WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1658805467231952896

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Elon Musk's dad Errol: "We are being brainwashed to be told that Ukraine is good and Russia is bad and yet they have found multiple bioweapon laboratories belonging to the United States in Ukraine.....

...Ukraine is led by a stand-up comedian who became president," which he finds to be "extremely odd...

He echoes his son's sentiment regarding Joe Biden, saying that "he's obviously not running the United States....The United States must be, it appears to me, as being run by a bunch of misfits who are getting revenge for having been treated as misfits over the years."

https://twitter.com/DAVID_STOIC1/status/1658612304601141250

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1658661940682452992

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[grapevine]

What many of us who have been paying attention long ago concluded and beautifully articulated by Simplicius The Thinker here:


"So: Ukraine was taught in “the NATO way”, BUT…apparently NATO is actually incapable of fighting without air superiority. Woops! Seems like that’s something which should’ve been noted up front to the poor AFU lab rats, no? The fact is, the entire ‘NATO training’ canard is a hoax perpetrated by cynical Western rulers for nearly a decade now. It’s been widely noted from the early parts of the Donbass war, 2014 and onward, by AFU soldiers themselves, that NATO trainers in fact were inferior to the Ukrainian troops they purported to be training. The reason is: their ‘knowledge’ is merely theoretical, and what one quickly learns on the battlefield is that nothing surpasses the real life, first hand experience of a blooded warrior, who has actually seen fighting, not in the stuffy pages of a textbook, but in the gruelling chaos of the trenches themselves."

***

Namely: that NATO has never actually ever fought a real war.

NATO is an irrelevance, defunct, impotent: a stymied ideological construct and on its way to a slow and painful death.



What an eye-opener and infuriating! This applies to absolutely everything and not limited to defence matters. When you look at the chaos everywhere and the actual work our MPs are doing to ruin the bloody country, it's glaringly obvious that to be in the Cabinet you have to have degrees in Incompetence, Negligence and Bumbling.

[grapevine]

Drone video released by Ukraine shows Bakhmut in ruins


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9fDOL87S1w&ab_channel=GuardianNews

Very similar to recent video of Marinka - so tragic . . .

[Vicus]

About Douglas Macgregor last video

Twice the "reporter" say "my father" about Donald Trump, Macgregor say once "your Dad"
I read all people comments about this video and only once came "Trump Jr."

I must missing something...but for me is new this "Trump Jr." got a reporter job...
does he have a channel or something?

for example: mark 25:50

[kfm27917]

Escobar: What's Behind Prighozin's Sound & Fury?

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-whats-behind-prighozins-sound-fury

[kfm27917]

THE UKRAINE REFUGEE QUESTION by Seymour Hersch

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-refugee-question

[Bruce G Charlton]

Thanks for this information about contamination (and to Ravenlocke)

Question: Does anyone know a competent and honest source about what kind of contamination would be *expected* from such a massive explosion of depleted-uranium/ "DU" shells?

I had read (when the UK first decided to escalate the conflict by supplying them) that they were alpha-radiation emitters - which are very short-range/ very destructive particles, but can't be detected by Geiger counters; but the source stated that DU was not a gamma-radiation emitter (i.e. the common type of radiation, the 'x rays' that are detected by a Geiger counter).

However, I am not confident about the validity of my sources, and maybe gamma radiation is produced by DU shells in sufficient amounts to cause dangerous contamination when very large numbers are exploded in one place?

Does anyone know?

[Gwin Ru]

About Douglas Macgregor last video

Twice the "reporter" say "my father" about Donald Trump, Macgregor say once "your Dad"
I read all people comments about this video and only once came "Trump Jr."

I must missing something...but for me is new this "Trump Jr." got a reporter job...
does he have a channel or something?

for example: mark 25:50... Donald Trump Jr. :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osIctttStQU

[Vicus]

Wall-piercing Russian rocket slated for Ukraine battlefield – producer 17 May, 2023

The recently developed S-8OFP unguided air-launched projectile is touted as offering a greater payload than other munitions

A new Russian air-launched rocket with increased range and firepower has gone into serial production and could be deployed in action against Ukraine this year, its manufacturer has reported.

The deputy director of defense producer Tekhmash, Aleksandr Kochkin, shared the news about the S-8OFP with RIA Novosti on the sidelines of a military exhibition in Belarus on Wednesday.

The rocket, which is nicknamed ‘Broneboyshchik’ (armor piercer), is the latest addition to the S-8 family of unguided projectiles meant for aerial platforms, including close air support planes and helicopters. According to Tekhmash, the weapon’s main feature is a new engine that uses a more powerful propellant.

This has allowed the propulsion part of the rocket to be reduced, providing engineers with a greater payload allowance. The rocket is tipped with a new warhead designed to penetrate walls and other obstacles, if necessary, before detonating. Previous versions had other types of payload, from regular high explosives to flechette antipersonnel projectiles.

Open-source data states that an S-8OFP can deliver its 9kg warhead to a target up to 6km away. Like the rest of the rocket family, the projectile has a caliber of 80mm and is compatible with standard 20-tube and seven-tube launchers used by Russian military aircraft.

The Russian Defense Ministry released footage in 2018 of S-8OFP deployments from a helicopter during trials. The following year, Tekhmash reported that the weapon had successfully completed tests and was cleared for service.

Kochkin spoke to RIA Novosti in Minsk, which is hosting the four-day MILEX-2023 expo this week. He also reported that his company, which is a subsidiary of Russian military conglomerate Rostec, had boosted production of projectiles for multiple rocket launch systems by 20 times compared to last year. Mass production of time-tested weapons is currently a priority for the firm, he noted.

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.05/article/6464deb085f54079ed3bbbbb.jpg

https://www.rt.com/russia/576447-new-russian-aviation-rocket/

[Vicus]

Ukraine’s top spy admits agents murdered Russian public figures 16 May, 2023

Military intel boss Kirill Budanov has claimed that his service “got” multiple high-profile individuals

Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) chief General Kirill Budanov has claimed responsibility for assassinating “many” Russian public figures. The spy boss made the bombshell admission in an interview with Ukrainian blogger Sergey Ivanov on Tuesday.

Asked whether high-profile Russian media figures such as prominent journalist Vladimir Solovyov or RT’s Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, are prime targets for his organization, Budanov responded that the GUR had already “gotten” multiple high profile targets.

“We have already gotten many, including public and media personalities,” Budanov said, without providing any names.

Pressed further by the blogger on the potential involvement of the GUR in the assassination of journalist Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, or the recent car bombing of author and political activist Zakhar Prilepin, the spy boss said he could “neither confirm nor deny” the involvement of his service.

Budanov’s remarks were condemned by Moscow, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stating that they were a clear admission of wrongdoing.

“Terrorists. Those who provide excuses for the Kiev regime and sponsor it are accomplices of terrorists,” Zakharova wrote on Telegram. “Will the UN not notice that again?”

The remarks are the latest in a string of incendiary statements made by the GUR boss amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Earlier this month, Budanov declared, “We’ve been killing Russians, and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.”

The pledge received an equally poor reception in Russia, with multiple top officials branding it an admission of engaging in state-level terrorism by Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, for instance, said Budanov’s statement was “unprecedented in its essence,” and it was “strange” to not hear any condemnation “from European capitals and from Washington.”

“It’s evident that the Kiev regime is behind the killings, not only sponsoring them but organizing, inciting, and carrying them out. De facto, we’re talking about a state sponsor of terrorism,” Peskov concluded, warning that Russia’s “special services know what to do after such statements.”


https://www.rt.com/russia/576395-ukraine-spy-killing-russians/

[Vicus]

Russia contemplates severing ties with Poland 16 May, 2023

An extreme outcome is now a real prospect amid an unfolding row over diplomatic property in Warsaw, Moscow's envoy has acknowledged

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.05/thumbnail/646350d1203027670615ca4a.jpg
Russia's ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev

Diplomatic relations between Russia and Poland that are already fraught, may deteriorate further or even be completely severed, Moscow’s top diplomat to Warsaw has warned. Ambassador Sergey Andreev's comments came after the Polish prime minister suggested this week that kicking the envoy out of the country would be “easy” to do.

Andreev said there “was always a possibility” that ties could be severed, when asked about such a scenario by the Izvestia newspaper. “Whether it becomes reality depends on the decisions of our leadership and the Polish authorities,” he said in an interview published on Tuesday.

Last month, bilateral tensions between the neighboring states escalated further after authorities in Warsaw seized a school that has been operated by the Russian embassy there for decades.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki discussed a possible reduction of diplomatic representation in an interview on Monday.

“It is very easy to have an ambassador recalled. And then the Russians will have our ambassador recalled,” he told Polsat television. “In such a situation, the flow of information in both directions would be even more restrained.”

Morawiecki argued that the time for such drastic measures has not arrived, citing the policies of fellow EU and NATO states that host Russian ambassadors. He also praised the seizure of the school, describing it as a result “of effective actions” by the Polish side.

The Russian ambassador has attributed the current poor state of relations to an irrational hatred of Russia in Poland.

Assessing this phenomenon, Andreev said “the Polish political elites know no boundaries in their Russophobia, and the government competes with the opposition in inventing new ways to stick it to Russia.”

Citing the Russian equivalent of the anglophone saying ‘Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face,’ Andreev said: “They don’t care that the measures they initiate often hurt the interest of Polish businesses and citizens more than they do ours. They cling to the proverbial ‘I’ll freeze my ears off to spite my granny’ principle.”

Andreev noted that the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has distanced itself from the row over diplomatic buildings and is pointing the finger at local authorities, which are seeking to expropriate them. Moscow says it’s a clear violation of the 1964 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

That neither the government nor the courts of law in Poland see any wrongdoing “clearly shows the level of legal culture and basic decency” that obtains there, the Russian envoy highlighted. He suggested that at some point Moscow will respond in kind and target Polish diplomatic property.

https://www.rt.com/russia/576371-russian-ambassador-poland-recall/

[Vicus]

Ex-German chancellor’s wife fired for attending WWII victory celebration 16 May, 2023

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.05/thumbnail/6463a86b2030272f1476f866.jpg

So-yeon Schroeder-Kim was dismissed after visiting the Russian Embassy in Berlin to commemorate the defeat of the Nazis

The wife of former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, So-yeon Schroeder-Kim, has been fired from her position at NRW, a business development agency, after visiting the Russian Embassy in Berlin to celebrate Victory Day.

“Ms. Schroeder-Kim has been released with immediate effect, and the employment relationship will now be terminated by NRW.GlobalBusiness without notice,” a spokeswoman for NRW told German media on Tuesday.

The company explained that it had on several occasions explicitly told Schroeder-Kim, who worked there as a representative for South Korea, that she should “not speak out in public on politically sensitive topics,” particularly with regard to Russia and the situation in Ukraine.

The move comes after Schroeder-Kim and her husband visited the Russian Embassy on May 9 to attend a reception dedicated to the 78th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The event was also attended by other German politicians, including co-chairman of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Tino Chrupalla, and chairman of the Bundestag committee on climate protection and energy and member of the Left Party Klaus Ernst.

Schroeder himself has also faced backlash for maintaining close ties with Moscow. The former chancellor forged friendly relations with Russia during his time in office between 1998 and 2005, and subsequently joined the boards of Nord Stream and Rosneft respectively.

Although Schroeder has repeatedly spoken out against Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, he has also expressed doubt that distancing himself from Putin “would do any good.” Shortly after Moscow launched its military campaign, Schroeder personally traveled to Moscow to meet with Putin. He has insisted since that Russia sought a negotiated solution to the ongoing conflict and had vowed to keep seeking “opportunities to talk to President Putin.”

The former chancellor’s stance has put him at odds with other members of the ruling Social Democrats Party (SPD), some members of which have recently unsuccessfully demanded his expulsion. The SPD did, however, manage to strip the former leader of his parliamentary privileges last year.

Under current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the SPD has sought to reduce the country’s ties with Russia and its reliance on Russian energy. Berlin, under Scholz’s leadership, has also sent billions of dollars worth of military aid to Kiev’s forces.

https://www.rt.com/news/576398-german-ex-chancellor-wife-fired/

[Bill Ryan]

Thanks for this information about contamination (and to Ravenlocke)

Question: Does anyone know a competent and honest source about what kind of contamination would be *expected* from such a massive explosion of depleted-uranium/ "DU" shells?

I had read (when the UK first decided to escalate the conflict by supplying them) that they were alpha-radiation emitters - which are very short-range/ very destructive particles, but can't be detected by Geiger counters; but the source stated that DU was not a gamma-radiation emitter (i.e. the common type of radiation, the 'x rays' that are detected by a Geiger counter).

However, I am not confident about the validity of my sources, and maybe gamma radiation is produced by DU shells in sufficient amounts to cause dangerous contamination when very large numbers are exploded in one place?

Does anyone know?I spent a bit of time on this (because I'd like to know too!), but I have nothing definitive so far. Many non-US/UK/EU news articles, all over the world, are pretty much re-publishing the many Telegram and Twitter posts, while Newsweek (e.g.) is trashing the whole thing as a right-wing Putin-propaganda conspiracy theory, even putting "depleted uranium" in quotes as if referring to fairy dust. :)

I found some of the comments below this article, which is all in English, very interesting, and some of the commenters do seem to have technical knowledge.


https://en.topwar.ru/216990-ukrainskie-istochniki-pishut-o-dozimetricheskih-patruljah-v-hmelnickom-v-svjazi-s-vozmozhnym-nahozhdeniem-na-porazhennom-sklade-britanskih-snarjadov-s-obednennym-uranom.html

The article's title (a very pedantic one!) is

Ukrainian sources write about dosimetric patrols in Khmelnitsky in connection with the possible presence of shells with depleted uranium in the affected warehouse.

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One thing which I feel I do know is that the gamma radiation (if it's there) isn't the primary threat. Far more dangerous is the possible ingestion of alpha particles, which are large and heavy, and ingestion is a very hit-and-miss, pure-chance thing.

You might avoid them entirely, even in a radioactive environment. But if you're unlucky and happen to absorb any, then they can wreak havoc in the body.

Chris Martenson did an EXCELLENT short (12-minute) video about nuclear fallout and the various risks, and explains the alpha particle danger right at the start of the video.

DU, especially when pulverized and heated, can certainly produce alpha particles. Then when those particles are on the loose, it's merely a matter of being lucky enough to somehow dodge the tiny invisible particle bullets.

This statement (which I believe is correct) comes from this US EPA article:


https://epa.gov/radtown/depleted-uranium



DU mainly emits alpha particle radiation. Alpha particles don't have enough energy to go through skin. As a result, exposure to the outside of the body is not considered a serious hazard. However, if DU is ingested or inhaled, it is a serious health hazard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArXD0_hjZ0

[jaybee]

What many of us who have been paying attention long ago concluded and beautifully articulated by Simplicius The Thinker here:


"So: Ukraine was taught in “the NATO way”, BUT…apparently NATO is actually incapable of fighting without air superiority. Woops! Seems like that’s something which should’ve been noted up front to the poor AFU lab rats, no? The fact is, the entire ‘NATO training’ canard is a hoax perpetrated by cynical Western rulers for nearly a decade now. It’s been widely noted from the early parts of the Donbass war, 2014 and onward, by AFU soldiers themselves, that NATO trainers in fact were inferior to the Ukrainian troops they purported to be training. The reason is: their ‘knowledge’ is merely theoretical, and what one quickly learns on the battlefield is that nothing surpasses the real life, first hand experience of a blooded warrior, who has actually seen fighting, not in the stuffy pages of a textbook, but in the gruelling chaos of the trenches themselves."

***

Namely: that NATO has never actually ever fought a real war.

NATO is an irrelevance, defunct, impotent: a stymied ideological construct and on its way to a slow and painful death.



What an eye-opener and infuriating! This applies to absolutely everything and not limited to defence matters. When you look at the chaos everywhere and the actual work our MPs are doing to ruin the bloody country, it's glaringly obvious that to be in the Cabinet you have to have degrees in Incompetence, Negligence and Bumbling.


The Prime Minister, cabinet et al are taking being a Useful Idiot to new levels...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12084759/How-military-support-Britain-given-Ukraine.html

In stead of posing for the camera + grinning like he's having a photo taken with a scruffy relative at a wedding... it would be nice if Sunak would act with more dignity and decorum - it's like he doesn't have a clue what danger he's putting the country in and has no understanding of the seriousness of it all - including his own personal responsibility for keeping the death and destruction going in Ukraine -

it was at this meeting with Zelensky he committed Britain to supplying...


....hundreds of air defence missiles and further unmanned aerial systems including hundreds of new long-range attack drones with a range of over 200 kilometres'.

I expect NATO will be covertly controlling the 'attack drones'....how would anyone be able to tell ???

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/15/14/70996121-12084759-The_two_leaders_greeted_each_other_with_a_hug_after_the_Ukraine_-a-68_1684156443283.jpg


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/15/14/70996637-12084759-Mr_Sunak_pointed_out_he_was_the_first_world_leader_he_had_entert-a-67_1684156440787.jpg


What embarrassing and inappropriate behaviour considering the seriousness of the whole situation...

[Bruce G Charlton]

Thank you Bill.

