WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Mashika]

https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1598658929738686465

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And one wonders what the heck "non-statutory relations" might be.

I suspect that was a terrible translation effort lol. It's possible they could have meant 'absent without leave' or 'non-statutory leave' as in leaving without permission of any kind or at a time in which they did not had any holidays allowed and then just go missing, possibly turning themselves in to the Russian army

[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1598658929738686465

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And one wonders what the heck "non-statutory relations" might be.

I suspect that was a terrible translation effort lol. It's possible they could have meant 'absent without leave' or 'non-statutory leave' as in leaving without permission of any kind or at a time in which they did not had any holidays allowed and then just go missing, possibly turning themselves in to the Russian army~~~

I got interested, and found the original article:


https://readovka.news/news/123260

В рядах ВСУ после высказывания Урсулы фон дер Ляйен наблюдается моральный упадок

Here's a rather clunky Google translation. (I corrected it a little using Yandex (https://translate.yandex.com), which usually provides much better online translation.)

The key phrase here is неуставных взаимоотношений, which Yandex translates as inappropriate relationships. I take that as a sugar-coating euphemism for sexual abuse (or worse) of civilians.

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The number of sabotage incidents and arguing with command has increased.

Andrey Marochko, an officer of the people's militia of the LPR, said (https://translate.google.com/website?sl=ru&tl=en&hl=en&client=webapp&u=https://t.me/marochkolive/33925) that after the scandal surrounding the statement of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen about huge losses, a decadent mood has been observed in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the number of sabotage incidents, unauthorized abandonment of positions, arguing with command, and inappropriate relationships has increased.
“There has also been an increase in the use of drugs and alcohol. There is also a sharp increase in social tension in Ukrainian society. Relatives of employees, despite the threat of arrest, began to “storm” the Ukrainian military commissars in their cities,” Marochko said.
Recall that at the same time, the Ukrainian side continues to deny (https://translate.google.com/website?sl=ru&tl=en&hl=en&client=webapp&u=https://t.me/readovkanews/48038) the fact of the mass death of Ukrainian militants - in particular, on the eve of the adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, Podolyak once again downplayed the number of deaths on the front of the militants. According to him, no more than 13,000 people were supposedly liquidated, which is probably not true.

[Ravenlocke]

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https://www.rt.com/news/567486-what-did-they-die-for/

The death of a US mercenary exposes the bleak reality of service with Ukraine’s 'International Legion'


It’s been confirmed that Trent Davis, a 21-year-old US citizen who travelled to Ukraine to fight in the International Legion, has been killed in combat. The tenth American known to have met their end in the conflict, his premature death highlights the enormous dangers facing foreigners joining Kiev’s fight.

Davis was an army veteran, having enlisted at just 17. However, he had no actual combat experience, having served as a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense specialist, before leaving in December 2021.

He reportedly travelled to Ukraine in March to join the Georgian Legion, a unit so notorious for executing Russian prisoners of war that even the Western media has been forced to acknowledge its savagery. The foreign mercenaries, however, considered Davis incompetent and insufficiently experienced to take part in hostilities, so he was sent home two months later.

Davis returned in October, and two weeks later was overjoyed to inform his mother that he had signed a contract and was now officially part of the International Legion, created on 26 February by Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky to attract foreign fighters.

‘All the real skinheads went to Ukraine’: An American Neo-Nazi outlines the crimes of his Ukrainian ‘colleagues’
‘All the real skinheads went to Ukraine’: An American Neo-Nazi outlines the crimes of his Ukrainian ‘colleagues’
“Anyone who wants to join the defense of Ukraine, Europe and the world can come and fight side by side with the Ukrainians,” Zelensky said in a statement at the time, in which he eased visa restrictions to facilitate their arrival.

Davis told his mother he would soon be heading out to fight in a counteroffensive in the south of Ukraine. His mother and father never heard from their son again. On 8 November, he was killed on his very first mission, as Ukrainian forces attempted to recapture Kherson.

The details of how Davis died are murky, although the greatest mystery of all is why he was hired by the International Legion in the first place, let alone sent to the front line on his very first outing. Officially at least, combat experience – which he of course lacked – and a “belief in freedom and democracy” are the basic requirements for enlistment in the unit.

When contacted by the Military Times, the International Legion declined to comment on why Davis was sent to the front, only remarking that “recruiting decisions are made by officers in western Ukraine,” and amazingly alleging: “no commander takes on inexperienced soldiers who did not have the appropriate training and skills.”

Clearly, a commander did in respect of Davis. And there is no reason to believe he is in any way unique.


Tales from another side

While mainstream outlets have completely ignored the corruption, brutality, and abuses that are a daily staple of life on the front line with the International Legion, foreigners who fought with them aren’t silent about the horrors they witnessed first-hand, and have openly discussed their experiences in YouTube interviews and via other mediums.

Take, for example, a former US marine who fought with the International Legion, who has revealed that Ukrainian commanders don’t have radios, artillery cover or extraction teams for wounded soldiers, and testified to a thriving black market for Western weapons, such as anti-tank missiles.

Bye-bye, Kiev, hello Cote d’Azur: As Westerners send aid, here’s how Ukraine’s corrupt elites are profiting from the conflict
Bye-bye, Kiev, hello Cote d’Azur: As Westerners send aid, here’s how Ukraine’s corrupt elites are profiting from the conflict
He reported that these weapons would be collected in unmarked vans and ferried away to places unknown. In public, Western officials deny that any arms sent to Kiev have ended up on the black market, but the ex-marine claims US officials he encountered acknowledged that “low-level” corruption was endemic. It has, moreover, been confirmed that at least some of this arsenal is circulating in Europe.

The corruption he encountered took other forms. Foreign soldiers of fortune were offered financial inducements for destroying Russian vehicles and aircraft, which led to them fighting over rewards – pointlessly as it happened, given the reward money “often” wasn't paid at all.

Another former International Legion fighter echoed much of the ex-marine’s reports, alleging that NATO anti-aircraft guns constantly disappeared from his unit’s armory within days of arrival, but the Ukrainian Security Service, despite knowing about this, did nothing. Commanders who were reported to superiors for their complicity in this criminal activity also went unpunished.

“Volunteers don't trust Ukrainian authorities because of how corrupted they are. For so many people war is profitable... It's hard to find reliable sources where your supplies and equipment can reach the right people,” the former fighter said. “They keep stealing left and right. The problem in Ukraine is that it's in their culture... Looks like they steal from all levels.”

Complicating the International Legion’s battle even further, in the south and east of Ukraine its fighters frequently encounter significant hostility towards them and Ukrainian soldiers from the local population, who provide information to Russian forces leading to their ambush and capture, if not destruction.



“The problem with Donetsk is that it is highly pro-Russian... there is a really serious issue with so many pro-Russian civilians,” one foreign fighter has said. “For me it's hard to say how [Ukraine] can conduct the fight against all those ‘spies’ if you can call them that.”

One way Ukrainian forces fight against “spies” – alleged “collaborators” – is summary torture and execution. Shockingly, such bloodsoaked cleanup operations have been outright praised by the Western media, and hailed as symbols of Kiev’s “liberation” of territory. Anyone who helps Russian forces in any way can be considered a “collaborator”, but some – such as teachers – get off lighter, with harsh prison sentences.

The BBC made up a story about a Russian 'attack' on a Ukrainian city's water supply – where are the 'fake news' fact checkers?
The BBC made up a story about a Russian 'attack' on a Ukrainian city's water supply – where are the 'fake news' fact checkers?
It’s not merely citizens caught up in the conflict who need to be careful about who they assist. An Australian who joined the International Legion has claimed that Ukrainian commanders often sent foreign fighters to the most dangerous battles, with death almost guaranteed, using them as courageous war propaganda poster boys.

In some disturbing instances, if senior officials didn’t like a particular fighter, or group of fighters, they would even deliberately dispatch them on literal suicide missions. Once, the Australian mercenary said, a group of foreign recruits was ordered to walk across a minefield, without them knowing about the explosive devices lurking under the soil.

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These are of course the assorted words of the International Legion volunteers who made it back – total fatality numbers are not known. In keeping with the Western media’s wider failure to seriously report on the reality on the ground, in favor of fantasy narratives about Ukrainian heroism and success, their cautions have fallen on deaf ears.

As the Russian winter offensive begins, this oath of silence may not be able to endure much longer. While Ukraine keeps its casualty figures a closely guarded state secret, Western officials have quietly admitted that at least 100,000 have lost their lives to date. There are surely many more Trent Davises in the ranks of the International Legion – and while dead men tell no tales, their families do.

[Michel Leclerc]

More fallout (https://sputniknews.com/20221130/poland-faces-surge-of-hiv-amid-ukrainian-refugee-influx-1104847869.html):


Polish doctors have sounded the alarm as the country's medical infrastructure seems to be under severe pressure amid a spike of new HIV cases; the situation has been worsened by lack of testing kits for the disease.

By the end of October, 1,910 new cases of HIV were detected in Poland. From January to July this year 1,056 cases of infection were recorded, compared to 561 case in year 2021. Polish media have called these statistics alarming.

Some of these new infections have been linked to the Ukrainian refugee influx. According to the data provided via the International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection, one in six people receiving anti-HIV therapy in Poland right now is from Ukraine.

Doctors and medical experts argue that Poland does not have the necessary medical infrastructure needed to treat that many HIV sufferers. Ukraine has roughly 260,000 people with HIV while Poland has only 26,500. Moreover, Poland has only 17 Antiretroviral Therapy centers in major cities compared to Ukraine, where around 390 ART centers are spread all over the country.

To make things even worse, the ART combination pill taken by the majority of Ukrainian who carry the virus is not available in Poland: 77% of them take “TLD” – a combination of drugs, including generic one. As a member of European Union, Poland can not legally use generics.

Thank you, Shaberon. Only partially a sideline: I have suspected for some time that HIV (an artificial virus) figures among the payloads of the dirty bombs called Pfizer (or friends’) “vaccine” variants. After all, it has been so successful in all those years: why not try it out – right from the start of the “pandemic” – in a bivalent or n-valent form?

Maybe the witch cuisine cooked up in the Biolab kitchens in Ukraine included some HIV to be tested on the Ukrainian population.

We have not forgotten the Ukrainian complaint about HIV contaminated blood sent by their Western friends, have we.

Everybody who would point out such an ingenious puzzle, could of course always be considered a conspirationist – deviantly sick even.

[Ravenlocke]

Ukraine Donbass Crisis Deepens, Putin Eviscerates Scholz in Fiery Call, Biden Offers Talks

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SCOTT RITTER ON WHAT ARE THE NEXT SPOTS FOR THE POTENTIAL CONFLICT; POLAND PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME.

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[shaberon]

We have not forgotten the Ukrainian complaint about HIV contaminated blood sent by their Western friends, have we.

Everybody who would point out such an ingenious puzzle, could of course always be considered a conspirationist – deviantly sick even.


Did not know about that specifically, although Tom Araya of Slayer--a Chilean Catholic fwiw--started working as a med tech in Los Angeles, and quit exactly because of that. There was HIV blood being sent through without anyone being told about it. That would have been around 1983.


What I do remember, is the MH 17 that some Dutchman is certain was gunned down by Donbass forces, had several, I believe Australian, scientists with information about this.

Exactly what VAIDS may be, I do not know...it is either a nemesis right now in the form of a plague on the Five Eyes and Israel, or, everyone is fine. On that one, it was the UK government that told me. In other places, yes, we can be pretty sure that all sorts of aberrant medical practices have been experimented on Ukrainians, mostly thanks to legal un-reforms after the 2014 coup. I expect some rather bland statistics would light up if you looked at rates of HIV infection before and after. Does it really have ten times the population of Poland to account for the anomaly?



In tandem with Nigeria (https://sputniknews.com/20221203/weapons-sent-to-ukraine-beginning-to-filter-to-africa-nigerian-president-says-1104990736.html):


So far, however, western governments have largely refused to take the advice seriously, with many suggested arms bazaars featuring western weapons are the product of Russian disinformation. In September, a British news outlet insisted the existence of such illegal weapons markets “could be an organized disinformation campaign.”

But according to police in Europe, the impacts of the incoming arms are anything but made-up. Last month, Finnish police said a portion of the “huge quantities” of weapons being shipped to Ukraine have made their way to Finland, where “three of the world’s largest motorcycle gangs” now operate---including Bandidos MC, “which has a branch in every major city of Ukraine.”
Christer Ahlgren, head of organized crime at the Finnish police’s bureau of investigations, told a local broadcaster that “it’s impossible to say how many weapons are in the country and in whose hands,” but “we’ll be dealing with these weapons and paying the price here for decades.” And it’s not just Finland; smuggled guns have also been found in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, officials said.


And just to riposte the "real skinhead" remark from another post above, essentially as a license for "human safari" in Ukraine, that is disgusting, the skinheads are working-class youth from the UK since ca. 1960s who obviously were far more interested in labor rights and so forth against the grim specter of British policy to cheat you out of everything, much as it still is now, according to Rishi Sunak, or, Rashi Sanuk, if Biden is to be believed.

I have me Docs straight off the shelf of their London factory outlet.

I am not getting into the "football hooliganism" thing.


Was it mainstreamable? Yes, from the absolute backbone of rock, even according to Ozzy:


Slade -- Shape of Things to Come (1970)

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There's a new sun
Rising up angry in the sky
There's a new voice
Crying 'we're not afraid to die'
Let the old one
Make believe it's blind and deaf and dumb
But nothing can change the shape of things to come
There are changes
Lying ahead on every road
There are new thoughts
Ready and waiting to explode
When tomorrow is today
The bells may toll for some
But nothing can change the shape of things to come
The future's coming on now sweet and strong
And no-one gonna hold it back for long
There are young dreams
Crowding out old realities
Revolutions
Sweeping in like a fresh new breeze
Let the old one
Make believe it's blind and deaf and dumb
Nothing can change the shape of things
Nothing can change the shape of things
Nothing can change the shape of things
Nothing can change the shape of things
Nothing can change the shape of things to come



And just to catch back up with some "unintended consequences", the proxy says Halt (https://southfront.org/sdf-halt-joint-operations-with-u-s-led-coalition-as-result-of-turkish-attacks-on-northern-syria/):

Aram Henna, a spokesman for the SDF, told Reuters that “all coordination and joint counter-terrorism operations” with the U.S.-led coalition battling remnants of ISIS in Syria as well as “all the joint special operations we were carrying out regularly” had been halted.


I can't even begin to understand that one. Zionist cash is no longer good against the Ottoman Empire? What happened to rent-a-mob?? How can the Turks be mad at Finland about potentially gaining nuclear missiles, when the place is about to get Ukraine-ized or Syrian-ized or something?? Usually these things are simple, once you discover that SDF, an American creation, is fighting ISIS, an American creation, near Damascus, the oldest continuously-inhabited city known to man. Maybe they figured out they were actually Kurdish and pretty much have a deal for relative autonomy from the Damascus government? You can't fight Turkey. The Turks have a million F-16s, the most dangerous plane in the world. Maybe it will provoke the Turks to just go after the Americans and do Russia a favor. The Russians simply went and occupied one of the main Turkish targets, because a million F-16s are nothing compared to a Russian mobile bakery. That's the story I'm sticking to, while all of my ancestors roll over in their graves.

[Ravenlocke]

Hi Shaberon,

I just wanted to point out what Michel meant by,

Quote Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
We have not forgotten the Ukrainian complaint about HIV contaminated blood sent by their Western friends, have we.

Everybody who would point out such an ingenious puzzle, could of course always be considered a conspirationist – deviantly sick even.

I believe Michel is referring to the news that was presented on this thread a few months ago. It was when Kiev hospitals had run out of blood and requested blood from their western partners (NATO, EU), and the blood sent to them was blood that was not screened for HIV or Hepatitis. (They only found out because doctors checked the blood). The percentage of HIV tainted blood was higher than that tainted with the two types of Hepatitis. And I think the news also mentioned that this blood was sent via Africa and I think implied that blood sent there is not screened.

[Ravenlocke]

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https://sputniknews.com/20221203/moscow-un-silent-on-reports-of-ukrainian-women-falling-prey-to-sexual-slavery-in-west-1105009162.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


Moscow: UN ‘Silent’ on Reports of Ukrainian Women Falling Prey to ‘Sexual Slavery’ in West

Baseless claims made in October by Pramila Patten, the UN special representative on Sexual Violence, that sexual assaults were part of a “military strategy” ostensibly used by Russia in the course of its operation in Ukraine were denounced by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as going “beyond the reach of reason.”



The United Nations (UN) is conspicuously silent on the issue of Ukrainian female refugees reportedly falling victim to sexual slavery in the West, Maria Zakharova underscored in a Telegram post.
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman excoriated Kiev authorities, along with a plethora of international human rights bodies, for eagerly spreading various baseless and openly concocted lies about Russian servicemen allegedly resorting to sexual violence against Ukrainian women.
Meanwhile, the real threat to Ukrainian women does not come from Russia, but rather awaits them in Europe, emphasized Maria Zakharova.
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman cited a recent statement released by the Swedish Ministry of Gender Equality, which expressly said that Ukrainian female refugees were increasingly becoming victims of unscrupulous pimps and falling into sexual slavery.
Despite this statement being actively disseminated by the local media, there was no reaction from Kiev or the international community, Zakharova said. In fact, numerous reports about rapes committed against Ukrainian women have been surfacing in Swedish media for some time now. But they are hardly likely to elicit a response from either the UN or human rights structures. Why bother to focus on a genuine humanitarian problem, the Russian spokeswoman said, when a churning out yet another political “put-up job” is more up their alley.


Disgraced Ukraine Ombudswoman Admits She 'Exaggerated' Russian ‘Rape’ To Get More Western Weapons

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s wife, First Lady Olena Zelenska, former Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova, and the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative Pramila Patten have all perpetuated the lies, which were later exposed as entirely false, said Zakharova.
She recalled how the disgraced Ukrainian ombudswoman Denisova admitted that she had “exaggerated” reports of sex crimes allegedly committed by Russian soldiers in an effort to "convince the world to provide weapons and pressure" on behalf of the regime in Kiev. Denisova was removed from her post for spreading misinformation following a no-confidence vote of 234-to-9 in Ukraine’s parliament on May 31.
Pramila Patten, special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, was actively used to perpetuate this lie. The influential UN representative's claims that Russian soldiers were being “supplied with Viagra” to rape Ukrainian women were readily treated as factual by major Western media outlets.
"When women are held for days and raped, when you start to rape little boys and men, when you see a series of genital mutilations, when you hear women testify about Russian soldiers equipped with Viagra, it's clearly a military strategy," Patten reportedly told media in October.


At the time, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova slammed the claims as going "beyond reason” and serving as evidence that the West uses "the same patterns in its hybrid wars."

However, Patten, like many before her, slipped up in a prank call, acknowledging that she has no evidence for the accusations.
“It’s not my role to go and investigate,” noted Pramila Patten in a call with the Russian comedy duo Vovan and Lexus.

EU parliamentarians warned on November 29 that trafficking and sexual exploitation of female Ukrainian refugees was on the rise.
"Sixty-five per cent of human trafficking involves women, usually for sexual exploitation,” Jo-Anne Bishop, deputy director of UN Women Europe, said at the hearing, adding that Ukrainian women were at “high risk” of finding themselves trapped in prostitution networks or the pornography industry.
Since Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees have made a beeline for European countries, which were quick to follow Washington's lead in slapping Moscow with sanctions while funneling aid to prop up the Kiev regime. However, despite being promised access to housing and financial support, many refugees from Ukraine, numerous of whom were not so much fleeing actual areas of conflagration as hoping to better their prospects abroad, have found their job prospects uncertain amid issues with qualifications or language skills.
Amid the raging energy crisis and skyrocketing inflation which have also been exacerbated by the self-harming restrictions on Moscow, Europeans have since grown weary of the unfolding refugee situation. Waning volunteer aid, refusals to accommodate refugees, and sporadic demonstrations across the European continent are further testimony to the fallout from the collective West's obdurate insistance on fanning the flames of the Ukraine conflict.

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Ukraine does not have enough gas for $4 billion to pass the heating season

According to Alexey Chernyshov, Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine, the country requires the assistance of foreign partners to purchase an additional 3 billion cubic meters of gas.

Ukraine requires the assistance of foreign partners in order to purchase an additional 3 billion cubic meters of gas valued at $4 billion for the current heating season. This was stated on Friday by Ukraine’s Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz, Alexey Chernyshov, during a meeting with G7 ambassadors.

“According to preliminary Ministry of Energy calculations, taking military risks into account, up to 3 billion cubic meters of gas are required to generate electricity for the heating season, which is more than $4 billion in monetary equivalent today. In this regard, we require the assistance of our foreign partners “Chernyshov stated this in a statement on the company’s website.

On November 30, Chernyshov asked the United States to use for the purchase of gas for Ukraine part of the aid in the amount of $ 1.6 billion, which the American authorities intend to allocate to Kiev.

Yuriy Vitrenko, the head of Naftogaz at the end of June, claimed that the Ukrainian authorities were discussing with the US the possibility of financing natural gas supplies to it through the lend-lease program in order to build reserves for the winter heating season.

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https://scotlandtoday.online/how-corrupt-is-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy

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Article here,

https://scotlandtoday.online/ukraines-biolabs-riddled-with-corruption-and-neglect

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Ukrainian officials accused of stealing Trainloads of Humanitarian Aid

The allegation comes amid mass raids by the SBU and anti-corruption agency in Zaporizhzhia Region


Ukrainian officials in the eastern Zaporizhzhia Region are being investigated for allegedly stealing massive amounts of humanitarian aid sent to them. They are accused of looting hundreds of freight cars’ worth of goods.

Raids at offices and addresses associated with the suspected embezzlers were reported on Tuesday. Agents of the SBU, Ukraine’s successor to the KGB, and the anti-corruption agency NABU conducted the operations, according to a statement by the agencies.

The region is mostly controlled by Russian forces, but its capital Zaporizhzhia and some of the surrounding areas are under Kiev’s control. The raids targeted the Kiev-appointed administration and members of the city council, according to the SBU and NABU. The agencies also reported confiscating what they believe to be narcotics and illegal firearms while searching the premises.

While the official statement offered few details, a more comprehensive account of the ongoing probe came from Ukrainian public figure Evgeny Shevchenko, who is widely described by the local media as an unpaid agent for the NABU. The agency had previously confirmed working with him.

According to his post on Facebook, the suspected grifters made off with “almost all humanitarian aid” sent to the region, selling the goods through local retail chains. The total volume of what was stolen amounts to 22 sea transport containers, 389 freight train cars and 220 trucks, Shevchenko claimed.

The activist named several senior officials in Zaporizhzhia Region as suspects and shamed them for posing as Ukrainian patriots while profiting at the expense of the country.

Shevchenko is a controversial figure in Ukraine. He emerged from the radical wing of the so-called Maidan protests of 2013-2014 and made a name for himself as an associate of militia commander and former MP Konstantin Grishin, who prefers to be called by his nom de guerre Semyon Semenchenko.

Last year, Shevchenko and Semenchenko were arrested on allegations of involvement with an illegal militia. The arrests came after Shevchenko had accused the office of President Vladimir Zelensky of derailing an intelligence operation aimed at luring a group of Russian security contractors to Ukraine and detaining them.

Shevchenko believes that his arrest and that of Semenchenko were an act of revenge by Zelensky’s chief-of-staff, Andrey Ermak. In his post about the raids in Zaporizhzhia Region, he linked the suspects with the president and the head of his office, pointing out that the officials targeted had been appointed by Kiev.

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Latest 26 minute update video from The Duran

EU bad moves, oil price cap. Russia big moves, gas union

EU agrees to set $60 price cap level on Russian oil exports

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https://www.rt.com/business/567538-china-russia-oil/

China scoops up cheap Russian oil – Bloomberg

China’s oil refiners have started to snap up Russian crude shipments amid sharply lower prices and the looming EU price-cap measure, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

According to its report citing anonymous traders, Chinese private processors, or teapots, purchased several cargoes of Russian ESPO crude for December-January arrival. The shipments traded at wider discounts to global benchmark Brent crude than deals done just weeks ago, the traders explained.

“It is also believed that the cargoes were bought in Chinese yuan rather than US dollars, and financed through local banks and institutions,” Bloomberg wrote.

The reports of increased Chinese oil purchases from Moscow come in the run-up to December 5, when the European Union rolls out new sanctions that will ban the bloc's oil sector from extending shipping, insurance and banking services to Russian oil trades, unless they comply with a yet-to-be-determined price cap.

The report indicated that traders are interested to know if China and India can continue to purchase Russian crude, and whether the countries will utilize a proposed price cap or turn to non-EU providers.

China wants more Russian gas – CNPC READ MORE: China wants more Russian gas – CNPC
“In this case, the final price of the cargoes will not be known until a much later date. That’s because the deals are done against the average of Brent’s front-month February contract, which can only be tabulated at the end of December,” Bloomberg wrote, adding it’s unclear whether the shipments will load before or after the December 5 deadline.

Traders reportedly said that teapots weren’t too concerned if their tanker loads would be hit by EU sanctions or meet the criteria for the cap. They explained this by saying their purchases were being made on a delivered basis, which leaves the responsibility of shipping and insurance with sellers.

On Friday, the EU reportedly tentatively agreed on a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil as it aims to curb the Kremlin’s revenue from energy exports. Moscow has earlier threatened to stop shipping oil to countries that support the price-cap measure.

[Ravenlocke]

https://tass.com/emergencies/1545171?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

UN admits that Donetsk is freezing but refrains from saying who is to blame

UN Secretary General’s Spokesman Stephane Dujarric noted that combat operations continue near Donetsk but did not say who is shelling the city


UNITED NATIONS, December 2. /TASS/. Donetsk residents cannot heat the homes amid the winter because of ongoing combat operations, UN Secretary General’s Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Friday.

"As temperatures continue to drop in Ukraine, heating has, as mentioned, become a major issue in the Donetsk region," he said. "On the Russian-controlled side, including the city of Donetsk itself, families cannot heat their homes as the centralized heating system is not operational. Piped water is also limited to a few days per week for a few hours. Our humanitarian colleagues note that on the Ukrainian-controlled side, most people who stayed in the front-line cities are elderly, mainly older women, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups. Making sure they are protected and have access to heating during the winter can be a matter of survival for them."

He noted that combat operations continue near Donetsk but did not say who is shelling the city.

According to earlier reports, Donetsk’s central districts have been shelled from Grad multiple rocket launchers throughout the day. Three civilians have been killed.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1599093606668587008

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https://www.rt.com/news/567575-france-ukraine-cockroaches-poedie/

Russians are ‘like cockroaches,’ Ukrainian analyst tells French TV

During an appearance on French television, Ukrainian-born analyst Alla Poedie compared Russian citizens to pests and urged France to crack down on them and their culture.

Poedie, who describes herself as an expert on the former Soviet Union countries, made the controversial claims on the LCI news channel on Tuesday during a talk show dedicated to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

"It’s necessary to make sure that Russia is held responsible [for its military operation in Ukraine] with all its citizens around the globe, who sometimes cause a lot of harm," she said.

The expert insisted that it was "shameful" that the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center remained open in the center of Paris. The complex, which also includes the Holy Trinity Cathedral, was "packed with [Russian] spies," she said, without providing any proof for her claim.

"And we accept them. We don’t kick them out. Why? This complex must be closed and completely destroyed. It has no right to exist," Poedie said.

Pope Francis directs racially charged comment towards Russians
Pope Francis directs racially charged comment towards Russians
She added that an investigation into how the Russian cultural center was even permitted to be built in the French capital is necessary.The complex was opened in 2016 under then-French President Francois Hollande, with Paris' mayor and Russia’s culture minister both attending the ceremony.

The show host also asked the expert whether she thought that those Russian men who'd fled the country during the partial mobilization between September and November of this year, should also be prosecuted and put behind bars.

"Those are cockroaches. That’s it. They run away from the country like cockroaches because they don’t want to fight from the inside and depose the current regime," Poedie replied.

Judging by the footage, some of the guests in the studio felt really uncomfortable to hear such statements.

According to the Russian media, Poedie was born in Kiev but immigrated to France after marrying a Frenchman. She’s been making frequent appearances on French TV during the conflict in Ukraine, taking a harsh anti-Russia stance. She used to be head of the French-Ukrainian business club and now reportedly makes money by receiving and accompanying VIP tourists in France.

