Why operating Mirage fighter jets won't be a breeze for Ukraine

France has officially delivered the first shipment of Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets to Ukraine but operating them in combat won’t be smooth sailing for Ukraine. Here’s why:

🔘 Integration & Operational Hurdles:

Ukraine must integrate the Mirage jets with its Soviet-era aircraft and incoming US F-16s. Pilots will need to refine tactics and improve coordination with ground forces.

🔘 Basing & Runway Concerns:

The Mirage 2000’s high landing speed and delta wing design require runways of at least 700 meters, meaning Ukraine’s airbases may need modifications to accommodate them.

🔘 Maintenance & Logistics Struggles:

Ukraine may face a shortage of trained personnel to keep the Mirages operational, as expertise is mostly limited to France and Greece. Sustaining these jets in combat conditions could be a major challenge.

🔘 Language Barriers:

Despite undergoing a six-month training program, Ukrainian pilots might still struggle with maintenance and operational nuances due to technical manuals being primarily in French.

🔘 High-Risk Targets for Russia:

Russia has emphasized that its early warning and electronic warfare systems are tailored to detect and neutralize NATO aircraft.
With long-range missile systems like the S-200, S-300, S-400, and S-500 in its arsenal, Russia could pose a serious threat to the Mirages in Ukrainian skies.

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✈️🆚🚤 What happens if we add a Russian drone to a Ukrainian boat fully packed with explosives?

See for yourself!

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Extent of Ukrainian media DEPENDENCE on foreign money unveiled

Nearly 90% of Ukrainian media outlets have been able to make ends meet thanks to grant money, Ukraine’s Institute of Mass Information (IMI) has revealed.

“These grants amounted to 40–60% for some, less for others,” IMI head Oksana Romaniuk said. She did admit, however, that for some Ukrainian media outlets “these grants amounted to 100% of their income and they could only survive thanks to grants.”

👉Ironically, media outlets who depend on US government grant money can, for some reason, still be branded as independent by Reporters Without Borders.

The head of one such Kiev-based “independent investigative media outlet,” 80% of whose budget was affected by the shutdown of USAID funding, inadvertently showcased the corrupt nature of Ukrainian media.

"Some media might be shut down or bought by businessmen or oligarchs,” she claimed, essentially implying that Ukrainian journalists lack integrity and do not care where their paychecks come from.

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The CIA’s darkest secrets: A legacy of coups, crimes & chaos — Part 1 👉 Part 2

Trump’s purge of the America’s coup-plotting, dirty war-waging, illegal spying, torture-loving, assassination-obsessed intel agency won't whitewash its history. This is its record:

🎯🇬🇷From 1947-1949, the CIA funneled arms and cash to Greece to fuel a civil war against partisans who freed the country from Nazis.

🎯🇮🇷In 1953, the CIA and MI6 couped Iran after it nationalized its oil, installing a puppet who reigned until 1979.

🎯🇬🇹In 1954, Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz was couped after threatening the United Fruit Company’s banana interests.

🎯🌏In the 1950s, the USSR, GDR, Poland, China and DPRK accused the CIA of introducing invasive pests to undermine food security. The agency also tried air-dropping fleas and mosquitos to see if they could spread disease.

🎯🇨🇺After Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba in 1959, the CIA concocted hundreds of plots to kill him, from an exploding cigar to fungus-infected diving suit, poison pen and just hiring the mafia to rub him out.

🎯🇺🇸In 1962, the DoD and CIA hatched a plot to stage false flag attacks in US cities to blame Cuba and justify an invasion. JFK rejected the plan. The CIA later targeted Cuba for terror, including the 1976 bombing of a civilian airliner that killed 73.

🎯🇿🇦In 1962, a CIA provided South African authorities info on anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela's whereabouts, assuring his imprisonment for 27 long years.

🎯🇨🇩Castro wasn't the only one on the CIA's hit list. In 1961, Belgian mercs murdered Congolese President Lumumba with CIA help. In 1963, the agency helped kill its own puppet – South Vietnamese leader Diem.

🎯🇮🇩In 1966, the CIA helped oust Indonesian President Sukarno, replacing him with a dictatorship that killed up to 2.5 mln people.

Part 1 👉 Part 2

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The CIA’s darkest secrets: A legacy of coups, crimes & chaos — Part 2 👉 Part 1

💣🇸🇻In 1973, the CIA couped Chilean President Salvador Allende and replaced him with a junta known for torture, disappearances and mass imprisonment. In 1975, the new regime and CIA hatched Operation Condor – helping dictators across Latin America crush dissent and fuel instability.