I did research with radioactive material in a medical biology lab for three years - beta particles and gamma radiation - but not alpha... We were pretty scared of the risk of potential alpha (and beta) contamination because it was essentially (in practice) impossible to detect, and alpha (in particular) as you say, very dangerous to living tissues.

Chernobyl happened during my time doing this research, and we could detect an increase in gamma radiation simply by walking outside with a Geiger counter each day (we had something like ten Geiger counters dotted around the unit. Meanwhile, we knew the UK govt was covering-up the situation, because their officials on TV were releasing very few radioactivity measurements (also clearly not trying to find the worst areas, but avoiding them), and talking about gamma radioactivity measurements; as if they were highly technical cutting edge stuff, and difficult to accomplish!

[Bruce G Charlton]

@jaybee - A full length, full frontal, pressed-together body hug with a stranger* - yuk; and creepy!

*Or, maybe not? Who knows...

[ExomatrixTV]

Massive Ukrainian Ammunition Depot Explodes – Is It Radioactive?

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A Russian drone attack on an ammunition depot in the western Ukraine city of Khmelnytski sent up a giant fireball, immediately incinerating what is estimated as hundreds of millions of dollars of military supplies furnished by NATO countries and damaging a number of surrounding buildings. Immediately speculation arose around whether any depleted uranium ammunition had been incinerated and what impact the possible increased radiation might have on the area. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss whether the reports about depleted uranium are to be believed.

[Vicus]

Interesting overview about last missiles attack/contra attack


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LmXouVk1AE

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Sinnaig/status/1658847433210703872

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https://twitter.com/Sinnaig/status/1658852787617185793

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Seemingly the warehouses of the Odessa plant CENTROLIT (located in southern Ukraine, a few kilometres from Odessa) have been hit.

Warehouses and industrial facilities are traditionally used by the AFU to shelter the most expensive NATO equipment.

#source (https://t.me/ukraina_ru/148778)

Join Slavyangrad chat. Your opinion matters.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1658927347469279233

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https://twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/1658578301366210562

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:

Russian Ministry of Defense:

According to reliably confirmed data, on May 16, as a result of a strike by the "Kinzhal" hypersonic missile system in Kiev

- a multifunctional radar station was hit and completely destroyed,

- as well as 5 launchers of the PATRIOT anti-aircraft missile system manufactured by the United States.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1658918564026363909

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https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1658920865688322048

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https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1658920641733566467

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https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1658920073954820097

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https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1658872194213052416

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https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1658862522428956676

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https://twitter.com/Blackrussiantv/status/1658875956683997188

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
The United States is ready to transfer the Iron Dome system to Ukraine
This was stated by the head of the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Lieutenant General Daniel Carbler . This “gift” for Kiev was again discussed after the “salute” that the Armed Forces of Ukraine staged in response to the attack of the Russian Armed Forces on critical facilities in the Ukrainian capital.
The US Army has two Iron Dome batteries at its disposal, Karbler said. One of them is under renovation, and the other is already fully ready for use and is awaiting a request from the Kyiv administration.

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1658740803336916996

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https://twitter.com/Daark_web/status/1658930117400317952

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[ExomatrixTV]

“Ukraine Would Collapse In Days” w/o Western Support says Top EU Diplomat:

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[Ravenlocke]

Today, units of PMC "Wagner" advanced up to 260 meters. Occupied 180 thousand square meters.
1.28 square kilometers remain under enemy control.
"The enemy puts up fierce resistance. The fighting continues for every house, for every entrance, for every square meter of territory, despite the fact that a couple percent of the territory remains under the enemy in Bakhmut.

IL RUSSO

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1658932529737465856

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/thesiriusreport/status/1658913499840487455

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Text:
⚡️The United States cannot say whether Ukraine's "counter-offensive" has begun, said Jake Sullivan, national security aide to the US president.

"Whether a counter-offensive has begun is up to the one who conducts it, and I will not proclaim it. I will let the Ukrainians characterize what they are doing," Sullivan told reporters. According to him, "intense military activity continues."

https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1658909995734376457

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[Ravenlocke]

Thanks for this information about contamination (and to Ravenlocke)

Question: Does anyone know a competent and honest source about what kind of contamination would be *expected* from such a massive explosion of depleted-uranium/ "DU" shells?

I had read (when the UK first decided to escalate the conflict by supplying them) that they were alpha-radiation emitters - which are very short-range/ very destructive particles, but can't be detected by Geiger counters; but the source stated that DU was not a gamma-radiation emitter (i.e. the common type of radiation, the 'x rays' that are detected by a Geiger counter).

However, I am not confident about the validity of my sources, and maybe gamma radiation is produced by DU shells in sufficient amounts to cause dangerous contamination when very large numbers are exploded in one place?

Does anyone know?I spent a bit of time on this (because I'd like to know too!), but I have nothing definitive so far. Many non-US/UK/EU news articles, all over the world, are pretty much re-publishing the many Telegram and Twitter posts, while Newsweek (e.g.) is trashing the whole thing as a right-wing Putin-propaganda conspiracy theory, even putting "depleted uranium" in quotes as if referring to fairy dust. :)

I found some of the comments below this article, which is all in English, very interesting, and some of the commenters do seem to have technical knowledge.


https://en.topwar.ru/216990-ukrainskie-istochniki-pishut-o-dozimetricheskih-patruljah-v-hmelnickom-v-svjazi-s-vozmozhnym-nahozhdeniem-na-porazhennom-sklade-britanskih-snarjadov-s-obednennym-uranom.html

