WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

Bakhmut, final stage. EU frozen Russian assets disappear. 38 minute update from The Duran

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[Ravenlocke]

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[kfm27917]

https://www.sott.net/article/477744-From-special-operation-to-full-scale-war

From special operation to full-scale war

good analysis of different stages of the conflict

[Bill Ryan]

How do you reconcile how brave you feel Ritter is with the fact that he is a 3 times convicted sex offender who spent 2 years in the slammer for repeated offences against minors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

ok I'll bite...

I've just taken a look and it seems like it all involved law enforcement stings, entrapment and police decoys - and I expect when they finally got him to court the judge was as politically motivated and corrupt as they mostly appear to be nowadays...

IMO it doesn't change anything...

:focus:I looked this up for the formal record on this thread. (It's kind of off topic, but I felt it was important to post it here so it can be referenced later if need be.) This is a 16 minute extract from a Scott Ritter interview by Lori Spencer (US) and Rick Walker (Canada) from Maverick News, published on 13 Jan 2023.

Scott Ritter Was Targeted by the FBI

The show notes read:
Our guest, former Marine and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter tells his own personal horror story of how the FBI targeted his family for an intimidation and harassment campaign that lasted more than a decade. Incredible! We also asked Scott his thoughts on the raid at President Trump's home last August 8.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdNQe3V8Xp4

[Lunesoleil]

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Official YouTube channel of Investig'Action, the media to fight against media lies founded by Michel Collon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Collon), you have the possibility of the translator in your language

[Vicus]

It Is Done: Bakhmut is Encircled by Russian Troops
26 FEBRUARY 2023
https://halturnerradioshow.com/images/2023/02/26/bAKHMUTeNCIRCLED_large.png

It took months of fierce and deadly fighting, but the city of Bakhmut, Ukraine is now, officially, tactically-encircled by the Russian Army. Upwards of seven thousand (7,000) Ukraine troops are now trapped and cannot get out.

This morning, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported to Ukraine President Zelensky about the tactical encirclement and the impossibility of evacuating the remaining Ukrainian units.

HAL TURNER EDITORIAL OPINION

This is a massive victory for the Russian Army. By finally taking Bakhmut, Russia has now cut-off all supply lines for the Ukrainian Army to the south and southeast of Ukraine. Those areas will now fall, one at a time, to the never-ending Russian onslaught.

Ukraine is losing the war. As reported on this web site from the very beginning, once the Russian Army crossed their border, Ukraine stood no chance at all. Only the West thought otherwise, and provided aid to Ukraine. That aid only served to delay the inevitable, and cost tens-of-thousands of more Ukrainian deaths.

Ukraine should surrender.


https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/it-is-done-bakhmut-is-encircled-by-russian-troops

[Vicus]

Transnistria Denies Being Under Ukrainian Military Threat

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"We know that our opponents in Ukraine and European countries are fomenting provocations in Transnistria," Russian diplomat Peskov stated.

On Monday, the self-proclaimed Republic of Transnistria President Vadim Krasnoselski said that there is no an inminent military security threat against his country, which shares a border with Ukraine and where over 250,000 Russian citizens live.

"We know that our opponents in Ukraine and European countries are fomenting provocations in Transnistria," Peskov stated, recalling that the Ukrainian army members recently entered that territory disguised as members of the Russian Armed Forces.

“The Ukrainian army has concentrated large numbers of personnel and personal equipment near the border with Transnistria. This practice poses a direct threat to peace in Transnistria," this spokesperson stressed.

“Russia will be prepared to respond to any security threats posed to nationals living in Transnistria. Any action that threatens the security of our compatriots will be considered, following international law, as an attack on Russia," he highlighted.

The tweet reads, "A video posted online shows the movement of Romanian air defense systems and the HIMARS launcher on the border with Modavia in the context of the escalating situation in Transnistria."


https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Transnistria-Denies-Being-Under-Ukrainian-Military-Threat-20230227-0006.html

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[onawah]

Mass Protests In Europe Against Ukraine War - Critical Mass?
RonPaulLibertyReport
314K subscribers
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Feb 27, 2023

"Following the Washington, DC antiwar rally last week, similar - and much larger - protests are breaking out in London, Berlin, Paris and across European capitals. New opinion polls in Germany show that most oppose more German involvement in Ukraine. Is the tide turning? Also today, David Stockman writes on Biden's desire for nine more Ukraines! Finally: What did the "experts" get right about Covid?"

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[Tintin]

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Just when you think that you can quite predict what Scott is going to say - and you might be right most of the time - he throws down some more unexpected truth bombs. A top top man.

Well worth this hour, trust me. If you don't want to watch it just play it in the background while you chop vegetables in preparation for your meal :)

Gold :star:

[Ravenlocke]

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[shaberon]

Today's quick look at the sinful arena of geopolitics includes the following.



The daily bread (https://tass.com/politics/1582155) is best summarized as:


Russian forces delivered massive strikes on Ukrainian troops in the southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye areas over the past day, he said.

In the southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye areas, units of the battlegroup East inflicted damage by combined firepower...supported by combat aircraft, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems...


The large numbers and wide variety of targets destroyed is available, and, it includes one intelligence command center in Brovary in the Kiev Region, but failed to mention any Leopard tanks.



The "forces" of Nazi Denmark (https://sputniknews.com/20230228/danish-military-pressed-for-personnel-after-record-wave-of-resignations-1107861910.html) consist of five frigates and not enough personnel to do anything because:


In 2022 alone, nearly 2,000 people left the Danish military, which in total has some 15,000 troops.

The latter operations are framed as "strengthening NATO's presence in the Baltics" and "deterring Russia". However, due to the personnel shortage, there will be no team of Danish soldiers to replace the current one in the Baltics this spring.


Earlier, Denmark's commitment to support Kiev severely undermined Copenhagen's state coffers, pushing the politicians to abolish a centuries-old Christian holiday. Furthermore, the extensive military support to Kiev, including the decision to send Denmark’s entire inventory of Caesar self-propelled howitzers has been slammed by Copenhagen's own military experts as a punch to the Nordic nation’s defenses.


While Germany (https://sputniknews.com/20230226/frenemy-how-us-deprives-germany-of-strategic-autonomy-and-status-as-industrial-powerhouse--1107807263.html) is simply abandoning itself:


In October 2022, BASF announced that it would be "permanently" downsizing its operations in Europe and moving its operations to the People's Republic of China.

A whopping 9% of Germany's small- and medium-sized industrial companies signaled at the time they would likewise be moving their production abroad, according to the Foundation for Family Businesses in Germany and Europe's survey.


This was about to be discovered by a Poseidon aircraft carrying reporters from CNN (https://sputniknews.com/20230224/pla-fighter-jet-confronts-us-navy-spy-plane-with-cnn-crew-aboard-over-south-china-sea-1107782664.html):



“American aircraft. Chinese airspace is 12 nautical miles. Not approaching any more or you bear all responsibility,” the Chinese pilot told the Poseidon pilot over the radio, according to the report.

The J-11 soon pulled alongside the US aircraft, sitting about 500 feet off its port side for about 15 minutes. The jet was carrying air-to-air missiles, the report said.




And as we have seen, the narrative has been steered this way and that about Covid (https://sputniknews.com/20230227/wuhan-lab-leak-yarn-returns-how-us-reporter-pours-gasoline-into-washingtons-war-machine-1107846929.html), now revealed by no less than the Wall Street Journal:


It is becoming clearer by the day that the government of the United States has become so delusional with its own lies that it is becoming violent against anyone exposing them," Scott Bennett, former US Army psychological warfare officer and US State Department counterterrorism analyst, told Sputnik.


The US Energy Department and the FBI have alleged that the coronavirus spread "via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory," according to the US media report co-authored by Michael R. Gordon.


If the US really wants to get to the bottom of the pandemic outbreak, Zhao continued, it should shed light on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) report suggesting coronavirus existed in the US as early as December 2019 and disclose the real situation of the biological lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

"While I agree that the COVID virus originated in a lab, I remain unconvinced that the lab was in China," Philip Giraldi, former CIA station chief, now an executive director of the Council for the National Interest, told Sputnik.

"I believe most Americans who are following the COVID story after all this time are very skeptical of anything the White House says relating to the issue. The first priority of the government is, after all, to protect itself and it might well be lying just as it is lying about Nord Stream," Giraldi noted.

"It is becoming increasingly clear that all elements of the United States government, the Congress, the military, the intelligence community, and the Biden administration are becoming nervous - if not fearful - as they are backed into a corner by the continual emergence of evidence confirming the connection between the COVID-19 issue and the United States in general. Materials and documents obtained since Russia’s [special military operation in] Ukraine has essentially served as evidence of crimes against humanity and violations of the bioweapons convention, which Russia has submitted to the United Nations and demanded an open and transparent investigation," Bennett concluded.



Is there a broken record here, broken record here?

[jaybee]

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Just when you think that you can quite predict what Scott is going to say - and you might be right most of the time - he throws down some more unexpected truth bombs. A top top man.

Well worth this hour, trust me. If you don't want to watch it just play it in the background while you chop vegetables in preparation for your meal :)

Gold :star:


We can't watch everything that comes along and there are tons of high quality presentations etc on this (excellent) forum alone... but on your recommendation I watched this and I agree totally with what you said above - Scott delivers a torrent - a Niagara Falls - of educational material - in a no nonsense, clear, highly intelligent way -

top notch presentation from a top man...

couple of quotes...(23:00)"This is a fundamental issue of right and wrong - this is about who's right and who's wrong - and when people say... well Scott you're pro Russian because you're saying they're right - no - I'm pro right and it just so happens that the Russians are right...."


(57:32)..."If we don't get people elected into office that believe in arms control - we're all going to die - and I'm not just making this up - we're all going to die.."


This last point is really important IMO... people are often encouraged to dismiss voting as a waste of time and sometimes there are no candidates that really reflect one's views (in their entirety)... but we need good honest people willing to become politicians who can try to get us out of this mess....

Thanks also to Ravenlocke for posting the Scott Ritter video...

[Helvetic]

The Ukraine Crisis | With Scott Ritter and Andrei Martyanov | Feb. 27, 2023

Source: Garland Nixon

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[kfm27917]

https://dailyreckoning.com/the-horrifying-endgame-in-ukraine/

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Defense Minister Vukovic confirmed that the Serbian Ministry of Defense had indeed delivered 3,500 rockets to the Grads to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, indicating, however, that this was done under pressure from the EU, not directly and under guarantees that the supplied ammunition would not be used at the front.”

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[Ravenlocke]

“ Wagner PMC continues to move forward

Bakhmut:

▪️this morning, the orchestra's stormtroopers took full control of the Stupki microdistrict in the north of Bakhmut;
The battles have moved to the Ilyinovka area, where the musicians have already occupied several enemy positions, approaching the AZOM plant from the north.

Neighborhood:

▪️to the north of Wagner, the zone of control was significantly expanded southwest of Berkhovka;
▪️increased pressure on Dubovo-Vasilyevka, which the Orchestra has already come close to;
▪️ south of Bakhmut there is an advance of our attack aircraft southeast of Ivanovsky (Krasny) in the direction of the TO504 highway.”

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“ We're surrounded! Send those jets we can't fly!!!

"Ukrain­ian of­fi­cials said con­di­tions for its forces in the be­sieged east­ern city of Bakhmut were be­com­ing more dif­fi­cult, while also re­new­ing calls for West­ern al­lies to send mod­ern jet fight­ers af­ter the lat­est round of Russ­ian drone at­tacks."

“De­spite sig­nif­i­cant losses, the en­emy launched the most pre­pared as­sault units of Wag­ner, who are try­ing to break through the de­fenses of our troops and sur­round the city,” he said, ac­cord­ing to the Ukrain­ian mil­i­tary me­dia cen­ter’s Telegram chan­nel.”

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This guy claims to be a communist but he is a moron if he thinks in leaving the US and going to Russia he will live under communism. Russia is not communist and by definition the USA is.

[Franny]

Some good news, relatively speaking.

The World vs the Khazarian Mafia
- Jim Willie
28 FEB 2023


The enemies of humanity have relied on being hidden from the rabble in order to maintain and exert their power over them. Sean from the SGT Report says that with the increased awareness of their identities, they appear to be unleashing chaos operations worldwide and are going "all-in" in their crusade to extinguish a large portion of the human race.

Jim Willie responds, "It's not quite as bleak and negative. I try to be balanced. I realize that the upper levels of control rooms are all under the powers of the World Economic Forum, of the Rothschild central banks, of many different groups; the Langley narco groups, of the Gates Foundation.

"I do believe that the elite powers and the Globalists are losing their grip and that is why they're trying to unleash an avalanche of multi-faceted disasters, multi-faceted initiatives.

"I don't believe the United Nations will be around much longer. I don't believe the Davos World Economic Forum will be around much longer. I don't believe their puppet leaders in Western Europe and Canada will be around much longer.

"And I've been saying this, Sean for the last 6-8 months: Ukraine is their last stand. When it falls, their entire network of upper-level command is dismantled, destroyed and wrecked.

"Now, notice something that happened, it was about last April or May. The Russians overran, in Ukraine the money centers for money laundering; the banking centers...these are money-laundering banks. They move money and I estimate somewhere between $50-$60 billion a month through Ukraine.

"As soon as the Russians shut that down, the Biden Show began aid to Ukraine. Now, you call that "to the Ukrainian leaders" and I don't believe that. I really don't. I believe it's diverted to the Davos Swiss bank accounts. I believe that a very small portion goes to the war effort. I believe a large portion of that aid, in the form of arms ends up in the Eastern European black market for weapons – and the center for that is Albania – and ironically, a number of the weapons are bought by the Russian military so they can do reverse engineering.

"Very little goes into the Ukraine military effort. That is done by NATO and they're getting depleted and that's why things are coming to a halt in Ukraine. When Ukraine folds and falls, you're gonna see a lot of different things getting cut off – I'll just give you a couple of examples:

"The President of France, Macron, I think he'll either step down or go missing. Trudeau in Canada, he'll either step down or go missing, when Ukraine falls and we're just a month or two or three away from that.

"I declared, I guess back in August or so that the Ukraine war had been won. I wasn't wrong. It's just not over, because this is a depletion war and I featured that in my December Report.

"I cited 30 different depletion concepts. Regarding the war, it's the NATO arsenal. Regarding that war, it's the Ukrainian military and hardware arsenal. They're not depleting Russia. Russia's got 8 to 9 times fewer casualties and they're going to take over pretty much the entire East, with the Donbas and the entire South, with Odessa and Crimea.

"This is a tragic war but the depletion is also of the Ukrainian men. They're dragging 40-year-old men, 38-year-old men and putting a uniform on them, giving them a rifle and they're killed in less than one week.

"This is not a war to win. This is a war to deplete and they're depleting NATO. I mentioned Davos, I mentioned the Rothschilds – the Rothschild central banks are all insolvent and bankrupt right now. They're going to be handed back to the resident governments.

"But what's happening with NATO is it's getting depleted and it is going to dissolve. I keep repeating this one comment, it was by Chancellor Scholz, that's the President of Germany, and he was at Bali for the December G8 Meeting and Scholz grabbed the arm of Lavrov, the Foreign Minister of Russia and said, 'We urgently need a new security architecture for Europe.'

"It was his way of saying, 'NATO is dead.' It's his way of saying, 'We want Russian protection for a trade deal that is an umbrella for all of Western Europe and it's new and the Americans are not in the room...

"I really think the German people are gaining a lot of momentum in recognizing the fact that NATO is not their protector, they're an aggravator and that the United States – the US-UK union, Langley and MI6, that intelligence hierarchy, they are not the friends of Germans. I have a couple of key German clients. And they keep in touch with me and they're telling me, 'The German people are waking up, Jim.' Slowly, they're accepting the fact that the United States blew up their Nordstream. There's still some resistance to that notion but they're beginning to accept it and it's only going to get more powerful.

"Sean, the NATO military aspect is going to be dismantled and just fracture away and these leaders like Macron; Macron and Trudeau, those are the main ones – but look at what happened in Italy. Giorgia Meloni, she was behind the movement that booted out Draghi as Prime Minister of Italy. That was back in August and September. My Gosh, it's already begun in Western Europe. Now, it has to spread.

"Italy has now regained a good portion of their natural gas pipeline supply from Russia. I've been told – and I can't verify this, I've just been told – that the Germans and the Russians have a secret commercial deal and they're going to bring on back the gas supply and they cannot talk about it as long as the Americans are in the room. So, the objective is to get the Americans out of the room. To get the NATO out of the room. To get the Davos out of the room. And it's a slow, grudging process but it's going to happen. To me, it's written, now, it just has to play out.

"I know there's a lot of concern over environmental damage and crises that bring about the United Nations but I don't think the United Nations is going to be around much longer. I really don't."
In reference to rumors of "Underground Wars", Jim Willie has this to say:

"The nexus of the underground traffic lanes are focused in Ukraine. I've been saying this for close to a year. Ukraine is the last stand. When it falls, everything else is going to break. It's like putting a knife or a stake through the heart of the monster, of the vampire.

"All the limbs, all the arms, all the legs stop moving. Ukraine is the heart of the vampire. Now, this fellow [Riccardo Bosi] is talking about a war going on and the Russians, I believe are at the center of this in a visible manner. That is because the good element, the best part of the American and British militaries cannot show their faces. They cannot, because you've got the London center, the sovereign city, you've got Washington DC, the sovereign city, you've got the Biden Show, regardless of the television sets in Atlanta and Carson City, California, whatever – what you see on the news, what you see above ground is the Biden Show with NATO fighting the Russians.

"What you don't see is what I believe is the higher-level military, Sean and it's something that it's extremely difficult to get much information on. I do the best, I don't get very far but I get bits and pieces – it's the Space Force. And the Trump element of the US Military is part of the Space Force. And so are the Russians.

"What you have now – right now, here and now – is that the Trump element of the US Military is fighting hand-in-hand with the Russians, supplying satellite information, GPS information Starlink sharing, logistics. And a lot of the battles are going on underground.

"There's a battle going on at the Maine and Vermont border with Canada. There's a battle going on underground. I don't want to get in too deeply to that whole issue, 'cause it's just loaded with information, loaded with controversy. The Russians are the visible side to the Space Force trying to exterminate the Khazarians."


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[rgray222]

To a certain extent, the cornerstone of Russian imperialism has been the flow of Russian migrants into neighboring countries. When the number of Russian becomes significant the situation becomes dangerous and precarious for the host country of these migrants. This can be seen over the centuries but it is certainly true of Georgia in 2008, Crimea in 2014, and now Ukraine in 2022. It makes no difference whether the treatment of Russian migrants is real or perceived Putin believes it provides him license to invade or go to war with a neighboring country. This is precisely what Germany said when it launched its invasion of Poland in Sept of 1939.

Immigration has been long used as a weapon. Any honest person living in the USA today knows this to be a fact.

Finland starts construction of Russia border fence

https://gdb.rferl.org/09870000-0aff-0242-0a98-08da9c99d16b_cx0_cy1_cw99_w1200_r1.jpg

Finland has begun construction of its planned 200-kilometer fence on the Russian border, the country's border guard said Tuesday, as Helsinki fears Moscow could use migrant flows at the frontier for political purposes.

Terrain work would begin on Tuesday "with forest clearance and will proceed in such a way that road construction and fence installation can be started in March", the Finnish Border Guard said in a statement.

The three-kilometre pilot project at the southeastern border crossing in Imatra is expected to be completed by the end of June, it added.

Construction of a further 70 kilometres (43 miles), mainly in southeastern Finland, will take place between 2023 and 2025.

In total, Finland plans to fence 200 kilometres of its 1,300-kilometre border with Russia at a cost of around 380 million euros (around $400 million).

The fence will be over three metres (10 feet) tall with barbed wire at the top, with particularly sensitive areas equipped with night vision cameras, lights and loudspeakers.

At present, Finland's borders are secured primarily by light wooden fences, mainly designed to stop livestock from wandering to the wrong side.

Fearing that Moscow could use migrants to exert political pressure on Helsinki, NATO candidate Finland in July passed new amendments to its Border Guard Act to facilitate the erection of sturdier fences.

Although the Finland-Russia border has "worked well" in the past, Brigadier General Jari Tolppanen told AFP in November that the war in Ukraine had changed the security situation "fundamentally".

He said the border fence was "indispensable" to stop large-scale illegal entries from Russian territory.

Finland saw an influx of Russians in September after President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilisation of reservists to fight in Ukraine.

Estonia, Latvia and Poland have also increased security on their borders with Russia or are planning to do so.

Source: https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2023/02/28/finland-starts-construction-of-russian-border-fence

[Waldo]

27.02.23 Douglas Macgregor: The full obliteration of the Ukrainian Army is here

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[shaberon]

I mentioned Davos, I mentioned the Rothschilds – the Rothschild central banks are all insolvent and bankrupt right now. They're going to be handed back to the resident governments.


Does this mean anything?

"Bankruptcy" is a legal status, a court order. "Insolvent" is correct when someone can't keep up the bills, but, no one should mention "bankruptcy" unless it has been adjudicated.

How many Rothschild-owned banks are there? The Bank of England was not one, nor the Federal Reserve. "Dominated by their agents" would be appropriate, but, "ownership" is again a legal status that could be verified.

If we just say "privatized central banking", then we have accused the right criminal. Not allowed in China. Revered in most of Europe and the U. S.

Don't they talk about the "rehypothecated derivatives" in Deutsche Bank any more? That still adds up to at least $4T or much more cash than is in existence.

"Handed back" to the governments = we buy FRNs with Bonds. Are securities being returned at par, or simply transferred, or is there anything behind this?

[Tintin]

I may cross post this article to the Russophobia thread as well.

I've been to these galleries, many years ago, and now bridle at what is simply out and out anti-Russian racism. I expect they probably think of themselves as "woke" too no doubt. Seriously deranged.

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"Here arises the question for the museum innovators who until recently admired Russian culture: why they has set about perverting historical reality only now? Isn’t this sudden “revelation” just a banal tribute to political fashion? Anyway, the time will come for the U.S. cultural elite to sober up and be embarrassed of its doings." - Anatoly Antonov

Russophobia as a malignant tumor in the United States
Article by Ambassador Anatoly Antonov for the Russian newspaper "Rossiyskaya Gazeta"February 28, 2023

The anti-Russian “hate virus” is giving metastases and continues to affect the United States. It has also infected the leading U.S. art galleries that are now trying to outdo each other in their efforts to “cancel” Russian culture.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reclassified great Russian painters Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ivan Aivazovsky and Ilya Repin as Ukrainians guided by the fact that they were born in Mariupol, Feodosia and Chuguev, which is nothing short of a complete absurdity. This does not withstand any criticism at least because the artists considered themselves Russians. Just in case: ethnically, Ilya Repin was Russian, Ivan Aivazovsky was Armenian and Arkhip Kuindzhi was Greek. All three were born in the Russian Empire – when Ukrainian statehood did not exist.

Another example of ignorance by the Met is the renaming of Edgar Degas’s “Russian Dancers” to “Dancers in Ukrainian Dress”. Moreover, a comment added beneath the picture now reads: "The subject reflects the surge of French interest in the art and culture of Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, following France's political alliance with that Empire in 1894".

Those who came up with this idea did not bother to figure out that it was dancers of the Russian Imperial Ballet on tour in Paris who inspired the French impressionist to create the masterpiece. It is naïve to imagine that the artist was familiar with “the great Ukrainian choreographic school”.

The American Museum of Modern Art has also yielded to the derangement, dedicating a permanent-collection gallery to works by «ethnic Ukranians». Titled “In Solidarity”, it features pieces by Kazimir Malevich, Leonid Berlyavsky-Nevelson, Sonia Delaunay-Terk and Ilya Kabakov.

Judging by the rhetoric of the American art beau monde, Vasily Kandinsky, a native of Moscow, and his works are next in line to be "ukrainized". There is a heated discussion on whether the fact that he studied in Odessa is a good reason to treat him as a Ukrainian artist.

Here arises the question for the museum innovators who until recently admired Russian culture: why they has set about perverting historical reality only now? Isn’t this sudden “revelation” just a banal tribute to political fashion? Anyway, the time will come for the U.S. cultural elite to sober up and be embarrassed of its doings.

It was hard to believe that xenophobia could take roots in a state which is supposed to be resting on the principles of cultural and ethnical diversity and tolerance to different peoples. Nevertheless, U.S. politicians not only encourage hatred of everything Russian, but actively implant it in the minds of citizens. In recent years, they have never stopped fabricating baseless accusations to justify tougher sanctions.

Russia has always venerated and respected the rich cultural traditions of all countries. This is the core of our national identity, mentality and statehood. Culture must always remain the bridge for strengthening trust between the peoples, however complicated the relations between the states may be.

There was no “cancellation of culture” even during the Cold War. A lesser-known fact is that the first Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1958 was won by Van Cliburn, an outstanding pianist and U.S. national. His sensational performance in Moscow at the height of the Cold War helped break down barriers and gave hope for finding mutual understanding based on love for classical music.

Cultural cooperation helped melt the ice then. Its significance cannot be overestimated also in our days because the universal language of art unites people of different nationalities, whatever is going on in the realm of big politics.

The competition was excluded from the World Federation of International Music Competitions in 2022 amidst indiscriminate Russophobia. And yet, despite that, representatives of the United States still seek to become laureates and winners of this prestigious contest. The 2023 Tchaikovsky International Youth Competition, by the way, was attended by 128 gifted performers from 14 countries, including the United States.

Russian culture does not belong only to Russia. It is the world’s treasure. We know the Americans as appreciative connoisseurs of true art. Not so long ago tours of the troupes of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres as well as our renowned musicians drew packed houses and were always greeted with a storm of applause. The local audience is apparently longing for Russian performers and art exhibitions. Isn’t it time to stop the Russophobic madness?

[pyrangello]

The news media does a fantastic job of villianizing Russia on a daily basis, I watched Putin's general assembly meeting which is equivalent to our state if the union here in the states only putin had more substance to his speech. More importantly were all the camera shots of the Russians in the crowd listening to this message . Human beings and citizens of this earth just like my friends and neighbors, only in another land . Putting the war aside.

Segway to a new word in our dictionary "woke" definition - a new virus sweeping the earth in the year 2023 that has no substance but only a stigma of a proposed ideology of the ignorant and individuals seeking identity along with lack of or non existant faith ,imposing this lifestyle like a hollowed out tree on the good people of the earth.

As for the rothchilds I read an article their companies were exiting the stock market as of last week. Just an fyi.

I remember as a kid in the 60,s watching the tv every evening and seeing the reports on Vietnam, where the conflicts were happening, casualty count , ECT. ECT. There was also an embedded member from the news giving live reports daily. With this conflict here today the only reports we get here in the states now is how many millions or billions are being sent over to some guy in a basement and what type of military hardware is being sent. Nothing else.its like all this money and maybe military hardware is being flushed down a black hole on a daily basis. And there really is no really is no verification on what's really happening .

[jaybee]

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Isn't it just pathetically ridiculous and typical in this age of reverse reality - that the General Public are bombarded with strict Hate Laws where people can't even express an opinion about various subjects but mindless hatred for Russia is encouraged and stoked up 24/7 - that must be a good kind of hatred :rolleyes:-

Propaganda and war are old stories and the people behind the hate campaign against Russia are the enemy of citizens of all countries... as guilty of polluting the human environment as someone who pours deadly poison into a river -

Trouble is lots of people are getting swept up in the river of hate and don't realize how they are being used and abused...

[BMJ]

I mentioned Davos, I mentioned the Rothschilds – the Rothschild central banks are all insolvent and bankrupt right now. They're going to be handed back to the resident governments.


How many Rothschild-owned banks are there?

ROTHSCHILD OWNED & CONTROLLED BANKS - see the link and posts 135 to 138 as at November 2017

Link: https://qanon.pub/?q=reserve

[Dennis Leahy]

Not sure where to post this - it's just my conjecture about the USA, Inc. goals in Ukraine:

Spending money on the military industrial complex and all the military adjunct corporations is the core of the USA, Inc. economy - most other manufacturing has been "off-shored" by US corporations. There isn't much to blow up any more in Syria, the tale of alQaeda has lost its prime boogeyman status. The MIC needs a very scary boogeyman at all times, to justify spending billions and billions and billions of dollars. The USSR was used as the prime boogeyman for many years, and very effectively. Russia, under Putin, attempted to shake off its boogeyman status, to allow Russia to trade with nations formerly allied against it. If it was seen as economically advantageous by the people that own and control the USA, Russia would simply be another trading partner. But, Russia is more valuable as the prime boogeyman, to the USA, Inc. military industrial complex. The MIC can get years and years of high spending by the USA, Inc., by furthering the demonization of Russia.

The USA, Inc. never thought it could or would win a proxy war with Russia, in Ukraine. They don't need to - all they are doing is establishing that the next generation of US citizens will be held in the grips of fear by the established prime boogeyman, Russia, and that the flow of the US economy sustains and grows the MIC corporations. I suspect that the USA, Inc. generals are pushing and pushing Putin's/Russia's limits, to try to get Russia to use a big devastating bomb (nuclear or not), for example. Since Russia probably won't do that, I suspect that there is a plan on the table for the USA, Inc. to either detonate a large bomb and blame it on Russia, or pull another fake chemical gas attack (though that one has worn a bit thin.)

The USA, Inc. has already achieved their main goal in Ukraine, underscoring "how dangerous Russia is" and "how insane and ruthless Putin is." The prime boogeyman is, once again, well established in myth and lore, and the MIC's feeding tube of US dollars (borrowed from China?) can continue, unabated. But, if experience teaches us anything, it is that the MIC will overplay their hand, so I expect that a big bomb or a real or fake chemical attack might still be in play.

[Vicus]

The United States is modernizing two air bases in Romania, located near the Russian Federation and Ukraine
Yesterday, 21: 08

The Americans do not stop investing in the improvement of military installations in Eastern Europe, as close as possible to Russia and Ukraine. This time, the Pentagon has planned to modernize two air bases in Romania, which allow them to control a vast region and perform a wide range of tasks.


We are talking about repair work at the airport. Mikhail Kogelnichanu and at the Kympi-Turziy airfield. These facilities, used by the “peace-loving” NATO bloc, can be used for logistics operations, deployment of combat aircraft, as well as aerial reconnaissance over the Black Sea, Ukrainian territory, the Transcaucasus and the Balkans.

At the first facility, it is planned to build an apron for loading aircraft, create taxiways and a number of other engineering structures, for which up to $ 55 million of the department's budget is allocated. At the second facility, they are going to replace the communication infrastructure, for which they plan to spend up to $5 million.

It is not yet entirely clear what specific goals the Americans are pursuing, but in any case, this does not bring Russia anything good. Given the conflict in Ukraine that has been going on for more than a year, it can be assumed that the United States wants to seriously use the territory of Romania in its interests.

For example, to organize a hub for the transit of military cargo to Ukraine, since the existing similar facility in Poland is already overloaded and a second similar one operating in another direction will not hurt. Perhaps the Americans also want to base combat aircraft on these facilities, which Western countries will transfer or sell to Kyiv. In addition, one should not forget that the United States is not going to give the Russian Federation an isolated Transnistria, which is located in operational proximity to the facilities.

