Russia and hostility to Ukraine. When former Vice President Mike Pence said there was “no room in this party for apologists for Putin,” he was talking—whether he knew it or not—about a faction that does, in fact, take up significant space in the GOP. Even during the invasion, Putin’s favorable rating among Republicans has reached 14 percent, 15 percent, and 18 percent in some surveys—more than twice as high as his favorable rating among Democrats. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to affirm that Putin is a “genius,” that his conduct of the war is justified, and that the best outcome would be a Russian victory.
On average, only about 10 percent of Republicans openly express such pro-invasion views. But they’re joined by a much larger group of Republicans who are hostile to or wary of Ukraine. This is the result, in large part, of Trumpist propaganda that for years has accused Ukraine of pervasive corruption and electoral sabotage against the GOP.
Let Russia win...
You have lost your mind
In the latest Yahoo News survey, completed last Monday, the gap between the parties remains wide. Seventy-six percent of Democrats say the United States should take Ukraine’s side; only 57 percent of Republicans agree. Eighty percent of Democrats endorse “severe economic sanctions on Russia”; again, only 57 percent of Republicans agree. Two-thirds of Democrats prefer a “full Russian defeat”; only 51 percent of Republicans agree. When respondents are asked whether “It’s in America’s best interests to stop Russia and help Ukraine” or “The conflict is none of America’s business,” 72 percent of Democrats say we should help Ukraine. Fewer than half of Republicans share that view.
Nor does the partisan divide stop at Ukraine’s borders. In polls taken since the invasion, Republicans are less willing than Democrats to “maintain [our] commitment to defend NATO allies when they are attacked,” “send U.S. troops to protect NATO allies near Ukraine,” or keep “U.S. military forces in NATO countries near Ukraine.” Even when they’re told that “The U.S. and its European allies are obligated to defend countries that belong to [NATO] if they are invaded by a foreign power,” Republicans are less willing than Democrats to say we should respond with force “if Russia were to invade a NATO member state.”
Together, these numbers drive home an uncomfortable truth: As war returns to Europe, America’s soft underbelly isn’t in the Biden administration. It’s in the GOP.
The problem isn’t just that rank-and-file Republicans are relatively reluctant to stand up to Putin. It’s that they don’t recognize their own passivity. They still think they represent a muscular foreign policy. In every survey, they complain that Biden has been “too weak,” and they insist—more than Democrats do—that the United States must get “tougher.” But then, when they’re asked about measures that would actually get tougher, they flinch.
If Republican senators want America to stand strong against Putin, they should be talking to their own voters. That would be leadership. And it would be helpful, because no foreign intervention is sustainable without public support at home.
Instead, they’re cracking soundbites about Bambi and taking cheap shots at Biden. They’re talking tough instead of being tough. Just like their voters.
Ronald Reagan and even Barry Goldwater would have hated your sorry ass.
Only an idiot like the alky would be concerned with the hypothetical opinions of the dead.
Show your Bul-Shit plagiarism alky.
https://www.thebulwark.com/republican-voters-are-now-americas-foreign-policy-doves/
It is encouraging that
in the polling above (1:05) Republicans are at least by majorities (smaller than Democrats', but still majorities)
interested in OPPOSING Putin and Russia.
Democrats have refuted Republicans' attacks since her nomination. When Biden gave a speech announcing his pick in February, he made sure to note that Jackson came from "a family of law enforcement, with her brother and uncles having served as police officers."
Because she worked as a defense attorney, they might know that their clients are guilty, she was obligated to prove reasonable doubt, even if her client has sexual predator. I would not have become a defense attorney, because of that.
I know a friend who was sexual assault victim. He was a Captain, in the police department in Rapid City. He was our neighbor. He raped her at 13! She is awesome!
A defense attorney would be obligated to prove reasonable doubt..
That does not matter. In this case.
80% of Democrats endorse “severe economic sanctions on Russia”; 57% percent of Republicans agree.