The article's title (a very pedantic one!) is

Ukrainian sources write about dosimetric patrols in Khmelnitsky in connection with the possible presence of shells with depleted uranium in the affected warehouse.

~~~

One thing which I feel I do know is that the gamma radiation (if it's there) isn't the primary threat. Far more dangerous is the possible ingestion of alpha particles, which are large and heavy, and ingestion is a very hit-and-miss, pure-chance thing.

You might avoid them entirely, even in a radioactive environment. But if you're unlucky and happen to absorb any, then they can wreak havoc in the body.

Chris Martenson did an EXCELLENT short (12-minute) video about nuclear fallout and the various risks, and explains the alpha particle danger right at the start of the video.

DU, especially when pulverized and heated, can certainly produce alpha particles. Then when those particles are on the loose, it's merely a matter of being lucky enough to somehow dodge the tiny invisible particle bullets.

This statement (which I believe is correct) comes from this US EPA article:


https://epa.gov/radtown/depleted-uranium



DU mainly emits alpha particle radiation. Alpha particles don't have enough energy to go through skin. As a result, exposure to the outside of the body is not considered a serious hazard. However, if DU is ingested or inhaled, it is a serious health hazard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArXD0_hjZ0


https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1658929534731788292

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1658926378815823873

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https://twitter.com/colonelhomsi/status/1658839339881619456

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Sinnaig/status/1658927938757173248

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https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1658936657733734401

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/apocalypseos/status/1658912970716618752

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https://twitter.com/apocalypseos/status/1658913590869635072

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[Bill Ryan]

Text:

Russian Ministry of Defense:

According to reliably confirmed data, on May 16, as a result of a strike by the "Kinzhal" hypersonic missile system in Kiev

- a multifunctional radar station was hit and completely destroyed,

- as well as 5 launchers of the PATRIOT anti-aircraft missile system manufactured by the United States.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1658918564026363909

1658918564026363909A prediction. (This is what I'd do if I were a Russian military commander :))

As soon as the location of another Patriot battery is established, rinse and repeat, and once again send a couple of Kinzhals to take it out.

Assume the Patriot technicians are going to do exactly the same thing, launching all the Patriot missiles they've got in order to try to save the battery.

Then when all the missiles are expended (and after the Kinzhals have struck, maybe only doing partial damage to the entire thing), follow up within minutes with regular cruise missiles (or even Lancet drones) which will easily destroy everything that remains now that it's all undefended.

[Bill Ryan]

A most interesting comment (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/ukraine-open-thread-2023-117.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02b751a52f62200c#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02b751a52f62200c) on The Moon of Alabama today:

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The Polish Mdme Curie university has published data about the sudden rise of bismuth levels. Bismuth is a half-life product of depleted uranium. So the sudden rise of bismuth levels indicates that indeed depleted uranium detonated and spread in the air after the explosions near Ternopil and Khmelnytsky. Now - because of the wind blowing from the southeast to the northwest - Moldavia, Western Ukraine and Poland are being contaminated with bismuth (which caused so much cancer among the Serbian and Iraqi population).

Source: https://www.kp.ru/daily/27504/4764265 (https://www.kp.ru/daily/27504/4764265/)
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Radiation from Ukraine from British shells with depleted uranium covers Poland and Moldova

NATO supplied Ukraine with toxic munitions for use against Russia, but they were detonated before they hit the battlefield

The Polish University named after Maria Skladowska-Curie published environmental monitoring data: on May 15, sensors recorded a sharp jump in the level of bismuth pollution - 6-7 times.

More alarm bells rang in Moldova. There, residents of the North-Eastern part of the country began to receive complaints of headaches, dizziness, and the general condition worsened.

And all this right after the explosion of military warehouses near Ternopil and Khmelnytsky, where shells with depleted uranium for tanks, which were supplied by the UK to Ukraine, were probably stored. Fires in these warehouses were put out by robots, not ordinary rescuers, the level of radiation jumped for a while, the movement of trains was stopped.

The Ukrainian authorities continue to deny that there was nothing of the kind, no uranium (neither depleted nor any other), but people began to notice that dosimetrists appear where they never were. Then they ran en masse to pharmacies for vitamins with iodine. And the Poles write that the radiation threat came from the Khmelnitsky region.

Let's go further. Bismuth, an increase in the concentration of which was recorded in Lublin, Poland, is a half-life product of depleted uranium. For a long time it was considered non-radioactive, but more recently - in 2003 - scientists discovered its alpha decay, albeit extremely slow. Its half-life is (1.9 ± 0.2)⋅1019 years. This is more than the age of the universe by 9 orders of magnitude. That is a billion times. In other words, the land contaminated with bismuth will never be cleansed by itself. You will have to at least remove a layer of soil.

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In the east of Poland there were jumps of radiation in the air

And this is now faced not only by residents of Ukraine, but also by Poland.

From Ternopil to Lublin - 300 kilometers in a straight line to the northwest. To Moldova - also, only to the south. Warehouses were liquidated on the morning of May 13, a jump in the level of bismuth - May 15. Could a cloud of radioactive metal have covered such a distance during this time and in general in which direction the wind was blowing. We asked a retired lieutenant colonel, military meteorologist Evgeny Tishkovets about this .

On May 15, in his telegram channel "Hourly Weather", he published a map of the distribution of particles throughout the entire thickness of the troposphere - from the lowest boundary layer to 10 kilometers.

“At the time of the missile attacks on the warehouses, the aerosynoptic situation was determined by the front of the cyclone,” says Tishkovets. - And what is the front part of the cyclone? This is a baric top that spins counterclockwise. And just Western Ukraine was in front of this whirlwind. That is, the wind was blowing from the southeast to the northwest.

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After 12-24 hours, radiation particles could reach the territory of Poland

Lublin, where the content of bismuth increased by 6-7 times, is located just in the North-West from Ternopil and Khmelnitsky.

“If you look at a map with particle trajectories every three hours, you can clearly see that radioactive particles could spread to Khmelnitsky, Ternopil, Rivne, Volyn, Lvov, Zhytomyr regions,” the forecaster continues. - In addition, 12-24 hours after the event, radiation particles could reach the territory of Poland: these are Warsaw, Zamosc, Lublin, Kozienice, Polotsk, Siedlce, Ostroleka, Mlawa, Toron, Alshtan, Chojnice, Koszalin. That is, all of southeastern, eastern, part of central and northern Poland and further tangentially to northern Germany.

It is worth noting that usually the winds blow just in the opposite direction - from west to east. But at that moment, the air masses turned in the opposite direction.

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Alexander Mercouris states - at the beginning of this video (https://www.bitchute.com/video/mnEEdSfHc50/) - that there was Not a spike in gamma radiation following the missile strike destruction of the presumed ammunition dump in Khmelnytsky. According to Alexander, this spike apparently was within normal limits, and preceded (did not follow) the explosion.

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Alexander Mercouris states - at the beginning of this video (https://www.bitchute.com/video/mnEEdSfHc50/) - that there was Not a spike in gamma radiation following the missile strike destruction of the presumed ammunition dump in Khmelnytsky. According to Alexander, this spike apparently was within normal limits, and preceded (did not follow) the explosion.

Yes although he said that an informant, whom he seemed to be confident in, emailed him with that information. It may or may not be correct though.

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Hello,

A bit of humour:

https://twitter.com/Sinnaig/status/1659133001786114048?cxt=HHwWgIC26ZartoYuAAAA

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Alexander Mercouris states - at the beginning of this video (https://www.bitchute.com/video/mnEEdSfHc50/) - that there was Not a spike in gamma radiation following the missile strike destruction of the presumed ammunition dump in Khmelnytsky. According to Alexander, this spike apparently was within normal limits, and preceded (did not follow) the explosion.Yes, I saw that too! That's why I posted (#9782 above (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1557935&viewfull=1#post1557935)) the report from the Polish Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU). (The University is real, with a Wiki page here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Curie-Sk%C5%82odowska_University).) I have to say, the data looked legitimate to me.

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Alexander Mercouris states - at the beginning of this video (https://www.bitchute.com/video/mnEEdSfHc50/) - that there was Not a spike in gamma radiation following the missile strike destruction of the presumed ammunition dump in Khmelnytsky. According to Alexander, this spike apparently was within normal limits, and preceded (did not follow) the explosion.Yes, I saw that too! That's why I posted (#9782 above (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1557935&viewfull=1#post1557935)) the report from the Polish Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU). (The University is real, with a Wiki page here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Curie-Sk%C5%82odowska_University).) I have to say, the data looked legitimate to me.

To me Mercouris seemed extremely nervous and restless while making his “apology”. He kept squirming or fidgeting in his chair and repeatedly touched his face and nose. He’s always been a bit that way, but more so during his apology. Not sure what to make of his body language. Was he told to apologize?

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Ultra-globalists are attempting to cancel all the achievements of our civilization through a total social reset of society - essentially "rebooting" history completely!
This is being done through the implementation of the following plan for the year 2030, formulated back in 2018, which they openly talk about:
1. Abolition of private and personal property.
2. Universal basic income for all who embrace the 'new normal.'
3. Elimination of cash .
4. Carbon rating system for states and corporations.
5. Stringent social digital control.
6. Rationing of consumed food, energy, and natural resources.
7. Patents on seed stock and prohibition of consuming self-produced goods.
8. Near-elimination of animal husbandry and transition of the majority of the population to artificial protein or vegetarian food.
9. Birth control and depopulation measures.
10. Mandatory & forced vaccinations.
11. Ban on alternative medicine.
12. Abolition of gender differences - essentially an attack on human beings as a biological species.

In other words, they openly intend to create a social system that necessitates altering the biological nature of humans for a new 'normal' functioning.

DO NOT CONSENT!!!

THE NUREMBERG TRIAL 2.0 AWAITS FOR THEM!

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The Ukrainians are trying to develop an offensive on the flanks of Bakhmut to create a bridgehead to break through the front

▪️ The propaganda wing of the Nazi Third Assault Brigade (former "Azov") claims that its units are successful in offensive operations on the western outskirts of Bakhmut, breaking through the first line of defense and creating a springboard for further counteroffensive.

▪️ Ukrainian military propaganda exaggerates successes, trying to raise the spirit of their own and demoralize Russian forces.

▪️ Note that according to E. Prigozhin, the situation on the flanks is really very difficult.

▪️ Heavy battles are going on, the Russian army is pulling up reinforcements to repel the enemy counterattack.

▪️ Russian aviation and artillery are actively working.

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🇭🇺They want to release 700 people from Hungarian prisons, many of which are citizens of Ukraine.

Hungarian laws will give them 72 hours to leave the country.

Overcrowded Hungarian prisons inflict heavy costs on the budget. The Hungarian government conducts a "soft deportation" offers Ukrainians convicted under light articles to return home and change the status of a prisoner to the status of a counteroffensive.

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Summer proxy war escalation w/ Levan Gudadze (Live)

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Douglas Macgregor - Russia's Devastating Airstrike on Ukraine


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ANNA Battle report
(Via Remi Lind)
"The fighters of the PMC "Wagner" began to storm the last serious defense areas of the Ukrainian troops in the city.

“We continue the offensive, it remains a little west of the city of Artemovsk. The enemy resists, it is fed by both recruits and specialists of different profiles. They're bringing NATO-style weapons across the fields," a Wagner PMC official told an ANNA NEWS correspondent.

As previously mentioned, 1.28 square kilometers remain under enemy control."

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How Ukraine Loses on the Battlefield, why the West Doesn’t Report on Khmelnytskyi? The Wagner Media Centre and the Counterattack!

What happened at Khmelnytskyi? Apparently tanks with UK depleted Uranium are destroyed. The EU is losing this battle, that’s clear in everything! Photo: Twitter/pronews, editing: Mirjam©Photo.

In recent weeks we have read and heard nothing but hypes and lies from Western politicians, which are magnified in Western press agencies, television and social media. Of course in every war the truth is hard to find, but in this war, waged from the West against Russia, there is no more truth on the Western side, not a tiny little bit of truth is left!

Why do I say that firmly? You can argue that because I am on the Russian side, I also spread propaganda. That’s something I’m not trying to do. I am the only witness and remaining (Dutch) journalist in Russia and through my various trips to Donbass I try to debunk the lies and fantasy stories of the West about Russia and the Donbass (which is also Russia) !

I try to poke through everything. Like my visit to the Wagner media center in St. Petersburg last week. Much is written about Evgeny Prigorzhin in the West. Whatever happened between the Russian government and him, or what didn’t happen, my task is to report about the thousands of men fighting for the Wagner group, who are fighting voluntarily, these men are fighting for their homeland that is what matters. Not writing about perhaps an internal argument, that is for the government to solve! A journalist’s job is to report the facts, if you can’t do that, you have to keep your mouth shut, otherwise you will spread lies and speculation like Western media do.

The Special Military Operation revolves around the battlefield and information war, which in my opinion should be won by Russia due to the madness and warmongering of the West! The West writes disgusting things about President Putin or the Wagner group, I call it a lack of knowledge or ability to write the facts, these media outlets degrade to gossip journalism, it’s the men and women in Russia, on the battlefield or in the information war, who will win the war and not the gossip media!

My visit to the Wagner media center, not the recruiting center in St. Petersburg, where citizens can discuss with eachother, press conferences are held and drones are designed for the battlefield. Where fighters can talk about their experience and hardship on the battlefield and where humanitarian aid to the Donbass is also organized.

Photo: Mirjam©Photo

Ukraine or rather the West loses

After the statements of Ursuala von der Leyen, President of the European Union (EU) that there would be more than 100,000 dead in the Ukrainian army and militias such as the Azov battalion, the National Security and Defense Secretary Oleksiy Danilov from Ukraine refuted the newsoutlet Politico’s claim that there have been 100,000 casualties among Ukrainian soldiers since what he calls the start of Russia’s full-scale war.

“I declare to you, with full responsibility, that we do not have 100,000 casualties in the military,” Danilov told Interfax Ukraine. “This is impossible. Our military knows the exact number, the president knows. During this war, this is closed information, but 100,000 is completely untrue.”

In recent weeks, more and more evidence has surfaced that these 100,000 may well be more than 100,000. Ukrainian citizens put a lot of videos online in social media about large cemeteries, where if not every day soldiers who have fallen are buried!

Khmelnytskyi depleted Uranium

A viral video of a huge explosion near the city of Khmelnytskyi in Western Ukraine has been shared widely along with claims that a “depleted uranium” storage facility was hit. Apparently it was a storage depot for the tanks supplied by the UK, with the actually banned ammunition depleted uranium.

The city had been attacked on 13 May 2023, creating a large explosion. Russia said it hit a ammunition deport and a hangar while Ukraine said the targets were “critical infrastructure”
Who is speaking the truth in this case? I personally think the Russians, why? Because also in Western media so-called coverage cannot ignore that a “mushroom”-like explosion took place, which many citizens of the city have seen and reported!

There is information about Khmelnytskyi, but not about the presence of “uranium residues” or their remnants, but about an increase in the radiation background. According to data from the Ukrainian environmental project SaveEcoBot, whose website allows to observe in real time the fluctuations of gamma rays in the areas, there was something going on! According to many photos and videos, but the Ukrainians and the Western press are silent about what happened, an old trick of totalitarian regimes, not to upset the population.

On SaveEcoBot’s website/map there is a clear increase in Gamma Ray radiation around Khmelnytskyi, at the time or days after the explosion, something happened. It should be mentioned that SaveEcoBot is sponsored by George Soros’ Open Society. According to the West, Ukraine should become an example for the new totalitarian digital EU, where everything must go digital, but that’s for a new article!

Photo: Radiological maps in Ukraine online: radiation background monitoring – SaveEcoBot

Is there a counter offensive?

Is Ukraine’s long-awaited counter offensive a reality or another “hype” and lies from the West? It is already very stupid to announce a counter offensive in the media, I say as a non-military strategist. Was it a lie and false claims again?

I think it is not a real counter offensive but intensive attacks by the remaining Ukrainian army. The “hype” about Bakhmut/Artemovosk in the Western media is now a bit over, now that it actually appears to be virtually in Russian hands.

As the Russian Minister of Defence Sergey Shoigu recently declared Ukraine says it shoots down more missiles than Russia fires, gives you an idea of the disinformation and propaganda of the West.

“Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has refuted claims made by Ukrainian military officials about shooting down six Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles during strikes on targets near the country’s capital city of Kiev. Moreover, the number of these ‘Ukrainian interceptions’ – and who really mans the American [anti-aircraft] complexes there, is still a big question – is three times as high as what we actually launch,” Shoigu stated.

According to Western media, there is talk of the destruction of the newly sent Patriot air-defense.

A hypersonic missile strike by Russia on Tuesday reportedly hit a US-supplied Patriot air-defense system in Kiev, according to CNN
Actually, this makes it clear that there is not really a counter offensive, but Russia clearly has the upper hand in firing missiles and probably also on the battlefield. Western EU countries and of course the US and the UK are trying to hide this and are now talking about sending F-16s (obsolete) fighter jets to Ukraine, maybe they are already there, the West usually announces this when they are already there.

The West plays with words, words that increasingly take the form of a despicable morality and foul language, such as I wrote before, are the order of the day in their propaganda media.

They, the West, try to win with words, as they are now trying to persuade the “ordinary” Russians to defect to the so-called “free” West via a video from the CIA on the “Dark Web” and to spy for Russia. Using Goebbels style tactics. The CIA also posted the Russian-language video, entitled “Why I made contact with the CIA: My decision,” on Facebook, Twitter and Telegram.

But you know what if I’ve learned being here in Russia since one year, the Russians love their country so much like I experienced in the Syrian war with the Syrians, who felt the same and your love for your country makes you determined to win!

For photos and link to Savecobot, see article link here,

https://devend.online/2023/05/18/how-ukraine-loses-on-the-battlefield-why-the-west-doesnt-report-on-khmelnytskyi-the-wagner-media-centre-and-the-counterattack/

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It has been 21 days and still no reply from
@Newsweek

Here is a perfect example about how the western media twists people's own words to fit their agenda.

One of our admins politely asked them for an explanation, but Newsweek seems reluctant to reply. So we can only assume that they're not as reliable as we thought.

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"PMC "Wagner" has completely occupied the "Domino" area in Bakhmut and is moving towards the outskirts - a summary from brusinf
The situation in the Bakhmut direction by the end of May 18.
▪️Stormtroopers of PMC "Wagner" completely took control of the fortified area "Domino";
▪️The private sector is being cleaned up along Tchaikovsky Street;
▪️In the "Airplane" area, PMC fighters continue their attacks.
▪️ Sappers work very carefully. As it has already happened, partially surviving houses in the newly liberated areas can be mined."

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Top spy chiefs, heads of state, and global business titans begin secret Bilderberg meetings in Portugal

The world's most powerful and influential people have arrived in Lisbon for secret meetings on AI, the global economic crisis, and the "energy transition," and the corporate media refuses to cover it.

Jordan Schachtel
The world’s most powerful and influential geopolitical voices are meeting from Thursday to Sunday in Portugal to navigate several global crises (many of which they’ve they’ve helped to facilitate), and oddly enough, the corporate media has no interest in reporting on this secretive gathering of powerful figures.