However, the concern of the Americans with these objects may not be directly related to Ukraine, but is a long-planned set of measures to strengthen the defense capability of the eastern flank of the North Atlantic Alliance. However, such movements in any case indicate the continuation of aggressive policy Washington against Moscow and poses a threat to the security of the Russian Federation.


https://en.topcor.ru/32609-ssha-modernizirujut-dve-aviabazy-v-rumynii-nahodjaschiesja-vblizi-rf-i-ukrainy.html

[Vicus]

Ukraine warned it will have to pay for weapons 1 Mar, 2023 08:14

A top Pentagon official has insisted that Kiev eventually needs to foot the bill for some shipments

Ukraine should eventually pay for some of the weapons it receives from its Western backers, the US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Celeste Wallander, told Congress on Tuesday.

Speaking at a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Rep. Michael Garcia (R-Calif.) said that it would be important for the US to initiate foreign military sales to Ukraine, rather than providing Kiev with arms for free, claiming that it “would go a long way with American taxpayers.”

Wallander responded that while the Ukrainians had actually bought some weapons themselves, they “haven’t done any big figure procurement from American companies.”

“They don’t have that scale of capability in their budget right now… but it’s a very good point that we also need to transition them to start their own defense spending planning as well as everything else we will do to support them,” she said.

While US President Joe Biden has vowed to support Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” that stance has faced some opposition, especially from the Republican Party. Earlier this month, a group of GOP lawmakers put forward the Ukraine Fatigue Resolution calling on Washington to “end its military and financial aid to Ukraine” while urging “all combatants to reach a peace agreement.”


https://www.rt.com/news/572237-pentagon-ukraine-pay-weapons/

[Vicus]

Russia calls for focus on alleged radioactive shipment to Ukraine
The Foreign Ministry has drawn attention to claims about the possible delivery of Californium-252 1 Mar, 2023 12:34

International organizations should take a look at reports of highly radioactive material being delivered to Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Maria Zakharova voiced concerns that the alleged shipment happened near Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region. Ukraine has been “deliberately stirring up tension” in the area, she said.

According to unconfirmed claims that appeared on social media last week, a ship carrying containers of Californium-252, a synthetic radioactive element, arrived in Odessa on February 19. It was also claimed that the radioactive monitoring system was turned off during the offloading process. Zakharova mentioned reports that the cargo was supplied by the Ohio-based company Frontier Technology Corporation.

The spokeswoman also mentioned allegations that, on February 16, unspecified radioactive material was delivered to the port city of Chernomorsk, near Odessa, “from the territory of one of the European countries.” Allegedly the supposed delivery was not subjected to customs control.

“We call on the appropriate international organizations to pay close attention to this information,” Zakharova said.

Frontier Technology Corporation produces Californium-252 neutron sources and containers designed to transport radioactive material. Californium-252 is used in scanners and for fission in nuclear reactors, as well as for cancer treatment and geological surveys, according to the company’s website.

Last year, Moscow alleged that Ukraine was preparing to detonate a "dirty bomb," which is typically understood as a conventional munition with radioactive elements. Kiev rejected the claim.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572256-ukraine-radioactive-shipment-reports/

[Bill Ryan]

:facepalm:

(But he's in good company, and it's a kind of badge of honor)

https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1630990755581022208
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[Michel Leclerc]

(...)

Russian culture does not belong only to Russia. It is the world’s treasure.

(...)



All cultures belong to the entire world.

One could also look at it this way. Repin, Malevich are so important that in order to rescue them from hate-fuelled destruction, they are to be repackaged as Ukrainian.

This recalls what happened in Nazi times. In Nazi Germany and German-occupied countries musicians continued to play work by Jewish composers, only it was attributed to other composers. That could easily be done for chamber music work. Felix Mendelssohn’s “Variations sérieuses” for piano were just played as "Variations” by Robert Schumann. For symphonic work it was hardly possible. Schumann wrote four, even Himmler knew that; selling Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony as a work by Schumann would not pass.

So we will soon hear the Pathétique by the great Ukraininan composer Tchaikovski, or the Leningrad Symphony by the Ukrainian luminary Shostakovich.

It helps identifying the United States as a fascist State. But then we have known that for a long time already.

[ExomatrixTV]

Mediaite SMEARS Jimmy Dore For Telling Truth About Ukraine N@zis:

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Tucker Carlson has been the rare media commentator to mention that there is substantial evidence the United States was behind the Nord Stream pipeline bombing. He even brought on Jimmy Dore to talk about it — something that blew the minds of other mainstream media outlets like Mediaite, which published a piece smearing Jimmy as a conspiracy theorist while neglecting to refute a single point he made. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss whether the Mediaite story was actually written by a sympathetic reporter.

[shaberon]

How many Rothschild-owned banks are there?

ROTHSCHILD OWNED & CONTROLLED BANKS - see the link and posts 135 to 138 as at November 2017

Link: https://qanon.pub/?q=reserveI checked. It is just a meaningless statement with nothing about ownership whatsoever.

[shaberon]

I have just seen that, rather than withdrawing, Ukraine is actually sending more forces to the execution chamber they call Bakhmut. Again, it makes sense from the view of the total eradication of the Ukrainian identity, of which there is no such thing. Just takes a lot of work to get rid of it.


In the process, they sure do fork over tons of embarrassing, compromised resources. Today we can enjoy the Boris to Dust Reprise (https://sputniknews.com/20230301/jinxed-by-johnson-russian-forces-wipe-out-elite-ukrainian-unit-named-after-ex-uk-pm--1107897496.html):


The Russian forces defeated a Ukrainian army unit near Artemovsk (Bakhmut) named after former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, one of the commanders of the Wagner PMC told Sputnik.

He displayed the the trophies taken during the fight on the southern outskirts of the city, which included a flag from a unit of the "elite" 24th Mechanized Brigade stationed in the western part of Ukraine.

"Take note, this was a unit and they were maintaining a stronghold in the woods. When they were defeated, we found this flag," the commander said.

https://cdnn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e7/03/01/1107902174_0:0:1275:717_1280x0_80_0_0_048e38321bfdee6fd6b970023d59235e.jpg.webp


Inscription on the flag says: 24th Mechanized Brigade, "Boris Johnson" Unit.


American insignia displayed with Totenkopf:

https://cdnn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e7/03/01/1107902370_0:0:1275:715_1280x0_80_0_0_4fe200681dfdd5ce198258c7bab8d6eb.jpg.webp


And, failing to bribe most Central Asian countries with paltry handouts and arm-twisting, watch Blinken in Yanqui Go Home (https://sputniknews.com/20230301/blinkens-central-asia-trip-was-meant-to-open-a-second-front-against-russia-why-it-failed-1107915046.html):



The problem, according to the academic, is that since the closure of the last US military base in Central Asia in 2014 – when US forces returned the Manas airbase to Kyrgyz forces, is that Washington’s arguments urging less cooperation with Russia carry little practical weight. That’s because the West cannot promise the same kinds of economic opportunities, integration projects, or regional security structures.

The US strategy of trying to “push Russia and China out of the region” is an “absolutely impossible and fantastical idea,” according to Pritchin, because the West simply cannot step into the latter two countries’ shoes by virtue of geographical and historical realities.


And there is nothing the US can do to challenge this state of affairs apart from immense investments of time and financial resources which Washington does not have.

“Therefore, what we have here, of course, is mostly a political game with nothing behind it,” the scholar said, summing up Blinken's trip. Absent the ability to use its economic weight to force countries to change course, all that’s left for Washington is political pressure and rhetoric, including allegations of a lack of transparency, a lack of democracy, a lack of market mechanisms, “i.e. the same tools Western countries use in relation to all developing countries,” Pritchin noted.

Grozin concurs, pointing out that neither during Blinken’s trip nor in State Department releases did Washington offer any kind of “large-scale projects” which might interest Central Asian countries or sway them away from its regional partners.

The one constant of the US' 30-year strategy in Central Asia has been support for color revolutions, various NGOs associated with the Democracy Institute, USAID, George Soros’ Open Democracy Foundations and other affiliated structures. However, these tools have not only proven geographically limited (largely to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), but have failed to bring the expected fruits of bringing anti-Russian, anti-China governments to power and keeping them in power, according to Grozin.

The US interest revolves around trying to create chaos in regions bordering Russia – the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia. “Attempts to draw Georgia into opening a ‘second front’ have stalled and nothing has come of them. So Blinken traveled to Central Asia. It’s obvious that the US won’t be able to tear these countries off from Russia. But if that’s not possible, at least some problems, some kind of tensions could be created to divert Russia’s attention and reduce its potential; if they’re lucky, maybe they’ll be able to ignite something again,” Grozin concluded.


Meanwhile, Belarus (https://tass.com/world/1583211) and China made so many agreements that the talks lasted considerably longer than planned...

[BMJ]

How many Rothschild-owned banks are there?

ROTHSCHILD OWNED & CONTROLLED BANKS - see the link and posts 135 to 138 as at November 2017

Link: https://qanon.pub/?q=reserveI checked. It is just a meaningless statement with nothing about ownership whatsoever.

I trust the source for the most part, if you don't then shaberon go do the leg work and confirm it if you wish to, because im not going to spoon feed you.

[Tintin]

This goes back all the way to 2015 but would be echoed today all over this area of - now - south west Russia :flower:

Source: Watchdog Media (https://www.watchdogmediainstitute.com/2015/09/theannatuvstory.html) (<< an excellent resource by the way)

(A great many of the videos there are already in the Avalon library but there may be some there that should perhaps be uploaded too.)

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[Extracted from the full longer more detailed report linked above]


On May 26, 2015 three civilians were killed when artillery shells landed in the Ozeryanovka district of Gorlovka, a town controlled by the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) opposite the front lines of the Ukrainian Army. Anna Tuv lost her arm, her husband Yuriy, and her 11-year-old daughter Katya when two shells struck their home around 6pm. Her two youngest children received minor injuries, and there was another casualty nearby.



Six days after the funeral Anna spoke with Russell "Texas" Bentley from a hospital in Donetsk. Bentley is an American volunteer for the Donetsk People's Republic, currently doing video reports for Essence of Time (https://www.youtube.com/user/eotsuVideo). Five days earlier he reported from the ruins of Anna's house.[23] With her mother and two young children in the room, she said:

If I'm shown to Petro Alekseevich Poroshenko, I want, I'm not black-hearted at all. I'm too religious, but, from the bottom of my heart, I wish you a long life, I want you to suffer the same pain I'm suffering now every moment for the rest of your life. The wounds will heal up, but this is you who planted a dagger in my heart, who bereft me of my child. You bereft me of my beloved I was living and breathing. I wish you were in the same awful fear my little daughter had been in before she was torn asunder. If you're not totally devoid of humanity yet, I beg you, stop.

I beg all the world: Stop Ukrainian regime. Stop hammering mothers and their children. Guys. Armed Forces of Ukraine. Everyone, who's trying to mobilise to Ukrainian Army, this is not your war! Nobody will reward you. When you have your arms and legs shot away, you won't get social payments. Nobody will say "thank you". You're forwarded to fight not with militarists. You're encouraged to kill children and women and civilians. You're just stooges, tools of your bosses. I beg you, stop. I beg everyone. I'm addressing the whole world just now. On behalf of my little girl, who's no more, who used to love the entire world and meant no harm to anyone..

My husband was everything to me. Everything hung on him. Just everything. We've given birth to our daughter recently, we had a joyful family. My life has collapsed. I just can't understand what for. What is our fault?

The dad was so happy to have a daughter. My little Katya was torn into two parts. I had no chance even to see them in the coffin for the last time, because they were disfigured and mutilated. And how many mothers like me are crying at the moment?...

Look at this girl. Why? My honey. I had not one hand shot away, I had three of them shot away. She used to do everything. She was just the child from the heavens. Why her? I was being driven in an ambulance, and she was just torn asunder. Bottom and legs. An ear was torn out. She was mutilated all through. My husband, a handsome man, was torn asunder. My Katya is no more, no more. This is all I have now. Only these two pictures of her. Petro Poroshenko has bereft me of her.

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The video documentary now in the Avalon library, here (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Donbass/War_Crimes_in_Gorlovka_-_The_Anna_Tuv_Story_%282015%29.mp4):

Duration: 84 mins

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Donbass/War_Crimes_in_Gorlovka_-_The_Anna_Tuv_Story_%282015%29.mp4

[Tintin]

A breaking story from the Bryansk oblast (in Russia). It appears a reconnaissance team of anti-Russian nationalists and Ukrainians have taken hostages and already killed one child, and injured several others.

Donbass Devushka provides updates on their Twitter channel, here (https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1631233923916394496).

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Source: https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/46623

Text:


About the perpetrators of the terrorist attack on the Bryansk region

A video with representatives of the Russian Volunteer Corps, which is part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is circulating on the network at the feldsher-obstetric station in the village of Lyubechane, Bryansk region.

The armed men in the video claim that their group crossed the border of the Russian Federation, and that they are responsible for the attack on the border regions of the country.

🔻Who are they?

▪️The Russian Volunteer Corps is an anti-Russian nationalist movement that was officially formed in August 2022 and became part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️One of the founders is Denis Kapustin, known under the pseudonym Denis Nikitin. It is he who calls on the Russian people to take up arms in the video.

▪️ The number of movements is small. The main composition is Russian emigrants who have been living on the territory of Ukraine for a long time. The group also conducts recruitment from other countries.

▪️According to the participants in the movement, they can perform tasks at the company level. However, before that, RDK was used mainly for PR campaigns.

Earlier, they also declared their involvement in the murder of Daria Dugina and sabotage within Russia. The group has been repeatedly used by the Ukrainian authorities to acquit themselves of charges of terrorism.

🔻Why attack the Bryansk region

▪️Provocation for the purpose of PR and popularization of the activities of the "Russian Volunteer Corps", which has not previously been seen in active hostilities.

After completing the task of shooting near the key buildings of the border villages, the saboteurs left the territory of the Bryansk region.

▪️A worked out plan of the Ukrainian authorities to use pseudo-Russian movements to organize sabotage. At the same time, the video is aimed at disavowing accusations of terrorism against Kiev: “this was not done by Ukrainian formations, but by people with Russian passports.”

🔻One of the goals of such actions is to create a picture of the struggle within Russian society. From here, the opposition and Western media are actively circulating reports that the attack was allegedly carried out by Russian people who disagree with the policy of the Russian authorities.

In fact, small radical groups under the full patronage of the Main Intelligence Directorate perform tasks to destabilize Russia.

And given the popular trend in the West to "cancel" Russian culture and replace everything Russian with "terrorists", "orcs", "neo-Nazis", the customers of this "performance" are obvious.
#Bryansk #Russia #Ukraine
@rybar

Putin's response:

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Source: https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1631266427121586177

[Tintin]

Source: TASS News Agency (https://tass.com/defense/1583749)

Measures underway in Bryansk Region to eliminate Ukrainian saboteurs — FSB
Several dozen Ukrainian saboteurs infiltrated into the borderline district of the Bryansk Region on Thursday morning

MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and Russian troops are carrying out measures to eliminate armed Ukrainian militants who have trespassed the country’s state border, the FSB press office told TASS on Thursday.

"The FSB of Russia and the attached troops are carrying out measures in the borderline Klimovsky district of the Bryansk Region to eliminate the armed Ukrainian nationalists who have trespassed the state border," the press office said.

Several dozen Ukrainian saboteurs infiltrated into the borderline district of the Bryansk Region on Thursday morning. As the defense circles told TASS, the saboteurs attacked the villages of Lyubechane and Sushany. Up to six people may be held hostage by the Ukrainian militants. There are both killed and wounded people among local residents.

[ExomatrixTV]

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters accuses Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland of engineering the War in Ukraine: "You could have kept Secretary of State Baker's promise not to advance NATO... You could have refrained from engineering the illegal Maidan coup d'etat... You could have supported the Minsk accords." "Now we are told by Angela Merkel they were just a ruse to buy time to arm Ukraine for the war that you were engineering."
1631015142547943424


dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/rocklegende-roger-waters-haalt-in-videoboodschap-hard-uit-naar-aanstichters-van-oorlog-in-oekraine) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[Helvetic]

People behind Biden responsible for US Russophobic policy & Nord Stream attack - Pepe Escobar | March 1, 2023

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

v28sgn2

'The Biden combo,' including Sullivan, Blinken, and Nuland (who almost unambiguously planned the Nord Stream bombing) are the driving forces behind the absolutely psychotic Russophobic American foreign policy - Pepe Escobar, journalist and geopolitical analyst.

[ExomatrixTV]

Zelenskyy Says US WILL Send Their Children To DIE For Their War

PYyl8J9UthU
Calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "hero" is like calling Ukraine a "democracy".

[Vicus]

Russian regions come under mortar fire from Ukraine 2 Mar, 2023 09:08

Kiev’s forces have carried out artillery and mortar strikes against civilian buildings in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions, officials report

Villages in the Russian regions of Kursk and Bryansk came under heavy artillery fire from Kiev’s forces, the governors of the two regions neighboring Ukraine reported on Thursday morning. The attacks have damaged several residential buildings and civilian structures. Several people have reportedly been killed or injured.

Kursk governor Roman Starovoit wrote in a Telegram post that Kiev’s troops had shelled the village of Tetkino, which is on the Russian-Ukrainan border. At 11:17am local time he reported that the attack was still ongoing and that Russian forces were returning fire.

He also noted that there had been casualties from the attack and that emergency services had been dispatched to the area. Kursk officials have since confirmed that one person was killed and another was injured in the attack on Tetkino.

At the same time, Bryansk governor Aleksandr Bogomaz reported that the villages of Sushany and Lomakovka were also attacked using mortars and drones, which damaged several residential buildings. No casualties have so far been reported there, according to the governor.

While the shelling was taking place, a group of Ukrainians launched a raid in Bryansk region, attacking a vehicle and reportedly killing at least one person and injuring a ten-year-old child, according to Bogomaz. He added that Russian forces were taking all required measures to eliminate the saboteur group.

An explosion was also reported in a forest area in the Tula region at around 8am on Thursday. Locals said they heard a loud bang that was strong enough to shake the walls. There was no damage or casualties as a result of the incident, local officials said. Authorities have yet to confirm the cause of the blast, but one of the versions being investigated is a drone strike.

Tula governor Aleksey Dyumin has ordered increased security measures in the region in light of the recent attacks on Russian territories close to the Ukrainian border. His press service has insisted, however, that there is currently no threat to the residents of the Tula region.

Russian regions bordering Ukraine have repeatedly come under attack from Kiev’s artillery and drones since Moscow launched its military operation in the country one year ago. The strikes have targeted energy infrastructure and residential areas, destroying civilian buildings and leading to a number of civilian casualties.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572310-russian-regions-artillery-fire/

[Vicus]

Russian security service comments on Ukrainian saboteur attack
2 Mar, 2023 14:13


Authorities say they have found a large number of explosive devices after Kiev's operatives carried out a cross-border raid

The situation in Russia’s Bryansk Region is under the control of law enforcement agencies, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Thursday after an attack by Ukrainian saboteurs. The agency also confirmed earlier reports that one local resident had been killed in the attack and that an 11-year-old child had received a gunshot wound.

Bryansk officials have since added that a second man has also been killed by the saboteurs in the village of Lyubechane.

The FSB has stated that the area is currently being checked and that a large number of explosive devices of various types have been found. Bomb squads are working on the scene to disarm the explosives.

On Thursday morning a number of Ukrainian saboteurs crossed the Russian border and launched raids on Lyubechane and Sushany. The gunmen attacked a civilian vehicle, killing one man and injuring a child. At the same time, Bryansk Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz also reported artillery and mortar strikes in the area.

The FSB along with the Russian Defense Ministry have since reported that they are taking measures to eliminate the attackers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the incident as a “terrorist attack,” identifying the people responsible for such acts as “neo-Nazis and terrorists.” He also suggested whoever was behind Thursday’s attack may have also been responsible for the assassination of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, whose car was blown up near Moscow in August.

Russia’s regions bordering Ukraine have been repeatedly attacked by Kiev’s forces in recent months. On Thursday, the governors of Bryansk and Kursk regions reported that Ukrainian troops had shelled local villages. Kursk officials confirmed that one person was killed in the attack.


https://www.rt.com/russia/572329-fsb-comments-bryansk-attack/

[Tintin]

"Now here’s where it starts getting interesting. Not only do we begin to get into specific tactics, but a revelation is made: this new ‘Assault Detachment’ purportedly meant to ‘replace BTG’s’ is not really a new type of unit per se, but rather more of new set of doctrinal fighting tactics designed around the specific task of solving the ‘intractable’ tree-line trench problem which has come to dominate the current mode of conflict.

It turns out, this is more a doctrinal manual on newly evolved tactics—not the description of an entirely or revolutionarily new type of fighting formation. But this fact will become more apparent." - Simplicius

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

Simplicius formerly Nightvision who used to provide copy for The Saker blog has provided a most interesting and revealing article on his Substack (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-btg-is-dead-long-live-the-btg?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email) page.

I'll not copy the whole article here but extract a handful of key takeaways which demonstrate that some of the mythos surrounding Russian BTG constitution are effectively busted. It was eye-opening for me.

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

The BTG Is Dead, Long Live The BTG!
We examine recently 'recovered documents' outlining a new Russian doctrinal replacement to the BTG system.

A Ukrainian reserves military officer has written a very interesting twitter thread, which was subsequently picked up by a host of other analysts from DailyKos to a retired Major General in the Australian army.

It details a purported major doctrinal shift in Russian combat group structure in Ukraine, which was discovered by way of (reportedly) captured documents. While typically, things like this are to be taken with a pinch of salt, in this case there are no obvious incentives for the UA officer to lie or make it up, seeing as how it’s not something that paints Russia in a negative light (well, they attempt to do so anyway), but in some ways the reverse. And secondly, to the keen observer, it’s something that’s already being corroborated by actual on the ground circumstances we’re seeing as well as British intel MI6 reports.

As a quick contextual primer—the BTG was not created for the type of conflict that this war has transitioned into. And while Russia may have used the BTG structure in the opening—the tenor of that conflict was far different than what it is today.

In the beginning of the SMO, Russia was hardly even assaulting positions, but rather doing what in Soviet military parlance were called ‘raids’. As is always the case with American/Western exoticization of all things Russian, they deliberately created a factitious ‘mythos’ surrounding the BTG which never existed in reality, for the general purpose of later declaring it a ‘failure’ when in actuality they’ve never fundamentally understood it.

The vast majority of Western ‘experts’, completely misunderstand the purpose and origins of the “BTG”, owing to this delusional aggrandizement and mythicization. I’m going to demystify how and why the BTG was formed very succinctly for the laymen amongst us:

-------

Russia needed a basic, self-sufficient unit which could have all the same maneuvering and asset capabilities as a brigade, but have complete, guaranteed readiness, so they began to structure the armed forces around these BTG’s. Also, in an era of more centralized corruption and lackluster command chains / OODA loops, it was better to use a unit structure which retained its own inherent capabilities. For instance, why rely on having to phone in the central anti-air command to notify them you need help shooting down an enemy plane/UAV, in an era where such cross-unit communications were not exceptionally streamlined or efficient, when you can just have the air defense yourself under your own roof. Same goes for artillery, etc

In floundering around this BTG concept, most ‘analysts’ gabble on about the wrong things, but omit the key central precept behind its formation: that of ‘high combat readiness’. This translates into full manpower constitution, assured training of the unit (as opposed to having part of the unit be lesser trained conscripts, or some mishmash), and professional contract troops. In short, BTG’s were something done more out of temporary necessity than some far-flung or deeply engraved doctrinal shift or re-conceptualization.

-----------

One thing of note, however, is the passage:

“The platoon commander controls mortar fire. • The platoon/company commander decides on artillery targets, but only the unit commander can provide the air support.”

This is very interesting, as it is a direct repudiation of the popular, albeit naive, trope that Russian forces lack trained NCO’s, have no bottom-level initiative or authority, are highly ‘centralized’ in some stark-caricature of Soviet bureaucratic rigidity, that their recon forces subsist on ‘Command-Push’ rather than ‘Recon-Pull’ strategy, etc, etc.

But in fact, little by little, corroboration continues to trickle in from this war of something I’ve said and believed since the beginning—that it’s actually the complete opposite: Russian officers have more autonomy than their NATO equivalents. There’s a wealth of evidence that supports this, but unfortunately would derail this narrow-scoped topic.

-------

The quote about platoon commanders above, confirms that Russian commanders are trustingly delegating the designation of artillery targets down to unit level—this is something even the U.S./NATO doesn’t have, not least of which reason being that Western armies don’t even have artillery at below the brigade level, at which point you need a Major General or at least a Colonel’s permission to even strike a target.

Here, Russia is letting mere Lieutenants decide for themselves. This is massive. A type of revolutionary small unit autonomy NATO/U.S. can’t even dream of, and has sent ex-U.S. Army ‘experts’ like this one (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/26/2155061/-Ukraine-Update-Russia-s-BTG-was-always-a-joke-and-now-it-s-dead)into wildly fevered paroxysms of excuse-making and cognitive-dissonance-inducing rage to try and explain away.

The fact is, it’s become obvious that it is now the U.S. and NATO which are the stilted and stultified, rigidly bureaucratic, un-evolving monstrosities they so desperately try to portray Russia as. And Russia is in fact the highly dynamic, battlefield-evolving force built around strong small-unit leadership and NCO initiative that the West feigns to paint themselves as. What a wonder!

------

In the end, all of these dramatic calls are in fact silly and wrong. Despite the tongue-in-cheek title of this article, I do not believe the BTG is ‘dead’, but rather simply that Russia is adapting new tactics for the very specific constraints and problems facing them at this one specific phase of the SMO. Once other phases kick off, they may very well revert back to other structures and tactics. Though as mentioned earlier, the BTG was never designed to be the permanent replacement of Russian force-structure but rather more a temporary stopgap measure.

Contrary to what ignorantly mystified Western think-tankers are sputtering, the fielding of new tactics demonstrates strong adaptive capability on Russia’s behalf. It means their generals, leaders, and commanders are analyzing, thinking, creatively problem-solving, and evolving—in spite of the West’s continued dull-eyed, slack-jawed, and ill-conceived derogations.

---------

[The article continues (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-btg-is-dead-long-live-the-btg?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email) here....]

[kfm27917]

videos from the front

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEyhi9B6FDvOiM0r8vzH2QA?app=desktop

[kfm27917]

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/all-seeing-eye-can-russia-break-through

All Seeing Eye: Can Russia Break Through The West's ISR Overmatch?
We explore how Russia can deal with NATO/Five Eyes' vast space-recon capabilitiess during the coming offensives.

[kfm27917]

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-226-urgent-update

[Tintin]

Map of Ukraine with suggested areas of administration

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Ukrainian_SSR_mao_of_1957.jpg

A fascinating glimpse, I propose, of what the reconstituted Ukraine might look like following the cessation of hostilities in the current conflagration, should that happen of course.

Had more sensible and less nefarious heads prevailed following Ukraine ceding from the former Soviet Union in 1991, with the borders shown here intact and not redrawn to include the territories shown, then much of what has happened since then could well have been avoided, although given some of the commentary on page 8 (below) perhaps it was always going to be a tough, or nigh on impossible call.

And then of course there was Kruschev's decision - perhaps under the influence of alcohol - to gift Crimea to Ukraine (1954).

Source: CIA (https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81-01043R002300220007-1.pdf)
Source - CIA (2): https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp81-01043r002300220007-1

Avalon library copy: CIA-RDP81-01043R002300220007-1.pdf (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/CIA_Resistance_Factors_and_Special_Forces_Areas_Report_Ukraine_1957/CIA-RDP81-01043R002300220007-1.pdf)

Summary taken from dana Twitter account (https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1630726114573271041):



"The CIA prepared the war in the Donbass as early as 1957 as part of an anti-Soviet uprising". The CIA was planning special operations in Ukraine.

According to American analysts, the anti-Soviet uprising would be sustained in many parts of the Ukrainian SSR, and the division for and against Moscow would follow approximately the same border that today separates the DPR, LPR and Crimea from the rest of Ukraine. Such conclusions can be drawn from a study ‘The factors of resistance and areas of operation of special forces. Ukraine. 1957'. The CIA declassified this study and it is quoted in detail by the BBC.

The study divides Ukraine into 12 zones based on loyalty to US interventionists. The task of the intervenors is to provoke an uprising against the central government. As expected, the western part of the country - in particular the Volyn region and the Lutsk region, which includes cities like Kovel, Lutsk, Kostopol and Vladimirovets - was deemed the most "promising". By contrast, Crimea and Donbass are already characterized as "unpromising", as the local population supports the central government and, in fact, sees itself as Russian rather than Ukrainian (zones I and II). It was the conflict of Zones III-XII with Zones I-II that was described in 1957 as most likely, and potentially feasible, to escalate within the USSR in preparation for its collapse.

That said, there are also Areas 3, 4, 5 (Odessa, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye), which the CIA believed in 1957 would have sided with Donbass following the start of the conflict.

Therefore, it is interesting to evaluate the map of Ukraine that the CIA created in 1957. As we can see, the American plan was implemented 60 years later... For skeptics, look up the report and in particular see page 86.

--------

Related resource: CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953
by Wayne Madsen | Voltaire (https://www.voltairenet.org/article189895.html) from January 2016

[kfm27917]

must read
!!!
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-coming-russian-offensive-part

[kfm27917]

"Now here’s where it starts getting interesting. Not only do we begin to get into specific tactics, but a revelation is made: this new ‘Assault Detachment’ purportedly meant to ‘replace BTG’s’ is not really a new type of unit per se, but rather more of new set of doctrinal fighting tactics designed around the specific task of solving the ‘intractable’ tree-line trench problem which has come to dominate the current mode of conflict.

It turns out, this is more a doctrinal manual on newly evolved tactics—not the description of an entirely or revolutionarily new type of fighting formation. But this fact will become more apparent." - Simplicius

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

Simplicius formerly Nightvision who used to provide copy for The Saker blog has provided a most interesting and revealing article on his Substack (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-btg-is-dead-long-live-the-btg?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email) page.

I'll not copy the whole article here but extract a handful of key takeaways which demonstrate that some of the mythos surrounding Russian BTG constitution are effectively busted. It was eye-opening for me.

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

The BTG Is Dead, Long Live The BTG!
We examine recently 'recovered documents' outlining a new Russian doctrinal replacement to the BTG system.

A Ukrainian reserves military officer has written a very interesting twitter thread, which was subsequently picked up by a host of other analysts from DailyKos to a retired Major General in the Australian army.

It details a purported major doctrinal shift in Russian combat group structure in Ukraine, which was discovered by way of (reportedly) captured documents. While typically, things like this are to be taken with a pinch of salt, in this case there are no obvious incentives for the UA officer to lie or make it up, seeing as how it’s not something that paints Russia in a negative light (well, they attempt to do so anyway), but in some ways the reverse. And secondly, to the keen observer, it’s something that’s already being corroborated by actual on the ground circumstances we’re seeing as well as British intel MI6 reports.

As a quick contextual primer—the BTG was not created for the type of conflict that this war has transitioned into. And while Russia may have used the BTG structure in the opening—the tenor of that conflict was far different than what it is today.

In the beginning of the SMO, Russia was hardly even assaulting positions, but rather doing what in Soviet military parlance were called ‘raids’. As is always the case with American/Western exoticization of all things Russian, they deliberately created a factitious ‘mythos’ surrounding the BTG which never existed in reality, for the general purpose of later declaring it a ‘failure’ when in actuality they’ve never fundamentally understood it.

