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Anonymous ID: 295da7 Dec. 22, 2023, 8:06 a.m. No.20115018   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5039 >>5060 >>5306 >>5578 >>5720

22 Dec, 2023 1

Ukraine can’t defeat Russia – EU state’s PM

Despite all of the Western support, Kiev lacks the power to reverse the situation militarily, Slovakia’s Robert Fico believes

 

No amount of Western weapons pumped into Ukraine will be enough to secure a victory over Russia, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said, adding that this means thatthe conflict has no military solution.

 

In an interview with the local Pravda newspaper on Friday, Fico – a vocal critic of sending arms to Kiev – suggested that while the West was trying its best to use Ukraine to “destroy” Russia both economically and militarily, this approach was doomed from the very start.

 

“This plan can never work, it is an absolute misunderstanding of reality and the real position of the Russian Federation,” he noted, recalling that Moscow has gained more territory than Ukraine this year, even despite the latter’s ill-fated counteroffensive.

 

According to Fico, while Western sanctions are certainly unpleasant for Moscow, it would be a mistake to think that “a Russian citizen is beating his head against the wall because he cannot buy an American phone” as he can simply buy a Chinese one.

 

When it comes to the battlefield situation, the West should honestly admit that “Ukraine does not have enough forces to militarily reverse the situation,” according to the premier.

 

We can pour all the weapons of the world, all the money there, and Russia will never be defeated militarily. It is the turn of 2023 and 2024, and you will see that Russia will begin to dictate the terms of settlement of this conflict.

 

Meanwhile, Fico recalled that Ukraine had a chance to end the conflict in its early stages by signing an agreement with Russia but walked away from the negotiation process after receiving promises of support from the West.

 

This past June, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in the spring of 2022 Moscow and Kiev drew up a peace treaty in which Ukraine had committed to a neutral status. David Arakhamia, a Ukrainian MP who led Kiev’s delegation at the talks, later confirmed that this was one of Russia’s key demands. He also said that Ukraine broke off the engagement after then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson dissuaded it from taking the deal.

 

Several months after the talks collapsed, four former Ukrainian regions overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in public referendums, with President Vladimir Zelensky later barring negotiations with Moscow. Russia, however, maintains it is open to engagement with Kiev.

 

As things currently stand, “only a naive person” could imagine that Russia would contemplate leaving its new territories, Fico concluded.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/589528-ukraine-cant-defeat-russia/

Anonymous ID: 295da7 Dec. 22, 2023, 8:26 a.m. No.20115092   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5120

22 Dec, 2023

Ukrainian military vows to boost numbers by any means

Citizens should volunteer now rather than wait to be forcibly mobilized, a Defense Ministry spokesman has advised

 

Ukraine will boost the size of its army one way or another, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Friday as cited by local media, adding that citizens should not delude themselves into thinking that only volunteers will have to fight.

 

President Vladimir Zelensky previously stated that the Ukrainian military was looking to enroll between 450,000 and 500,000 people into the armed forces. Illarion Pavlyuk, the ministry spokesman, said on national television that the enlistment goals will be achieved through a combination of volunteer recruitment and mandatory conscription.

 

“We urge people to join the armed forces voluntarily, without waiting for a mobilization summons, and offer them the chance to choose their specialty,” he said. “But it does not meanthat only those who want to serve will do, orthat one can pick from only non-combat jobs.”

 

The official said the military would prefer to see more volunteers but that it will make up the difference through mobilization.

 

Zelensky reported the target draft number during a press conference on Tuesday. He implied that he had reservations about some of the ideas being floated by the military leadership, such as mobilizing women, and claimed that the plan would come at a price tag of $13.4 billion for Ukraine.

 

German media reported this week that Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov wanted male citizens aged between 25 and 60 who reside in foreign nations to report for mobilization or face sanctions and dishonor.

 

Kiev shut its border for men of conscription age after the hostilities with Russia erupted in February last year, banning anyone without a special waiver from leaving. However, the tabloid Bild reported that221,571 Ukrainian men have arrived in Germanysince then and 189,484 remained in the country.

 

In comments to Ukrainian media on Wednesday, Pavlyuk claimed that German journalists had “shifted the emphasis” of the minister’s remarks.He clarified that at this time no legal mechanisms to pressure or punish those dodging the draft on foreign soil are being considered.

 

Meanwhile, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior aide to Zelensky, suggested on Friday that Kiev could convince host nations to strip social benefits and residency permits of draft-dodgers in order to coerce them to return.

 

On Tuesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu estimated Ukrainian losses since the start of the conflict at over 383,000, with roughly half of the casualties sustained during the so-called summer counteroffensive, which Kiev launched in early June.

 

Germany states: 22 Dec, 2023

Germany vows to protect Ukrainian men from Zelensky

Another draft push is planned in Ukraine, and the country’s defense minister is targeting citizens abroad

 

https://www.rt.com/news/589524-germany-vows-protect-ukrainian-men/

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/589521-ukraine-mobilization-goals-ministry/

Anonymous ID: 295da7 Dec. 22, 2023, 8:32 a.m. No.20115142   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5306 >>5578 >>5720

22 Dec, 2023

Biden emailed son’s business associate 54 times – Republicans

The email exchanges reportedly coincided with Hunter Biden’s appointment to the board of a Ukrainian energy firm

 

US President Joe Biden exchanged dozens of emails with his son Hunter’s business associatewhile he was vice president, according to a Republican-led committee investigating Biden’s alleged influence-peddling. Biden has denied any involvement in his son’s overseas dealings.

