DIY-HP-LED
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The US state department is no longer gutted and there are lot's of allies, Russia has few friends.
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captainmorgan
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Of course China is not blatantly doing it. But they are doing it. No, I am not saying you are stupid, I have picked up a think or two over the years here. But remember the Syria tanker that was going to Iran. But think about the Iran tanker that was going to Syria. Everybody knew it was going to Syria and they knew it was in the Mediterranean. With everyone watching for it somehow it got through. In the wide open seas it is even harder to track a ship if it wants.
DIY-HP-LED
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China thinks long term and is moving to a green new grid and EVs, in a decade they, like Europe, might be much less dependent on oil imports.
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The Scot's (or is it Scott's) really need to get to the bottom of that.
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And Russia gets a decade to indoctrinate Ukraine?
captainmorgan
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Chernobyl has not produced electricity since 2000 and the undamaged reactors are still being decommissioned, why the fuck did the russians attack it.
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Lob some of it into Russia.
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy of 'Dancing with the Stars' posts live updates as he heads for Kyiv bomb shelter
“Dancing with the Stars” alum Maksim Chmerkovskiy is in Ukraine and has a message for Russia: “In a civilized world, this is not the way we do things.”
The choreographer, who was born in the besieged nation, posted a series of social media videos on Thursday from Kyiv.
“I am not at this point someone who is pleading, you know, for someone else's safety from a far distance,” Chmerkovskiy said. “I'm somebody who's about to go into a bomb shelter, because shit’s going down,” he added, appearing to be filming from a high-rise building in the Ukrainian capital as sirens blazed in the background, after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an attack on Ukraine hours earlier.
“Dear Russians, I know you know me and I know that a lot of people currently in Russia that are watching this that are watching the news, and hearing the propaganda, and hearing this complete nonsense that's been talked about,” Chmerkovskiy, 42, told his more than 750,000 Instagram followers.
"As a powerful, forward-thinking nation — not a third-world kind of country — I think the Russians need to get up and actually say something, because no one's opinion is being heard,” he said.
“This is all one man's ambition,” Chmerkovskiy, who immigrated to the United States as a 14-year-old with his family nearly three decades ago, said of Putin.
Another of Chmerkovskiy's videos showed a Ukrainian family rolling suitcases through a park.
“I know that at the very least, I have a chance. I have a passport and I have a way out,” Chmerkovskiy, who won “DWTS” in 2014 alongside Olympian Meryl Davis, said, noting he felt “uneasy and “very scared.”
“A lot of people do not, and it's f---ing nonsense. I love Ukraine,” he said.
“There’s ALWAYS another way!” the dancing pro wrote in an Instagram post alongside his videos. “War is NEVER an answer”
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“Dancing with the Stars” alum Maksim Chmerkovskiy is in Ukraine and has a message for Russia: “In a civilized world, this is not the way we do things.”
The choreographer, who was born in the besieged nation, posted a series of social media videos on Thursday from Kyiv.
“I am not at this point someone who is pleading, you know, for someone else's safety from a far distance,” Chmerkovskiy said. “I'm somebody who's about to go into a bomb shelter, because shit’s going down,” he added, appearing to be filming from a high-rise building in the Ukrainian capital as sirens blazed in the background, after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an attack on Ukraine hours earlier.
“Dear Russians, I know you know me and I know that a lot of people currently in Russia that are watching this that are watching the news, and hearing the propaganda, and hearing this complete nonsense that's been talked about,” Chmerkovskiy, 42, told his more than 750,000 Instagram followers.
"As a powerful, forward-thinking nation — not a third-world kind of country — I think the Russians need to get up and actually say something, because no one's opinion is being heard,” he said.
“This is all one man's ambition,” Chmerkovskiy, who immigrated to the United States as a 14-year-old with his family nearly three decades ago, said of Putin.
Another of Chmerkovskiy's videos showed a Ukrainian family rolling suitcases through a park.
“I know that at the very least, I have a chance. I have a passport and I have a way out,” Chmerkovskiy, who won “DWTS” in 2014 alongside Olympian Meryl Davis, said, noting he felt “uneasy and “very scared.”
“A lot of people do not, and it's f---ing nonsense. I love Ukraine,” he said.
“There’s ALWAYS another way!” the dancing pro wrote in an Instagram post alongside his videos. “War is NEVER an answer”
Maksim Chmerkovskiy of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ posts live updates as he heads for Kyiv bomb shelter
“Dancing with the Stars” alum Maksim Chmerkovskiy is in Ukraine and has a message for Russia: “In a civilized world, this is not the way we do things.”The choreographer, who was born in the besiege…
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DIY-HP-LED
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Indoctrinate? That's a bit old fashioned, I think being under Vlad's heel will have the opposite effect. We aren't gonna go to war, just starve the average Russian and make life miserable for the rich while crushing their economy for a decade. By the time they get to sell any oil, it will be like coal. Remember Russia has no domestic car industry and would be buying EVs in a decade too, they won't even be using their own oil except to generate power.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham to Newsmax: Trump Warned Putin, Xi — and They Feared Him
When Donald Trump was president, invasions like Ukraine didn't happen because "war criminals" like Russian President Vladimir Putin feared Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tells Newsmax.