66% of Democrats say the United States should take Ukraine’s side
57% percent of Republicans agree.
66%s of Democrats prefer a “full Russian defeat”
only
51% percent of Republicans agree.
72%t of Democrats say we should help Ukraine.
Less than 50% of Republicans agree.
The last two sections show that some Republicans border on TREASON, in effect,
ROOTIN FOR PUTIN
ROOTING FOR RUSSIA
Eventually he died in prison.
That does not matter. In this case.
The only thing that matters. In this case. Is that she's black and has a cooch. Dunning-Kruger alky.
He raped her at 13! She is awesome!
This is so fucking sick on so many fucking levels...
IDEOLOGICAL BALANCE
Her confirmation would not change the ideological balance of the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, including three justices appointed by Biden's Republican predecessor Donald Trump. But it would let Biden freshen the court's liberal bloc with a justice young enough to serve for decades.
Jackson was raised in Miami and attended Harvard Law School, later serving as a Supreme Court clerk for Breyer.
If confirmed, she would be the third Black justice, following Clarence Thomas, appointed in 1991 and still serving, and Thurgood Marshall, who retired in 1991 and died in 1993.
"With your presence here today, you are writing a new page in the American history book," Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy told Jackson, who also would become the sixth woman to serve on the Supreme Court, which currently has three female justices.
The Senate is divided 50-50 between the two parties, with Biden's fellow Democrats controlling it because Vice President Kamala Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote. A simple majority vote would be needed for Jackson's confirmation, meaning she would get the job if all Democrats are united behind the nomination regardless of what Republicans do.
The confirmation hearing ends on Thursday with outside witnesses testifying. The committee would then vote on the nomination in the coming weeks, followed by a final confirmation vote on the Senate floor.
But one of the most conservative justices has been hospitalized..
If Biden nominates another justice ......Roberts would be very interesting
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/historic-us-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson-faces-senate-showdown-2022-03-21/
Ukraine food production will be down and US prices have already been rising.
This will drive rrb fucking crazy
Jackson would be the first public defender on the Court in a generation
If confirmed, Jackson would be the first justice in more than 30 years with significant experience representing criminal defendants. The last was Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice, who left the court in 1991 after serving for 24 years.
The parallel to Marshall is noteworthy, said April Frazier Camara, the president and CEO of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and a co-founder of the Black Public Defender Association. The work Marshall did before he joined the court had a lasting influence on his perspective and decisions.
Before he joined the Court, Marshall “represented indigent people who were oftentimes accused of capital offenses in the South — some very socially unpopular clients like Black men who had death penalty cases after being accused of raping white women,” she said, noting that the charges were often inflated or unsupported.
In 1941, Marshall defended young illiterate Black sharecropper W.D. Lyons, who was falsely accused of three counts of murder. Police beat him and coerced his confession.
Though Marshall lost the case, it galvanized him to take on the most obscure cases in an effort to extend equal protection of the law to all people regardless of their race. And even after arguing Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 before the Supreme Court, in which he invalidated segregation in public schools under the 14th Amendment — one of the Court’s landmark decisions — Marshall was met with resistance at his 1967 confirmation hearing from Southern senators who questioned his record.
North Carolina Sen. Sam Ervin, for example, expressed concern that “the easiest way to destroy the Constitution” was to have it “manned by judges who will not exercise judicial self-restraint.”
Nevertheless, Marshall was confirmed; by the time he retired, he had become known as “the Great Dissenter” on a court that had grown increasingly conservative.
defending black people dives him crazy mother fucking nuts
https://www.vox.com/22979925/ketanji-brown-jackson-public-defender
"Only an idiot like the alky would be concerned with the hypothetical opinions of the dead"
Roger talks to them and they talk back"
Rogers admission "If I didn't cheat on my first wife , I would be as wealthy ..... As KD, Cali, RRB , CHT ....
Roger, u are posting on the Ukraine Thread.
