President Trump has paused all military aid to Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing a senior Pentagon official.
The pause applies to all US military equipment bound for Ukraine that’s not currently in the country, including weapons that are in transit on aircraft and ships or waiting in Poland to be delivered.
The Pentagon official said the US was pausing all military to Ukraine until the country’s leadership demonstrates a good faith commitment to peace. A senior Trump administration official told Fox News, “This is not permanent termination of aid, it’s a pause.”
The move comes a few days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky clashed with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office, an argument that started after Zelensky questioned the administration’s push for diplomacy with Russia.
News of the pause comes after reports said the Trump administration was holding a meeting on Monday afternoon on the possibility of pausing military aid to Ukraine. Before the meeting, the US had already frozen weapons sales to Ukraine under the State Department’s Foreign Military Financing program, which only accounted for a small portion of the US weapons supply to Ukraine.
While the Trump administration hasn’t approved any new military aid for Ukraine, President Biden signed off on a massive number of arms packages during his final months in office that would take years to deliver.
The aid approved by Biden came in two forms: the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which ships weapons straight from US military stockpiles, and the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows the Pentagon to purchase arms for Ukraine.
Putin must be overjoyed. Putin is having the best night of sleep in years.
Any thoughts on what is good for US? What is a very well known fact — that UK already has the minerals rights deal as a part of Starmers 100 year agreement. The scumbag than cane to sell to sell the same minerals to US — with a caveat that “prior agreements are respected”.
Please, do not be so exercised over Russis — you should be concerned about the old European intrigues trying to get US to agree to become a trip-wire, And using the minerals as a bait.
US of course knew of Zelenski-UK mineral deal, and the whole purpose of the minerals discussion was to offer Ukraine an economic lifeline – a procesx that can start after the deescallation of this war starts.
Mineral right deal was the TEST for Zelenski
to determine if he is ready for peace. He did not pass the test,
Until today, Zelenski did not appollogize for insulting Trump and Vance. He still rejects any talk of peace, ceasefire and has a list of maximalist demands of US and EU, He is determined to make Europe and US take on Russia and achieve victory for him.
US has consistently rejected this view of US role. Biden himself rejected the pressure to introduce no fly zone, calling this a risky path to WWIII.
Why would US be drawn again into European war intrigues? British wet dream of breaking up Russia and colonizing its wealth, is only achievable by US taking on a nuclear power,
Today the leaders of various right wing groups, such as Right Sector are demanding the battle to end as opposing to any surrender.
This can burn Europeans. If those individuals take power, they may have hard time to extracate, For start with — advise all citizens to leave Ukraine. Zelensky himself id not safe if Right Sector and Azov organize a coup.
Zelensky is finished.
I didn’t think it would happen this fast.
He's not finished until he's hung from the highest yardarm in the Ukrainian fleet, officially fled to sanctuary in the UK, or found with enough bayonets in his keester to overwhelm all Jerry's trenches at the Somme.
Every day he's still Kiev's Dictator In A Green Sweater, nothing has changed.
He should have just stayed in the UK after he got bitch-slapped by Trump on Friday.
Maybe he can get a job being Zaluzhny’s assistant?
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"Zelensky himself (is) not safe if Right Sector and Azov organize a coup"
Azov, Right Sektor, Banderites, neo-Nazis (or did I repeat myself FOUR times ?) were instrumental in the last coup in Kiev; this next time around, they won't let someone else run the show for them.
MUH NATZEES
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
You don't, but many of us take a long view of conflicts and see that, as History constantly demonstrates, when you side with amoral s**tbag people like neo-Nazis, Hussein Baathists, Northern Alliance drug dealers, South Vietnamese AND South Korean dictators, South & Central American Right-wing anti-Communist juntas, your tiny & temporary "wins" inevitably lead to HUGE PROBLEMS later on.
Part of being Antiwar is not just ending current wars (and ceasing blank-cheque support for loser warmongers like Zelenskiyy) but also preventing future wars.
