Satellite internet functionality via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — was being at least partially restored Thursday morning, according to a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
Ukraine has resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy angrily accused the United States of betraying Kyiv with a “dangerous” withdrawal of support critical to its defense against Russia.
Ukraine held off on attacks for three days after Donald Trump’s unilateral “energy ceasefire” announcement, but accused Russia of repeatedly attacking its power grid. Zelenskyy voiced mounting frustration over the Kremlin’s failure to abide by the truce, and what he sees as U.S. attempts to pressure Kyiv after gaps in intelligence sharing on Russian attacks and restrictions on the Starlink internet service.
Satellite internet functionality via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — was being at least partially restored Thursday, according to a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.
In an interview with the Financial Times, published Thursday, Zelenskyy indicated his patience had already been exhausted.
Understand one very important thing that’s happening here: stopping Russia at this point in time benefits the entire planet.
They’ve been going around attacking countries, killing people, and slaughtering civilians for decades with absolutely no meaningful pushback from anyone.
Ukraine is simply able to push back.
Of course, the problem is that stopping Russia doesn’t benefit a very small group of people, and that’s evident by Trump’s behavior. This very small group of people is willing to do literally anything and everything to protect what they have, purely for their own selfish purposes and nothing more.
It’s obvious that Zelensky is no longer playing ball with this nonsense of the 1% doing whatever the hell they want. Good for him. It’s time to put these people in their place and take their money away from them.
Understand one very important thing that’s happening here: stopping the USA at this point in time benefits the entire planet.
They’ve been going around attacking countries, killing people, and slaughtering civilians for decades with absolutely no meaningful pushback from anyone.
Ukraine is simply able to push back.
Of course, the problem is that stopping the USA doesn’t benefit a very small group of people, and that’s evident by Trump’s behavior. This very small group of people is willing to do literally anything and everything to protect what they have, purely for their own selfish purposes and nothing more.
Sure, I’m not even going to disagree with you, except for the fact that we weren’t talking about the US in this post.
As a matter of fact, I was admonishing the US and its decision to betray the Ukrainians.
I will say this, however: regardless of how you feel about the US and your animosity toward it, Ukraine has been able to defend itself against Russia, in large part, because of the support it received from the United States.
Russia is a threat not just to the US, but to the rest of the world as well.
And as bad as the US really is, you’ll get no argument from me on that point, but we still have the capacity to do the right thing, at least to some degree. Keep in mind that this current administration is, in my opinion, the worst I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, and I’ve lived through quite a few presidents.
Adding to this. Step back a moment and notice that this is, in part, the same playbook being used everywhere else: California vs Florida, Red vs Blue; US vs Ukraine vs Russia.
These are distractions. We need to eat the rich. They are the problem and we outnumber them.
Sometimes it’s helpful to hold up a mirror.
(Not to suggest Russia or China can’t also be baddies)
Throw in China, too. What’s one more in the fray?
Carry on Ukraine. Fuck MAGA and their Russian masters. This proves, further, that the current US administration is completely unreliable and untrustworthy. I would not purchase US made weapon systems until the MAGA turds are gone.
Current administration? haha The entire reason the Ukraine is in this mess is because the US and NATO has been using them as sacraficial lambs since Clinton.
No, the entire reason Ukraine is in this mess, is because putler invaded them
Pretty sure it’s because they willingly handed over their nukes based on an empty promise.
That didnt help for sure but all russia had to do was not invade
Ukraine, not “the Ukraine”
The person you responded to is likely either (a) Russian or (b) old enough to remember what parts of the USSR were called … or © both.
Here’s some info in case anyone doesn’t know why we would make a distinction between Ukraine and “the Ukraine.”
Remember when conservatives hated Russia until their programming was changed?
No values beyond bigotry. No consistency beyond stupidity.
Remember when a certain Fox News contributor who goes on TV saying we should be at war with Iran to prevent them from having missiles was charged with illegally selling missiles to Iran in trade for keeping Americans hostage until after the 1980 election?
Technically he did the treason first, and then got hired by Fox to justify his treason.
Woahoooha damn…which of their clowns was this?? Sounds a touch before my time.
Because Russia is no longer a communist country despised by conservatives, but a country larping as conservative that pay lip service to American conservatives to destabilise the West.
Conservatism is and always has been an attempt to return to a form of feudalism, with the rich being the new nobility and everyone else being powerless to resist. In that regard, Russia with its oligarchs is about as conservative as it comes.
No. Conservatism can be that and can be skepticism to idealism in all forms.
The Russian example would be the popular belief of some people that presidential power should be made stronger in the 90s, and then of some other people that everything western is just better from the root and larping is enough, and then of another group of people that they can take modern (by year 2012) Russia’s common idea of “respectable” and “cool” and make it compatible with honesty and justice and their own survival.
