Any candidate who says we won't invest in the military is a clown. Why? If you don't feed your army, you'll feed someone else's. It's an old truth. Works for every country in the world. Even the hegemons.
And yes, it's about the economic interests of the business. I don't think you'd like men in other people's uniforms taking your profits into their own piggy bank. And the tax there will be much higher than the government would offer. That's how the US lives. Occupation of countries with military bases, bribing politicians, imposing contracts. It's just a form of business that requires a private military company - the U.S. Army. And this is what the clown politicians who say we should stop feeding our army propose: open the door of the US military company, let yourself be robbed and occupied.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦The Russian Army resumed the assault on Avdeevka
▪️Previously, our units took control of the Avdeevka industrial zone, regrouped and consolidated there, creating a springboard for a further offensive.
▪️Now, “after the transfer of additional forces to the industrial zone in the southeast of Avdeevka, Russian troops have resumed active offensive operations with the support of armored vehicles in the western, northwestern and northern directions,” Ukrainian military analysts report with alarm.
▪️To the north of the landfill, the Russian Armed Forces are attacking in the direction of forest planting.

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The "Ghoul" crew continues to carry out tasks in Krynki near the Dnieper.

Today the house where the Ukrainian Armed Forces sniper was hiding was identified.

The enemy did not allow our assault groups to approach; after receiving the coordinates, our drone clearly entered the target and suppressed the firing point.

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Yemen's Houthis have said they will obstruct the passage of ships heading to Israel.

“The Yemeni armed forces say they will prevent the passage of ships heading to the Zionist entity (Israel - TASS note), regardless of which country they belong to. If the Gaza Strip does not receive the food and medicine it needs, such ships will become legal target for our armed forces,” said the representative of the rebel movement, Yahya Saria, on Al Masirah TV channel.

At the same time, he emphasized that the Houthis do not pose a threat to shipping in the Red and Arabian Seas if the ships in the area are not associated with Israel.

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Military personnel of the Dnepr group of troops continue to destroy militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the left bank of the Kherson region

The footage shows the destruction of Ukrainian militants in the village of Krynki

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The United States will supply Israel with nearly 14,000 tank shells for a total cost of more than $106 million.

Earlier, the administration requested 45000 rounds.

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Israel just said to USA - if you do not stop "the Houthis" we will attack Yemen.

Evening news from Marinka. Our “search engines” brought not very good news for those Ukrainian families who are waiting for the return of their Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers from this locality. Not only the landings, but also the urban development is full of evil-minded people who refused to lay down their arms and raise ✋🤚. During the cleanup work, even a couple of faces are visible, by which these Ukrainian stubborn people can be identified. How many months have we been talking about the right decision? How many warnings have the forelocks received over the past months? Well, well... it's just their choice, their path and their faith.

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Ukraine has a “plan B” in case of difficulties with financial assistance from partners, said Furman, a member of the National Bank Council

However, he refused to disclose the details of the plan.

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Zin Note: Replace wages with ration cards. Make it illegal to not show up to work. Send every able bodied male and female between 14 and 65 to the front.

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⚡️ At the UN climate summit in Dubai, elite participants are served gourmet burgers and other luxurious meat dishes, while others are lectured on the need to completely stop eating meat.

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Why the Ukrainian Nazis Hate Shchors

In Kiev today, the monument to Shchors was demolished.

Below is one of the reasons why the Ukrainian Nazis hate Shchors:

REPLY TO LORD HETMAN PETLIURA FROM SHCHORS, BOZHENKO, AND OTHER COMMANDERS

We, Tarashchanians [from Tarashcha, a town and district in central Ukraine –ed.], Bogunians [a Ukrainian Cossack group –ed.], and other Ukrainians, Cossacks, Red Army soldiers, received your obscene appeal.

Like the Cossacks of old to the Sultan, so we answer you.

We had Hetman Skoropadskyi [appointed Hetman of All Ukraine under German tutelage in April 1918 –ed.], enthroned here on German bayonets. That accursed one disappeared.

But then a new Hetman appeared—Petliura.

He sold the poor Galician peasants to the Polish lords, concluding a peace with the landowners. He sold Ukraine to the French, the Greeks, and the Romanian swindlers, entering into an alliance with them against us, the working poor of Ukraine. He sold his homeland, his mother, he sold the poor people.

Tell me, Judas, for how many pennies did you sell Ukraine? How much do you pay your hirelings to stir up the villagers with your tongue of a dog, to raise them against the power of the working people?