If we ignore or downplay neo-Nazis like you do, Christian Vila w/ Lox, then we invite racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence not just in your former homeland, but in your safe residence of Poland, and in Hungary, or Rumania, or Cis- and Transnistra, and then into Central and Western Europe as the far-Right hatred that is Aryan Supremacy spreads from a safe haven in Ukraine.
You underestimate neo-Naziism. That's among your greatest flaws.
Says the person who denies Ukrainian statehood
Calling all those people shitbags is subjective. They think they are in the right. However, my main point, I am not siding with "amoral shitbags." I am siding with freedom and democracy, which is Ukraine
You clearly have lost the original anti-war message. The brave yanks who fought against the Vietnam War wouldn't be caught dead supporting a fascist dictatorship, i.e. Russia.
If I underestimate neo-Nazism, you overestimate it to an even bigger degree than to which I underestimate it.
We get it. You're safe in Poland now, you think you'll have either a repaired Ukraine to saunter back into after the War OR you'll have a far-Right Aryan state that benefits you personally, financially, and ideologically to slip back into.
You siding with "freedom" (which ethnic Russian Ukrainians don't have under Kiev's rule) and "democracy" (which Ukraine and its un-elected President Til Whenever does not have) is a bigger f**king joke than you are.
They can't govern Ukraine by themselves. They need money. All those years West was financing them as an anti-Russian project. Otherwise they are pretty useless.
You want Putin to control Ukraine? Nice. And than what is next? Poland maybe.
Maybe. The far side of the moon, maybe. Or maybe since the EU is 4x the population and spends 2x the money as Russia preparing for war, Europe is perfectly secure if anywhere is.
What is next is more leftist propaganda from you. Which agency or NGO funds you?
What a sophomoric comment from you. Not surprising, that is your standard response to anything that you don't like or in many cases don't understand.
That's stupid. Neither Putin nor the Russian Federation have stated aims on anything negative towards Poland.
Restrict yourself to facts in evidence, and you might not come off as such a clown.
Well, his attitude seems rather negative. Subtitle translation of his Tucker Carlson interview:
“The Poles forced, they played too long and forced Hitler to start World War II with them. Why did the war begin with Poland on September 1, 1939? Poland was uncooperative.”
"what is good for US?"
Trump can have a deal with Putin. First of all, he should abandon his peace initiatives, and on the contrary, encourage Putin to take Odessa with condition that Odessa port would be sold to Americans. Then U.S together with Russia could claim that any deals about Ukrainian natural resources made by Zelensky are void. As Odessa port is essential for export from Ukraine, Trump would have a good argument in negotiations with UK and even give to UK some compensation. When a new legal government is installed in Kiev, Trump with support of Russia can buy for discount everything what he wishes. Also American companies would have no problems with exploitation of Russian rare earth minerals not only on the new Russian territories but also in proper Russia. Putin told already that he doesn't mind if after the normalization of relations, American companies come to Russia and invest in rare earth minerals.
Reasonable people want peace, elections and free speech.
Others recite leftist/NWO/MIC slogans.
And others like you recite crazy and stupid right wring ideas that only benefit the super rich. I hope enjoy paying more for cars and food while your IRA is falling.
Why do you assume that he’s one of the 18% of working Americans who have IRAs?
Or that he’s of working age?
Or that, if he is of working age, he’s working?
Or that he’s an American?
That is true, also. I did assume too much.
THAT many American fund the Irish Republican Army ? In 2025 ? I thought the IRA and UK gov't patched things up YEARS ago !
I haven't been this shocked since my elementary school teachers would write PLO on the blackboards at the end of the day !
Heh.
I don’t know if any of the IRA factions that are still holding out really fundraise in the US much these days.
When I was young, I was given to understand that NORAID funded the Provos and occasionally made small donations.
I hope the majority of Americans approve this decision.
It would be even better if he had done it on first day of his presidency.
European micro-napoleons may freak out as much as they wish.
RUssian imperialist detected!
Your sensor-suite sucks. Uninstall, and re-install a better designed one.
I don't speak millenial
I'll speak slower if you're high on something, or faster if you're not.
The "Russian Imperialist Detector©" you're citing in an attempt to indict Mikhailovich-to-the-Chief, is defective and giving you a false-positive.