The American example would be - well, I think Fox News is good enough, what they started with was (of what I’ve read) the typical American idea of “alternative” and “anti-establishment”, which is good in itself, just believing that there’s a side offering that or that there’s a way to move the world in that direction radically, - these are dangerous idiocies.
The “youthly liberal modern” idea of cool of 2010s in the social media, that I’ve recently remembered, is too a good example. When virtually all of the crowd was uncritically accepting that people at whom corporate policies point and say “they are homophobes, extremists and what’s the worst of all - uncool”, are really that.
One meaning of the word “conservatism” is being skeptical of such things. One can be conservative-left. It’s just that people don’t like nuance.
It doesn’t matter what you think conservatism is, it only matters what your masters think it is. And they follow the teachings of Edmund Burke, that money means control and that control is everything.
As long as you keep supporting monsters, they’ll keep selling you lies.
Because conservatism is the push for a new feudalism, and the serfs have no say in it beyond blindly supporting the rich.
Well, if we reach that, your support is also not very meaningful.
There’s obviously nothing anti establishment and counter cultural about fox news. These are demagogues with budgets of millions of USD and with a large viewership.
How they stylize their reactionary bs is almost meaningless. It’s surface level.
The point remains: they have nothing beyond bigotry and stupidity and these are the only constants.
Yeah, “they” matters not about the source, but about what the audience thinks.
It doesn’t matter what lies they buy into. There’s no such thing as a “conservative lefty” or whatever you wrote earlier.
They bought into some culture war issue that’s in the end meaningless.
It’s not important to be able to discriminate against trans people but they want to do that and are willing to accept a whole bundle of reactionary policies along with it.
I’m pretty sure that just means “conservative” doesn’t mean anything.
Well, all words have different semantics depending on the context and would have none without context. Doesn’t say much.
We’re not talking about words, we’re talking about political ideology. A communist is a communist, a liberal is a liberal, a fascist is a fascist, these ideologies aren’t context dependent. There are different kinds of communists and liberals and fascists etc etc but they’re all recognizably part of the same ideological family with a clear historical tradition, no matter the time period or country.
Conservatives can be so radically different in different contexts that it’s not really useful as a descriptor. It’s like saying someone is extreme or moderate or revolutionary or something, its so context dependent that it tells you practically nothing without the context.
I don’t remember that, no.
Anyone doing favors for Putin is a traitor to the West.
thats all right wing governments all over the world, hes funding them and providing free propaganda for them.
“traitor to the West” sounds exactly like something a fascist would say, but since it’s about Ukraine everyone ignores it, cheers it on, even.
“The West” is a cultural entity not an ethnic one. Thinking that some cultures are better than others is not fascistic. For example to think that slavery is worse than social democracy is quite not the fascistic thought. “The West” has meant a lot of things across the ages, but the rights and responsibilities of the individual and the limited power of authority has been an ever present principle. Whenever some powers tried to suppress that, it always resurfaced, sometimes violently when that was the only way. For all its flaws, Western culture is among the best, and has been since about the fall of Rome.
This is exactly what a fascist would say.
It is wrong to discriminate by birth. It is also wrong to not discriminate by behavior. Cultures are collections of encouraged behaviors. Fascists discriminate by birth. I discriminate by behavior. I am also not saying that Western culture is the only OK one. I also don’t have to explain myself to you, but I am doing it because it is important that people can tell fascism from non-fascism.
No, you see, the trick you’re pulling is blaming the global South for supposed barbarism when it is the West that profits off of those horrors and maintains them via it’s monopolistic control over finance, oil, and other essential commodities required for development, and this system of extraction from poor countries into the rich countries that you consider to have superior cultures is enforced by imperialist militaries and comprador oppressive governments.
You cannot say that Arab culture is worse than Western culture when you are dependent on oil being parasitically extracted from Arab countries with nearly zero profits from it actually improving the lives of the people there. You cannot say that Indian culture is worse, when you literally benefit off of workers there living in worse conditions because that means the agricultural / chemical / industrial products produced there can be cheaper and it means you can have a higher quality of life because everyday consumer goods are cheaper.
Iran is a great example: If one country of the supposed lesser cultures stops exporting oil, then your precious Western Civilization starts shriveling up like a leech.
Who profits from whom is non-sequitur in determining which culture is built on better principles. The argument that “better quality of life will make the world a better place and allow cultures to work together in harmony” (that is, globalization) was proven wrong by the rise of China. They are the strongest economy, yet still have a terrible human rights problem, which they export everywhere they go. The “arabs” are rich nations too, look at the Gulf states and Saudis. They still did 9/11. Somehow it wasn’t a white thrash trailer park boy who flew a plane into the Kaaba stone.
Some societies are not built on individual rights at which point they are inferior. The individual is the only real thing that exists. Nations, clans, religions, even families are just abstractions in our heads. If those are presented as more important than the individuals rights and responsibilities then it’s in the interest of the presenter to deceive their audience. Somehow the “interest of the clan” always aligns with the interest of the clan leader. You can see that transformation in real time in the US with Trump.
