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Trump ønsker å bli husket som en god businessmann. Art of the deal. Klarer han å få til en fredsplan? Topp, da huskes han. Klarer han å få solgt enda mer våpen? Topp, da huskes han. Klarer han å få solgt så mye våpen at det er nok til å få slutt på krigen? Topp, da huskes han hvertfall. Husk også at Trump er en diktator som ikke lar seg presse av noen, og at han er til salgs for høystbydende. Når det da kommer noen Europeiske land som vil handle av han og ytterligere sprite opp ryktet han som en bra dealmaker, så betyr takknemmeligheten for et lån fra et land for flere tiår siden da Yeltsin fortsatt var president lite.. Senest i dag skrev WSJ om nettopp dette med å selge våpen til Ukraina mens det er andre som betaler for det. GOP Eyes European Money to Replace U.S. Weapons Donated to Ukraine Two top Senate Republicans laid out a plan Wednesday to allow allies to finance donations of U.S. weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, following through on a proposal pushed by President Trump to raise billions of dollars a year for the war effort. The PEACE Act .. provides the most detailed outline yet of how Trump could carry out his new plan to arm Kyiv with European funds after his efforts to bring about a swift end to the war in Ukraine ran aground. Their bill would create a fund at the U.S. Treasury to accept money from allies. The defense secretary could then use the fund to pay contractors to replenish U.S. stockpiles so the Pentagon can continue sending weapons packages to Ukraine without undermining America’s own military readiness, according to GOP aides familiar with the proposal. The aides said the hope is to create a funding stream of about $5 billion to $8 billion a year. Likely contributors include Germany and the United Kingdom, they said. Wicker has discussed the legislation with the White House, which has been largely receptive to the idea, aides said. The plan is to pass it later this year as part of the annual defense policy bill produced by Wicker’s committee..

I morgen skal stemmer over å omgjøre NABU/SAPO loven som ble vedtatt i forrige uke. Ble enstemning vedtatt 19-0 i komiteen i dag. NABU har allerede pågående korrupsjonsetterforskninger mot 31 stk. av de som sitter i radaen! Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s moves against anti-graft bodies had chilling effect, warns official Oleksandr Klymenko, head of Ukraine’s Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (Sapo), in an interview with the Financial Times, described recent moves against his agency as part of a “co-ordinated” effort by senior government officials. Even if parliament overturns the controversial law that MPs rammed through last week — a vote on a new bill restoring both Sapo and Nabu’s independence and endorsed by Zelenskyy is set for Thursday — Klymenko made clear that serious damage had already been done. He warned that the “lasting” consequences of the assault could severely limit his office’s ability to function. “Our work has been effectively stopped,” he said. “Almost all of our whistleblowers stopped co-operating with us” over fears that they could be exposed, he added. The outcome of Thursday’s vote is uncertain, with upwards of 70 lawmakers from Zelenskyy’s ruling party unsure of whether they will join others in approving it over fears of retribution. According to four people close to Zelenskyy and familiar with internal party discussions, some MPs are scared that they will be pursued by Sapo and Nabu after they voted in favour of moving the agencies under the control of the prosecutor-general, who is handpicked by the president. On Wednesday, Klymenko said that Nabu and Sapo are currently investigating corruption allegations into 31 sitting MPs and 40 former lawmakers, including several from Zelenskyy’s ruling party.

Yermak can exchange Ukraine’s accession to the EU to maintain power for himself and Zelensky – anti-corruption officer The head of the Office of the President, Andriy Yermak, can agree with Russia and refuse the course of Ukraine’s accession to the EU in order to stay in power together with Vladimir Zelensky. This opinion was expressed in Facebook by the head of the head of the Center for Combating Corruption Daria Kalyuk, acting on Western grants. “The greatest threat to Yermak is the loss of Zelensky’s job as president .. Therefore, as long as Yermak retains an absolute influence on Zelensky, he will continue to try to frame the whole country, just to remain in power. If the price of the issue – the failure of European integration and assistance from the West, it is not a problem. I will not be surprised if Yermak can agree to a compromise with the Russians for this"

Special operation" against anti-corruption agencies involved head of Zelenskyy's office, prosecutor general and lawyer acquaintance Andrii Yermak, Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, and Dmytro Borzykh, a lawyer Kravchenko knew who has been served with a notice of suspicion by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO), took part in a "special operation" to destroy the independence of NABU and SAPO. Of course. Ingenting skjer i Ukraina uten Yermak.

