North Korea Puts US in Nuclear Crosshairs While Biden Has to Focus on Ukraine

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North Korea broke its self-imposed moratorium on long-range missile tests in spectacular fashion Thursday, successfully testing a monster intercontinental ballistic missile, believed to be the world’s largest mobile system capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads. It was the first test of a long-range ICBM since 2017, when North Korea paused tests while pursuing a deal with former President Donald Trump.

According to North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency, the new “super-large” Hwasong-17, first displayed at a military parade in 2017, was launched on what was basically a straight up and down trajectory, reaching a height of 6,248 kilometers (3,880 miles) before landing 1,090 kilometers (680 miles) in waters between North Korea and Japan.

Experts say, fired at a standard trajectory, the missile would be capable of traveling 15,000 kilometers (9,320 miles), which puts the entire U.S. mainland, including the capital Washington, D.C., in range.

“The new strategic weapon of the DPRK will clearly show the might of our strategic force to the whole world once again,” said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who personally gave the launch order, according to KCNA. “The success in the development of the new-type intercontinental ballistic missile,” Kim said, “is a great demonstration of the might of our self-reliant defense industry which has increased and developed with our driving force.” . . .

The surprise test prompted an immediate denunciation from Washington and a flurry of urgent phone calls from U.S. officials to their South Korea and Japanese counterparts. (Read more from “North Korea Puts US in Nuclear Crosshairs While Biden Has to Focus on Ukraine” HERE)

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Here’s Why Russian Forces Can’t Take The Ukrainian Capital Of Kyiv (VIDEO)

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When the Conservative Political Action Committee kicked off in late February, so did Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It seemed by the time the conference ended; Russian troops would be in firm command of the country. The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv was projected to fall within days of the invasion. Retired Gen. Jack Keane, a regular on Fox News, did say that the Ukrainians will mount a solid defense, but they will eventually be overrun by Russian troops. Not the case. We underestimated the Ukrainians’ ability to stand their ground. We overestimated the Russian military’s supposed prowess. What happened? It seems that things have atrophied.

Russian armored tactics used to be excellent. Russian tanks are not usually blown to bits in the numbers like we’re seeing in Ukraine. To add more humiliation to Moscow’s supposed military might, armored columns have run out of gas. Everything is stalled except in the city of Mariupol which is besieged and engulfed in classic urban house-to-house fighting right now. Despite no food, water, or electricity, the Ukrainian defenders are not surrendering. Elsewhere, Russian forces are truly stuck in the mud.

Will the capital fall? As of now, no—the Russians don’t have the men or materials to capture the capital. Vladimir Putin is reportedly pressuring Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, but he is reluctant to deploy forces into the country. The first phase of this war is over, and Russia failed.

Frank Ledwidge of the University of Portsmouth was on DW News, Germany’s English-speaking outlet, where he noted what former CIA Director David Petraeus said on CNN, that Russia’s top-down command structure has really done them regarding operational efficiency in Ukraine. Post-Crimean annexation, Ukraine retooled its strategy and tactics. They appear to have taken to heart the notion of trusting your subordinates to get the job done. In the US, we have our non-commissioned officer corps that’s entrusted to do that—they’re the backbone of any armed forces. Russians can’t do anything without their general saying so, which is why so many of them are deployed in front-line situations which have led to them being killed by Ukrainian snipers. Ledwidge noted that this could be due to some help from Western intelligence services but the two separate thoughts on how to fight a war are on display and the Russian way is very much killing them in the field. That 40-mile-long convoy hasn’t moved in days. With reports that Russia has gone as far as they can at this point, it might become a 40-mile funeral procession, as Ukrainians are picking off these idle vehicles.

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Boris Johnson: ‘Basic Facts Of Biology’ Are ‘Overwhelmingly Important’ In Transgender Issue

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United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson weighed in on the debate about transgenderism in his country, saying that “the basic facts of biology remain overwhelmingly important” in conversations about the issue.