It is s**t tech and you'd be wise to uninstall it from your Intellectual Toolbar and replace it with a more conventional mindset that generates accurate results.
No its accurate tech
Not when it misleads you so wildly.
Nah
Does this mean you will lose your job as a propagandist?
Propagandist blocked.
"Reasonable people want peace, elections and free speech" So much for your belief in "free speech".
Free speech does not imply a right to be listened to.
That is true.
Free Speech only prevents the GOVERNMENT from censoring, blocking, or otherwise obstructing a person's expression of thoughts.
It does NOT apply to other people, or to private organisations (like The Twitter, or these Disqus comment sections).
Blocking someone on here is expressing a corollary right of freedom FROM speech.
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the Baltic States rallying.
😉
Neo-Nazi scum is mourning all over Europe.
MUH NATZEEEEEEEEEEES
News flash, Americans don't like losing to Russia. And if Russia takes over Ukraine, it will demonstrates just how weak America has become. Others will take note.
News flash, American without its nukes was never that strong. They couldn’t take on the Nazis without allied forces and Soviet soaking most of the blood. Lost in North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and its only bragging right was starving Iraqis followed by a coalition forces entering into Iraq and calling it mission accomplished.
If by Americans, you mean boomers glued to FoxNN, then yes. Maybe they can join Zelensky's international legion?
Not all boomers.
I believe it behooves all of us to explore the MSM as throughly as possible… This helps us to find how slanted it can be…
Not THIS Boomer. Most of my graduating class (1970) on FB, yes. Big time. One guy posted a long dissertation on his page how much he hates ALL Russians with every "fiber of my being…". Whoah….
Newsflash, Russians aren't my enemy. The Chinese are not my enemy. The idiots running this country – now that's another story. (Idiots running this country: the oligarchs and their toadies.)
Tell Russians and Chinese that.
Indeed ! Neither the Russian Federation nor the DPRC called me the "n-word", wouldn't let me travel or go to public places or engage in social activities.
No, my own government did that. Until enough people stopped giving a s**t about COVID and the "vaxx pass" joke and related discrimination quietly stopped.
Here is a news flash to a leftist propagandist: Americans do not like WW3, neutrality violations, bioweapon labs, corruption, billions wasted, canceled elections.
We take note of how irrational you are.
Your entire line is a Russian talking point propaganda. And you don't even know it. Well at least I hope you don't know it or are you a troll paid by the Russian government.
To who
Whenever the propaganda machine wants to know if their bullshit is working, they need not look any further than your comments.
And Hamas monitors its propaganda success based on your comments.
They'd be disappointed unless you can find where I said anything that implied my support for them. My constant bitching about Israel's depravity doesn't have anything to do with Hamas. But nice try.
"And Hamas monitors its propaganda success based on your comments."
That's what you are, but what am I?
Bam! The cobra-quick tim-tim wit strikes again!
So good
Poor, poor Propaganda Machine. So much inexpensive, quality AI available and they chose to run with "Tim Burns".
Americans prefer that Al Qaeda takes over Syria?
Trump should call Obama a white supremacist for destroying Libya. Obama was half white.
1/ "Americans don't like losing to Russia."
That kinda Russia-baiting triggers Americans less and less.
A majority now poll as wanting the war over fast, even if it means Ukraine doesn't get back all territory.
"More Americans Favor Quick End to Russia-Ukraine War"
https://news.gallup.com/poll/654575/americans-favor-quick-end-russia-ukraine-war.aspx
2/ "And if Russia takes over Ukraine" and "than what is next? Poland maybe"?
Hysterics Americans buy less and less.
Except last I checked, Poland has built itself a huge & capable army and probably wouldn't need NATO to help fend off a Russian Federation that IS NOT PLANNING TO INVADE POLAND
Trump was trying to reach a deal earlier on.
Trump doesn't fool around.
He is the fool. He lacks self control and ability to think about the future.
Look where Trump is and compare it to where you are.
But I can sleep at night knowing that I care about people. Trump sleeps at night only when he successfully cheats or hurts someone.
You lack the ability to do anything except recite leftist slogans. And, you oppose peace.