 

Files released by the House Ways and Means Committee this week show Biden using aliases and private email addresses to communicate withEric Schwerin, Hunter Biden’s accountant, 54 times. The bulk of these exchanges took place either side of Biden’s two 2014 trips to Ukraine, with Hunter Biden appointed to the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, after the first trip.

 

The committee did not publish the contents of the emails, only describing when they were sent. Nevertheless, the messages “directly refute previous public statements the president has made that he had no knowledge of his son’s business dealings,” the committee said in a press release.

 

Asked earlier this month whether he knew about or partook in Hunter’s business activities, Biden said “I did not, and it’s a bunch of lies.”

 

Hunter Biden was lavishly compensated for his work with Burisma, earning around$1 million per year for as long as his father was in the White House. Hunter’s former business partner, Devon Archer, told the House Oversight Committee in July that Hunter was appointed solely to guarantee that the company would have influence over US policy, and that Joe Biden regularly called Hunter during meetings with Burisma clients.

 

Biden admitted in 2018 to using $1 billion in American aid money as leverage to have a Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, fired. According to the Oversight Committee, Hunter asked his father to ensure that Shokin was sacked while the two spoke by phone during a Burisma meeting.

 

The House Ways and Means Committee, Oversight Committee, and Judiciary Committee are currently conducting an impeachment inquiry into Biden’s alleged corruption and influence-peddling. The House of Representatives voted along party lines to formalize this inquiry earlier this month, a move that grants greater subpoena power to the committees. However, Hunter Biden has defied a subpoena calling for him to give a closed-door deposition to the Oversight and Judiciary committees, stating that he would only answer questions in a public session.

 

Citing witness testimony and files retrieved from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, Republicans allege that the Biden family received around $24 million in payments through shell companies from business figures and politicians in China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine while Biden was vice president. Some 150 of these transactions were flagged as “suspicious” by the US Treasury Department, according to the committees.

 

The Ways and Means Committee describes Schwerin as “the architect of the Biden family’s shell companies,” which were allegedly used to conceal these payments. Democrats insist that Schwerin merely helped Joe Biden file his tax returns during his time as vice president. (Kek, they probably shouldn’t have said that out loud.)

 

https://www.rt.com/news/589523-joe-biden-hunter-emails/

Anonymous ID: 295da7 Dec. 22, 2023, 8:39 a.m. No.20115170   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5306 >>5578 >>5720

22 Dec, 2023 08:

Chinese-US military contacts resume – Beijing

The sides have not communicated since then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August 2022

 

Official contacts between the US and Chinese militaries have resumed following a 16-month hiatus caused by US involvement in Taiwan. Beijing's defense ministry said in a statement that a videoconference on Thursday between Brown and Liu, the Chief of Staff of China’s Central Military Commission Joint Staff Department, had been organized at the behest of the US.

 

During the talks Chinese General Liu Zhenli told US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles Q. Brown that Washington should develop the “right perception” towards Beijing in order for bilateral ties to improve, China’s defense ministry reports.

 

Beijing had put military-to-military contacts with Washington on hold after then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visited Taiwan in August 2022, which China deemed an “egregious provocation.”

 

However, at the summit between US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in San Francisco in November, it was decided that the armed forces of the two nations will speak to each other again.

 

During the discussions, the Chinese commander made it clear to his American counterpart that the Taiwan issue “is purely China’s internal affair, which brooks no foreign interference,” stressing the country’s readiness to “resolutely defend” its sovereignty and territorial integrity, the ministry said.

 

Liu also urged Washington to respect Beijing’s interests in the South China Sea and overall take “concrete actions to safeguard regional peace and stability,” it added.

 

According to the statement, the Chinese commander described the resumption of contacts with the US military as an important development. However, Liu stressed that the improvement inbilateral ties will only happen if the Americans develop the “right perception toward China…respect China’s core interests… and promote pragmatic cooperation and enhance mutual understanding.”

 

The Pentagon’s readout of the conversation said that Brown and Liu “discussed the importance of working together to responsibly manage competition, avoid miscalculations, and maintain open and direct lines of communication.” The highest-ranking US military officer told his counterpart that Beijing should be “engaging in substantive dialogue to reduce the likelihood of misunderstandings,” it added.

 

Brown also called for lines of communication to be established between the chief of the US Indio-Pacific Command and the leaders of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern and Southern Theater Commands as well as for the resumption of dialogue in other formats. A number of global and regional security issues were also discussed, the readout said.

 

(So once again our military is captured and dictated to by China! Anyone with a Q in their name, is not necessarily a patriot!)

 

https://www.rt.com/news/589497-china-us-military-taiwan/

Anonymous ID: 295da7 Dec. 22, 2023, 8:55 a.m. No.20115227   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20115180

Tyler’s report is very damning to RNC and Ronna. They basically are a fundraising org, withNo get out the voteactions, or outreach to hispanics, blacks, asians etc

Anonymous ID: 295da7 Dec. 22, 2023, 8:59 a.m. No.20115239   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20115180

The RNC is not fiscally well. I think using Trump’s name with really no support and basically betraying America First has reduced donations drastically, but they never learn the lesson. It’s like Sundance says, “the democrats work for power, the republicans work for money only”