Delete your spam.
rrb, she created her own business and made it clear.
She used drugs for a few years.
I was her babysitter and her sister and her brother who died in a car accident when he was 16!
We are still friends
Ronald Reagan and even Barry Goldwater would have hated your sorry ass.
Ron is my buddy!
Blogger rrb said...
He raped her at 13! She is awesome!
This is so fucking sick on so many fucking levels...
Not to mention the word salad made no sense
Chicago Economic activity index drops 8 points from last report.
Recession siren are sounding warning to all that can hear.
Zelensky: Putin's Nazi lie may show he's 'in an information bubble’
Yahoo News
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin held a pro-war rally last week in a Moscow arena, a banner over the stage blared: "For a world without Nazism. For Russia."
Much of Russia's justification for war is based on this claim.
Putin has portrayed the Ukrainian government as "a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis," as "little Nazis" and "openly neo-Nazi." The Kremlin is vowing to "de-Nazify" Ukraine by force. The Kremlin’s messaging has been remarkably consistent on this point.
The point is also clearly false:
Ukraine's democratic government has one of the few Jewish leaders on the world stage.
In contrast, it is Russia's increasingly autocratic government that is distorting reality to justify invading its neighbors.
In a Sunday interview with CNN host Fareed Zakaria, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the false Nazism allegation at length, bringing up his family history battling the Nazis and accusing the Kremlin of deploying Nazi-like military tactics.
"There are rare occasions when I smile, when I laugh. And for me, to hear it, it's as if [it's] something similar to a joke," Zelensky said of the absurdity of the charge, speaking through an interpreter.
He then paused and raised a darker thought:
What if Putin believes this?
"I think that currently Putin is in an information bubble. I think this is [an] information bunker, and if it is so powerful, this bunker of information, that he really thinks Ukrainians are neo-Nazis — this is a laughable statement for me — then a strike of fear resurfaces," Zelensky said.
"Then many questions emerge about what else he is capable of doing for the sake of his ambitions,” he said. “So this is what gives rise to a feeling which is not very pleasant and which is very frightening, very hazardous. It can be an information bubble which will continue to exert pressure."
Zelensky recalled his own family history during World War II. He described how his grandfather and his grandfather's four brothers all went to war against the Nazis, who had invaded the Soviet Union with the largest military force in history. Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, was fully occupied.
"My grandfather was graduating from the military college at the time, and all of his brothers went to war," Zelensky said. "They had to fight fascism. So they went to war. All of the brothers died. And my grandfather survived the entire war. His father and his mother were killed in a terrible fire. The Nazis set ablaze the entire village where they lived and my grandfather was born," he added, touting his grandfather's medals for heroism and bravery.
Zelensky asked if all the Russians who are calling him a Nazi could say the same thing about their own family histories.
"When some politicians in the Russian Federation are raising this topic of neo-Nazis and fascism related to me ... my biography is open. Everyone is well aware of my biography. You can find facts about my family in open sources. But what about the relatives of Russians?" he said.
He also accused Russia's military of using tactics reminiscent of Nazi Germany, which infamously blockaded the Soviet city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). About 1.5 million people died in the years-long siege. Putin was born there, and his ancestors suffered at the Wehrmacht’s hands.
In their current war, the Russians have blockaded the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which is experiencing a humanitarian crisis with little food or water remaining. Bunkers housing civilians there have been bombed. Hope among the survivors is rapidly running out.
"Russians are acting in the same manner as neo-Nazis at the moment,” Zelensky charged. “If you take a look at the history ... you can just look at what Nazis did. They blockaded Kyiv. They blocked other cities to prevent the supplies of water and food. This is what Russians are doing now. This is what they are doing in Mariupol.
“Everyone knows how many people died during the blockade of Leningrad,” he added. “The people did not have enough food and water. This is exactly what is happening in Ukraine. So who is the Nazi?"
Scott agrees with Putin...
