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Saw this on France 24 English earlier this morning. These 2 blokes that have been arrestedare dual Russian-German citizens, and are accused of targeting a US base in Germany where Ukraine soldiers were being trained.

Supposedly there are 3 million Russians / Russian speakers in Germany, a combo of old communist days and post 1990 immigration to Germany.








Had a look at how Germany's DW News is reporting this. From the DW News comment on the youtube page for this video.


German prosecutors on Thursday said police in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth had arrested two men on suspicion of spying for Russia.The two are accused, among other things, of acting as agents for sabotage purposes and of preparing explosives, the German Federal Prosecutor's Office announced in Karlsruhe.Germany also summoned Russia's ambassador in Berlin after the arrests were announced. "We will not allow Putin to bring his terror to Germany," Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wrote on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.


 
The Ukraine Aid Bill has passed the House.
Roughly a bipartisan 3/4 majority.
MTG is losing her demented mind.
She has the gall to stand there and say the money is supporting murder while she sends out Christmas cards of she and her children holding AR14s 🤣
The lack of insight is next level.
Anyway she sure talks a lot of Russian propaganda for a so called Patriot.

Now for the Senate.🇺🇦
 
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OneGreatClub said:
The Ukraine Aid Bill has passed the House.
Roughly a bipartisan 3/4 majority.
MTG is losing her demented mind.
She has the gall to stand there and say the money is supporting murder while she sends out Christmas cards of she and her children holding AR14s 🤣
The lack of insight is next level.
Anyway she sure talks a lot of Russian propaganda for a so called Patriot.

Now for the Senate.🇺🇦
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www.nbcnews.com

Congress passes bill that could unlock billions in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine

More than $6 billion of the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets are sitting in U.S. banks.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

The House passed a foreign aid package on Saturday as well as what's called the REPO Act that will allow the Biden administration to confiscate billions of dollars’ worth of Russian assets sitting in U.S. banks and transfer them to Ukraine for reconstruction.

More than $6 billion of the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets are sitting in U.S. banks. Most of the $300 billion are in Germany, France and Belgium.
“Other G7 countries will only act to confiscate Russian assets if the U.S. leads,”
 
OneGreatClub said:
The Ukraine Aid Bill has passed the House.
Roughly a bipartisan 3/4 majority.
MTG is losing her demented mind.
She has the gall to stand there and say the money is supporting murder while she sends out Christmas cards of she and her children holding AR14s 🤣
The lack of insight is next level.
Anyway she sure talks a lot of Russian propaganda for a so called Patriot.

Now for the Senate.🇺🇦
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Hooray, hopefully in time before Russia's summer offensive. Ukraine will need to hold defensive positions until Russia exhausts there resources, then counter attack later in the year or next year.

F16's should establish some form of air superiority to protect their ground forces and begin knocking out more Russian military targets.
 
Ukraine still getting hand me downs. ATACMS has been superseded by the Precision Strike Missile, which entered service last year and will be getting a substantial upgrade in 2025. And the Patriot missile is being upgraded to integrate with the Aegis system - a fully automated command and control package that makes threat response instantaneous.

The guys waving the Ukraine flag on the floor of the House were all Lockheed Martin and Raytheon investors.
 

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Papa G said:
Huge Win for the Neocons and Industrial Military Complex. Massive loss for the Ukrainian people. More Death and Destruction. Vanguard and Blackrock licking their lips. So too Western European Industrialists.
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Did you watch Braveheart and think that William Wallace was the bad guy?
 
Papa G said:
Huge Win for the Neocons and Industrial Military Complex. Massive loss for the Ukrainian people. More Death and Destruction. Vanguard and Blackrock licking their lips. So too Western European Industrialists.
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Sorry for Ukrainians wanting to exist on planet earth. They should be ashamed of themselves for being so selfish.

I am guessing you will have the same attitude when China comes knocking on our door with an armada. Nah, no US support for us thank you. Our wildlife & harsh environment should take care of this challenge.
 
ibd77 said:
Sorry for Ukrainians wanting to exist on planet earth. They should be ashamed of themselves for being so selfish.

I am guessing you will have the same attitude when China comes knocking on our door with an armada. Nah, no US support for us thank you. Our wildlife & harsh environment should take care of this challenge.
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Papa loves to spout Russian propaganda. So gullible.
 
ibd77 said:
Sorry for Ukrainians wanting to exist on planet earth. They should be ashamed of themselves for being so selfish.

I am guessing you will have the same attitude when China comes knocking on our door with an armada. Nah, no US support for us thank you. Our wildlife & harsh environment should take care of this challenge.
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The US are our allies.

Ukraine was nothing to America except a convenient vessel for the proxy to fill a gap left by the middle east withdrawal.

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Some here really think that the U.S. doesn’t mind sacrificing Ukrainians to hurt russia. Some here really think that russia wants peace, the United States wants war, and Ukraine has no control.

They also seem to think that if Ukraine concedes land that russia currently controls and formally promises never to join NATO that russia will finally stop the violence.
russia’s war aims are expansive; it doesn't really want to negotiate. If it got concessions now, it would ignore any settlement when it's ready to invade again. It has done this all through its history.
russia and the russian media maintain that Ukraine “is not a real country” and should not exist. Those who want Ukraine to concede land for peace need understand that.

russia wants domination over peace. putin doesn't care about the suffering of people; to him it's an advantage against more peace-minded countries. putin attacked Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 for the same reason putin launched military action against Georgia, because he could.

putin said, “It would be ridiculous for us to start negotiating with Ukraine just because it’s running out of ammunition.” russia has reacted to Ukrainian weakness by pushing harder, throwing bodies at the front and bombs at Ukrainian cities because russia wants all of Ukraine, whether it's now or in the future.
Then after Ukraine there's Moldova and the Baltic states because russia will be able to increase its army by conscripting Ukrainians to fight their wars.
 
edgie said:
Ukraine was nothing to America except a convenient vessel for the proxy to fill a gap left by the middle east withdrawal.
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$61 Billion would say otherwise to that comment.

US sees the strategic value in weakening the Russian army without having to commit any of their own troops to the fight. It also boosts US military economy as they need reproduce the product that has been donated to Ukraine, whilst clearing out old stock that would have been discarded at some point anyway. US never loses out when it comes to wartime economies.
 
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