I saw he took down over 40 Russian planes, if true that is crazy

You misread Tucker's take, his beef is congress easily drops $33M for Ukraine's security when that same $33M would have built the border wall Trump wanted. Yet our congress fought him tooth and nail on our own security (which they are sworn to defend) but readily spend that and more amounts on Ukraine's security. It is ridiculous.

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You misread Tucker's take, his beef is congress easily drops $33M for Ukraine's security when that same $33M would have built the border wall Trump wanted. Yet our congress fought him tooth and nail on our own security (which they are sworn to defend) but readily spend that and more amounts on Ukraine's security. It is ridiculous.

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I didn't misread anything. I posted a tweet from someone commenting on a logically distinct point from that which you're highlighting. I didn't editorialize.

20yo Peter arrived in Ukraine from Tennessee to join the armed forces. The refusal didn't discourage him & he started volunteering. Now every day Peter exhumes bodies in Irpin & Stoyanka for their decent burial on the cemetery. "Someone has to do it," he says. Thank you, Peter! pic.twitter.com/m7KDLHENb6

— Olena Halushka (@OlenaHalushka) April 29, 2022

Spoke to @JohnBerman @NewDay about how Russia likes to play on our fears.

They have different tools in their toolbox for it. Energy dependency is one example.

But the only thing we should be afraid of is fear itself. We should not be intimidated and fall for Russia's threats. pic.twitter.com/G2I1cHBVvM

— Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas) April 29, 2022

I met a lot of new interesting people. Very well behaved, very well motivated people of different ages, various believes, political views etc. pic.twitter.com/6bjCgYbOvu

— Volodymyr Demchenko (@brokenpixelua) April 29, 2022

/3 It’s really pleasant and interesting to work in such company and I know most of this people are my friends from now. In some strange way war is good about giving you a friends. pic.twitter.com/TXwNRsc4Q4

— Volodymyr Demchenko (@brokenpixelua) April 29, 2022

/4 War it’s a job. Measured in kilojoules.
А= ΔЕ
Amount of your energy should be bigger than amount of energy you need to spent on that work. And soooooooooo many Ukrainians doing war-job every day, paying expenses literally from family budgets, volunteering, fighting pic.twitter.com/vWEKJDVP84

— Volodymyr Demchenko (@brokenpixelua) April 29, 2022

/5 Now Ukrainian Volunteer Corps officially a part of Ukrainian Armed Forces. But 100% of veterans join war as volunteers acording Constition article 17. Which says that protection of a sovereignty and territorial invisibility is personally mine “meter of concern”. pic.twitter.com/NPK7rIYUmh

— Volodymyr Demchenko (@brokenpixelua) April 29, 2022

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I saw he took down over 40 Russian planes, if true that is crazy

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10 less than the 50 French "senior officers" holed up in the Azul steel plant, and that one merited its own thread.
Probably can't run with a new thread based on your own sarcasm though.

A few harsh words from Biden is not going to make Beijing toe the line on Russia. We also cannot confirm whether or not China is helping Russia skirt sanctions. Assume they are.https://t.co/HgkZXVATEy

— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) April 29, 2022

Excuse me for assuming that your posting it meant you thought it was worth repeating.

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Excuse me for assuming that your posting it meant you thought it was worth repeating.

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No. You went off on a tangent about something neither the tweet nor I addressed which is funding for border security. That is a logically disparate subject from Ukraine. The tweet said:

"Tracey continues to have some of the worst takes on the RU-UA War. According to him, UA should probably just stop fighting & let Putin conquer the country in whole or part. It would end the war, after all."

"One day Tucker might surprise me & invite a guest on to cogently articulate the case for US indirect involvement in this conflict. B/c a defanged Russia is in our interests. His neverending series of like-minded guests has unfortunately continued nonstop since the war began."

Now, point out how your response was directly and logically applicable to that statement. You said:

"You misread Tucker's take, his beef is congress easily drops $33M for Ukraine's security when that same $33M would have built the border wall Trump wanted. Yet our congress fought him tooth and nail on our own security (which they are sworn to defend) but readily spend that and more amounts on Ukraine's security. It is ridiculous."

Prioritizing Ukraine defense with no apparent end at the expense of US security is not a tangent. But you knew that.

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Prioritizing Ukraine defense with no apparent end at the expense of US security is not a tangent. But you knew that.

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What I know is that they're logically separate points. We've been neglecting funding for border security long before Ukraine funding was a thing. Clearly funding Ukraine is not what's preventing us from allocating funding for border security or addressing it more aggressively. Both are possible and neither is linked.

But then you knew that. Or, as a degreed individual, you should.

Border security is a Red Herring when discussing the Ukraine situation as one does not logically preclude the ability to, or benefit of accomplishing the other.

#Mariupol, #Donetsk region, east #Ukraine, some 5 months ago.

Before #Russia invaded and destroyed the city of 450,000 people. pic.twitter.com/AcyGYiDwG9

— Alex Kokcharov (@AlexKokcharov) April 29, 2022

Kyiv restaurant UnderWonder together with artist Ruslan Lobanov preparing for a future occasion by taking inspiration from 1953 celebrations of Stalin’s death by a 1203 Restaurant in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/WTNJgokwUD

— Kvitka Perehinets 🇺🇦 (@kvitkanadiia) April 29, 2022

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#Mariupol, #Donetsk region, east #Ukraine, some 5 months ago.

Before #Russia invaded and destroyed the city of 450,000 people. pic.twitter.com/AcyGYiDwG9

— Alex Kokcharov (@AlexKokcharov) April 29, 2022

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Somehow that makes it all the more sad.