At the Prime Minister’s Questions, a weekly meeting in the British Parliament where the House of Commons asks questions of the Prime Minister, Johnson was asked by House of Commons member Angela Richardson about a review of Britain’s National Health Service funding for transgender youth. . .

Johnson told Richardson that he would be happy to meet with her. “And I think that this is one of those issues that the whole House is coming to realize, one that requires extreme sensitivity, tact, love, and care,” he added. “We must recognize that when people want to make a transition in their lives, that they should be treated with the maximum possible generosity and respect. And we have systems in this country that allow that, and have done for a long time, we should be very proud of it. But I do want to say in addition that I think when it comes to distinguishing between a man and a woman, that the basic facts of biology remain overwhelmingly important.” (Read more from “Boris Johnson: ‘Basic Facts Of Biology’ Are ‘Overwhelmingly Important’ In Transgender Issue” HERE)

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Expert: Chinese Boeing 737 Brought Down by Missile or Pilot Suicide

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It was unlikely that a technical issue caused the China Eastern’s horrific passenger jet crash Monday, an Australian aviation expert has said.

The aircraft, which was en route to Guangzhou after taking off from Kunming, in the southwest, was carrying 132 people. The Boeing 737-800 plunged into a mountain near the southern Chinese city of Wuzhou. . .

Aviation expert Neil Hansford raised doubts about the cause of the crash, saying there could be four likely scenarios that led to the catastrophe. However, he ruled out technical issues.

“Even with total loss of power, no aircraft plummets to the ground from 20,000 feet in two minutes with an event at 8,000 feet,” Hansford explained to News.com.au. “I think aircraft technical failure can be ruled out and it will be an external event… I would get on a Boeing 737-800 in an instant with an Australian carrier, so my suggestion would be it won’t be Boeing or aircraft technical related.” . . .

“My tipping is a human-induced event or bought down by rogue missile. Debris looks like MH117 over Ukraine, and the Chinese are providing too much information this time which is uncharacteristic,” he was quoted as saying by News.com.au. (Read more from “Expert: Chinese Boeing 737 Brought Down by Missile or Pilot Suicide” HERE)

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Russian Officials Endorse Lara Logan’s Comments Linking Ukrainian Soldiers to Nazis and Occultism

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Kremlin-affiliated officials on Twitter endorsed war correspondent Lara Logan’s comments after she linked Ukrainian battalions to Nazis and Third-Reich occultism, and dismissed Russia’s invasion as having caused a humanitarian crisis in the former Soviet republic. . .

She added, “There’s a long history of the United States and our intelligence agencies funding and arming Nazis in Ukraine.” Logan continued to point out that there are photographs available online depicting Ukrainian soldiers holding up the NATO flag alongside Nazi emblems like the swastika and black sun.

Snippets of her conversation were widely spread by the verified accounts of Russian officials, like Russia’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Alexander Alimov. The official account for Russia’s Council of Europe — whose rights of representation were recently suspended — also tweeted the conversation.

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One of World’s Most Populous, Most Vaccinated Nations Suddenly Erupts With COVID After Two Years of Almost No Cases

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By Daily Caller. South Korea is suddenly experiencing a huge wave of Omicron subvariant BA.2 cases after very few reported cases of COVID-19 since February 2020.

The country is home to 52 million people and is currently averaging 400,000 cases per day, according to Hot Air. On March 17, the number of reported cases rose by 55%, totaling 621,328 with 429 deaths in the same 24-hour period, reported the Washington Post.

To put into context how enormous this outbreak is, Hot Air stated that it is the equivalent of 2.5 million cases per day in the United States if adjusted for population. The highest number of Omicron cases in the U.S. last year was 800,000 per day, so South Korea is currently experiencing nearly three times the number of cases per capita, the outlet continued. (Read more from “One of World’s Most Populous Nations Suddenly Erupts With COVID After Two Years of Almost No Cases” HERE)

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South Korea is One of the Most Vaccinated Countries in the World

By Amy Mek. [T]he number of severe cases has tripled, despite more than 92 percent of South Korean adults being fully “vaccinated.”

