This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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If Anthony Weiner were still in Congress, this would definitely be causus belli...
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Model who called Putin psychopath found dead in suitcase
A Russian model who had called Vladimir Putin a "psychopath" has reportedly been found dead with her body stuffed inside a suitcase.
I believe he has Portuguese citizenship that is being investigated right now. He is Jewish and apparently he paid off a rabbi to exploit a program Portugal has to make amends for past anti Semitism by giving citizenship to Jews who can show even a small amount of Portuguese heritage.
Israeli citizenship I don’t know about. But holding citizenship is par for the money laundering course.
Dear Lord I can smell his privilege from 2 time zones.
Anthony Weiner murdered someone?If Anthony Weiner were still in Congress, this would definitely be causus belli...
Model who called Putin psychopath found dead in suitcase
A Russian model who had called Vladimir Putin a "psychopath" has reportedly been found dead with her body stuffed inside a suitcase.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Addled brain...
Wait...you’re talking about Biden now, right? Or yourself?
Go away you loony old man.
None of that stuff is fun unless you can be a big shot and swagger around the Med on your yacht, or host lavish parties at your mansion.
Take their stuff and sort it out later. They are all complicit in this.
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No normal human should have been able to watch that video and not shed a tear.
1. No, but he was singlehandedly responsible, while in office, for having annual immigration quotas for russian models increased. (Not joking)
2. Casus belli means a conduct suitable as a justification for war. The murder of a Russian model would be casus belli to Anthony. See #1.
Zelensky is an effective communicator. He showed that today. He probably should have skipped the Covid talk, and mentioned Pearl Harbor and 9/11 when he switched to English. If he’d said something like, “America was struck and and bloodied, but America did not bow down or yield. America rose as one to the challenge. Ukraine will not bow down. Stand with us”, he’d have gotten a standing ovation.
No doubt you do it to increase pressure among putin's real constituency. But a fire sale just ain't gonna fund that much.
Oh, okay. It’s so much more sanguine and relatable when you spell it out like that.
The Ukrainians can't receive any grade below an A for their information warfare game thus far.
More military aid to Ukraine! (Sorry if this is a Pepsi.)
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Biden details new aid to Ukraine, promises "more in the days and weeks ahead" to help combat Russia invasion
President Joe Biden condemned Russian leader Vladimir Putin for inflicting "appalling devastation" on Ukraine.
Based on headlines from various websites today the entire Russian strategy now seems to be killing civilians since they can't win a real fight. They're nothing but terrorists.
It’s true. There are pictures. The bigger deal to the guys I follow is that the Russians left a general dead in the mud for the Ukrainians to find the body.
Just curious, will all the arms coming out of US inventory, has anyone heard of increased hours at weapons factories yet? With Putin acting the way he is, I would think we would want to replace them ASAP.
We have a small factory in the residential area of West Des Moines that now claims to make some kind of parts especially for helicopter engines. They were working weekends and nights in the weeks leading up to the first Iraq war.
They’re just straight war criminals. There’s no going back for them.
Russia foolishly imports too many important components and raw materials to replace things in real time. Worse they don’t have the money to do it.
Showed restraint not pointing out us pressure to remove their nukes when we promised support.
To be very clear, this is good to see, and I applaud it and also his holding to strategy re: no fly. But, I can't help but recall the President's initial economic sanctions presser when he pushed back against the need for early/earlier military assistance, saying check back with me in 30 days and see how effective they are. Sadly, and perhaps predictably, not effective enough, at least as of day 21.
But they're all in on it. Not even pretending anymore, just attacking bread lines and shelters and gunning down unarmed men as they surrender. It just doesn't make sense, there's no tactical or strategic reason to do these things. They don't seem to have any goal except making the rest of the world hate them and I can't wrap my head around it.
The only way they can win now is through peace talks, and slaughtering people is their ticket there.
