🇺🇦Comander of the 79th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU Colonel Lutsenko has reported to Major-General Mikatsu O.M., commander of the East Operational Command, that…
2/ …the second battalion of 247 AFU servicemen have given up their tasks during the counter-attack on Marinka settlement.
3/ In this case, Lutsenko asks them to rotate, as their moral and psychological state is at a low level.
For his part, Major-General Mikatz O.M. decided to send a Kraken platoon (barrier troops) to force them to carry out tasks under threat of death.
Kartapolov on Kyiv’s demand to the West for combat aircraft:
When F-16s start to fall on the ground, those countries that have them in service will start to wonder, “Why did we buy from them if they get knocked down so quickly and easily?”
2/ Here the image issue comes to the fore, the Americans are very sensitive to this.
The training of the pilot is already years. So that he not only knew how to take off and land, but could use all the systems of this aircraft.
3/ There are different systems of weapons, guidance, aiming. To teach a Ukrainian pilot to fly the F-16 in this way takes more than one year.
Then who will fly, which pilots? Polish, Czech, German? Americans themselves?
Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal.
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2/ Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky and others gave testimony Friday at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington, D.C., calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange
3/ The WikiLeaks founder has been languishing for close to four years in the harsh Belmarsh prison in London while appealing extradition to the United States.
Russian Gains, US Gears Up for Crimea Escalation, US Proxies Strike China/Pakistan in Train Bombing.
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2/ Update on Russian-Ukrainian conflict for January 23, 2023 + Pakistan train bombing as part of US proxy war on China.
- Russian forces are reportedly advancing in Zaporozhye while Ukraine continues losing ground around Bakhmut;
3/ - Russian pushes in Zaporozhye could be (1) recon in force, (2) extending existing security zone ahead of actual Russian front line or (3) spoiling attacks on forces assembling for a future offensive;
One of the accusations often leveraged against Russia is that it is an imperialist country.
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If we follow Lenin's definition of imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism, the stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established, then clearly Russia is not imperialistic at all.
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And if we follow the military definition of imperialism, "extending a country's power and influence through the use of military force", then again Russia doesn't fit the definition.
Jeremy Corbyn on Freeing Julian Assange, the Working Class, Brazil, Peru & Ending Ukraine War.
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2/ In Washington, D.C., human rights and free speech advocates gather today for the Belmarsh Tribunal, focused on the imprisonment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
3/ Assange has been languishing for close to four years in the harsh Belmarsh prison in London while appealing extradition to the United States on espionage charges.
Night Raids: Victims of CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Known as “Zero Units” Demand Accountability.
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2/ We speak with journalist Lynzy Billing, whose investigation for ProPublica details how CIA-backed death squads, known as Zero Units, have yet to be held accountable for killing hundreds of civilians during the U.S. War in Afghanistan.
3/ The Afghan units, which were routinely accompanied by U.S. soldiers, became feared throughout rural Afghanistan for their brutal night raids, often descending upon villagers from helicopters and carrying out summary executions before disappearing.