Tag: Russo-Ukraine War
Oval Office Ambush
It was a planned Oval Office ambush on “Must-See TV”,
With Mafia Don Trump and JD Vance, his eye-lined buttinsky.
One’s the underdog for whom we’re rootin’
They’re just two thugs working for Putin,
Giving a televised beat-down to Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy.
Tillis Calls Putin a ‘Cancer’
“I support President Trump and I believe that most of his policies on national security are right. I believe things are pretty good. But what I’m telling you, whoever believes that there is any space for Vladimir Putin and the future of a stable globe, better go to Ukraine, they better go to Europe, they better invest the time to understand that this man is a cancer and the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.”
— Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), quoted by the Raleigh News & Observer.
2023 Was a Profitable Year for Arms Manufacturers
$632 billion
Major companies in the arms industry saw a 4.2% increase in overall revenue in 2023 with sharp rises for producers based in Russia and the Middle East, a new report said Monday, reported the Associated Press. The report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI, said revenues from the top 100 arms companies totaled $632 billion last year in response to surging demand related to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Russian Ruble Now Worth Less than a Penny
>1¢
“The ruble hit a 17-month low against the dollar Monday, highlighting the growing squeeze on Russia’s economy from Western sanctions and a slump in export revenues,” CNN reports.
Ukraine Has Retaken 50% of Territory Seized by Russia
50%
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that Ukraine has already retaken about 50 percent of the territory that Russia initially seized, stressing that Kyiv’s counteroffensive is still in its “relatively early days,” The Hill reports.
U.S. to Give $1.3 Billion in Military Aid to Ukraine
$1.3 billion
“The United States will announce a new pledge to buy $1.3 billion worth of military aid for Kyiv in its conflict with Russia in the coming days,” Reuters reports. “The previously unreported weapons package includes air defenses, counter-drone systems, exploding drones and ammunition.”
Data Scientists Estimate that 50,000 Russian Men Have Died Since the Ukraine Invasion
50,000
Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead the AP reports.Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets — the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine.
Reigning (Raining?) Russians
Was it a coup attempt or a revolution? No one knows.
Now Prigozhin’s back in Russia, testing how the wind blows.
Unless you’re a Rasputin,
There’s no escaping Putin.
Our advice? Hey Yevgeny, keep away from the windows!