The vast majority of Western ‘experts’, completely misunderstand the purpose and origins of the “BTG”, owing to this delusional aggrandizement and mythicization. I’m going to demystify how and why the BTG was formed very succinctly for the laymen amongst us:

-------

Russia needed a basic, self-sufficient unit which could have all the same maneuvering and asset capabilities as a brigade, but have complete, guaranteed readiness, so they began to structure the armed forces around these BTG’s. Also, in an era of more centralized corruption and lackluster command chains / OODA loops, it was better to use a unit structure which retained its own inherent capabilities. For instance, why rely on having to phone in the central anti-air command to notify them you need help shooting down an enemy plane/UAV, in an era where such cross-unit communications were not exceptionally streamlined or efficient, when you can just have the air defense yourself under your own roof. Same goes for artillery, etc

In floundering around this BTG concept, most ‘analysts’ gabble on about the wrong things, but omit the key central precept behind its formation: that of ‘high combat readiness’. This translates into full manpower constitution, assured training of the unit (as opposed to having part of the unit be lesser trained conscripts, or some mishmash), and professional contract troops. In short, BTG’s were something done more out of temporary necessity than some far-flung or deeply engraved doctrinal shift or re-conceptualization.

-----------

One thing of note, however, is the passage:

“The platoon commander controls mortar fire. • The platoon/company commander decides on artillery targets, but only the unit commander can provide the air support.”

This is very interesting, as it is a direct repudiation of the popular, albeit naive, trope that Russian forces lack trained NCO’s, have no bottom-level initiative or authority, are highly ‘centralized’ in some stark-caricature of Soviet bureaucratic rigidity, that their recon forces subsist on ‘Command-Push’ rather than ‘Recon-Pull’ strategy, etc, etc.

But in fact, little by little, corroboration continues to trickle in from this war of something I’ve said and believed since the beginning—that it’s actually the complete opposite: Russian officers have more autonomy than their NATO equivalents. There’s a wealth of evidence that supports this, but unfortunately would derail this narrow-scoped topic.

-------

The quote about platoon commanders above, confirms that Russian commanders are trustingly delegating the designation of artillery targets down to unit level—this is something even the U.S./NATO doesn’t have, not least of which reason being that Western armies don’t even have artillery at below the brigade level, at which point you need a Major General or at least a Colonel’s permission to even strike a target.

Here, Russia is letting mere Lieutenants decide for themselves. This is massive. A type of revolutionary small unit autonomy NATO/U.S. can’t even dream of, and has sent ex-U.S. Army ‘experts’ like this one (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/26/2155061/-Ukraine-Update-Russia-s-BTG-was-always-a-joke-and-now-it-s-dead)into wildly fevered paroxysms of excuse-making and cognitive-dissonance-inducing rage to try and explain away.

The fact is, it’s become obvious that it is now the U.S. and NATO which are the stilted and stultified, rigidly bureaucratic, un-evolving monstrosities they so desperately try to portray Russia as. And Russia is in fact the highly dynamic, battlefield-evolving force built around strong small-unit leadership and NCO initiative that the West feigns to paint themselves as. What a wonder!

------

In the end, all of these dramatic calls are in fact silly and wrong. Despite the tongue-in-cheek title of this article, I do not believe the BTG is ‘dead’, but rather simply that Russia is adapting new tactics for the very specific constraints and problems facing them at this one specific phase of the SMO. Once other phases kick off, they may very well revert back to other structures and tactics. Though as mentioned earlier, the BTG was never designed to be the permanent replacement of Russian force-structure but rather more a temporary stopgap measure.

Contrary to what ignorantly mystified Western think-tankers are sputtering, the fielding of new tactics demonstrates strong adaptive capability on Russia’s behalf. It means their generals, leaders, and commanders are analyzing, thinking, creatively problem-solving, and evolving—in spite of the West’s continued dull-eyed, slack-jawed, and ill-conceived derogations.

---------

[The article continues (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-btg-is-dead-long-live-the-btg?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email) here....]

Thanks for discovering this channel !

[BMJ]

https://rumble.com/v2b8hek-former-us-mercenary-in-ukraine-talks-war-crimes-and-cia-involvement-rt-excl.html
v28n1k8



It seems possibly this James Bond might in fact be a James Pond, as this secret agent has been living a meth, alcohol and low IQ induced fantasy.


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A screen shot of the first twit, there are several more.

[shaberon]

I trust the source for the most part, if you don't then shaberon go do the leg work and confirm it if you wish to, because im not going to spoon feed you.


Thanks. I can see why this Q source shredded the forum a while back.

[Johnnycomelately]

I thought this comment was too good to not respond to.

First thought was of the apparent intellectual neediness of the average CT. IMO, just my take on human nature, that is a problem. A problem likely to get noticed by a solution that’s looking for a problem.

I’ve not followed the Q story, but have noticed it. Now that I reflect, those communications feel like fake-hope salesmanship. Same kind of vampire that steals material goods, only worse.

Cheers Shabs, and good weekend to you and yours.



I trust the source for the most part, if you don't then shaberon go do the leg work and confirm it if you wish to, because im not going to spoon feed you.


Thanks. I can see why this Q source shredded the forum a while back.

[Rizotto]

"Scott Ritter - Odessa and Kharkov: The Next Targets in Russia's Offensive" (19 minutes)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfkNbFudSL8

[Rizotto]

"Hersh: US bombed Nord Stream to prolong the Ukraine proxy war" (44 minutes interview with Aaron Mate, at the Grayzone)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8QRWPxWP0o

[ExomatrixTV]

Ukrainian Army Has A Big Nazi Problem, Says American Ex-soldier Who Fought With Them:

@RT:fd/John-McIntyre_-interview_2802:e


dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/oekraiense-leger-heeft-een-groot-nazi-probleem-zegt-amerikaanse-ex-soldaat-die-meevocht) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

--o-O-o--


Above Video is From This Original Unedited RT News - February 28th 2023:

https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/-/U/w/v/-Uwvi.caa.mp4

War crimes, human shields, barbarous acts, cocaine and other hard drug use, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. RT speaks exclusively to a former US mercenary in Ukraine who defected to Russia to report on alleged war crimes by Kiev, also revealing the role of US intelligence in the conflict.

250 Ukraine troops have been eliminated as Russian troops continue their advance. RT talks to Denis Pushilin.

Deadly landmines: Nearly a hundred civilians, including children are injured just this year as Ukraine continues scattering banned landmines throughout residential areas in the Donetsk republic. They are illegal for use in civilian areas under every convention of war. Roman Kosarev reports


source (https://rumble.com/v2b8qm6-rt-news-february-28th-2023.html)

[Tintin]

Deputy Russian foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov at the UNHRC, March 2nd 2023

Source: https://t.me/MFARussia/15065

Text:


🎙 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov speaks on the deplorable human rights situation in Ukraine at the UN HRC:

💥 Western-supplied weapons are actively used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike residential buildings, schools and hospitals, killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure.

❗️ These are all war crimes, violations of the international humanitarian law, in which NATO countries are entangled, whose representatives very much like to moralize and make hypocritical statements on the human rights from the HRC rostrum.

🇺🇦 Meanwhile, the Kiev regime systematically violates fundamental human rights and freedoms. In breach of the Ukrainian Constitution and its international obligations, a number of laws on total “Ukrainization” was adopted, which affected education, science, culture, media, radio, television, the Internet, advertising, and the service industry.

🇷🇺 The Russian language, a mother tongue to millions of Ukrainian residents, has been targeted the greatest.

MFARussia/15065

[Delight]

If I were a young person, I'd seriously consider emmigration to Russia.

1631503383411523585

[ExomatrixTV]

If I were a young person, I'd seriously consider emmigration to Russia.

1631503383411523585


have you seen this post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1545976&viewfull=1#post1545976)

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631567741466320900

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631545565581307904

1631545565581307904

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631545027888332800

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631515570356068353

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631576705876803584

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631577223277817859

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631570408959819778

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1631352277033271296

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zNxKl-Qv0Ic

https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631424309762617345

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631354518653788160

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631355822440603654

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631353186962268165

1631353186962268165


https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631353193870286848

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1631572141362630656

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https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1631590580546330624

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https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1631590589568303104

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[Bill Ryan]

Astonishing numbers, apparently from CNN — though I've not so far found the source.

https://t.me/intelslava/45374

intelslava/45374

Edit to add, 4 March:

That Telegram post was removed, maybe because it was false or invented. (I looked, but failed to find it anywhere on CNN.) This is what the post had claimed:

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CNN, citing its sources in the Ukrainian General Staff, reports that as of February 28, 2023, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to:


259,085 people killed, who died from wounds and diseases
wounded, crippled 246,904
deserted, as well as missing - 83,952
captured - 28,393

[grapevine]

INTERVIEW: UKRAINE has no chance of winning #ColDouglasMcGregor

Excerpt from George Galloway's latest MOATS bi-weekly YT Video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En2-80gSKFA&ab_channel=GeorgeGalloway
"Ukraine is a black hole of corruption and deceit, says retired US Col DouglasMcGregor. It has suffered at least 500k casualties, which is why #Zelensky has talked about Nato troops reinforcing
3 Mar 2023

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Judgenap/status/1631756077485158400

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LIVE from Ukraine - Matt VanDyke

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https://twitter.com/Judgenap/status/1631715090775916545

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Putin: This is a Global Conflict - Scott Ritter

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1631743079735611392

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https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1631817790142423042

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1631742266485391360

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https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1631640216422195201

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[BMJ]

I trust the source for the most part, if you don't then shaberon go do the leg work and confirm it if you wish to, because im not going to spoon feed you.


Thanks. I can see why this Q source shredded the forum a while back.

I was being helpful and in response you take a shot at me, that speaks to your character shaberon.

[Johnnycomelately]

Gentlemen, gentlemen.




I trust the source for the most part, if you don't then shaberon go do the leg work and confirm it if you wish to, because im not going to spoon feed you.


Thanks. I can see why this Q source shredded the forum a while back.

I was being helpful and in response you take a shot at me, that speaks to your character shaberon.

[Rizotto]

We need to hear more from German MPs, and from other EU MPs. There has to be quite a number of them opposed to NATO's warmongering.

"German MP deems Nord Stream blast 'terrorist attack,' calls for probe" (2 minute interview)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaqR5sbZm30

[Rizotto]

OMG! I just noticed that youtube added this note on the above video "CGTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government".

Sigh... How do we get youtube to note that CNN and Fox News, and the majority of Congress members, are funded by Raytheon, Boeing and Pfizer.

[Tintin]

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/MFA-RF-logo.PNG

Press Release on Ukraine crisis

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1856712/) (Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации)

03.03.2023 14:11

Yesterday, on March 2, Ukrainian saboteurs committed an outrageous terrorist attack in two border villages in the Bryansk Region of Russia. We strongly condemn that act. The terrorists penetrated Russian territory, killed two civilians, and seriously wounded an 11-year-old boy.

Ukrainian officials have repeatedly acknowledged that all their actions are carried out with the approval and support of the United States and other NATO countries. The killings in the Bryansk Region were committed with NATO weapons. This raises a legitimate question about classifying those states as accomplices to such crimes and as sponsors of terrorism.

We have drawn appropriate conclusions from what happened. Russian investigative bodies have opened an investigation. This crime will not go unpunished.

February 26 marked nine years since the beginning of the Crimean Spring, which culminated in a referendum and the subsequent reunification of Crimea with Russia.

The starting point of these historical events was the anti-constitutional armed coup in Kiev orchestrated by the West. Its driving force was radical nationalists, who never hid their aggressive anti-Russia attitudes. Having come to power, they began to impose their own order and ideology. All dissenters were severely punished. For example, Right Sector militants attacked buses carrying 300 anti-Maidan protesters returning from Kiev to Crimea in the early hours of February 21, 2014, near Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, Cherkasy Region. Those people were brutally beaten, doused with petrol, and threatened to be burned alive. Even back then it became clear what awaited the peninsula and its residents.

Naturally, the Crimeans did not want to put up with rampant radical nationalism and opposed the new authorities. On February 26, 2014, the leaders of the so-called Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, who supported the Kiev putschists, gathered an aggressive crowd in Simferopol and attempted to seize the Supreme Council of Crimea. The Maidan government sent so-called friendship trains with fighters from nationalist organisations to “help” the extremists drown Crimea in Russian blood, as the Right Sector leader, Dmitry Yarosh, put it. However, the trains never reached Crimea, and the radicals were afraid to step on Crimean land.

Further escalation of tension with unpredictable consequences was avoided thanks to the peninsula residents themselves, who stood up to defend their homes, and the Russian military from the Black Sea Fleet units, legally deployed in Crimea, who came to their aid.

In the referendum held on March 16, 2014, the people of Crimea voted almost unanimously for its return to its native harbour. The question of Russian sovereignty over the peninsula was settled once and for all.

Today, the Kiev regime continues to plan a military seizure of Crimea and strikes against it, obviously unconcerned about the lives of the Russian civilians. US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, speaking at the Carnegie Centre recently, called military facilities in the Russian Crimea “legitimate targets” for Ukraine. It seems that Washington is trying to earn additional votes in the upcoming election through this Crimean campaign.

Against the backdrop of the Ukrainian leadership’s aggressive statements regarding Crimea, the media reports that Kiev authorities would like to present Russian and Belarusian citizens in Ukraine with the following choice: either join the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fight, or be deported. Obviously, this issue would have arisen sooner or later. We believe that sober-minded Russians and Belarusians in Ukraine also realised this. We are ready to accommodate all victims of the Kiev regime in Russia.

On February 26, Ukraine published new lists sanctioning Russian citizens and organisations. They include businessperson Yevgeny Prigozhin, his relatives and companies affiliated with him, as well as a number of Russian charitable and public organisations, athletes, sport officials and children’s rights commissioners. It appears that Kiev is vying with the United States and other Western countries, as to who will sanction more Russian citizens. Interestingly enough, the Kiev regime is introducing restrictive measures for a period of 50 years more and more often; this probably reflects its assessments of how long the conflict will last.

Representatives of the Kiev regime marked the first anniversary of launching the special military operation with another barrage of anti-Russia statements. In an interview with the German publication Focus, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said Ukrainian-Russian reconciliation was impossible in the next 100 years. Speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba referred to Russia’s UNSC membership as the greatest diplomatic fraud of the 20th century. At the same time, Vladimir Zelensky continues to promote his so-called “peace formula” that aims to forge an anti-Russia coalition, rather than establish peace.

Washington and its NATO allies continue to consistently implement their geopolitical plans for destroying Russia. For this purpose, they are saturating Ukraine with weapons even more actively, training Ukrainian service personnel and helping their Kiev charges choose specific targets and an axis of attack.

On the first anniversary of launching the special military operation, US authorities announced a new military aid package worth $2 billion for Ukraine, due to include several types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including the upgraded Switchblade 600 kamikaze drone, the Cyber Lux K8 aviation complex, ammunition for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, laser-guided missile systems, 155-mm artillery shells, mine-disposal equipment and radio-electronic countermeasure systems. Washington does not conceal the fact that this custom-made equipment will be ordered from manufacturers, and this means that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will continue to be strengthened in the long-term. This is also confirmed by the readiness to continue training Ukrainian service personnel in the United States and other NATO countries for as long as it takes.

By supplying high-tech weapons to Ukraine, the United States and other NATO countries are turning it into their personal laboratory and a testing ground for their military R&D.

We took note of Washington’s recent decision to tighten control over US arms supplies to foreign countries, where US weaponry should not be used to commit acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, or violations of international humanitarian law. But if these weapons are employed in US interests in Ukraine, Washington would close its eyes to it. In the special military operation zone, Ukrainian units fire from American weapons at civilians, or use them as a human shield. The same weapons are used to kill prisoners of war.

During all these years, the collective West, which nurtured the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, has turned it into an obedient tool whereby it is trying in vain to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. Today, the Western countries are urging Kiev to continue offensive operations and occupy the new Russian regions, although they feel that their plans are doomed to fail. They are indifferent to the fact that this policy will take a toll of thousands of innocent lives.

It is clear that the special military operation will continue until it achieves the full de-Nazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine and eliminates all the security threats coming from its territory.

[Tintin]

More than somewhat sobering and powerful imagery - aerial photography from Maryinka, which has been pretty much trashed, bringing to mind scenes from Japan in 1945. Given the ferocity of the fighting in that area it comes as little surprise.

This is reminiscent of those end-of-the-world themed movies we're familiar with. Most civilians will have been evacuated but some may have chosen to stay :flower:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/Maryinka_overhead_photo_2023-03-04_%281%29.jpg

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/Maryinka_overhead_photo_2023-03-04_%282%29.jpg

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/Maryinka_overhead_photo_2023-03-04_%283%29.jpg

[Tintin]

GRAPHIC: please look away if you are of a sensitive disposition. These are being shared simply as a document of but also a necessary reminder of the horror of actual conflict; this isn't a video game, and is as inglorious as any could care to imagine, and isn't being posted with any sense of glorification, at all :flower:

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Combat near Kremenna:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/%5BGraphic%5D_Combat_near_Kremenna_-_forest_%2B_trenches_%28March_early%29..mp4

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O-Group clean-up near Svatovo zone:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/%5BGraphic%5D_O_Group_clean-up_after_artillery_strike_Svatovo_zone_2023-03-04.mp4

[Tintin]

NATO military equipment filmed at the port of Gdynia in Poland although the source doesn't say when it was filmed. I'm assuming fairly recently. Initially it looks like quite a lot, but in reality is more likely soon-to-be scrap metal in-waiting:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/NATO_military_equipment_in_the_port_of_Gdynia-Poland_%28presumably_filmed_March-early%29.MP4

[Jaak]

NATO military equipment filmed at the port of Gdynia in Poland although the source doesn't say when it was filmed. I'm assuming fairly recently. Initially it looks like quite a lot, but in reality is more likely soon-to-be scrap metal in-waiting:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/NATO_military_equipment_in_the_port_of_Gdynia-Poland_%28presumably_filmed_March-early%29.MP4

I find it interesting that there is some kind of Terramar facility in the background ? Maybe its nothing or maybe its one of those human trafficking locations ...
Why would an non-profit charity organization have an warehouse or some kind of shipping facility ?
The TerraMar Project was self-described as an environmental nonprofit organization. It was founded in 2012 in the United States by Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_TerraMar_Project

[shaberon]

I was being helpful and in response you take a shot at me, that speaks to your character shaberon.



Rewind.

I have simply asked that on any claims of legal realities, such as court decisions, ownership, or Presidential States of Emergencies, that it is backed up by some kind of documentation which we could verify.

You posted a broad-sweeping statement aimed at "the Rothschilds" and said "you trust it".

It came from Qanon, which, I at least do not trust, since all I know is that it caused a great disturbance here when the material was posted.

How was it helpful and what exactly is the "shot" I took?

"I" have to do the "legwork" to figure out ownership of the Peoples' Bank of Cambodia, because you are not going to "spoonfeed" me?

Who is using the emotional buzzwords here??

Again, I would like to submit that this is a normative Avalon forum request, that if you pass along something as a legal fact, that it is accompanied, at least, by something, to represent this.

I will easily agree that "privatized central banking" is a regressive moral crime, but, at the end of the day, I rarely know exactly "who" owns something. And yes, there are extant studies which have already done legwork to show the relatively small numbers of owners of interlocking directorates that manage most of our resources.

Nothing personal mate. If anything, I am reflecting the view of having taken part in numerous investigations, including ones done by the likes of FBI and Secret Service. Consequently, useful or admissible evidence has a certain bar of entry above rumor and hearsay. I have taken the same crack at some of the recent reports--they say that Cargill and other western companies own 46% of Ukraine's agricultural land. But it has not been backed up by documentation.

Correspondingly, it may be easier to show that since 2014, numerous legal protections on Ukrainian labor and medical procedures have simply been repealed. That really does set the stage for the exploitation we are seeing now, although it is a step shy of telling us what, exactly, Cargill or any other western interest actually owns there.

[jaybee]

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Jimmy Dore slamming Sean Penn for his ignorant warmongering - calling him 'a tool for evil and murder'...

Sean Penn Has COMPLETELY Lost His Mind Over Ukraine(16:59)

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2 Mar 2023 #TheJimmyDoreShow
Sean Penn recently appeared with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to advocate for more weapons, more long-range missiles and even F-16s for Ukraine as soon as possible. He lamented the Ukrainian soldiers being slaughtered while calling for more of them to die – and at the same time said we shouldn’t worry about the Ukraine War escalating into World War III because that would just play into the “bully” Russia’s hands.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger wonder how a liberal lion like Sean Penn could have become such a reliable mouthpiece for the CIA and military industrial complex.

There's a great clip of Mick Wallace, MEP for Ireland South (12:08) -

'NATO is not a defence alliance - it's a war machine'

'A survey of the European Council of Foreign Relations showed that a vast majority of European citizens want Peace rather than promoting a war that punishes Russia - but NATO never wants Peace - what I want to know is - what do the EU really want...' (12:56)

@13:25... a map showing NATO expansion -

[Bruce G Charlton]

GRAPHIC: please look away if you are of a sensitive disposition. These are being shared simply as a document of but also a necessary reminder of the horror of actual conflict; this isn't a video game, and is as inglorious as any could care to imagine, and isn't being posted with any sense of glorification, at all :flower:

Combat near Kremenna:
https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/%5BGraphic%5D_Combat_near_Kremenna_-_forest_%2B_trenches_%28March_early%29..mp4

O-Group clean-up near Svatovo zone:
https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/%5BGraphic%5D_O_Group_clean-up_after_artillery_strike_Svatovo_zone_2023-03-04.mp4

Thanks for this. I find it hard to watch, but I do sample such clips in moderation to get a sense of what is happening.

This particular scene seemed similar to the kind of actions in forests that have taken place for more than 200 years, since muskets came into use - for example depictions I've seen of the Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, and the Battle of the Bulge.

But I am struck that the modern rifle-type weapons are so astonishingly quiet and lightweight! - as well as having much more rapid fire and far more ammunition. All of which makes things even worse for the men, no doubt.

[Tintin]

NATO military equipment filmed at the port of Gdynia in Poland....

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/NATO_military_equipment_in_the_port_of_Gdynia-Poland_%28presumably_filmed_March-early%29.MP4

I find it interesting that there is some kind of Terramar facility in the background ? Maybe its nothing or maybe its one of those human trafficking locations ...
Why would an non-profit charity organization have an warehouse or some kind of shipping facility ?
The TerraMar Project was self-described as an environmental nonprofit organization. It was founded in 2012 in the United States by Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_TerraMar_Project

Very well spotted - I totally didn't pay attention to that :highfive:

[Tintin]

Thanks for this. I find it hard to watch, but I do sample such clips in moderation to get a sense of what is happening.

This particular scene seemed similar to the kind of actions in forests that have taken place for more than 200 years, since muskets came into use - for example depictions I've seen of the Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, and the Battle of the Bulge.

But I am struck that the modern rifle-type weapons are so astonishingly quiet and lightweight! - as well as having much more rapid fire and far more ammunition. All of which makes things even worse for the men, no doubt.

Yes, they're definitely hard to watch; I have to brace myself for them to be honest, most of the time.

Compared to the courage of those men doing the fighting, the courage (if you can call it that) to observe from a distance what they are undertaking pales somewhat :flower:

Scott Ritter (or Doug Macgregor?), in a recent update, made a comment about the ruggedness too of the equipment being deployed on the Russian side. (I remember now, it was Doug.). Perhaps, and I'm definitely no expert here, some of those lighter weight guns are sturdy yet light as a result of a part titanium composition? I don't actually know.

[jaybee]

NATO military equipment filmed at the port of Gdynia in Poland....

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-03_%28March%29/NATO_military_equipment_in_the_port_of_Gdynia-Poland_%28presumably_filmed_March-early%29.MP4

I find it interesting that there is some kind of Terramar facility in the background ? Maybe its nothing or maybe its one of those human trafficking locations ...
Why would an non-profit charity organization have an warehouse or some kind of shipping facility ?
The TerraMar Project was self-described as an environmental nonprofit organization. It was founded in 2012 in the United States by Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_TerraMar_Project

Very well spotted - I totally didn't pay attention to that :highfive:


couple of observations, if I may...

while we are supposed to accept sitting around in the cold - wrapped in a blanket - nibbling on insects - give up our cars and freedom of travel... meekly watch cities / towns being turned into Open Prisons (15 minute city thing)...while being regularly injected with god knows what dubious substances....

The Military Industrial Complex, NATO et al...have all that hardware (and advanced technology) that must take up, suck up, an incredible amount of energy and resources - causing loads of pollution to make -

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2nd observation - it would take a hell of a lot of red roses to cover that lot -

I looked for a video about what happened in Berlin and this is a bit of a random choice but shows the basics - while watching it I had strong waves of kundalini energy coming in - and tears filled my eyes - this was a YES signal and I think this is the way to go - this is what regular citizens can do to come together, raise the energy for Peace and make a difference... this kind of thing -

Citizens around the world want Peace, Prosperity and Friendship - not all the crap we have to put up with now with war and division... (I'll get off my soapbox / pulpit now.... :) )

of course Putin and Russians would be pleased to see this...

Putin cheers as Germans lay roses on blown-up Russian tank amid anti-West protest(3:29)

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27 Feb 2023 #ukrainewar #vladimirputin #berlin
Germany has erupted in anger against the West for arming Ukraine to fight Russia. Thousands of protesting Germans gathered at Moscow's embassy in Berlin's capital and offered flowers to a blown-up Russian tank. The T-72 tank appeared in central Berlin on Friday—the first anniversary of the conflict in Ukraine. Activists from The Berlin Story Bunker Museum had won a lengthy legal battle against city authorities to be able to carry out this stunt in front of the Russian Embassy. However, people in Berlin, who took to the streets in large numbers on Sunday to decry the supply of weapons to Kyiv, gave a different interpretation. Moscow’s embassy in Berlin mocked the West over a flower blanket on a Russian tank.

[Bill Ryan]

Fun video of a Russian Su-27 Top Gun pilot playing with a US B-52 bomber over the Black Sea. :)
(But what was a B-52 doing over the Black Sea??)

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/46995

DonbassDevushka/46995

[Bill Ryan]

And kind of related to the above (but technically off-topic :) ), this is a rather beautiful short video of the advanced and highly maneuverable Su-35.

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/47016

DonbassDevushka/47016

:focus:

[Ravenlocke]

Ukraine Reinforces Bakhmut Russian Siege Tightens; Surovikin Theatre Commander; Russia Economy Grows

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1632471960033656832
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https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1632382949172604932

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[Bill Ryan]

Emotionally loaded propaganda, for sure, but this recent story is 100% true.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21521

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21521

Here's the boy himself, explaining what happened. :muscle:

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21477

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21477

[Ravenlocke]

Emotionally loaded propaganda, for sure, but this recent story is 100% true.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21521

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21521

Here's the boy himself, explaining what happened. :muscle:

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21477

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21477

https://www.rt.com/russia/572394-ukraine-bryansk-attack-hero/

Russian boy praised for saving two minors in Ukrainian attack
A ten-year old boy from Russia’s Bryansk Region is being hailed as a hero after he managed to save the lives of two first-graders during an attack by Ukrainian saboteurs on Thursday.

According to local media reports, Fyodor and two girls, Zlata and Lena, were being driven to school by their neighbor, a 63-year-old man known as Uncle Lenya on the morning of March 2. On their way they encountered a group of armed men.

After realizing that the men were not Russian servicemen the driver attempted to turn the car around and flee, but the Ukrainian operatives opened fire on the vehicle, killing the driver on the spot and wounding Fyodor in the chest.

Despite being shot, Fyodor managed to pull the girls out of the car and escape the scene. “Fedya [Fyodor] told us ‘go to the forest,’” one of the first-graders told the Moskovsky Komsomolets outlet. “I was there, in that car. I saw people in white uniforms and one in green. Fedya showed us where to go and we ran together,” she said.

Fyodor and the girls eventually made it out of the area and were able to catch a ride to the nearby settlement of Novy Ropsk, where the boy was taken to the hospital. Doctors managed to extract a NATO-issue bullet from his chest. Doctors say Fyodor’s condition is stable and that he is expected to make a full recovery.

Russia’s FSB displays aftermath of Ukrainian terrorist attack (VIDEO)
Russia’s FSB displays aftermath of Ukrainian terrorist attack (VIDEO)
Bryansk Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz paid a personal visit to Fyodor on Friday and commended him on his bravery. “Despite being so young, he acted like a real man, like a true fighter,” Bogomaz wrote on his Telegram channel. The governor has announced that documents are currently being prepared to award him with a medal ‘For Courage.’

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also stated on Friday that “everyone in the Kremlin and the president are in awe of the heroism of the boy and the man [Uncle Lenya]” and announced that their actions will be officially noted.

The Ukrainian operatives who crossed into Russia’s Bryansk Region on Thursday have since been forced back to Ukrainian territory and hit with a “massive artillery strike,” the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said.


https://twitter.com/TamrikoT/status/1631706581329903623

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[kfm27917]

Russian Spetsnaz Attack Ukrainian Ships Using Western Gear
Mon 27 February 2023

http://www.hisutton.com/Russian-Spetsnaz-Attack-Ukraine.html

[shaberon]

Finally, the erudite munchkin of Ukraine (https://southfront.org/rep-greene-to-zelensky-leave-your-hands-off-of-our-sons-daughters/) managed to dribble out something that is at least approximately true:


...in a late February press conference when asked by a reporter about growing ‘Ukraine fatigue’ among the US public. He began his response by saying, “If they do not change their opinion…they will lose NATO, they will lose the clout of the United States, they will lose the leadership position they are enjoying in the world.”


It was followed by a quip about how Russia taking over Europe meant the U. S. would be sending their own kids to the slaughter. That part was denied by MTG. Points (2) and (3) above already appear to be in effect. And, whoever said that countries can bug out of NATO after twenty years, has given easy leverage to the first point. That one is really simple! You don't have to gather mountains of evidence of a man-made virus, try to prove grafting or conflict of interest such as how a British psychic would have known in Nov. 2019 that it was time to order millions of surgical gowns from China, and piecemeal disassemble a pseudo-satanic octopus from the dark halls of man's idiocy...you just withdraw.

Suggest doing the easiest thing that makes the biggest difference first.

[Helvetic]

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[Tintin]

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/heaviest-objects.jpg

[grapevine]

Steve Bannon warns UK citizens could soon be on the battlefield in Ukraine

Steve Bannon, telling Nigel Farage how it is in a surprisingly hard-hitting, fairly short (10 mins) interview posted 6th March 2023


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

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon says Britain is primed for a nationalist movement as the Tories move the country further into disarray. Bannon, who worked under Donald Trump during the first seven month's of the ex-President's term, believes the British media is "dumb and lazy" and are not ready for a change in British politics.

6:25 onwards specifically for Ukraine comments

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1632820065983668224

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1632801691887075330

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Why Bakhmut Is Falling
March 06, 2023

Just two days ago I reported that Bakhmut is falling. The Ukrainian soldiers there are outgunned 1 to 10 and die under artillery fire with little chance to shot back. More reports from the front have since come in. They support my dire view.

The German pro-Ukrainian news outlet Bild reported this morning that there were misgivings in the Ukrainian war leadership:

President Volodymyr Zelensky and Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi have conflicting views on how the military should handle the situation in Bakhmut, according to unnamed sources within the Ukrainian political leadership cited in a report by Bild.

Bild writes that Zaluzhnyi was deliberating a tactical withdrawal from Bakhmut weeks ago over concern for the wellbeing of his troops.

The Ukrainian government told Bild that remaining in Bakhmut was the right decision due to the serious damage it inflicted on Russian military personnel and equipment. However, according to other sources cited by the publication, the situation is at risk of becoming untenable.

