🤔🤣Defense attorneys for Hunter Biden are actually claiming that the pictures of what appears to be nose candy sent to Hunter were sawdust sent by a master carpenter.

Via Zero Hedge:

The defense attorneys said the picture was sent to Mr. Biden by his psychiatrist, who they say told him they were “lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.”

The ‘metaphorical’ message was “meant to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction,” the defense attorneys wrote, while alleging that the misrepresentation of the sawdust as cocaine is another example that “amplifies why Mr. Biden and the Court cannot take the prosecution’s assertions at face value.”

Is it parmesan or saw dust? Would be nice if they could get the story straight…

🎙Subscribe @TheIslanderNews

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Front #Summary for 21 Feb 2024 by 20:32⚡️

🔹In #Kherson direction, after 👉 hoisting the flag in #Krynki (⚠️not in the northeastern outskirts), the village and adjacent territories are being cleaned up. The AFU is trying to cling on, probably not knowing that their support from the right bank is no longer so powerful. Artillery and mortars were "stretched" along the right bank or relocated to other directions. (⚠️It is no usual clearing with going from house to house, How long it will take to bring the rest of the nest under control we will see)

🔹In #Zaporozhye Direction, active attacks by our military at #Rabotino, #Novoprokopovka and #Verbovoye continue. The fighting is heavy, there are small advances.

🔹In #SouthDonetsk Direction, our forces hoisted a Victory Banner over one of the houses in the west (⚠️not centre) of the #Pobeda village. Fierce battles for the fortified village with an area of only 1 sq km have been going on for months. Now the AFU has been knocked out of an important link from the #Maryinka - #Pobeda - #Zverinets defensive line, prisoners have been taken, and a sweep is underway. Ours are attacking the village of #Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the town). There is a threat of a cauldron for the Ukrainian garrison in #Novomikhaylovka, because our forces are attacking from three sides. A possible major target could be #Ugledar. However, one should not expect rapid breakthroughs. #Kontantinovka has a network: #Kontantinovka has a network of AFU positions that have to be recaptured.

🔹In #Avdeyevka Direction, our units are consolidating their positions at #Stepovoye. In #Lastochkino, ours have clung to the eastern outskirts, they are attacking and hitting with artillery, but they have not yet succeeded in knocking out the AFU completely. The enemy is actively fighting back with FPV drones. Our AFU equipment is been taken from #Avdeyevka, it will still serve.

🔹In #Bakhmut Direction, there are battles at #Bogdanovka. Ours are clearing occupied suburbs. At #Ivanovskoye (#Krasnoye), our forces are targeting enemy firing points. There are other difficulties in storming the village. From the northern and northwestern parts of the hill, it is difficult for ours to enter from the east and south because of the heights and open terrain over which enemy drones are circling.

🔹In #Svatovo Direction, on the #Liman front, our troops advanced to #Terny by about 0.5 km, occupied large strongholds. In the #Kupyansk sector, our artillery is working with full power at #Sinkovka and #Tabayevka.

💥 About our guys killed by rockets in #Trudovskoye, I will say one thing: Until someone responsible publicly suffers severe punishment, such situations will occur. Strength for families.

🎯 Our Geranium strike hit an AFU deployment point in #Dobropolye. Air defences on the #Kherson front shot down an AFU MiG-29.

t.iss.one/sitreports /@olegtsarov/#smo/
Join SITREP🔺Map Reports - Top Videos - Analyses

🇷🇺❌🇷🇺💀 Dmitry Medvedev shared his thoughts on Russian traitor Maxim Kuzminov’s death.

“A dog’s death is a dog’s death”.

🔻Dima’s way with words has no equal.

🎙Subscribe @TheIslanderNews

Cybersport is making waves in Russia! Vladimir Putin launches Games of the Future

What are the Games of the Future?

At their core, the games reflect the ‘phygital’ concept, which is a combination of traditional sports, digital sports and technologies.

The word ‘phygital’ itself is an abbreviation that merges the words ‘physical’ and ‘digital’. This means that phygital games bring together both classic and digital sports, assessing the participants in both realms.

