Sacrificial lamb to get us into a "confrontation" with China. She's more of an old goat, but still.
Lucky man.
Kek!
Getting hot on the Russian front as well.
Russia accuses Ukraine of killing POWs with HIMARS system
Russia has accused Kyiv of striking a jail holding Ukrainian prisoners of war in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, killing 40 detainees including some who had defended Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant.
The Russian defense ministry said a HIMARS missile strike hit a pre-trial detention center in Olenivka, in the separatist-held region of Donetsk, overnight on Friday.
“Forty Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 wounded,” the ministry said in its daily briefing, adding that the centre held fighters from the Azov battalion.
Those troops had surrendered earlier this year after a three-month siege of Mariupol’s steelworks and were transferred to Russian-held territory.
Eight employees of the detention center were also injured, Russia said.
More at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/29/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-killing-pows-with-himars-system
U.S. involvement. Russian soil.
Black women who once hated guns are embracing them as crime soars
WELCOME, Md. — A 16th week had passed with no arrest in the murder of Patrice Parker's son, another week in which she had struggled through grief for him and fear for herself and her surviving daughters.
It wasn't just that the person who had turned a gun on 24-year-old Markelle Morrow was still at large, but that so many other armed criminals were as well.
Shootings were ravaging the nation's capital, on track for its highest number of homicides in two decades. In Prince George's County, where Parker lives, carjackings had more than quadrupled since 2019.
But there was a place where she felt safe, and that was here, at a remote property amid thick woods an hour's drive south of her home in District Heights, Md. And there was no time the 52-year-old felt safer than when holding a weapon like the one her friend Mark "Choppa" Manley now handed her: a 9mm pistol similar to those that regularly ring out in neighborhoods experiencing the worst of the region's bloody summer.
"I've got some ammo for you," Manley said, "when you're ready."
There was a time when Parker never would have been ready. During a long career as a nursing aide she had cared for countless shooting victims. Like many Black women in Southeast Washington or just across the D.C. border in Prince George's County, she'd viewed guns for most of her life as the root of the violence that had wrecked countless lives in her community.
That changed, paradoxically, after her son was shot to death in a parking lot not far from her home. Exasperated with the police response and in despair over the sheer number of weapons on the streets, Parker decided there was only one way to protect what remained of her family. And that was to pick up a gun herself.
"I always felt like you needed to take the guns off the street. But the way things are now . . ." Parker's voice trailed off.
"I don't feel safe anymore," she said. "You can't trust nobody."
More at: https://www.phillytrib.com/news/across_america/black-women-who-once-hated-guns-are-embracing-them-as-crime-soars/article_8ce8d601-57c6-5037-b9b1-486054a13a98.html
True! Also, black women are a huge constituency of the DNC, so this is very interesting.