"The vast majority of soldiers in Bakhmut do not understand why the city is being held," a Ukrainian military analyst told Bild on condition of anonymity.

Just hours after that item came out Zelensky's office issued a press release denying any such trouble (machine translation):

On Monday, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a regular meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff.
The commanders of the operational and strategic troop groups reported on the situation on the main front lines.

The members of the Staff considered the situation in Bakhmut in particular. Assessing the course of the defense operation, the President asked Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyi and Commander of the operational and strategic grouping of troops "Khortytsia" Oleksandr Syrskyi about further actions in the Bakhmut direction. They spoke in favor of continuing the defense operation and further strengthening our positions in Bakhmut.

I do not believe that Zaluzhnyi and Sirskyi gave such advice. The situation for the Ukrainians in Bakhmut (Ru: Artyomovsk) is hopeless and they certainly know it. Losses would be less if the troops would pull back to the next defense line on the higher grounds west of Bakhmut.

The current situation is a mess:

To move out of Bakhmut or to move supplies in one has to cross a 10 kilometer long corridor which is only 6 kilometer wide and completely covered by Russian artillery and ground fire. The results of attempts to run that gauntlet can be read in the Russian Defense Ministry's daily report:

In Donetsk direction, the active action of the 'Yug' Group of Forces and artillery operation have resulted in the elimination of up to 225 Ukrainian personnel, five infantry fighting vehicles, nine armoured fighting vehicles, five pickups, four motor vehicles, one Uragan MLRS, and one D-30 howitzer.
One ordnance depot of 55th Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), and one U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery warfare radar have been destroyed near Dachnoye and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic) respectively.

Losing 23 transport vehicles in a day, plus the people in them, is quite severe. It has stopped to freeze in Bakhmut and the fields are now too muddy to drive over them. Here is video of some pickups which tried and got messed up by artillery fire. All roads out are under direct Russian fire. The best way to move in or out is thereby probably a long walk through the muddy fields.


The rest,

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/why-bakhmut-is-falling.html

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[Ravenlocke]

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[thepainterdoug]

I was sent this by a high level Intel "abc" friend that this is a reliable assessment of the situation. Hopefully it wasn't already posted

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/09/setting-record-straight-stuff-you-should-know-about-ukraine/

[Bill Ryan]

I was sent this by a high level Intel "abc" friend that this is a reliable assessment of the situation. Hopefully it wasn't already posted

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/09/setting-record-straight-stuff-you-should-know-about-ukraine (https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/09/setting-record-straight-stuff-you-should-know-about-ukraine/)Yes, that's all correct. The conflict was primed by the US back in 2014 (or arguably earlier). The neocons' strategic goal was to destroy Russia and its people once and for all.

And a personal note, recently echoed by many others. The neocons never give up on their destructive objectives. Now that it's recognized politically that Russia will overcome Ukraine militarily (and in so doing, pretty much destroy what's left of the country as a functioning nation state), the danger is heightened inasmuch as the neocons just might do something calamitous and insane to try to bring Russia down anyway.

If so, that wouldn't work either, as Russia has a superior, modern nuclear arsenal as well as the best missile defense in the world. And if Russia really was under that kind of all-or-nothing attack, then their very clear and published military doctrine states that they'd retaliate.

[grapevine]

I was sent this by a high level Intel "abc" friend that this is a reliable assessment of the situation. Hopefully it wasn't already posted

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/09/setting-record-straight-stuff-you-should-know-about-ukraine/

And yet the question should be asked; just why did Russia wait for eight years to attempt its special military operation? Was it perhaps because they witnessed the complete lash-up the west made of the Afghanistan withdrawal and knew they were in with more than a chance? Today, unsurprisingly, the UK mainstream news is reporting that this country is very low on ammunition.

And, perhaps slightly off topic but still relevant, Russia is also introducing Digital ID in 2024, which is a similar timeline to the west and other countries.

[BMJ]

Post deleted by Bill.

You can't ignore an added mod's note from a post, delete it, and then continue as if nothing had happened.

Please do take up whatever issue you feel you have by PM. Thanks.

:grouphug: :focus:

[Jaak]

I was sent this by a high level Intel "abc" friend that this is a reliable assessment of the situation. Hopefully it wasn't already posted

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/09/setting-record-straight-stuff-you-should-know-about-ukraine (https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/09/setting-record-straight-stuff-you-should-know-about-ukraine/)And yet the question should be asked; just why did Russia wait for eight years to attempt its special military operation? Was it perhaps because they witnessed the complete lash-up the west made of the Afghanistan withdrawal and knew they were in with more than a chance? Today, unsurprisingly, the UK mainstream news is reporting that this country is very low on ammunition.

And, perhaps slightly off topic but still relevant, Russia is also introducing Digital ID in 2024, which is a similar timeline to the west and other countries.

There is one topic on vigilantcitizen forum where there are dozens of examples that Russia is following the UN Agenda 2030 plan . Biometric surveilance,gene editing,going digital with everything,bug eating etc . They also playd along the covid scam and that putin's vax also had graphene oxide in it,just like all the other vaccines.
https://vigilantcitizenforums.com/threads/russia-through-the-hidden-eye.10549/
Some examples what path Russians are planning to take -

"...neurointerfaces (the exchange of information between the human brain and an electronic device) will be widely used in the field of healthcare, transport, and industry"

"the main task (of the Smart City-2030) is the development of human capital. A personal approach to providing medical care to citizens will be based on the analysis of data from patients' wearable devices... biometric and genetic parameters that will be processed using AI, ... the public educational environment will include distance learning programs and individual learning paths..."

"By 2030, Moscow should become a city where decision–making takes place on the basis of automatic processing and analysis of accumulated Big Data (data driven city – they can only translate from English - ed.)…

...all interaction of citizens, business and the city will be carried out in electronic form…

...the provision of public services for citizens and businesses will be carried out digitally on the basis of smart contract technology (have you not yet concluded a "smart contract" with the AI of the "state"? – ed.)..."

"Safe (!!!) unification of all (!!!) citizen's data on one platform... will allow automating and personalizing all services provided to a citizen"

"... gradual adaptation of the population to the new digital reality, ... formation of psycho-emotional perception of the new digital realities of life in the city"

"the formation of state programs will take place automatically..."

"electronic citizenship" includes the collection and storage of biometric data of residents/citizens..."

"... to monitor violations of the law in real time and write off a fine from the subject's account using data from sensors and photo and video recording systems ..., restrict a citizen in the use of urban goods and establish prohibitions, ... classify subjects and objects of control - the higher the danger of the subject, the higher the fine (and this is – hello, social rating – ed.)..."

"predicting both the behavior of individuals and the occurrence of specified events..."

"genetic passports of Muscovites ... with individual problematic defects that will serve as data sources for analysis (Gattaca is resting – ed.)..."

"round–the-clock monitoring of Muscovites' health through wearable wireless devices (and who will refuse - we will cut off oxygen? – ed.)..."

"...medical digital devices implanted in the body… Based on data on the lifestyle and health of Muscovites received from sensors, insurance companies will calculate the amount of insurance payments..."

"for the treatment of cognitive and other disorders, nanorobots will be used – devices the size of a blood cell functioning inside a person (not loyal to the new normality? Kindly launch a nanorobot into your body so that it cures your "disorder" – ed.)..."

"gene therapy and genome editing will become an integral part of the medicine of the future..."

"biometric technologies... will become a common alternative to traditional payment tools..."

"In 2030, 100% of Moscow's territory will be covered by 5G wireless networks..."

[Tintin]

Better news here, and something I'd rather hoped was happening - it may be the only way now to speed things toward some sort of conclusion/resolution eventually:

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Source: Russian MFA (https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1632788153487556608)

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⚡️ The people of Ukraine are awakening to the reality, realizing that they've been duped and deceived into becoming cannon fodder used against Russia.

This process has already begun: Ukrainian POWs formed Bogdan Khmelnitsky volunteer battalion to fight Kiev's neo-Nazi regime.

[Tintin]

I was being helpful and in response you take a shot at me, that speaks to your character shaberon.



Rewind.

I have simply asked that on any claims of legal realities, such as court decisions, ownership, or Presidential States of Emergencies, that it is backed up by some kind of documentation which we could verify.

You posted a broad-sweeping statement aimed at "the Rothschilds" and said "you trust it".

It came from Qanon, which, I at least do not trust, since all I know is that it caused a great disturbance here when the material was posted.

How was it helpful and what exactly is the "shot" I took?

"I" have to do the "legwork" to figure out ownership of the Peoples' Bank of Cambodia, because you are not going to "spoonfeed" me?

Who is using the emotional buzzwords here??

Again, I would like to submit that this is a normative Avalon forum request, that if you pass along something as a legal fact, that it is accompanied, at least, by something, to represent this.

I will easily agree that "privatized central banking" is a regressive moral crime, but, at the end of the day, I rarely know exactly "who" owns something. And yes, there are extant studies which have already done legwork to show the relatively small numbers of owners of interlocking directorates that manage most of our resources.

Nothing personal mate. If anything, I am reflecting the view of having taken part in numerous investigations, including ones done by the likes of FBI and Secret Service. Consequently, useful or admissible evidence has a certain bar of entry above rumor and hearsay. I have taken the same crack at some of the recent reports--they say that Cargill and other western companies own 46% of Ukraine's agricultural land. But it has not been backed up by documentation.

Correspondingly, it may be easier to show that since 2014, numerous legal protections on Ukrainian labor and medical procedures have simply been repealed. That really does set the stage for the exploitation we are seeing now, although it is a step shy of telling us what, exactly, Cargill or any other western interest actually owns there.

You have been coming at me like a dog with a bone and making a mountain out of a molehill. Are you OK?

So instead of spending your time doing something constructive, you have gone away for several days to formulate a response and an attack on my post.

I ask because your post is not useful or constructive in anyway. The sole purpose of your post is to make it seem like your an " authority on the matter " and then cause issues, dislike and division here in this forum.

Yet again that speaks to your character shaberon, the picture I am starting to get of you is a nasty, vindictive and small-minded individual.

If that's not the case.

Then considering that you may have taken part in investigations with the FBI and Secret Service as you claim, are you an "agent" of the FBI, CIA or Secret Service tasked with causing issues and target individuals here in this forum?

Chaps, please: you are both highly valued here and your contributions so often very high-calibre. Please do try and calm things down between you - you can do it :flower:

I'd appreciate that hugely. I sense a more than resolvable mis-understanding here :handshake: please, and :focus:

[Vicus]

West created ‘Nazi paradise’ in Ukraine to fight Russians – Dugin 4 Mar, 2023

Kiev’s backers, however, ultimately don’t believe it will win, the political philosopher said

The West has fostered the creeping “nazification” of Ukraine in order to make its people hostile to Russia, political philosopher and author Aleksandr Dugin has told RT. In an exclusive interview aired on Saturday, he said that Kiev’s backers have tried to hide from their own citizens the growing tolerance of nationalists and neo-Nazis in the country.

“The West thinks in such a manner: We could not create artificial nationalism in Ukraine and push Ukrainians to fight Russians [any other way],” Dugin said.

“For a traditional society, liberal values cannot be the goal to defend. So they need something [else]. The most radical [tool] to create and promote this artificial pseudo-consciousness is nationalism … or Ukrainian Russophobic fascism. And it is being used by the [globalist] liberals.”

Dugin said the West supported radicals in Kiev, despite cracking down on similar groups at home. “They destroy any kind of nationalism on their [own] territories. But in Ukraine, on the other hand, they make it flourish.” In the end, “a Nazi paradise” has been created in Ukraine, he claimed.

According to Dugin, such an approach will ultimately lead to the destruction of the Ukrainian state. “I don’t think they seriously believe in the possible victory of Ukraine,” he stated.

Ukraine’s Azov Battalion is among the units that welcomes fighters with openly nationalist and neo-Nazi views. Ukrainian soldiers have repeatedly been filmed and photographed bearing Nazi insignia and tattoos. Russian President Vladimir Putin listed “denazification” as one of the objectives of the military operation Moscow launched in the neighboring state a year ago.

Last year, Dugin’s daughter, journalist Darya Dugina, was killed by a bomb planted under the car she was driving. Moscow said Ukrainian agents were behind the assassination. Kiev denied its involvement. Nevertheless, the New York Times later reported that US intelligence officials believe that the Ukrainian authorities had authorized the attack.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572443-dugin-ukraine-nazi-paradise/

plus video !

[Vicus]

Russian defense minister outlines importance of key Donbass city 7 Mar, 2023

Taking control of Artymovsk would allow offensive actions deep into the Ukrainian armed forces’ positions, Sergey Shoigu said

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Russia continues its efforts to take control of Artyomovsk –known in Ukraine as Bakhmut– Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced on Tuesday, noting that the city is an important defense hub for Kiev’s forces in Donbass.


“Taking [Artyomovsk] under control will allow further offensive actions deep into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he explained.

Artyomovsk has seen some of the most brutal fighting amid Russia’s ongoing military campaign in Ukraine. As well as being a stronghold for Ukraine’s forces, the city is part of a 70-kilometer line of defense created by Kiev since it initiated the fighting in Donbass in 2014.

In a months-long campaign, Russian forces have systematically captured settlements around the city and have been surrounding Artyomovsk from the north, south, and east.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, meanwhile, has repeatedly insisted that he would not surrender the city, despite his Western backers and military advisers reportedly urging him to cut his losses and withdraw.

Shoigu also reported on Tuesday that Russian forces have liberated the settlements of Nikolaevka, Dvurechnoe, Krasnaya Gora, Gryanikovka and Paraskovievka, and stated that the “American strategy of ‘breaking Russia by force of arms’” had failed.

“Western countries are increasing the supply of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, expanding training programs for Ukrainian army personnel,” said Shoigu. “At the same time, the support of the Kiev regime by NATO countries is not leading to the success of Ukrainian troops on the battlefield,” he added, noting that Kiev’s losses have significantly increased.

According to the minister, in February alone the casualties suffered by Ukraine's armed forces increased by more than 40% compared to January and amounted to over 11,000 servicemen.

“In this regard, the Kiev regime’s indifference towards its people is surprising” Shoigu noted, adding that Kiev doesn’t seem to care how many people die for the benefit of its Western backers.

Russia’s priority, on the other hand, remains the preservation of the life and health of personnel and civilians, the minister stressed.


https://www.rt.com/russia/572581-russia-ukraine-artyomovsk-importance/

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1633068758225780741

1633068758225780741Does Russia have an equivalent? Yes.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAB-1500S-E


The KAB-1500S-E is a precision guided bomb, part of KAB-1500 family, designed for the Russian Federation Air Force (RFAF) to carry out precision attacks, using 24-channel GLONASS and is equivalent to the United States Air Force (USAF) Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) family of Global Positioning System (GPS) guided weapons.

[happyuk]

Worryingly 77th Brigade commader and MP Tobias Ellwood is calling for direct conflict.

I've always had concerns about that man. British people generally don't dislike Russians, but our political class do, for some reason.

What's the betting this keyboard warrior won't be anywhere near the front lines?

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[shaberon]

The conflict was primed by the US back in 2014 (or arguably earlier). The neocons' strategic goal was to destroy Russia and its people once and for all.

Yes, I would argue for Operation Belladonna--1946, which was probing for Bandera as an asset. I can't remember the whole story, but, this certainly sounds like the Truman doctrine. If anyone remembers their lives, somewhere in the 1980s, as a public menace, we quit focusing on the Russkies/commies/gooks, and started hating on the sand people such as Iran and so forth, and the Cold War enemy "changed" and looked like so many others, then in the 90s these Neocons kind of bubbled up under this "multi-country" animosity, something like a camouflage over their ultimate intent, Russia.

They were just thinking in bigger cycles than the day-to-day view of a tv watcher, however, they have grossly overestimated their projection of force. By now, what they have projected, amounts to potential graveyards, little more.


I would say the miscegenation of Ukraine started in the 1600s, and was the main source of human cattle for Zionism. Our, um, country...was mostly xenophobic and isolated until this Zionist opportunity. At this point, it cannot begin to speak without someone throwing out a sheet of all the bombings, color revolutions, and millions of lives lost it has caused, and that is only a superficial look at the damage.


I thought this was supposed to be a British master-minded plot, but, I fail to see how anything is playing out either in favor of the Crown, or any private interests from there. If I have missed something important, I hope someone will post it.

[kfm27917]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russians-claim-control-over-bakhmuts-east

Russian forces control nearly half the city in their push to secure their first big victory in several months.

The General Staff of the Ukraine's Armed Forces said in its Wednesday morning report: "The enemy, despite significant losses, ... continues to storm the town of Bakhmut."

Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin said his fighters, who have been spearheading the Russian campaign to seize Bakhmut, had now captured the city's east. "Everything east of the Bakhmutka River is completely under the control of Wagner," Prigozhin said on Telegram.

[ExomatrixTV]

Sergei Lavrov Destroys Biden’s Argument On Ukraine:

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently addressed a group in India and, when confronted with challenges about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, inquired why the same standard isn’t applied to the United States’ efforts to “defend” itself in Serbia, Iraq and elsewhere all over the globe. It’s a blatant double standard that we’re all supposed to pretend isn’t. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Lavrov’s comments and why we don’t “hear about” U.S. atrocities and war crimes.

[Open Minded Dude]

We might reach a tipping point now and the US changes course due to the RAND corporation's recommendation, according to Russia-based insider and investigative journalist Thomas Roeper:

https://www-anti--spiegel-ru.translate.goog/2023/spuren-fuehren-in-die-ukraine-eine-nord-stream-show-der-us-regierung/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

“Tracks Lead to Ukraine”: A US Government “Nord Stream Show”?
On March 7, it was reported that the traces of the Nord Stream blast "lead to Ukraine." It is interesting that different media, citing different sources, reported this at the same time, which indicates a controlled media campaign.
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I have already translated the New York Times article reporting that a group of Ukrainians blew up the Nord Streams . While I was still translating, German media also reported that the traces of the Nord Stream blast “lead to Ukraine”. This was the result of joint research by the ARD capital studio , the ARD political magazine Kontraste, the SWR and the "Zeit" . In the Tagesschau that was – in contrast to the Hersh research a few weeks ago – even the lead in the 20.15 program of the Tagesschau.

In its article, the New York Times refers to unnamed sources in the US secret services, while the German media refers to their own research and findings by German investigators. The American New York Times and the German media are clearly referring to different sources, but published their essentially identical “revelations” at almost exactly the same time.

Since we are talking about allegedly top-secret findings by the US secret services and equally top-secret findings by German investigators - after all, the federal government has refused to answer small inquiries on the subject with reference to "interests in secrecy" . that a media campaign coordinated by government agencies in the USA and Germany was launched here, in my opinion there is no other explanation.

Therefore, we will now look at what could be behind it. I'll say it right away: I'm doing something here that I don't like to do, because I'm going to speculate a bit in the second half of this article. But this story invites you to speculate about it and the nice thing is that in this case we will know in a few days or weeks whether these speculations are confirmed.
The history

It is not speculation that the pipelines were blown, nor is it speculation, it is a fact that the blowing up of the pipelines was quickly swept under the rug by the Western media, but the issue of media and politicians has been plaguing outside the Western media bubble has, as I have repeatedly reported . States that do not belong to the US-dominated West asked uncomfortable questions, because it was obvious to everyone that only Western states could be the perpetrators. Even the New York Times has now admitted this when it wrote in its current article:

“Some initial speculation in the US and Europe focused on possible Russian guilt, particularly given its capabilities in underwater operations, although it is unclear what the Kremlin's motivation would be in sabotaging the pipelines, as this is an important source of revenue and a means for Moscow are to exert influence on Europe.”

That's exactly what evil "Russian propagandists" like me have been writing since the pipelines blew up, which is why it's surprising that the New York Times of all places is now confirming it. But if Russia didn't blow up the pipelines, as the German media has always suggested, then the only possible perpetrators would be the western states that had previously railed loudest against Nord Stream: These were primarily Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic States States, Great Britain and above all the leading power in the West, without whose approval nothing decisive happens in the West, the USA.

As I said, that was clear to everyone, which is why the pressure on the USA, as the leading power in the West, to contribute to the clarification was great internationally. When Seymour Hersh then also published his revelations that the USA had blown up the pipelines, the pressure became even greater, because on the international stage the USA was embarrassed and in fact exposed as the country that an act of war, among other things, against its NATO allies, especially Germany.

Add to that the Hersh report, too if Western media have triedto discredit him was very detailed and convincing. The US government has effectively refused to answer, instead simply calling the Hersh report "absurd" rather than refuting it. And disproving him wouldn't have been very difficult, you could have started by summoning those responsible - i.e. the US President's National Security Advisor, the CIA chief and maybe the Vice Admiral of the US 6th Fleet - before Congress and they to question there under oath. If Hersh's story were nonsense, they could have refuted everything in detail under oath and, most importantly, clearly stated that the US had nothing to do with it. But that was not done, and U.S. government press officials did not even explicitly contradict the report, declining comment on it, saying

The US government was then under great international pressure and pressure to act because of the Nord Stream blast, after all it wants to win other countries over to its anti-Russian and anti-Chinese course. But what country would side with the US when they are taking action against their own allies?
Complete the Ukraine adventure

In January, the RAND corporation, which is very influential in the US , published a paper that very strongly recommended that the US government withdraw from the Ukraine adventure, even quite bluntly recognizing Russia's territorial gains and lifting sanctions on Russia brought into play. Reading papers from the RAND Corporation is worthwhile, because RAND actually writes US foreign policy and when RAND recommends something, the US government very often implements it shortly afterwards, as I have shown here using an example from 2019 .

In its January 2023 paper, RAND soberly analyzed that the US's goals in Ukraine had failed. The US provoked the Ukraine war to weaken Russia. The expected goal was to crush the Russian economy through the unprecedented sanctions and isolate Russia internationally. Both obviously didn't work.

Therefore, RAND has analyzed what the US gains from continuing to support Ukraine if it cannot achieve its ultimate goal of weakening Russia. RAND concluded that continued support for Ukraine is incredibly expensive, but brings no commensurate benefit or gain to the US. And RAND has openly said that it doesn't matter to the US whether Kiev loses control of (ex-)Ukrainian lands to Russia, and that preserving Ukraine's borders isn't such a big priority for the US that it's worth the cost .

Therefore, RAND has recommended that the US government end the Ukraine adventure at the negotiating table as soon as possible, even if that means Russia taking control of parts of Ukraine and if it means the US having to ease sanctions on Russia again. RAND is also willing to sacrifice Ukraine's NATO membership and more if only the US government can end the Ukraine adventure quickly.

There is only one catch: the US government has so thoroughly turned against Russia both its allies and the public in the West, including the US, that the US government has difficulty in conveying such a change of course to them. RAND wrote:

“A dramatic overnight change in US policy is politically impossible – both domestically and towards allies – and in any case would be unwise. But if these tools are developed now and popularized in Ukraine and among US allies, it could serve as a catalyst to begin a process that could end this war through negotiations in a timeframe consistent with US interests. The alternative would be a long war that poses major challenges for the US, Ukraine and the rest of the world.”

Explain the "dramatic change in US policy".

The core question was therefore how the USA can get the public and politicians in the West to participate in the "dramatic change in US policy" .

Those were all facts, from now on I'm speculating: If the US government decided to implement the RAND recommendation, then they could explain to the West that it was Ukraine that blew up the Nord Streams. One could continue to condemn Russia for its "aggressive war," but state that Kiev has been unfriendly, to put it politely, towards its patrons, which is why it can no longer expect Western support on the same scale as before.

One could force Kiev to negotiate with Russia and demand from Kiev the concessions that RAND proposed in its paper, which in fact include almost everything Russia is asking for: recognition of the new Russian territories including Crimea, a neutral Ukraine, the abolition of ( or at least strong weakening) of Russia sanctions and so on.

It would be relatively easy to sell this to the Western public, although no expert will of course believe the story that Kiev blew up the Nord Streams single-handedly and without the knowledge of the US and NATO. But the power of the Western media can work wonders for Western public opinion, as the silencing and discrediting of the Hersh report just demonstrated once again. For the US, as RAND has learned, it is only important to explain the “dramatic change in US policy (…) both domestically and towards its allies” . And that's what Western media can do by keeping the topic "Ukraine has blown up Nord Stream" in the headlines for some time.

So we can see the early signs in the next few days that this might be the US government's plan if the western media jumps on the subject. Should they immediately bury the topic again, my speculation should not have hit the mark.

But let's pretend my speculation is correct.
The implementation

Chancellor Scholz's strange visit to Washington, during which Scholz flew to the United States alone without advisors and journalists, only to have a two-hour private conversation with US President Biden and then give CNN a quick and completely meaningless interview , has aroused much speculation.

It cannot be ruled out that Scholz was confronted with a fait accompli in Washington and committed to the prepared media campaign about “Ukraine has blown up Nord Stream”. After all, it is a very strange coincidence that these reports were published by American and German media just four days after Scholz's mysterious visit to the White House.

That it is a media campaign is shown by the above-mentioned fact that the German and American media on the same day referred to different sources that gave them top secret information that basically says the same thing: A group of Ukrainian citizens is with a small sailing yacht sailed from Germany to the pipelines, where special divers (unnoticed by the complete NATO surveillance of the Baltic Sea off Denmark and Sweden) attached the explosives to the pipelines.

The story is absurd and completely unrealistic, but the western media has even been able to convince the public that the passports of the 9/11 attackers were found intact in the rubble immediately after the collapse of the Twin Towers, which is why wars against Afghanistan are urgently needed and had to lead Iraq. In comparison, the story of the sailing yacht that was able to plant the explosive devices unnoticed in the closely monitored Baltic Sea is downright believable.
Sit back and wait

Now all we have to do is sit back and see if the Western media prominently broadcast the “Ukraine blew up Nord Stream” story. And should that happen, we can await with great curiosity how the first western politicians will question aid to Ukraine and demand an ultimatum from Kiev to negotiate with Russia.

But maybe I'm wrong with my little speculation and the apparently coordinated publications by German and American media about the alleged Ukrainian trace of the Nord Stream blast are pursuing a different goal.

It is well known that forecasts are always difficult, especially when they relate to the future. Let's wait...

https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/2023/spuren-fuehren-in-die-ukraine-eine-nord-stream-show-der-us-regierung/

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/MayaSashenka/status/1631692477022318593

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https://twitter.com/MayaSashenka/status/1633386690571018242

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https://twitter.com/MayaSashenka/status/1631962813663961089

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https://twitter.com/MayaSashenka/status/1633079327557287938

https://twitter.com/MayaSashenka/status/1633079327557287938?s=20

[BMJ]

This post relates more to the WW3 aspect, as it seems germany is gearing up for a confrontation with Russia, I take it via NATO in defence of the possible new member Ukraine.

Germany In Talks to Buy $3b Boxer CRV from Australia

Australia is negotiating its most lucrative defence export deal, with the German army planning to buy hundreds of Queensland-made armoured vehicles as Berlin builds up its military in response to Russian aggression.

Talks over the deal, which could be worth up to $3 billion, are well advanced between the Australian and German governments, and are expected to support thousands of jobs in south-east Queensland and across the broader supply chain nationally.

The first of the Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles could be delivered to Germany next year.

The Boxers are made by German defence contractor Rheinmetall, which is already supplying 211 Boxer vehicles to the Australian army under a $4.3 billion contract.

But the prospective German contract could have an even bigger production run, with Berlin interested in acquiring several hundred vehicles as part of its €100 billion ($157 billion) spending spree on new weapons.

Link: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/germany-in-talks-to-buy-3b-of-australian-weaponry-20230305-p5cpfy

Boxer

The Boxer is a multirole armoured fighting vehicle designed by an international consortium to accomplish a number of operations through the use of installable mission modules.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(armoured_fighting_vehicle)

[shaberon]

So, I was curious about who could be banal enough to repeat some drivel out of another one of Scholz's many trips to hell.


This is what I was readily able to find about the source, ARD-Hauptstadtstudio:

This German television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

The studios were opened on 16 April 1999, when the federal government moved from Bonn to Berlin.


Let's keep in mind that German society was flooded with tv access in the 1980s by Mr. R. Reagan for the sole purpose of "keeping Germany down".

All the statistics I have seen lately seem to show it has not progressed an inch since 1936.

If this were a really weird crime, like 9/11, then we would have said the Ukrainians did it within about six hours. But it wasn't. According to the previous story, it was a presidential order, which was all but explained by the prez himself on national tv.

I thought it was absolutely wonky when those politicians came out and made strong statements about the Nordstream. Does anyone remember that? Did they not seem to be screaming delusional warhawks at the time??

I have usually thought they confess, a lot, constantly, usually by way of glib doublespeak such as Democracy. So, those things that were said sounded much more like a threat than "another round of sanctions" does, which isn't really a threat, but a way to keep Germany down.

Just to set the perspective, regardless of whatever data or facts they may issue, if anything, ever, right now some 70-80% of the entire world is going to mistrust/disbelieve anything coming from the U. S.

At the end of the day, RAND is at least an industrial view, but is far in the opposite political camp of the Biden regime, which of course acts according to "interests" rather than things like actual knowledge about one's industrial capacities. To refresh this "opposite camp", no, you will not be able to salvage the situation as "USA-firsters", because, now, at most you might be able to come in fourth. About the mightiest miracle that it will be possible to achieve right now is "US remains relevant". Again just look it is almost $1T in debt with a population less than 1/4 of some of the more relevant countries.

I have spent most of the 2000s asking anyone who is good at math to try to solve that equation, and it hasn't happened yet. Just keeps getting worse. When we pledge our children to this bondage, but then we don't have any, how does that work?

[Mike Gorman]

Worryingly 77th Brigade commader and MP Tobias Ellwood is calling for direct conflict.

I've always had concerns about that man. British people generally don't dislike Russians, but our political class do, for some reason.

What's the betting this keyboard warrior won't be anywhere near the front lines?

50553

Yes, I am a Brit and I grew up in the 1960's when Russia was the Soviet Union, I recall the palpable fear among the population concerning the ever-present threat of vaporization at the hands of the cold, remote Slavic enemies, it really was a time of distinct and clear division.
The British Intelligence community has carried on with this Russophobic culture, it seems the inertia and updating of attitudes takes many decades in those circles, they both fear/Loath Russia and its intentions, they just don't have any capacity for reviewing their stance it seems. We know that the Russia of today is vastly different than back in the 1960's, it has undergone terrific changes, the scale of which we can barely imagine.
What will it take before the British intelligence community refreshes its views?
I think it is a forlorn hope really, there is just too much history and torch-bearing bad faith-it will take many generations and decades of good will before they will change.
Trouble is, we do not have the time, we are faced with the most crucial precipice of all-out War that has ever been.
This fella is not who we want in the power circles, we know this, God help us all.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Worryingly 77th Brigade commader and MP Tobias Ellwood is calling for direct conflict.

I've always had concerns about that man. British people generally don't dislike Russians, but our political class do, for some reason.

What's the betting this keyboard warrior won't be anywhere near the front lines?

50553

Yes, I am a Brit and I grew up in the 1960's when Russia was the Soviet Union, I recall the palpable fear among the population concerning the ever-present threat of vaporization at the hands of the cold, remote Slavic enemies, it really was a time of distinct and clear division.
The British Intelligence community has carried on with this Russophobic culture, it seems the inertia and updating of attitudes takes many decades in those circles, they both fear/Loath Russia and its intentions, they just don't have any capacity for reviewing their stance it seems. We know that the Russia of today is vastly different than back in the 1960's, it has undergone terrific changes, the scale of which we can barely imagine.
What will it take before the British intelligence community refreshes its views?
I think it is a forlorn hope really, there is just too much history and torch-bearing bad faith-it will take many generations and decades of good will before they will change.
Trouble is, we do not have the time, we are faced with the most crucial precipice of all-out War that has ever been.
This fella is not who we want in the power circles, we know this, God help us all.

