God bless America’s Second Amendment: Ukraine leaders have issued 10,000 rifles since Russia has invaded
Posted by: Chris Elliot| |Categories Around The World, Featured, Homeland Security
KYIV, UKRAINE – A Ukrainian reporter posted on Twitter that the Interior Ministry has reportedly issued out 10,000 automatic rifles to civilians in the area to arm them since the Russians invaded.
God bless our second amendment.
I'm curious to know what "anti-gun" activists think of all this.
Below: Ukraine arming its citizens.pic.twitter.com/EQywTrDVpP— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) February 25, 2022
The Ukrainian government recently authorized citizens to have and carry firearms so that they could fight against the Russian military that has invaded their country.
A decision that has led to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowing to say he would arm any citizen who wanted a firearm to protect the country.
The decision sparked thousands of citizens to take the President and the Ukrainian Parliament up on the offer. On Twitter, Ukrainian reporter Illia Ponomarenko wrote:
“10,000 automatic rifles have been given to regular civilians in Kyiv in the last few hours – Interior Minister.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine which started on February 24th. Since invading, the Russian military has been able to take over swaths of the country and now have their sights on Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky rejected America’s offer to evacuate him from Kyiv
He said, "I might be killed but I can’t abandon my people when our country is going thru darkest hour"
Respect❤️🙏That’s a True Leader!!
We all pray for Ukraine, 🇺🇦🙏😢 pic.twitter.com/NFCs9woHyI
— Niki Prendi ꪜ (@niki_prendi) February 26, 2022
President Zelensky has refused to leave the capital even though he is in grave danger once the Russians are able to seize control. He knows if and when the Russians take control, they will take him into custody.
Ukraine arming its citizens pic.twitter.com/LWwzBrY6bH
— ☠🖤~𝕮𝖊𝖗𝖚𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖓 𝕲𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖘~🖤☠ (5'0'') (@CeruleanGates) February 24, 2022
President Zelensky reportedly received an offer from the United States offering to be evacuated which he refused. According to the embassy, the president reportedly said:
“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”
President Zelensky then tried to encourage his fellow citizens and members of the military to stand up against the Russians:
“We will be defending our country, because our weapon is truth, and our truth is that this is our land, our country, our children, and we will defend all of this.”
How long the battle will rage is unknown, but the Ukrainian forces certainly face an uphill battle in terms of strength. Before the war started, Ukraine had roughly 196,000 active military members with 900,000 reservists while the Russians have roughly 900,000 active and 2 million reservists.
Despite the drastic difference in military strength, reports of Ukrainian citizens fighting back against the invading force have increased. The citizens of the country may be emboldened by President Zelensky and other political leaders, like Sviastoslav Yurash, who have stepped up and vowed to fight to the end.
With Ukraine arming the elderly, banning males age 18-60 from leaving the country and now encouraging civilians to use makeshift weapons against one of the most sophisticated militaries in the world, it’s clear how little the corrupt government values its citizen’s lives. pic.twitter.com/8Jaj8juWL8
— PropaGandalf 🌾 (@xghostnotesx) February 25, 2022
Yurash was interviewed on “The Ingraham Angle” vowing to fight:
“The battle is happening everywhere now in Kyiv. I mean, I’m hearing plenty of shooting happening in the streets, and believe me, I’m not the only member of Parliament who is joining the fight. Yesterday, we were just planning and bringing guns to try to give it to everyone who wants to join in battle.
“And yesterday, we had an occurrence in the city north of the city. We pushed them [Russians] out. And now this night, when we’ve been indifferent, they’re just using the night to try and surprise and overpower everything.
“But in reality, they are overwhelmed because Kyiv is a city of a million – millions of people, and they are fighting back tears as they have been fighting for the last 48 hours. So we are very confident as far as the reality that everybody here wants to defend their country and their city to the end.”
Collusion? As tensions rise between Russia, Ukraine, why is US still importing so much Russian oil?
