WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1583156992864321537


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https://sputniknews.com/20221020/43-years-under-sanctions-how-iran-built-drones-1102475565.html

43 Years Under Sanctions: How Iran Built Drones

Although Iran has survived under sanctions for nearly half a century, the country has shown a remarkable ability to produce, reverse engineer, and develop its own unmanned aerial vehicles.

Iran became interested in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones for short, in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). The first family of Iranian drones was the Ababil, which were simple mechanisms called “flying munitions.” Together with reconnaissance UAVs developed somewhat later, they were successfully used on the battle fronts.
In the post-war period, Tehran decided to concentrate its efforts on the creation and development of unmanned aerial systems. The Iranian aviation industry included several scientific and technical organizations, a number of aircraft construction and aircraft repair plants, as well as numerous related enterprises producing various components. Virtually all the enterprises in this industry, which are supervised by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), are in one way or another involved in the development and production of UAVs.
Iran then started the mass production of drones, which could compensate for the insufficient capacity of Iran's Air Force, including the inability to build fully-fledged combat aircraft.
Iran has made significant progress in the development and production of a full range of UAVs of all major classes, from light tactical reconnaissance vehicles to heavy reconnaissance and strike systems, both carrying guided aerial bombs and short-range missiles, and barraging munitions, the so-called kamikaze drones.
Such progress is based on several fundamentals: scientific and technical cooperation, primarily with China; the use of technologies and components for their own production, obtained officially, semi-officially or unofficially (intelligence); and the acquisition of real samples of American and Israeli drones for the purpose of deep study and possible reverse engineering.
Iran has so far produced about 40 models of various drones. The main families (lines) of Iranian UAVs are Ababil, Kaman, Kian, Mohajer, and Shahed.

According to experts, Iran's most effective and powerful drones are represented by the Shahed, Mohajer, Kaman, and Kian families.
Shahed 129
This drone is considered one of the most capable UAVs in Iran's arsenal. Visually, it strongly resembles the US RQ-1 / MQ-1 Predator. It made its first flight in the spring of 2012.

The rest is here:

https://sputniknews.com/20221020/43-years-under-sanctions-how-iran-built-drones-1102475565.html

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1583162049890172928
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Sprinter99880/status/1583155113907998723


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[Mashika]

"The truth seems like a lie"

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But backwards, replace Shanghai for any city in the west and you get closer to the truth, at least these days


As pointed out here multiple times by multiple people, once WW2 ended, the top of the Nazi culture found refugee in the US, and it remains well and alive over there.



Digital book burning is a thing
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-biden-administration-demanding-amazon-censor-books-disagree-with


So you go on Amazon.com and you remember this started as a bookstore and online bookstore. It's the biggest bookstore in the world. They have everything. There's nothing you can't find an Amazon, including used books. So if you were to go into Amazon to read books by a man who is in the news and whose ideas are directly bearing on world events, you look for a guy called Aleksandr Dugin.


Dugin is one of Russia's most famous authors and political philosophers. He doesn't work for the government; he doesn't work for Vladimir Putin (https://www.foxnews.com/world/russias-putin-declares-martial-law-4-annexed-ukrainian-regions). He's just a philosopher. So if you're interested in like, "What are they thinking over there?'" you would search Dugin's author page on Amazon, but you would not find any results. Really? Kind of a big author to be left off Amazon.
So we reached out to Amazon to ask, "Why can't we find any books by this guy?" And then we realize because he's been banned from Amazon. So then we asked Amazon for a list of all books and authors who've been banned from their platform, and they wouldn't give it to us. So we went back and forth, back and forth. And finally, Amazon provided a six-word response, and we're quoting: "Amazon complies with all applicable laws."

Applicable laws? Well, in the United States, there are no laws against publishing books because we have the First Amendment. The government can never, under any circumstances, censor any book. Period. Or anything that you have to say. Period. Because that's the core of our Bill of Rights.

Then we learned that Amazon and the Justice Department were ignoring our Bill of Rights. Amazon apparently based its decision on a Treasury Department designation concerning "disinformation." And that designation applies not only to Dugin, but also to his family, though not to his daughter, who was murdered recently (https://www.foxnews.com/world/daughter-top-putin-ally-alexander-dugin-pushed-ukraine-invasion-killed-car-bomb-outside-moscow) by the Ukrainian government. But we're not allowed to say that. What did she do wrong? Well, I guess she said the wrong thing, but that's cool because we're fighting for freedom.


But that's not the point. The point is in our country, which is very different from Ukraine, we're allowed to read whatever we want. But we can't now because the Biden administration is demanding that the biggest bookseller in the world censor books that they disagree with, and Amazon complies without asking any questions. Now, this is as clear a violation of the First Amendment as you could concoct in a law school class.

So then we reach out to the Treasury Department. Did this really happen? Yeah, it did. They essentially confirmed it: "We don't comment on possible enforcement matters, but the Treasury Department continues to vigorously enforce Russia-related sanctions."




"We don't comment on possible enforcement matters, but the Treasury Department continues to vigorously enforce Russia-related sanctions."
How interesting, so censoring books so that people in the US can't read them or understand other culture equals "enforcing Russia-related sanctions"


The only people harmed here are US citizens. Retarded logic it seems. But we know that this is fascism in plain view, not even pretending anymore, the distortion of the truth and the manipulation of reality is fully achieved in the US by always blaming someone else for "the need to protect you"


"If it wasn't for the evil Russians, we would not have to ban these books that we don't want you to read because reading them gives you a different view of the world, and we need you to stay dumb and manipulable"


No doubt the usual suspects will applaud this just because it helps remove Russian culture or ideas from the reach of people, even if they shoot themselves in the foot by allowing to make it normal and acceptable to censor or ban books. So who's next? Once the door is open, anything can and will come through on time, temptation and power are hard to contain and control, and the toddlers at the white house are not trained to understand self-control

Dummies:cocktail:

And it seems to me that the ones on the bad side of history, and the ones repeating the mistakes of the past, have already been identified since some time ago


Since when, being a journalist in the west is a crime, or a life endangering occupation? Who are the real ones killing people or destroying their lives for speaking inconvenient truths? History repeating, but 'the good guys' were the real criminals all along



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[Reinhard]

Hi there, brave Mashika,
seems like Amazon promply reacted --- or Tucker is wrong --- I just checked on German Amazon as well as on the US Amazonpage.
Dugin is (now) available.
I wish you a fast reconvalescence
Reinhard

[loungelizard]

All Dugin’s work is available on Amazon in the UK, and the other main online book sellers here. Must just be in the US.

The banning of books on a website in the US is indeed worrying, but it is a pale reflection of Putin’s crackdown on any form of free speech. In March, he amended the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, introduced criminal liability for the public dissemination of “deliberately misleading information” and “discrediting the use of the Russian Federation Armed Forces.”

As a result, the main social media sites, Russian-language outlets based outside of Russia and major foreign language news channels are all blocked - and anyone spreading what he calls ‘false information’ or ‘discrediting’ Russia’s actions in Ukraine will face fines and up to 15 years in prison. Any opposition to the Kremlin is a criminal act there now, and pretty well all independent media outlets have been silenced. Of course, it's not just the media that is being censored: political opponents, NGOs, civil rights groups, bloggers, the general population …

The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights said, “These restrictions on media and access to information online choking the last vestiges of independent, pluralistic media in Russia, but they are also depriving the population of their right to access diverse news and views at this critical time when millions of Russians legitimately want to know more about the situation in Ukraine.”

[Matthew]

Putin also wants a new world order, and is a member of the Eastern Economic Forum. He's no messiah. Zelensky is a budget version of Putin, but they are made of the same stuff - two peas in a pod. One is the mainstream bogy man and the other is painted as some kind of saint. Holistically they are the same. No way is Putin our hero or saviour; he's a master of propaganda and censorship. Putin has been playing his brutal game for about ten years, waiting for the perfect storm of oppression against Russians in Ukraine. So it looks to me like Putin has accidentally on purpose manufactured the moral high-ground over the last ten years, but after ten years it seems legit looking at it fresh today. It's not that simple, he let them rot so he could pick up the pieces and further expansion.

But while Putin would love to usher in the new world order, and censor everything, the burning issue is the media spin painting Zelensky as some kind of saint. So ludicrously so the Zelensky candle sums it up. The issue is less that Putin is a dickhead, the issue is the threat of perpetual war pushed by the bat-****-insane western war mongers who don't have Ukraine or Russia in their best interests, they want perpetual war. It would be the mother of all distractions from covid/vaccine injuries, their best excuse to introduce digital tracked id, and generally keep us in a state of fear. But Putin is a little schmuck make no mistake.

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Xi and Putin want to create a new world order. Russia’s setback in Ukraine could spoil their plans

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/14/china/xi-putin-meeting-sco-summit-analysis-intl-hnk/index.html


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In a 5,000-word joint statement, the two leaders declared a friendship with “no limits” and spelled out their shared grievances toward the United States and its allies.

“The world is going through momentous changes,” their joint statement said, noting the “transformation of the global governance architecture and world order.”
...

[ExomatrixTV]

Putin Takes Russia-Ukraine War to Next Level | Nationwide Blackouts in Ukraine?:

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Russia Ukraine War reaches a new level as Ukraine suffers massive, nationwide blackouts and power cuts. Vladimir Putin is now crippling Zelensky’s government by tearing apart Ukraine’s critical civilian infrastructure. Ukraine’s energy grid has become the latest target for Putin as winter approaches in the eastern European country. Watch to know more.


Will this mean Ukraine attacks Nuclear Power Plant on Eastern Ukraine as retaliation? (which is an escalation retaliation of retaliations from both sides).

[Ravenlocke]

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Ukraine Russia War - Economic Realities Scott Ritter

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1583458489976098822

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https://www.rt.com/russia/565098-ukraine-dnepr-strike-journalists/


Ukrainian strike kills one journalist, injures at least 10 – Russian official


At least one journalist was killed and several others injured in an overnight Ukrainian strike on a crossing point over the Dnepr River in the city of Kherson, a senior official with Russia’s Civic Chamber said on Friday.

“We have 10 journalists alone injured, one died. Two relatives of the journalists were killed, another one is in a critical condition,” Aleksandr Malkevich told the broadcaster Rossiya 24.

Earlier, the deputy head of the Kherson Region administration, Kirill Stremousov, said the strike had killed four civilians. A further 13 were wounded, according to the local health service. Stremousov claimed that the Ukrainian military targeted “the journalists deliberately, to eliminate those who are covering the situation in Kherson Region.”

Four killed in Ukrainian strike on river crossing point – Kherson official READ MORE: Four killed in Ukrainian strike on river crossing point – Kherson official
According to local emergency services, the attack was carried out with the use of US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers. The Ukrainian troops fired at least 12 missiles at the river crossing near the Antonovsky Bridge, which had been damaged in previous repeated strikes, with 11 of the munitions intercepted by anti-aircraft defenses.

The attack came as Russia announced the relocation of civilians from the right bank of the Dnepr river in Kherson Region, citing the overall “tense” situation on the frontline, as well as intelligence on Kiev’s plans destroy the dam of a local hydroelectric power plant. Some 15,000 civilians have been relocated already, with a total of 60,000 planned to be evacuated.

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https://www.rt.com/news/565103-shoigu-austin-phone-call (https://www.rt.com/news/565103-shoigu-austin-phone-call/)

Russia reveals details of rare contact with US military chief

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has had rare direct contact with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the Russian military reported on Friday.

According to the short readout, the two top officials “discussed issues of international security, including the situation in Ukraine” over the phone.

The last phone call between Shoigu and Austin was reported in May, with both sides giving away few details about it. It was the first direct conversation between the officials since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in late February.

Sources cited by Reuters revealed at the time that the call lasted for about an hour and failed to solve any specific matter. The exchange was initiated by Washington, Russian media reported.

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/news/565090-ukraine-government-tweet-endorses-johnson/

Ukraine reacts to Truss resignation
The Ukrainian government has posted a message on its official Twitter account, which some saw as a direct endorsement of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson returning to power. The now-deleted meme, reading “Better call Boris,” quickly drew flak however, with some Britons even crying “meddling.”

The former premier has been named by the pollster YouGov as one of the favorites in the race for 10 Downing Street after his successor, Liz Truss resigned on Thursday.

The post featured the main character of AMC’s TV drama Better Call Saul holding a cut-out of Johnson with an inscription “Better Call Boris” next to it.

Appearing on the Ukrainian government’s official account on Thursday, the message quickly attracted international attention, and a fair share of criticism, before being deleted the same day.

Boris Johnson plots his return as UK PM – media READ MORE: Boris Johnson plots his return as UK PM – media
Steve Peers, a professor of EU law at the University of Essex, tweeted: “Have you considered not commenting on other countries’ political processes – with a view to not alienating your broad base of support, and because you simply don’t understand what’s going on there?”

Another social media user wrote: “Very inappropriate to meddle in a country’s internal affairs in this way.”

“Better call Boris what?! This tweet has to be a bad joke and not sure what intention of it is,” one more netizen chimed in.

Others pointed out Ukrainian officials’ odd choice of the character to base their meme on, as the protagonist Saul Goodman is portrayed in the series as an unethical attorney.

Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer said he was “rather surprised” by the tweet, adding, however, that this will not affect his party’s unwavering support of Ukraine in the face of Russia’s military offensive.

Boris Johnson, who was forced to step down in early September following a series of scandals, had developed a close rapport with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky during his time in office. He was one of the most vocal supporters of Kiev.

Johnson’s successor, Liz Truss, survived only six weeks in power, and had to resign on Thursday amid mounting pressure from fellow Conservatives.

The party is now scrambling to elect a new leader, with Johnson widely touted as one of the likely candidates.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1583458332018241537
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https://tass.com/world/1525875?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Indonesia may fully join BRICS, says envoy in Moscow

Jakarta has to discuss the country’s future role in the integration, weighing everything, after which the government would take its decision, Jose Tavares stressed

MOSCOW, October 21. /TASS/. Indonesia may fully join the BRICS format (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), the country’s ambassador to Russia Jose Tavares said in an interview with TASS.

"I hear my president spoke for it (full membership in the integration - TASS) during the BRICS summit. There is a possibility for Indonesia to fully join BRICS," he said, adding though that the embassy had not yet received any additional information on that.

Jakarta has to discuss the country’s future role in the integration, weighing everything, after which the government would take its decision, Tavares said.

Speaking about the advantages that Indonesia sees for itself in BRICS membership, the diplomat mentioned joining its development bank as one of pluses.

Earlier, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said Indonesia wanted to join the BRICS format.


https://tass.com/world/1525879

Indonesia to ensure Putin’s security at G20 summit — ambassador

The G20 will hold its 17th summit in Bali on November 15-16, 2022
MOSCOW, October 21. /TASS/. Indonesia has a vast experience in hosting major international conferences, so it will provide security for Russian President Vladimir Putin during his participation in the G20 summit, Indonesia’s Ambassador to Russia Jose Tavares said in an interview with TASS on Friday.

Tavares assured TASS that as far as Putin’s security at the G20 is concerned, Indonesia has considerable experience in hosting such major international conferences and summits as the APEC, ASEAN and the East Asia Summit.

The ambassador pledged that his country would do its utmost to ensure the security and safety of all the participants, and it would be their top priority as the host country.

Tavares pointed out that Indonesia hopes that Vladimir Putin will come to the summit, but added that it is better to ask the Russian authorities about his participation. However, Indonesia does expect Putin to attend the summit in person.

The invitation has already been extended, and the Indonesian president personally handed Putin the invitation when meeting him in Moscow, the diplomat said, expressing hope for the Russian president’s participation.

The G20 will hold its 17th summit in Bali on November 15-16, 2022. The summit will be the culmination of a series of ministerial meetings, working groups and engagement groups held during the year of Indonesia's G20 presidency.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Michel Leclerc]

https://twitter.com/Sprinter99880/status/1583155113907998723


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God, we thank You for the gift of Holy Anger.

[Vicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvGUUFdIHds

a, b, c,... for Dummies :Angel:

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1583542114972934149
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[Ravenlocke]

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[Michel Leclerc]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/st...42128608653314


How interesting.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/st...42128608653314


How interesting.

Yes, here’s some more about it,

https://twitter.com/uasupport999/status/1583602742127656960

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https://twitter.com/Lithuanian_MoD/status/1583403710407143427

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[Tintin]

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/12179

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/12179

Text:



🔴Russian houses are opening heating points for Europeans.

With the onset of autumn cold and dank weather in Europe, Russian homes begin the campaign "From Russia with warmth". In conditions when the temperature outside and, more importantly, at home, is steadily falling, Russian houses and cultural centers in European capitals are opening their doors to everyone from today. As long as gas and electricity prices remain high, the centers will operate as heating points. Here you can always have tea, recharge your phone, watch a movie, and cartoons will be shown for children. Warmth in homes and human warmth from Russia is what freezing European families need. In the context of growing social tensions in Europe, as well as Russophobia, the humanitarian action of Russian homes should demonstrate our traditional hospitality and warm the hearts of freezing European families.

Russian Russian culture — where to feel the warmth, if not in a Russian house? Humanitarian cooperation, humanitarian actions are what we offer in our program. Cultural centers are outside politics, we are waiting for everyone who cares about communication, mutual understanding and warmth!"— emphasizes Vera Bunina, head of the Russian House in Brussels.

"This is a cool idea, an occasion to remind once again that Russia is not a terrible beast, we are ready and can give warmth," commented Russian theater and film actor, film director Sergey Makhovikov.

The program includes screenings of feature and animated Russian films. In our cozy halls you will be able to see such films as "Ilya Muromets", "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Tale of Wanderings", "The Snow Fairy Tale" and others.

We remind you that Russian homes are out of politics.

Check the schedule of films on the resources and social networks of Russian houses (https://t.me/rossotrudnichestvo/6265).

https://t.me/rossotrudnichestvo/8368

Subscribe♥️@StopHating_Russia

Telegram (https://t.me/rossotrudnichestvo/6265)
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[Tintin]

Interview with Adrien Bocquet by John Mark Dougan | Duration 00:41:26

Description:


This is a deeply troubling interview with Adrien Bocquet, a French humanitarian aid worker who was attacked and stabbed by Ukrainian operatives in Turkey for exposing the truth that happened in Bucha that he witnessed with his own eyes.

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[Tintin]

‘Why do they demand commanders - "Azov" or foreign mercenaries in the first place - but not our lads?’

A heartfelt cry from Ukrainian women to President Vladimir Zelensky about their POWs.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/12056

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/12056

[Tintin]

Translation:



“I am sure of what I saw” – a journalist of the Tavria TV channel told how Ukrainian terrorists fired at a column of civilians in Kherson

The girl said that she and her colleagues were sitting in the car and waiting for their turn to cross. She says that she survived only thanks to her colleague, who, after being wounded, pulled out the journalist and covered herself. According to her, it was obvious from which side the shelling was carried out.

“The military was not there, it was just a column of civilians who wanted to evacuate the city and go to a safe place. And they are treated like this,” the girl said.

Responsibility for the cynical terrorist attack, we recall, was taken (https://t.me/readovkanews/44983) by Ukrainian militants. However, they continue to pretend that they are doing the right thing: they claim that supposedly there could not be civilians there. But the result of their attack is known - four civilians were killed (https://t.me/readovkanews/44954), and many of the journalists who, along with their families, tried to evacuate, are in serious condition.





https://t.me/readovkanews/44986

readovkanews/44986

[Spiral]

Worrying signs of escalation.

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Earlier this year Zelensky has agreed Poland will send troops to Western Ukraine if Belarus forces enter Ukraine. Now Poland is demonstrating its readiness to fulfill its part of the agreements, demonstratively carrying out maneuvers near the western borders of Belarus.



This is mind bendingly horrific, yet still no peace talks. Proof beyond doubt that this is not simply Ukraine VS Russia.

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[Tintin]

Translation:



“I am sure of what I saw” – a journalist of the Tavria TV channel told how Ukrainian terrorists fired at a column of civilians in Kherson

The girl said that she and her colleagues were sitting in the car and waiting for their turn to cross. She says that she survived only thanks to her colleague, who, after being wounded, pulled out the journalist and covered herself. According to her, it was obvious from which side the shelling was carried out.

“The military was not there, it was just a column of civilians who wanted to evacuate the city and go to a safe place. And they are treated like this,” the girl said.

Responsibility for the cynical terrorist attack, we recall, was taken (https://t.me/readovkanews/44983) by Ukrainian militants. However, they continue to pretend that they are doing the right thing: they claim that supposedly there could not be civilians there. But the result of their attack is known - four civilians were killed (https://t.me/readovkanews/44954), and many of the journalists who, along with their families, tried to evacuate, are in serious condition.





https://t.me/readovkanews/44986

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UPDATE: here's the same video of the young journalist Vlada Lugovskaya this time with English subtitles:

https://t.me/MFARussia/13912

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[Tintin]

https://t.me/Reality_Theories/9608

Reality_Theories/9608

[Kryztian]

Now this is how wars should be fought: using kindness and generosity. A much more effective weapon than missles or HIMARS, and less messy too! :sun:



🔴Russian houses are opening heating points for Europeans.

With the onset of autumn cold and dank weather in Europe, Russian homes begin the campaign "From Russia with warmth". In conditions when the temperature outside and, more importantly, at home, is steadily falling, Russian houses and cultural centers in European capitals are opening their doors to everyone from today. As long as gas and electricity prices remain high, the centers will operate as heating points. Here you can always have tea, recharge your phone, watch a movie, and cartoons will be shown for children. Warmth in homes and human warmth from Russia is what freezing European families need. In the context of growing social tensions in Europe, as well as Russophobia, the humanitarian action of Russian homes should demonstrate our traditional hospitality and warm the hearts of freezing European families.

Russian Russian culture — where to feel the warmth, if not in a Russian house? Humanitarian cooperation, humanitarian actions are what we offer in our program. Cultural centers are outside politics, we are waiting for everyone who cares about communication, mutual understanding and warmth!"— emphasizes Vera Bunina, head of the Russian House in Brussels.

"This is a cool idea, an occasion to remind once again that Russia is not a terrible beast, we are ready and can give warmth," commented Russian theater and film actor, film director Sergey Makhovikov.

The program includes screenings of feature and animated Russian films. In our cozy halls you will be able to see such films as "Ilya Muromets", "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Tale of Wanderings", "The Snow Fairy Tale" and others.

We remind you that Russian homes are out of politics.

[Journeyman]

Having spent time in countries that were under occupation and spoken with some of the people that survived, I've often wondered if I'd be brave enough to stand up for what I believed in during time of war, despite the risks. I doubt I'd be as brave as this lady appears to have been.

https://twitter.com/OlgaK2013/status/1582927615098167296?s=20


On October 7, 56-year-old Tetiana Mudryenko and her husband, 60-year-old Anatoliy Orekhov, were abducted from their own yard in the occupied city of Skadovsk, Kherson region. According to eyewitnesses, they were visited by former Ukrainian police officers cooperating with the occupiers.

A week later, Natalie Chorna, who is the twin sister of the kidnapped Tatiana, unknown persons sent a photo of her sister's body in the morgue. Together with the photo, a forensic expert opinion was sent, which indicated the cause of death – strangulation.

"They threw grenades and fired machine gun bursts at the crowd"

"Tatiana is a nurse. She is well known in the city. Previously, she brought children with disabilities from Dnipro to Skadovsk on vacation. She was always active, led a healthy lifestyle, did not have bad habits – more than once she covered the distance from Skadovsk to the island of Dzharylhach by swimming," Natalia Chorna tells IHR.

Tatyana more than once covered the distance from Skadovsk to the island of Dzharylhach by swimming

Tatyana and Natalia spent the first months of occupation in Skadovsk together.

"The city was occupied on February 24, since then people began to go to rallies. Tanya and I went to everyone. They chanted chants and sang Ukrainian songs, demanded that the Russians release Skadovsk mayor Alexander Yakovlev, who was captured. At City Hall, they barricaded themselves to storm and looked at us from the windows. Once they promised that they would let the mayor go, fitted the trucks, unloaded the boxes and suddenly began to take grenades out of them and throw them at people, letting machine gun bursts around the crowd. They drove us for two blocks. My sister and I filmed everything on our phones and recorded live broadcasts on social networks. After that, the city faded away, everyone walked ponurious. During the occupation, the locals were so intimidated that now, when they pass by the Russian military, they do not look up," says Natalia.

Residents of Skadovsk demand from the Russians to release the mayor Alexander Yakovlev, who was captured
Subsequently, she left the occupation and went to Dnipro. I often talked to my sister on the phone. She told her about the difficulties of life in the occupation, complained about the collaborators, who were becoming more. Among others, she called her husband nicknamed "Utya".

At the protests, Russians dispersed residents with smoke bombs
"The reason for the murder could be the phrase "Skadovsk is Ukraine"

The sister learned about the disappearance of Tetiana and Anatoliy from the closed pro-Ukrainian public of the city. They wrote that the couple was driving a car, they were stopped by the so-called police. What was discussed is unknown. After a while, the man and woman were released, they headed home.

In the comments, someone wrote that at seven in the evening of the same day, the "police" took "our Tanya."

Natalia suspected that it was about her sister. I asked who exactly was taken away, I got the answer: "A woman with a Doberman."

"Everyone knew her because of the Doberman she walked with every day," Black continues. – In the same public they wrote that Anatoly was beaten, everything was dug in the house, the car was taken away, and people were taken out, there was a terrible noise on the street. People were afraid to go to the occupied police station to find out why they were taken away.

At the same time, Natalia wrote a post on the social network: "This is my twin sister, she and her husband have been held for two days in the Skadovsk pre-trial detention center, her husband was beaten, the house was searched, a car and two bicycles were taken away, she said that Skadovsk is Ukraine. You can't have your own opinion in Skadovsk."

A few days later, a message appeared in another group, "They brought a woman with strangulation."

"The name of the contributor was erased. I called the occupied police, they said they knew what my name was, and threatened that they were waiting for me. I panicked, started calling friends who once worked in law enforcement," she continues.

At first, the occupiers denied information about Tatiana's death by phone, but confirmed it on October 15. Natalie sent the mentioned photo from the local morgue.

"One local resident told me that police collaborators had ostentatiously hanged Tatiana in front of the courthouse," says Natalia. – People say that the reason could have been the sister's phrase "Skadovsk is Ukraine", and the local Internet community wrote that at the time when Tetiana and Anatoliy were kept at the police station, a local collaborator "Utya" was drinking there together with former Ukrainian policemen. He shouted, "Beat these dills!"

Local publics write that Igor Ivanovich Kuzmenyuk, the head of the occupation criminal investigation of the so-called Skadovsk police, may be involved in the murder of Tatyana. It is noted that the collaborator is cruel, tortures civilian Skadov residents for their pro-Ukrainian position. Relatives of the spouses also do not reject his involvement in the captivity and murder of Tatyana.

"I would never have thought that Ukrainian policeman would serve the Russians!"

Tatyana's friends testify that the woman loved her country very much. During the occupation, she moved around the city on a bicycle decorated with the Ukrainian flag. From birth, the Russian-speaking woman completely switched to Ukrainian. And when she found out how many law enforcement officers sided with the Russians, she wrote a message to her friend: "I would never have thought that Ukrainian policeman would serve the Russians! How saleable they all are!"

Eleven days there was no information about the fate of Tatyana Mudryenko's husband, Anatoly. On October 18, it became known that he was released from captivity and allowed to bury his wife.

"My acquaintances from Skadovsk say that residents whom the occupiers suspect of partisanship are being held and tortured outside the city, in the children's camp "Slava", where the Russian military is located. Police collaborators like to repeat that no one comes back from there, – says Natalia Chorna. – Trenches are dug behind the camp, cattle cemetery, sewage treatment plants of the city and on the territory of the cemetery. Locals suggest that the tortured may be buried there."

Currently, the further fate of Tatyana's husband Anatoly Orekhov remains unknown.

Tetiana Mudryenko's family appealed to Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.

MIHR continues to document cases of war crimes in the occupied territories, including in the Kherson region.
(machine translation via from Ukrainian at this site (https://mipl.org.ua/fraza-skadovsk-cze-ukrayina-yak-pryvid-dlya-vykradennya-druzhynu-zamorduvaly-cholovika-pobyly/))

It's likely old news by now, but I couldn't find anything posted about the death of Yurii Kerpatenko, apologies if this is a re-post (https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/ukraine-conductor-killed-russia-kherson/):


herson’s occupiers were reportedly planning a concert for 1 October 2022 (the International Day of Music). The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture said this event was organised to showcase a Russian-described “improvement of peaceful life” in the region.

The Gileya Chamber Orchestra – a chamber offset of the Kherson Regional Philharmonic – were pinned to perform at this occupier-organised concert, and as Kerpatenko was their main conductor, he was reportedly asked to conduct.

According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, Kerpatenko refused to perform in the concert, and his noncompliance is what reportedly led to his death.

The news of Kerpatenko’s death was broken by Ukrainian journalist, Olena Vanina, last Thursday. According to Vanina, Kerpatenko was shot and killed in his home at an unknown date.

According to Vanina and subsequent outlets, Kerpatenko’s friends and family last received contact from the musician in September.

Vanina’s post included the line, “I would like all [of] Ukraine to know about [Kerpatenko’s death]. [He] was a very talented conductor and especially, arranger.”

RIP to all the victims of this awful war. :heart:

[Vicus]

Russia Swept The Ukrainian-Polish border
In The biggest Russian air attack so far...
Missiles launched from ships And 9 Bombers

War News 24/7
10-22-22

Central, western and eastern Ukraine are receiving a simultaneous massive cruise missile attack from warships and strategic bombers with the Russians taking off nine Tu-160s and Tu-95s capable of launching up to 108 missiles.

The Russians mainly hit the Ukrainian regions of Lviv, Lutsk and Kovel, which border Poland with upgraded cruise missiles. This fact may be an indication of preparations for a ground attack by Belarus.

Perhaps this is the largest operation of the Russians so far in the Ukrainian war. Air raid sirens are sounding across Ukraine as missiles hit the country's critical infrastructure.

https://warnews247.gr/i- megalyteri-eos-tora-rosiki- aeroporiki-epithesi-kata-tis- oukranias-mazikes-ektoxefseis- krouz-apo-ennea-vomvardistika- tu-160-tu-95-kai-ploia/

https://rense.com/general97/russia-swept-the-ukranian-polish-border.php

[Tintin]

◾️The campaign "From Russia with warmth" has already started in European cities.