The attendees list for this year’s infamous Bilderberg Meetings has just been released, and just like years prior, global heavyweights inundate the 2023 roster. The list includes America and Europe’s top spy chiefs, several heads of state, and some of the world’s most powerful business executives.

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What is essentially Davos on steroids, the annual Bilderberg confab includes some of the world’s most powerful and influential people. As The Dossier explained in our piece Wednesday:

“Although it is significantly staffed by publicly elected officials, the discussions that happen during Bilderberg conferences remain a closely guarded secret. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to suspect that the powerful globalist ideologues who attend these closed-door wargaming discussions are up to no good. Organizers defend the secretive nature of the conference by claiming that it allows attendees to speak informally among peers.”

Davos on Steroids: Ultra-secret Bilderberg Meetings commence in Portugal

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Bilderberg meetings are held under Chatham House rules, which means that participants “are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor of any other participant may be revealed.”

There is lots of new and returning star power to the 2023 attendees list.

The American contingent includes the likes of:

Albert Bourla of Pfizer

Sam Altman of ChatGPT

Avril Haines, America’s top intelligence official as the Biden Administration’s Director of National Intelligence

Henry Kissinger, who turns 100 years old at the end of the month

Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft

Matthew Pottinger, the former national security official who played a major role in pushing covid lockdowns.

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google

Peter Thiel

Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the commander of U.S. European Command

The non-American (mostly European) side includes:

Borge Brende, the president of the World Economic Forum

Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO

Bernard Emie, leader of France’s top spy agency

Jeremy Fleming, a longtime British top spy official

Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister of Canada and World Economic Forum leader, infamous for her crackdowns against free speech

Mette Frederiksen, prime minister of Denmark

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs

Sanna Marin, the Finnish prime minister

Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish politician who thanked the U.S. for bombing the NordStream pipeline

The topics of discussion this year include (new topics for 2023 are in bold):

AI

Banking System

China

Energy Transition

Europe

Fiscal Challenges

India

Industrial Policy and Trade

NATO

Russia

Transnational Threats

Ukraine

US Leadership

Particularly interesting is the inclusion of AI, fiscal/banking challenges, and the so-called energy transition, and the vague topic of “US leadership.”

If you are familiar with the names on the participants list, you will find that they largely subscribe to a globalist, hyper-interventionist worldview, making the annual Bilderberg confab an echo chamber of ruling class ideologues.

There remains a media blackout of the Bilderberg Meeting this weekend in the corporate press. Despite attendees including the leaders of several major publications, there has been virtually zero press coverage of this weekend’s gathering in Portugal.

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Davos on Steroids: Ultra-secret Bilderberg Meetings commence in Portugal

There is a total media blackout of the upcoming shadowy elite confab.

Jordan Schachtel
The Bilderberg Group, a notoriously shadowy organization with a membership roster that includes some of the world’s most powerful and influential people, are convening their annual meetings this weekend in Lisbon, Portugal.

Oddly enough, there is a complete media blackout in the corporate press surrounding the upcoming conference, despite the significant geopolitical ramifications attached to its members and the agenda items being discussed. Your humble correspondent still cannot find a single story previewing the Bilderberg meetings in the corporate media.



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If you’re familiar with the World Economic Forum’s annual closed-door, invite-only Davos confab, then you can get a sense of what Bilderberg entails. Yet Bilderberg is a level up of exclusivity, given that fewer than 150 people usually end up with invites to the conference, as opposed to the thousands who go to Davos. Bilderberg consists only of the very top business tycoons, royals, media influencers, and government power brokers.

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Independent journalists on the ground, Charlie Skelton and Dan Dicks, believe that the meetings will take place at the 5 star Pestana Palace Hotel in Lisbon, which is noticeably unavailable for reservations this weekend.

The Bilderberg website has not been updated since 2022, but we do have confirmation that the meetings are taking place via the European Commission website, which noted it on the calendar of two of its top officials. Other than that, there is a total comms blackout concerning expected attendees.

The Bilderberg meetings have been a regular occurrence since the mid 1950s, with the inaugural meeting in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands.

Although it is significantly staffed by publicly elected officials, the discussions that happen during Bilderberg conferences remain a closely guarded secret. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to suspect that the powerful globalist ideologues who attend these closed-door wargaming discussions are up to no good. Organizers defend the secretive nature of the conference by claiming that it allows attendees to speak informally among peers.

To get a sense of why Bilderberg conferences are often associated with conspiratorial inquiry, look no further than the roster of last year’s meeting in Washington, D.C.

The meetings included several heads of state and the world’s most powerful spy chiefs. On the American side, it included multiple Biden Administration cabinet level officials, and the likes of the CIA Director, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Eric Schmidt of Google, Sam Altman of ChatGPT, and Peter Thiel, to name a few. On the European side, attendees included the British and French spy chiefs and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, among others. The topics of discussion included:

1. Geopolitical Realignments
2. NATO Challenges
3. China
4. Indo-Pacific Realignment
5. Sino-US Tech Competition
6. Russia
7. Continuity of Government and the Economy
8. Disruption of the Global Financial System
9. Disinformation
10. Energy Security and Sustainability
11. Post Pandemic Health
12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies
13. Trade and Deglobalisation
14. Ukraine

This year’s agenda has not yet been released, and attendees have not yet been revealed. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will be in town, but the only publicly confirmed attendees are EU commissioners Paolo Gentiloni and Didier Reynders Justice. The Dossier will be following up as soon as we gather more information.

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This Summer NATO To Approve New War Plans For Russia Conflict! :facepalm:


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At the NATO summit in Vilnius this July, the alliance will for the first time in decades approve a classified plan for war with Russia. The plan will reportedly assign specific tasks and locations to NATO country members. Is this just another escalation...or possibly a self-fulfilling prophecy? Also today: Alan Dershowitz gets one right about the Durham Report! :facepalm:

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Thanks for this, Mark. In my view it's a pretty clear, comprehensive and accurate overview of the conditions that Putin cites as the reasons that he feels Russia is threatened. My single, niggling update would be to note the recent name change of the city of Kaliningrad to Królewiec, its name when it was ruled by the Kingdom of Poland in the 15th and 16th centuries. As this is a direct challenge to Putin's idea of a reinstatement of the Russian Empire, he calls the act of renaming yet another hostile act instigated by the West, and so therefore yet another reason to feel that Russia is threatened.

Excepts from the Guardian:

"The Kremlin has described Poland’s decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad in its official documents as a “hostile act”, as ties continue to fray over the Ukraine war.

Kaliningrad, which sits in an exclave sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic coast, was known by the German name of Königsberg until after the second world war, when it was annexed by the Soviet Union and renamed to honour politician Mikhail Kalinin.

On Wednesday, Poland’s development minister, Waldemar Buda, said Kaliningrad would now officially be called Królewiec, its name when it was ruled by the Kingdom of Poland in the 15th and 16th centuries.

“We do not want Russification in Poland and that is why we have decided to change the name in our native language of Kaliningrad and the Kaliningrad region,” Buda said, citing a recommendation by a state commission tasked with standardising foreign names in the Polish language.

Warsaw says Kalinin’s connection to the 1940 Katyn massacre – when thousands of Polish officers were executed by Soviet forces – had negative connotations.

The current Russian name of this city is an artificial baptism unrelated to either the city or the region,” Poland’s committee on geographical standardisation said on Tuesday.

Moscow says it liberated Poland when its forces drove out Nazi forces at the end of the war. Most Poles believe the Soviet Union replaced Nazi occupation with another form of repression."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/10/kremlin-calls-polands-decision-to-rename-kaliningrad-a-hostile-act#:~:text=On%20Wednesday%2C%20Poland's%20development%20minister,the%2015th%20and%2016th%20centurie s.

This action predictably has made the Kremlin furious.

By now, I expect most PA members are familiar with Putin's now famous article (12 July 2021) on Russian history, “On The Historical Unity Of Russians and Ukrainians”. Ironically, his claim that Ukrainians and Russians share the same blood is the same (pre-war) claim made by Zelenskyy when he called for peace between the two nations. Ironic because for Putin it's a reason to invade and destroy Ukraine.

For those who have not yet read it, it's available here in full:

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

This outlines his excuse to invade Ukraine, delivered as though it was based on actual historical fact. His televised (shorter ) version of it was broadcast in February 2022. It's outlined here:

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

The criticisms of his speech are easy to find, but here's one that is quite succinct, written by Markian Dobczansky, who is an actual expert on Ukrainian - Russian history. It was published online as a Twitter post.
His take is quite enlightening. Please see below:

Markian Dobczansky

Associate Director of
@eucenter
at UIUC. Teaching EU Studies. Historian of Soviet Ukraine.
@HURI_Harvard

Feb 22, 2022
Why is Putin wrong about history? Because he overlooks the historical agency of Ukrainians. The Bolsheviks didn't "invent" Ukraine out of thin air to vex the future president of Russia. Ukraine experienced its own revolution in 1917, amid war & imperial collapse.
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The Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 combined democratic/social aspirations of Russia's February Revolution with demands for national liberation and cultural autonomy. Ukrainian peasants demanded land, cultural activists demanded Ukrainian language education, everyone wanted freedom.

·Ukrainian political leaders declared the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) with a Central Rada, an assembly that represented the interests of the Ukrainian people. The Rada was made up overwhelmingly of left-wing parties representing the peasantry but not only.

The Central Rada issued its declarations (known as "universals") in four languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Yiddish, and Polish. Eventually in response to a Bolshevik invasion, the Central Rada declared the independence of the UNR in January 1918.
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In increasingly dire circumstances, the armed forces of the UNR fought variously against the Red Army, the non-Bolshevik Russian forces, and the Poles. Eventually, they lost and the Bolsheviks won. But Lenin concluded that Ukrainian aspirations were a force to be reckoned with.

The Bolsheviks were hard-nosed realists. They didn't simply give away power in a vacuum. Lenin and Stalin created a Ukrainian Soviet republic largely to co-opt Ukrainian national aspirations and channel their revolutionary energy toward Soviet aims.

Yes, they had theories about national liberation and its importance for October Revolution. But Ukrainian Revolution forced their hand and in 1922 the Soviet Union formalized its own federal structure made up of Russian federation, Ukraine, Belarus, & Transcaucasian federation.

Putin's mistake is that he only sees the actions of the people in power and perhaps only if they run a world power. He sees smaller countries (Georgia, Ukraine, even Germany and France) with contempt and does not assign them any historical agency.

His televised speech yesterday was a rehashing of historical grievances against everyone he blames for the loss of "Russian" territory over the 20th century: Lenin, NATO, the U.S. But special ire was directed against Ukraine because its very existence is for him a humiliation.
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For a broader discussion of Ukrainian history and Ukrainian aspirations, I'd highly recommend reading this piece by Rory Finnin in Politico. Don't make Putin's mistake and think of Ukraine as "small" or Ukrainians' actions as insignificant.

https://politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/12/west-gets-ukraine-wrong-helps-putin-little-russia-00007977

Twitter folks: my DMs are open. Journos: I'm happy to speak with you on the record or on

Markian Dobczansky


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@channelljustice

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My belief is that Putin is using a fantastical history as one leg of an argument to justify his invasion. Whether he actually believes it or not is up for speculation, but he has been consistent in this story for at least a decade.

The other leg of his justification is the perceived threat by the west as a conspiracy to infiltrate Russia's border countries in preparation for invasion. His decades-long campaign of tirades against NATO encroachment has culminated in his declaration of war on Ukraine. Now he gets to play the victim. Looked upon broadly, a peremptory assault is the excuse always given by an abuser in any relationship: "Look what you made me do! This is all your fault!"

In the eyes of the world, however, Putin's unleashing of ultra-violent destruction on a population of innocents is simply a war crime.

Brian

[jaybee]

In the eyes of the world, however, Putin's unleashing of ultra-violent destruction on a population of innocents is simply a war crime.

Brian

This should be 'in the eyes of the (Globalist Elite dominated) West' because the whole World doesn't see what's happening in Ukraine as a war crime - many inside and outside Western Nations understand that Russia has been provoked and poked by NATO especially since the 2014 coup and put in a position where they are damned if they do and damned if they don't try and sort out the threat to their country... the threat that comes from the unelected, Super Wealthy, West Based, Deep State who want Russia to be part of the One World Government - planned for decades -

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Zelenski in front of the Arabs

We have no weapons and our air force is weaker
Iran provides Russia with marches in huge numbers
We have no artillery, but we Ukrainians are resilient. Know, comrades, that we will never submit
I am sure that all of your Arab countries will understand our situation and will support us

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This is a powerful shot of then Syrian Ambassador to the UN, Bashar Ja'afari, after the US, France, and the UK walked out of the UN Security Council emergency session on the situation in Syria, 2018.
The imperial trio mercilessly bombarded his country with more than 100 missile attacks a few days later.

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I wonder if the one who filmed this version (with perfect sound) was told to film it, or was it just a "coincidence"?
Some claim (https://www.ninefornews.nl/veiligheidschef-radioactieve-wolk-drijft-richting-west-europa/) the "Fall Out" of this supermassive cloud going over Western Europe right now!

cheers,
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Ukraine could join ranks of ‘frozen’ conflicts, U.S. officials say

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[Fellow Aspirant]

In the eyes of the world, however, Putin's unleashing of ultra-violent destruction on a population of innocents is simply a war crime.

Brian

This should be 'in the eyes of the (Globalist Elite dominated) West' because the whole World doesn't see what's happening in Ukraine as a war crime - many inside and outside Western Nations understand that Russia has been provoked and poked by NATO especially since the 2014 coup and put in a position where they are damned if they do and damned if they don't try and sort out the threat to their country... the threat that comes from the unelected, Super Wealthy, West Based, Deep State who want Russia to be part of the One World Government - planned for decades -

Yes, jaybee, you are absolutely correct, and I apologize for my exaggeration; late night posting, for me, is fraught with the inclination to become more rhetorical, and it just struck me as being a more satisfying finish.
What I should have said, of course, was that most of the world considered Russia's actions as needing to be condemned, as shown by the vote in the UN:


On 2 March, the UN General Assembly adopted — by an overwhelming majority of 141 against 5 — a resolution rejecting the Russian Federation's brutal invasion of Ukraine and demanding that Russia immediately withdraw its forces and abide by international law.
The resolution was prepared by the European Union hand in hand with Ukraine and countries from all regions of the world, immediately after the UN Security Council was prevented to act by a Russian veto on 25 February.

For the Resolution Condemning the Invasion (141):

A: Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria
B: Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria
C: Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Canada, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia
D: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic
E: Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia
F: Fiji, Finland, France
G: The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana
H: Haiti, Honduras, Hungary
I: Iceland, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy
J: Jamaica, Japan, Jordan
K: Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait
L: Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg
M: Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar
N: Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway
O: Oman
P: Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal
Q: Qatar
R: Republic of Korea (South Korea), Republic of Moldova, Romania, Rwanda
S: Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland
T: Thailand, East Timor, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Tuvalu, Turkey
U: Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay
V: Vanuatu
Y: Yemen
Z: Zambia

Against (7):

B: Belarus
D: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
E: Eritrea
M: Mali
N: Nicaragua
R: Russia
S: Syria
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Abstained (32):

A: Algeria, Angola, Armenia
B: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burundi
C: Central African Republic, China, Republic of Congo, Cuba
E: El Salvador, Ethiopia
G: Gabon, Guinea
I: India, Iran
K: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
L: Laos
M: Mongolia, Mozambique
N: Namibia
P: Pakistan
S: South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan
T: Tajikistan, Togo
U: Uganda, Uzbekistan
V: Vietnam
Z: Zimbabwe



The resolution “deplores in the strongest terms” the aggression by Russia and affirms the international community’s commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine. It also calls for unimpeded access for humanitarian assistance.

The text was approved by 141 countries. Only 5 UN member states voted against it: Russia, Belarus, DPRK (North Korea), Eritrea and Syria. Many of Russia’s closest partners did not follow their voting pattern.

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/un-general-assembly-demands-russian-federation-withdraw-all-military-forces-territory-ukraine_en

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Upon the successful adoption of the resolution, EU Ambassador to the UN in New York Olof Skoog stressed the historic nature of this vote:

“The world has spoken. The Russian government must immediately stop the aggression, withdraw its troops, and abide by the rules of the UN Charter that apply to all, equally.”

”This is not just about Ukraine, he continued. This is not just about Europe. This is about defending an international order based on rules we all have signed up to, and the sovereign equality of all states, large and small. This is about whether we choose tanks and missiles, or dialogue and diplomacy.”

He further noted, “Russia’s isolation from the rest of the international community”. “By voting overwhelmingly in favour of the resolution, we have chosen to defend peace where Russia has chosen brutal aggression. We have chosen to defend this organisation and its Charter where Russia has violated the fundamentals of both. Russia stands increasingly alone."

Following the General Assembly vote, Ambassador Skoog joined Ambassador of Ukraine Sergiy Kyslytsya, to further underline how “the European Union and the world stand with the Ukrainian people”.

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The UN General Assembly finally called out Russia for its human rights abuses in Ukraine:

UN suspends Russia from HR council


7 April 2022 UN Affairs

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for Russia to be suspended from the Human Rights Council.

The resolution received a two-thirds majority of those voting, minus abstentions, in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting in favour and 24 against.

Fifty-eight abstained from the process.

Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Vietnam, were among those who voted against.

Those abstaining, included India, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia.

The meeting marked the resumption of a special emergency session on the war in Ukraine and followed reports of violations committed by Russian forces.

This past weekend, disturbing photos emerged from the city of Bucha, a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, where hundreds of civilian bodies were found in the streets and in mass graves following Russia’s withdrawal from the area.
Prior to the vote, Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya urged countries to support the resolution.

“Bucha and dozens of other Ukrainian cities and villages, where thousands of peaceful residents have been killed, tortured, raped, abducted and robbed by the Russian Army, serve as an example of how dramatically far the Russian Federation has gone from its initial declarations in the human rights domain. That is why this case is unique and today’s response is obvious and self-explanatory,” he said.


So no, jaybee, it's not the WHOLE world that thinks Russia is a blot on humanity, it's ALMOST THE WHOLE WORLD that thinks Russia is a blot on humanity.

Sorry for the error. :(

Brian

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🇷🇺 Among the 35 servicemen released from Ukrainian captivity, who are returning home to the Republic today, there is a woman - Anna Babitskaya.