Tror du også noen presset Trump til å kreve tilbakebetalt for støtten som allerdede har blitt gitt? Og hvem er det du tror presser han til at USA skal tjene penger?

"trolig etter sterks press" ? Tror du ikke Trump ønsker å selge amerikanske våpen til andre land, inkl. Ukraine, og sikre leveranser og avtaler i lang tid videre? Ukraina, og alle andre land som godkjennes, får nok kjøpe så mye ønsker. Ingen som trenger å presse Trump for at USA skal tjene penger på eksport.

Tror det står igjen ca $1B fra det som ble vedtatt under Biden som USA kan bruke på å overføre våpen, ammo, e.l. til Ukraina. Kilde: husker ikke.

Så om man kritisertrer Trump for Epstein, Iran, e.l. har altså ingenting så si for hvorvidt man er medlem i denne MAGA sekten. Da står vi fortsatt med bare religion og konspirasjonsteorier som identifiserer sektmedlemmer dersom dissens ikke har noe å si. La oss si det finnes noen MAGA som ikke er religiøs eller tror på konspirasjoner ala at Lee Harvey Oswald handlet alene, hvordan identifiserer man da om disse er sektmedlemmer eller ei?

Men (profilerte) personer som setter eget ego foran lojalitet til Trump er vel per definisjon ikke kultmedlemmer? Hvis det ikke er mulig å identifisere kultmedlemmer ut fra i hvilken grad de støtter Trump, kan man da identidisere de på noen andre måter enn religion og konpsirasjonsteorier? I min egen Twitterfeed har jeg sett betydelig langt mer dissens enn støtte til Trump i forbindelse med f.eks. Epstein og Israel/Iran.. vet ikke om alle er (profilerte) personer som setter eget ego foran lojalitet til Trump, men at at setter andre ting foran Trump gjør vel kanskje ikke at de er de første til å vinne Cultmember og the Year award.

Så fellesnevnerne så langt, for å identifisere kultmedlemmer her er: - religiøs - tror på konspirasjonsteorier Ganske bred definisjon? Noe av det som normalt kjennetegner en kultmedlemmer er bl.a. at de har en "a charismatic leader who exercises total control". Dissens er fy-fy. Hva med MAGA som er uenig med Trump når det kommer til Covid, Epstein, Iran, Israel, Musk og andre personalvalg, osv - er disse fortsatt kultmedlemmer? Eller hva med ganske MAGA folkevalgte som har stemt mot Trump i kongressen - er disse fortsatt kultmedlemmer? Har ikke sett den, men ut fra tittelen handler den kanskje mer om MAGA enn kulten?

Hva er fellesnevneren for alle disse da? Om jeg står og snakker med en "forvirret populist" den ene dagen og en "bygdetulling" neste dag, hvordan kan fastslå at de begge er med i samme MAGA kult? Hva er en forvirret populist? En som egentlig ikke er populist, men tror han er det? Er alle i MAGA populister? Og er alle populister på høyresiden MAGA?

Leser mye om denne MAGA kulten, men hvem er de egentlig?

Mye å ta tak i for Ukraina om dagen. For et par dager signerte Zelenskyy endelig en lov om reformering av Ukraine’s Asset Recovery and Management Agency. Dette har vært et krav fra EU for å motta diverse økonomisk støtte. Loven har ligget på pulten til Zelenskyy i sikkert en mnd, men forsinkelsen har ført til at Ukraine kommer til å motta €1.5B mindre enn avtalt. Nå har også EU kommet på banen og presisert at dersom torsdagens avstemning i Radaen, om gjennoppretting av uavhengigheten til NABU/SAPO, ikke går gjennom, så kommer finansiell støtte fra EU til å stanse. Opptil 70 folkevalgte fra Zelenskyys eget parti har signalisert at de kan komme til å stemme mot det nye lovforslaget fordi det er redd for "represalier" fra NABU/SAPO, men er vel likevel liten tvil om at forslaget går gjennom da Ukraina er helt avhengig av det for videre støtte.. IMF er heller ikke helt happy om dagen og har varslet at de sannsynligvis kommer til å endre sitt program. "The current program, according to which the government would have received another $4.8 billion, could be discontinued" I tillegg til uavhengighet for NABU/SAPO krever de også at Ukraine må utnevne en sjef for et annet anti-korrupsjon organ, Bureau of Economic Security (BES), som de har trenert i et par mnder. Ny leder er egentlig valgt, men myndighetene vil ikke ha han, og har bedt om at de ansvarlige velger en annen person. IMF krever at flere andre kontroversielle lover oppheves og andre helt nødvendige reformer må gjennomføres.