You lack the ability to write anything meaningful.
The people who destroyed Iraq and Libya were forward thinking?
TRUMP
Totally
Re*****d,
Unambiguosly a
Major
Prick
I'm good at this poetry thing.
Fun Fact of the Day:
Russia is the only fascist state which claims to be actively fighting fascism
Fun fact of the day:
None of us care.
False.
How
Fun Fact of the Day:
Russia is the only fascist state which claims to be actively fighting fascism
I'm too good for USAID, bitchezzzzzzz
You got AIDS from some other country screwing you over ?
This is great! Finally a step forward coming to Peace. Now, if only Prez Trump can do the same with Israel.
Dream on!
"I have a Dream!"
Don't worry MAGA freaks
All the money is being redirected to Tel Aviv as you laud the orange felon
"Don't worry MAGA freaks….All the money is being redirected to Tel Aviv as you laud the orange felon"
Misreads the US situation:
The MAGA freaks aren't freaking – for mostly partisan and 'America first' reasons, more MAGA freaks want the US out of Ukraine.
It's mostly warmonger Democrats…
…excited Trump is continuing Democrat support for Israel's crimes…
…who are in hysterics the more and more unpopular Ukraine war (see poll linked in post to Burns) might end.
One thing I could never figure out how MAGA can be against the Ukraine war and shipments of money and weapons but cheer the Gaza war by Israel and our shipments of weapons and money.
And the exact reverse is true from the Democrats, or at least was until Biden shipped all the weapons and money to Isrel as well.
Ukrainian project from the beginning had as a goal the defeat of Russia. It failed miserably. Actually, it became counterproductive. Longer Ukrainian war lasts, more geopolitical and economic damage would be inflicted on U.S. and NATO, and more strong becomes Russia and BRICS.
With Israel it is different. U.S. oligarchy in general is pro-Zionist. Trump can't afford a confrontation with them. So he always was trying to be helpful to Israel. Also he is trying to be helpful to MIC. Otherwise, probably, they would destroy him.
Is there a forum in US without those goddamned Russia lovers and antisemites — but that's redundant anyway since most Russian supporters are brainwashed antisemites admiring Hitler even though he killed 30 million Russians
This is the kind of junk why I dislike you, Chris. Are you a Zionist? That's almost worse than Nazi, especially in our time.
I heavily dislike Israel
Then why are you ranting about "antisemitism", nowadays code-word for support of genocidal Zionism?
Antisemitism is real, however
He's the same Ukraine Firster he was when he was halfway sensible under his "Christian Vila" persona before he got Banned, then Banned again, and now he's shifting his name seemingly daily.
I blocked him several times under variants of this Polish name and yet he keeps coming back reneging of what he said before and begging for me to pay attention to him. It’s ridiculous!
Because I like you
Because you are sick and a compulsive liar, it seems to me.
No i really do like you as a person
That Polish name has some serious orthographic errors, so I doubt he is really Polish. He is likely Ukrainian living in Poland pretending to be Polish
Half the comments under this article are from you. Just go somewhere else and talk to yourself there, instead.
I could care less
I blocked it, to get rid of the annoyance.
lol!
I dunno, these pre-2022 Ukrainians sure seem to admire Hitler https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/
Unfortunately, a lot of non-Neo-Nazi Ukrainians also died, all because the US wanted to "weaken Russia" with the Maiden Coup in 2014, and again in 2022 when they sent Boris Johnson to scuttle the best chance Ukraine had to end the war on favorable terms.
Wait for Christian Vila w/ Lox to admonish you for mentioning a serious neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine that he'd rather ignore (or exploit for personal gain).
Go to r/dips**t on Reddit. You'll fit right in.
He even froze ongoing deliveries, Donald is truly ANGRY! XD
However the USA does not produce the ammo or most of it anyhow. Drones are bought in Ali Baba as far as I know.
… Only if he would do the same to Israel…!
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death's construction!
Thank you very much. For not only have American taxpayers had enough of this stupid war, but so have the Ukrainian People.
Now, let's move on to the Middle East and make some pauses. 😊
Israel to receive $1 billion in bombs and bulldozers from Trump. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-and-israel-foreign-aid/
Make Israel Great Again.
