Sorry, but I have a hard time taking anything from this source seriously when the headline of the first internal ad it serves me is "Rise of the Leftist Groypers" and is saying opposing Isntreal is basically the same thing as being a neonazi.

Not surprising, but I wish it were

Non-paywalled version, maybe: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-suffers-money-setback-after-hungary-blocks-100-billion-from-europe/ar-AA1Z0sN3

oh yeah the imf broke its own rules to fund them

i wonder if the imf is giving them more favorable terms than it gives the global south considering how much the global north has bent over backwards to help them where the imf barely gave a rat's ass in other conflicts.

This is weird. Why not just encourage immigration? I know why but..

I was thinking, "can you imagine the epigenetic consequences?"

(The sperm is sold to blackrock as well)

Logical consequence of this is are in vitro lebensborns, except likely mandatory since good luck living as single mother after war when everything is sold to Blackrock.

Yes, Amerikkka

Such a fast reply, good coding, GitHub link please.

Let’s connect the dots. Kushner talks to Putin. Kushner talks to Zelenskyy with Fink on the line. Fink’s company wants to manage the rebuilding of everything Putin’s army destroys. This isn’t diplomacy in any traditional sense, it’s a three-way business development call. The ‘peace plan’ is just the terms.

Here’s how it works: BlackRock will structure loans to Ukraine, taking fees on every transaction. These loans will come with conditions such as austerity measures, privatisation requirements or favourable terms for foreign investors. Ukrainian state assets will be sold off at bargain prices. Agricultural land will be bought up by international agribusiness. The infrastructure rebuilt with these loans—ports, rail lines, power grid—won’t be Ukrainian in any meaningful sense. It’ll be owned by international consortiums, operated for profit, with revenues flowing out to service the debt.

In other words, Ukraine will be gutted.

This is the IMF playbook that’s subjugated the Global South for decades. Now it’s coming to Europe. And BlackRock, with $10 trillion in assets under management, will be there at every step, taking its cut.

Previously, two years ago:

Everyone else is busy arguing whether we can “afford” to give Ukraine “free stuff”, when in reality none of it is free, and whatever few Ukrainians are left alive after this war will be paying onerous debt for generations. They’re already auctioning off many public assets to mostly foreign buyers at fire sale prices, up to and including seaports.

And it’s been bipartisan. Or was this just a coincidence?

“Why did the Ukraine, the FBI informant file refer to you as the ‘big guy?'” Biden was asked by a New York Post reporter at the end of a press conference.

Machine translated, can't confirm the accuracy since I don't know German and English is my 3rd language:

It’s time to face the facts – sober, ruthless, in pain. Ukraine will lose the war against Russia. The country is in a war of wear and tear against the Russian attacker, which is slowly but surely dwindling its strength.

Not the admission you'd expect from a German source. The article concludes with the following:

So it's going to be uncomfortable in the coming year. The facts are depressing – especially just before Christmas. But how does Thomas Mann write? “In the long run, a harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”

Absolutely but still an interesting account of what is going on on the battlefield

Lmao dude was used to shoot unarmed civilians in Afghanistan and now he got to the war where the enemy shoots back... he did everything he could to stay on the back line.

The Ukraine War is sold to the public as NATO being merely a third [?party?] that selflessly “help” Ukraine to defend itself against an expansionist Russia, motivated solely by territorial acquisition and restoring the Soviet Union. Framing the war as a simple struggle between good and evil is why NATO cannot negotiate or even pursue basic diplomacy, and peace depends on good defeating evil. In what is close to a copyright infringement of “war is peace” in George Orwell’s 1984, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg asserts that “weapons are the way to peace”.

In political propaganda, it is common to frame a war through a concept that everyone agrees with, such as the need to “help” Ukraine. We all want to help Ukraine preserve its sovereignty, territory and the lives of its citizens. However, instead of discussing what would help Ukraine, such concepts are given a fixed meaning to shut down debates. Any argument can then be framed as either being pro-Ukrainian or pro-Russian. However, what is bad for Russia is not automatically good for Ukraine. Yet, people who can be taught to speak in clichés can be taught to think in clichés. Commentary on NATO policies toward Russia is similarly framed as being pro-Western or pro-Russian, which circumvents an actual discussion about whether these policies are in the West’s interests or not.

Concepts such as “helping Ukraine” can then be filled with any content that often contradicts what “helping” entails, but corresponds with proxy war. When we unpack what NATO frames as “helping Ukraine”, we find that it rarely has the support from the majority of Ukrainians and it almost always ends up with disastrous consequences.

You people have turned yourselves into unbelieveable dipshits

classic thought terminating cliche, well done dronie

Do you actually dispute anything brought up in the article, or do you reject it entirely based on the idea that Russia probably agrees with some of it?

For anyone curious, yes the aide was eaten.