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"After learning that 1.5 million draft-eligible Ukrainians were granted mobilization deferments as employees of âcritical enterprises,â President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suspended future deferment applications until Nov. 15, Ukrainska Pravda reported on Oct. 9.
Citing a government memo, the journalists wrote that Zelenskyy was reportedly dissatisfied with how many Ukrainian companies were able to shield their employees from getting mobilized into military service.
âThe president attended the meeting⊠he was incensed that 1.5 million [men] were granted deferments,â a government source told the journalists."
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Letâs forget about the niceties of the label, âdefence spending.â There is nothing defensive about their spending on military hardware to use in the invasion of UA. Letâs call it what it really is, âwar spending.â
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All this from a country that suffered its own invasion by RU in 1956. You would think they would have better memories.
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Back in 2018, the Central European University, founded with Soros money, moved from Hungary to Vienna, claiming that Orban had forced them out. There were rumours that Soros ( Hungarian American) was persona non grata with Orban, possibly with antisemitic elements.
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Feodosia BBQ still going.
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I have no idea what this publication is. Some Italian news outlet.
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Corriere della Sera is the main daily rag in Italy, one of the least biased ( but thatâs not saying much)
Heâs doing the rounds of European capitals
How nice⊠The âAnne de Kiev brigadeâ.
Iâm thinking the brigade trained by Aussies should be called the âNo Wuckers brigade.â
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Given how much the Russian regime loves lgtbqi people we could call them the no wucken furries
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âIn contrast, Ukrainian POWs return from Russian captivity thin, exhausted, and traumatized, with some even recounting eating mice to survive.â
Should readâŠ
âIn contrast, Essendon SAPs return from Bomber games thin, exhausted and traumatised, with some even recounting bleating thrice to survive.â
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Putin âthreatened NUCLEAR war over Ukraine - prompting US president to warn him of âcatastrophic consequencesâ as Washington scrambled to avoid WW3â
09:50 10 Oct 2024, updated 10:14 10 Oct 2024
- Biden administration increased probability of Russia using nukes to 50 per cent
Vladimir Putin seriously considered unleashing nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war, US intelligence suggested, prompting Joe Biden to threaten âcatastrophic consequencesâ if he did so, a bombshell new book reveals.
Months after the invasion in 2022, the US uncovered evidence of âhighly sensitive, credible conversations inside the Kremlinâ that the Russian President could use nukes to avoid major battlefield losses, according to journalist Bob Woodward.
In his new book, War, the famed Watergate reporter describes the Biden administration increased the probability of Russia using nukes up from 5 to 10 per cent up to 50 per cent.
National Security adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly stared âwith dreadâ at the chilling intelligence assessment, with Biden telling him to âget on the line with the Russians. Tell them what we will do in response.â
He said to use language that was threatening but not too strong, the book says. Biden also reached out to Putin directly in a message, warning of the âcatastrophic consequencesâ if Russia used nuclear weapons.
Joe Biden reportedly reached out to Putin directly in a message, warning of the âcatastrophic consequencesâ if Russia used nuclear weapons
Vladimir Putin seriously considered unleashing nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war, US intelligence suggested
Russian Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile launch on April 20, 2022
Putin, his ministers and propagandists, have all frequently threatened the West with Russiaâs nuclear arsenal.
One of his cronies, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, recently urged Putin to obliterate âdamnedâ Britain by sinking it under the sea.
In a strong, new warning to the West late last month, the Russian dictator said any nationâs conventional attack on his country that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.
The threat was aimed at discouraging the West from allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with longer-range weapons and appears to significantly lower the threshold for the possible use of Russiaâs nuclear arsenal.
Biden has held off on allowing Ukraine to hit military targets deeper inside Russia with US-provided missiles over fears of escalating the war, even as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleads for permission and Ukraine argues it is not
In another heated conversation laid out in Woodwardâs book, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confronted his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, in October 2022.
âWe know you are contemplating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine,â Austin said, according to Woodward.
âAny use of nuclear weapons on any scale against anybody would be seen by the United States and the world as a world-changing event. There is no scale of nuclear weapons that we could overlook or that the world could overlook.â
National Security advisor Jake Sullivan reportedly stared âwith dreadâ at the chilling intelligence assessment
As Shoigu listened, Austin pressed on, noting that the US had not given Ukraine certain weapons and had restricted the use of some of those it had provided. He warned that those constraints would be reconsidered.
He also noted that China, India, Turkey and Israel would isolate Russia if it used nuclear weapons.
âI donât take kindly to being threatened,â Shoigu responded, according to Woodwardâs book.
âMr Minister,â Austin said. âI am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I donât make threats.â
According to a US official, Austinâs October 21, 2022, call to Shoigu was indeed to warn Russia against any use of nuclear weapons.
The Russian Ministry of Defence released the footage of the military drills on October 7
A propaganda channel recently simulated a Russian nuclear strike on London that would cause 850,000 deaths with two million injured
The official described the call as contentious, and confirmed there were intelligence reports at the time that referred to increased indications of Russiaâs potential use of nuclear weapons and they triggered growing concerns within the administration.
The official said leaders across the government were instructed to call their counterparts to deliver the same message.
Two days after the first call, Shoigu reportedly called Austin back and falsely claimed the Ukrainians were planning to use a âdirty bomb,â which the US believed the Kremlin was putting out as a pretext to deploy a nuclear weapon.
âWe donât believe you,â Austin said, according to Woodward. âWe donât see any indications of this, and the world will see through this⊠Donât do it.â
âI understand,â Shoigu is reported to have responded.
In another part of the book, Woodward describes US General Mark Milley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asking his Russian counterpart, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, to state the conditions for a Russian use of nuclear weapons.
Gerasimov reportedly responded that one of them involved âthe right to use tactical nuclear weapons in the event of catastrophic battlefield loss.â
Milley is said to have hit back by saying ânone of those conditions are going to obtain.â
US intelligence reportedly pointed to a 50 per cent chance that Putin would use tactical nukes if Ukrainian forces surrounded 30,000 Russian troops in the southern city of Kherson.
Just months before, in the far northeast, Ukrainian troops had stunned the Russians by recapturing Kharkiv, Ukraineâs second-largest city, and were pivoting to liberate Kherson, strategically located on the Dnieper River not far from the Black Sea.
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Thatâs in very poor taste.
There has been very little fun being an Essendon supporter over the last decade, but being a Russian POW would be a billion times immeasurably worse. Those poor bastards who werenât murdered or died of neglect and torture will still have a lifetime of PTSD ahead of them. That is not a thing to make glib comments about.
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