The speech of Russian president Vladimir Putin was perhaps the best showcase of a war in Ukraine not going according to plan, and Putin backed in the corner as Russian oligarchs ponder their future finances.
There’s a number of possibilities as Putin desperately tries to rationalize the invasion of Ukraine, with one of the worst case scenarios still being on the table.
Pray that World War III doesn’t happen…
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invoked the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terror strikes on America on Wednesday as he pleaded with the U.S. Congress to get more aid for his country to fight against its invasion by Russia.
Zelensky asked the U.S. to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stem the Russian attacks.
“Is this a lot to ask for to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people?” “Is this too much to ask?” he said in the speech, which was delivered remotely via video link from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
He also used graphic imagery as the audience went wild with a standing ovation … Actually three standing ovations come to think of it..
His address featured the display of a graphic video that included tragic footage from the conflict in Ukraine, including disturbing photographs of civilian casualties of the war, destroyed buildings, and terrifying images of military attacks there.
He called on the US to “close the sky” to prevent the Russian airstrikes that are devastating Ukraine, which President Joe Biden and other Western leaders have so far refused to do to avoid a direct confrontation with Putin’s Russia.
While this is a UK tabloid source it is presenting valid information that resulted from an interview..
Russian official said that a nuke should be launched at the United States as a ‘message’ and even if it killed 10,000 people the US would not respond..
The story comes from the DAILY STAR..
Fyodorov, in an interview translated by MEMRI TV, said: “Until there is a physical demonstration of (Moscow’s) determination, America will perceive the positions of Russia and (Putin) as a bluff. “So they need a demonstration. The most convincing demonstration would be the physical destruction of America’s Defence Department facilities. I’m talking about facilities, which international law grants us the right to destroy.”
You can read the article in full here ..
Not trying to be alarmist.. but seriously folks how close are we and what ‘Cuban missile’ type crises are occurring right now without our knowledge in the public eye?
Ukrainian police identified a victim of gunfire as Brent Renaud, a 51-year-old journalist, filmmaker and US citizen.
Renaud was a reporter for the The New York Times correspondent. However it appears Renaud was not in Ukraine reporting on behalf of The Times.
“We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud’s death. Brent was a talented filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Times over the years,” read a statement from the outlet. “Though he had contributed to The Times in the past (most recently in 2015), he was not on assignment for any desk at The Times in Ukraine. Early reports that he worked for Times circulated because he was wearing a Times press badge that had been issued for an assignment many years ago.”
An American journalist was killed and another wounded by Russian forces in Irpen near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the Kyiv Region Police head said Sunday…
Top star and voice of MEG from FAMILY GUY is noted in a new Yahoo Entertainment story as historically saying she was from Russia.
All of that changed when Vlad the Impaler ordered the invasion of Ukraine..
So why did she change the ancestry story?
Kunis explained the reason to Maria Shriver.
“I was born in Ukraine. I came to the States in 1991 and we were the last of my family to migrate,” Kunis explains, adding that she was about 8 years old at the time. “I very much have always felt like an American,” she continued, saying that growing up, “People were like, ‘Oh, you’re so Eastern European.’ I was like, ‘I’m so LA!’ What do you mean? Like, my whole life I was like ‘I am LA through and through.’” “[Russia’s invasion] happens and I can’t express or explain what came over me, but all of a sudden I was like, ‘Oh my God, I feel like a part of my heart just got ripped out,’” she explained. “It was the weirdest feeling.”
She now says:
“It’s been irrelevant to me that I come from Ukraine. It never mattered,” she explained of her upbringing. “So much so that I’ve always said I’m Russian. Like I’ve always been, ‘I’m from Russia’ for a multitude of reasons. One of them being when I came to the States and I would tell people I’m from from Ukraine, the first question I’d get was ‘Where is Ukraine?’ And then I’d have to explain Ukraine and where it is on the map… But if I was like, ‘I’m from Russia’ people were like, ‘Oh we know that country.’ So I was like great I’ll just tell people from Russia.” “Hell no! I’m from Ukraine. Everything’s changed,” she says now. “It is a sense of pride, and it’s not taking away from loving where I live now and everything that this country has given me.”