In July, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow has intensified its activities aimed at supporting Russian citizens abroad due to what she described as "an unprecedented barbaric surge of xenophobia, including in the form of Russophobia." Russians in Europe and elsewhere were faced with "aggressive attacks and threats, discrimination… based on nationality, language, citizenship and stance," she explained.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Mashika]

And this, is why every country outside the 'west international serf community' laughs hard at the level of awareness or education of these people

And saying "he's intentionally trolling" just changes nothing. Poor educated/stupid people is exactly the ones who would do this kind of trolling. It actually serves as proof of how low the education level is, and how brute and idiotic the mindset can go. This is not even the most agressive version of it, just one of many samples you can find around

He probably doesn't even know that the "Those who don't do that duty are forced to commit suicide" may be a reference to Kamikaze pilots in WW2. I don't even think he knows that was a thing in Japan. He probably doesn't even know that Japan fought against the US back then lol

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fife/AAbDypDiDJpYqJ3F2rR1-8F7Wyzyn_FSyVZ_rpEIj9uHKF1TbSjKHjl5jYjHhpZ1gYD-_NclNKrAWCowV1UW13RSc3eTnk9t23XTRumoOCGBqbMykqQ2u0h7HBlo2YphMrGDLgetM5atkarPDVLGBJ_5mmnJTJKiYqWfcbu9 xPPhxaXRKFyMdtq71DwV6-TOWsxt0jual-MsOkAWACcvI9S1sfL4nr3N1DY6ZxUCekBD36VYBjrfvvheGvbKseYy0cqlknH3y7Cy0vcu13UTQRWizhzSQwt0aq66Vii9NPqXuz A5bwa8jJV80KVKYBKglU6KFfZWP8G1iOAx7cZcZignUGwsBQbEfc9SPLyPKkD90Phjszt4VYipgHv_SwhG9uMPu8_pExGfTDigHM Lm1ciiVyb0rPPx_s5nJ7ggRKec4mGL2vQyOqtR1-xQ5cfsuqeeWxkOr84HmzI-nS9z96JJdQQ5CicOQbfnCh3StJ6ZPwsU-mJneQlh9Z2hy2x1yXJusfPb2hKstPhwT9gM-3sN16xabkO5rlQg1b8Fn6x05EMXE0Qzcdb4r5rzXtaXdRazv3cQRnyxJVc007xXtZKMYIhkH_fnnvDucx1iUkBXFwlpyp3I048Rb XSSvifV-sVN8qLI0nKaR4EuiKRwiadxHx-eUCtboPCiK7dahQ5Lpt9qYzm_d7l08jJQN_T81GeLJiVmbkW9bONcpCDy-B-ooJYCej46G23mRxxKyM3-EuNuDiMn0kxOCRJXNY1SZuFG0pwFFhutuy8ZSr17WV1lgdjLuYZrjzK_oyRhzV0TVmHR002yydFILn-WCqxq_UO3FZ-LYl453l7-Ow5mDf39fEKvYg-w4Myv4ZOFvk8cmTRmQ002aNjdbGHFYljh00kDxxQWVS_fG5pcdZXyFdxQT84saP7fHnZW9tRXBkRTWWKqhbMNGf9do2Bb8flVIoN oY4m6R1dH3b1JdepdDrL4EcCOdKsx3IZJRaEZORshbQXQhD1sJ7sBHBiak6svTvzYuz05R5rEGOmSzMSEcbd0Rv9XGEzXg-cMfJ6apbYRNp1I1QPH0LaU2woS5RT5zGZPzCIB7DuR_s7yIe_FpO7bi-qHwDhkJxjKj0O__Vn4FlMaynTBFkq69k3nkbKQHcdiXCcjnxyj2PoNFPoyX1u5rGY3ASbIZLPt5sW2cw3SVU-x6iCsJcL7L6arPj-ekLXqcj4GjLChxE1Xq6D4NQ9HJ6BdMHNtIm8l2870vztMsfAIvJbmmq2w2OofApPnPEQgkg7fZGZNyvOXc7jykmpMxN_P7zhYAfB 4R-e3VfCvEmLW9yyoBMoinb0e3zPRl_2kj62rUALDWK1GI3e3W8EzR5XrXhyUSnm5M1adNcjJSRF8Ko9A7kwvUZwMWyOHf7Lej5C8b8 QMJdKGhf2B3yhxy5SokSVdFQSgdqZvkD1-XgAg3p25nA9JkcW5YnLtuCMJN_nLIJ1cU5Mrg4lxRF4S2rppTR4mAwJdXf4mVHY5wL5xXWgfyUOiejDXCNX5cKQX3pfehtNYgJme a9hG0nzMVxapjXLP65sDD1CiD0pckmubZqNzvBnKV1RfBJZHexYrGiy6TmJJ81fsB3npigmFmYp5A8EX6KUzUOy65MI7brIZrswq yOf6aQc2v5qFAp0Tj12Wh-N5ewY3ujDlJaaRDRmqN6TQdlA8EpyKPCaEVTQHbR3uYGmon9nAzuzuWkDnc2HAOq-EV9_2_lGVUCIkY24EC-J4hoGzSH24UbSHO2jmjsWHh-hd4tXoP3RVNI3JKrQiLejVqq6lHl2nqKi_hTFNJEmIBDoIKbquUZQb65rgb8JSJN73ngy8JNGSU6UnNIhyym6TzKyI-16EsRS336kcMRHDhue4rNybvNAzNZupIFT963JneDP96yl6jWczQ5cqPJleKA6c8a4iZ-MVR5LFsXeqP5cfazmA-mucE3PksaEyacc1UG1oLABZr1o7tdhbO9BTLI-fHn84EduN82UB-UMCyLqupHjbeQ-1bd9Q6D7b-ZPl8dJYGOOqqju_Sh2pvaPTIPfHo3ymZ8rwiHW3lxjAVCxMjV7Yb0cliX64R-A6Vae98aHzqFBWuyagvA=w626-h268-no

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[Mashika]

Also, it has been documented by Ukrainian soldiers, that this in fact is what happens to them at the front line, and not to Russian soldiers. So once again we see the same "What Ukraine does, is reversed to say Russia does it" narrative

The crazy lady in the EU says that 100,000 ukro soldiers died at the front line? No problem, let's deny it and now there's Elensky saying that 100,000 Russian soldiers will die before end of the year. See how that works? If they say Russia lost 50,000 soldiers, then you can assume Ukraine did.

They are not very smart. And also they can't even get their narrative and figures right, one says 9000 soldiers died against 200,000 deaths on the Russian side, other guy says 10,000 against 100,000 russians, then other people say 70,000 and so on. Same as with rockets, some times it is 40 rockets were intercepted from 45, but 10 locations where hit. Can they math?

lmao

I don't think these people managed to finish grade school, or at least their brains got stuck into that stage of their lives, because they act/think like that and they don't even realize it

[Bill Ryan]

An astonishing, hard-to-believe-but-probably-true story — about Ukrainians being welded into their tanks by their commanders, so they could not escape. One wonders if this itself is some kind of war crime.

https://t.me/intelslava/42224
intelslava/42224

[Ravenlocke]

An astonishing, hard-to-believe-but-probably-true story — about Ukrainians being welded into their tanks by their commanders, so they could not escape. One wonders if this itself is some kind of war crime.

https://t.me/intelslava/42224
intelslava/42224

Read about that this am here,

https://twitter.com/rybar_en/status/1599055554164715520

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And here with English subtitles,

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1599017301701197824

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And here from September,


https://twitter.com/evanscribe/status/1572144808428437507

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[kfm27917]

10 U.S. Code § 333 - Foreign security forces: authority to build capacity
(applies to training of Ukranian groups by US forces and partners)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/333

[shaberon]

10 U.S. Code § 333 - Foreign security forces: authority to build capacity
(applies to training of Ukranian groups by US forces and partners)



This is not so unusual, although, to read through it, although it may look like something Defense is doing, they cannot do anything without approval of the Secretary of State. This is an unelected position in the Executive Branch, which implements policy given by the Council on Foreign Relations, which is beholden to British ideas. Of course, Ukraine is very much a British idea, so there you go.

It stops a step short of saying that State tells Defense what to do, but you would have to review all cases to figure out how it happened.

[Vicus]

Russian MoD Journal Details What Will Happen if NATO Expands Into Nordics

This past spring, Finland and Sweden broke with decades of neutrality by announcing their intent to join NATO, ostensibly in response to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. The accession process has been held up by Turkey over Stockholm and Helsinki’s support for Kurdish fighters Ankara classifies as “terrorists,” and could drag on into 2023.

“Although the planned accession of Finland and Sweden into the NATO bloc represents the legal registration of long-established relations, this must be considered as one of the most urgent challenges to the Russian Federation, which will require the adoption of a series of adequate measures,” a paper published in the journal’s December issue indicated.
The need for such “adequate measures” is related, first and foremost, to the fact that once the Nordics join the bloc, more than 1,000 km of NATO territory will appear on Russia’s borders, after which the alliance can deploy military equipment, troops, and tactical missile systems there that would threaten the military-industrial and transport infrastructure of Russia’s Arkhangelsk region.

Military Thought outlined the measures Russia’s Armed Forces will need to take in response to the emergent threat. “On our part, this will require building up the ground and coastal forces in the northern direction, missile forces and artillery, air defense and aviation, including unmanned aircraft, as well as the planning of strikes using long-range precision weapons against targets in Finland and Sweden,” the article warned.

Moscow has expressed concerns over the impact that Finland and Sweden’s entry into NATO would have on regional security. Last week, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that their accession could lead to “increased militarization of the Arctic region,” and a consequent “significant increase of tensions and security risks.”

https://sputniknews.com/20221203/russian-mod-journal-details-what-will-happen-if-nato-expands-into-nordics-1105012367.html

[Vicus]

In Novel Twist to NATO Saga, Sweden Brings Up Criminals 'Hiding' in Turkey

As of now, Turkey remains the only NATO nation to block the historic membership bids filed by Sweden and Finland in May, accusing the Nordic nations of supporting and harboring members of Kurdish organizations it labels as terrorist.

While Turkey demands that Sweden and Finland hand over a number of Kurds before the countries are approved as members of NATO, Stockholm has reversed the tables by claiming that about a dozen hardened criminals are hiding in Turkey.
According to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, this is a serious issue that must be addressed.

Finland and Sweden’s dual NATO bid, filed in May. put a formal end to decades of non-alignment marred by increasing cooperation with the US-led alliance. Turkey remains the only NATO nation to block the bids, accusing the Nordic nations of supporting and harboring members of Kurdish organizations it labels as terrorist. Stockholm and Helsinki were even provided with a list of people Ankara wants extradited — a sensitive issue for Sweden which sees itself as a champion of human rights. Stockholm’s apparent willingness to accommodate Ankara — the Swedish government lifted the ban on arms exports to Turkey introduced over Ankara’s engagement in Syria against Kurdish militias and distanced itself from the Kurdish organizations it previously supported — has come under fire from both the opposition and numerous human rights groups.

https://sputniknews.com/20221201/in-novel-twist-to-nato-saga-sweden-brings-up-criminals-hiding-in-turkey-1104917717.html

[Vicus]

Progress and Results of Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine

Following the recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics on February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine, and to completely liberate Donbass. Sputnik summarizes the course of the operation and its results.

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https://sputniknews.com/20221203/progress-and-results-of-russias-special-military-operation-in-ukraine-1099472571.html

[Vicus]

Russian Aerospace Forces Receive New Batch of Sukhoi Su-35S Fighter Aircraft

"The UAC aviation enterprise in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur [in Russia's Far East] has manufactured and handed over another batch of new Su-35S aircraft to the Russian Defense Ministry. The Government Coordination Council monitors compliance with the equipment requirements of the armed forces and observes delivery schedules," the UAC said in a statement.

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The multi-purpose fighter Su-35S is a 4++ generation airplane that passed a cycle of ground and flight tests in various operating modes. The new batch has already been transported from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant to the place of service.
UAC General Director Yury Slyusar noted that all production facilities of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant are fully loaded, but the plant manages to supply aviation equipment within deadlines stipulated by the contracts, while also meeting the needs of the Russian defense ministry.

https://sputniknews.com/20221203/russian-aerospace-forces-receive-new-batch-of-sukhoi-su-35s-fighter-aircraft-1105005983.html

[Vicus]

Russia, Ukraine and the West: As winter arrives on the battlefield, what will happen next in the conflict?

Moscow has pulled out of a key southern city but launched a major air offensive striking targets deep inside Ukraine

The battle for Kherson that we discussed in our last article ended in Ukraine’s favor – but with a small twist: there was no actual battle. For three weeks, Russia evacuated not only residents who wished to leave the city – and the right bank of the Dnieper River – but even monuments that the adversary entering the city might find objectionable.

By November 10, the last of the military personnel had left the right bank of the Dnieper, and after they crossed they blew up the bridges (included the long-suffering Antonovsky Bridge) spanning the river, as well as the overpass across the Kakhovka reservoir dam.

Ukrainian forces entered the city a day or two later, and the entire maneuver took place without any noticeable fighting. It may so happen that the border of Kherson Region will be fixed for a long time, years or even decades, along the Dnieper River.

If we summarize the ground strategy of the Russian Army throughout its campaign, after the initial February offensive, it can be formulated as follows: we do not attack anywhere except Donbass; we do not hold on to land and cities; if defense is fraught with costs and losses, we do not hesitate to retreat. It is impossible to say whether this is a forced decision or a pre-selected policy, due to the fact that the military objectives of the special military operation have not been publicly stated.

In Donbass, meanwhile, the slow grinding down of the Ukrainian defenses continues. The Wagner forces, together with the militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic – which is now part of the Russian army – are gradually moving on the town of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), for which we had anticipated battles back in July. Photographs from this part of the front are now reminiscent of scenes from the First World War: knee-deep trenches in the mud, ground pockmarked with holes from exploded shells, and bare burnt tree trunks.

On the rest of the front there is still a lull. Meanwhile, the main development in recent weeks has been Russia’s transition to using long-range precision weapons virtually all across Ukraine. In contrast to previous phases (with the possible exception of the very start of the operation) there are now regular strikes by air and sea – and probably ground-launched cruise missiles – as well as by loitering munitions.

The target of the strikes, as far as can be judged from both official statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense and objective data (not to mention the reaction of Ukrainian officials), is primarily energy infrastructure. The reason for this choice seems to lie in the high degree of ‘visibility’ of such a strategy and the multi-faceted strategic impact it has on Ukraine's defense capabilities. It is possible that the choice of targets is also partly due to insufficient capabilities in reconnaissance and asset-targeting, and in the weapons themselves, which apparently do not allow strikes against small and/or fortified targets, or 'time-sensitive' objects.

These strikes, among other things, disrupt logistics and communication, which will probably gradually reduce the flexibility of the opponent’s military machine and deprive it of initiative. However, it is too early to speak of any radical breakthrough: the effects of the current strategy are cumulative and may reach a critical stage in the near future. Given the time of year, the impact on the civilian population will be significant, and we may well see a truly tragic picture.

Another story is the situation around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. The facility itself and the adjacent city of Energodar have been under Russian control since March, while since July the plant has been subjected to regular shelling by Ukrainian forces. Russia, through the International Atomic Energy Agency, is pressing for an end to the bombing, while Ukraine is demanding the “demilitarization” of the plant – i.e., to have it transferred to its control. Contacts on the issue continue, while the plant itself has been shut down since early September.

So, what’s next? There seems to already be an active search for solutions to strengthen Ukraine’s air and missile defense capabilities, as well as a change in approach regarding the construction of appropriate systems, taking into account the accumulated experience of countering military strikes from Russia. However, this has so far been very specific, and there is the sense that protecting infrastructure is not always more important to Kiev than preventing strikes against the small number of remaining and newly delivered Western anti-aircraft missile systems.

continue: https://www.rt.com/russia/567610-russia-ukraine-and-west/

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1599325128533299201

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Victoria Nuland visited Kiev yesterday

Her main statements:

▫️My main signal is a signal of solidarity these days, when Putin has moved to a new level of barbarism. However, Ukraine is winning this war, Putin is losing it, and we support you.

▫️Diplomacy is obviously everyone’s goal, but you have to have a partner ready for it. And it is absolutely clear,whether it is attacks on energy, rhetoric from the Kremlin and the general attitude- Putin is insincere and not ready for this.

▫️You have seen that not only the United States, but also other members of the G7 have come out to the Kremlin with signals that it is absolutely unacceptable and irresponsible to scatter these hints about the use of nuclear weapons. Russia has already made itself an outcast, but we have explained that the use of nuclear weapons will have a response and consequences of an incomparable level. Our response was united, and after that Russia switched to a fundamentally different weapon, launching attacks on the energy infrastructure.

▫️Russia has moved the war from the battlefield to civilians, to people’s homes, which in itself is an absolutely unacceptable escalation. After all these talks about nuclear weapons, which were very dangerous, threatening and unacceptable, and when we explained what the price would be for Russia, then Putin decided to do something else. And with this “other” you have to live now.

▫️It was important for the United States and its allies to avoid price blackmail from Russia itself when agreeing on the marginal price. This price should have a double effect. It will ensure that Russian oil remains on the market, and this will avoid a price increase if Russia simply leaves and the volume of oil available on the market decreases. But at the same time, we set the maximum price that anyone should pay for Russian oil.


https://azgeopolitics.com/?p=2942

Nuland was reminded of Russia’s position on the inadmissibility of nuclear war by Zakharova

Nuland has defeated herself yet again, and it is not for her to teach the world, according to Zakharova.

Nuland was reminded of Russia’s position on the inadmissibility of nuclear war by Zakharova.

In response to US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s statement about Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s energy system, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it was not for Washington to teach the world — the US and NATO destroyed power grids all over the world.

Zakharova cited Nuland’s statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin decided not to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine due to harsh warnings from other countries. Russia, according to Nuland, “has moved to a fundamentally different weapon, launching attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which are unacceptable.”

“Victoria Nuland has defeated herself again: first, they inflated the topic of Russia’s nuclear threat through controlled media and “think tanks,” and now they are attempting to shift from a sore head to a healthy one: allegedly nuclear armageddon did not come because of “harsh warnings” (and not because no one on this side of the border planned it),” wrote Zakharova in her Telegram channel.

[Ravenlocke]

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Macron promised to supply Ukraine with more weapons without weakening the French army

According to France Info, French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to supply additional weapons to Kiev. According to the French president, the government forces industrialists to produce military equipment faster and more efficiently for these purposes, and it also employs weapons intended for export to other countries. At the same time, Macron emphasized that these supplies do not weaken the French army and reminded Ukraine that France does not supply it with weapons capable of attacking Russia on its territory.

Macron promised to supply Ukraine with more weapons while not weakening the French Army.

According to France Info, French President Emmanuel Macron stated in an interview with French media that his country will provide additional weapons to Kiev.

“We are forcing our industrialists to produce faster and more efficiently,” explained the French president. According to him, France manages to “play on time” and quickly deliver the available equipment in order to ensure an uninterrupted supply of weapons to Ukraine. Sometimes Kiev receives large quantities of weapons that have already been sold to other countries that do not require them.

Furthermore, according to the president, France has established a mechanism that allows the Ukrainian military to visit industrialists and purchase existing equipment, as well as worked on the possibility of using European financing for these purchases.

“We never weaken our own armed forces’ ability to protect our land and citizens… we never supply weapons… allowing Russia to attack on its territory,” Macron said.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1599387561004519424

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https://twitter.com/DagnyTaggart963/status/1599395651741106176

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1599384537414279171

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Spriter0000/status/1599408996657438720

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[Bill Ryan]

So few western media platforms are reporting this ongoing (and escalating) slaughter. It's the only word to use. :flower:

https://t.me/intelslava/42196
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1599406721369186304

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https://twitter.com/johnnyjmils/status/1599343105047601152

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://www.rt.com/russia/567635-putin-donbass-visit-time/

Kremlin comments on potential Putin Donbass visit

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a visit to Donbass in the future, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The former Ukrainian territory voted to join Russia earlier this year.

“It will happen in due time, of course. It is a region of the Russian Federation after all,” Peskov told reporters on Saturday.

Peskov added that Putin does not have “concrete plans for now” for the visit.

The predominately Russian-speaking Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) broke away from Ukraine shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev.

The DPR and LPR, along with two other former Ukrainian territories, joined Russia after residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move in late September.

Putin has said that protecting the people of Donbass is one of the main objectives of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. Since the conflict began, he has also accused the Ukrainian military of committing genocide of the local population.

READ MORE: Ukrainian shelling kills civilians in Donetsk – authorities
Russian and local troops pushed Kiev’s forces out of the LPR by early July, though heavy fighting in the DPR continues as local officials report constant shelling of civilian areas. Three people were killed and five wounded in a Ukrainian rocket attack on Donetsk on Friday, according to the DPR authorities.

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1599392146045677569

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1599428227964891136

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[Ravenlocke]

Remember the video of the Russian soldier filmed in a trench trying to avoid getting killed from grenades dropped by a drone on him. It seems he survived. :flower:

https://twitter.com/OCanonist/status/1591017713484566528

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/johnnyjmils/status/1599416694719381504
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1598808690748006419

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The soldier in the first video is telling his wife that he was captured and will not be killed.

https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1599082033124626432

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1598551900227620865

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[Ravenlocke]

Translated from Russian by Google
Well, today they have already begun to surrender, they knew that they were surrounded, so some are surrendering, and some are already preparing to leave the city.
but there are some neo-Nazi Azov idiots who are currently shooting at those Ukrainian fighters who wanted to surrender

https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1599379069786763269

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[Ravenlocke]

Video of what the surviving children of Donbas have to say after being bombed for the last 8 years,

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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1599446611788062720

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[Ravenlocke]

“ Here we only operate on emergencies without anesthesia, otherwise they would risk dying under the knife”, says Serhji, the surgeon, who is only 28 years old”


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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Eva2]

'Ukraine to prepare law banning churches 'affiliated' with Russia
By Dan Peleschuk and Max Hunder
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-orders-probe-into-russian-linked-church-says-zelenskiy-2022-12-01/

KYIV, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The Ukrainian government will draw up a law banning churches affiliated with Russia under moves described by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as necessary to prevent Moscow being able to "weaken Ukraine from within."

In a move condemned in Moscow, Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council told the government to draft the law following a series of raids on parishes that Kyiv says could be taking orders from Moscow as Russia wages war on Ukraine.

The security council, which groups top security, military and political figures, also ordered investigations into suspected "subversive activities of Russian special services in the religious environment of Ukraine" and called for sanctions against unspecified individuals.

Ukrainian media quoted sources as saying a pro-Russia former lawmaker and a senior cleric already faced "personal" sanctions, but the reports could not be confirmed independently.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) also continued its raids on Friday, saying it searched at least five parishes belonging to a branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church which until May was subordinated to the Russian Orthodox Church.

It also served a notice of suspicion to a former diocese head for allegedly coordinating a pro-Moscow information campaign with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

"We have to create conditions where no actors dependent on the aggressor state (Russia) will have an opportunity to manipulate Ukrainians and weaken Ukraine from within," Zelenskiy said in his nightly address to the nation on Thursday.

"We will never allow anyone to build an empire inside the Ukrainian soul."

A spokesperson for the church, Metropolitan Kliment, said his organisation "has always acted within the framework of Ukrainian law".

"Therefore, the state of Ukraine does not have any legal grounds to put pressure on or repress our believers," he said.

RUSSIAN CRITICISM
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev described the authorities in Kyiv as "satanists" and "enemies of Christ and the Orthodox faith".

"This is how the whole Christian world should treat them," he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Orthodox Christians make up the majority of Ukraine's 43 million people. Since the collapse of Soviet rule, competition has been fierce between the Moscow-linked church and an independent Ukrainian church proclaimed soon after independence.

A July survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology of found that only 4% of Ukrainians affiliated themselves with the Moscow-subordinated church.

The branch has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine but many Ukrainians fear it could be a source of Russian influence. The Orthodox Church in Russia has backed the invasion.

Zelenskiy also said officials would look into whether the formerly Moscow-linked branch of the church was entitled to operate at the sprawling Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv.'

[Ravenlocke]

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(Note: brussinf Twitter account is suspended but they have a telegram account,
t.me/brussinf )

[shaberon]

According to France Info, French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to supply additional weapons to Kiev. According to the French president, the government forces industrialists to produce military equipment faster and more efficiently for these purposes, and it also employs weapons intended for export to other countries. At the same time, Macron emphasized that these supplies do not weaken the French army and reminded Ukraine that France does not supply it with weapons capable of attacking Russia on its territory.


“We are forcing our industrialists to produce faster and more efficiently,” explained the French president. According to him, France manages to “play on time” and quickly deliver the available equipment in order to ensure an uninterrupted supply of weapons to Ukraine. Sometimes Kiev receives large quantities of weapons that have already been sold to other countries that do not require them.


Such as Taiwan..."where's our stuff?"

Cf. subsidy battles (https://southfront.org/us-aggressive-subsidies-package-amid-the-crisis-hurts-europe-and-could-divide-west/):


US President Joe Biden, under the Inflation Reduction Act, announced in August, is now allocating $369 billion (in industrial subsidies) to the green industry.

Former US vice president Al Gore this week described the Act as “the most significant climate legislation ever passed by any country”. Not everyone is so impressed, though. The catch is that this new piece of legislation requires that much of the tech (such as electric cars’s batteries and so on) be made in North America. This of course has terrible implications for Europe.

The issue is so serious that French President Emmanuel Macron, who had a meeting with Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday, warned his US counterpart the matter could “fragment the West”, while describing the subsidies as “hyper aggressive” towards European companies.


...according to two senior EU officials, the EU is preparing a huge subsidy initiative to counter the American one, in an attempt to prevent its industry from being “wiped out by American rivals.” EU industry chief Thierry Breton went so far as to say that Biden’s newest subsidy package actually poses an “existential challenge” to the European economy and industry. One EU diplomat is even quoted by the aforementioned Politico piece as saying that the Inflation Reduction Act “has changed everything” to the point of making some voices in Europe ask “is Washington DC still our ally or not?”. This in fact might be one the most fundamental geopolitical questions for the current century.


And if you live in wet trenches, you do get a French invention:

Trench foot was first reported in 1812 by the French army surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey when Napoleon’s army was retreating from Russia.


Eerie shadow of the fact that Rockefeller's Standard Oil (https://southfront.org/sleeping-with-the-third-reich-americas-unspoken-alliance-with-nazi-germany-against-the-soviet-union-2/) was the Third Reich, which was in the business of destroying Germany in order to destroy the Soviet Union.

As we see, the FTX, like NGO "charities" and so forth, is a massive whirlpool sucking in all available cash to promote all of these violent activities, which is nothing new, clearly implemented by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pilgrims' Society, who have continued this chain with few interruptions for a long time.


The Clintons and Bidens are dynasties of corruption (https://sputniknews.com/20221203/ftx-scandal-is-tip-of-iceberg-how-corruption-flourishes-on-the-hill--in-executive-residence-1104998361.html), and even:


The retired CPA cited the fact that once a netizen pushes a donate button on Black Lives Matter's official website, he or she is redirected to ActBlue.com, a Democratic and progressive fundraising group.

ActBlue then admitted that it took donations and then forwarded them to Thousand Currents, the organization that was meant to raise money for BLMGNF. One might ask why BLMGNF used such a scheme. Bishop suggested that the Democratic fundraising group took a cut of all donations before passing it along.

"A safe assumption is that actual frauds such as BLM and FTX are but a tiny fraction of total frauds," Ortel said. "As a guess, total frauds are perhaps one hundred times greater if not even larger, just in the US, not considering worldwide scams. In context, unregulated globalism is a gigantic scam in that it benefits a small handful of insiders while punishing most workers in high cost nations."

"Instead, criminal grifters see that it is far easier to steal using fake charities than it is to make lawful money in the for-profit world. So the crooked games continue and the swamp rats get bolder and bolder, for now," Ortel concluded.

[Mashika]

I truly have to wonder if people are falling for this stupidity

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[Mashika]

"You can't trust freedom when is not in your hands"
isCh4kCeNYU


So.. Who if not us?


:flower:

[gini]

Ukraine Getting Wrecked…As Predicted (John Mearsheimer, Scott Ritter)-5/12/22--20 min--AizlD7WbKl0

[Mashika]

Ukraine wants this banned/removed from history, not because of the spiritual meaning itself (but there's an aspect of that too) but because it's Russian


People agreeing with removing Russian religious history from the world, do not even have a clue what Russian church is in nature. They just are dumb puppets saying yes because saying no is not "the right thing to do"


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[Bill Ryan]

1599462364511805440I truly have to wonder if people are falling for this stupidityI don't think they are. The huge protests all over Europe start to tell the real story. And Alexander Mercouris reports regularly about the mood of the British people, which is grim, depressed and increasingly skeptical of everything they're being told by their very weak government.

This was just yesterday:

https://t.me/intelslava/42336
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https://t.me/intelslava/42326
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[Tintin]

A truly splendid piece here from Dimitry Orlov originally published in the Saker but reproduced via Vanessa Beeley's site: it does contain some dollops of wonderful wit too :)

One small point in the article: 100km² isn't a true figure - perhaps a typo - the figure being closer to, or largely in excess of 100,000 km²

A message to the CIA and MI6 here:

Do you seriously think that you can pull off a Moscow Maidan you deluded freaks? :ROFL: Jeez - see, or better still, hear Scott Ritter here in conversation with George Galloway (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1531130&viewfull=1#post1531130) you numpties

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UKRAINE: The Goldilocks War
By Dimitri Orlov
December 2nd, 2022

Source: The Wall Will Fall (https://thewallwillfall.org/2022/12/05/ukraine-the-goldilocks-war/)

Are you happy with the way the war in the former Ukraine is going? Most people aren’t—for one reason or another. Some people hate the fact that there is a war there at all, while others love it but hate the fact that it hasn’t been won yet, by one side or the other. Bounteous quantities of both of these kinds of haters are found on both sides of the new Iron Curtain that is hastily being built across Eurasia between the collective West and the collective East. This seems reasonable; after all, hating war is standard procedure for most people (war is hell, don’t you know!) and by extension a small war is better than a big one and a short war is better than a long one. And also such reasoning is banal, trite, platitudinous, vapid, predictable, unimaginative and… bromidic (according to the English Thesaurus).

Seldom is to be found a war-watcher who is happy with the progress and the duration of the war. Luckily, Russian state television shows a very significant one these almost daily. It is Russia’s president, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Having paid attention to him for over twenty years now, I can confidently state that never has he been so imbued with calm, self-assured serenity leavened with droll humor. This is not the demeanor of someone who feels at any risk of losing a war. The brass at the Ministry of Defense appear dour and glum on camera—a demeanor befitting men who send other men to fight and possibly to be wounded or to die; but off-camera they flash each other quick Mona Lisa smiles. (Russian men don’t give stupid American-style fish-eyed toothy grins, rarely show their teeth when smiling, and never in the presence of wolves or bears).