Russland [midlertidig] forbyr bensineksport for å ha nok selv. Russia Bans Refiners From Exporting Gasoline to Ensure Supplies Russia banned gasoline producers from exporting the fuel until the end of August to meet accelerating demand, after drone attacks and Western sanctions temporarily disrupted seasonal maintenance. The Russian government aims to ensure ample domestic fuel supplies as holidaymakers take to the roads and farmers harvest their crops.

Og dette er et godt eksempel på hvorfor man ikke blindt skal stole på en kar i retail helsesektoren til å drive med "bias and credibility". Flere av påstandene er korrigert og oppdatert av ANI og et par er i beste fall uklare eller missing context. Denne med "Media Misquotes RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat On Nationalism" så vises det til en ANI artikkel med headline "Avoid using word 'nationalism', as it is derives from Hitler or Nazi: Mohan Bhagwat" hvor påstanen er at ANI "attributed the statement to Bhagwat who was was narrating what an RSS worker in the UK had told him". Leser man 5 linjer lenger ned i artikkelen fremkommer hvor usagnet kommer fra. Neppe en gang "missing context" siden konteksten står der, men overskriften av kanskje litt clickbait. Men FALSE? Tja. Det samme med denne elefanten som ble "‘fed’ a pineapple with firecrackers". Joda elefanten døde etter å ha spist en pinapple with firecrackers, men det var uklart om matingen var med vilje eller om den bare tilfedligvis hadde spist en pineappple with firecrackers som de to lokale bøndene hadde spredt litt utover gården for å holde dyr unna. Det var jo tre siktede i saken, men to av de hadde rømt, så man hadde ikke helt enda fått avklart hvorvidt elefanten ble "matet" en pineapple with firecrackers, eller om den av egen vilje spiste en pineapple with crackers som lå litt rundtomkring på gården for å holde dyr unna. I beste fall en "missing context". Men FALSE? Tja. Sakene om Anju Bobby George og Donald Trump er senere korrigert. Den 20 år gamle saken (!!) om Nancy Cartwright klarte jeg ikke å finne noen ANI kilder på. Mulig for gammel eller slettet. Saken om Eid preyers in Sringagar (hvor de feilaktig brukte bilder fra en moske i Jammu) fant jeg ingen korrigering eller oppdatering om feilaktig bildebruk på. MBF skriver jo også: Asian News International (ANI) reports national news with minimally emotionally loaded headlines.. The wording of the articles is also relatively neutral and balanced. ANI primarily sources information to itself as they are the source and provider of news. ANI reports international news with low bias as they use credible mainstream news agencies.. ...men å bruke en sak fra 2005 for å konkludere rundt "credibility" er tydeligvis null problem.

War crimes in real time The new world leader in war crimes justice is probably Ukraine. Its general prosecutor is investigating 177,000 suspected war crimes. “This is the most documented war in history. We are doing this in real time.” In the past, crimes were typically documented postwar, after memories had faded and witnesses died. Other game-changers are new digital tools. Matviichuk says they help “to restore events, to identify perpetrators, to communicate, for example, with people from occupied territories, which we couldn’t dream of 30 years ago during the Balkan wars.” Using AI, prosecutors can search endless statements by Russian propagandists for incitations to commit atrocities. Russian soldiers who executed or castrated Ukrainians or used chemical weapons must fear justice for ever, because there’s no statute of limitations on war crimes.

