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Trump rallies Republicans. Says it's better to let Russia take over Ukraine. Let bygones be bygones. If Ukraine can't stand on it own two feet, let Russia take it over. And why waste American money on a losing cause? Give the money to the 1%, who will use it wisely. The poor and unwashed would only use money for drugs and prostitition. And maybe booze and pornography. Make America great Again. Vote for Trump. ----- ----- Why some American leftists are critical of U.S. assistance to Ukraine Yahoo News Ben Adler March 11, 2022, 10:50 AM The phenomenon of Republicans who admire Russian President Vladimir Putin is well known — especially since its most voluble proponent is former President Donald Trump. But on the left, there also exists a smaller movement that holds the United States and its NATO allies as at least somewhat responsible for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Putin, an authoritarian nationalist who has enacted laws targeting LGBTQ people and jailed liberal dissidents, has never been lionized on the left. Still, a cadre of far-left activists and pundits argue that the U.S. risked provoking confrontation with Russia by expanding NATO to its borders, and some are opposed to giving military aid to Ukraine or imposing economic sanctions on Russia. “Everyone I know is united in condemning this war, and none of us like Putin,” Branko Marcetic, a staff writer at the Marxist journal Jacobin, told Yahoo News. But, he said, that doesn’t mean the U.S. should arm Ukraine. A Ukrainian serviceman holds an American-made antitank guided missile during a training exercise. “The idea of sending weapons to Ukraine — I think there’s a defensible argument for it,” Marcetic said. “The problem is, there was a similarly defensible argument for arming the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s when they were fighting a Soviet invasion.” The mujahideen were militias that fell into civil war with one another after the Soviets withdrew. The Taliban grew out of that war, later giving safe harbor to al-Qaida. Similarly, Marcetic warns, U.S. weapons could wind up in the hands of Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias such as the Azov Battalion, a part of the Ukrainian National Guard. Putin, who said at the onset of the war that Russia’s aim was “the de-Nazification of Ukraine,” has used the existence of groups like the Azov Battalion to justify his invasion. “Because Putin has used that pretext, and because it’s such a big element of Kremlin propaganda at the moment, that in the West there’s a whole idea of ‘there’s no Nazi problem in Ukraine’ ... which is just not true,” Marcetic said. As Marcetic and others on the left see it, any action that escalates tensions with Russia or intensifies the conflict militarily could lead to disastrous unintended consequences. “The solution to this conflict is not going to be military,” Marcetic said. “It’s going to have to be some kind of negotiated settlement.” “I’m against funding a proxy war that will lead to more bloodshed and — if the corporate media calling for a no-fly zone has its way — possibly nuclear war,” Katie Halper, a left-wing commentator and talk show host, told Yahoo News. “Putin’s invasion was unjust, illegal and immoral,” she added. “But that doesn’t make arming Ukraine to fight a protracted miserable proxy war, with no winners but the war industry, the right thing to do.” Shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, Halper and her co-host Aaron Maté produced an episode of their podcast, “Useful Idiots,” entitled “How the US Caused the Ukraine Crisis.” (Halper’s previous co-host Matt Taibbi, a columnist on Substack who used to work for Rolling Stone, is also a contrarian on Russia, having mocked the notion that Russia might invade right up until it did.) On Wednesday, on the website the Grayzone, far-left journalist Max Blumenthal, who has been deeply critical of U.S. and Israeli policies, conducted a friendly interview with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a conservative with libertarian leanings who voted against a congressional resolution stating U.S. support for Ukraine. The next day, Blumenthal pressed Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., a progressive Democrat, on why Americans should support sanctions on Russia if it raises gasoline prices. “After campaigning on a peace platform, Ro Khanna sounds like a Bush-era neocon, spouting American exceptionalist bromides about freedom not being free,” Blumenthal concluded on Twitter. In a recent editorial, the Nation magazine, a left-liberal tribune, while decrying the invasion, called for diplomacy instead of “a rush to arms” or sanctions that it warned “will hurt not only Russia — oligarchs and ordinary citizens alike — but also Europe, the US, and the global economy’s bystanders.” A number of other progressive journalists have raised some similar concerns. Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept warned that arming Ukraine could prolong the war. Scahill also noted that the United States has previously invaded and occupied Iraq without provocation. Some on the far left, such as former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, have been arguing for years that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and U.S. support for pro-Western forces in Ukraine were provocations to Russia. Concerns that NATO’s post-Cold War expansion into Eastern Europe could lead to a confrontation with Moscow are by no means limited to the left. As Ukraine fights for survival, there are some democratic socialists who come to some similar conclusions as their unlikely allies on the right about how the U.S. should, or should not, respond to the war in Ukraine. Rep. Ilhan Omar, for example, worries that replacing Russian oil with oil from Saudi Arabia will empower the Middle Eastern kingdom, which has a deplorable record on human rights and is prosecuting a brutal war in Yemen. Omar, along with fellow left-leaning Democratic Rep. Cori Bush, was one of two House Democrats who voted Wednesday against banning Russian oil imports; they were joined in their opposition by 15 right-wing Republicans. “If our issue is that we don’t want to buy oil from a powerful country that is conducting a devastating war on its weaker neighbor, I just don’t see Saudi Arabia hardly being a principled solution,” Omar said in a radio interview on “Democracy Now” on Tuesday. Omar has been clear that she opposes Russia’s invasion and supports U.S. aid to Ukraine. So her reasoning is quite different from that of Republicans like Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who in a speech over the weekend called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug” presiding over a government that “is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil.” (After a video of Cawthorn’s remarks was picked up by news outlets, the freshman congressman tweeted that Putin’s invasion was “disgusting.”) Rescue members search for victims among rubble in Yemen. Rescue workers search for victims among the rubble after jets of a Saudi-led coalition targeted a prison on Jan. 22 in Saadah, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images) In fact, all of the members of Congress who belong to the Democratic Socialists of America, including Bush and Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, have broadly backed the Biden administration’s alliance with Ukraine. But the organization to which they belong has other ideas. In its Feb. 26 statement on the war, the DSA criticized Russia’s invasion but also came out against any effort to arm Ukraine or sanction Russia. It also called for the end of U.S. involvement in NATO. “This crisis requires an immediate international antiwar response demanding de-escalation, international cooperation, and opposition to unilateral coercive measures, militarization, and other forms of economic and military brinkmanship that will only exacerbate the human toll of this conflict,” the group’s National Political Committee wrote. “DSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict.” The DSA’s statement was controversial among its own members. “They felt they had to criticize the United States for imperialism, for provoking the Russians,” Peter Dreier, a professor of politics at Occidental College and a founding member of the DSA, told Yahoo News. Dreier called the statement “tone-deaf about the moment we’re in as a country — and about the role of progressives and the left working in politics.” The DSA North Star Steering Committee, which urges the group to take a more politically pragmatic approach, issued a statement endorsing economic sanctions. “It is precisely because we oppose outside military intervention that we have an obligation to advocate for other means to compel a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine,” the committee stated. Rep. Jamaal Bowman speaks into a microphone outside the U.S. Capitol. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, outside the U.S. Capitol, calls for action on the Build Back Better Act before the State of the Union address on March 1. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images). Bowman also took a very different tack than the DSA. “I vigorously condemn Russian imperialism,” Bowman said in a statement on the day Russia invaded its neighbor. “I am committed to supporting the Biden administration in holding Putin and his oligarchs accountable. ... I support NATO and will continue to do so during this crisis.” Bowman is nonetheless contending with a primary challenger who is demanding that he explicitly renounce the DSA’s position. | |
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| 03-11-22 07:51pm - 923 days | #2 | |
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Are Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson puppets for Russia's Vlad Putin? Do bears shit in the woods? Was Dracula really a fiend who had a thirst for blood? Enquiring minds want to know: How much is Putin paying Trump and Carlson to spread Russian lies in the United States? ------ ------ ABC News's Jonathan Karl accuses Tucker Carlson of 'plagiarism of Vladimir Putin' Yahoo TV Stephen Proctor March 11, 2022, 1:36 AM ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl appeared Thursday on Deadline: White House, where he joined the growing chorus of people claiming Fox News opinion host Tucker Carlson is parroting Russian propaganda. Carlson has been accused of doing so multiple times in the past, this time coming the day after Carlson pushed the false Russian narrative that the U.S. military has secret bioweapons labs in Ukraine. Carlson opened his show Wednesday night propagating that exact message. “He was giving credence to what the Russians are now saying, a really classic propaganda claim that the United States is manufacturing, or has been manufacturing chemical, biological weapons in Ukraine,” Karl said. “And Tucker Carlson used the segment to echo that claim, saying that he was at first skeptical about it, but now he’s convinced that there’s credence to it.” Just an hour after Carlson’s segment aired, Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin appeared on Hannity where she contradicted what Carlson had said about the biolabs, stating the fact that they are neither secret, nor do they produce bioweapons. On Thursday, Karl posted a tweet