This guy…..

Zelensky Calls Putin's Nuclear Threats A "Bluff" & "Show Of Weakness"

(Update 16:35ET): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has made a number of statements to German media on Wednesday sure to get noticed in Moscow. First, he reiterated that he stands ready to make compromises with Russia in order to end the fighting, but still emphasized he's not willing to concede anything that would be seen as a "betrayal" by Ukrainians, though without explaining exactly what this would look like in terms of the Kremlin's specific proposals on the table.

He said to Bild TV, however, that "the other side must also be willing to make compromises - that’s why they are called compromises." He added when pressed further, "We can’t talk about the details yet." So far there's been three rounds of meetings between the Ukraine-Russia delegations over a possible ceasefire.

And perhaps more provocatively Zelensky made comments on Russia's previous raising of its nuclear readiness level, calling Putin's threat of putting nuclear weapons use on the table but a mere "bluff". The response to Moscow's raised nuclear posture was given to German newspaper Die Zeit, and included the following:

Zelensky went on to say that Putin’s nuclear threat "shows a weakness."

"You only threaten the use of nuclear weapons when nothing else is working," Zelensky said. "Every use of nuclear weapons means the end for all sides, not just for the person using them."

Meanwhile, on the inter-NATO side of things, the Polish MiG transfer saga continues and confusion, after Wednesday reports that Washington and Warsaw were still mulling the possibility…

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/here-are-all-latest-news-and-developments-ukraine-war-march-9

Amazon Suspends Retail Shipments To Russia & Belarus, Blocks Prime Video

Amazon has announced it has suspended most of its main services across Russia and Belarus, including access to Prime Video in Russia, and also confirming it will no longer ship retail orders to customers in both countries.

The US-based multinational e-commerce company has been backing away from services in Russia amid ratcheting pressure to do so, which also now includes stopping all new signups for Amazon Web Services. "Given the ongoing situation in Russia and Ukraine, we’ve taken additional actions in the region," Amazon announced in a blog post.

"We’ve suspended shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and Belarus, and we will no longer be accepting new Russia and Belarus-based AWS customers and Amazon third-party sellers," Amazon said.

"We are also suspending access to Prime Video for customers based in Russia, and we will no longer be taking orders for New World, which is the only video game we sell directly in Russia."

In the last week, and since Russia's invasion of Ukraine which started on Feb.24, Amazon has come under increased pressure from the public and politicians to suspend services in Russia as punishment.

Already, Apple, Microsoft and Google (Alphabet) had been among the first tech companies with the largest market capitalizations in the world to begin winding down services in Russia.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/amazon-suspends-retail-shipments-russia-belarus-blocks-prime-video

Russia

No GMO food

No Coca-cola

No MacDonalds

No Amazon

No Fuckbook

No Twatter

No TikTok

Kyiv Mayor: Resources for ‘A Week or Two’

Shelling and evacuation efforts are still ongoing in Ukraine. So far, the route out of Sumy, on the Russian border, is the only one that’s been used, according to AP. A Ukrainian official said 5,000 people were evacuated Tuesday.

https://www.ntd.com/kyiv-mayor-resources-for-a-week-or-two_749989.html

Looks like Russia is starving them out to avoid gorilla warfare in the streets

Psaki gets hit with another doocy

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1501684695209291777

Texas mom of transgender boy, 14, says they're one of five families being probed by state for child abuse for seeking medical help for son's transition: State AG came to dinner with them in 2016

Amber Briggle says she is under investigation for child abuse in wake of Gov. Greg Abbott's order to investigate reports of gender-transitioning procedures

Briggle and her husband were interviewed by a child welfare agent over the care they provide to their transgender son, Max

The family claims they have advocated for Max his entire life, which included inviting Texas AG Ken Paxton to dinner at their home in 2016

They wanted to discuss a proposed transgender bathroom law with Paxton

The AG, who did dine at their home, recently issued an opinion declaring that 'gender-transitioning procedures' are child abuse under existing Texas law

A Texas mom who invited the state's attorney general to dinner to learn about her transgender son says she is now being probed by the state for child abuse after seeking medical help with the youngster's transition.