Spørsmålet er hva som skal være utslagsgivende, hva er kriteriene for at vi skal forby norske borgere å besøke et land, mens andre slipper unna? Iran, Kina og Nord-Korea er alle aktive på IT-fronten, hacker og stjeler, som også er en form for hybridkrig. Hvorfor skal man forby norske privatpersoner å besøke Russland, mens man fortsatt står fritt til å reise til andre land ala Israel, Iran, Kina, Nord-Korea, Azerbaijan, India/Pakistan, Libanon, Yemen, m.fl?

Første Patrioten fra Tyskland var på plass allerede i slutten av forrige uke (eller uka før?). Til gjengjeld rykker Tyskland øverst på ventelista over nye systemer, hvor egentlig Sveits stod. Da begynner leveransen av Tysklands nye patrioer allerede neste år, men Sveits må vente litt lenger før de får sine. Ukraine receives first of promised additional Patriot systems from Germany However, it is a tough ask for some countries, given that their Patriots will not be replaced until early next year. The replacements are expected to come from orders once promised to Switzerland. In 2022, Switzerland ordered five Patriot systems, with the expectation that deliveries would start in 2026 and end two years later.

Det finnes av ulike grunner mange forferdelige land i verden, noen terroriserer egen befolkning, andre terroriserer andre lands befolkning. Å begynne å forby privatpersoner å reise inn i andre land, enten kanskje for å besøke familie, dokumentere hva som skjer der, eller whatever, er virkelig feil vei å gå. Ja, også? Hvorfor skal ikke norge borgere få lov å besøke egen familie i det landet? Fordi de driver en "hybridkrig" (hva nå i all verden det innebærer) og konvensjonell krig (at det er i Europa er vel mindre relevant?). Hvilke andre land bør vi forby norske borgere å reise til?

Hindre norske borgere å besøke familie i Russland bare fordi vi ikke liker landet? Skal samme gjelde for de som besøker India, Pakistan, Israel, m.fl.?

Trakkasering og sanksjoner mot journalister og andre plagsomme røster er utbredt. Nå sier Ukrainska Pravda til britiske The Times at det er de som står for tur. President Zelensky is trying to silence criticism from Ukraine’s leading political news site, its editor-in-chief has told The Times, as the government grapples with protests against a new law that would subordinate its anti-corruption bodies to a presidential appointee. Sevgil Musayeva, the editor of Ukrainska Pravda, accused the presidential office of threatening advertisers not to pay the website and barring officials from speaking to her staff. The presidential office denies the claims. Ukrainska Pravda’s advertising revenue has plummeted, claims Musayeva, because the presidential administration has called companies and asked them to pull support for events run by the site. Six of Ukraine’s largest businesses had telephoned the media outlet’s advertising sales department to withdraw from longstanding sponsorship arrangements, explaining they had been warned off by the presidential administration, claimed Musayeva. The presidential office has also developed a plan to sanction the Ukrainska Pravda’s owner, Dragon Capital, which could force it into a hostile takeover by allies of the president due to lack of funds, European diplomatic sources told The Times. “This issue is at the forefront of people’s minds, on everyone’s screens,” said a diplomat from one of the G7 embassies in Kyiv. “Talks [warning about Ukraine’s move to sanction Dragon Capital] are happening now behind closed doors.”

Exclusive: Chinese engines, shipped as 'cooling units', power Russian drones used in Ukraine Chinese-made engines are being covertly shipped via front companies to a state-owned drone manufacturer in Russia, labelled as "industrial refrigeration units" to avoid detection in the wake of Western sanctions, according to three European security officials and documents reviewed by Reuters. The shipments have allowed Russian weapons-maker IEMZ Kupol to increase its production of the Garpiya-A1 attack drone, despite the U.S. and E.U. sanctions imposed in October designed to disrupt its supply chain, according to the sources and documents, which included contracts, invoices and customs paperwork.