Video from Copenhagen. The same Russian houses have opened their doors in Finland and Luxembourg.

◾️Follow:
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/12225

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/12225

[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine Provoked Putin To Invade! Says Former Italian Prime Minister:

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Former Italian Prime Minister Sergio Berlusconi was recently caught on an audio recording offering his unfiltered thoughts on the Ukraine situation, and the result has scandalized the European Union. Specifically, Berlusconi admitted that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian government were responsible for the shelling in the Donbas that forced Putin’s hand, and led directly to the Russian invasion. These statements, of course, run counter to the dominant Western European narrative, and have led to widespread backpedaling, obfuscation and dissembling in an effort to put the genie released by Berlusconi back in the bottle.

[Bill Ryan]

Hi Mashika
i read the articles.
have you even seen or heard of the movie Dr Strangelove?
should you get a chance to watch, I think it would be oddly amusing at this moment

i hope you are well
tp doug

Have not, but it is on my 'movies to watch some day in the hopefully not too far future" :)

OMG, how is that possible? :P:ROFL::heart2:

@everyone — I've just sent the movie to Mashika, with English, Russian and Spanish subtitles. :thumbsup: It probably deserves a whole thread of its own, but it was one of Stanley Kubrick's greatest (and funniest) films, was probably how come he was asked to fake the Apollo moon landings (because of his pioneering use of front screen projection to show the B-52 flying over Siberia, which amazed everyone at the time), and has Peter Sellers, one of Britain's most celebrated comedians, playing 3 (three) roles.

https://we.tl/t-UZPKtiZjd9 (mp4, 604 Mb)

:popcorn: :focus:A new WeTransfer download link, valid for another 7 days: :thumbsup:


Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
https://we.tl/t-0dOz6cqkSe (https://we.tl/t-0dOz6cqkSe)

[Tintin]

Waiting for the offensive: “The Wagner Line” along the Russian border

By Military Monitoring (https://militarymonitoring.com/waiting-for-the-offensive-the-wagner-line-along-the-russian-border/)

https://militarymonitoring.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Governor-Vyacheslav-Gladkov-e1666513171564.jpg
Governor of Belgorod Vyacheslav Gladkov in front of concrete barriers called "The Wagner line". Photo: Telegram

An interesting photo of the Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov giving an interview against the backdrop of concrete pyramids has circulated on social media raising a lot of questions. The pyramids appear to have been installed along roads at the entrance to settlements.

Similar protective barriers are now being erected by the engineering units of Wagner PMC in the eastern regions of Ukraine near Russia’s border. These concrete triangles have already been called “The Wagner Line”. In fact, such structures were already used during the Second World War and then they were called “dragon’s teeth”.

https://militarymonitoring.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/dragons-teeth_russia_belgorod-696x376.jpg

Even it seems that the triangles are not effective to stop tanks, this is not entirely true. Military experts call “the dragon’s teeth” a proven practice over many years of use. Behind such anti-tank defense installations there is usually a dug-out trench, firing points, fortified pillboxes, positions for infantry. Taken together, all these measures make it possible to respond in time to an enemy offensive while holding combat positions.

In addition, the armed forces of Ukraine are using the tactics of small mobile groups – they are probing the defense, using primarily light armored vehicles – armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, special forces vehicles, combat reconnaissance vehicles.

“Dragon’s teeth” are also effective against tanks, this is proved by historical examples, in particular during the Second World War. In some parts of Russia where fighting once took place, one can still see preserved lines of anti-tank installations arranged in parallel rows.

Military experts note that modern “dragon teeth” are stronger than they were built earlier. In addition, they can be additionally mined and covered with barbed wire to prevent enemy infantry units from breaking through.

[Operator]

Short video from the channel "The prisoner" on Brighteon:

https://www.brighteon.com/a0b7cecb-7eda-4723-8451-8f0d1f7ac812

Russian TV: Ukraine has a NUCLEAR BOMB in Mykolaiv which it will detonate & blame on Russia

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[Tintin]

https://t.me/intelslava/39890

intelslava/39890

Full text:


🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would lose combat capability if Russian troops seized supply lines in the Volyn and Lvov regions, RIA Novosti reports.

According to Davis, the Ukrainian army will not be able to conduct hostilities for several months if the Russian Armed Forces cut off the land route for the supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Poland.

An American expert considers the route through the Carpathians along the Slovak and Romanian borders as an alternative route for Western deliveries of military equipment, but this is an extremely difficult route.

Davis said that in this case, the Armed Forces of Ukraine would quickly run out of ammunition and missiles for HIMARS systems, and it would not be possible to replace them in time.

Meanwhile, Russia will secure uninterrupted supplies.

[Tintin]

https://t.me/intelslava/39907

intelslava/39907

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🇧🇾 Beldortsentr (an enterprise that controls traffic on the roads of Belarus) has closed access to traffic cameras on the country's highways, Belarusian websites report.

It should be noted that a similar situation took place on January 14, a month before the entry of the Russian Armed Forces into the northern regions of Ukraine from the territory of Belarus, when the State Border Committee removed access to cameras at the entrance and exit from the Belarusian border crossings on the border with Ukraine.

[Tintin]

Now in the Avalon Library (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Eva_Bartlett/Outpost_soldiers_humanity_Eva_Bartlett_October_2022.mp4) and retrieved from Eva Bartlett's Telegram channel earlier today a thought provoking account from Donbass militia soldiers that she interviewed this month. The film is about 12 minutes in duration :flower:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Eva_Bartlett/Outpost_soldiers_humanity_Eva_Bartlett_October_2022.mp4

The channel source: https://t.me/wyattreed13/115

Eva's description:



While in the DPR in October, I went to a front line outpost 70 m from Ukrainian forces in Avdeevka, according to the Donbass commanders I spoke with.

While many in the West think that this conflict started in February 2022, those following events since 2014 are aware of the origins of the conflict & the sacrifices which the people of the Donbass republics have endured, particularly those fighting to protect their families and loved ones.

Just as the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/429168-syria-saving-private-ryan/) were maligned, so too have Donbass forces been maligned by Western media, though both are defending their homelands from terrorist forces trained and funded by the West. Terrorists, given the freedom to commit endless atrocities against Donbass civilians.

These defenders—many living in dank trench conditions, under constant Ukrainian shelling—didn't chose war, they responded to it, to protect their loved ones & their future. In spite of over 8 years of being warred upon by Ukraine, they retain their humanity.

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/news/565070-abc-investigative-journalist-disappeared/

An ABC News investigative journalist disappeared six months ago. He seems to have known a lot about American aims in Ukraine

Has a potential whistleblower been 'disappeared' or is there another explanation?

On 27 April, ABC News reporter James Meek tweeted a single word – “facts” – above another Twitter post from a retired CIA officer, who stated that the 2014-2022 Ukrainian civil war was an eight-year “lab experiment” on Russia's military “tactics, techniques, and procedures.” It added that US intelligence and “unconventional warfare” experts had “learned a **** ton.”

It was the last time, to date, Meek posted on the social network. In fact, it seems it was the last time he did anything in public at all, both online and in-real-life. Rolling Stone has published an investigation into the veteran journalist’s vanishing act in the months since, revealing how just hours after that tweet was posted, a number of menacing vehicles blocked off roads around Meek’s apartment in Arlington, Virginia, then proceeded to raid the premises.

Neighbors interviewed by the magazine recall a collection of police cruisers, official-looking cars with blacked-out windows, and even armored tactical vehicles frequently used by the FBI, which resemble tanks. Quick as a flash, their occupants exited and rushed into Meek’s apartment complex, “at least 10” of them being “heavily armed.”

The raid was reportedly over very quickly, and Meek apparently didn’t leave the scene with the authorities. To this day, there is no indication of what if anything was seized or why it was conducted, and all records related to the case remain sealed, including the search warrant approved a day prior. While no charges have officially been filed, Meek has dropped off the face of the Earth, and his apartment has remained vacant ever since.


At precisely this time, Meek is said to have resigned “very abruptly” from his ABC News post without warning or explanation, with even close coworkers unaware of the reasons for his departure.

He is also said to have telephoned Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret, with whom he was collaborating on an almost completed book, "Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan," to tell him he needed to withdraw from the project due to “serious personal issues.” Meek was apparently “really distraught” during the call.

On the edge of Armageddon? Why the Ukraine conflict is dangerously similar to the Cuban missile crisis
On the edge of Armageddon? Why the Ukraine conflict is dangerously similar to the Cuban missile crisis
Almost immediately, Meek’s name was scrubbed from the work’s entry on US publishing giant Simon & Schuster’s website, and its cover on various e-commerce sites listing it for pre-order. Several tweets from Meek promoting his involvement in the project have also been deleted.

Tell no tales

It’s remarkable that it has taken six months for anyone to publicly raise the alarm over Meek’s disappearance, and raise questions as to his whereabouts. One might think that a relatively high-profile veteran mainstream US journalist suddenly going missing would stoke concerns among his employers, if not fellow reporters, particularly given Meek’s history of reporting on contentious topics.

He has previously broken stories on foiled terrorist attacks, and military cover-ups surrounding the fatal ambush of four Green Berets by ISIS in 2017, and the accidental death by friendly fire of US private James Sherrett II in 2008. The latter exposure resulted in Meek meeting personally with President Barack Obama.

To source such scoops would have necessitated maintaining close high-level contacts within Washington’s national security apparatus – and there are clear indications Meek could himself have experience in that very sphere. As a 2013 ABC press release announcing the creation of a new investigative unit stated, since 2011 he’d “served as Senior Counterterrorism Advisor and Investigator for the House Committee on Homeland Security, grappling with some of the top threats to our country, including the bombing at the Boston Marathon.”

What this grappling entailed isn’t explained, although Rolling Stone interviews with his ABC peers indicate that despite his background being “shrouded in mystery,” Meek was in close quarters at various times with military and intelligence professionals. One of his coworkers mentioned a photo in his office taken in a desert, featuring Meek posing with a number of people who had had their faces retrospectively blacked out.

These nuggets might suggest not only that Meek had a background in military and/or intelligence work, but that these professional exploits could have overlapped with his journalism career, perhaps up to the present day.

This interpretation is greatly reinforced by an underexplored disclosure in Rolling Stone’s article. It is noted that unnamed sources had said “federal agents allegedly found classified information on Meek’s laptop during their raid.” One of Meek’s ABC coworkers further told the magazine: “it would be highly unusual for a reporter or producer to keep any classified information on a computer.” Which is true – but was he simply a “reporter or producer,” or something else too?

Be careful what you post: How Facebook and the US government have united against Americans with the 'wrong' views
Be careful what you post: How Facebook and the US government have united against Americans with the 'wrong' views
Even stranger, Rolling Stone fails to put two and two together when discussing how it would be unusual and unprecedented for the FBI to seize a reporter’s documents, as US laws make it illegal for journalistic material to be captured by federal prosecutors without special prior authorization from the US Attorney General’s office, and there is no evidence in the public domain that such an agreement was officially reached.

Again though, such restrictions only apply to documents held by journalists – not regular citizens, or individuals involved in national security work. As such, Meek’s final tweet – despite being posted after a warrant to search his home was secured – might be a highly incisive clue as to the rationale for the mysterious and completely unpublicized FBI raid.

Meek’s tweeting about the situation in Ukraine since 24 February was fairly sparse, but on 4 March, he revealed that America’s Germany-based 10th Special Forces Group had “spent a decade training Ukraine’s special operations forces in unconventional warfare, almost exclusively. They are seeing those tactics being used very effectively against the Russian Bear.”

In exposing this secret schooling, Meek was notably ahead of the curve – it is only since late September that Western news outlets have acknowledged the decade-long 10th Special Forces Group training provided to Kiev. This indicates he knew something the rest of the media didn’t, or maybe wasn’t allowed to mention at the time.

Meek’s other posts on Ukraine suggest that while far from a Russian apologist, he was very critical of US policy in the region, particularly plans to ship endless weapons to Ukraine, believing it would be difficult for the cargo to reach the frontline, let alone be used very effectively by local troops. Both obvious outcomes have been subsequently admitted, leading to online backlash, and official denials.

The ABC journalist’s knowledge of that covert training, and the US intelligence community exploiting the post-Maidan regime’s brutal war on the Donbass civilian population as a petri dish for prepping war with Russia, strongly suggests insider access. Combined with public skepticism over Washington’s war effort, could it be that Meek planned an expose of inconvenient hidden truths about the Western proxy war in Ukraine, or alternatively knew too much, and was dangerously well-positioned to publicize it?

Secret societies: Harmless members-only clubs or dire threats to democracy?
Secret societies: Harmless members-only clubs or dire threats to democracy?
Declassified documents reveal that the rule change protecting a journalist’s possessions from seizure contain massive loopholes. If the FBI is trying to identify an individual who leaked documents to a reporter, or attempting to surveil someone they believe to be an intelligence operative, those protections evaporate, and the bureau can monitor privileged private communications without the Attorney General office’s approval.

Were it the case that Meek was both a journalist and intelligence professional, by receiving sensitive briefings on US involvement in the war in Ukraine, he could have walked into a series of traps of his dual career’s own making, with no legal protections, and no need for official sign-off on a massive spying and raid operation targeting him.

It is unknown quite what information he could have possessed that the US government wanted to suppress, although the White House is so desperate to maintain official narratives on the Russia/Ukraine conflict that it's giving direct briefings to Tik-Tok stars on the subject.

Of course, it's entirely conceivable that someone who could blow the whistle on how Russia’s intervention was provoked, or what the US is trying to get out of prolonging the fighting, would need to be silenced as a matter of urgency.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1584165772728750083

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[norman]

Bizarre

As of October 13th, Russia was STILL pumping 42 million cubic meters of gas through Ukraine via Sudzha to western Europe (https://archive.ph/JcvGz).



https://iaindavis.com/multipolar-world-order-part-4/



Despite the slaughter going on in the Ukraine war and all sides’ refusal to unconditionally negotiate, Russia’s “state-owned” private energy corporation Gazprom has apparently settled its dispute with Ukrainian “state-owned” energy corporation Naftogaz and is pumping 42.4 million cubic meters of natural gas a day through Ukraine to Western Europe energy markets.

The Russian Federation is paying the Ukrainian government substantial transit fees. It is effectively funding Ukraine’s war effort. The war is only for the little people.

[mizo]

Well it was nice knowing you all...


https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1584203399112687616

[Tintin]

A new RT documentary released this year - September - with some never before seen footage, and some of it is harrowing. Those who may have had time to watch films such as Ukraine on Fire, Burnt Alive in Odessa and who have been following closely what's going on will already be familiar with the history.

This documentary brings things bang up to date, and is occasionally difficult viewing.

It features Maxim Grigoriev, Vassily Prozorov and some other journalists who have been on the ground there for many years and focuses on the Ukraine regime's crimes, too many to even begin to summarise here :flower:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Nazi_groups_in_Ukraine/Operation_Ukraine_Crime_Without_Punishment_%282022%29.mp4.

Duration: 00:51:41

Source: Avalon Library (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Nazi_groups_in_Ukraine/Operation_Ukraine_Crime_Without_Punishment_%282022%29.mp4)

[Tintin]

Here's a shorter but no less informative documentary, again by RT although that's an assumption by me based on the narrator's voice and the style.

Be that as it may, lest any of us need reminding of the outright stupidity of those Ukrainians shelling the Zaporozhye plant, this film shows testimony from those affected by the shelling thus far, and includes information from those who used to work there, and those who had responsible oversight for its functioning.

It's insightful and a neat summary, and confirmation of what we now know :flower:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_power_plant/Nuclear_Blackmail_%282022%29.mp4

Duration: 00:24:52

Source: Avalon Library (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_power_plant/Nuclear_Blackmail_%282022%29.mp4)

[Tintin]

Fingers crossed with a bunch of prayer that this doesn't amount to anything real folks, but, worth recording here for the record again, via Vanessa Beeley:

https://t.me/Reality_Theories/9633

Reality_Theories/9633

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This RIA Novosti story just appeared on R T in Russian . It is bad news.

I hope that by people publicising this to the max, Russia will expose Kiev’s and the West’s hand in advance and thereby make this disaster less likely .

On the other hand , both the US attack on Nordstream and the Ukr attack on Kerch Bridge were forecast in advance as possible Western/Ukraine provocations - and this did not stop them from happening . We must pray , and publicise.

Tony Kevin

“ Kyiv is preparing a provocation with the detonation of a "dirty bomb" or a low-yield nuclear weapon on the territory of Ukraine. RIA Novosti writes about this with links to several sources. The leadership of the Eastern Mining and Processing Plant in the Dnipropetrovsk region (pictured), as well as the Kyiv Institute for Nuclear Research, was tasked with making the very “dirty bomb”.

Work on it is already at the final stage. It is also reported that several people from Zelensky's close circle are conducting covert contacts with representatives of the UK on the issue of a possible transfer of nuclear weapons components to the Kyiv authorities. The purpose of the provocation is to accuse the Russian Federation of using weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine and thereby launch a powerful anti-Russian campaign in the world. As a result, Moscow will lose the support of many of its key partners. “

[Bill Ryan]

Fingers crossed with a bunch of prayer that this doesn't amount to anything real folks, but, worth recording here for the record again, via Vanessa Beeley:

https://t.me/Reality_Theories/9633Russell "Texas" Bentley (a US expat who lives in Donbass and served with the DPR military several years ago) was also talking about this in an interview yesterday. (I don't post everything I come across, or else there'd be just too much. :) )

My strong bet is that this is being publicized by RT (and by anyone else who can) as belt-and-braces insurance just in case this actually happens. But I'd also be as sure as I can be that it won't, as the Russians clearly have excellent intelligence combined with the ability to take out anything at all, if it's in Ukraine and they know where it is, using a very large menu of available weaponry, some of which hasn't even been deployed yet.

[ExomatrixTV]

If NATO (which is a partly a creation from the totally corrupt people working for the CFR (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?102985-Council-on-Foreign-Relations-Tells-Gov--t-They---Have-To---Use-Propaganda-on-Americans&p=1523194&viewfull=1#post1523194)/Bilderbergers (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118736-The-Bilderberg-Group-Meets-in-Washington-DC-June-2022)) who are beyond national limitations and do not really serve nor care about national interests anymore >>> it is pure an extension of unelected Technocratic (https://technocracy.news) Globalists pushing "Global Governance (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111148-The-Great-Reset)" ... if they decide to use "tactical mini nukes" via Ukraine Proxy-War with Russia as Zelenskyy requested "preemptive strikes".


I would not be surprised it can escalate to the point that some Russian Generals decide to attack Nato countries with the similar weapons which may lead to endless retaliations from both sides worldwide ...not just in Ukraine.

Whatever Nato decides to do coming months or even coming weeks is NOT "of the people" not "by the people" nor "for the people" ... they serve a Tyrannical Globalist Agenda (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111148-The-Great-Reset) (and the military industrial complex (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QXjBVC233s)) that has nothing to do with the common people interests >>> meanwhile using their tax-money.

They really do not care if the whole (global financial) system collapses as they are already planning for their "Great (Dystopian) Reset (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111148-The-Great-Reset)".

The more global (manufactured) crisis there are the more they can "justify" their tyrannical "solutions" (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118748-Top-10-Creepiest-Most-Dystopian-Things-Pushed-By-The-World-Economic-Forum). And can speed up their Agenda2030 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111148-The-Great-Reset) & Orwellian "NetZero2050".
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Above video (which needs a "2022 update") was made 8 years ago in 2014 same year that Ukraine starting to systematically violate the Minsk Agreements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements) by attacking East-Ukraine with help from Neo-Nazis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Regiment) funded by USA/Nato using tax payed money! >>> Which was deliberately under-reported by western mainstream media but nevertheless they DID report on it when it became worse and worse ...

Many Russian speaking Eastern-Ukrainian civilians died and it got worse by the day ... meanwhile Bilderberger & WEF puppet Hillary Clinton claims Russia invaded Eastern Ukraine "unprovoked (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1524021&viewfull=1#post1524021)" :facepalm: ... yeah right ... how stupid does she think we are?


Most people do not realize that one of the main reasons why (actor) Zelenskyy won the Ukrainian elections that he promised to end the internal war/conflict with Eastern Ukraine and normalizing the Ukraine-Russia relationships. Did you know that?

If (actor) Zelenskyy did not promised that >> he would never had a chance to become President ... As soon as he was in power he banned at least 18 (mostly oppositional) Ukranian political parties (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Banned_political_parties_in_Ukraine) and the western mainstream media refuse to mention that when western MSM claims "we support 'democracy' in Ukraine" sending the most corrupt country in Eastern-Europe billions of tax payed money >> in a time we already have an ultra-explosive government spending's due to the orchestrated COVID (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?110505-Covid19-Global-reports-news-and-updates) & Climate (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/-Lockdowns-are-Coming--Agenda2030--Predicted-by-Conspiracy-Researchers-) Hysteria! >> pushing obvious insane tunnel-vision narratives serving "the new normal" ... normalizing insanity 24/7.

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cheers,
John Kuhles (https://whynotnews.eu) aka 'ExomatrixTV'
October 24th, 2022 🦜🦋🌳

[Hendog]

For some reason the song Spirits in the material world by the Police came to mind..

I pray for common sense to prevail.

[Bill Ryan]

Fingers crossed with a bunch of prayer that this doesn't amount to anything real folks, but, worth recording here for the record again, via Vanessa Beeley:

https://t.me/Reality_Theories/9633Russell "Texas" Bentley (a US expat who lives in Donbass and served with the DPR military several years ago) was also talking about this in an interview yesterday. (I don't post everything I come across, or else there'd be just too much. :) )

My strong bet is that this is being publicized by RT (and by anyone else who can) as belt-and-braces insurance just in case this actually happens. But I'd also be as sure as I can be that it won't, as the Russians clearly have excellent intelligence combined with the ability to take out anything at all, if it's in Ukraine and they know where it is, using a very large menu of available weaponry, some of which hasn't even been deployed yet.And more on this from Alexander Mercouris, published yesterday. (He too doubts that it'll happen, but suggests that this may be the reason Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has been on the phone to his counterparts in several other nations, including France, the US and Turkey. That 5-minute section in the video is from 38:09—43:15.


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[ExomatrixTV]

U.S. General Admits Ukraine Is About Retaining U.S. Power:

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley recently delivered a speech where he acknowledged that the United States is continuing to funnel weapons and intelligence to the Ukrainian military for the simple reason that the U.S. seeks to maintain its current status as global hegemon, which Milley misleadingly describes as the “rules-based order”.

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https://sputniknews.com/20221024/russian-mod-has-info-on-contacts-between-ukraine-uk-on-nuke-tech--1102582411.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Russian MoD Has Info on Contacts Between Ukraine, UK on Nuke Tech

Earlier in the day, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced plans to bring up Ukraine's alleged efforts to stage a dirty bomb provocation up at the United Nations. On Sunday, Russia's defense minister informed his NATO counterparts on the threat of a Ukrainian dirty bomb false flag attack. Kiev and its sponsors have dismissed the allegations.


The Russian military has information on contacts between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's office and British representatives on the matter of nuclear weapons technology, Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia's Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, has revealed.
"We have information on contacts between the Ukrainian president's office and representatives of Britain on the possible acquisition of nuclear weapon technology," Kirillov said in a briefing Monday.
The senior officer echoed concerns voiced by Defense Minister Shoigu on Sunday - namely that Kiev was "planning a provocation involving the detonation of a so-called 'dirty bomb', or a low-yield nuclear weapon," and then claiming that the explosion was caused by a Russian tactical nuclear weapon.
"The purpose of such a provocation is to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction in the Ukrainian theater of operations and thereby launch a powerful anti-Russian campaign throughout the world aimed at undermining global confidence in Moscow," Kirillov said.
"As a result of such a dirty bomb provocation, Kiev expects to intimidate the local population, increase the flow of refugees across Europe, and 'expose' the Russian Federation as a nuclear terrorist," Kirillov said.
Russia's nuclear doctrine forbids the use of nuclear weapons of any kind - tactical or strategic, unless nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction are used against the country first, or in the event of a conventional attack so severe that it threatens the country's existence.

UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace brought up the issue of nuclear weapons in a conversation with a pair of Russian pranksters posing as Zelensky back in March, saying that "the principle is, we will support Ukraine as our friend in the choices you make," including on the issue of "weather you want to explore new weapons, etc."
"Any proposals you talk about are something that the UK would discuss. On your acquisition of a nuclear - you think you want to explore a nuclear weapon, I think I would just be very careful about all of that. We are a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation [Treaty]. We can't be seen to be doing that. That is an entirely different issue so I think we have to be very careful with that," Wallace said at the time.

Details
According to the Russian military's information, Kiev has the technological potential and industrial base necessary to create a dirty bomb. This includes over 1,500 tons-worth of spent nuclear fuel from the country's three operational nuclear plants, plus 22,000 spent fuel assemblies from the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant containing Uranium-238, as well as other nuclear materials containing Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239. Radioactive agents from the South Ukrainian, Khmelnitsky and Rivne nuclear plants contain uranium oxide enriched to 1.5 percent.
Addition infrastructure which could aid in the production of a dirty bomb includes the new Vector radioactive waste processing plant at the Prydneprovsky Chemical Plant in Kamenskoe, central Ukraine, which has the capacity to accommodate over 50,000 cubic meters of radioactive materials, as well as the Vostochny Mining and Processing Plant, which can extract up to 1,000 tons of uranium ore per year.
On top of that, Ukraine has the necessary scientific base - including the legendary Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, whose scientists took part in the Soviet nuclear program, plus the Uragan experimental nuclear facility, and the Institute for Nuclear Research at the National Academy of Sciences in Kiev, where research involving highly radioactive materials is being carried out using the WWR-M reactor.
"According to the information we have, two Ukrainian organizations have specific instructions to create a so-called dirty bomb. Work on this project is at the final stage," Kirillov said.
The officer warned that the explosion of a radioactive dirty bomb on Ukrainian territory would spread radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere a distance of up to 1,500 km, spreading into neighboring countries, including Poland.
Syria False Flag
Kirillov recalled that Kiev's suspected preparations to use a dirty bomb are nothing new, and that "similar information warfare technologies have already been used by the West in Syria, where the White Helmets filmed propaganda videos about the use of chemical weapons by government forces," culminating in US air and cruise missile strikes against the country in 2017. The officer warned that a "similar scenario" may be employed in the event of a false flag attack involving the destruction of a radioactive dirty bomb.

He also recalled President Zelensky's comments at the Munich Security Conference in February, just days before Russia kicked off its military operation in Ukraine, in which the Ukrainian president hinted at Kiev's plans to restore the country's status as a nuclear weapons power.
The Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops head stressed that the Russian military has organized work to counter any provocations, and readied forces and means "to perform tasks in conditions of radioactive contamination."
Kirillov's comments on the danger of a Ukrainian dirty bomb false flag were echoed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier in the day Monday. Peskov told reporters that Russia has presented its findings, and that it is up to Western leaders to chose whether they wanted to believe Moscow or not. Lavrov said the foreign ministry has "specific information" on the Ukrainian scientific institutions that could be used to build a dirty bomb, and vowed to bring attention to the matter at the United Nations.
US and European officials issued a joint statement on Monday dismissing Moscow's concerns, vowing to "reject Russia's transparently false allegations that Ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb on its own territory." Ukrainian officials similarly dismissed the Russian dirty bomb allegations, with President Zelensky claiming that "if Russia calls and says that Ukraine is allegedly preparing something, it means one thing: Russia has already prepared all this" and calling on "the world" to "preemptively" step up pressure on Moscow.

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What's really going on in Ukraine with Investigative Journalist George Webb

Mario and I were joined by Investigative Journalist George Webb to discuss all things Ukraine and the war with Russia. Georges shares his views on what he things is driving the war and where he sees it going based upon his research and findings.

I think you’ll be surprised at what George has to say and especially on where he sees it going in the next few weeks. Tune in to hear his thoughts and make sure you check him out over on Twitter and Substack:


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Ukrainian army loses 1,400 troops in one week — Russian Defense Ministry

It is reported that the enemy sustained the greatest losses in manpower and materiel in the Nikolaev-Krivoi Rog area
MOSCOW, October 24. /TASS/. The Russian Armed Forces have eliminated more than 1,400 Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries over the past week, according to TASS calculations based on daily briefings by Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.

The enemy sustained the greatest losses in manpower and materiel in the Nikolaev-Krivoi Rog area.

TASS has summarized the key statistics concerning Russia’s special military operation for October 17 to October 23.

Strikes against Ukraine's critical infrastructure

The Russian Defense Ministry throughout last week said massive strikes continued against Ukrainian military command and energy facilities. On October 18 and 19, the designated targets were hit by high-accuracy long-range sea and air-launched weapons, and on October 20 and 23 by air-launched missiles.

In addition, high-accuracy weapons of the Aerospace Force hit the workshops of the Kommunar defense plant in Kharkov, where warheads for the Neptun anti-ship missiles produced there were destroyed. The enemy also lost several fuel storage facilities, including an oil tank farm with 56,000 tons of diesel fuel of the Dnepr joint group of forces and a fuel depot with more than 100,000 tons of aircraft fuel for the Ukrainian Air Force.

Losses in manpower

The Ukrainian army suffered the most significant losses in manpower in the Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog area. The Ukrainian side lost over 800 troops and mercenaries of the Foreign Legion during repeated unsuccessful attempts to attack Russian positions. Ukraine’s armed forces lost about 300 men in the Krasny Liman area and more than 160 in the Kupyansk area. In the southern Donetsk area, the Russian army eliminated over 80 enemy soldiers, and in the Zaporozhye area more than 40.

In another attempt to land troops on the left bank of the Kakhovka reservoir with the aim to capture the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the enemy lost more than 90 servicemen and 14 boats.

In the vicinity of the city of Zaporozhye, Russian aircraft and missile forces and artillery destroyed the command post of Ukraine’s united group of troops Dnepr.

