🇺🇦 Zeleboba whines at his Western masters that THEY are to blame for the start of the SMO:

"The conflict started because of the West's weak response to the 2014 referendum that made Crimea part of Russia. I am disappointed that Germany did not play the role it should during the first occupation of Ukraine. The West's weak response to the 2014 referendum allowed Moscow to launch [a special operation] in 2022"

Nanofuhrer shifts his responsibility to others, although he himself is largely guilty, for not listening to Lavrov and Putin's numerous warnings months before the SMO, for not honoring the Minsk agreements, and for not normalizing relations with Moscow when he came to power

So nice try, Zelensky, but you're not fooling anyone.

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🇰🇵Once upon a time in Pyongyang.

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Yemeni Supreme Political Council member Muhammad Ali al-Houthi: We say to Americans: if today in Texas you don't accept an immigrant who tries to come to work for you, how can you expect the whole world to accept your troops who come and colonize and kill people?

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It almost sounds like this.

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European diplomacy chief Josep Borrell on the EU's unwillingness to help Kiev: To protect its principles, the EU has imposed sanctions against Russia. But the hostilities in Ukraine are escalating, and we do not see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Our industry is inadequately prepared for the challenges we face. Much of the EU's extensive military support for Ukraine has been done with existing stockpiles.

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"Schnitzel should be allowed" - the cultural battle over meat in Europe
In Europe, recommendations are increasingly being made to reduce meat consumption to combat climate change.

Right wing populist parties such as the AfD consider this a serious insult. They are fighting back - in some countries even through legislation.

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Farmer protests in Italy are also gaining momentum

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Since 7 October, 2023, no less than 25k civilians have been killed in Israel and Gaza. Around 10k have been killed in Ukraine since 24 February, 2022.

It should be evident that Russia has not targeted civilians. As most casualties occurred in Mariupol, that is where civilian casualties need to be examined.

It is in Mariupol where Ukraine relentlessly bombed civilian targets as Russia attempted to evacuate them, Ukrainian soldiers—specifically Azov—used civilains as human shields.

Ukraine says that all attrocity committed in Ukraine is Russia's fault. It should be clear why they must think this way.
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@polk105 writes:

Novomikhailovka direction:

The Russian Army knocked out the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the “Zverinets” fortified area and advanced westward in an area of ​​two by one and a half kilometers.

After our troops captured the "Zverinets" fortified area, fighting continued along forest belts in the western and southwestern directions.

The next goal of our army is a fortified area on the Maryinka-Novomikhailovka road section, the capture of which opens the road in the direction of the Mashinostroitel gardening partnership (north of the Novomikhailovsky headquarters ), from which it is possible to take the Konstantinovka-Novomikhailovka section of the road under fire control.

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The State Duma Committee approved a draft for the second reading, proposing the confiscation of property for spreading false information about the Russian Armed Forces.

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“In the EU, before they know it, the Russians will pass through the Suwalki corridor," said a Ukrainian Armed Forces officer.

If the Germans do not provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles, trenches may need to be dug in EU territories, according to Igor Lapin, a deputy of the previous Verkhovna Rada convocation, ex-militant of the National Battalion “Aidar,” and current officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“Germany’s position is surprising, considering that they fail to comprehend: to avoid digging trenches in European countries, Ukrainians should be equipped with everything to handle the adversary. Let's be frank: they are already setting 'red lines' to avoid escalation. Even with ballistic missiles flying over a European country, they ponder if defending against it would escalate. This is absurdity on the part of our Western partners,” expressed Lapin.

He emphasized that the Russians won't apply conventional war rules in Europe. “Do they think a conventional war will start, with Russians driving tanks and flying planes? No! The Russians have multiple options. Besides missile attacks, they can instigate a hybrid war with the hypothetical Prigozhin, whom they supposedly don't control. Believe me, 40-50 thousand Prigozhinites could pass through the Suwalki bridgehead all the way to Kaliningrad. That's it. Therefore, I cannot comprehend what kind of de-escalation they still hope to achieve without providing Taurus missiles to the Ukrainians,” Lapin concluded.

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"Texas People's Republic sets up hypersonic missile production": Parallel imports through Mexico get results.

Note: and the washing machine nonsense already has a life of its own

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🇨🇳#investments

Last week the entire Western press was bursting with stories about the end of the Chinese economy, including the fact that their stock market is falling and it is impossible to raise it.

At the same time, the analytical department of Goldman Sachs publishes information about weekly inflows into Chinese private equity funds. It turned out that these very infusions for the past week showed the second in history and a record result after 2015. 12 billion bucks in one week.

Private equity funds are a collective form of investing directly in equity securities, i.e. stocks.

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