Given that Putin’s approval rating stands firm at around 80% (a number beyond reach of any Western politician), it is reasonable to assume that he is just the visible tip of a gigantic, 100-million-strong iceberg of Russians who calmly await the successful conclusion of the special military operation to demilitarize and denazify the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (so please don’t even call it a war). These 100 million Russians are seldom heard from, and when they do make noise, it is to protest against bureaucratic dawdling and foot-dragging or to raise private funds with which to remedy a shortage of some specialty equipment requested by the troops: night vision goggles, quadrocopters, optical sights, and all sorts of fancy tactical gear.

A great deal more noise is being made by the one or two percent whose entire business plan has been wrecked by the sudden appearance of the New Iron Curtain. The silliest of these thought that fleeing west, or south (to Turkey, Kazakhstan or Georgia) would somehow magically fix their problem; it hasn’t, and it won’t. The people we would expect to scream the loudest are the LGBTQ+ activists, who thought that they were going to use Western grant money to build East Sodom and East Gomorrah. They’ve been hobbled and muzzled by new Russian laws that label them as foreign agents and prohibit their sort of propaganda. In fact, the very term LGBTQ+ is now illegal, and so, I suppose, they will have to use PPPPP+ instead (“P” is for “pídor”, which is the generic Russian term for any sort of sexual pervert, degenerate or deviant). But I digress.

It can be observed rather readily that those who are the least happy with the course of the Russian campaign are also the least likely to be Russian. Least happy of all are the good folks at the Center for Informational and Political Operations of the Ukrainian Security Service who are charged with creating and maintaining the Phantom of Ukrainian Victory. These are followed by people in and around Washington, who are quite infuriated by Russian dawdling and foot-dragging. They have also been hard-pressed to show that the Ukrainians are winning while the Russians are losing; to this end, they have portrayed every Russian tactical repositioning or tactical withdrawal as a huge, humiliating defeat personally for Putin and every relentless, suicidal Ukrainian attack on Russian positions as a great heroic victory. But this PR tactic has lost effectiveness over time and now the Ukraine has become a toxic topic in the US that most American politicians would prefer to forget about, or at least keep out of the news.

To be fair, the Russian tactical cat-and-mouse games in this conflict has been nothing short of infuriating. The Russians spent some time rolling around Kiev to draw Ukrainian troops away from the Donbass and prevent a Ukrainian attack on it; once that was done, they withdrew. Great Ukrainian victory! They also spent some time tooling around the Black Sea coastline near Odessa, threatening a sea invasion, to draw off Ukrainian forces in that direction, but never invaded. Another Ukrainian victory! The Russians occupied a large chunk of Kharkov region that the Ukrainians left largely undefended, then, when the Ukrainians finally paid attention to it, partially withdrew behind a river to conserve resources. Yet another Ukrainian victory! The Russians occupied/liberated the regional capital of Kherson, evacuated all the people who wanted to be evacuated, then withdrew to a defensible position behind a river. Victory again! With all these Ukrainian victories, it is truly a wonder that the Russians have managed to gain around 100km2 of the former Ukraine’s most valuable real estate, over 6 million in population, secured a land route to Crimea and opened up a vital canal that supplies irrigation water to it and which the Ukrainians had blocked some years ago. That doesn’t seem like s defeat at all; that looks like an excellent result from a single, limited summer campaign.

Russia has achieved several of its strategic objectives already; the rest can wait. How long should they wait? To answer this question, we need to look outside the limited scope of Russia’s special operation in the Ukraine. Russia has bigger fish to fry, and frying fish takes time because eating undercooked fish can give you nasty parasites such as tapeworm and liver fluke. And so, I would like to invite you to Mother Russia’s secret kitchen, to see what’s on the cutting board and to estimate how much thermal processing will be required to turn it all into a safe and nutritious meal.

Mixing our food metaphors, allow me to introduce Goldilocks with her three bears and her porridge not too hot and not too cold. What Russia seems to be doing is keeping their special military operation moving along at a steady pace—not to fast and not too slow. Going too fast would not allow enough time to cook the various fish; going too fast would also increase the cost of the campaign in casualties and resources. Going too slow would give the Ukrainians and NATO time to regroup and rearm and prevent the proper thermal processing of the various fish.

In an effort to find the optimal pace for the conflict, Russia initially committed only a tenth of its professional active-duty soldiers, then worked hard to minimize the casualty rate. It opted to start turning off the lights all over the former Ukraine only after the Kiev regime tried to blow up the Kerch Strait bridge that linked Crimea with the Russian mainland. Finally, it called up just 1% of reservists to relieve the pressure from the frontline troops and potentially prepare for the next stage, which is a winter campaign—for which the Russians are famous.

With this background information laid out, we can now enumerate and describe the various ancillary objectives which Russia plans to achieve over the course of this Goldilocks War. The first and perhaps most important set of problems that Russia has to solve in the course of the Goldilocks War is internal. The goal is to rearrange Russian society, economy and financial system so as to prepare it for a de-Westernized future. Since the collapse of the USSR, various Western agents, such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the US State Department, various Soros-owned foundations and a wide assortment of Western grants and exchange programs have made serious inroads into Russia.

The overall goal was to weaken and eventually dismember and destroy Russia, turning it into a compliant servant of Western governments and transnational corporations that would supply them with cheap labor and raw materials. To help this process along, these Western organizations did whatever they could to drive the Russian people toward eventual biological extinction and replace them with a more docile and less adventurous race.

Starting well over 30 years ago, Western NGOs set to corrupting the minds of Russia’s young. No effort was spared to denigrate the value of Russian culture, to falsify Russian history and to replace them both with Western pop culture and propaganda narratives. These initiatives achieved limited success, and the USSR, and Soviet-era culture, has remained ever-popular even among those who were too young to have experienced life in the USSR firsthand. Where the damage has been most severe is in education. Excellent Soviet-era textbooks that taught students how to think independently were destroyed and replaced with imports. These were at best useful for training experts in narrowly defined fields who can follow previously defined procedures and recipes but can’t explain how these procedures and recipes were arrived at or to create new ones. Russian teachers, who saw their job not just in educating but in bringing up their students to be good Russians who love and cherish their country, were replaced by Western-trained educationalists who saw their mission as providing a competitive, market-based service in bringing up qualified, competent… consumers! Who are these people? Well, luckily, the Internet remembers everything, and there are plenty of other jobs for these people such as shoveling snow and stoking furnaces. But identifying and replacing them takes time, as does finding, updating and reproducing the older, excellent textbooks.

But what of the young people left behind by this wave of destruction? Luckily, not all is lost. The special military operation is providing them with some very valuable lessons that their ignorant educationalists left out: that Russia—a unique, miraculous agglomeration of many different nations, languages and religions—has been preserved and expanded over the centuries through the efforts of heroes whose names are not just remembered but venerated. What’s more, some of them are alive today, fighting and working in the Donbass. It is one thing to visit museums, read old books and hear stories about the great deeds of one’s grandfathers and great-grandfathers during the Great Patriotic War; it is quite another to watch history unfold through the eyes of your own father or brother. Give it another year or two, and Russia’s young people will learn to look with disdain on the products of Russia’s Western-oriented culture-mongers. Their elders do already: opinion polls show that a large majority of Russians see Western cultural influence as a negative.

And what of these Russian culture-mongers who have been worshiping all things Western for as long as they can remember? Here, a most curious thing happened. When the special military operation was first announced, they spoke out against it and in favor of the Ukrainian Nazis—a stupid thing to do, but they thought it good and proper to keep their political opinions harmonized with those of their Western patrons and idols so as to stay in their good graces. Some of them protested against the war (ignoring the fact that it had been going on for eight long years already). And then quite a few of them fled the country in unseemly haste.

Keep in mind that these are neither brain surgeons nor rocket scientists: these are people who prance around on stage while making noises with their hands and mouths; or they are people who sit there while makeup artists do things to their faces and hair, then endlessly repeat lines written for them by someone else. These are not people who have the capacity to analyze a tricky political situation and make the right choice. In an earlier, saner age their opinions would be steadfastly ignored, but such is the effect of the Internet, social media and all the rest, that any hysterical nincompoop can shoot a little video and millions of people, having nothing better to do with their time, will watch it on their phones and make comments.

The fact that these people are voluntarily cleansing the Russian media space of their presence is a positive development, but it takes time. If the special military operation were to end tomorrow, there is no doubt that they would attempt to come back and pretend that none of this ever happened. And then Russian popular culture would remain a Western-styled cesspool full of vacuous personae who seek to glorify every single deadly sin for the sake of personal notoriety and gain. Russia has plenty of talented people eager to take their place—if only they would keep out long enough for everyone to forget about them!

Particularly damaging to Russia’s future has been the emergence and preeminence of pro-Western economic and financial elites. Ever since the haphazard and in many cases criminal privatization of state resources in the 1990s, there was brought up an entire cohort of powerful economic agents who does not have Russia’s interests in mind. Instead, these are purely selfish economic actors who until quite recently thought that their ill-gotten gains would allow them to enter into posh Western society. These people usually have more than one passport, they try to keep their families in some wealthy enclave outside of Russia, they send their children to schools and universities in the West, and their only use for Russia is as a territory they can exploit in creating their wealth extraction schemes.

When in response to the start of Russia’s special military operation the West mounted a speculative attack on the ruble, forcing Russia’s central bank to impose strict currency controls, these members of the Russian elite were forced to start thinking about making a momentous choice. They could stay in Russia, but then they would have to cut their ties to the West; or they could move to the West and live off their savings, but then they would be cut off from the source of their wealth. Their choice was made easier by Western governments which worked hard to confiscate the property of rich Russian nationals, freeze their bank accounts and subject them to various other indignities and inconveniences.

Still, it’s a hard choice for them to make—realizing that, in spite of their sometimes fabulous wealth, for the collective West they are just some Russians that can be robbed. Many of them are mentally unprepared to throw in their lot with their own people, whom they have been taught to despise and to exploit for personal gain. A quick victory in Russia’s special military operation would allow them to think that their troubles were temporary in nature. Given enough time some of them will run away for good while others will decide to stay and work for the common good in Russia.

Next in line are various members of the Russian government who, having been schooled in Western economics, are incapable of understanding the economic transformation that is occurring in Russia, never mind helping it along. Most of what passes for economic thought in the West is just an elaborate smokescreen over this fundamental dictum:


“The rich must be allowed to get richer, the poor must be kept poor and the government shouldn’t try to help them (much).”

This worked while the West had colonies to exploit, be it through good old-fashioned imperial conquest, plunder and rapine, or through financial neocolonialism of Perkins’s “economic hit men,” or, as has recently been grudgingly admitted by several top EU officials, by taking advantage of cheap Russian energy.

That doesn’t work any more—not in the West, not in Russia or any place else, and mindsets have to adjust. There is a great deal of inertia in appointments to government positions, where there are many vested interests vying for power and influence. It takes time for such basic ideas to percolate through the system as the fact that the US Federal Reserve no longer has a planet-wide monopoly on printing money. Therefore, it is no longer necessary for Russia’s central bank to have dollars in reserve to cover their ruble emissions to defend it against speculative attack since it is no longer necessary for Russia’s central bank to allow foreign currency speculators to run rampant and stage speculative attacks.

But some results have already been achieved, and they are nothing short of spectacular: over the past few months, just a few well-chosen departures from Western economic orthodoxy have made the ruble the world’s strongest currency, have allowed Russia to earn more export revenue by exporting less oil, gas and coal, and have allowed it to drive inflation down to almost zero. Since the start of the special military operation, Russia has been able to reduce its national debt by a large amount and increase government revenues. A swift end to Russia’s special military operation may spell the end of such miracles and a most unwelcome return to the untenable status quo ante.

Beyond the intangible world of finance, equally significant changes have been occurring throughout the physical Russian economy. Previously, many economic sectors, including car sales, construction and home improvement, software development and many others, were foreign-owned and the profits from these activities left the country. And then a decision was made to block the expatriation of dividends. In response, foreign companies sold off their Russian assets, taking a huge loss and depriving themselves of access to the Russian market.

The change has been quite stunning. For example, at the beginning of 2022, Western car companies owned a large share of the Russian auto market. Many of the cars that were sold had been assembled within Russia at foreign-owned plants and the profits from these sales were expatriated. Now, less than a year later, European and American automakers are pretty much gone from Russia, replaced by a swiftly reborn domestic auto industry. Chinese automakers have immediately grabbed a large market share for themselves, while South Korea continued to trade with Russia and has held on to its market share.

Equally stunning have been changes in the aircraft industry. Previously, Russian airlines were flying Airbuses and Boeings, most of them leased. After the start of the special operation Western politicians demanded that these leases be rescinded and the aircraft returned to their owners, neglecting to take into account the fact that this would be ruinous financially (glutting the market for used aircraft for years to come and destroying demand for new aircraft) and, furthermore, physically impossible, given that there was no way to effect the transfer of the aircraft. In response, the Russian airlines nationalized the aircraft registry, stopped flying to hostile destinations where their aircraft might be arrested, and started making lease payments in rubles to special accounts at the Russian central bank.

Then came the news that Aeroflot is panning to buy over 300 new passenger jets, all Russian МС-21s, SSJ-100s and Tu-214s, all before 2030, with the first deliveries slated for 2023. There has been a scramble to replace almost all Western-sourced components, such as composites for the carbon fiber wing of the MC-21 and jet engines, avionics and much else for all of the above. Over this period many of the previously leased Boeings and Airbuses will be phased out, but these companies’ market share in the largest country on Earth will be gone forever. Damage to Western aircraft manufacturers will be matched by the damage to Western airlines. At the outset of hostilities, the collective West closed its airspace to Russia, and Russia reciprocated. The problem is that Europe is small and easy to fly around while Russia is huge and flying around it takes a whole day. European airlines suddenly found that theу can’t compete on routes to Japan, China or Korea.

Following the closing of the airspace came other sanctions, from both the European Union and from the United States, all of them illegal, since the UN Security Council is the only body empowered to impose sanctions. Right now the European Union is working on the ninth packet of sanctions, all of which have been dubbed “sanctions from hell”. Speaking of hell, Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno” there are nine circles of hell, so perhaps the sanctions juggernaut is about to run its course.

These sanctions were supposed to have swiftly destroyed the Russian economy and have caused so much social upheaval and suffering that the people would gather on Red Square and overthrow the dread dictator Putin (or so thought Western foreign policy experts). Clearly, nothing of the sort has happened and Putin’s approval rating is as high as ever. On the other hand, the good people of the European Union are indeed starting to suffer. They can no longer afford to heat their homes or to take regular hot showers, food has become outrageously expensive for them, and so much else is going wrong that huge crowds of protestors have been gathering all across Europe and demanding, among other things, an end to anti-Russian sanctions, normalization of relations with Russia and a return to business as usual. Their demands are unlikely to be met, since this would mean a major loss of face for the European leaders.

But there is a more important reason why the sanctions will stay: a return to business as usual would mean that Russia would once again provide energy and raw materials to Europe cheaply while allowing European companies to profit from the labor of Russians. This is quite unappealing and is therefore unlikely to happen. Russia is using the sanctions as an opportunity to rebuild its domestic industry and reorient its trade away from hostile nations and toward friendly nations that are fair and sympathetic in their dealings with Russia. It is also working hard to phase out the use of currencies that Dmitry Medvedev called “toxic”; namely, the US dollar and the euro.

Add to this list a wonderful new Russian innovation called “parallel import.” If some company, in complying with anti-Russian sanctions, refuses to sell its products to Russia or to service or upgrade its products in Russia, then Russia will buy these products and upgrades from a third or fourth or fifth party without permission from the US, the EU or the manufacturer. If a certain brand-name product becomes unavailable, the Russians simply rename the brand and make the same product themselves, or have the Chinese or another trade partner do it for them. And if the West refuses to license its intellectual property to Russia, then that intellectual property becomes free in Russia.

This works particularly well with software: free copies of brand-name software are just as good as the paid-for copies, and if tech support, training or other associated services become unavailable from the West, the Russians simply organize their own. Intellectual property of various sorts makes up a large portion Western notional wealth, and Western sanctions are having the effect of letting Russia make use of it free of charge. Thanks to modern digital technology, it works rather well with hardware too. Instead of painstakingly reverse-engineering products, now the same effect can be achieved by buying the 3D models on a thumb drive and 3D-printing them or automatically generating the mill and drill paths to create them on an NC mill. Putin likes to use the expression “tsap-tsarap” to describe this process. It is hard to translate directly but pertains to the act of a cat snatching its prey with its claws. The short of it is, what Russia previously had to pay for is now, thanks to sanctions, free to it.

Since the Goldilocks War is, after all, a sort of war, we need to briefly discuss its military aspects. Here, too, a steady-as-she-goes approach seems to be the most copacetic. The stated goal is to demilitarize and denazify the former Ukraine, and to some extent this has already been achieved: most of the armor and artillery that the Ukraine had inherited from the USSR has already been destroyed; most of the diehard Nazi battalions are either dead or a shadow of their former selves. Gone too are most of the volunteers that once fought on the Ukrainian side. After over 100000 Ukrainian soldiers “have been killed” since February 2022 (as forthrightly stated, then sheepishly denied, by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen), and after perhaps as many as half a million casualties, scores of service-age men bribing their way out of the country and several rounds of the draft, it is slim pickings. With well over a hundred Ukrainian casualties a day the pickings are bound to get even slimmer over time. Foreign mercenaries have been used to fill the gap—Anglos, Poles, Romanians—but there is a major problem with them: as Julius Caesar pointed out, lots of people are willing to kill for money but nobody wants to die for money—except an idiot, I would add. And on NATO’s Russian front an idiot and his life are soon parted. Up-to-date information on Russian casualties is a state secret and the only number divulged by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in late September 2022 was 5937 killed since the start of the campaign. Casualty rates are said to have been significantly lower since then.

At present, there is still no shortage of idiots on the Ukrainian side—yet—and neither is there a shortage of donated Western weaponry. First came used Soviet-era tanks and other weapons systems donated from all over Eastern Europe; then came actual Western weapons systems. And now throughout NATO one hears plaintive cries that they have nothing left that they can give to the Ukrainians: the cupboard is empty. Nor can they manufacture more weapons in a hurry. To start churning out weapons at the same rate as Russia is doing, these NATO members would first need to reindustrialize, and there are neither the human resources, nor the money to do so. And so the Russian army grinds away, demilitarizing the Ukraine, and the rest of NATO with it. In the process, it is perfecting the art of fighting a land war against NATO—not that a single NATO country would even entertain such an idea.

Perhaps this is mission creep, or perhaps this has been the plan all along, but what Russia is doing at this point is destroying NATO. You may recall that a year ago Russia demanded that the US honor certain security guarantees it made as a condition for allowing the peaceful reunification of Germany; namely, that NATO would not expand eastward. “Not an inch to the east” was how the official record of the meeting reads. Gorbachev and Shevardnadze failed to get this deal on paper and signed, but a verbal deal is a deal. A year ago Russia’s offer was quite moderate: that NATO withdraw to its pre-1997 borders, when it expanded to Eastern Europe.

But, as usually happens when negotiating with the Russians, their initial offer is usually the best. For all we know, based on how things are going in the Ukraine, Russia’s best and final offer may require NATO to disband altogether. After all, the Warsaw Pact disbanded 31 years ago but NATO is still around and bigger than ever; what for? To fight Russia? Well, then, what are they waiting for? Come and get it! This may not even take the form of a negotiation. For example, Russia could say, take a quick whack at Latvia (it richly deserves a whack or two for abusing its large native Russian population Nazi-style) and then stand back and say, “Come on, NATO, come and die heroically on our doorstep for poor little Latvia!” At this, NATO officials will stand united but very quiet, thoughtfully examining their own and each others’ shoes. Once it becomes clear that there will be no offers to launch World War III to avenge Latvia, NATO will quietly dry up and blow away.

Finally, we come to what is perhaps the least important reason for the Goldilocks War: the former Ukraine itself. In view of Russia’s other strategic goals, it seems more of the nature of a sacrificial piece in a chess gambit. Given what Russia has already achieved over the past nine months—four new Russian regions, six million new Russian citizens, a land bridge to Crimea, irrigation water supply to Crimea—there isn’t much left for Russia to achieve militarily before its military campaign reaches the stage of diminishing returns. The addition of Nikolaev and Odessa regions and full control of the Black Sea coastline would, of course, be most valuable; control of Kharkov and Kiev somewhat less so. Control of the entire Dniepr hydroelectric cascade is a definite nice-to-have. As for the rest, it could be left to languish for ages as a deindustrialized, depopulated wasteland, labeled “Mostly harmless.”

Let me divulge a personal detail or two. Two of my grandparents were from Zhitomir, my father was born in Kiev, my first romantic interest was a girl from Odessa, and over the years I’ve had as many friends from Odessa, Kharkov, Lvov, Kiev, Donetsk, Vinnitsa and elsewhere as anywhere else in Russia. Russia? You read that right: there is no way to convince me that so-called “Ukrainian territory” somehow isn’t Russia or that the people who live there somehow aren’t Russian—regardless of what some of them have been recently brainwashed to think. What’s more, none of these people I have known over the years ever thought of themselves as the least bit Ukrainian and they would probably view the very idea of a Ukrainian nationalist identity as symptomatic of a mental condition. The label “Ukrainian” was to them some Bolshevik nonsense; since then, Ukrainian-ness has been turned into a Western method for exploiting minor ethnic variations in order to make one group of Russians fight another group of Russians.

In case you are doubtful, let’s apply the good old duck test: Do the people there walk, quack and look like Russians? All of that territory, with one minor exception in the far west, was part of Russia for anywhere between ten and three centuries; most of the people there, and virtually the entire urban population, speaks Russian as their native language; their religion is predominantly Russian Orthodox; they are genetically indistinguishable from the rest of the Russian population. So, what happened to them?

Unfortunately, a small piece of this Russian land spent three centuries in captivity to the Austro-Hungarian Empire or as part of Greater Poland, and this poisoned their minds with foreign ideas such as Catholicism and ethnic nationalism. Unlike Russia, which is a multinational, multi-ethnic, religiously diverse monolith, the West is a mosaic of ethnic nationalisms, and where there are nationalists there may be Nazis, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

As one drop of poison infects the whole barrel of wine, these Western Ukrainians, with lots of help and funds from the German Nazis, then the Americans and the Canadians, managed to infect a large part of the formerly Ukrainian territory with a fake nationalism based on a forged history and a haphazardly concocted culture. Official bans on the teaching and, eventually, the use of Russian have brought up a generation of young people who are essentially illiterate in their native Russian. They are taught in Ukrainian, but Ukrainian literacy is close to an oxymoron, since nothing of any great consequence has ever been written or published in that language and the vast majority of Ukrainian literary works are, you guessed it, in Russian.

The Russian special military operation that’s been ongoing since February 2022 has polarized the entire population. Those who had decided to be with Russia back in 2014 were, obviously, overjoyed to finally get some help from Russia. The now Russian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson gladly voted to join Russia. But as far as the rest of the former Ukrainian territory, the polarization is mostly in the opposite direction. Those who wanted to be with Russia mostly voted with their feet and are now living somewhere in Russia.

This is something that time alone can fix. Eventually the population of the former Ukraine will be forced to make a choice: they can be Russian, or they can be refugees somewhere in Europe, or they can die fighting Russians at the front. Note that even Donetsk and Lugansk didn’t make this choice right away, the way Crimea did. At that time, only some 70% of their population was in favor of leaving the Ukraine and rejoining Russia. It took eight years of relentless Ukrainian bombing to convince them to make this choice.

Over these intervening years, the diehard “Ukrainians” filtered out, leaving behind a population that was close to 100% pro-Russian. It was only then that the Kremlin granted them official recognition, sent in troops to defend them from imminent invasion and, soon after, accepted them into the Russian Federation. And now the same sort of sorting operation has to take place throughout the rest of the former Ukraine. How long will it take? Only time will tell, but it is already clear that, as far as Russia is concerned, there is no compelling reason to rush.

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Please download my books of essays:

Ready… Set… Bolt!, 2022
The Arctic Fox Cometh, 2021
The Meat Generation, 2020
Collapse and the Good Life, 2018
Collapse Chronicles, Volume V, 2017
Everything is Going According to Plan, 2016
Emergency Eyewash, 2015
Societies that Collapse, 2014
Absolutely Positive, 2012

[Ravenlocke]

Ukraine wants this banned/removed from history, not because of the spiritual meaning itself (but there's an aspect of that too) but because it's Russian


People agreeing with removing Russian religious history from the world, do not even have a clue what Russian church is in nature. They just are dumb puppets saying yes because saying no is not "the right thing to do"


r6veaj2gst8

Hi Mashika,

This is so beautiful, uplifting, really special, I love this choral music, what a huge shame if they remove it from their history. What are they afraid of ? :facepalm::raining:

[Ravenlocke]

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[Bill Ryan]

Ukraine wants this banned/removed from history, not because of the spiritual meaning itself (but there's an aspect of that too) but because it's Russian

People agreeing with removing Russian religious history from the world, do not even have a clue what Russian church is in nature. They just are dumb puppets saying yes because saying no is not "the right thing to do"

r6veaj2gst8

Hi Mashika,

This is so beautiful, uplifting, really special, I love this choral music, what a huge shame if they remove it from their history. What are they afraid of ? :facepalm::raining:~~~

The stark truth is that it's pure engineered mass-manipulated hatred of everything Russian, whatever it might be and whatever period of history it may come from.

The 'western' world, which has a centuries-old track record of destroying other cultures, has so, so much to be ashamed of.

[Lunesoleil]

The stark truth is that it's pure engineered mass-manipulated hatred of everything Russian, whatever it might be and whatever period of history it may come from.

The 'western' world, which has a centuries-old track record of destroying other cultures, has so, so much to be ashamed of.

That's exactly Bill, we are in a world of manipulation and in a society of manipulation, we must constantly seek to separate the wheat from the chaff in conscience, because often telling the truth makes us look like a conspirator. This is why truth and lies cohabit in the same spirit. Because how do you really know who is telling the truth, when both sides are sure they are right?

[Kryztian]

Ukraine wants this banned/removed from history, not because of the spiritual meaning itself (but there's an aspect of that too) but because it's Russian

r6veaj2gst8

Such beauty in this music. It is a reminder of how war is an annihilation of beauty and anything spiritual, all for material gain.

[Ravenlocke]

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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/ukraine-crimea-bridge-repaired-no-ammunition-drone-attacks-in-russia-.html


Ukraine - Crimea Bridge Repaired, No Ammunition, Drone Attacks In Russia

December 05, 2022

On October 8 a Ukrainian bomb destroyed the southern part of the car bridge to Crimea. The northern part was also slightly damaged, a passing train on the rail bridge next to it burned out. Some people in Kiev were quite happy about it:

But the train traffic resumed a day later. The northern part of the car bridge was checked and car traffic in both directions was allowed. Repair preparations for the broken southern part immediately began.

Two days later the Russian military responded to the attack with the first intense strike against Ukraine's electricity infrastructure.

Now, less than two month later, the work is already done. Four damaged bridge spans have been replaced and a new tar cover has been laid on them. Today the Russia president drove a car over it:

Putin, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, was shown on state television behind the wheel of a Mercedes, asking questions about where the attack took place.
"We are driving on the right hand side," Putin said, as he drove across the bridge. "The left side of the bridge, as I understand it, is in working condition, but nevertheless it needs to be completed. It still suffered a little, we need to bring it to an ideal state."

Putin also walked along parts of the bridge, Europe's largest, to inspect sections that are still visibly scorched.

Bidirectional traffic will now run on the southern span while the slightly damaged northern span will be repaired. This is likely to be finished before the end of the year.

Since the bridge attack the electricity infrastructure of Ukraine has received more missile attention. Today another attack followed. Kiev is again without electricity and water. It may well find that it will no longer be able to repair the damage.

One wonders what the people who posed in front of that bridge attack stamp poster think about that.

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Another bad news for Kiev is that the U.S. publicized that it has limited the range of the missile launchers it had given to Ukraine:

The U.S. secretly modified the advanced Himars rocket launchers it gave Ukraine so they can’t be used to fire long-range missiles into Russia, U.S. officials said, a precaution the Biden administration says is necessary to reduce the risk of a wider war with Moscow. The U.S. since June has supplied Ukrainian forces with 20 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers, or Himars, and a large inventory of satellite-guided rockets with a range of almost 50 miles. U.S. officials say the Pentagon has modified the launchers so they can’t fire long-range missiles, including the U.S.’s Army Tactical Missile System rockets, or ATACMS, which have a range of nearly 200 miles.
That this was published is likely a hint to Ukraine that any attempt to acquire ATACMS from some U.S. allies who also have those systems will be useless. But what happens if they provide such missile and launchers that were not disabled to use them? Is the U.S. confident that its allies will make similar modifications?

The Ukrainian war machine is running on empty because the 'west' can no longer provide weapons and ammunition in meaningful quantities. The chance to change that in any reasonable time frame is low:

“High-end conflict consumes a lot of munitions and a lot of weaponry,” Mike McCord, the Pentagon’s top budget official, said in an interview. “We are also looking at the supply chain limitations. We haven’t got this figured out just yet.”
Top Pentagon and industry officials maintain that efforts are finally ramping up to replace the weapons that the United States and its allies have shipped to Ukraine — depleting stockpiles that are deemed crucial to deterring China or other potential adversaries for years to come.
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She cited recent deals for tens of thousands of 155mm artillery rounds that the Ukrainians are using up almost as soon as they arrive. By the spring, “we will be able to do 20,000 rounds a month,” she said.