Losses in materiel

In the Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog area, the enemy made several attempts to break through the Russian defenses. A tank battalion was used in one of such attempts. During last week, 20 tanks, 66 armored combat vehicles, and 70 other vehicles were destroyed in this area. The Russian forces seized two tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle and one mine clearing vehicle UR-77.

In the Krasny Liman area, the enemy lost 6 tanks, 23 armored combat vehicles, 9 armored personnel carriers and 17 other vehicles. In the Kupyansk area, the Russian forces destroyed 3 tanks, 7 armored combat vehicles, 8 armored personnel carriers and 9 vehicles. In the Zaporozhye and southern Donetsk area, Ukrainian troops lost 5 tanks, 16 combat armored vehicles and 13 other vehicles.

In addition, 4 counter-battery radars AN/TPQ-36, AN/TPQ-37 and AN/TPQ-50 of US manufacture, 4 launchers of the S-300 air defense missile system and a low-altitude target detection radar ST-68UM were destroyed.

In just one week, Ukraine’s armed forces lost 165 tanks and other armored vehicles, as well as over 120 other vehicles of various types.

Aviation, air defense and artillery’s targets hit

Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile and artillery units, and air defenses of the Russian army destroyed Ukraine’s Sukhoi-25 and MiG-29 planes, one Mi-8 helicopter, as well as 24 warehouses of ammunition, weapons and military equipment.

A high accuracy strike by Russia’s Aerospace Force destroyed a hangar with Ukrainian foreign-made military equipment near Novaya Kamenka, in the Kherson Region.

As a result of counter-battery operations, Russian artillery wiped out several Ukrainian artillery batteries, platoons of the multiple launch rocket systems Uragan and Olkha and US MLRS HIMARS.

Russian air defense systems shot down 70 unmanned aerial vehicles of various types, and 98 HIMARS, Olkha and Smerch MLRS rockets, as well as 14 US-made HARM anti-radar missiles were intercepted in flight.

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Moscow Slams US for Not Issuing Visas to Russian Delegation to IAEA Conference

MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - Moscow considers unacceptable the fact that the United States had not issued visas to the Russian delegation to the IAEA international ministerial conference on nuclear energy in the 21st century, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.



The conference will be held in Washington from October 26-28. The Russian delegation comprising representatives of state corporation Rosatom and technical watchdog Rostekhnadzor planned to take part in it.
"The United States never issued visas to the Russian delegates, despite the fact that the relevant applications were submitted by them in advance in accordance with the established procedure. Thus, Russia's participation in an important international event under the auspices of the IAEA was blocked in an absolutely unacceptable way and without any reason," Zakharova said in a statement.
The refusal of the United States to issue visas to the Russian delegation to the IAEA conference grossly violates the norms in the agreement between the IAEA and the state hosting the event, this gives reason to think about the advisability of holding international forums in the United States, Zakharova said.
This is another example of how the United States "implements its short-sighted policy of ignoring international law and replacing it with a perverted postulate of some kind of 'rules-based order' that Washington itself invents and adjusts for itself," she noted
"This is another reason to think about whether it is worth trusting the holding of large international forums to a country that is not able to organize them properly," Zakharova added.

[Bill Ryan]

Fingers crossed with a bunch of prayer that this doesn't amount to anything real folks, but, worth recording here for the record again, via Vanessa Beeley:

https://t.me/Reality_Theories/9633Russell "Texas" Bentley (a US expat who lives in Donbass and served with the DPR military several years ago) was also talking about this in an interview yesterday. (I don't post everything I come across, or else there'd be just too much. :) )

My strong bet is that this is being publicized by RT (and by anyone else who can) as belt-and-braces insurance just in case this actually happens. But I'd also be as sure as I can be that it won't, as the Russians clearly have excellent intelligence combined with the ability to take out anything at all, if it's in Ukraine and they know where it is, using a very large menu of available weaponry, some of which hasn't even been deployed yet.And more on this from Alexander Mercouris, published yesterday. (He too doubts that it'll happen, but suggests that this may be the reason Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has been on the phone to his counterparts in several other nations, including France, the US and Turkey. That 5-minute section in the video is from 38:09—43:15.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJchYVBPs1UAnd more again from Alexander Mercouris here (20 minutes worth), with much more thought and analysis about the entire enigmatic issue.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJNOuelpKuw

[Journeyman]

Russian state media is making for interesting viewing:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1584365167176871936?s=20

Sergey Mardan articulates a policy of 'Orthodoxy or death, Russia or death' whilst his guest Vladlan arkarsky suggests that Ukrainians are Russians who got sick, a variation on Pavel Gubarev's 'possession' argument. There appears to be a consistent attack on Ukrainian's right to exist as an independent country, it's Russia or death apparently, which is going to make finding a peaceful outcome very difficult to achieve if this line of argument holds sway in Russian thinking. Mardan's comments on the term Russia near the end appear significant in this context.

Anton Krasovsky has now been removed by RT (https://russianfreepress.com/2022/10/23/propagandist-anton-krasovsky-fired-from-rt/) following this exchange:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1584054018145685504?s=20

Rightly in my view.

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The comments about rape and child killing were disgraceful.

[Tintin]

Russian state media is making for interesting viewing:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1584365167176871936?s=20

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Well, so are some of your observations :)

I haven't copied all your post here in reply but............

Julia Davis, works for The Daily Beast :p Not really a trustworthy news source :)

And isn't this RT commentary (not copied in response) being ironic? Perhaps I'm missing something but it does seem to be lampooning. Maybe I missed something.

Julia's editorial isn't quite accurate either, when you listen to the video clip which I have included in response here. She's editorialised out of context.

[Journeyman]

The comments about rape and child killing were disgraceful.


Well, so are some of your observations :)

If you compare my observations, with invective celebrating rape or infanticide you could at least be specific on which comments you're referring to?


Julia Davis, works for The Daily Beast Not really a trustworthy news source

It's not on my preferred reading list either as it happens. It's Russian State Media's content that I was referring to not Ms Davis's own writing. If there's another channel that's providing clips like these let me know and I'll post from there instead.

[Peace in Oz]

France to boost military presence, deploy additional tanks in Romania
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/france-to-boost-military-presence-deploy-additional-tanks-in-romania-122101300222_1.html


France will deploy armoured personnel carriers and tanks in central Romania by the end of October to strengthen the NATO battle group stationed there, the Defence Ministry in Bucharest said in a statement.

A company of armoured personnel carriers and a company of Leclerc tanks of the French Army will be dispatched to the town of Cincu in central Romania both by rail and on wheels, Xinhua news agency quoted the statement as saying.

The Battle Group Forward Presence (BGFP) was established in Romania in May by transforming the allied multinational elements within the NATO Response Force deployed in the country.

Led by France, the battle group is stationed at the Joint National Training Centre in Cincu, where it has been carrying out missions and training activities together with the Romanian Army.

France aims to step up its military presence in Romania and will deploy additional armoured vehicles and tanks there, French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday.

Not only France, but the entire West are amassing weapons in Romania now.

On another hand, after Turkey's Erdogan showed his pro-Russia orientation, Greece is stirring them up.
"Germany condemns Turkish President Erdogan's threats to Greece"
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/10/22/germany-condemns-turkish-president-erdogans-threats-to-greece/

Germany has condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's threats to Greece, with German federal government's deputy spokesperson Wolfgang Buchner saying on Friday that Berlin does not consider it right to threaten or make unfriendly statements about neighbours,

"We always make it clear that we do not consider it right to make threats or unfriendly statements against neighbours. The government makes this clear at every opportunity. The foreign ministry also always makes this clear," Buchner said, while adding: "I do not believe, however, that we should talk a great deal about every phrase that is uttered."

He had been asked, specifically, what German Chancellor Olaf Scholz thinks of Erdogan's recent threats toward Greece, such as his statement that Turkey "will come during the night..."

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to Athens on Wednesday, October 26, directly from Paris, Deputy Spokesperson of the Federal Government Wolfgang Buchner announced on Friday.

According to Buchner, a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will take place on Thursday, when a joint press conference is planned for 12:00. A working lunch will follow.

As Buchner noted, bilateral and current economic and European issues are on the agenda of the meeting. Scholz will depart for Berlin in the afternoon of the same day

[Kryztian]

Anton Krasovsky has now been removed by RT (https://russianfreepress.com/2022/10/23/propagandist-anton-krasovsky-fired-from-rt/) following this exchange:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1584054018145685504?s=20



Not only was he instantly suspended from RT, but he is also under investigation by the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee (RIC) (https://www.rt.com/news/565236-rt-host-krasovsky-investigated/), Alexander Bastrykin, for making those comments.

Compare that to Ukraine's policy, where a 14 year old in Donbass pleading for peace is put on the Myrotvorets kill lis (https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/8/27/peacemaker-the-ukrainian-website-shaming-pro-russia-voices)t, an official government website.

[Journeyman]

Anton Krasovsky has now been removed by RT (https://russianfreepress.com/2022/10/23/propagandist-anton-krasovsky-fired-from-rt/) following this exchange:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1584054018145685504?s=20



Not only was he instantly suspended from RT, but he is also under investigation by the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee (RIC) (https://www.rt.com/news/565236-rt-host-krasovsky-investigated/), Alexander Bastrykin, for making those comments.

Rightly so and I hope they throw the book at him. It could be argued though that this response, whilst welcome, was rather late in the day given his past form. (https://russianfreepress.com/2022/10/24/there-shouldnt-be-any-ukrainians-10-cannibalistic-krasovsky-quotes-that-didnt-outrage-simonyan/)


Krasovsky repeatedly said that Ukraine should not exist at all, and he made such statements before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (for example, in January 2022):

“This country [Ukraine] should not exist. And we will do our best to avoid it. And I ****ing told you - we will burn your constitution right on Khreshchatyk.
About Ukrainians and the Ukrainian language
And here is what Krasovsky said after the Russian invasion: “In general, I emphasize, there should not be any Ukrainians. The Ukrainian language should be banned."


Compare that to Ukraine's policy, where a 14 year old in Donbass pleading for peace is put on the Myrotvorets kill lis (https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/8/27/peacemaker-the-ukrainian-website-shaming-pro-russia-voices)t, an official government website.

Yes I've read about the Mryotvorets site and the girl in Donbass on this very thread. Awful.

[gini]

Interview David Icke & Mordechai Krispijn (21-10-2022) about David Icke being not allowed to speak at the the national antiwar protest in amsterdam next weekend,MSM singing in choir that David should be silenced and should be refused entrance to the Netherlands because he is a so called 'holocaust denier'-/2nGcQ2zkB4Cq/

[Tintin]

The comments about rape and child killing were disgraceful.


Well, so are some of your observations :)

If you compare my observations, with invective celebrating rape or infanticide you could at least be specific on which comments you're referring to?


Julia Davis, works for The Daily Beast Not really a trustworthy news source

It's not on my preferred reading list either as it happens. It's Russian State Media's content that I was referring to not Ms Davis's own writing. If there's another channel that's providing clips like these let me know and I'll post from there instead.

Ah, right. I've discovered that Russian Media Monitor is a film documentary, heavily anti-Russian, due for release in 2023 (according to IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20317138/)).



Storyline
The Russian Media Monitor and RussiaLies.com, was created by Producer, Director, Screenwriter Julia Davis, a Russian Analyst and Media Expert, as an Investigative Journalist, former Department of Homeland Security Acting Supervisor that actively debunks cyberwarfare, Russian propaganda and monitors all phases of Russian media sources with emphasis on counterterrorism, espionage and corruption as a former Russian Expert with the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. RMM showcases foreign policy, international and domestic affairs. Investigative reports and revelations that debunk Russian propaganda, cyberwarfare and have prompted retractions and corrections by RT (formerly Russia Today) and other media outlets, domestically and internationally. Coverage of the Putin plan and expansionisms, with the War on Ukraine is uncovered, from the trenches to Russian State TV, the lies and warfare perpetrated on a civilized Ukraine, EU and the West. As a result of Julia Davis' hard hitting reporting as a journalist and investigator with Russia Lies TV series, the Russian Foreign Ministry named her to be sanctioned and banned from Russia with US President Biden, VP Kamala Harris, Morgan Freeman and Rob Reiner on May 21, 2022. Trump was not among the 963 Americans added to the ban.

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Not one on my viewing list ( :) ) although I have watched some films that have been Russia critical such as Putin's Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIgqhU4lkgo).

The clips were distasteful, I'd agree: there will be, as there are everywhere in the world, those disposed to these sorts of extremist viewpoints but they don't represent the vast majority of the populations, or governments either, necessarily.

The tragic thing for Ukraine is that the extremism has taken hold at the highest levels which unfairly paints the wider population, to anyone not objectively weighing up what they are seeing, in a very bad light.

The vast majority of Russians and Ukrainians aren't ultra-nationalist extremists and the selective and most likely genuine footage, from whenever in time they were broadcast have clearly been included to push the anti-Russian narrative that underpins the film's thrust.

So, my initial scepticism about the provenance wasn't entirely right, but now I know why I thought that I was watching satire in one of those clips.

Update: I've just picked up that the individual who expressed these vile views is under investigation: good!. I'd be pretty certain that Julia won't make reference to that in her documentary though.

[gini]

Thierry Baudet, October 17, 2022, speaking in Dutch Parliament.--3 min.-

"A front has been opened agains the globalists. We see the Western world being destroyed across the board. Old Europe is being systmeically destroyed by the American empire. And that Empire is being fundamentally challenged for the first time by arguably the last nation state on Earth - Russia."

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George Soros on Ukraine with a provisional guess that this may have been stated very recently:

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Soros admitted that long before Ukraine became independent from Russia, Biden saw this as an opportunity to consolidate his power & finances. He never stopped money laundering through Ukraine.

[Rizotto]

Here's an interesting 15 minute video by Gonzalo Lira where he explains his hunch that Zelensky’s plan to use a dirty bomb is likely to take place in Mykolayiv, a town halfway between Odessa and Kherson. According to Lira the Ukraine government is currently evacuating civilians out of Mykolayiv in preparation for their launching of the dirty bomb. Lira also discusses the USA involvement in this plan.

2022.10.24 Why I Think This Is An American Plan


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw84nOmGLcw

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[Tintin]

In case any of you may be interested here's some footage in 20-30 second clips of a Sydney (Australia) rally in support of neutrality that took place this last weekend :muscle: :flower:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2022-10_%28October%29/Rally_for_Australian_neutrality_in_Sydney_Australia_October_22_2022_%281%29.mp4

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[Tintin]

24 October 2022 19:47

Source: MFA Russian Federation (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1834886/?lang=en)

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to media questions following his meeting with members of the Valdai International Discussion Club, Moscow, October 24, 2022

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Question: The White House, or to be more exact, John Kirby, is accusing Iran of supplying Russia with drones and saying that this is making Iran a party to the conflict. Given this, the United States is an obvious party to the conflict by its own standards. How will Russia respond to its involvement in practical terms?

Sergey Lavrov: They are living, not by the standards of international law but by their own rules that they have written themselves. President of Russia Vladimir Putin has said this more than once. These “rules” mean that anything goes for the US.

As for drones from Iran, representatives of Tehran and Moscow officially gave an exhaustive answer to this question at the UN Security Council.

Question: Was the potential use of a “dirty bomb” by Ukraine discussed in public? In the past few days, the Defence Minister and the Chief of General Staff had telephone conversations on this subject. Do you plan any contacts on this issue?

Sergey Lavrov: Our information on Ukraine’s potential provocations involving the use of a nuclear bomb is sufficiently reliable. Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu conveyed the detailed data, complete with the names of research institutes that may be involved in this, during his telephone conversations with his counterparts from the US, France, the UK, and Türkiye. Russian military agencies are planning other contacts as well. This issue will also be discussed at the UN Security Council today or tomorrow.

Our Western colleagues have groundlessly refuted this warning as a fabrication. They allege that Russia itself is planning to do something of this sort in order to accuse the Zelensky regime. But this talk is not serious. Some of our interlocutors suggested discussing the information that we have in our possession at the professional military level. We have supported this approach.

Question: The annual report by the Valdai Club suggests that a “cold peace” will replace the ongoing clashes and aggravation of relations. Do you see any prospects for this?

Sergey Lavrov: It is possible to give different names to processes or eras. The correct name will be given to the current stage, and it will become common for the generations to come.

Question: What do you derive hope from?

Sergey Lavrov: “Hopes feed young men,” whereas our profession compels us to work as professionally as we possibly can on resolving the set tasks. At the current historical stage, they are defined in the Constitution of Russia and the Foreign Policy Concept: to create the best possible external conditions for the economic development of our country, and ensure the security and social wellbeing of our citizens. The current period obviously shows that all this implies the defence of the honour, dignity and historical legacy of our people.

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Former Pentagon chief dies

Ashton Carter, who served as secretary of defense under former US President Barack Obama, has passed away aged 68. Carter oversaw the arming of Ukraine and the US intervention in Syria, and welcomed transgender troops to the US military.

Carter’s family announced his death on Tuesday, saying that the former Pentagon chief had suffered a heart attack the night before. He leaves behind a wife and two children.

Carter served as Obama’s second secretary of defense, taking over from Chuck Hagel in 2015 and holding the post until James Mattis was appointed by Donald Trump in 2017.

With a US-backed coup having ousted Ukraine’s democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovich a year earlier, Carter promised from the outset of his tenure to increase US military aid to Yanukovich’s pro-Western replacement, Pyotr Poroshenko. With the US sending more than a billion dollars to Kiev during his time in charge, Carter said in 2019 that this aid “was critical” in rebuilding Ukraine’s armed forces.

The US air campaign in Syria began several months before Carter’s appointment, and Carter told US lawmakers during his confirmation hearing that he would ensure the “lasting defeat” of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). However, he was a vocal critic of Russia’s campaign against the terror group, and claimed in 2015 that Moscow would invite reprisals from Islamist militants for its actions.

Russia’s military operation in Syria ultimately resulted in the defeat of terror groups in the country, including IS.

Back in the US, Carter was praised by liberals and condemned by conservatives for his 2016 decision to allow transgender people to join and openly serve in the military. The move remains a controversial one to this day. Mattis reinstated the transgender ban in 2018, while current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin once again overturned it in 2021.

Educated as a physicist, Carter had served in the US government since the 1990s. After managing the Clinton administration’s policy toward the former Soviet Union, he worked on procurement for the Pentagon during Obama’s first term, and was promoted to deputy secretary of defense in 2011.

While the Obama administration signed a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, Carter had earlier been a proponent of “preventative” military strikes on the Islamic Republic. He also supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and spoke in favor of bombing North Korea in 2006.

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https://www.rt.com/news/565288-us-denial-dirty-bomb-ukraine/

US doubles down on ‘dirty bomb’ denial

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has rejected Moscow’s warnings about Kiev’s alleged plans to deploy a ‘dirty bomb’ to frame Russia. The statement came during a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart on Monday.

The Pentagon chief spoke with Minister of Defense Alexey Reznikov to “reaffirm the unwavering US commitment to support Ukraine's ability to counter Russian aggression,” according to the readout of the call.

He also “strongly condemned” Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and “reiterated that the United States rejects the public and false allegations by Russia about Ukraine,” describing them as “a pretext for further Russian escalation of its unlawful and unjustified war against Ukraine.”

Austin also raised the issue with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The two officials “discussed recent diplomatic engagements with Russia” and what they called “Moscow’s false accusation that Ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb on its own soil.”

Stoltenberg repeated the sentiment in an interview with Politico, describing the warnings as “absurd,” saying that Kiev is “fighting so hard to liberate” its territory.

Ukrainian ‘dirty bomb’ threat is real – Kremlin
Ukrainian ‘dirty bomb’ threat is real – Kremlin
On Monday, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, warned that the threat from Ukraine is evident, adding that the West’s disbelief does not mean that the threat ceases to exist.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, a possible ‘dirty bomb’ attack would allow Ukraine to portray Russia as a “nuclear terrorist”, intimidate the local population and trigger a refugee exodus to the European Union.

Moscow’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, wrote to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, urging him “to do everything in his power to prevent this heinous crime.” He also stated that Russia would “regard the use of a dirty bomb by the Kiev regime as an act of nuclear terrorism.”

Russia has already warned high-ranking officials from Türkiye, the US, the UK, and France about the possibility of a nuclear incident. All of them except for Ankara refuted what they called the “blatantly false allegations,” adding that this “should not be used as a pretext for greater escalation.” Kiev has also denied Moscow’s allegations. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky noted that the only side capable of launching an attack using nukes is Russia itself.

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Russia warns US and UK of Ukrainian ‘dirty bomb’ plans

Moscow has discussed the threat of Kiev potentially using a “dirty bomb” with London and Washington at the level of the chiefs of the General Staff, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

Russia’s top General, Valery Gerasimov, raised his country's concerns in a phone call with US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, and with his British counterpart, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin.

The Pentagon only mentioned that the two generals discussed “several security-related issues of concern” without providing any further details. It was the first such conversation between Gerasimov and Milley since May.

The British Defence Ministry said the phone call between Radakin and Gerasimov took place “at the request of the Russian Ministry of Defense,” adding that the UK “rejected Russia’s allegations that Ukraine is planning actions to escalate the conflict.” Radakin also “restated the UK’s enduring support for Ukraine,” the ministry’s statement added.

London also agreed it was important to keep communication channels with Moscow open to “manage the risk of miscalculation and to facilitate de-escalation.” The developments came a day after Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu raised similar concerns in phone calls with the defense chiefs of the US, UK, and France.

Ukraine wants to frame Russia as ‘nuclear terrorist’ – Moscow
Ukraine wants to frame Russia as ‘nuclear terrorist’ – Moscow
Moscow has been warning Western nations about Kiev’s alleged plans to use a “dirty bomb” to frame Russia for quite some time. The West, however, has remained largely dismissive of such warnings.

Earlier on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Kiev wants to frame Moscow as a “nuclear terrorist” by accusing it of using weapons of mass destruction and thus potentially launching a “powerful anti-Russia campaign.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also stated that the West’s disbelief in this scenario does not make the threat any less pressing.

Kiev has denied Moscow’s allegations. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky also said that the only side capable of launching an attack using nukes is Russia itself.

Meanwhile, the UN called on all sides of the conflict to show restraint. Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told a briefing on Monday that all parties should “avoid” any actions that could lead to miscalculation or further escalation of the already devastating conflict.

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IAEA inspectors to visit Kiev and Zheltye Vody in coming days — envoy

It is reported that on Monday, Ukrainian top diplomat Dmitry Kuleba talked to Grossi over the phone and asked the IAEA to immediately send inspectors to the country’s nuclear facilities

MOSCOW, October 25. /TASS/. Several inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit Kiev and Zheltye Vody in the coming days, with the preliminary results of their inspections appearing a week after their visit and the final results appearing at a much later date, Russian Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said during a Rossiya-24 TV broadcast.

"Yesterday morning, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister [Dmitry] Kuleba had a telephone conversation with [IAEA] Director General Rafael Grossi. Later the [IAEA] Secretariat in Vienna received a letter from the Ukrainian State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate asking to send inspectors to two sites. That is Kiev’s Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Mining and Processing plant in the settlement of Zheltye Vody in the Dnepropetrovsk Region. Since such appeals are allowed by existing agreements between states and the IAEA Secretariat, Grossi answered in the affirmative. And, I think, in the coming days several [IAEA] inspectors will head to Kiev and Zheltye Vody.

"Usually such inspections involve sampling, the samples take a lot of time to be analyzed, maybe two months, usually. So in a week or so we will have the preliminary results of these inspections, and the final results will not appear soon," Ulyanov said.

On Monday, Ukrainian top diplomat Dmitry Kuleba talked to Grossi over the phone and asked the IAEA to immediately send inspectors to the country’s nuclear facilities. In his turn, Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov said after talks with his counterparts from the UK, Turkey and France that Kiev was ready to receive any monitoring mission. Reznikov added that his counterparts told him about their talks with Russian top brass Sergey Shoigu, and shared Kiev’s position on the issue.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu on Sunday held telephone conversations with his counterparts: the UK’s Ben Wallace, France’s Sebastien Lecornu and Turkey’s Hulusi Akar. Shoigu conveyed to his colleagues concerns about Ukraine’s possible use of a dirty bomb. In addition, Shoigu spoke over the telephone with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin on Friday and Sunday.

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Ukrainian forces fired AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile at Donetsk, DPR says

It is reported that this is the fifth case of Ukrainian forces using this type of missiles on DPR territory
DONETSK, October 25. /TASS/. Ukrainian armed forces fired an AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile at the Budyonnovsky District of Donetsk, the DPR mission to the Joint Coordination and Control Center on Ukrainian war crimes said Tuesday.

"At 16:11, the enemy fired one AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missile at the city of Donetsk (Budyonnovsky District)," the mission said on its Telegram channel.

The mission added that Ukrainian forces sought to hit DPR air defense systems, but the air defense intercepted the missile.

"Its fragments fell in the Budyonnovsky District of Donetsk. According to preliminary information, four civilians were injured; there is also damage to residential buildings," the statement says.

According to the mission, this is the fifth case of Ukrainian forces using this type of missiles on DPR territory.

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West ramps up arms supplies to Kiev in bid to destroy Russia — Lavrov

The top diplomat stressed that the US-led collective West, "obsessed with world domination," had unleashed a "total hybrid war" against Russia

MOSCOW, October 25. /TASS/. The US-led West is pushing ahead with a hybrid war against Russia and, in an effort to ruin the country, is increasing arms supplies and providing intelligence to the Kiev regime, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in his address to the plenary session of the 24th World Russian People's Council, read out by the Foreign Ministry’s special ambassador, Gennady Askoldovich.

"The West is using [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s criminal Russophobic regime as one of the levers to contain our country. We see Washington and its NATO allies increasing the supplies of lethal weapons to the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, sharing intelligence data with them and recruiting foreign mercenaries to send to Ukraine. All this, in one way or another, makes them parties to the conflict," Lavrov’s address reads.

He stressed that the US-led collective West, "obsessed with world domination," has unleashed a "total hybrid war" against Russia.

"Our enemies do not hide their real aims: to destroy the Russian economy, undermine domestic political stability, defeat us on the battlefield, and ultimately significantly weaken or even destroy our centuries-old national statehood," Lavrov said.

This is the reason, he said, why the ideologists of "cancel culture rule the roost in the West with respect to Russia."

"All restrictions on any actions against us have been lifted. The haters of the multi-ethnic Russian people feel they are free to take any liberty," Lavrov explained.

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At Least 10 UK Cabinet Members Resign as New Prime Minister Takes Office

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - At least ten members of the previous UK government headed by Liz Truss resigned shortly after Rishi Sunak became the new prime minister.
On Monday, Sunak was elected the head of the ruling Conservative Party and, as such, the new prime minister for lack of other contenders. On Tuesday, King Charles III officially appointed Sunak to the post and asked him to form a government.
"An honour to have been one of the longest serving Cabinet ministers — having done eight ministerial roles, in five departments, under four Prime Ministers. The new PM will have my support from the back benches to tackle the many challenges we face — as a Party and as a country," Justice Secretary Brandon Lewis said on Twitter while announcing his resignation.
Apart from Lewis, Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg, Education Secretary Kit Malthouse, Work and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith, Environment Secretary Ranil Jayawardena, Welsh Secretary Robert Buckland, Party Chairman Jake Berry, Minister of State for Development in the Foreign Office Vicky Ford, Chief Whip Wendy Morton and Levelling up Secretary Simon Clarke also announced their resignation.
Sunak became the country's third prime minister in 2022. In July, then-leader Boris Johnson announced his intention to step down due to accusations of violating COVID-19 regulations and sexual assault claims against Government Deputy Chief Whip Christopher Pincher, whom he vetted. Liz Truss, elected in September to replace Johnson, spent only 44 days in office.
On October 20, she announced her resignation due to criticism over the government's new economic plan and the possibility of increasing public debt for its implementation.

[avid]

A manipulated position to put Sunak eventually WEF puppet in place. Totally undemocratic. Not for the best for UK. Utter corruption.

[thepainterdoug]

Te Canadien Prepper weighs in on latest developments as it appears USA is ready to enter the War.
Apologies if already posted, just delete if so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OyIPj1QaSs

Also , I learned from an intel source that there are no longer tactical nukes. That modern conventional weapons achieve the same so no need for them. Only the big nukes exist and they are not fission bombs as in Hiroshima etc, but fusion bombs so minimal radiation persists. So I was told.

[Bill Ryan]

Te Canadien Prepper weighs in on latest developments as it appears USA is ready to enter the War.
Apologies if already posted, just delete if so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OyIPj1QaSs

Also , I learned from an intel source that there are no longer tactical nukes. That modern conventional weapons achieve the same so no need for them. Only the big nukes exist and they are not fission bombs as in Hiroshima etc, but fusion bombs so minimal radiation persists. So I was told.

Thanks! I no longer pay any attention to Canadian Prepper — his YouTube video titles have been near-hysterical literally for months now, and he often gets things way out of balance and proportion.

And re tactical nukes, yes, fuel-air bombs (or the fearsome Russian TOS-1 incendiary 'flamethrower' missiles) do much the same kind of thing on a local scale. For anyone not familiar, here's what the TOS-1 does. Ukrainian soldiers fear them greatly, with good reason: no-one being targeted has any possible chance of survival.

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Te Canadien Prepper weighs in on latest developments as it appears USA is ready to enter the War.
Apologies if already posted, just delete if so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OyIPj1QaSs

Also , I learned from an intel source that there are no longer tactical nukes. That modern conventional weapons achieve the same so no need for them. Only the big nukes exist and they are not fission bombs as in Hiroshima etc, but fusion bombs so minimal radiation persists. So I was told.

Thanks for that. That was my understanding as well, which, although I have sincere concerns about the nutcases running (or ruining) Ukraine and that they actually would be mad enough to do a "dirty bomb", is kind of reassuring, in that there may well not be a nuclear standoff of any kind. (Picking this up before seeing any subsequent posts).

You know, Putin knows that the west knows, that Putin knows, that the west know that they both know this :) This is where we enter the world of theatre.

If it matters at all it should be borne in mind, and remembered, that Russia as the world's custodian of perhaps the second largest stockpile of global nuclear armaments would have no need at all to employ a "dirty bomb" as much as the freaks in the intelligence owned media and the doorknobs in Ukraine may try and spin otherwise.