FT har en lengre artikkel om Zelenskyys mektige stabssjef, mannen som egentlig styrer showet i følge mange. The polarising power of Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s other wartime leader President Zelenskyy’s right-hand man is fuelling concerns over creeping authoritarianism Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. Yermak’s own role has been described in myriad ways by those who’ve observed him — from Zelenskyy’s right-hand man to Ukraine’s de facto vice-president. But, his allies and critics agree, almost nothing happens in Ukraine without his knowledge and approval. Nobody gets to the president without going through him. But his judgment has been called into question by many observers, including those close to him. It was Yermak who, against the advice of US and Ukrainian officials, pushed for an Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump in February, as Kyiv sought American backing and a minerals deal. The fiasco that followed nearly upended relations between the two countries, and was seen as evidence of Yermak’s overconfidence. Yermak has come to personify a debate roiling the country, over whether centralised powers imposed by the wartime administration might cripple Ukraine’s democratic future once the war ends. For many Ukrainians, he is a symbol of an old order they are desperate to leave behind. This week, Zelenskyy faced the most serious domestic challenge of his presidency, after a sweeping move to sideline Ukraine’s independent anti-corruption bodies sparked the first major mass protests since the start of the war. There were chants of “Yermak out” and “Fuck Yermak” among the crowds of thousands gathered in Kyiv. In interviews with more than 40 people, including current and former Ukrainian officials, western diplomats in Kyiv and officials from European governments and Washington who have dealt directly with Yermak, I was frequently told that he wields as much influence as Zelenskyy, perhaps more. To detractors, Yermak is an unelected tsar amassing boundless power — eroding the democratic checks and balances that Kyiv has implemented since its Euromaidan revolution in 2014. He draws up lists of domestic political enemies for Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council to sanction. He has been accused of manipulating judicial investigations to discredit his rivals and stalling anti-corruption inquiries. He is said to orchestrate black ops, spreading leaks and rumours via anonymous channels on Telegram. “His aim is to centralise everything in a post-Soviet style of rule that resembles something not so different from autocracy,” said one person who worked closely with Yermak in the president’s office. Last week, one of Yermak’s close allies, Yulia Svyrydenko, was appointed Ukraine’s new prime minister — a move widely reported as evidence of his growing hold over Zelenskyy. A western ambassador described Yermak’s role bluntly: “He’s the president, the prime minister, the foreign minister . . . all the ministers put together.” One Ukrainian minister warned me that few inside the government would dare talk about Yermak on the record — a prediction that turned out to be true. “Everyone’s future and fortunes,” he said, “are determined by Andriy Yermak.”

Sjefen for SBU, Vasily Malyuk, fortalte på tirsdag om en hendelse fra mai hvor NABU bl.a. gjennomsøkte hjemmet (eller kontoret?) til sjefen for Nasjonalgarden, Oleksandr Pivnenko, med flere. Pivnenko var angivelig ikke mistenkt for noe (så vidt jeg forstår), men SAPO raidene/søkene førte at 6 personer ble avløst fra sin stilling, bl.a. nestkommandere Oleksandr Bilous. How do you feel about going to the National Guard commander, a Hero of Ukraine, combat general Pivnenko, with a search? Just showing up there, where there are some third-party issues and that’s it. Does he deserve this? Han sier at dette søket resulterte i direkte påvirkning på situasjonen ved fronten, og at innenriksministeren måtte bruke en uke på å rydde opp. "Halvparten [av Nasjonalgarden] la fra seg våpnene, og andre halvparten ønsket å marsjere mot Kyiv" Han sier videre at dersom den nye loven hadde vært på plass i mai, ville ikke Riksadvokaten ha gitt tillatelse til søket hos Pivnenko / forhindret det / satt det på vent.

Billionaire and ex-header Google makes drones for Ukraine. What drives him? Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt produces drones for the war in Ukraine. The fact is that Schmidt is not just a former Google CEO. This is a person who switched his attention to the use of artificial intelligence for military purposes and relied on Ukraine as a training ground for a new technological revolution. The entrepreneur collected a team for several years, which according to American tradition would be called a dream team. Its task is to develop drones and autonomy systems for them. One of his UAVs is currently the most effective in intercepting the shahes. Most of those with whom the spoke in the preparation of the material, note that Schmidt intercepter is one of the most effective in the fight against enemy drones. In particular, it demonstrates the high accuracy of detecting goals in the night sky. Most of the shots dead with drones, about 90%, falls on these systems. Schmidt's selskap, Swift Beat, står for 90% av dronene som tar ned UAVs som Shahed.