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Now, in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where their bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of Judgment, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercies for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.
Oh! Lord, yeah.
Welll said and written!…
That's Ozzie.
It’s Black Sabbath lyrics. I didn’t think to mention that, but yeah not everyone will recognize the song, so I should say “Duh” to myself.
The trailer for last year's Napoleon movie used it really well !
https://johnhelmer.net/ready-reckoner-for-president-donald-trumps-ukraine-war-fighting-war-funding-numbers-lies/#more-91207
"The text of the Report also reveals that there is no intention by the US, the European Union, the UK, or other US allies to require the Ukraine to make loan repayments. Instead, their scheme is for Russia to repay through the confiscation of Russian state assets ordered as part of the western economic war."
Bingo!
"The pause applies to all US military equipment bound for Ukraine that’s not currently in the country, including weapons that are in transit on aircraft and ships or waiting in Poland to be delivered."
"Mr. President, should we return all that gear to our storehouses ?"
– "Nah, the restocking fees will kill us. Just Forward all of it to the IDF, c/o the Apartheid State of Israel. Rubio's got the delivery address, and because the USA has Amazon Prime, the everything will arrive Next Day Delivery so Netanyahu won't have to delay the next phase of genocide by 6-10 Business Days."
Go write some cartoons somewhere else.
Another useless comment.
I bet you're a BIG "Family Circus" fan.
I wonder if this means France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland (combined population more than USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_population ) will force their citizens to fund Ukraine because "muh rules based order"?
That has been their idea, to waive the rules against spending money they don't have, to massively militarize fast. $.5 trillion borrowing by Germany alone is what the warmongers are looking at.
I think it's time for a Zelensky-Lettuce.
(Those not familiar with the concept, google "Liz Truss lettuce")
Nah, he's anything but Truss.
Ukraine acording to RUssian Shills
All nazis
Nazi state
Reich Chancellor Zelenskii
Fascist dictatorship
Azov is literally Ukraine
But alas
RUssia good
False.
What is true, based on demonstrable, verifiable, objective facts :
1. Zelenskiyy remains President of Ukraine without the democratic assent of the citizens of Ukraine, making him a dictator.
2. Neo-Nazi thugs / Banderites were instrumental in the Kiev coup and remain socially and politically influential in Ukrainian society and warfighting efforts to the present day.
3. Azov was and is the ONLY neo-Nazi regiment officially a part of any formal military on Earth.
4. Official Ukrainian government policy towards ethnic Russians in the Donbas, before and after the start of this war, meets and exceeds the definitions of institutionalized racial hatred, including a strong case for ethnic cleansing.
5. The majority of foreign fighters volunteering to fight for Ukraine associate with neo-Nazi / Aryan supremacist ideologies.
Based on these five facts, I do not support Ukraine in this war. It is less that I want the Russian Federation to win, as I absolutely want Ukraine to lose – for fascist, racist ideology to be AGAIN proven destructive, immoral, hateful, and unworthy of consideration. That good people will see such hate for what it is, and champion those who would openly destroy it.
Your basing your whole view of the conflict on a very minor sect of neo nazis
It gets tiring.
It really does
Get over it
You are far too complacent, and willing to ignore Ukraine's neo-Nazi Problem.
People like you said, "Nah, disband Iraq's army, they won't amount to anything", and "ISIL ? Not worth caring about", and "Soviets are out of Afghanistan? Guess we can ignore the mujahedeen", and "Somebody named Bin Laden is Determined To Strike The US ? Not worth caring about."
Reveling in your ignorance is not the "flex" you think it is.
Google "Rusich"
Reich Chancellor Musk and Orange Jebus are the best ameriKKKa can do ?
These fools deserve them.
“Christian” Zionists, gun nuts, racist anti Semites, fascists, drunks covered in tattoos, semi literate buffoons who trust Drumpf and fentanyl popping couch humping MAGA freaks.
This is how you “debate”?
Yes
You’re not saying anything. You’re just showing attitude…
I liked him better when he was "Christian Vila". Not MUCH better, but a biiiit better.