But it will take time to manufacture enough of them, she said, adding that the U.S. will get that rate up to 40,000 rounds a month in the spring of 2025.

20,000 rounds is what the Russian army uses in Ukraine on a quiet day. 40,000 rounds per day may be the average consumption, 60,000 rounds per day are fired when things get hot. It also produces enough to replace those rounds.

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This morning an explosion took place at a Russian airfield in the Volga region. The Russian military now says that it was from the debris of an Ukrainian drone that its air defenses had shot down:

AZ @AZgeopolitics - 17:13 UTC · 5 Dec 2022
🇺🇦✈️🇷🇺The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: On the morning of December 5, the Kiev regime attempted to strike with jet drones at the "Dyagilevo" and "Engels"airfields.

Ukrainian UAVs flying at low altitude in the Ryazan and Saratov regions were intercepted by air defense means

Three Russian soldiers who were at the airfield lost their lives as a result of an attack by the Kiev regime, four more were wounded and taken to hospitals.

Ukrainian UAVs fired at Russian airfields were intercepted by air defense means.

As a result of the fall and explosion of the wreckage of Ukrainian UAVs at Russian airfields, the hull plating of two aircraft was slightly damaged.

Video showed that the explosion in Saratov took place on the ground. Air defense usually explodes a drone while it is still flying. I therefore doubt that the Russian report of this is completely truthful.

One also wonders where Ukraine found jet powered, long range suicide drones. It strongly doubt that these were homemade or will become available in higher quantities.

[arwen]

Ukraine wants this banned/removed from history, not because of the spiritual meaning itself (but there's an aspect of that too) but because it's Russian


People agreeing with removing Russian religious history from the world, do not even have a clue what Russian church is in nature. They just are dumb puppets saying yes because saying no is not "the right thing to do"


r6veaj2gst8

Absolutely exquisite music.

Unfortunately Ukraine and the West have now come to represent and stand for all that is repulsive in the world. They are sick dead souls and so cannot STAND beauty, the sacred, innocence, love, decency, joy, laughter, logic, real science, intelligence and genius, the feminine, the masculine, happiness, sanity and ethics. They are a Death cult now, that is all. In the end they will consume and destroy themselves but in the meantime they are taking so much that was valuable and good with them, it is unbearable to see.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ultimateOne/status/1599788555366068225

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https://westobserver.com/news/europe/in-nikolaev-two-girls-were-raped-by-polish-mercenaries/

Ukraine did not initiate proceedings after the rape of two girls by Polish mercenaries

The police of the Ukrainian city of Nikolaev refused to initiate criminal cases on the rape of two local girls by Polish mercenaries, RIA Novosti writes with reference to an activist of the Nikolaev underground.

According to him, law enforcement agencies are following the instructions of Kyiv, which urged not to pay attention to the actions of allies fighting for the regime of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. They did not initiate criminal proceedings against the mercenaries.

The source said that the military drives around the city in cars with Polish numbers, drink alcohol and commit crimes. “We know of two cases of rape. The girls then, together with their parents, went to the police, and there they simply shrugged, said that they were our defenders, allies, there was nothing we could do,” the activist stressed.

[Lunesoleil]

Sd4mDh0Lcgk

56 years old, "Breton, polytheist and European", successively French paratrooper officer, Breton independence activist then expedition guide in the French Amazon, I decided to join the Donbass rebellion opposing the military operation launched against its Russian population in 2014 by the Maidan putschists

Engaged at the beginning of February 2015 in the army of the People's Republic of Donetsk, I served on the fronts of Debalsevo, Marinka, Dokuchaievsk, Donetsk before becoming a volunteer in 2017 in the International Piatnashka Brigade and serving on the Yasinovataya front as than sniper.

Opposed to any form of single thought (religious, economic, cultural or political) and fighting against the commodification of life committed by an amoral and criminal globalist plutocracy, I inscribe my principles and my actions in the ideal of a "conservative revolution "defending the freedom of peoples to self-determination and an ascending subsidiarity of native identities building a multipolar world.
Erwan Castel

Dombass (https://alawata-rebellion.blogspot.com/?zx=d0afbfd1ec7333c6)


Sorry, I can't translate the page with the translator because the blog content is sensitive

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A Frenchman fights in the Donbass

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Mashika]

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[shaberon]

Interesting...we just got a small taste of Ukraine out here.

Gunfire attack on two substations against "heavy equipment"...out for two days already, state of emergency, probably not back up until Thursday. Fortunately, it only affects where I work, but also about 40,000 customers.

Unless you have a backup generator, there is zilch...no traffic lights, no sewage pumps either.

Fortunately the temperature only gets down to the 40s.

FBI says they will investigate, but so far, no Right Wing or Islamic or other extremist faction has spoken.

No ability to re-route either.

That was two simultaneous attacks, including at least one gate removal. Happened about 8.30 Saturday night in the middle of business; of course, we figured it would be back in a few hours because they are usually pretty good with normal events such as downed lines. This may be a first.

I shudder to think what this is like at minus ten degrees with no relief in sight...

[Mashika]

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/05/scott-ritter-merkel-reveals-wests-duplicity/

SCOTT RITTER: Merkel Reveals West’s Duplicity

War, it seems, was the only option Russia’s opponents had ever considered.

Recent comments by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel shed light on the duplicitous game played by Germany, France, Ukraine and the United States in the lead-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.

While the so-called “collective west” (the U.S., NATO, the E.U. and the G7) continue to claim that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was an act of “unprovoked aggression,” the reality is far different: Russia had been duped into believing there was a diplomatic solution to the violence that had broken out in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine in the aftermath of the 2014 U.S.-backed Maidan coup in Kiev.

Instead, Ukraine and its Western partners were simply buying time until NATO could build a Ukrainian military capable of capturing the Donbass in its entirety, as well as evicting Russia from Crimea.

In an interview last week with Der Spiegel, Merkel alluded to the 1938 Munich compromise. She compared the choices former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to make regarding Nazi Germany with her decision to oppose Ukrainian membership in NATO, when the issue was raised at the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest.

By holding off on NATO membership, and later by pushing for the Minsk accords, Merkel believed she was buying Ukraine time so that it could better resist a Russian attack, just as Chamberlain believed he was buying the U.K. and France time to gather their strength against Hitler’s Germany

The takeaway from this retrospection is astounding. Forget, for a moment, the fact that Merkel was comparing the threat posed by Hitler’s Nazi regime to that of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and focus instead in on the fact that Merkel knew that inviting Ukraine into NATO would trigger a Russian military response.

Rather than reject this possibility altogether, Merkel instead pursued a policy designed to make Ukraine capable of withstanding such an attack.

War, it seems, was the only option Russia’s opponents had ever considered.

Putin: Minsk Was a Mistake

Merkel’s comments parallel those made in June by former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to several western media outlets. “Our goal,” Poroshenko declared, “was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war — to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces.” Poroshenko made it clear that Ukraine had not come to the negotiating table on the Minsk Accords in good faith.

This is a realization that Putin has come to as well. In a recent meeting with Russian wives and mothers of Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, including a few widows of fallen soldiers, Putin acknowledged that it was a mistake to agree to the Minsk accords, and that the Donbass problem should have been resolved by force of arms at that time, especially given the mandate he had been handed by the Russian Duma regarding authorization to use Russian military forces in “Ukraine,” not just Crimea.

Putin’s belated realization should send shivers down the spine of all those in the West who operate on the misconception that there can now somehow be a negotiated settlement to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

None of Russia’s diplomatic interlocutors have demonstrated a modicum of integrity when it comes to demonstrating any genuine commitment to a peaceful resolution to the ethnic violence which emanated from the bloody events of the Maidan in February 2014, which overthrew an OSCE-certified, democratically-elected Ukrainian president.

Response to Resistance

When Russian speakers in Donbass resisted the coup and defended that democratic election, they declared independence from Ukraine. The response from the Kiev coup regime was to launch an eight-year vicious military attack against them that killed thousands of civilians. Putin waited eight years to recognize their independence and then launched a full-scale invasion of Donbass in February.

He had previously waited on the hope that the Minsk Accords, guaranteed by Germany and France and endorsed unanimously by the U.N. Security Council (including by the U.S.), would resolve the crisis by giving Donbass autonomy while remaining part of Ukraine. But Kiev never implemented the accords and were not sufficiently pressured to do so by the West.

The detachment shown by the West, as every pillar of perceived legitimacy crumbled — from the OSCE observers (some of whom, according to Russia, were providing targeting intelligence about Russian separatist forces to the Ukrainian military); to the Normandy Format pairing of Germany and France, which was supposed to ensure that the Minsk Accords would be implemented; to the United States, whose self-proclaimed “defensive” military assistance to Ukraine from 2015 to 2022 was little more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing — all underscored the harsh reality that there never was going to be a peaceful settlement of the issues underpinning the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

And there never will be.

War, it seems, was the solution sought by the “collective West,” and war is the solution sought by Russia today.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

On reflection, Merkel was not wrong in citing Munch 1938 as an antecedent to the situation in Ukraine today. The only difference is this wasn’t a case of noble Germans seeking to hold off the brutal Russians, but rather duplicitous Germans (and other Westerners) seeking to deceive gullible Russians.

This will not end well for either Germany, Ukraine, or any of those who shrouded themselves with the cloak of diplomacy, all the while hiding from view the sword they held behind their backs.

[shaberon]

Such beauty in this music. It is a reminder of how war is an annihilation of beauty and anything spiritual, all for material gain.


Orthodox hymns are designed on modal music, i. e. Dorian, Ionic, Phrygian, etc., which obviously antedate "keys" by centuries, and have, to our ear, an "oriental" flavor. That is one sign it is the religion of Jerusalem.

The iconography is compatible, it is living and illuminated, not a dead guy on a stick.

That is why I personally love the service, which lasts about three hours, with numerous loud, enthusiastic rounds of:


Priest "Christ is with us!"

Congregation "He is and ever shall be!"


Utterly unlike any western services, which to me were grim, hideous, and repellent.

I do not quite agree with their theology, but, I have a healthy degree of respect and no issue thinking of them as spiritual brethren. That is why any truly Orthodox country or civilization is "at the table" where different kinds of societies make peaceful agreements without supremacists trying to whitewash it all.

[Michel Leclerc]

(...)

SCOTT RITTER: Merkel Reveals West’s Duplicity

War, it seems, was the only option Russia’s opponents had ever considered.

(...)

This will not end well for either Germany, Ukraine, or any of those who shrouded themselves with the cloak of diplomacy, all the while hiding from view the sword they held behind their backs.

It was to be expected. That there was a whole strategy behind it that included not only Germany and France buy also the United Kingdom (with different parts to play at different moments) casts an interesting light on the moderation the EU showed when confronting the Brexit masquerade – but of course that was also helped by lots of CobraVirus snake oil.

Insightful text.

[shaberon]

That there was a whole strategy behind it that included not only Germany and France buy also the United Kingdom (with different parts to play at different moments) casts an interesting light on the moderation the EU showed when confronting the Brexit masquerade – but of course that was also helped by lots of CobraVirus snake oil.


Rofl. Did you make that up?

The snake oil. Always a relevant term since before petroleum-based medicine, it means an impostor of traditional herbal remedies, which, for the most part, are effective. However, herbalism has this really fun masquerade in and of itself. For example, when Shakespeare's witches talk about "eye of newt", it means a mustard seed. So it is like alchemy. Runs in a code meant to confuse if not discourage outside enquiries.


To rephrase what I posted earlier, this was "my Monday":


I started to go out, and the goat had demolished the porch railing and tore into the trash. So, I re-packed the trash, loaded it up, tried to dump it, couldn't, wasn't able to get any gas, and so I could tell what was going on and just wanted to be sure it was the same in the other neighborhood, got waved off by the police, looped around for a few extra miles just to get the extended view that nothing was happening, came back with my trash, and had to go ten miles in the opposite direction for the gas.

Then I posted something that suggested there could be a possible Islamic vandalism or potential terror message to come through, and, that is not right, because if so, you need to call it Takfiri.


The political angle mentioned above is completely correct and true for the entire history of unified Germany. The monkey wrench that I can't figure out is that it was at least supposed to be of benefit to the United Kingdom, or, at least to someone who is in it, and this does not seem to be happening. However the American strategy is to let the UK take the first hit in any situation. So perhaps they have simply been expended by their allies in this manner.

[Mashika]

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Mashika can read her original post by clicking the "last edited by Bill Ryan" link (underlined in small font) at the lower left.

[Mashika]

From the guy that thinks the USSR invaded Ukraine... :p

DonbassDevushka/35204

I don't believe he has the mental capability to understand the giant amount of irony his words have lol

"We won't allow any other country to take what is ours to take, we are the land of God, we have the right to own these countries and seas! So let me be blunt, we will use or authoritarian means to prevent anyone else from taking what was given by God to us, by any means necessary"
- Things that he thinks and feels but doesn't say openly

[shaberon]

So, now some countries in the west are preparing for full on war on their own

But, there is no evidence or any kind of threat to them, they just woke up one day and decided they needed to prepare for a full on war, with no enemy declared and no reason at all



Dig this (https://sputniknews.com/20221205/we-havent-got-this-figured-out-yet-pentagon-says-of-ukraine-aid-as-us-runs-low-on-arms-to-send-1105072454.html):


“People haven’t seen [a large-scale conflict] in a while, so I think we’ve forgotten that with true industrial mobilization, there’s always a time aspect to it and it is never instantaneous,” Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics, and technology, said. “I think we’re closer to a wartime mode, which has been something I’ve been working on to build,” he added.



What is "something I've been working on"?

The context is they haven't figured out how to do any significant production. The guy wants to have a wartime industrial system. It may be attractive to companies from Europe.



Italy (https://sputniknews.com/20221205/worse-than-soviet-mortars-from-wwii-ukraines-military-rages-over-vintage-weapons-sent-by-italy-1105067888.html) currently produces several kinds of gear Ukrainians like and:


In November, the right wing coalition government elected in September's snap elections temporarily halted arms aid to Ukraine to do an accounting of domestic stocks. However, Rome issued a decree last week extending “the transfer of military means, materials and equipment to the government authorities of Ukraine” through December 31, 2023.

Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets repeatedly in recent weeks, demanding a halt to aid to Ukraine, and that the money instead be devoted to addressing the skyrocketing cost of living and the energy crises pummeling the nation.
Italy and other European countries are experiencing a major spike in inflation, food and energy costs, with nine in 10 Italians recently telling a pollster that they've been forced to cut spending to pay for necessities.



They appear to have a pretty simple discussion (https://sputniknews.com/20221204/italians-split-over-backfiring-russia-sanctions-but-govt-has-little-wiggle-room-says-expert-1105022775.html) about backfiring sanctions, and the pact of the neo-fascist PM following EU and NATO orders.




Here is a bit of insight criticising the Yellow Vests (https://thesaker.is/the-yellow-vests-at-4-years-old-their-3-greatest-historical-achievements/) for reverting to:


...a true piece of French revolutionary history transported from 1848-71 – the struggle today is the same as it was back then.

It’s a struggle against always-elitist liberalism and its attendants: oligarchical and anti-democratic parliamentarianism, free-market chaos, the anti-government ideology encapsulated by austerity cuts to social services, and the encouragement of a rat race to “become bourgeois”. The Yellow Vests took France and Europe back to 1848, when the “2nd Republic” re-ended the French monarchy and claimed the mantle of the French Revolutionary “1st Republic”. Liberalism was installed for the first time and… immediately proved that it was plagued by all the problems described above.

Liberalism has failed since 1848, and the liberalist principles (“neoliberal” is more commonly used today, in order to differentiate itself from the discredited, original “liberalism”) which underpin the pan-European project have failed today. They always fail.

...the history of Western liberalism has proven over and over that the average person’s right to live decently will never be guaranteed.



Sounds comparable. From a response to it:


...modern reactionary France was created by the invasion of the armies of the “City of London” in 1815, wherein the redcoats turned France slowly but surely into a French version of the Anglo Zionist empire. The banking oligarchy in the city of London then slowly and secretly took over the United States. So if we say the American version of the British empire created the EU in line with its capitalist agenda, that is really saying that the City of London, via its hidden domination of a no longer autonomous USA, created the EU.

So the City of London created its own preferred version of the USA, which then eventually created the EU.

Now the Tory party in London wants out of the EU so that it can protect its secret web of off shore criminal banking enterprises from any threat of EU regulation. That being the real essence of English power now. So the Tory’s had to evacuate from what was really London’s own original creation.


Ukraine is a big nexus on that web, also kind of becoming a part of Black Rock.

Maybe the British system just benefits...the system, and hasn't any personal beneficiaries.


Something like this. In the past few months alone, USAID (https://southfront.org/usaid-boosts-funding-to-ngos-and-media-in-cis-countries-to-reduce-russian-influence/) has pumped almost a quarter of a billion dollars for the purposes of subversive democracy to the following:


CIS, comprising of former Soviet states Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is a bloc of countries that the US has long struggled to expand its influence and soft power into. For this reason, USAID has significantly increased its investments in the region, with Armenia, Georgia and Moldova, periphery states of CIS, being the biggest beneficiaries of the new grants, especially NGO’s and media.

[shaberon]

This does not appear "related" to an international thread, yet, but get out your crystal ball.


This is still affecting almost 34,000 "customers", which means a meter whether attached to a home or business. Some of that is a family of five people, some of them are duplicated in the businesses, others like me who at least do not live on the Plantation, more than twenty miles away.


The power company first reported outages shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday...


Condition of "no trespassing" sign:

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I was told the Sheriff had a prayer vigil with the suspects.


On Monday afternoon, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas addressed the situation, saying the attack "appears to have been deliberate."


Low wartime industry x threat to power grid = DHS goons?


I would not be surprised to see an investigation with no motive or any leads, maybe with some political spin, most likely leading to the opportunism of some kind of build up of "national security".


8 p. m. is not any kind of "surprise attack", this required bursts of multiple, probably high powered rounds, I am guessing .30-06 or so. I don't think a .223 would do it. The sites are not exactly isolated.

The U.S. has roughly 55,000 substations. Earlier this year "60 Minutes" reported on how vulnerable they often are.

"There's a very few number of substations you need to take out in the entire United States to knock out the entire grid," Jon Wellinghoff, former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, told "60 Minutes" correspondent BIll Whitaker.



I'm pretty sure that what actually happened is already buried.

[Rizotto]

This 19 minute interview includes hilarious comments on Zelensky's corruption.

Ukraine Drone Hits Russia base 150 Miles From Moscow


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1y1rr-tEaE

[loungelizard]

Ukraine wants this banned/removed from history,

Where did you get that from? Any evidence? Mr Google doesn’t come up with anything...;)


not because of the spiritual meaning itself (but there's an aspect of that too) but because it's Russian

So therefore Ukraine must want to ban all Russian music.

But that clearly isn’t the case: the music of Tchaikovsky, for example, seems to be still being enjoyed freely by Ukrainians.
The United Ukrainian Ballet is currently in the middle of a tour performing Swan Lake, written by Tchaikovsky.
There are recent videos of musicians playing music written by Tchaikovsky from bombed-out basements in Kharkiv.
QABNVgz207A

Putin denies the right of the country of Ukraine to exist. That invoked outrage and resulted in a swell of national pride and solidarity.
As part of that need to assert their cultural identity, the government of Ukraine has voted in favour of banning some Russian music
in media and public spaces.
Just music created or performed by those who are or were Russian citizens after 1991.

That’s it. Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich etc are safe.

And it seems that the beloved and sublime “Hymn of the Cherubim” is safe too.

[TravelerJim]

Absolute madness. These "leaders" in the west are simply evil.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/third-russian-airbase-set-ablaze-drone-strike-ukraine-extends-war-across-border

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1600059117946621952
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EU countries could not agree on a new package of financial assistance to Ukraine

EU countries could not agree on a new package of financial assistance to Ukraine

The Ministers of Economy and Finance of the European Union countries at a meeting on Tuesday did not reach an agreement on a new package of macro-financial credit support for Ukraine in the amount of up to 18 billion euros for 2023, the Finance Minister of the Czech Republic presiding over the Council of the EU Zbynek Stanyura said.

“Unfortunately, we could not accept the package in its entirety,” he said during the open part of the meeting, which was broadcast on the Council’s website.

As Politico reported, Hungary blocked the possibility of an agreement.

Stanyura, on the other hand, stated that “the goal remains the same – to begin transferring (funds – ed.) to Ukraine in early January.”

According to him, the EU will seek solutions to the current crisis.

The European Commission proposed a new package of macro-financial credit support to Ukraine in the amount of up to 18 billion euros for the coming year on November 9. The EC then stated that the first funds would be transferred in January. The allocation of funds from this macro-financial assistance, however, required approval by EU countries and the European Parliament.

At the end of November, the Union’s Parliament approved the EC’s proposed support package.

The new macro-financial assistance, as envisioned by the EC, will take the form of preferential loans with maturities of up to 35 years. The first ten years are grace period, so the first loan repayments will begin in 2033.

The European Commission previously stated that this financial assistance “will help cover a significant portion of Ukraine’s short-term financing needs for 2023, which, according to estimates by Ukrainian authorities and the International Monetary Fund, amount to 3 to 4 billion euros per month.”

According to the EC, the assistance will be accompanied by reforms in the country aimed at further strengthening the rule of law, good governance, and measures to combat fraud and corruption.

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1600053176408776704
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https://azgeopolitics.com/?p=3151

Blinken: The US supports Ukraine’s return of lands lost since February

Blinken: The US supports Ukraine’s return of lands lost since February.

The US does not discuss “Ukraine without Ukraine,” according to the Secretary of State.

The US is focused on militarily supporting Ukraine and assisting it in reclaiming the territories occupied by Russia since February 24. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made this statement on Monday at The Wall Street Journal WSJ CEO Summit conference.

“Our efforts are focused on continuing to do what we are doing, which is to provide Ukraine with everything it needs for self-defense, to resist Russian aggression, to return the territories seized from it since February 24, and to provide economic and humanitarian support so that the country can resist what happens every day,” the diplomat said.

During the discussion, the publication’s journalist asked the US Secretary of State what Ukraine’s ultimate goal is and whether it is possible to discuss a possible “breakthrough” of Ukrainian troops in Crimea. Blinken did not directly respond to the question, but did point out that the US does not discuss “Ukraine without Ukraine.”

“This basically means that Ukrainians make decisions about where they want to go, when they want to get there, and how they want to get there, but with our support and the support of dozens of countries around the world,” the US Secretary of State added.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/rybar_en/status/1600144955904692224

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1600078978017959936

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[Vicus]

spider sense

We "know" from people like Scott Ritter, coronel Mac Gregor, etc. that ukros "intelligent" is run by USA first and NATO second...

today nothing "escape" from satellites watch, ukros don't do anything without permission their masters.

Every attempt in Russia territory will be result on ukros bravery/foolish/whatever...according to west prestitutes...

therefore I smell a BIG rat... "the empire of lies" just want test Russia defenses and there were weak in this case...

of all things an airfield with non less full with bombers with nuclear capabilities...do the math...

We know from the beginning that ukros are dispensable, therefor this late attempt Serves wayyyy... another purpose...

Sincerely I hope I'm wrong or just paranoid (our "normal" state this days...)

[Ravenlocke]

Serbia

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AniaKoniec/status/1600163804779716608

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You can read the OSCE 2015 war crimes report in the above picture.


“2015 OSCE report
The prisoners were electrocuted, beaten cruelly and for multiple
days in a row with ditterent obiects (iron bars, baseball bats, sticks, bayonet knives
rifle batons)
Techniques widely used ov the Ukrainianarmed forces and secunh
forces include waterboarding, strangling with a 'Banderist garrotte and
other types of strangling
In some cases prisoners, for the purposes of intimidation, were sent
to minefields and run over with military vehicles, which led to their
death.
Other torture methods used by the Ukrainian armed forces and
security forces include bone-crashing, stabbing and cutting with a knife
branding with red:hot obiects, shooting different bodv parts with small
arms.
The prisoners taken captive by the Ukrainian armed forces and
security forces are kept for days at freezing temperatures, with no access
to food or medical assistance, and are often forced to take psychotropic
substances that cause agony.
An absolute majority
of prisoners are put through
mock firing
squads and suffer death and rape threats to their families.
Manv of those tortured are not members of the self-defense forces o
the Donetsk and Luhansk People's”

[Vicus]

YouTube censors RT Balkans

The account of RT’s newest outlet was blocked less than three weeks after it launched

YouTube, the Google-owned video platform has blocked the channel of Belgrade-based RT Balkans. No explanation was given for Monday's move, which came about three weeks after the launch of the Serbian-language outlet in a region saturated by Western media coverage.

RT Balkans reported the ban on Monday evening, pointing out that the most recent video posted on the channel was their interview with the Russian ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko.

“Why are owners of the Western media space so afraid of RT’s Serbian-language reporting?” the outlet asked. “Their move mainly speaks about the lack of media freedom in the West, especially since the posts on your YouTube channel in no way violated the company’s rules of conduct.”

The Serbian-language news site was launched on November 15, with plans to begin TV broadcasts by 2024. It was able to open a YouTube account and post content even though the Google-owned platform had previously banned all “Russian” media

Enacted in March, the ban followed demands by the EU to block RT and Sputnik channels in the bloc’s territory. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in May, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki explained the platform had created a new policy regarding “verified violent events,” which puts “denial or trivialization” of the conflict in Ukraine in the same category as denying the Holocaust.

Meanwhile, YouTube continued to operate in Russia so that its citizens could have access to “independent news,” she said, adding that one of the lessons of the conflict in Ukraine is that “information can be weaponized.”

RT sued YouTube in May. In October, an arbitration court in Moscow ruled that video platform must unblock RT's accounts or face a daily fine of 100,000 rubles ($1,694), doubling every week. The same court had frozen Google’s assets in Russia, valued at 500 million rubles ($8.4 million), to ensure the verdict could be enforced.




https://www.rt.com/news/567727-rt-balkans-youtube-blocked/

[Vicus]

Drone attack on another Russian airfield – governor

A fuel tank caught fire following a raid in Kursk Region, which borders Ukraine

An airfield in the city of Kursk has been targeted in a drone attack, according to the governor of the southwestern Russian region. The strike comes the day after two bases, in Ryazan and Saratov Regions, were targeted with similar weapons.

Kursk is close to Ukraine, but Ryazan and Saratov are deeper inside Russia, with the latter located some 700km from the frontier.

“As a result of a drone attack, an oil storage tank caught fire in the area of the Kursk airfield. The fire is being localized. All emergency agencies are on site,” Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoyt said in a Telegram post on Tuesday morning around 7:20am local time.

There were no casualties, according to preliminary information shared by the governor.

On Monday, a number of “Soviet-made” jet drones flying at low altitude targeted long-range strategic aviation assets at the Dyagilevo airfield in Ryazan Region and Engels airfield in Saratov Region, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

he military said the unmanned vehicles were detected and shot down by air defenses, but noted that debris impacted the airfields, “slightly” damaging two aircraft. Three service members were “fatally injured,” while four more were taken to military hospitals for treatment.

https://www.rt.com/russia/567735-kursk-airfield-drone-strike/

[Vicus]

EU country refuses to train Ukrainian troops

Hungary wants to pursue peace between Kiev and Moscow, a senior official said

Hungary will not fall in line with some other EU states, and will not provide any training to Ukrainian forces during the conflict with Russia, Tamas Menczer, the state secretary for bilateral relations, has said. He added that Budapest favors a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

“In some European countries, Ukrainian soldiers are [being] trained. They won’t [be] in Hungary,” Menczer wrote on Facebook on Monday. “We say no to that. We want to move towards peace, not war,” he added.

The statement came after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban insisted that the EU should “re-evaluate” sanctions imposed on Russia if the bloc wants to get through the continuing energy crisis. Hungarian officials have repeatedly said in the past that Brussels should focus on bringing about a diplomatic solution to the conflict rather than aid Kiev militarily.

In October, the EU set up a military assistance mission for Ukraine (EUMAM Ukraine) to train 15,000 soldiers. Josep Borrell, the bloc’s top diplomat, inspected a base in Poland last week. “I told the Ukrainian soldiers: ‘We try to support you as much as we can, for as long as you need,’” Borrell told reporters.

Britain has run separate combat training courses for Ukrainian personnel. They were being taught how to handle Western weapons, as well as urban and trench warfare, and battlefield first aid, according to the UK Ministry of Defence.

Hungary earlier also broke ranks with many Western countries by refusing to send weapons to Ukraine. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in July that the conflict was “not Hungary’s war.”

Russian officials said in the past that military aid to Ukraine only exacerbates the conflict. Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu explained in September that Russia was de facto “at war with the collective West and NATO,” adding that the performance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces heavily depends on Western-supplied weapons.

https://www.rt.com/news/567757-hungary-wont-train-ukrainians/

[Vicus]

Scott Ritter: Putin Said We Had No Choice Left But To Launch Special Military Operation In Ukraine


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtY8UcPJm8U

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AniaKoniec/status/1600154710446440449

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/colonelhomsi/status/1599799395490201603

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https://twitter.com/Spriter0000/status/1599832087254532096

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/runews/status/1600024838956908545

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https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1600042366945067009
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https://tass.com/society/1546253?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share


Latvia pulls Dozhd TV channel’s license

It is reported that broadcasts by the Dozhd TV channel (TV Rain, declared a foreign agent media in Russia) will stop on Thursday, December 8

VILNIUS, December 6. /TASS/. Latvia’s National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) has revoked the broadcasting license of Dozhd TV (or TV Rain, declared to be a foreign agent media in Russia), the council’s head Ivars Abolins wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

"Due to a threat to national security and public order, today, the NEPLP made a decision to cancel the broadcasting license of the Dozhd TV channel. Broadcasts by the Dozhd TV channel will stop on Thursday, December 8," his statement said.