This headline is not a joke, though it seems like it could be blasted on the ONION..
It is reporting coming from the Washington POST..
This week, the administration began working with Gen Z For Change, a nonprofit advocacy group, to help identify top content creators on the platform to orchestrate a briefing aimed at answering questions about the conflict and the United States’ role in it. Victoria Hammett, deputy executive director of Gen Z For Change, contacted dozens with invitations via email and gathered potential questions for the Biden administration.
The invitations to the event were distributed Tuesday and Wednesday. Kahlil Greene, 21, a creator with more than 534,000 followers on TikTok, said he wasn’t surprised when an invitation arrived in his email inbox. “People in my generation get all our information from TikTok,” he said. “It’s the first place we’re searching up new topics and learning about things.” So, he figured, it made sense that the Biden administration would engage people like him on the platform.
The briefing was led by Matt Miller, a special adviser for communications at the White House National Security Council, and Psaki. The Washington Post obtained a recording of the call, and in it, Biden officials stressed the power these creators had in communicating with their followers. “We recognize this is a critically important avenue in the way the American public is finding out about the latest,” said the White House director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, “so we wanted to make sure you had the latest information from an authoritative source.”
A fire has broken out at a major Ukrainian nuclear power plant under attack from Russian forces near Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.
“Russian army is firing from all sides upon Zaporizhzhia NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter early Friday morning local time. “Fire has already broke out. If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl! Russians must IMMEDIATELY cease the fire, allow firefighters, establish a security zone!”
What image is real…? What image is fake.
SO there is a lot of fakery happening as of late, no? While the EU and social media is busy banning RT and Sputkik, other images of TIME magazine are being widely shared featuring Vladimir Putin as Hitler.
The image has even made its way into protest photos in various places on God’s green Earth.
The problem is they are ALL FAKE..
TIME did not portray him as Hitler.. or Stalin. And there was no Swastika either .. all are fake.
TIME did in fact label its cover “The Return of History”.. but it was not with Putin’s image..
The fog of war is thick and deep.. Be careful what you believe..
All the world’s a stage
Captured Russian soldiers broke down in tears as they told their families they had been ‘sent to their deaths’ in Ukraine.
The prisoners of war were interviewed on camera by Ukrainian forces and said they had been used as cannon fodder in the war.
It comes after Ukraine claimed it had killed 6,000 Russian troops durning the first six days of the invasion.
Now footage is being shared online showing some of the captured invaders complaining about the war.
Not the hero that the nation deserves?
Movie companies are working diligently to stop films from being seen by Russian citizens.
No word on whether Vlad the impaler already had tickets for the opening night.
“In light of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, WarnerMedia is pausing the release of its feature film ‘The Batman’ in Russia,” a spokesperson for Warner Bros. said in a statement Monday evening. “We will continue to monitor the situation as it evolves. We hope for a swift and peaceful resolution to this tragedy.”
Warner’s statement came roughly an hour after Disney announced that it would be pulling all theatrical releases from Russia until further notice, including the Pixar movie “Turning Red,” which is set to be released globally on Disney+ on March 11. “Turning Red” had been scheduled for theatrical release in Russia as Disney+ does not operate in the country.
The film will still be released in China.
We guess unless it makes the effort to invade Taiwan prior to the release date?
In addition, Sony pulled the Jared Leto thriller “Morbius,” while Paramount nixed plans to distribute the Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum adventure comedy “The Lost City” and the family film sequel “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” in Russia this spring.
Netflix also made a statement Monday saying it would decline to carry state-run Russian TV channels on its streaming service despite a local law that would require any company with more than 100,000 subscribers to do so.