Mother-of-two Amber Briggle, who has a transgender son called Max, 14, says her family is one of at least five families that are currently under investigation in wake of Abbott's February ruling targeting children who've received treatments including puberty blockers.

She says she was contacted by child protective services on February 28, with an investigator saying they'd be arriving at her home within 30 minutes. Briggle says she managed to meet with the social worker at her office, and schedule a visit to her home for March 3, which she says resulted in social workers compliment her and her husband's parenting.

Briggle, who has blogged prolifically about Max's transition, has said she supports the kind of hormone treatment Governor Greg Abbott wants to ban. She hasn't stipulated whether Max himself has undergone the treatment, but previously spoke of paying to change the gender marker on his birth certificate, and her support for such hormone treatments.

Briggle has also discussed attending the GENECSIS clinic for transgender people in the Dallas-Forth Worth area with Max, but did not detail any specific treatments he'd had. In 2016, the Briggles invited Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton to dinner in the wake of a proposed bathroom bill that would have banned trans people using the restroom corresponding to their gender identity.

Paxton and his wife accepted, and were pictured enjoying a convivial meal with the Briggles - but the family now face a social services probe over the very same issue at the hands of Paxton's office.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10595619/Parents-trans-child-contacted-Texas-AG-investigation-child-abuse.html

All msm is claiming Russia bombed maternity hospital

American Oil Drillers: Democrat Policies Blocking Energy Production

Oil drillers say they are working to fill the recent void in the oil market but are hampered by Democrat policies.

While gas prices rose about one dollar before the run-up to the Ukrainian war and 70 cents since the invasion of Ukraine, President Biden has blamed the oil industry for not producing enough oil to shore up the oil crisis from the war. He claims American drillers are not utilizing 9,000 leases on private land.

But American shale drillers have pushed back by suggesting Biden’s supply chain woes and woke private, and public investment strategies have dramatically slowed swift production.

“Getting lenders to choke off money to fossil fuel companies is the next needed move for the industry to address the material risks that the coal, oil and gas industry faces,” Leslie Samuelrich, president at investment advisory firm Green Century Capital Management, said back April about industry’s future lending decisions.

Samuelrich’s analysis has come true, which is greatly reducing the feasibility of new oil projects on the reported 9,000 private land leases.

“Ten years ago, the ‘cost of capital’ for developing oil and gas as compared to renewable projects was pretty much the same, falling consistently between 8% and 10%. But not anymore,” Bloomberg reported in November. Now the cost of capital is reportedly 20 percent for long-cycle developments.

Biden’s attack on private financing is only one angle of assault. In August, a Biden changed global bank financing rules that make it more difficult for drillers to find investors. The policy is intended to accelerate renewable energy investment rather than fossil fuel investment, thereby greatly defunding oil production.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that oil drillers believe the “flight of capital from the fossil-fuel industry in recent years has left U.S. oil patches without enough fracking equipment to bring a ton of new wells online, and that a resurgence of go-go drilling would deplete companies’ most valuable drilling locations”:

Lenders—who have become more wary of funding oil-related ventures as environmental, social and governance ideas catch on in financial circles—are still unwilling to give money to most of the nation’s crop of oil-field service companies, or to smaller oil producers that want to expand their operations, executives and analysts said. That has left small but instrumental players short of the financing they need to repair fracking equipment sidelined during the start of the pandemic, or invest in building drill bits, drilling rigs and blowout preventers.

Data suggests the drillers are correct. American oil production is down drastically from 2019 before the pandemic. In 2022, oil production is 12 million barrels or 8 percent less than in 2019.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/03/09/american-oil-drillers-democrat-policies-blocking-energy-production/