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In a heart-warming act of humanity, Apple helped save an employee’s grandmother from the chaos in Ukraine
In a recent tweet, a former Apple employee claimed that the tech behemoth conducted a full-scale operation to extract people, including her grandmother, from the turmoil in Kharkiv in 2023. Turns out, Tim Cook really is the master of logistics - be it of any kind.
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Now we now why they need NK to help out.
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Russia lost 10,000 troops in a single week: Kyiv
A total of 1,680 Russian fighters were killed or injured in the past 24 hours, Ukraine's military said on Monday.
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Now we now why they need NK to help out.
Russia lost 10,000 troops in a single week: Kyiv
A total of 1,680 Russian fighters were killed or injured in the past 24 hours, Ukraine's military said on Monday.
Russian total losses to date are estimated to be almost 700k. Hard to imagine a lot of Russians going "worth it!", but I'm not Russian.
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Those clowns have already lost about 11-Vietnams worth of troops on their stupid war.Now we now why they need NK to help out.
Russia lost 10,000 troops in a single week: Kyiv
A total of 1,680 Russian fighters were killed or injured in the past 24 hours, Ukraine's military said on Monday.
However, it says “no new restrictions” and then Reuters goes on to say that:
So not clear what the first statement actually means.
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It looks like he's living in, in the world of our previous president, a shit-hole. But at least he appears to be eating well.
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The Ukrainians and the Europeans will have something to say about that (though some in the EU will likely abandon the Ukrainians as well now). Having said that, the US is a large percentage of their ammunition supply. As Ukraine becomes desperate to survive while a despot’s forces ground them down, this war will get far worse. The only consolation is that the Russians themselves are in poor shape. A victory here may be incomplete and pyrrhic. That doesn’t help the Ukrainians much. The Biden administration badly erred putting so many unnecessary restrictions on the Ukrainians and themselves. But even that might not have been enough.
I wonder if Poland will consider more drastic measures?
Update: check this out: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ne-Can-Poland-save-the-world#comment_90054033
Update: check this out: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ne-Can-Poland-save-the-world#comment_90054033
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Yep, this pretty much seals the deal, I'll be surprised if Trump doesn't send Russia more troops TBH.
In response to your comment, Scholz has apparently declared a no-confidence vote. This could lead to a slightly more aggressive German involvement in the war IF the CDU win and IF the AFD don’t make too many inroads. But who knows?
But yes, Poland, Czechia, France, the Baltics, the Nordics, the Dutch, maybe the Germans could make life very uncomfortable for Russia in Ukraine.
Hopefully one day we’ll get an accounting for why the Biden administration was so self-restrictive and hesitant in its decision making with respect to arms to Ukraine. Maybe there was a good rationale but from the outside, it made little sense.
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What North Korea is doing is worse than declaring war - but of course they are already a pariah and they don’t care about the lives of their soldiers (soldiers under a false flag with fake IDs don’t get Geneva Convention protection). Poland declaring war on its own would not actually implicate NATO, even a pan European force would not. However, Poland is a democracy and did not have a formal alliance with Ukraine. Thus they would have to make sure that the Polish people were actually on board - yes Poland historically hates Russia* and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an acute threat to their security, but that’s not a guarantee that they want war - same for other European countries. There has been an alternate proposal. The French and various other have floated the following idea or a similar one: advisors in Ukraine to train Ukrainians (training inside Europe has certain disadvantages) and/or troops/air defense to secure Ukraine's West and North and allow the Ukrainians to shift all their resources to the front lines. European troops would not be in direct conflict but obviously the risk of an expanded war would greatly increase. Then again, it can be argued an expanded war is eventually likely if Russia prevails in Ukraine. So the Europeans will have some tough decisions to make.
*though there was a long time of mutual hatred with Ukraine too, both have reconciled in recent years, especially since the invasion, as a recognition by both that their past actions, the crimes Eastern Poles and Western Ukrainians hated each other for, were highly influenced by their shared history of being colonized by Russia
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