Friday, February 16, 2024

Russia and Ukraine

2/16/24 - Alexei Navalny dies in prison
2/8/24 - Zelenzky fires top general
2/6/24 - Tucker Carlson to interview Putin
10/5/23 - Missile strikes Ukraine cafe killing 51
8/23/23 - Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly in plane crash with no survivors
7/19/23 - MI6 chief says Putin cut a deal with Wagner to save his skin
7/1/239 - Zelensky claims 21,000 Wagner mercenaries have been killed
6/24/23 - Yevgeny Prigozhin calls off attack on Moscow
6/20/23 - Russia strikes Kyiv as Ukraine counter-attacks
5/31/23 - Drones strike Moscow
3/17/23 - International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant, accusing Putin of war crimes
3/8/23 - Trump tells Hannity how he could have prevented the war
2/25/23 - McConnell says aid to Ukraine is not charity, but a direct investment against Putin's war machine
2/24/23 - Ukraine considering parts of Beijing peace plan
1/9/23 - Russia and Ukraine swap 50 prisoners of war each
12/22/22 - Putin says end to war in Ukraine would involve diplomatic solution
12/21/22 - Zelenkiy and Biden show solidarity at the White House
10/18/22 - Iran to provide missiles to Russia
10/5/22 - Putin annexes Ukraine regions even as Russian forces flee
6/27/22 - Russian missiles hit Ukraine shopping mall
6/1/22 - Allies split on shipping weapons to Ukraine
5/16/22 - Sweden says they will apply for NATO membership, Turkey objects
4/4/22 - Biden says Putin should go to trial for war crimes
3/30/22 - U.S. says Putin is being misinformed by his advisors
3/27/22 - Biden criticized for saying Putin "cannot remain in power"
3/15/22 - Russia sanctions Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton
3/15/22 - Fox News cameraman killed in Ukraine
3/11/22 - Zelenskiy says Ukraine has "already reached a strategic turning point"
3/9/22 - China to send aid to Ukraine (but really not very much)
3/8/22 - Biden orders ban of Russian oil imports
3/6/22 - Thomas Friedman sees three scenarios on how the war ends  (Star-Advertiser E4)
3/6/22 - Trump suggests U.S. should diguise jets as Chinese and bomb Russia
3/4/22 - Pence to say there is no room in GOP for Putin apologists
3/4/22 - Lindsey Graham calls for Russians to assassinate Putin / push back
3/2/22 - United Nations votes to reprimand Russia
3/1/22 - Pat Robertson says Israel is next after Ukraine and bring about the End Times
3/1/22 - World Taekwondo strips Putin of honorary black belt
2/28/22 - Switzerland breaks neutrality to sanction Russia
2/26/22 - Opinions of Putin mixed at CPAC
2/25/22 - Xi tells Putin he supports negotiation
2/24/22 - Tucker Carlson criticizes Lindsey Graham on Ukraine too

2/24/22 - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine’s government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in what it called a “full-scale war” that could rewrite the geopolitical order and whose fallout already reverberated around the globe.

In announcing a major military operation, Russian President Vladimir Putin deflected global condemnation and cascading new sanctions — and chillingly referred to his country’s nuclear arsenal as he threatened any foreign country attempting to interfere with “consequences you have never seen.”

NATO’s chief said the “brutal act of war” shattered peace on the European continent, as the U.S.-led alliance mobilized more troops to move toward eastern Europe.

2/23/22 - Trump praises Putin
2/22/22 - U.S. and Europe slap sanctions on Russia

2/22/22 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognising them as independent states.

Russia said the troops have not yet been deployed but will be "peacekeeping" in the regions, which it has backed since 2014.

The US said calling them peacekeepers was "nonsense", and accused Russia of creating a pretext for war.

Several countries have announced sanctions in response.

Ukraine's president said his country was "not afraid of anything or anyone".

Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Israel attacked by Hamas

2/7/24 - Netanyahu rejects Hama ceasefire offer
11/24/23 - Hamas frees 24 hostages from Gaza on first day of truce
11/10/23 - Gaza death toll tops 11,000
11/6/23 - Gaza death toll tops 10,000, U.N. calls it a children's graveyard
10/11/23 - Trump is to blame for the situation in Israel (opinion)
10/8/23 - Israel declares war after attack by Hamas