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The same Al Jazeera source said Prigozhin qualified his comments, adding some ambiguity.
“I am worried about ammunition and shell shortages not only for the Wagner private military company but for all units of the Russian army.”
As he can no longer access to convicts, he has opened 42 recruitment offices across Russia.
I don’t think it would encourage volunteers if he said Wagner still faced weapon and ammunition shortages. Who would enlist?
In this war of words, who can tell what is true or not.
Bill Clarkes 1988 Socialist Standard obituary
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/08/obituary-bill-clarke.html
Fake nuclear attack warnings
Will one day will it be genuine alarm?
Is South Korea going to buck the trend?
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-asia/south-korea-labour-reform-working-women-b2298028.html
It was reported that South Korean president wanted to allow people to work up to 69 hours a week – up from 52 hours.
South Korean labour minister on Thursday said that lifting the weekly work hour cap to 69 hours from 52 will actually help working mothers by cutting working hours during pregnancy or while raising children as it means they can bank overtime hours in exchange for time off, a plan hoped would promote family growth alongside productivity.
“It will make it legal to work from 9am to midnight for five days in a row. There is no regard for workers’ health and rest,” the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions criticised.
Is it all a double bluff to disguise a coming Russian regular army assault? Who knows?
Prigozhin has accused Putin of cutting him off over his call for resupplying arms and ammunition in the grinding battle in eastern Ukraine.
“To get me to stop asking for ammunition, all the hotlines to offices, to departments etc have been cut off from me. But the real humdinger is that they’ve also blocked agencies from making decisions [related to Wagner],” the private Russian military’s leader said on Telegram.
Saudi Arabia and Iran restore diplomatic relations after China-brokered talks.
Perhaps China’s offer of hosting peace talks between Ukraine and Russia has legs
“It’s another level of empathy we see in these animals if they are capable of caring for another species,”
A female orca was seen apparently looking after a newborn long-finned pilot whale.
I have no idea whether we can. I don’t have the technical expertise on the matter. I will forward your request to the internet committee who may possess the knowledge.
BTW, I sent you a request via Adam regards a more usable text copy of the pamphlet for uploading to the WSM website.
I think it is reasonable to assume, ALB, that for Ukrainians living in Lviv and Western Ukraine, the loss of Crimea or the Donbas would be no great sacrifice if it brought them peace.
It would be merely acknowledging the de facto position of the last 10 years or so.
The Russians have done themselves no favours by extending their air-attacks.
In May 2022, 59 percent of survey respondents favoured negotiations with Russia, by January, the number had was 29 percent, with 66 percent opposing such talks.
Support for joining NATO with more than 80 percent in favour of it in all regions of the country so only 20 percent of respondents indicated they would support giving up on this goal for the sake of peace with Russia.
Nor is there any real appetite for war on the Russian side.
Over the last year, at least a third of Russians have consistently preferred talks over continued military operations. This share reached a peak of 44 percent in the fall of 2022 when Russian forces suffered a series of defeats in the southern and northern parts of Ukraine.
In a February survey, 40 percent of respondents said they would like to see Russian troops withdraw from Ukraine without achieving their goals. Even more, about two-thirds of respondents (66 percent) indicated that they would support the signing of a peace agreement and an end to the military campaign if such a decision came from Putin.
Both sides use the nationalist card but it can be overplayed.
As John Lennon said and the Chinese, Give Peace a Chance
You are conflating two different Iraq wars but no doubt you will say it was intentional.
The incubator lie was during the 1990 Kuwait War.
Also in 1990 Iraq indeed possessed Scud missiles, over 40 were launched against Israel and also Iraq still possessed the chemical weapons it had used against Iran and the Kurds.The USA also falsely claimed that Iraqi tanks were gathering at the Saudi Arabian border for an imminent invasion. No such military build-up ever happened.
It was the 2003 invasion which had the pretext that Iraq still possessed WMDs, and Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, truthfully revealed it had none when he defected to Jordan prior to the invasion.
There are more recent examples of media complicity in spreading propaganda lies such as 2011 Libya. The West claimed the Gaddafi regime has ordered mass rapes, used foreign mercenaries and employed helicopters against civilian protesters.
I am well versed in atrocity propaganda and it is why I can differentiate between fake staged events and genuine massacres. Something you aren’t capable of.
Once again TS is incapable of understanding anything other than black-and-white arguments.
This is an internal government department dispute in providing official support for the ICC which it does not recognise for fear it would create a legal precedent.
TS- ‘If the US had evidence it would trumpet it from the rooftops.’
TS has been deaf to the repeated US statements accusing Russia of war crimes. They have made these claims loud and clear – with evidence that TS refuses to accept such as telephone intercepts.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-ukraine-mother-kyiv-one-b2287919.htmlTS prefers to believe the Russian account.
USA protecting its own back.
According to The New York Times, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III and other Pentagon officials are blocking Biden from sharing evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
They fear it could set a precedent allowing the tribunal to prosecute U.S. war crimes.
Not only is the U.S. Congress barred from providing other assistance to the court, but the U.S. may use “all means necessary and appropriate”—including invading NATO ally the Netherlands—to secure the release of any U.S. or allied personnel held by or on behalf of the tribunal.
Push-back against the recent lab-leak stories