Russia was ordered to halt its invasion of Ukraine by the United Nations’ top court Wednesday, in a preliminary decision that appeared to have largely symbolic significance.
Ukraine initiated the case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to contest President Vladimir Putin’s official explanation for entering the country as an effort to end a “genocide” of pro-Russian separatists.
The court voted 13 to 2 in favor of ordering Russia to “suspend” military operations in Ukraine and to prevent armed units that are directed or supported by Russia from taking further action. Of the two judges in opposition, one was from Russia, the other from China.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a tweet that the order constituted a “complete victory in its case against Russia” and that “ignoring the order will isolate Russia even further.”
But while the court’s preliminary order is in theory binding under international law, there were no signs that Moscow would comply. No Russian representatives showed up when Ukraine argued its case last week. They subsequently submitted a document asserting that the court lacked jurisdiction to decide the case.
A final ruling, potentially years away, would also be expected to have negligible impact.
’18 years of socio-economic achievements’ could be lost with continuing war in Ukraine, says U.N.
United Nations Development Program Administrator Achim Steiner said March 15 that if Russia's invasion persists, Ukraine could “free-fall into poverty.” (Reuters)
The ICJ does not appear to have a viable path to enforce the decision. Sanctions could be imposed only by the U.N. Security Council, of which Russia is a permanent member and where it has a veto power. The court’s mission is to settle disputes between sovereign nations, and it cannot charge presidents or military leaders with war crimes, for example.
If one of the conflict parties is “ignoring basic principles of law, there’s a question about the utility of invoking the law vis-a-vis that party when you don’t have a strong enforcement power,” said Yuval Shany, an international law expert at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
But Shany added that a ruling could still have “some value,” for example by debunking the Russian explanation for the invasion.
The proceedings center on Russia’s official explanation for its invasion of Ukraine, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has said is intended to achieve the “denazification” of Ukraine and end a “genocide” in the country’s east. There is no evidence to support Russia’s claims.
Representatives of Ukraine argued last week that the Russian accusations represented a pretext for an illegal invasion.
In its order Wednesday, the court did not rule directly on the facts of the case and whether genocide was taking place but said Ukraine was “asserting a right that is plausible under the Genocide Convention.” To not impose preliminary measures now would open people to “irreparable harm,” the court said.
There is precedent for such a provisional judgment, even if the defendant does not show up. In 1984, Nicaragua won a similar ruling before the ICJ against the United States for its funding and support of the contra rebels seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. The United States refused to participate in the proceedings, arguing the ICJ, one of the founding components of the United Nations system, lacked jurisdiction. But it later blocked U.N. Security Council enforcement, refusing to pay Nicaragua ordered compensation.
In the current case, Ukraine argued that the court has jurisdiction because both Russia and Ukraine have signed the 1948 treaty on the prevention of genocide.
Before the proceedings got underway, ICJ President Joan E. Donoghue had urged Russia’s foreign minister two weeks ago to “act in such a way” that a court order — including one that may order Russia to halt hostilities — can “have its appropriate effects.”
This city is keeping the Russians at bay. But civilians are paying the price.
Mykolaiv is all that stands in the way of Russian forces as they try to advance on Odessa. The city is holding the line, but families feel trapped. (Whitney Leaming, Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post)
One of Russia’s longtime lawyers, Alain Pellet, resigned in the lead-up to the proceedings, writing in an open letter that it “has become impossible to represent in forums dedicated to the application of the law a country that so cynically despises it.”
Ukraine initiated the case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to contest President Vladimir Putin’s official explanation for entering the country as an effort to end a “genocide” of pro-Russian separatists.
The court voted 13 to 2 in favor of ordering Russia to “suspend” military operations in Ukraine and to prevent armed units that are directed or supported by Russia from taking further action. Of the two judges in opposition, one was from Russia, the other from China.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a tweet that the order constituted a “complete victory in its case against Russia” and that “ignoring the order will isolate Russia even further.”