Good. Trump has been playing both sides and half assing this thing from the start. He clearly doesn’t have the balls to make Papa Putin do anything.
Employees usually don’t make demands of their employers. The instructions only flow from Russia to the GOPedos
Wtf is with this shit expecting Ukraine to treat Russia with kid gloves? They were invaded. As far as I’m concerned they could glass Moscow and I wouldn’t give a shit. If we want Russia to be able to deliver oil we should be pressuring them to GTFO of Ukraine so Ukraine has no reason to defend themselves.
Why even entertain any other resolution?
Because Trump expects some kind of deal out of Ukraine and Russia, that will lead to a new age of prosperity, and in turn, his immortality as a president forever remembered for making America great again. Or Putin has the pee tapes, featuring underage girls, as recorded by Jeffrey Epstein, on Saint Little James.
I know why Trump’s doing it. Why everyone else though? This conflict is talked about as of it were a two way street when it was an aggressive act on the part of Russia.
maga is literally grifters of americans united inc. they’re all grifting as much as they can and trump is their literal face on the camera.
Because Trump has unresolved daddy issues, and for whatever reason he wants Putin to acknowledge him.
I can only see a future where Ukraine weens off of American support and finds alternatives elsewhere in nations that not only are on significantly friendlier terms, but more reliable ones as well. It’ll come to no surprise to me if other nations that buy from our contractors start to do less of that as well.
Trump can fuck off straight to hell along with all his fucking Nazi followers.
I wonder if Trump is the most hated person on the planet right now.
i would say putin is the first, and trump comes in second.
Counterpoint - I imagine a lot of Americans (and to be fair, also Western Europeans and most of the other continents) don’t give a shit about Putin invading Ukraine, but DO care about Trump fucking them, directly or not. Trump also manages to one-up himself every week.
To be fair, Poland’s hatred of Putin actually counts for double in the ranking for some reason.
accused Russia of repeatedly attacking its power grid
I hate how journalists use “accused” for both factual statements and lies.
This one can easily be defended by looking back 5days abcnews link
No, you use its accused because maybe its a false flag Ukraine attack, or maybe they used North Koreans to press the buttons.
I imagine the downvotes are because people couldn’t figure out the /s
How would anyone figure that out? That can’t just say wrong/stupid things and say you were being sarcastic after the fact
Because it was so absurdly stupid that people can often pick it up
You must be new to humans if you think if there’s a limit to stupidity
You can’t underestimate stupid
Thats why Trump keeps a token Canadian at his side so if he launches nukes he can order them to press the button and Blame Canada, right?
Do i need it here too?
Can someone tell me why the right wing and the “independents”/reactionary centrists keep claiming that ties between donnie and Russia are a “hoax”?
Most of the “liberal media” now seems to have that stance, pretending that butthurt rightwing claims of how mean the “liberal media” was to donnie back in 2016 over his Russian ties is a legit grievance of how the media went overboard, or “fell for” something, etc.?
Because they’re idiots.
If “Liberal Media” doesn’t oppose Trump and Russia then it isn’t Liberal. Factual reporting has revealed Trump Russia ties since the Meuller investigation sentenced his campaign team.
Mostly because the Steele dossier was debunked if I recall correctly. His financial ties to a bunch of Russian oligarchs is definitely real though
The Steele dossier was a collection of raw intelligence reports. Minor details were proven wrong, such as Trump spending the night in a hotel but not in the presidential suite like the report claimed. Otherwise, multiple people claimed they could prove they hadn’t done what was claimed but failed to do so or were later proved to have indeed done the things.
Nearly all of the claims have been proven broadly true by subsequent investigations.
It linked multiple members of his campaign to elements in and around the Russian government. Communication records later proved that contact has indeed taken place.
It claimed Russians had dirt on Trump from a pageant he hosted there. While no blackmail material has come out, one of the Russian contacts the campaign communicated with told them he had buried some for them.
The dossier claimed a Romanian hacking group operating at the direction of the Russian government was behind the Clinton leaks. It was later proven that it had been done by a Russian group pretending to be Romanian.
It was claimed that WikiLeaks was directly coordinating with both the Trump campaign and Russia to inflict maximum damage on Clinton and steer people toward Trump. Emails later came out that proved this.
These are just a handful of the verified claims.
Ah, damn I guess I fell for it. Thanks for setting me straight
because they’re really grateful that by electing trump they can use slurs again, that’s literally all it is.
Thank you President Zelenskyy! I wish you the best of luck, skill and determination to shove that Russian fucker to a cell in Siberia.
Thanks for the data center too. Know where any more are?
Wish we had a Zelenskyy in the white House and not the festering pile of orange shit we currently have.
Good. And this time, don’t fucking stop until Putin is a distant memory.
I like when oil infrastructure explodes.
I saw an army patch in Ukraine with a drone above a refinery with the slogan: Just stopped oil.
That’s awesome