Kind of a no brainer :)

Anyway, thanks for what you've shared here; it is reassuring, actually.

[Tintin]

"The Kiev authorities’ intrusion at the behest of and with the support of their overseas backers into a sensitive area such as religion is particularly blasphemous. The hideous campaign against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continues unabated. The churches continue to be seized, and believers and clergy persecuted, which includes physical assaults." - Sergei Lavrov

["Because they are Satanists" - Tintin Quarantino]

---------------------------

25 October 2022 14:57

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s video address to the participants of the plenary session of the 24th World Russian People's Council, Moscow, October 25, 2022

Source: MFA Russian Federation (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1834980/)

Your Holiness, colleagues, friends,

It is a great honour for me to speak at the plenary session of the 24th World Russian People's Council themed “Orthodox Christianity and the world in the 21st century,” which sounds very appropriate for the moment.

The council is an integral part of Russia’s public life and an important venue that brings together representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, government bodies and expert and scholar circles, as well as our compatriots. It is a platform for discussing important issues facing our country and suggesting effective pathways to resolve them.

The demand for cooperation and creative team efforts is particularly high today. It is no secret that the US-led collective West, striving for global domination, unleashed an all-out hybrid war against our Motherland. The enemy is not hiding its goal, which is to destroy the Russian economy, to destabilise the domestic political situation and inflict a “defeat on the battlefield” on us and, eventually, to significantly weaken or even annihilate the centuries-old national statehood, which explains why the West is using “cancel culture” against Russia. Any and all restrictions on any and all actions against us have been lifted. The philosophy is that if you hate the multiethnic Russian people, you can do anything.

The West is using the criminal Russophobic regime led by Vladimir Zelensky as a lever to contain our country. We see Washington and its NATO allies ramping up the supplies of lethal weapons to Ukrainian neo-Nazis, sharing intelligence with them and recruiting foreign mercenaries to fight in Ukraine. All of that is making them parties to the conflict one way or another.

The Kiev authorities’ intrusion at the behest of and with the support of their overseas backers into a sensitive area such as religion is particularly blasphemous. The hideous campaign against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continues unabated. The churches continue to be seized, and believers and clergy persecuted, which includes physical assaults.

In turn, Western geopolitical “engineers” are tirelessly working to destroy the Moscow Patriarchate’s spiritual ties with the fraternal local Orthodox churches. In order to discredit and smear the Russian Orthodox Church, an unscrupulous media campaign has been launched. The clergy from the Russian Orthodox Church is being openly persecuted. The leaders of various faiths are encouraged to condemn Russia’s actions. Strong pressure is being exerted on the Russian world and our foreign-based communities, including the sanctions imposed by some Western states on Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

Given the circumstances, it makes perfect sense that the people from the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions exercised the right to self-determination enshrined in the UN Charter and expressed their free will by voting in favour of reuniting with Russia. As President Putin noted in his speech in the Kremlin on September 30, “We will defend our land with all the forces and resources we have, and we will do everything we can to ensure the safety of our people. This is the great liberating mission of our nation.” We are defending our legitimate interests, honour and dignity, as well as the historical legacy of our Motherland.

Colleagues,

Washington and its European satellites’ attempts to isolate Russia and push us back to the sidelines of global politics are doomed. Today's world is not Western-centric. On the contrary, it is multipolar. The course of history cannot be reversed. In practical terms, this means that the countries and their citizens are actually free to choose political and socioeconomic paths and models. The peoples around the world want to live according to the cultural and civilisational foundations bequeathed by their ancestors. They reject the pseudo-liberal approaches imposed by Western elites, which encourage destructive behaviour and thus cause irreparable damage to moral health.

For our part, we believe that universal human solidarity should rely on traditional values ​​that are common to the world's major religions and cultures. Russian diplomats will continue to work to ensure that communication between countries is built on the principles of international law and integrity, goodness and justice. I’m pleased to state that the overwhelming majority of the nations on our planet, which represent more than 80 percent of the Earth’s population, are supportive of this approach, which gives us hope.

We will, of course, continue to strengthen productive cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional religions in our country. We will help advance inter-civilisational, interfaith and intercultural dialogues to promote the creation of a more just and democratic polycentric world order architecture.

I would like to close by wishing you, Your Holiness, and all the participants of today's event, productive work, every success in your endeavours and all the best.

[Mashika]

Te Canadien Prepper weighs in on latest developments as it appears USA is ready to enter the War.
Apologies if already posted, just delete if so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OyIPj1QaSs

Also , I learned from an intel source that there are no longer tactical nukes. That modern conventional weapons achieve the same so no need for them. Only the big nukes exist and they are not fission bombs as in Hiroshima etc, but fusion bombs so minimal radiation persists. So I was told.

Thanks for that. That was my understanding as well, which, although I have sincere concerns about the nutcases running (or ruining) Ukraine and that they actually would be mad enough to do a "dirty bomb", is kind of reassuring, in that there may well not be a nuclear standoff of any kind. (Picking this up before seeing any subsequent posts).

You know, Putin knows that the west knows, that Putin knows, that the west know that they both know this :) This is where we enter the world of theatre.

If it matters at all it should be borne in mind, and remembered, that Russia as the world's custodian of perhaps the second largest stockpile of global nuclear armaments would have no need at all to employ a "dirty bomb" as much as the freaks in the intelligence owned media and the doorknobs in Ukraine may try and spin otherwise.

Kind of a no brainer :)

Anyway, thanks for what you've shared here; it is reassuring, actually.


Tactical nukes will remain in existence in Russia because there are hundreds of nuclear silos across all post-soviet republics that are 'hidden' from the world, but that Russian military know very well, these are capable of enduring any kind of surface nuclear explosion and are 10 or so levels down earth, and some interconnected across the region so that even if one falls, it is closed down to prevent contamination to the other ones and the people operating over the fallen one can move to one of the others


Only the top levels of the military know the routes, locations and configurations of those nuclear protected sites


To damage one of those, you need a missile that can go through and down into the actual silo, and not just explode at the surface or half a kilometer above it so as to create a massive explosion that destroys an entire city. You need something that pierces through the concrete and goes down at least one or two levels and then explodes inside. And that's why tactical nukes will remain around


Also, as a side note, Russia has more nuclear warheads than all other nuclear powers in the world combined, but just as with the other ones, not all of them are fully ready or 'functional' , most are in storage, same as for the US, because it is almost impossible to keep them all fully functional, so you keep the very necessary ones in full active mode and rotate them but let's say you need 1000 active at any time, then you may have around 2500 fully ready and active ones, and 10,000 more in storage all over the country

There is also the fact that Russia/US took the 3000+ nuclear bombs Ukraine had, and then it also took around another 4000 or so smaller tactical ones i believe, and also took all the enriched uranium that could be used to create new bombs. Also, all Ukrainian nuclear bombers where destroyed at the time the USSR disbanded, and all nuclear launcher silos were also destroyed. As for the missiles or warheads, the ones taken back to Russia, were they actually destroyed? Or... :o:ROFL::sherlock: because if not we are talking about having some, at least, 5000 nuclear warheads 'misplaced' somewhere, and that could easily be restored to functional state, as neither the US or Russia have any accountability to any other country in the world about that kind of stuff, so no one knows what truly happened with that giant stock of nuclear bombs


This is something i think i said before on my "Ukraine is a Nazi state" thread, the fact that Ukraine got fooled by both the US and Russia and from being the third nuclear power in the world, went into beggar state, must be very hard for them to deal with. And no one can change that, not even the US, and that's why they feel entitled to get all they demand from the west, they basically put the weight of that bad choice into the US and allies. If they had kept their bombs, missiles, silos and bombers, Ukraine would possibly be right now one of the richest, most powerful countries in the world, but.... Russia and the US conspired against Ukraine to fool them and steal all the nuclear power from them. The truth is, no one knows what happened after with all that stuff they took away ;):cocktail::moon:



So for Ukraine to be able to even build a dirty bomb, they would need help from the outside, as the nuclear fuel is very controlled and they would have to explain any missing fuel that could be used to create a dirty bomb. Unless of course the UN and associates are "in" on the dirty bomb conspiracy plan...


Et tu, Brute? :facepalm:

[Tintin]

Te Canadien Prepper weighs in on latest developments as it appears USA is ready to enter the War.
Apologies if already posted, just delete if so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OyIPj1QaSs

Also , I learned from an intel source that there are no longer tactical nukes. That modern conventional weapons achieve the same so no need for them. Only the big nukes exist and they are not fission bombs as in Hiroshima etc, but fusion bombs so minimal radiation persists. So I was told.

Thanks for that. That was my understanding as well, which, although I have sincere concerns about the nutcases running (or ruining) Ukraine and that they actually would be mad enough to do a "dirty bomb", is kind of reassuring, in that there may well not be a nuclear standoff of any kind. (Picking this up before seeing any subsequent posts).

You know, Putin knows that the west knows, that Putin knows, that the west know that they both know this :) This is where we enter the world of theatre.

If it matters at all it should be borne in mind, and remembered, that Russia as the world's custodian of perhaps the second largest stockpile of global nuclear armaments would have no need at all to employ a "dirty bomb" as much as the freaks in the intelligence owned media and the doorknobs in Ukraine may try and spin otherwise.

Kind of a no brainer :)

Anyway, thanks for what you've shared here; it is reassuring, actually.


Tactical nukes will remain in existence in Russia because there are hundreds of nuclear silos across all post-soviet republics that are 'hidden' from the world, but that Russian military know very well, these are capable of enduring any kind of surface nuclear explosion and are 10 or so levels down earth, and some interconnected across the region so that even if one falls, it is closed down to prevent contamination to the other ones and the people operating over the fallen one can move to one of the others


Only the top levels of the military know the routes, locations and configurations of those nuclear protected sites


To damage one of those, you need a missile that can go through and down into the actual silo, and not just explode at the surface or half a kilometer above it so as to create a massive explosion that destroys an entire city. You need something that pierces through the concrete and goes down at least one or two levels and then explodes inside. And that's why tactical nukes will remain around


Also, as a side note, Russia has more nuclear warheads than all other nuclear powers in the world combined, but just as with the other ones, not all of them are fully ready or 'functional' , most are in storage, same as for the US, because it is almost impossible to keep them all fully functional, so you keep the very necessary ones in full active mode and rotate them but let's say you need 1000 active at any time, then you may have around 2500 fully ready and active ones, and 10,000 more in storage all over the country

There is also the fact that Russia/US took the 3000+ nuclear bombs Ukraine had, and then it also took around another 4000 or so smaller tactical ones i believe, and also took all the enriched uranium that could be used to create new bombs. Also, all Ukrainian nuclear bombers where destroyed at the time the USSR disbanded, and all nuclear launcher silos were also destroyed. As for the missiles or warheads, the ones taken back to Russia, were they actually destroyed? Or... :o:ROFL::sherlock: because if not we are talking about having some, at least, 5000 nuclear warheads 'misplaced' somewhere, and that could easily be restored to functional state, as neither the US or Russia have any accountability to any other country in the world about that kind of stuff, so no one knows what truly happened with that giant stock of nuclear bombs


This is something i think i said before on my "Ukraine is a Nazi state" thread, the fact that Ukraine got fooled by both the US and Russia and from being the third nuclear power in the world, went into beggar state, must be very hard for them to deal with. And no one can change that, not even the US, and that's why they feel entitled to get all they demand from the west, they basically put the weight of that bad choice into the US and allies. If they had kept their bombs, missiles, silos and bombers, Ukraine would possibly be right now one of the richest, most powerful countries in the world, but.... Russia and the US conspired against Ukraine to fool them and steal all the nuclear power from them. The truth is, no one knows what happened after with all that stuff they took away ;):cocktail::moon:



So for Ukraine to be able to even build a dirty bomb, they would need help from the outside, as the nuclear fuel is very controlled and they would have to explain any missing fuel that could be used to create a dirty bomb. Unless of course the UN and associates are "in" on the dirty bomb conspiracy plan...


Et tu, Brute? :facepalm:


Many thanks for this Masha :highfive: Really educational.

Good to see you able to make time to pop in as well :flower:

[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1584997736943800320

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8I0bfEGtHeYBumping this important short (20 mins) interview. I'm not worried about a nuclear war (or the use of nukes of any kind), or about a dirty bomb.

I am worried about US boots on the ground in another 'coalition of the willing'. :facepalm: Col. Doug Macgregor discusses this possibility, and is taking it seriously too. This would ABSOLUTELY NOT be a good thing.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1584973909182803968

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1585211677641179136

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1585152463120003072
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[Ravenlocke]

New Zealand mercenary describes from his experience,

https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1585172199623000066

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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/565363-kherson-police-arsenal-raid/


Saboteurs’ tried to steal weapons in Russian frontline city – media


A gang has tried to take weapons from the arsenal of a police station in the frontline Russian city of Kherson, local and national media reported citing sources.

The reports say the “saboteurs” fired an RPG during the attempted robbery. They are said to be on the run.

Kherson Region was declared part of Russia earlier this month after voters overwhelmingly supported the move in a referendum. Kiev rejected the vote as a “sham” and claimed it was preparing a military offensive to capture territories that it claims as its own.

The city of Kherson, the provincial capital, is located on the western side of the Dnieper River. Local officials have been urging residents to move east due to the threat posed by Ukrainian forces.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1585232186512326657
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RussiaUN/status/1585008133415763969
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https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1584939795335106560
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Eva Bartlett comments regarding the video evidence presented the above tweet video
https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1585133193984106496
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/mission_rf/status/1585143136673636352
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https://twitter.com/RusEmbIndia/status/1585210053250125824
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1585240449253396481
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1585240053458300931
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https://www.rt.com/russia/565369-putin-retaliatory-nuclear-strike-drills/

Putin oversees retaliatory nuclear strike drills

Russian President Vladimir Putin has overseen military drills enacting a retaliatory nuclear strike. Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu described the aim of the drills as testing “Russia’s strategic offensive forces’ readiness to conduct a massive nuclear strike in response to an enemy nuclear strike.”

According to the Kremlin, land, sea, and aviation deterrence forces took part in the maneuvers. Targets located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East were obliterated by the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, fired from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk Region, and the Sineva ballistic missile, launched from the Barents Sea. Tu-95 strategic bombers also took part in the exercises.

DETAILS TO FOLLOW

[Ravenlocke]

https://sputniknews.com/20221026/moscow-outraged-italy-withdrew-russias-invitation-to-experts-group-meeting-on-mass-destruction-arms-1102718964.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Moscow Outraged Italy Withdrew Russia's Invitation to Experts Group Meeting on Mass Destruction Arms

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia is outraged by Italy's decision to withdraw Russia's invitation to a meeting of the experts group of the initiative to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.



"We are outraged by the fact that Italy withdrew the invitation previously sent to Russia to the meeting of the Counterproliferation Initiative's Operational Experts Group that opens in Rome on October 26. We express a strong protest," Zakharova said in a statement.
Moscow views Rome's move as unfriendly, the diplomat added.
Zakharova stressed that Russia is distancing itself completely from any understandings and agreements that may be reached by nations taking part in the Rome event.
"We also proceed from the fact that the course taken by the West to politicize the work of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), in principle, calls into question the legitimacy of all activities within the framework of the PSI. At the same time, we emphasize the continued commitment of the Russian Federation to the cause of non-proliferation, and its readiness to make a significant contribution to the achievement of relevant goals in cooperation with those partners who are really interested in this," the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The Proliferation Security Initiative is aimed at creating a mechanism for the rapid detection and suppression of illegal shipments of Weapons of Mass Destruction, its means of delivery and related materials. In 2004, Russia, Canada, Norway and Singapore joined the initiative.

[Ravenlocke]

https://sputniknews.com/20221026/putin-watches-strategic-deterrence-forces-drills-1102709123.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Putin Watches Strategic Deterrence Forces Drills


MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin watched the exercises of the strategic deterrence forces and listened to the report of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.


All missiles fired during a training to test the strategic deterrence have reached their targets, confirming the designed characteristics, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
"The tasks envisaged during the training of the strategic deterrence forces were completed in full, all missiles reached their targets, confirming the specified characteristics," the Kremlin said in a statement.
Under the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin, ground, sea and air strategic deterrence forces were trained, the Kremlin said, adding that practical launches of ballistic and cruise missiles took place during the drills.
Previous such exercises led by Putin with ballistic missile launches were held on February 19, one week before the start of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.
Baltic Fleet ship at strategic exercises in Baltiysk Military Harbor - Sputnik International, 1920, 22.09.2022
Military
In Pictures: More Than 15 Warships Take Part in Russia's Baltic Fleet Drills
22 September, 14:02 GMT
The exercises were planned earlier to test the readiness of military command and control bodies, launch combat crews, crews of warships and strategic missile carriers to fulfill their tasks, as well as the reliability of weapons of strategic nuclear and non-nuclear forces. Forces and means of the Aerospace Forces, the Southern Military District, the Strategic Missile Forces, the Northern and Black Sea fleets were involved in the exercises.
The Russian Defense Ministry then published footage of the Kinzhal missile launches from MiG-31 fighters, firing of the Iskander tactical system, launch of the Kalibr cruise missile from a small missile ship, launch of the Zirkon hypersonic missile from a frigate in the sea, launch of an intercontinental ballistic missiles Yars, ballistic missile Sineva from the Karelia submarine, as well as sorties of strategic bombers Tu-95MS before missile launches.

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https://sputniknews.com/20221026/ukraine-has-been-turned-into-tool-of-us-foreign-policy-has-practically-lost-its-sovereignty-putin-1102709292.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Ukraine Has Been Turned Into Tool of US Foreign Policy, Has Practically Lost Its Sovereignty: Putin

Russian authorities and senior military officials have expressed serious concerns in recent days over Kiev's possible use of a 'dirty bomb' on its own territory to accuse Moscow of nuclear terrorism. The threat of such a false flag attack would escalate the eight-year-old Ukrainian security crisis into dangerous and uncharted new territory.

The United States has turned Ukraine into a "battering ram" to attack Russia, President Vladimir Putin has said.
"The country has factually lost its sovereignty and is being directly controlled by the United States, which is using [Kiev] as a battering ram against Russia, against our Union State with the Republic of Belarus, against the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a whole," Putin said, speaking at a meeting of CIS security and special services chiefs on Wednesday.
Characterizing contemporary Ukraine as a nation that's been turned into a "tool of American foreign policy," Putin suggested that Washington's "true attitude" toward its "satellites" is clearly seen in Ukraine, with the nation's territory "almost immediately turned into a testing ground for military biological experiments" in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup.
The Russian flag is flying at the entrance to the Khakhovskaya thermal power plant in the Kherson region. - Sputnik International, 1920, 18.10.2022
Russia
Russia to Organize Meeting on US Biological Laboratories' Activities in Ukraine - Official
18 October, 22:04 GMT
The Russian president accused Washington of ignoring Kiev's talk about acquiring a nuclear weapon, as well as false flag provocations involving a 'dirty bomb', and instead continuing to pump the country full of heavy weaponry.
Similar threats are being faced by other post-Soviet republics that haven't yet fallen into Washington's orbit, Putin said.
"Attempts to foment color revolutions have not stopped, the playing cards of nationalism and extremism are being actively used, armed conflicts are being ignited which directly threaten the security of all CIS members. What those doing this hope to achieve can be seen in the example of Ukraine, which has become a tool of American foreign policy," Putin said.
Amid the continued flow of weapons to Kiev, Putin warned of the ever-present danger of the country being turned into a weapons black market used by transnational criminal groups smuggling arms worldwide to foment new crises. "This is not a question only of small arms; there are risks of more powerful weapons falling into the hands of criminals, including man-portable air defense systems and high precision weapons," Putin said.
Ukrainian soldiers move a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer into position to fire at Russian positions in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region Saturday, June 18, 2022 - Sputnik International, 1920, 04.08.2022
Sputnik Explains
How Ukrainians Sell NATO-Supplied Weapons Abroad
4 August, 16:07 GMT
The CIS is a regional intergovernmental organization formed in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the Soviet Union in 1991. Originally including twelve of the fifteen former Soviet republics, the body now has nine member states - Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Georgia and Ukraine dropped out in 2008 and 2018, respectively, with the Turkmenistan opting for associate member status in 2005.
The CSTO is an intergovernmental military alliance comprised of six former Soviet states - Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Serbia is an observer in the organization. Azerbaijan, Georgia and Uzbekistan dropped out of the CSTO in the late 1990s.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1585247512335900672
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[Tintin]

https://twitter.com/RussiaUN/status/1585008133415763969
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https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1584939795335106560
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Eva Bartlett comments regarding the video evidence presented the above tweet video
https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1585133193984106496
1585133193984106496

Excellent :highfive: All the evidence, all in one place :muscle:

It's downloadable from here: https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1584919447298396160/vid/854x480/0YaoUtb-MDYUvvvX.mp4?tag=14. Furthermore it'll make it to the library too :)

[Tintin]

Some light relief :)

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[Mashika]

Some light relief :)

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LMFAO! "Serial Killer" lol, and the Biden one is priceless too :P


Short "on the ground" report by Patrick Lancaster (I had to put all my resolve into not writing Lankaster, by the way :P because i keep thinking of the 'C' as sounding like an 'S' :D.... )


13srCDFxAJA


In other news, a single Mig plane takes off from Belarus, the entire Ukraine territory:
DonbassDevushka/31130


No joke, it was a single plane that took off, just.one.of.them and the entire country went into red air alert :bigsmile::bigsmile::clapping::clapping::highfive:

DonbassDevushka/31132
lol

[Mashika]

Related:




Emil Cosman (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0nCpDDnDNsrfmIFsk40VLA):


"US threatens N. Korea with nuclear weapons attack. Will UN condemn the explicit threats? Nope..."
XRzGObpAcaU

[Mashika]

This is a kind of an odd development, really, i don't know where this belongs so posting here for now i guess


This

intelslava/40020


But then this:
"Nations consider sending troops to Haiti, despite troubled past foreign intervention"
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/20/1129747505/haiti-un-security-council-intervention-armed-force-aid-us-mexico





On Friday, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution (https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-haiti-violence-e4abe30eb1774db304f4b3fe3e0a0b8d) to hit a powerful Haitian gang leader with sanctions, a measure proposed by the United States and Mexico


"We are sending a clear message to the bad actors that are holding Haiti hostage: The international community will not stand idly by while you wreak havoc on the Haitian people," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said (https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-by-ambassador-linda-thomas-greenfield-at-the-un-security-council-debate-on-haiti/).

But the U.S. and Mexico also drafted another Security Council resolution that proposes "a limited, carefully scoped, non-U.N. mission led by a partner country with the deep, necessary experience required for such an effort to be effective," the U.S. ambassador said (https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-by-ambassador-linda-thomas-greenfield-at-a-un-security-council-briefing-on-haiti-4/) at a council briefing on Monday.

??? So now Mexico, in the name of the US, will invade Haiti? What an odd development for sure


Previously, it was said that if the US and other countries would put "boots on the ground" in Ukraine, they would do as separate non-NATO directed countries, or basically doing it on their own will, separate from NATO's organized crime gang :P. Why does this seem like the same thing? Mexico as far as i know is not part of NATO, yet this sounds so much like that same thing the US and other western countries were planning around Ukraine. Is this a way to start a separate way to intervene in other countries in gang mode, but without saying "NATO is doing it", and then somehow legally avoiding the consequences?


Or maybe just corrupting Mexico to the core so that they come in full force later on across Latin America in the name of 'freedom and democracy" as well?

[Vicus]

Russia's "Partial" Mobilization of 300,000 . . . is on its way to being 1.2 Million


On September 21, we reported that Russia announced a "partial" mobilization of three-hundred-thousand Russian men with military experience, to bolster the Special Military Operation inside Ukraine. We can now report that mobilization notices have gone out to almost 1.2 MILLION Russian men.

At the time of our report (Story here) we featured video of Defense Minister Shoigu making clear the 300,000 "is not a one time event."

At the time, no one dared speculate how many more men would end up receiving mobilization notices, but it was clear from gitgo that it _could_ be more than 300,000.

In the month or so from that initial mobilization, Russia confirms that over two-hundred-thousand men have been brought back into brief retraining, and deployed. Most, however, have been deployed to rear logistics positions, so as to free up fully trained (but fresh) combat troops who previously held those logistics jobs.

This has allowed a surge of Russian troops in the battlespace, and it came just as Ukraine was receiving fresh troops trained in NATO countries.

Ukraine made counter-offensives and had some, limited, success. In other areas, Ukraine's counter-offensives met dismal failure and death.

Yet with the NATO countries churning-out newly minted Ukrainian troops, and arming Ukraine with ever more lethal western weapons, it is clear to many observers that Russia's Special Military Operation (SMO) has turned into an actual war with NATO.

It's not formal, but it does seem to be the case.

As Russian Defense Minister Shoigu pointed out back in September "

"NATO SATELLITES ARE WORKING AGAINST RUSSIAN FORCES"

"WE ARE WITNESSING STRIKES FROM WESTERN WEAPONS ON CIVILIANS"

He bluntly went on to say "Russia is at war with the collective West"

Intelligence sources now confirm that Russia has sent or served mobilization notices upon almost 1.2 million Russian men with former military experience.

Clearly the Russians are in for the long haul and are very aware that NATO has now deployed upwards of three hundred thousand NATO troops in countries bordering Russia and Ukraine. Given the ongoing Russian mobilization, and the enormous build up of NATO troops, it seems clear this conflict is not going to be resolved, but rather explode into a far larger, and much deadlier war.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-s-partial-mobilization-of-300-000-is-on-its-way-to-being-1-2-mi

[Ravenlocke]

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https://www.rt.com/news/565351-germany-man-fined-z-symbol/

German man fined over letter ‘Z’

Displaying the last letter of the Latin alphabet in the rear window of his car could cost a German man €4,000 ($3,988). A court in Hamburg found the 62-year-old guilty of supporting Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, ruling that ‘Z’ is a symbol of support for Moscow’s actions.

The verdict was handed down on Tuesday, a court spokesperson told German media.

According to the public prosecutor’s office, the defendant had attached a white sheet of paper with a blue ‘Z’ to his vehicle, and on March 29, drove along one of Hamburg’s central streets.

“Therein, in the court’s opinion, lies an endorsement of the Ukraine war through solidarization with Russia, which is a war of aggression as per international law,” the court ruled.

Samsung drops letter ‘Z’ READ MORE: Samsung drops letter ‘Z’
While the man did not deny displaying the symbol, he argued before the court that it merely represents the last letter of the alphabet. The defendant added that trying to establish a connection between the letter and the Ukraine conflict was a “very, very bold hypothesis.”

He also offered some other possible interpretations, including the French-Algerian film ‘Z’, as well as a now-defunct bar in Hamburg which bore the same name.

The defense team claimed the letter was a reference to media reports on ‘Generation Z’.

The defendant has the right to appeal the verdict.

The man was originally given a €1,800 fine. He lodged an appeal and was given a public hearing. Having failed to prove his innocence, he has now ended up with an even bigger fine.

The ‘Z’ symbol was first spotted on Russian military hardware soon after the Kremlin launched its military operation in the neighboring country. It quickly gained currency among Russians who support the campaign. Over the past few months, the letter has been incorporated into banners and billboards by regional officials.

In Germany, as well as several other European nations, the use of the symbol in contexts where it is seen as supportive of Moscow’s actions has been outlawed.



https://www.rt.com/business/565373-putin-energy-security-nord-stream/

Putin urges increased security after Nord Stream attack

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) should strengthen the protection of critical infrastructure facilities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday while meeting with the group’s security chiefs.

The CIS is a regional intergovernmental organization covering Eastern Europe and Asia that was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Russian president said that “increased security measures should be taken in relation to critical transport and energy infrastructure. It is these facilities, as well as high population areas, that should be protected as much as possible."

Putin stated that the Nord Stream incident demonstrates that sabotage poses a threat to the whole European energy network.

“They have no aversion to direct sabotage. I mean organizing explosions on the international gas pipelines of Nord Stream. In fact, we are talking about the destruction of the pan-European energy infrastructure,” Putin said.

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According to the Russian leader, such acts are committed despite the fact that they cause enormous damage to the European economy and significantly worsen the living conditions of millions of people.

“And, in fact, they keep quiet about who did it, whose interest it serves,” he said.

The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were rendered inoperable on September 26 following a series of powerful underwater explosions off the Danish island of Bornholm. The Nord Stream operator described the state of emergency on the gas pipelines as unprecedented and said it was impossible to estimate the repair time.

Moscow has denounced the incident as a terrorist attack and called for an investigation. Meanwhile, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, who do not rule out targeted sabotage, have said they will not grant Russia access to the investigation. The Kremlin then declared that it would not recognize the results of the probe unless Russian experts are invited to take part.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/565364-zaporozhye-mariupol-foreign-fighters/

Kiev turning Zaporozhye into new Mariupol – Russian official

Kiev is turning the city of Zaporozhye into a heavily fortified stronghold, with foreign fighters bolstering Ukrainian forces, the top Russian official in the region has claimed.

“Zaporozhye is being turned into something like Mariupol. There is a large number of foreigners there, in the thousands,” Evgeny Balitsky, the acting governor of Zaporozhye Region, told Russian TV on Wednesday.

He said this information comes from people living in the Ukrainian-controlled provincial capital who talk to relatives and friends on the Russian side of the frontline. People see military preparations with their own eyes and hear people talking in Polish, German, and English in the streets, he explained.

Russia incorporated the region as part of its territory this month, after residents in the eastern part voted in a referendum to split with Ukraine and join Russia. The city of Zaporozhye, which is located in the northwest, has remained under Kiev’s control. The Ukrainian government called the vote a “sham” and pledged to retake all territories that it claims as its own.

Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has built a 'state within a state,' and it despises both Russia and the liberal West
Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has built a 'state within a state,' and it despises both Russia and the liberal West
The comparison to Mariupol refers to the Black Sea port city which was fully captured by Russia in May after the last Ukrainian troops surrendered. The fighters, many of them members of the neo-Nazi Azov regiment, spent weeks defending the Azovstal steelworks, a huge Soviet-built factory with a massive underground area designed to serve as a bunker during times of war. According to Balitsky, the AvtoZAZ automobile plant in the south of Zaporozhye is being prepared to be used the same way Azovstal was in Mariupol.