highlighting other pieces of Russian propaganda that Carlson has pushed. “He says as just an aside that the United States encouraged Russia to invade Ukraine,” Karl said. “In what universe is that true? Only if you’re sitting in Moscow and watching Russian television because it’s exactly, again, what Vladimir Putin is saying.” Karl went on to accuse Carlson of flat-out plagiarizing Putin. “What is sort of inexplicable here is that what is being said is almost a plagiarism of Vladimir Putin,” Karl said. “It’s almost word for word what Vladimir Putin has been saying, not just now, but again, for several years, and what he has said in making the argument to justify what’s happening in Ukraine.” And Karl wondered if Russia’s excuse for its deadly bombing of a Ukrainian maternity ward might be the next piece of Russian propaganda that Carlson pushes. “Today, Russian propaganda is saying that that maternity ward that was bombed was somehow a military facility,” Karl said. “I mean, is that gonna be echoed next? It is inexplicable. I can’t explain it.” | |
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| 03-12-22 10:15am - 922 days | #3 | |
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Donald Trump has been building a secret army of ninjas, who will descend upon Washington DC, assassinate Joe Biden, and put Trump back where he belongs: in the White House. Also, after regaining the White House, Trump's supporters will sponsor a resolution naming Trump President For Life of the United States Of Trumpland. And making first daughter Ivanka Trump the official designated heir of her glorious father, Donald Trump the First. Ivanka Trump gave a press conference, where she announced she was proud of the honor of being her father's first daughter. "It's a honor to be the first daughter of such a proud and glorious man. Long may he rule!!!" the first daughter shouted, to the cheers of her admiring audience. ----- ----- Russia's bioweapon conspiracy theory finds support in US Associated Press DAVID KLEPPER and ANGELO FICHERA March 12, 2022, 6:08 AM Russia's baseless claims about secret American biological warfare labs in Ukraine are taking root in the U.S. too, uniting COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, QAnon adherents and some supporters of ex-President Donald Trump. Despite rebuttals from independent scientists, Ukrainian leaders and officials at the White House and Pentagon, the online popularity of the claims suggests some Americans are willing to trust Kremlin propaganda over the U.S. media and government. Like any effective conspiracy theory, the Russian claim relies on some truths: Ukraine does maintain a network of biological labs dedicated to research into pathogens, and those labs have received funding and research support from the U.S. But the labs are owned and operated by Ukraine, and the work is not secret. It's part of an initiative called the Biological Threat Reduction Program that aims to reduce the likelihood of deadly outbreaks, whether natural or manmade. The U.S. efforts date back to work in the 1990s to dismantle the former Soviet Union’s program for weapons of mass destruction. “The labs are not secret,” said Filippa Lentzos, a senior lecturer in science and international security at King’s College London, in an email to the Associated Press. “They are not being used in relation to bioweapons. This is all disinformation.” That hasn't stopped the claim from being embraced by some on the far-right, by Fox News hosts, and by groups that push debunked claims that COVID-19 is a bioweapon created by the U.S. The day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an early version appeared on Twitter — in a thread espousing the idea that Russia's offensive was targeting “US biolabs in Ukraine” — and was soon amplified by the conspiracy theory website Infowars. It has spread across mainstream and lower-profile social platforms, including Telegram and Gab, that are popular with far-right Americans, COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and adherents of QAnon, the baseless hoax that Satan-worshipping pedophiles secretly shape world events. Many of the accounts posting the claim are citing Russian propaganda outlets as sources. When Kremlin officials repeated the conspiracy theory on Thursday, saying the U.S. was developing bioweapons that target specific ethnicities, it took a few minutes for their quotes to show up on American social media. Several Telegram users who cited the comments said they trusted Russian propaganda over independent American journalists, or their own democratically elected officials. “Can’t believe anything our government says!” one poster wrote. Others cited the claim while parroting Russia's talking points about the invasion. “It’s not a “war,” it’s a much needed cleansing,” wrote a member of a Telegram group called “Patriot Voices” that is popular with supporters of Trump. “Ukraine has a ton of US govt funded BioWeapons Labs that created deathly pathogens and viruses.” Television pundits and high-profile political figures have helped spread the claim even further. Fox News host Tucker Carlson devoted segments on his shows on Wednesday and Thursday to promoting the conspiracy theory. On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr. said conspiracy theories around the labs were proven to be a “fact” in a tweet to his 7.3 million followers. Both Carlson and Trump misrepresented congressional testimony from a State Department official saying the U.S. was working with Ukraine to secure material in the biological labs, suggesting that indicated the labs were being used for illegitimate purposes. It’s not surprising that a biological research center would contain potentially