'Our country is going to hell in a hand-basket': WWII veteran celebrating 100th birthday breaks down in TEARS while discussing current state of America

Remembering his time in the Marines, Carl Spurlin Dekel said that while fighting in the war was his biggest pride, soldiers had not died for the America of today.
'People don't realize what they have,' he said. 'The things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain'.
A wave of violence, mass shootings, inflation increase, and overturns of landmark decisions by the highest court have hindered the country's morale.
It comes amid plummeting approval ratings for those in the country's highest offices, including President Joe Biden.

🇬🇷 Politician and former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis urges Greece to conclude a strategic alliance with Russia and to lift sanctions, because “Europe is hit hard by the sanctions. Europe has shot itself.”

☝️He also noted that Russia is not responsible for the war in Ukraine, it is the United States, NATO and the Kiev regime that provoked this war.

💬 “The war in Ukraine did not start four months ago. The war began with the 2014 coup d'état by the efforts of Poroshenko and his Nazi friends, battalions "Azov" and "Aidar"... It was a war mainly against the Russian population of Ukraine. The coup was made for escalation and subsequently openly war against Russia.”

🇷🇺 He concluded that "Russia's efforts are aimed at restoring peace, security and justice in the region. Unfortunately, the Kiev regime does not want this, a new dictator in Ukraine Zelensky does not want this, the United States and NATO do not want this."

@dpr_mfa

Another one from Graham Phillips.

Working people of Britain are fed up with rising fuel prices and unreasonable government spending:

Fuel protesters BLOCK the M4 and target motorways across the UK with threat of 12 hours of traffic jams - as one films his 30mph rolling blockade while fed-up drivers abandon cars and play football on carriageway.

Mr Dite, who also sounded a musical horn from his vehicle which played the Pirates of the Caribbean theme tune, was among about half a dozen vehicles in the procession and shouted 'give us our country back' while being filmed by a Wales Online reporter in the car with him – but he also admitted it was 'not a very good turnout'.

The mobile welder from Maesteg in Bridgend County Borough drives 30 miles to Cardiff for work each day, and said the cost of this is now 'upwards of £300' a week, having been around '£125 before the price increases'. Mr Dite added: 'I am on the verge of putting my gear in the shed. I would be better off on the dole. That's not me. I am a worker. Something's got to happen.'

The protests are understood to have been organised via social media under the banner Fuel Price Stand Against Tax. Among those gathering at Magor services, near Caldicot, was Vicky Stamper, 41.

The former HGV driver, from Cwmbran, said she and her partner Darren had to leave jobs in Bristol because they could not afford the fuel any longer.

She said: 'We had to leave those jobs because it was costing us £380 a week just to get to and from work. I then lost a job two weeks ago because the company couldn't afford to put fuel in that many lorries so last in, first out.'

She said the situation has taken an emotional toll on her and her family.

Talking about the disruption the protest will cause to drivers, Ms Stamper added: 'We're doing this for us and for them. If they want to have a moan, they should join us instead.'

Asked what she would ask Prime Minister Boris Johnson to do, she said: 'Resign.'

Martin Crowley, 48, from Cardiff, said he is a self-employed exotic animal courier and fuel prices are damaging his livelihood.

'Fuel cost me £280 over two days last week. It's unbelievable,' he said. 'You can hardly make a living anymore.'

In Wales, protest organisers were told by police before leaving they could not stop and must drive no slower than 30mph. Some protesters said they intend to meet in the middle and block the motorway.

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦Just FYI: How much of Donbass Does Russia Still Have to Take?❗️

▪️All of Lugansk is under Russian control;
▪️Donetsk still has sizable amounts of territory still under Ukrainian control;
▪️Taking of Bahkmut and Slavyansk will be key to taking all of Donetsk;
▪️Bahkmut & Slavyansk is where the next major battles will most likely take place.