The Russian official also cited reports that the foreigners in Zaporozhye were acting “very brash” with the local population. “They simply take over places they want and turn them into military outposts,” he claimed.

The mercenaries, he added, were mostly “soldiers of fortune” and thrill-seekers.

“They came to hunt, to loot, to act here in our lands with total impunity,” the official said, adding that there have been reports of foreigners harassing locals.

He blamed Washington and Kiev for this, saying neither of them care about the people in the city and are fine with the troops acting as occupiers rather than defenders.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1585300353431609354
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Ukraine as US battering ram and the dirty bomb: Putin’s message to CIS intel


The head of state noted that the US pumps Ukraine with weapons despite Kiev’s public plans to obtain nuclear weapons

MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Ukraine has effectively lost its sovereignty and turned into a US battering ram against Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in general, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, speaking before the heads of delegations at the 51st meeting of the CIS Council of security and intelligence heads Wednesday.

The head of state noted that the US pumps Ukraine with weapons despite Kiev’s public plans to obtain nuclear weapons. He noted that Moscow is aware of Kiev’s plans to use a "dirty bomb," and warned about the danger of precision weapons shipped to the Ukrainian military falling into the hands of terrorists.

Here are the key statements Putin made during the meeting.

On Ukraine and the "dirty bomb"

Ukraine has become a tool of the US foreign policy: "The country has effectively lost its sovereignty and is now being directly controlled by the US, who use it as a battering ram against Russia, against our Union State with the Republic of Belarus, and against the CSTO and the CIS in general."

Kiev's example "clearly shows the United States’ true attitude to their satellites" - the Ukrainian territory was turned into a "proving ground for military biological experiments," and now "they pump it with weapons, including heavy ones, and turn a blind eye to Kiev’s desire to obtain nuclear weapons." Meanwhile, Russia is aware about Ukraine’s plans to "use a so-called ‘dirty bomb’ for provocations."

Arms shipments to Ukraine create serious challenges: more than mere small arms can get to other countries from the Ukrainian territory.

"The risks of criminals getting their hands on more powerful weapons, including man-portable missile air defense systems and precision weapons, remain," Putin said.

On multipolarity and conflicts

The conflict potential in the world in general and in the CIS region remains very high: "New risks and challenges for collective security have emerged; primarily, this is a consequence of a sharp escalation in the global geopolitical standoff."

The world is changing and becoming multipolar, but "some parties to international communication strive to keep their failing hegemony at any cost."

They "do not even shy away from direct sabotage," such as the explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines, which "cause colossal damage to the European economy" and "significantly worsen living conditions for millions of people."

On CIS’ security

Attempts to carry out a "color revolution" and incite armed conflicts that threaten the security of all CIS members continue: "the tactic of blackmail, pressure, and intimidation has long been used by certain countries across nearly the entire Commonwealth."

Meanwhile, the danger from terror groups - ISIS, Al Qaeda (both outlawed in Russia) and others - does not decrease: "they seek to infiltrate CIS states, create clandestine cells, and the concentration of militants in Afghanistan - especially near the border with Central Asian states, of course, carries the risk of invasion in this region."

CIS member states must develop cooperation in counter-terrorism, including by "concentrating efforts on detection and elimination of terrorist infiltration channels under cover of migration flows," and jointly counter attempts to interfere in their internal affairs: "to counter that, we must more actively reveal and thwart operations of foreign intelligence agencies aimed at destabilizing each individual CIS member state."

It is necessary to ensure maximum protection of objects and places of mass stay of people - as proven by the explosion on the Crimean Bridge and sabotage attempts at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.

[Vicus]

BIZARRO WORLD :facepalm:

German man fined over letter ‘Z’

A court in Hamburg found him guilty of endorsing Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, and has ordered him to pay €4,000

Displaying the last letter of the Latin alphabet in the rear window of his car could cost a German man €4,000 ($3,988). A court in Hamburg found the 62-year-old guilty of supporting Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, ruling that ‘Z’ is a symbol of support for Moscow’s actions.

The verdict was handed down on Tuesday, a court spokesperson told German media.

According to the public prosecutor’s office, the defendant had attached a white sheet of paper with a blue ‘Z’ to his vehicle, and on March 29, drove along one of Hamburg’s central streets.

“Therein, in the court’s opinion, lies an endorsement of the Ukraine war through solidarization with Russia, which is a war of aggression as per international law,” the court ruled.

While the man did not deny displaying the symbol, he argued before the court that it merely represents the last letter of the alphabet. The defendant added that trying to establish a connection between the letter and the Ukraine conflict was a “very, very bold hypothesis.”

He also offered some other possible interpretations, including the French-Algerian film ‘Z’, as well as a now-defunct bar in Hamburg which bore the same name.

The defense team claimed the letter was a reference to media reports on ‘Generation Z’.

The defendant has the right to appeal the verdict.

The man was originally given a €1,800 fine. He lodged an appeal and was given a public hearing. Having failed to prove his innocence, he has now ended up with an even bigger fine.

The ‘Z’ symbol was first spotted on Russian military hardware soon after the Kremlin launched its military operation in the neighboring country. It quickly gained currency among Russians who support the campaign. Over the past few months, the letter has been incorporated into banners and billboards by regional officials.

In Germany, as well as several other European nations, the use of the symbol in contexts where it is seen as supportive of Moscow’s actions has been outlawed.

https://www.rt.com/news/565351-germany-man-fined-z-symbol/

[Ravenlocke]

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https://sputniknews.com/20221026/kiev-made-dummy-missile-for-provocation-with-dirty-bomb-over-chernobyl-zone---source-1102733033.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Kiev Made Dummy Missile for Provocation With 'Dirty Bomb' Over Chernobyl Zone - Source

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Kiev regime has already completed technical preparations for a provocation with a "dirty bomb," having prepared a dummy missile, which is planned to be filled with radioactive material, a source familiar with the situation told Sputnik.




"Experts from the Yuzhmash plant have already made a dummy missile of the Iskander system, the head cluster part of which is planned to be filled with radioactive material, and then 'shot down' by Ukrainian air defense forces over the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in order to declare a Russian launch of a nuclear charge," the source said.
He clarified that the model of the Iskander missile was made on the basis of a projectile from the Tochka-U missile system.
"After the dummy is shot down, the Kiev authorities intend to show the Western and Ukrainian media fragments of the mockup and electronics of the alleged Iskander missile in order to convince the Western public of Russia's guilt," the source said.

[Chester]

All Dugin’s work is available on Amazon in the UK, and the other main online book sellers here. Must just be in the US.

The banning of books on a website in the US is indeed worrying, but it is a pale reflection of Putin’s crackdown on any form of free speech. In March, he amended the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, introduced criminal liability for the public dissemination of “deliberately misleading information” and “discrediting the use of the Russian Federation Armed Forces.”

As a result, the main social media sites, Russian-language outlets based outside of Russia and major foreign language news channels are all blocked - and anyone spreading what he calls ‘false information’ or ‘discrediting’ Russia’s actions in Ukraine will face fines and up to 15 years in prison. Any opposition to the Kremlin is a criminal act there now, and pretty well all independent media outlets have been silenced. Of course, it's not just the media that is being censored: political opponents, NGOs, civil rights groups, bloggers, the general population …

The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights said, “These restrictions on media and access to information online choking the last vestiges of independent, pluralistic media in Russia, but they are also depriving the population of their right to access diverse news and views at this critical time when millions of Russians legitimately want to know more about the situation in Ukraine.”


https://www.thriftbooks.com/browse/?b.search=alexander%20dugin%20books#b.s=mostPopular-desc&b.p=1&b.pp=30&b.oos&b.tile

whhhooops - all "Temporarily Unavailable"

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/SprinterMonitor/status/1585317378283347968

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RussiaUN/status/1585277689430265866

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https://twitter.com/SprinterMonitor/status/1585317586774167552

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Angelo4justice3/status/1585308304901013540
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https://tass.com/politics/1527863

Ukrainian forces attempt to break through defenses in north Kherson Region — official

Earlier, Kirill Stremousov pointed out that the reports about Kiev’s accumulation of 60,000 troops for an offensive on Kherson were lies
KHERSON, October 26. /TASS/. The Russian military have repelled several attacks launched by the Ukrainian armed forces near Davydov Brod in the north of the Kherson Region over the past 24 hours, when up to four Ukrainian battalion tactical groups made attempts to break through Russian defenses, Kherson Region Deputy Governor Kirill Stremousov said on Wednesday.

"In the direction of Kherson, Ukrainian Nazis consisting of up to four battalion tactical groups have made desperate attempts to expand their bridgehead from Davydov Brod towards Ishchenka in the past 24 hours. Airborne troops supported by artillery of the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division managed to repel all the attacks, thus holding their positions," Stremousov wrote on his Telegram channel.

Earlier, Stremousov pointed out that the reports about Kiev’s accumulation of 60,000 troops for an offensive on Kherson were lies.

On October 8, Acting Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo announced that civilians who live on the right bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson Region would be relocated to its left bank due to the threat of flooding, which could be triggered by a Ukrainian military strike on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. Saldo warned that Ukraine was accumulating substantial forces near Nikolayev and Krivoy Rog. On October 19, travel to the right bank of the river was limited.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1585329754110332928

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https://www.barrons.com/articles/sweden-s-navy-conducts-new-inspections-near-nord-stream-01666804207

FROM AFP NEWS
Sweden's Navy Conducts New Inspections Near Nord Stream

The Swedish navy on Wednesday said it had begun new inspections near the Nord Stream pipelines, after four leaks emerged in September leading authorities to investigate suspected sabotage.

The new inspections were initiated at the behest of the navy itself and are independent of the ongoing Swedish criminal investigation into the leaks.

"We have felt a need to complement the inspection we did there earlier," Jimmie Adamsson, a spokesman for Sweden's navy, told AFP.

The navy declined to give details of the steps they are taking or hat specifically they are looking for.

The new inspections, which began on Monday, should be completed within a week.

The four leaks emerged on the two Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea off the coast of the Danish island of Bornholm at the end of September with seismic institutes reporting that they had recorded two underwater explosions prior to the leaks appearing.

While the leaks were in international waters, two of them were in the Danish exclusive economic zone and two of them in the Swedish.


Swedish authorities announced in early October that they had conducted an underwater inspection of the site and collected "pieces of evidence", and that the inspection backed up suspicions of sabotage.

The pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany, have been at the centre of geopolitical tensions as Russia cut gas supplies to Europe in suspected retaliation to Western sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Although they were not in operation when the leaks occurred, they both still contained gas which spewed up through the water and into the atmosphere.

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1585337313810579456
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[Spiral]

I'm going to say this on this thread, you won't read about it anywhere, but this is a personal experience that I think unless I was completely mistaken was the Russians sticking a big middle finger up to the UK.

Yesterday afternoon I was on my drive doing work on my vehicles, when I heard a military jet very close by.

I looked up to see a swing wing jet with rectangular jet intakes & white external tanks under the wings, I didn't notice the markings, but it did have a single tail fin. The wings were fully forward as it was going quite slow & it was certainly below 500 ft (legal min alt) . It was so low I didn't see it for long.

I live quite close to the east coast here in the UK, and that's the direction it came from.

Swing wing planes are VERY distinctive, and there aren't many of them, it was a thing back in the day.

I presumed it was an F111 even though I've never seen one here, so I googled F111 only to find they are no longer in service.

The ONLY other aircraft it could have been is a Russian Su 24.

Today the North Sea has been very busy with air borne radar planes & Typhoons.

So did the Russians manage to get a single plane over UK soil undetected ? It wouldn't be the first time, and I read earlier on a post Norman made that the radar from nearby Staxton Wold has been moved to the Shetlands, so a low flying plane would be below the horizon from there.

They also picked an old plane, just to ram it home, old but supersonic,... so it could seriously shift it it had to get away.

That's a big but subtle warning to the UK and NATO.

[thepainterdoug]

Very important interview by Sarah Westall with Scott Ritter. Ukraine is loosing and will soon lose and freeze.
But Ukraine is hiding something really big. It revolves around Hunter, the Bidens and more. They will be backed into a no win situation and may try something desperate

https://sarahwestall.com/russia-is-winning-nuclear-threat-is-a-sign-of-desperation-very-serious-w-scott-ritter-2of2 (https://sarahwestall.com/russia-is-winning-nuclear-threat-is-a-sign-of-desperation-very-serious-w-scott-ritter-2of2/)

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[Bill Ryan]

A very very interesting report from TASS. It appears that a group of Polish mercenaries killed their Ukrainian enforcers when the Poles refused to take risks and advance further after their initial offensives had been repelled.


https://tass.com/politics/1527599

Battle erupts between Polish mercenaries, Ukrainian nationalists near Liman — LPR official

Polish mercenaries stationed in the Liman area refused to go into battle after a number of failed attacks and later killed a group of Ukrainian nationalists that had been sent to re-establish order, the Lugansk People’s Republic’s (LPR) interior minister's advisor Vitaly Kiselyov said on Wednesday.

"There was an incident near Liman, where Polish mercenaries refused to tempt fate by trying to advance after several failed attacks," he wrote on Telegram.

According to Kiselyov, a group of Ukrainian nationalists, who were sent to sort the situation out, "failed to build a conversation" and its members were killed. "A massacre between foreigners and Nazis is looming," the official said.

[Tintin]

Some light relief :)

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(I had to put all my resolve into not writing Lankaster, by the way :P because i keep thinking of the 'C' as sounding like an 'S' :D.... )



Got it :) I'm doing Russian lessons, well self taught actually, for the first time in 23 odd years, so, yes :bigsmile:

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[ExomatrixTV]

European MPs Humiliate The U.S. On World Stage:

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Western powers routinely accuse the Russian military of committing terrorist acts and targeting civilians in the Ukraine war. And many of the accusations are no doubt true. But as members of the European Parliament Mick Wallace and Clare Daly point out, the West is far from innocent of these very same crimes, and to a far greater degree. That was the gist of the fiery speeches recently delivered by the two Irish MPs, leading to the predictable denunciations of using “whataboutism” and that the two are useful idiots for the Russian government.

[Vicus]

A very very interesting report from TASS. It appears that a group of Polish mercenaries killed their Ukrainian enforcers when the Poles refused to take risks and advance further after their initial offensives had been repelled.


https://tass.com/politics/1527599

Battle erupts between Polish mercenaries, Ukrainian nationalists near Liman — LPR official

Polish mercenaries stationed in the Liman area refused to go into battle after a number of failed attacks and later killed a group of Ukrainian nationalists that had been sent to re-establish order, the Lugansk People’s Republic’s (LPR) interior minister's advisor Vitaly Kiselyov said on Wednesday.

"There was an incident near Liman, where Polish mercenaries refused to tempt fate by trying to advance after several failed attacks," he wrote on Telegram.

According to Kiselyov, a group of Ukrainian nationalists, who were sent to sort the situation out, "failed to build a conversation" and its members were killed. "A massacre between foreigners and Nazis is looming," the official said.

Battle between Orcs...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjY62xa1B6c

[Vicus]

Finland Will Allow NATO to Place Nuclear Weapons on Border With Russia

In a move that could risk infuriating Russia, nuclear weapons could possibly be positioned in Finland if the country's application to join NATO is approved, according to a report from a Finnish newspaper.

Both Finland and Sweden submitted applications to join NATO in May, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the Helsinki-based newspaper Iltalehti, the bill regarding potential NATO membership the Finnish government will put before parliament doesn't include any opt-outs for nuclear weapons.

Speaking to the paper, defense sources said Finland's foreign and defense ministers, Pekka Haavisto and Antti Kaikkonen, gave a "commitment" to NATO in July that they wouldn't seek "restrictions or national reservations" if Helsinki's application is accepted.

Foreign policy insiders told Iltalehti this means NATO nuclear weapons could transit through, or be based on, Finnish territory. Additionally, there are no restrictions on establishing NATO bases in the country.

The U.S. already has around 100 nuclear weapons in Europe, positioned in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey according to the Federation of American Scientists.

Britain and France, both NATO members, also maintain their own independent nuclear arsenals.

Earlier this month, the Polish government said it had held discussions with the U.S. government about hosting U.S. nuclear weapons, though this hasn't been confirmed by Washington.

Polish President Andrzej Duda claimed there is a "potential opportunity" for his country to engage in "nuclear sharing."

According to its website, NATO is a "nuclear alliance," which uses its nuclear arsenal to "preserve peace, prevent coercion and deter aggression."

The importance of a nuclear deterrent was confirmed in NATO's 2022 Strategic Concept, adopted by the alliance at its Madrid summit in June.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed membership applications from Finland and Sweden in May, describing the move as a "historic moment" for the alliance.

https://www.newsweek.com/finland-will-allow-nato-place-nuclear-weapons-border-russia-1754925

[I am B]

Putin's interview at Valdai live NOW

Link will be useless after it ends.

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[Tintin]

The late Tony Benn before the 'Allied' bombing of Serbia in 1999 speaking in the House of Commons in 1998. It's less than 2 minutes long but contains more sense in that time than the combined talking heads of the entire governments of the so-called west in 2022:

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Source: https://twitter.com/incontextmedia/status/1585346883312025618

[norman]

I'm sure the readers of this thread have heard plenty of Scott Ritter over the months.

This is a nearly 2 hour chat he had with Sarah Westall. The conversation is wide ranging but includes his up to date opinion of the state of affairs with the Ukraine.

It was published in 2 parts but I've made a single file from them, chopping out some advertising and the second repeat intro section.

MP3
Sarah Westall - Scott Ritter (all) - Russia is Winning, Nuclear Threat is a Sign of Desperation & Very Serious (https://app.box.com/s/22gxxgdepnyskcatuijn1vznasd48st6)

[ExomatrixTV]

Vladimir Putin Addresses Russian Security Council (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118635-The-Putin-Thread&p=1524779&viewfull=1#post1524779) (October 26, 2022). :bowing:

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1585682843442741256
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Latest hour long update from Alexander, regarding the latest interesting developments

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Navsteva/status/1585681843189436416
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https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1585686294998683648

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https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1585688753586176020
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https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1585687481609068545
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[ExomatrixTV]

The Democratic Party is Being Controlled:

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It’s now clear to everyone that the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party lacks the courage and compassion required to stand up to the warmongers who own/control the Dem Party. Indeed, they too have become warmongers in order to advance their political careers.

[Michel Leclerc]

The late Tony Benn before the 'Allied' bombing of Serbia in 1999 speaking in the House of Commons in 1998. It's less than 2 minutes long but contains more sense in that time than the combined talking heads of the entire governments of the so-called west in 2022:

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Source: https://twitter.com/incontextmedia/status/1585346883312025618

Presence of real feeling. Absence of rhetorical virtuosity. I vaguely remembered who this man was, but I won’t any more.

[Snoweagle]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFBKjVQm/

[ExomatrixTV]

U.S Troops Sent To Ukraine Border:

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CBS News recently had the good fortune to be embedded with the 101st Airborne Division while deployed in Romania right along the Ukraine border. Surprisingly, the CBS team reported favorably on the division’s preparations for possible conflict with Russia, making no mention of how U.S. troops on Ukraine’s border might escalate matters, possibly leading directly to a nuclear conflict. But who cares about minor matters like nuclear annihilation when there are weapons systems to sell?


WTF? :facepalm:

[Gwin Ru]

...

... meanwhile... what/who we don't hear about: Iran:

10/26/2022 Merritt Medical Hour: Dr. Lee Merritt ft. Anni Cyrus (https://www.brighteon.com/4bd60c7d-e496-4b0f-ae52-a37ae376014f) 50:47

https://avatars.brighteon.com/file/brighteon-avatars/08f36221-930a-4459-81bf-087b55345cfe (https://www.brighteon.com/channels/brighteontv)
BrighteonTV (https://www.brighteon.com/channels/brighteontv)
Published 20 hours ago


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[Richter]

Meduza
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[Helvetic]

Joseph P. Farrell | News and Views from the Nefarium | Oct. 27, 2022

Source: gizadeathstar.com (http://gizadeathstar.com)

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That dirty bomb scenario: a desperate act by some criminally insane people...

Article:
Two Ukrainian Firms Caught Building Dirty Bomb – Media Blackout (https://newspunch.com/two-ukrainian-firms-caught-building-dirty-bomb-media-blackout/)

[DNA]

Wow
This zero hedge article states that Finland is allowing NATO to arm them with nukes.
This is unnecessary antagonism if you ask me.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/finland-willing-host-nato-nuclear-weapons-border-russia

[Bill Ryan]

A major speech by Putin, at the Valdai International Discussion Club meeting yesterday. I think it's important to post it in full to ensure that no-one takes any of this out of context, as is so often what happens.

It's all about the coming (and inevitable, and welcome) multipolar world.

(One might speculate how Joe Biden might cope with a very long and intricate speech like this [mis-] read from a teleprompter. :) )


http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69695

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The theme of this year's forum is A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone. The four day-long meeting brought together 111 experts, politicians, diplomats and economists from Russia and 40 foreign countries, including Afghanistan, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Turkiye, the United States, and Uzbekistan, to name a few.


Moderator of the Valdai Club’s plenary session Fyodor Lukyanov: Good afternoon, Mr President,

We look forward to seeing you every year, but this year, perhaps, we were more impatient than usual, since there are lots of issues to discuss.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: I suppose so, yes.

Fyodor Lukyanov: The forum mainly focused on matters related to the international order, such as how the world is changing and, most importantly, who, in fact, is at the helm of the world, who runs it, and whether the world is amenable to being run at all.

However, we are discussing this as observers, but you have power, so please share your thoughts with us.

Vladimir Putin: Thank you very much.

Ladies and gentlemen, friends,

I had a chance to get a sense of what you discussed here during the last few days. It was an interesting and substantive discussion. I hope you do not regret coming to Russia and communicating with each other.

I am happy to see you all.

We have used the Valdai Club platform to discuss, more than once, the major and serious shifts that have already taken place and are taking place around the world, the risks posed by the degradation of global institutions, the erosion of collective security principles and the substitution of “rules” for international law. I was tempted to say “we are clear about who came up with these rules,” but, perhaps, that would not be an accurate statement. We have no idea whatsoever who made these rules up, what these rules are based on, or what is contained inside these rules.

It looks like we are witnessing an attempt to enforce just one rule whereby those in power – we were talking about power, and I am now talking about global power – could live without following any rules at all and could get away with anything. These are the rules that we hear them constantly, as people say, harping on, that is, talking about them incessantly.

The Valdai discussions are important because a variety of assessments and forecasts can be heard here. Life always shows how accurate they were, since life is the sternest and the most objective teacher. So, life shows how accurate our previous years’ projections were.

Alas, events continue to follow a negative scenario, which we have discussed more than once during our previous meetings. Moreover, they have morphed into a major system-wide crisis that impacted, in addition to the military-political sphere, the economic and humanitarian spheres as well.

The so-called West which is, of course, a theoretical construct since it is not united and clearly is a highly complex conglomerate, but I will still say that the West has taken a number of steps in recent years and especially in recent months that are designed to escalate the situation. As a matter of fact, they always seek to aggravate matters, which is nothing new, either. This includes the stoking of war in Ukraine, the provocations around Taiwan, and the destabilisation of the global food and energy markets. To be sure, the latter was, of course, not done on purpose, there is no doubt about it.

The destabilisation of the energy market resulted from a number of systemic missteps made by the Western authorities that I mentioned above. As we can see now, the situation was further aggravated by the destruction of the pan-European gas pipelines. This is something otherworldly altogether, but we are nevertheless witnessing these sad developments.

Global power is exactly what the so-called West has at stake in its game. But this game is certainly dangerous, bloody and, I would say, dirty. It denies the sovereignty of countries and peoples, their identity and uniqueness, and tramples upon other states’ interests. In any case, even if denial is the not the word used, they are doing it in real life. No one, except those who create these rules I have mentioned is entitled to retain their identity: everyone else must comply with these rules.

In this regard, let me remind you of Russia's proposals to our Western partners to build confidence and a collective security system. They were once again tossed in December 2021.

However, sitting things out can hardly work in the modern world. He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind, as the saying goes. The crisis has indeed taken on a global dimension and has impacted everyone. There can be no illusions about this.

Humankind is at a fork in the road: either keep accumulating problems and eventually get crushed under their weight, or work together to find solutions – even imperfect ones, as long as they work – that can make our world a more stable and safer place.

You know, I have always believed in the power of common sense. Therefore, I am convinced that sooner or later both the new centres of the multipolar international order and the West will have to start a dialogue on an equal footing about a common future for us all, and the sooner the better, of course. In this regard, I will highlight some of the most important aspects for all of us.

Current developments have overshadowed environmental issues. Strange as it may seem, this is what I would like to speak about first today. Climate change no longer tops the agenda. But that fundamental challenge has not gone away, it is still with us, and it is growing.

The loss of biodiversity is one of the most dangerous consequences of disrupting the environmental balance. This brings me to the key point all of us have gathered here for. Is it not equally important to maintain cultural, social, political and civilisational diversity?

At the same time, the smoothing out and erasure of all and any differences is essentially what the modern West is all about. What stands behind this? First of all, it is the decaying creative potential of the West and a desire to restrain and block the free development of other civilisations.

There is also an openly mercantile interest, of course. By imposing their values, consumption habits and standardisation on others, our opponents – I will be careful with words – are trying to expand markets for their products. The goal on this track is, ultimately, very primitive. It is notable that the West proclaims the universal value of its culture and worldview. Even if they do not say so openly, which they actually often do, they behave as if this is so, that it is a fact of life, and the policy they pursue is designed to show that these values must be unconditionally accepted by all other members of the international community.

I would like to quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous Harvard Commencement Address delivered in 1978. He said that typical of the West is “a continuous blindness of superiority”– and it continues to this day – which “upholds the belief that vast regions everywhere on our planet should develop and mature to the level of present-day Western systems.” He said this in 1978. Nothing has changed.

Over the nearly 50 years since then, the blindness about which Solzhenitsyn spoke and which is openly racist and neocolonial, has acquired especially distorted forms, in particular, after the emergence of the so-called unipolar world. What am I referring to? Belief in one’s infallibility is very dangerous; it is only one step away from the desire of the infallible to destroy those they do not like, or as they say, to cancel them. Just think about the meaning of this word.

Even at the very peak of the Cold War, the peak of the confrontation of the two systems, ideologies and military rivalry, it did not occur to anyone to deny the very existence of the culture, art, and science of other peoples, their opponents. It did not even occur to anyone. Yes, certain restrictions were imposed on contacts in education, science, culture, and, unfortunately, sports. But nonetheless, both the Soviet and American leaders understood that it was necessary to treat the humanitarian area tactfully, studying and respecting your rival, and sometimes even borrowing from them in order to retain a foundation for sound, productive relations at least for the future.

And what is happening now? At one time, the Nazis reached the point of burning books, and now the Western “guardians of liberalism and progress” have reached the point of banning Dostoyevsky and Tchaikovsky. The so-called “cancel culture” and in reality – as we said many times – the real cancellation of culture is eradicating everything that is alive and creative and stifles free thought in all areas, be it economics, politics or culture.

Today, liberal ideology itself has changed beyond recognition. If initially, classic liberalism was understood to mean the freedom of every person to do and say as they pleased, in the 20th century the liberals started saying that the so-called open society had enemies and that the freedom of these enemies could and should be restricted if not cancelled. It has reached the absurd point where any alternative opinion is declared subversive propaganda and a threat to democracy.

Whatever comes from Russia is all branded as “Kremlin intrigues.” But look at yourselves. Are we really so all-powerful? Any criticism of our opponents – any – is perceived as “Kremlin intrigues,” “the hand of the Kremlin.” This is insane. What have you sunk to? Use your brain, at least, say something more interesting, lay out your viewpoint conceptually. You cannot blame everything on the Kremlin’s scheming.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky prophetically foretold all this back in the 19th century. One of the characters of his novel Demons, the nihilist Shigalev, described the bright future he imagined in the following way: “Emerging from boundless freedom, I conclude with boundless despotism.” This is what our Western opponents have come to. Another character of the novel, Pyotr Verkhovensky echoes him, talking about the need for universal treason, reporting and spying, and claiming that society does not need talents or greater abilities: “Cicero’s tongue is cut out, Copernicus has his eyes gouged out and Shakespeare is stoned.” This is what our Western opponents are arriving at. What is this if not Western cancel culture?

These were great thinkers and, frankly, I am grateful to my aides for finding these quotes.

What can one say to this? History will certainly put everything in its place and will know whom to cancel, and it will definitely not be the greatest works of universally recognised geniuses of world culture, but those who have for some reason decided that they have the right to use world culture as they see fit. Their self-regard really knows no bounds. No one will even remember their names in a few years. But Dostoevsky will live on, as will Tchaikovsky, Pushkin, no matter how much they would have liked the opposite.

Standardisation, financial and technological monopoly, the erasure of all differences is what underlies the Western model of globalisation, which is neocolonial in nature. Their goal was clear – to establish the unconditional dominance of the West in the global economy and politics. To do that, the West put at its service the entire planet’s natural and financial resources, as well as all intellectual, human and economic capabilities, while alleging it was a natural feature of the so-called new global interdependence.

Here I would like to recall another Russian philosopher, Alexander Zinoviev, whose birth centenary we will celebrate on October 29. More than 20 years ago, he said that Western civilisation needed the entire planet as a medium of existence and all the resources of humanity to survive at the level it had reached. That is what they want, that is exactly how it is.

Moreover, the West initially secured itself a huge head start in that system because it had developed the principles and mechanisms – the same as today’s rules they keep talking about, which remain an incomprehensible black hole because no one really knows what they are. But as soon as non-western countries began to derive some benefits from globalisation, above all, the large nations in Asia, the West immediately changed or fully abolished many of those rules. And the so-called sacred principles of free trade, economic openness, equal competition, even property rights were suddenly forgotten, completely. They change the rules on the go, on the spot wherever they see an opportunity for themselves.