Which disciplines are included?

Games of the Future in Russia's Kazan will have athletes compete in 21 innovative disciplines. Eleven of these fall under the ‘phygital’ category. This is why the organizers divided the disciplines into five separate challenges (categories).

▪️“Sports” challenge includes phygital-football, phygital-basketball, phygital-hockey, phygital-martial arts, phygital-racing, phygital-skateboarding, and phygital-BMX.

▪️“Tactical” challenges include CS2 + laser tag, Warface + laser tag, Standoff 2 + laser tag.

▪️“Battle” challenges merge phygital MOBA, Dota 2, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, and Battle Tanks Simulator.

▪️“Speedrun” challenges pit competitors against one another in a classic speedrun video game, as well as a real-world obstacle course.

▪️“Technical” challenges will see athletes compete using drones and robots, controlled in a dance simulator. This challenge also involves virtual reality (VR) games, cybathletics and sports programing.

2,000 top-tier athletes and cyber sport professionals are to compete in the games.

The total prize fund stands at $10 million.

Boost us! | Subscribe to @geopolitics_live

🇺🇸🎮🇷🇺When You Can't Outplay Russia on the Field: Mitt Romney's Farcical Pivot to Esports Warfare

Romney believes that growth of Russian esports industry is a threat to the US

Behold, the latest spectacle in US geopolitical strategy: Senator Romney, in a digital Don Quixote tilt, declares esports the new frontier against Russia's might.

When you can't defeat Russia on the physical battlefield.. E-sports? Dive into the absurdity:

👉Click here to read more on this tragicomedy brought to you by Mitt

🎙Subscribe to The Islander

♦Twitter /X | Substack | Website♦

🌍LAVROV SNUBS BLINKEN in above video out of G20 Foreign Minister conference as the Russian FM shakes hands with Saudi Arabian, Bolivia and Turkish counterparts.

🇨🇭At conference, not-so-neutral Switzerland set to BAN HAMAS after declaring it terror group as actual terror entity Israel throws hissy fit at Brazilian and Bolivian leaders' criticisms of its genocide as "outrageous."

Boost us here! @IntelRepublic

◾ Warning: graphic content.

◾ According to Western media Navalny was murdered with a single punch to the heart, allegedly a KGB technique. I have found exclusive footage of the so-called incident and the "Five Finger Death Punch".

- Don't you think Western propagandists watch to much TV?

◾Follow:
t.iss.one/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses

🇮🇱 'I AM PROUD OF GAZA'S RUINS' - South Africa, write this one down! Israeli Minister of Social Equality (the IRONY!) Golan in video above relishes in sights of civilian destruction saying that Palestinians can only DREAM of having a government, let alone a state .

I am personally proud o the ruins of Gaza, and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did - Golan (00:35).

Israeli officials should know overwhelming, 95%+ majority of kills have been civilians - half small children. So what is it she's exactly proud of?

Boost us here! @IntelRepublic

🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: February 21-22 (Recap)

1️⃣ “Gaza has become a death zone”: World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says “inhumane” health and humanitarian situation worsens.

2️⃣ Palestine Red Crescent Society warns of dire situation at al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis as Israeli siege continues for 30th day.

3️⃣ Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) “outraged” by Israeli attack on MSF shelter in al-Mawasi that killed two family members of staff and injured six.

4️⃣ Residents of northern Gaza Strip have only animal feed to eat for past three weeks, says Ismail al-Thawabteh, head of Gaza’s government media office

5️⃣ US Central Command (CENTCOM) says that it conducted four “self-defence strikes” against seven mobile Houthi antiship cruise missiles and one mobile antiship ballistic missile launcher in Yemen on Wednesday.

6️⃣ The United States has told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that it should not order the unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories without security guarantees.

7️⃣ Matthew Miller, the US State Department spokesperson, has said that Yemen’s Houthis are “behaving like a terrorist organisation”, adding that their attacks on shipping vessels are “endangering an already fragile humanitarian situation” and “do nothing to help the Palestinians”.