I'm English (British) too.

I think there have been motivational changes in the West's relation to Russia, over the past several generations.

There are generic and long-term geopolitical reasons that the West has long (since before 1917) wanted to destroy (break-up, exploit) Russia; because it is seen as a threat, and from greed. But that isn't the same as being specifically anti-Russian in the current cultural sense.

I think quite a lot of the political class (not the spooks, necessarily) used to have pro-*USSR* views, because they were communist (most communists were always upper class - except in urban Scotland).

When I was a socialist in the 1970s, I used to be frustrated by this, because I regarded socialism as rooted in British dissenting utopian radicals (including nonconformist Christians and trades unionists) including the likes of Cobbett, William Morris, and RH Tawney. I found the pro-communist thing foreign, top-down and totalitarian - and evil.

(When I lived in Scotland for periods in the 1980s and 90s, I found that the pro-Soviet sentiment was strong there, among Labour Party rank-and-file; and the collapse of communism caused considerable distress - to my amazement.)

The current ruling class anti-Russian sentiment seems rooted partly in the fact that they are Not communists; but more so in the massive Christian revival since the collapse of communism and after 70 years during which uncounted (but *tens of millions*) of bishops, priests, monks, nuns and devout lay-Christians were killed - plus horrible repressions of many other kinds.

Before 1917; Russia was the most devoutly Christian country in the world; and for the atheist Bolsheviks to take-over and control Russia required truly colossal violence and terror. Yet even after decades of this, and amazingly; the Orthodox church burst forth when it got the chance.

In sum, I think that the current Western ruling class loathing of Russia is primarily anti-Christian, specifically anti-Orthodox (which is *nationally* organized) - and against what Orthodox Christianity entails in terms of a culture with traditional values embedded in a coherent, motivated, strong socio-political organization; where state and church are intertwined and harmonious in relationships (ideally being headed by a 'Tsar' anointed by the Patriarch - on the Byzantine model).

Such a nation is almost the opposite of what the globalist totalitarians want to impose on the world. Therefore, I think this is the main cause of the current demonization of Russia.

Spiritually; it is because Western rulers live by inverted-values (i.e. they serve demonic evil) - therefore the better (more Good-striving) Russia becomes, the more it is hated.

i.e. (from the inverted-perspective of the globalist totalitarians) Russia and Putin are hated insofar as Russia and Putin are Good, Good-striving, and becoming more Good.

Russia and its leader are not hated for their (many, inevitable) faults, but for their virtues.

[Rizotto]

https://www.rt.com/russia/572625-russia-response-reports-nord-stream/

8 March, 2023

New Nord Stream reports look like 'coordinated hoax' – Moscow
The Kremlin believes that claims of Ukrainian involvement are an attempt to deflect attention

Western media reports which exonorate NATO state actors from involvement in the explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines have the hallmarks of a synchronized misinformation campaign, the Kremlin told journalists on Wednesday.

Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said it looked like an attempt to deflect attention from the real culprits. The anonymously sourced reports emerged just a few days after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visted Washington, where he met with US President Joe Biden, and other officials.

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported, citing US officials and unspecified new intelligence, that a “pro-Ukrainian group” may have been behind the September attack on the pipelines, which connected Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea. The outlet’s unnamed sources also claimed that “no American or British nationals were involved” in the incident.

On the same day, Germany state broadcaster ARD, SWR radio and Die Zeit newspaper claimed that German investigators looking into the incident had found that the yacht reportedly used in the attack belonged to a Polish-based company owned by two Ukrainians.

Last month, veteran US journalist Seymour Hersh published an investigation which laid the blame on Washington for orchestrating the attacks on the infrastructure, which connects Russia to Germany. The White House has denied responsibility, calling the allegations “utterly false and complete fiction.”

Speaking to RIA Novosti, Peskov said he was surprised by the fact that the US officials quoted in the reports could make guesses about the blasts without conducting any investigation.
The Kremlin spokesman also noted that Russia had still not been invited to take part in the investigation.

“This is not just strange. It smells like a monstrous crime. At least, the shareholder countries of the pipelines and the UN should demand an urgent transparent investigation, which would involve all parties that could shed light [on the incident],” he said.

Russia’s embassy to the US also commented on the NYT article, with Minister-Counselor Andrey Ledenev saying Moscow perceived the anonymous leaks “as nothing more than an attempt to confuse those who are sincerely trying to get to the bottom of things in this egregious crime.”

He noted that the NYT story “instantly got a ‘green light’ in the local information field.” The diplomat said this development was “especially noteworthy” given the attempts by local officials and journalists to “blatantly silence” the bombshell report released by the Pulitzer Prize winner Hersh.

[grapevine]

Tobias Ellwood "7 point plan"


https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/CvpkQeuK

https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/CvpkQeuK-w0bTzhqh.mp4

Apologies: cannot embed this video - MOD note from Tintin: now embedded :thumbsup:

Back in January 2023, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood laid out a seven-point plan in the House of Commons to end the Ukraine war. Mr Ellwood, who was adamant he needs to be listened to, presented a "strategy to conclude the conflict" before the end of 2023. He said the UK needs to "list the Russian state-sponsored Wagner military group as a terrorist organisation", as well as directly impose sanctions on President Vladimir Putin. He has also stated that we should never have left Afghanistan.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1725499/Ukraine-war-Tobias-Ellwood-seven-point-plan-conflict-Russia-updates-vladimir-putin-news

Oliver Tobias  gave mouth-to-mouth and CPR to the police constable who died in the grounds at Parliament during the 2017 Terror Attack, so was regarded (by me anyway) as a hero, up until now. He also served in Ireland and Bosia, which were tough postings, so you'd think out-and-out war would be the last thing anyone with his experience would want.

But what I really don't understand is that while these conflicts are going on between the major powers, they are all still nevertheless united 100% in their plans for the One World Order Digital ID, which makes the war seem a complete farce. :(

[grapevine]

Thanks Tintin 👍🏻

[Bill Ryan]

There's been a major new Russian missile onslaught on Ukraine that lasted five or six hours. Tu-95 heavy bombers were in the air (but likely to launch missiles, not to drop gravity bombs), and a number of Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were deployed. Here's just one of many reports coming in:

https://t.me/intelslava/45636

intelslava/45636

[Bill Ryan]

This is something we don't often see or hear... a Ukrainian soldier utterly broken and in tears.

The magnitude of the daily slaughter is something I think no civilian can imagine.

:flower:

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21683

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/21683

[ExomatrixTV]

Ursula Von Der Leyen (President of the European Commission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_European_Commission)) Raises Eyebrows With Statement About Ukraine

https://www.ninefornews.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/P060471-245559.jpg

The EU will never accept that its security is threatened by Russia, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said during a speech in the Canadian parliament on Tuesday. In her speech, the EU boss called for "unwavering military and economic support" for Ukraine. She emphasized that Canada has made an important contribution to Ukraine's army capacity through years of military training. Canada had already started training Ukrainian soldiers in 2014. That year, a US-backed coup was staged in the country.

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Like I've been saying since the beginning

Von der Leyen visited a Canadian army base with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. At a joint press conference, she said Canada has been training Ukrainian soldiers since 2015. The statement raises eyebrows. “Show how they have been planning this war since the CIA engineered coup in Ukraine in 2014,” someone tweeted. To which FVD leader Thierry Baudet says: “As I have been saying since the beginning.”


Can these two facts be linked?

FVD party employee Floris van der Knoop writes: “I shudder at that woman.” Forum for Democracy International, the international arm of the party, points out that the grandfather of the current Canadian deputy prime minister was a Nazi collaborator (https://www.ninefornews.nl/rechterhand-trudeau-is-directeur-bij-world-economic-forum-en-kleindochter-van-prominente-nazi/) . Canada has been training Ukrainian soldiers, including Nazis, since 2015. “Can these two facts be linked?” Earlier, Von der Leyen let slip (https://www.ninefornews.nl/slip-of-the-tongue-ursula-von-der-leyen-er-zijn-al-meer-dan-100-000-oekraiense-militairen-gedood/) that more than 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have already been killed.


dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/ursula-von-der-leyen-doet-wenkbrauwen-fronsen-met-uitspraak-over-oekraine) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[Helvetic]

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[Gwin Ru]

...

... here is the meat of the 100 year's plan (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120675-The-US-vs-China-a-hypothesis&p=1546871&viewfull=1#post1546871):


50564
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CARE General Updates Channel, [09-Mar-23 14:15] [Kimberly]
Chinese Deep State End Game

This is the reason for the war in Ukraine. This is their plan for Russia.

This is what ALL militaries are working toward whether they know it or not.

THIS IS the planned New World Order and border changes.

China is behind the Russians, China is behind the Ukraine, China is behind the Israeli's, the Syrians, the Americans, China RUNS the US Government in totality at this moment.

The only thing they are missing is MONEY/Monetary CONTROL.

This was a 100 year plan.

The Asian Federation at the helm of all the other Federations.

This will NEVER HAPPEN.

7 world currencies is their plan.
CARE General Updates Channel, [09-Mar-23 14:17] [Kimberly]
We are NOT under a "threat" from China that is not a real statement. Trump was in on it. China has been running American Politics for DECADES.
CARE General Updates Channel, [09-Mar-23 14:22] [Kimberly]
What is Blackwater's (by any other name) Private Military Group's involvement in Ukraine. Did you know they are owned by The Chinese Deep State? They are Americans, but they are FULLY bought and paid for by a Chinese Fund. This article is old, and he DENY's all knowledge of a "training base" but that is a LIE. They grabbed themselves a bunch of arabs and built an ISIS training base in China so the Chinese Deep State could take over the Middle East. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang/erik-prince-had-no-knowledge-of-training-agreement-in-chinas-xinjiang-spokesman-idUSKCN1PQ4FJ
CARE General Updates Channel, [09-Mar-23 14:32] [Kimberly]
I KNOW people are focused on this politician or that politician be it in America or New Zealand and all parts in between. It doesn't matter as the Order CONTROLS every order, every bill, every law and they decided the Chinese section of the Order would be next after the Americans. Therefore you may see someone "running your country" but what you are hearing/seeing is a bunch of Asian Deep state narratives.

====================================================


... so, take 1919 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120675-The-US-vs-China-a-hypothesis&p=1546871&viewfull=1#post1546871), ad a century to it and... what does one get?

[grapevine]

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Like I've been saying since the beginning

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What 30,000 troops is Von der Leyen talking about? Ukrainians/EU nationals? Last we heard untrained recruits (some as young as 14) were being sent straight to the front where life expectancy is 4 hours, so some 'improvement' at least, if you can call it that. Also why has Trudeau had been training Ukrainian soldiers since 2015?

[ExomatrixTV]

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[Vicus]

Moscow condemns ‘Nazi celebration’ at White House 9 Mar, 2023

The US has bestowed a prestigious award on a female member of an ultra-nationalist Ukrainian battalion

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.03/thumbnail/6409aeef85f54062311c334a.png

The decision by the White House to bestow an International Women of Courage Award on a member of an infamous far-right Ukrainian nationalist battalion is “disgraceful,” Moscow’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, said on Thursday. He claimed that the move was further evidence that Washington is ready to support Nazis in the fight against Russia.

Speaking to reporters, Antonov was asked to comment on the award received at the White House by Yulia Paevskaya, who goes by the nickname ‘Taira’. The ambassador said Moscow had noted the honoring of a member of the Azov battalion, a Ukrainian unit closely associated with neo-Nazi ideology, on International Women’s Day.

Antonov described Paevskaya as a “terrorist cutthroat whose hands are covered in the blood of the elderly, women, and children.” He alleged that in March 2022, as the fighting raged in the besieged city of Mariupol, which is now part of Russia, Paevskaya “pretended to be a mother of two children whose parents she had killed herself,” and then tried to escape disguised in civilian clothing.

“The abducted minors later confessed that Paevskaya had threatened them with violence,” the diplomat added.

Paevskaya was captured by Russian forces in Mariupol in March last year. In June, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced that Kiev had managed to free her from captivity.

Paevskaya also took part in the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, trained neo-Nazis in the Donbass region, and “committed crimes against civilians,” Antonov claimed. He noted that the Azov battalion bears the symbol of a Nazi German SS division, referring to the Wolfsangel (wolf’s hook), an insignia that was used by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich during World War II.

Antonov asserted that Washington is well aware of this information, but “to hurt Russia, the United States is willing to glorify Nazism.” He added that the US authorities should be “ashamed” of themselves for dishonoring the American and Soviet veterans who fought against fascism during World War II.

The International Women of Courage Award is a prize annually distributed by the White House. This year, in addition to Paevskaya, it was bestowed upon 10 other “extraordinary women… who are working to build a brighter future for all.”


https://www.rt.com/russia/572668-nazi-celebration-white-house/

[Vicus]

Moscow conducts major ‘retaliation strike’ on Ukraine 9 Mar, 2023

The missile barrage came in response to a terrorist attack on Russia’s Bryansk region, the Ministry of Defense has claimed

Russian forces have delivered a massive missile strike on Ukraine’s military infrastructure as retaliation for Kiev's terrorist attack on Bryansk border region earlier this month, the Ministry of Defense stated on Thursday. It added that all assigned targets had been hit.

In a statement, the ministry outlined that the attack involved “high-precision long-range air, sea, and land-based weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system.” The latter has a range of more than 2,000 km.

“The massive retaliation strike” hit key elements of Ukraine's military infrastructure, defense industry complexes as well as energy facilities that contribute to their operations. “The mission has been accomplished. All assigned targets have been hit," the statement read.

The ministry went on to say that the barrage destroyed attack drone bases and disrupted the transportation of reserves and foreign weapons. The attack also disabled facilities used for repairing military equipment and ammunition production, it claimed.

The strike came after a Ukrainian raid into Bryansk region on the Russian-Ukrainian border on March 2 left two local residents dead and injured a ten-year-old boy. Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the incident, calling it a “terrorist attack” and labeling the saboteurs “neo-Nazis.”

Responsibility was claimed by the Ukraine-based Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK). While Ukrainian officials denied responsibility for the incursion and dismissed it as a "provocation" by Moscow, Denis Nikitin, a neo-Nazi fighter involved in the incident, told the Financial Times last week that Kiev had “signed off” on the raid.

Earlier in the day, Ukrainian authorities reported attacks on energy facilities across the country, with partial blackouts sweeping through several cities, including the capital Kiev. General Valery Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, claimed that the latest strike involved over 80 missiles.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572688-russia-ukraine-retaliation-strike/

[grapevine]

...

... here is the meat of the 100 year's plan (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120675-The-US-vs-China-a-hypothesis&p=1546871&viewfull=1#post1546871):


50564
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CARE General Updates Channel, [09-Mar-23 14:15] [Kimberly]
Chinese Deep State End Game

This is the reason for the war in Ukraine. This is their plan for Russia.

This is what ALL militaries are working toward whether they know it or not.

THIS IS the planned New World Order and border changes.

China is behind the Russians, China is behind the Ukraine, China is behind the Israeli's, the Syrians, the Americans, China RUNS the US Government in totality at this moment.

The only thing they are missing is MONEY/Monetary CONTROL.

This was a 100 year plan.

The Asian Federation at the helm of all the other Federations.

This will NEVER HAPPEN.

7 world currencies is their plan.
CARE General Updates Channel, [09-Mar-23 14:17] [Kimberly]
We are NOT under a "threat" from China that is not a real statement. Trump was in on it. China has been running American Politics for DECADES.
CARE General Updates Channel, [09-Mar-23 14:22] [Kimberly]
What is Blackwater's (by any other name) Private Military Group's involvement in Ukraine. Did you know they are owned by The Chinese Deep State? They are Americans, but they are FULLY bought and paid for by a Chinese Fund. This article is old, and he DENY's all knowledge of a "training base" but that is a LIE. They grabbed themselves a bunch of arabs and built an ISIS training base in China so the Chinese Deep State could take over the Middle East. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang/erik-prince-had-no-knowledge-of-training-agreement-in-chinas-xinjiang-spokesman-idUSKCN1PQ4FJ
CARE General Updates Channel, [09-Mar-23 14:32] [Kimberly]
I KNOW people are focused on this politician or that politician be it in America or New Zealand and all parts in between. It doesn't matter as the Order CONTROLS every order, every bill, every law and they decided the Chinese section of the Order would be next after the Americans. Therefore you may see someone "running your country" but what you are hearing/seeing is a bunch of Asian Deep state narratives.

====================================================


... so, take 1919 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120675-The-US-vs-China-a-hypothesis&p=1546871&viewfull=1#post1546871), ad a century to it and... what does one get?





Well that answers the question in my post about the One World Order Digital ID. Thanks Gwin Ru. But presumably there is still a fair bit of jostling for the "top jobs".
Also wonder why all EU countries are low on amminition and havent replenished stocks. .

[Matthew]

The Frustrated Indian (TFI) Global, Indian media, gives their take on Zelensyy's rise to power:


The war in Ukraine is fulfilling far more ulterior motives than what meets the eye. With too many stakeholders, the clout of uncertainty persists.

For news from other parts of the World, download our app: https://tfiglobalnews.com/app/

#zelensky #ukraine #russia #biden #america #worldnews #globalnews #global #tfiglobal #tfimedia #youtube

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"The war won't end until US war profiteering targets are met..."

[Helvetic]

Scott Ritter | Ukraine TRAPPED In Russian Crossfire | March 9, 2023

Source: Stephen Gardner youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@StephenGardner1)

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Scott Ritter joins Stephen Gardner on this exclusive interview to discuss the Russia Ukraine war, the conflict of Bakhmut, the bad feelings between Putin and Zelenskyy and how this war will end. Russia rained down over 80 missile on Ukraine last night after figuring out how to bypass their air defense systems. Scott Ritter and Stephen Gardner also discuss military predictions of Colonel Douglas Macgregor on how this war will end and Putin's next military moves.


TIMESTAMP:
0:55 Heavy Missile Attack On Ukraine.
9:10 Russia figures out how to bypass Ukraine's air defense missiles. Hits with 80+ missile, including hypersonic missiles.
10:40 Putin's next military move
16:30 Stephen shares his position on this war
26:00 A secret in Ukraine even the media has worked to bury
28:00 Ukraine will collapse and here's why
29:00 Why Putin attacked Ukraine

[grapevine]

Scott Ritter | Ukraine TRAPPED In Russian Crossfire | March 9, 2023

XCDiw6eg04E

Scott Ritter joins Stephen Gardner on this exclusive interview to discuss the Russia Ukraine war, the conflict of Bakhmut, the bad feelings between Putin and Zelenskyy and how this war will end. Russia rained down over 80 missile on Ukraine last night after figuring out how to bypass their air defense systems. Scott Ritter and Stephen Gardner also discuss military predictions of Colonel Douglas Macgregor on how this war will end and Putin's next military moves.



That was an excellent video, Helvetic. Scott Ritter was spot-on and succinct as usual.
I'm now looking forward to the (mentioned at the end) video on the WMD in Iraq. Although it was a very long time ago, there are still many unanswered questions, and Scott Ritter may be just the person to address them. Gordon Brown said in a YT video that the Americans were aware there were no WMD before the west invaded Iraq, and so imo it's unthinkable that Tony Blair didn't know as well. Also worth mentioning while off topic, on the day Prince Harry was emblazoned across the front of the tabloids for wearing the swastika shirt, there was very small article on an inside left-hand page announcing that the official search for WMD in Iraq had been called off, which of course was hardly noticed.
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[Vicus]

Kremlin refuses to believe in pro-Ukrainian ‘Dr. Evil’

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.03/thumbnail/6409cdb62030272990395726.jpg



Only a well-trained intelligence service could have carried out the Nord Stream sabotage, Putin’s spokesman says

Western media reports claiming that a “pro-Ukrainian group” was behind the explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines last year are not plausible and must not distract from an investigation into the actual perpetrators of the sabotage, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

“As for a pro-Ukrainian ‘Dr. Evil’ who organized this, it’s hardly believable. The task was too difficult and was only within the scope of abilities of a well-trained, state-run intelligence service, and there aren’t too many of those in the world,” Peskov told journalists on Thursday.

Moscow believes that the investigation into the attack on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to Europe via Germany, shouldn’t be allowed to be “swept under the rug,” Peskov added.

“It’s also unacceptable for attention to be distracted to what we call an ‘unworthy object,’ to some secondary versions and theories,” he asserted.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has also commented on the recent reports in the Western media, branding them “blatant low-rating B-movie stuff.” Medvedev claimed they were aimed at “bamboozling” European citizens, who have suffered most of all from the destruction of Nord Stream.

On Tuesday, the New York Times claimed that a “pro-Ukrainian group” may have been behind the sabotage of the pipelines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea last September. The US outlet’s anonymous sources insisted that “no American or British nationals were involved” in the operation.

Also this week, several German outlets have reported that the country’s investigators probing the Nord Stream blasts had established that a yacht allegedly used in the attack belonged to a Polish-based firm but was “apparently” owned by two Ukrainians.

Commenting on Wednesday, Peskov said that the articles in the US and German media were aimed at overshadowing last month’s report by veteran American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who blamed Washington for the attack.


https://www.rt.com/russia/572690-ukraine-peskov-nord-stream/

[rgray222]

The Urban Hellscape That Is Now Maryinka - This town ceased to exist after bombs packed with enough conventional explosives to exceed the Hiroshima Bomb which ended WWII were dropped.

The stark scenes are contained in a drone video of the city of Maryinka, in Donetsk Oblast should be a reminder to all of humanity how tragic and grotesque war can be when one man has the power and control over a country's military.

There was no earthly humane decent reason to do this to any people. It makes no difference who is right or wrong.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNzORrFb34

Maryinka and Donestsk are about 20 KM apart and the front line of the wars runs through the middle of them. The bleak and hard realities of war are hard to ignore when you compare Donetsk and Maryinka.
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/anzO7rE_700bwp.webp

[grapevine]

That picture of Maryinka is heartbreaking . . 😭

[Heart to heart]

When will we ever learn that what we do to another eventually boomerangs back to the perpetrators 🙏🙏🙏

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Trollstoy88/status/1632050108383604740

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[url]https://twitter.com/WeAreUkraine/status/607249247914688513

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June 2015

The Aftermath of the Battle for Marinka (Extra Scene from 'Ukraine's Failed Ceasefire')

On June 3, forces of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) attacked the Ukrainian-controlled town of Marinka, around half a mile west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. The assault came three months after the signing of the second ceasefire, agreed in Minsk between the DNR and the Ukrainian government after the collapse of the first truce in early January.

This ceasefire though, much like the first, failed to bring an end to the fighting. The attack on Marinka was the first large-scale assault on a Ukrainian-held town since February, and led many to believe a feared DNR summer offensive had begun. The assault failed, however, after the Ukrainian forces swiftly counter-attacked and forced the DNR to retreat — with both sides blaming each other for the escalation.

In this extra scene from 'Ukraine's Failed Ceasefire,' VICE News met DNR soldiers in the trenches and talked to Ukrainian forces to find out more about the attack on Marinka

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2017

[url]https://twitter.com/MauriceSchleepe/status/901800694675632128

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Judgenap/status/1634255627315716102

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1634261879047733248

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https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1634197806465335297

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1634249978557128704

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1634191098703667201

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https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1634247544695033856

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[chrifri]

The Urban Hellscape That Is Now Maryinka - This town ceased to exist after bombs packed with enough conventional explosives to exceed the Hiroshima Bomb which ended WWII were dropped.

The stark scenes are contained in a drone video of the city of Maryinka, in Donetsk Oblast should be a reminder to all of humanity how tragic and grotesque war can be when one man has the power and control over a country's military.



There was no earthly humane decent reason to do this to any people. It makes no difference who is right or wrong.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNzORrFb34

Maryinka and Donestsk are about 20 KM apart and the front line of the wars runs through the middle of them. The bleak and hard realities of war are hard to ignore when you compare Donetsk and Maryinka.
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/anzO7rE_700bwp.webp

rgray222

May I ask you whom you refer to when writing "one man has the power and control over a country's military"

Thanks

[Rizotto]

It's the first time I hear a MSM commentator mention the Biden administration's "intentional" push to WW3, as Tucker Carlson is doing in this interview with Tulsi Gabbard below.

We need more of this on MSM. More importantly, we need the MSM to say clearly that in fact, WW3 between nuclear powers could only result in major world depopulation. Only a few well-prepared wealthy elites would survive this in their luxurious bunkers. So, it follows that the elites' push for WW3 is really a plan for world depopulation. If this was out front and centre in the media, would everybody drop what they're doing and go after the criminals in high places, like right now???

"Tulsi Gabbard tells Tucker the Biden admin have been 'busted' on 'absurd cover-up'"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6uvHNS-7z0

[rgray222]

You will find early on in this thread that I have never supported the United States supplying Ukraine with money or weapons. It is my belief that the extreme faction of the progressive party is calling the shots on behalf of Biden. These political extremists have made a deal with military contractors for money and power. These same contractors are now flooding our planet with weapons of death on a scale never seen before.

Mankind cannot continue on this path of perpetual war without expecting deep repercussions. Choosing sides in this horrific man-made event is analogous to participating in the war. How could anyone in their right mind look at the videos and still images of Maryinka and say.................it was full of Nazis therefore it is OK to murder every man, woman and child in this town. Justifying murder on a grand scale is nothing more than a mental illness and I mean that in the most literal sense of the words.

No matter how many real or perceived Nazis were crammed into the country of Ukraine and no matter how much death and destruction they unleashed on the Russian citizens living in Ukraine it will never match the long-term life-altering, catastrophic destruction Putin has inflicted on a neighboring country.

Regardless of how many sabers NATO rattled in the direction of Putin's home, it does not rationalize murder on a grandiose scale. It is time for the USA to abandon NATO and turn its operations over to the Europeans. If they choose to keep NATO in place it should be funded entirely by NATO countries.

What is happening in Ukraine wreaks of Obama's last year in office (yes, it is relevant) when he dropped more than 30,000 bombs on Syria, essentially dropping three bombs every hour for 24 hours every day for a full year. Most Americans would probably be astounded to realize that the president who has been painted by Washington pundits as a reluctant warrior was actually as hawkish as they come. In 2016 under Obama's personal direction, US special operators could be found in 70% of the world’s nations, 138 countries – a staggering jump of 130% since the days of the Bush administration. This is relevant to the war in Ukraine because Obama has the stomach for war, he has the disposition to tolerate a high level of death and carnage without concern for human life. He has always spoken about peace but his actions always shouted war.

Putin has sadly been goaded into a scorched earth behavior by the American shadow leadership of Obama and others. They want this war to drag out as long as possible and it appears that Putin is going to be accommodating. Each passing day weakens Putin's position at home and ingratiates him even deeper into the geopolitical shift toward China. Putin has relegated himself as nothing more than a vassal of China simply to cling to power in a country where he is slowly losing grip.

Can anyone explain to me how mankind benefits from this war? I am not talking about leaders of countries or opportunist countries like China but the greater good of mankind. Who wins, and who benefits from murder in Ukraine?

There has always been a perceived rivalry all over the world between good and evil and has it ever made a difference? Not really, maybe this is one of the lessons that mankind is put on this planet to collectively learn.

We are now in a situation where Putin can only lose. The United States and Europe can only lose and Ukraine has already lost.

[pounamuknight]

Can anyone explain to me how mankind benefits from this war?

Big benefits to Russo-Ukrainian humankind

Look, the war didn't start in Feb 2022

For Russo-Ukrainians of the Donbass, the war began after 2014 when
Victoria Nuland's hand-picked government stole power (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k) and targeted their homes in Donbas

As in their first big bombing of Donbas civilians (https://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/03/world/europe/ukraine-luhansk-building-attack/index.html) in 2014
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But when Washington's "Ukraine insider" (https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06KIEV1706_a.html) Poroshenko took over, Kiev's hate war against ethnic Russo-Ukrainians really took off!

Russo-Ukrainians are dehumanized as "terrorists" (https://www.france24.com/en/20140530-ukraine-poroshenko-helicopter-downing-terrorists-bandits-pro-russia)
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Russo-Ukrainians kids belong in basements

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Russo-Ukrainian language banned in schools (https://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/xref/xref-xml2html-en.asp?fileid=24218&lang=en)
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Life as an ethnic Russian living in Donbas was horrendous. But it could've got waaaaaay worse!

The week before Russia went in, Kiev had increased bombing Donbas from a weekly average of 500 bombings to 7310 bombardments, according to the OSCE (https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/osce-reports-reveal-ukraine-started)

US lad in the Donbas, Patrick Lancaster, reported on Kiev's increased bombing mania from the ground
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Early as Feb 11, intel from Donbas caught wind that Kiev was gonna launch a something big (https://www.donbass-insider.com/2022/02/11/ukraine-mobilises-its-army-and-sbu-to-attack-dpr-and-lpr-and-involve-russia-in-the-donbass-war/)

Documents signed by Kiev's military confirmed a blitzkrieg to retake the Donbas by late Feb, early March

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Russia had to act fast to protect their Russian brethren. Hence Moscow recognizing the DPR & LPR (https://www.rt.com/russia/550244-recognize-sovereignty-dpr-lpr-end/), enacting Article 51 (https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/setting-the-record-straight-stuff-you-should-know-about-ukraine/), then swiftly mobilizing Russian troops to enforce the first mission of the SMO (https://tass.com/politics/1409189): To protect the People of the Donbas


People’s republics of Donbass approached Russia with a request for help. In connection therewith, I made the decision to hold a special military operation. Its goal is to protect the people that are subjected to abuse, genocide from the Kiev regime for eight years. And to this end we will seek to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine and put to justice those that committed numerous bloody crimes against peaceful people, including Russian nationals

Vladimir Putin's live Address to the Nation, 24 Feb 22

There's also big benefits to denazifying Ukraine. But I just wanted to concentrate on the human story of Russo-Ukrainians in the Donbas

[shaberon]

There's also big benefits to denazifying Ukraine.



Yes, there is a lot to be destroyed in times to come.

For example, Saudi Arabia is a somewhat artificially-made, modern tyranny, while Iran has been so Iranian throughout recorded history, that at one time, the Germans wanted to name themselves after them, the Aryans. To clutch for its survival, Saud has been pushed to the point where it has to de-dollarize at least a little bit, and has to come to terms with a neighbor it will never defeat, so the Neocon "isolate Iran" theory has failed, thanks in part to attacking Iraq, and pretty much everything else they did.


Let's just quote (https://sputniknews.com/20230310/lapid-says-resumption-of-saudi-iranian-relations-a-dangerous-failure-of-israels-foreign-policy--1108275005.html) a quick response:


Lapid Says Resumption of Saudi-Iranian Relations a 'Dangerous Failure' of Israel's Foreign Policy



and remind Mr. Lapid that he is almost now indetectable when we feel the bloat (https://sputniknews.com/20230310/why-bloated-us-military-spending-cant-ensure-its-dominance-over-russia-china-1108266963.html):


DC think tanks warn: if one adds emergency military aid packages for Ukraine this year and potential tens of billions of dollars in Congressional "add-ons" the total defense spending is about to reach a staggering $950 billion or more for FY2024. The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a US think tank, has called the forthcoming Pentagon budget the "biggest since World War II," and far bigger than at the peaks of the Korean, Vietnam, or Cold Wars.