Putin probably hopes that although this plan most likely involves committing war crimes that could leave him and the Russian state permanent pariahs, the need for Russian oil, gas and wheat — and for Russia’s help in addressing regional issues like the impending Iran nuclear deal — would soon force the world to go back to doing business with “Bad Boy Putin” as it always has in the past.
You have no shame
If only James could find his own voice.
Yet he can't, like Alky,
Show your Freidman fellatio plagiarism alky.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/opinion/putin-zelensky-ukraine.html
Scott agrees with Putin...
This is how mentally ill people think.
They project obviously false delusional conspiracies... because they have no ability to produce actual concrete logical thoughts.
Crazy... cause that's how it goes...
Mental wounds not healing, life's a bitter shame!
Roger's going off on the rails of the crazy train!
Actually, I miss read your comment.
But I don't agree with you on providing more support. But we will continue to support Ukraine with anti-missile systems and other methods to push them out of Ukraine..
Even if it takes years. And eventually join NATO..
This is how mentally ill people think.
That's the alky.
And he actually thinks he's going to be allowed to leave his looney bin of his own volition.
LOL.
Like cali said the other day - folks imprisoned in those facilities leave under only one condition -
Tango uniform in a super-sized black ziploc bag.
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But we will continue to support Ukraine with anti-missile systems and other methods to push them out of Ukraine..
Sounds like a plan right up President Magoo's alley -
Support Ukraine by pushing the Ukrainians out of Ukraine.
No one here is required to Support Ukraine or be against Putin.
Bitch slapped Alky:
"This is how mentally ill people think.
They project obviously false delusional conspiracies... because they have no ability to produce actual concrete logical thoughts"
Biden is a scared child.
NATO is a expensive Feckless Paper Roger.
I disagree with you
there is no need to risk anything to help them more because Ukraine is already winning the war.
If we don't keep helping them, it might turn into a war of attraction, more people will die if we don't help them...
No fly zone? You suggested it
Oil jumps 7%.
Roger where are biden' s action ?
No one here is required to Support Ukraine or be against Putin.
I'm still waiting for someone to provide the compelling US national interest as to why we should be involved at all.
RRB, spot on
"I'm still waiting for someone to provide the compelling US national interest as to why we should be involved at all."
Me too, this is a EU problem that they created and failed to control.
We are 32 Trillion in debt, we can drill our way out, we can sell coal our way out, we can not fairy dust and unicorn our way out.
If we don't keep helping them, it might turn into a war of attraction, more people will die if we don't help them...
"war of attraction"
Now there's a new one.
They're all going to turn gay and fall in love. War's over!
Cyber warfare?
USA TODAY
Russia tells US envoy that Russian-American relations are on the verge of rupture: Live Ukraine updates
John Bacon, Tom Vanden Brook and Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY
Mon, March 21, 2022, 1:39 PM
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday that it had summoned the U.S. ambassador to warn that President Joe Biden's recent remarks have put Russian-American relations on the verge of rupture.
Biden last week described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "war criminal" as Russia's missile attacks on Ukraine cities intensified. The Foreign Ministry, in a social media post, called the statement and other references to Putin and the Russian invasion "unworthy of a statesman of such high rank."
The ministry warned Ambassador John Sullivan that hostile actions taken against Russia would be met with a "decisive and firm rebuff."
The warning came hours after Ukraine firmly rejected a Russian offer to open two safe corridors out of Mariupol in exchange for the city's surrender as the relentless missile strikes on the battered seaport city stretched deeper into a fourth week.
Russian forces, facing stiff resistance against their invasion of Ukraine, have sought to gain control of cities but can claim few successes thus far. The Kremlin says its "special operation" is going as planned. But a senior Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity Monday, said Russian President Vladimir Putin has not achieved his goals and is relying on bombardment of cities in a “near-desperate” effort to gain momentum.
Attrition. Millions of people rrb.
KAMALA HARRIS: "The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time...there is such great significance to the passage of time."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1505964846172491780
Jack Handey must be her new speechwriter.