hazardous material, however. The World Health Organization said Thursday that it has asked Ukraine to destroy any samples that could pose a threat if released, either intentionally or accidentally. While the disinformation poses a threat on its own, the White House warned this week that the Kremlin's latest conspiracy theory could be a prelude to a chemical or biological attack that Russia would blame on the U.S. or Ukraine. “Frankly, this influence campaign is completely consistent with longstanding Russian efforts to accuse the United States of sponsoring bioweapons work in the former Soviet Union,” U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said Thursday during testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. “So this is a classic move by the Russians.” The conspiracy theory has also been picked up by Chinese state media, and was further amplified this week by China's Foreign Ministry, which repeated Russia's claim and called for an investigation. Milton Leitenberg, an arms control expert and senior research associate at the Center for International & Security Studies at the University of Maryland, noted that Russia has a long history of such disinformation. In the 1980s, Russian intelligence spread the conspiracy theory that the U.S. created HIV in a lab. Leitenberg said numerous Russian scientists had visited a similar public health lab in the republic of Georgia, but that Russia continued to spread false claims about that facility. “There’s nothing they don’t know about what’s taking place there, and they know that nothing of what they claim is true,” Leitenberg said. “The important thing is that they know that, unquestionably.” While gaining traction in the U.S., the claims about bioweapons are likely intended for a domestic Russian audience, as a way to increase support for the invasion, according to Andy Carvin, senior fellow and managing editor at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which is tracking Russian disinformation. Carvin noted the Kremlin has also spread hoaxes about Ukrainian efforts to obtain nuclear weaponry. “It’s a rinse-and-repeat cycle to hammer home these narratives, particularly to domestic audiences,” Carvin said. ___ Klepper reported from Providence, R.I. Fichera reported from Philadelphia. Associated Press reporter Nomaan Merchant contributed to this report from Washington. | |
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| 03-12-22 11:32am - 922 days | #4 | |
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This is why Trump needs to regain the White House: there's too much un-authorized violence in the United States. If Trump was still running things, he would be on the streets every day, telling people they can't go around shooting people without a good reason. Remember, when there was a school shooting, Trump said, if he had been there, he would have rushed into the school, even if he didn't have a gun. With his bare hands, if needed, he would have put down the shooter. That is why we need Trump in the White House. Of course, some people remember that Donald avoided the draft by getting exemptions: the last exemption was for bone spurs, but thankfully, Donald grew out of that dis-ability by leading a healthy life. Go, Donald, we love you to pieces!!! ----- ----- Saginaw and Bay City News Man shot on his porch in Saginaw County Updated: Mar. 12, 2022, 12:35 p.m. | Published: Mar. 12, 2022, 12:35 p.m. Saginaw County Sheriff's Office patrol vehicles A 55-year-old man who was approached on his porch by two men is in stable condition after being shot during an altercation on Friday in Saginaw County. (MLive file photo) By Dylan Goetz | dgoetz@mlive.com SAGINAW COUNTY, MI -- A 55-year-old man who was approached on his porch by two men is in stable condition after being shot during an altercation on Friday in Spaulding Township. The incident, which is under investigation by the Saginaw County Sheriff’s Office, took place around 3:15 p.m. on March 11. The victim, who was the resident of the home where the altercation took place, suffered a gunshot wound to his leg and was transported to a local hospital, sheriff’s officials said in a news release. The two men who approached the man’s home were wearing all black, police said. If anyone has information about this incident, they can contact the sheriff’s office at 989-790-5404. | |
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| 03-12-22 02:35pm - 922 days | #5 | |
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Trump needs to go to Ukraine. He can tell the Russians which people are the Nazis that must be shot, and which are unarmed civilians that might be allowed to run away, without killing them. Trump is a Nazi expert. Trump's former wife Ivana, said her husband owned a copy of “My New Order” – a printed collection of the Nazi leader’s speeches. So Trump can be a humanitarian, eligible for the Nobel Peach Prize, if he will donate his time to saving the lives of Ukraine people who are fleeing from Russian soldiers. ----- ----- NBC News Ukrainian family shot at checkpoint while trying to flee Richard Engel and Marc Smith and Henry Austin Sat, March 12, 2022, 1:30 AM KYIV, Ukraine — Tetyana Vlasenko was bleeding from 12 bullet wounds to her legs when she begged a Russian military officer nearby for help. His soldiers had opened fire on her family’s car, yet the officer was apologetic as the soldiers gave them first aid. While she lay there seriously hurt, she recalls him saying, “I’m sorry for doing this but we have an order to shoot everything that is moving, and you cannot imagine how many cars like this we have full of Nazis who are trying to bomb us,” Tetyana, 42, told NBC News on Wednesday from her bed