The Ukrainians are using art as a counter weapon to the Russian invasion has been pretty spectacular. It gets almost no play time on American News, but on Reuters, DM and European news channels they have been showing the Ukrainians using art showings all through Europe to reinforce they are a country, with culture, free will and was thriving to be more like Western Europe.

IMO it appears to be very affective.

And potentially sued by Hugo Boss for copyright infringement.

— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) April 30, 2022

Michael Tracey's delicate sensibilities are now offended by American military contractors voluntarily sacrificing their lives to fight for the life and freedom of others. Ask me how surprised I am. What sad little *****.

I absolutely believe we can bully @mtracey into taking up those offers for a free trip to Ukraine. But I am just as sure he will end up in Russian held territory interviewing terrified women.

— Mr Ghostly (@Guardian_Mario) April 30, 2022

Globalism failed.

Thats the lesson in all this.

Globalism has been exposed for what it is.

For folks who keep getting sidetracked by BS Azov whataboutism.

Full Thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1520424737582759937.html

Regiment #Azov continues to be absurdly accused of being “neo-nazi/extremists/far-right”. Working with media as an expert I state: journalists in many cases do not dig deep, don’t understand context and use myths about Azov without attempt of fact checking. Here is a 🧵

— Maria Zolkina (@Mariia_Zolkina) April 30, 2022

Multiple U.S. officials including Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff are in Kyiv meeting with Zelenskyy. pic.twitter.com/iL4TpYX7RU

— Doge (@IntelDoge) May 1, 2022

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Kyiv restaurant UnderWonder together with artist Ruslan Lobanov preparing for a future occasion by taking inspiration from 1953 celebrations of Stalin’s death by a 1203 Restaurant in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/WTNJgokwUD

— Kvitka Perehinets 🇺🇦 (@kvitkanadiia) April 29, 2022

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I'll drink to that

I hope they manage to sue the isht out of The Economist after this is all over.

Yap, that’s right. This photo. The one @TheEconomist used for their new issue.

There is no way you can learn this photo is made by Iryna tho. Cause The Economist doesn’t give a crap about copyright. She isn’t mentioned as the author, neither she was asked for permission pic.twitter.com/K0rAuNzCos

— 🇺🇦 де твої боги? | #GenocideOfUkrainians is on (@stepovy_block) May 1, 2022

Btw, feel free to support 93d Brigade via https://t.co/SK1WSkuMyV

These guys are incredible, and we try to provide them with all the stuff needed (i.e. drones, cars, night vision, fuel, etc)

— 🇺🇦 де твої боги? | #GenocideOfUkrainians is on (@stepovy_block) May 1, 2022

No Nazis here:

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KYIV, Ukraine The heist started when a mysterious man in a white lab coat showed up at the museum.
A squad of Russian soldiers stood behind him, with guns, watching eagerly.
Using long tweezers and special gloves, the man in the white coat carefully extracted scores of special gold artifacts more than 2,300 years old from cardboard boxes in the cellar of a museum in Melitopol, a southern town in Russian-occupied territory, Ukrainian officials said. The gold items were from the Scythian empire and dated back to the fourth century B.C.

Then the mysterious expert, the Russian soldiers and the gold disappeared.

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Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol have stolen all the equipment from a farm equipment dealership -- and shipped it to Chechnya, according to a Ukrainian businessman in the area.

But after a journey of more than 700 miles, the thieves were unable to use any of the equipment -- because it had been locked remotely.

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Over the past few weeks there's been a growing number of reports of Russian troops stealing farm equipment, grain and even building materials - beyond widespread looting of residences. But the removal of valuable agricultural equipment from a John Deere dealership in Melitopol speaks to an increasingly organized operation, one that even uses Russian military transport as part of the heist.

CNN has learned that the equipment was removed from an Agrotek dealership in Melitopol, which has been occupied by Russian forces since early March. Altogether it's valued at nearly $5 million. The combine harvesters alone are worth $300,000 each.

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The contact said the process began with the seizure of two combine harvesters, a tractor and a seeder. Over the next few weeks, everything else was removed: in all 27 pieces of farm machinery. One of the flat-bed trucks used, and caught on camera, had a white "Z" painted on it and appeared to be a military truck.

The contact said there were rival groups of Russian troops: some would come in the morning and some in the evening.

Some of the machinery was taken to a nearby village, but some of it embarked on a long overland journey to Chechnya more than 700 miles away. The sophistication of the machinery, which are equipped with GPS, meant that its travel could be tracked. It was last tracked to the village of Zakhan Yurt in Chechnya.

The equipment ferried to Chechnya, which included combine harvesters -- can also be controlled remotely. "When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely," the contact said.

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Russia has been doing similar things in Donbas region since they established control. Dismantling industrial and agricultural infrastructure and shipping it back into Russia, leaving the area under their control poorer and significantly dependent on Russian "kindness".

Somewhere in the boneyard this little M901 ITV has been waiting patiently for the chance to destroy T-72s. He might be able to make his dreams come true with the new lend-lease.

From JOPA Facebook page.

https://t.co/0dtaepNdFo

— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) May 2, 2022

Putin cancer surgery

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/05/02/whoa-putin-to-undergo-cancer-surgery-transfer-power-n466376

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Putin cancer surgery

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/05/02/whoa-putin-to-undergo-cancer-surgery-transfer-power-n466376

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Everything about this is a solid yikes and I have been seeing more and more of it. pic.twitter.com/IgEHkQTrgd

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) May 2, 2022