The Latvian broadcasting authority decided that the TV channel’s leadership does not realize the gravity of its violations and therefore cannot operate on the Baltic country’s territory, Abolins said.

On December 2, Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said that a process was launched to rescind the TV channel staff’s permit for staying in the country. Dozhd received its broadcasting license in Latvia on June 6.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Spriter0000/status/1600158675607310338

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[ExomatrixTV]

What Do Russians Think About The Ukraine War?

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What do Russians think about the war in Ukraine? In this reportage, I travel to Rostov Russia to speak to the locals about the hard facts of the War and what they think about it. As expected many of them support the decision of the Russian Government to join the war but not all. You may be very surprised by what they have to say. Now that Ukraine Drone attacks hit airfields deep in Russia in Kursk and other cities things are changing fast. Russian missile strikes continue to force emergency power shutdowns across Ukraine. The city of Bakmut / Artyomovsk seems to be almost ready to come under Russian control.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/elenaevdokimov7/status/1600192816927293440

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https://twitter.com/elenaevdokimov7/status/1600193973800169472

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1600211220845318144

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[Ravenlocke]

The bodies wiil be buried when it’s safe and demined, and DNA samples will be taken to identify the bodies so that if families are looking for them they can find them.


https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1600218521945788416

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https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1600210971393372161

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https://www.rt.com/russia/567764-russia-ukraine-combat-losses/

https://www.rt.com/russia/567764-russia-ukraine-combat-losses/

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 8,000 troops and a significant number of military equipment over the course of November, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu insisted on Tuesday.

Shoigu declared that, in November, Kiev’s losses amounted to more than 8,300 military personnel, five airplanes, ten helicopters, 149 tanks and more than 300 armored fighting vehicles. He added that Russia’s forces have inflicted considerable damage to Kiev's military potential using long-range precision weapons to conduct massive strikes against Ukrainian military command centers and military-industrial complex facilities.

In late September, Shoigu claimed that Ukrainian forces had suffered a total of more than 61,000 combat losses since Moscow launched its military operation against Kiev in February. He also noted that Russia’s losses were ten times less, at around 6,000 soldiers.

READ MORE: EU refuses to apologize for deleted post about Ukrainian casualties
While Kiev has refrained from releasing official casualty numbers of its armed forces, it has disputed the figures provided by the Russian Defense Ministry. President Vladimir Zelensky stated in September that the Ukrainian army was losing some 50 people a day, but noted that it was “five times less” than Russian casualties.

Last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen published a speech in which she claimed that “more than 100,000 Ukrainian military officers” had been killed during the conflict. The video, however, was later deleted and re-uploaded without the casualty estimate after it sparked outrage in Kiev, which claimed that it was “sensitive information” that should only be released by top Ukrainian officials.

[Mashika]

Ukraine wants this banned/removed from history,

Where did you get that from? Any evidence? Mr Google doesn’t come up with anything...;)


not because of the spiritual meaning itself (but there's an aspect of that too) but because it's Russian

So therefore Ukraine must want to ban all Russian music.

But that clearly isn’t the case: the music of Tchaikovsky, for example, seems to be still being enjoyed freely by Ukrainians.
The United Ukrainian Ballet is currently in the middle of a tour performing Swan Lake, written by Tchaikovsky.
There are recent videos of musicians playing music written by Tchaikovsky from bombed-out basements in Kharkiv.
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Putin denies the right of the country of Ukraine to exist. That invoked outrage and resulted in a swell of national pride and solidarity.
As part of that need to assert their cultural identity, the government of Ukraine has voted in favour of banning some Russian music
in media and public spaces.
Just music created or performed by those who are or were Russian citizens after 1991.

That’s it. Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich etc are safe.

And it seems that the beloved and sublime “Hymn of the Cherubim” is safe too.

Elensky just banned the entire Russian Orthodox Church.... You must be looking at on one side of the 'news' that confirm your beliefs only. How is it possible you don't know that as from yesterday or so the entire Orthodox Church is banned and made illegal in Ukraine?

Amazing...


Anyway, you clearly chose to ignore my previous question to you. Why? (i know why but let's play that game lol)

Must be hard to find ways around the reality you try to look away from. I mean how do you go and read stuff here and other places without going all bitter because you can't deny it's the truth? Or maybe that's why you avoid reading or looking at the evidence at all, just like you did with the banning of Russian religion in Ukraine?

Are you just skipping all the posts and looking away trying to prevent your mind from going into a terrible conflict and deprogramming?

I think it's easier for you if from now on you just copy this link and post it every time you don't have answer to a 'difficult' question, like those posts showing Ukrainian soldiers killing other Ukrainian soldiers because they refuse to follow impossible and stupid orders that would get them killed for nothing. But i suppose you read the propaganda version of it that says "Russian soldiers are killing their own when they try to avoid going to fight at the front", which has zero evidence, as opposed to the Ukrainian real version of it, which has videos and testimonies of actual Ukrainian soldiers that managed to survive.

Anyway, use this meme from now on, it has as much value as your vague, beat around the bushes answers :P

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEWGio7TE2zn6ctZ7bhDKwM-n77eVLG2PDr0ZG2kzENHiV5cIFDOfsxW19KPXKkUFimhk8U0JajIILt3dr2jcbprS8rEnFLT5eMZqu28PF-YkgddkIOXqGIBf5vnUZy9ADpDn7dzYvcm9RZS5NO3E07w=s411-no

I thought you would have a good answer, something that says you have a real opinion and not just go running around the web trying to find anything that can be used as proof i'm wrong or 'pushing propaganda'. But all we always get is more of the same talking points or a post that completely ignores the current events

Too bad

[Mashika]

That’s it. Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich etc are safe.

And it seems that the beloved and sublime “Hymn of the Cherubim” is safe too.No they are not, just as the monuments to anything Soviet are being destroyed. If you don't know about the removing of Russian history from several places and countries it's you and only you who has to be blamed for that ignorance.

And of course there are people taking refuge in shelters, that's what happens when there is war

So tell me, were you making the same comments when Ukrainians in Donbass were living underground for 8 years and being unable to have normal lives because the UkroNazis kept shelling their cities every day non stop, for 8 full years?

Or your programming doesn't allow you to understand why and how this happened? I mean they were not Russian, they were/are Ukrainians, and i thought you were a supporter of Ukrainians, so where's the cry for justice for the Ukrainian people in Donbass that have been killed by their own government?

Also you sound extremily butthurt and resentful here lol. I bet your hands were trembling a bit from the hate you felt while typing that


And it seems that the beloved and sublime “Hymn of the Cherubim” is safe too.
Did you start pushing out vapor from your ears and eyes were red and there were veines popping out on your forehead? It sure looks like you went through that just typing that sentence lmao

~~

I'm still waiting for your honest reply to this post. sure you must have an educated opinion about this issue, right?
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1530596&viewfull=1#post1530596


I have a question, if you look at the recent Grad shelling of Donetsk, which hit homes and civilian structures only, what are your thoughts, considering this:

- HIMARS and other MLRS like Grad, are offensive weapons, you don't use those for defensive positions in almost 99% of cases due to the nature of the system. It is meant to hit lots of targets at once but it requires to know exactly what you will hit, specially for the HIMARS, otherwise it causes massive destruction but it may not cause any harm to the attacking troops as they move around. It is more specializes for usages such as hitting stationary/static targets, like buildings and such
- Given that it is an offensive, and not a defensive weapon, it's usage against civilian structures is considered 'aggression' and in no way a defensive move. For it to be a defensive move, it would have to target a silo or another building or possibly even barracks where the enemy is located. It will also be used as defensive only if you shoot at them a barrage of shells and they pinpoint your location and send a barrage of himars or grads your way, that would be 'defensive' in action, since the 'enemy' started firing and then you respond

So, if a city with only civilians is hit by a barrage of grads, meant for offensive action, and there was no enemy there. Is that a war crime?

It doesn't necessarily have to be HIMAR or Grad rockets, you can get the same effect with 152/155 shells from a Howitzer if close enough to the target. The main or key issue here is, the target was a city full of civilians, hit at random which was just standing there and from where no attack was launched against the Ukrainian forces.

What are your thoughts on this event? How do you catalog this action?

The UN has not provided any comment on it, or has done it's usual tweet about condemning this attack against civilian population. Would you condemn the Ukrainian forces for what is clearly a well documented war crime by now? With video and other evidence already collected?

Second question, why do you think the entire west is silent about this shelling?


If you need more time to write something up i'll keep reminding you. No need to thank me :highfive:

Also, since you have clearly displayed a lack of will to read or view any posts on this thread, and that was made clear by how you lack knowledge of current events from even one day ago, i'll help you out with a couple links, add this to my previous request about how do you feel or think about Ukraine's war crimes

I think this is normal for the Nazis, i mean they were killing their own civilians, children and elderly and everyone they could get for almost 9 years now, what's 3 or more soldiers, they do not care for their own, that was made perfectly clear long ago.
"ANOTHER VIDEO CONFIRMED EXECUTION OF UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS BY THEIR BROTHERS IN ARMS"
https://southfront.org/in-video-another-video-confirmed-execution-of-ukrainian-soldiers-by-their-brothers-in-arms/

And here's the one that was posted before but you probably avoided looking at because it could lead to you having to face reality for once
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Again, don't blame me, you have failed to look at this evidence in favor of following a rotten narrative that is falling down day by day now. It won't be long before the entire world realizes the truth and then i wonder what will happen to all the people that pushed the 'nazi as a gentle innocent and kind people' narrative

[shaberon]

This is the point where I want to pluck my eyes out with spoons, and imagine my neighbors are incarnations of bad ideas with no value in life.

This is why we don't want any of them to participate in any political process.


Speculation about the destruction of our electricity has been pointing fingers at:



...it just happened that the person who was leading the protests against the drag show quite literally implied that it was due to the drag show being protested and that this violent action took place to cancel the drag show,” she said. “This is much more than a coincidence,” she said.


But if you wanted to shut down specifically this:


The speculation comes less than a month after a gunman opened fire in the LGBTQ-friendly Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing five people and injuring more than a dozen others. A motive in that shooting remains unclear.


Such ideas are part of who is fighting for your freedom:


Rainey, a former U.S. Army psychological operations officer, who left the military while under investigation for leading a group of people from North Carolina to the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, has been a vocal opponent of drag shows in the state.

In a follow-up post, along with a photograph of the Sunrise Theater, she wrote: “God will not be mocked.”

I told them that God works in mysterious ways and is responsible for the outage. I used the opportunity to tell them about the immoral drag show and the blasphemies screamed by its supporters.


That's right...your psyops are mostly coming from mono-culture.

I am not sure that makes the opinion true, "it was about a drag show". Nothing special about these. What is true is I personally got in this fight in my freshman year of college. I am not on a side. I just saw harassment. I was able to get the outward behaviors stopped. Then I entered the Christian lair to see if I could get their minds to work, and, no, you can't do that. I left early.

I went to a drag bar and at least they were friendly to me.

[Sheriff] Fields said Rainey’s posts were “false,” and that authorities spoke with her and determined her social posts to be not credible...


In terms of the attack, only one of the substations would have been adequate to power down the show. I knew something was off that night when I went home and the outage obviously covered too much territory. What was shutdown was not just a show, but, a bedroom community of brass, Majors and up. How are you changing someone's deviant nature by making the Major essentially an un-ranked civilian going in line to get stuff for his kids?? Wouldn't this strategy boomerang in your face? It's great if the goal is to overwhelm the whole community, and just imagine how it might go in a place of true brotherly love like Philadelphia. You would not go more than 24 hours without violence erupting like wildfire.


Remember, they hate gay people, Chinese, and anyone else who is not like them, on sight. There is nothing you can say because they idolize supremacy. That is what the stars and stripes have come to be about. Obviously, it would be really difficult to de-militarize and de-nazify even this small area.


At first I was leery it was a copy of what just happened in Germany. At least that had a motive, removal of a lot of gold. Here, we have not gotten any corresponding crime or message or anything. Just an example of how you can do untold millions of dollars of damage with only a few bullets.


Since 2001, we were "warned" about how Al Qaeda was going to do stuff like this, which never happened, from what I remember. No bombs or other destruction of apartment complexes, dams, substations, or anything big like that. So we made this big, expensive DHS which has never really done anything, and it looks like "homeland security" has just been interrupted by...almost anyone who lives around here. All they have to do is get mad, and an act like this is almost trivial. And it is easy to make them mad.


I think it continues to show that there is no way for these people to make any kind of valid international understanding about something like Russia; moreover, they will require increasing fascist protection mostly from "the enemy within".

We will see how this adds fuel to Federal operations, but, obviously, "our side" does not really have a leg to stand on when representing itself as a great defender against Russia by way of cranking other fascist meat grinders.

[shaberon]

No they are not, just as the monuments to anything Soviet are being destroyed.


Apparently the same mentality of attacking our Confederate statues.

We went through the trouble of educating an entire generation about States' Rights (as opposed to Federal authority) *before* attacking Fort Sumter. Now we have a South Carolina Catholic Zionist in office!! Has reality been inverted yet?


The "strong Federal force" that amassed itself in the 1860s is still the major problem of today. It began by killing those it claimed were its own subjects (i. e. civilians). Dissent remained so bad that we were forced to re-write our State Constitution in 1971 so that we cannot secede. Trapped! In fact, the few places that I can even find a Confederate flag any more, it is almost paired with an American one.

Our population, generally, was highly averse to these things, up through the period of the Bolsheviks. They understood that too! But since around the Nazi era, revisionism finally was able to distort everything so badly and indoctrinate it through brainwashing camps, that it is almost impossible to bring it to the surface again. Not to an American. I think maybe the subjected Hawaiians retain some of the memory, and that would be about it.


Russia is at least in the position that it *is* an ancient culture, whereas "America", at most, was a temporary escape from the British Empire. Since we surrendered back to it, and, this is the same as the Nazis and Pan-Europa, there is nothing to "stand for". You can let it "stand on you" and that's about it.

[Ravenlocke]

Posted by Mashika here,
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1531505&viewfull=1#post1531505

“ Did you start pushing out vapor from your ears and eyes were red and there were veines popping out on your forehead? It sure looks like you went through that just typing that sentence lmao”

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

Sorry still laughing 😂 😂😂😂😂

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1598688290533777409

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https://twitter.com/the_inteldrop/status/1599041387219095552

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https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1598779466179874846

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[Ravenlocke]

Jackson Hinkle got suspended on Twitter for this

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[Mashika]

Also, for a deeper explanation, i would like to note this


There's a tremendous amount of information posted here by Ravenlocke. Most people would not even know how much time and effort it takes to curate a gigantic amount of info to extract only the valuable items and leave behind fake info and all other kinds of disinfo out there


No one seems willing to post opposite views. Is this because they can't, or because they don't care? That would be odd, to not care to expose an opposite view, if they do have one


I mostly see, when someone replies in anger or accusing this to be a 'chamber' of sorts, they never, ever, provide anything but a talking point. Why? The thread is open to anyone, why feel you can't post your opinion? Unless you fear that it is not 'yours' and you will be called to it?



I think i have also a second comment to make, which may be deeply related to this entire affair


Fear <---------------------------> Love
Russia <----------------------------> Ukraine


See that? It's called the "life line", a more in depth explanation follows below.

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[Mashika]

Slowly, but surely, the truth is filtering out, no amount of propaganda can stop this


I guess he will probably be demonized, but i do also think that there's no way to hide this truth from the world much longer, at some point you have to accept it, and at some point, if the support for Nazis does not stop, they will feel so safe and secure on their perfect world, they will come out to the world as what they are, expecting everyone to follow behind them simply because they expect the brainwashing must have worked enough and in a good way so that people are not able to go back anymore. People will feel the social pressure to agree, they depend on that at a local but also at a global level

"Serfs will serf"


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Fortunately, i am not a careless person, i have already found a place for all the people with their little ukronazi flags on their social profiles to live under after this entire thing comes to light the way it actually is, here's where to go live without any regrets or repercussions, until the next 'government directed social warrior movement' comes around


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[Hym]

Ahhh Yes. Butt Rock International Park. Somewhere in the West, but far away from cowboys, cowgirls, ponies and real cows themselves.

I heard they have an anal, I mean annual, Beavis and Butthead festival there every year, where thousands of partiers can be seen burying their heads in the sand, leaving only their behinds exposed, just as we see depicted in the actual monument itself.

In the picture above we see that the head of the god of darkness, as well as most of the body itself cannot be seen, as it too is buried deep in the earth.

It's common knowledge that revelers can still hear the chant "Cornholio, Cornholio, Cornholio" for weeks after the festivities are over. We hope so.....

We do expect that in the coming earth changes a time will arise when all of the deep subterranean gases, the ones that have darkened the crack, the hole, the entrance into the bowels of Butt Rock will be released.....

Trapping as many of the pagan worshippers deep inside, according to our calculations, at least the ones we have been paid for.

Do we even have to extend an invitation to the Ukrozies?
I think not.

They and their masters know quite well where they are welcomed....

And where they will not have to wait for any earth changes to be sent to those bowels.

[Mashika]

Ahhh Yes. Butt Rock International Park. Somewhere in the West, but far away from cowboys, cowgirls, ponies and real cows themselves.

I heard they have an anal, I mean annual, Beavis and Butthead festival there every year, where thousands of partiers can be seen burying their heads in the sand, leaving only their behinds exposed, just as we see depicted in the actual monument itself.

In the picture above we see that the head of the god of darkness, as well as most of the body itself cannot be seen, as it too is buried deep in the earth.

It's common knowledge that revelers can still hear the chant "Cornholio, Cornholio, Cornholio" for weeks after the festivities are over. We hope so.....

We do expect that in the coming earth changes a time will arise when all of the deep subterranean gases, the ones that have darkened the crack, the hole, the entrance into the bowels of Butt Rock will be released.....

Trapping as many of the pagan worshippers deep inside, according to our calculations, at least the ones we have been paid for.

Do we even have to extend an invitation to the Ukrozies?
I think not.

They and their masters now quite well where they are welcomed....

And where they will not have to wait for any earth changes to be sent to those bowels.

LMFAO!

And i need to finish watching that series "Beavis and Butthead", i think the person who lead me to it was Stina Maria, i have not heard from her in a long time, she's very smart and funny, i missed our short but valuable conversations :)

She also told me about another series from back in the 90's at the MTV channel, one about a guy having a purpple alien living inside his head. I also have to rewatch that, very good shows actually



Trapping as many of the pagan worshippers deep inside, according to our calculations, at least the ones we have been paid for.

The earth shall embrace them with a lots of warm and 'forget it all' gasses lmao



Butt Rock International Park


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[Mashika]

Let's diffuse the strange toxic atmosphere with some funny toxic cringe biased toxicity :p

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[Mashika]

Babidi babidi boo


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I always thought i had a very hard job back in Donbass, but this lady takes it all. Just imagine having to go out there to explain this crap to millions of people, the pressure has to be so tremendous she has a stomach made out of diamonds (not russian ones) to endure having to out and speak up this world salad trying to twist things around enough to 'fake it one more day'.

My respects, i never had to endure such thing, this is a job for hard core people

[Mashika]

Ukrainian soldiers giving up the real situation now, regardless of the fake western new and propaganda, they are just simply dying out there

And i can tell you, because i told this before long ago, that yes, you can't just start a fire to heat yourself because you will be found out, so either you risk it or freeze or try to survive the cold through other means. It looks like they were not prepared or had the necessary stuff to survive without a fire, so they rather give up their position and die or get captured. At this point, it's probably one of those options are better than to spend a night out there without heat and then freeze to death

But the idiotic western news say that the Russian army is without winter clothing and unable to survive winter. As usual, whatever the western media says about Russia, you mostly can reverse 100% and assume it is Ukraine who is going through that

I don't wish this to anyone, ever

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[Mashika]

Big respect for Commander Andrey Filatov, he's the real deal, he was in Syria and in Donbass back at the beginning of this thing. He has been 300 several times (hit in battle) and he recovered and went back. He's no joke and i have the biggest respect for him because i know he's been truly out there

If you use Telegram, this is his channel, some of the stuff he posts is almost street level, and sometimes it does come directly from his personal camera while in between the battle, he doesn't shy away from the battle and uploads as much as he can, without risking breaking the rules, he's very professional

https://t.me/FilatovCorr

He also had a youtube channel he abandoned years ago, but equally impressive
https://www.youtube.com/@AndreyFilatov888/featured

Here he is in Donbass around 2015. He got hit right there lol, he stood out in the open for too long and the same as for the other guys, so they got targeted by the rpg, and he got hit on the stomach i think, by the shrapnel, but he recovered and went back to action soon after. I also love the old novorossiya uniforms lol, the plain ones, no modern cammo for real but functional and warm
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He truly goes into battle, while recording all the events live, is not like he's just sitting out there a 1000 kilometers away, and that's why i respect him a lot

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[Bluegreen]

LMFAO!

And i need to finish watching that series "Beavis and Butthead", i think the person who lead me to it was Stina Maria, i have not heard from her in a long time, she's very smart and funny, i missed our short but valuable conversations :)

Actually, I think it was me when I told you what "Cornholio" meant. :p

[Mashika]

LMFAO!

And i need to finish watching that series "Beavis and Butthead", i think the person who lead me to it was Stina Maria, i have not heard from her in a long time, she's very smart and funny, i missed our short but valuable conversations :)

Actually, I think it was me when I told you what "Cornholio" meant. :p

Ohhh nooeeeees lmao

Yes i think that's correct, Stina told me about the other series with the purple alien living inside a guy's head, but you did told me about the Beavis and Butthead on more in detail, i'm so sorry :)

I still remain to finish it, but i have not had a chance so far, so it will have to wait a bit longer ;)

[Mashika]

While other people from their living rooms and nice life fake caring about Ukrainians and hate on Russia for something the Nazi caused, here's an Ukrainian girl telling it how it is, and demonstrating that the entire 'Ukrainians hate Russians' narrative is dumb and ignorant. Let the real people from Ukraine speak up, not just the Nazi ones, how about that? But of course this won't be shared in western mainstream media as other pre-fabricated videos did and do still today no matter what



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[Bill Ryan]

i think the person who lead me to it was Stina Maria, i have not heard from her in a long time, she's very smart and funny, i missed our short but valuable conversations :)Stina is one of the very very best. 'Smart and funny' doesn't even begin to describe her. :P She could earn millions on mainstream TV, or doing standup comedy.

See this wonderful thread, featuring all of her gems:


Stina Bo Bina: a star is born :)

(https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?108968-Stina-Bo-Bina-a-star-is-born--):heart:
(https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?108968-Stina-Bo-Bina-a-star-is-born--)

:focus:

[Bill Ryan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtY8UcPJm8U

This is a short video featuring an extract from a recent Scott Ritter interview. I'm bumping it because of these closing words of his. @loungelizard, PAY ATTENTION.
Take the laws that have been proposed and passed by the Ukrainian parliament. Wherever it says we ban the Russian language, we ban the Russian culture, we ban the Russian religion, we ban this.... remove the word 'Russian', insert the word 'Jew', and you have Germany 1930.

And we all agree that should never happen egain, but it's happening right now in Ukraine, funded and supported by the West.

Vladimir Putin, history will hopefully record that he was the one adult in the room who had the courage to stand up in the face of this wanton re-embrace of this war against Nazi Germany.
@loungelizard, are you an adult? What do you stand for?

You don't have to explain defensively here (because it's getting tiring), but it may be valuable for you to think about this very seriously.

[Tintin]

Here - again - the continually mighty impressive Clare Daly, MEP, tearing into continued EU stupidity with her accurate and truthful observations, delivered with typical fire and urgency :muscle:

Source: https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status/1600162388648480773

Her text, that certainly doesn't cover it all - listen to the segment

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The Ukrainian state is reeling, unable to finance services its people desperately need. But billions in EU financial assistance are not free; they're loans, which #Ukraine will default on. Meanwhile there is little oversight or assurance the funds are going where they should.

[shaberon]

No one seems willing to post opposite views. Is this because they can't, or because they don't care? That would be odd, to not care to expose an opposite view, if they do have one


I mostly see, when someone replies in anger or accusing this to be a 'chamber' of sorts, they never, ever, provide anything but a talking point. Why? The thread is open to anyone, why feel you can't post your opinion? Unless you fear that it is not 'yours' and you will be called to it?



I don't have an opposite view. It is just that it is not favorable towards my native English-speaking system. This is much like in the early days of United Lodge Theosophy, B. P. Wadia went into England and tried to obtain Dionne Fortune. She did not because "the source sounded foreign and hostile". So she became part of the Golden Dawn Alpha and Omega.

Shortly before that, HPB gave us a much better view of the assassination in St. Petersburg of Alexander II, 1881 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Alexander_II_of_Russia), because of personal contacts and things that went on in the trial.

Most specifically it had been backed by The Student Group, which was exactly that kind of Swiss-English contingency that soon promotes Bolshevism, and that which is seen as Nihilism in Russia. She also said it had been made possible by a Rothschild bank. She was hyper aware of this situation from the Italian and Greek Carbonari attempting to oppose it.

Then she called politics the "false of the false" and felt sorry for someone who had to tell lies all day.


This was the experience of Queen Victoria (https://www.historyhit.com/queen-victoria-and-the-romanovs/), who at first would have been happy to resolve everything:


Victoria became Queen in 1837. Two years later, Tsar Nicholas I sent his heir Tsarevich Alexander to England. Despite reservations about meeting him, Victoria was bowled over by the handsome Alexander during balls at Buckingham Palace.

“I really am quite in love with the Grand Duke,” the twenty-year-old Queen wrote. But the Tsar quickly summoned his heir home: there could be no question of a marriage between the Queen of England and the heir to the Russian throne.


Further down the road, the Queen has No Idea what her subjects are up to:


In 1881, Victoria was shocked to hear that the liberal Tsar Alexander II had been assassinated by a terrorist bomb just as he was about to grant concessions to his people.


The Crown soon had No Idea about the 1919 Amritsar Massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre) sprawling from the enactment:


...of a sedition committee in 1918 chaired by Sidney Rowlatt, an Anglo-Egyptian judge. It was tasked to evaluate German and Bolshevik links to the militant movement in India...

The passage of the Rowlatt Act in 1919 precipitated large scale political unrest throughout India.

As a reaction to the Rowlatt act, Muhammad Ali Jinnah resigned from his Bombay seat, writing in a letter to the Viceroy, "I, therefore, as a protest against the passing of the Bill and the manner in which it was passed tender my resignation.... ... a Government that passes or sanctions such a law in times of peace forfeits its claim to be called a civilised government". In India, Gandhi's call for protest against the Rowlatt Act achieved an unprecedented response of furious unrest and protests.


I can keep going with things like this, and keep getting this one-sided thing which is still the case today. No one asked me if they could take my money and get weapons for Ukraine, and it just keeps happening. Obviously whatever theories my own side might want to pitch at me to justify this are flawed.

I am somewhat convinced the only real counter-point that could be made is if someone says "well it says about Gog and Magog..." and then we know they simply harbor an extremist belief based from a distorted scripture. But I could understand it if the twenty million of them would come out of the woodwork and say "yes that's what we believe".

I am not sure you can even formulate a coherent statement out of the kind of politics and diplomacy we have. It seems to have this unspoken supremacy rule. A religious source is probably the oldest and strongest.

[Ravenlocke]

Let's diffuse the strange toxic atmosphere with some funny toxic cringe biased toxicity :p

DonbassDevushka/35845


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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1600316680923746306
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US does not encourage Kiev to attack Russia, but will continue military aid — Blinken

In his words, Washington "neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia"

WASHINGTON, December 7. /TASS/. The US government does not encourage Kiev troops to strike the territory of Russia, but will continue to provide Ukraine with the military assistance it needs to defend itself, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters after the US-Australian negotiations in Washington on Tuesday.

In his words, Washington "neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia."

However, he added that the United States and its allies were determined to provide the Kiev government with "the equipment that they need to defend themselves, to defend their territory, to defend their freedom.".

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1600465835885142017

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Merkel said the Minsk agreements were an attempt to “give Ukraine time”
December 7, 2022 AZGeopolitics #Russia-Ukraine conflict
Merkel described the Minsk agreements as an effort to “give Ukraine time.”

According to the ex-Chancellor of Germany, “it was clear to everyone” that the conflict was frozen and the problem was not solved

The Minsk agreements were signed to “give Ukraine time,” allowing the country to grow stronger. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel (in office from 2005 to 2021) expressed this viewpoint in an interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit published on Wednesday.

“The 2014 Minsk Agreement was an attempt to buy Ukraine some time. She also used this time to become stronger, as can be seen today. Ukraine in 2014-2015 is not a modern country “said the politician

According to her, “it was clear to everyone” that the conflict had stalled and that the problem had not been resolved, but “it gave Ukraine invaluable time.” She expressed doubt that NATO countries could have provided Kiev with the level of support that they are now.

Merkel was German Chancellor when the coup in Ukraine occurred in 2014, and the Minsk agreements on the resolution of the Donbass conflict were signed with her participation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on February 22 that the Minsk agreements no longer exist as a result of the DPR and LPR’s recognition, but this is not Russia’s fault. According to him, the current Kiev authorities killed the Minsk agreements long before the recognition of the Donbass people’s republics.

[Ravenlocke]

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Suspected coup plotters reached out to Russian officials — German prosecutor’s office

It was also pointed out that "the suspects began preparations that were stepped up no later than at the end of November 2021

BERLIN, December 7. /TASS/. The suspected organizers of a coup in Germany contacted Russian representatives but failed to find support, the German federal prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.

