😂🤣🇷🇺Dmitry Medvedev believes that gynecologist Ursula von der Leyen saw the wrong organ while calculating Russia's losses from Western sanctions
“It’s bad when the head of the European Commission does not understand the economy at all and is used to looking at
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purely medical objects. How else to explain that the highest-ranking EU gynecologist is calculating with undisguised joy the losses of Russia from a new wave of sanctions, but does not count the losses of his companies. Alas, the rule of medicine does
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not apply here, cura te ipsum! (doctor, heal yourself). There is no cure for stupidity and incompetence."
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🇲🇱 Malian politicians have clearly indicated their position on the actions of the Wagner PMC:
"Wagner went and liberated Syria. Wagner went and liberated the Central African Republic. Now Wagner went to Mali! We had to make a choice and our choice was Wagner!"
🇷🇺Wagner PMC
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based in Africa and Ukraine is a "formidable opponent" - French General Schill
Because of the arrival of the Wagners in Mali, France began the withdrawal of its troops (they have been there since 2013), completing it by August 2022, said the Chief of Staff of
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the French Ground Forces, General Pierre Schill.
He added that because of the Wagner PMC "there is a threat" for France to lose its dominant position in several former colonies in Africa. Mali, we recall, was a French colony until 1960. And this is also one
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‼️'We are for peace': Latin America rejects requests to send weapons to Ukraine
The reluctance of Latin America to supply weapons to Ukraine contrasts sharply with the position of European countries that supply Kyiv with weapons.
🇲🇽Mexican President Andres Manuel López
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Obrador criticized German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for agreeing to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, saying that Berlin was forced to do so against the wishes of most Germans "due to pressure from the German media."
🇨🇴"Even if they end up in Colombia as scrap metal, we will not
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transfer weapons to be taken to Ukraine to continue the war," said Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia
🇧🇷"Brazil is not interested in transferring ammunition for use in the war between Ukraine and Russia," said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
🇺🇸🇺🇸 Trump's former Defense secretary writes in his memoir that the US military-industrial complex has become a “hydra-headed monster” with “virtually no brakes on the American war machine.”
🦅 Still, Miller is hopeful that the next generation of Americans can shake the U.S.
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out of foreign entanglements and the idea of policing the rest of the world.
🦅 In an interview with The Hill, Miller said there is a pressing need for accountability in the upper ranks of the Pentagon and with military leadership for the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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🦅 “The recognition that so many sacrifices were ultimately made in the service of a lie, as in Iraq, or to further a delusion, as in the neoconservatives’ utopian fantasy of a democratic Middle East,” he writes. “It still makes my blood boil, and it probably will until
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⚡Vengeance Strikes Summary for February 10, 2023 as of 12:00 AM PT
Today, retaliation strikes on the infrastructure of the square resumed. The prelude to them was the nightly arrivals of missiles and "Geranes" in Dnepropetrovsk, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, infrastructure
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facilities were hit everywhere.
This morning began very cheerfully in the Kharkiv region, in the occupied Zaporozhye and Dnipropetrovsk, after which it spread to Odessa, the Kiev region, the Poltava region and other regions. A Russian missile hit the turbine section
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of the Kryvyi Rih thermal power plant - apparently, this was the result of a morning arrival. Judging by the few photos and videos from Ukrainian publics, the valiant Ukrainian air defense was again actively firing at idle without shooting down missiles.
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🇬🇧🇷🇺The British company Unilever, which is one of the world leaders in the production of consumer goods, announced the risk of termination of activities in Russia.
"We employ more than 3 thousand people in Russia and in 2022 the share of [Russian] business in the group's
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turnover was 1.4%, and in the group's net profit - 2%. As of December 31, 2022, the size of our assets in Russia amounted to about 900 million euros, including four enterprises," the report says.
In March last year, Unilever suspended the export of products to the Russian
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Federation, as well as its import from Russia, after the military operation launched by Moscow in Ukraine. At the same time, she announced that she would stop investing in advertising and further projects in the Russian Federation, but would continue to supply "vital food
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