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We certainly are getting an education on the corruption of the MIC and the gang...I've always wondered why the MIC picked Ukraine for its nest.
Putin says goals in Ukraine have 'not changed' and war will continue until Kyiv agrees a deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual phone-in with the Russian public on Thursday, as well as his end-of-year press conference.www.cnbc.com
Debt is slavery.Ukraine received $1.34 bln under World Bank project - finance ministry
December 25, 20234:24 AM EST Updated 11 hours ago
KYIV, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Ukraine received $1.34 billion under the World Bank's public expenditures for administrative capacity endurance in Ukraine, the Ukrainian finance ministry said on Monday.
The ministry said in a statement the financing consisted of a $1.086 billion loan from the World Bank, $190 million grant from Norway, $50 million grant from the United States and $20 million grant from Switzerland.
The ministry said the funds would be used to partially compensate for non-security and defence-related expenditures of the Ukrainian state budget, including old-age social payments and payments to employees of the state emergency service.
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Exactly!Opinion by Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet
Washington’s ‘Ship of Fools’ Delude Themselves About Russia’s Intent
On Christmas Day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his generals sent a strong message with the violent destruction of the Russian naval landing ship Novocherkassk while it was docked in Feodosia, Crimea. The vessel was suspected of carrying Iranian-made drones.
With the hit, Zelenskyy’s messaging was threefold: One, Kyiv has no intention of negotiating away any of its territory, regardless of how many “peace feelers” Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin may have floated in Washington and Brussels. Two, Ukraine remains intent on militarily retaking the entire Crimean Peninsula. And three, the Ukrainian army will fight on, with or without U.S. military aid and economic support.
While Ukraine continues to push back against Russia, Washington remains at war with itself. Ideally, the Christmas weekend should have brought hope to the Ukrainian people in their fight against Russian aggression. Instead, it became another lost weekend.
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More important... what will it do to the US dollar if they confiscate (aka steal) those assets?What are these assets, where are they and what could Russia do if the assets were confiscated?
Apparently an amalgam of various statements made by Putin but not a speech or letter created by himDear inhabitants of our beautiful planet Earth,
I, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, decided to address all of you directly, bypassing diplomats, your leaders and journalists. In Russia, there is a so-called "Ural exchange", where it is forbidden to lie, deceive and exaggerate. Therefore, I will speak very honestly so that everyone will be convinced of the truth of my words.
Russia is a big and rich country, its most important value is more than 150 million people who live in a territory where justice is above all. We don't need new territories. We have energy and all other resources are abundant.
Since the time of the Great Tartar and the Great Mughals, the peoples of Northern Eurasia have not developed because of the onslaught of the Crusades and the colonization of America, Africa, India, or the drug addiction of China, but because of their hard work and pacifism.
Anyone who knows Russian understands that "Russian" is an adjective that refers to all the peoples of our country. Russian Slavs, Russian Tatars, Russian Jews, Russian Evans, etc. All Russian at heart, even if their culture, language and way of life differ. We honor this diversity of unity.
The Russian people are once again forced to sacrifice their lives to protect the world from Nazism and fascism. We exchanged 50 of our prisoners of war for 50 Ukrainian soldiers. Ukrainian soldiers were treated in our hospitals, given three full meals a day and returned home.
We received Russian soldiers who had their fingers and genitals cut off. Not even the Nazis did that in the last war. We will present this evidence in a future process. Shame on everyone who supports these scumbags now.
Your leaders in the US, Europe, Japan, Australia and elsewhere have sided with these sub humans who put civilians, pregnant women and children above themselves in combat and deliberately want POWs. I can't imagine any sane person supporting these monsters. * And your Bidens, Scholz, Macron and other dark democrats * not only protect criminals, but actively arm them, provide them with money that is not enough to lower prices in your countries. Prices are rising, the world is collapsing, but not because the Russians are cleansing Europe of Nazi evil spirits, but because you are silent and even support the new wave of Nazism. This time we will not go to Berlin, we will stop at our historical borders, and all the Nazi evil spirits that your leaders open the door to will give you a new "crystal" life, as the Nazis did, adding circumcision of the reproductive organs to it. I appeal to all who want to live and work in the world, raise children and socialize with people all over the world. Help Russia fight the new cancer - Ukrainian Nazism. Not Ukraine, where peaceful and hard working people live, but Nazism, fueled by your US taxes and NATO hawks. If your leaders support Nazism, push them over the edge, take power into your hands. Ukrainian Nazis are protected from bullets by civilians, your rulers also decided to transfer the burden of high prices and future troubles to the population under the pretext of terrible Russia. In Ukraine, just like you, the Nazis live well behind the backs of ordinary citizens, and ordinary citizens have to suffer - these are the same crimes in Ukraine as in the West. We have not broken any of our promises and your leaders have stolen 300 billion dollars and Euros from the Russian people. They steal the property of our country's citizens all over the world, you deliberately want our soldiers, ban the Russian language, attack the Church of God. I see that in countries where leaders are tightening sanctions against Russia, there is a growing awareness of what is happening and a wave of protests is spreading.
He wasn't spreading Russian propaganda. If you watched his YT channel he exposed the hypocrisy of the US and Ukraine.Who is Gonzalo Lira? Pro-Putin American expat dies in Ukrainian jail
An American YouTube poster accused of spreading pro-Russian propaganda has died aged 55 in a Ukrainian prison.www.newsweek.com
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