According to some estimates, more than half of the new DoD budget will go to major defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman, on buying, researching, and developing weapons.



which is somehow supposed to be covered by medicines of this type (https://tass.com/defense/1587077):


He also drew attention to the remarks by Pfizer’s former employee Karen Kingston, who said that the products of the US pharmaceutical company "by definition, are biological weapons." Kingston cited US legislation that defines biological weapons as any biological agent, toxin or delivery vehicle, including vaccines with mRNA technology (messenger ribonucleic acid - TASS).

Kirillov said that according to information at hand, the development of vaccines of this type had been bankrolled by the US budget since 2017 and by the time commercially available drugs appeared, it had been clear that they could cause the development of secondary diseases and serious complications such as meningitis, anaphylactic shock, acute myocardial infarction and stroke.

According to Kirillov, the side effects after the vaccination were supposed to be treated with medicines manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna, which have already received billions-worth government contacts. "Such an approach makes it possible for American pharmaceutical companies to fully use new pathogens in their interests and receive huge profits," he stressed.


Meanwhile, something that looks like this has gone to threaten the influential country of Georgia:


https://phototass3.cdnvideo.ru/width/1020_b9261fa1/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20230311/1384587.jpg



Doesn't that just hurt your eyes and can you imagine it actually producing sound?

I think he is just bluffing for time until he can figure out where to re-locate his Covid factory. After all, these are pre-emptive vaccines, designed to eliminate diseases that haven't been discovered yet, so if you manufacture something, chances are there will be something available to throw at it.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Replying to chrifri and rgray222 - I regard this mortal world as engaged in a spiritual war between good and evil; and with 'The West' (i.e. the controlling leadership class) as (very obviously!) operating on the side of supernatural evil - as agents of the demonic powers.

The nature of their plans of the Western-based totalitarian global establishment for humanity have been made perfectly explicit. They will stop at nothing to impose their will; and are engaged in destroying all possible sources of opposition to their plans.

The current priority is to destroy Russia - wipe out the nation and its Orthodox Christian religion, loot its resources, leave most of its people to die. These plans are explicit at the highest level - and can be confirmed by observation. (...then the same for China.)

I am grateful that Russia have decided to resist this fate - in many respects they are operating on behalf of all Men who desire to avoid tortured-enslavement, and indeed who desire to retain their basic humanity. If Russia win, it will be a significant setback to the plans of the evil-serving totalitarians.

Russia have gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid this war, and for many months to minimize destruction of civilians and resources - but, because of the hyper-aggressive (and consistently dishonest) response have been compelled to increase the severity of the war (or else be defeated).

This is an existential struggle for the future of Mankind. Of course such a war may end with Both sides being corrupted - but so far (as far as I can tell) that is not the case: there is a side of definite-evil, and there is a side that aims mostly for good objectives.

For those who believe in a life beyond this life, there is a larger perspective in which it is vital to discern good from evil, to reject the side of evil and sustain those who aim at good. This should be more fundamental than the (natural) short-term desire to avoid suffering and death.

But to hold this line requires courage in service to love - and, however feeble we may personally be in these respects (and I fear I may prove deficient), *that* is what we ought to aim-for, and repent when we fail to achieve it.

[Bill Ryan]

Replying to chrifri and rgray222 - I regard this mortal world as engaged in a spiritual war between good and evil; and with 'The West' (i.e. the controlling leadership class) as (very obviously!) operating on the side of supernatural evil - as agents of the demonic powers.

The nature of their plans of the Western-based totalitarian global establishment for humanity have been made perfectly explicit. They will stop at nothing to impose their will; and are engaged in destroying all possible sources of opposition to their plans.

The current priority is to destroy Russia - wipe out the nation and its Orthodox Christian religion, loot its resources, leave most of its people to die. These plans are explicit at the highest level - and can be confirmed by observation. (...then the same for China.)

I am grateful that Russia have decided to resist this fate - in many respects they are operating on behalf of all Men who desire to avoid tortured-enslavement, and indeed who desire to retain their basic humanity. If Russia win, it will be a significant setback to the plans of the evil-serving totalitarians.

Russia have gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid this war, and for many months to minimize destruction of civilians and resources - but, because of the hyper-aggressive (and consistently dishonest) response have been compelled to increase the severity of the war (or else be defeated).

This is an existential struggle for the future of Mankind. Of course such a war may end with Both sides being corrupted - but so far (as far as I can tell) that is not the case: there is a side of definite-evil, and there is a side that aims mostly for good objectives.

For those who believe in a life beyond this life, there is a larger perspective in which is is vital to discern good from evil, to reject eth side of evil and sustain those who aim at good. This should be more fundamental than the (natural) short-term desire to avoid suffering and death.

But to hold this line requires courage in service to love - and, however feeble we may personally be in these respects (and I fear I may prove deficient), *that* is what we ought to aim-for, and repent when we fail to achieve it.100% perfectly stated. I was grappling with how I might somehow say something similar, but you beat me to it and did a far better job than I feel I could.

:highfive:

[Gwin Ru]

...

... what if... the real goal is to weaken the US, Western Europe and Russia to oblivion just for China's CCP to scoop up the remaining choice morsels?

In the mean time:

Georgia 'lost chance for sovereignty' - Moscow (https://www.sott.net/article/478168-Georgia-lost-chance-for-sovereignty-Moscow)

RT (https://www.rt.com/russia/572738-georgia-us-influence-bill/)
Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:16 UTC


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Georgian opposition supporters rally in Tbilisi, March 9, 2023 © Vano Shlamov / AFP


The US opposed Georgia's "foreign agents" bill because Washington does not want the country to have political sovereignty, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, said on Friday.

He argued that the legislation, which was withdrawn after protests and clashes with police in Tbilisi, was aimed at limiting Washington's ability to meddle in Georgia's affairs.

"Washington has used the tools of soft power to lead people to the streets. The Georgian authorities were forced to submit - not to the will of the people, but to the United States," Volodin claimed in a post in his Telegram channel.

The politician said the bill was "unacceptable for the US" because it would have "restricted Washington's influence on the country's internal political affairs."

"With its withdrawal by the parliament, Georgia has lost the chance for sovereignty," Volodin said.

On Friday, Georgian Dream and People's Power, two of the country's ruling parties, withdrew the Transparency of Foreign Influence Bill, also dubbed the 'Foreign Agents Law.' They said the bill had led to "divisions in society" and that its intent and purpose has been distorted by "a machine of lies."

The proposed law would have required individuals, NGOs and media outlets that receive 20% or more of their funding from abroad to register as "an agent of foreign influence" with the Georgian Justice Ministry, according to Reuters. Offenders would have faced fines and up to five years in prison for failing to comply.

The bill was condemned by Washington, the EU and NATO. US State Department spokesman Ned Price voiced concerns about "the potential implications of this law for freedom of speech and democracy in Georgia" and warned that its adoption "could potentially undermine Georgia's Euro-Atlantic integration."

Price later welcomed the decision to withdraw the draft law and urged MPs to "officially retract this bill and not to further this type of legislation."

Proponents of the bill argued that it resembled the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a 1938 law that requires individuals and organizations to register as "foreign agents." Opponents, however, claimed that the bill was inspired by a similar law in Russia that was passed in 2012.

[Gwin Ru]

...

... I hadn't yet read the following article when I posted the intro to the post above...

China Foresees End Of Ukraine War This Summer: Report (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-foresees-end-russia-ukraine-war-summer-report)

by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Mar 11, 2023 - 04:20 AM

A fascinating new report in Nikkei Asia has unearthed and detailed the findings of an elite Chinese state-linked think tank which reports directly to the People's Liberation Army. Nikkei in the context of examining the timing and motives behind China's 12-point peace plan said that Chinese military experts are predicting the Russia-Ukraine war will end this summer.

To review, the 12-point plan urged implementation of a ceasefire and the resumption of negotiations toward a permanent peaceful settlement, and was unveiled on the one-year Feb.24 anniversary of the war. But the Nikkei report (https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Ukraine-war/Behind-Ukraine-peace-proposal-China-foresees-end-to-war-in-summer#) asserts there's specific rationale driving Beijing:
"The reason for China's sudden change can be traced back to a report issued two months earlier by a top think tank in Beijing."

"The Academy of Military Sciences [AMS] reports directly to the People's Liberation Army," Nikkei continues.

"Although it cannot be found on a map, the institution is located in Beijing's Haidian district, which itself is home to the ruins of Yuanmingyuan, a palace destroyed by Western armies in the 19th century."

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The report goes on the detail how central and important the AMS is as a military think tank (a kind of 'Chinese Rand Corporation' in terms of influence), issuing recommendations directly to the Communist Party's Central Military Commission, which is the PLA's top decision-making body.


And here's where the Nikkei report (https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Ukraine-war/Behind-Ukraine-peace-proposal-China-foresees-end-to-war-in-summer#) gets most interesting...
In December, the AMS completed a simulation on the Ukraine conflict, resulting in an astonishing finding, according to sources close to the Chinese government. The war will draw to a close around summer 2023, the simulation indicated, with Russia having the upper hand.

Both the Russian and Ukrainian economies would be too exhausted to sustain the war past the summer, the report said.

It is possible that the results were skewed in favor of Russia to please China's Moscow-leaning leadership. But coincidentally, the $45 billion aid package passed last December in the U.S. is set to expire this summer too.
It should also be noted that Republican leadership in the GOP-dominated House has vowed to rein in the "blank check" approach to Ukraine, also amid even the Biden administration recently giving signals that the aid won't last forever. But, the consensus among Pentagon leadership has been that the Ukraine war could drag on for years (https://nypost.com/2022/04/05/russian-invasion-of-ukraine-likely-could-not-be-stopped-us-general-says/).

Nikkei says that the think tank simulation led to the peace proposal gaining momentum in the halls of power in Beijing. "After hearing the AMS' prediction, Beijing crafted a peace proposal in time for the one-year anniversary of the war," the report reads. "It aims to achieve three goals, including the restoration of relations with Europe." These can be briefly summarized as follows:


improved and closer Chinese political and economic relations with Europe
preservation of friendly relations with Ukraine
China emerging as the prime peacemaker between Moscow and Kiev

Should President Xi Jinping accept Putin's recent invitation to travel to Moscow, all of these things will be in play in what will be a highly watched visit, with Western governments closely scrutinizing every word to come out of it.

Some pundits have seen a major power like China getting involved in dialogue as crucial to kicking off real momentum...

Even though Washington quickly rejected that Beijing is honest player when it comes to peace, the most surprising reaction came from Kiev itself, it should be recalled (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/zelenskiy-open-to-chinas-peace-plan-but-rejects-compromise-with-sick-putin):
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has cautiously welcomed China’s peace plan to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but said it would be acceptable only if it led to Vladimir Putin pulling his troops out from all occupied Ukrainian territory.

Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv to mark the first anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale attack, the Ukrainian president said he "wanted to believe" Beijing was interested in a "fair peace". That meant not "supplying weapons to Russia", he said, adding: "I’m doing my best to prevent that from happening. This is priority number one."
Moscow, as well as a few analysts in the West, have accused the United States and United Kingdom of seeking to sabotage peace. This is why the US and UK will likely remain cold regarding any Chinese efforts at a serious and lasting peace.

And Nikkei too comments,
"If China fails at becoming a peacemaker, the ramifications would undermine Xi's authority and prestige. It remains to be seen if the current leadership filled with Xi loyalists will be capable of a feat that requires complex negotiating skills and tenacious fortitude."
Again, this is all the more reason for Washington hawks to want to quash Beijing's efforts before they even get off the ground. But another prime question will be is how much sway will Xi hold with Putin when it comes to Ukraine?

[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine Puts NBC Reporter On “Kill List”:

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NBC reporter Keir Simmonds (https://twitter.com/KeirSimmons) recently traveled to Crimea and reported back that the residents he spoke with were all perfectly happy for Crimea to remain in Russian hands, and they would even join the fight if Ukraine seeks to regain the territory. He also determined that Ukraine would face formidable – some might say insurmountable – obstacles in effecting a military takeover. And for reporting on these truths his reward was to be placed on the Ukrainians’ so-called “kill list.” Jimmy speaks with activist Jose Vega about the never-ending stream of propaganda we’re subjected to about the Ukraine War.

[Ravenlocke]

Russia Strikes Kyiv, Odesa & Kharkiv - Col Doug Macgregor

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Russia Bakhmut Centre, Kinzhal Spooks Kiev/West, China Huge Political Coup as Iran Saudi Reconcile

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[ExomatrixTV]

Anti-War Activist Confronts Dem Leader Over Ukraine War:

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Activist Jose Vega (https://twitter.com/JosBtrigga) has recently “gone viral” in videos showing him confronting Democratic Congressmen Hakeem Jeffries and Jamaal Bowman over their support for funding the Ukraine War and unwillingness to ask questions about the U.S.’s involvement in the Nord Stream pipeline bombing. Jimmy and Jose discuss his efforts to bring attention to the warmongers in office and hopes for a growing anti-war movement to help prevent a nuclear war.

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1634637034517065728

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[Vicus]

Warning! RANT! Prognoses???

Russia could? win the war in Summer...

What are we? a kindergartens bunch?

_ The technology of Russia was always superb!

T34 tanks and katiuskas that pulverize the 80% Nazi army! Leopards and Tiger tanks came to late and there were
quick metal crap on the fields, late planes were superior in everything to German planes. K47 anybody?

don't let you fool from Nazi propaganda from the west! Russia won the war in WW2 in Europe!
When Normandy landings happens the soviets were already in Poland!
_ The soviets pay all this with 25/27 MILLONS corpse!

_2 years after Hiroshima they got their bomb too! Shock!

_ first satellite ever! and first man in orbit too!
U.S Moon "landing" until today is on debate!...

_ from cold war everybody here can remember the time lapses until hit the targets from soviet union to U.S. 30minutes...Cuba crisis...

In the eighties U.S. and NATO deployed Pershing missiles in Europe where the time lapse went to 15 minuets to Moscow.

_ 2014 a U.S. destroyer "Donald Cook" or something parade on the Black See to show... what? (imagine a Russian destroyer in front Miami...)
Russia respond: 1 plane "play" attack and disrupt ALL electronics on board! (EMP) converting Donald in a sitting duck!
After that most of the crew solicited staying out of service because nerves breakdown...

_2015 the world watch for the first time the ride to oblivion Islamic terrorist in Syria through Hypersonic missiles been shooting from Black See!

_2022 U.S. call Latino America his backyard...well, Ukraine is Russia backyard ! do you think they need something special? in few weeks they stand outside Kiev! and all that only with 150000 man power!
After all the "interventions" from U.S. army where country after country was bombed into oblivion with civil population inclusive, sofa warriors are boring in front TV ! why take so long!
when Russia were U.S. Ukraine today were a Moon panoramic...Russia just don't wanted that that's all!

_2023 watch this: https://greatgameindia.com/shelter-nuclear-war/

Cuba crisis? 30 minute to oblivion? that was 60 years ago! now you only got minutes ... and for Europe jeezzz...
for example : to Berlin its take less than 3 minutes!

Question! for all sofa warriors out there... what do you think U.S would do with such technology? :sherlock:

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1634479595310268418

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[Ravenlocke]

(Early on in this thread, from what I remember, there are posts about the “Tornado” battalion, which is comprised of convicts that had been in jail for murder and rape crimes even with small children before the start of this proxy war with Russia.)

https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1634514059184726018

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https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1634514070861643776

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1634336594038759428

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https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/1634419356108222465

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1634352822425731074

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/apocalypseos/status/1634656855040622592

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https://twitter.com/apocalypseos/status/1634664347485233153

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[Tintin]

A cartoon emerged recently called Ukraine Inc. which, in the tried and tested formula of artistic media done well, is searingly accurate in its depiction:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Ukraine_Inc_cartoon_released_March_2023.mp4

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1635009566852419584

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1635009545121697792

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The Duran 16 minute update on what’s developing in Ukraine with the 50 - 60 thousands AFU trying to break the Bakhmut cauldron.

Betting it all on Bakhmut breakthrough

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https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1634996769145913346

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1634996129665519616

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[ExomatrixTV]

How to make a deal with Vladimir Putin | Chris Voss and Lex Fridman

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[ExomatrixTV]

Russia: US Biolabs Still Working on Dangerous Pathogens in Ukraine (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/russia-us-biolabs-still-working-on-dangerous-pathogens-in-ukraine)



dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/rusland-komt-met-nieuw-rapport-over-amerikaanse-biolabs-in-oekraine-dit-is-wat-je-moet-weten) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[ExomatrixTV]

David Icke in 2015 Predicted the Illuminati Agenda for Russia and Ukraine 100%

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Zelensky & Ukraine Exposed, The Biggest Lie of 2023 Will Make Your Blood Boil:

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Very few people are aware of what you are going to see that shows the real face of Zelensky and his purpose. This video scratches the surface on this actor & puppet Zelensky. We are living in an era where the big anti-truths are being used to destroy our future. Topics in this video cover Russia, Ukraine, Zelensky, Putin, NATO, Jimmy Dore, Joe Rogan & more.
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[Bruce G Charlton]

Since the millenium, we have entered the era of domination by Sorath - who is consuming Ahriman, as Ahriman consumed Lucifer

These is a scheme of interpretation of the nature of evil; and it has general applicability. I'm not sure if this should be a new thread, but I can't work-out how to post a new thread; so I shall include it here because I believe it has special relevance to the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine.

I have derived and adapted a typology of evil from the work of Rudolf Steiner - the terms and many ideas are from Steiner, but there are also very significant differences.

My idea here is that the Ahrimanic impulse - which is evil in its cold, rational, systematic manifestation - has over the past couple of centuries consumed the more traditional Luciferic evil of short-termist personal lust, pleasure and torment. And the Ahrimanic type of evil is now being-consumed, in his turn, by Sorathic evil.



The archetypal Ahrimanic evil is epitomized by a manipulative bureaucrat who presides over a state or corporate PSYOPS/prison/death machine or System; while Luciferic evil would be characterized by proximate evil: for example those who personally beat, rape and torture helpless prisoners.

The final turning-point of the Ahrimanic consumption of Lucifer was when the partial Luciferic revival of the 1960s ('sex & drugs & rock-n-roll') was captured by the state bureaucracy - leading to a pervasive and intrusive system of monitoring and control for political correctness.

Modern leaders are primarily Ahrimanic - and often anonymous/ hidden/ personally-timid; while old-style leaders (e.g. mid twentieth century dictators) were often Luciferic gangsters and pirates who cultivated a reputation for recklessness and the personal enjoyment of inflicting cruelty and gratifying lusts. Luciferic evil now operates at a low-level in The System - among the mooks, minions and henchmen; while the ruling architects of evil have an Ahrimanic nature.

The Luciferic values were condensed and operationalised into systemic and materialist form; their spontaneity and pleasure were drained-away. 'Free Love' and open-ended promiscuity became compulsory sensitivity-training, and the threat of harrasment prosecutions. Spontaneity ("Turn-on, Tune-in, Drop-out") was incrementaly transformed into a world of proliferating committees, laws, guidelines and procedures; checklists, forms and feedback...



But from about 2000; there was a further move towards the purest, most absolutely negative form of evil - which could be named Sorathic (adapting this from Rudolf Steiner's identification of Sorath as the most extremely evil of beings).

Sorthic evil is neither about pleasure nor about control; it tends towards the purely destructive.

If Luciferic evil is motivated by short-termist pleasure; while Ahrimanic evil is motivated by God-denial, spiritual blindness and reductionism towards a meaningless world of mechanical procedures; then the Sorathic impulse is driven by negative impulses - primarily fear, resentment and hatred.

Sorathic evil will therefore tend to destroy both the lustful pleasures of Lucuferic evil, and the complex functional bureaucracies of Ahrimanic evil.



This is the Sorathic world we inhabit in 2020.

A world in which the Luciferic lusts of sex/ drugs and the rock-and-roll lifestyle are forbidden and punished; and also a world in which the global system is being disabled and destroyed - even as its Ahrimanic architects have successfully accomplished a silent global coup (i.e. early 2020, rationalized by Covid), and are trying to perfect it into the grandiose schemes of The Great Reset/ Agenda 2030.

In 2020 we observe all modern institutions, corporations and every kind of bureaucracy as rapidly declining in efficiency and effectiveness - under pressure from an ever-increasing culture of fear, victimology, entitlement and resentment.

Sorath divides Mankind into more-and-more, smaller-and-smaller, self-identified victim groups; each resentful-of and pitted-against each other. The aim is eventually for each person to feel alone, consumed by feelings of thwarted entitlement, and hatred of the world; and living in permanent fear of a whole world of other people, each of whom resents and hates the solo-victim just as he hates them.

And then - eventually - Sorath's intent is that everyone, without exception, should die in fear and despair.



Thus we see that Sorath takes Luciferic and Ahrimanic and pits the one against the other, to weaken and destroy both.

Whatever gives pleasure is thwarted. Whatever has been created, and is complex or functional, is reduced to chaos.



Chaos is indeed the key term.

Ultimately, 'Sorath' is driven by resentment directed against God and all of His works; and resentment of Man as a loving creating-being and all of his works. Sorath wants to reduce creation back to a primal state of chaos.

And then - when all else has been destroyed - to destroy himself as a act of spite against the God who created him.

Such is Sorath's fantasy.

My interpretation of the Ukraine war is that it represents a triumph of Sorathic-destructive evil, which is tending to destroy the worldwide Ahrimanic-bureaucratic evil which peaked in early 2020 - by stimulating the hatreds and sadism of an already-corrupt global leadership-class.

I have found this a useful way of thinking about recent and current trends, and offer it here as a possibility for consideration.

[Vicus]

U.S. strategic bomber B-52H Stratofortress worked out the possibility of launching a missile attack on St. Petersburg

Yesterday, 06: 59

The United States continues the practice of provocations near the Russian borders, this time the Americans have worked out the possibility of launching a missile attack on St. Petersburg using the B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber. Data on the flight route of the American strategist was provided by the Flightradar service.


The US Air Force B-52H strategic bomber worked out an attack on the Russian northern capital, entering the city from the Baltic Sea near Gogland Island, while being in neutral airspace. According to the service, the American bomber took off from the territory of Poland, after which it flew over the Baltic Sea towards the Russian city, simulated a missile attack over the Gulf of Finland, after which it turned around and went to the base through the Baltic airspace. During the "attack" the American strategist was at a distance of 200 km from St. Petersburg.

According to experts, with the help of the B-52H Stratofortress, the United States worked out a scenario for breaking through the anti-missile and air defense of the North-Western group of the Russian army with nuclear missile strikes on military and industrial facilities in the area.

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It is worth noting that this is not the first incident of this kind near the Russian borders in general, and near St. Petersburg in particular. American B-52H strategists have already simulated an attack on the city, since they have plenty of opportunities for this, given that the Baltic states are happy to provide the Americans with their airspace. Attacks of this kind were practiced on Kaliningrad, as well as on the Crimea. In the Far East, the Americans continue to periodically harass the air defense of Kamchatka, trying to open the air defense scheme.

The last "attack" by American strategists took place at the end of February of this year, when two bombers attacked St. Petersburg from Estonia.

https://en.topwar.ru/212662-amerikanskij-strategicheskij-bombardirovschik-b-52h-stratofortress-otrabotal-nanesenie-raketnogo-udara-po-sankt-peterburgu.html

[Vicus]

US-Ukraine unity is cracking apart

POLITICO reports there are growing differences between Washington and Kyiv
by Dave DeCamp Posted onMarch 12, 2023CategoriesNewsTagsUkraine
Over one year since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, there are growing differences between Washington and Kyiv on how to move forward in the conflict, POLITICO reported Sunday.

One issue is over Bakhmut, the eastern Ukrainian city where Russian and Ukrainian forces have been locked in battle for over eight months. Biden administration officials think Ukraine has expended too many resources defending Bakhmut and worry it will impact their ability to launch a counteroffensive this spring, but officials in Kyiv have decided to keep fighting for the city.

Another point of contention is over Crimea as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insists they will retake the peninsula, which has been under Russian control since 2014 and is populated by people who are happy to be part of the Russian Federation.

While some Biden administration officials have vowed support for Ukrainian attacks on Crimea, the POLITICO report said other US officials believe Zelensky’s insistence that there will be no peace talks until the peninsula is taken will only prolong the war. But publicly, President Biden and other US officials maintain that negotiations will only happen under Kyiv’s terms.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has also acknowledged the risk of escalation that would come with a Ukrainian attempt on Crimea, calling it a “red line” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Pentagon has said it’s unlikely Kyiv can take the peninsula.

The US also appears to be tired of Zelensky’s constant demands for weapons. Two White House officials told POLITICO that there are “grumblings” in Washington over Zelesnky’s constant requests and lack of gratitude. Despite the massive amount of support provided by the US and its allies, Ukrainian officials have frequently said that it’s “not enough” and are demanding fighter jets and longer-range missiles.

The POLITICO report mentioned the Nord Stream sabotage and how US officials are now linking the attack to Ukraine while insisting the Ukrainian government was not involved. But the vague claims are likely an attempt to shift blame from the US following the bombshell report from investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that alleged President Biden ordered the bombing of the pipelines.

Publicly, Biden still maintains he will support Ukraine “for as long as it takes,” but there are other signs that the US is thinking about winding down its support. CIA Director William Burns visited Kyiv in January and told Zelensky that Congress might not pass any more massive aid packages for the war. Ukrainian officials are concerned that the administration might use Congress as an excuse to scale down assistance.

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/12/us-ukraine-unity-is-cracking-apart/

[Vicus]

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‘Rigorous’ Maidan massacre exposé suppressed by top academic journal
KIT KLARENBERG·MARCH 12, 2023

A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world’s top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers.

The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev’s Maidan Square in late February 2014 was a defining moment in the US-orchestrated overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government. The death of 70 protesters triggered an avalanche of international outrage that made President Viktor Yanukovych’s downfall a fait accompli. Yet today these killings remain unsolved.

Enter Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist at the University of Ottawa. For years, he marshaled overwhelming evidence demonstrating that the snipers were not affiliated with Yanukovych’s government, but pro-Maidan operatives firing from protester-occupied buildings.

Though Katchanovski’s groundbreaking has been studiously ignored by the mainstream media, a scrupulous study he presented on the slaughter in September 2015 and August 2021 and published in 2016 and in 2020 has been cited on over 100 occasions by scholars and experts. As a result of this paper and other pieces of research, he has among the world’s most-referenced political scientists specializing in Ukrainian matters.

In the final months of 2022, Katchanovski submitted a new investigation on the Maidan massacre to a prominent social sciences journal. Initially accepted with minor revisions after extensive peer review, the publication’s editor effusively praised the work in a lengthy private note. They said the paper was “exceptional in many ways,” and offered “solid” evidence in support of its conclusions. The reviewers concurred with this judgment.

However, the paper was not published, a decision Katchanovski firmly believes to have been “political.” He filed an appeal, but to no avail.

Among those fervently supporting Katchanovski’s appeal was renowned US academic Jeffrey Sachs. “You have written a very important, rigorous, and substantial article. It is thoroughly documented. It is on a topic of great significance,” Sachs wrote to the scholar. “Your paper should be published for reasons of its excellence…The journal will only benefit from publishing such a work of importance and excellence, which will further the scholarly understanding and debate regarding a very important moment of modern history.”

Academic conspiracy of silence

By contrast, the scholar said, those willing to “blatantly and uncritically parrot Western narratives,” even when their fables run “contrary to evidence,” are rewarded, and encounter no resistance to publishing their work. Katchanovski is well-positioned to comment on academic censorship related to Ukraine: three other journals that accepted his papers after successful “expert” peer-review processes also ultimately refused to publish.

That violent far-right elements were centrally involved in the Odesa massacre is confirmed by copious video footage and hardly controversial. Why recognition of this indisputable fact was considered overly contentious by an academic journal remains unclear, but the rationale behind the suppression of Katchanovski’s Maidan massacre investigations is self-evident.

“This is done for political reasons. The mainstream media follows their governments, not the facts. Western journalists grossly misrepresented the Maidan massacre,” the scholar said. “With a few exceptions, journalists did not report videos of Maidan-supporting snipers and their confessions, and testimonies of the wounded Maidan protesters and several hundred witnesses concerning such snipers.”

Far-right elements discuss victim tally with US officials

The open source evidence collected by Katchanovski persuasively supports his conclusion that the Maidan massacre “was a successful false flag operation organized and conducted by elements of the Maidan leadership and concealed groups of snipers in order to overthrow the government and seize power in Ukraine.”

Among the trove are 14 videos depicting snipers nesting in Maidan protester-controlled buildings, 10 of which unambiguously show shooters tied to far-right groups ensconced in Hotel Ukraina, aiming at crowds of demonstrators below, and shooting at government-aligned law enforcement officials.

Meanwhile, synchronized videos demonstrate shots fired by the government security forces initially charged with the massacre do not coincide with the killing of protesters. Instead, the police officers fired warning shots at inanimate objects such as lampposts, trees, and the ground in order to settle violent crowds. They also fired into walls and windows where snipers in the Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina were located, targeting the snipers nested there.

continue: https://thegrayzone.com/2023/03/12/academic-journal-maidan-massacre/

[Bill Ryan]

An interesting human story that I'd not heard. It appears to be entirely true. She also saved the life of a child.

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/48178

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1635367798628298753

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[shaberon]

...

... what if... the real goal is to weaken the US, Western Europe and Russia to oblivion just for China's CCP to scoop up the remaining choice morsels?



I think the dynamic worked otherwise, particularly in the early 1900s.



One thing I have noticed is that the Chinese are fond of revisionism. For instance I found that you are not supposed to say "Chinese Buddhism", it is "Han Buddhism" beginning at the Han capital, Loyang in Henan ca. year 100. It has a tendency to change things around. Later, the famous Bodhidharma, patron of Shaolin martial arts, is found to be almost entirely invented in the 1600s.

There is a similar authentic-versus-contrived debate centered on the "founder" of China, Huangdi or Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Emperor):



Xuanyuan is also the name of the star Regulus in Chinese, the star being associated with Huangdi in traditional astronomy. He is also associated to the broader constellations Leo and Lynx, of which the latter is said to represent the body of the Yellow Dragon (黃龍 Huánglóng), Huangdi's animal form.



Huangdi's cult became prominent in the late Warring States and early Han dynasty, when he was portrayed as the originator of the centralized state, as a cosmic ruler, and as a patron of esoteric arts.



In the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Beijing's Forbidden City, there is also a mirror called the "Xuanyuan Mirror".



...in the early twentieth century Huangdi became a rallying figure for Han Chinese attempts to overthrow the rule of the Qing dynasty, which they considered foreign because its emperors were Manchu people. To this day the Yellow Emperor remains a powerful symbol within Chinese nationalism.

...the Yellow Emperor is now regarded as the initiator of Han culture (later Chinese culture).



The Yellow Emperor became a powerful national symbol in the last decade of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) and remained dominant in Chinese nationalist discourse throughout the Republican period (1911–49). The early twentieth century is also when the Yellow Emperor was first referred to as the ancestor of all Chinese people.





Starting in 1903, radical publications started using the projected date of his birth as the first year of the Chinese calendar. Intellectuals such as Liu Shipei (1884–1919) found this practice necessary in order to "preserve the [Han] race" (baozhong 保種) from both dominance by Manchu people and foreign encroachment. Revolutionaries motivated by Anti-Manchuism such as Chen Tianhua (1875–1905), Zou Rong (1885–1905), and Zhang Binglin (1868–1936) tried to foster the racial consciousness they thought was missing from their compatriots, and thus depicted the Manchus as racially inferior barbarians who were unfit to rule over Han Chinese. Chen's widely circulated pamphlets claimed that the "Han race" formed one big family descended from the Yellow Emperor. The first issue (Nov. 1905) of the Minbao 民報 ("People's Journal"), which was founded in Tokyo by revolutionaries of the Tongmenghui, featured the Yellow Emperor on its cover and called Huangdi "the first great nationalist of the world."