Appearing Thursday on "Eric Bolling: The Balance," Graham said that he had breakfast earlier in the day with Trump, who shared with the senator how he dealt with tyrants, including Putin.
Putin is trying to intimidate people with his threats against anyone who helps Ukraine, Graham said, because "that's what bullies do." But, with an economy the size of Italy that depends on oil and gas, "We could crush it," Graham said.
"Now why didn't this happen on Trump's watch?" he asked. "I had breakfast with President Trump this morning, and he said he told Putin he wanted a good relationship. 'But if you go into Ukraine, I can't have a good relationship with you. And you don't want to do that.'"
Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping the same thing about Taiwan, Graham said. "And they were afraid of him."
Graham said Biden should hold Putin "accountable" for the money he has "stolen from the Russian people."
"They say he may be worth up to $100 billion. Well, how did he get that money? He stole it from Russia," Graham said. "All of his buddies that have apartments and yachts, I would start taking them and looking and put them in jail. I would restrict travel to Russia, I would treat Russia as an extreme case of COVID and isolate it."
Putin is a war criminal, Graham said, because he has gone into the sovereign nation of Ukraine "and started killing people by force of arms."
"He's criminally killing civilians," Graham said, noting that the invasion itself is a violation of the 1994 Agreement signed by Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the United States that Ukraine would give up its nuclear weapons to Russia, and Russia, in turn, would never invade Ukraine.
Russia and China likely had a "secret handshake'' that "you don't give me a hard time on Ukraine and I won't give you a hard time about Taiwan," Graham said. "And again, President Trump made it clear to those leaders that if you go down the road of Taiwan and China and Russia and Ukraine, I can't help you and I'll be your worst nightmare."
The problem, he said, is that how Ukraine ends, determines what China does with Taiwan.
"Taiwan is the largest manufacturer of semiconductor chips in the entire world, so our whole high end economy depends on chips," he said. "Do you really want China to own the entire chip market?"
Additionally, he said, "Israel is in the crosshairs of a radical regime in Iran. If they get a nuclear weapon, Israel will have to respond. They can't let that ever happen. I think Israel would use a nuclear weapon to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
"At that point, we could have the whole world in flames here if we don't watch it, so how we deal with Putin really matters."
www.newsmax.com
When Donald Trump was president, invasions like Ukraine didn't happen because "war criminals" like Russian President Vladimir Putin feared Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tells Newsmax.
Appearing Thursday on "Eric Bolling: The Balance," Graham said that he had breakfast earlier in the day with Trump, who shared with the senator how he dealt with tyrants, including Putin.
Putin is trying to intimidate people with his threats against anyone who helps Ukraine, Graham said, because "that's what bullies do." But, with an economy the size of Italy that depends on oil and gas, "We could crush it," Graham said.
"Now why didn't this happen on Trump's watch?" he asked. "I had breakfast with President Trump this morning, and he said he told Putin he wanted a good relationship. 'But if you go into Ukraine, I can't have a good relationship with you. And you don't want to do that.'"
Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping the same thing about Taiwan, Graham said. "And they were afraid of him."
Graham said Biden should hold Putin "accountable" for the money he has "stolen from the Russian people."
"They say he may be worth up to $100 billion. Well, how did he get that money? He stole it from Russia," Graham said. "All of his buddies that have apartments and yachts, I would start taking them and looking and put them in jail. I would restrict travel to Russia, I would treat Russia as an extreme case of COVID and isolate it."
Putin is a war criminal, Graham said, because he has gone into the sovereign nation of Ukraine "and started killing people by force of arms."
"He's criminally killing civilians," Graham said, noting that the invasion itself is a violation of the 1994 Agreement signed by Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the United States that Ukraine would give up its nuclear weapons to Russia, and Russia, in turn, would never invade Ukraine.
Russia and China likely had a "secret handshake'' that "you don't give me a hard time on Ukraine and I won't give you a hard time about Taiwan," Graham said. "And again, President Trump made it clear to those leaders that if you go down the road of Taiwan and China and Russia and Ukraine, I can't help you and I'll be your worst nightmare."
The problem, he said, is that how Ukraine ends, determines what China does with Taiwan.
"Taiwan is the largest manufacturer of semiconductor chips in the entire world, so our whole high end economy depends on chips," he said. "Do you really want China to own the entire chip market?"