She endured severe beatings and tortures. The Ukrainian security forces deliberately spread information about her execution. At the same time, Anna not only stoically endured all the trials, but also maintains her fighting spirit - she is going to return to the service. Courageous endurance!


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The epic with the delivery of the F-16 - the American military-industrial complex wants to increase the volume of F-35 orders for friendly countries at the expense of Ukraine

Readovka has repeatedly explained that the discussion and great excitement about the possible delivery of F-16 fighters to Kiev can be caused by any reasons other than direct military necessity. Firstly, Ukraine does not have a sufficient number of airfields suitable for the operation of the F-16. This will prevent vehicles from being dispersed throughout the territory and make them easy targets for Caliber and Daggers while still on the ground. Secondly, in the square, there is no infrastructure for the long-term operation of NATO fighters. Thirdly, the country has a huge shortage of trained pilots. We have discussed all these issues many times before. Let's add another aspect to this.

Before the SMO, Ukraine had up to ten operational-tactical aviation squadrons - these are, respectively, more than 120 attack aircraft, bombers, and fighters. In the current conditions, about a hundred F-16s will be required to compensate for losses and effectively cover the territory as part of air defense tasks, conduct reconnaissance flights, and strike on the land. Naturally, Western countries will not be able to transfer such a quantity to Ukraine at the same time. Add to this the above facts and we will understand that the idea of the F-16 does not look entirely rational in principle.

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Rumors intensified…don’t forget the grain of salt, but nevertheless here some thoughts from Slavyangrad about the whereabouts of the UA commander:

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It seems that Zaluzhny was really killed - the Kiev regime has not been able to find the missing commander for 10 days

The loss of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can no longer be justified by the "tense situation at the front."

Recall the chronology of this disappearance. The first rumors about the elimination of Zaluzhny appeared after reports of the destruction of the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Pavlograd, against which the Russian Armed Forces delivered massive strikes for two days in a row - on May 7 and 8.

Indirect confirmation of this theory was Zaluzhny's refusal to participate in a videoconference with the NATO command on May 10, allegedly due to a "heavy workload." But before, the Ukrainian commander-in-chief never denied himself the pleasure of "shining his face" at such events.

In Kiev, they understand that the death of a media-hyped military leader can disrupt a long-planned offensive, and they are trying with all their might to fend off rumors that have spread.

First, a series of shots were thrown in, in which the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in uniform and sneakers posed for photographers at a wedding - this, apparently, is his “heavy workload”, which prevented him from speaking at a video conference with NATO.

But almost immediately it became known that the photos were old. Zelensky also denied the deaths of Zaluzhny and Syrsky. He repeatedly stated that he had communicated with them, but did not provide any specifics or evidence.

On May 12, a large interview with Zaluzhny was posted, but, as a rule, such materials are prepared much in advance.

For example, Budanov's interview with Yahoo News was recorded two weeks before the release.

No more new photos of Zaluzhny have been published since then, and the photographs of the head of the ukrovermacht bathing in the Mediterranean Sea that are now circulating have not yet been accurately verified.

For Kiev, the “disappearance” of Zaluzhny is a problem. Even in the most difficult moments, the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine regularly demonstrated that he was alive and controlled the course of hostilities.

While the public can be reassured by old photos and videos, as well as Zelensky's "honest word", but sooner or later even the most zombified Ukrainians will have questions.

@Slavyangrad

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BREAKING: Bakhmut has fallen to the Russians:

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Text: 20th May 2023, 12:00 noon, 🇷🇺Bakhmut was completely taken - Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Source: https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1659909182152376324

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From Moon Of Alabama here (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/bakhmut-has-fallen-artyomovsk-has-been-liberated-.html):

Bakhmut Has Fallen - Artyomovsk Has Been Liberated

The so far largest battle of the 21st century ended today.

Bakhmut has fallen. Artyomovsk (the Russian/Soviet name of the city) has been liberated. This was announced today by the titular leader of the Wagner forces, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a video posted on Telegram.

Why the Ukrainian leadership had decided to hold onto the city even months after the situation there was already in its disfavor is beyond me. The fight was decided by the numerical superiority of Russian artillery fire and the Ukraine had never a chance to top that.

The losses there for the Ukrainians amounted to 300 to 500 men per day over that last 5 months. That sums up to a total of 60,000 casualties. Ten days ago Ukrainian units, including the fascist Azov brigade, rolled up the Russian flanks north and south of Bakhmut to allow the Ukrainian troops in the city to flee west. That attack alone, only one or 2 kilometer deep, cost them some 1,600 men and some 50+ armored vehicles.

On the Russian side the fighting in the city was largely done by Wagner troops. But they were never able to do it on their own. Russian military intelligence, artillery and logistics all played an important role in the fight.

The city has been destroyed but it will be rebuild as it is an important logistical hub with several rail and road connections running through it.

For a moment now the front line in Ukraine seems all around relative quit.

It is now clear to me when or where a new operational move will start.

[Bill Ryan]

Sorry for the error. :(

BrianA snide, nasty post. You're not "sorry" at all.

Anyone with any true knowledge of geopolitical issues knows that the UN is heavily controlled by the US, and delegates from member states are put under enormous pressure, by fair means or foul, to comply with dictated US agendas. UN resolutions are all but totally meaningless now.

A few months ago Alexander Mercouris did a detailed video on this, citing testimony he'd received personally from a number of UN officials, current and former, who testified to the pressure they had been put under to vote in certain specified ways.

All this despotic geopolitical bullying will come to an end soon enough. See this thread: The Multipolar World Order (yes, it's coming) (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120183-The-Multipolar-World-Order--yes-it-s-coming-) — though we can see you've never visited that once in the.months since it was started.

:focus:

[Bill Ryan]

This article presents what seems to be valuable further information about the spread of radiation from the enormous Khmelnitsky explosion. For those who find that Sputnik News has been censored in their area, I'll copy the whole thing below.

I'll post more about what Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev stated in the post which follows.


https://sputnikglobe.com/20230519/ukraines-depleted-uranium-blast-europe-on-brink-of-environmental-disaster-1110462939.html

Dr Chris Busby, cited as a reference in the article, has his credentials here:


https://independent.academia.edu/BusbyChris/CurriculumVitae

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Ukraine's Depleted Uranium Blast: Europe on Brink of 'Environmental Disaster'

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev warned on Friday that a radioactive cloud was heading towards Western Europe following the destruction of a Ukrainian warehouse storing British-supplied depleted uranium ammunition.

Sputnik News spoke with Dr. Chris Busby, physical chemist and scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, about how the West’s decision to provide depleted uranium (DU) ammunition to Ukraine has potentially caused a continent-wide ecological disaster. Below is his answer in full.

Recently, several web media outlets provided videos of an enormous explosion in the town of Khmelnitski, located to the West of Kiev, and about 200 km from the border with Poland (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230412/poland-aims-to-host-production-of-depleted-uranium-ammo-for-us-abrams-tanks-1109448909.html). There were two major explosions which produced a massive roiling swirling fireball which, like an atomic bomb, developed upwards and formed a mushroom cloud, which was black.

I have represented nuclear atmospheric test veterans in the Royal Courts of Justice in London and have seen many films of nuclear explosions: this was not one. A nuclear explosion is characterised by an immediate intense white light which wipes out the camera film or detector.

So, what was it? It was suggested by several commentators that an arms depot that had been hit contained the Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons sent by the UK to the Ukraine for use in the British Challenger tanks as anti-tank penetrators. That the explosion was one involving the burning of the DU in the fireball. Since I am a scientific authority on Uranium and its health effects, but have also examined its dispersion and behaviour in the environment, I will comment on what I believe happened, and why it is important.

I was a member of the UK government Ministry of Defence Depleted Uranium Oversight Board (DUOB) in 2000-2005, and also the UK government Committee Examining Radiation Risk from Internal Emitters (CERRIE) 2000-2004. I am Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR) which is an independent NGO that provides advice on risk from ionising radiation.

My main research interest in this area is Uranium and health, particularly the DU particles, which are so small they act as a gas and move over very large distances once they are created by the burning of DU. I found them in England in 2003 after they had come from Iraq. I found them in 2023 in England after they came from the Ukraine war. So that is the first thing: the material is able to travel very large distances.

Therefore, if the Khmelnitsky explosion was a DU one, the material would move with the wind direction and should be detectable at monitor sites downwind.

First, we need to say that DU has a gamma signature, it releases gamma rays. The UK and USA governments lie about this. They point to the fact that the U-238, that remains after the fissile U-235 is removed in the centrifuges (and is sent off for nuclear weapons and reactors), is a weak alpha emitter.

They say that alpha radiation cannot penetrate skin and so the DU itself is harmless. That it cannot be detected by a Geiger Counter and the alpha particles don’t make it through the window. There is, of course, a health problem if the post-impact particles are inhaled and pass into the body through the lung into the lymphatic system or directly into the digestive system, but essentially DU is harmless.

What you need to know is that Uranium 238, when it decays with its alpha emission, turns into Thorium-234 and Protoactinium-234m which then turns into Uranium 234. Thorium 234 is a beta and gamma emitter delivering 6% of its decay energy as a gamma ray. Thus, large clouds of DU particulate aerosol will be detectable by gamma detectors.

When I visited Iraq with Al Jazeera in 2000 I went to the south and examined the corpses of the tanks that had been hit by DU in the first Gulf War. Some of the A-10 DU penetrators were still lying around. They gave off an intense gamma ray signal, and the holes in the tanks were highly gamma ray active. So much for only an alpha emitter.

I am a yachtsman: examination of the UK metereological weather pressure maps tell us that at the time, and for days after the explosion, there was an anticyclone to the North of the explosion site and winds were weak but from the South East blowing North Westerly around the high-pressure area. So, the plume would move towards Poland. If the winds were about 5km/h they would reach any Poland detectors 250 km away on the 15th.

After Chernobyl, the European Union set up a Europe-wide gamma radiation detector system that used to give gamma readings in real time. I went to look. But astonishingly, all the data was blocked. The web- based system, administered from Germany, (EURDEP) would not provide the detector maps that are normally available. Luckily, there were some location maps on the web and some that had been already downloaded by colleagues of mine before the system stopped working. I obtained maps from Poland. One of these I show below.

https://projectavalon.net/Radiation_Levels_in_Poland_May_2023.jpg

Radiation Levels in Poland in May
© Photo : The Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) group of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission

You will see that a very highly significant increase in gamma radiation (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230412/depleted-uranium-shells-supplies-to-ukraine-threaten-humanity-turkeys-presidential-candidate-1109373068.html) occurred at this detector, north west of the explosion site almost exactly when it would be expected on the basis of a distance of 250km and a mean wind speed of 5km/h. The increase, from 60nSv/h to 90nSv/h was highly statistically significant about 50%. Other detectors all across Poland showed an increase*, as the plume passed over them, the increase being weaker the further away (due to dispersion of the plume).

Later, the Poles measured the increase at the Marie Curie Institute in Lublin, but their map was a more sophisticated one and needed some expert interpretation. The Polish map gave gamma increases split into two natural isotopes, Bismuth and Thallium, also total gamma and cosmic ray gamma.

From the map, we are to assume (and this was the implicit message) that the gamma peak was due to Bismuth. Enter Sherlock Holmes. Bismuth 214 is a Radon daughter. The natural background radioactive gas Radon (Rn-222) is always present, since it is produced from Uranium and Radium in the ground.

If there is a sudden change in atmospheric pressure, or when it rains, there is a gamma peak from Radon, which shows itself as the Bi-214 peak. So, the Poles seem to be implying that the increase in gamma radiation is normal and nothing to get scared about. Many have picked up on the Bismuth spectrum. But the way in which the Polish graphs are presented is misleading.

The problem with a radon argument is first that the gamma increases go up all across Poland at a time scale that identifies a plume from Khmelnitsky and second that there was a stable anticyclone weather system and no atmospheric pressure changes that might pull radon out of the ground. I checked all that. There was only some light rain over Lublin.

There is, however, an additional possibility. Very fine particles attract Radon: you get a slight increase in gamma from Radon near factory chimneys that emit fine particles.

The European radiation detector system web map came back online on May 18. The map type had been changed and everything we saw in the downloads had disappeared or had been smudged out by data analysis averaging. Why? This, and the early blocking of access to the site suggest panic and cover-up. (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230328/use-of-depleted-uranium-in-ukraine-could-spark-global-health-crisis-heres-why-1108844529.html)

So taken all together, what we see is a massive explosion which is thought to be DU, and reports of a spike in gamma radiation near the site. Uranium oxide is black, and the black plume moves north west slowly, the weather pattern is stable and the wind blows to Poland. The Polish EU detectors all show gamma radiation increases at the expected time of arrival of the plume.

The EU detector system is shut down rapidly, but not before we have obtained data from several sites. The Poles provide a detector result that identified Bismuth as the cause of the increase, but do not go so far as to formally state that it is (in case of later blowback).

One final piece of evidence. We see videos on the internet of the Ukrainians clearing up the explosion site using Robot vehicles, not ordinary firemen. Why do they need Robot vehicles? The last times we saw Robot vehicles clearing up was in the ruins of Chernobyl and Fukushima.

If I am right, there has been an environmental disaster, and the DU particles will travel across Poland, Germany and Hungary, and will end up in the Baltics, probably later the whole of Europe including the UK (after all, the Chernobyl Uranium particles came to the UK).

They will deliver genetic damage and death like that seen in the Balkans and Iraq. Cancer, birth defects, miscarriage, infertility, lung damage, mental problems (Gulf War Syndrome) and so forth. The scientific and epidemiological evidence on this has been clear since the Gulf War. It is all there in the scientific literature—but the governments in the West and the military ignore it, deny it and cover it up.

In the case of the UK coroners court finding for Stuart Dyson, the jury found that DU caused his fatal colon cancer. But when the coroner wrote to the health minister (as he had to by UK law, Rule 43) the reply was: we disagree. This stuff can be measured, but no one will measure it, or if they do, they will be attacked and their arguments dismissed.

Even if I am wrong, and there is some other explanation for the gamma peaks, DU must be banned. It is a weapon of indiscriminate effect and kills civilians (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230329/natos-favorite-weapon-exposed-the-deadly-details-of-depleted-uranium-shells-unveiled-1108901118.html), the enemy and your own troops (well, Ukrainian troops). It is much worse than a war gas, like Sarin, or phosgene, mustard gas or all the other chemical agents banned by civilisation.

This stuff destroys the genetic basis of life itself. And no one does anything. Those who use it base their action on obsolete science supported by dishonest epidemiology carried out by dishonest scientists and obsolete and fantastical risk models.

Those who provide the weapons, the UK government in this case, are morally bankrupt. Unless it is their intention to destroy the Ukrainian people. Who knows anymore? The world has gone mad.

[Bill Ryan]

Here's the article about the statement from Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. I don't have the official original text, but I'm sure it can be found faily easily.


https://southfront.org/radioactive-cloud-from-ukraine-heading-to-western-europe-secretary-of-russian-security-council

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Radioactive Cloud From Ukraine Heading To Western Europe – Secretary Of Russian Security Council

On May 19, Secretary of the Russian Security Council of the Russian federation Nikolai Patrushev held a meeting in the Republic of Komi. Russian officials discussed strengthening of anti-terrorist security in the region.

In his speech, Secretary of the Russian Security Council reminded that the Kiev regime has committed and is committing terrorist acts with the support of Western countries. According to him, all the crimes committed by Ukrainian saboteurs in Russia were planned and coordinated by the US special services.

At the same time, NATO countries continue arming the Kiev regime, including with the weapons, dangerous for the West itself. Washington put pressure on its satellites and assured the supply of ammunition with depleted uranium to the war-torn country. Patrushev warned that the supply of this ammunition could turn into a catastrophe for Europe comparable to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In his speech, Patrushev confirmed that the recent Russian strikes in Khmelnitsky destroyed the dangerous cargo in Ukrainian warehouse. LINK (https://southfront.org/falling-into-a-nuclear-trap-in-ukraine/)
“Their destruction led to the fact that the radioactive cloud headed towards western Europe. And an increase in radiation has already been recorded in Poland,” Patrushev said.
Patrushev also reminded, the United States is developing and is already using chemical and biological weapons, including on the territory of Ukraine.
“This is what it is – American aid and democracy,” the Secretary of the Security Council summed up.
The US president arrived in Japan in Hiroshima to participate in the summit of the G7, including to defend their “common democratic values.”

Patrushev recalled the US “help” to various countries, including to Japan in August 1945. Then, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were subjected to atomic bombing, which caused catastrophic consequences and the death of a huge number of civilians without any military necessity.
“They didn’t apologize. And they are not going to apologize for what they have done, because they assure the Japanese that the Soviet Union used atomic weapons against them, not the States,” the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation stated.
Despite the steadily increasing military assistance to Ukraine, goals of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine will certainly be achieved.

[Bill Ryan]

From The Moon of Alabama, just a few minutes ago. This news will (or should be!) all over the net, but it's a good concise summary.


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/bakhmut-has-fallen-artyomovsk-has-been-liberated-.html

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Bakhmut Has Fallen - Artyomovsk Has Been Liberated

The so far largest battle of the 21st century ended today.

Bakhmut has fallen. Artyomovsk (the Russian/Soviet name of the city) has been liberated. This was announced today by the titular leader of the Wagner forces, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a video posted on Telegram.

Why the Ukrainian leadership had decided to hold onto the city even months after the situation there was already in its disfavor is beyond me. The fight was decided by the numerical superiority of Russian artillery fire and the Ukraine had never a chance to top that.

The losses there for the Ukrainians amounted to 300 to 500 men per day over that last 5 months. That sums up to a total of 60,000 casualties. Ten days ago Ukrainian units, including the fascist Azov brigade (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/they-are-propagandizing-for-nazis-but-wont-tell-you-that.html), rolled up the Russian flanks north and south of Bakhmut to allow the Ukrainian troops in the city to flee west. That attack alone, only one or 2 kilometer deep, cost them some 1,600+ men and some 50+ armored vehicles.

On the Russian side the fighting in the city was largely done by Wagner troops. But they were never able to do it on their own. Russian military intelligence, artillery and logistics all played an important role in the fight.

The city has been destroyed but it will continued to exist as it is an important logistical hub with several rail and road connections running through it.

Mariupol, which fell/was liberated a year ago (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099885151/mariupol-falls-ukraine-russia-what-it-means), is already being rebuild (https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-01-13/after-months-of-bombing-russia-starts-rebuilding-mariupol.html). In a month or two, when the frontline has moved away from Artyomovsk, rebuilding will start there too.

For a moment now the front line in Ukraine seems all around relative quiet.

It is not clear to me when or where a new operational move will start.

[Ravenlocke]

Text:

Bakhmut has fallen, long live Artyomovsk!
In the period from 18:00 to 20:00 today, a solemn ceremony of raising the flag over the city is scheduled. This was stated by Yevgeny Prigozhin in his video message.

But Ukrainian officials do not acknowledge the loss of the "post of power" - a bad sign when the president in Japan begs. According to them, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are still holding the line.