Tongmenghui is:


...a secret society and underground resistance movement founded by Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others in Tokyo, Japan, on 20 August 1905, with the goal of overthrowing China's Qing dynasty.



Nationalism is against foreign (such as Manchu) dominance...makes sense...and this secret society simply rose above the water and penned the Provisional Constitution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Constitution_of_the_Republic_of_China) of the RoC. The "Manchurians" were already engineered:

Nurhaci united clans to create a Manchu ethnic identity...


They expanded territory to the size of modern China, which came at a cost:


The height of Qing glory and power was reached in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1735–1796). He led Ten Great Campaigns that extended Qing control into Inner Asia and personally supervised Confucian cultural projects. After his death, the dynasty faced changes in the world system, foreign intrusion, internal revolts, population growth, economic disruption, official corruption, and the reluctance of Confucian elites to change their mindsets. With peace and prosperity, the population rose to some 400 million, but taxes and government revenues were fixed at a low rate, soon leading to fiscal crisis. Following China's defeat in the Opium Wars, Western colonial powers forced the Qing government to sign "unequal treaties", granting them trading privileges, extraterritoriality and treaty ports under their control. The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) and the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) in Central Asia led to the deaths of over 20 million people, from famine, disease, and war. The Tongzhi Restoration in the 1860s brought vigorous reforms and the introduction of foreign military technology in the Self-Strengthening Movement (Westernization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Strengthening_Movement)). Defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895 led to loss of suzerainty over Korea and cession of Taiwan to Japan. The ambitious Hundred Days' Reform of 1898 proposed fundamental change, but the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908), who had been the dominant voice in the national government for more than three decades, turned it back in a coup.

Mass media in the west during this era portrayed China as a rising military power due to its modernization programs and as a major threat to the western world, invoking fears that China would successfully conquer western colonies like Australia. Chinese armies were praised by John Russell Young, US envoy, who commented that "nothing seemed more perfect" in military capabilities, predicting a future confrontation between America and China."


Although:

Early works by scholars such as Chen Lujiong (1730), Wang Dahai (1791), and Xie Qinggao (1820) already espoused the idea that Western countries were a threat due to their superior military technology: these scholars also called for the adoption of Western weapon technology.


Russia at this time:

The Qing dynasty forced Russia to hand over disputed territory in the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881), in what was widely seen by the west as a diplomatic victory for the Qing. Russia acknowledged that Qing China potentially posed a serious military threat. The Russians observed the Chinese building up their arsenal of modern weapons during the Ili crisis, the Chinese bought thousands of rifles from Germany. In 1880 massive amounts of military equipment and rifles were shipped via boats to China from Antwerp as China purchased torpedoes, artillery, and 260 modern rifles from Europe.


So there is more or less a propagandized Cold War already in effect--with China learning these lessons:

The program proved expensive: Li Hongzhang had wanted the Jiangnan Arsenal to produce breech loading rifles of the Remington type. Production finally started in 1871 and produced only 4,200 rifles by 1873: these rifles were not only more costly than, but also far inferior to, the imported Remington arms. Shipbuilding efforts were also disappointing: the program consumed half of the arsenal's annual income but the ships built were at least twice as costly as comparable vessels available for purchase in Britain. The lack of material and human resources proved to be a formidable problem. The program was heavily reliant on foreign expertise and materials. The unavoidable growth in the number of foreign employees had made increased costs inevitable. Furthermore, officials were not even aware when the foreigners were not competent enough to perform the tasks that they had been hired to do...


Sounding a little backwards now?

After the 1900 Boxer Rebellion:


Sun Yat-sen and revolutionaries debated reform officials and constitutional monarchists such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao over how to transform the Manchu-ruled empire into a modern Han nation.



After collapse of the Qing:


In August 1912, the Tongmenghui formed the nucleus of the Kuomintang, the governing political party of the republic.



In 1912, for instance, banknotes carrying Huangdi's effigy were issued by the new Republican government. After 1911, however, the Yellow Emperor as national symbol changed from first progenitor of the Han race to ancestor of China's entire multi-ethnic population. Under the ideology of the Five Races Under One Union, Huangdi became the common ancestor of the Han Chinese, the Manchu people, the Mongols, the Tibetans, and the Hui people, who were said to form the Zhonghua minzu, a broadly understood Chinese nation. Sixteen state ceremonies were held between 1911 and 1949 to Huangdi as the "founding ancestor of the Chinese nation" (中華民族始祖) and even "the founding ancestor of human civilization" (人文始祖).



Their historicity [whether Huangdi was a historical person] started to be questioned in the 1920s by historians such as Gu Jiegang, one of the founders of the Doubting Antiquity School in China.



Then, the Nationalists and Communists were basically on the same side, against the Northern or Manchurian warlords. Sun Yat Sen was western educated, and had western moral and intellectual support, and no material support. That is where the Bolsheviks come in, supplying weapons and the like:


In 1924 the KMT would enter into an alliance with the fledgling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a requirement for Soviet support. General Chiang Kai-shek, who became the Chairman of the Kuomintang after Sun's death and subsequent power struggle in 1925, began the Northern Expedition in 1926 to overthrow the Beiyang government. In 1927, Chiang moved the nationalist government to Nanking and purged the CCP, beginning with the Shanghai massacre. The latter event forced the CCP and KMT's left-wing into armed rebellion, marking the beginning of the Chinese Civil War...


These articles only talk about attacks and reprisals. Nothing much about policies and how or why there would be such a split.

The KMT and CCP were trying to convert or take over each other from within, but there is a short story of camaraderie followed by a Nationalist attack on the Communists in the tale of the United Front (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_United_Front).


Over time, CCP became more popular most importantly in the issue of Land Reform (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Reform_Movement_(China)):


Sun Yat-sen advocated a "land to the tiller" program of equal distribution of land which was partly implemented by the Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek.

Landlords — whose status was theoretically defined through the percentage of income derived from exploitation as opposed to labor...

By 1934, 4% of the population owned half of the land, while 70% of peasant households owned only 17% of the land.


Chinese peasantry was not in feudal bondage, as for example the Russians to the Tsars and so forth. They either owned or rented the land they worked. The CCP did drastically alter this equation, and then in the 1950s you see ownership being assimilated by State.


KMT's six years of Japanese appeasement were unpopular, resulting in the Second United Front (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_United_Front), and the Chinese Civil War was effectively on pause until the Japanese were defeated. After that, CCP comes out stronger and KMT retreats to Taiwan. So it appears less the conflict with Communism, and more the weak response to the Japanese occupation which cost them their influence.


The old Provisional Constitution had been somewhat French in character, and, due to strife, it roughly made a state of emergency and placed martial law in the hands of KMT, and by defeating the KMT, the Communists simply inherited this state of affairs. Even so, the KMT is still a party to the current Constitution:


The Constitution of the Republic of China is the fifth and current constitution of the Republic of China (ROC), ratified by the Kuomintang during the Constituent National Assembly [zh] session on 25 December 1946, in Nanjing, and adopted on 25 December 1947.


Then:

The cult of the Yellow Emperor was forbidden in the People's Republic of China until the end of the Cultural Revolution. The prohibition was halted during the 1980s when the government reversed itself and resurrected the "Yellow Emperor cult".

After retreating to Taiwan in late 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang (KMT) ruled that the Republic of China (ROC) would keep paying homage to the Yellow Emperor.



In 1955, the KMT, which was led by Mandarin speakers and still poised on retaking the mainland from the Communists, sponsored the production of the movie Children of the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi zisun 黃帝子孫), which was filmed mostly in Taiwanese Hokkien and showed extensive passages of Taiwanese folk opera. Directed by Bai Ke (1914–1964), a former assistant of Yuan Muzhi, it was a propaganda effort to convince speakers of Taiyu that they were linked to mainland people by common blood.


Mao attempted to purge the party of capitalist and reactionary elements during the Cultural Revolution, after his death, these policies were only briefly continued by the Gang of Four before a less radical faction seized control. During the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping directed the CCP away from Maoist orthodoxy and towards a policy of economic liberalization.

...to know if a certain policy is obsolete or not, the party had to "seek truth from facts" and follow the slogan "practice is the sole criterion for the truth". At the 14th National Congress, Jiang reiterated Deng's mantra that it was unnecessary to ask if something was socialist or capitalist, since the important factor was whether it worked.



I am not sure they have a goal to balkanize the globe. This seems less likely when considering the "Rules for Revolution", Snopes (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/communist-rules-for-revolution/) follows its trail to nowhere:


..."registration of all firearms" sounds out of place for 1919 (as this Ngram chart shows, "sexy" is a word one was far more likely to have encountered in America during the post-World War II era than in 1919), and not surprisingly, nobody has ever managed to turn up the mysterious issue of Examiner-Enterprise that supposedly printed this list.


When columnist Bob Greene checked out the "Communist Rules for Revolution" with Russian specialists at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University in the mid-1980s, they said the list was "a total fraud," "an obvious fabrication," and "an implausible concoction of American fears and phobias." Greene also observed: "I always wanted to meet a communist who was carrying the list around, so I could ask him what 'obloquy' means."


The tone of its writing is anachronistic. Nevertheless, it has been re-printed in various newspapers and even the Congressional Record, as if it had just been seen for the first time. There are a few other skeptical points on Stack Exchange (https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/31405/were-these-communist-rules-for-revolution-written-in-1919):


The earliest known publication of these "Communist Rules for Revolution" dates from February 1946, and it's significant to note that publication coincided with events such as Winston Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech, in which he issued a warning to citizens of the United States that "Communist parties constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization."


One "yay-sayer" is:


... the American Legion published (see page 6) the rules and stated they were the "official communist party 'Rules for Revolution'".


However by 1966:

The most plausible explanation, on the basis of what Mr. Twitchell has reported, is that "Communist Rules for Revolution" is a product of the Nazi propaganda machine, and was picked up by the British and American Ultra-Rightists as a weapon of the Cold War.


So I would tend to file the document in the well-known predictable strand of Fascist co-intel:


Taxil Hoax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxil_hoax) (Pike and Mazzini), Protocols of the Elders of Zion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion), and Occult Theocrasy (https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/miller_e/occult_theocrasy.html), as followed by Nesta Webster and the John Birch Society (https://books.google.com/books?id=qycUCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA113&ots=SJ8AjNSnue&dq=lady%20queenborough%20conspiracy%20hoax&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q=lady%20queenborough%20conspiracy%20hoax&f=false) (John Birch having been a missionary killed in China).



The possibility of China gaining a larger stake in international affairs seems in keeping with the fact of it being large, while the U. S. squandering most of its potential on losing Cold War weapons races and even tiny Britain pledging an additional $6B for the purposes of "catch up", goes like a few excerpts from Cannot Win (https://southfront.org/us-cannot-win-a-war-with-china-or-russia/):


A recent WSJ article “The U.S. Is Not Ready for the Era of ‘Great Power’ Conflict” by Michael R. Gordon...

In this case, the takeaway is that the US is not ready for war with China and/or Russia — and never will be. Also that the US military is not set up for war with anyone really— just to make a lot of money for a few big corporations.

Proof? At the time of writing, Biden has just done proposing the biggest military budget in history—to counter China— which really poses no threat to the US.

The biggest threat to the US is the US itself.


Says, Lt. General Chef Clint:

As we began to push for change, we lost most of the budget battles….There is more sense of urgency now, but we know how far we have to go.”

I don’t recall the Pentagon “losing” many budget battles. Do you?


Mikey Gordon editorializes:

A China in control of the South China Sea and Taiwan would hold sway over waters through which trillions of dollars in trade passes each year. It would also command supplies of advanced semiconductors, threaten the security of U.S. allies such as Japan and challenge American per-eminence in a part of the world it has dominated since World War II.

Oh my—this is Rome vs Carthage redux. Will there be massacres, rape, and plunder? But I digress—the US has been doing massacre, rape and plunder for years. It’s called “Freedom”.


So far, China has shown no interest in invading Taiwan.

Why would they want to? (And how can you “invade” your own country?)


The U.S. needed to demonstrate it could prevent Beijing from seizing the island in the first place—a requirement included in the Biden administration’s National Defense Strategy issued in 2022.

Translation: the US needs a “defense” buildup of a size that would make the improbable threat …um… improbable.


For example, the Americans say that Beijing “claims” Taiwan as Chinese territory despite this “claim” is one that a majority of the world recognizes as fact — including the US ..


The WSJ article warns that China is building bases in the South China Sea.

These are, as you know, orientally inscrutable —with lots of radar towers and communications facilities. Domes and stuff. Definitely dangerous. Lighthouses too. OK. No fighter aircraft, missile batteries, or bombers that we can see. Which means they are hidden somewhere.




So far I would stick with "the west is imploding under its own power". Although the CCP will probably still be around to deal with the remnants, I would guess their attention was almost entirely local for quite some time, and that they were not in the position to make or execute a hundred year plan.

[Tintin]

Since the millenium, we have entered the era of domination by Sorath - who is consuming Ahriman, as Ahriman consumed Lucifer
.

Do you know what? I'm really glad you're here :sun: :yo:

I'd drawn the same conclusion a wee while back, but I hadn't until now factored in the Sorathic element. A BIG thanks for supplying the hitherto missing prong in the unholy trifecta/tripod

[Bruce G Charlton]

Since the millenium, we have entered the era of domination by Sorath - who is consuming Ahriman, as Ahriman consumed Lucifer
.

Do you know what? I'm really glad you're here :sun: :yo:

I'd drawn the same conclusion a wee while back, but I hadn't until now factored in the Sorathic element. A BIG thanks for supplying the hitherto missing prong in the unholy trifecta/tripod

Thanks for your thanks!

I was a bit uneasy about publishing; but the fact that this 'trifecta/ tripod' was useful for you, justifies it for me.

[chrifri]

Simplicius the thinker published 2 excellent pieces over the past days.

https://substack.com/profile/125744148-simplicius-the-thinker

On Saturday: Saturday Reader's Mailbag Extravaganza - (3/11/23) - Answers
Simplicius answering 12 questions about the Ukro war (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/saturday-readers-mailbag-extravaganza)

some of the questions answered are:
- Assuming the actions continue for another year or two. How do you see the 24 US elections affecting the war ?
- Is the United States trying to shut down the Eurasian unification process??
- Where are the Chechens?
- I would like to hear your opinion on what might be a reasonable position for both sides to accept to end this war.
- I would like a quick brief on how life goes on in areas and settlements in new Russian territories that are relatively far from the front, such as Lugansk of Berdiansk, for example
- Does Putin realize that the Western/ Atlantean interests are perpetuating a fraud by stealing the "aid" with both hands? Will there be a cease fire like the North and South Korean border where a buffer zone is established and both cultures can lick their wounds and move on? I'm a proud American and I don't like feeling like I'm on the bad guy team. What is the best I can hope for in this insane situation?
- I'd like to have a better understanding of Prigozhin/Wagner's relationship with the Russian military establishment.

The second piece, published today: The Iraq War Was A Sham (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-iraq-war-was-a-sham)
Compares the supposed success of the Iraq War versus the supposed Russian lack of success (according MSM).
This piece is in my opinion very interesting. I learned a lot. I had no idea at all that the Iraq war was far from what we were told

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1635589084893831173

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[url]https://www.rt.com/russia/572918-zelensky-kiev-pechersk-lavra-takeover/


Zelensky backs expulsion of Christian monks

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has endorsed the order to expel monks of the canonical Orthodox church from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, insinuating they were agents of Russia. Moscow has called on all Christian churches, as well as the UN and other international organizations, to respond to the “outrageous” decision.

“This week there is also a move to strengthen our spiritual independence,” Zelensky said in a weekly address to the nation on Sunday evening. “We will not allow the terrorist state any opportunity to manipulate the spirituality of our people, to destroy our holy sites – our Lavras – or to steal valuables from them.”

He also claimed the steps his government was undertaking were “completely legal” and had the full support of the Ukrainian public.

On Friday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture notified the monks they had until March 29 to vacate the monastery, claiming they had violated the 2013 agreement under which the state allowed them to administer the national historic preserve. Founded in 1051, the Pechersk Lavra (‘Monastery of the Caves’) is considered the most prominent Orthodox Christian site in Ukraine.

Church appeals to global religious leaders over Zelensky plan
Church appeals to global religious leaders over Zelensky plan
Kiev has already expelled the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) from two of the cathedrals above the monastery. Within days of that decision, in early January, the government-created Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was allowed to hold services on the premises.

The UOC monks will “not carry out the order” to leave, the abbot of the monastery said on Monday. The head of the church, Metropolitan Kliment, had called Friday’s note the personal opinion of a Ministry of Culture official, with no legal standing. The UOC remains in communion with the Russian Orthodox Church, but has declared itself independent and condemned the Russian “invasion” to remain in the Ukrainian government’s good graces.

Kiev’s move to expel the monks is “unacceptable” and “absolutely unprecedented,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. “We believe that the world community should respond accordingly to such an outrageous decision.”

On Saturday, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church compared the eviction to the expulsion of Orthodox clergy under Communism. Such a move would “lead to a violation of the rights of millions of Ukrainian Orthodox faithful,” said Patriarch Kirill, in a letter sent to the UN, the heads of other Orthodox churches, Pope Francis of Rome, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, and others.

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[ExomatrixTV]

Ron DeSantis FINALLY Comes Out Against Proxy War W/ Russia, Ukraine War NOT A Priority:

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[norman]

The former head of US military intelligence, General Michael Flynn, lays out a mind map of the current state of World War Three.

This is a long form (advert break free) interview conducted by Alex Jones last Saturday. Alex manages to interrupt a bit too much though.

https://banned.video/watch?id=640cf1dfa7f0a85046428fea

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[grapevine]

Since the millenium, we have entered the era of domination by Sorath - who is consuming Ahriman, as Ahriman consumed Lucifer
.

Do you know what? I'm really glad you're here :sun: :yo:

I'd drawn the same conclusion a wee while back, but I hadn't until now factored in the Sorathic element. A BIG thanks for supplying the hitherto missing prong in the unholy trifecta/tripod

Thanks for your thanks!

I was a bit uneasy about publishing; but the fact that this 'trifecta/ tripod' was useful for you, justifies it for me.


So is this a given or can this be combatted Bruce? Are we all just sitting ducks, or what needs to happen to turn this around . . .?

[Bruce G Charlton]

Since the millenium, we have entered the era of domination by Sorath - who is consuming Ahriman, as Ahriman consumed Lucifer
.

Do you know what? I'm really glad you're here :sun: :yo:

I'd drawn the same conclusion a wee while back, but I hadn't until now factored in the Sorathic element. A BIG thanks for supplying the hitherto missing prong in the unholy trifecta/tripod

Thanks for your thanks!

I was a bit uneasy about publishing; but the fact that this 'trifecta/ tripod' was useful for you, justifies it for me.


So is this a given or can this be combatted Bruce? Are we all just sitting ducks, or what needs to happen to turn this around . . .?

@Miller - This will inevitably be very concise, and therefore sound more cut-and-dried than it really is. On the other hand - the answer may be more detailed than you wanted! (Aside, I've written a lot on this topic on my 'Notions' blog, which can be accessed via my member's profile; and word-searched via the box in the top-left-corner.)

In general, I regard the first and most important thing any individual can do in this era is understand. After which there needs to be a recognition of significance, and a determination of which side we choose.

Beyond that, concerning what to Do - each individual and his unique circumstances mean that guidance of what exactly to do, must be personal.

I myself seek two main sources of individual guidance - 1. personal intuition (which I regard as the evaluations of my real and divine Self), and 2. the external guidance from seeking direct contact with the Holy Ghost (both via meditation and prayer).

I find that these forms of guidance only 'work' reliably when I have formulated the question very exactly and very simply - preferably a Yes/ No question; so it may take a good deal of effort and exploration/ discussion/ reading/ writing etc. - before I can get the question right.

But when I eventually do get the question of 'what to do?' right; I find the answer comes almost instantly - and with a strong conviction!

[Tintin]

Reaper drone incident
From Donbass Devushka Twitter account earlier, citing a subscriber:


From a subscriber:

Something just didn’t sit well with me about the Reaper Drone story… USA regularly spies on Sevastopol and Russian vessels in the Black Sea with a RQ-4 Global Hawk Surveillance Drone (these drones do not carry munitions/missiles). Reapers do fly surveillance missions, but they also 90% of the time are armed, so why didn’t anyone fire at each other. Russian fighters fired on RC135 reconnaissance over the Black Sea a while back and after that incident, the US started flying FORTE10 Global Hawk missions. I located the flight history, from two sources, that FORTE10 was airborne over the Black Sea Monday night and that it went dark and was last spotted around the time that the Reaper was reported down. As I was getting this information, the sight that I was on scrubbed the data and sent me to a flight history for Jan 30th and clearly stated that FORTE10 had not flown in the past 14 days… I was unable to locate the page with flight record for March 13th into the 14th, but SkyGlass clearly shows that FORTE10 flew within 18 miles of the coast of Russia before it was lost.

Someone is trying to hide what really happened over the Black Sea and I can see multiple reasons for both Russia and the US to lie about what transpired (even though, the Russian MOD only reported that they hand “downed” an “American drone)… whether Russia took down a Reaper, a Global Hawk, or both is unknown, but it appears more likely that the Global Hawk was downed and the Reaper is a limited hangout (CIA/intelligence agency method of releasing some of the truth, “a US drone was downed”, but mixed with lies, “and it was a Reaper”)

The Russian MoD explanation, here:


Russian MoD statement:

- US drone flight was recorded in Russia's Crimean region in direction of the Russian border.

- Flight of the US drone was carried out with the transponders turned off, violating airspace rules.

- Russian fighter jets were lifted into the air after discovery of a US drone.

- Russian fighter jets did not use weapons and did not come into contact with the US drone.

- As a result of sharp maneuvering, the US drone went into uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface.


https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/MQ-9A_Reaper_drone_March_14_2023.jpg

Source: https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1635713228347932689

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Full statement of Ministry of Defense of Russia:

🇷🇺 ✈️🇺🇸 On the morning of March 14 this year, an American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle flew over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula by means of the airspace control of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the direction of the State Border of the Russian Federation.

◽️ The flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle was carried out with the transponders turned off, violating the boundaries of the area of the temporary regime for the use of airspace established for the purpose of conducting a special military operation, communicated to all users of international airspace and published in accordance with international standards.

◽️ In order to identify the violator, fighters from the air defense forces on duty were lifted into the air. As a result of sharp maneuvering around 9.30 (Moscow time), the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle went into an uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface.

◽️ The Russian fighters did not use airborne weapons, did not come into contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle and returned safely to the home airfield.

[Vicus]

About drone incident...

U.S. tale:

Moscow’s comment came after the US European Command (EUCOM) accused the Russian jets of “an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of the drone. The Americans claimed their spy drone was operating in international airspace when a pair of Su-27 jets appeared, sprayed it with fuel, and “struck the propeller” of the UAV, which caused it to crash into the sea. EUCOM waited almost 12 hours after the incident to comment on it.

if you read people comments about this "play", it will make your day!

https://www.rt.com/russia/572980-russia-us-drone-down/ :ROFL:

[Tintin]

Since the millenium, we have entered the era of domination by Sorath - who is consuming Ahriman, as Ahriman consumed Lucifer
.

Do you know what? I'm really glad you're here :sun: :yo:

I'd drawn the same conclusion a wee while back, but I hadn't until now factored in the Sorathic element. A BIG thanks for supplying the hitherto missing prong in the unholy trifecta/tripod

Thanks for your thanks!

I was a bit uneasy about publishing; but the fact that this 'trifecta/ tripod' was useful for you, justifies it for me.


So is this a given or can this be combatted Bruce? Are we all just sitting ducks, or what needs to happen to turn this around . . .?

Here's a Rudolf Steiner passage that is I think directly relevant:

Source: The Great Rudolf Steiner Quotes site (https://rudolfsteinerquotes.wordpress.com/tag/powerful/)


There are beings in the spiritual realms for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food. When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve. People not yet sufficiently convinced of this statement could understand it to be meant comparatively only. But for those who are familiar with this phenomenon, it is a reality.

If fear and anxiety radiate from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they become more and more powerful. These beings are hostile towards humanity. Everything that feeds on negative feelings, on anxiety, fear and superstition, despair or doubt, are in reality hostile forces in supersensible worlds, launching cruel attacks on human beings, while they are being fed.

Therefore, it is above all necessary to begin with that the person who enters the spiritual world overcome fear, feelings of helplessness, despair and anxiety. But these are exactly the feelings that belong to contemporary culture and materialism; because it estranges people from the spiritual world, it is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby calling up the above mentioned hostile forces against them.

[Tintin]

On Ukrainian Orthodox priests:

Source: https://twitter.com/Dpol_un/status/1635828686820716545

Text: (Dmitry Polyanskiy)


If criminal Zelenskiy’s regime dares to force these priests and monks out of Lavra it will be the biggest sacrilege in the history if his country. Blood, shame and damnation will be not only on him but on his Western sponsors as well

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[Bill Ryan]

About drone incident...

U.S. tale:

Moscow’s comment came after the US European Command (EUCOM) accused the Russian jets of “an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of the drone. The Americans claimed their spy drone was operating in international airspace when a pair of Su-27 jets appeared, sprayed it with fuel, and “struck the propeller” of the UAV, which caused it to crash into the sea. EUCOM waited almost 12 hours after the incident to comment on it.

if you read people comments about this "play", it will make your day!

https://www.rt.com/russia/572980-russia-us-drone-down/ :ROFL:Yes, I highly recommend the comments. :ROFL: Here's one of many:
This drone is a mirror image of the failing USA... and their banks, and rail roads and their president...just falling deep, nose diving...fast!
The entire thing is hilarious, as is the American "it's not fair!!" upset reaction. This was very clever and skillful Su-27 piloting. Top Gun's 'Maverick' would have been proud, exactly what he would have done. :)

Of course, they never touched the propeller. They didn't have to... spraying jet fuel into the Reaper's air intake was likely to have wrecked its engine, and the dive into the Black Sea was because the remote pilot lost control. And now the Russians have a salvaged US Reaper drone to send to Iran to be back-engineered. :)

More seriously, this is a strong signal sent to the US and NATO by the Russians. These flights happen all the time, of course, providing all kinds of intel to the Ukraine military. The Russians are now saying NO MORE.

[Bruce G Charlton]

@Tintin - Excellent Steiner quote. I learned from the work of David Icke that fear (particularly in the sense of chronic, dominating angst) is one of the worst of sins* - in many ways the opposite of the primary virtue of Love. This insight explains a lot in terms of global strategies and national policies and tactics; and is also a valuable lesson for everyone in how Not to respond to mainstream narratives.

*Note: For a Christian; to consent to live in fear, or worse to embrace fear - as seen in the recent pseudo-pandemic, is to demonstrate one's lack of faith in the love of God. Fear is therefore something to be repented, not lived-by.

[Tintin]

Visit to Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant

During his working trip to the Republic of Buryatia, the President learned about the activities of the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant, visited the unit assembly and final assembly shops and inspected the finished products.

March 14, 2023

Together with Deputy Prime Minister – Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev and Head of the Republic Alexei Tsydenov, Vladimir Putin examined information stands about the history of the plant. The plant’s managing director, Alexei Kozlov, led the tour.

The President was shown helicopter units and airframes for new models: a modification of the civilian Mi-171AZ helicopter and a modification of the Ka-226 – Ka-226.54 helicopter. The President also visited the final assembly shop and talked to the plant workers.

Vladimir Putin was also shown samples of finished products the plant manufactures, while in the training centre, he admired a Mi-171A2 helicopter simulator. Apart from aircraft manufacturing, the plant provides aircraft service support and upgrading and also trains aircrews and maintenance personnel.

The Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant (U-UAZ) is a leading Russian helicopter manufacturer and a key enterprise in the capital of Buryatia. It is a subsidiary of Russian Helicopters.

The company was founded in 1939, and today it has an integrated technological complex for manufacturing both helicopters and aircraft.


Source: President of Russia (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70674) website

[Extracted] from a conversation with one of the factory employees:


Maxim Shatov: We believe that all the decisions made in the capital were well-considered and calculated. So please tell us, how can we, ordinary citizens, aircraft plant workers, help our country win and bring peace to every home?

Vladimir Putin: You know, to try to answer your question, I will still have to start with the reasons for what is happening. I will try not to go into too much history here, but still, without this, a complete answer will not be possible.

Indeed, all the problems began after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Why? Because a world order had been created – the world order we continue to live in was established after WWII by the countries that won WWII, primarily the United States and the Soviet Union. They built their respective zones of influence, and honestly, they never interfered in each other’s spaces too much. They did have problems, sometimes as big as the Caribbean crisis, and yet, they coexisted.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this bipolar world system began to fall apart, right? And frankly, for people of my generation – I know there are people my age in this room, or maybe a little younger – it seemed to us then, and it seemed to me too that, well, the Soviet Union collapsed, whether we missed it or not, but any reasons for confrontation between the former Soviet Union (and the new Russia) with the Western world ended, too, that we had no ideological grounds for confrontation. It seemed things would be bright and clear from then on.

It turned out that we were wrong. It turned out that, as I said earlier, our so-called partners’ geopolitical interests were far more important to them than any ideological contradictions with the former Soviet Union. And immediately – you are perfectly aware of this – they started putting pressure on us, rocking Russia’s boat. They tried to create a “fifth column” in Russia to destabilise internal politics and sent hordes of international terrorists to attack us; these groups began to operate in various regions of the country, including, and above all, in the North Caucasus. We have seen it all. Terrorist attacks in Russia happened before our eyes. And they also began to be more active along the perimeter [of our borders].

But Ukraine was given a special role. Why? For historical reasons. I will not go into detail why it happened this way, but nationalism has been growing fast there since the 19th century, fuelled from the western side: first by Poland, later by Austria-Hungary, and so on. Shortly before WWI, they began tearing Russia apart, trying to weaken it. These roots ran fairly deep.

After World War II, those who collaborated with Hitler and the Nazis fled to Europe, and most Ukrainians fled to the United States and Canada. It was sort of an anti-Russia base. They started feeding and expanding it in order to gradually turn Ukraine into an anti-Russia. For our part, we have been patiently trying for decades to establish proper relations with the modern Ukrainian state.

The situation changed drastically in 2014, when the coup d’état took place at the behest of the West. We relied not only on the Russian-speaking people there – that whole country is Russian-speaking, in fact – we relied on the people who considered themselves part of the greater Russian world, our culture, language environment and our common traditions. We relied on those people. Of course, they lived and continue to live compactly in southeastern Ukraine.

The year 2014 and onwards saw the physical extermination of everyone in Ukraine who was in favour of normal relations with Russia. Public figures and journalists were killed in the streets. Let's think back to what happened at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, where people were burned alive. Then, came the issue of Crimea, and we could not help but support its people. Then, came the issue of Donbass. We have been trying for eight years to talk our so-called partners into resolving the Donbass issue peacefully. Now it turns out they were giving us the run around, deceiving us. They are saying this publicly without mincing the words. All of that led to where we are today.