in Kyiv City Hospital 17. Her husband, Roman, 50, and their daughter, Katherina, 16, were also hit in their legs. The officer’s comments echoed President Vladimir Putin’s accusations of Nazi elements within Ukraine, his stated reason for invading Russia’s western neighbor. Experts have slammed the allegations as slanderous and false. Tetyana, a former shop worker, said the Russian soldiers she encountered “truly believe that everyone around is a Nazi.” She added that the soldiers “were all terrified,” and she had spoken calmly with them prior to the shooting. Tetyana, Igor, Roman and Katherina Vlasenko, pictured a few years ago. (Courtesy Roman Vlasenko) Tetyana, Igor, Roman and Katherina Vlasenko, pictured a few years ago. (Courtesy Roman Vlasenko) After their house in the village of Vorzel was hit by a Russian strike on March 2, she said, they stayed with neighbors before deciding to leave the community just outside of Ukraine's capital Kyiv. The family had already fled from Kremlin rule in Crimea after Russian forces annexed the peninsula in 2014, her husband said. After driving up to the checkpoint at the end of their street, Roman, a former business consultant, said he asked the soldiers whether they could keep moving. “They asked him what his nationality was and why he spoke Russian so well,” Tetyana said. “They were surprised that we spoke Russian amongst each other. My husband said, ‘We have a free country here, everyone speaks whichever language they like,’” she added. “And I said, ‘Your brains are full of Putin propaganda crap. There are no Nazis here.’” They were waved through but got less than 40 feet before their car was fired on, Tetyana said. She added that she was “naive” when she “saw the bullets tearing through the glass and metal into the car.” “I started to show them documents and saying there were kids,” she said. Roman Vlasenko in front of his family home in Vorzel after it was bombed. (Courtesy Roman Vlasenko) Roman Vlasenko in front of his family home in Vorzel after it was bombed. (Courtesy Roman Vlasenko) She briefly heard Katherina screaming in pain. “I remember the bullet coming through my knee and my bone,” the teenager said. “After this I lost consciousness.” Roman “started to shout that they killed our daughter because she lost consciousness,” Tetyana recalled. Their 8-year-old son, Igor, was the only one who escaped unscathed, because Katherina had covered him, Roman said. Roman added that he called one of his neighbors, who shouted at the soldiers when he saw what had happened, before helping to transfer them to the hospital where they are recovering. “I don’t know how we survived,” Roman said, sitting in a wheelchair at the foot of his daughter’s bed with his head in his hands. “I feel huge, huge guilt for what happened because I made this decision to risk the whole of my family. I will have to live with this for the whole of my life.” | |
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| 03-13-22 04:24pm - 921 days | #6 | |
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Putin is growing increasingly frustrated with the Ukraine war. Putin says the only reason Russia invaded Ukraine was to keep the peace. Now Putin is sending missiles into Ukraine, trying to bring Ukraine down to its knees. But Putin has a secret weapon: Donald Trump and the Republican party will join forces with Putin, and make Ukraine sorry for fighting. Lives are sacred, and Ukraine is putting its people at risk of dying and injury. Trump, a military genius, and the Republican party, are secret allies of Putin, and they will force not only Ukraine, but the evil Nato alliance, to bow down to the forces of Right, Honor, and True Blue America. ------ ------ Putin is 'lashing out,' U.S. adviser says of Western Ukraine missile strike Yahoo News Colin Campbell March 13, 2022, 9:39 AM Russian President Vladimir Putin, "frustrated" by Ukraine's surprisingly stiff resistance, is increasingly escalating the scope of the war, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday. Earlier in the day, Russia fired waves of missiles at a Ukrainian military base in Lyiv, which is near the Polish border and far from the frontlines of the war. "This does not come as a surprise to the American intelligence and national security community," Sullivan said on CNN's "State of the Union.” "What it shows is that Vladimir Putin is frustrated by the fact that his forces are not making the kind of progress that he thought that they would make against major cities including Kyiv, that he is expanding the number of targets, that he is lashing out, and that he is trying to cause damage in every part of the country," Sullivan continued. More than 30 Russian missiles killed at least 35 people and injured 134 in a strike at the Lviv military base, according to Ukrainian authorities. The base, a former NATO training center that had once hosted U.S. military instructors, had become a link for receiving Western military support to boost the country’s defense against the Russian invasion. The New York Times reported that "up to 1,000 foreign fighters were training at the base," according to a Ukrainian official. (The U.S. said no American forces were there on Sunday.) Lviv, in Ukraine's west, has been a relatively peaceful outpost in the war, unlike the capital Kyiv and Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, in the east. It is a central hub for refugees fleeing west into Poland, as well as for supplies and weapons flowing east toward the heart of the conflict. A stretcher carrying a wounded person is loaded into an ambulance by two emergency workers. A wounded person being carried to a hospital after a series of Russian missiles in Lviv, Ukraine. (Abdullah