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"an accounting error ...will allow the Defense Department to send more weapons now without asking Congress for more money. " --AP News

"The military starts the war and the teachers, engineers and accountants end it." --General Zaluzhny

invidious.poast.org/TadXxP_26V

Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean reported at a security forum in Bucharest on May 18 that Moldova has severed its dependence on Russian gas.

So Gerhard Schröder and wife counting change in Putin's pocket.

Glad that's in the open now.

...photographs revealed Schröder and his spouse were at a reception at the Russian embassy in Berlin on 9 May

Putin is a completely non-strategic thinker, Part #9085. Arresting Evan Gershkovich turned the entire western press machine against Russia. Even the useful idiots now realize they can find themselves sitting in a Siberian cell. WSJ and NYT agree(!) this bad.

FSB seems to be conducting “a large-scale overhaul of domestic security organs,” the Institute for the Study of War, a US thinktank, reports in its update today. The overhaul appears to be related to leaks of data to Ukraine, the ISW reports.

Stupid insecure little boy. Pun intended.

Meanwhile in Washington the obvious is disclosed, "...too many people have too much access to too much information without safeguards or guardrails."

nbcnews.com/politics/congress/

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Boring but important:
Turkey ratifies Finland's NATO accession

Putin's 5 dimensional chess game going well. We only _think_ NATO's getting bigger&stronger

"What does Russia's ruling class really think of Putin? A leaked audio recording of Russian producer Iosif Prigozhin and Russian billionaire ex-senator Farhad Akhmedov criticizing Putin has been verified by Russian intel service FSB, offering a peak into the anger toward the Kremlin's war."

worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/

Lukashenko shows he's a strong, confident, competent leader by jailing a Nobel Peace prize laureate.

Look for the helpers -- Fred Rogers

So many ways to help:
supportukrainenow.org/

(Supported by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.)

UA TV's presenter had to adjust his glasses after reporting about Russia dropping out of New START. (typo in the chyron)

Fiona Hill:
Putin thought he'd bought [everyone] off. And he said it aloud.

Master strategist!

youtube.com/watch?v=b5SMm4i1Yq

European Commission President von der Leyen: €11bn 10th round of sanctions on Iran and Russia including all tech products found on the battle field.

Electronic components for drones and helicopters; spare parts for trucks and jet engines; construction equipment that could be turned to military uses.

Proposes to out their propagandists. Not sure what that accomplishes, but yes let's do.

Targets oligarchs' hidden accounts to fund reconstruction.

youtube.com/watch?v=9uDQP9Tk0r

What is going on. Boris Johnson said something sensible. “How can you escalate against a guy who is doing all out war against a civilian population?”

Special Operation to Reduce Russian Influence yields major new alliances and green power infrastructure for the EU and beyond.
This, uhm *checks notes* Putin fella is an amazing strategist.

Azerbaijan plans to export electricity from offshore wind farms to Europe via Georgia, a cable beneath the Black Sea, and then to Romania and Hungary.

Hungary to replace Russian petro.

apnews.com/article/russia-ukra

Not content with crushing economic sanctions, Russia applies for a proper thumping.

I do not believe we are heading for a conventional war with Russia,” Ulriksen said. “But a hybrid war … I think we are already in it

apnews.com/article/russia-ukra

Norway

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What does it take to be ejected from the UN Security Council? Does the UN even know?

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