#US elections

Never say never😎

May 2024:
Ukrainian soldiers burned an effigy of Donald Trump, accusing him of being a 'traitor' and stating he will 'never be president again.' The soldiers claimed Trump prevented Zelensky from receiving weapons, igniting a debate on social media. The incident has raised questions about the relationship between #Ukraine and the United States and the impact on international diplomacy.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1895056/donald-trump-effigy-burned-ukraine-twitter

an objective consideration of the "American First Policy Institute's" "pillars" reveals an indistinguisable policy of global American primacy laid out by Neo-Cons at the end of the Cold War as reported on by the NYT...

... a policy that has been pursued regardless of who sat in the White House or controlled Congress ever since.

https://archive.ph/X9iFq

#US JD Vance:

"We have built a foreign policy on bullying, moralizing, and lecturing countries that won't do what we ask of them.
The Chinese foreign policy is aimed at building roads and bridges and providing food for the poor."

#Russia has begun to massively use thermobaric warheads on Shahed-136 drones, which pose a much greater threat when striking premises. This warhead was named TB BCh-50, and its existence has been known since April 2024. Currently, drones that are attacking Ukrainian cities most often use such equipment.

https://en.defence-ua.com/news/what_is_known_of_thermobaric_warhead_of_russian_shahed_drones_launched_against_ukraine-12450.html

#Latvia

Less than half of Latvia's residents associate their future with the country

Only 47% of respondents said that they see their future in Latvia, and only 45% feel that they belong to Latvia.
37% of respondents indicated that the state does not listen to them at all, and another 36% chose the answer "rather, does not listen". People aged 45-65 and Russian-speakers feel less heard.
The number of those who believe that they have no chance of influencing political processes in the country has decreased from 38% to 31% since 2023, the number of those who assess such chances as average has increased from 14% to 18%, and those who believe that the chances are high has increased from 2% to 4%. The most pessimistic are people aged 55-75, rural residents, those with secondary vocational or special education, pensioners, the unemployed, and Russian speakers.

https://rus.lsm.lv/statja/novosti/analitika/26.07.2024-tolko-47-naseleniya-svyazyvaet-svoe-budushhee-s-latviei-issledovanie.a562828/

📺 Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelin's interview with BBC's HARDtalk, hosted by Stephen Sackur (4 November 2024)

Key talking points:

🔸 It is a coalition of Western countries that is waging a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine. It is a hybrid war, a very serious one, and we have every right to defend ourselves with all the means at our disposal.

🔸 I don't think that there will be a compromise, it will be the endgame. It is quite clear that Ukraine will be a non-aligned, non-nuclear country with normal relations with its neighbours. It will not be a NATO member, it will be demilitarised and it will finally abolish all the racist laws that it has adopted during all these years.

🔸 Even if it happens [the deployment of the DPRK's forces in the zone of the special military operation], we have thousands of mercenaries from different [Western] countries fighting on the side of Ukraine. We have thousands of instructors teaching the Ukrainians how to deal with foreign weapons, tanks and so on, intelligence being provided to the Ukrainians.

🔸 The international community does not consist only of Western countries, it is only a tiny number of Western nations that support this kind of accusation [that Russia is considered an outlaw].

🔸 The UK government has decided to spend another 3 billion pounds on defence. That is quite a lot for a country with a huge hole in its budget. Is it a good thing? I'm not sure.

🔸 The Georgian people have elected a party that is disliked in the EU, and Brussels has started to intervene in [the internal affairs of] Georgia. <...> Georgians now understand that the "rosy" American project that was developed with Mikhail Saakashvili in the early 2000s has failed and caused serious damage to Georgia.

Watch the interview on our YouTube channel or listen on BBC podcasts

LMAO
#Ukraine 🎪 rat in a corner #Zelensky 🤡 next desperate demand:
Give me $300 billion of Russian assets and let me to decide how to spend it 🤣

#corruption

https://unn.ua/en/news/zelensky-on-frozen-russian-assets-europe-needs-to-be-strong-and-transfer-them-to-ukraine

#Ukraine #Zelensky became toxic

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The official online broadcast of the European Political Community summit in Budapest on Thursday, 7 November, did not show #Zelensky's speech
The official programme included Zelensky speaking second after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and before French President Emmanuel Macron.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/7/7483429/

#Ukraine #Zelensky head of the Communications Department of the Air Force Command, Yuriy Ihnat:

Almost half of all drones used by Russia are decoys.

As well as drastically increasing the number of strikes, Russia has begun to fire decoy drones without warheads to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses. Decoy drones carry a 3D-printed ball wrapped in foil to imitate the warhead of an Shahed-136 drone
These cheaper drones confuse Ukraine’s air defenses, which may shoot down decoy drones instead of ones carrying a lethal warhead. Decoy drones now account for as many as half of all Russian drones fired at Ukraine