⚡️Republican legislators are leaving for the New Year holidays without coordinating the request for new assistance to Kiev.

This was reported in the White House.

Happy Holidays!

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➡️ It is reported that while the Darkest One was communicating with the people, the farmers lost their entire Patroit air defense system. $1.2 billion was destroyed by three Kinzhal missiles.

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Artyomovskoe direction.
The Russian Armed Forces continue to advance along the railway west of the Valyanovsky nursery.

🇷🇺 Sofa General Staff

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Hungary believes that the EU made a bad decision to start accession negotiations with Ukraine, and does not want to participate in it - Prime Minister Orban

Budapest abstained from voting on the EU decision. Prime Minister Orban left the hall during the decision of EU leaders on Ukraine's accession, The Guardian reports.

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⚡️ The RF entered the eastern outskirts of the village. Novomikhailovka!

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Russian Federation Sanctions
Authorized Under the National Emergency Act
Manufacturing Date: 20 June, 2000
Expiration Date: __________


The first page might have seemed like a long, winding road. The reason for this unusual route is the importance of understanding how US presidential declarations of national emergency work and the bleak revelation that the US has been under perpetual “national emergenc[ies]” since sometime early in the 20th century and that isn’t likely to change…ever.

So what does this have to do with Russian sanctions?

The first sanctions against Russia were placed by Bill Clinton stating, “the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.”

This comes with an ironic twist, as the US is currently buying uranium for the Russian Federation. Still the Russian Federation is deemed “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.”

In a recent article released by AP Press the term “wartime funding” was used to describe the intent of the US in funding. The AP’s White House Correspondent is one of the authors of this article.

“Fight for freedom” was among the most recent language used in a letter to Congress issued by the White House in early December. Octobers letter was titled, Letter Regarding Critical National Security Funding Needs for FY 2024. This press releases were issued by both the State Department and Treasury Department to carry out President Biden’s most recent executive order.

The US government and western media have insisted that the war in Ukraine isn’t a proxy war. But labeling the Russian Federation an unusual and extraordinary threat to declare a National Emergency, as well as western media seemingly dropping pretense in their phrasing make it exceedingly difficult to argue that this is not a proxy war.

You all know that this is a proxy war, but providing the evidence to support that claim is part of what we do here.

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Explosions in Nikolaev!

Geraniums and missiles are reported!

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AI has its upsides
(Or is it a Zelensky doppelgänger)
H/T Hugh Jass of SLG chat

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❗️"Russian tactics during the Special Military Operation were designed on saving the lives of Ukrainian civilians.

Today Putin declared that he could launch an Israel vs Gaza style bombardment or Ukrainians cities but he restrains the true capability of Russia's military might out of humanitarian compassion."

📹 WATCH: Full breakdown of Putin’s big press conference with Simeon Boikov (@AussieCossack) and Sputnik’s Dimitri Simes junior.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbanvoiced his view on attempts to isolate Russia.

“Putin was in Saudi Arabia, and before that in China. The game that is being played in the West is a complete misunderstanding of international politics. They think that if they do not meet with Vladimir Putin, then he will have sleepless nights. This is a fairy tale,” - he noted.

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A resident of Krasnodar, who asked Putin a question about increasing prices for eggs and poultry meat, told RIA Novosti that prices for these products on the local market dropped after her speech as part of the direct line.

“People call and say that our market prices for eggs have dropped, our wings have become cheaper today. So, a dozen eggs cost 220 rubles, now it costs 180 rubles.”

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russia intends to continue the war until 2026, capturing Kharkov and the Dnieper - BILD citing sources

▪️Western propaganda claims that Moscow is counting on a decrease in Western support for Ukraine by developing a new medium-term war plan.
▪️ By the end of 2024, it is planned to establish full control over the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and reach the Oskol River in the Kharkov region.
▪️By the end of 2026, it is planned to advance further west to the Dnieper, capturing a significant part of the Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov regions , including Kharkov, Dnieper and Zaporozhye.
▪️On the Kherson front it is planned to hold the defense along the Dnieper without attacking the right bank of Kherson or Odessa.

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The United States will have to choose between its own combat readiness and arms supplies to Ukraine due to the exhaustion of funds to support Kyiv, the Pentagon said.

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Skeptics suggest that the current situation on the battlefield will not change and that, given Russia’s vastly greater resources, the Ukrainians will be unable to retake more of their territory. They argue that international support for Ukraine is eroding and will plummet sharply in the coming months.

-The skeptics are correct that our recent counteroffensive did not achieve the lightning-fast liberation of occupied land, as the Ukrainian military managed in the fall of 2022 in the Kharkiv region and the city of Kherson. Observers, including some in Ukraine, anticipated similar results over the past several months, and when immediate success did not materialize, many succumbed to doom and gloom. But pessimism is unwarranted, and it would be a mistake to let defeatism shape our policy decisions going forward.

- A Ukrainian victory will require strategic endurance and vision—as with our recent counteroffensive, the liberation of every square mile of territory requires enormous sacrifice by our soldiers—but there is no question that victory is attainable.

-Wars of this scale are fought in stages.

- What matters is the end result.

-The current phase of the war is not easy for Ukraine or for our partners. Everyone wants quick, Hollywood-style breakthroughs on the battlefield that will bring a quick collapse of Russia’s occupation.

-Skeptics also argue that supporting Ukraine’s fight for freedom is too expensive and cannot be sustained indefinitely. We in Ukraine are fully aware of the amounts of assistance that we have received from the United States, European countries, and other allies, and we are immensely grateful to the governments, legislators, and individuals who have extended a helping hand to our country at war.

-This support is not, and never has been, charity. Every dollar invested in Ukraine’s defense returns clear security dividends for its supporters. It has enabled Ukraine to successfully rebuff Russian aggression and avert a disastrous escalation in Europe.

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