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Come on Sth Korea. What will it take for you to get in the fight and start supporting Ukraine with weapons?

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Russia sharing drone tactics with North Korean forces

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has revealed that North Korean troops deployed to Ukraine may be receiving training in drone operations and tactics from Russian forces. The NIS indicated that North Korea may be receiving drone technology from Russia as compensation for its...
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Ascent said:
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OSINTtechnical (@osinttechnical.bsky.social)

Four senior members of President Trump’s entourage have secretly met with Ukrainian opposition leaders on potentially holding early elections to unseat Ukrainian President Zelensky, per Politico.
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This is worrying.
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The actual article referenced:

www.politico.eu

Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents

As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team.
www.politico.eu www.politico.eu
 
This is scurrilous:


WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
The move, expected as soon as April, would be a stunning reversal of the welcome Ukrainians received under President Joe Biden's administration.

The planned rollback of protections for Ukrainians was underway before Trump publicly feuded with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy last week. It is part of a broader Trump administration effort to strip legal status from more than 1.8 million migrants allowed to enter the U.S. under temporary humanitarian parole programs launched under the Biden administration, the sources said.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the department had no announcements at this time. The White House and Ukrainian embassy did not respond to requests for comment.


Infuriating and shameful treachery.
 
Thumpalumpacus said:
Of course not. It still needs to be called what it is.
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The Whitehouse Press Secretary has declared that no decision has been made. It's definitely one to watch, though, in coming weeks.

The refugee situation is one that gets politely forgotten about when considering US and European support to Ukraine. The EU has accommodated about 4.9 million Ukrainian refugees, with Germany alone hosting about 1.2 million. Compare that with the US which has taken in 273,000.
 
drgondog said:
Not gonna go point by point - wastes my time and yours. However, I have attached a link that succinctly explains the last 45 days in office in context that I agree with.

America As Republic, Not As Empire – Europe's 'Sound And Fury' After Jaw-Dropping Pivots In US Policy | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com www.zerohedge.com

For those of you that think I am a right wing wingnut (and by definition of fools, therefore a Nazi, for those that do not understand how close National Socialism is to many brands of current Democrat Socialism), I am a died in the wool Constitutional Democrat.

Most of you are not familiar with our Founding Fathers and will have to study Thomas Jefferson to understand the term.

I have voted independent several times over the last 65 years because neither the Republican nor Democrat met my standard for support, unqualified and without reservation, for the Bill of Rights.

I don't expect anybody to share my views on personal liberty, and I am content to be reviled as a right wing MAGA nutcase - I've been called worse.

I was also brainwashed by my father, a career officer and warrior - that we (US) are a Constitutional Republic, and that the oath of Office is to defend the Constitution (not the President or America) from all enemies foreign and domestic. Defending the President and America are implied but not absolute.

He passed before the shitshows of the late 1980s unfolded to current politics in the US. I believe that he would be disgusted with many 'Trumpian behaviors and lack of civility' but he would have voted for him based on his vision and execution.

Take what you want, leave the rest.
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Food for thought. But its giving me indigestion and a sense of nausea.

Without wishing to diss it completely out of hand, your link is to a low readership online publication, with a paywall for many articles. The writers submit articles under pseudonyms - which is clearly designed to protect them from possible legal action. By its very nature, its a publication designed not to root out new information, so much as to generate clicks, engagement and advertising revenue which it does under the guise of 'free speech', but which is pretty transparently wanting to attract controversy and attention. The idea that its a reliable and fact-checkable source of objective information is flawed from the off. For example, the hyperlinked sections just veer off into speculation: The supposed justification of the censorship claim is German discussion about the banning of the AfD is but one example of hyperlink BS -not only has the AfD NOT been 'banned', its just won a substantial victory in the German elections. This is classic Orwellian double-speak. Naked misleading propaganda. There has been no 'suppression', even if there has been discussion of what constitutes a neo nazi organisation, something (unsurprisingly!) is banned under German law. Its the corollary of trying to argue that concern over where porn veers into paedophilia is 'censorship and suppression'. Adult consideration is a quite rational and fair given German concern about the far right- and what nationalism brought to Germany twice in the 20th century.