At least 29,313 people including more than 12,300 children, have been killed and over 69,333 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

🎙Subscribe to The Islander

♦Twitter /X | Substack | Website♦

⚡️🇷🇸 We also recommend the channel of our fellow compatriots Eastern Front (Источни Фронт)

All about conflicts in the east, Geopolitics and Regional foreign policy. From the Serbian perspective.

t.iss.one/istocni_front

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Frontline #Summary for the Morning of 22 February 2024; pub. 08:00⚡️

🔹In the #Zaporozhye Direction, to the south and west of the #Rabotino village, the fighting has ⚠️taken on a fierce counterattack character. At the moment, the AFU have sufficient ammunition and personnel there. The dominant heights and well-fortified positions of the RF Armed Forces occupied during the summer offensive are an additional advantage for them. The village itself is densely processed by Russian artillery.
💥 The AFU is also under attack in Malye Shcherbaky, #Novoandreyevka, #Malaya Tokmachka, #Zheleznodorozhnoye and #Gulyaypole.
💥 The RF Armed Forces, in #Kopani, #Novoprokopovka and #Verbovoye. (Fig. 1).

🔹On the #Donetsk Front, Russian forces were assaulting #Novomikhaylovka. ⚠️Without success. The RF Armed Forces ⚠️gained a foothold in #Pobeda and ⚠️advanced towards #Georgiyevka.
📌 The first of the above-mentioned settlements (#Pobeda) is important both logistically (there is a paved motorway) and in terms of the further Russian offensive along it with an approach to the rear of the Ukrainian garrison in #Ugledar.
💥 Ukrainian positions in #Yekaterinovka, #Yelizavetovka, K#urakhovo, #Krasnogorovka town, #Nevelskoye, #Pervomayskoye, #Netaylovo, #Karlovka, #Tonenkoye, #Lastochkino, #Orlovka, #Novobakhmutovka (the village of the same name to the east is behind the RF Armed Forces), #Ocheretino, #Aleksandropol (a village to the north of #Donetsk) and Nyu-York (#Novgorodskoye) are under fire.
💥 Russian, in #Maryinka, #Donetsk and the village of #Krasnogorovka. (Fig. 2)

🔹In the #Bakhmut Direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked near #Ivanovskoye (#Krasnoye) after shelling. They also tried to break through the AFU defence in #Bogdanovka. ⚠️Without advancement.
💥 Ukrainian positions in Belaya Gora, #Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Donetsk), Chasov Yar, #Verolyubovka and #Vasyukovka are under attack.
💥 The Russian, in #Bakhmut and #Khromovo. (Fig. 3)

🔹In the #Lugansk Direction, attacks by the RF Armed Forces near #Yampolovka and #Terny. The frontline ⚠️did not change significantly.
💥 The AFU is under fire in #Glushkovka, #Peschanoye, #Kucherovka, #Petropavlovka and #Sinkovka. (Fig. 4)

t.iss.one/sitreports /@wargonzo/#smo/
Join SITREP🔺Map Reports - Top Videos - Analyses

◾Journalist Pablo González, collaborator of Público and other Spanish media, was arrested on the night of February 28, 2022.

◾The reporter was detained by the Polish secret services at his hotel when he was reporting from the city of Przemyśl, very close to the border with Ukraine, about the migrant crisis that the conflict was causing. The Polish Justice then accused him of being a Russian spy.

◾In a few days, it will be already two years in prison and the Court of Appeals of Lublin (Poland) that is studying his case has decided this Thursday that he will remain behind bars for at least another three months.

◾Follow:
t.iss.one/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses

American professionalism: Biden slanders Putin again

"We have a crazy son of a b*tch like this guy Putin and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate."

Speaking of Putin, Biden has not been shy in his remarks. First, he provoked a diplomatic scandal by calling the Russian leader a "murderer." After the start of the special operation in Ukraine, Biden publicly called Putin a "dictator," a "butcher," a "war criminal," and said he "cannot remain in power."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov earlier called such rhetoric "unacceptable and inexcusable" from the leader of a country whose bombs have killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world and which used nuclear weapons against Japan, which "has already been defeated.

Boost us! | Subscribe to @geopolitics_live