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randahl , 8 days ago to random

Today, Putin told the press, he would like to negotiate for peace in Ukraine… if Ukraine would please give up Crimea, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk.

What he is really saying is, now that he has been unable to conquer all these territories for 842 days, he would like Ukraine to simply lay down their arms, and just give them to him.

It really speaks volumes about Putin's complete detachment from reality, that he would make such a laughable suggestion.

randahl , 13 days ago to random

In his latest video, @anderspuck asks, if it is helpful, that the Biden administration is trying to micromanage the war in Ukraine.

I think that is a REALLY important question. Because the Americans are making at least some decisions which prolong the war, at the expense of more Ukrainian lives lost on the battlefield — and to me, the ethics of that are absolutely unbearable.

https://youtu.be/CxZ402BMSs8?si=2bi4IuubWuPaKHv6

randahl , 14 days ago to random

Not a day goes by without Russia threatening nuclear war. In this recent episode on Russian state tv, Russian parliament member Andrei Gurulev fantasizes about obliterating The Netherlands.

What he forgets to mention is, the west has nuclear weapons pointed at Moscow too — meaning he himself and everyone around him would die as the result of such an attack.

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randahl , 19 days ago to random

Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz: Using German weapons to bomb Russian military positions inside Russia is not an escalation.

Also Olaf Scholz: Using Taurus missiles to bomb Russian military positions inside Ukraine is an escalation.

It makes no sense at all.

randahl , 21 days ago to random

Guilty as charged! 🔥

This new anti-Trump video from The Lincoln Project deserves a thousand boosts. 🙌🏻

https://youtu.be/FwcjDO6JCVQ?si=SQun3oGdi0sjFtfZ

randahl , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.

Or you could buy from a different car brand.

randahl , 25 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

Status on whether countries allow Ukraine to use their weapons against Russian territory:

✅ UK
✅ Finland
✅ Sweden
✅ Denmark
✅ Norway
✅ Estonia
✅ Latvia
✅ Lithuania
✅ Poland
✅ The Czech Republic
✅ The Netherlands
✅ France
✅ Germany
✅ Canada

Your move Joe Biden.

randahl , 25 days ago to random

President Zelenskyy is going to love this message from the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen:

"[Ukraine] can use the weapons we have donated — also outside Ukrainian territory, as long as this happens in accordance with international law."

This suddenly puts many Russian military positions near Belgorod city in firing range, using the 19 donated Danish Caesar howitzers.

These artillery systems have a maximum range of 47 km, using M982 Excalibur guided artillery shells.

Map of the frontline north of Kharkiv, showing the range of Caesar howitzers with Excalibur shells, courtesy of Deepstatemap.
M982 Excalibur guided shell.

randahl , 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago) to random

China demonstrates robot dog which can hunt down humans and kill them with automatic gun fire.

Man this is dystopian.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/28/china/china-military-rifle-toting-robot-dogs-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

randahl , 26 days ago to random

Today the STANDING WITH UKRAINE UNTIL VICTORY declaration was adopted at the NATO Parliament Assembly with the following strong words:

“The assembly URGES the governments and parliaments of the North Atlantic Alliance [to lift] restrictions on the use of weapons provided by NATO Allies to strike legitimate targets in Russia; [and] to redouble efforts to help Ukraine achieve full membership [and] support the establishment of a special tribunal for prosecuting Russia’s crime of aggression.”

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randahl , 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to random

Today, while Biden was wondering if he would allow Ukraine to fire back at Russian missile positions in Belgorod, Russia bombed a large hardware store in Kharkiv with 200 people inside.

More people die every day, while we wait for the Biden administration to make the only right decision: Let Ukraine fire back!

Update: Two found dead, 33 wounded.

randahl , 29 days ago to random

Can anyone from Ukraine tell me if this claim is true, that president Zelenskyy spoke mainly Russian during his election campaign?

kohnzn , 29 days ago to random German

500.000 tote russen in 🇺🇦.

man vergegenwertige sich was die rund 58.000 toten amis in vietnam damals für ein trauma ausgelöst haben.

putin doesn't care.

randahl , 30 days ago to random

Today Russia launched 15 more missiles at Kharkiv. 7 people were killed. 23 injured.

Among the civilian targets was the Vivat printing house, which publishes books in Ukrainian.

And Biden does not want the Ukrainian army to protect Kharkiv by firing back at the missile launchers on the other side of the border — it makes no sense.

randahl , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Does irony confuse you? I use irony quite often in my posts, and some users have warned me, that this may not translate all too well between people of different cultures.

So I kindly ask for your input — not on what you think others MAY feel, but what you actually DO feel. Please answer the following:

When I read Mastodon posts, I usually feel irony is

randahl , 1 month ago to random

Putin arrived in China to meet with Xi Jinping, and the local school children were very excited to see the famous Russian leader.

Totally not staged. At all.

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randahl , 1 month ago to random

Both Estonia and France are now ready to send troops to Ukraine as part of a coalition of the willing. These will not be frontline combat troops, but will carry out other tasks such as training in western Ukraine, freeing up more of Ukraine's own forces.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/13/7455614/

randahl , 1 month ago to random

The artillery shells from the Czech initiative are on the way. The first batch of 180,000 shells will arrive in June, says Czech president Petr Pavel.

