This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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She's a grifter. Even in a ruby red district people get tired of grifters. Iowa got rid of Steve King and replaced him with a reliably solid Republican who didn't embarrass the district. I also feel like if the Republicans lose the House a lot of the grifters will move on. There isn't much fun in being in the minority.And, eventually reruns get stale.
I disagree a bit...I think her seat is pretty safe.
The more exposure she gets...the better for the Democrats overall. Make her the face of the Republican party by amplifying her. Make her irrelevant by taking back the house.
Maybe get payment in the desperately needed gun cotton?
April 10 (Reuters) - Allowing Ukrainian convicts to serve in the military came a step closer on Wednesday as lawmakers approved a first reading of a bill designed to help replenish and rotate troops exhausted after two years of war with Russia. The bill envisages prisoners who join the army becoming eligible for parole. Those convicted of crimes against humanity, sexual violence, murder or crimes against national security would not be allowed to serve, lawmaker Oleksiy Honcharenko said on Telegram.
I'm surprised they didn't just blame the Jews or gays. Russia is stretched too thin, and cannot react to disasters. Even pre war they were hollowed out by corruption and mismanagement. The strain of 2 years of war have exacerbated this.
Her seat is safe, but I think she has no interest in actually doing the work of a legislator. I doubt she takes constituent concerns seriously. When she is not in power, and the grifting dries up as all the other social media / right wing media types keep fighting for air time she'll bail out.
Along the lines, the largest single shipment of grain has left Ukraine since the war began. Ukraine and the other nations in the Black Sea have greatly minimized Russian threats to shipping.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ship-with-record-volume-of-cargo-left-ukrainian-1712407616.html
Trivia- the airbase there secretly trained Germans during the 1920s when Germany was not supposed to have an air force.
I wonder if they do bridges?
Ukraine’s parliament passes a controversial law to boost much-needed conscripts and fill army ranks
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament passed a law Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts, following months of delay and after thousands of amendments were submitted to water down the initial draft.
Lawmakers dragged their feet for months over the law, which is expected to be unpopular. The law was spurred by a request from Ukraine’s military, which wanted to mobilize up to 500,000 more troops, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in December.
Exhausted soldiers, on the front lines since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, had no means to rotate out for rest, while many thousands of Ukrainian men evade the draft.
The law was passed to the backdrop of an escalating Russian campaign that has devastated Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in recent weeks. Authorities said Russian overnight missile and drone attacks again struck infrastructure and power facilities across several regions and completely destroyed the Trypilska thermal power plant, the largest power generating facility in Kyiv region.
The law brings into effect a host of changes to the current system by expanding the powers of Ukrainian authorities to issue draft notices using an electronic system.
Incumbent army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and Zelenskyy have since revised that figure after conducting an audit, saying the number needed was not as high because soldiers can be rotated from the rear.
Former army commander Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s dismissal from his post was reportedly over the mobilization issue.
The vote came after parliament’s defense committee removed a key provision from the draft Tuesday that would ensure the rotation of servicemen after 36 months of combat, a move that surprised some lawmakers as it had been a promise of the Ukrainian leadership.
Lawmaker Oleksii Honcharenko said in a Telegram post that he was shocked by the move to remove the provision. It was likely taken out because, considering the scale and intensity of the war against Russia, it would prove difficult to implement. Ukraine already suffers from a lack of trained recruits capable of fighting, and demobilizing soldiers on the front lines now would deprive Ukrainian forces of their most capable fighters.
On Wednesday, the parliamentary defense committee instructed the Defense Ministry to draft a comprehensive bill on demobilization of military personnel within the next eight months, news reports cited ministry spokesperson Dmytro Lazutkin as saying.
In nighttime missile and drone attacks, at least 10 of the strikes damaged energy infrastructure in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said more than 200,000 people in the region were without power and Russia “is trying to destroy Kharkiv’s infrastructure and leave the city in darkness.”
In the Odesa region, four people were killed and 14 injured in Russian missile strikes Wednesday evening, said regional governor Oleh Kiper.
Energy facilities were also hit in the Zaporizhzhia and Lviv regions.
Ukraine's parliament passes a controversial law to boost much-needed conscripts and fill army ranks
The law was spurred by a request from the military command under former army commander Valerii Zaluzhny.
apnews.com
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