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Belarusian volunteer battalion will come to help Ukrainian forces break the blockade of Mariupol (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 2022 OP
Kicking for visibility SheltieLover Mar 2022 #1
This will explain why Beachnutt Mar 2022 #2
That link locked up my phone with ads Kaleva Mar 2022 #4
It works fine on my phone Beachnutt Mar 2022 #5
I had to shut my phone off and restart Kaleva Mar 2022 #8
Thats strange, it works just fine on mine Beachnutt Mar 2022 #9
No problem! Kaleva Mar 2022 #14
I think the ads are associated with DU, not the links. Mariana Mar 2022 #19
Just 1 4second ad on the YouTube like.. LiberalArkie Mar 2022 #21
What equipment do they have? ColinC Mar 2022 #3
I'm starting to hope that one consequence of this was will be the overturn of Belarus's gov't ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2022 #6
Exactly!! nt oldsoftie Mar 2022 #16
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya - human rights activist Achilleaze Mar 2022 #20
Whatever happened to all those reports sarisataka Mar 2022 #7
Nothing definite yet. Some tweets suggesting those were sonic booms from aircraft rather than highplainsdem Mar 2022 #10
Oxplosions! SergeStorms Mar 2022 #12
LOL! No, but I fixed that typo. highplainsdem Mar 2022 #13
Pootie is in doo-doo. nt Samrob Mar 2022 #11
Why doesn't Ukraine hire professional mercenary to fight with them? spike jones Mar 2022 #15
because a lot of them probably think Putin is working with Trump to expose biolabs oldsoftie Mar 2022 #17
Probably because they don't need to. 2naSalit Mar 2022 #18

Kaleva

(36,261 posts)
8. I had to shut my phone off and restart
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 03:58 PM
Mar 2022

It was mostly adds for Bitcoin. I couldn't close them so I restarted my phone. They are gone now.

Beachnutt

(7,290 posts)
9. Thats strange, it works just fine on mine
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 04:00 PM
Mar 2022

if anybody else has a problem with it I'll just delete the post...sorry

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
19. I think the ads are associated with DU, not the links.
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 06:24 PM
Mar 2022

I was having that problem yesterday, the same thing happened on two different phones.

Edit: We're not alone.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216492782

eppur_se_muova

(36,247 posts)
6. I'm starting to hope that one consequence of this was will be the overturn of Belarus's gov't ...
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 03:54 PM
Mar 2022

... and Lukashenko's replacement by the probable real winner of the last election, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatlana_Tsikhanouskaya

sarisataka

(18,501 posts)
7. Whatever happened to all those reports
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 03:57 PM
Mar 2022

Of explosions around Belarus yesterday? Did it turn out to be another Twitter myth?

highplainsdem

(48,921 posts)
10. Nothing definite yet. Some tweets suggesting those were sonic booms from aircraft rather than
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 04:01 PM
Mar 2022

Last edited Thu Mar 17, 2022, 04:47 PM - Edit history (1)

explosions.

SergeStorms

(19,188 posts)
12. Oxplosions!
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 04:46 PM
Mar 2022

OMG, they're weaponizing oxen now? That could get messy.

Sorry, highplainsdem. I just couldn't resist. I hope you don't take offense.

spike jones

(1,677 posts)
15. Why doesn't Ukraine hire professional mercenary to fight with them?
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 05:54 PM
Mar 2022

USA used them in Iraq. Private contractor companies like the one formally known as Black Water have thousands of soldiers to recruit from. I think Black Water had access to 100,00 fighters at one time. Of course, Erik Prince only wanted to kill Muslims.

2naSalit

(86,393 posts)
18. Probably because they don't need to.
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 06:15 PM
Mar 2022

Looks like lots of volunteers are showing up for free. Pooty, on the other hand, can't seem to keep soldiers on the field and also has a serious recruitment problem.

I wonder how pooty thinks he's going to pay mercenaries in the first place, it's not like everybody doesn't know that his access to funds in shrinking.

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