Anonymous ID: 411f5a March 3, 2023, 5:12 p.m. No.18441920   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1942 >>1984 >>2081 >>2126

4 Mar, 2023 00:45

US defies North Korea's threats

Washington and Seoul have announced their largest military drills in years despite warnings from Pyongyang

 

The US and South Korean militaries have announced their largest joint exercises in at least five years and their longest on record, defying threats from North Korea that such drills can be considered a “declaration of war”and will lead to “unprecedentedly persistent and strong counteractions.”

 

The exercises, including amphibious landings, will run from March 13 to March 23 and will be the largest-scale joint drills held by the two countries since then-President Donald Trump throttled back such training amid peace talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

 

The concurrent drills, called Freedom Shield and Warrior Shield, are designed to strengthen the allies’ response capabilities amid a changing security environment, North Korean “aggression” and “lessons learned from recent wars and conflicts,” US Forces Korea spokesman Colonel Isaac Taylor told reporters on Friday in Seoul.

 

For good measure, the US made a show of force on Friday, deploying a B-1B stealth bomber in a joint air drill with Korean aircraft. The aim of the drill was to demonstrate Washington’s “strong and credible extended deterrence against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats,” Seoul’s defense ministry said.

 

Pyongyang has called such joint exercises dress rehearsals for invasion. North Korean officials said last month that this year’s upcoming joint drills are “preparations for an aggressive war,” adding that the peninsula will “again be plunged into the grave vortex of escalating tension.”

 

The two Koreas have technically been at war for more than seven decades, as their 1950-1953 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. Tensions in the region have escalated in the past year, with North Korea conducting a record number of missile tests.

 

If North Korea reacts to this month’s drills with “provocative acts,” such as a nuclear weapon test, the US and South Korea will respond “sternly, based on the overwhelming capabilities of the alliance,” said Colonel Lee Sung-jun, spokesman for the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/572431-us-korea-drills-threats/

 

Bidan wants war and death regardless

Anonymous ID: 411f5a March 3, 2023, 5:20 p.m. No.18441964   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1983

3 Mar, 2023 22:12

Top US prosecutor makes surprise Ukraine visit

Attorney General Merrick Garland has dropped in to reaffirm US determination to “hold Russia accountable”

 

US Attorney General Merrick Garland made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Friday, joining President Vladimir Zelensky at a justice conference and vowing to punish Russia for alleged war crimes. Russia has denied such accusations and pointed to Western disinterest in Ukrainian atrocities.

 

Garland made the trip, which was kept secret for security reasons, at the invitation of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andrey Kostin, a US Department of Justice (DOJ) official told reporters. He held several meetings with Ukrainian officials and attended the United for Justice Conference in Lviv.

 

The trip marked Garland’s second unannounced visit to Ukraine since Russia’s military operation against Kiev began last year. On Friday’s visit, he “reaffirmed our determination to hold Russia accountable for crimes committed in its unjust and unprovoked invasion against its sovereign neighbor,” the DOJ official said.

 

Garland marked last week’s one-year anniversary of the conflict’s start by issuing a statement saying that a team of DOJ prosecutors was working with their Ukrainian counterparts to investigate “specific crimes committed by Russian forces, including attacks on civilian targets. At the same time, Congress has expanded our authority to prosecute alleged war criminals who are found in the United States.”

 

US officials have stepped up their anti-Russia rhetoric in recent weeks, such as when Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that Moscow had committed “crimes against humanity.”Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on February 18, Harris said Washington had “examined the evidence” and vowed that the alleged perpetrators would “be held to account.”

 

Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov reacted by saying the vice president’s claims were a cynical attempt to escalate the Ukraine conflict and justify efforts to keep pouring weapons into Kiev. He pointed out, too, that the US had ignored Ukrainian crimes, including the shelling of civilian areas in Donbass during the eight years leading up to the current crisis.

 

“Washington’s two-facedness is outrageous,”Antonov said. “Why is the State Department silent about the atrocities of Ukrainian cutthroats? What are the American human rights organizations thinking? Why is no one calling for the punishment of fascist thugs?”

 

President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday announced an additional $400 million in military aid to Ukraine. Washington has given Kiev more than $32 billion worth of arms and has allocated over $110 billion in aid since the conflict began. Russia has argued that NATO aid to Ukraine is only prolonging the crisis and causing more bloodshed.

 

(Fish mouth Garland should be married to Lori Lightfoot, someone other than the amazon she is married to)

 

https://www.rt.com/news/572428-us-ag-garland-visits-ukraine/

Anonymous ID: 411f5a March 3, 2023, 5:26 p.m. No.18441997   🗄️.is 🔗kun

3 Mar, 2023 19:38

US museum reverses course on Russian artist’s Ukrainization

Public pressure has forced the Metropolitan Museum of Art to reclassify painter Ivan Aivazovsky once more – this time as Armenian

 

Famed Russian seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky is now listed as Armenianon the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website as of Thursday, after a public outcry followed the museum’s decision to reclassify the 19th-century artist as Ukrainian, Armenian-American news outlet Asbarez has confirmed.

