BREAKING: INVASION HAS BEGUN..... Putin's "3-day war"... NOW... 1 YEAR 338 DAYS ...WAGNER HEAD SAYS GROUP STANDING DOWN AFTER CLAIMS OF DEAL
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Justifiable relapse... class A drugs for the rest of the day!!!
Old school hip hop and a chick coming by later, I told her she may just feel the world move!
I go for a 20 mile/90 minute bicycle ride and this shit happens, don't Putin know Sundays are supposed to be quiet and chilled?
Old school hip hop and a chick coming by later, I told her she may just feel the world move!
I go for a 20 mile/90 minute bicycle ride and this shit happens, don't Putin know Sundays are supposed to be quiet and chilled?
Air France halts flights from and to Russia - statement
Air France has decided to stop all operations from and to Russia, the company said on Sunday. "In light of the situation in the region, Air France has decided to suspend flights to and from Russia as well as the overflight of Russian airspace until further notice as from 27 February," its...
Germany to Boost Military Spending in Latest Historic Shift
(Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced plans for a massive boost in defense spending in the latest historic policy shift in Germany triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Most Read from BloombergU.S., Europe Cut Some Russian Banks From SWIFT: Ukraine UpdateMusk Activates Starlink...
Germany to Boost Military Spending in Latest Historic Shift
(Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced plans for a massive boost in defense spending in the latest historic policy shift in Germany triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Germany will channel 100 billion euros ($113 billion) this year into a fund to modernize the military, Scholz said Sunday in a speech to a special session of the lower house of parliament. By 2024, the government will spend at least 2% of gross domestic product each year on defense, he added, in line with a NATO target that Berlin has consistently failed to meet.
Scholz had been widely criticized by opponents and allies alike in recent weeks for what they perceived as dithering and weakness in the face of Russia’s mounting aggression toward Ukraine. In the past few days he has announced a series of radical changes to long-entrenched German policies following the full-scale attack ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the former Soviet republic.
Even before the invasion, Scholz halted the certification process for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline built to bring more of the Russian gas his country heavily relies on. On Saturday, he abandoned Germany’s traditional rejection of supplying weapons to conflict zones and gave way on expelling Russian banks from SWIFT, the system used for trillions of dollars worth of transactions between thousands of banks around the world. The willingness to supply Ukraine with military equipment including surface-to-air missiles and anti-tank weapons is in many ways the most dramatic move.
Such a wide-ranging rethink from Scholz and his government came unexpectedly and prompted suggestions that Europe’s biggest economy may finally be ready to punch its weight in the international arena, discarding decades of reluctance linked to its role in the 20th century’s bloodiest conflicts. Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, who was in parliament Sunday, called it a “truly historic moment.”
“With the invasion of Ukraine, we are in a new era,” Scholz, the Social Democrat who took over from Angela Merkel in December, told lawmakers. “On Thursday, President Putin created a new reality with his invasion of Ukraine. This new reality requires a clear response. We have given it.”
German defense spending in recent years has been hovering at around 1.5% and actually declined slightly as a share of output last year, according to NATO figures.
That has led to criticism that the armed forces are consistently underfunded. Germany has reduced the number of its battle tanks to 300 from 4,700 since 1989 and the number of warplanes to 230 from 390, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine. The number of troops has dropped to 180,000 from more than 300,000.
Friedrich Merz, the leader of Merkel’s Christian Democrats, signaled Sunday in his speech to parliament that the party is ready to work with the ruling coalition on agreeing the financing for the defense fund.
As well as ramping up defense spending, Scholz also pledged to do more to protect energy supplies, including increasing gas-storage volume by 2 billion cubic meters, establishing a national coal and gas reserve and swiftly constructing two LNG terminals on the north coast.
There are signs public opinion is firmly behind the chancellor and his two partners in the ruling coalition -- the Greens, who control the foreign and economy ministries, and the business-friendly Free Democrats, who run the finance ministry.
About 100,000 people streamed through the Brandenburg Gate to the central Tiergarten park Sunday for a demonstration in support of Ukraine, according to police estimates. Authorities had expected as many as 20,000. Many had Ukrainian flags and banners calling on Putin to stop the war.
Johannes Boie, the editor in chief of influential tabloid Bild, published an editorial entitled “Germany Delivers!” in which he praised the government’s decision to supply Ukraine with weapons.
“Our country owes its prosperity, its happiness, to the fact that the Allies once erased our own mass-murdering dictator from the map,” Boie wrote.
“Today the government took a first step,” he added. “Slowly, hesitantly, but still. Keep it up - even faster! Even braver!”
While Scholz looks to have set aside his preference for circumspection and prudence, at least for the time being, his calm, careful approach has often stood in recent weeks in stark contrast to the two senior Green Party ministers in his government.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, who is the economy minister and vice chancellor, have been far more outspoken about the need to confront Russia, particularly on issues like Nord Stream 2.
Scholz also had to overcome a degree of reluctance to punish Russia within his own Social Democratic party, which has a long history of sympathy toward Moscow.
