We need to realize that 50-100 tomahawks can save us hundreds or thousands of pac-2 and pac-3 interceptors as well as AIM-120's if Ukraine is able to strike just 3 major targets a few times. Votkinsk, alabuga, Dubna/Rybinsk.
As a Ukrainian I can't even put into words how disgusted it makes me feel. Russians are killing us right now and every day, and this is just going to reward and enable them.
I am the Ukrainian skeleton racer who was wrongfully disqualified from the Olympics last month because of my “Memory Helmet.”
Tonight in Milano-Cortina, the Paralympic Games are opening. The Committee has bizarrely permitted Russian soldier-athletes to participate under the Russian flag.
The head of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) literally stated that they don’t care about what Russian soldiers did in Ukraine. The problem is that we do care.
They are killing Ukrainians on the battlefield, bombing our cities, and committing genocide. Now, with this step of allowing them to compete, the IPC is giving them the opportunity to continue committing genocide by spreading Russian narratives with Russian flags and symbols.
They try to manipulate the situation by pointing out that the movement started after World War II, but during World War II the Olympic Games were cancelled, and German athletes were not invited and did not take part in the Games until 1952.
It looks like the head of the IPC doesn’t know the history of the Olympic and Paralympic movement at all.
What a shame.
This whole story is just getting worse and worse.
Has anyone heard anything from the EU Commission about this?
They were quick to condemn Zelenskyy making a joke about Orban, but this is nothing to worry about right?
Aside from the fact he appears to have tried to simultaneously make this all about himself AND turn this into a merch promo, is a trucker cap the right dress code for such an event..?
As this photo (just published by the White House) shows, the focus of today's events was on the man wearing a trucker cap. Not on the American heroes who died under his negligent leadership.
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
Instead of saying anyone who supports Iran in this war will be punished, as he and Hegseth have said re other countries, Trump immediately excuses Russian enemy action. Yes, the US gives intel to Ukraine, but Trump still treats Putin as a friend and Ukraine as an obstacle.
For the people saying that Ukraine has enough problems on its own to be dealing with the Gulf right now...
It's called grand strategy, FYI. And it's a smart move.
WELKER: Why is the Trump administration helping Russia in this moment?
WALTZ: Oh, I wouldn't characterize it that way
WELKER: How else would you characterize easing oil sanctions?
WALTZ: It's common sense to allow millions of barrels of oil sitting on ships to go to India
WELKER: I mean, Russia will be getting that money as it wages its war in Ukraine
Trump sends out the US Energy Secretary to tell everyone that the only by flooding 10's of billions of dollars into Putin's war machine can US gasoline price be lowwred.
Funny how all Trump's "solutions" benefit Russia, always.
February 2015: Russian soldiers from Samara arrive in Belgorod. They are bored, and one soldier starts filming. They say they are being transferred to Ukraine "to shoot." In February 2015, a fierce battle for Debaltseve (Ukraine) takes place.
NATO was formed on April 4, 1949, primarily to provide collective security against the growing influence and military aggression of the Soviet Union (meaning - Russia).
Which is the ONLY country that is currently fulfilling that purpose? Ukraine. A non-NATO member, halting the Russian army for less than 1% of your entire defence budget.
Reminder that the only time article 5 was ever invoked was after 9/11. An attack on your soil. And how did you repay the allies that poured money and human resources into your wars in the Middle East? By flooding our continent with migrants, and pretending your failed military strategy didn't create this crisis to begin with. And now you have the nerve to tell us we'll be better off under the russian jihadists? Go fuck yourself.
Meanwhile, your corrupt government is in bed with both russia and China (two of the most vile, authoritarian, anti-Western regimes of the 21st century), yet you have the audacity to play victim.