 

Asbarez led a pressure campaign to force the Met to rethink its revisionism after “several people in the Armenian community” noticed Aivazovsky’s biography on the museum’s website had been changed to call him Ukrainian, including a Ukrainian spelling of his name – even while acknowledging thathe was “born into an Armenian family in the Crimean port city of Feodosia on the Black Sea.”

 

“As you write in his bio, he was born into an Armenian family,” reporter Taleen Setrakian wrote to the New York institution. “How is one born into an Armenian family but does not retain their ethnic origins?”

 

The Met’s European Paintings Department wrote back in an email to Setrakian that it was “undertaking additional revisions to [its] cataloging of Ivan Aivazovsky, in order to ensure that his Armenian identity is duly recognized.”

 

The painter’s biography was changed accordingly, replacing the secondary Ukrainized spelling with his Armenian birth name, Hovhannes Aivazian, and describing him as “Armenian, born Russian Empire [now Ukraine].” Crimea rejoined Russia following a 2014 referendum after a US-backed coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine.

 

Aivazovsky is far from alone in being posthumously reidentified as Ukrainian. Last month, Arkhip Kuindzhi, a19th-century Russian landscape painter, was relisted as “Ukrainian, born Russian Empire,” with his name spelled in the Ukrainian fashion. The text accompanying Kuindzhi’s painting, ‘Red Sunset’, blames a Russian airstrike for the destruction of the Kuindzhi Art Museum, located in the artist’s birth city of Mariupol.

 

The Met also renamed impressionistEdgar Degas’ famous painting, ‘Russian Dancer’, to ‘Dancer in Ukrainian Dress’, even though Degas painted the iconic work before an independent Ukraine existed.

 

The name changes are the fruit of an ongoing Ukrainian pressure campaign in response to Russia's military operation. Britain’s National Museum became the first to acquiesce in April, renaming its own Degas drawing, ‘Russian Dancers’, to ‘Ukrainian Dancers’ and adding an unsourced claim that the dancers “are almost certainly Ukrainian rather than Russian.” The museum admitted the name change was “due to the current situation”rather than for artistic or cultural reasons.

 

https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/572423-metropolitan-museum-aivazovsky-ukrainian-armenian/

 

These people are fucking sick. Nina Jsncowicz did this. Evil incarnate

Anonymous ID: 411f5a March 3, 2023, 5:37 p.m. No.18442042   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2072

3 Mar, 2023 21:47

Serbia denies supplying weapons to Ukraine

Belgrade has dismissed media reports suggesting a local arms maker had secretly shipped artillery munitions to Kiev

 

Serbia has officially denied supplying weapons to Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict with Russia, dismissing media reports suggesting otherwise. The country’s foreign minister, Ivica Dacic, made a statement on the matter on Friday.

 

The top diplomat insisted Belgrade had not provided war supplies to either side of the conflict or made shipments to any other “controversial” destinations.

 

“Serbia does not export weaponry and military equipment to countries in cases where we believe that this could cause disputes and problems,” Dacic stated. “I’d like to vigorously refute all the information published by certain media outlets saying otherwise.”

 

Similar statements were made separately by the Serbian Defense Ministry, which insisted that no permits to supply arms to either Russia or Ukraine had been granted from the onset of the hostilities.

 

“Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, not a single one of our rockets, mines or shells has been covered by an agreement or delivered in such fashion that one of the sides to the conflict was the end user,” the ministry said, noting that the government operates strictly in line with international restrictions and UN rulings regarding certain nations or entities. At the same time, the ministry said Belgrade could not be held responsible for any potential violations of end-user agreements by third parties.

 

In recent days, media reports suggested that the Serbian state-owned arms maker Krusik supplied at least one batch of some 3,500 122-mm rockets used with Soviet-made M-21 Grad multiple rocket launch systems. The shipment was allegedly delivered to a Turkish customer, who then sent them to Ukraine via Slovakia.

 

The Krusik arms factory was the first to deny the allegations, insisting that the media reports used “incomplete and irrelevant information.”The manufacturer also insisted it had not signed a delivery contract with the Turkish company Arca Savunma Sanayi Ticaret Limited, which was mentioned in the documents, altogether.

 

Since the beginning of the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev over a year ago,Belgrade has maintained an explicitly neutral stance. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, as well as other top officials, however, have repeatedly said the country has faced mounting pressure from the EU to condemn Moscow’s ongoing military operation and join the Western-imposed sanctions against Russia.

 

Moscow has responded to the arms shipment allegations by asking Belgrade to officially comment on the matter. “This is too serious an issue, with implications on Russian-Serbian relations, to react reflexively,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday, adding that Moscow is reserving judgment until all the facts have been established.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/572422-serbia-ukraine-weapons-allegations/