When do you think the Ukrainian side will recognize the loss of Bakhmut? Maybe in 2500 they recognize it

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1659926760438333441

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The bottom tweet video is the one with English subtitles.



https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1659932143697506305

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1659944319309033472

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Also this,

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1659946130497470465 1659946130497470465

[lightpotential]

Hello Bill

With regard to the ammo dump explosion in Khmelnitsky that you cite in your message, I have done a detailed evaluation of the mushroom cloud in order to establish a yield. Using trigonometry and a certain reference table, I have determined a value for the explosion as being some 2000 tons (2 KT) of TNT. Roughly 7.5 times less than the power of the Hiroshima bomb used in 1945 (15 KT / 15000 tons).

In a recent UK Column video, they suggested that it might have been a few hundred tons. It does appear to be significantly more though. My analysis is in the following 12 minute video I have just uploaded to my You Tube Channel:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39cklOrE1OM

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1659927860960718851

1659927860960718851

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1659917484739239937

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https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1659919746010083329

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/OlgaBazova/status/1658712605475651584

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https://twitter.com/OlgaBazova/status/1658715118501330944

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1659957414739734529

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https://twitter.com/Sinnaig/status/1659888088603058176

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https://twitter.com/Sinnaig/status/1659864573015457793

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/timand2037/status/1659593162539638786

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[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/Sinnaig/status/1659864573015457793

1659864573015457793Thanks, and so very lovely to see. :heart:

Russian soldiers do this kind of thing all the time, and we probably only get to hear a tiny number of the stories.

:grouphug:

[Bill Ryan]

Clearly this will require confirmation, but if true, this is an important development.

Readers following the Ukraine drama closely will be aware that rumors have been circulating widely for over a week that something is amiss with Zaluzhny, the commander of the Ukraine armed forces. (This is his photo below.)

https://t.me/thecoppermountain/4154

thecoppermountain/4154

[Bruce G Charlton]

Many thanks for this Bill - it's just the kind of source I was hoping to discover.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1659988105946955776

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¤=[Post Update]=¤


Clearly this will require confirmation, but if true, this is an important development.

Readers following the Ukraine drama closely will be aware that rumors have been circulating widely for over a week that something is amiss with Zaluzhny, the commander of the Ukraine armed forces. (This is his photo below.)

https://t.me/thecoppermountain/4154

thecoppermountain/4154



Hi Bill,
I’m still researching but this is all I have for now,

https://twitter.com/NovichokRossiya/status/1659863156460597248

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[Ravenlocke]

Ukr Flank Attacks Stall; Ze Roadshow Hits Saudi, Japan; G7 Agrees F16s, Economic War with China

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Who was decimated in Bakhmut:

Brigades:
🟥45th Brigade
🟥43rd Brigade
🟥26th Brigade
🟫28th Brigade
🟫62nd Brigade
🟫63rd Brigade
🟫53rd Brigade
🟫60th Brigade
🟫24th Brigade
🟫57th Brigade
🟫30th Brigade
🟪Advance Rubizh Brigade
🟪Advance Azov Brigade
🟪Advance Uragan Brigade
🟪Advance Spartan Brigade
🟨109th Brigade
🟨116th Brigade
🟨119th Brigade
🟨241st Brigade
🟦93rd Brigade
🟦77th Brigade
🟦46th Brigade
⬛4th Brigade
⬛17th Brigade
🟩61st Brigade of Jaegers
🟧Special Forces and Spetsnaz

Regiments:
🟪5th Assault Regiment
🟧8th Regiment of Special Forces
🟧Kraken

Battalions:
🟨122nd Battalion
🟨68th Battalion
🟪214th OPFOR Battalion
🟩49th Rifle Battalion
🟩15th Mountain Assault Battalion
🟧Omega
⬜Border Guard Donetsk
🟫8th Regiment of the UDAR

UAVs:
🔳Shershen
🔳Adam
🔳Karlsen
🔳Terra
🔳Skala
🔳Madyar
🔳Khartia
🔳Kep
🔳Seneka
🔳WASP

Legions:
🔲Dudaev Battalion
🔲Georgian Legion
🔲Mansur Battalion
🔲Shamil Battalion
🔲Gonor
🔲Normandy Legion

https://twitter.com/Justthinkabou/status/1659930208483278849

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/MatreshkaRF/status/1659920889587150849

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/its_maria012/status/1659996234936115200

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https://twitter.com/its_maria012/status/1659992910698512384

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[Ravenlocke]

In reply to Bill’s post here,

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1558397&viewfull=1#post1558397



Confirmed!


https://twitter.com/DagnyTaggart963/status/1659982476926676994

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1660012521678606338

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/NovichokRossiya/status/1660013650243993606

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https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/05/20/commander-in-chief-of-ukrainian-armed-forces-said-to-be-in-critical-condition-after-being-wounded/

Commander-in-chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces said to be in critical condition after being wounded
Chris King

Commander-in-chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces said to be in critical condition after being wounded

Image of Valery Zaluzhny, Commander of the Ukrainian forces. Credit: Wikipedia - By Mil.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0

Valery Zaluzhny, the Commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is reportedly in critical condition after being wounded.

The suspected state of health of the senior Ukrainian military figure was announced by the Russian war correspondent Andrei Rudenko on his Telegram channel today, Saturday, May 20.

He posted: “Rumors continue to circulate around the sudden disappearance of Valery Zaluzhny, the head of the AFU”.

“As a media personality, Zaluzhny was constantly in the lenses of the Ukrainian and Western media. He is second only to Zelenskyy in the intensity of his TV appearances”.

“However, since May 8 no one has seen Zaluzhny. General Naev is present at all the events which require the personal participation of the Commander-in-Chief”.

“Even at the regular meeting of the heads of the military departments in Ramstein, where the critical issues of the supply of weapons and ammunition necessary for the upcoming counterattack were discussed for Ukraine, Zaluzhny did not participate even in the online format”.

“According to our source in the AFU leadership, General Zaluzhny is alive but is in critical condition at the main military clinical hospital, where the fight for his life continues, including the participation of foreign specialists”.

“On May 8, Zaluzhny was seriously wounded while at one of the control points of the Eastern grouping of the AFU in the Dnipropetrovsk region when he was checking the readiness of formations and units for a counterattack”.

“During a missile strike on military infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region, this control point was struck by a precise hit from a Russian cruise missile. As a result, a large number of high-ranking Ukrainian military officials, including General Zaluzhny, were killed and wounded”.

“Information about Zaluzhny’s wounding was indirectly confirmed by the fact that on May 10 his wife, Olena, was seen driving from Novogospitalna Street to a Kyiv military hospital, where she spent more than four hours”.

“To prevent panic among the AFU leadership and Ukrainian servicemen, information about Zaluzhny’s serious injury and critical health condition is being withheld. The Ukrainian special services were tasked with demonstrating Zaluzhny’s activity in every way possible while the fight for his life was going on”.

“Hence the appearance in the media of all sorts of ‘useless’ interviews supposedly recorded recently or photos from the holiday of the Commander-in-Chief in Cyprus”.

“You will agree that this is not a very good time to rest when preparations for the coming counteroffensive are in full swing. And the loss of Bakhmut is not a good situation either”.

Thank you for taking the time to read this article. Do remember to come back and check The Euro Weekly News website for all your up-to-date local and international news stories and remember, you can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

[Ravenlocke]

Douglas Macgregor - Russia's Competence in the Conflict

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1660034260659576834

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[ExomatrixTV]

532575425463047


source

(https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=532575425463047)

From Bill:
This is British MP Tony Benn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn) (1925-2014), one of the few last politicians anywhere with any integrity.
:muscle:

[Tintin]

Alex Krainer who cites Sy Hersh's recent 'Refugee Question' article already posted on this thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1557778&viewfull=1#post1557778) has this to say about possible future developments, and can largely attest to the validity of Sy's sources from his very own.

This excerpt here:



"Across the Atlantic, Biden Administration minions like Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken remain fanatically devoted to the "destroy Russia" project but it seems that their maneuvering space is shrinking by the day as more and more adults in the administration realize that this little cabal of pathological liars is barking mad and dragging the whole nation to ruin."



"Last month I had the occasion to have a longish chat with an acquaintance who is a close personal friend of one of the western agents involved with this whole debacle. I'll have to refer to the person as X and not give away their pronouns. At one point my conversation with X’s friend turned to the war in Ukraine. She asked a number of pointed questions which I answered according to my own views. Surprisingly, instead of the expected pro-Ukraine pushback, she only nodded with a faint smile. Then I asked about her friend, X and mentioned that I listened carefully to a few of X's interviews and statements in various conferences and I said that while X was saying all the right words, somehow they didn't sound very convincing to me.

I added that if I were a member of the inner sanctum of the globalist imperial cabal, I wouldn't trust X. X's friend continued to nod with her faint smile. I could not resist and I asked her, "am I right about that?" Her smile opened much more widely and she replied, "oh, yes!" I followed up to make sure I understood what I just heard: you mean, if I were part of the cabal, I would be right not to trust X? The answer was, yes.

It seems that below the surface of day-to-day events, behind the solemn declarations, award ceremonies, press conferences, back slaps and shows of support, the cabal is facing a festering conspiracy of disaffected officials, lukewarm supporters and outright enemies burrowing to sabotage the cabal’s agenda. It seems, to use Yeats' striking words, "The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold...""

The entirety of Alex Krainer's substack (https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-center-cannot-hold) article is here.

We may very well be witnessing schisms - a breaking of ranks particularly in view of the recent liberation of (what's left of) Bakhmut (Artyomovsk)

With that in mind followers of Simplicius The Thinker's work are encouraged to read his latest (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-52023-bakhmut-falls-artemovsk) concerning where things on the battlefield are likely to be headed next. His analysis is usually unerringly accurate, in most instances (Title: SITREP 5/20/23: Bakhmut Falls, Artemovsk Rises. What's Next?)

[grapevine]

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(https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=532575425463047)

From Bill:
This is British MP Tony Benn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn) (1935-2014), one of the few last politicians anywhere with any integrity.
:muscle:


Loved that John, thank you. It reminded me of days gone by, sadly. If only we had MPs of this calibre today . . . Somewhere between the above speech and now, something quite terrible happened to our infrastructure, and it's going take something cataclysmic to put it right.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1660012521678606338

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ricwe123/status/1660273545430048769

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1660294844592406528

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[Ravenlocke]

Defeat for Ukraine, Bakhmut Falls, Russia in Full Control; Kiev, West in Denial

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/MatreshkaRF/status/1660130865215684609

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1660323630444584962

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1660220521038897153

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/its_maria012/status/1660352222054715393

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[kfm27917]

Why Ukraine Must Lose To Save The World

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/why-ukraine-must-lose-to-save-the-world/

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1660313651084140544

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[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine Admits Murdering "Quite A Few" Russian Civilians Who Back Putin And His Invasion (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-admits-murdering-quite-few-russian-civilians-who-back-putin-and-his-invasion)



dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/oekraine-doet-schokkende-bekentenis-die-is-genegeerd-door-westerse-media/) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[Tintin]

This may be a little far fetched on spec but given the events that preceded the later bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines back in October I really wouldn't put anything past NATO.

I haven't listened to this yet but place it here for anyone with around 55 minutes handy to make the time:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/2023-05-20_EP_16685_War_of_the_Worlds_podcast_George_Eliason_%2B_John_Helmer_May_20_2023.mp3

This helpful description from Will Schryver (https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1660108305933688833) can act as a kind of summary for now:



"I've just listened to this interview with John Helmer, who is convinced NATO is planning an ambush attack against Russia as soon as June 12th, under the guise of long-planned NATO exercises in Germany, Poland, and Romania.

Helmer believes this "ambush attack" will incorporate a full complement of top-shelf US air assets, including F-22s and F-35s.

While I do not categorically dismiss the possibility of such an astounding move by the US and its NATO vassals, I consider it effectively impossible. It is, in my judgment, an unthinkable and assuredly catastrophic escalation to no-holds-barred World War 3.

So, I suppose we must all "wait and see", but I remain highly dubious that the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult has sufficiently seized the reins of American military power that it could bring to pass an act of such unmitigated madness."

Original source: TNT Radio (https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/war-of-the-worlds-20-may-2023/)

[Bill Ryan]

Helmer believes this "ambush attack" will incorporate a full complement of top-shelf US air assets, including F-22s and F-35s.

While I do not categorically dismiss the possibility of such an astounding move by the US and its NATO vassals, I consider it effectively impossible. It is, in my judgment, an unthinkable and assuredly catastrophic escalation to no-holds-barred World War 3.Paradoxically, there may be some in the Kremlin (e.g. Medvedev!) who might actually welcome this.

One of the facets of the conflict that Putin has been managing very expertly since the beginning of last year is maintaining a near-seamless strategy of moderation in the face of extraordinary provocation — not to mention repeated taunts and insults from diplomats who should know better. That very moderation has won him important support and respect from China, India, and the rest of the 'Global South'.

If US/NATO were to do something so unthinkably stupid (and it's not impossible), then Russia would take the gloves right off and retaliate with immense force. Putin's friends and allies could not and would not condemn what would now be legitimate self-defense, and Russia's formally and clearly stated nuclear doctrine lays out exactly what they would be prepared to do.

[Michel Leclerc]

Oddly Bill, this may unfortunately dovetail with something else I've been pondering. The attack on the depleted uranium depot in Khelminsky admittedly was not carried out by a nuclear detonation, but the explosion does yield gamma radiation and will soon start claiming victims in Nato Europe. Why has the West or the deftly truth manipulating Zillionski regime not immediately exploited this as being a "dirty" attack by the Russian military which would provide an excuse for shifting gear to WW3 -- unless Nato knows a nuclear response by Nato would both lose the advantage of surprise and the "innocence" of non-escalation... and unless a "smarter" move which might elicit a Russian nuclear response and demonstrate its "irresponsible" willingness to go nuclear is bing prepared? Which such "ambush attack" would amount to?

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1660382078544781314

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https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1660413378265743360

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🇧🇷❌🇺🇦Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva refused to meet with Vladimir Zelensky on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, despite the requests of Emmanuel Macron. This was reported by the British newspaper Financial Times, citing sources familiar with the conversation between the presidents of Brazil and France.

Zelensky himself, when asked if he was upset because the meeting with the Brazilian president did not take place, said: "I think he (Lula da Silva — approx.) should be the one who is upset." The statement of the Ukrainian president is quoted by the Financial Times.

At the same time, Brazilian officials with whom the publication spoke said that Lula da Silva did not refuse Zelensky's proposal for a meeting, the parties "simply did not agree on schedules."

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[Bruce G Charlton]

This may be a little far fetched on spec but given the events that preceded the later bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines back in October I really wouldn't put anything past NATO.

I haven't listened to this yet but place it here for anyone with around 55 minutes handy to make the time:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/2023-05-20_EP_16685_War_of_the_Worlds_podcast_George_Eliason_%2B_John_Helmer_May_20_2023.mp3

This helpful description from Will Schryver (https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1660108305933688833) can act as a kind of summary for now:



"I've just listened to this interview with John Helmer, who is convinced NATO is planning an ambush attack against Russia as soon as June 12th, under the guise of long-planned NATO exercises in Germany, Poland, and Romania.

Helmer believes this "ambush attack" will incorporate a full complement of top-shelf US air assets, including F-22s and F-35s.

While I do not categorically dismiss the possibility of such an astounding move by the US and its NATO vassals, I consider it effectively impossible. It is, in my judgment, an unthinkable and assuredly catastrophic escalation to no-holds-barred World War 3.

So, I suppose we must all "wait and see", but I remain highly dubious that the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult has sufficiently seized the reins of American military power that it could bring to pass an act of such unmitigated madness."

Original source: TNT Radio (https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/war-of-the-worlds-20-may-2023/)

@Tintin: "I really wouldn't put anything past NATO."

That seems to be the chilling fact. What seems rational or reasonable behaviour, is no longer a guide to what those with power in the West might do; because what they want is neither rational nor reasonable.

I have been repeatedly surprised by Russia's repeated restraint in face of incremental attempts at escalation - but I strongly suspect that this restraint is regarded on The West as weakness; and the W. Leadership class now think that can do anything they want without consequences; so long as they employ a creeping, stepwise, incrementalism -- with fake denials and false flag accusations to confuse and wrong-foot the Godless, aspiritual, hyper-distractible, media-addicted Western masses (not difficult people to confuse!).

The globalist totalitarians see themselves as different from the masses they manipulate and use; and they really are different. It is not just in what they do in terms of colossal and selfish corruption and hedonism - it is the weird, un-human things that they want which makes them so alien - hence difficult to predict. Ordinary people mostly cannot comprehend such people, such motivations - even when they are set-out explicitly, such a mindset seems too strange to be grasped, and the implications seem too horrific.

As a (modest) example; people mostly seem to regard the great Reset (and its consequences - mandatory and legally-protected systematic educational and propaganda programs to converts children to trans then mutilate and poison them, zero carbon, 15 minute cities, unlimited mass migration, systemic favouring of newly arrived immigrants over natives etc) as a joke or a fake - because they can't imagine that anybody (let alone the Great and Good) could take such things seriously - could really want such a world, and regard it as better!

How then can we guess what will happen when the Western leaders seriously confront losing in the Ukraine?

[Tintin]

Published not long ago by Kim Dotcom on their Twitter feed; the link to this is here: https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1660420327325958144

For some ease of reading - I hope - I've created a PDF of the thread contents which I would hope will load here okay (this function is sometimes temperamental):

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Nord_Stream_2_pipeline_sabotage_September_2022/2023-05-22_Nord_Stream_sabotage_Radar_evidence_via_Kim_Dotcom_Twitter_whistleblower.pdf

[Tintin]

(Regarding Nord Stream - previous post here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1558636&viewfull=1#post1558636): the text, absent images below):

EXCLUSIVE from a #NordStreamSabotage whistleblower:
From: Kim Dotcom Twitter channel May 22, 2023
Link: https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1660420327325958144

I am writing to you as a concerned citizen of the world, wishing for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine. My identity is not of importance. What matters is the sharing of my story so that the world can understand the truth about the Nord Stream Sabotage, thereby moving forward without lies or inaccuracies.

As many of you may know, a series of clandestine bombings and subsequent underwater gas leaks occurred on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines on September 26, 2022.

While there has been much speculation about the nature of this sabotage, I aim to provide additional details and facts that will give a clearer picture.