Here is another example of the substitution of concepts and meanings. For many years, Western ideologists and politicians have been telling the world there was no alternative to democracy. Admittedly, they meant the Western-style, the so-called liberal model of democracy. They arrogantly rejected all other variants and forms of government by the people and, I want to emphasise this, did so contemptuously and disdainfully. This manner has been taking shape since colonial times, as if everyone were second-rate, while they were exceptional. It has been going on for centuries and continues to this day.

So currently, an overwhelming majority of the international community is demanding democracy in international affairs and rejecting all forms of authoritarian dictate by individual countries or groups of countries. What is this if not the direct application of democratic principles to international relations?

What stance has the “civilised” West adopted? If you are democrats, you are supposed to welcome the natural desire for freedom expressed by billions of people, but no. The West is calling it undermining the liberal rules-based order. It is resorting to economic and trade wars, sanctions, boycotts and colour revolutions, and preparing and carrying out all sorts of coups.

One of them led to tragic consequences in Ukraine in 2014. They supported it and even specified the amount of money they had spent on this coup. They have the cheek to act as they please and have no scruples about anything they do. They killed Soleimani, an Iranian general. You can think whatever you want about Soleimani, but he was a foreign state official. They killed him in a third country and assumed responsibility. What is that supposed to mean, for crying out loud? What kind of world are we living in?

As is customary, Washington continues to refer to the current international order as liberal American-style, but in fact, this notorious “order” is multiplying chaos every day and, I might even add, is becoming increasingly intolerant even towards the Western countries and their attempts to act independently. Everything is nipped in the bud, and they do not even hesitate to impose sanctions on their allies, who lower their heads in acquiescence.

For example, the Hungarian MPs’ July proposals to codify the commitment to European Christian values and culture in the Treaty on European Union were taken not even as an affront, but as an outright and hostile act of sabotage. What is that? What does it mean? Indeed, some people may like it, some not.

Over a thousand years, Russia has developed a unique culture of interaction between all world religions. There is no need to cancel anything, be it Christian values, Islamic values or Jewish values. We have other world religions as well. All you need to do is respect each other. In a number of our regions – I just know this firsthand – people celebrate Christian, Islamic, Buddhist and Jewish holidays together, and they enjoy doing so as they congratulate each other and are happy for each other.

But not here. Why not? At least, they could discuss it. Amazing.

Without exaggeration, this is not even a systemic, but a doctrinal crisis of the neoliberal American-style model of international order. They have no ideas for progress and positive development. They simply have nothing to offer the world, except perpetuating their dominance.

I am convinced that real democracy in a multipolar world is primarily about the ability of any nation – I emphasise – any society or any civilisation to follow its own path and organise its own socio-political system. If the United States or the EU countries enjoy this right, then the countries of Asia, the Islamic states, the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, and countries on other continents certainly have this right as well. Of course, our country, Russia, also has this right, and no one will ever be able to tell our people what kind of society we should be building and what principles should underlie it.

A direct threat to the political, economic and ideological monopoly of the West lies in the fact that the world can come up with alternative social models that are more effective; I want to emphasise this, more effective today, brighter and more appealing than the ones that currently exist. These models will definitely come about. This is inevitable. By the way, US political scientists and analysts also write about this. Truthfully, their government is not listening to what they say, although it cannot avoid seeing these concepts in political science magazines and mentioned in discussions.

Development should rely on a dialogue between civilisations and spiritual and moral values. Indeed, understanding what humans and their nature are all about varies across civilisations, but this difference is often superficial, and everyone recognises the ultimate dignity and spiritual essence of people. A common foundation on which we can and must build our future is critically important.

Here is something I would like to emphasise. Traditional values are not a rigid set of postulates that everyone must adhere to, of course not. The difference from the so-called neo-liberal values is that they are unique in each particular instance, because they stem from the traditions of a particular society, its culture and historical background. This is why traditional values cannot be imposed on anyone. They must simply be respected and everything that every nation has been choosing for itself over centuries must he handled with care.

This is how we understand traditional values, and the majority of humanity share and accept our approach. This is understandable, because the traditional societies of the East, Latin America, Africa, and Eurasia form the basis of world civilisation.

Respect for the ways and customs of peoples and civilisations is in everyone’s interest. In fact, this is also in the interest of the “West,” which is quickly becoming a minority in the international arena as it loses its dominance. Of course, the Western minority’s right to its own cultural identity – I want to emphasise this – must be ensured and respected, but, importantly, on an equal footing with the rights of every other nation.

If the Western elites believe they can have their people and their societies embrace what I believe are strange and trendy ideas like dozens of genders or gay pride parades, so be it. Let them do as they please. But they certainly have no right to tell others to follow in their steps.

We see the complicated demographic, political and social processes taking place in Western countries. This is, of course, their own business. Russia does not interfere in such matters and has no intention of doing so. Unlike the West, we mind our own business. But we are hoping that pragmatism will triumph and Russia’s dialogue with the genuine, traditional West, as well as with other coequal development centres, will become a major contribution to the construction of a multipolar world order.

I will add that multipolarity is a real and, actually, the only chance for Europe to restore its political and economic identity. To tell the truth – and this idea is expressed explicitly in Europe today – Europe’s legal capacity is very limited. I tried to put it mildly not to offend anyone.

The world is diverse by nature and Western attempts to squeeze everyone into the same pattern are clearly doomed. Nothing will come out of them.

The conceited aspiration to achieve global supremacy and, essentially, to dictate or preserve leadership by dictate is really reducing the international prestige of the leaders of the Western world, including the United States, and increasing mistrust in their ability to negotiate in general. They say one thing today and another tomorrow; they sign documents and renounce them, they do what they want. There is no stability in anything. How documents are signed, what was discussed, what can we hope for – all this is completely unclear.

Previously, only a few countries dared argue with America and it looked almost sensational, whereas now it has become routine for all manner of states to reject Washington’s unfounded demands despite its continued attempts to exert pressure on everyone. This is a mistaken policy that leads nowhere. But let them, this is also their choice.

I am convinced that the nations of the world will not shut their eyes to a policy of coercion that has discredited itself. Every time the West will have to pay a higher price for its attempts to preserve its hegemony. If I were a Western elite, I would seriously ponder this prospect. As I said, some political scientists and politicians in the United States are already thinking about it.

In the current conditions of intense conflict, I will be direct about certain things. As an independent and distinctive civilization, Russia has never considered and does not consider itself an enemy of the West. Americophobia, Anglophobia, Francophobia, and Germanophobia are the same forms of racism as Russophobia or anti-Semitism, and, incidentally, xenophobia in all its guises.

It is simply necessary to understand clearly that, as I have already said before, two Wests – at least two and maybe more but two at least – the West of traditional, primarily Christian values, freedom, patriotism, great culture and now Islamic values as well – a substantial part of the population in many Western countries follows Islam. This West is close to us in something. We share with it common, even ancient roots. But there is also a different West – aggressive, cosmopolitan, and neocolonial. It is acting as a tool of neoliberal elites. Naturally, Russia will never reconcile itself to the dictates of this West.

In 2000, after I was elected President, I will always remember what I faced: I will remember the price we paid for destroying the den of terrorism in the North Caucasus, which the West almost openly supported at the time. We are all adults here; most of you present in this hall understand what I am talking about. We know that this is exactly what happened in practice: financial, political and information support. We have all lived through it.

What is more, not only did the West actively support terrorists on Russian territory, but in many ways it nurtured this threat. We know this. Nevertheless, after the situation had stabilised, when the main terrorist gangs had been defeated, including thanks to the bravery of the Chechen people, we decided not to turn back, not to play the offended, but to move forward, to build relations even with those who actually acted against us, to establish and develop relations with all who wanted them, based on mutual benefit and respect for one another.

We thought it was in everyone’s interest. Russia, thank God, had survived all the difficulties of that time, stood firm, grew stronger, was able to cope with internal and external terrorism, its economy was preserved, it began to develop, and its defence capability began to improve. We tried to build up relations with the leading countries of the West and with NATO. The message was the same: let us stop being enemies, let us live together as friends, let us engage in dialogue, let us build trust, and, hence, peace. We were absolutely sincere, I want to emphasise that. We clearly understood the complexity of this rapprochement, but we agreed to it.

What did we get in response? In short, we got a ”no“ in all the main areas of possible cooperation. We received an ever-increasing pressure on us and hotbeds of tension near our borders. And what, may I ask, is the purpose of this pressure? What is it? Is it just to practice? Of course not. The goal was to make Russia more vulnerable. The purpose is to turn Russia into a tool to achieve their own geopolitical goals.

As a matter of fact, this is a universal rule: they try to turn everyone into a tool, in order to use these tools for their own purposes. And those who do not yield to this pressure, who do not want to be such a tool are sanctioned: all sorts of economic restrictions are carried out against them and in relation of them, coups are prepared or where possible carried out and so on. And in the end, if nothing at all can be done, the aim is the same: to destroy them, to wipe them off the political map. But it has not and will never be possible to draft and implement such a scenario with respect to Russia.

What else can I add? Russia is not challenging the Western elites. Russia is simply upholding its right to exist and to develop freely. Importantly, we will not become a new hegemon ourselves. Russia is not suggesting replacing a unipolar world with a bipolar, tripolar or other dominating order, or replacing Western domination with domination from the East, North or South. This would inevitably lead to another impasse.

At this point, I would like to cite the words of the great Russian philosopher Nikolai Danilevsky. He believed that progress did not consist of everyone going in the same direction, as some of our opponents seem to want. This would only result in progress coming to a halt, Danilevsky said. Progress lies in “walking the field that represents humanity’s historical activity, walking in all directions,” he said, adding that no civilisation can take pride in being the height of development.

I am convinced that dictatorship can only be countered through free development of countries and peoples; the degradation of the individual can be set off by the love of a person as a creator; primitive simplification and prohibition can be replaced with the flourishing complexity of culture and tradition.

The significance of today’s historical moment lies in the opportunities for everyone’s democratic and distinct development path, which is opening up before all civilisations, states and integration associations. We believe above all that the new world order must be based on law and right, and must be free, distinctive and fair.

The world economy and trade also need to become fairer and more open. Russia considers the creation of new international financial platforms inevitable; this includes international transactions. These platforms should be above national jurisdictions. They should be secure, depoliticized and automated and should not depend on any single control centre. Is it possible to do this or not? Of course it is possible. This will require a lot of effort. Many countries will have to pool their efforts, but it is possible.

This rules out the possibility of abuse in a new global financial infrastructure. It would make it possible to conduct effective, beneficial and secure international transactions without the dollar or any of the so-called reserve currencies. This is all the more important, now that the dollar is being used as a weapon; the United States, and the West in general, have discredited the institution of international financial reserves. First, they devalued it with inflation in the dollar and euro zones and then they took our gold-and-currency reserves.

The transition to transactions in national currencies will quickly gain momentum. This is inevitable. Of course, it depends on the status of the issuers of these currencies and the state of their economies, but they will be growing stronger, and these transactions are bound to gradually prevail over the others. Such is the logic of a sovereign economic and financial policy in a multipolar world.

Furthermore, new global development centres are already using unmatched technology and research in various fields and can successfully compete with Western transnational companies in many areas.

Clearly, we have a common and very pragmatic interest in free and open scientific and technological exchange. United, we stand to win more than if we act separately. The majority should benefit from these exchanges, not individual super-rich corporations.

How are things going today? If the West is selling medicines or crop seeds to other countries, it tells them to kill their national pharmaceutical industries and selection. In fact, it all comes down to this: its machine tool and equipment supplies destroy the local engineering industry. I realised this back when I served as Prime Minister. Once you open your market to a certain product group, the local manufacturer instantly goes belly up and it is almost impossible for him to raise his head. That’s how they build relationships. That’s how they take over markets and resources, and countries lose their technological and scientific potential. This is not progress; it is enslavement and reducing economies to primitive levels.

Technological development should not increase global inequality, but rather reduce it. This is how Russia has traditionally implemented its foreign technology policy. For example, when we build nuclear power plants in other countries, we create competence centres and train local personnel. We create an industry. We don’t just build a plant, we create an entire industry. In fact, we give other countries a chance to break new ground in their scientific and technological development, reduce inequality, and bring their energy sector to new levels of efficiency and environmental friendliness.

Let me emphasise again that sovereignty and a unique path of development in no way mean isolation or autarky. On the contrary, they are about energetic and mutually beneficial cooperation based on the principles of fairness and equality.

If liberal globalisation is about depersonalising and imposing the Western model on the entire world, integration is, in contrast, about tapping the potential of each civilisation for everyone to benefit. If globalism is dictate – which is what it comes down to eventually, – integration is a team effort to develop common strategies that everyone can benefit from.

In this regard, Russia believes it is important to make wider use of mechanisms for creating large spaces that rely on interaction between neighbouring countries, whose economies and social systems, as well as resource bases and infrastructure, complement each other. In fact, these large spaces form the economic basis of a multipolar world order. Their dialogue gives rise to genuine unity in humanity, which is much more complex, unique and multidimensional than the simplistic ideas professed by some Western masterminds.

Unity among humankind cannot be created by issuing commands such as “do as I do” or “be like us.” It is created with consideration for everyone’s opinion and with a careful approach to the identity of every society and every nation. This is the principle that can underlie long-term cooperation in a multipolar world.

In this regard, it may be worth revising the structure of the United Nations, including its Security Council, to better reflect the world’s diversity. After all, much more will depend on Asia, Africa, and Latin America in tomorrow’s world than is commonly believed today, and this increase in their influence is undoubtedly a positive development.

Let me recall that the Western civilisation is not the only one even in our common Eurasian space. Moreover, the majority of the population is concentrated in the east of Eurasia, where the centres of the oldest human civilisations emerged.

The value and importance of Eurasia lies in the fact that it represents a self-sufficient complex possessing huge resources of all kinds and tremendous opportunities. The more we work on increasing the connectivity of Eurasia and creating new ways and forms of cooperation, the more impressive achievements we make.

The successful performance of the Eurasian Economic Union, the fast growth of the authority and prestige of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the large-scale One Belt, One Road initiatives, plans for multilateral cooperation in building the North-South transport corridor and many other projects, are the beginning of a new era, new stage in the development of Eurasia. I am confident of this. Integration projects there do not contradict but supplement each other – of course, if they are carried out by neighbouring countries in their own interests rather than introduced by outside forces with the aim of splitting the Eurasian space and turning it into a zone of bloc confrontation.

Europe, the Western extremity of the Greater Eurasia could also become its natural part. But many of its leaders are hampered by the conviction that the Europeans are superior to others, that it is beneath them to take part as equals in undertakings with others. This arrogance prevents them from seeing that they have themselves become a foreign periphery and actually turned into vassals, often without the right to vote.

Colleagues,

The collapse of the Soviet Union upset the equilibrium of the geopolitical forces. The West felt as a winner and declared a unipolar world arrangement, in which only its will, culture and interests had the right to exist.

Now this historical period of boundless Western domination in world affairs is coming to an end. The unipolar world is being relegated into the past. We are at a historical crossroads. We are in for probably the most dangerous, unpredictable and at the same time most important decade since the end of World War II. The West is unable to rule humanity single-handedly and the majority of nations no longer want to put up with this. This is the main contradiction of the new era. To cite a classic, this is a revolutionary situation to some extent – the elites cannot and the people do not want to live like that any longer.

This state of affairs is fraught with global conflicts or a whole chain of conflicts, which poses a threat to humanity, including the West itself. Today’s main historical task is to resolve this contradiction in a way that is constructive and positive.

The change of eras is a painful albeit natural and inevitable process. A future world arrangement is taking shape before our eyes. In this world arrangement, we must listen to everyone, consider every opinion, every nation, society, culture and every system of world outlooks, ideas and religious concepts, without imposing a single truth on anyone. Only on this foundation, understanding our responsibility for the destinies of nations and our planet, shall we create a symphony of human civilisation.

At this point, I would like to finish my remarks with expressing gratitude for the patience that you displayed while listening to them.

Thank you very much.

[Bill Ryan]

Interesting (and probably fairly accurate) comments in the western media about Putin's speech above (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1524884&viewfull=1#post1524884).

https://t.me/intelslava/40180

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[Tintin]

A new report from Maria Dubovikova and colleagues recently published.

Source: IMEMO (https://www.imemo.ru/en/news/events/text/analiticheskiy-doklad-imemo-ran-yaderniy-faktor-v-ukrainskom-konflikte)

Link to PDF: https://www.imemo.ru/files/File/en/news/2022/AnalitDoklad-eng26102022.pdf

Nuclear Factor in the Ukrainian Conflict (IMEMO Analytical Report)

Speculation about the likelihood of Russia using tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) in Ukraine has been going on since the start of a special military operation (SMO) in February 2022. As of late October 2022, the intensity of such speculation has been steadily increasing in both the Western and Russian media. There is a possibility that American, European and Ukrainian officials, politicians and experts accuse the Russian Federation of preparing to use TNWs not only for anti-Russian propaganda purposes, but also as part of information and psychological preparation for provocations, including the use of fissile materials[1].

Public judgments about even the hypothetical possibility of the use of TNWs in Ukraine are periodically heard even in Russian mass media and social media. The nature and content of such statements indicate, at a minimum, the irresponsibility and unprofessionalism of those who make them, or may indicate deliberate attempts to discredit the Russian armed forces, state authorities, and the principles of strategic planning in the field of national security of the Russian Federation.

The IMEMO specialists believe it is necessary to present a realistic assessment of such a scenario in the face of the Ukrainian conflict, based on an analysis of Russian military doctrine regarding the conditions and principles of nuclear weapons use.

1. On the Public Declaration of Nuclear Intentions

Open strategic planning documents and statements by top officials are not the only, but an important part of nuclear deterrence policy, designed to influence the behavior of potential adversaries by communicating to them the state's views on nuclear weapons (NWs). In recent years the Russian leadership has promulgated fairly detailed definitions of the possible circumstances in which NWs might be used.

Western politicians, experts, and the media constantly accuse Russian officials of "playing the nuclear card," including in connection with the Ukrainian crisis. However, the actual statements by the President of Russia, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Defense, and other representatives of state authorities over the past few years have demonstrated a desire to clearly define the conditions for the use of nuclear weapons and to make the Russian position on this issue crystal clear. In their comments on the issue, the Russian leadership has repeatedly made it clear that Russia's use of nuclear weapons implies primarily not a first, but a reciprocal action on its part. At the same time, the rhetoric of Western countries constantly shifts accents and distorts meanings when interpreting the speeches of Russian officials. The basic doctrinal principles of nuclear deterrence, formulated in relation to unfriendly nuclear powers and possible threats from their side, primarily nuclear, are transferred to the conflict in Ukraine, where these countries are not directly militarily involved, providing only military assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces.

Russian President Vladimir V. Putin's October 18, 2018 speech at the Valdai Discussion Club made a strong impression on a broad Western and Russian audience: "We as martyrs would go to paradise while they will simply perish". But much more significant for professionals was the President's explanation made at the same time concerning the basic approach to the use of nuclear weapons: "There is no provision for a pre-emptive strike in our nuclear weapons doctrine. Our concept is based on a reciprocal counter strike... this means that we are prepared and will use nuclear weapons only when we know for certain that some potential aggressor is attacking Russia, our territory… Of course, this amounts to a global catastrophe but I would like to repeat that we cannot be the initiators of such a catastrophe because we have no provision for a pre-emptive strike" [2]

The statements of Russian President V.V. Putin after the start of the SMO do not go beyond this repeatedly confirmed logic. Speaking on September 21, 2022 in connection with the announcement of partial mobilization, the President, referring to the threat of the use of conventional and nuclear weapons against Russia, said: "In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us"[3]. In his speech on September 30, he once again stressed that "We will defend our land with all the forces and resources we have"[4].

Defense Minister S.K. Shoigu noted on August 16, 2022: "From a military point of view, there is no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine to achieve the stated objectives. The main purpose of Russian nuclear weapons is to deter a nuclear attack"[5]. Earlier S.K. Shoigu had suggested that in the future high-precision weapons would be able to replace nuclear weapons as a deterrent, which would reduce international tensions and strengthen trust between countries[6].

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also made unequivocal statements on this matter: "Russia is not considering the possibility of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, only conventional weapons are involved"[7]. This position is a constant in the speeches of all representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov characterized the Russian position on the use of nuclear weapons in a regional theater of war as follows: "We have always been and continue to be strongly opposed to the idea of a limited nuclear war. We are firmly committed to the postulate that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it must never be unleashed. At last year's meeting in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin made such a statement jointly with the President of the United States. On January 3, 2022, already in the format of the "nuclear five" the leaders confirmed this postulate. It is sad and alarming that despite all these steps, the US continues its games in this sphere and at the same time continues to attribute non-existent concepts and intentions to Russia..."[8]. Russian diplomats consistently repeat this position on all international platforms. For example, K.V. Vorontsov, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the UN, during the thematic discussion of the "Nuclear Arms" section in the First Committee of the 77th session of the UNGA on October 18, 2022, emphasized: "Under the Memorandum, Russia confirmed with respect to Ukraine its commitment not to use nuclear weapons and not to threaten to use them against non-nuclear states. This commitment has always been fulfilled in full. Russia has not and does not threaten Ukraine with nuclear weapons"[9].

At the same time, it must be recognized that Western interpretations of the Russian official rhetoric give rise to intense discussion of nuclear strikes in political and expert circles abroad and also receive some response in Russia. Most of these interpretations are built around one of the provisions of President V.V. Putin’s speech on February 24, 2022: "I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside. No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history.

No matter how the events unfold, we are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will be heard"[10]. These words were perceived abroad as a threat of using nuclear weapons although neither then nor later were nuclear weapons mentioned explicitly, as well as the types of interference of foreign states in the conflict that could cause the use of Russian nuclear weapons. One can assume that the warning of the Russian president was addressed primarily to NATO countries and referred to their possible direct military involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.

[B]2. Nuclear Doctrine of the Russian Federation

The key public document of the legal and regulatory framework in the field of nuclear deterrence in the Russian Federation is the "Basic Principles of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence"[11] (hereinafter, “the Basic Principles"). The Fundamentals is a strategic planning document issued in accordance with clause 3 "c" of Article 11 of the Federal Law "On Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation" of 28.06.2014 No. 172-FZ (clause 1), which forms the basis for the activities of all bodies and organizations involved in the field of nuclear deterrence.

According to the Basic Principles (paragraph 19), the use of nuclear weapons can be considered a response option under one of four possible conditions. They include, first. aggression with the use of weapons of mass destruction against Russia itself or its allies (p. 19 (b)), second, aggression with the help of conventional armed forces, which threatens the very existence of the state (p. 19 (d)). Besides, the use of NWs is possible in case of receiving reliable information about a massive launch of ballistic missiles towards Russia (p. 19 (a)), without mentioning their payload type, which may be due to the threat of the appearance of the U.S. non-nuclear intermediate-range precision-guided missiles in Europe and the Pacific Asia. The fourth condition is the possibility of affecting the systems that ensure the use of nuclear weapons (p. 19 (c)).

Obviously, this refers to attempts to disrupt the functioning of the communication and command and control systems of the nuclear forces, the strikes on the decision-making centers, the corresponding satellite constellations and ground infrastructure, which can "undermine nuclear forces response actions" (ibid.).

The decision to use nuclear weapons is made by the President of the Russian Federation (p. 18). In addition, he may inform other states and international organizations of the readiness to use such weapons, of the decision to use them, or of the fact of their use (p. 20).

Additionally, it should be noted that the Basic Principles do not divide nuclear weapons into "tactical" ("non-strategic") and "strategic". This emphasizes the unity of the deterrence function performed by all types of NWs.

The Basic Principles list in detail the "military risks" that may evolve into "military threats" that nuclear deterrence is designed to counter. Of particular importance are references to the possible deployment of certain weapons systems of a potential adversary on the territory of neighboring states and in the adjacent sea areas (paragraph 12 (a) and (f)), as well as their deployment "by states that consider the Russian Federation to be a potential adversary" (p. 2 (b) and (d)).

3. On the Effectiveness of Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons

In the context given above, not only the question about the political and doctrinal conditions of Russia's use of NWs, but also the problem of military effectiveness and appropriateness of the hypothetical use of TNWs in Ukraine deserves special attention. The analysis of possible scenarios for the use of nuclear weapons in major local conflicts with the participation of nuclear powers (the U.S. Vietnam campaign in 1964-73, the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and in a number of others) leads to the following conclusions.




1.In no case was the ratio of the military effect to the potential costs of using nuclear weapons in a local conflict satisfactory, so that no such use was ordered, even though such a step was discussed in the military and political leadership of a number of states.
2.There are reasonable doubts about the military effectiveness of the small-scale use of nuclear weapons as a means of local battle space. The large-scale use of nuclear weapons does not meet the target framework of a local conflict, especially against a non-nuclear state, and is fraught with potential non-combat losses for the using side even more than the single use of TNWs.
3.In the case of the Vietnam War, the political consequences of the use of nuclear weapons were deemed disproportionate to the hypothetical achievable military outcome of such a step. At the same time, the key factor in the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons was their unpredictability, fraught with much greater damage than that which could have been prevented by the use of nuclear weapons.
4.During the conflict in the Persian Gulf, warnings of a possible "overwhelming and destructive response" by the United States were made solely to deter the possible use of chemical weapons by Saddam Hussein's regime[12].
5.Even a single use of TNWs is associated with subsequent substantial government expenditures and numerous difficulties for civilians and the restoration of economic activity not only in the affected area, but also in adjacent territories, as well as with environmental, political and economic risks of a systemic nature. Even the experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were rebuilt a few years after the American nuclear bombings with bombs that were close in power to today's TNWs, is not exemplary. The negative impact of radiation on the health of citizens at that time was underestimated, and the level of radiophobia was several times lower than now - the psychological consequences for the economy were not taken into account at all.

U.S. research during the 1967 Vietnam War showed that the use of TNWs against dispersed targets on the battlefield and for theater of war isolation did not offer advantages over the intensive use of conventional weapons[13]. A key negative consequence was considered to be the removal of the "nuclear threshold," which would lead to the inevitable spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world[14] and the sharply increasing risk of their usage against American forces both in Vietnam and in other regions. The high vulnerability of large U.S. bases to such attacks and the practical impossibility of reliable protection against them were noted. The inevitability of escalation in U.S. relations with the USSR and the PRC and the unpredictability of their response, even if there is no immediate nuclear response, were also emphasized.

It is indicative that the Pentagon's planning to use nuclear weapons, begun in 1968 in the midst of heavy defensive battles against the Viet Cong ("Tet Offensive"), was stopped by U.S. President L. Johnson even before practical preparations began. Leaks also played their part, making this issue a factor in the internal political struggle in the run-up to the presidential election, as well as the likely fierce international reaction. This episode highlighted the fundamental differences between nuclear weapons and conventional weapons and the importance of maintaining political control over the possible use of nuclear weapons[15].

Similarly, the situation with the possible use of TNWs unfolded around the Falklands crisis of 1982. The British ships involved there had nuclear depth charges on board - conventional weapons against Soviet submarines that had not been unloaded before entering the South Atlantic. They could have been used against the Argentine submarines[16]. But Britain was deterred by the international political and military consequences of the use of nuclear weapons by a nuclear-weapon state against a non-nuclear state and the reaction of other nuclear-weapon states. British military commanders subsequently denied that nuclear weapons could have been used against Argentina in that war[17].

During the Operation Desert Storm (1991), the US administration's discussion of the use of nuclear weapons on the battlefield as a means of destroying Iraq's military potential, according to the testimony of C. Powell (in 1991 the head of the Joint Staff), was intended to demonstrate its military and strategic senselessness and political harmfulness to the political leadership[18].

The issue of unilateral use of TNWs was also studied in the context of the Indo-Pakistani confrontation, where the "cold start" scenario - a large-scale invasion of Pakistan by Indian general-purpose forces without the use of nuclear weapons - was considered the most probable. Pakistan's existing research on the issue has shown that using TNWs to defeat India's mechanized forces in a hypothetical invasion scenario would have military effect only if substantial (up to several hundred) quantities of warheads were used[19]. Therefore, Pakistan's use of TNWs on the battlefield is viewed by experts not as a way of gaining operational advantage, but only as a means of politico-military deterrence against further escalation to an exchange of strikes against Indian and Pakistani cities using long-range and high-yield nuclear systems.

The evolution of the vision of the role of nuclear weapons in warfare also took place in Russia. For example, the Military History textbook for students of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Combined Arms Academy [20], published in 2007, states that from the late 1970s there was a transition in practice of training troops for combat operations conducted primarily without the use of nuclear weapons. According to Colonel General A.A. Danilevich, a leading Soviet military strategist and theorist, by 1981 the Soviet Union had already adopted the doctrine of waging even a major war against NATO without using nuclear weapons[21]. One of the reasons, as noted by another prominent Soviet and Russian military theorist and historian, Army General M.A. Gareev, were the results of in-depth studies of the use of TNWs as a battlefield tool in Europe conducted in the 1970s. The results concluded that such a conflict was unmanageable and had no militarily significant effect[22].

The military way out of the "nuclear stalemate" arising from the insufficient effectiveness of TNWs on the battlefield was largely found through the development and spread of long-range precision-guided non-nuclear weapons, reconnaissance strike systems and the corresponding information and communication infrastructure, including space-based ones. Consequently, it became possible to solve effectively a number of "tactical" tasks for nuclear weapons by non-nuclear means. According to estimates by Western experts, by the early 2000s it had become possible to attack up to one-third of the targets using non-nuclear high-precision weapons, which in the 1980s were expected to be hit on the battlefield solely with nuclear weapons.

The cost and consequences of using nuclear weapons on the battlefield in a local conflict can be assessed on the basis of three components.




1.To what extent can its use ensure military victory or prevent defeat?
2.How much more effective is the use of nuclear weapons under specific conditions against a particular target than conventional weapons?
3.What are the immediate and long-term consequences of the possible use of nuclear weapons?

It can be concluded that in the overwhelming majority of cases of local conflicts between a nuclear power and a non-nuclear weapon state there are no targets in the theater of war or on the battlefield, the destruction of which by a single or a limited group strike can produce a significant military result. At the same time, the massive use of nuclear weapons or their use against strategic targets with inevitably heavy civilian casualties and radioactive contamination of terrain is unacceptable, since it leads to political, environmental, socio-economic, and moral and psychological consequences that are difficult to predict.

