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Ukraine given Afghanistan-style warning from US – Politico
Washington has reportedly delivered Kiev the same kind of message it sent to Kabul ahead of the 2021 pullout
The White House has given Ukraine the same warning it delivered to the US-backed regime in Afghanistan in 2021, Politico reported on Monday citing anonymous sources in President Joe Biden’s administration.
According to the outlet, Washington has urged Kiev not to spread its troops too thin or overextend its ambitions. This is what Biden reportedly told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at some point, before the US pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban took over the country.
The warning came in the context of US fears that the “ever-imminent counteroffensive” by Kiev’s forces might fall far short of expectations, leaving Biden open to criticism from both hawks and doves, at home and in Europe.
Politico originally reported that Ukraine had suffered 100,000 troops killed over the past 14 months, later editing that to refer to total casualties, including the wounded and missing. Many of Kiev’s top soldiers were “either sidelined or exhausted,” the outlet said, having gone through “historic amounts” of weapons and ammunition even the West’s “prodigious output” could not keep pace with.
Some US officials have reportedly pitched the idea of a negotiated ceasefire, leaving the door open for Kiev to resume hostilities after rearming and recovering.
https://www.rt.com/news/575275-ukraine-us-afghan-warning/
Senators demand answers on FBI agents forced to sign nondisclosures stopping whistleblowers
"Federal agencies cannot conceal their wrongdoing behind illegal nondisclosure agreements and related documents," Grassley and Johnson wrote.
did not include the legally required whistleblower exceptions allowing him to come forward to Congress.
Whistleblower protections have been enshrined in federal law for more than a decade, and federal agencies may not use taxpayer dollars for nondisclosure agreements without including whistleblower exceptions. However, former Special Agent Steve Friend, who came forward in the fall with claims that the FBI used excessive tactics and did not follow its own rules in probing the Jan. 6 riot, provided the GOP senators with the nondisclosure agreement he was forced to sign that did not include the required anti-gag provision.
"These accountability measures are critically important because they ensure whistleblowers know they have the right to disclose government fraud, waste, and abuse to Congress and Inspectors General," Grassley and Johnson wrote in a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. "Federal agencies cannot conceal their wrongdoing behind illegal nondisclosure agreements and related documents."
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senators-demand-answers-fbi-agents-forced-sign-nondisclosures-falsely-stopping
Thousands of migrants march through Mexico to protest detention centers
Most of the migrants in the group are from Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador.
About 3,000 migrants are marching through Mexico to protest detention centers after 40 migrants died in a fire last month in one.
The group, which started its march Sunday in southern Mexico, said its goal is to reach Mexico City to demand better treatment for migrants, but many similar caravans have continued the trek to the U.S. border, according to The Associated Press.
"It could well have been any of us," Miriam Argueta, a Salvadoran migrant, said about the people who perished in the fire. "In fact, a lot of our countrymen died. The only thing we are asking for is justice, and to be treated like anyone else."
Most of the migrants in the group are from Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador.
Argueta also said that when the migrants looked for work in southern Mexico, they were offered difficult jobs.
"They give us jobs, perhaps not humiliating, but the one the Mexicans don’t want to do, hard work that pays very little," she said.
Protest organizer Ireneo Mujica said the migrants are demanding for Mexico's immigration agency to dissolve over the deadly fire last month. Six officials with Mexico's National Immigration Institute are facing homicide charges over the fire.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/3000-migrants-march-through-mexico-protest-detention-centers