Děkuji to the people of the Czech Republic.
🇨🇿♥️🇺🇦

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/09/first-batch-of-180000-shells-to-arrive-in-ukraine-in-june-under-czech-initiative-petr-pavel/

randahl , 1 month ago to random

Republican candidate for vice president Kristi Noem cannot remember, if she has met Kim Jong-un, or if was just something she wrote in her book, because it sounded like she was someone important.

Brief excerpt shown is from this full length interview:
https://youtu.be/06JzF3g0EWg?si=Y1iMdYJWSjloSEHg

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randahl , 1 month ago to random

Do you see a pattern?

Russian hit squad assassinates Maksim Kuzminov in Spain.

Leonid Volkov attacked in Lithuania.

Airplanes GPS jammed all over Poland and the Baltics.

Fiber optic cables destroyed in France and Finland.

Underwater listening stations destroyed in Norway.

The Russian vessel Admiral Vladimirsky caught mapping sabotage targets in The North Sea.

Weapons depots blown up in Bulgaria.
…

— And our politicians claim we are certainly not in any way at war with Russia.

Wake up!

randahl , 1 month ago to random

The gloves come off: UK foreign minister Cameron says Ukraine can use British weapons inside Russia.

This is an important announcement, because the Storm Shadow missiles have a range of 550 km, bringing many Russian military targets within striking range, including targets in Moscow.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britains-cameron-kyiv-promises-ukraine-aid-as-long-it-takes-2024-05-02/

randahl , 1 month ago to random

Another day, another 950 Russian soldiers eliminated.

And this weekend, Russia is expected to lose its 14,000th armoured fighting vehicle.

randahl , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I am pleased, I live in a country which has ambitious climate goals…

However, today I saw, China burns 50.5 percent of all the coal burned every year on planet earth. While other nations are lowering coal usage, it has exploded in China over the last two decades.

That means, 1 country with 18 percent of the world population is now burning half of all the coal.

I simply do not see how we can solve the global climate crisis by having each country make their own rules.

randahl , 2 months ago to random

Breaking: Ukraine will receive the first new weapons within a week after the aid package is finalized, a Pentagon official tells Washington Post.

randahl , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

A Russian Tupulev Tu-22M3 long range strategic bomber is questioning it's own mission of bombing civilians in Ukraine.

Farewell mother Russia.

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randahl , 2 months ago to random

Yesterday Russia bombed the center of the city of Chernihiv, hitting the local hospital, killing 18, and wounding 77.

The strike allegedly used three Iskander missiles.

If the west used moments like these to justify the use of western weapons on military targets inside Russia, we could end this.

So end it.

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randahl , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Finally, a European foreign minister says exactly what needs to be said!

During a press conference in Ukraine, the foreign minister of Norway, Espen Barth Eide, said Norway was providing F-16 aircraft to Ukraine, to assist Ukraine's Armed Forces in landing strikes deeper into Russian territory.

Gloves off!
🇳🇴♥️🇺🇦

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/norway-says-handing-over-f-132910410.html

randahl , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

“Every legal scholar said, this case is nonsense”, claimed Donald Trump going into the court, where he is charged because of careful legal analysis carried out by…

Legal scholars.

https://youtu.be/Y7wNDVof8QY?si=17GaRbCyRLR2qBUu

randahl , 2 months ago to random

Does any of the Mastodon apps allow you to compose a thread of posts, and complete them all before posting them all at once?

randahl , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

“I am dead sick of what is happening”

Absolutely awesome Member of the European Parliament @guyverhofstadt of Belgium tells the speaker to stick his agenda where the sun does not shine, because now we will vote on more air defence systems to Ukraine. AND WINS THE VOTE BY 515 TO 62!

This is how it is done! 🇺🇦

randahl , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Many historians have criticised the US for waiting 828 days before entering World War II to defeat Adolf Hitler.

Today, we are at day 777 of the Ukraine war, and I wonder if the US will beat the 828 day record, before finally deciding that Vladimir Putin must be defeated.

randahl , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

This new one minute ad from the Biden-Harris campaign hits the nail… with a bazooka.

With Trump, all they have to do is to exemplify the concrete consequences of his bad decisions and
💥 BOOM💥

(Be advised: Subject is miscarriage)

https://youtu.be/wInNjr_9D28?si=-6X3rRzS5Spi7X7C

randahl , 2 months ago to random

The Russian director Sergei Komarov of the construction company Spetsstroy which built the now collapsed Orsk dam in Russia, claims his one billion rouble dam was worth every cent, but unfortunately, rodents had chewed their way through the dam.

Rodents. That is what they are going with after 10,000 homes have been flooded.

I am truly grateful not to be living in the corrupt state of Russia.

randahl , 2 months ago to random

I kid you not — this is an actual post from an actual member of the US Congress telling her 1 million followers that solar eclipses are a sign from God.

I repeat: The solar eclipses which astronomers can calculate right down to the minute, years in advance, are not naturally occurring phenomena… but a sign from God.

Astronomers' predictions of eclipses began in China as early as the 4th century BCE, but in 2024 Marjorie Taylor Greene still thinks someone stole the moon to make us repent.

Wow.

How the “Sergey Kotov” was sunk — video of the destruction of the patrol ship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation | Defence Intelligence of Ukraine ( youtu.be )