Thus, the most realistic form of the use of nuclear weapons in a local conflict is their possible retaliatory use in two cases. First, if the adversary is the first to use nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction. Second, if they launch an attack that calls into question the other side's nuclear deterrent capability. In a conflict between a nuclear power and a non-nuclear power, both scenarios are virtually impossible. In the case of third-party intervention - by another nuclear power - the risks of escalation to full-scale nuclear war are uncontrollable. In this case, the proportionality of the consequences will be crucial. In all other cases the negative political consequences of the use of nuclear weapons will obviously outweigh the positive military effect - which with proper consistency and competence of leadership can be achieved even without the use of nuclear weapons.

4. Military developments on the territory of Ukraine and the global context

As for the conditions of the SMO of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, it can be noted that in the theater of military operations there are no targets that would be impossible to hit with conventional weapons. Nor are there any tasks that would be unattainable without the use of nuclear weapons. At the moment there is no threat of a nuclear attack from the territory of Ukraine, which could entail preemptive use of nuclear weapons by Russia. The use of long-range precision-guided non-nuclear weapons against Ukrainian infrastructure demonstrates that the Russian armed forces have sufficient options at their disposal without crossing the "nuclear threshold".

Therefore, it can be assumed with a high degree of certainty that nuclear weapons will not be used provided that the conflict remains within the current borders and without direct involvement of other participating states on the side of Ukraine. Recently, the geographical framework has been blurred as the Armed Forces of Ukraine have attempted to attack territories that became part of the Russian Federation in 2014 and 2022 and to strike at these areas and even at entities in the Russian Federation adjacent to the former borders. As Foreign Minister S. V. Lavrov noted on September 24, 2022, "the entire territory of the Russian Federation, which is fixed and can be further fixed in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, is certainly under the full protection of the state, it is absolutely natural. All laws, doctrines, concepts, strategies of the Russian Federation apply to its entire territory" [23].

It should be remembered that the Russian Military Doctrine states that nuclear weapons can be used not just in case of "aggression with the use of conventional weapons" against the Russian Federation, but only in the case when this aggression would threaten "the very existence of the state". Such threats to the Russian Federation in connection with the conflict in Ukraine are currently not visible, in case NATO countries continue to adhere to their position - to provide military assistance to Kiev, but without their direct military involvement in the conflict.

Escalation dynamics depend on many unpredictable factors. Further expansion of the range and scale of arms and military equipment supplies from the United States and other Alliance countries to Kiev, as well as an increase in the number of foreign advisers and mercenaries in the Ukrainian forces, potentially create the danger of an uncontrolled escalation of the conflict.

Kiev's revanchist sentiments and the Ukrainian leadership's refusal to negotiate with the Russian side, motivated by domestic political reasons, combined with the desire of the United States and its allies to use the Ukrainian crisis for military and economic exhaustion of Russia, could lead to the gravest consequences. Should hostilities in Ukraine continue and increase in intensity, and even more so should NATO countries become directly involved in the conflict, the use of nuclear weapons cannot be completely ruled out. This danger can only be eliminated by seeking a political and diplomatic end to the conflict in Ukraine, the need for which has been repeatedly stated by the Russian leadership.

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[Vince]

Hello Bill and thanks.

What an incredibly great speech. Putin is undoubtly the best political leader in office in the world right now, a man with a positive vision for the whole human collective.
This has to be shared as much as possible, particularly in the west, we have to wake up for god's sake !

Thanks again for the transcription :bigsmile:.

Vincent

[Tintin]

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Meduza
Banned in Russia, every day Meduza brings you the most important news and feature stories from hundreds of sources in Russia & across the former Soviet Union. Our team includes some of Russia’s top professionals in news & reporting. We value our independence and strive to be a reliable, trusted outlet for verified, unbiased information about Russia & the former Soviet Union, as well as a source for sharp insights about one of the world’s most enigmatic regions.

https://meduza.io/en

Friendly reminder: Meduza (along with US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) was banned in Russia after RT & Sputnik were banned in the empire. A diplomatic tit for tat

Following the money trail...

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* RT investigation of Meduza's NED, Soros' Open Society Foundation, British billionaire Alan Parker's Oak Foundation (https://russian.rt.com/russia/article/898543-finansirovanie-smi-meduza-vazhnie-istorii-proekt) funding
* The Grayzone's investigation of Meduza's Swedish & UK governments (https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media/) funding
* Unz Reviews report of Meduza's CIA connections (https://www.unz.com/akarlin/rothrock-is-a-gem/)
* Khodorkovsky's funding (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/23/russian-journalists-meduza-project-latvia-kremlin-crackdown) of Meduza

With that in mind, Meduza is a good read :thumbsup:

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Bucha, Revisited

"60 Minutes" regurgitates disinformation about who committed war crimes

The Ukrainian narrative constructed by the west is built on a bodyguard of lies. And there is no lie greater than that which blames Russia for the deaths of hundreds of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha who were slaughtered by Ukrainian security forces.

Sometime during the period between 1-3 April 2022, Ukrainian security forces entered the northern Kiev suburb of Bucha. Russian forces who had occupied the town had evacuated on March 30, part of a general realignment of forces announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25. Bucha had been on the frontlines and was the scene of heavy fighting between the Russians and Ukrainians; hundreds of civilians caught up in this fighting were killed and wounded.

Russian troops were civil to the Ukrainian civilians who remained in Bucha, handing out humanitarian supplies to those in need and bartering dry goods with local vendors for fresh eggs and dairy products. When the Russians withdrew, pro-Russian civilians were encouraged to depart with them. This underscored the Russian understanding of the potential for Ukrainian reprisals against any civilian deemed to have been “cooperating/collaborating” with their forces during the period in which Russian troops occupied Bucha.

Many Ukrainians who had interacted with the Russian troops did not leave, assuming that their normal interactions with Russian soldiers, including limited commerce and the acceptance of humanitarian supplies in order to survive, did not constitute treason against the Ukrainian state.

They were wrong.

Scott Ritter will discuss this article and answer audience questions live on tonight’s episode (Oct. 21).

Shortly after Russian troops departed Bucha, Ukrainian security forces made their way into the town. Announcements were made on social media and public broadcasting warning the citizens of Bucha about “cleansing” operations targeting collaborators. In light of these announcements, many of the Ukrainians who had remained in Bucha became concerned about their fate, and began to flee toward Russian lines. They wore the white arm band, indicating that they were not a threat to the Russian troops. Many also brought with them Russian-provided rations to sustain them on their journey.

But it was too late.

Ukrainian security forces, in particular the “Safari” unit staffed by veterans of the neo-Nazi Azov Regiment, caught up with scores of these refugees while they made their way north and, in the vernacular of the Ukrainians, “cleansed” them, gunning them down on the spot, or binding their hands behind their backs before executing them in the alleyways and streets of Bucha.

The evidence of this crime was overwhelming. But the “collective West,” led by a coterie of erstwhile journalists whose function had transformed from reporters of fact-based truth to stenographers of fictional propaganda, was engaged in a larger information operation, designed to shift public opinion away from the need to seek a negotiated settlement to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, toward the sustainment of a long-term war of attrition designed to weaken Russia in the long term.

To accomplish this task, the “collective West” needed to construct an unambiguous “good versus evil” narrative which portrayed the Ukrainians as the brave defenders of democratic values such as freedom and liberty, and the Russians as rapacious thugs marauding across the Ukrainian landscape, brutalizing an innocent civilian population. This kind of unambiguous differentiation of roles was necessary in order to gain popular support for what was to come—a multi-billion-dollar infusion of financial and military aid designed to transform the Russian-Ukraine conflict into a de facto existential struggle between “good” (NATO) and “evil” (Russia).

It worked.

Bucha became the symbol around which the citizens of the “collective West” rallied, supporting not only the intervention of their leaders to undermine a viable diplomatic off-ramp from the conflict being negotiated in Istanbul between Russian and Ukrainian authorities, but also blinding them to the devastating economic consequences of the failed effort to deter and defeat Russia through sanctions. Instead of demanding that their respective leaders work to restore a semblance of economic stability at home, the citizens of the “collective West” applauded while their governments transferred tens of billions of dollars of their hard-earned treasure to sustain a government which more closely mirrored the fictional Russian thug manufactured in the imaginations of western mainstream media.

Seven months later, the “collective West” finds itself at a new inflection point. After building up over the course of the summer months a reserve corps of fresh forces trained and equipped to NATO standards, Ukraine, with the assistance of NATO intelligence, communications, logistics, and operational planning support, carried out a much-ballyhooed offensive in the direction of Kharkov and Kherson.

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By sacrificing this new NATO army (tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers were killed and wounded, and hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles lost), Ukraine was able to achieve impressive territorial gains without inflicting any meaningful damage to the Russian military. This pyrrhic “victory” led to Ukraine destroying its strategic reserve without accomplishing any meaningful military objectives. Moreover, the Russian response—consolidation of defense lines, partial mobilization of 300,000 troops, and the initiation of a strategic air campaign designed to paralyze Ukraine—has radically shifted the narrative away from “Ukraine is winning, a Russian collapse is imminent” to “a Russian victory is a defeat for NATO.”

Russia is winning.

NATO is being defeated on the battlefields of Ukraine.

Rather than accept this new reality and seek a negotiated settlement to the conflict, the “collective West” once again turns to its time-tested playbook of generating a false “good versus evil” narrative capable of motivating nations who have long ago emptied their arsenals and treasuries in support of Ukraine, and who are currently staring economic and social disaster in the face as winter approaches and the reality of the consequences of sanctioning Russian energy hits home, to once again invest good money after bad and double down on the losing bet that was, is, and forever will be Ukraine.

One of the main problems facing the so-called “journalists” who populate the western mainstream media is that even fiction writers as capable as themselves could not craft a believable narrative based upon the emerging reality that Ukraine is the living manifestation of the sickening ideology of Stepan Bandera, whose murderous ethos has infected every aspect of Ukraine’s government, military, and security services.

The other problem was that the Ukrainians were, simply put, liars.

Exhibit number one: Ukraine’s former ombudswoman for human rights, Lyudmyla Denisova.

In the aftermath of the “Bucha massacre” narrative manufactured by Ukraine and disseminated by their compliant co-conspirators in the mainstream western media, Denisova sought to sustain the moral outrage the original stories generated by releasing even more tales from the dark side. Typical of her modus operendi was the story she told to BBC, and which was picked up, unquestioningly, by other western news outlets, including Newsweek and the Washington Post, about alleged sexual violent crimes committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

“About 25 girls and women aged 14-24 were systematically raped during the occupation in the basement of one house in Bucha,” Denisova told the BBC. “Nine of them are pregnant. Russian soldiers told them they would rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man, to prevent them from having Ukrainian children.”

None of this was true, and the problem with telling a lie of such magnitude is eventually someone—even a thoroughly compromised western “journalist”—is going to want to speak directly with the victims.

There were none.

Denisova afterwards explained the reason behind her lies. “I talked about terrible things,” she told a Ukrainian newspaper, “in order to somehow push them [the west] to make the decisions that Ukraine and the Ukrainian people need.” In one particular case, Denisova noted that the Italians were “against the provision of weapons to us,” but after hearing her speak, decided “they will support Ukraine, including by the provision of weapons.”

In the aftermath of the Ukrainian reconquest of Kharkov, the Ukrainian authorities tried to create a “new Bucha” narrative, this time around the existence of mass graves in the vicinity of Izium. But this storyline soon fell apart amid growing direct evidence of Ukrainian atrocities against anyone deemed to be a “collaborator.”

Flushed with victory, the Ukrainian supporters of Stepan Bandera openly bragged about their crimes. One Ukrainian volunteer detachment commander, a member of the “Right Sector” political party, admitted his crimes to a Ukrainian journalist, who expressed no emotion upon learning about the deaths of so many of her fellow citizens. “We haven’t got time to put them in jail,” the Right Sector thug said, noting that those accused of collaborating with the Russians “just disappear…Ukraine will have to conduct a census,” he bragged, “because so many people have disappeared.”

Videos of freshly dug graves filled with the bodies of freshly executed men and women, all in civilian clothing, their hands bound behind their backs, backed up the commander’s words.

Unable to craft a narrative capable of overcoming this brutish reality, the mainstream media resorted to the age-old trick of breathing fresh life into an old story—they repackaged the lie of the original Russian sin—the alleged “massacre” of Bucha.

On October 16, CBS’s flagship news program, “60 Minutes,” broadcast a story entitled “The Lost Souls of Bucha.” Scott Pelley, the correspondent given the task of resurrecting this story, narrated a script designed to pull at the heartstrings of anyone listening.

“The town of Bucha,” he intoned, “lived in relative obscurity on the international stage until early spring when Russian occupying forces retreated from the town and left behind devastation and death that shocked the entire world. Over 27 days, Russian troops killed more than 400 civilians in the Kiev suburb. Some of the victims were discovered bound and tortured. Many were left to rot in the place where they were killed.”

Pelley had visited Bucha shortly after it was recaptured by Ukrainian security forces, and played a major role in parroting the Ukrainian narrative of “Russia bad” when it came to attributing the cause of death to hundreds of Ukrainian civilians whose bodies littered the landscape. According to “60 Minutes,” Pelley “saw the devastation firsthand and witnessed a mass grave dug behind a church in the town center,” and “vowed to return to learn more about the people who were killed and buried in that mass grave.”

Pelley’s story did just that.

There is no doubting that there were victims whose bodies were buried in Bucha.

But they weren’t killed by Russians.

They were murdered by Ukrainians.

Hopefully, this time the western audience has wised up about the truth of what is going on inside Ukraine today:

The reality of a Ukrainian government which has wrapped itself in the red and black banner of the Right Sector, replicating the murderous history of Stepan Bandera and his followers in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in every village, town, and city recaptured from the Russians.

The reality of Ukrainian paratroopers who sing the praises of Stepan Bandera upon completing their training.

The reality of Swastikas openly painted on the tanks and armored vehicles of the “Kraken Battalion” and other neo-Nazi military formations within the Ukrainian military.

The reality of the criminal nature of the Ukrainian government.

“60 Minutes” and the western media can revisit the Bucha tragedy all they want;

nothing they report will change the fact that the bodies seen lying in the street were killed by the Bandera-worshipping murderers of the “Safari” battalion, on the

orders of Ukrainian government officials. Nothing can change the fact that these same Ukrainian officials, from President Zelensky on down, deliberately lied about Bucha for the sole purpose of generating western outrage sufficient to fuel the Ukrainian economy and military with tens of billions of dollars’ worth of aid.

And nothing can change the reality that all this investment has been in a losing cause.

Russia is winning.

Russia will win.

And repeating the lies of Bucha will not change that reality.










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https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/12/scott-ritter-pipelines-v-usa/

SCOTT RITTER: Pipelines v. USA

Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.

Circumstantial evidence, just like direct proof, can be used to prove the elements of a crime, the existence or completion of certain acts and the intent or mental state of a defendant. Generally speaking, a prosecutor, to obtain a conviction, needs to show beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant committed a certain act and that the defendant acted with specific intent.

Nord Stream 1 is a multi-national project operated by Swiss-based Nord Stream AG intended to supply some 55 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian natural gas annually to Europe by directly transporting it from Russia, through twin 1,224 kilometer-long pipelines laid beneath the Baltic Sea, to a German hub, from which the gas would be distributed to other European consumers.

The first of the twin pipelines was completed in June 2011 and began supplying gas in November 2011. The second was completed in April 2012 and began supplying gas in October 2012. Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, owns 51 percent interest in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline project.

Nord Stream 2 is a near clone of the Nord Stream 1 project, consisting of twin 1,220-kilometer pipelines laid beneath the Baltic Sea connecting Russia to Germany. Started in 2018, it was completed in September 2021. Like Nord Stream 1, the Nord Stream 2 is designed to deliver approximately 55 bcm of natural gas from Russia to Europe through Germany. Nord Stream 2, like Nord Stream 1, is operated by a multinational company in which Gazprom has 51 percent ownership.

Unlike Nord Stream 1, Nord Stream 2 was never allowed to begin supplying gas.

The rest is here,

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/12/scott-ritter-pipelines-v-usa/

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Warsaw to demand WWII reparations from Russia

Warsaw intends to calculate damages caused to the country by the USSR during World War II in a process similar to that which preceded a demand for compensation from Germany, the Polish Foreign Ministry has said.

The research effort was mentioned in a statement on Friday, which provided a breakdown of Polish claims formally sent to Berlin earlier this month.

Senior officials in the country had previously argued that both Russia and Germany should pay compensation to Poland, with President Andrzej Duda making a case for this in an interview last month.

“Germany started World War II and attacked Poland. Of course, Russia joined this war later on and so, in my view, we should demand reparations also from Russia,” he said. “I don’t see any reasons why we shouldn’t demand this.”

The idea is hardly new for Polish conservative politicians. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, told German tabloid Bild in 2020 that “Russia will also have to pay” compensation when discussing Polish claims against Berlin. He said he didn’t expect money from Moscow anytime soon, but stressed that Warsaw’s grudge had “no expiration date.”

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Poland insists that it was never properly reimbursed for damage suffered at the hands of Nazi Germany and only agreed to waive reparation claims in the 1950s due to pressure by Moscow.

It also says Moscow is liable because the Soviet leadership sent troops into Poland shortly after the Nazis did in September 1945. Russia argues that the order was given after the Polish government fell, before the Nazi onslaught, and that the decision helped save lives in eastern Poland. The USSR also invested heavily in rebuilding Poland after the war and otherwise helped the country.

The German government reiterated this week that it considered the “question of reparations” for Poland closed, after Warsaw said last month that it wanted €1.3 trillion from Berlin.

The note issued on Friday outlined other things that Warsaw is seeking from Berlin as compensation, such as official status as a national minority for Germany’s ethnic Polish community, complete with certain benefits.

The Russian stance is likewise uncompromising. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov joked that if Moscow adopted the same approach as Warsaw, it could look into the Polish invasion of Russia during its Time of Troubles in the late 16th and early 17th century as a ground for claims of its own.

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Russia puts governor’s son arrested in EU on wanted list

A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of Artem Uss, the son of Alexander Uss the governor of the Russian region of Krasnoyarsk. According to court files, the ruling was made in absentia, and he was placed on a wanted list.

Uss was detained in Italy last week at the request of the US for alleged involvement in helping Moscow evade Western sanctions.

Artem Uss was charged with large-scale money laundering as part of an organized criminal group. The maximum penalty for such an offense is seven years in prison.

Uss has also been added to the database of wanted people on the Russian interior ministry’s website.

Moscow can now demand his extradition from Italy as the 40-year-old had refused to be transferred to the US.

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US authorities earlier announced that charges had been brought against Uss and four other Russian nationals. It’s claimed they were part of a group that purchased “advanced semiconductors and microprocessors used in fighter aircraft, missile systems, smart munitions, radar, and satellites” and then sold them to sanctioned Russian entities via a German-based shell company.

According to the US, the equipment had made it into the hands of the Russian defense industry and was allegedly later found in Russian hardware that had been abandoned in Ukraine.

Uss and his associates have also been accused of smuggling hundreds of millions of barrels of sanctioned oil from Venezuela to customers in China and Russia, including to an aluminum tycoon blacklisted by Washington.

Reacting to his son’s arrest and the charges, governor Alexander Uss said that “political overtones are obvious in these accusations.” He pointed out that the goods were freely bought and sold all over the world, and the US had problems with it “simply because it is being done for the benefit of Russia.”

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Russia reveals key mobilization numbers

Russia’s partial mobilization has been completed, with 300,000 reservists drafted as planned, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Friday, providing new details about the effort. The draft was announced in September amid Moscow’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine.

“The dispatch of citizens conscripted for mobilization was completed today,” Shoigu told Putin. “Citizen notification has been discontinued. The task set by you – 300,000 people – has been fulfilled.

“No additional tasks are planned. Military commissariats within the framework of the special military operation will continue to replenish the troops only by accepting volunteers and candidates for military service under the contract,” he said.

“13,000 citizens, without waiting for summonses, expressed a desire to fulfill their duty and were sent to join the troops as volunteers,” the minister added.

Shoigu noted that more than 1,300 representatives of executive authorities at various levels, as well as more than 27,000 entrepreneurs, were drafted into the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Sergey Poletaev: As winter approaches, both Russia and Ukraine bulk up their forces in preparation for decisive battles
Sergey Poletaev: As winter approaches, both Russia and Ukraine bulk up their forces in preparation for decisive battles
According to the defense minister, 82,000 mobilized troops were sent to the conflict zone. Another 218,000 draftees are getting ready for combat duty at training centers and at training grounds.

The average age of the reservists called up as part of the mobilization was 35, he revealed.

Shoigu also acknowledged problems with the equipment for conscripts, however, explaining that these were experienced only at the initial stage and have already been resolved. Putin, in turn, noted that difficulties were inevitable, since mobilization had not occurred for a long time.

Partial mobilization in Russia was announced on September 21. In the disclosed part of the presidential decree, no data was provided on how many people were planned to be drafted. Shoigu said that 300,000 would be conscripted. The partial mobilization will officially end when Putin signs the relevant decree.

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SCOTT RITTER ON THE END OF AMERICAN HEGEMONY; POLAND BECOMING A BUMPER STATE; BEING BACK ON TWITTER.

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Putin emphasizes only well-trained reservists should be sent to front line

At Putin’s request, the defense chief specified that currently 218,000 out of 300,000 mobilized reservists "are undergoing training and practicing interoperability at practice ranges" and 82,000 men were operating in the area of the special military operation in Ukraine

NOVO-OGAROVO, October 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu that only well-trained mobilized reservists should be sent to the front line in the special military operation in Ukraine.

"Actually speaking, 41,000 [fighters] are operating as part of combat units while all the rest are still undergoing combat training in one way or another," Putin said, after listening to the defense chief’s report.

The defense chief answered in the affirmative. "Yes. We are paying special attention to that. This is because it is necessary to send only well-trained and well-equipped fighters," Shoigu told the head of state.

Putin agreed with Shoigu, after listening to the defense chief’s report. "Excellent," Putin said. "I absolutely agree. This is how this should be done," the Russian leader said.

At Putin’s request, the defense chief specified that currently 218,000 out of 300,000 mobilized reservists "are undergoing training and practicing interoperability at practice ranges" and 82,000 men were operating in the area of the special military operation in Ukraine.

"Of these 82,000 [fighters], 41,000 men are operating as part of troop units," Shoigu said.

The defense chief reported to the head of state that 300,000 men had been called up in Russia for the special military operation. Therefore, the mobilization assignment had been fulfilled and no additional assignments were planned. Russian troops will be further augmented only through volunteers and applicants for military service under contract, Shoigu said.

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[Bill Ryan]

Hello Bill and thanks.

What an incredibly great speech. Putin is undoubtly the best political leader in office in the world right now, a man with a positive vision for the whole human collective.
This has to be shared as much as possible, particularly in the west, we have to wake up for god's sake !

Thanks again for the transcription :bigsmile:.

Vincent

Here's Alexander Mercouris with a detailed analysis of what was indeed a great speech. (Another one!)

(The whole transcript is in record in my post #6165 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1524884&viewfull=1#post1524884).)

After his regular daily summary of military events on the ground, Mercouris begins discussing Putin's presentation at 14:32.

Putin Rejects Globalism, Fair World System, Warns of Great Dangers Ahead


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Here's Alexander Mercouris with a detailed analysis of what was indeed a great speech. (Another one!)



It really was - there is no one articulating the complexities of the world stage currently than Putin - on the world stage....

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[Bill Ryan]

Here's Alexander Mercouris with a detailed analysis of what was indeed a great speech. (Another one!)



It really was - there is no one articulating the complexities of the world stage currently than Putin - on the world stage....

Well, he's the new leader of the Free World.

Few anywhere might dare say that, but most of the world's population, represented by a majority of nations in the global south and east, would quietly and strongly agree.

There's no politician I know of in the collective west who would be anywhere near capable of making a speech like that. (Tulsi Gabbard, just maybe, but this isn't her style at all and while she's very articulate, she'd have to have most of it written for her.)

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At the US Embassy in Moscow a projection dedicated to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 60 years ago, it also says in the projection, “Get the Heil out of Ukraine”


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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A group of protesters confronted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly at an event in Montreal on Friday to demand an end to the US involvement in the Ukraine conflict.



The incident occurred when the two ministers were meeting with an organization supporting Syrian refugees.

Protesters can be heard shouting "No foreign military intervention in Ukraine," "Yankee go home," and "We want nothing to do with your war-mongering, Secretary Blinken," according to videos from social media.



They also said: "We do not want you." One of the demonstrators carried a hand-written banner "United States = Terrorist State."
Both Blinken and Joly were in no danger, but had to relocate their scheduled remarks to the press, according to media reports.


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I am not in favor of posting videos showing live fighting in the Ukraine but I know of at least 2 videos that show
how RF forces captured and/or inspected 2 Dutch YPR vehicles. I am not in the Netherlands myself and do
not daily read, or listen to, MSM news. But maybe some Dutchies here can confirm:

To my knowledge the Netherlands never 'officially' sent armored personnel carriers over there.
There was already a fuzz over sending Stinger missiles and launchers ...

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Wow. Absolutely massive protest in Prague, Czech Republic today demanding an end to anti-Russia sanctions.
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[norman]

From a military air assets perspective Syria is quite busy. I've recently been making a point of watching every video MonkeyWorx makes. He tracks all the military air assets he can. That's surely not all of them, but it's a lot.

Of particular interest to me, has been the US and British signals intelligence gathering aircraft. They are predictably busy making flights out of UK and Germany to regularly fly over the Moldova and Poland borders and less regularly over various other parts of the Ukraine theatre.

From the same MonkeyWorx videos it's clear that the second 'hottest' area of activity for that classification of air assets, as well of the similarly distributed heavy-lift aircraft, is SYRIA. SIGINT flights go direct from UK and Germany to Syria, fly border routs and other courses and return to base, every day. It's so busy there that it's almost as if Syria was on the border of Ukraine.

That's a heads up for anyone who is into scanning the cyber chatter. There are some military flight tracks between Russia and both Syria and Saudi Arabia.

In yesterday's UK column, too, there was a section about activities in Syria. The main message seems to be that Israel is becoming increasingly desperate in the region.

UK Column News Podcast 28th October 2022 (https://podbay.fm/p/uk-column-podcasts/e/1666964044?t=3227)

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have not had time to keep up here - maybe posted?

https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/final-draft-on-us-biological-activity

Final Draft on US Biological Activity in Ukraine Presented to UNSC

Clandestine

MASSIVE statements from Russian Permanent Representative to the the UN pertaining to the US Biolabs in Ukraine. It appears that a formal investigation is inevitable.

Today United Nations Security Council (UNSC) carried out debate on the possible enactment of Article VI of the Biological Weapons Convention, which would be an investigation into the United States and their Biolabs in Ukraine.

Russia presented their final draft to the the UNSC today, covering all of the evidence compiled in their dossier, and it is currently being reviewed by experts from the various nations. The contents of the dossier include the evidence presented over the course of the past 8 months.

I highly recommend everyone read the full statement here (https://russiaun.ru/en/news/271022_nb).1 These allegations are historic. Hunter Biden’s Metabiota, Black and Veatch, negligence of deadly pathogens, drones equipped with aerosol canisters to disperse airborne water particles containing pathogens, aerial release of infected mosquito armies, all of it.

All of the allegations brought forth over the past 8 months via the Special Military Operation in Ukraine are in the draft. These allegations are not new for those who have been paying attention, this is just an accumulation of all the evidence being presented at once. It’s a great review and complete of the exact crimes alleged.

However, something that is new, is the timeline. Russia had some interesting comments pertaining to when they expect some progress via a “relevant report” from the UNSC and their commission “no later than November 30, 2022”. The same time as the Ninth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Treaty.



“We expect that the commission would manage to clarify all circumstances of Washington and Kiev’s possible non-compliance with their obligations under the BTWC in the context of biolaboratories’ activities in the Ukrainian territory with a view to stimulate the American and Ukrainian sides to remedy the outstanding intolerable situation. We also expect that the commission would present a relevant report on the issue containing recommendations to the Council no later than November 30, 2022 and inform the BTWC states-parties of the results of the investigation at the Ninth Review Conference to be held in Geneva on November 28 - December 16, 2022.

Russia will articulate its further approach to ensuring national, regional, and global biological security depending on the results of the consideration of our complaint and the draft UNSC resolution. The outcomes of this work will also define our position with regard to the strengthening of the BTWC and resolving the situation with violations of the BTWC by the US and Ukraine in the context of the activity of US biolabs on the Ukrainian territory.”


In conclusion, Russia have proposed these allegations via the proper diplomatic channels, presented their case in a convincing and consistent manner, conducted themselves with transparency, while the US/NATO have simply cried “disinformation” the entire time.

This performance has generated a lot of global support for Russia and generated doubts about the US and the West. Not only is the leadership of the US under scrutiny, they are alleged of the most severe crimes against humanity known to international law.

I don’t know how it will unfold, but this is the highest diplomatic channel on the planet, and if it works as it is supposed to, the top Deep State players will soon be under international investigation for violating the Biological Weapons Treaty. If found guilty, the response would be international military tribunals.

When the sheep are made fully aware of this, this will be an extinction level event for the DNC and thus the Deep State.

-Clandestine

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https://www.rt.com/russia/565581-ukrainian-drone-uk-crimea/

Russian military reveals details of Ukrainian drone attack in Crimea

The unsuccessful Ukrainian attack on the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea early on Saturday involved nine aerial and seven naval drones, Russia’s defense ministry has said.

The “terrorist attack,” which targeted the vessels of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships docked in the city began around 4.20am local time, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

It added that the Russian Navy ships had been involved in providing security for the “grain corridor,” which was set up to allow exports of Ukrainian food products from the Black Sea ports in line with a deal reached between Moscow and Kiev with UN and Turkish mediation in the summer.

All of the incoming drones were shot down by Russian warships and naval aviation in the bay of Sevastopol, the ministry said.

According to the statement, the attack resulted in minor damage to the trawler vessel ‘Ivan Golubets’ and to the net boom barrier in the bay.

