Inhale those fumes, Putin. Breathe deeply.
♲ Europe Says - 2024-12-10 02:21:54 GMT
europesays.com/1675754/ Russia’s War Hawks Fume After Assad’s Defeat: ‘Shameful’ #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
#ukraineconflict
"Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers."
The Russian Ministry of Digital Development said it is planning to create its own Linux community, which "will unite developers from those countries that are ready to work with Russia." (Me quoting the Google Translate version of the Russian text, see the rbc.ru link below).
"Russia's response came after the Linux community blocked 11 Russians from maintaining the Linux kernel -- the operating system's core code -- citing 'various compliance requirements.' Linux creator Linus Torvalds stated that this decision 'is not getting reverted,' adding that as a Finn, he will not 'support Russian aggression.'" (This time quoting the English news article, which provides some context.)
"One of the Linux maintainers later explained that the restrictions would apply to developers whose companies are owned or controlled by entities on the US Office of Foreign Assets Control list, designated as involved in activities that 'threaten the national security, foreign policy, or economy' of the country."
Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers
So, that distillery that went bavovna wasn't petrol after all, huh.
*Never keep a sailor from his whisky
*Never keep a pirate from his rum
*Never keep a Russian soldier from his vodka
♲ Europe Says - 2024-10-30 20:30:05 GMT
europesays.com/1578367/ Russian region seeks to curb alcohol sales amid ‘horrific’ mortality: Vologda governor Georgy Filimonov said that 71% of deaths of working-age men in the region were tied to alcohol consumption, including maladies like liver cirrhosis and heart ailments. #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
Linux kernel developers banned from contributing to the Linux kernel for being Russian.
Linux's second-in-command (after Linus Torvalds) Greg Kroah-Hartman said:
"Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They can come back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided."
People are speculating (see link to Reddit discussion below) that this is due to US sanctions against Russia, and because of that, it could apply not just to Linux but to all open source projects. If the maintainers are within the United States, or outside the United States if they are US citizens, or outside the United States but in countries with treaties with the United States, then the US legal system could punish them if they fail to ban Russian contributors.
p.s. If you're thinking nginx is beyond the reach of this, because it was created by a Russian and is maintained by a Russian, Igor Sysoev, you'd be wrong. Igor Sysoev left the project in 2022 and nginx today is maintained by F5, a US corporation (in Seattle), subject to US law, including sanctions against Russia.
One wonders if we are seeing the beginning of a split in the whole open source world between a US-based open source ecosystem and an "everybody else" open source ecosystem. If it's only Russian programmers and not anybody else the US has a problem with (China, etc), then maybe not?
Are US programmers allowed to contribute to Russian-based open source projects?
Several Linux kernel driver maintainers removed due to their association to Russia
Three, you said?
Where's the third thing?
♲ Europe Says - 2024-10-02 16:01:09 GMT
europesays.com/1512544/ NATO continues to strengthen its forces and support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, as an independent Ukraine is key to peace in Europe. The new NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, has identified three priorities: enhancing defense capabilities, supporting Ukraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
Inside Ukraine’s Effort to Win Over Donald Trump
“It has to be good old-fashioned greed,” #Pompeo told TIME in Kyiv after his meeting with #Zelensky. “It has to be a good old-fashioned, commercial, profit-driven, incentive-forming, risk-taking, entrepreneurial model that delivers that sustainable place for Ukraine.” Appealing for American help in the defense of Ukraine’s democracy or its survival as a nation would not be likely to secure Trump's lasting support. “It can’t be a donor base,” Pompeo explains. “It’s not, ‘Hey, we had a donor conference.’ Those are interesting, and they get things rolling perhaps. But they are wholly unsustainable.”
In trying to deliver that message to Trump and his supporters, some of Zelensky’s Republican allies have pointed to the resource wealth Ukraine could offer the U.S. after the war. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, hammered on this point in a video he recorded with Zelensky in Kyiv earlier this month. “They’re sitting on a trillion dollars of minerals that could be good to our economy,” said the Republican from North Carolina. “So I want to keep helping our friends in Ukraine.”