According to the prosecution, the suspects considered a coup as a necessary step towards "changing the system at all levels."

"To achieve their goal, the organization planned to form a (military) interim government, which, according to the organization’s members, was to agree on a new state order in Germany with the victorious powers of World War II," the prosecution noted, adding that "the organization currently views Russia as the main contact point for related talks."

"Defendant Heinrich XIII PR contacted Russian representatives in Germany but there are no signs showing that the contact persons positively responded to his request," the office noted.

It was also pointed out that "the suspects began preparations that were stepped up no later than at the end of November 2021." "Those included planning to set up government-like agencies, purchase equipment, train members in shooting and recruit new members," the federal prosecutor’s office noted.

According to its statement, a council headed by Heinrich XIII PR is the group’s main body. "The council has a military wing, some of whose members used to serve in the Bundeswehr," the prosecutor’s office stressed. According to the office, this part of the group was supposed to seize power using weapons. In addition, the group’s members recruited new collaborators, purchased weapons and various equipment and created communication channels protected from interception, as well as IT bodies. "The organization’s recruitment efforts focused on Bundeswehr members and police officers," the office noted, adding that at least four meetings aimed at achieving the goal had taken place in the summer of 2022.

The German federal prosecutor’s office earlier stated that a coup attempt had been thwarted in the country. German intelligence agencies detained 25 suspected coup plotters, including a female Russian national named Vitalia B. who allegedly helped the suspects reach out to Russia’s representatives.

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Italy has confirmed the detention of one of the suspects in the preparation of a coup in Germany
December 7, 2022 AZGeopolitics #Europe
ANSA reports that the transfer of the detainee to the German authorities is being prepared

Italian law enforcement authorities detained a German citizen born in 1958, a former officer of special units of the German army, who is suspected of preparing a coup in Germany, at a hotel in Perugia (Umbria region). This was reported on Wednesday by the ANSA agency, citing police data.

It is noted that the transfer of the detainee to the German authorities is being prepared.

Earlier, Germany’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced the failure of a coup attempt in the country. During a large-scale operation involving approximately 3000 police officers, German special services detained 25 of more than 50 suspects in the coup’s organization. Vitaliya B, a Russian Federation citizen, is among the detainees. She allegedly assisted the suspects in contacting Russian Federation representatives. Detentions occurred not only in Germany, but also in Austria and Italy, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The current operation has grown to be one of the most massive in history. More than 130 houses and apartments were searched in 11 of Germany’s 16 federal states. At the same time, the terrorist organization proved to be large and branched: it included the heir of the Prussian princes, a politician, high-ranking military, and Ministry of Defense special forces soldiers. The putschists established a council similar to the government, as well as a military wing, and actively recruited supporters in the security forces, including the army and police. The organization’s members allegedly planned to storm the Bundestag (parliament) with a small armed group.

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More from Putin’s speech

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/301military/status/1600466610015424512

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https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status/1600485669729599495

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Article here,

https://euobserver.com/opinion/156518

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1600507958533967873
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https://sputniknews.com/20221207/russias-lavrov-calls-un-resolution-on-reparations-for-ukraine-legally-null-and-void-1105162603.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Russia's Lavrov Calls UN Resolution on Reparations for Ukraine 'Legally Null and Void'

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the UN resolution on reparations for Ukraine had no legal force, and the UN General Assembly did not have the authority to make such decisions.

"No resolution of this kind has legal force, it is legally null and void and will not be imposed on Russia or any other countries. It is simply discrediting the UN General Assembly, its reputation, and functions," Lavrov said at the 8th Primakov Readings forum.
The UNGA is not authorized to make such decisions, and it has no competence for this, Lavrov added.
In mid-November, the UN voted in favor of the resolution calling for the creation of a repatriation payment mechanism for damages caused by Russia in Ukraine during its special military operation.
Moscow opposed the resolution, calling it a legally non-binding document. The Kremlin also accused Western countries of trying to steal Russian gold and foreign exchange reserves for reparations and pledged to do everything possible to return the seized assets.
On Monday, a source in the UN told Sputnik that Ukraine had also prepared a draft resolution to set up an international tribunal on Russia, and the UN General Assembly would likely vote on it early next year.

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1600504544735395841
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https://sputniknews.com/20221207/kiev-is-free-to-decide-white-house-says-us-has-not-encouraged-ukraine-to-strike-russia-1105161565.html

Kiev Free to Decide? White House Claims US 'Has Not Encouraged Ukraine' to Strike Russia

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has not encouraged Ukraine to conduct strikes on Russian soil, but doing so is Kiev’s decision, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said on Wednesday.

"It is their decision to make. We have not encouraged them to do that. We have been very clear about our concerns over escalation here," Kirby told reporters.
Previously, reports suggested that Kiev was behind the recent drone attacks on airfields in the Russian regions of Kursk, Ryazan and Saratov, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian official.
Since the beginning of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, Washington adopted several sanction packages against Moscow and allocated billions in military aid for Kiev.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1600486047187873800

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https://sputniknews.com/20221207/president-putin-takes-part-in-online-meeting-of-council-for-civil-society-and-human-rights-1105123260.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

President Putin Takes Part in Online Meeting of Council for Civil Society and Human Rights

The council is holding a major meeting ahead of Human Rights Day, which is celebrated on December 10, commemorating the day when the United Nations adopted the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.



Sputnik is live from Moscow, where Russian President Vladimir Putin is chairing a meeting of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights via videolink.
The members of the council are expected to address a wide range of issues, including the protection of human rights in the context of the special military operation in Ukraine, the situation in the regions that have recently joined Russia, and economic and public health issues.



Follow Sputnik's Live Feed to Find Out More!

https://sputniknews.com/20221207/president-putin-takes-part-in-online-meeting-of-council-for-civil-society-and-human-rights-1105123260.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Ravenlocke]

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Egypt joins BRICS New Development Bank

The Egyptian government has approved Egypt’s participation in the BRICS New Development Bank.

On Wednesday, Egyptian authorities announced that Cairo had joined the BRICS New Development Bank.
In a press release, the Cabinet of Ministers stated, “The Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft decision of the President on the ratification of the agreement on the foundation of the New BRICS Development Bank and the document on Egypt’s accession to the bank.”

The BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – established the NDB in 2014 to finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects in the BRICS countries as well as other developing countries. On July 21, 2015, began working in Shanghai.

BRICS is an acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Other countries interested in joining the economic bloc include Argentina, Algeria, Iran, and, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.


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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

More on the “coup in Germany”

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1597793064206364672
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RT comments regarding above video

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://www.rt.com/russia/567838-ukraine-torture-russian-pow/



Russian soldiers detail brutal torture by Kiev’s forces

Russian servicemen have alleged they endured brutal torture while being held captive by Kiev’s forces. The country's Investigative Committee announced on Wednesday that it will be launching a criminal investigation into the abuse claims.

According to testimony published on the armed service's official Telegram channel, Russian soldiers were subjected to merciless interrogations. One fighter alleged he was taken prisoner when he was already wounded, having had a bone in his right hand broken by a bullet. He claims that Ukrainian interrogators beat him with a shovel and with rebar, shot him in both feet, broke his jaw, several ribs and punctured his lungs.

Another soldier claimed his interrogation began with a knife stab to the leg, which caused severe bleeding that remained untreated. When his captors didn’t like his answers, they beat him with thumps and kicks, and then with a helmet or the with butt of a rifle, he alleged. After the interrogation ended, the soldier testified that he was held down by three men as a fourth cut off one of his fingers.

He also claims that he was forced to sign an agreement to cooperate with Ukrainian special services, under a threat of murder and harm to his loved ones.

The Investigative Committee has also stated that “the testimonies of Russian military personnel indicate that representatives of Ukraine are grossly violating the requirements of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which prohibit ill-treatment, torture and abuse.”

Kremlin pledges to find Ukrainians who executed POWs
Kremlin pledges to find Ukrainians who executed POWs
Investigators say they will continue to work with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Security Service and Russia’s Defense Ministry to identify those responsible for the murder and torture of civilians and of captured Russian servicemen. The committee has vowed to record all evidence of brutal crimes committed by Kiev’s forces.

Оn Tuesday Moscow and Kiev conducted their latest prisoner exchange in the 60-60 format, where both sides released 60 captive soldiers who were considered to be in “mortal danger.” The released Russian servicemen have since been transported to Moscow to undergo treatment and rehabilitation, and to receive psychological and medical assistance.


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[Ravenlocke]

Remember this from Dec5,
“ Armed forces in Ukraine shoot three of their own fellow-soldiers (most likely for refusing to follow orders), and then they try to shoot down the Russian drone that filmed the crime.”

https://twitter.com/politblogme/status/1599788824111874048

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Here’s another video on the same topic

(Also Zelensky months ago signed into law that AFU can kill their own if they refuse to fight)

https://twitter.com/RueDaungier/status/1600172443150258176

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Angelo4justice3/status/1600484560998891522

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[Bill Ryan]

The first 20-21 minutes of this video (almost all Alexander Mercouris, as is the case every time) discusses the recent Ukrainian missile strike on Engels Air Force Base, deep inside Russia.

It's pretty interesting stuff. Mercouris argues, I think very persuasively, that as the missiles were shot down only at the very last minute, this spotlights a real failure of the Russian air defense system, hailed (correctly) as the best in the world.

The missiles used were 1970s-vintage drones, crudely converted into unsophisticated, improvised cruise missiles, which flew in a dead straight line towards Engels for a full hour. What was Russian air defense doing? It's a good question.

Heads will roll, Mercouris predicts — and I'm sure they will — but this may backfire on the Ukrainians big time. Considering the massive retaliation unleashed by Russia after the strike on the Kerch Bridge in Crimea, this is a much more major incident, an embarrassing strike directly on a strategic nuclear base 600 km within Russia.

I'd predict that Surovikin will ask Putin's permission to raise hell in Ukraine several times over. And Putin is likely to agree... he's almost certainly furious that this somehow got to happen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifxg783Kh5U

[Ravenlocke]

Finally it’s up.
Click on link to hear the podcast with Brian Berletic as guest.


The Donbass Devushka channel interviews Brian Berletic of the New Atlas channel, talking about the war in Ukraine, the Global South's increasing pivot to Russia and multipolarity, and the parallels between Thailand and Ukraine in US interference and distortion.


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[Ravenlocke]

❗Is Russia running out of missiles? | Ukraine continues to shell civilians | Scott Ritter Show

On episode 15 of the show we are joined by Konstantin Sivkov, Russian military expert, geopolitician, military political scientist and strategist, Doctor of Military Sciences. Chairman of the Union of Geopoliticians, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences, 1st Rank Captain, Corresponding Member of the RARAN, Member of the Academy of Military Sciences, Vice-President of the Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences for information policy.

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

What some of the Ukranian POWs said. If they refuse to fight they’re taken away by the Military police. They are sent to the frontline with no food as one prisoner stated.

https://twitter.com/ChannelOne_eng/status/1600434366680772609

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

Latest from Alexander Mercouris,

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1600598385127526411

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/thatdayin1992/status/1600576626806374438

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[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/thatdayin1992/status/1600576626806374438

[Zelensky] is a man who refuses to attend peace talks and is working overtime to start a nuclear WWIII.And who is directly responsible for


The deaths of over 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers
The serious injuries of up to 400,000 more
The mass exodus of millions of Ukrainians to the EU (most never to return)
Condoning (and possibly ordering) a seriously large number of war crimes
Attempting to destroy as much authentic Russian culture as he possibly can
The inevitable total collapse and destruction of Ukraine as a modern country.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/thatdayin1992/status/1600576626806374438

[Zelensky] is a man who refuses to attend peace talks and is working overtime to start a nuclear WWIII.And who is directly responsible for


The deaths of over 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers
The serious injuries of up to 400,000 more
The mass exodus of millions of Ukrainians to the EU (most never to return)
Condoning (and possibly ordering) a seriously large number of war crimes
Attempting to destroy as much authentic Russian culture as he possibly can
The inevitable total collapse and destruction of Ukraine as a modern country.

Yes to all of the above but since NATO and EU members are backing him up they have to keep the lie going and the false illusion about Ukraine winning. Also apparently Time magazine named Hitler man of the year in I think 1941. Is history repeating?




Here’s Judge Napolitano with Scott Ritter, latest video it’s worth a listen.

Scott Ritter - Ukraine-Russia War Longer than Expected


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[shaberon]

Yes to all of the above but since NATO and EU members are backing him up they have to keep the lie going and the false illusion about Ukraine winning. Also apparently Time magazine named Hitler man of the year in I think 1941. Is history repeating?


1938, shortly after the '36 Berlin Olympics.

Not a repeat--same strategy since Oliver Cromwell, which gave Finance a role occupied by the Pope for centuries prior.



It would seem to take a lot to accomplish a coup in Germany. What happened here never saw any charges, after Smedley Butler complained about the would-be fascist Business Plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot), which came on the heels of the following:


On July 17, 1932, thousands of World War I veterans converged on Washington, D.C., set up tent camps, and demanded immediate payment of bonuses due to them according to the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924...

President Herbert Hoover ordered the marchers removed and U.S. Army cavalry troops under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur destroyed their camps.

The following year:


Roosevelt was damned as a socialist or Communist out to destroy private enterprise by sapping the gold backing of wealth in order to subsidize the poor.


Conservative business leaders could not stand him.


Butler made accusations:


The McCormack–Dickstein Committee began examining evidence on an alleged plot on November 20, 1934.

Butler testified that Gerald C. MacGuire attempted to recruit him to lead a coup, promising him an army of 500,000 men for a march on Washington, D.C., and financial backing.


The NYT spit on it and MacGuire was the only one who took the stand:


Others whom Butler accused were not called to testify because the "committee has had no evidence before it that would in the slightest degree warrant calling before it such men ... The committee will not take cognizance of names brought into testimony which constitute mere hearsay."


Usually takes big stuff to do this kind of thing. I would not be surprised if some Germans gave it serious thought, but it takes a critical mass to achieve anything by force.

[shaberon]

Here is a bit that explains the recent unrest in Iran (https://thesaker.is/the-islamic-republic-of-iran-the-us-zionists-uk-unholy-trinity-and-domains-of-grand-illusions/):


Secondly, the delayed response, by the police and security forces, emboldened the true culprits and the trained actors and agents, and their masters and gave them a false sense of victory, that wonderful mirage. Therefore, they came out of their hiding places en masse. Many hidden hands and covert agents, some of whom were trained and in waiting for decades, have exposed themselves. Countless networks of operatives have been identified and destroyed. Key members of many of those networks have been arrested or killed. The details the arrested operatives provide in their confessions are rather illuminating.


“A security official, in a communication with Al-Alam Network, affirmed heavy support of several Western countries of riots in Iran and added these countries have said they will stop their support for the rioters should Iran accept 4 conditions. According to him, these countries have said if Iran [1] injects supplies of oil and gas into the global market without limits and pre-conditions during current energy crisis, [2] accepts the Western position in its nuclear files, [3] reaches an agreement with the Saudi regime with regards to regional issues, and [4] cuts all cooperation with Russia, they will stop their support for the protesters/rioters.”


That article has some depositions and a lot more stuff, but, that gives us a quick glimpse of Democracy at work. Plus you see why everything is not attacked at once American style. Sometimes you need to go through some painful maneuvering in order to get a situation where suddenly you can stop a hundred Mossad employees.

The demise of Zionist projects in the country is attributed to them believing their own lies.


My governor on the sabotage out here:


"...we can’t let this happen."


Um, what?

They got it fixed and this is the last night of curfew, and, so far the leads are the large amount of suspicious chatter from social media...

Here, we just let people go in front of a flock of reporters.

[Bill Ryan]

[Here’s Judge Napolitano with Scott Ritter, latest video it’s worth a listen.

Scott Ritter - Ukraine-Russia War Longer than Expected

67OpqQ7vo5AThis was very illuminating, as an addendum to Alexander Mercouris' take on this which I'd posted here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1531650#post1531650). Start in at 12.30, for about 5 minutes.

Scott Ritter points out that as an attack on a Russian nuclear base, Russian doctrine would theoretically allow Russia to launch nuclear retaliation.

Of course, they've not done this. Ritter suggests that Biden (or his handlers) could not have known about the strike, and whoever in the US was party to the attack (as much have been the case) needs their head to be delivered to the White House on a platter.

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EU Defense Coalition intends to provide long-term military assistance to Ukraine.

Defense ministers and representatives from 12 countries (Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, France, Sweden, and Estonia), members of the defense coalition “European Intervention Initiative” (EI2), met in Oslo on Wednesday and agreed on the importance of long-term military support for Ukraine. The Swedish government Office reported this in a joint statement issued on Thursday.

The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Norway to discuss security issues and the situation in Europe following the start of the Russian Federation’s special military operation. According to the statement, the ministers or their representatives exchanged an analysis of the Ukrainian conflict and “agreed on the need to support Ukraine on a long-term basis.” “They also reaffirmed their support for Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO, which will strengthen security in the Baltic and Northern regions, and recalled their support in this process,” according to the document.

France informed the meeting’s participants about the security situation in West Africa, and they also discussed the European strategy in the region to combat terrorism. “The ministers or their representatives agreed to expand the strategic culture initiative in response to Europe’s current and projected security challenges. Sweden and Finland also presented the results of the working group on disinformation’s work “The statement elaborates.

They also reaffirmed her support for Sweden and Finland joining NATO.

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https://asiatimes.com/2022/12/military-sources-ukraine-missiles-used-us-guidance/

Military sources: Ukraine missiles used US guidance

Both NATO and Russian observers reject Blinken denial of US satellite involvement in attacks on Russian bases

NATO sources as well as Russian military sources reject US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s claim Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with Ukraine’s missile strike against Russian air force bases December 5 and 6.

“We have neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia,” Blinken told reporters during a meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Australian officials.

Multiple military sources in NATO countries as well as Russia contradict him, reporting that the reconditioned Russian Tu-141 drones that Ukraine launched at Russian air bases downlinked US satellite GPS data to hit their targets.

The 1970s-vintage Russian recon drones were converted into cruise missiles, fitted with new guidance systems and directed by American satellites, the sources said. Ukraine does not have the capability to guide missiles on its own, they added.

Russia’s Defense Ministry identified one of the weapons as the Tu-141 in a December 6 statement. According to Russian military sources, the Russians identified the Tu-141 from fragments recovered after the missiles struck Russia’s Dyagilevo and Engels air force bases.

If, contrary to Blinken’s denial, the United States provided guidance for the missile attack, then Washington must be well aware that this brings NATO forces to the brink of direct involvement in the Ukraine war and the Biden administration must be prepared to run that risk.

The damage that Ukraine inflicted on Russian planes at the two Russian bases is trivial compared with the strategic risk that the United States has introduced into the conflict.

As Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley warned on November 9, there is no military victory in sight for the Ukraine War.

Russia analyst James Davis writing in the December 7 edition of the Global Polarity Monitor, a strategic report published in cooperation with Asia Times, described a military stalemate:

Russia continues to pursue a defensive strategy in Ukraine to solidify defensive lines and to raise the costs of Ukrainian military operations…. Moscow also remains confident that the growing expenditures of the West to sustain Ukraine will motivate Western leaders including President Biden to explore the possibility of a peaceful settlement of the conflict. Russia believes that holding the defensive lines will demonstrate that the cost of supporting Ukraine to achieve a complete reversal of the Russian position in Ukraine, including Crimea, is simply too high.

Milley’s mention of a “window” for peace talks during the winter pause in fighting provoked consternation among US officials who want victory at all costs. While Milley and US military leaders believe that the only way out of the war is negotiation with Russia, the US State Department and National Security Council are determined to achieve a military victory over Russia by any means necessary.

NATO is divided on how to resolve the Ukraine conflict. French President Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have revived the idea of offering security guarantees to Russia, including Ukrainian neutrality.

US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland visited Kyiv December 3 to reassure the Ukrainians that the US believes that “Putin is not sincere” in proposing negotiations “and not ready for this.”

Ukraine doesn’t have the forces to mount an effective counteroffensive against the Russians, so a military solution presupposes NATO troops on the ground.

The attack on the Russian bases might be intended to provoke a Russian response that would, in turn, justify the deployment of NATO ground troops in Ukraine.

American satellites used to guide missiles into Russian territory, might be considered legitimate military targets, Russian foreign ministry official Vladimir Yermakov said November 30. A Russian attack on US satellites could draw the US into a war with Russia.

A prominent Chinese military columnist, Chen Feng of guancha.cn (“Observer”), wrote December 7 that “It is an open secret that Western satellites are being used to support the Ukrainian army in operations, but it is also a matter of mortal danger.” Chen offered a stern warning to Moscow:

Unless Russia can accurately identify a small satellite that is supporting the Ukrainian war and release credible evidence, destroying a small satellite of the United States or a NATO country is equivalent to launching a war against the United States or a NATO country. As far as the existing technology is concerned, it is impossible that Russia would have the ability to accurately identify the suspected satellite. Taking the initiative to draw the United States or NATO into the Ukraine war may not be a consequence that Russia can afford.

Yermakov “should not have made such a statement,” Chen concluded.

Guancha.cn frequently raises issues of importance to China’s leadership, and Chen’s widely-followed column suggests that Beijing has serious worries about the possible widening of the Ukraine conflict into a world war.

A Russian source with access to the thinking of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle said that Russia would not retaliate against US satellites. “That would be a casus belli for the United States,” the source said.

NATO military analysts worry that Russia might launch an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a conventional rather than a nuclear payload at a major Ukrainian target, as a warning to the West about the consequences of escalating the conflict. IRBMs travel roughly ten times faster than cruise missiles like the TU-141 and are practically impossible to shoot down.

A Russian military analyst, though, told Asia Times that this tactic was discussed and rejected by the Russian military. Reconfiguration of missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads would be difficult and time-consuming, the analyst said.

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American satellites used to guide missiles into Russian territory, might be considered legitimate military targets, Russian foreign ministry official Vladimir Yermakov said November 30. A Russian attack on US satellites could draw the US into a war with Russia.

A prominent Chinese military columnist, Chen Feng of guancha.cn (“Observer”), wrote December 7 that “It is an open secret that Western satellites are being used to support the Ukrainian army in operations, but it is also a matter of mortal danger.” Chen offered a stern warning to Moscow:

Unless Russia can accurately identify a small satellite that is supporting the Ukrainian war and release credible evidence, destroying a small satellite of the United States or a NATO country is equivalent to launching a war against the United States or a NATO country. As far as the existing technology is concerned, it is impossible that Russia would have the ability to accurately identify the suspected satellite. Taking the initiative to draw the United States or NATO into the Ukraine war may not be a consequence that Russia can afford.This is very interesting. While all the caveats and dangers apply, I'd not be at all surprised if there were military voices in the Kremlin urging Russia to take down US spy satellites.

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https://asiatimes.com/2022/12/military-sources-ukraine-missiles-used-us-guidance/

Military sources: Ukraine missiles used US guidance

Both NATO and Russian observers reject Blinken denial of US satellite involvement in attacks on Russian bases

NATO sources as well as Russian military sources reject US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s claim Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with Ukraine’s missile strike against Russian air force bases December 5 and 6.

“We have neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia,” Blinken told reporters during a meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Australian officials.



US modified its high-tech launch system to prevent Ukrainian military from launching rockets into Russia
Wednesday, December 07, 2022 by: JD Heyes

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-12-07-us-modified-high-tech-launch-system-ukraine.html



The American deep state, for some reason, has a penchant for Ukraine, and it shows in more ways than one.

First and foremost, the Obama administration was neck-deep in the 2014 regime change operation there, which was followed by then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, landing lucrative business deals in the country’s corrupt energy sector.

And now, the deep state has sided with Ukraine over Russia, as evidenced by all of the Ukrainian flag lapel pins worn by our lawmakers and flag icons on their Twitter profiles — oh, and the billions we are sending that country in terms of weapons.

But apparently, there has been at least some restraint in to the manner in which we are helping Kyiv’s corrupt, neo-Nazi government: We aren’t providing weapons at their fullest capability so as not to give Russia a reason to attack NATO with conventional or, worse, nuclear weapons.

According to The Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-altered-himars-rocket-launchers-to-keep-ukraine-from-firing-missiles-into-russia-11670214338), the sophisticated HIMARS guided multiple launch rocket systems the Pentagon has transferred to the Ukrainian army have been modified so that the projectiles cannot be fired into Russia proper.

The outlet explains:

The U.S. since June has supplied Ukrainian forces with 20 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers, or Himars, and a large inventory of satellite-guided rockets with a range of almost 50 miles. Those rockets, known as the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, or GMLRS, have been used to strike Russian ammunition depots, logistics supplies and command centers on Ukrainian territory.

But the Himars launchers have a unique feature intended to prevent them from becoming even more potent battlefield systems. U.S. officials say the Pentagon has modified the launchers so they can’t fire long-range missiles, including the U.S.’s Army Tactical Missile System rockets, or ATACMS, which have a range of nearly 200 miles.

The WSJ noted further that the previously unreported modifications to the launchers and the projectiles demonstrate how far the deep state has gone to ensure that its support for Kyiv remains balanced and does not risk escalation with Russia’s forces which, truthfully, appear to have their hands full just fighting the Ukrainians. The modifications also ensure that the Ukrainians don’t renege on their pledge not to strike Russian territory, though they would be in their rights to do so since Russia is the invader.

The Pentagon, of course, refused to comment on the matter.

“Due to operational security considerations, we do not comment publicly on the configuration of systems provided to allies and partners,” said Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman. “The United States remains committed to providing Ukraine the capabilities it needs to counter Russian aggression.”

“To guard against the risk of escalation, the U.S. secured a commitment from President Volodymyr Zelensky that the launchers wouldn’t be used to strike targets on Russian territory. Ukraine has honored that pledge, which Ukrainian officials say shows Kyiv can be trusted with longer-range weapons,” the WSJ reported.

Separately, the WSJ reported that a trio of Russian airbases (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/moscow-says-ukrainian-drones-hit-third-russian-airfield-in-two-days/ar-AA14XGt2?cvid=7445c90f78804cecd128e837e4598e0e&ocid=winp2fptaskbarmouseenter) was struck inside Russia by Ukrainian drones, killing personnel and damaging aircraft. One attack also ignited a fuel storage facility at the airbase.

“The attack on the Kursk airport, which was closed to civil aviation after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, followed Monday’s strikes on Russian strategic-bomber bases in Engels and Diagilevo. Both bases are hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory. Kursk is around 65 miles from the Ukrainian border,” the paper noted.

“While Ukraine lacks the kind of long-range cruise and ballistic missiles Moscow has rained on Ukrainian cities for the past nine months, Western officials say that Kyiv has partially offset that asymmetry with attacks on strategic targets deep in Russian territory. Those include the October strike against the bridge linking Russia to Crimea and the August destruction of several military aircraft at the Saki air base,” it added.

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American satellites used to guide missiles into Russian territory, might be considered legitimate military targets, Russian foreign ministry official Vladimir Yermakov said November 30. A Russian attack on US satellites could draw the US into a war with Russia.

A prominent Chinese military columnist, Chen Feng of guancha.cn (“Observer”), wrote December 7 that “It is an open secret that Western satellites are being used to support the Ukrainian army in operations, but it is also a matter of mortal danger.” Chen offered a stern warning to Moscow:

Unless Russia can accurately identify a small satellite that is supporting the Ukrainian war and release credible evidence, destroying a small satellite of the United States or a NATO country is equivalent to launching a war against the United States or a NATO country. As far as the existing technology is concerned, it is impossible that Russia would have the ability to accurately identify the suspected satellite. Taking the initiative to draw the United States or NATO into the Ukraine war may not be a consequence that Russia can afford.This is very interesting. While all the caveats and dangers apply, I'd not be at all surprised if there were military voices in the Kremlin urging Russia to take down US spy satellites.


I’d like to point out that Russia has launched successfully several of its own satellites before the attack and close to the US satellites so they can “listen” to each other probably.

“Unless Russia can accurately identify a small satellite that is supporting the Ukrainian war and release credible evidence, destroying a small satellite of the United States or a NATO country is equivalent to launching a war against the United States or a NATO country”

Russia is already in a proxy war with NATO and it’s Western partners and they know that very well and they are not the ones using another country to fight their war, I believe this articles warning to Russia is like a repeat of the warning Xi Jinping made publicly to Moscow when Stoltz flew to China to meet with Xi, not long ago,


Also the attack on Russian territory gave Russia the right to use Nuclear weapons to defend itself and retaliate if they wish to, but Russia knows this and is not rushing nor hastening the SMO, nor does it want to escalate the Operation to use Nukes. Hence Putins speech to the United Nations yesterday where he says that Russia is aware and are not going to use Nuclear weapons on a whim (see speech posted on this thread for correct wording, sorry I’m pressed for time right now ).

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American instructor reveals Ukrainian frontline death rates

The Ukrainian military is taking massive casualties in the battle for Bakhmut, the lynchpin of the Donetsk frontline, the US Mozart Group has revealed to Newsweek. The retired Marine who heads the group, which claims charity status but also trains the Ukrainian military, says some units are seeing casualty rates of 70% and more.

With the Ukrainian military tightly controlling media access to the front, Mozart is notable for regularly posting photos and videos of what is going on, “which is an absolute annihilation of Ukrainian frontline towns to an extent that I have not seen in the media,” Andrew Milburn, who was a colonel in the US Marines, told the magazine.

“Bakhmut is like Dresden, and the countryside looks like Passchendaele,” he said, in reference to a German city destroyed by Allied bombing in WWII and an infamous mud-soaked WWI battlefield, respectively.

