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Tomconroy

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September 10, 2022

The Ukraine offensive in the East

Overnight Ukraine has liberated Krupyansk, Izium and Lyman. Russians are literally running for their lives.

September 7, 2022

Ukraine offensive in the east.

Astonishing things are happening in Eastern Ukraine as we speak. The Kherson offensive was not Ukraine's only strategic plan.
Listen to the news to see if the city of Krupyansk is liberated. What's happening in the east is breath taking.

All of the information is coming from Russian sources. Rob Lee is covering:

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1567395435685216256?t=jot0R7c1BfQFh7VLOssbQg&s=19

September 7, 2022

Ukraine issues stamps celebrating Patron the sapper dog.

I know some people enjoyed my posts about Ukraine's sapper dog hero Patron. Last week the Ukraine government issued a set of stamps honoring Patron. They are available from Amazon for about $25. Proceeds will go to a demining machine and then to aid animal shelters. They say it may take several weeks for the stamps to arrive. I intend to frame mine when they do.
Here is the link on Amazon:


UKRPOSHTA Dog Patron Minesweeper Ukrainian Postage Stamp Set Bundle (6X Stamps + 2 Special One, 1x Postcard, 2X Envelope) https://a.co/d/6TmeDH0

https://twitter.com/PatronDsns/status/1565290711720787968?t=BJBGX_76nWbrnvmUdtCF3g&s=19

August 7, 2022

Congratulations to Senator Joe Manchin

You alone were prescient enough to recognize the dangers of inflation last fall. Yet despite the vicious attacks of those who don't understand that Politics is the Art of the Possible, you persisted in good faith and with incredible personal grace to achieve a piece of legislation that raised taxes on corporations, aids the environment and does a number of other things that will be of benefit to The Republic.
The Nation owes you a debt. Many in The Party owe you an apology.

July 28, 2022

I spend a lot of time on twitter in order to post things about Ukraine

I'm not going to post the tweet but it's from a guy in the UK called Jimmy, very knowledgeable, pro Ukraine.
He says there is a video circulating of a Russian castrating a Ukrainian prisoner. And he reports it's happened on other occasions.
I can't take anymore for now. I'm going to take a break.
I don't understand why we haven't done what's necessary to win this war.

July 28, 2022

GDP fell .9% for the second quarterly decline and a strong signal of recession.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/gdp-q2-.html

The U.S. economy contracted for the second straight quarter from April to June, hitting a widely accepted rule of thumb for a recession, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday.

Gross domestic product fell 0.9% at an annualized pace for the period, according to the advance estimate. That follows a 1.6% decline in the first quarter and was worse than the Dow Jones estimate for a gain of 0.3%.

Officially, the National Bureau of Economic Research declares recessions and expansions, and likely won’t make a judgment on the period in question for months if not longer.

But a second straight negative GDP reading meets a long-held basic view of recession, despite the unusual circumstances of the decline and regardless of what the NBER decides. GDP is the broadest measure of the economy and encompasses the total level of goods and services produced during the period.
July 27, 2022

Brief update on the Battle of Kherson Ukraine

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1552235499078696961

Ukraine has severed almost all of the bridges needed to resupply Kherson. That leaves somewhere around 10-12000 orcs on the wrong side of the river to be resupplied by air or possibly by barges. Virtually an impossible logistics task.
Ukraine has imposed a virtual embargo on news about the region.
We shall see what happens.

The video is of the results of the HIMARs strike last night.

And this from Ukraine MOD:

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1552270029898616832

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Name: Tom Conroy
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Home country: USA
Current location: Langley, Virginia
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