...Back in Kyiv, Zelensky’s allies have spent months trying to influence Trump’s views on the war. Leaders of the country’s vibrant community of #Baptists have reached out repeatedly to Trump’s evangelical allies on Capitol Hill, including House Speaker Mike #Johnson. Victor #Pinchuk, a Ukrainian billionaire on good terms with the Zelensky administration, hired Trump’s former aide Kellyanne #Conway as a lobbyist in Washington for a fee of $50,000 per month. According to official filings with the Justice Department, Conway will advise Pinchuk’s foundation on “the current state of views on Ukraine among US elected officials, candidates, experts, and opinion leaders.” The lobbying agreement expires on Nov. 14, about a week after Election Day, unless both sides agree to extend it.
In mid-September, about a week before Zelensky’s arrival in the U.S., Pinchuk hosted an annual summit in Kyiv that attracted a range of influential guests from the U.S. and Europe. While working on the program, Pinchuk appealed to Boris #Johnson, the former British Prime Minister, to convince Trump to participate via live video link. “Unfortunately I failed completely to get that,” Johnson said at the conference.
https://time.com/7023450/ukraine-effort-donald-trump/
#USA #US #american #election2024 #lobbying #deepstate #neocons #warmongers #MIC #proxy-war #ukraine #ukraineconflict #ukrainian #oligachy #war against #Russia
"CERN to expel hundreds of Russian scientists".
"CERN, the European particle-physics collaboration that operates the Large Hadron Collider" "decided to cut ties with Moscow after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, ending nearly 60 years of collaboration, and the agreements are now lapsing."
"Scientists tied to Belarusian institutions already saw their contracts end in July, and any Russian-linked scientists will lose access, as well as residency permits, in December."
Umm, that's pretty much what the last Iran Deal was.
♲ Europe Says - 2024-09-15 03:33:06 GMT
europesays.com/1473886/ Alarm in UK and US over possible Iran-Russia nuclear deal #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
"Until we throw the terrorists out of Kursk Oblast, we will not hold any negotiations with them."
© Shoigu
Alrighty then, we don't have to worry about negotiations for the next few months.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/9373652.html
#ukraine #ukrainian #terrorists #war #ukraineconflict #NATO #fail #failstate against #russian #Russia
Why Putin is in no hurry to end the conflict in Ukraine
This is a complex issue. However, objectively, the conflict has reached a very protracted stage.
Reason one is the most important. A quick end would have required substantial mobilization of both soldiers and industry. This would have caused economic and social upheaval. The screws might have to be tightened.
All of which the Kremlin does not want. The strategy of slowly killing the Ukroreich allows social and economic stability to be maintained. Economic growth of about 4 percent is expected this year.
Yes, there are costs in the form of shelling, refugee losses in the army. But these problems are localized, not comprehensive.
Therefore, the choice is made in favor of though painful costs, but of a private nature, while the general picture of a peacefully living and developing Russia is preserved.
Our geopolitical enemy, Europe in general and Germany in particular, is experiencing significant economic turmoil.
The further the conflict lasts, the longer the sanctions from Germany will be in force.
This means that the EU will not get cheap gas, oil and will not be able to sell us the products of its automobile and aircraft industry.
This is very profitable for us. During this time it is possible and necessary to develop our industry as oil and gas chemical and machine building, including transportation.
Therefore, the longer the EU sanctions last, the better for us in every sense.
Again, there is a good chance of destroying part of the chemical and engineering industries there. That will clear a place for us on the world markets. Unemployed Germans, French and other Italians can be hired to populate the empty villages of Central Russia, as well as the expanses of Siberia and the Far East.
As soon as sanctions are lifted. Gazprom will immediately start pumping gas to the West, and Volkswagen will come back with its cars. This will slow down the development of the crisis in the EU, which is obviously disadvantageous to us.
That's why #Putin is in no hurry. He is acting slowly but surely.
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1419631
#europe #eu #germany #economy #Western #fail #european #poverty #ukraine #ukrainian #war #ukraineconflict #Russia #SMO
Ukrainian soldiers write
The 72nd brigade is our neighboring brigade, responsible in the Ugledar area. So, we work together and respect them, but how can we understand that they took and abandoned Vodyanoye. They left their positions and that's all.
