🇷🇺🇺🇦 238 brigade and landing force destroy the enemy with “Lancets” near Maryinka and Kherson
▪️In the 1st video, in the Maryinsky direction, the Lancet hit a D-30 howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
▪️On the 2nd - “Lancets” covered the 152mm howitzer 2A65 “Msta-B” and the Ukrainian Armed Forces tractor on the Kherson front.
▪️In the 1st video, in the Maryinsky direction, the Lancet hit a D-30 howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
▪️On the 2nd - “Lancets” covered the 152mm howitzer 2A65 “Msta-B” and the Ukrainian Armed Forces tractor on the Kherson front.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Comparison of Krynoki at the beginning of the landing of Ukrainian marines and a few months after.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces were never able to create a stable bridgehead and gain a foothold on it, having suffered heavy losses, which they continue to suffer to this day in vain attempts to hold this piece of land on the left bank of the Dnieper.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces were never able to create a stable bridgehead and gain a foothold on it, having suffered heavy losses, which they continue to suffer to this day in vain attempts to hold this piece of land on the left bank of the Dnieper.
🇫🇷🇺🇦 In addition to new glide bombs , French Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu announced the production of 78 units of 155-mm CAESAR wheeled self-propelled guns for the Ukrainian army .
According to Lecornu, Kiev paid for six self-propelled guns at its own expense back in September 2023, but money for the remaining 74 guns still needs to be found.
It is interesting that France itself has fewer Caesars in service than were announced for production in Ukraine.
According to Lecornu, Kiev paid for six self-propelled guns at its own expense back in September 2023, but money for the remaining 74 guns still needs to be found.
It is interesting that France itself has fewer Caesars in service than were announced for production in Ukraine.
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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Regular footage of a point-blank shot at an Israeli Merkava Mk.4M from a camouflaged Hamas hideout.
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🇺🇦🇺🇲 Repair in the field of the American M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle in the Avdveeka direction.
🇭🇺🇪🇺 The European Parliament supported a resolution condemning Hungarian Prime Minister Orban for “systematically undermining EU values” and for vetoing aid to Ukraine.
This is one of the attempts to deprive Hungary of the right to vote in decision-making in the European Union. However, the European Parliament resolution has no legal force.
According to Reuters, MEPs are calling for "a further step in the rule of law process, which could ultimately lead to the suspension of Hungary's voting rights in the EU."
The publication notes that we are talking about a punishment mechanism under Article 7, which is “lengthy and complex” and therefore “unlikely in the foreseeable future.”
“The resolution has no legal force, but increases political pressure on Orban ahead of the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on February 1, which will again attempt to negotiate new aid for Ukraine,” writes Reuters.
Let us note that to make this decision, just like any other, the consent of all EU members, including Hungary, is required, which is unrealistic.
In addition, Slovak Prime Minister Fico has already promised not to allow the EU to deprive Hungary of its voting rights
This is one of the attempts to deprive Hungary of the right to vote in decision-making in the European Union. However, the European Parliament resolution has no legal force.
According to Reuters, MEPs are calling for "a further step in the rule of law process, which could ultimately lead to the suspension of Hungary's voting rights in the EU."
The publication notes that we are talking about a punishment mechanism under Article 7, which is “lengthy and complex” and therefore “unlikely in the foreseeable future.”
“The resolution has no legal force, but increases political pressure on Orban ahead of the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on February 1, which will again attempt to negotiate new aid for Ukraine,” writes Reuters.
Let us note that to make this decision, just like any other, the consent of all EU members, including Hungary, is required, which is unrealistic.
In addition, Slovak Prime Minister Fico has already promised not to allow the EU to deprive Hungary of its voting rights
🇮🇶🇺🇲⚡Reuters reports an explosion in northern Iraq, near a US military base
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🇩🇪 Germany's ruling coalition wants to ban the AfD because its getting too popular
The debate kicked off in earnest after Saskia Esken, the co-chief of the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD), came out earlier this month in favor of discussing a ban — if only, as she put it, to “shake voters” out of their complacency.
Since then, politicians from across the political spectrum have weighed in on whether a legal effort to ban Alternative for Germany (AfD), while possible under German law, would be tactically smart — or only further fuel the party’s rise.
Like so much of German politics, the conversation is colored by the country’s Nazi past. In a society mindful that Adolf Hitler initially gained strength at the ballot box, with the Nazis winning a plurality of votes in federal elections before seizing power, a growing number of political leaders, particularly on the left, view a prohibition of the AfD — a party they see as a dire threat to Germany’s democracy — as an imperative rooted in historical experience.
Others fear the attempt would backfire by allowing the AfD to depict their mainstream opponents as undermining the democratic will of the German people, desperate to ban a party they can’t beat.
“Calls for the AfD to be banned are completely absurd and expose the anti-democratic attitude of those making these demands,” said Alice Weidel, co-leader of the party, in a written statement to POLITICO. “The repeated calls for a ban show that the other parties have long since run out of substantive arguments against our political proposals.”
🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/can-a-ban-stop-the-rise-of-germanys-far-right/
The debate kicked off in earnest after Saskia Esken, the co-chief of the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD), came out earlier this month in favor of discussing a ban — if only, as she put it, to “shake voters” out of their complacency.
Since then, politicians from across the political spectrum have weighed in on whether a legal effort to ban Alternative for Germany (AfD), while possible under German law, would be tactically smart — or only further fuel the party’s rise.
