In what was a stunning comeback for the controversial politician, Fico won a third term as Slovakian prime minister last October after running a campaign that criticized western support for Ukraine. Fico had pledged an immediate end to Slovak military support for Ukraine and promised to block Ukraine’s NATO ambitions in what would upend Slovakia’s staunch backing for Ukraine.
Ahead of the election, Fico made no secret of his sympathies towards the Kremlin and blamed “Ukrainian Nazis and fascists” for provoking Vladimir Putin into launching the invasion, repeating the false narrative Russia’s president has used to justify his invasion.
Yeah, but we know how starting a world war typically goes. And they don’t have the best track record for actually winning wars. Not that it wouldn’t be horrendous.
When the war becomes less about the battlefield tactics and more about who has the most stuff to throw at their opponent, why not have an economist who’s pretty cool with the state spending money to make things?
Looks like Russians pinned a bunch of Ukrainian forces around Chasov Yar after the Avdeevka breakthrough. This is a critical problem for Ukraine because there aren’t any fortification in depth, so losing these strongholds means Russia would be easily able to advance all the way to Dnepr. As a result, Ukraine threw their best brigades to try and slow down Russian advance at all costs. Now it looks like Russia is opening up a second front from the north, and we’ll see if Ukraine has the resources to fight on both fronts or whether they’ll be forced to sacrifice one to try and hold the other. Of course, if Russia makes a major breakthrough in either area then it’s likely that the whole front is going to start collapsing anyways. The next few weeks might be a pivotal moment in the war.
Yes, apparently they’re stretching the front so far that the Ukronazi defenses are being breached in multiple places and they can’t hold them because they’re missing manpower. I’ve also heard that there is a large gathering of troops in Bryansk and Kursk near Sumy and Chernihiv Oblasts so it’s possible that there are plans to stretch the front a the across the whole border. Ukronazis are already pushed 4km in Kharkiv. Tonight is going to be a big night considering that offensive will be in full speed in Kharkiv.
It’s probably worth waiting a few days to see how this develops, but definitely looks that it could be significant. Russian approach has been generally very cautious, so they might just be probing right now. However, if Ukraine is really as short on manpower and ammunition as they appear to be, then Russia might start a serious offensive.
Ukraine might be on the brink of collapse but it’s still capable of inflicting losses to the Russians, especially using drones. As the Russians themselves have said, the nature of warfare has changed a lot due to the introduction of cheap small drones in the battlefield. Any significant mass of men, weapon platforms or ammunition is instantly targeted. Therefore, the tactical approach now for both Russia and Ukraine is to use very small groups of soldiers in any attack, so as not to attract drone attacks. Furthermore, massed artillery is no longer practical due to the target they would present and neither is storing ammo/supplies in large quantities anywhere near the front, as they’d be extremely vulnerable to drones.
Also, we should keep in mind that due to constant satellite surveillance, all the above can be identified and targeted very easily. Also, the surveillance makes it hard for Russians to draw or prepare to execute massive pushes, as they would be easily anticipated. Therefore, they try to keep things moving everywhere all at once, and wait for advantages to develop before pouring resources to those sectors that would prove the most beneficial.
Hence, any advances made are small and incremental. The advantage that Russia has now is that it can perform these advances everywhere at the same time, and, because the Ukrainian ability to respond has been minimized, most of these small advances can be immediately successful.
This is misinformation by the Bild (the most reactionary bullshit rag in Germany).
In their official statement the Left talk about capping food prices in general and just names Döner as an example (there’s literally one sentence about it). They also talk about capping rent prices and increasing social spending.
It’s a pretty standard and toothless statement by them, but Bild took that one sentence and made up bullshit about them wanting to subsidise Döner - RT just ran with it I guess.
I’m not trying to defend the current state of the Left, but this is ridiculous misinformation.
The black one is the older and is named frippa, my username comes from her
My favorite is remì though, the tabby one
We had an older one called micia (slang for female cat in Italian) but she sadly passed away in February, stopped eating and even the vet couldn’t figure out what was wrong (we had to took her because her previous owner had passed away) she probably wasn’t able to manage the shock, she was old (about 13)
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