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) registered more than 7850 new cases on Tuesday, setting a new daily record. The following day they reported 7,622 cases, and last week, more than 7,000 cases were reported for the first time.

The number of serious cases has reached an all-time high, with some 87 percent of intensive care unit beds taken up in the Seoul metropolitan area and about 81 percent in use nationwide. In addition, many ‘breakthrough infections’ are registered. (Read more from “One of the Most Populous, Most Vaccinated Countries Explodes with COVID” HERE)

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It’s Putin’s Fault! White House Warns of Global Food Shortages After Ukraine Invasion; Report: Russian-American Relations Are on the Verge of Rupture

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By Breitbart. The White House confirmed Monday they expect certain parts of the world to suffer a food shortage as an effect of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“We do anticipate that higher energy fertilizer, wheat, and corn prices could impact the price of growing and purchasing critical food supplies for countries around the world,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.

She said food shortages were not expected to hit the United States, but rather countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Reports have pointed out that both Ukraine and Russia produce a significant portion of the world’s wheat, corn, and barley as well as energy and fertilizer. (Read more from “It’s Putin’s Fault! White House Warns of Global Food Shortages After Ukraine Invasion” HERE)

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Russia Tells US Envoy That Russian-American Relations Are on the Verge of Rupture

By USA Today. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday that it had summoned the U.S. ambassador to warn that President Joe Biden’s recent remarks have put Russian-American relations on the verge of rupture.

Biden last week described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal” as Russia’s missile attacks on Ukraine cities intensified. The Foreign Ministry, in a social media post, called the statement and other references to Putin and the Russian invasion “unworthy of a statesman of such high rank.”

The ministry warned Ambassador John Sullivan that hostile actions taken against Russia would be met with a “decisive and firm rebuff.”

The warning came hours after Ukraine firmly rejected a Russian offer to open two safe corridors out of Mariupol in exchange for the city’s surrender as the relentless missile strikes on the battered seaport city stretched deeper into a fourth week. (Read more from “Russia Tells US Envoy That Russian-American Relations Are on the Verge of Rupture” HERE)

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President Zelensky Slammed by Israeli Lawmakers for Comparing Russian Invasion to Holocaust; Zelensky Calls to Prevent Russian ‘Final Solution’

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‘Impossible to Rewrite the Terrible History of the Holocaust’: Zelensky Slammed by Israeli Lawmakers for Comparing Russian Invasion to ‘Final Solution’

By Daily Wire. On Sunday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky sparked outrage when he compared the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Holocaust during a speech to the Israeli government.

“This Russian invasion of Ukraine is not just a military operation, as Moscow claims. This is a large-scale and treacherous war aimed at destroying our people. Destroying our children, our families. Our state. Our cities. Our communities. Our culture. And everything that makes Ukrainians Ukrainians. Everything that Russian troops are now destroying. Deliberately. In front of the whole world,” Zelensky said. “That is why I have the right to this parallel and to this comparison. Our history and your history. Our war for our survival and World War II.” . .

“I appreciate the President of Ukraine and support the Ukrainian people in heart and deed, but it is impossible to rewrite the terrible history of the Holocaust,” Israel’s Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel tweeted. “Genocide was also committed on Ukrainian soil. The war is terrible, but the comparison to the horrors of the Holocaust and the final solution is outrageous.”

“If Zelensky’s speech was given… in normal [non-war] times, we would have said it bordered on Holocaust denial… Every comparison between a regular war, as difficult as it may be, and the extermination of millions of Jews in gas chambers in the framework of the Final Solution, is a total distortion of history. The same is true for the claim that Ukrainians helped Jews in the Holocaust… The historic truth is that the Ukrainian people cannot be proud of its behavior in the Holocaust of the Jews,” Yuval Steinitz, a Likud MK, said. “None of that changes the fact that despite the outrageous use of the Holocaust, we must continue humanitarian aid to the citizens of Ukraine suffering from the war and pray for its end to come soon.”