In justification, the management of the 72nd complains about the large number of pencils*, which just take and desert. And what do we have in the end, that the fortress-city was in the ticks and The RF Armed Forces are on their way to their goal. - the encirclement of Ugledar.
https://t.me/odshbr_79/4443
* Poorly or completely untrained fighters of the Kiev regime.
#ukraine #ukrainian #war #ukraineconflict #ukrainians #military #fail
Dragon drone maybe?
♲ Europe Says - 2024-09-06 01:31:05 GMT
europesays.com/1454035/ Russian advance near Pokrovsk stalled in recent days, Syrskyi says #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
ROTFLMAO!!1!!
♲ Europe Says - 2024-08-21 22:11:06 GMT
https://www.europesays.com/1419990/ Russian Propagandist: Obliterating the UK Would Intimidate the West Into Submission #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
Is potato.
♲ Europe Says - 2024-08-13 23:55:06 GMT
https://www.europesays.com/1402402/ Shoigu, Gerasimov, Where is Ammunition??? #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
Yevgeny Prigozhin's ghost comes back to haunt a bitch.
♲ Europe Says - 2024-08-13 23:56:05 GMT
https://www.europesays.com/1402404/ SOTA reporters confirm police reinforcement in Moscow, says Dmintrovskoye Highway is partially blocked by KAMAZ trucks, and special forces hiding behind them Moscow – Ukraine Interactive map – Ukraine Latest news on live map #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
Ukraine has invaded parts of Russia. Not parts of Russia according to Russia that used to be parts of Ukraine but got annexed by Russia, but parts of Russia Russia. Apparently the cyberattack on Russia I told you all about last week was part of a larger attack on Russia. Ukraine has broken through into Russia both north and south of Kharkiv (the north part being into Kursk, the primary focus of this video). Ukraine may have done this to gain control of a railroad used by Russia, or Ukraine may be seeking to force Russia to divert forces from other parts of the front line, or Ukraine may be seeking a morale boost. Analysis by Chris Capelluto aka "Chris Cappy" of Task & Purpose.
"Ukraine hacks ATMs across Russia in ongoing massive cyberattack."
"The Ukrainian cyberattack began on the morning of July 23. So far, the hackers have: Frozen bank payment systems and mobile applications, caused outages in personal offices, barred payments for public transport, caused interruptions to the Russian mobile and internet providers Beeline, MegaFon, Tele2, and Rostelecom, attacked popular online messengers and the largest Russian social networks, and gained access to major banks' databases."
Allegedly the hacked banks are VTB Bank, Alfa-Bank, Sberbank, Raiffeisen Bank, RSHB Bank, Rosbank, Gazprombank, Tinkoff Bank, iBank, and Dom.RF.
This is from the Kyiv Post, so this is what is claimed by the Ukrainian side. I have not looked for confirmation from the Russian side.
Ukraine hacks ATMs across Russia in ongoing massive cyberattack
Ghost of Prigozhin says "Miss me yet, Putin?"
♲ Europe Says - 2024-07-29 15:12:19 GMT
https://www.europesays.com/1368348/ Wagner leader appeals to Putin after Mali ambush leaves 80 dead #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
Why Putin can't wait for a Trump regime.
♲ Europe Says - 2024-07-18 19:21:05 GMT
https://www.europesays.com/1346560/ Putins Biggest Dilema A Reawakened NATO Military Alliance pt1 #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict
Drone-on-drone dogfights are a thing now in Ukraine. Well, these videos look less like dogfights and more like a small FPV drone sneaking up on a large, sophisticated reconnaissance drone.
"With Russian reconnaissance drones enabling devastating missile strikes deep in Ukrainian territory, Ukraine's military is turning to a novel solution: deploying agile, low-cost 'kamikaze' drones to take out their high-priced Russian counterparts in midair dogfights."
Drone dogfights: Ukraine’s novel strategy to counter Russian reconnaissance UAVs
