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Oleshky. 17 busser med mennesker som ville til Ukraina, 4 busser med mennesker som ville til Russland. 4 fly med de som ville til Ukraina landet tidligere i Belarus, derfra tilbake til Ukraina. Mission accomplished. Eneste jeg har registrert av ubekreftede hendelser er meldinger om to russere som døde da de ryddet miner...

250,000 er mange bilder, da har man ikke ligget på latsiden! Polish police seize 250,000 photos of critical infrastructure from detained Russian national Police established that the Russian national had arrived in Poland on business. Analysis of data recovered from his storage devices revealed hundreds of thousands of similar files containing photographs of various locations and key transport infrastructure facilities, not only in Poland but also abroad. The photographs showed key railway and other transport infrastructure facilities, including some designated as critical infrastructure. Gałecka clarified at a press briefing on 30 October that police in Świdnica had secured 250,000 photographs. She added that further photographs and information were stored on other devices.

Mye fuzz i Polen i dag og mange forskjellige reaksjoner. Dommere valgt av nåværende Sejm (under Tusk's styringskoalisjon) har tatt kontroll over forfatningsdomstolen og midlertidig suspendert domstolens president og videpresident i en mnd. A sharp tightening of the TK dispute. President Święczkowski loses control Prime Minister Tusk talks about "restoring the rule of law," President Kaczynski about a "coup," and President Nawrocki is suddenly returning to the country. In the dispute over the Constitutional Court, there was a sharp acceleration on Friday night. The judges elected by the current authority took control of the Constitutional Tribunal and announced the suspension of President Bogdan Święczkowski. Politicians and protesters gather outside the Court’s headquarters.

Finland spilte jo mot Belarus i Nations League i fotball her forleden, som endte med at Finland ble bøtlagt €30,000 av UEFA etter bl.a. usportselig opptreden fra finske supportere. Russere i langrennssporet har vi jo allerede sett, men der går de jo stort sett induviduelle utøvere og ikke lag.

Formann Kim (som likevel ikke var død) får nok sin del av dronetechkaka fra Russland.. Se så glad han er da, wow! North Korea: The world's happiest place.

Man skulle kanskje tro at våpenhvilen i deler av Kherson og Oleshky var en god ting, men det er ikke akkurat åpenbart. FAFOids på Twitter har de to siste dagene vært rasende, de mener FLOTUS er War Criminal. Også den ukrainske ombudsmannen, Lubinets, får gjennomgå. Han for pes for alt fra at han håndhilser på russere, snakker russisk, blir rundlurt av russerne, lar seg bruke til PR stunt, reiser gjennom russisk terrotorie, you name it. Er ikke alle russere som er helt blid på ukrainske ombudskvinnen heller og de skjønner hvorfor hun driver å drasser rundt på den ukrainske delegasjonen på russisk territorie. Et par dager igjen av våpenhvilen, fortsatt mye som kan gå galt though.

Ja, det er ikke spesielt praktisk da det er så mye miner der. Ukrainas ombudsmann er selv på vei til byen nå, og må reise inn fra russisk territorie via Belarus. Når de skal evakueres er planen å dra først til Anapa i Russland (via Krim), også videre til Belarus og derfra til Ukraina. Planen er at både han selv og et par andre fra hans kontor, og noen journalister, skal være med de på hele turen tilbake. Under the arrangement, residents who wish to leave the city for Ukrainian-controlled territory will first travel to Anapa Airport in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, then fly to Gomel, Belarus, aboard a Russian Defense Ministry military transport aircraft. The flight is scheduled to depart from Vityazevo Airport in Anapa. Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, two members of his office, and two Ukrainian journalists will accompany the evacuees. Russia's human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, and a representative of the humanitarian mission coordination group will also be part of the accompanying delegation.

Dette er amerikansk politikk i praksis gjennom flere år, det er slik det har blitt praktisert også av tidligere presidenter og administrasjoner. Det er basically fritt frem for POTUS å bombe litt her og der i andre land dersom dette er nødvendig av hensyn til den nasjonale sikkerheten (som også jo POTUS har ganske stor frihet til selv å definere), terrorisme, o.l. The result has been over two centuries of conflicts between presidents and Congress. Presidents are clearly authorized to respond to threats to national security by commencing military operations. Past presidents, including Democratic presidents such as President Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have asserted the unilateral power to attack other nations when they believe that combat is warranted by national security. The War Powers Act was the response of Congress to try to curtail such unilateral authority. Overriding the veto of President Richard Nixon, Congress mandated that presidents must consult with them and cease all combat operations within 60 days if Congress has not approved the use of force. Presidents, and some academics, have long argued that the WPA is unconstitutional in part or in whole. I respect members asserting their inherent constitutional authority. I have long criticized the lack of declarations of war as demanded by the Framers. We have not had a formal declaration of war since World War II. However, courts and Congress have long deferred to presidents in the conduct of such operations. Se også War Power resulosjonen som Kaine, Massie, Khanna, m.fl. ville fremme: “Congress hereby directs the President to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces for hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any part of its government or military.” og helt slutt; "However, at the very end, the resolution has this line: “Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the United States from defending itself from imminent attack.” I realiteten ville ikke dette endret noe som helst, så lenge Iran forsetter å "forsvare" seg ved å fyre avgårde droner og missiler som igjen skaper "imminent attack". Da kan POTUS fortsette å preventivt bombe helt til det lenger ikke er fare for noen imminent attack.. Og hvem sin vurdering er det? POTUS og administrasjonen. Selv om iranerne ikke fyrer avgårde noen droner eller missiler vil det neppe heller være spesielt vanskelig for POUTS å argumentere for preventive angrep. Og hvordan mener du at jeg forsøker mele min egen kake? Jeg støtter ikke angrepene. Jeg synes det ikke er bra i hele tatt. Jeg synes ikke akkurat det er tipp topp at amerikanske presidenter nærmest på egen hånd kan starte en storskalakrig.

