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She criticized China.
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I swear to god the narrative on Ukraine has flipped between "Our great and magnanimous leader Joe Biden (PBUH) has stared down the Russian bear and saved Ukraine from certain doom!" and "holy fuck Ivan is literally outside the embassy right now DFE and get the fuck out while you still can!" so many times that I'm getting fucking whiplash. The markets don't seem to be appreciative of it all that much either.
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I was genuinely surprised at the fate of the January 6 boomers. The shining city on a hill, a model of freedom and democracy cracked down on the protesters just as ruthlessly as the Russian establishment cracked down on Navalny. The poor fools used their constitutional right to peacefully assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances and ended up in a gulag before you could say "Joe Stalin much?"
It was a stark, bitter and eye-opening moment. America was not supposed to be an authoritarian shithole, but there you have it. Turns out home of the brave is just as intolerant of wrongthink as столица, водка, советский медведь наш.
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Can you link that plox?
Specially franklin
Thats too high tech, just zap them in the balls with a wire off the nearest socket
Worked like a charm with commies over here
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Biden hit 35% approval in the most recent round of polls.
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Is there, like, some political mechanism that will trigger once it drops low enough? Or is it just a number?
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"Government spokesperson for the Donetsk People’s Republic has declared a full scale evacuation of civilians and government employees from front line villages along the line of contact with Ukrainian soldiers.
Villages included are Aleksandrovka, Signaloye, Staromikhaylovka, and other smaller enclaves which will be completely devoid of civilians if these orders are carried out.
Their reasoning is to avoid aggressions from Ukrainian soldiers, who they say fired the first shots in ongoing fighting along the contact line in both breakaway regions, which began last night."
As of 1:00pm Central standard time 10:00pm Moscow time
"Government spokesperson for the Donetsk People’s Republic has declared a full scale evacuation of civilians and government employees from front line villages along the line of contact with Ukrainian soldiers.
Villages included are Aleksandrovka, Signaloye, Staromikhaylovka, and other smaller enclaves which will be completely devoid of civilians if these orders are carried out.
Their reasoning is to avoid aggressions from Ukrainian soldiers, who they say fired the first shots in ongoing fighting along the contact line in both breakaway regions, which began last night."
As of 1:00pm Central standard time 10:00pm Moscow time
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I honestly thought around 40% they would just start putting out fake polls but I guess even the dimmest journalists realized the country is in such bad shape no one would buy 50-60% approval.
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Went to Walmart today for the usuals and couldn't help but notice how a single can of Progresso soup (I like the tomato ones) is $1.98. Literally $2 for a can of soup.
Wait fr? I thought she, like pretty much all "climate activists," willingly ignored the pollution from other non-white majority countries.
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Article: https://longisland.news12.com/biden-every-indication-russia-prepared-to-attack-ukraine
Archive: https://archive.is/kguN3
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NATO allies accused Russia of misleading the world with “disinformation” by saying it was returning some troops to their bases – one of the gestures Russia made this week that briefly cooled temperatures and raised hopes for peace. Russia is believed to have some 150,000 forces around Ukraine's borders.
Speaking at the White House, Biden said Washington saw no signs of a Russian withdrawal of forces, and said the U.S. has “reason to believe” that Russia is “engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in.”
He told reporters: “Every indication we have is they’re prepared to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine."
The State Department said Russia ordered the deputy chief of mission to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Bart Gorman, to leave the country, calling the move “unprovoked” and “an escalatory step.” Russia provided no details of why he was expelled.
Tensions also spiked along the line that separates Ukrainian forces from Russia-backed separatists in the country’s east, with the parties accusing each other of intensive shelling.
Russia held out an offer of diplomacy, handing the U.S. a response Thursday to offers to engage in talks on limiting missile deployments in Europe, restrictions on military drills and other confidence-building measures.
The response, published by the Foreign Ministry, deplored the West's refusal to meet the main Russian security and demands and reaffirmed that Moscow could take unspecified “military-technical measures” if the U.S. and its allies continue to stonewall its concerns.
At the same time, it said Russia was ready to discuss measures to enhance security in Europe by discussing limits on missile deployments, restrictions on patrol flights by strategic bombers and other confidence-building steps.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to New York for the U.N. Security Council meeting and then Germany for the Munich Security Conference.
Western powers estimate Russia has 150,000-plus troops massed outside Ukraine's borders.
“We’ve seen some of those troops inch closer to that border. We see them fly in more combat and support aircraft,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at NATO headquarters in Brussels. “We see them sharpen their readiness in the Black Sea. We even see them stocking up their blood supplies. You don’t do these sort of things for no reason, and you certainly don’t do them if you’re getting ready to pack up and go home.”