Like so much of German politics, the conversation is colored by the country’s Nazi past. In a society mindful that Adolf Hitler initially gained strength at the ballot box, with the Nazis winning a plurality of votes in federal elections before seizing power, a growing number of political leaders, particularly on the left, view a prohibition of the AfD — a party they see as a dire threat to Germany’s democracy — as an imperative rooted in historical experience.
Others fear the attempt would backfire by allowing the AfD to depict their mainstream opponents as undermining the democratic will of the German people, desperate to ban a party they can’t beat.
“Calls for the AfD to be banned are completely absurd and expose the anti-democratic attitude of those making these demands,” said Alice Weidel, co-leader of the party, in a written statement to POLITICO. “The repeated calls for a ban show that the other parties have long since run out of substantive arguments against our political proposals.”
🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/can-a-ban-stop-the-rise-of-germanys-far-right/
POLITICO
Germany’s far-right AfD is soaring. Can a ban stop it? – POLITICO
A fiery debate over whether to ban the ever-more radical Alternative for Germany is colored by the country’s Nazi past.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia may emerge from the war in Ukraine as a hyper-mobilized, hyper-illiberal revisionist power with a deep pool of trained military manpower and a deep sense of grievance toward the West.
Western sanctions no longer look like wonder weapons. The Russian economy contracted by just 2.2 percent in 2022, and resumed growing in 2023. Russian trade has been rerouted to Asia; financial, technological and commercial relations with China are flourishing. Geopolitically ambivalent swing states, such as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, are helping Moscow mitigate its economic isolation. Granted, the costs of conflict have exacerbated economic imbalances in Russia. But there is no near-term prospect of the economy, or the war machine it supports, falling apart.
Nor is it clear that the West will soon face a weakened, humbled Russia, incapable of seriously menacing its neighbors. Sure, Putin’s country has suffered grievous losses of men and materiel. But the government has mobilized hundreds of thousands of new soldiers and put the economy on a war footing. With the Kremlin pouring money into the defense sector, military production is soaring: Russia will pump out more artillery shells in 2024 than the US and Europe combined.
Putin has squeezed most remaining moderates out of the political system and weathered internal challenges to his power. He has doubled down on partnerships with Iran, China and North Korea, fellow autocracies that are now providing Russia with military and economic sustenance.
The Russia that emerges from this war may be a hyper-mobilized, hyper-illiberal revisionist power with a deep pool of trained military manpower and a deep sense of grievance toward the West. That’s a recipe for trouble on NATO’s Eastern front — and for increased global demands on American military power.
Finally, the democratic community no longer looks so committed, so unified. For months, political dysfunction has prevented the US from replenishing the level of support Ukraine needs to fight its war. The European Union has been momentarily stymied in its own bid to ramp up Ukraine assistance by the resistance of the pro-Putin government in Hungary. “Ukraine fatigue” is rising in much of the West.
If Donald Trump wins the presidency this November, democratic solidarity could devolve into transatlantic rancor. And if the US ends up abandoning Ukraine, that country could still go down to a military defeat that would have global consequences, by demonstrating that democracies lack the stamina to prevent expansionist autocracies –- whether Putin’s Russia, Xi’s China, Kim’s North Korea, or Khamenei’s Iran -- from imposing their will on the world.
🔗 Bloomberg | 🗄 Archive
Western sanctions no longer look like wonder weapons. The Russian economy contracted by just 2.2 percent in 2022, and resumed growing in 2023. Russian trade has been rerouted to Asia; financial, technological and commercial relations with China are flourishing. Geopolitically ambivalent swing states, such as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, are helping Moscow mitigate its economic isolation. Granted, the costs of conflict have exacerbated economic imbalances in Russia. But there is no near-term prospect of the economy, or the war machine it supports, falling apart.
Nor is it clear that the West will soon face a weakened, humbled Russia, incapable of seriously menacing its neighbors. Sure, Putin’s country has suffered grievous losses of men and materiel. But the government has mobilized hundreds of thousands of new soldiers and put the economy on a war footing. With the Kremlin pouring money into the defense sector, military production is soaring: Russia will pump out more artillery shells in 2024 than the US and Europe combined.
Putin has squeezed most remaining moderates out of the political system and weathered internal challenges to his power. He has doubled down on partnerships with Iran, China and North Korea, fellow autocracies that are now providing Russia with military and economic sustenance.
The Russia that emerges from this war may be a hyper-mobilized, hyper-illiberal revisionist power with a deep pool of trained military manpower and a deep sense of grievance toward the West. That’s a recipe for trouble on NATO’s Eastern front — and for increased global demands on American military power.
Finally, the democratic community no longer looks so committed, so unified. For months, political dysfunction has prevented the US from replenishing the level of support Ukraine needs to fight its war. The European Union has been momentarily stymied in its own bid to ramp up Ukraine assistance by the resistance of the pro-Putin government in Hungary. “Ukraine fatigue” is rising in much of the West.
If Donald Trump wins the presidency this November, democratic solidarity could devolve into transatlantic rancor. And if the US ends up abandoning Ukraine, that country could still go down to a military defeat that would have global consequences, by demonstrating that democracies lack the stamina to prevent expansionist autocracies –- whether Putin’s Russia, Xi’s China, Kim’s North Korea, or Khamenei’s Iran -- from imposing their will on the world.
🔗 Bloomberg | 🗄 Archive
Bloomberg.com
Ukraine’s Desperate Hour: The World Needs a Russian Defeat
After one year of war, it looked like Putin was going to lead a weakened, humbled nation. Entering year three, he has a chance to break Western solidarity.
🇮🇶🇺🇲 An American MQ-9 Reaper UAV was shot down over Iraq. The drone was flying from Kuwait.