USA- Prior to November 2020, the United States had become energy independent, and actually was a net exporter of energy.
All of that went south after January 20, 2021, when Joe Biden was inaugurated to occupy the White House on weekdays between 9-5. National Review reports that in 2021, the United States had imported between 12 to 26 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products from, of all places, Russia.
According to Brian Kilmeade on One Nation, U.S. monthly oil crude oil production peaked in 2019 at 12.3 million barrels per day; by November 2021, that number had dropped to 11.2 million.
Biden also canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, and reversed pro-drilling policies that had been put in place by President Trump.
According to the most recent data from November 2021, from the Energy Information Agency, the United States imported 17.8 million barrels.
Last spring, imports of Russian crude came at the highest level in nearly ten years; in August, Russia—home of Vladimir Putin who is poised to (allegedly) invade Ukraine—became the second-highest exporter of oil to the United States.
Does anyone honestly believe Biden is going to take any kind of decisive action against Putin, when he is holding us literally over a barrel
One might think given the turmoil between Russia and Ukraine, the United States might be looking at a way to get out from under Putin’s thumb, but given what was communicated at a White House press briefing last week, it probably isn’t of concern to the administration.
Deputy White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about how much pressure the United States is able to bring to bear on Putin given the fact we need their oil, especially given the fact that Biden has eviscerated our ability to produce our own oil without relying on OPEC or Russia.
Q: Wouldn’t it be difficult, though, for the U.S. to continue to import Russian oil after all of the rhetoric that we’ve put forward about Russia needing to not invade Ukraine and pressuring Germany to, you know, come out strongly on Nort Stream 2 and possible punishments for Russia if they were to take this step? Wouldn’t it be tough for the U.S. to continue, in that event, to import Russian gas?
A: Well again, it’s a hypothetical. I’m just telling you that we have been very, very clear, the president has been clear, our national security advisor has been clear—we all have been clear, either from this podium or direct communication with Russia, whether it’s with the president or its leadership, that if they were to invade—and in coordination, in lockstep with our European allies and partners, that’s how we’re moving forward here—that there would be…there would be severe, decisive economic consequences. I cannot speak more to—more to that.
This of course is equivocating of epic proportions. There has been a lot of pressure brought to bear on Germany to put a halt to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline (which incidentally Biden green-lighted last year).
However given the fact the U.S. hasn’t committed to stop purchasing Russian oil, why should Germany likewise stop buying either Russian oil or natural gas? The United States is operating from a standpoint of weakness, perpetrated by our cognitive mess of a president.
Face facts…for all the bluster coming out of Biden, anyone who looks at the man knows he’s a mess, a point which was driven home by National Review’s Kevin Williamson.
“The good news is, Biden isn’t drunk. The bad news is, Biden isn’t drunk. He just talks that way now.”
Williamson was referring to Biden’s Friday address, where he spoke of the looming crisis in Ukraine. Biden basically gave Putin a green light to go ahead and invade Ukraine, and while our country “is firmly committed to its principles,” we “would like to Putin to know in advance that we will not fight for them,” Williamson wrote.
The words were not what drew Williamson’s concern but more so the way they were delivered.
“Biden is slurring his words, getting lost in the middle of short sentences, and in general acting like a grandpa who cannot figure out how his new phone works.”
Williamson insists that Putin had to be further emboldened by Biden’s weak ass performance Friday. He notes that Mao had once dismissed the U.S. as a “paper tiger,” however that is all Biden is threatening to bring to the table—“strongly worded multilateral statements, sanctions regulations.”
As Jim Geraghty wrote in National Review:
“If Russia invades, it means Biden is a mess who’s thoroughly ineffective, who can’t achieve his policy goals even when he and his team give 110 percent effort. And the rest of the world, from Beijing to Pyongyang to Tehran, will know it.”
Ready for $6 a gallon gas nationwide America? Buckle up, it may be here sooner than you think.
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