“I don’t understand Ukrainian, but if the translation I heard is accurate, Zelensky asked us to treat the Ukrainians like they treated us 80 years ago. I’m sorry, but I think we will have to reject that request. We are, after all, a moral nation,” said Simcha Rothman, a Religious Zionist MK, on the subject of Zelensky’s reference to Ukrainians who saved Jews during the Holocaust. (Read more from “‘Impossible to Rewrite the Terrible History of the Holocaust’: Zelensky Slammed by Israeli Lawmakers for Comparing Russian Invasion to ‘Final Solution’” HERE)

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Invoking Holocaust in Speech to Israeli Lawmakers, Zelensky Calls to Prevent Russian ‘Final Solution’

By Breitbart. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Israeli lawmakers via Zoom in a fiery speech on Sunday, and called on Israel to help prevent a Russian “final solution.”

Zelenskyy told lawmakers: “102 years after the Nazi party was established, on February 24, an order was given for a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

“They are using the terminology of the Nazi party. This is a tragedy. When they wanted to destroy Europe and have it surrender, they didn’t want to leave any of you remaining. And now us. They called it the final solution to the Jewish question,” Zelenskyy said while also criticizing Israel for not arming Ukraine.

“We can ask why we can’t receive weapons from you, why Israel has not imposed powerful sanctions on Russia or is not putting pressure on Russian business. Either way, the choice is yours to make, brothers and sisters, and you must then live with your answer, the people of Israel,” the Ukrainian President added. . .

Several Israeli lawmakers criticized Zelensky for drawing comparisons between the Holocaust and the Russian invasion.

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Threat of Nuclear Destruction at 40% As Putin Could ‘Kill Thousands’ in Last-Ditch Attack

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Harry Kazianis, an expert on U.S. foreign policy and national security issues, said that the current crisis has put the world in a “dangerous” situation. Speaking to Express.co.uk, he said: “For a living, I literally do war game scenarios. “And when we get to this point in a potential NATO/Russia clash, there’s about a 40 percent chance that it ends up being a war in a nuclear exchange.

“So that’s how dangerous this all really is.”

Mr Kazianis described the current crisis as being “worse than the Cuban missile crisis”, one of the most dangerous periods of the cold war, warning that if “NATO and Russia start shooting at each other”, war game scenarios always show it escalating into a nuclear war.

The expert, who is an analyst at the US thinktank Centre for National Interest, said: “This may actually be worse than the Cuban missile crisis, because of the amount of weaponry and egos and historical tension all packaged into one.

“In terms of nuclear war, the most likely scenario is that NATO and Russia start shooting at each other. (Read more from “Threat of Nuclear Destruction at 40% As Putin Could ‘Kill Thousands’ in Last-Ditch Attack” HERE)

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Zelensky Says Ukrainian Political Parties Linked to Russia to Be Banned

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Eleven Ukrainian political parties have been suspended because of their links with Russia, according to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

The country’s national security and defence council took the decision to ban the parties from any political activity. Most of the parties affected were small, but one of them, the Opposition Platform for Life, has 44 seats in the 450-seat Ukrainian parliament.

“The activities of those politicians aimed at division or collusion will not succeed, but will receive a harsh response,” Zelenskiy said, in a video address on Sunday.

“Therefore, the national security and defence council decided, given the full-scale war unleashed by Russia, and the political ties that a number of political structures have with this state, to suspend any activity of a number of political parties for the period of martial law,” the Ukrainian leader added.

The Opposition Platform for Life, Ukraine’s biggest opposition party, is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Moscow oligarch with close ties to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Party officials later said the suspension “had no legal basis”. (Read more from “Zelensky Says Ukrainian Political Parties Linked to Russia to Be Banned” HERE)

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