It's just a horrible and miserable place.

The few references to Bakhmut in Ukrainian media, both legacy and social, have described the battle as a “meat grinder” with many dead and wounded, though official casualty figures have not been released.

Dozens of 'foreign mercenaries' killed in Ukraine – Russia

The Russian Defense Ministry has not posted detailed claims of Ukrainian casualties in Bakhmut, known in Russian as Artyomovsk, but has reported on advances both north and south of the city, threatening its encirclement.

Ukrainian units training with Mozart “have been taking extraordinarily high casualties,” Milburn told Newsweek. “The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated.”

Ukrainians are struggling to get new recruits into the line to replace the losses, Milburn admitted, noting that about 80% of the people sent to Mozart for training have never fired a weapon before.

While admitting Mozart is giving Ukrainian troops combat training, Milburn insists his “volunteers” have a “higher emotional intelligence” and don’t actually engage in the fighting. Mozart is a registered tax-free charity “that's doing mostly humanitarian work,” he told Newsweek. Their name is a deliberate counterpoint to the Russian Wagner Group, a private military company heavily involved in the fighting around Bakhmut.


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More details emerge in German ‘Reich’ coup plot

Police in Germany are planning new arrests as they continue to probe a suspected coup plot by a group allegedly planning to overthrow the government in Berlin by force.

While more than 130 searches and 25 arrests were carried out on Wednesday, the number of suspects in the case has now risen to 54, Holger Muench, head of the Federal Criminal Police Office, told the ARD broadcaster on Thursday. Muench said the figure could rise further as the investigation continues.

The suspects, many of whom are members of the Reichsbuerger ‘Citizens of the Reich’ movement, are accused of planning to install a regime similar to the German Reich of 1871. The group allegedly wanted to install aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, the scion of a noble family from Frankfurt am Main, as the head of the new state.

"We have a dangerous mixture of people who are following irrational convictions, some with a lot of money, others in possession of weapons and a plan to launch attacks and expand their structures," Muench told ARD.

Former Bundestag MP among ‘Reich’ coup planners – media

Police also raided the Waidmannsheil hunting lodge in the state of Thuringia on Thursday, which is owned by Reuss. Authorities suspect the neo-Gothic 19th century lodge, topped with a turreted tower and battlements, may have served as a weapons depot and meeting point for the coup plotters.

One officer who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity said police had worked through the night, looking for evidence of weapons and explosives.

The town’s deputy mayor, Andree Burkhardt, also told Reuters that locals had been sent letters informing them that their passports issued by the legitimate German authorities were no longer valid.

"All citizens of Bad Lobenstein received a letter this past summer in which we were told that we were not German because our passports were not German," Burkhardt explained.

"We were then given the opportunity to apply for our German origin documents with the Reuss administration. This of course provoked a huge outcry among the population,” he added.

READ MORE: Coup plot an example of government's diversionary tactics – German MP
The alleged coup plotters apparently planned to storm Germany's parliament, take lawmakers hostage, and target energy infrastructure in the hope of triggering civil-war-like clashes.

Among those arrested on Wednesday included former members of the military and police forces, as well as a former representative of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the Bundestag and a Russian national.

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Merkel’s ‘confession’ may be grounds for tribunal – Moscow

A confession by former German chancellor Angela Merkel about the Minsk peace agreements could be used as evidence in a tribunal involving Western politicians responsible for provoking the Ukraine conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday.

The deal, brokered by Germany and France, was supposed to be a roadmap for peace in the war-torn country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country's current military offensive was prompted by the failure to implement the terms of the accords.

The former German leader admitted in an interview with Die Zeit on Wednesday that the actual purpose of the Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine time to prepare for a military confrontation with Russia.

“They talk a lot about legal assessments of what is happening around Ukraine, certain tribunals and so on in all sorts of ways,” Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a media briefing on Thursday. “But this is a specific reason for a tribunal.”

She claimed that Merkel’s comments were nothing short of the testimony of a person who had openly admitted that everything done between 2014 and 2015 was meant to “distract the international community from real issues, play for time, pump up the Kiev regime with weapons, and escalate the issue into a large-scale conflict,” Zakharova added.

She said Merkel’s statements “horrifyingly” reveal that the West uses “forgery as a method of action,” and resorts to “machinations, manipulation and all kinds of distortions of truth, law and rights imaginable.”

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The spokeswoman claimed that the West had known well in 2015, when it spent hours negotiating the second part of the Minsk accords, that it would never even attempt to fulfill any part of the agreements and would instead pump weapons into Kiev.

“They did not feel sorry for anyone: women, children, the civilian population of Donbass or the whole of Ukraine. They needed a conflict and they were ready for it back then, in 2015,” Zakharova said.

Earlier this month, a number of Western officials called for the creation of a special UN-backed court to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Russia during its ongoing military campaign in Ukraine.

The Kremlin has said the West has no legal or moral right to set up any courts to investigate or prosecute Russia over the conflict, which Moscow claims was ultimately provoked by the US and its allies.

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Ukraine reveals origin of blood-soaked packages


A Tesla dealership in Baden-Wurttemberg was used as the return address on the suspicious packages sent to dozens of Ukrainian diplomatic outposts across Europe over the past week, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

While the diplomat did not clarify the exact contents of the grizzly packages, earlier media reports described them as foul-smelling blood-soaked packets containing animal eyes and other entrails. Kuleba called it a “well-planned campaign of terror and intimidation.”

The perpetrators were careful enough not to leave any DNA traces or other forensic evidence, Kuleba claimed, suggesting a “professional level of implementation.” Additionally, he observed, most of the post offices used to mail the parcels were not equipped with video surveillance technology.

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In total, Ukrainian authorities reported 31 incidents in 15 countries, with the most recently-mailed packages received by the embassies in Italy, Romania, Poland, Portugal and Denmark, as well as the country’s consulate in Gdansk in Poland. While Poland received the most packages, and even the Vatican got one of the grisly items – there were notably none addressed to any Ukrainian facility in Germany.

Ukrainian diplomatic facilities have been “operating under heightened security measures” for the past week, Kuleba said, adding that diplomatic staff were working with pyrotechnicians and forensic experts while hinting at suspicion the incidents are linked to Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia.

“I don’t remember any instance in history that so many embassies and consulates of one country have been subjected to such mass attacks in such a short period of time,” Kuleba wrote, adding that “No matter how hard the enemies try to intimidate Ukrainian diplomacy, they will not succeed.”

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Kiev originally ordered its embassies to tighten security last Wednesday, after a letter containing “explosive material” was delivered to the Ukrainian mission in Madrid and allegedly detonated in the hands of an employee. Further suspicious packages were delivered to the US embassy in Madrid, Spain’s Defense Ministry, the residence of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a satellite center at the Torrejon de Ardoz air base and the Instalaza arms factory in Zaragoza, which produces grenade launchers intended for Ukraine.

While Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov blamed Russia for the spate of letter-bombs, Moscow denied the accusations and Spanish investigators have reportedly ruled out Russian involvement. Spanish authorities believe the letters were all sent by a single individual, and that the combustible material inside was of a kind commonly found in consumer fireworks.

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Kremlin blasts Time magazine’s 'Russophobic' choice of Zelensky as 'Person of the Year'

Also, the American news magazine named the Ukrainian leader the "spirit of Ukraine"

MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. Time magazine’s decision to pick Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky as the ‘2022 Person of the Year’ fits into Europe’s overall Russophobic sentiments, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

"Time magazine employs its own criteria, which we can go on with or disagree, and it is their own editorial policy," the spokesman said.

"However, in this case the magazine’s editorial directives remain within the boundaries of the pan-European mainstream, which is totally short-sighted, anti-Russian and vehemently Russophobic," Peskov told journalists.

Time, the American news magazine, has named Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky ‘Person of the Year’ 2022 and the ‘spirit of Ukraine.’

Time magazine has chosen Person of the Year annually since 1927. In 2021, billionaire Elon Musk was awarded this title by the renowned publication.

This title was first awarded in 1927 to the US pilot Charles Lindbergh, who performed a solo flight across the Atlantic for the first time in history. More than 70 times, the person of the year title went to political and public figures, among them Mahatma Gandhi (1930), Winston Churchill (1940, 1949), Elizabeth II (1952), Charles de Gaulle (1958), Martin Luther King (1963), Henry Kissinger (1972), Deng Xiaoping (1978, 1985), Ayatollah Khomeini (1979), Lech Walesa (1981), Pope John Paul II (1994), Pope Francis (2013), and Angela Merkel (2015).

The title was received by all US presidents, starting from Franklin Roosevelt, with the exception of Gerald Ford. Roosevelt was the only one to be awarded this title thrice: in 1932, 1934 and 1941. Among the holders of this title were five leaders of the USSR and Russia: Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942), Nikita Khrushchev (1957), Yury Andropov (1983, alongside US President Ronald Reagan), Mikhail Gorbachev (1987, 1989) and Vladimir

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NATO is increasingly involved in Ukrainian conflict — Russian MFA

It is stated that Moscow does not see that the West has any caps on the range of arms supplies to Ukraine

MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. NATO countries are increasingly involved in the conflict in Ukraine, with the United States intentionally proceeding with an escalation on this track, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Thursday.

"NATO members are increasingly and directly involved in this conflict. Their support for Kiev is now much diversified than it was a few months ago. This is a reflection of Washington’s intentional policy, obediently pursued by the Europeans, of escalating the conflict. They are playing with fire. The risks are soaring," Ryabkov said.

Moscow does not see that the West has any caps on the range of arms supplies to Ukraine.

"The Westerners are pushing ahead with expanding the range of deliveries of ever heavier, longer-range weapons. At the same time, they slyly and deceitfully, by and large, try to create an impression that there is some kind of a border line, some kind of self-restraint in this regard. We do not see anything like that," Ryabkov emphasized.

He stressed that the Russian side was conducting bilateral diplomatic work on this issue, primarily with unfriendly countries, "to warn them of the consequences of these steps." The UN Security Council is the central platform for resisting such Western practices, Ryabkov said.

"All diplomatic tools - demarches, protests, notes, appeals on specialized platforms, and diplomatic clashes in Vienna and in New York, where there are opportunities to drive the message home and to warn our opponents - are being used to the full extent," Ryabkov said.

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Ukraine sends 360-500 people to Artyomovsk direction daily — LPR People’s Militia

According to Andrey Marochko, many Ukrainian recruits have a low level of training or are completely untrained, while experienced fighters, including those trained in NATO countries, are in short supply

MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces send 360-500 new fighters to the Artyomovsk direction every day to compensate for losses, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, said on the air of Radio Russia on Thursday.

"We note daily arrival of company tactical groups, battalion tactical groups there (in the Artyomovsk direction - TASS). The total number is also approximately 360-500 people. Naturally, they are thrown in to make up for the losses," he said.

According to Marochko, many Ukrainian recruits have a low level of training or are completely untrained, while experienced fighters, including those trained in NATO countries, are in short supply. "The figures of total losses of the Ukrainian army are colossal," he added.

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Security chief says US long-term goal to destroy Russia, disrupt Eurasian security

In addition, according to Nikolay Patrushev, "the West has put its bet on the globalization of NATO and has begun to create the conditions for a comprehensive build-up of its military presence in the APAC
TASS, December 8. /TASS/. The United States and NATO are pursuing a long-term goal of weakening or destroying Russia and fracturing the security architecture in Eurasia, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev said on Thursday.

"The long-term goal of the United States and its NATO allies is to weaken or destroy our country at any cost, as well as to break the security architecture in Eurasia as a whole," the Rossiyskaya Gazeta quoted Patrushev, who is in Thailand for a visit to meet with his Thai counterpart Supot Malaniyom, as saying.

In addition, according to Patrushev, "the West has put its bet on the globalization of NATO and has begun to create the conditions for a comprehensive build-up of its military presence in the APAC (Asia-Pacific Region)". The security chief believes that the AUKUS alliance (the United States, Australia and the UK) is focused on carrying out this task. Patrushev stressed that "the aggressive expansion of military infrastructure in the region leads to a further escalation of tensions."

According to the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, at a meeting of the Russian-Thai interdepartmental working group on security issues in Bangkok today, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Alexander Venediktov revealed that Washington's main task was "to destroy or reduce the functioning of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ formats and create mechanisms of regional cooperation on an anti-Russian and anti-Chinese basis.".

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https://tass.com/defense/1547947

Ukraine upgraded Soviet drones for recent attacks on Russian military airfields — expert

The Tu-141 Strizh is an operational-tactical reconnaissance drone engineered by the Tupolev Design Bureau
MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. The Kiev regime’s recent attempted attacks on Russian military airfields involved Soviet Tu-141 Strizh jet drones upgraded by Ukrainian specialists, TASS military observer Viktor Litovkin said on Thursday.

The Kiev regime could have obtained over a hundred of such drones after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the expert said.

The US-based newspaper Politico earlier reported that the Ukrainian military had attempted to attack Russian military airfields employing modified Strizh drones made during the Soviet period. It further said that Ukraine had modified the drones itself without relying on any technologies from Western countries, including the United States.

"Ukraine upgraded Strizh drones for attacks on our airfields because all these UAVs were designed for gathering reconnaissance data but were used for a strike against the territory, i.e. the flight’s software was altered, explosives were installed and an upgrade was carried out," the military expert pointed out.

"Considering that Strizh drones were produced at the Kharkov aviation plant, they, of course, have people who can operate them and carry out their maintenance," Litovkin said.

The upgrade did not even require any assistance of specialists from NATO countries, the expert said.

In the expert’s opinion, the Ukrainian side can still possess quite a sufficient amount of these drones but this amount is in any case limited, he pointed out.

"This is all Soviet heritage and Ukraine is likely to possess over a hundred of drones. But, of course, they cannot already arrange their production," Litovkin said.

The Tu-141 Strizh is an operational-tactical reconnaissance drone engineered by the Tupolev Design Bureau. The drone was produced at the Kharkov aviation plant and was operational in the Soviet Army in 1979-1989.

Ukrainian drone attack on Russian military airfields

As Russia’s Defense Ministry reported earlier, Ukraine carried out an attack on the Russian military airfields of Dyagilevo in the Ryazan Region and Engels in the Saratov Region on December 5, employing Soviet-made jet drones. Russian air defense systems intercepted the drones flying at a low altitude but the fall and explosion of their fragments at the airfields damaged two long-range aircraft. Three Russian ground personnel members sustained fatal wounds and another four servicemen were delivered to medical institutions with injuries.

Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoit reported the following day about a drone attack on an oil storage facility at the Kursk aerodrome, setting it ablaze. People were not hurt in the drone attack, he said.

Kiev did not officially claim responsibility for the drone attacks on the Russian airfields. However, a high-ranking Ukrainian official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Washington Post on December 6 that the attacks "were carried out by Ukrainian drones.".

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https://sputniknews.com/20221208/drone-for-attempt-to-strike-at-russia-was-modernized-with-us-participation-russian-diplomat-1105255650.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Drone for Attempt to Strike at Russia Was Modernized With US Participation: Russian Diplomat

VIENNA (Sputnik) - The drone used by Ukraine to attempt an attack on two Russian military airfields was modernized with the participation of a corporation from the United States, Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russian delegation at the military security and arms control talks in Vienna, said.



"Firstly, during 2022, the Kharkov Aviation Plant carried out work to modernize the mentioned UAVs with the participation of specialists from the Kiev Design Bureau Luch and US corporation Raytheon Technologies. The range of this drone is up to 1000 kilometers. It is clear in which direction it was planned to be used," Gavrilov told Sputnik on Thursday, commenting on the possible involvement of NATO countries in attack.

According to Gavrilov, "it is well known that the overwhelming majority of targets targeted by neo-Nazis are determined by the Western masters of the Kiev regime."
"The aforementioned Tu-141 Strizh UAVs are aimed at the target using US global satellite system GPS. By the way, the United States and its allies have long been actively using various space systems for reconnaissance and information support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including for the purpose of discovering places of deployment, routes of movement and actions of Russian troops. In fact, in Ukraine, in real combat conditions, new methods are being developed for the use of civilian satellite constellations as an element of command of the US Armed Forces," he stressed.

According to Gavrilov, "NATO members are not at all worried that this could provoke significant risks for peaceful space activities and shake its international legal foundations."

NATO Knew Ukraine Was Preparing Attacks on Russian Military Airfields, Diplomat Says
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"The Russian side has repeatedly pointed out that the United States and its satellites were becoming more and more fixed in the status of participants in the Ukrainian conflict. And now, once again, the facts indicate that NATO member countries really had a hand in Kiev's terrorist provocations against Russian strategic airfields Dyagilevo and Engels with the use of two Soviet-era reactive strike drones Tu-141 Strizh," Gavrilov said, when asked if there was evidence that NATO had been involved in organizing this attack.

In particular, according to Gavrilov, Kiev "actually had a publicly announced order to carry out this perfidious provocation."

He recalled the statement of the Latvian foreign minister on November 30 during the NATO Council at the level of foreign ministers that "possible Ukrainian strikes on military targets deep in Russia's territory would be justified."
"Of course, our army does not leave such terrorist acts unpunished," the head of the delegation added.

Ukraine Launched Drone Attacks on Russian Military Airfields, UAVs Brought Down by Air Defenses: MoD
5 December, 16:58 GMT
Earlier, a high-ranking Ukrainian official in an interview with American newspaper has acknowledged Kiev's responsibility for the attacks on airfields in the Russian regions of Kursk, Ryazanand Saratov.
"These were Ukrainian drones — very successful, very effective," the anonymous official told the newspaper, referring to all three attacks.
This is already the second unofficial confirmation of Ukraine's responsibility for the drone attacks, which took place on Monday and Tuesday. Another anonymous Ukrainian official told another American media that the drones were launched from the Ukrainian territory.

Reporting the attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine used Soviet-made combat drones. The Russian air defense intercepted the drones, but their fragments killed three and injured four Russian servicemen in Ryazan and Saratov on Monday. There were no casualties as a result of the attack in Kursk on Tuesday.

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https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/08/adl-ukraines-azov-battalion-far-right/

The ADL issues statement declaring Ukraine’s Azov Battalion no longer ‘far-right’

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has emailed The Grayzone a defense of the Azov Battalion and refused to condemn the Pentagon for honoring a veteran of the group who sports Nazi-inspired tattoos.


A November 9 email from the Anti-Defamation League to The Grayzone provided a twisted defense of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion. Despite its self-proclaimed “anti-hate” mission, the ADL insisted in the email it “does not” consider Azov as the “far right group it once was.”

The Azov Battalion is a neo-Nazi unit formally integrated into the US government-backed Ukrainian military. Founded by Andriy Biletsky, who has infamously vowed to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade…against Semite-led untermenschen,” Azov was once widely condemned by Western corporate media and the human rights industry for its association with Nazism. Then came the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

In the months that immediately followed, Azov led the Ukrainian military’s defense of Mariupol, the group’s longtime stronghold. As the militia assumed a frontline role in the war against Russia, Western media led a campaign to rebrand Azov as misunderstood freedom fighters while accusing its critics of echoing Kremlin talking points. The New York Times has even referred to the unit as the “celebrated Azov Battalion.”

Like the Washington Post and other mainstream outlets, the ADL ignored Azov’s atrocities this April in Mariupol, where locals accused the group of using civilians as human shields and executing those who attempted to flee. One video out of Mariupol showed Azov fighters proudly declaring the Nazi collaborator and mass murderer of Jews, Stepan Bandera, to be their “father.”

The Azov Battalion has long served as a magnet for the international white nationalist movement, attracting recruits from the terrorist Atomwaffen Division to a US Army Specialist arrested on charges of distributing bomb-making instructions.

Back in March 2022, just a month before the battle of Mariupol, the ADL itself issued a report acknowledging that white nationalists see Azov “as a pathway to the creation of a National Socialist state in Ukraine.”

Eight months later, however, the ADL has changed its tune, asserting to this outlet that Azov has rooted the fascists from its ranks. So did Azov change its Nazi ways, or did the ADL simply shift its messaging to conform to the imperatives of a Biden administration still intent on sending billions in military aid to Ukraine?

The ADL responds to Grayzone report with defense of Azov

The ADL’s defense of the Azov Battalion was triggered by an incident this September, when this journalist filed a “hate incident” report through the ADL’s website which detailed the contents of a Grayzone exposé on a Pentagon-sponsored sports competition. Held at Disney World, the weeklong competition hosted and honored Ihor Halushka, a Ukrainian Azov veteran branded with a Nazi Sonnenrad tattoo — a hate symbol, according to none other than the ADL.

The Grayzone provided a brief summary of these facts and events to the ADL, furnished supporting photographs, and included a link to the entire report. Asked what the ADL could do to help, this reporter requested they condemn the Pentagon for hosting a neo-Nazi. Upon filing the report, I was immediately given an automated case number and put on the organization’s mass mailing list.


Some 60 days later, the ADL responded, apologizing for the delay yet refraining from acknowledging any of The Grayzone’s reporting. Instead, the ADL offered a two paragraph defense of the Azov Battalion. There was, of course, no condemnation of the Warrior Games’ hosting of Halushka, and the event has not been included in the ADL’s public directory of hate incidents.

“When it was created in 2014, the Azov Brigade was a private military group fighting the then annexation of Crimea,” the ADL wrote to The Grayzone. “During this period, it was a group that had a clear far-right influence. In late 2014, the group was brought in as a part of the Ukrainian National Guard and renamed the Azov Regiment. When this happened, the Ukrainian government investigated the group and claims to have expelled it of these far-right members. It was also during this time that its founder Andriy Biletsky left AZOV and has since worked in the greater Azov movement, including founding a far-right political party, the National Corps. In essence, there was a split between the military unit AZOV and the political goals of its founding members. Of course, this is not to say that they have successfully removed all far-right elements from their ranks, but our Center on Extremism also does not see Azov Regime as the far-right group it once was.”

The ADL’s stunning defense of Azov as a largely depoliticized fighting unit is undermined most strongly by the ADL’s own research material.

The ADL harshly condemned Azov before it legitimized it

In 2019, the organization published a report on “The Internalization of White Supremacy,” which name-dropped Azov 18 times and branded it “a far-right group and militia,” “the far-right organization and militia,” and “a Ukrainian extremist group and militia.”

The report also stated that Azov “has ties to neo-Nazis in Ukraine,” “has reached out to like-minded American extremists,” and “reportedly has connections to Atomwaffen (AWD), an American neo-Nazi group allegedly tied to five murders.”

Later that year, the ADL noted that an neo-Nazi US Army Specialist that pled guilty to unlawfully distributing bomb-making instructions had “expressed desire to find more ‘radicals’ and travel to Ukraine to fight with paramilitary group the Azov Battalion.”

A more recent ADL report paints Azov in a similarly unflattering light. This March, seven days after Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine, the ADL ran a blog post entitled, “White Supremacists, Other Extremists Respond to Russian Invasion of Ukraine.” The article referred to Azov as “the Ukrainian national guard unit with explicit neo-Nazi ties,” and noted that white supremacists “see Azov as a pathway to the creation of a National Socialist state in Ukraine.”

In November, however, the ADL declared that it “does not see Azov Regiment as the far-right group it once was.” To justify its sudden turnabout, the supposed anti-extremism organization pointed to a supposed split between the radical rightist Andriy Biletsky and the Azov rank-and-file.

Biletsky and Azov’s “split” amounts to a literal office divider

In its email to The Grayzone, the ADL claimed that “the military unit AZOV and the political goals of its founding members” were “split” in 2014, insisting that Biletsky “left Azov and has since worked in the great Azov movement, including founding a far-right political party, the National Corps.”

The ADL noted no such “split” in 2019 when they characterized the National Corps simply as the “political wing of Azov.”

In fact, the close association of Azov with the National Corps was widely acknowledged in both media outlets and think tanks funded by the United States government.

“Azov’s Kyiv recruitment center and military academy share a location with the offices of the National Corps,” a researcher for the US government-sponsored Bellingcat outlet explained in the NATO-affiliated Atlantic Council in 2020. The researcher added that Azov “routinely hosts Biletsky (and other former commanders) at its bases and welcomes his participation in ceremonies, greeting him as a leader.”

In fact, on October 26, 2022 – a mere two weeks before the ADL asserted a “split” between the Azov Battalion and the “political goals” of its founder – Biletsky delivered a speech at a ceremony in Kiev celebrating the renaming of a street after Azov in commemoration of their fight in Mariupol this April.

“There is a ton of liberal white washing when it comes to fascists in Ukraine”

While the ADL claimed to The Grayzone that Ukraine’s government presided over a purge of neo-Nazis from Azov’s ranks, the media appearances of Azov members this year tell a decidedly different story.

As The Grayzone reported, Italian authorities issued a warrant this November for the arrest of Anton Radomsky, an Azov fighter, for planning to attack a shopping mall near Naples.

Also in November, an Azov photographer’s public relations tour of the Eastern United States was interrupted by protests after his history of posting Nazi imagery on social media came to light.

And contrary to the ADL’s spin, interviews with foreign fighters embedded with Azov paint a picture of a fighting group that is still honeycombed with hardcore neo-Nazis.

“Azov Battalion still has a lot of its neo-Nazi presence,” an American named Justin, who fought with Azov in Mariupol, claimed in an interview published on October 8. According to the former volunteer, his battalion commander was a “****ing Nazi” who kept a photograph of Adolf Hitler as his desktop background on his computer. The American explained that he and his fellow soldiers would greet each other with sieg heil salutes.

An equally revealing interview which appeared on November 12 featured comments from an American volunteer for the Azov Battalion named Kent “Boneface” McLellan.


“Boneface” boasts a lengthy arrest record in the US, including an incident in which he was filmed by an undercover government informant participating in paramilitary training with the American Front neo-Nazi organization. According to prosecutors, the group was planning “to kill Jews, immigrants and other minorities.”

In the November interview, Boneface admitted to taking photographs of Ukrainian fighters “posing with the corpses of a lynched pregnant woman and a man they said was her husband” for a video entitled “Kikes get the rope.” He also claimed to have appeared in a video depicting a botched crucifixion.

But Boneface’s comments on the prevalence of neo-Nazis within the ranks of Azov offer the clearest refutation of the ADL’s assertion that the battalion is “no longer the far-right group it once was.”

“There is a ton of liberal white washing when it comes to Fascists in Ukraine,” McLellan said, rattling off popular talking points: “Nazis don’t exist”; “Azov battalion and Azov regiment are different”; “They took all the Nazis out of Azov.”

“I speak out against the white washing of Nationalists by the media,” he added. “I use Twitter to mainly troll the (western) left, as they believe Ukraine[‘s] military isn’t full of nationalist ideals.”

Is the ADL as credulous as the rest of Ukraine flag-waving liberal America when it asserts that Azov has been de-radicalized? Or are they just trolling us too?

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Blinken believes that Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO will be completed soon

December 8, 2022

The US administration is optimistic that Sweden and Finland’s formal accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will be completed soon. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made the announcement on Thursday at a joint press conference with his Finnish and Swedish counterparts at the State Department.

“Finland and Sweden are ready to join NATO. Their military served alongside US and NATO troops in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya “According to the head of American diplomacy. According to him, the Armed Forces of Finland and Sweden “interact with alliance forces without any problems.”

“After the NATO summit in Madrid last June, I am confident that NATO will officially accept Finland and Sweden as members in the very near future. Both countries have taken significant concrete steps to fulfill their obligations, including those related to our ally Turkey’s security concerns “Blinken was added.

According to him, Turkey has raised significant security concerns in connection with Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership, and the parties are working on a solution.

He went on to say that the process of Stockholm and Helsinki joining NATO “will not become a bilateral issue between the US and Turkey.” “As part of the process of [admission of new members to the bloc], one of the alliance members expressed concern, which is now being directly considered by this country and potential new members.” There is significant support in the United States, not only from the President [Joe Biden], the executive branch, but also from our Congress, for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance as soon as possible.

“We have stated this to Turkey as a NATO ally, and we have publicly noted Sweden and Finland’s readiness to join the alliance,” said State Department Secretary Antony Blinken.

[Ravenlocke]

Remember months ago we found out that children names were also on the kill list, Myrotvoret,
It seems UNICEF has finally called for the removal of the children's names from the list. And remember Faina was put on the list years ago for wanting to live in peace.

https://www.donbass-insider.com/2022/12/08/faina-savenkova-unicef-and-the-silence-of-the-lambs/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork



FAINA SAVENKOVA – UNICEF AND THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Yesterday the silence of the International Children’s Fund UNICEF, which was going to do much for the children of Donbass, but never dared to take decisive action, was broken unexpectedly. And today it made a very clear statement. UNICEF called for the removal of children’s personal data from the “Myrotvorets” (Peacemaker) website.

This is wonderful news, but as a teenager facing the brutality of the Ukrainian army and the criminal actions of Myrotvorets, and, let’s be honest, some indifference by UNICEF itself to this story, I would like to ask Ms. Catherine Russell the foundation’s director, “Madam Director, where have you been all this time? And why did you just now notice a crime that is eight years old? Oh, come on. It’s more of a bewilderment.

I can only thank UNICEF for its bravery and will see whether Amnesty International will repeat UNICEF’s brave move or whether it will once again cower in the corner. The fate of UNICEF will also be interesting after such high-profile statements. Myrotvorets has nowhere to retreat. We wait and see.

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[Mashika]

waronfakesen/1504

[shaberon]

The pigs traded Viktor Bout for a basketball-playing drug mule?!?


That is along the lines of sending thousands to their death to defeat the Nazi military, while giving the Nazi command, who has never surrendered, the best jobs available.