Tevge/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The Sunday missile strike comes as Russia's invasion drags into its third week, failing to take key cities, despite facing a much smaller Ukrainian military, though boosted by shipments of Western military equipment. Russia recently said that those military convoys are "legitimate targets" for its forces. "This is the third, now, military facility or airfield that the Russians have struck in Western Ukraine in just the last couple of days. So clearly, at least from an airstrike perspective, they're broadening their target sets," Defense Department spokesperson John Kirby said on ABC’s “This Week.” Sullivan also said Sunday that Russia would enter a broader war with NATO if it attacked any part of Poland, which is under 50 miles from Lviv and a member of the Western military alliance. "The president has been clear repeatedly that the United States will work with our allies to defend every inch of NATO territory, and that means every inch," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "And if there is a military attack on NATO territory, it would cause the invocation of Article Five, and we would bring the full force of the NATO alliance to bear in responding to it." | |
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| 03-13-22 04:42pm - 921 days | #7 | |
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How Rich Is Former President Donald Trump? Former President Donald Trump isn’t shy about his business acumen or his vast riches — but how wealthy is he currently? Since leaving office, former President Donald Trump lost $600 million, according to Forbes. Those losses left him $400 million short of making the Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people for the first time in 25 years. Trump’s current net worth valuation from the publication stands at $2.5 billion, as of September 2021. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which estimated Trump’s net worth to be approximately $2.33 billion in March, says his net worth dropped by approximately $700 million in his last year of presidency. In his first year in office, Trump’s wealth plummeted to $3.1 billion and then declined to $2.5 billion in 2020. He lost an additional $700 million following the Capitol Hill riots and his impeachments after several organizations stopped doing business with Trump or any of his properties. The 2020 dip in Trump’s overall net worth was largely due to the coronavirus and the impact it has had on industries in which he holds his biggest assets. Values for office buildings and hotels have plummeted. His properties in Washington, D.C. and Chicago appear to be underwater, while Doral, his golf resort in Miami, has lost 80% of its value in a year, Forbes reported. Additionally, the Capitol Hill riots resulted in Trump’s golf course losing the right to host the PGA championship tour in 2022, which will undoubtedly lead to lost marketing opportunities and reduced profits for the course. In the days following the riots, Shopify closed Trump’s online stores. What’s more, at least $590 million in loans will come due in the next four years, Bloomberg reports, which could further impact the billionaire’s bottom line. Still, Trump retains some valuable assets, including garages in New York City, the Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida and three nearby homes. However, as the economy faces recovery with widespread distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and travel picks up the pace, Trump’s resort properties may begin to recover. But an article in Forbes points out that if Trump had worked the stock market properly, selling his portfolio upon taking the presidency, paying capital gains tax, and investing in S&P 500 mutual funds, he might be doing better right now. In 2020, in spite of his financial losses, Trump made number 1,001 on the Forbes billionaires list. April 2021 saw him knocked down to 1,299 on the list while other billionaires enjoyed gains from a bullish market. A businessman and former reality television star, Trump’s path to wealth was very different than that of your typical politician. Donald Trump’s Net Worth When he was sworn into his presidency, Donald Trump was the oldest person to be sworn in — he was 70 years, 220 days old on Jan. 20, 2017. (That title now belongs to President Joe Biden, who was 78 when he was sworn in). Trump beat out a number of contenders to become the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election. He went on to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. His term ended on Jan. 20, when Biden began his term as the 46th president. Trump was born into a wealthy family and inherited about $40 million from his late father, real estate developer Fred Trump. In 1971, Donald Trump became head of what would later be known as The Trump Organization. Trump’s earnings and title have since helped him develop more than 500 companies. The business mogul has his stake in luxury golf courses, skyscrapers, television shows, casinos, books, merchandise and more. These endeavors have helped him reach the estimated $2.4 billion that he’s worth today. Donald Trump’s Businesses The only thing bigger than Trump’s personality is his business acumen. He landed a deal with Hyatt, the city of New York and the unprofitable Commodore Hotel beside the Grand Central Station, earning the right to renovate and rebrand the ailing hotel into the Grand Hyatt. In 1980, that hotel became an instant success, making Trump one of the best-known real estate developers in the area. In 1984, Trump completed construction on the 68-story Trump Tower, which serves as headquarters for The Trump Organization to this day. The