Additionally, he said, "Israel is in the crosshairs of a radical regime in Iran. If they get a nuclear weapon, Israel will have to respond. They can't let that ever happen. I think Israel would use a nuclear weapon to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
"At that point, we could have the whole world in flames here if we don't watch it, so how we deal with Putin really matters."
Sen. Lindsey Graham to Newsmax: Trump Warned Putin, Xi — and They Feared Him
When Donald Trump was president, invasions like Ukraine didn't happen because "war criminals" like Russian President Vladimir Putin feared Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tells Newsmax.
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Why Russia and Ukraine Are Fighting for Chernobyl Disaster Site
Russian and Ukrainian forces fought on Thursday for control of Chernobyl, the still radioactive site of the world's worst nuclear accident and a factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tweeted before the defunct nuclear power plant, scene of a deadly fire and explosion in 1986, was captured by Russian forces.
But why would anyone want an inoperative power plant surrounded by miles of radioactive land?
The answer is geography:
Chernobyl sits on the shortest route from Belarus to Kyiv, Ukrainian's capital, and so runs along a logical line of attack for the Russian forces invading Ukraine.
In seizing Chernobyl, Western military analysts said Russia was simply using the fastest invasion route from Belarus, an ally of Moscow and a staging ground for Russian troops, to Kyiv.
"It was the quickest way from A to B," said James Acton of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank.
Jack Keane, a former chief of the U.S. Army staff, said Chernobyl "doesn’t have any military significance" but sits on the shortest route from Belarus to Kyiv, the target of a Russian "decapitation" strategy to oust the Ukrainian government.
Keane called the route one of four "axes" Russian forces used to invade Ukraine, including a second vector from Belarus, an advance south into the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, and a push north out of Russian-controlled Crimea to the city of Kherson.
The combined offensives amounted to the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two.
Taking Chernobyl was part of the plan, and a senior Ukrainian official said it was captured on Thursday by Russian forces, though a senior U.S. defense official said the United States could not confirm this.
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Russian and Ukrainian forces fought on Thursday for control of Chernobyl, the still radioactive site of the world's worst nuclear accident and a factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tweeted before the defunct nuclear power plant, scene of a deadly fire and explosion in 1986, was captured by Russian forces.
But why would anyone want an inoperative power plant surrounded by miles of radioactive land?
The answer is geography:
Chernobyl sits on the shortest route from Belarus to Kyiv, Ukrainian's capital, and so runs along a logical line of attack for the Russian forces invading Ukraine.
In seizing Chernobyl, Western military analysts said Russia was simply using the fastest invasion route from Belarus, an ally of Moscow and a staging ground for Russian troops, to Kyiv.
"It was the quickest way from A to B," said James Acton of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank.
Jack Keane, a former chief of the U.S. Army staff, said Chernobyl "doesn’t have any military significance" but sits on the shortest route from Belarus to Kyiv, the target of a Russian "decapitation" strategy to oust the Ukrainian government.
Keane called the route one of four "axes" Russian forces used to invade Ukraine, including a second vector from Belarus, an advance south into the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, and a push north out of Russian-controlled Crimea to the city of Kherson.
The combined offensives amounted to the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two.
Taking Chernobyl was part of the plan, and a senior Ukrainian official said it was captured on Thursday by Russian forces, though a senior U.S. defense official said the United States could not confirm this.
Why Russia and Ukraine Are Fighting for Chernobyl Disaster Site
Russian and Ukrainian forces fought on Thursday for control of Chernobyl, the still radioactive site of the world's worst nuclear accident and a factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union."Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be...
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DIY-HP-LED
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Russia is an enemy of climate change initiatives and green new grids, freezing them out of the western world will facilitate the development of these new energy alternatives. Almost all automakers are going to EV's for a reason, greatly improved battery technology will be there and that will make all the difference. A grid that is powered by a combination of wind, solar and other alternatives, as well as by gas an oil powered generation initially, will be robust enough to heat homes and charge EV's. Over time oil imports can be greatly reduced and nuclear and future fusion can be part of the mix too. Geothermal heating and heat pumps can improve home heating efficiency as well. Energy storage is the key to both a green new grid and EVs and there are many big players making big bets based on recent breakthroughs.
captainmorgan
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In a big loss for Trump, his own former National Security Advisor General McMaster calls him out for praising Vladimir Putin, saying that Putin “certainly isn’t someone who should be praised” because he’s trying to destroy “the free world.”
Fogdog
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I could insert a tasteless reminder of the TP shortage here but I'm above all that.
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Just used the word as that is what Russia and China has done to turn white black.
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My closet has plenty. I sure wish they would shut up once in a while.
DIY-HP-LED
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I saw a documentary once, apparently the oligarch father of that Russian pop singer Trump is buddies with might be heavily vested. Who else would have given Trump money at that time for such a poor investment as golf courses?
injinji
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We have always viewed eastern Europe as the place the Red Army spends itself. That is still the plan.