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said the West has seen "an increase of troops over the last 48 hours, up to 7,000." That squared with what a U.S. administration official said a day earlier. The top EU official said similar.
British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey even called Russia’s claim to be withdrawing troops “disinformation.” Russia accuses the West of the same.
Russia has “enough troops, enough capabilities, to launch a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine with very little or no warning time,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. “The fact that you’re putting a battle tank on a train and moving it in some direction doesn’t prove a withdrawal of troops.”
Moscow said several times this week that some forces are pulling back to their bases, but it gave few details that would allow for an independent assessment of the scope and direction of the troop movement.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov offered a bit more detail Thursday, saying that Russian tank and infantry units that took part in drills in the Kursk and Bryansk regions neighboring Ukraine were pulling back to their permanent bases in Nizhny Novgorod region. He said that some of those units already had arrived at their bases after a 700-kilometer journey east.
Troops deployed for exercises in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, have moved back to Chechnya and Dagestan in Russia's North Caucasus, he noted. He also said Russian troops involved in drills Belarus will also move back to their garrisons after war games there wrap up on Sunday. Konashenkov didn't mention the numbers of troops that were deployed and didn't say how many of them returned.
NATO, meanwhile, has moved troops and military equipment into Eastern Europe in a display of resolve of meant to deter any Russian aggression and underline its intent to defend NATO’s eastern members, in the unlikely event that they too become a target.
The U.S. has started deploying 5,000 troops to Poland and Romania. Another 8,500 are on standby, and some U.S. troops are expected to move toward Bulgaria. Britain is sending hundreds of soldiers to Poland, offering more warships and planes, and doubling its personnel in Estonia. Germany, the Netherlands and Norway are sending additional troops to Lithuania. Denmark and Spain are providing jets for air policing in the Baltic Sea region.
Even if an attack doesn't materialize, the sustained Russian pressure on Ukraine has further hobbled its shaky economy and left an entire nation under constant strain — a situation that could last indefinitely.
Ukraine already has been the stage of fighting for eight years, and tensions soared again Thursday in the conflict in the country’s east, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian troops since 2014.
Separatist authorities in the Luhansk region reported an increase in Ukrainian shelling along the tense line of contact, describing it as a “large-scale provocation.” Separatist official Rodion Miroshnik said rebel forces returned fire.
Ukraine disputed the claim, saying that separatists had shelled its forces, but they didn’t fire back. The Ukrainian military command charged that shells hit a kindergarten building in Stanytsia Luhanska, wounding two civilians, and cut power supply to half of the town.
An observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is expected to offer its assessment of the situation later Thursday.
Ukrainain President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted that “the shelling of a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska by pro-Russian forces is a big provocation,” adding that the OSCE monitoring activities are “an additional deterrent.”
Asked about the flare-up of hostilities in the east, Stoltenberg said the alliance was concerned “that Russia is trying to stage a pretext for an armed attack against Ukraine.”
Russia, in turn, aired worries that hawkish forces in Ukraine, encouraged by the West, could launch an attack to reclaim control of the rebel areas — plans Ukrainian authorities deny.
A 2015 deal brokered by France and Germany helped end the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, but regular skirmishes have continued and a political settlement has stalled.
The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to hold its annual meeting on the agreement on Thursday.
Russia denies it is plotting an invasion but says it's free to deploy troops wherever necessary to counter NATO threats. It wants the West to keep Ukraine and other former Soviet nations out of NATO, halt weapons deployments near Russian borders and roll back forces from Eastern Europe, the demands the allies have flatly rejected.
While the U.S. and its allies have rejected Moscow's demands to bar membership to Ukraine, they offered to engage in talks with Russia on limiting missile deployments in Europe, restrictions on military drills and other confidence-building measures.
Russian President Vladimir Putin charged that Moscow had offered to discuss those issues years ago, but the West only agreed to talk about them now. He said that Russia was ready to talk about them now, but only in conjunction with its main security demands.
Even as Russia seemed to try to ease tensions this week, Maxar Technologies, a commercial satellite imagery company that has been monitoring the Russian buildup, reported continued heightened military activity near Ukraine. It noted a new pontoon bridge and a new field hospital in Belarus. It also said that some forces had left an airfield in the country, a Russian ally, but it was unclear where they went.
Blinken and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris were among political, military and diplomatic leaders heading to the annual security conference in Munich that will see urgent consultations on the crisis.
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Biden: 'Every indication' Russia prepared to attack Ukraine
U.S. President Joe Biden warned Thursday that Russia could still invade Ukraine within days, and the No. 2 diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was expelled as tensions flared anew in the worst East-West standoff in decades.NATO allies accused Russia of misleading the world with “disinformation” by saying it was returning some troops to their bases – one of the gestures Russia made this week that briefly cooled temperatures and raised hopes for peace. Russia is believed to have some 150,000 forces around Ukraine's borders.