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦Delusional Economist Piece Says Ukraine Can Still Win❗️

Titled, "How to win Ukraine’s long war," it fails to actually articulate any specific remedies for Ukraine's current defeat...

The Economist:

▪️Admits Ukraine is losing Donbass;
▪️Admits Ukraine is outgunned;
▪️Admits that the West's military industrial base cannot keep up with Russia's;
▪️Claims the West can "continue to press sanctions" but gives no specifics;
▪️Claims NATO weapons "have longer range and greater accuracy" when in reality, they don't nor are they being sent in enough numbers to matter either way;

It also claims that Russia is "freezing Europe," when in reality, it is Europe who refuses to buy Russian energy at a time they are unable to find an alternative.

To think some people actually pay money to read The Economist...

Lavrov - on the closure of the Russian embassy in Bulgaria: "[Expulsion of our diplomats] is not an independent decision by the acting prime minister, who has an absolutely unambiguous pro-American orientation and is ready to fulfil any wish of his sovereign. And these wishes are to kill the historical memory in Bulgarians, to destroy the foundation of relations that were forged in the common struggle for independence. This policy of Washington extends not only to Bulgaria, they also want to kill the historical memory of other Orthodox nations in the Balkans.
The people whom Bulgaria illegally expelled ensured the vital activity of our diplomatic missions. After this trick, the embassy is not able to work normally. Naturally, we will reciprocate our Bulgarian colleagues."

📹 Footage of Lisichansk after being liberated from Ukrainian radicals by Russian Armed Forces

◽️ The final stage of the successful operation for the liberation of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) was the liberation of Lisichansk. The Russian Federation Armed Forces, in coordination with the units of the LPR People's Militia, have dislodged Ukrainian radicals from the republic.

◽️ Neither social infrastructure, nor residential buildings have received any damage during the assault in Lisichansk.

#MoD #rRussia #Ukraine
@mod_russia_en

Russian Oil exports February-June 2022

Donetsk under Ukrainian shelling today -

Truss told MPs last week she was supportive of the idea that the government could seize frozen Russian assets in the UK and redistribute them to victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

She said: “I am supportive of the concept. We are looking at it very closely. The Canadians have in fact just passed legislation This is an issue that we are working on jointly with the Home Office and the Treasury, but I certainly agree with the concept. We just need to get the specifics of it right.”

She said the initiative would “most probably” need legislation but not necessarily.

The funds seized could be supplied either to individuals in a form of reparations or to the Ukrainian state. At present the UK can suspend Russian assets under the Economic Crime Act for 56 days and roll over the suspension for a further 56 days. In that period the owner of the asset cannot benefit from the asset in any way.

In her speech to the conference, Truss will claim the UK will position itself as Ukraine’s key partner in the recovery process and claim it has already offered $1.5bn to the country through multilateral loan guarantees and more than £100m in bilateral support.

Is it a consequence of the war or the sanctions?

A harvesting campaign has begun in the Russian controlled part of the Zaporozhye region.

Farmers expect a good yield - about 5 tons per hectare. Up to date, 20% of barley and more than 30% of rapeseed have already been harvested.

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Putin, in a conversation with Shoigu, finally clarified the question of the meaning of the symbols Z and V, applied to the Russian equipment participating in the special operation.

"The East (Vostok in Russian) and West (Zapad in Russian) groups must carry out their tasks according to the previous plan," Putin said.

This theory has existed before. Now it has been finally confirmed.

However, group O does not fit into that scheme...

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Cargo volume at Riga Airport decreased by 25% due to sanctions against Russia.

So, cargo planes from China to Riga no longer fly.

"These are aircraft registered in Russia, which are no longer allowed to fly to Latvia. European airlines, in turn, are prohibited from crossing the airspace of Russia," said Laila Odin, head of the Board of the GAO Starptautiska lidosta Riga.

That is, now you have to fly around Russia to fly to Asia, and therefore Riga is no longer an attractive destination for cargo from there, she explained to LETA agency.