Tell me, Judas, tell me, traitor; just know, the Lords will lord it no more in Ukraine.

We—her sons, poor workers—will give our heads, and we will defend her, so that rye will bloom in freedom on her free land and be harvested by the free villagers for their own benefit, and not by the greedy robbers and bloodsuckers—kulaks and landowners.

Yes, we are brothers of the Russian workers and peasantry, as we are brothers to everyone who fights for the liberation of the working people.

Your brothers are the Polish nobles, the Ukrainian crooked kulaks, the tsarist generals, the French bourgeoisie. And you yourself are a dissolute liar, like the Polish nobles—you say “we’ll smash them all!” Don't say “hop” until you’ve jumped! A puddle has already been prepared for you, new Lord Hetman, by bourgeois, French and Polish grace!

I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes by this summer. We already crushed your side at Korosten, Berdychev, Proskurov. Your allies have already evacuated Odessa.

Free Hungary stretches out fraternal hands to us, and the hands of the peasants of Poland and Galicia, robbed by their lords, reach out for your throat.

Judas!
Away to the noose with you, you accursed one! Choke, you dog!

In the name of the Cossack peasants of Ukraine, the army commanders Shchors, Bozhenko, Kvyatek and others.
April 1919

https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8818115.html

Nearly 22 months since Russia’s February 2022 invasion, American officials estimate that some 70,000 Ukrainian fighters have died and 120,000 have been wounded.

Zin: These are old numbers and based on wishful thinking...

-The economy is clawing its way back from the devastation of the first year of war — an estimated $411 billion in damage.

Zin: Again, old numbers. I've also seen real estimates of up to a trillion in rebuilding costs.

-However, some 17% of Ukraine’s workers remain unemployed.

Zin: Considering that 5% of the population has now been connoscripted, that's depression level unemployment. This is made even worse considering the high deficit and high level of government spending.

-Russia will gobble up its territory, depose its government, suppress its language and culture, and undo the hard-won democracy achieved by Ukraine over the past three decades.

Zin: Ukraine was and still is the most corrupt nation in Europe, that overthrew a democratically elected leader... FFS Nobody in the new territories has their language suppressed. Can't say the same in Odessa...

-One young professional told me that he’d been putting off enlisting for nearly two years, but now he was ready to sign on.

Zin: What a Patriot... probably getting ahead of the TCC...

-Tyrants around the world – in China, Iran, and North Korea – will feel emboldened to assert their will.

-America’s global prestige, hugely boosted in the past two years by our leadership in Ukraine, will lie in tatters.

Zin: The USA was never bothered by Chinese "tyranny" when they replaced their manufacturing sector with Chinese labor. The Ukrainian project is an expression of Western chauvinism, and a display of shocking hypocrisy. The majority of the world's population did not vote to condemn Russia for the SMO. Just US vassals. If anything, the Ukrainian project has convinced Iran, China, Russia, and a number of other nations to do everything in their power to resist the West. They could be next.

This insanity continues in part 2

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Part 2, see Part 1

-Imagine the worst case after, say, five more years of grinding trench war and urban bombardments.

-There would be no post-war rebuilding; the economy would lie in ruins.

Zin: Russia has already invested billions into rebuilding the new territories. Mariupol, Crimea, etc have seen a shocking amount of Russian public investment. While the Ukrainians cut off Crimea's water, Russia spent billions to solve the crisis and built the Kerch Straight Bridge.

-The reforms of the last decades – the fight against corruption, the democracy building, the growth of small business, and a modern entrepreneurial economy – would likely have ground to a halt.

Zin: Since Ukraine gained "independence" from Russia, it became worse off by EVERY metric. Ukraine's GDP per capita has never reclaimed what it was before 1991. Ukraine's population also fell 15% between 1991 and 2021. Where was this all singing, all dancing, vibrant Ukrainian democracy full of small business entrepreneurs and vibrant economic development?

-Dreams of joining NATO and the EU would be shattered.

Zin: Dreams happen when you're sleeping. There's also no Easter bunny. Shocking.

-And all this could pose a dire strategic threat to the US, as well. Instead of a proud democratic nation allied with the West, Ukraine could emerge as a failed state – impoverished, politically unstable, geopolitically unmoored – on the border between Europe and an aggressive, expansionist Russia.

Zin: The USA and the West has left a graveyard of failed states: Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan. Russia has already shown a willingness to build back Ukraine into a greater state than it ever was before it became a mercenary nation working for the West.

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