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Ukraine cannot beat Russia on the battlefield and will have to enter talks with Putin, one of Zelensky’s senior military commanders admits

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Ukraine cannot beat Russia on the battlefield and will have to enter talks with Vladimir Putin, one of Kyiv’s senior military commanders has admitted.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly ruled out talks with the Kremlin over the course of the two-year war, and a decree he issued after Russia formally annexed four Ukrainian regions in 2022 deems negotiations ‘impossible’. 

But Major-General Vadym Skibitsky, deputy chief of Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence directorate, told the Economist magazine that talks would eventually

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Military veteran embraces ‘new service’ of helping others after his Parkinson’s diagnosis : ‘There is hope’

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After 17 years of serving his country, Mark Kelm is now providing a different type of service: He’s advocating for others who, like him, are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Kelm, who lives in a small Minnesota town with his wife of 23 years and three children, was just 38 years old when he was diagnosed with PD, a nervous system disorder that causes tremors, stiffness, loss of balance and other movement issues.

He credits his military background for

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Israel FIRES two military commanders and reprimands a third over drone attack that killed seven aid workers – but World Central Kitchen says their apology ‘offers cold comfort to victims’ families’

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Israel has fired two military commanders and reprimanded a third over a drone strike in Gaza that killed seven World Central Kitchen workers on Monday, saying they had mishandled critical information and violated the army’s rules of engagement.

The workers from the charity, which provides food relief in crisis and conflict zones, were killed when their convoy was hit repeatedly on Monday night shortly after they oversaw the unloading of 100 tons of food brought to the Palestinian territory by

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Want to Cut the National Budget? Start With Military Spending.

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March 28, 2024

The biggest driver of overspending is an unrealistic, self-indulgent, and militaristic national defense strategy.

A US Army M1A1 Abrams tank, as will be delivered to Ukraine, is photographed in Grafenwöhr, Bavaria, on July 14, 2023.

(Matthias Merz / Getty)

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The White House released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 on

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A Bigger Military Budget Won’t Make Us Safer

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March 20, 2024

National security is best advanced not by endlessly preparing for war, but by fostering peace.

In June 2017, US soldiers maneuver an M-777 howitzer so it can be towed into position at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan.

(AP Photo / US Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin T. Updegraff)

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In an age when

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Military Spending Isn’t the Economic Galvanizer You Think it Is

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February 29, 2024

The opportunity costs of throwing endless trillions of dollars at the military means far less is invested in other crucial American needs

An F-35 stealth jet built for the Royal Australian Air Force is presented at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Tex.

(Paul Moseley / Fort Worth Star-Telegram via AP Photo)

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EXCLUSIVE: Disc-shaped UFO is filmed by Ukrainian military in warzone: ‘What the f*** is this… maybe ram it?’

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A disc-shaped, completely silent UFO was caught on camera by Ukrainian troops in the war-torn country, in footage shared exclusively with DailyMail.com.

‘What the f-[expletive] is this? Why isn’t it moving?’ the men with Ukraine’s 406th Battalion can be heard debating as they witnessed the deadly calm UFO hovering over their warzone.

While the size, altitude, and shape of the object remain a mystery, the drone’s own altitude indicates that the apparent object could be a large craft over 30

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The US Military Ignores and Neglects the Civilian Victims of Its Air Strikes

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February 2, 2024

The United States can find time to issue orders for new air strikes but not to issue apologies for past errant attacks.

Children play on American military helicopter wreckage in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Scott Peterson / Getty Images)

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In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They

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Barbara Lee’s Antiwar Campaign for the Senate

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Los Angeles’s Kingdom Day Parade is billed as one of the oldest and largest celebrations of Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s birthday in the country, held each year in the morning on Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard in Leimert Park, a neighborhood in South L.A. This year, it was chilly but sunny along the parade route; families had set up camping chairs and picnic blankets, meat smokers had been rolled out onto front lawns, and the piano notes of Mary J.

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