Speaking at the White House, Biden said Washington saw no signs of a Russian withdrawal of forces, and said the U.S. has “reason to believe” that Russia is “engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in.”
He told reporters: “Every indication we have is they’re prepared to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine."
The State Department said Russia ordered the deputy chief of mission to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Bart Gorman, to leave the country, calling the move “unprovoked” and “an escalatory step.” Russia provided no details of why he was expelled.
Tensions also spiked along the line that separates Ukrainian forces from Russia-backed separatists in the country’s east, with the parties accusing each other of intensive shelling.
Russia held out an offer of diplomacy, handing the U.S. a response Thursday to offers to engage in talks on limiting missile deployments in Europe, restrictions on military drills and other confidence-building measures.
The response, published by the Foreign Ministry, deplored the West's refusal to meet the main Russian security and demands and reaffirmed that Moscow could take unspecified “military-technical measures” if the U.S. and its allies continue to stonewall its concerns.
At the same time, it said Russia was ready to discuss measures to enhance security in Europe by discussing limits on missile deployments, restrictions on patrol flights by strategic bombers and other confidence-building steps.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to New York for the U.N. Security Council meeting and then Germany for the Munich Security Conference.
Western powers estimate Russia has 150,000-plus troops massed outside Ukraine's borders.
“We’ve seen some of those troops inch closer to that border. We see them fly in more combat and support aircraft,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at NATO headquarters in Brussels. “We see them sharpen their readiness in the Black Sea. We even see them stocking up their blood supplies. You don’t do these sort of things for no reason, and you certainly don’t do them if you’re getting ready to pack up and go home.”
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said the West has seen "an increase of troops over the last 48 hours, up to 7,000." That squared with what a U.S. administration official said a day earlier. The top EU official said similar.
British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey even called Russia’s claim to be withdrawing troops “disinformation.” Russia accuses the West of the same.
Russia has “enough troops, enough capabilities, to launch a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine with very little or no warning time,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. “The fact that you’re putting a battle tank on a train and moving it in some direction doesn’t prove a withdrawal of troops.”
Moscow said several times this week that some forces are pulling back to their bases, but it gave few details that would allow for an independent assessment of the scope and direction of the troop movement.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov offered a bit more detail Thursday, saying that Russian tank and infantry units that took part in drills in the Kursk and Bryansk regions neighboring Ukraine were pulling back to their permanent bases in Nizhny Novgorod region. He said that some of those units already had arrived at their bases after a 700-kilometer journey east.
Troops deployed for exercises in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, have moved back to Chechnya and Dagestan in Russia's North Caucasus, he noted. He also said Russian troops involved in drills Belarus will also move back to their garrisons after war games there wrap up on Sunday. Konashenkov didn't mention the numbers of troops that were deployed and didn't say how many of them returned.
NATO, meanwhile, has moved troops and military equipment into Eastern Europe in a display of resolve of meant to deter any Russian aggression and underline its intent to defend NATO’s eastern members, in the unlikely event that they too become a target.
The U.S. has started deploying 5,000 troops to Poland and Romania. Another 8,500 are on standby, and some U.S. troops are expected to move toward Bulgaria. Britain is sending hundreds of soldiers to Poland, offering more warships and planes, and doubling its personnel in Estonia. Germany, the Netherlands and Norway are sending additional troops to Lithuania. Denmark and Spain are providing jets for air policing in the Baltic Sea region.
Even if an attack doesn't materialize, the sustained Russian pressure on Ukraine has further hobbled its shaky economy and left an entire nation under constant strain — a situation that could last indefinitely.
Ukraine already has been the stage of fighting for eight years, and tensions soared again Thursday in the conflict in the country’s east, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian troops since 2014.
Separatist authorities in the Luhansk region reported an increase in Ukrainian shelling along the tense line of contact, describing it as a “large-scale provocation.” Separatist official Rodion Miroshnik said rebel forces returned fire.
Ukraine disputed the claim, saying that separatists had shelled its forces, but they didn’t fire back. The Ukrainian military command charged that shells hit a kindergarten building in Stanytsia Luhanska, wounding two civilians, and cut power supply to half of the town.
An observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is expected to offer its assessment of the situation later Thursday.
Ukrainain President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted that “the shelling of a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska by pro-Russian forces is a big provocation,” adding that the OSCE monitoring activities are “an additional deterrent.”
Asked about the flare-up of hostilities in the east, Stoltenberg said the alliance was concerned “that Russia is trying to stage a pretext for an armed attack against Ukraine.”
Russia, in turn, aired worries that hawkish forces in Ukraine, encouraged by the West, could launch an attack to reclaim control of the rebel areas — plans Ukrainian authorities deny.
