US Ukr Package Falls Short; Rus Advance Accelerates, Ukr Admits Retreats; Furious China Tough On Blinken
Topic 1183

Ukraine fallback to Dnieper, West/East Germany scheme
The Duran: Episode 1892

ATACMS secret. China, no red carpet for Blinken. Poland help Ukraine find men. Albanese, ban memes
Topic 1310

The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

❗YES❗@theduran ~ RE STUPIDITY / STUPID PEOPLE: Follows some wording on the subject which I wrote to my son a while ago when he was puzzling as to why some supposedly very clever people he was working alongside & studying with at the Institute For Mathematical Innovation + linked university colleges could be possessed by such stupid none-Maths/AI views:-

STUPID PEOPLE are even more dangerous than evil ones. We can protest against or fight evil people, but against stupid ones we’re defenceless - reason falls on deaf ears.

Stupidity is NOT a hereditary defect, nor an intellectual defect, nor an intelligence defect, but a moral one. There are human beings who are remarkably agile intellectually yet stupid, and others who are intellectually dull yet anything but stupid. The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of the same person.

Under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or rather they allow themselves to become stupid - stupidity ...

French Servicemen Promised Big Money for Fighting in Ukraine - Ex-Intel Officer

PARIS (Sputnik) - French servicemen are being promised a golden parachute for participating in fictitious "resignations" to fight in Ukraine said Nicolas Cinquini, a veteran of France's counter-terrorism intelligence service, to Sputnik.

Cinquini is currently searching for information about French nationals who fight in the conflict on the side of Kiev. According to his findings, French state agents may have been in Ukraine since the start of the special military operation in February 2022 along with ordinary French civilians who went to fight for the Kiev regime on their own.

“These are agents who remain very secretive and are difficult to identify,” the former intelligence officer noted.

“Sources told us that in the ranks of the French army, specialists were given attractive offers: a false resignation, a guarantee of reinstatement upon completion, and an income significantly higher than their usual ...

Houthis say they attacked MSC Darwin vessel in Gulf of Aden

The Houthis also confirmed that the movement will "continue its military operations, impeding the navigation of Israeli vessels in the Red Sea, the Arab Sea and the Indian Ocean"

DUBAI, April 26. /TASS/. Yemen’s rebel Ansar Allah (Houthis) movement claimed that its forces attacked the MSC Darwin vessel in the Gulf of Aden, the movement’s representative Yahya Saria said.

"The Navy of the Yemeni armed forces delivered a missile and drone strike on Israel’s MSC Darwin ship in the Gulf of Aden. The operation’s goals were successfully attained," the spokesman said on his Telegram channel.

The Houthis also confirmed that the movement will "continue its military operations, impeding the navigation of Israeli vessels in the Red Sea, the Arab Sea and the Indian Ocean."

After the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis warned that they would launch strikes on Israeli territory while ...