US marine and US citizen, Willy Joseph Cancel, reportedly killed while fighting in Ukrainian

A 22-year-old former US marine and American citizen, Willy Joseph Cancel, was reportedly killed while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in Ukraine, members of his family have told CNN.

Cancel was working with a private military contracting company when he was killed on Monday, He signed up to work for the company on top of his full-time job as a corrections officer in Tennessee shortly before the war in Ukraine broke out at the end of February, his mother, Rebecca Cabrera, said.

He wanted to go over because he believed in what Ukraine was fighting for, and he wanted to be a part of it to contain it there so it didn’t come here, and that maybe our American soldiers wouldn’t have to be involved in it.”

They haven’t found his body. They are trying, the men that were with him, but it was either grab his body or get killed, but we would love for him to come back to us.” she said

House passes military lend-lease bill to speed Ukraine aid

Source: AP viaSFgate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House gave final passage Thursday to legislation that would streamline a World War II-era military lend-lease program to more quickly provide Ukraine and other Eastern European countries with American equipment to fight the Russian invasion.

The measure, which passed by an overwhelming 417-10 vote, now goes to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Gregory Meeks of New York said with unified support from the U.S. Congress, “Ukraine will win.”

The bill is the latest from Congress, which is steadily churning out resolutions and resources to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and help the country and its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fight back. The Biden administration announced Thursday it will seek another $30 billion from Congress in military and humanitarian aid, on top of the nearly $14 billion Congress approved last month to help Ukraine fight the war.

Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/House-passes-military-lend-lease-bill-to-speed-17134535.php

russian monopoly money is now at a 2 year high so is this the work of artificially inflating their

currency using voodoo economics or are sanctions just not hurting their economy?

The rouble soared to a more than two-year high against the euro in Moscow trade on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

Russia halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland for rejecting its demand for payment in roubles on Wednesday.

By 2:18pm GMT, the rouble had gained 1.8% to trade at 75.43 versus the euro , its strongest since early March 2020.

It was 1.1% stronger against the dollar at 72.75 .



Now, I had to check this for myself by calling up the chart & its true but hard to believe.

Truss singled out China, which has refused to condemn invasion of Ukraine, while increasing imports

from Russia and commenting on “who should or shouldn’t be a Nato member”.

Countries must play by the rules.

And that includes China...

China is not impervious. They will not continue to rise if they do not play by the rules.

China needs trade with the G7. We represent around half of the global economy. And we have choices.

We have shown with Russia the kind of choices that we’re prepared to make when international rules are violated.”

UK’s foreign secretary Liz Truss




I agree 100%, china is as disgusting as russia in my book. Its time for the West to break the economic hold china has on us.

Put in prison

A top executive at one of Russia's largest private banks said he has quit his post and fled to Kyiv

Ukrainian-born Igor Volobuev, vice president of Gazprombank, said he “could no longer be in Russia” and that he wants to “wash off” his Russian past.

In an interview with the independent Russian news outlet The Insider, Volobuev said he wanted to join the Ukrainian territorial defence after Russia invaded on 14 February.

Volobuev said: I could no longer be in Russia. I am Ukrainian by nationality, I was born in Akhtyrka, I could no longer observe from the outside what Russia is doing to my homeland.

Volobuev said he worked for six years at Gazprombank, a subsidiary of the Russian energy giant, as well as Gazprom for over 16 years. He said he now wanted “to stay in Ukraine until the victory”.

As I posted earlier about the 2 American volunteer soldiers wounded in Ukraine I wondered

where all the flag waving right wingers blasting "i'm Proud To Be An American" on their radios? After reading that report about our brave volunteer soldiers going into harms way to protect another democracy I can say today that I am proud to be an American, something I thought I would never say again after 4 years of tRump.

Two American volunteers fighting in Ukraine were wounded by artillery fire near the city of Orikhiv

US army veterans, Manus McCaffrey and Paul Gray, were working together as a team targeting Russian tanks with Javelins when they were injured, journalist Nolan Peterson reports.

https://twitter.com/nolanwpeterson/status/1519333208520859649

https://twitter.com/nolanwpeterson/status/1519334107892826112

Them there are fightin words, pootie may just open a can of whoopass he's not ready for

Reuters: Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any countries attempting to interfere in Ukraine would be faced with a swift response from Russia and said all decisions on how Moscow would react in that situation have already been taken.

Addressing lawmakers in St Petersburg, Putin said the West wanted to cut Russia up into different pieces and accused it of pushing Ukraine into conflict with Russia.

You can bet the farm that the West made their decisions on how to react if he's dumb enough to try something.

Putins back to using his improbably long, white table