Baerbock said Sunday that now is the “right moment” for Germany to make what she called a “180-degree turn in foreign policy.”
“If our world is different, then our politics must also be different,” she said in a speech to the special session of parliament.
“Perhaps it is the case that Germany is today leaving behind a form of special restraint in foreign and security policy,” she added. “In choosing between war and peace -- in choosing between an aggressor and children who have to hide from bombs in subways -- no one can be neutral.”
(Updates crowded size for Berlin protest in 12th paragraph.)
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UPDATE 2-Anti-war protests held in cities across Russia, 2,000 people arrested
Police detained more than 2,000 people at anti-war protests held in 48 cities across Russia on Sunday, a protest monitoring group said, as people defied the authorities to show their anger over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. More than 5,500 people have been detained at various anti-war protests...
UPDATE 1-Police detain more than 900 people at anti-war protests across Russia - monitoring group
Sun, February 27, 2022, 10:03 AM·1 min read
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MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Police detained more than 900 people at anti-war protests that occurred in 44 Russian cities on Sunday, raising the total since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 to over 4,000, independent protest monitoring group OVD-Info said.
Sunday's protests coincided with the seventh anniversary of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. Some of Sunday's arrests took place at an improvised memorial just outside the Kremlin at the site where Nemtsov was shot, a Reuters witness said.
The OVD-Info monitor has documented crackdowns on Russia's opposition for years.
Nemtsov was a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Moscow's support for pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, which ultimately led to what Putin labels a "special operation" to protect the two separatist regions although his troops are fighting in wider Ukraine.
Ukraine's Western allies have slapped unprecedented sanctions in response to Russia's land, sea and air invasion.
Putin ordered his military command to put nuclear-armed forces on high alert on Sunday as Ukrainian fighters defending the city of Kharkiv said they had repelled an attack by invading Russian troops.
More than 100,000 people protested in solidarity with Ukraine in Berlin on Sunday, after thousands rallied on Saturday in places from Sydney to Lisbon and Washington, and with more anti-war protest planned in the afternoon. (Reporting by Darya Korsunskaya and Alexander Marrow; Writing by Andrei Khalip; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
it wouldn't matter who used a nuke or why they used it.
if ANYONE uses a nuke NOTHING will ever be the same after that.
"....We have no friends...."
Yet we sympathize with the enemy
The reaction here to talk about nukes being used is
And they're not even talking about using them on us..
Forget about nukes, y'all youngsters need to be concerned that this doesn't get outta hand and they need to restart the draft.
Y'all 90s and 00 babies now get to see what my generation was worried about...
man, listen....
i want to see how all these women talking about equal rights react if the draft comes back.
in ukraine no men between 18-60 are being allowed to leave the country so that they can defend the country.
i have yet to hear any women in united states media talking about the women should stay to defend ukraine..........
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if he uses a nuke the world is done.
scenario:
russia uses a nuke on ukraine.
allies retaliate with conventional weapons.
russia sends up nukes worldwide.
allies send up nukes to russia.
we all dead.
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Wouldn't be the first Trump to suck him off
You want women to play straight up...equal rights?
Bruh, that's not gonna happen.
They'll be here sending cats nude selfies, while y'all dodging bullets.
Ol heads like me will be holding down the homefront and smashing all those lonely babes.
POTY candidate
exactly, I don’t know what that Walter bloomberg dude is thinking….
Only for talking purpose
Let say the damage from the Nuk “ONLY” affect Ukraine and Russia
With that lets include one of the biggest issues with Russia Gas & oil exports
so immediately take Russia’s exports off the grid
i think we slowed our production down after we noticing something environmentally or something like that
but let’s look at some numbers that we might undertand
“In 2021, Russia accounted for 21% of all U.S. gasoline imports, with Canada second at 17%. By value, Russian imports increased 71.05%, which is slightly less than overall imports, which increased 80.53%. The Russian total was $12.78”
“Russia's big export to the U.S. is mineral fuels, estimated at $13 billion. Following that, the USTR lists precious metal and stone ($2.2 billion), iron and steel ($1.4 billion), fertilizers ($963 million) and inorganic chemicals ($763 million)”
“the EU is the largest importer of natural gas in the world, according to the Directorate-General for Energy for the EU, with the largest share of its gas coming from Russia (41%),“
Nukes doesnt mean the end of the world. Remember we've used two already and Japan was able to return to normalcy.
Besides to threaten nuclear intervention after 4 days tells us they're getting their asses handed to them.
Putin is looking for a way out. Plus they announced negotiations at the border. This is a man trying to find a way out while looking tough.
Besides to threaten nuclear intervention after 4 days tells us they're getting their asses handed to them.
Putin is looking for a way out. Plus they announced negotiations at the border. This is a man trying to find a way out while looking tough.
Black what’s you age or range
You want women to play straight up...equal rights?
Bruh, that's not gonna happen.
They'll be here sending cats nude selfies, while y'all dodging bullets.
Ol heads like me will be holding down the homefront and smashing all those lonely babes.
I’m trying to see where being a old head start
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