As mentioned the other day, I’ve numerous reports at my old site regarding NATO’s planned push into the Arctic https://web.archive.org/web/20191107155503/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2019/11/nato-north-building-role-for-nato-in.html From my former site – https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2019/11/nato-north-building-role-for-nato-in.html Wednesday, November 6, 2019 NATO North? Building a Role for NATO in the Arctic Interesting oped: Dr. Rebecca Pincus is assistant professor in the department of Strategic and Operational […]
Month: July 2023
NYT’s via Archive.ph Interesting the acknowledgment that Ukraine suffered heavy losses. Even though as I understand the situation, it seems the losses are worse than admitted. Still western media reporting like this rarely takes place without sugar coating the situation. In the first two weeks of Ukraine’s grueling counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of […]
Bloomberg reports as if Sweden’s accession has already taken place. It hasn’t. There are plenty of assumptions made throughout the article. As stated her on the 11th of July penny2says: July 11, 2023 at 8:23 am•Edit “I’ve run out of synonyms for meaningless futility.” Sighs…..Trudeau is going to double troops in Lithuania.We’re seeing preps for […]
Well there it is! The balkanization of Ukraine that has been often written about here at PFYT2. Beginning of 2023 Below from March 2022 Rasmussen does not rule out having Ukraine join NATO piece by piece Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the previous Secretary-General of NATO, does not rule out that Ukraine join the alliance piece by […]
My impression so far is Ukraine didn’t gain any ground in it’s desire to join NATO. And will continue to be used as a proxy army. https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/07/12/nato-deepens-ukraine-ties-but-doesnt-set-clear-path-for-membership/ NATO leaders gathered Wednesday to launch a highly symbolic new forum for ties with Ukraine, after committing to provide the country with more military assistance for fighting Russia […]
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The Big Guy Disappoints Zelensky
The “Big guy” is a reference to Joe Biden Zelensky is disappointed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised the “absurd” absence of a timetable for his country to join Nato as leaders met at a summit in Lithuania. President Joe Biden described the Nato gathering as a “historic moment” and said the US agreed with […]
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A Post Truth World?
I saw this term being used by someone on twitter- of course it piqued my interest “Post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence” When the leadership class repeatedly and forcefully claimed the experimental jab was going to end the pandemic […]
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NATO Summit
Digital Journal Western leaders gather in Lithuania’s capital on Monday to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine amid rare glimmers of disunity over Washington’s controversial decision to supply cluster bombs to Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced hope that Tuesday’s NATO summit in Vilnius would provide a “clear signal” that Kyiv could join the alliance once its war […]
Presidents Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkiye may hold a meeting in the presence of their Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, after the work on a roadmap for the normalisation of Syrian-Turkish relations is completed, Russian presidential envoy for the Syrian settlement, Alexander Lavrentiev, said yesterday. Lavrentiev said that there are specific […]
First, I’m glad to read this news and that these type of talks are taking place. Second, we are all aware or should be that this is a proxy war between the US and Russia, using Ukrainians as fodder. Third, the Biden administration is continuing on with the rhetoric “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine” which […]