The piece may reflect or reinforce your opinion - but what new insight is it actually bringing to the table? I mean, he's a $hit writer for starters: 'It is difficult to say what specifically most triggered the catatonic European breakdown'.

Catatonic means - "Appearing mentally stupefied, unresponsive, and motionless, or almost so; seemingly unaware of one's environment".
Whether you agree with it or not, European response was ANYTHING but catatonic.

There are also a lot of straw-man implications in the rest of what you say:

"IMO A government that suppresses or deems free speech as hate crimes, prohibits ANY peaceful assembly, imposes their will on their citizens, prohibits the right to keep and bear arms, trashes the right to privacy and the right to confront accusers in a criminal procedure - are either fascist or have tendencies toward totalitarian rule in my world view."...

I'm gobsmacked ...errr, an ACTUAL one, like Russia, the invader of Ukraine...? :rolleyes: ...

I've read much of the rest of the article. I mean, dear god, where even to start?! :oops:

The mischaracterisation of European democracy is laughable. Its also insulting as well as dangerously inaccurate. Why would anyone simply accept this steaming pile of dung as either true and therefore a justification boggles my mind. I find it genuinely terrifying. You're an eloquent guy and clearly not alone in giving this stuff uncritical bandwidth. Differing opinions I can handle, but how far in extremist denial can you be to give countenance to this kind of stuff? But then again, many of not most of the people to whom this content appeals, know most no little to nothing of the outside world, in reality, do they? How many gobbling this sewage down have even been to Europe, and of the few that have, how many spent time not sealed away on a base or on some whistle-stop 'do all the sights' week holiday?

I had an insight into this naïve (and casually arrogant) view of the outside world once, when I was asked to invite the head of European Marketing for a large American mobile phone company to a meeting in the UK to discuss raising the profile of his products in our market (which were dismally failing to attract custom). I got on the phone to his secretary. "Could I come to the US?" she asked. "Erm, that would be an amazing opportunity for me, and would require clearance from my management", I said, "But surely he'd like to come here, meet some of the key executives, get an understanding of the market and have a tour round - really get to see the diversity of the culture, potential customers, the local competition and the challenges and opportunities. We can then host a round table and make suggestions on how we might be able to help." "Ah, I'm sorry," she said, "He doesn't have a passport". The Head of European Marketing for a leading US phone manufacturer! :oops:

How do you think the half dozen or so Europeans who regularly post here not only feel about what you've said, but who's intelligence you're now insulting by reposting and endorsing this article? You see, we ARE diverse. We have no problem expressing fundamental disagreements between our nations. If this hit-piece had any accuracy, I'm sure we'd all be pointing at each other and sagely nodding. But I'd be astounded if anyone here recognises what's described in this appalling piece.

Lets look at the author. 'Tyler Durden'. This nom de plume 'to protect his amendment rights' is pure BS for starters. The site founder and one of the key writers is purported to use it - and his identity is long since established. So who is this 'journalist' and what is his CV? Aha. His daddy registered the domain - Krassimir Ivandjiiski of ABC Media Ltd.

Who he? - A former Soviet-era Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Trade official. Let that sink in.

And the main writer-come-owner is his son - Daniel Ivandjiiski. And his 'qualifications'? He's a Bulgarian-born, U.S.-educated, former hedge-fund trader, who was barred from the securities industry in September 2008 for earning US$780 from an insider trade by FINRA .

This is the source 'that succinctly explains the last 45 days in office in context that I agree with'. And therein lies the problem. You agree with. But no one in their right mind would trust if they dug any deeper as to the objectivity, motivation or source, would they?

So why are you???

'Taking what you want and leaving the rest' means you're probably filtering out some otherwise unpleasant truth that contradicts the easier to swallow and more simplistic narrative. You're far from alone. But surely you and the USA are better than that? Don't we ALL owe a better democracy more than this?
 
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