You know, for me to answer your question, here is what I would like to say in this regard and to make clear why I went deep into history. If for our so-called Western partners, our today's adversary – we can be direct about this now – the point is about improving their geopolitical position, for us, I mean the events of the last eight to ten years, everything that is happening is not just about improving our geopolitical position.

For us, this is primarily about fighting for our people who live in these territories. You see, we are a multi-ethnic country; this is the Russian world after all. If you talk with the people who come from there – I have met some of them – they are no different from us, not a bit. They are the same as us. They are one of us, part of our nation. How can we leave them behind? This is my first point.

Second, for us this is not a fight to achieve some geopolitical status. For us, it is about a fight for the survival of Russian statehood, because our adversary or, as I referred to them previously, our partners, have one goal – and we know this from previous decades – which is to destabilise us and pull our country apart. That’s the point. So, for us, this is not a geopolitical goal, but a matter of survival of Russian statehood and the creation of proper conditions for further development of our country and our children. This is what is at stake for us.

In this regard – I am about to give a straight answer to your question – I would say that in order for us to bring peace and stability closer, we need to consolidate as a society and get our act together. To reiterate, only when the adversary sees that our society is strong, composed and consolidated, then, without a doubt, what we are striving for and what you mentioned, success and victory, will come to pass in each of the areas that we are working in today. This is my first point.

As regards your team, we started out with this. Yours is a special company that has been manufacturing non-defence and defence products since 1939. So, your role in ensuring victory is special and very important.

I look forward to our joint and effective work.

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Vladimir Putin in what looks like a flight simulator presumably from this same visit (and do scroll a little way down this thread for a fun visual :) ):

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Source: https://twitter.com/runews/status/1635940245555347456

[Vicus]

Ukrainian Official: 'We Don't Have The Resources For Counteroffensive'

A senior Ukrainian government official told The Washington Post that Kyiv doesn’t have the resources to pull off a big counteroffensive in the coming months as Ukraine is lacking skilled troops, munitions, and other equipment.

“If you have more resources, you more actively attack,” said the official, who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity. “If you have fewer resources, you defend more. We’re going to defend. That’s why if you ask me personally, I don’t believe in a big counteroffensive for us. I’d like to believe in it, but I’m looking at the resources and asking, ‘With what?’ Maybe we’ll have some localized breakthroughs.”

The official said Ukraine doesn’t have “the people or weapons” to pull off a counteroffensive. “And you know the ratio: When you’re on the offensive, you lose twice or three times as many people. We can’t afford to lose that many people,” the official said.

The Post also spoke with a Ukrainian battalion commander who went by the name of Kupol and detailed the grim situation on the frontlines. Kupol said his battalion previously withdrew from the town of Soledar, which is near the eastern city of Bakhmut, and came under Russian control in January.

Kupol said of his battalion of 500 troops, 100 were killed, and about 400 were wounded, leading to a complete turnover. He’s now being sent soldiers with no combat experience and very little training. “I get 100 new soldiers,” Kupol said. “They don’t give me any time to prepare them. They say, ‘Take them into the battle.’ They just drop everything and run. That’s it.”

“Do you understand why? Because the soldier doesn’t shoot. I ask him why, and he says, ‘I’m afraid of the sound of the shot,’” he added. The Post report said that Ukraine has sent in an influx of draftees to replace more experienced soldiers who have been killed or wounded. It said that as more Ukrainian men who didn’t volunteer fear they will get called to battle, Ukraine’s security services shut down Telegram accounts that were helping Ukrainians avoid locations where authorities were handing out draft slips.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukrainian-official-we-dont-have-resources-counteroffensive

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"Weakening Russia" still a Good Idea? Col Doug Macgregor:

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[happyuk]

About drone incident...

U.S. tale:

Moscow’s comment came after the US European Command (EUCOM) accused the Russian jets of “an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of the drone. The Americans claimed their spy drone was operating in international airspace when a pair of Su-27 jets appeared, sprayed it with fuel, and “struck the propeller” of the UAV, which caused it to crash into the sea. EUCOM waited almost 12 hours after the incident to comment on it.

if you read people comments about this "play", it will make your day!

https://www.rt.com/russia/572980-russia-us-drone-down/ :ROFL:Yes, I highly recommend the comments. :ROFL: Here's one of many:
This drone is a mirror image of the failing USA... and their banks, and rail roads and their president...just falling deep, nose diving...fast!
The entire thing is hilarious, as is the American "it's not fair!!" upset reaction. This was very clever and skillful Su-27 piloting. Top Gun's 'Maverick' would have been proud, exactly what he would have done. :)

Of course, they never touched the propeller. They didn't have to... spraying jet fuel into the Reaper's air intake was likely to have wrecked its engine, and the dive into the Black Sea was because the remote pilot lost control. And now the Russians have a salvaged US Reaper drone to send to Iran to be back-engineered. :)

More seriously, this is a strong signal sent to the US and NATO by the Russians. These flights happen all the time, of course, providing all kinds of intel to the Ukraine military. The Russians are now saying NO MORE.

What's really embarrassing is that US pilots used a million dollar missile to take down a glorified weather balloon, while the Russian pilot just unloads some fuel on the billion dollar drone, and down it goes!

[Tintin]

Today marks the 9th anniversary of the referendum in Crimea:

Source: https://t.me/MFARussia/15182

Text:


🗓 Today is the 9th anniversary of the Crimean status referendum.

On March 16, 2014, Crimeans made their historic choice on the basis of universal suffrage.

✅ The absolute majority of the peninsula’s residents, or 96.77 % with a turnout of 83 %, voted FOR the reunification with the Russian Federation.

🇷🇺 Based on that free expression of will by the regions' population, Crimea and Sevastopol were acceded to the Russian Federation as its integral parts.

🗳 The referendum was held according to international law and became the ultimate triumph of democracy.

As many as 135 international observers from 23 countries as well as 1,240 representatives of local organisations were present during the vote and praised the preparations for and the implementation of the Crimean referendum.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Crimean_Referendum_March_16_2014.jpg

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◾Today, March 16, Latvia arranges a procession of Waffen SS legionnaires and their followers. More than 100 people will take part in the event, which has already become a tradition for Riga.

◾Former SS men and their sympathizers will march from the Church of St. John to the Freedom Monument, where a flower laying ceremony is planned.

◾On this occasion, the President of Latvia, Egils Levits, decided once again to recall the role of the Latvian legionnaires "in the struggle for the independence of Latvia."

◾“The hope for an independent Latvia was the common basis that connected the various participants in the national resistance in time and space, various currents of resistance, such as school youth, the Central Council of Latvia, Latvian national partisans and other heroes of the resistance,” the President said.

◾Source: http://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses…

https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1636322105108365312

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[Pam]

Since the millenium, we have entered the era of domination by Sorath - who is consuming Ahriman, as Ahriman consumed Lucifer
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Do you know what? I'm really glad you're here :sun: :yo:

I'd drawn the same conclusion a wee while back, but I hadn't until now factored in the Sorathic element. A BIG thanks for supplying the hitherto missing prong in the unholy trifecta/tripod

Thanks for your thanks!

I was a bit uneasy about publishing; but the fact that this 'trifecta/ tripod' was useful for you, justifies it for me.

Bruce, I deeply appreciated your explanation as well, as a student of Rudolph Steiner, and not an organized student of his work I have really only gone as far as Ahriman. But what we are seeing now is absolute insanity, a force that seeks destruction of everything. I would love to hear more from you. Welcome to the forum.

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FSB Border Service building on fire in Rostov-on-Don

A source in the emergency services earlier told TASS about the fire in the territory of the Border Service’s administration in Rostov-on-Don

ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 16. /TASS/. A fire broke out on Thursday in the Federal Security Service's Border Service building in Rostov-on-Don, Emergencies Ministry units have already left for the site.

"Units left for Sivers Street, 20. The information is being clarified," the press service of the Emergencies Ministry’s regional department reported. This is the address of the regional FSB's Border Service.

A source in the emergency services earlier told TASS about the fire in the territory of the Border Service’s administration in Rostov-on-Don. According to him, the fire broke out in a separate one-story building. The area of the fire is being clarified.

[Tintin]

Scott Ritter at his erudite best here in conversation with Cynthia Pooler.

His interactions with women as evidenced in his regular meetings with Ania K nearly always sees a calmer, more measured Scott, as is often the case when opposite sexes engage - they can often bring out the best in each other I feel.

Amongst other topics in this half hour discussion is a little on his appreciation for Russian art :flower:

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[Ravenlocke]

Today marks the 9th anniversary of the referendum in Crimea:

Source: https://t.me/MFARussia/15182

Text:


🗓 Today is the 9th anniversary of the Crimean status referendum.

On March 16, 2014, Crimeans made their historic choice on the basis of universal suffrage.

✅ The absolute majority of the peninsula’s residents, or 96.77 % with a turnout of 83 %, voted FOR the reunification with the Russian Federation.

🇷🇺 Based on that free expression of will by the regions' population, Crimea and Sevastopol were acceded to the Russian Federation as its integral parts.

🗳 The referendum was held according to international law and became the ultimate triumph of democracy.

As many as 135 international observers from 23 countries as well as 1,240 representatives of local organisations were present during the vote and praised the preparations for and the implementation of the Crimean referendum.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Crimean_Referendum_March_16_2014.jpg

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https://www.mintpressnews.com/return-russia-crimea-story-referendum-lives-since/262247/


SIMFEROPOL, CRIMEA — In early August I traveled to Russia for the first time, partly out of interest in seeing some of the vast country with a tourist’s eyes, partly to do some journalism in the region. It also transpired that while in Moscow I was able to interview Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry.

High on my travel list, however, was to visit Crimea and Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) — the former a part of Russia, the latter an autonomous republic in the east of Ukraine, neither accurately depicted in Western reporting. Or at least that was my sense looking at independent journalists’ reports and those in Russian media.

Both regions are native Russian-speaking areas; both opted out of Ukraine in 2014. In the case of Crimea, joining Russia (or actually rejoining, as most I spoke to in Crimea phrased it) was something people overwhelmingly supported. In the case of the Donbass region, the turmoil of Ukraine’s Maidan coup in 2014 set things in motion for the people in the region to declare independence and form the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.

In March 2014, Crimeans held a referendum during which 96 percent of voters chose to join Russia. This has been heavily disputed in Western media, with claims that Crimeans were forced to hold the referendum and claims of Russian troops on the streets “occupying” the peninsula.

Because Western media insisted the referendum was a sham held under duress, and because they bandy about the term “pro-Russian separatists” for the people of the DPR, I decided to go and speak to people in these areas to hear what they actually want and feel.



FROM THE RUSSIAN MAINLAND TO THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA
From St. Petersburg, where I spent a few touristy days, I booked a flight to Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, and on August 22 I landed at the attractive new airport. A Russian-American friend, Vlad, flies in from Moscow and together we rent a car and drive to Alushta, a tourist-packed seaside area to the south.

As we drive from the airport, Vlad can’t get over the changes in the airport, which had been dank and barely functional when he last visited:

When I came here at the end of 2014, Simferopol Airport was very dated: small and stuffy, low ceilings, small windows; the bathrooms didn’t work, there was a constant stench in the air, and many facilities weren’t working — even the baggage carousels didn’t work properly. There were no restaurants or cafes, and no places to rent taxis. Now, it’s a world-class international airport.”

We drive south along smooth roads, passing endless vineyards on either side, flanked by low mountains. As Vlad drives, he comments on the condition of the roads, which five years prior were so rough “you had to swerve to dodge the potholes.”

Descending to the coast, along cypress tree-lined streets, we arrive in the hub of Alushta, park, and stroll along the seaside. The beach scenes could be anywhere: people sunbathing and swimming, jet-skiing, drinking beer and eating. In the touristy hub before the beach, a carnival sort of feel and smell, a man playing the accordion, children’s rides, upscale restaurants, and fast-food stalls.

As it happens, we arrive on Russia’s National Flag Day and while walking we come across a small event celebrating this with singers on stage and a crowd that, when we pass by again some hours later, has grown in size and enthusiasm.

I remark on how kind and gentle people are here, just as in Russia. Vlad replies:

It shouldn’t be surprising — people are people anywhere. But Western media conditions us with stereotypes of Russians as cold and hard, vilifying an entire nation.”

The coastal city of Yalta lies further west along the peninsula. The drive there the following day is more beautiful still, the road flanked by mountains to one side, hills cascading down to the Black Sea on the other, endless wineries and, before Yalta itself, the stunning cliff-top castle known as “Swallow’s Nest.”

In the evening, we stay in the home of Vlad’s friend Tata, a Russian woman who moved to Crimea in 2012.

Since there was so much hype in Western media about a Russian takeover of the peninsula, I ask the burning questions: Were Crimeans forced to take part in the referendum? What was the mood like around that time? Tata replied:

I never saw so many people in my life go out to vote, of their own free will. There was a period before the referendum, maybe about two months, during which there were two holidays: International Women’s Day, March 8, and Defender of the Fatherland Day, February 23.

Normally, people would go away on vacation during these holidays. But that year, Crimeans didn’t go anywhere; they wanted to be sure they were here during the referendum. We felt the sense of a miracle about to happen. People were anxiously awaiting the referendum.

There were military tents in the city, but they were not erected by the military, but by local men. They would stand there every day, and people could come and sign a document calling for a referendum.

I went one day and asked if I could add my name but I couldn’t, because I have a Russian passport. Only Crimean citizens could sign it. This was the fair way to do it.

At that time, my husband was in America. One day, he was watching CNN and got scared and called me because he saw reports of soldiers in the streets, an ‘invasion’ by Russia.

The local navy came from Sevastopol to Yalta and anchored their ships off the coast, made a blockade to ensure no larger Ukrainian or other ships could come and attack.

But I never saw tanks, I never saw Russian soldiers. I never saw any of that in the city.”

I asked Tata about how life had changed after the referendum:

When I came here in December 2012, everything was dilapidated and run down. The nice roads you were driving on, they didn’t exist when we were a part of Ukraine. I didn’t understand why Crimea was still a part of Ukraine. It was Russian land ever since the Tsars, the imperial time of Russia. This is where the Russian soul is, and the soul of the Russian navy.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, it wasn’t the will of the Crimean people to join Ukraine. People were always Russian here; they always identified as Russian. Ukraine understood this well, and put nothing into Crimea, as punishment. Ukraine didn’t build any hospitals, kindergartens or roads.

In the past four years, the Crimean government has built 200 new kindergartens. This is the most obvious example of how things have improved. They also built the new Simferopol airport.

I worked in aviation. It took three years to build an airport of this standard in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It took half a year in Simferopol.”


INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL
On my third day in Crimea, we drive eastward anew, driving for hours through the gorgeous countryside, along winding and rolling roads flanked by jagged mountains, past an exceptionally beautiful church (Nicholas Church Lighthouse) overlooking the coast, and down along the sea through more touristy seaside towns and past lines of day tents along the beach. The local FM radio plays a variety of both Russian and Western songs.

Finally, after night falls, we drive into the city of Koktebel, where an annual Jazz Festival is starting.

During all these hours of driving, the roads are smooth and well-trafficked, and I don’t see a single Russian military vehicle.

The next day, I walk through Koktebel, taking in the local markets brimming with produce, cheeses, and other goods, and every so often come across a streetside stand laden with fresh fruits. In the late afternoon, I walk along the sea, past packed beaches, and meet with a Crimean woman, Yaroslava, who lives in Austria but every summer returns to her beloved Crimea. She is ardently supportive of the decision to have joined Russia and spends much of her time back in Austria trying to educate people on why Crimeans wanted to be a part of Russia.

These are reasons I hear throughout my travels in Crimea: We wanted to be able to speak our native language [Russian] and be educated in that language; we wanted to be able to practice our cultural traditions; we have always been a part of Russia and we wanted to return.

Yaroslava is busy helping out with the Jazz Festival and wants to use the rest of our short time talking to help me arrange future meetings with people in Crimea. We decided to do a proper interview via Skype in the future when time allows.

I drift on to the Jazz Festival, where a talented pianist and band play beach-side to an enthusiastic crowd. Some songs later, I drift back along the beach, passing numerous musicians busking, and a pulsing nightlife that isn’t going to bed any time soon.



CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE
On the fifth day, we drive back to Simferopol; Vlad is heading back to Moscow. As we drive, we see road work repeatedly, just as we had when driving from Simferopol south to Alushta: roads being widened, repaved; bridges being repaired or newly built. This is something I observed throughout my travels around Crimea. I remember Tata’s words about “everything being dilapidated” and have a hard time imagining that now with what I see.

Vlad departs for Moscow, and I’m on my own now, traveling from the airport via public bus and minibus. At one point I ask a young couple, using Yandex translate, for directions. They get me on the right minibus and, following my route via Yandex maps, I get myself to Simferopol’s rail station and walk the half-hour to my nondescript hotel. I again need to ask locals for directions, as the unmarked hotel is in some parking lot behind a supermarket.

I retrace my steps to the train station the next day and repeat the routine to buy a ticket for Sevastopol. The ticket is 119 rubles (just under $2). Over the next two hours on a slow train with wooden seats, I watch as more beautiful scenery and construction slide by.


Arriving in Sevastopol, I leave the train station and hope to find some cafe where I can charge my phone, as I need it to navigate to the guesthouse where I’ve theoretically reserved a room online.

As I stand to orient the map route and zoom in to look for any signs of cafes, a woman walks by me and says with a smile something with the word “shto,” which I think means “what.” When I reply in English, she laughs and flags down another woman, Yana, who speaks English well and insists she and her husband drive me.

As we drive, we chat. I ask her about the referendum, mentioning that many in the West have the notion that it was done under duress, with a heavy military presence to influence the vote. She laughs, saying: “There were no troops, no military, around us during the referendum.” She speaks of the joy of Crimeans to vote, says that maybe 98 percent of Sevastopol voters had voted in favor [it was apparently 96 percent, but close enough], and adds, “We are now under the wing of Russia.”

I ask about developments since then. She mentions the improvements in roads, also the modern trolley-buses and regular buses, the opening of kindergartens and schools, and free courses (like music) for children.

We arrive at the remote guesthouse, where we realize that no one is home to give me a room. Yana mentions her parents have a guesthouse just outside the city and overlooking the bay. We drive to it, I meet the owners, charming people who set me up in a little apartment surrounded by fig and pear trees and with a small swimming pool to cool off in.

They invite me for dinner, but I have to politely decline in order to get back to work, though I do take a few minutes to enjoy their pool, the stars, the silence, and the incredible fragrance of some night blossoms.

The next few days, when not working on my laptop, I go for walks in the area, take in Sevastopol Bay, and one day take a minibus into the city and walk for hours around it, seeing some of the key sights.

When I finally need to leave Sevastopol for Simferopol again, the couple refuses to take my money, insists I am their guest, and drives me to the bus station, stopping en route at a market where they search for ten minutes until they find the traditional Armenian treats they want to give me: walnuts covered in the syrup of various fruits (pomegranate, peach, currant, grape), and a box of walnut-stuffed dried figs.



UKRAINIANS IN CRIMEA
In Simferopol anew, I meet Anastasiya Gridchina, the Chair of the Ukrainian Community of Crimea, an organization formed in 2015 whose main goals, she tells me, “are to have friendly relations between two great peoples: Ukrainians and Russians — not the politicians but the people. The second goal is to preserve inter-ethnic peace in the Republic between different nationalities.”

Gridchina explains that in Crimea there are more than 175 nationalities, just 20 less than in all of Russia, but in a very small territory. Hence the importance of preserving inter-ethnic peace. After Russians, Ukrainians comprise the second largest population in Crimea.

I asked Anastasiya whether she supported, much less participated in the referendum.

I worked very hard in order that we could have a referendum. I live in Perevalne, the last settlement in the mountains above Alushta. There was a Ukrainian military detachment which did surrender. In February 2014, I was among a line of people standing between the Ukrainian and Russian military detachments, to prevent any bloodshed. The fear that prevailed at that time was that nationalists from Ukraine would come here and we would have massacres.

In February, there was a confrontation outside the Parliament here in Simferopol. It was organized by leaders of the Mejlis — the Crimeans Tatars. On the other side, there were some pro-Russia organizations who were protecting the Parliament. They were far less [numerous] than the Mejlis. The Mejlis were armed with sticks and knives. There were clashes and two people were killed, but thankfully it didn’t escalate beyond that.

When the news came that there would be a referendum, people relaxed. They had a chance to express their point of view and 96 percent of the population of Crimea voted for Crimea to return to Russia.”

Since she is Ukrainian, I asked Anastasiya why she wanted Crimea to join Russia:

I’ve lived in Crimea all my life, and my language is Russian. And I know the history of Crimea, which has always been Russian territory, which has a history beginning with the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union. So, it is Russian-speaking territory, first of all. That’s why I believe it should be in the Russian Federation, not in Ukraine.”


I asked about the claims that Russian soldiers invaded Crimea:

Whatever they might have said about Russian soldiers forcing people to participate in the referendum, it was all lies, pure lies. We did not see any soldiers on the streets, especially on the day of the referendum.

I gave an interview to foreign journalists before the referendum. But when they published it, they changed my words. I said we were very thankful to the Russian troops that were here, that protected us from the attacks of Ukrainian nationalists prior to the referendum. But they translated it that I said ‘Please, we want Ukrainian soldiers to defend us from those Russian soldiers.’

The Russian troops that were here were not on the streets on the day of the referendum but, at the time in general, they were there to protect civilians from an attack by Ukrainians.

On the day of the referendum, there were no soldiers, no military. The only security were there to prevent any illegal actions. No military people were there, no arms, no armored personnel carriers, no military equipment, nothing. Only members of the election commission and the people voting.”

I asked whether many Ukrainian Crimeans left following the referendum:

There were those who immediately after the referendum left Crimea for Ukraine because it was their personal wish. Nobody prevented them from going. Even the soldiers had an option: to stay and continue military service here, or to leave.

There were also some people who didn’t like that Crimea joined Russia, but didn’t leave for pragmatic reasons. Because the quality of life in Russia is much higher than in Ukraine. So they continue living in Crimea.”

Finally, Anastasiya gave me a message for the people outside of Crimea:

I’d like to tell people around the world, welcome to Crimea, come here yourselves and see and hear with your own eyes and ears, to understand that all the lies you hear about Crimea, that we are oppressed or under pressure from the military…this is all lies, this is all not true.

Also, that we are not allowed to speak Ukrainian is a lie. One of the state languages is Ukrainian. Russian and Tatar are also state languages.”

As she leaves to go to the Ukrainian festival she has helped organize, she notes that the government allotted part of its budget towards financing the festival. She invites me to join. “You can see us singing Ukrainian songs, see our culture and traditions preserved.”

Next, I speak to Yuri Gempel, a member of Parliament, and the chairman of the Standard Commission on Inter-Ethnic Relations of the Parliament of Crimea.

Crimea, under Ukraine, was robbed,” Gempel says. He continues:

Everything was taken by the government and representatives of the ruling elite of Ukraine. For the 23 years Crimea was a part of Ukraine, they robbed Crimea. Not a single kindergarten was built in Crimea during those years. Kindergartens built during Soviet times stopped functioning.

But the main issue is that during that time, the people still felt themselves to be in Russian territory, not Ukrainian, in language, culture and in spirit. Under Ukrainian rule, Crimeans were made to speak Ukrainian, although Crimeans’ native language is Russian. People were deprived of the right to be in state service if they did not speak Ukrainian.”

I ask Yuri how things changed after the referendum:

After Crimea returned to Russia, an electric line exploded in Ukrainian territory and Crimeans were without electricity. Russia very quickly repaired and improved the electricity situation. We were also cut from water and food supplies immediately after Crimea returned to Russia.

As a result of the water shortage, we had to reform our agricultural production. We don’t produce rice now, because we don’t have enough water. But we grow wheat and other grains. And we introduced modern agricultural technologies, like drip irrigation. Now the economic situation has improved, and in some respects is much better than it was before.”

I then inquire about the 2014 clashes outside the Parliament, which Anastasiya Gridchina had mentioned:

I know the Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Refat Chubarov, personally. I was there at the confrontation between the Mejlis people and pro-Russian groups at the entrance of the Parliament. I’m absolutely sure that Chubarov and his colleagues provoked the confrontations in which seventy were wounded and two were killed. It is their fault that anyone was wounded and killed. The main goal of the confrontation was to prevent the session in Parliament from happening; the points of the agenda of that session were about the referendum.”

I ask Yuri about another issue Western media refers to in its Crimea coverage: the alleged discrimination against the ethnic Tatars. Gempel imparts to me a history lesson:

In 1944, 190,000 Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea; this was the largest ethnic group deported. Also Armenians, Germans, Greeks, Bulgarians.

In the over 23 years Crimea was in Ukraine, the various ethnic groups demanded the government issue a decree to rehabilitate those deported people.

In April 2014, after Crimea joined Russia, President Putin immediately issued a decree regarding the deported people. After the decree was issued, a federal program was adopted, with a budget of 10 billion rubles, which included building multi-storey buildings and improving the infrastructure in the areas returned deportees live in. The amount of money is much more than what was given by Ukraine in the 23 years that Crimea was part of Ukraine.”

Tatars make up around 11 percent of the population, Gempel tells me, but “have representatives in all branches of power in Crimea, including legislative and in the Parliament.” As Anastasiya Gridchina mentioned, Tatar is one of the three state languages, after a resolution on this was adopted by Parliament.

Standing outside the Parliament, where the 2014 clashes occurred, Gempel explains where he was at the time, and says there were no Russian soldiers or tanks. Then laughing, he points toward a tank monument in a park nearby: “There was only that tank. It’s been here since 1944.”

Although I want to stay for the Ukrainian festival, I’m heading to the Donetsk People’s Republic in the coming days, so instead I take yet another bus ride, this one a four-hour-long ride eastward to Kerch, the city from which the next day I am to cross the Crimean bridge back to the mainland.

I decide to use a ride-share program and arrange to join a car going early the next morning from Kerch and on to Rostov-on-Don, from where I will go westward to Donetsk.

We cross the impressive 17 km-long bridge. It is early morning and is also the day before children return to school, so the bridge isn’t busy. However, by early October, 6.6 million tourists have already visited Crimea, said to be a 10 percent increase from last year, and I can see why.

Having spent over a week traveling by car and local transport in this utterly beautiful setting, I know I will be returning to Crimea when the opportunity affords itself.

As for the claims that Russia invaded Crimea and of Russian forces intimidating voters, I believe the many people I met who denounced those claims and articulated very clearly why they wanted to join Russia, or as they say, “return to Russia.”

Feature photo | Crimeans gather with Russian national and Crimea flags in Sevastopol, Crimea, March 14, 2018. Alexander Zemlianichenko | AP

Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist and activist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and occupied Palestine, where she lived for nearly four years. She is a recipient of the 2017 International Journalism Award for International Reporting, granted by the Mexican Journalists’ Press Club (founded in 1951), was the first recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism, and was short-listed in 2017 for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. See her extended bio on her blog In Gaza.

[Ravenlocke]

Crimean MP: “Crimea Under Ukraine Was Robbed"


In Simferopol, Crimea, in August, I met with Yuri Gempel, a Member of Parliament, and the Chairman of the Standard Commission on Inter-Ethnic Relations of the Parliament of Crimea.

Excerpt from our conversation:

“Crimea, under Ukraine, was robbed,” Gempel says. “Everything was taken by the government and representatives of the ruling elite of Ukraine. For the 23 years Crimea was a part of Ukraine, they robbed Crimea. Not a single kindergarten was built in Crimea during those years. Kindergartens built during Soviet times stopped functioning.

But the main issue is that during that time, the people still felt themselves to be in Russian territory, not Ukrainian, in language, culture and in spirit. Under Ukrainian rule, Crimeans were made to speak Ukrainian, although Crimeans' native language is Russian. People were deprived of the right to be in state service if they did not speak Ukrainian.”

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1636370620429770752

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[Bill Ryan]

Arguably a very impressive improvisation by the Su-27's pilot. None of this would have ever have been trained for, and now they know this clever manoeuver will work, we might watch to see if this happens again. :)

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[Tintin]

Clare Daly here from March 15th plenary in the EU Parliament, could bring down a Reaper drone :bigsmile: :muscle:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Clare_Daly_MEP/Clare_Daly_MEP_Ukraine_intervention_in_plenary_March_15_2023.mp4

[Gwin Ru]

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... some people can think on their feet... that pilot can think on the tips of its wings :)

[Bruce G Charlton]

Since the millenium, we have entered the era of domination by Sorath - who is consuming Ahriman, as Ahriman consumed Lucifer
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Do you know what? I'm really glad you're here :sun: :yo:

I'd drawn the same conclusion a wee while back, but I hadn't until now factored in the Sorathic element. A BIG thanks for supplying the hitherto missing prong in the unholy trifecta/tripod

Thanks for your thanks!

I was a bit uneasy about publishing; but the fact that this 'trifecta/ tripod' was useful for you, justifies it for me.

Bruce, I deeply appreciated your explanation as well, as a student of Rudolph Steiner, and not an organized student of his work I have really only gone as far as Ahriman. But what we are seeing now is absolute insanity, a force that seeks destruction of everything. I would love to hear more from you. Welcome to the forum.

Pam - Thanks for your comment.

I have read and pondered Steiner a good deal, and regard him as one of the most important thinkers of modern times, especially for his early philosophical books; despite that I am very selective in my appreciation. I tend to home-in on particular insights of his, and then try to interpret and expand upon them.

I have had a good deal of insight from a modern English anthroposophist called Terry Boardman - it was from him I first heard about Steiner's idea of Sorath/ Sorathic evil. Here is an example of Boardman's work, from three years ago - a fascinating overview in which he predicted the current global war.

He discusses three possible impending major crises from the most immediate to more delayed.

Most immediate he says is a superpower war between the US and China/ Russia.

Then by the middle of the century a crisis of attempted transhumanism, artificial intelligence, the replacement of minds with computation.

In the longer term of several decades- a century, an environmental crisis of pollution and resource depletion (NOT climate change):

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He has also done a very detailed and scholarly analysis of the long term antagonism between the Anglosphere and Russia:

http://threeman.org/?page_id=18 (http://http://threeman.org/?page_id=18)

[Tintin]

View from space. Ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy at the crash site of the American reconnaissance and strike UAV MQ-9 Reaper in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Space_image_of_Russian_black_Sea_fleet_at_MQ-9_crash-site_march_15_2023.jpg

[Tintin]

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15 March 2023 20:20

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions from the Moscow.Kremlin.Putin TV show, March 15, 2023
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Question: Could you comment on the recent US drone incident?

Sergey Lavrov: Our military have given their assessment which was related by our ambassador in Washington Anatoly Antonov. He explained to journalists and others how we see it from a global security standpoint. He was summoned to the US State Department, where he was presented with totally unfounded claims about violations of the freedom of air. You have heard the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying that the United States will continue to fly wherever it pleases “in accordance with international law.” But if we follow this logic, the space around the US has the same status as the space over the Black Sea.

In doing so, they completely ignore the fact that after the start of the special military operation our military declared the relevant areas of the Black Sea adjacent to the shore in certain places to have a restricted status for the use of any aircraft. The defiant disregard for this objective fact suggests that the United States is constantly trying to create some kind of provocation to fuel confrontational thinking. This is not good. They constantly say that they are a responsible power interested in strategic stability. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told me this at the meeting in India. But their words are at odds with their deeds.

Question: What does it imply for global security?

Sergey Lavrov: As far as global security is concerned, any incident that triggers a clash between two of the great, major nuclear powers carries very serious risks. They surely realise this.