Do you like this Christian VIla?
I was the debate champion at my school
I’m too godod for you dum dums
It sounds like Ukrainians only understand force and not reason.
Perhaps Russia was correct to invade you, then.
Genocide alert!
You told me before that Russians are orcs who only understand force, but that seems to apply to you.
Still cannot believe…
This is a great development. Biden shoveled money to them wherever he could find it. Real leaders take action regardless of what the corrupt deep state wants.
Pause does not mean Trump stopped aid. It will still flow once Zelensky does what Trump wants.
Trump wants peace which means turning off the spigot of non-stop money flowing from the US to Ukraine.
Wake me up when the USA has a real leader.
I've been opposed to US intervention of any kind ever since the US-sponsored coup in 2014, so I'm glad to see the military aid "paused" and hope that the "pause" becomes permanent.
But that does likely mean a longer war.
"But that does likely mean a longer war."
That's a pretty ironic statement. What do you mean by it ?
I would think that, given Ukraine is only still in the fight because of US / NATO equipment, intel, and money (and assuming that the lionshare, as with NATO's own funding, comes from the USA), that absent American charity, the Ukrainians on their own (even with token non-US NATO contribution) would see this war end sooner, not later.
Absolutely wrong.
Russia then has to occupy the land they've claimed. That's when the insurgency starts. That's when children toss grenades over camp walls. That's when patrols get hit by roadside bombs. That's when Russian troops go home after their throats are slit one at a time. For years. Until they leave or slaughter every civilian in the place.
Russia is still in the easy part of this. Invasion is the easy part.
I am inclined to believe that any land the Russian Federation “occupies” after the war, will be either ethnic Russian areas that (like Crimea) will welcome Russian governance; OR will be released as semi-independent vassal states (or like Chechnya) where the Russians cleared out the s**tbags and leaves the place to its own governance, aligned with Moscow but not necessarily ruled directly by it.
The Russian Federation took close notes on the Americans’ misadventures of Occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, and are nowhere near dumb enough to repeat that.
You choose to belive in fantasies then.
What territories are the Russian Federation likely to possess after the war ends ?
What is the ethnic and political leanings of the majority in those territories ?
What degree of governance does the Russian Federation intend for those territories ?
Honest and factual answers to those three questions will prove my suggestion closer to reality than anything you’ve suggested.
So you think Russia claimef territory, then invaded, and are just going to declare victory at some point and just leave? No occupation? No “peacekeepers” on the ground?
Just the assumption the places they destroyed will secure themselves and rebuild to be vassal states with good will to the country that destroyed everything and left?
Chechnya.
Also – provide evidence that the Russian Federation claimed territory to keep BEFORE it invaded with its SMO.
Chechnya.
A country ruled by a Russian. That’s allowed to continue to exist as a vassal as long as it does everything Russia wants. After Russia invaded. Twice.
Great example.
Crimea. Russia took that in 2014. The Donblass oblasts Russia claimed as satellite states prior to the invasion. The same ones Russia sent conscripts to fight in even though it’s against Russian law to send conscripts outside of Russia. Those had to be Russian territory for the conscripts to even be there.
So you tacitly admit that the Russian Federation’s method in Chechnya achieved a stable outcome.
Unless you can provide us stats on Chechnyan Kids Lobbing Grenades Into Camps, Russian Throat-Injury Casualties, and other wild assertions you promise in postwar Ukraine, for Fiscal Year 2023 (the most recent year for which statistical data is available) in Chechnya.
You could actually pay attention to world events, especially in a region you very clearly care about, or you could continue to just make up whatever fits your fantasy.
There's still attacks against Russian forces in Chechnya.
You think the following insurgency is going to be polite? Nice? No brutality to force the Russians out?
Dream on.
Chechen attacks on Russian forces were still occurring at least as late as last year — two Russian soldiers killed in Grozny last October and an FSB raid in Moscow in which two militants were killed while allegedly preparing to bomb a police station last December.
Hmmm, good to note, thanks !
Moronic. The areas they have taken are the areas that voted 90% for the Russia friendly candidates.
How much insurgency has there been in Crimea, oh wise one? It's been almost ten years there now.