Major Ukrainian drone attack in Crimea repelled – governor
Major Ukrainian drone attack in Crimea repelled – governor
“The preparation of this terrorist act and training of the military personnel of the Ukrainian 73rd Special Center for Maritime Operations had been carried out under the supervision of the British experts, based in the city of Ochakov in Ukraine’s Nikolaev Region,” the ministry said.

Information obtained by the Russian military suggests that the same unit of the Royal Navy took part in planning, supplying and carrying out the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea on September 26, the statement read.

Earlier on Saturday, Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev said it was the largest Ukrainian drone attack on the city since the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in late February.

Located in Crimea, which became part of Russia after a referendum in 2014, Sevastopol has been designated as a federal city by Moscow due to its strategic importance and status as the base of Russia’s Black Fleet. The key port has frequently been the target of drone attacks by Ukraine during the conflict.

READ MORE: British navy involved in Nord Stream 2 'terrorist attack' – Russia
In July, six people were injured after a UAV crashed into the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters in Sevastopol. The attack took place on Russia’s Navy Day and led to the cancellation of celebrations in the city. Another UAV hit the roof of the HQ in August, but failed to cause any significant damage.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/565548-armenia-azerbaijan-russia-plan/

Armenia ready to implement Russia’s peace plan – PM

Armenia is ready to work on establishing relations with its rival and neighbor, Azerbaijan, based on principles proposed by Moscow, Prime Minister Nicol Pashinyan revealed on Friday. A trilateral summit involving the countries will be held in the Russian city of Sochi next week, the Kremlin announced.

Pashinyan said in a tweet that Yerevan was prepared to confirm its stance during the negotiations in Sochi on Monday.

The upcoming talks will focus on fostering stability and security in the Transcaucasus. Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, and the Armenian PM will also discuss the implementation of trilateral agreements signed earlier, in 2020 and 2021. The Kremlin has confirmed that the summit was initiated by Moscow.

“Honestly, I want [the peace agreement] to be signed by the end of the year,” Pashinyan claimed, as cited by Russian news agency TASS, adding that the government would do everything it can for this plan to be “realistic.”

Earlier on Friday, speaking at the extraordinary session of the Collective Security Treaty Organization via video link, Putin stated that Russia “cannot stand aside from problems” and tensions between Yerevan and Baku. Moscow is always ready to support their “peaceful settlement.”

Armenia and Azerbaijan have historically been at odds over numerous issues, with the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, de jure Azerbaijan, populated by ethnic Armenians, being the key one. In 2020, the two nations fought a 44-day war over the territory, which ended with a Russian-brokered truce, ceding to Baku some areas previously controlled by Armenian-backed troops and the deployment of Russian peacekeepers to observe the agreement.

Tensions on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border escalated again in September this year, when dozens of people, both civilian and military personnel, were reportedly killed, with the parties of the conflict blaming the violence on each other.

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https://southfront.org/terrorist-kiev-regime-continues-killing-civilians-in-regions-it-lost/

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Kiev carried out terrorist attack on Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol - ministry

British experts prepared Ukrainian military for the terrorist attack in Sevastopol, the Russian Ministry of Defense told

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. The Kiev regime carried out a terrorist attack on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships in Sevastopol, using drones, the Russian Ministry of Defense told reporters on Saturday.

"Today at 04:20 am, the Kiev regime carried out a terrorist attack on ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships," the ministry said.

According to the statement, nine drones and seven autonomous marine unmanned vehicles were involved in the attack. "All air targets were destroyed," the ministry said.

The Black Sea Fleet ships that were attacked earlier on Saturday were involved in ensuring the security of the grain corridor used to export agricultural goods from Ukrainian ports. "The Black Sea Fleet ships that were the target of the terrorist attack are involved in ensuring the safety of the grain corridor within the international initiative to export agricultural products from Ukrainian ports," the Defense Ministry said.

According to the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the use of drones in the waters of the Sevastopol Bay on Saturday was the most massive offensive since the beginning of the special operation. "Today we witnessed the most massive attack by UAVs and remote-controlled surface drones in the waters of the Sevastopol Bay in the history [of the special military operation]," Razvozhaev said. He noted that all broadcasts from CCTV cameras in Sevastopol that were previously available to civilians will be closed.

British experts

Experts from the UK Royal Navy, who were preparing military personnel of Ukraine’s 73rd Maritime Special Operations Center for the recent terrorist attack in Sevastopol, were also involved in the Nord Stream gas pipelines sabotage.

"According to the information available to us, representatives of the UK Navy participated in planning, supporting, and executing the terrorist act in the Baltic Sea on September 26 in order to disrupt the Nord Stream and the Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines," the statement said.

According to the ministry, British experts also prepared Ukrainian military for the terrorist attack in Sevastopol. "The preparation of this terrorist act and the training of military personnel of the Ukrainian 73rd Maritime Special Operations Center were carried out under the guidance of British specialists located in the city of Ochakov, Nikolaev region," the department said.

The Ministry reported earlier on Saturday that Ukraine carried out a terrorist attack on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships in Sevastopol, using drones. "Today at 04:20 am, the Kiev regime carried out a terrorist attack on ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships," the ministry said.

According to the statement, nine drones and seven autonomous marine unmanned vehicles were involved in the attack, all air targets were destroyed.







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Western countries request UNSC meeting to discuss Ryanair incident on Oct 31

The delegations are convening an UNSC meeting on October 31, the source said

UNITED NATIONS, October 29. /TASS/. Western delegations have requested a United Nations Security Council meeting on October 31 to discuss the 2021 Ryanair flight incident, a UN source told TASS.

"The delegations are convening an UNSC meeting [on October 31]," the source said.

On May 23, 2021, a Vilnius-bound Ryanair flight that took off from Athens was forced to make an emergency landing in the Belarusian capital of Minsk after a reported bomb threat. The bomb threat came up empty after the aircraft had landed. The Belarusian authorities specified later that Roman Protasevich, wanted in Belarus as a co-founder of the Nexta Telegram channel, which the Belarusian authorities recognized as extremist, had been among the flight’s passengers. He was detained by Belarusian law enforcement agents together with Russian national Sofia Sapega. Following the incident, the European Union barred Belarusian air companies from operating flights to EU airports and using the European Union’s airspace, and recommended that European air carriers should avoid Belarusian airspace.

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Russian envoy calls on Washington to return nuclear weapons back to US territory

In these times of tensions and increased risks, nuclear states have a special responsibility to prevent escalation, Anatoly Antonov said

WASHINGTON, October 29. /TASS/. Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov has called on Washington to return the nuclear weapons that it deployed to other countries back to the US

"In these times of tensions and increased risks, nuclear states have a special responsibility to prevent escalation. That said, I once again call on Washington to return all the nuclear weapons deployed overseas back to its national territory, eliminate overseas infrastructure for their storage and maintenance, and to abandon the practice of simulating the use of such weapons involving troops from non-nuclear countries as part of NATO’s ‘joint nuclear missions’, which run counter to the basic principles of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," the envoy said, commenting on a Politico article saying that the US would speed up plans to store upgraded B61-12 air-dropped gravity bombs in Europe.

"Administration officials traditionally refer to these weapons as tactical ones and argue that Russia’s arsenal of similar weapons is several times larger than the US one. However, they don’t reveal the fact that all our tactical nuclear weapons are stored in centralized facilities in Russia and cannot pose a threat to the United States," Antonov emphasized. "As for US air-dropped bombs, they are deployed to European countries with short flight times to Russia’s border. This is why B61-12 bombs have strategic importance despite their limited capacity," he noted.

"Moreover, the US Armed Forces, together with NATO partners, regularly hold drills practicing the use of these weapons. Such training is currently taking place as part of the Steadfast Noon exercise. The North Atlantic alliance’s leadership claims that the activity is not targeted against Russia. The question is then who is it that the alliance is practicing using nuclear weapons against if it is our country that is described as the ‘most significant and direct threat’ to security in its strategic concept?" the Russian ambassador added.

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Russian MoD: UK Royal Navy Officials Involved in Nord Stream Terrorist Act

Moscow classifies the Nord Stream pipeline blasts as acts of international terrorism, as Denmark and Sweden bar Russia from probing the incidents. The Russian Foreign Ministry underscores that the investigation can be considered reliable and objective only if Moscow participates in it.



The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has stated that UK Royal Navy officials took part in the planning and implementation of a terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline network in the Baltic Sea on September 26.
"According to the obtained data, the UK Navy representatives took part in planning, organizing and carrying out the terrorist act in the Baltic Sea on September 26, 2022 to blow up the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines," the MoD said in a statement on Saturday.

Moscow Won't Recognize Nord Stream Sabotage Probe Unless Russia's Participation Allowed

In late September, the suspected explosions occurred at three of the four strings of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 underwater pipelines, built to carry a combined annual 110 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe under the Baltic Sea.
The bombing halted gas deliveries to Germany ahead of the cold season, prompting a gas price hike and a scramble for alternative sources of fuel in the European Union.
The Swedish and Danish authorities suspect that the incident was the result of sabotage, with both countries barring Russia from investigating the attack.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office classified the pipeline blasts as acts of international terrorism. According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, the investigation of terrorist attacks can only be considered reliable and objective if Moscow takes part in the probe.
The operator company Nord Stream AG later said that the damage to the pipeline system is unprecedented, while Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that it was a deliberate assault on Europe's energy infrastructure, hinting that the US and Britain could be responsible for the blasts.

A joint venture by the Russian energy giant Gazprom and four Western European energy companies, Nord Stream 2, is a 1,230 km twin gas pipeline along the bottom of the Baltic Sea which complements the existing Nord Stream 1 network.
Construction on Nord Stream 2 was completed in September 2021 but Germany delayed its operational certification and halted the process indefinitely in February, shortly before Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine.

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Ukrainian Armed Forces launch missile attack near Kherson River Port

Three HIMARS rockets were shot down

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired three rockets using HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, according to the emergency services.

"Three HIMARS rockets were shot down in the area of the river port, there were no casualties," the statement said.

The Ministry reported earlier on Saturday that Ukraine carried out a terrorist attack on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships in Sevastopol, using drones. According to the statement, nine drones and seven autonomous marine unmanned vehicles were involved in the attack, all air targets were destroyed.

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Ukrainian troops tried to land in area around Zaporozhye NPP

According to Vladimir Rogov, employees of the Zaporozhye NPP constantly receive threats from the Ukrainian side

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. /TASS/. On Saturday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to land troops in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, chairman of the ‘We Are Together with Russia’ movement Vladimir Rogov said on Saturday.

"Early in the morning, according to eyewitnesses, militants of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky attempted to land troops in the vicinity of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Energodar," he wrote in his Telegram channel.

According to him, employees of the Zaporozhye NPP constantly receive threats from the Ukrainian side.


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Suspected attacker on Kherson police department detained - emergency services

"When questioned, the detainee confessed that he had been preparing a terrorist attack following orders from the Ukrainian Security Service," they said
KHERSON, October 29. /TASS/. A suspected attacker on the Dneprovskoye police department in Kherson has been detained, the man confessed that he had been plotting the attack on orders from the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), the emergency services told reporters on Saturday.

"A suspect in a terrorist act outside the Dneprovskoye police department in Kherson has been apprehended during the reconnaissance and search operations in the Genichesk district," the service said. "When questioned, the detainee confessed that he had been preparing a terrorist attack following orders from the Ukrainian Security Service," they said.

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DPR head announces exchange of 50 captives with Ukraine

Meanwhile, 50 of our servicemen gain their freedom
DONETSK, October 50. /TASS/. Acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin announced that an exchange of prisoners with Ukraine under a 50 for 50 formula takes place on Saturday.

"An exchange under a 50 for 50 formula takes place today. We mostly return military personnel to Kiev. Meanwhile, 50 of our servicemen gain their freedom," he said on his Telegram channel.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/565582-russia-ukraine-pow-swap/

Moscow and Kiev reveal new prisoner swap numbers


Moscow and Kiev have conducted a prisoner swap in which 50 Russian soldiers were released, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday.

The returned soldiers will be airlifted to the Russian capital for medical treatment, the ministry said in a statement, adding that “their lives had been in danger during captivity.”

The acting head of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, wrote on his Telegram channel that the exchange was conducted on a ‘50-for-50’ basis.

“We are mostly handing over Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel,” Pushilin said.

“Fifty of our fighters are being freed, including seven people from the Donetsk People’s Republic and two from the Lugansk People’s Republic. We are waiting for guys to return home,” he wrote.

Russian official announces new prisoner swap with Ukraine
Russian official announces new prisoner swap with Ukraine
Andrey Yermak, the head of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s office, wrote on Telegram that 52 Ukrainians were released. He said that among them are 12 national guardsmen, 18 navy personnel, eight border guards, nine members of the volunteer Territorial Defense Force, three soldiers, and two civilians.

“We will not stop and continue to implement the president’s task of bringing all Ukrainians home,” Yermak stated.

Prisoner swaps have been occurring despite the absence of a ceasefire and months without meaningful peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

Last week, Moscow freed 108 Ukrainian female soldiers in exchange for 110 Russians, many of whom were civilian sailors.

Another major swap took place last month, when 55 Russian and Donbass fighters were released, as well as Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, who was charged with treason in Kiev. At the same time, more than 215 soldiers were handed over to Ukraine, according to President Vladimir Zelensky. They included more than 100 members of the Azov Battalion, whose ranks include fighters with openly nationalist and neo-Nazi views.

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Pentagon Vows To ‘Nuke Russia’ if They Continue War Against Ukraine

The Pentagon has issued a stark warning to Russia: stop the war in Ukraine or face nuclear war with America.

As Bloomberg reports, the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates citing mounting threats from Russia and China.

“By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries,” the Defense Department said in the long-awaited document issued Thursday.

In response, the US will “maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment” without ruling out using nukes in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.

Summit.news reports: In yet another stark reversal for the senile occupant of the White House basement, in his 2020 presidential campaign Biden had pledged to declare that the US nuclear arsenal should be used only to deter or retaliate against a nuclear attack, a position blessed by progressive Democrats and reviled by defense hawks. But, like with every other position held by the pathological liar who even trumps Trump in the untruth department, this one has just been reversed as well as “the threat environment has changed dramatically since then” and the Pentagon strategy was forged in cooperation with the flip-flopping White House.

In a stunning move that should – or rather “should” – spark outrage among the so-called progressives but will at best prompt some very sternly retracted letters, the nuclear report that’s part of the broader strategy said the Biden administration reviewed its nuclear policy and concluded that “No First Use” and “Sole Purpose” policies “would result in an unacceptable level of risk in light of the range of non-nuclear capabilities being developed and fielded by competitors that could inflict strategic-level damage” to the US and allies.

The nuclear strategy document doesn’t spell out what non-nuclear threats could produce a US nuclear response, but current threats include hypersonic weapons possessed by Russia and China for which the US doesn’t yet have a proven defense.

continue: https://newspunch.com/pentagon-vows-to-nuke-russia-if-they-continue-war-against-ukraine (https://newspunch.com/pentagon-vows-to-nuke-russia-if-they-continue-war-against-ukraine/)

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Russia works on measures regarding UK’s involvement in Black Sea terrorist attack - MFA

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. The Russian Foreign Ministry, alongside national specialized agencies, is working on practical measures concerning the involvement of British specialists in plotting the terrorist attack on Sevastopol, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Saturday.

"The Russian Foreign Ministry alongside the Russian specialized agencies is considering practical steps regarding British specialists’ involvement in the preparations for the terrorist attack in the Black Sea on October 29 and the training of the Ukrainian military, as stated by the Russian Defense Ministry," the diplomat said.

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Russian FM Lavrov Expresses Condolences Over Death of Journalist Svetlana Babayeva in Crimea

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed condolences on Saturday over the death of Svetlana Babayeva, who was a Russian journalist and the head of the regional department of the Rossiya Segodnya international media group in Simferopol.


Babayeva died on Friday in an accident at one of the training grounds in Crimea, where she was exercising military sports shooting.
"We are shocked by the tragic death of the head of the Rossiya Sedognya's regional department in Crimea, journalist and political analyst, Svetlana Babayeva, with whom we have been connected for many years of joint work. She did not only cover the history of the establishment of 'New Russia', experiencing this historic era, but also was creating it herself," the minister said in a letter to Babyeva's family and friends and to the media group's staff.
The foreign minister called Babayeva "a real professional and a true friend."

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Grain corridor used as shield to attack Sevastopol – Nebenzya’s letter


The Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN noted that the ships and port infrastructure of Sevastopol, which were attacked, were used to ensure the operation of the humanitarian corridor

UNITED NATIONS, October 29. /TASS/. The safety corridor established for Ukrainian food exports was used as a cover to attack Sevastopol, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said in a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Saturday, as Russia suspends its participation in the agreements.

"The attack was shielded by safety corridors designated for implementation of the so-called ‘Black Sea Initiative’," the letter said, adding that the ships and Sevastopol’s port infrastructure were used for the functioning of the mentioned humanitarian route.

According to the letter, following the Ukrainian attack on the Black Sea Fleet ships, Russia "cannot guarantee safety of civilian ships" sailing under the ‘Black Sea Grain Initiative’.

"Starting as of today, the Russian side suspends the Initiative for an indefinite term," the letter said adding, "Relevant instructions were given to Russian representatives at the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul.".

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[pounamuknight]

After the empire's failed terrorist bombing of Russian ships delivering food to the world

https://mobile.twitter.com/RT_com/status/1586347918591680513
Russia throws its arms in the air, exasperated. "Stuff this. If the agreement to protect delivery routes is not respected, we're out"

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Empire's Kyiv finger-puppet reacts and points at Moscow. "See, see! Evil Russia are starving da world!!"

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Russia responds. "Hello, Multipolar World. Room service!"

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[Bill Ryan]

Pentagon Vows To ‘Nuke Russia’ if They Continue War Against Ukraine

The Pentagon has issued a stark warning to Russia: stop the war in Ukraine or face nuclear war with America.

As Bloomberg reports, the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates citing mounting threats from Russia and China.

“By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries,” the Defense Department said in the long-awaited document issued Thursday.

In response, the US will “maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment” without ruling out using nukes in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.

Summit.news reports: In yet another stark reversal for the senile occupant of the White House basement, in his 2020 presidential campaign Biden had pledged to declare that the US nuclear arsenal should be used only to deter or retaliate against a nuclear attack, a position blessed by progressive Democrats and reviled by defense hawks. But, like with every other position held by the pathological liar who even trumps Trump in the untruth department, this one has just been reversed as well as “the threat environment has changed dramatically since then” and the Pentagon strategy was forged in cooperation with the flip-flopping White House.

In a stunning move that should – or rather “should” – spark outrage among the so-called progressives but will at best prompt some very sternly retracted letters, the nuclear report that’s part of the broader strategy said the Biden administration reviewed its nuclear policy and concluded that “No First Use” and “Sole Purpose” policies “would result in an unacceptable level of risk in light of the range of non-nuclear capabilities being developed and fielded by competitors that could inflict strategic-level damage” to the US and allies.

The nuclear strategy document doesn’t spell out what non-nuclear threats could produce a US nuclear response, but current threats include hypersonic weapons possessed by Russia and China for which the US doesn’t yet have a proven defense.

continue: https://newspunch.com/pentagon-vows-to-nuke-russia-if-they-continue-war-against-ukraine (https://newspunch.com/pentagon-vows-to-nuke-russia-if-they-continue-war-against-ukraine/)

Just a note here. :)

The headline in the above article is a gross, dramatic distortion — but the essence of this is real. A better article might be this one, from Zero Hedge:

In Stunning Strategy Reversal, Pentagon Will No Longer Rule Out Use Of Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Threat

https://zerohedge.com/markets/stunning-strategy-reversal-pentagon-will-no-longer-rule-out-use-nuclear-weapons-against-non

[JackMcThorn]

— but the essence of this is real.


It's not the america I grew up with. An absolute shame. They could make their own off-ramp. How could Echelon who once was so sharp become so dull?

It's been just over 4 years since I left america and I have no regrets. I wouldn't want to broadcast that I was american, but sharp folks guess it quite easily as a lot of americans typically visit the emerald isle.

Every day we are closer to the real WWIII. Every day, another escalation over nonsense and further targeting emotions rather than logic. It's sad really.

I hope Avalonians are far enough away from this nonsense and are doing okay.

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[Bill Ryan]

Skimming through the Telegram reports posted overnight US time, it's clear that there has been an exceptionally heavy barrage of new Russian missile strikes, way too many to report on in detail. Here's just one summary:

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[Bill Ryan]

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[Vicus]

Russian Missiles Hit British Operations Center in Ukraine

The Russian Army has struck the base of the Ukrainian Navy in Ochachiv, a city in the Nikolaev Region, with missiles. This particular strike took out the Communications Center and Intelligence Department of the British Naval Operations Service.

We are told by sources in Ukraine that at least one Russian precision missile hit at the actual window sill of the Base Commander Office!

Said one knowledgeable source "Britain is responsible for the Kerch bridge attack, the NS1 and NS2 sabotage, sinking the cruiser Moskva and also for yesterdays attack on the Sevastopol Crimea naval base. If you are in UK, I would start thinking to move out. You not gonna like whats gonna happen next...."


https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russian-missiles-hit-british-operations-center-in-ukraine

[Ravenlocke]

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Ukrainian manpower losses rise nearly twofold week over week to 2,500 men

From October 17 to 23, the Ukrainian forces suffered its heaviest losses in terms of manpower and equipment on the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog front, as opposed to last week when the heaviest losses were reported in the Kupyansk direction

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/. The Russian armed forces wiped out over 2,500 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries during its special military operation in Ukraine over the last week, according to TASS calculations based on daily briefings by Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov. This is more than one and a half times as many as a week earlier.

From October 17 to 23, the enemy suffered its heaviest losses in terms of manpower and equipment on the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog front, as opposed to last week when the enemy suffered its heaviest losses in the Kupyansk direction. During the offensive in the South Donetsk direction, Russian troops advanced more than 3 km deep into the enemy's defense.

TASS has gathered the most important statistics on the special operation from October 24 to 30.

Offensive actions of Russian armed forces

The Russian Defense Ministry announced its troops’ offensive in the South Donetsk direction in the Donetsk People's Republic, during which a number of strongholds and crests were seized. Russian assault groups advanced more than 3 km deep into the enemy's defense and reached the settlement of Pavlovka. The enemy lost over 100 servicemen, six soldiers surrendered.

During the offensive, one Ukrainian tank was destroyed and another one was captured. Three armored combat vehicles and six transport vehicles were also destroyed.

Ukrainian losses in manpower

The most significant losses in manpower were sustained by the Ukrainian military in the Kupyansk direction: Ukraine lost 830 men. In the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction, Ukrainian units made unsuccessful attempts to attack Russian positions on October 25, 26, and 27. It is stated that the enemy attacked five times on October 29 and made seven attacks before October 31. As a result, Ukrainian troops lost over 800 servicemen and foreign mercenaries in this direction, 650 men on the Krasny Liman front, and 190 men in the South Donetsk area.

In addition, over 40 Ukrainian servicemen were wiped out as a result of a Russian missile strike on a manpower and equipment gathering point near the village of Staroverovka in the Kharkov Region.

Ukrainian losses in equipment

Ukrainian troops lost their largest number of tanks this past week on the Krasny Liman front: 18 in total. According to TASS calculations, Russian units on the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog front destroyed the most Ukrainian armored combat vehicles: 63 pieces.

Russian Lancet drones destroyed the Ukrainian Buk-M1 MLRS’s self-propelled firing system, according to a video published by the Russian Defense Ministry. The enemy also lost a US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar.

In total, according to TASS calculations, the Ukrainian armed forces lost about 180 tanks and other armored vehicles, as well as over 170 vehicles of various types over the week.

Aircraft, air defense and artillery performance

According to TASS, the most productive day for Russian air defense equipment was October 30, when they destroyed three Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters and an Su-25 attack aircraft.

The anti-aircraft gunners also intercepted two MiG-29 fighters, two Mi-8 helicopters, 76 drones, 78 multiple launch rocket systems: HIMARS, Smerch, Uragan and Alder, as well as 24 US air-to-surface anti-radiation missiles HARM during the week. The destroyed drones include nine shot down during a Ukrainian terrorist attack against Black Sea Fleet ships and civilian vessels at the Sevastopol roadstead on October 29.

Russian aviation, missile and artillery units destroyed several American M777 howitzers, two US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, as well as a German MARS-2 multiple launch rocket system and PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery unit.

Also, one Ukrainian speedboat was wiped out during an attempt by a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group to land near Energodar in the Zaporozhye Region.

In addition, seven autonomous maritime drones that had taken part in the abovementioned attack on ships in Sevastopol’s waters were also hit. This was the first time during the entire special operation, such incidents had not been officially reported before.

Destruction of important Ukrainian targets

On October 26, a Russian strike in the vicinity of the village of Prikolotnoye in the Kharkov Region eliminated a communications center of the Ukrainian armed forces, and destroyed an oil storage facility near Dnepropetrovsk that was being used to supply diesel fuel to troops in Donbass.

On October 27, a factory near the Dnepropetrovsk Region’s Pavlograd was destroyed. It produced rocket fuel, explosives and gunpowder for the Ukrainian military. On October 30, Russian forces struck a training center of the Ukrainian special operations forces near Ochakov in the Nikolayev Region.

On October 31, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that high-precision long-range air and sea strikes had been carried out. As a result, facilities of Ukraine's military control and energy systems were hit.

All in all, according to TASS calculations, Russian troops destroyed 33 Ukrainian command posts and 14 ammunition depots over the week.

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All partial military mobilization activities have been halted — Russian Defense Ministry

"The preparation and handing out of military summonses are now stopped," the ministry said

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/. All partial military mobilization activities and the handing out of military summonses have been halted, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

"All activities related to conscription of reservists for military service by military enlistment offices and regional governments have been halted. The preparation and handing out of military summonses are now stopped," the ministry said.

Reports on the wrapping up of the partial mobilization are to be submitted by November 1, and instructions on the issue have been sent to commanders of troops in the military districts and the commander of the Northern Fleet, the ministry said.

Assembly centers and other buildings that were used for the mobilization effort will now be used for their previous purposes and military enlistment offices will go back to their routine duties, the ministry said.

The Defense Ministry said the enlistment offices will only enlist volunteers and contract servicemen for the armed forces.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu on October 28 told President Vladimir Putin that the partial mobilization, which had started on September 21, was wrapped up. Shoigu said 300,000 people had been called up, and no further goals were being planned as part of the partial mobilization.

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Seven powerful blasts heard in central Donetsk

According to Mayor Alexey Kulemzin, the shells hit residential buildings on Vatutin Avenue

DONETSK, 31 October. /TASS/. Seven powerful explosions were heard in the center of Donetsk, TASS correspondents report.

The blasts took place in the central part of Donetsk. Three explosions were clearly heard in the Voroshilovsky district. Alarm sirens went off and air defense systems began operating. Three explosions were also heard near the city administration building. The seventh blast occurred a few kilometers away from the Donetsk center, a TASS correspondent reported. Pillars of smoke are rising at the site of the explosion.

The Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DPR) mission to the Joint Control and Coordination Center on issues related to Ukraine’s war crimes (JCCC) told TASS that at least three shells exploded at the intersection of Universitetskaya Street and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue.

According to Mayor Alexey Kulemzin, the shells hit residential buildings on Vatutin Avenue. "Recorded [shells] hitting residential buildings on Vatutin Avenue. As a result, fires broke out," the Donetsk mayor wrote on his Telegram channel. He specified that the shells hit the central Voroshilovsky district.

According to the DPR territorial defense, apartment buildings were damaged and the gas pipeline was broken as a result of Ukraine’s shelling.

"Ukrainian militants struck the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk. Apartment buildings on Shchorsa Street were damaged, the gas pipeline near house number 41 was broken," the message on the headquarters’ Telegram channel said.

At present, the shelling is continuing.

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[kfm27917]

The official narrative promoted by the entire western political/media class is that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February of this year solely because he is evil and hates freedom. He wants to conquer as much of Europe as possible because he cannot stand free democracies, because he is another Adolf Hitler.

The official narrative is that while Russia is in Ukraine solely because its leader is an evil monster like Hitler, the US is in Ukraine solely because its leaders are righteous. The United States is providing arms, military intelligence, and assistance on the ground from special ops forces and CIA officers to Ukraine, as well as implementing an unprecedented regime of economic warfare against Russia, solely because the US loves its good friends the Ukrainians and wants to protect their freedom and democracy.

If you dispute any part of the official Ukraine narrative, you are an evil monster, and a disinformation agent. Because Vladimir Putin is the same as Adolf Hitler, you are also the same as Neville Chamberlain, and are guilty of the cardinal sin of supporting appeasement.

If you are tempted to ask questions which put a wobble on the official narrative, you must resist this urge at all cost. Don’t ask why western officials, scholars and strategists have spent years warning that the actions of western governments would lead to this war. Don’t ask what people are talking about when they say the US provoked this war, or when they say the US is using this war to advance strategic agendas it has had in place for years, or when they suggest that these things might have something to do with why the US is obstructing diplomatic solutions at every turn. If you ask questions like these, you are the worst person in the world.

Per the official narrative, if you confront powerful lawmakers on their support for US interventionism in Ukraine, you are “parroting pro-Putin talking points” and spreading “Russian disinformation”.

Questioning officials of the most powerful government in the world about the most consequential decisions being made in the world is violence, and is not allowed.

If you are tempted to ask questions which put a wobble on the official narrative, you must resist this urge at all cost. Don’t ask why western officials, scholars and strategists have spent years warning that the actions of western governments would lead to this war. Don’t ask what people are talking about when they say the US provoked this war, or when they say the US is using this war to advance strategic agendas it has had in place for years, or when they suggest that these things might have something to do with why the US is obstructing diplomatic solutions at every turn. If you ask questions like these, you are the worst person in the world.

Per the official narrative, if you confront powerful lawmakers on their support for US interventionism in Ukraine, you are “parroting pro-Putin talking points” and spreading “Russian disinformation”.

Questioning officials of the most powerful government in the world about the most consequential decisions being made in the world is violence, and is not allowed.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/johnstone-official-narrative-ukraine

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