Before the attacks on September 11, 2001, I started working with contractors at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Maryland. We were working on the Advanced Seal Delivery System (ASDS), a covert mini-submarine designed for the Navy Seals to carry out stealthy clandestine missions. This submarine is transported on the back of nuclear submarines and detaches to execute its missions.

I was chosen to work on this project, and my role was to assist in the programming of the full-sized, temperature-controlled simulator for the submarine on which the Navy Seals would train. The simulator featured screens that displayed a 3D simulation of the ASDS undocking from a nuclear submarine, executing its mission, and then returning to dock.

I spent countless hours in the simulator, ensuring everything functioned as specified. I piloted the simulator on simulated missions, just like the Navy Seal pilots would before their actual missions. Even in 2001, we had the ability to program a variety of scenarios, including the sabotaging of pipelines. Although I did not pilot a simulated mission specifically for the Nord Stream pipelines, I did simulate scenarios of covertly sabotaging pipelines. I can confirm that the United States has had this capability for decades, and the ASDS is in the US inventory, fully capable of executing the Nord Stream Sabotage.

Publicly available radar evidence from http://flightradar24.com helps shine light on how the Nordstream sabotage was conducted. As exposed by Seymour Hersh, the explosives were planted during the Baltops 22 maritime exercises. Although speculation remains as to the exact method of explosives placement, I believe that the modern Advanced Seal Delivery System (ASDS) was utilized with Navy divers. This mirrors the way I would have conducted the mission in the simulator.

(Thread: 1 of 7)

Once the explosives were planted, they would be triggered by sonobuoy. On September 25, at roughly 10:52 pm UTC, a US Navy Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk appeared on radar in the Baltic Sea, east of Bornholm Island. Radar data indicates that this state-of-the-art helicopter, equipped with sonobuoy, had been hovering for an indeterminate length of time. Within clear range of the explosion, the US Navy Sikorsky is seen on radar loitering before, during, and after the explosion, until approximately 1:43 am UTC when it goes off radar in the Baltic, having hovered for over three hours in darkness. This helicopter was present at the scene of the explosion before, during, and after the event, equipped with sonobuoy capable of triggering the explosion.

(Thread: 2 of 7)

Meanwhile, on September 25, at roughly 11:28 pm UTC, a US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon equipped with sonobuoy and with NO CALLSIGN appeared on radar east of the Faroe Islands. This Boeing P-8A Poseidon headed directly to the site of the first Nord Stream explosion near Bornholm Island, reaching an observational point at 1:08 am UTC on September 26, just over one hour after the first explosion at 12:03 am UTC. Important: The P-8A Poseidon took off >BEFORE< the first explosion and was heading to the coordinates were the explosion would occur.

(Thread: 3 of 7)

At this juncture, the Poseidon had completed the first part of its mission, confirming the detonation of the explosives. It then flew over land near Miastko and rendezvoused with a US Air Force Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker for in-air refueling at 1:20 am UTC on September 26. The Poseidon circled with the Stratotanker until 2:28 am UTC, after which it was ready to complete the second part of its mission. It returned to the first explosion site for observation at 2:42 am UTC. It then made a tight loop at a low altitude, around 24,000 ft, directly above the explosion site for optimal observation. Afterward, it descended to a very low altitude of 7,275 ft in tight loops until it disappeared from radar at roughly 3:05 am UTC. At this point, the Poseidon likely dropped a sonobuoy to initiate the countdown for the second wave of explosions, which would occur approximately 14 hours later.

(Thread: 4 of 7)

The same US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon with no callsign reappeared on radar at 6:22 am UTC on September 26, east of Bornholm Island. It flew to the site of the first explosion for a second look at 7:00 am UTC, then flew back and disappeared from radar at roughly 9:04 am UTC east of the Faroe Islands.

(Thread: 5 of 7)

After the second wave of explosions at 5:03 pm UTC on September 26, the original US Navy Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk reappeared on radar in the Baltic at roughly 6:42 pm UTC. It then hovered for over two hours until approximately 8:50 pm UTC, at which point it went off radar. During this time, it had an observational view of the aftermath of the second wave of explosions.

(Thread: 6 of 7)

How the US blew up the Nordstream pipelines (Radar Evidence). I urge the public to review the publicly available radar data for themselves and witness the events as they unfolded, as it is easily verifiable. - ASDS Engineer


Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG71NGXr4vU&ab_channel=revisionfour
Title: How the US blew up the Nord Stream pipelines (Radar Evidence)
Channel: revisionfour

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[jaybee]

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Is the whole pantomime of a khaki clad Zelensky constantly going around the world demanding money and weapons from various countries all theatre and the money isn't really coming from the National Budget and the taxpayer - but is money being 'laundered' by them , so to speak, and really comes from the richest people in the world who cannot openly supply money and weapons (because that would be too obvious) so it has to look like supportive governments are doing it.....

Could it be that all the countries who are (apparently) sending billions and billions and billions (dollars/pounds etc) can't afford to - literally can't afford to ie. the money isn't there... but money to prop up Ukraine and buy weapons is funnelled from 'elsewhere' ...

In this talk from John Coleman he talks about the untold wealth that cannot be measured - that resides with 'the Committee of 300'.... wealth that makes the Rockefeller's money look like small change and they use this wealth to run the world - he explains how they became so rich in the first few minutes of the video, starting with the British East India Company... going on to opium production...

@4:04

these 300 men in the Committee of 300 still run the world today with an iron fist - their wealth untold, cannot be measured... (from the 1990s)


Powerful Speech: Dr. John Coleman Exposes The Committee Of 300- (BitChute video) (https://www.bitchute.com/video/Zptku31VGMtR/)


Are these the people who NATO top brass really answer to....?

[Gwin Ru]

...

... What's the Deal with Bakhmut? - Col Doug Macgregor 10:00a est TODAY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWL3hgjKGHI) 26:06

https://yt3.ggpht.com/7sG2dx9yKbBfmA25TtYyQLcYM7wCAtZ2vmPyyUZQbCAhl2PV3DiC1y0StWN5sXnQCbkXdFComQ=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj (https://www.youtube.com/@judgenapolitano-judgingfre7226) Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom (https://www.youtube.com/@judgenapolitano-judgingfre7226)

Streamed live 26 minutes ago

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[ExomatrixTV]

The G7 Is BACK! & PROOF NATO Ready For War With Russia?!

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Whether it’s Zelenskyy’s surprising visit to the G7 summit or NATO’s military plans on how to win a fight against Russia, what’s the TRUTH behind the dynamics of Global power? Plus, the top secret Bilderberg meetings just an ‘off-the-books’ NATO summit? And who’s sponsoring it? Here to tell us is our special guest, investigative journalist, Charlie Skelton.

[ExomatrixTV]

WORLD WAR 3: Will Biden ACTUALLY send U.S. F-16s to Ukraine? :facepalm:


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The Biden Administration now is allowing Western allies to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets — including American-made ones. But just over one year ago, Joe Biden warned that taking similar steps would enter America into World War 3. The situation continues to escalate, so much so that several high-ranking military officials took to the New York Times in a paid advertisement to warn the world about this administration’s handling of the war. Glenn reads from their advertisement in this clip, and he argues that most Americans DO want to help Ukraine. We just don’t want to enter ‘nuclear winter’ as a result of it… :facepalm:

[Bill Ryan]

[LIST]
WORLD WAR 3: Will Biden ACTUALLY send U.S. F-16s to Ukraine?

A fun tweet: (containing a lot of facts :))

Text:

NATO: We will send F-16's to Ukraine!
Russia: Hold my beer (https://londonpolitica.com/euroasia/how-do-nato-and-the-west-compare-with-chinese-and-russian-air-to-air-technology)

In late October a Ukrainian Sukhoi-27 Flanker, Soviet-era fighter, was shot down by a long-range air-to-air missile (LRAAM) – the R-37M. This is not the first Ukrainian aircraft to be shot down since Russia’s invasion commenced in February, but it is nevertheless a significant feat for the Russian Air Force because the R-37M took down the Ukrainian Sukhoi-27 from a range of 217km (https://en.protothema.gr/extreme-range-kill-on-ukraines-top-fighter-was-a-su-57-not-an-air-defence-system-reports/) (about 140 miles). This would make the kill the longest on record. The R-37M is a hypersonic long-range air-to-air missile (LRAAM) reportedly capable (https://www.deagel.com/Defensive%20Weapons/R-37/a002545) of reaching Mach 6 and striking targets up to 400km (250 miles) away.

The R-37M has become virtually unmatched (https://strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/15/russia-new-r37m-air-air-missile-unique-unmatched/), with few potential rivals.Furthermore, it is reported that the R-37M was fired (https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/extreme-range-su57-su-27-kill-reports) from Russia’s fifth-generation fighter the Sukhoi-57 Felon rather than the Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound, Russia’s primary interceptor. The possibility of a fifth-generation Felon executing a target from such a long range is not at all impossible; the Sukhoi-57 has a sophisticated actively electronic scanned arrays (AESA) radar system comprising of the solid state AN/APG-77 – with a range of at least 200km (https://world-defense.com/threads/an-apg-77-vs-n036-byelka.5341/) (125 miles); and the N036 Byelka (https://www.insider.com/russia-sukhoi-su-57-fighter-jet-weapons-radars-capabilities-2019-8) radar which boasts a maximum range (https://www.cmano-db.com/pdf/sensor/1821/#:~:text=N036-1-01%20Byelka%20AESA%20%28Su-57%29%20Radar%20Type%3A%20Radar,Altitude%20Max%3A%200%20m%20Range%20Max%3A%20398.2%20km) just under 400km (250 miles).

https://twitter.com/MGKrupa/status/1660589557446852609
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[ExomatrixTV]

[LIST]
WORLD WAR 3: Will Biden ACTUALLY send U.S. F-16s to Ukraine?

A fun tweet: (containing a lot of facts :))

Text:

NATO: We will send F-16's to Ukraine!
Russia: Hold my beer (https://londonpolitica.com/euroasia/how-do-nato-and-the-west-compare-with-chinese-and-russian-air-to-air-technology)
In late October a Ukrainian Sukhoi-27 Flanker, Soviet-era fighter, was shot down by a long-range air-to-air missile (LRAAM) – the R-37M. This is not the first Ukrainian aircraft to be shot down since Russia’s invasion commenced in February, but it is nevertheless a significant feat for the Russian Air Force because the R-37M took down the Ukrainian Sukhoi-27 from a range of 217km (https://en.protothema.gr/extreme-range-kill-on-ukraines-top-fighter-was-a-su-57-not-an-air-defence-system-reports/) (about 140 miles). This would make the kill the longest on record. The R-37M is a hypersonic long-range air-to-air missile (LRAAM) reportedly capable (https://www.deagel.com/Defensive%20Weapons/R-37/a002545) of reaching Mach 6 and striking targets up to 400km (250 miles) away.

The R-37M has become virtually unmatched (https://strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/15/russia-new-r37m-air-air-missile-unique-unmatched/), with few potential rivals.Furthermore, it is reported that the R-37M was fired (https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/extreme-range-su57-su-27-kill-reports) from Russia’s fifth-generation fighter the Sukhoi-57 Felon rather than the Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound, Russia’s primary interceptor. The possibility of a fifth-generation Felon executing a target from such a long range is not at all impossible; the Sukhoi-57 has a sophisticated actively electronic scanned arrays (AESA) radar system comprising of the solid state AN/APG-77 – with a range of at least 200km (https://world-defense.com/threads/an-apg-77-vs-n036-byelka.5341/) (125 miles); and the N036 Byelka (https://www.insider.com/russia-sukhoi-su-57-fighter-jet-weapons-radars-capabilities-2019-8) radar which boasts a maximum range (https://www.cmano-db.com/pdf/sensor/1821/#:~:text=N036-1-01%20Byelka%20AESA%20%28Su-57%29%20Radar%20Type%3A%20Radar,Altitude%20Max%3A%200%20m%20Range%20Max%3A%20398.2%20km) just under 400km (250 miles).
https://twitter.com/MGKrupa/status/1660589557446852609
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quora.com/Is-the-Russian-SU-57-aircraft-more-capable-than-the-F-16-fighter-jets (https://quora.com/Is-the-Russian-SU-57-aircraft-more-capable-than-the-F-16-fighter-jets)

I answered the above "quora question" with this response:

"The combination of Sukhoi-57 and R-37 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-37_(missile))M “Mach 6” Super Sonic Rockets Striking targets up to 400km (250 miles) away vs F-16 … Do the math!"


Am not sure if people can see it (https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Russian-SU-57-aircraft-more-capable-than-the-F-16-fighter-jets/answer/Johannes-Kuhles?prompt_topic_bio=1) (yet!) ... maybe it is pending "approval" or something :noidea: if you do you see it, you can "vote it up!" :) :thumbsup:

I have answered more questions on quora site before with no problems.

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

related?:


Okhotnik-B Stealth Drone Big Problem for NATO (https://rumble.com/vyp5qv--russias-biggest-drone-okhotnik-b-stealth-drone-big-problem-for-nato-bigges.html)

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1660680574418186245

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1660696554347347992
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Stuffing money into Zelensky is postponed due to proceedings with the US national debt
“American lawmakers are still postponing a substantive discussion of the issue of approving the allocation of funds for military assistance to Kiev due to the uncertain situation with the increase in the US national debt ceiling and the unclear prospects for a UAF counteroffensive,” the Hill article says.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage of the battle in the city of Grayvoron, Belgorod Region. In the video, you can hear the operation of the BMP automatic cannon.

The media report on the introduction of the Edelweiss plan in the Belgorod region, which means a general gathering of all employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region.

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The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine admitted that the RDK and the Legion "Freedom of Russia" entered the territory of the Belgorod Region*

However, of all the videos posted by the Ukrainian side, only one shows the symbols of the fighters, this is the chevron of the Tradition and Order (TiP) organization. A video with a repainted American International MaxxPro armored personnel carrier was posted by Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Against the background of a departing car, a fighter shouts "RDK forward!" The soldier has a chevron "Traditions and Order" on his chest.

🔹 TyP is a Ukrainian ultra-right conservative organization headquartered in Kyiv. She became notorious for participating in the dispersal of LGBT events. The head of the TiP is Bogdan Khodakovsky, a former member of the Brotherhood movement of Dmitry Korchinsky.

Members of the TiP are closely connected and carried out joint actions with the group of Sergei Korotkikh ("Malyuta", "Boatswain"). A native of Tolyatti, Korotkikh is on the international wanted list in connection with the murder of two or more persons motivated by ethnic hatred.

In total, two tanks, one armored personnel carrier and nine armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the territory of Russia, according to the near-military Rybar telegram channel, from the Graivoron border crossing.

*banned in Russia and recognized as a terrorist and extremist organization

📸: vk/order_land, Anton Gerashchenko's telegram channel

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Maksimilisn Andronikov callsign Caesar, from "Freedom for Russia Legion" earlier today posted a video, that was pre-recorded, where he says to citizens of Russia, "We are Russians just like you."

Well on this picture there are five soldiers behind him and only two have unblurred faces.

What we found out is that those two soldiers are not Russians at all.

First shorter one is Alexey Dolgov from Pervomayskyy, Kharkov region.

Second one is Igor Ogordniychuk with the callsign "White Cook". Igor is Ukrainian from Kiev and unrepentant Neonazi. Igor is close friend to Nazi-LGBT soldier from RDK called Kirill (Radonskiy) Kanakhin.

So out of five soldiers two Ukrainians and three blurred faces.

So for now we know that in this "RDK Freedom Legion stunt" majority of soldiers are Ukrainians from UPA Sonechko and other Banderite units.

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"Ukraine has no direct relation to the events in the Belgorod region — adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Podolyak"

Is there at least one Russian among them?

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U.S. F-16s to UkraineMore to consider:


The F-16 is 52 years old now and has no stealth capability.
It has a very low-slung air intake, and needs a VERY clean runway to be used safely. Loose gravel and even small pieces of debris can easily be sucked into the engine and wreck it.
No Ukrainian runways are anywhere near that clean. (All the Russians would have to do is drop gravel all over the airfield. :) No need at all to bomb huge craters in the tarmac.)
So the F-16s would have to fly from Poland. Under international law, that makes Poland a party to the war and therefore Polish airfields would be a legitimate target for Russian missiles. (Russia might not do that, but they could.)
They'd also need to be refueled in order to fly 1000 km to the front lines in Eastern Ukraine, and the KC-135 tankers (large, lumbering things the size and speed of passenger aircraft) would also be easy targets.

There'll be some in the Russian Air Force who'll be licking their lips at all this.

[ExomatrixTV]

Former French Ambassador: Ukraine Has Revealed A New World Order:

wpiaURRWOTY
00:00 - 01:31 - Introduction
01:31 - 06:20 - What does Gérard Araud mean by “the Western moment is coming to an end"?
06:20 - 09:59 - Is facing reality the safer option?
09:59 - 20:05 - Would America defend Taiwan military?
20:05 - 28:10 - Why making a peace deal with Ukraine would never work
28:10 - 38:02 - Do we need to change the way we do diplomacy?
38:20 - 40:27 - How likely is it that Russia will go nuclear?
40:27 - 47:16 - Does Europe need to be able to defend itself, and how likely is this?
47:16 - 48:27 - Concluding thoughts

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A resident of Golovchino in the Belgorod region told RT about the work of the Russian military:

"Our people are all in place, they are trying, they [saboteurs] are being driven from our territory."

According to the woman, shelling began near Antonovka, Golovchino and Kozinka at about 09:00 today, after which she left.

Earlier, the head of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that as a result of the DRG attack, there were no casualties among civilians, eight people were injured

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The identities of the terrorists who attacked the Belgorod region are revealed - these are neo-Nazis

Actionman nicknamed "Caesar" - Maximilian Andronnikov. He told the liberal media that he lived in Sochi. At first, he joined the Russian Imperial Movement, and then went over to the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where he appeared in the special project of the Main Intelligence Directorate "Legion" Freedom of Russia "," writes Readovka.

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Informations from Slavyangrad:

During the battle in the Belgorod region, an enemy tank, a Hammer, and up to 30 militants were destroyed

Russian troops and special forces of the FSB and the Russian Guard continue the operation to eliminate the terrorists who entered the Graivoronsky district.
Ours use precision weapons: snipers and ATGM operators work.
There are no exact numbers of enemy losses yet, but recently it became known about the destruction of two units of enemy equipment.

Join Slavyangrad chat. Your opinion matters.

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IN BRIEF: What we know so far about Ukrainian sabotage attack on Belgorod Region

According to the latest data, the Russian military and security forces are taking measures to eliminate the enemy and are driving it away from the Russian territory

MOSCOW, May 22. /TASS/. A Ukrainian sabotage group infiltrated the Grayvoron District of the Belgorod Region on Monday, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

According to the latest data, the Russian military and security forces are taking measures to eliminate the enemy and are driving it away from the Russian territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed about the situation.

TASS has put together the highlights of what has been reported about the attack as of now.

The circumstances of the attack

- The infiltration by Ukrainian saboteurs was reported by Gladkov. He said the Russian military, border guards and the servicemen of the National Guard and the Federal Security Service are taking "necessary measures to eliminate the enemy."

- Before that, the governor said two people were injured in a shelling of the village of Glotovo of the Grayvoron District. He said one of the casualties, a woman, who suffered wounds from a mine explosion, had been taken to a hospital in serious condition. The other person, a man, was in a condition of medium gravity.

- The Kremlin later confirmed that a Ukrainian sabotage group had tried to force its way into the Belgorod Region, and the group is now being driven away from the Russian territory and eliminated.

- Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there are sufficient forces and equipment on the scene to combat the saboteurs. He said Putin had been briefed about the incident.

The Kremlin’s assessment

- Peskov said the goal of the sabotage attack is "to divert attention from the Bakhmut area and reduce to a minimum the political effect from the loss of Artyomovsk by the Ukrainian side." The Russian Defense Ministry said into the night of May 21 that the town in Donbass had been fully liberated.

Previous attacks

- The Russian Defense Ministry has regularly reported stopping Ukrainian sabotage attacks in Russia’s new regions: The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

- The previous sabotage attack took place in the Bryansk Region on March 2. Two people were killed, and a boy with the date of birth in 2012 was wounded at the time. The boy was able to lead two girls that were nearby out of harm’s way.

- Putin then called the attack on villages outside Bryansk a terrorist attack.

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Three Key Goals Russia Achieved by Liberating Artemovsk

The northeastern Donetsk People’s Republic city of Artemovsk (also called Bakhmut) has been reduced to rubble, with entire districts leveled, and most of its 70,000 residents fleeing. Ukrainian forces left Artemovsk after 224 days of brutal house-to-house fighting, with Russian forces estimating losses of 30,000 or more Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries.