A 2015 deal brokered by France and Germany helped end the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, but regular skirmishes have continued and a political settlement has stalled.
The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to hold its annual meeting on the agreement on Thursday.
Russia denies it is plotting an invasion but says it's free to deploy troops wherever necessary to counter NATO threats. It wants the West to keep Ukraine and other former Soviet nations out of NATO, halt weapons deployments near Russian borders and roll back forces from Eastern Europe, the demands the allies have flatly rejected.
While the U.S. and its allies have rejected Moscow's demands to bar membership to Ukraine, they offered to engage in talks with Russia on limiting missile deployments in Europe, restrictions on military drills and other confidence-building measures.
Russian President Vladimir Putin charged that Moscow had offered to discuss those issues years ago, but the West only agreed to talk about them now. He said that Russia was ready to talk about them now, but only in conjunction with its main security demands.
Even as Russia seemed to try to ease tensions this week, Maxar Technologies, a commercial satellite imagery company that has been monitoring the Russian buildup, reported continued heightened military activity near Ukraine. It noted a new pontoon bridge and a new field hospital in Belarus. It also said that some forces had left an airfield in the country, a Russian ally, but it was unclear where they went.
Blinken and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris were among political, military and diplomatic leaders heading to the annual security conference in Munich that will see urgent consultations on the crisis.
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Is this news story going to flip flop again?
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if it drops below 35% is it is impossible to recover from.
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You are just now noticing that, canned soup is one of my favorite food inflation trackers, from $.80 to $1.20 to $1.70 to $1.99 over the last year.
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"Russia is going to attack any day now guize, aaany day just wait"
The forever war is still on, it just changed from sand to snow.
A toast for another decade of "nation building" now in Ukraine
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Its really just a number, but if barely more than a third of the country approves of the way you're handling things... you should probably consider either a resignation letter or a hemp necktie.
I can't tell if these are serious news updates from you or just random shitposts. Clown World can eat my shorts.
Unlike Russia, we didn't get in endless slapfights with our neighbors, instead striving to settle matters peaceably once our strategic aims had been achieved. We also wound up paying Mexico for the damages we caused them during that war, considering the land reparations enough unlike your typical European power. Oh, and then we negotiated the Gadsen Purchase instead of just taking and seizing the land. You know, ultimately the same way we acquired Florida. There wasn't a single damn thing stopping us from just walking in and taking the place over (aside from the people living there, of course, but Spain had that little issue to deal with as well), and yet we decided to sit down with Spain and hash out an agreement over ownership claims.
As to Canada, we rather severely underestimated the loyalty of the average Canadian to Great Britain, thinking they would join us in fighting against the British. Big mistake both times, but we learned our lesson, and look where said loyalty has gotten them. Fidel Castro's illegitimate son is on the cusp of declaring himself the ruler of the new Maple Leaf Empire.
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Greta and Extinction Rebellion are so obviously astroturfed it hurts. It just so happens right after the World Economic Forum says we all need electric cars built by using child labor in toxic lithium mines, a grassroots movement appears! Just ignore the fact they are being supported by every major corporation, government entity, and media outlet.
Back me up!
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Okay, what is this about? Do the R's actually have the ability to do something if they just show up in the Senate?
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Biden sperging about Russia and Ukraine again.
At this point I think he is aiming for Nobel Peace Price, just like Obama got.
When it turns out Russia does not invade, and would never invade, Biden will claim it is because he is the Stronk Man who put Putin in his place and thus he deserves the Nobel Peace Price.
At this point I think he is aiming for Nobel Peace Price, just like Obama got.
When it turns out Russia does not invade, and would never invade, Biden will claim it is because he is the Stronk Man who put Putin in his place and thus he deserves the Nobel Peace Price.
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Basically. The Senate's trying to pass a gov't funding bill that's been kicked down the road for months now, and Republicans are swarming on a weak majority to attach all kinds of amendments in their interest onto it, including anti vaccine mandate stuff and explicitly prohibiting the feds from paying for crack pipes.
A bunch of Dems are already heading home because a) no one's realistically going to vote to shut down the government again, and b) a vote for it might risk them getting primaried by a prog this summer.
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Closing this thread. The main purpose for this thread was to keep A&H from being flooded with Biden threads during the election. Former mod @It's HK-47 was actively merging threads into it as he felt it'd be the best way to keep things under control. We've stopped merging and still get a healthy number of Biden threads outside of this one. A lot of the major Biden events and gaffes get posted outside of here. There's not a need for this thread anymore.
This thread is one of the largest in the site's history (over 100 pages) and is fucking slow. Go make individual threads for articles now.
This thread is one of the largest in the site's history (over 100 pages) and is fucking slow. Go make individual threads for articles now.
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