You mean the fake elections? Sure.
Do you see a lot, or any, anti Ukrainian forced action in the occupied areas? No? Any local help for the Russians?
Didn’t think so
"How much insurgency has there been in Crimea"
Some, including sabotage of railway lines, assassinations and poisonings of Russian personnel and collaborators, blowing up the ammo depot near Staryi Krym, etc.
If there is a cessation of US aid, one of two things will happen:
1) The European powers will buckle down and take up the slack; or
2) There will be a long insurgency before the Russians withdraw from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Okay – but can the Europeans (really, we must mean “NATO minus America”) shovel in what they were before PLUS the gap left by the cessation of the World’s Biggest Military Budget’s contribution ?
And hasn’t Chechnya demonstrated that the Russian Federation takes a more practical and pragmatic approach to insurgency issues ?
The US wore an inconvenient “hearts and minds” fig-leaf when not-dealing with Iraqi and Afghani insurgencies. I doubt the RF cares what Mainstream Media will say if & when the RF does whatever the f**k it wants to eliminate terrorists in disputed regions.
There was no US sponsored coup.
"The Prisoner" finally blocked me.
His one sided pro-Trump drivel is finally gone
However, I would never stoop so low as to ignore those I disagree with
I agree. Throughout my many years of comment history I have only blocked one person who was stalking not only me but my entire family, badmouthing my husband and children and threatening with vile remarks. I had to block that person.
Oh my….
I expect I will be next. I have yet to block anyone, because once in a great while, someone I routinely disagree with come up with something good.
PS I don't count spam users that I have blocked.
Cease all aid to Ukraine both military and other!
The US was paying almost all government salaries and retirement payments since 2021. I am sure that Americans could use the cash.
Does adolf trump have to report taxes on income from russia or did the supreme court give him immunity? Critical Thinkers Ponder https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fa405317de9681f2ada08b8387d52067161480b5ab571dd8d12aa674935dc6e8.jpg
Dulce Et Decorum Est III & A Taste of Armageddon
(Or the Empire has no Clothes but a Disposition Matrix)
In due homage
to Horace, Owen & Mikhail
i humbly nod
for how sweet & glorious
it must be to kill or die
for god and country
the old dirty lie
Via pompous duty
asphyxiatingly-wrapped
within ersatz honor
bubbling babbling fools
gushing drooling
patriotic plebian pride
so c'mon kiddies,
any up for good jingo sport?
who’s hungry & poor,
who wants to play
the hubris 'anything for profit'
killing game?
As newspapers rah rah
pied piper patriotism
with journalistic integrity
star spangled objectivity ha ha!
as a new battle/fear lies
just around the corner
& armed forces day
just weeks away
hooray!
rally loyal citizens
to whitewash warm innocuous blood
off disgraced musket & sullied polluted flag
strike up the marching parade
manifest destiny
down main street usa hurrah!
