Hubcapped

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T1000

All the posters on this topic so far are clueless.

Excargodog

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...rder=NAMEFIRST

METO Guido

Of which includes you. Casting with too big a hook, no fish for dinner.

Excargodog

BRATISLAVA — Slovakia could follow Hungary in becoming an EU problem child, the country’s president has warned.

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová told POLITICO she is worried about the spread of disinformation in her country and that an upcoming parliamentary election could erode Slovakia’s support for Ukraine.

If populist parties lead the government in the fall this year, the president said in an interview, “maybe it will be more similar to Viktor Orbán-type of foreign policy.”

Slovakia has been a strong supporter of Kyiv throughout the war, even providing MiG-29 jets to Ukrainian forces. But ahead of the country’s September election, Smer-SD — a populist party led by controversialformer Prime Minister Robert Fico, which has called for ending military support to Ukraine — is leading in the polls.

Slovakia has been a firm ally of Ukraine. But a new government could change that equation — of particular concern as Russian influence creeps across Europe.

And Russian narratives are finding fertile ground in Slovakia: only 40 percent of Slovaks say Russia is primarily responsible for the war in Ukraine, according to recent polling by think tank GLOBSEC — compared for example to 85 percent in Poland, Slovakia’s northern neighbor.

Slovakia is undergoing a “very difficult period,” the president said, adding, “I see not only polarization, but fragmentation within our society.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...zana-caputova/


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https://www.politico.eu/article/ukra...rb-russia-war/

BRUSSELS — Ukraine has appealed to the European Union not to extend temporary import curbs on its grain and oilseeds that are due to expire on Monday, saying that doing so would play directly into the hands of Russia.

The EU in late April effectively ratified import curbs imposed by a group of Eastern member countries led by Poland in an attempt to clear a massive supply glut that built up after Russia invaded Ukraine last year and blockaded the agrarian nation’s main export route to world markets via the Black Sea.

The issue has driven a wedge through the EU, with heavyweight Germany accusing the Eastern states of threatening to "break Ukraine’s neck" with the import bans and demanding that Brussels get its act together and establish viable overland export routes so that Ukrainian exports can reach countries of the Global South where they are most needed.


At a European summit in Moldova, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had urged the EU “to unconditionally lift export restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural products.”

Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi, who attended a meeting of EU farm ministers in Brussels this week, told POLITICO there was a “very big risk” that Russia would take advantage of discord in the bloc to again disrupt a United Nations-brokered deal that has allowed some Ukrainian shipments through the Black Sea.

“It is like a present to Moscow,” the Ukrainian farm chief said in an interview.

Ukrainian officials expressed concern that the EU would indeed roll over the import restrictions, but as of Thursday evening “no decision has been taken yet,” European Commission spokesperson Miriam García Ferrer said.

rickair7777

Then we're in trouble because they used to pay me to do this stuff.

Excargodog

The military paid people to monitor Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 too.

The enemy also gets a vote.

MaxQ

Americans tend to be oblivious to irony.

The various nations/alliances that you spend a great deal of time and effort to dismiss, even denigrate, also have had a vote since February of 2022.
While one Nation...it's People and it's military...have acquitted themselves at an extraordinary level, almost without exception all those in a supporting role have as well.

Machiavelli wrote something to the effect that it was easy for one to start a war, but it is outside one's control as to how it ends.
Hubris can exact a very heavy penalty.

TransWorld

The monitoring of Pearl Harbor was local. They did not have radar to monitor the vast Pacific Ocean. Your analogy falls flat on its face. I am sorry for your misstatement.

rickair7777

They detected the attack, recognized it for what it was and reported it up the chain. The chain then failed. Otherwise they would have had almost an hour to organize a defense which would have reduced the impact of the attack, perhaps significantly.