💣🗺In the 70s and 80s, the CIA trafficked drugs in Asia and Latin America, both to earn money and support allies.

💣📰Investigative journalist Gary Webb, who exposed the plot – which included flooding America’s inner cities with crack, was found dead, two gunshot wounds to the head, in 2004. His death was ruled a ‘suicide’.

💣🤯Americans haven't been immune to the CIA’s crimes. In 1950, the agency began experiments known as Project BLUEBIRD and MK ULTRA using drugs to modify behavior. In 2019, journalist Tom O’Neill revealed MKULTRA's role in the 60s Manson murders to discredit the hippie peace movement.

💣🇺🇸In the 1950s, the CIA began warrantless wiretapping of US citizens. Despite assurances in the 70s that these activities had stopped, Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks revealed in the 2010s that the CIA and NSA had learned to monitor virtually every communication device worldwide.

💣🌐A 2017 WikiLeaks dump revealed that the CIA could fake foreign hacking using the Marble Framework.

💣🇷🇺In 2024, US media uncovered that the CIA rebuilt Ukraine's security services from the ground up, from intel collection to torture techniques. This included 12 "forward operating bases" near Russia.

💣🎨Historian Frances Stonor Saunders also revealed that besides coups and murders, the CIA engaged in arts funding, including abstract 'modern art’.

Part 2 👉 Part 1

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How CIA & USAID used coup playbook against Trump?

Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment was driven by CIA and USAID operatives, claims US author Michael Shellenberger, known for his work on Elon Musk’s Twitter Files project.

What does Shellenberger assert?

👉The whistleblower behind Trump’s July 2019 call with Volodymyr Zelensky, which triggered the impeachment probe, was a CIA analyst

👉RealClearPolitics and Washington Examiner previously identified the whistleblower as Eric Ciaramella, a senior Ukraine and Russia analyst at the NSC, CIA, and National Intelligence Council

👉The analyst’s complaint relied heavily on an Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) report

👉That report alleged two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were "key hidden actors" in Trump’s effort to investigate the Bidens and had linked Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani to former Ukrainian prosecutors

👉The OCCRP story was central to House Democrats’ impeachment claim that Trump sent Giuliani to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 election

👉 The OCCRP is not independent since 2024 findings by German investigative journalists show that USAID funds it, controls its hiring, and oversees its work plan

👉The OCCRP has been involved in regime change operations alongside USAID and the CIA, comparing Trump’s impeachment to past coup d'état efforts

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⚡️Ukrainian forces attempted to attack Cherkassy Konopelka and Ulanka in Russian Kursk region — Russia's Defense Ministry

The enemy was promptly identified and defeated by fire. Russian troops repelled the attacks, keeping the settlements under control.

Ukrainian losses amounted to six tanks, three barrage vehicles, three infantry fighting vehicles, and 14 armored fighting vehicles, the ministry added.

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Trump's special envoy weighs in on Ukraine's chances of going nuclear

"The likelihood that they [Ukraine] will get their nuclear weapons back is somewhere between slim to none. Let's be honest, we both know that's not going to happen," Keith Kellogg told Fox News.

Earlier this week, Russia's Foreign Ministry said that Zelensky's desire to possess nuclear weapons reveals him as "a maniac" who needs it for blackmail.

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'TOO BIG, TOO DIRTY!' — Trump slams USAID for spending millions of dollars on news agencies praising Dems

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🇺🇸🇸🇻 Will Trump OUTSOURCE US prisoners to El Salvador?

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail US deportees and violent criminals—including American citizens. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the proposal "unprecedented and extraordinary."

🔍 What’s in the Proposal?

▪️Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele calls it "outsourcing" part of the US prison system

▪️El Salvador would accept only convicted criminals

▪️US deportees and criminals would be held in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum-security prison in Tecoluca

▪️Bukele seeks a "fee" from the US, calling it "relatively low" for Washington but enough to sustain El Salvador’s prison system

🔍 What is the CECOT?

▪️A 23-hectare mega-prison built in 2022 and opened in January 2023 amid a gang crackdown

▪️Built at a cost of $115 million

▪️Can hold 40,000 inmates but housed just 14,500 as of August 2024, potentially leaving room for US prisoners

▪️El Salvador has a history of human rights abuses, harsh prison conditions and torture

🔍 Is it legal to send US citizens to El Salvador?

▪️Trump said: “If we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat”

▪️ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told NPR that deporting US citizens would be unconstitutional

▪️The US could hypothetically deport non-nationals to a third country, but it would require complex legal steps

▪️Human rights groups warn that sending prisoners to El Salvador would raise serious concerns

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