🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🇺🇸 Cluster Weapons Sent to Ukraine Show Higher Dud Rate Than Claimed - New York Times

The Pentagon has recently announced plans to provide Ukraine with weaponry, claiming that these weapons have a remarkably low failure rate of 2.35 percent or less. However, a closer examination of the Pentagon's own statements reveals a discrepancy.

It appears that the cluster munitions being considered for deployment contain older grenades that are notorious for their failure rate of 14 percent or more.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 "Ukraine has no chance of defeating Russia," - U.S. presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. in an interview with Lex Fridman

Kennedy said that Ukrainians are suffering colossal losses on the front lines at a ratio of 7:1.

"My son fought there and told me about the artillery. He said that most of the battles involved artillery fire and that the Russians currently outnumber NATO forces in artillery by 10:1. They are killing at a horrifying rate," said Kennedy.

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🇫🇷❌🇯🇵 French President Emmanuel Macron has informed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg of his opposition to plans to set up a liaison office in Japan.

An official at France's presidential office told reporters on Friday that the "NA" of NATO stands for "North Atlantic".

The official noted that the articles of the alliance specify the geographical scope, which is the North Atlantic.

The official said France is not in favor of the idea for reasons of principle, and that Macron clearly expressed his opposition to Stoltenberg.

The official also said - “Regarding the office, the Japanese authorities have told us themselves that they are not very attached to it."

In an interview with a US TV station in May, Stoltenberg had revealed that NATO had been negotiating the setting up of a liaison office with the Japanese government.

NHK World - Japan

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🇩🇪❌🇺🇦 Germany is set to insist on delaying Ukraine’s accession to Nato over fears the move could take the alliance to war with Russia - The Telegraph

An alliance source said Berlin would use the annual Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania this week to urge others to focus on security assurances, rather than membership proposals, to help Ukraine defend itself in the absence of accession.

“Berlin is stand-offish at the prospect of offering immediate membership,” the source told The Telegraph. “It wants a process and time to develop guarantees to essentially block membership.”

“Berlin doesn’t want to see Vladimir Putin potentially test Article 5.”

Under NATO’s alliance’s Article 5 clause, any member state attacked by an outside aggressor has the right to request military intervention from the rest of the allies.

Appearing to echo German concerns Joe Biden said he wanted to avoid a situation where “we’re all in the war, we’re in a war with Russia.”

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🇺🇦🇺🇸 This has got to be the laziest piece of propaganda produced. This is how dumb they think you are...

From CNN: "Ukrainian fighters who shot down a Russian hypersonic missile using a US-supplied Patriot air defense system speak to CNN's ErinBurnett about their experiences."

Of course CNN is getting roasted in the comment section of their Twitter post.

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