Illogical.
If we don't keep helping them, it might turn into a war of attraction, more people will die if we don't help them..."
Roger , in your own words provide your answer.
"provide the compelling US national interest as to why we should be involved at all." RRB asked
LMAO:
Every time Crazie Mazie opens her cake hole, big piles of stupid spew forth...
"They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race...Your nomination is not about filling a quota... It is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman serving on the Supreme Court," Sen. Hirono says of Judge Jackson in opening remarks.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1505964838576603136
Roger I forgive you , you have no historical or military knowledge.
All wars are wars of " attrition".
Name one that was not?
there is no need to risk anything to help them more because Ukraine is already winning the war.
If we don't keep helping them, it might turn into a war of attraction, more people will die if we don't help them...
Ukraine has a quarter of their country displaced and about 10% have moved completely out of the country. Entire cities and towns are in rubble... For those cities refusing to surrender, the Russians have started using hypersonic missiles to target munitions and other military targets on top of the daily shelling of residential and civilian areas. Many of those cities are completely surrounded and cut off from supplies.
Talk is that chemical and biological weapons are just around the corner.
When you say "war of attraction" - I am pretty sure you mean war of attrition. While we would all like to think that the longer this goes on, the better it is for Ukraine, but the reality is that Ukraine is not gaining any ground anywhere. They are calling it a victory because they have "slowed" the Russian advances.
In reality... propaganda and political rhetoric aside... the Ukrainians have suffered billions in destruction, probably thousands of civilian casualties, and probably several thousand military casualties. Even if the Russian military has taken some losses, their own country is untouched, there are no Russian civilian casualties... and ultimately they have over a million soldiers on reserve to keep bringing in if necessary.
If this war is still going on 2-3 months from now, I hate to think what the country of Ukraine would look like. Take whatever destruction has happened so far and triple it.
You might argue that Russia is not "winning the war" - but it's hard to argue that Ukraine is not suffering tremendous losses.
And rat thinks Greene is normal........BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! BTW...her statement is correct.....See below asshole
www.cnn.com › videos › politicsSen. Roger Wicker: Biden's SCOTUS pick would a 'beneficiary ...
Jan 29, 2022 · Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) claimed on a recent radio show that President Joe Biden's selection for a new supreme court justice would fill an affirmative action 'quota' before
The GOP is the party of white power and hypocrisy......These hearings are just more proof how little the GOP cares about the country, only their power of saying no.....the confirmation vote will prove the GOP racist tendencies as 1 maybe 2 will vote yes, the rest will have an excuse to why she is not viable.....like the hand maiden cunt coney......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Ukraine has a quarter of their country displaced and about 10% have moved completely out of the country
WOW,,,,,Lil Schitty shows empathy for Ukraine while looking to blame Biden for 1 million dead Americans from the trump flu.....what a sub human piece of shit he has become!!!!!!
"WASHINGTON—President Biden is shifting his message on inflation to show he understands Americans’ economic woes, in the midst of mounting public frustration over rising prices and after pleas from worried Democrats to change his tune"
It is not "tone", it is policy , Day #1 policy of attacking American Energy independence.
He was given a huge gift of Energy independence and he killed it by design.
No we have no National interest in this conflagration.
Wife Of Former Ukrainian MP Tries To Flee Country With $28 Million, €1.3 Million Cash
India Times shorty......don't you have anything better to do with your pathetic life?????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
WOW,,,,,Lil Schitty shows empathy for Ukraine while looking to blame Biden for 1 million dead Americans from the trump flu.....what a sub human piece of shit he has become!!!!!!
Sure Denny...
I heard Trump created the flu in the Trump Tower using a handy andy biolab set that he got when he was 12. Congrats to you! Who else could come with such a giant flaming piece of nonsensical bullshit all by themselves!
Notice Dopie can't refute the facts of Cali's link.
The Corruption.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Notice Dopie can't refute the facts of Cali's link.
