The Ukraine war. (Yes, we'll mind our manners)

[AustinTXCat]

Russia violating airspace in Japan. Nippon no play.

Japan fires at Russia jets in airspace as World War fears continue to escalate

Russian planes violated Japanese airspace north of Rebun Island in Hokkaido three times between 1pm and 3pm local time today. Sanctions have seen car exports from Japan to Russia fall away by 45 percent

www.irishstar.com

 

[Spica Orbit]

The Madness of Antony Blinken

Two years after the Pentagon shot down his ploy for a no-fly zone against Russia in Ukraine, the U.S. "top diplomat" has been at it again pushing an even more insane idea, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News On March 7, 2022, two weeks after Moscow entered the ci

consortiumnews.com

 

[bigblueinsanity]

Guess the people of western Carolina and others are going to need to start speaking Ukrainian to get anyone to care.

 

[Spica Orbit]

Ukraine's army is in bad shape, over half of recruits survive just for a few days

The Ukrainian army is suffering from a steady decline in the capabilities of its front-line units, according to Polish news outlet Do Rzeczy, citing a report in the London Financial Times that between 50 and 70 percent of recruits survive only a few days on the frontlines. Soldiers have low...

rmx.news

 

[CastleRubric]

That guy was radicalized, just like y’all in here. He was radical blue, you, radical red.

Im not pointing out anyone here - but most American political opinions don't seem well reasoned or informed enough to be considered "radical" anything

It seems more like people repeating state/media establishment words as insults without critically examining what any of it means - and a lot of disassociation from how significantly our country has changed since the end of the Cold War & after 9/11

How can it be radical if the majority of us aren't really doing anything other than repeating terms within a framework of engagement provided to us

And the term radical itself seems to change over time - weren't there 60's radicals that romanticised their radical actions within the SDS & Weather Underground etc?

Our political discourse is no more radical than rock and roll -

OR - maybe i am loopy from too little sleep

Demotic Speech is what it's called
"Jingoism" - serves to protect The State from accountability (and as Orwell said "makes murder and thievery sound respectable")

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good old Ivan. Always causing trouble somewhere.

Africans recruited to work in Russia say they were duped into building drones for use in Ukraine

To fill an urgent labor shortage, the Kremlin has been recruiting women from places like Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, as well as Sri Lanka.

apnews.com

 

[vhcat70]

^ I heard that a lot of them are named Barack & Hussein.

 

[hmt5000]

 

[Spica Orbit]

Russia claims Ukrainian town as grinding offensive rolls on

Moscow has been slowly but steadily moving westward in the Donetsk region, particularly after claiming Avdiivka in February.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Spica Orbit]

Russia punches through Ukrainian lines in Kursk

Russian soldiers have punched through Ukrainian lines in Russia’s Kursk region only a day after a US official said Kyiv could hold the territory for months.

www.yahoo.com

 

[vhcat70]

US troops now fighting in Israel. Wow, just wow.