Raccoon screams YOLO and takes the plunge…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/raccoon-screams-yolo-and-takes-the-plunge/
WATCH: Russian State TV Releases Video of Biden Struggling with His Microphone at Start of Virtual Conference with Vladimir Putin
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/watch-russian-state-tv-releases-video-biden-struggling-microphone-start-virtual-conference-vladimir-putin/
Vladimir Putin must be shaking in his boots.
Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held a virtual meeting to discuss the mounting threat of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
According to reports, the Kremlin is planning a “multi-front offensive” against Ukraine with ground troops.
Russia became emboldened after Biden gave Vladimir Putin the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Joe Biden warned Vladimir Putin of economic sanctions if he invades neighboring Ukraine.
The virtual meeting was not televised, however Russian state media released a small clip of Biden bumbling around at the start of the call.
Embarrassing.
>a truck with a foot of clearance
Appears to be based on the view down to approaching car
Knowing raccoon, probably survived just fine.
Curious how the raccoon got there tho
https://www.tiktok.com/@finessegawds?
Don't see it on there anymore, must have gotten some heat
A BRIEF HISTORY OF UKRAINE
https://localhistories.org/a-brief-history-of-ukraine/
By Tim Lambert
The Early History of Ukraine
In the 7th century BC, a people called the Scythians lived in what is now Ukraine. Later the Greeks settled on the north coast of the Black Sea and they founded city-states there. Slavs settled Ukraine in the 5th and 6th centuries AD.
Then in the 9th century, Swedish Vikings sailed along rivers into the heart of Eastern Europe. Some of them settled in Ukraine. In 882 a Viking named Oleg captured Kiev and it became the capital of a powerful state. In 988 under Vladimir I Ukraine converted to Christianity.
However, in the 11th and 12th centuries, the state broke up into fragments. Disaster struck in 1240 when the Mongols, led by Batu, grandson of Genghis Khan conquered southern and eastern Ukraine. However northern and western Ukraine remained independent until the 14th century when it was taken over by the Poles and Lithuanians. They gradually drove back the Mongols or Tartars. However, the Tartars still held Crimea and in the 15th century, they came under the domination of the Turkish Empire.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, some serfs (halfway between slaves and freemen) ran away from Polish landlords and settled on the steppes of Ukraine. They were called Kozaky (Cossacks), which means freemen. The Cossacks formed self-governing communities. Eventually, they united to form the Cossack Hetmanate led by a hetman (general).
However, in the late 17th century, Poland came to dominate western Ukraine while Russia dominated eastern Ukraine. Then in the 18th century Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia was determined to absorb eastern Ukraine into Russia. The Cossack Hetmanate was abolished in 1764.
Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Poland was declining and in 1772-1795 Russia and Austria decided to help themselves to Polish territory. Most of western Ukraine was taken by Russia (except for a small strip in the far west, which went to Austria). Finally, in 1783 Russia conquered Crimea. Catherine the Great also founded Odessa.
20th Century Ukraine
In the 19th century, Ukraine was firmly under Russian control. However from the mid-19th-century nationalism spread. In 1918 while Russia was engaged in civil war Ukraine became independent for a short time. However, in 1921 the Russians forced Ukraine to become part of the Soviet Union.
Stalin decided that farms in Ukraine should be collectivized. In other words, peasants would be deprived of their land and livestock and made to work as farm laborers on land now owned by the state. Not surprisingly many Ukrainian peasants bitterly resisted even slaughtering their own livestock rather than hand it over to the state. However, Stalin was determined to crush the Ukrainian peasants and he caused a terrible famine in 1932-33 that took the lives of millions of innocent people. In 1932 collective farms were given completely unrealistic quotas to fill. Soviet law decreed that the peasants would not be allowed to keep any grain until they had met their quotas. They could not, of course, meet them so Soviet officials simply confiscated all the grain they wanted leaving the peasants to starve. How many people died in this man-made famine is not known for sure but it was probably about 7 million. This horrific artificial famine is called the Holodomor.
However, Ukraine’s suffering was not over. During 1937-39 Stalin unleashed purges in which many Ukrainians were executed or sent to prison camps. Then in 1941, the Germans invaded. They murdered millions of Ukrainians. However, by 1943 the Germans were losing the war and the Red Army recaptured Kiev on 6 November 1943. Afterward, Stalin took reprisals against anyone he suspected of being disloyal or of collaborating with the Germans. All the Crimean Tatars were deported.
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SAVAGE: Kyle Rittenhouse Wants Binger To Know He “Played Call of Duty Every Night Of Trial”
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/savage-kyle-rittenhouse-wants-binger-to-know-he-played-call-of-duty-every-night-of-trial/
Kyle Rittenhouse savagely revealed that he played Call of Duty every night his trial on Monday night’s episode of BlazeTv’s You Are Here with hosts Elijah Schaffer and Sydney Watson, The Post Millenial reported.
While discussing the lead prosecutor, Thomas Binger, and his decision to repeatedly ask ridiculous questions in what appeared to be a bad-faith attempt to cast a Kyle as an enjoyer of violence–like if the teen ever played the video game Call of Duty – Rittenhouse told the hosts that he played the video game “every night” of trial.
“This guy tried to bring up that playing Call of Duty…could make you a killer. I don’t know where you get those stupid ideas?” Schaffer said to Rittenhouse.
“It just doesn’t make any sense. And Binger I hope you are seeing this, I played Call of Duty every night of trial,” Rittenhouse said with a grin on his face.
The interview took an inspirational turn, with Rittenhouse revealing that his recent experience going through a criminal trial inspired him to one day become a lawyer and go up against “piece of sh** prosecutors like Thomas Binger.” Big League Politics covered this as well, and more on that can be found by clicking here.
Rittenhouse had previously suggested he wanted to pursue a career in nursing and his planning on attending school at Arizona State University (ASU). The Kenosha teen’s plans to attend ASU have been met by fierce opposition in some circles, including a radical left pro-illegal alien student group who organized a campus protest in hopes of barring Rittenhouse from receiving an education at the school.