But while the court’s preliminary order is in theory binding under international law, there were no signs that Moscow would comply. No Russian representatives showed up when Ukraine argued its case last week. They subsequently submitted a document asserting that the court lacked jurisdiction to decide the case.
A final ruling, potentially years away, would also be expected to have negligible impact.
’18 years of socio-economic achievements’ could be lost with continuing war in Ukraine, says U.N.
United Nations Development Program Administrator Achim Steiner said March 15 that if Russia's invasion persists, Ukraine could “free-fall into poverty.” (Reuters)
The ICJ does not appear to have a viable path to enforce the decision. Sanctions could be imposed only by the U.N. Security Council, of which Russia is a permanent member and where it has a veto power. The court’s mission is to settle disputes between sovereign nations, and it cannot charge presidents or military leaders with war crimes, for example.
If one of the conflict parties is “ignoring basic principles of law, there’s a question about the utility of invoking the law vis-a-vis that party when you don’t have a strong enforcement power,” said Yuval Shany, an international law expert at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
But Shany added that a ruling could still have “some value,” for example by debunking the Russian explanation for the invasion.
The proceedings center on Russia’s official explanation for its invasion of Ukraine, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has said is intended to achieve the “denazification” of Ukraine and end a “genocide” in the country’s east. There is no evidence to support Russia’s claims.
Representatives of Ukraine argued last week that the Russian accusations represented a pretext for an illegal invasion.
In its order Wednesday, the court did not rule directly on the facts of the case and whether genocide was taking place but said Ukraine was “asserting a right that is plausible under the Genocide Convention.” To not impose preliminary measures now would open people to “irreparable harm,” the court said.
There is precedent for such a provisional judgment, even if the defendant does not show up. In 1984, Nicaragua won a similar ruling before the ICJ against the United States for its funding and support of the contra rebels seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. The United States refused to participate in the proceedings, arguing the ICJ, one of the founding components of the United Nations system, lacked jurisdiction. But it later blocked U.N. Security Council enforcement, refusing to pay Nicaragua ordered compensation.
In the current case, Ukraine argued that the court has jurisdiction because both Russia and Ukraine have signed the 1948 treaty on the prevention of genocide.
Before the proceedings got underway, ICJ President Joan E. Donoghue had urged Russia’s foreign minister two weeks ago to “act in such a way” that a court order — including one that may order Russia to halt hostilities — can “have its appropriate effects.”
This city is keeping the Russians at bay. But civilians are paying the price.
Mykolaiv is all that stands in the way of Russian forces as they try to advance on Odessa. The city is holding the line, but families feel trapped. (Whitney Leaming, Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post)
One of Russia’s longtime lawyers, Alain Pellet, resigned in the lead-up to the proceedings, writing in an open letter that it “has become impossible to represent in forums dedicated to the application of the law a country that so cynically despises it.”
The only way out of this war and the next war is if Putin dies. Better sooner than later.
i was just reading about the armed drones we are sending to Ukraine and had a thought. if we sent them large quantities of armed drones to the point where they didn’t have enough drone pilots to man them, why not transfer them to Ukraine then have US cia/military drone pilots fly them and help out. seems like this would be a way to directly support them with manpower and also have deniability.
First Russian default since the Bolshevik revolution.
Moose, Rocko, why don't you help the despot find his checkbook?
Here's a top tip for you. Global Hawks, Predators and Reapers can be and are easily flown from central command in sunny Florida. No need to be in Kyiv.
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Exactly, at this point world should be all in….no sanctions relief and complete isolation until Putin is ousted. Once he’s gone and pro-European government installed we will welcome the people of Russia back to the world.
They’re evil war criminals at this point.
exactly. also from sunny north las vegas. the more I think about it the more I think we are probably already conducting these types of operations
I like you Goldy, but you should be better than this. Criticizing presidential policy is fair game, but personal attacks on the president at a time like this is unpatriotic, IMHO.