building includes a 60-foot waterfall and, on opening day, had five levels of retail stores and restaurants. Trump has owned a slew of successful businesses and properties, among them Trump Place, a luxury residential community spanning 92 acres. The Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago has a hotel, condos and numerous restaurants and shops. The success of Wollman Rink, a Central Park staple, is arguably credited to Trump. However, following the storming of the U.S. Capitol, New York City announced that it was severing its business ties with Trump. On Jan. 13, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would be terminating three contracts with The Trump Organization that would cease its operations of a carousel in Manhattan’s Central Park, skating rinks and a golf course in the Bronx, Reuters reported. Donald Trump’s Failed Businesses Donald Trump has major business wins to his name, but he also has some big losses. In 1988, Trump spent $365 million on a fleet of Boeing 727s, as well as landing facilities in Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C. He also bought the rights to paint his name on a plane. His attempt to build a luxury flying experience under the Trump Shuttle name failed, however, and the company was decommissioned. In 1990, the banks that backed Trump’s investments provided him with a $65 million bailout in new loans and credit. Trump’s famous Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, went bankrupt in 1991, and Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts went bankrupt in 2004. In 2009, the same company — now called Trump Entertainment Resorts — filed for bankruptcy again. One of Trump’s highest-profile business failures is Trump University. The unaccredited online college was launched in 2005 and closed down in 2010. Three Trump University lawsuits plagued his first presidential campaign, alleging that Trump University was a scam that cost students tens of thousands of dollars. Trump settled the lawsuits for $25 million, though he did not admit any wrongdoing. Donald Trump’s Wife and Family Donald Trump has been married three times. He was with his first wife, Ivana, from 1977 to 1992. The couple had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. The three eldest Trump children — along with Ivanka’s husband, real estate investor and developer Jared Kushner — were highly involved in their father’s presidency. Trump married Marla Maples in December 1993, two months after Maples gave birth to their daughter, Tiffany. The couple divorced in 1999. Trump has been married to his current wife and former first lady, Melania Trump, who has an estimated net worth of $50 million, since 2005. Melania is the mother of Trump’s youngest son, Barron. Donald Trump’s Lifestyle Donald Trump sometimes lives in a three-floor penthouse in Trump Tower with his wife, Melania, and son Barron. The luxuries the family enjoys at Trump Tower include an indoor fountain and a door encrusted with diamonds and gold, Business Insider reported. Among Trump’s other notable properties is Mar-a-Lago, where he spent 25 of his first 100 days in office. He moved back to the estate after his term as president ended, CNN reported. The luxury club is worth $180 million, according to Forbes, and sits on 17 acres of valuable South Florida land. Trump bought the estate — which boasts 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, 12 fireplaces and three bomb shelters — for the bargain price of $10 million in 1985. Before having access to Air Force One, Trump shuttled between campaign stops in his $100 million Boeing 757 adorned with gold seatbelts. His fleet of luxury vehicles includes a Rolls Royce, an electric blue 1997 Lamborghini Diablo and a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. By Dawn Allcot March 3, 2022 | |
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| 03-14-22 12:31am - 921 days | #8 | |
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Donald Trump, man of many talents, is a true genius. He follows the news religiously. After reading about events in Saudi Arabia, he has decided to bring in Saudi Arabian diplomats when Trump regains the White House. They will advise Trump on the best way to execute disloyal members of the Republican and Democratic parties who refuse to follow Donald's rule of law. ------ ------ Saudi Arabia Puts 81 Men to Death in Largest Mass Execution in Its Modern History Saudi Arabia executed 81 men on Saturday in what was the kingdom’s largest mass execution in its modern history. The number is astounding when you consider that Saudi Arabia executed 67 people in all of 2021 and 27 in 2020. The number is even higher than the 63 people Saudi Arabia executed in January 1980 after convicting them of seizing the Grand Mosque in Mecca a year earlier. It was far from clear why Saudi Arabia chose Saturday to execute so many people, including 73 Saudis, seven Yemenis, and one Syrian. The state-run Saudi Press Agency said the men executed included people who were “convicted of various crimes, including the murdering of innocent men, women and children.” It also said some of those killed had pledged “allegiance to foreign terrorist organizations,” including ISIS and al-Qaida. “The accused were provided with the right to an attorney and were guaranteed their full rights under Saudi law during the judicial process, which found them guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes that left a large number of civilians and law enforcement officers dead,” the Saudi Press Agency said. The number of executions being carried out in Saudi Arabia had declined during the pandemic. But these latest executions took place at a time when Saudi Arabia may