Awaken & open thine eyes
chauvinistic folk
come & see
xenophobic overseas
deeds of nefarious brutality
You’re liable
for this appalling
tax-paid supported violence
exported to hamlets & villages
in lands you couldn't find on a map
nor correctly pronounce
Assaulting families
who’ve never
did you any harm
clans you've never heard of
nor care less for
so step on up
one & all
Take a trip
to the overflowing morgues
filled with small smashed bodies
once toddlers
full of laughter & life
Deeply inhale
the rancid stench
of scorched flesh
crispy burnt
to a black bubbly mass
by phosphorus
Gaze into doll dead eyes
frozen forever
by shock & awe
renditioned
via your God blessed terror from above
Crumpled atop a cold gurney
a stiff finger of a tiny hand
amidst a mish-mosh of mangled flesh
bulls-eyed at you war supporters
Watch
as grief-stricken father’s
zombie-wander
in shattered silence
sifting through ragged debris
devastating destruction
searching
for lost sons
missing daughters
Discovering
ripped wet mangled body parts
strewn out as pieces of a human jig-saw puzzle
taking home
the ear, the hand, the foot
to be quietly buried
while 6000 miles away
blue-blooded heroes giggle and snicker
at a video screen
toe-tagging this crime against humanity
'bugsplat'
Harken
to the heart-piercing shrieks
as soul-torn asunder mothers
wail like howling wild animals
as they find their loves buried
broken & bloody
in the rubble
of your glorious works
Then if you can
please explain
to the unresponsive moaning
neonatal orphan
why your armed forces
just murdered his parents
by accident
then wave a condolence payment
like juicy enticement in his face
Celebrate
as your special op-forces
silently efficiently & quickly
dig out bullets
from civilian bodies
to cover their tracks
from being at the wrong address
again
Declare as a national holiday
murdered women at a bridal shower
or when
4 kids are droned to smithereens
while tending sheep
rejoice
in exported evil exploits
as great american victories
for which your war crimes always are
Trust flim-flam,
the PR propaganda spin
from subjective mass media
obey leaders and church bosses
pay your taxes
which finances anglo-terrorism
through illegal & immoral aggressive violence
or listen to a blue rodeo
Raise your filthy faux flag
higher higher ever higher
to hover over the rising pile where the butchered lie
however
dear good christian citizens
no civic rag
could ever soar over
the sick slaying of the innocent
the accumulating abominations of flag-pledged atrocities
Appraise Fallujah
surrounded & caged
as the cowering cringing unarmed civilian inhabitants
are shot, burned & barbequed
like slaughtered sitting ducks
in a ‘free-fire zone’shooting gallery
Ponder
upon your sanctimonious attack
at a school in Bajour
where 69 children are massacred by joystick
as you deceive yourself
into believing
it did not happen
washing your hands
turning as you walk away
This is Sand Creek
Wounded Knee
My Lai
Haditha
Far too many other mass-media
contorted distorted
reported great triumphs
To whit
no doubt in my mind
the next war crime called
a ‘battle’
‘humanitarian bombing’
patriotically anointed
sanctioned
of course
by church state and school
the old lie
spit and shined
critical thinkers
mystified
sheep
oblivious
buried in
decadence
ta ta…
A History of Ukraine "Losing"
Feb 24: Ukraine is dead!
Feb 28: Ukraine will be dead soon
Mar 1: Ukraine is Dead
.,,
May '22: Ukraine is dead
August '22; Ukraine is dying!
…….
Winter 2022-23: Winter is here! Ukraine is dead
The Failed Summer Counteroffensive: Ukraine failed! Ukraine is dead
Fall-Winter 202-24: It's winter again! Ukraine is dead!
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Summer 2024: Ukraine is dead because USA paused aid for 90 days!
Fall 20204: Ukraine is dea because they have no men!
Winter 2024-25: Ukraine is dead because Drumpf cut off aid!
President Trump gets results fast: https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1896948147085049916
Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I'll follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
A necrophiliac, authoritarian, neurotic character comments on a religious basis, doesn't he?
Are you on drugs again,or just fantasizing again in moms bathroom ?
This is a song by bob dylan…
“ignoramus et ignorabimus”. With your vicious comment you clearly reveal your fascistic, sophistic, trolling identity with continuous insults, defamation, etc. I dispute your slander entirely. You are wasting digital resources of the forum with your useless, non-pertinent comments.
I detest drugs and I don't fantasize.
Thank you for excluding me as an annotator to reply to you.
It is therefore clear that the failed, intended mineral agreement between the USA and Ukraine obviously serves the orchestrated provocation and blackmail of Ukraine using mafia methods by the fascistic, autocratic President Trump and his entourage for the benefit of Russian warfare. In deed, the withdrawal of the Russian military from its occupied Ukrainian territories is not demanded by President Trump due to the public international law to a peace.
The immigrant Russian population of the Donbas region ignites a civil war of separatism, which is against the Ukrainian Constitution and the Ukrainian Criminal Code regarding the norm of high treason.
Russia is arguing inappropriately with regard to a military threat from the West, as US nuclear weapons and their strategic bomber aircraft have been stored close to Russia at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey since 1952. NATO troops in Norway, Finland, Lithuania etc. stand close to the Russian border as well.
I suspected that the subject matter of the article would generate enlightened discourse in the comments section.