The Corruption.
The fat fuck never refutes anything, he has no life so all he can do is troll.
It’s what to morbidly obese, diabetics, that are having joints replaced.
This is why we must not stop helping Ukraine
Mariupol residents 'deported to Russia' as Ukrainian city handed ultimatum
Russia told the residents of Mariupol to ‘lay down your arms’ by tomorrow morning (Picture: PA/Reuters)
Russia has been accused of forcibly abducting and deporting thousands of citizens of Mariupol, as fears that captives are being shipped to forced labour camps.
The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she is ‘appalled’ by the unverified reports, which have sparked comparisons with the conduct of the Nazis during World War Two.
Mariupol has been battered by air strikes and fierce fighting – but on Sunday Russia issued an ultimatum calling on the city’s residents to lay down their arms.
Ukrainian MPs have claimed that Moscow deported some citizens to ‘distant parts of Russia’ to work without payment.
Ms Truss condemned the ‘Russian atrocities’ in the south-eastern port city, pledging that President Vladimir Putin would be ‘held to account’.
She tweeted: ‘I am appalled by Russian atrocities in Mariupol, including attacks on schools sheltering civilians and the abduction and deportation of Ukrainians.
‘Putin is resorting to desperate measures as he is not achieving his objectives.
Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun claimed citizens were being taken to ‘distant parts’ of Russia (Picture: PA)
‘Putin and his regime will be held to account.’
Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun said that, according to information being shared by the city’s authorities, her countrymen and women were effectively being forced into slave labour.
She told Times Radio: ‘The very logic of Russia right now is the logic of the Soviet Union and the logic of Nazi Germany.
‘It is a completely totalitarian state, and it is acting as one.
‘So, from what we know from the city mayor and the city council, is they are taking Ukrainian citizens.
‘They are sending them through what are called the “filtration camps” and then they are being relocated to very distant parts of Russia, where they are being forced to sign papers (saying) that they will stay in that area for two or three years and they will work for free in those areas.’
That comes after a separate attack on a theatre in the city where more than 1,000 people were said to have been bunkered – it remains unclear how many survived.
Meanwhile, Russia called for the city to surrender, with Mariupol expected to falls into Russian hands.
Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the director of the Russian National Center for Defense Management, told the area to ‘lay down your arms’.
it's easy to argue that Ukraine is suffering tremendous losses. And why we must stop it with military aid and other methods because
The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she is ‘appalled’ by the unverified reports, which have sparked comparisons with the conduct of the Nazis during World War Two.
Mariupol has been battered by air strikes and fierce fighting – but on Sunday Russia issued an ultimatum calling on the city’s residents to lay down their arms.
Ukrainian MPs have claimed that Moscow deported some citizens to ‘distant parts of Russia’ to work without payment.
Ms Truss condemned the ‘Russian atrocities’ in the south-eastern port city, pledging that President Vladimir Putin would be ‘held to account’.
She tweeted: ‘I am appalled by Russian atrocities in Mariupol, including attacks on schools sheltering civilians and the abduction and deportation of Ukrainians.
‘Putin is resorting to desperate measures as he is not achieving his objectives.
I met a war veteran who saw the concentration camps with thousands of starving people...
We must stop it without a war
India and China are buying ALL the coal they can.
If only Joe didn't crush US Coal.
Alky has morphed into Dopie.
Battling for champion of "nonsensical bullshit"
This is Roger's latest submission.
"We must stop it without a war"
Russia and Ukraine are the ONLY Countries at War. Period.
This is why we must not stop helping Ukraine
Mariupol residents 'deported to Russia' as Ukrainian city handed ultimatum
Mariupol is surrounded on all sides by Russian Troops.
Without a no-fly zone it is impossible to get anything to them to help.
So what exactly do you feel we can do to help people in Mariupol?
Tell us Roger?
Why the U.S. Finally Called a Genocide in Myanmar a ‘Genocide’
America used the word human-rights activists have long argued applies to the campaign against Rohingya Muslims.