be feeling as if it has a lot of leverage on the world stage as energy prices surge as a result of Russia’s war on Ukraine. British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons is reportedly planning a trip to Saudi Arabia next week to discuss oil prices. “The accused were provided with the right to an attorney and were guaranteed their full rights under Saudi law during the judicial process, which found them guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes that left a large number of civilians and law enforcement officers dead,” the Saudi Press Agency said. Several international rights groups criticized the executions. “There are prisoners of conscience on Saudi death row, and others arrested as children or charged with non-violent crimes. We fear for every one of them following this brutal display of impunity,” Reprieve, a London-based group, said in a statement. Saudi Arabia is fifth in a list compiled by Amnesty International of the countries with the highest execution rates in the world in 2020 after China, Iran, Egypt, an Iraq. | |
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| 03-14-22 03:01am - 921 days | #9 | |
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Republicans are the go-to-guys if you want the real truth. That's why they put Donald Trump in the White House. Just ask the GOP senator who's on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) said any war between Russia and NATO would end quickly. And Senator Linsay Graham, another Republican, says "Putin knows that no one wins a nuclear exchange. If he ordered a strike on the United States, a general would shoot him in the head." ----- ----- GOP senator says a war between NATO and Russia 'would end pretty quickly' Grayson Quay, Weekend editor Sun, March 13, 2022, 11:34 AM Jim Risch Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) dismissed concerns about the conflict in Ukraine escalating into a full-scale war between Russia and NATO during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. "How do you stop [Russian President] Vladimir Putin without starting World War III" host Bret Baier asked Risch, who is the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "There's no doubt that you always have to keep in mind that you don't want to escalate to direct confrontation with Russia, [but] I wouldn't call it 'World War III,'" Risch said. "I think it'd end pretty quickly, because with the conventional forces that he's had there, we haven't seen this kind of ineptness in a long, long time," he continued. Despite large advantages in manpower and weaponry, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not progressed as quickly or as smoothly as many experts predicted. Sébastien Roblin wrote at The Week that Russia's performance in the war so far has "gravely degraded Russia's military position in Europe — and above all its ability to compel with threats of force that fall under the nuclear threshold." Putin has not shied away from making such threats. In his speech announcing the invasion of Ukraine, Putin threatened any country that attempted to intervene with "consequences … such as you have never seen in your entire history," which most observers interpreted as a reference to Russia's 6,000-warhead nuclear arsenal. But not everyone takes Putin's nuclear threats seriously. "Putin knows that no one wins a nuclear exchange. If he ordered a strike on the United States, a general would shoot him in the head," Sen. Lindsay Graham said during an appearance on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures. Graham has previously called for a Russian assassin to kill Putin. | |
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| 03-15-22 12:24pm - 919 days | #10 | |
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Republicans standing behind the common man. Fight inflation. Lower energy bills. Vote for Trump, the fightenest President we've ever had. He will give out millions to the ordinary billionaires. Not one cent for poverty. They don't need money. Only the rich know how to use money wisely. ------- ------- McConnell calls on White House to replace Fed nominee Raskin Reuters March 15, 2022, 1:43 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called on the White House on Tuesday to replace Sarah Bloom Raskin with a different nominee to become the Federal Reserve's top bank regulator. "President Biden's selection wildly – wildly – missed the mark. It's past time the White House admit their mistake and send us somebody suitable," McConnell said in a floor speech, noting that Raskin now faces bipartisan opposition. Her nomination, already stalled by Republican opposition in the evenly split Senate, was dealt a heavy blow on Monday after she lost the backing of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin. The White House is seeking Republican support to compensate for the loss of Manchin's vote. But two leading Senate Republican moderates, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, have signaled their opposition in a sign that Republican support may not be forthcoming. Manchin and Republican lawmakers have expressed concerns that Raskin would further a green energy policy at the Fed and distract the central bank from its customary focus on monetary policy at a time of high inflation. "Ms Raskin would have been a vice chair who sought to raise gas prices, raise home heating costs, and undermine the very institution of the Federal Reserve in the process. It's not surprising there's bipartisan Senate opposition," McConnell said. (Reporting by David Morgan and Katharine Jackson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Andrea Ricci) | |
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