Senators call on Biden to delay F-16 jet sale to Turkey until 🇫🇮 and 🇸🇪 allowed into NATO.
A bipartisan group of 27 senators
“cannot consider future support for [Turkey],” including the sale of the F-16 jets, until Turkey “completes ratification of the accession protocols.”
“Failure to ratify the protocols or present a timeline for ratification threatens the Alliance’s unity at a key moment in history, as Russia continues its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine,”
The US-Turkey relationship “has been shadowed by continued delays in ratification for NATO enlargement,” the letter says, “and those delays pose a risk to the security of the alliance, to Europe and to the international world order that Vladimir Putin continues to threaten.”
AI knows Finns.
Why do Finns love buckets so much?
AI: Ah, the age-old question of why Finns love buckets so much. Well, it's a well-known fact that Finns are just obsessed with anything that can hold liquids. 1/5
I mean, why drink out of a glass when you can drink out of a bucket? It's just more fun that way.
Some say that the Finnish love for buckets dates back to the days of their Viking ancestors. 2/5
They would carry their loot in buckets and, being the practical people that they are, they thought, "Why not use the same buckets for holding beverages too?" And thus, a national obsession was born.
Others argue that it's simply a love for simplicity and functionality. 3/5
Once upon a time, there was a 27-year-old Finnish soldier named Aimo Koivunen.
He found himself in a less-than-ideal situation when he was caught in a firefight on a frosty winter’s day in the Lapland wilderness. 1/10
It was 10 am, and Aimo and his unit had been skiing in knee-deep snow for more than two days, so they stopped to take a break and brew some tea. 2/10
But before the water even started to boil, the Russians began to rain bullets and the unit had to quickly pick up their stuff and seek shelter in the woods. 3/10
Retired FDF intelligence officer Colonel Martti J. Kari
This, as always, is an interview you should read.
How serious would crossing the red line with fighter assistance be for Russia?
- I believe that Lavrov would be really angry. Putin would be really angry. Peshkov would be very angry, and they would threaten.
- And then they would say that the next red line is this and this.
The Russians are angry, but that doesn't matter.
- The West should never be afraid of Russia's reaction. On the contrary, now we need to support Ukraine as much as possible. www-is-fi.translate.goog/ulkomaat/art-2…
If you take a longer view than a few years, quite a few issues stick out like a sore thumb, issues that Europe and its allies need to solve. #secpol#RussiaUkraineWar#Europe#JEF#Poland
One Ukraine; the Ukrainians must win this war; any frozen conflict is a win for Russia.
Frozen conflict or stalemate is the least desirable outcome; that would only fester, and we would have a cycle of wars in Ukraine. 1/
Let's all remember that, by law, Crimea and all parts that are now occupied by Russia are indeed part of sovereign Ukraine; that is an indisputable fact.
In terms of European security, we need to stop and smell the roses. 2/
This would mean that Germany wants a frozen conflict, a stalemate.
A situation that would undoubtedly be more beneficial to Russia than Ukraine. Russia would most likely keep Crimea in this scenario, regardless of what international law and morality say.
This scenario would give Russia a breather, a much-needed breather to build its army (materiel and troop-wise) and influence geopolitics to its liking. They would have ample time to fortify Crimea more and more to build up for the next phase, continuing the war against Ukraine.
The entire top management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine died in a helicopter crash.
Among those who died in the helicopter crash in Brovary, Ukraine's interior minister, deputy interior minister and state secretary.
According to the leadership of the Ukrainian National Police, the country's Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Jenin and Yuri Lubkovytsh, State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, were killed in the helicopter crash in Brovary.
At least 16 dead in Brovary helicopter crash
According to the National Police of Ukraine, at least 16 people have been confirmed dead in the helicopter crash in Brovary so far.