Men nå har det jo gått over 60 dager.. hva skjer da? Kan POTUS fortsette å gjennomføre preventive angrep, eller setter War Power en stopper for dette?

Ja, basically. Så lenge det angripende landret svarer tilbake med å angripe amerikanske styrker og mål, vil POTUS ha klart å skape en setting der han kan fortsette å krige i lang tid, og War Power loven kan ikke stanse dette. Det er absurd. Jonathan Turley forklarer litt av dillemaet, som Kaine og de andre som ville fremtvinge en vote for å umiddelbart stanse Trump, må løse; Hvordan fratar man egentlig POTUS retten til å føre en krig, uten at man samtidig fratar han retten til å beskytte amerikanere fra innkommende iranske droner og missiler? The problem is that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are now launching a full-fledged attack with thousands of missiles against the United States, its assets, and its allies around the world. It has also declared that the key Strait of Hormuz is now closed — potentially choking off twenty percent of the world’s oil reserves. So how are these members going to draft a War Powers Resolution? The WPA requires that “The President in every possible instance shall consult with Congress before introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and after every such introduction shall consult regularly with the Congress until United States Armed Forces are no longer engaged in hostilities or have been removed from such situations.” Kaine and others insist that hostilities were not imminent when we attacked. Even if that were true, they are now. We are in a full engagement with Iran with mounting injuries and destruction. All threats are now imminent and all attacks are arguably preemptive. WPR specifically allows for the use of force in “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.” Those attacks are now occurring.

Har ikke sett noen melde at de har gjort det.

Etter 60 dager, hva legger War Powers begrensninger på og hva legger det ikke begrensinger på? Han mister jo ikke sin rolle som Commander in Chief og må fortsatt sørge for å ivareta nasjonal sikkerthet - hvis de mener Iran planlegger å skyte missiler mot amerikanske, eller allierte, mål (uvisst om det er sivile eller militære mål), kan han utføre et prevantivt angrep for å stanse dette?

Flere har meldt at russerne bruker våpenhvilen til forsterke posisjonene sine.

Slutt med de tåpelige stråmennene dine. Jeg har ikke forsvart verken angrep på Iran eller DT's ulovligheter. Jeg har vist til at denne ensidige tolkningen av War Power og 60-dagers regelen ikke er så rett frem som mange tror. Det er ikke det samme som å forsvare DT eller handlingene.

Oppsiktsvekkende artikkel fra TheAtlantic om Starlink. But, for the most part, the Ukrainian military did not transition to using Starshield. It continued to use regular Starlink antennas, the kind available at Walmart and other retailers around the world. Their service costs as little as $30 a month, compared to as much as $25,000 for Starshield. The fine print in the Starlink user agreement bans its use for military purposes. But Musk’s company did not enforce that rule in Ukraine. It maintained the pretense that Starlink would be reserved for peaceful purposes, while the military would rely on Starshield antennas, largely paid for by American taxpayers. The reality was quite different. “They’re using it for everything,” the senior U.S. military officer told us of Ukrainian reliance on Starlink. “Drones, command and control, tactical communication on the battlefield.” The U.S. government has not disclosed how many Starshield terminals it has provided to Ukraine. But Ukrainian officials and experts told us that they account for less than one percent of all the terminals in the war zone. The rest are regular Starlinks purchased on the retail market, including thousands bought in bulk for Ukraine by the governments of Poland and Germany. “Officially, these were supposed to be for humanitarian use,” a person who has negotiated with SpaceX on Ukraine’s behalf told us. “But everybody knew that they are going to the military.” To operate its drone fleet and stay online in the war zone, its armed forces had no choice but to break the rules of Starlink service. “It’s much cheaper that way, and easier to scale,” a Ukrainian official told us. The military could get as many Starlink terminals as it needed through foreign donors and the commercial market. It could attach them to drones and launch them at the Russians without thinking twice about the cost. Starshield, by contrast, is far more expensive and only available in small batches through official government channels.