A boy shouts at the front of a crowd.
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March 21, 2022, 11:29 AM ET
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Four years ago, the State Department began an investigation into the Myanmar military’s brutal operation against the country’s Rohingya Muslims the prior year, which had resulted in scores of deaths and hundreds of thousands of Rohingya being pushed into Bangladesh. The report, spanning thousands of pages, was finalized when Mike Pompeo was still secretary of state, and he ultimately opted to call the armed forces’ actions “ethnic cleansing,” a descriptive term not defined by international law.
Today, with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a weighty backdrop, his successor, Antony Blinken, went further. Blinken declared that the campaign against the Rohingya fit the definition of the gravest of crimes, uttering a word that human-rights activists had long argued applied to Myanmar: genocide.
In 2018, the Trump administration opted against using the G-word—a designation that carries possible repercussions such as limits on aid and additional sanctions against the military, as well as the prospect of international firms halting business in the country—for reasons that are quintessential to that White House, at once geopolitical (it did not want to turn away a young but flawed democracy that was already heavily reliant on China) and yet undoubtedly personal (Pompeo had been angered by a leak about the report).
In the years since, much has changed when it comes to Myanmar. Beijing remains a paramount rival of Washington’s, but Myanmar’s still-fledgling experiment with democracy was swept away a year ago by a military coup; Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate leader who defended the armed forces against charges of genocide, was jailed by that same military; and Russia, one of Yangon’s most prominent international supporters and a key supplier of arms to the Myanmar military, has become reviled by the West over its invasion of Ukraine.
Of these factors, the coup is most central. Both within and outside Myanmar, it has highlighted the frailty of hard-won freedoms, prompting soul-searching among both the country’s political elites and the broader population about their support of the military against the Rohingya and other ethnic minorities who have been terrorized by the armed forces for decades.
Conventional wisdom may suggest that openness is a prerequisite for historic wrongs to be acknowledged. In Myanmar, the opposite has proved true: The military’s repression has forced a change of tack, eroding some of the rampant anti-Rohingya nationalism that was ubiquitous in the country’s politics, and clarifying the choices faced by the Biden administration. Ultimately, the coup brought us here—to a broader realization within Myanmar that violence carried out against one group can easily be meted out against others.
In the dawn hours of February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military upended the country’s order, which rested uneasily on a military-drafted constitution and rule by a quasi-civilian government, by overthrowing Suu Kyi. In doing so, it unleashed a tide of anger against the armed forces. Dozens of militias have been formed to fight the junta, in addition to the numerous ethnic armed groups that had for decades been battling the military. At least 1,600 people have been killed and thousands more detained, according to rights groups. Several major international businesses—Norway’s Telenor, France’s TotalEnergies, and Japan’s Kirin among them—have announced plans to abandon their Myanmar operations, and the economy has gone into free fall.
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US sending secretly acquired Soviet air defense equipment to Ukraine: report
BY ELLEN MITCHELL27
The U.S. is sending Ukraine some Soviet-made air defense equipment that Washington took charge of decades ago through a secret program, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The systems, to include the SA-8 short-range surface-to-air missile system, were obtained by the U.S. for the purposes of examining Russian military technology and helping train American troops, U.S. officials told the outlet.
The weapons are useful to Ukrainian forces, as their military already knows how to use Soviet systems.
Both the National Security Council and Pentagon declined to comment on what specific weapons the U.S. has sent to Ukraine to help the country beat back a violent Russian invasion that began Feb. 24.
“Operational security matters to the Ukrainians, right now,” press secretary John Kirby told reporters Monday.
“They're fighting for their country, and the Pentagon is not going to be detailing publicly the tools with which they are doing that,” he added.
The Biden administration has approved more than $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine in the past month, including an $800 million package announced last week.