Think about the kind of charges he was on, compared to our "weapons supply" to Ukraine these days...


If those charges were somehow serious, he would never have seen the light of day...but it must just be political posturing, which, in this case is...it is...I don't know, I can only call that a "populist initiative".

We don't need her to supply our drugs. Those cartels have numerous replacements chomping at the bit waiting for you to go down! So who cares?

It is so flimsy, I can get ahold of Bout's replacement within 24 hours and get some of those dangerous grenade launchers or whatever. I just don't do it. It remains rampantly the case that drugs, weapons, and human beings are still for sale should you want them.


I am guessing there was no American prisoner of comparable value. They have not caught actual cointel weapons suppliers yet. All the ones in Ukraine are on the hopeful 20-30% of what was ordered receiving end. Hrmph. Stupid pigs believe their own lies and never put themselves at risk.

[shaberon]

Just a few more hints about what "the U. S. side" is up to. Democracy confesses (https://tass.com/society/1547581) again:


The ringleader of a US-supported opposition group, Maryam Rajavi, has admitted to organizing the recent riots in Iran, the Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday, citing the information posted on Rajavi’s official website.

"This movement [riots] was well-organized by the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) with the use of rebel centers," Tasnim quoted Rajavi, who heads MKO, as saying. "[We consider] the National Council of Resistance of Iran [established by us] as an alternative to the current regime," she said.

In the 1980s, this organization fought against the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran and carried out terror attacks. Later, the group moved to France and the US. During Saddam Hussein’s reign in Iraq, the organization operated from Iraqi territory and took part in the war against Iran. The organization was deemed terrorist not only in Iran, but also in the West. However, later, the US and the UK removed the organization from its blacklists.


Working similarly for anything in the English language (https://thesaker.is/the-coming-purge-of-the-china-hands/) versus China:


They are adverse hostile forces, they run a complete background-check on you, and then they‘ll make you a simple offer: You either produce anti-Chinese content for the West, or they‘ll mark you as anti-democratic and enemy of freedom, a traitor. In that case, you’ll never find work in the West again.

Like most young students back then, I, too, was completely ignorant about the inner workings of Western world hegemony. And, like the idiot I always was, I threw myself heedlessly into “China Studies” at a respective University in the United Kingdom, Edinburgh to be exact.

Immediately, the conceited profs and lecturers, they taught us the horrors of Han chauvinism, the horrors of Qing China and the horrors of the Maoists and the horrors against the poor people of Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

When I looked it up, those were all former British colonies and/or places of interest to the British Crown. We were told LIES by the very British people whose soldiers raped, looted and colonized China, and were now angry that China somehow stood its ground and survived.

I do not expect you to believe at first what I am about to tell you. I would not have believed it myself, back then I mean, before I joined some of the many “Studies” invented by the Western Empire of LIES.


Quite a bit more to that one, worth looking at. Also, Jens Jerndal (https://southfront.org/where-did-this-new-world-order-coup-come-from-the-rockefellers-social-engineering-project/) on social engineering, starts with the biggest match-making we know of:


John D. Rockefeller’s business idea, hatched already around 1900, to take on health care and make a global monopoly of medical science. Just as he had already created a virtual global monopoly of the petroleum business.

Rockefeller’s brilliant but sneaky self-serving initiative took the guise of a non-profit institution in order to escape taxes and at the same time gain respect, if not popularity, instead of the anger and hate his ruthless business methods had earned him until then.


David Rockefeller wrote in his autobiography:

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”


Agenda 21...was the result of the United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in June of 1992, on the initiative of David Rockefeller and under the chairmanship of his “right hand”, the Canadian oil magnate and politician Maurice Strong.

Its full name was “the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests”, and it was adopted by 178 Governments. The majority of them probably had no clue of what its real purpose was.


In 1992 the World Economic Forum began a program to train people from all over the world who already were, or aspired to become, politicians or high-level public servants.

The secret goal was to infiltrate the governments and centers of power in every country in the world with ambitious and obedient globalist puppets, much like “Manchurian candidates”.



Personal story, yes, in the early 90s, I actually thought those guys were pursuing progress. The thing that looks funny is if you go to Strong's ranch in Colorado, this is where he makes a "New Age" basically by putting Tibetan Buddhists and Native American Shamen and others together in an area and saying "you're all the same". That would be miscegenation, a loss of nationality, which is what he was doing while wanting to make industry "go poof".

That only took a few short years of looking at what actually happened, and I puked my political guts out, permanently. My neighbors lap it up with gusto. I don't want it back. Seems to be what we can now call Green Nazis.


From the article, the "unpleasant surprise" was that the collapse of the Soviet Union did *not* make Russia give itself over bodily for western plunder and control. Therefor, Russian military action is *not* a WEF plan or anything of the sort. It only would be if it really runs them dry like a Vietnam experience and then further collapse enables further western dominance. That, of course, *was* the plan, *and* some probably still believe it.

[Bill Ryan]

https://t.me/waronfakesen/1504waronfakesen/1504

Here it is on YouTube: :flower:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88DZieC07js

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[ExomatrixTV]

This week, German police arrested (https://nos.nl/artikel/2455439-duitse-rechtsextremisten-opgepakt-die-parlement-wilden-bestormen) 25 members and supporters of an 'extreme right-wing movement' . They would have planned to storm the German parliament, install their own government and set up a new German army.

Raids took place in 11 states, in more than 130 locations. Thousands of officers were involved in the operation. Among those arrested are a German soldier and former member of parliament Birgit Malsack-Winkemann (AfD).

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twitter version (https://twitter.com/highlightsnews1/status/1600663954409373696)

The German authorities expect more arrests and raids in the coming days. There are a total of 54 suspects in the picture. The media pushes them into the corner of neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists.


Staged

German journalist Alina Lipp, who is being hounded by the German authorities for her coverage of the war in Ukraine, suspects that the raids were staged to implement legislative changes aimed at dissidents and freedom of expression.

"I think it was mostly a media show," she told PressTV. “They wrote everywhere that this was a secret mission, but in the meantime they took journalists with them who put images of the arrests online.”

The first reports appeared in the media an hour after the operation, which means that the articles were already written before the operation, Lipp emphasized.


Prison sentence

The journalist pointed out that the German government prosecutes anyone who openly criticizes the government or advocates friendship with Russia. She herself fled to Russia because she faces a prison sentence of three years in Germany. What did she do wrong? She has said that Ukraine has been killing civilians in the Donbass for eight years and that locals support Russia.

Lipp expects legislative changes to curtail free speech and sideline the opposition to be announced sometime in the coming days.


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Dr. Michael Vlahos & Col. Douglas Macgregor: Is the war in Ukraine entering its decisive phase? Pt.1

Michael Vlahos and Douglas Magcregor meet in the library of the Army-Navy Club, Washington, D.C., to reflect on the war in Ukraine: Past, Present, and Future. Part 1

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Ania K with Alexander Mercouris in this 16 minute video

ALEXANDER MERCOURIS (@TheDuran) ON HOW LONG THE CRISIS WILL LAST AND WHAT GOOD WILL COME OUT OF IT?

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https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1601290776629092353

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https://www.rt.com/russia/567980-donetsk-shelling-fire/

Fire erupts after Donetsk rocket strike (VIDEO)

A volley of rockets fired by the Ukrainian military has struck the Voroshilov neighborhood of Donetsk city, setting a residential high-rise ablaze and reportedly causing the deaths of at least three civilians. Rescue crews are at the scene.

Local authorities reported that 20 ‘Grad’ rockets were fired at the very heart of Donetsk, starting at 8pm local time on Friday. Several missiles impacted on Shkolnyy Boulevard, while another scored a direct hit on a high-rise on Vatutin Avenue.

Videos of the resulting conflagration are making rounds on social media, showing firefighters putting out a blaze in the ruins of what looks like a completely destroyed private residence. Mayor Aleksey Kulemzin later said the intense fire was the result of damage to a gas main.

Other videos show several cars on fire on Shkolnyy Boulevard.

Donetsk has been subjected to heavy artillery and missile attacks by Ukrainian forces on almost a daily basis since Russia launched its military operation in late February. Another rocket salvo earlier this week killed six people, including a 29-year-old member of the local council.

READ MORE: Ukrainian attack leaves six dead in Donetsk – Mayor
In addition to legacy Grad BM-21 multiple rocket launchers and 152mm tube artillery, Kiev’s forces have also targeted the city with the US-provided HIMARS systems and NATO 155mm howitzers.

Since 2014, when the Donbass conflict broke out in the aftermath of the Maidan coup in Kiev, the city has endured years of low-intensity fighting and sporadic shelling by the Ukrainian military.

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https://www.rt.com/news/567972-poland-ukraine-volunteers-prison/

Poles fighting in Ukraine risk jail – media


Polish nationals currently serving in Ukraine’s International Legion of the Armed Forces and other divisions could face up to five years in prison when they return home, Polish news outlet Rzeczpospolita has reported, citing the country’s penal code.

According to the outlet, by the end of October, only 34 people had submitted applications for permission to serve in a foreign army. Of that amount, two applications were approved by the Defense Ministry, while 14 were greenlighted by the Ministry of Interior.

Yet dozens, if not hundreds, of Poles are fighting in Ukraine, Miroslaw Czech – a journalist, former MP and Ukrainian activist – told the outlet. Technically, they are breaking the law and could theoretically face conviction, the paper wrote on Thursday.

Wojciech Skurkiewicz, deputy head of Poland’s Ministry of National Defense, has however pointed out that the government does not see those fighting in Ukraine as lawbreakers. He suggested that those combatants are not violating Polish interests or interfering with the goals of the country’s armed forces, and this justifies an “exclusion of criminal liability.”

READ MORE: The death of a US mercenary exposes the bleak reality of service with Ukraine’s 'International Legion'
Some Polish lawmakers, however, have said a promise from the Defense Ministry is not enough to guarantee that fighters returning from Ukraine won’t be subjected to investigations, interrogations and persecution. Independent Senator Krzysztof Kwiatkowski suggested that the best protection for them would be a general amnesty, according to the newspaper. He has introduced draft legislation to this effect in the Polish parliament.

Poles killed in Ukraine to get ‘American’ burial – media
Poles killed in Ukraine to get ‘American’ burial – media
It’s estimated that as many as 1,200 Poles have died fighting in Ukraine as of late November, according to Polish media outlet Niezalezny Dziennik Polityczny, while thousands more have been injured.

On Thursday, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that Moscow’s forces had destroyed a number of high-value targets with precision strikes, which also killed 90 Poles, who Moscow referred to as “mercenaries.”

Russia has repeatedly warned foreigners against traveling to Ukraine to fight alongside Kiev’s forces, stating that it would treat them as mercenaries, who would not be granted the status of prisoners of war as defined by the Geneva Convention.

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US to unveil new military aid package for Ukraine – Reuters

Washington is about to send another security assistance package to Kiev, which will include anti-drone and air defense systems, Reuters reported, citing sources. The $275 million measure is expected to be officially announced on Friday.

According to officials and documents cited by the news agency, the security aid will also include rockets for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), 155mm ammunition, Humvee vehicles, and generators. At the same time, there are no details on the air defense equipment, the report says. In addition to this, the contents and the size of the aid package may change before it is approved by US President Joe Biden.

The new measure is expected to be covered by the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows Washington to dispatch military equipment quickly and without congressional approval.

Supporting Ukraine with air defense systems has become an “absolute priority” for Western countries since Russia began targeting the country’s energy infrastructure, according to the US Department of Defense. The recurring bombardments picked up steam after Moscow accused Kiev of conducting “terrorist attacks” on Russian structures, including the strategic Crimea Bridge.

Missile strikes disrupt Ukrainian military logistics – Russia
Missile strikes disrupt Ukrainian military logistics – Russia
In early November, the Pentagon announced a $400 million security package for Ukraine, which included ammunition for the HAWK air defense system as well as four Avenger air defense systems and additional Stinger missiles.

The same month, Ukraine received two first National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), with Washington promising to send another six.

Since the start of the conflict, the US has committed more than $19 billion in security assistance to Kiev.

Moscow has repeatedly warned Western countries that providing heavy weapons to Ukraine risks both crossing Russia’s “red lines,” and could lead to their direct involvement in the conflict. Washington and its allies insist they are not a party to the hostilities, but continue sending arms shipments to Kiev.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the strikes on Ukraine’s power infrastructure were intended to degrade Kiev’s ability to transport troops, and Western-supplied weapons and equipment to the battlefield by rail.

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https://sputniknews.com/20221209/why-didnt-biden-swap-paul-whelan-convicted-for-espionage-in-russia-1105282503.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Why Didn't Biden Swap Paul Whelan Convicted for Espionage in Russia?

Earlier this week, Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who spent 15 years in a US prison, was swapped for US WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner, who was arrested in Russia earlier this year. The deal did not involve Paul Whelan, presently serving a 16-year prison term in Russia for espionage.




"I am very happy that President Putin and President Biden decided to trade Griner for Bout and that she will now be home in order to spend Christmas with her family and friends. She made a very silly mistake and paid a high price for it," Francis A. Boyle, professor of international law, told Sputnik.
Bout was arrested in 2008 in Thailand on terrorism charges accused by the US of smuggling weapons. In 2009 and 2010 the courts of Thailand rejected the US request for Bout's extradition due to insufficient evidence of his guilt presented by Washington, defining the nature of the US extradition request as political persecution. However, in August 2010, the Court of Appeal of Thailand ruled in favor of Bout's extradition.
At the time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov qualified the move as "an example of blatant judicial injustice," stressing that the decision was the result of "unprecedented political pressure on the judiciary and the government of Thailand." On April 5, 2012, the Russian citizen was sentenced to 25 years in US prison. Bout pleaded not guilty. Still, he was smeared by both the US mainstream press and film-makers being depicted as "the merchant of death" and a brutal "warlord."


Meanwhile, the US press is bemoaning the fact that this week's swap deal wasn’t all that US officials had wanted. Last July, US Secretary of State Anony Blinken lifted the veil on his secret talks with Moscow and announced that the Biden administration had made a "substantial proposal" to Russia to release Russian citizen Viktor Bout in order to bring back home two US nationals: Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.
On Thursday, detained American Paul Whelan expressed his frustration that the US administration had not done enough to secure his release in an exclusive CNN interview. President Joe Biden has been subjected to criticism by the US conservatives for his decision to exchange Bout for a basketball player instead of the ex-marine. The US liberals are much softer on the US president: they say that he did the right choice, citing the fact that Griner is an openly lesbian African American woman.
"I think Biden thought he'd get some political points if he had her released before Christmas. And that's why they went for her and not for him. It comes down to politics, really," remarked Dan Kovalik, adjunct professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of "No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian' Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests."
However, an unnamed US senior official told the media that the Biden administration did not have a choice of which American to bring home. Instead, it was a choice between releasing Griner or no one, the official claimed
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on December 9, that the swap was initiated by the Americans, that the negotiations were held in a normal mode and that they will be continued.
"We do not use any ultimatums, but we (…) will continue to firmly defend our position," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told journalists on Friday, when asked whether the "one-for-one" Griner-Bout swap was the Russian primary condition.


Who is Paul Whelan?
Apparently, the problem is that Whelan is accused of espionage which seems to be far more serious than Griner's drug smuggling.
"As for Whelan, it does appear from what I have seen in the public record that he is a spook," said Boyle. "I am certain that negotiations will continue for his release. The Biden administration will have to offer an equivalent high value prisoner in order to obtain his release. Hopefully this can be accomplished in the immediate future."
The Paul Whelan case is very difficult, according to Daniel Lazare, investigative journalist and author of "America's Undeclared War."
"It (…) appears that the Russian government regards his case as more serious than Grinder's case because they believe he was engaged in espionage," Lazare told Sputnik. "Obviously [this is] a much more serious offense. A lot depends on the future course of US-Russian relations. I presume if they were to improve that the chances of Whelan's release would greatly increase. But unfortunately, I see no prospect of that occurring. So it's difficult to make predictions."
US Marine Corps veteran Whelan is a Canadian national who also has US, British, and Irish citizenship. On December 28, 2018, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested him at his room in the Metropol hotel in Moscow after the ex-military serviceman received a flash drive containing a list of employees for a secret Russian agency. For his part, Whelan insisted that he was in Russia only to attend a friend’s wedding. He traveled to Russia several times, apparently, from 2006.
A former FSB official told Rossiya Segodnya that judging from the circumstances of Whelan's arrest, the Russian counterintelligence agents had thwarted a major operation by US intelligence services. Whelan was convicted on June 15, 2020, and received a 16-year prison sentence.

While the British mainstream press attempted to depict Whelan as "a Mr. Bean on holiday," he does not appear to be a simpleton.
From 1988 through 2000, Whelan worked as a police officer on the Chelsea, Michigan, force and as a deputy in the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office. It was also reported that Whelan began his military service as a US Marine reservist in 1990 (or 1994) to 2001.
Between 2003 and 2008, he served in Iraq being part of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a staff sergeant with Marine Air Control Group 38. Either in 2006 or 2007, Whelan spent his two vacation weeks in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, according to the US press.
At the time of arrest, Whelan worked as director of global security and investigations for BorgWarner, a large automotive components manufacturer with more than 60 offices and manufacturing facilities located in 18 countries. Prior to being hired by BorgWarner, the Canadian-born national worked in global security operations for the office staffing firm Kelly Services. He managed and conducted investigations concerning the company's interests globally.

According to the US media, Whelan's position at Kelly Services put him in frequent contact with various US federal agencies, including DEA and FBI in the US and Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) at the foreign embassies, to name but a few.
At the same time, however, the US press tries to cast a shadow on Whelan's resume. US journalists claimed that the ex-Marine was "perhaps the last person" that the US government would use to collect intelligence.
They said that he did not have diplomatic immunity, something a CIA agent typically has when dispatched to Russia, according to them. Furthermore, they referred to the fact that in January 2008, Whelan was convicted in a special court-martial for attempted larceny, three specifications of dereliction of duty, making a false official statement, and other wrongdoings. While the reported misdeeds do not make Whelan look like James Bond, they don't prove his innocence, either.

Whelan is Not the First and, Perhaps, Not the Last One
It's not the first time that a US citizen suspected of espionage has been caught in Moscow. On the night of May 13-14, 2013, FSB agents arrested a career CIA officer Ryan Christopher Fogle, who worked as the third secretary of the political section at the US Embassy in Moscow. Fogle was accused of trying to recruit a Russian officer to work as a US agent. The CIA agent was ordered to leave by the Russian authorities and was declared persona non grata.
A far more interesting case happened on July 15, 1977, when US intelligence officer Martha Peterson, who worked in the US Embassy in Moscow, was caught red-handed while laying a secret container on the Krasnoluzhsky Bridge in Moscow. The aforementioned container was intended for Soviet diplomat Alexander Ogorodnik, recruited by the CIA, and arrested on June 21, 1977 by the Soviet intelligence service KGB.

While it is usual that spooks and their backers deny being involved in espionage, Martha went public on her CIA background and secret mission in Moscow: in 2012 she published her memoir "The Widow Spy: My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison in Moscow." In the book, Peterson described the Cold War spy operation in Moscow and her arrest and detention in Lubyanka Prison.
The Peterson case emerged as a huge international scandal, especially because the CIA intelligence officer smuggled poison into the USSR which was used to kill at least one Soviet citizen. Eventually, Peterson was expelled from the USSR and declared persona non grata. The story was used by Soviet filmmakers to make a series titled "TASS is Authorized to Declare" (1984).

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/status/1600938427025088512

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A lot cheaper than here, (US), prices up every week now. Diesel fuel here is higher than gasoline, used to be cheaper, has been, $5 a gallon, now down a few cents.

Online stores now charge shipping or it’s free shipping but it means shipping cost is included in the item price.

Sale price is now what used to be the regular price before markdown.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/status/1600938427025088512

1600938427025088512Excellent, thanks — a most interesting 5 minutes very well spent. :thumbsup:

There are quite a few in the US, the UK and the EU who might envy that Russian supermarket, fully stocked and with almost everything very moderately priced.

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Me included Bill, I added why above in the original post.

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https://twitter.com/fabushka_/status/1596123201532268545

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[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/fabushka_/status/1596123201532268545

1596123201532268545And not forgetting STEPAN BANDERA. He's in there, too.

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From Southfront.org

https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1601280316735643649

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Some cuties,

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Journalist Travels To Moscow To See How Bad The Sanctions Are 'Cutting In'

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Rebel News investigative journalist Jeremy Loffredo has traveled to Moscow (https://www.rebelnews.com/groceries_gasoline_in_russia_soviet_style_shortages) . According to the Western mainstream media, the sanctions are having a devastating effect on the Russian economy.

PBS NewsHour reported that the sanctions are hitting hard. The New York Times reported that Russia is facing food shortages. The Washington Post even compared the sanctions to Soviet times.

Loffredo put it to the test and visited a supermarket in the heart of Moscow. The shelves were well stocked. Among other things, the journalist bought a liter of milk for 89 rubles (€1.33), a loaf of bread for 60 rubles (90 cents), half a kilo of minced meat for 175 rubles (€2.62), 10 eggs for 99 rubles (€1. .48) and a bowl of mushrooms for 79 rubles (€1.18). He lost 799 rubles ($11.94) for a basket of groceries.

https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/Q/E/8/k/QE8kh.gaa.mp4

source (https://rumble.com/v1zmnje-groceries-and-gasoline-in-russia-soviet-style-shortages.html)



All lies ...


The media is not telling the truth about the effect of the sanctions on food prices in Russia, Loffredo notes.

He spoke to market vendors just outside Moscow. A woman told him that the price of some products has increased, but that most prices have remained the same. A man who sells berries said the price has barely changed.


Not true

A young woman told the journalist that it is not true that Russians are suffering under the sanctions.

Gasoline prices took a big jump in our country 'because of the war in Ukraine'. Loffredo paid 47 rubles (70 cents) at the pump for a liter of petrol in Russia. He spoke to a professional driver who said that the price has remained virtually unchanged over the past year.


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Groceries & Gasoline in Russia: Soviet-style shortages (https://www.rebelnews.com/groceries_gasoline_in_russia_soviet_style_shortages)?

[shaberon]

Who will Turkey (https://southfront.org/sdf-is-ready-to-withdraw-from-key-towns-in-northern-syria-under-new-russian-offer-to-turkey/) listen to?


Under the new Russian offer, which meant to prevent a Turkish invasion of northern Syria, the SDF would withdraw from the towns of Manbij and Kobane in the northern and northeastern Aleppo countryside. The two key towns will be handed over to Syrian government forces.



Those particular areas incurred a lot of proxy Kurdish casualties and are considered pretty important for a grip on that region.

The SDF is itself pretty insane.


Is this Russian aggression?


No but Americans are there unlawfully.

They will stand around and try to insult your supermarkets. Then they will send you to a high attrition battlefield twenty miles away from where they are. Better take the offer because they are liable to an assassination attack, which will take you out too. They are worth as much as Osama bin Laden, who got hit in the head with a rocket propelled grenade, a mortar round, and a sea-launched cruise missile at the same time, and he turned into vegetable soup. "Human safari season" was over in 329 B. C. and if you have not got the lesson yet, you are really dangerous.

But we can always buy some more time to try.

[Tintin]

Dr. Michael Vlahos & Col. Douglas Macgregor: Is the war in Ukraine entering its decisive phase? Pt.1

Michael Vlahos and Douglas Magcregor meet in the library of the Army-Navy Club, Washington, D.C., to reflect on the war in Ukraine: Past, Present, and Future. Part 1

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Yes, a most excellent intelligent conversation; for completion, here's Part 2:

Dr. Michael Vlahos & Col. Douglas Macgregor: Why NATO strategic failure? A war of deceit, denial Pt2

Description:


Dec 9, 2022
Michael Vlahos and Douglas Magcregor meet in the library of the illustrious Army-Navy Club, Washington, D.C., the Imperial City, to reflect on the war in Ukraine.

Part 2 examines the the strategic choices that have led to NATO strategic failure in Ukraine, conflict with Russia, and lays bare how deliberate deceit and denial have misled the American people.

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Zelensky Is A Dangerous Dictator Who Has Set Up A Police State With Our Tax Money

It is quite clear that President Zelensky is not interested in freedom and democracy. He is a dangerous dictator who has used $100 billion in US tax dollars to build a police state in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson said on his show.

Over the past year, Zelensky has banned opposition parties, forcibly shut down critical media outlets, arrested political opponents and sent soldiers to churches, Carlson summed up.
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Contrary to the Constitution

His secret service has raided monasteries, including a convent full of nuns. He has arrested dozens of priests for no reason, in violation of the Ukrainian Constitution, which incidentally no longer matters.

Western leaders have not said a word. They keep sending tax money to Zelensky. As a result, he has become even bolder. For example, he has announced that he will ban an entire religion, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and confiscate all its property.

A free country does not ban major religions, Carlson noted. Zelensky does and his cabinet is now looking for ways to punish Christians who profess their faith.


"Standing ovation"

Economist Kees de Kort previously called (https://www.ninefornews.nl/econoom-vlijmscherp-over-oorlog-in-oekraine-zelenski-is-gewoon-een-dictator-wat-mankeert-ons/) him a dictator. “Opposition is banned, companies are closed, if you open your mouth, you are in jail. It is welcomed in the Dutch parliament,” said De Kort. "He's just a dictator."

President Zelensky received a standing ovation after his speech in the House of Representatives.


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[Bill Ryan]

Zelensky Is A Dangerous Dictator Who Has Set Up A Police State With Our Tax Money

It is quite clear that President Zelensky is not interested in freedom and democracy. He is a dangerous dictator who has used $100 billion in US tax dollars to build a police state in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson said on his show.

Over the past year, Zelensky has banned opposition parties, forcibly shut down critical media outlets, arrested political opponents and sent soldiers to churches, Carlson summed up.
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Contrary to the Constitution

His secret service has raided monasteries, including a convent full of nuns. He has arrested dozens of priests for no reason, in violation of the Ukrainian Constitution, which incidentally no longer matters.

Western leaders have not said a word. They keep sending tax money to Zelensky. As a result, he has become even bolder. For example, he has announced that he will ban an entire religion, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and confiscate all its property.

A free country does not ban major religions, Carlson noted. Zelensky does and his cabinet is now looking for ways to punish Christians who profess their faith.


"Standing ovation"

Economist Kees de Kort previously called (https://www.ninefornews.nl/econoom-vlijmscherp-over-oorlog-in-oekraine-zelenski-is-gewoon-een-dictator-wat-mankeert-ons/) him a dictator. “Opposition is banned, companies are closed, if you open your mouth, you are in jail. It is welcomed in the Dutch parliament,” said De Kort. "He's just a dictator."

President Zelensky received a standing ovation after his speech in the House of Representatives.


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Thanks. Only a 2 minute segment (though it could not be clearer and more concise), and it's evident this was part of a much longer video. I can't see it on the main Fox News channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/FoxNews/videos), and if it's not there maybe we should not be surprised.


If anyone has the entire Tucker video, please do post it.
I'd also not be surprised if (as best I believe, like Judge Andrew Napolitano (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDkEYb-TXJVWLvOokshtlsw/streams)) Tucker eventually finds himself obliged to leave Fox and start up his own platform.

[Ravenlocke]

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Zelensky Is A Dangerous Dictator Who Has Set Up A Police State With Our Tax Money

It is quite clear that President Zelensky is not interested in freedom and democracy. He is a dangerous dictator who has used $100 billion in US tax dollars to build a police state in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson said on his show.

Over the past year, Zelensky has banned opposition parties, forcibly shut down critical media outlets, arrested political opponents and sent soldiers to churches, Carlson summed up.
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Contrary to the Constitution

His secret service has raided monasteries, including a convent full of nuns. He has arrested dozens of priests for no reason, in violation of the Ukrainian Constitution, which incidentally no longer matters.

Western leaders have not said a word. They keep sending tax money to Zelensky. As a result, he has become even bolder. For example, he has announced that he will ban an entire religion, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and confiscate all its property.

A free country does not ban major religions, Carlson noted. Zelensky does and his cabinet is now looking for ways to punish Christians who profess their faith.


"Standing ovation"

Economist Kees de Kort previously called (https://www.ninefornews.nl/econoom-vlijmscherp-over-oorlog-in-oekraine-zelenski-is-gewoon-een-dictator-wat-mankeert-ons/) him a dictator. “Opposition is banned, companies are closed, if you open your mouth, you are in jail. It is welcomed in the Dutch parliament,” said De Kort. "He's just a dictator."

President Zelensky received a standing ovation after his speech in the House of Representatives.


dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/zelenski-is-een-gevaarlijke-dictator-die-met-ons-belastinggeld-een-politiestaat-heeft-opgetuigd) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

backup video:
https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/Y/j/A/m/YjAmh.gaa.mp4


source (https://rumble.com/v1zuvle-december-9-2022.html)

Thanks. Only a 2 minute segment (though it could not be clearer and more concise), and it's evident this was part of a much longer video. I can't see it on the main Fox News channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/FoxNews/videos), and if it's not there maybe we should not be surprised.


If anyone has the entire Tucker video, please do post it.
I'd also not be surprised if (as best I believe, like Judge Andrew Napolitano (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDkEYb-TXJVWLvOokshtlsw/streams)) Tucker eventually finds himself obliged to leave Fox and start up his own platform.




On the same topic of raiding churches, here is a message,

https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1601586451166396416

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https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1601536418701922304

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https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1601525739815579649

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1601509845567692801

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https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1601509174604505088

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https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1601515424859856896

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1601570098564673538
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https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1601523686699257857

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/MaimunkaNews/status/

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In Kosovo now,

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1601598364965273603

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https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1601598413102993408

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