dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑fredag 22 mars 2024 9:05
Rykten i Financial Times påstår att USA
inte vill att Ukraina ska fortsätta sina attacker mot ryska raffinaderier.
Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil refineries deepen tensions with U.S.
Washington Post skrev:Instead of acquiescing to the U.S. requests, however, Ukraine doubled down on the strategy, striking a range of Russian facilities, including an April 2 attack on Russia’s third-largest refinery 800 miles from the font.
The incidents have exacerbated tensions in a strained relationship as Kyiv waits to learn whether Congress will pass a long-stalled $60 billion aid package while Russia’s forces pierce Ukrainian positions across the front lines. The long-range Ukrainian strikes, which have hit more than a dozen refineries since January and disrupted at least 10 percent of Russian oil refinery capacity, come as President Biden ramps up his reelection campaign and global oil prices reach a six-month high.
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Defenders of Ukraine’s strategy accuse the White House of prioritizing domestic politics over Kyiv’s military goals. “It sounds to me that the Biden administration doesn’t want gas prices to go up in an election year,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a hearing last week.
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“I’m sorry to spoil the birthday party, but who can believe that the mightiest military alliance in the world cannot find seven batteries of Patriots to provide them to the only country in the world that is fighting ballistic attacks every day?” Kuleba said he told his Western counterparts in an uncharacteristically harsh tone.
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The U.S. positions all stand in contrast to Washington’s allies in Europe, who have barely disguised their pleasure with the Ukrainian campaign. “The Ukrainian people [are] acting in self-defense, and we consider that Russia is the aggressor,” French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné said when asked about the strikes during a news conference with Blinken. “In such circumstances, there is hardly anything else to say. I think you understood me.”
Ingen rök utan eld. Som sagt, USA prioriterar Israel och därefter inrikespolitiken. Det hedrar dock Europa att kontinenten vågar stå upp för det angripna landet.
Enceladus skrev: ↑tisdag 05 mars 2024 22:26
Hur blev det med Putins besök i Turkiet? Behövs inte spannmålsavtalet längre?
Exclusive: Russia-Ukraine Black Sea shipping deal was almost reached last month, sources say
Reuters skrev:A deal was reached in March "to ensure the safety of merchant shipping in the Black Sea", and though Ukraine did not want to sign it formally, Kyiv gave its assent for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to announce it on March 30, the day before critical regional elections, the sources said.
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Under the deal almost announced on March 30, both Moscow and Kyiv would have offered security guarantees to merchant vessels in the Black Sea, committing not to strike or to seize or search them as long as they were either empty or had declared a non-military cargo.
"These guarantees do not apply to warships, civilian vessels carrying military goods (with the exception of maritime transportation agreed upon by the Parties within the framework of international missions)," the draft agreement said.
Intresset för att sluta avtal med Ryssland är begränsat efter landets senaste attacker. Vidare saknar Putin respekt för avtal, och Ukraina klarar sig utan ändå.
Enceladus skrev: ↑lördag 13 april 2024 12:07
Vem kontrollerar vem? Trump verkar i alla fall prioritera sin relation med kreationisten Johnson framför fascisten Greene och landsförrädaren Orban.
Baptists Call on House Speaker Mike Johnson to Stand with Ukraine
Christianity Today skrev:Southern Baptist leaders have written to US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a member and former official of their denomination, urging him to support Ukraine in Russia’s war against its Eastern European neighbor.
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Johnson is a former trustee of the ERLC, serving when Land—who also is a former commissioner of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom—was its president.
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“Evangelicals and Baptists are being mistreated in the Russian-occupied territories significantly,” he said. “We’ve lost probably 300 churches. Pastors are really struggling over there, wherever Russians have taken over.”
Som bekant är Mike Johnson en djupt troende sydstatsbaptist. Därför kan kristna kanaler vara ett effektivt sätt att nå fram till talmannen. Är USA ens sekulärt?
Marjorie Taylor Greene Applauds Russia for 'Protecting Christianity'
Newsweek skrev:"Let's talk about what this really is, Steve: This is a war against Christianity," Greene said on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast. "The Ukrainian government is attacking Christians; the Ukrainian government is executing priests. Russia is not doing that; they're not attacking Christianity. As a matter of fact, they seem to be protecting it."
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Troitskiy said Greene's statements can be perceived as appealing to a particular base within the Republican Party, adding that a lack of aid for Ukraine could have which could have dire consequences not just for the invaded nation, but also global security.
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Verstka, an independent online news publication founded on April 26, 2022, by independent Russian journalists, reported last July found that Russia's religious persecution in occupied Ukrainian regions found 43 cases of targeted persecution of clergy and more than 109 acts pressuring churches and religious figures representing Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Fascisten Greene försöker använda samma knep. Enligt uppgift är situationen särskilt prekär för den muslimska ursprungsbefolkningen på ockuperade halvön.
Speaker Mike Johnson to force separate votes on Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan foreign aid bills with another tying TikTok divesture and humanitarian assistance
Daily Mail skrev:Speaker Mike Johnson will lead House Republicans in pushing three separate bills this week to send billions to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, DailyMail.com confirmed.
A fourth bill will reportedly include several measures such as requiring TikTok divest from its Chinese-owned parent company, an effort to obtain seized Russian assets, a lend-lease program for military aid to Ukraine and also loans for humanitarian aid.
All four bills would be lumped together under the same 'rule' to advance them to the House floor for final passage this week before going to the Senate.
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Meanwhile a motion to vacate has loomed over Johnson's head since Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene launched the bid to oust him last month. The Georgia Republican is a staunch opponent to Ukraine aid and has already threatened to try to boot Johnson if he brings it to the floor.
But after Johnson met with Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago Friday and said he stands by him, Greene showed no daylight between her and the president.
Det verkar som om Greene har förlorat kampen. Dessutom har Johnson flera gånger försökt få igenom militärt stöd till Israel - utan att lyckas. Nu brådskar det!
-ar, Enceladus-kollektivets fantasi 