But the U.S. government has been hesitant to detail exactly what is being sent in so as not to tip off or draw the ire of Moscow. The Kremlin has publicly stated that any Western country that provides certain weapons to Ukraine, including aircraft and missile defense systems, could be seen as entering the fight.
The U.S. has a small number of Soviet missile defense systems it acquired in the past 30 years as part of a secret, $100 million project that first gained notice in 1994, a former official involved in the mission told the Journal.
Among the weapons the U.S. received — some of which have been kept at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. — is the SA-8, which can be easily moved with ground forces and provide cover from aircraft and helicopters.
Also in the U.S. stockpile is the S-300 long-range air defense system. The system is meant to protect larger areas and is already owned and operated by the Ukrainians.
So what exactly do you feel we can do to help people in Mariupol?
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The U.S. is sending Ukraine some Soviet-made air defense equipment that Washington took charge of decades ago through a secret program, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The systems, to include the SA-8 short-range surface-to-air missile system, were obtained by the U.S. for the purposes of examining Russian military technology and helping train American troops, U.S. officials told the outlet.
The weapons are useful to Ukrainian forces, as their military already knows how to use Soviet systems.
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It's been less than a month since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the number of Russian soldiers killed during the invasion has numbered in the thousands.
According to Illia Ponomarenko of the Kyiv Independent, a pro-Kremlin tabloid called Komsomolskaya Pravda on Monday published a story that cited the Russian Ministry of Defense to claim that 9,861 Russian soldiers have been killed, while 16,153 have been wounded.
Ponomarenko went on to note that the publication deleted the story "almost immediately" after publishing it, although he saved a screen shot of the original page and also posted a link to the archived story.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT
Ukraine defends strategically important Mariupol amid relentless attacks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said about 400 people were sheltering in an art school hit by Russian bombs.
Mariupol residents suffer under continued Russian bombardment
MARCH 21, 202201:18
March 21, 2022, 12:44 PM PDT
By Lauren Egan and Phil McCausland
Ukraine rejected demands from Moscow on Monday to surrender the strategically important port city of Mariupol, as Russian forces continued relentless attacks aimed at forcing the city into submission.
Shortly after Russia said that Ukraine had until 5 a.m. Monday to give up Mariupol in exchange for safe passage out of the city, Russian shelling hit an art school where civilians were sheltering, the second strike on a public building in less than a week. A theater in Mariupol where more than 1,000 people were sheltering was leveled in an attack Wednesday. A maternity hospital in the city was also shelled March 9.
Mariupol has been subjected to weeks of shelling and grisly urban warfare as Russian forces have struggled to take over the city.
Mariupol is considered a key strategic target for Russia because it would create a bridge between Crimea — which Russia annexed by force in 2014 — and areas of eastern Ukraine held by Moscow-backed separatists, making it easier for Russia to move people and supplies into the country.
Civilians trapped in Mariupol, Ukraine, are evacuated in groups under the control of pro-Russian separatists on March 20, 2022.
Civilians trapped in Mariupol, Ukraine, are evacuated Sunday in groups under the control of pro-Russian separatists.Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Mariupol is also a steel and iron industrial center and home to one of Ukraine’s biggest ports. If Russia takes control, it would allow Moscow to further choke Ukraine's resources.
Ben Barry, a senior fellow for land warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and a former director of the British army staff in the ministry of defense, said that if Mariupol falls, Russia could push in two directions.
"It is quite possible that once Mariupol falls, that will release Russian forces from the two republics to either push west to Odesa or indeed push north in an effort to threaten the rear of the Ukrainian forces operating in the Donbas, which would pose the Ukrainian high command with a difficult choice about whether it continued to fight there or whether it seeks to withdraw," he said.
Keir Giles, research director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre in London, also said that Mariupol was tying down significant numbers of Russian forces who could be released to other operations.
"The sad fact is when people sheltering in the theater in Mariupol write the word 'children' on either side of the building in letters big enough to be seen by Russian surveillance assets, they are actually making the building a target instead of protecting it," he said.
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