#Military Support

[immaculatasknight]

Get off your knees

[fa-cat]

Zelenskyy to attend G7 summit in person

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will attend the G7 summit this weekend in person, people briefed on the preparations told the Financial Times, and participate in discussions in Hiroshima on Sunday.

The unexpected and unannounced attendance is aimed at hardening western resolve in support of Ukraine and winning over other non-G7 attendees at the summit, including India and Brazil.

Zelenskyy’s attendance is expected to see him redouble efforts to secure increased military support, including US-made F-16 fighter jets, which requires the blessing of Washington.

Zelenskyy has not visited Asia since Russia’s full-scale invasion of his country began last February. The Ukrainian president visited the UK, France, Italy and Germany this week.

[narrative-theory]

Richard Wolff on the failure of the Ukraine conflict

Richard Wolff The Ukraine Conflict Is a Costly Failure

Richard Wolff on the failure of the Ukraine conflict.

[hassanac33]

[headlinehorizon]

Gary Sinise to Receive Honorary AARP Purpose Prize for Exceptional Support of Military Members and First Responders

Renowned actor Gary Sinise is set to be honored with the prestigious AARP Purpose Prize Award for his outstanding dedication to serving military members and first responders through his Gary Sinise Foundation. Learn more about his remarkable achievements!

[somereaderinblue]

Warrior!Penelope Ody in a nutshell.

[paulborst]

'Tell me how we do well if Putin wins': GOP divided on Ukraine spending after Biden promises at NATO

After President Joe Biden promised more U.S. military support for Ukraine at a NATO summit in Vilnius, he now needs Congress to put the money where his mouth is.

[floralfanboy]

Biden also knows how to use minimalist language to downplay Israeli war crimes. And he is not reluctant about the continued arming of Israel; he is a keen material supporter.

Words don't trump the blank cheque provided by unconditional military support.

The confidence and casualness of people talking about genocide will never cease to amaze me.

[immaculatasknight]

Berlin hasn't learned

[brighteuphony]

I love Chiyo- and I kind of headcanon her as a Witch of the Woods (Sands???) archetype- a bitter old woman who has sacrificed too much, experienced and committed more atrocities than anyone can imagine, and who knows the truth about what lies in the hearts of men to live among the villages anymore.

In my AU she's got a pretty dark backstory. Back in time when Villages were just getting established, women weren't allowed to be shinobi in the same capacity as men. There was too much warring and death among the clans to risk women, so they were only ever allowed to serve as spies or medics. (Chiyo started off as a medic).

And like any military/fascist dictatorship, serving the state was more important than anything else- so women who were kunoichi were given missions to steal and return with powerful bloodlines. Even before villages, this was a common fear among clans (which is why so many of them have protective measures and inbreed/arrange matches very carefully).

Chiyo was one such woman, who took a X-rated mission in her youth because she was told it would 'serve her nation'. There was a powerful bloodline whose Kekkei Genkai could harden sand to something akin to Steel- something Suna very desperately wanted.

Chiyo succeeded in her mission, but despite the veneer of 'serving your nation', when she returned, she was considered, in her words, "Just another whore."

Then when her son didn't manifest the bloodline- it was worse, but Chiyo was happy because that meant her son was HERS. (This is when she met Enji, and he saved her son's life at great cost- so Chiyo owes him a blood/life debt.)

Then the war came, and they needed women to fight so now serving the nation meant something different, and Chiyo became a full fledged 'shinobi' and turned her healing towards poison and death- especially when she had to fight the Salamander.

Then she sealed Gaara and that was the atrocity straw that broke the camel's back and she dipped out Suna and retired to an oasis. She's still a healer, but adamantly refuses to serve shinobi.

Once again, thank you so much for these asks and all the support for this AU?

@youngpeacearbiter

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Countries that provide military aid to Ukraine, January 2023.

by u/KungUnderBerget

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[brekkie-e]

There's a post going around saying that the Veilgaurd team is so nice to eachother because it's a story about professionals. I need the author locked in a room with Vivienne, Cassandra, Leliana, and Josephine so they can look them in the eye and say they're not professionals to their faces. For science.

[s0fter-sin]

i need ghoap frantically making out against a door finally taking the leap on their feelings. need ghost grinding against soap, expecting to find him just as hard as him, only to feel nothing

and in all his wisdom and experience, he concludes soap was tortured and never told him

he’s trying to think of a delicate way to say he understands, that he’s been through it and it doesn’t change anything about how he feels (and who the fuck touched him so he can hunt them down and rend them limb from limb)

meanwhile trans!soap’s just trying to find the best angle to grind his cunt on ghost’s thigh

just it never even entering ghost’s head bc he’s never known a trans person but he has met plenty of people who’ve been tortured - himself included - so of course that’s his logical leap

soap takes off his shirt and he sees his top surgery scars and ghost asks if he wants him to kill the one who did it and soap just hums like, “actually, man did pretty good, they healed real well,” and ghost’s just teary-eyes with awe at how well he’s coping, “looking on the bright side, that’s my johnny.”

imagine he thinks johnny was fully castrated but sees he’s determined to still have a sex life with him so he buys packers and straps to help him bc hell yeah healing and soap’s just like, “holy shit i’ve never had such a thoughtful partner before, such a sweet man, lt.”

[perjuryfan]

this is not a joke