Emily Jones
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Tag: Russia
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UKRAINE UPDATE: PUTIN AND LUKASHENKO
MONDAY 16 MAY 2022 CNN Finland applying to join NATO. Russia threatening retaliation. Russia may have lost 1/3 of their combat troops (death, desertion, disappearance) McDonald’s is selling out in Russia. UKRAINE WORLD Russians shelled Severodonetsk again. (On Donets River, near Lisichansk, east of Izium. Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) composed of Russia, Belarus, Armenia,… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: Russians Pushed Back
SUNDAY 15 MAY 2022 Notes on an interview: UKRAINE WORLD: Episode 97: Is This War About Geopolitics? Interview with Danylo Lubkivsky, Director of Kyiv Security Forum Russians are schooled into the belief that the West is the most horrible empire ever to be in existence. They believe that a greedy West is trying to conquer… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: PODCAST
SATURDAY 14 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: PODCAST Anyone seriously interested in the implications of and the events around the war against Ukraine, must seek out the various excellent podcasts on the subject. The corporate news is hopeless as a source of information and is by and large a waste of time. Coverage of the war… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE
FRIDAY 13 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: CNN There are wounded inside the steel plant in Mariupol. It is believed that all the civilians are all out. The Russians keep shelling the plant. Russian troops have withdrawn around Kharkiv and destroyed bridges. Destroying the bridges means that the Russians have given up attempts to occupy Kharkiv,… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: The Immortal Regiment
SUNDAY 8 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: THE KYIV INDEPENDENT Canada to provide millions in aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on Russia. Canada will sanction 12 Russians with lose ties to the state, 19 individuals linked to Russia’s defense sector, and five entities providing direct or indirect support to the Russian military. More than… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: SANCTIONS, YACHTS
SATURDAY 7 MAY 2022 (@cjjohns1951) UKRAINE UPDATE: Day 73 Podcast: Daily Telegraph Podcast “Ukraine the Latest” This is probably the best daily update podcast. It is well worth subscribing to. Yachts, Oligarchs and the view from Washington The Russian effort in the Donbas is stalled. The Russians are consuming a lot of military equipment. (Note:… Read.
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URAINE UPDATE:
FRIDAY 6 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE Zelensky feared exactly what is happening, i.e., that the West, specifically the US, would tire of the conflict in Ukraine and turn attention away. The corporate news is once again filled with the Trump soap opera. Revelation follows revelation, and each revelation is talked about ad nauseum. NOTHING is… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: Fighting in the East
THURSDAY 5 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: CNN Besieged Ukrainians inside the steel plant in Mariupol refuse to surrender. NATO has refused to help. These brave fighters have occupied Russian military force and kept it from being moved to other parts of the country. Missile strike in Kramatorsk, no one killed. The Russians are having a… Read.
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THURSDAY UPDATE: Ukraine, Corporate Media Pablum
THURSDAY 4 MAY 2022 Podcast: “Gaslit Nation” Interview with Anne Nelson. How the Evangelical Right exploited the anti-democratic nature of our electoral system to get us where we are. MSNBC: The Last Word Last night, Lawrence O’Donnell made the wonderful point that even though Republican members of the Supreme court don’t care about our privacy,… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: PUTIN’S HEALTH
TUESDAY 3 MAY 2022 NEW YORK TIMES A warehouse of a Russian textbook company whose chairman is a close friend of Putin, went up in flames overnight. This is another of the suspicious fires. The warehouse is in the outskirts of Moscow. It was reported that the company had tried to remove as many references… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE
MONDAY 2 MAY 2022 CNN There is speculation that Putin may declare way on Ukraine on May 9. This opens the way toward more conscription since he has lost a great many troops. This may mobilize the Russian population behind Putin. The population is declining and this includes military age men. If this soon after… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE
Tweeting at @cjjohns1951 Regular Ukraine Updates, please subscribe MONDAY 2 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE, 9:30 am Day 66 CNN Kharkiv is a disaster. The general who was infamous for his operations in Syria, Gerasimov, is not in charge of the eastern front. Lavrov compared Yelensky to Hitler. He also said that Russia was “degasifying” Ukraine. … Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: STRIKES INSIDE RUSSIA
SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2022, 4:00 PM UKRAINE UPDATE UKRAINE WORLD The residents of Mariupol are in danger from cholera, dysentery and E coli. Putin has refused three requests to organize humanitarian corridors from Mariupol. This includes evacuating people on a ship with a Vatican flag. Explosions in Odesa. Attack on Odessa airport have made the… Read.
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DOLPHINS AND WAR: BLACK SEA DOLPHIN “PINS”. IF YOU HAVE A HEART OF STONE
DOLPHINS Ukraine Update: 30 April 2022 These articles are about the use of dolphins in the war against Ukraine. As someone on Twitter said, this is an option only if you have a “heart of stone.” I cannot read the articles. I need to function for the rest of the day. I include them below… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: GAME THEORY AND THE WAR
SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: 7:00 AM, @cjjohns1951 Podcast Notes: “Doomsday Watch” Interview with Jason Pack, fellow at the Middle East Institute. NATO countries are not automatically pledged to defend NATO territory. There still has to be a decision among NATO members. If the Russians were to attack Poland, for instance, there would still… Read.
Law, Power, and Justice 