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Ukraine offers its front line as test bed for foreign weapons
Ukraine offers its front line as test bed for foreign weapons
WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) -Ukraine will let foreign arms companies test out their latest weapons on the front line of its war against Russia's invasion, Kyiv's state-backed arms investment and procurement group Brave1 said on Thursday. Under the "Test in Ukraine" scheme, companies would send...
MindzEye
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"state rescue"
With what money? They've already been loading up state owned corporations with valueless bonds just to drag the corpse of their economy this far. The official data on the national wealth fund suggests that it's up to 170B (lol) from 120B (lol) at the start of the year but 3rd party analysts were only able to track down about 35B of that as being actually real money. The rest appears to be them counting bonds they sold to state owned companies as assets. That 35B is a 2+ month old figure as well and has very likely been drawn down a bit since as bond coupon payments have outpaced bond sales over the last 2 months, and that shit needs to be paid somehow. Tax receipts came in lower than expected as well....mainly because when you make up shit about how your economy is doing, reality gives zero fucks and will do what it's doing.
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‘Not Trump’s dumping ground’: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation
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‘Not Trump’s dumping ground’: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation
Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that migrants described by a Department of Homeland security spokesperson as “depraved monsters” had been sent to its prisons.
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Australia delivers Abrams tanks to Ukraine for war with Russia
Australia delivers Abrams tanks to Ukraine for war with Russia
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's government said on Saturday it had delivered M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine as part of a A$245 million ($160 million) package to help the country defend itself against Russia in their ongoing war. Australia, one of the largest non-NATO contributors to Ukraine, has...
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French Nonprofit Files Case Against Russia in ICC Over ‘Systematic and Organized’ Plundering of Ukrainian Culture
French Nonprofit Files Case Against Russia in ICC Over ‘Systematic and Organized’ Plundering of Ukrainian Culture
For Ukraine, For Their Freedom and Ours! has accused Russia of the “systematic, widespread, and organized” looting of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
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MindzEye
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"Corruption is bad in Ukraine"
Well, yeah...but not for why right wing muppets try to tell us
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Well, yeah...but not for why right wing muppets try to tell us
Ukrainian MP Found to Be High-Level FSB Agent - Militarnyi
MP Fedir Khrystenko has been exposed for facilitating Russian influence within the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). In response, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) is carrying out extensive searches among officials of the bureau
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think Ukraine passed a bill defanging their anti-corruption institutions? details still murky to me... I'm sure ME has more details
View: https://x.com/yarotrof/status/1947666950244499477
View: https://x.com/MartaKosEU/status/1947663547233710152
View: https://x.com/yarotrof/status/1947666950244499477
View: https://x.com/MartaKosEU/status/1947663547233710152
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Who commissioned the poll?
MindzEye
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Not sure what to think on this yet. The independent anti corruption bodies being captured by the Kremlin enough to warrant this is plausible. The government over reaching to protect corruption is also plausible. Ukraines system is the same as it was pre maidan and their oligarchs didn't immediately turn patriotic and democratic post maidan either.
With the EU and public concern is probably where I would lean for the moment but Russian asymmetric actions capturing a non governmental agency essential to eventual ascendance to the EU can't be ruled out yet either
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MindzEye
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The optics definitely don't look good here and unless there is some pretty ironclad shit showing significant Russian penetration in the independent agencies, this would be bad and could undermine the war effort tbh. Ukrainians aren't fighting to install their own oligarchs in place of Russian ones. They're fighting for the freedom to join the EU and take the path of Poland and the Baltics.
Ukrainian oligarchs though (who are really just Russian oligarchs with Ukrainian birthplaces on their passports...they owe their wealth to the same corrupt system the Russian oligarchs do) might prefer Orbanization. Zelensky needs to land on the right side of this.
Ukrainian oligarchs though (who are really just Russian oligarchs with Ukrainian birthplaces on their passports...they owe their wealth to the same corrupt system the Russian oligarchs do) might prefer Orbanization. Zelensky needs to land on the right side of this.