The Russian military has yet to provide data on losses on the Russian side, prompting the State Department and Kiev to conjure up fantastical figures of up to 100,000 dead or injured. The Kremlin has dismissed these "invented out of thin air" figures, saying Washington "simply does not have the possibility to name any correct figures."
US President Joe Biden on Sunday attempted to downplay the significance of Artemovsk's loss, saying that there aren't "many buildings left standing" in the city, and that Ukrainian forces had "been able to lock down an awful lot of Russian forces, including the Wagner Group" in the fighting. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who had once dubbed Bakhmut the "fortress of our morale," compared the scale of destruction in the city to Hiroshima, prompting a retort from Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who quipped that “the White House arranged both.”
Why is Artemovsk So Important?


What is it about Artemovsk that led both sides to dig in so deeply and commit such immense human and material resources to fighting for the city? Russian military observer Alexey Leonkov says the city’s significance in the broader Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine can be divided into three parts: military operational-tactical, military strategic, and political.


In the operational-tactical sense, the battle for Artemovsk led to the loss of large numbers of Ukrainian troops and vast quantities of military equipment, and cracked open one of Kiev’s major fortified stronghold in Donbass, with others including the Avdeevka-Mariinsk-Gorlovka grouping and the Severodonetsk-Kramatorsk grouping of forces.

"These two groupings, against which even more concentrated hostilities will be waged, will open [Russian forces' path] to Pavlograd, after which the expanses of the so-called operational steppe begin, where camouflage will become an issue, and where the concentration of enemy forces will become a very difficult and costly undertaking," Leonkov said.

"It's clear that we will not limit ourselves to the liberation of the Donetsk People's Republic to its administrative borders," Leonkov added, noting that fighting will continue in Kherson and Zaporozhye, and that an effort will be made to "move the danger stemming from the weapons Ukraine has received away from our borders."

"Right now this relates to the range of the Storm Shadow missiles – which have a range of 560 km. Take the entire line of contact, measure 560 km and draw the point where we should stop. I think this will be not only the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, but Odessa, Nikolayev, Krivoy Rog, Poltava, Sumy, Chernigov and so on. Plus, of course, the Kharkov region. In other words, [Kiev] themselves have indicated to us where the frontier we move to should be, because it’s the distance to which we move the danger away from our borders," the observer said.

Military Strategic Significance


At the strategic level, Leonkov noted, the concentration of fighting in and around Artemovsk over these past months gave the Russian side time to train its mobilized troops and to recruit additional contract fighters, while Russia’s military-industrial complex received time to mobilize its resources and ramp up production to wartime levels.

"That is, the amount of ammunition we're producing now is much higher than it was at the start of the special military operation," the observer said. "Besides this, the production of weapons which at the start…numbered in the single digits were increased. Take for example the Tornado-S high-precision rocket artillery system, a direct competitor to the HIMARS and which surpasses the US system in many technical characteristics. At the start of the special military operation there were only about 20 units of this system, while now there are over 100, and this number is growing."

Throughout the battle for Artemovsk, "the enemy thought he was constricting our forces, where in actuality we were the ones constricting his forces in order to carry out [the abovementioned] rearrangements, to increase our firepower and strength in a calm, planned manner," Leonkov stressed.

In addition, Leonkov said, the concentration of Ukrainian forces in Artemovsk prevented Kiev from launching offensive operations in other areas, including the long-promised spring counteroffensive.

"When they were fighting for Bakhmut and said that this city would not be surrendered under any circumstances, they associated its defense with preparations for a counteroffensive. The idea was that Bakhmut would draw in significant [Russian] forces, while [Kiev] would be able to build up a force on that point on the line of contact where they were planning their offensive," Artemovsk "practically destroyed" these plans, the observer said.

Political Significance


The third significant component of Artemovsk’s liberation is its political symbolism, and has to do with NATO’s support for Kiev in the proxy war against Russia, according to Leonkov.
"The supply of weapons and military equipment in Artemovsk was mainly assigned to the European countries, with systems from their arsenals becoming the main ones. Precisely when we began to work effectively in the use of air-dropped glide bombs, the burden of supplying weapons and military equipment had fallen on the Europeans, who managed to crush voices of dissent demanding a halt to the supply of weapons to Ukraine. The weapons were delivered on the expectation that they would be needed to help Ukraine hold on to this territory. But the city was lost, and with great losses," both among Ukrainians and foreign mercenaries – "possibly including even professional [NATO] soldiers," the observer noted.

"How the European Union will explain these losses to its citizens is an open question. Maybe they will not explain, instead shutting them up with money, and this will remain hidden behind the scenes. But sooner or later it will still leak out and become public knowledge. Therefore, I think that the forces advocating for the reduction of European military assistance to Ukraine will receive an additional argument, which they will use to put pressure on officials. Therefore, I think that for them, the loss of Bakhmut will not pass unnoticed," Leonkov summed up.

In other words, the loss of Artemovsk, together with other recent Russian victories on the battlefield - from the elimination of Patriot missile systems in Kiev to the recent destruction of a massive NATO ammo dump in Khmelnitsky, western Ukraine to the loss of Ukrainian artillery systems by the dozens using drones might motivate President Zelensky's Western partners to rethink their priorities, and finally force Kiev to the negotiating table.

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Biden demands offensive.
F16 escalation

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Assad’s political adviser comments on Zelensky’s Presence at Arab League Summit

The presence of Vladimir Zelensky at the League of Arab States (LAS) summit is a failed attempt by Western countries to prove something, said Syrian presidential adviser Busseina Shaaban, RIA Novosti informed on May 22.

According to Shaaban, Zelensky’s arrival was a failed attempt by Western countries to prove their presence and capabilities.

“The presence of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the summit was nothing but a failed attempt by Western states that want to prove that they still exist,” Shaaban said.

According to Shaaban, the most important event of the summit was the arrival of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Syria’s return to the LAS.

According to the Saudi foreign minister, Zelensky was invited because Arab leaders want to build relations with Russia and resolve the situation in Ukraine.

On May 7, 2023, at the meeting of the Council of the Arab League in Cairo, it was agreed to reinstate Syria’s membership..

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[ExomatrixTV]

Biden 'Discovers' Another $3 Billion For Ukraine! :facepalm::

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Just when the nearly $50 billion wasted on Ukraine was about to run out...Biden discovered another $3 billion under his couch cushions to keep the war chugging along. Also today: US Supremes green-light more IRS spying powers. :facepalm:

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Light relief. :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:
(I have no idea what's happening here, but it looks like something out of Monty Python)

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This may be a little far fetched on spec but given the events that preceded the later bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines back in October I really wouldn't put anything past NATO.

I haven't listened to this yet but place it here for anyone with around 55 minutes handy to make the time:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/2023-05-20_EP_16685_War_of_the_Worlds_podcast_George_Eliason_%2B_John_Helmer_May_20_2023.mp3

This helpful description from Will Schryver (https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1660108305933688833) can act as a kind of summary for now:


"I've just listened to this interview with John Helmer, who is convinced NATO is planning an ambush attack against Russia as soon as June 12th, under the guise of long-planned NATO exercises in Germany, Poland, and Romania.

Helmer believes this "ambush attack" will incorporate a full complement of top-shelf US air assets, including F-22s and F-35s.

While I do not categorically dismiss the possibility of such an astounding move by the US and its NATO vassals, I consider it effectively impossible. It is, in my judgment, an unthinkable and assuredly catastrophic escalation to no-holds-barred World War 3.

So, I suppose we must all "wait and see", but I remain highly dubious that the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult has sufficiently seized the reins of American military power that it could bring to pass an act of such unmitigated madness."Original source: TNT Radio (https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/war-of-the-worlds-20-may-2023/)Alexander Mercouris comments on this in a brief 3 minute section starting at 37:30 in his video update today. He believes John Helmer may well be correct, even if it's just NATO sending a clear signal to the Russians that they're willing and prepared to intervene directly with US air power if the need should arise.


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⚡️#UPDATE Current situation regarding Belgorod:

Governor Gladkov said that two private residential buildings were attacked by drones in Grayvoron, a fire broke out.

Also in the village of Borisovka, there was a repeated drop of an explosive device from a UAV on an administrative building. There were no casualties during the incidents.

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⚡️Video of the preparation of “RDK” militants to break through the border of the Belgorod region.

The footage shows a convoy of at least 6-7 American International MaxxPro armored vehicles and 2 HMMWVs, as well as other cars.

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THE BRITISH GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING – URANIUM IRRADIATED WIND AND RAIN FOR POLAND, GERMANY, DENMARK, NETHERLANDS, AND LONDON TOO

This is a primer on the way the wind has been blowing since the Ukrainian ammunition stockpile was blown up at Khmelnitsky in the early hours of May 13.

Radiation measurements in the western Ukrainian city appear to have risen sharply on May 13 and 14, indicating that British-supplied depleted uranium shells for anti-tank warfare had been detonated. The radiation-level spiking caused by the release of the depleted uranium (DU) has been denied by Ukrainian officials.

US media reported on May 15 that “while not all of the facts and information about the multiple strikes on Western regions of Ukraine have been fully established, there are several elements to the viral conspiracy narrative that are provably false, misleading or lack evidence.” “While Newsweek could not rule out the possibility that the ‘depleted uranium’ shells provided by the U.K. had been stored there, past reports about the nature of these munitions put a big question mark over that claim.”

Newsweek endorsed Ukrainian government agency claims. “Energoatom, the National Nuclear Power Company of Ukraine, said in its official Telegram channel that ‘the radiation level at the industrial site [in Khmelnitsky] and in the surrounding regions is at a level corresponding to the normal operation of power units and does not exceed natural background values.’”

A statement by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeated the Ukrainian government claim without publishing independent radiation measurements of its own. The IAEA was reported by Newsweek as having “poured cold water over the claims. “The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency today that there have been no measurements of elevated levels of gamma radiation in the country’s western regions in recent days,” a representative of the international body told Newsweek in an email.”

Social media from the region have indicated a rapid exodus of the population in the vicinity of the blast. Anti-radiation measures have been introduced for the residents of the Ternopol region, which neighbours Khmelnitsky to the west.

The wind has been blowing northwest into Poland since, and raining. The Polish state Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) has been reporting radiation-level spiking since May 15. The highest measurements have been reported at Lublin and Krakow in the south, and then Gydnia, a port on Poland’s north coast.

On May 19 in Moscow, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Security Council, said the “elimination [of the Khmelnitsky stockpile] has caused a radioactive cloud that is now moving towards Western Europe. An increase in radiation levels has already been registered in Poland.” Patrushev was repeating what the PAA had already confirmed.

For independent evidence of radiation-level spiking in Europe and its causes in the Ukraine, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), directed by Rafael Grossi in Vienna, has not been either independent or credible since the war began; for the archive documenting the war-fighting bias of Grossi and the IAEA, click.

For a review of the evidence that the international and European government models for safe exposure to radiation of depleted uranium are faulty, and that the Ukrainian and IAEA statements on the Khmelnitsky detonation are misleading, read this paper, published in 2022, by Christopher Busby, an English chemical physicist and expert on radioactivity.

“[The] local absorbed dose from internal radioactive particles of Uranium (for example from Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons) to tissue volumes within the range of alpha decays (about 4 cells) is not small. The deposited dose to a single cell from a single alpha decay track is about 500mSv. Yet the ICRP [International Commission on Radiation Protection] model dilutes this energy into a kilogram of tissue and dismisses the resulting nanoSieverts [μSv/h], as irrelevant and unable to cause cancer. The concept of Absorbed Dose itself as a covariate for internal exposures has been questioned…”

“The current radiation risk model, which is the basis of legal limits of exposures to internal radionuclide contaminants has been shown by mechanistic and epidemiological studies to be unsafe… The evidence from Chernobyl, from the weapons fallout, from the nuclear sites, and from cell biology, and simple mechanistic considerations show that the model is unsafe. But because of economics and power, university funding and journal publication bias, no change occurs. Attempts to draw attention to the issue are blocked at every turn. Journal reviewers and editors reject articles and letters. Court cases on cancer are regularly settled to prevent the issue going before a jury…European law, the Basic Safety Standards Directive of the European Union has a clause requiring Justification of all Practices, and these must be changed if new and important evidence emerges. ICRP also in its earlier reports (1977, 1990) stated clearly that should there be new evidence, it would address it. It never did. And the clause disappeared from later ICRP reports. In reality, all the radiation protection agencies refuse to address any new evidence.”

The scientific and political debate over Busby’s research findings can be followed here.

Follow Busby’s research report, published in March 2023, that “data covering the period November 2017 to November 2022 was obtained from the Atomic Weapons Establishment [AWE] Aldermaston to find if there was an increase in Uranium associated with the Ukraine war. Results from 9 High Volume Air Samplers deployed onsite and offsite by AWE showed that there were significantly increased levels of Uranium in all 9 HVAS samplers beginning in February 2022 when the war began. The result has significant public health implications for the UK and Europe.”

Note that the data points are five high-volume air-sampling measurement locations in the UK operated by the government agency, the Atomic Weapons Establishment. Source: https://www.researchgate.net/

Data gathering, measurement, and data charting ought not to be controversial – unless the data themselves are blacked out or misreported, as has been happening in recent days. The debate among scientists over Busby’s analysis has been focused primarily on what the cancer impacts are of exposure to DU and other sources of radiation at the abnormal levels now being registered from the Ukraine and Poland, and to be expected in Denmark, The Netherlands, and England.

In this report by Busby, obtained by the Russian state news agency Sputnik, the northwesterly winds blowing at about five kilometres an hour from Khmelnitsky triggered radiation spiking in Poland on May 15:

Source: https://sputnikglobe.com/
In the US propaganda version, “Newsweek has not been able to locate any official statements or credible reports that radiation levels in Khmelnytskyi or other parts of Ukraine are above normal or corroborate the claim about depleted uranium shells being destroyed in the Russian attack.”

Polish university sources and the Polish Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) corroborate the spiking. The highest levels reported publicly have been in Gdynia (0.103 μSv/h), Lublin (0.100 μSv/h) and Krakow (0.115 μSv/h).

The official Polish reaction has been to accept the reported data measurements, but deny the biological hazards. Marie Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), the state establishment at Lublin, close to the Ukrainian border, has confirmed the sharp increase in radiation levels from May 15. However, the university adds the qualifier: “The increase in radiation intensity observed on May 15, 2023 is a natural phenomenon that is caused by rainfall. The isotope Bi-214 (formed as a result of the decay of radon gas rising from the ground) is captured by falling water droplets, which results in an increase in radiation intensity near the soil surface recorded by MR. This phenomenon has always accompanied humanity, and the increased intensity of radiation as a result has no significance for health.”

The report includes the first two illustrations reproduced in the lead to this story.

The university adds: “Due to the forecast rainfall, we expect another increase on May 17. It will probably be smaller, because the air has already cleared yesterday, but it depends on many factors, e.g. soaking the soil with water, wind direction, etc.”

This is the university’s most current chart of radiation levels, confirming the spiking on May 15 and again on May 17 through May 18, diminishing since then.

Blue line=metered radiation levels; red line=above normal. Source: https://www.umcs.pl/

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https://johnhelmer.net/bravado-before-capitulation-will-russian-defeat-of-us-patriot-missile-be-followed-by-ukrainian-f-16-attack-during-the-nato-air-defender-23/

BRAVADO BEFORE CAPITULATION – WILL RUSSIAN DEFEAT OF US PATRIOT MISSILE BE FOLLOWED BY “UKRAINIAN F-16” ATTACK DURING THE NATO “AIR DEFENDER 23” EXERCISE ON JUNE 12


There is a grave risk that in three weeks’ time US and NATO forces will attempt direct combat against Russia.

The operational plan is to strike from Romanian airspace in the south and the Baltic states in the north, in camouflage of the NATO exercise called “Air Defender 23”, and under cover of US F-16 fighter aircraft purportedly operated by Ukrainian pilots but fuelled, directed, and guarded by more than two hundred US and NATO aircraft, including the most advanced US air war fighter, the F-35.

“This [is] the largest deployment exercise since the foundation of NATO”, according to the cover story published by NATO headquarters. “ Commanded at US bases in Germany, ostensibly led by German officers, a Bundeswehr “fact sheet” claims “100 [US] Air National Guard aircraft from 35 different states will make the leap across the Atlantic to participate in Air Defender 2023. In addition to the world’s most modern jets, the F35, more than 20 different types of aircraft and Airmen from 24 nations will practice air warfare operations together over Germany, but also over eastern Europe on the NATO border. Among them Eurofighter, F18, F16, A10, [Saab] Gripen jets.”

Including the Ukrainian regime in Kiev as one of “our partners in East and South-Eastern Europe”, the German military announcement says “we want to promote collective defense of common values (freedom, democracy, prosperity) – attack on one NATO nation is an attack on responsiveness of airpower – Allied air forces are first responders.”

Camouflaging US direction of the combined NATO attack operations from the Ramstein base in Germany, headquarters of the allied air command in Europe, are two parallel operations. “Two NATO exercises, RAMSTEIN DUST for NATOs Deployable Air Command and Control capability, the DARS, and RAMSTEIN GUARD for Electronic Warfare are linked into our exercise.”

In design since the start of the Russian Special Military Operation in February 2022, this plan of US and NATO air operations against Russia follows the defeat of the Ukrainian ground forces at Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and the strategic defeat of the US Patriot missile system at Kiev by the Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile on May 16.

The use of NATO exercises to conceal active attacks on Russian targets was first demonstrated last September when the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up following the BALTOPS naval exercise. More recently, on May 13 a US-directed ambush of Russian aircraft was rehearsed when an Su-34 fighter-bomber, an SU-35 air-defence escort, and two Mi8 helicopters were hit simultaneously and downed in Russian airspace, over Bryansk region.

The White House and Pentagon have been attempting to downplay the strategic significance of the Kinzhal strike against the Patriot system.

US officials, amplified by CNN and other propaganda outlets, have claimed there was “minimal” damage to “two components of the system”. No US casualties have been acknowledged in the 90-man crew required to operate the Patriot system’s radar, control centre, missile units, re-loading, and other equipment.

The day after the attack, Rear Admiral John Kirby, the military briefer at the White House, wasn’t so sure. Asked to clarify what had happened, Kirby said: “I cannot, no. First of all, I cannot confirm the reports. [On whether the Ukrainians can repair the damage] it would depend on, it would depend on the scope of the damage. As to whether or not it can be repaired by the Ukrainians, or whether we might need to help them… Obviously, if there was damage done to a Patriot system that needed to be repaired outside Ukraine, we would certainly assist with that.”

There has been no press release, briefing, or comment from the Pentagon on the Patriot strike. No US official, and no US media have reported the failure of the Patriot to intercept the Russian missile, despite warnings from Moscow since last December that this would happen.

At that time Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and now deputy head of the Kremlin’s Security Council, said: “Even before reports emerged on the delivery of Patriot systems, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council which is chaired by President Vladimir Putin, warned that if Patriots enter Ukraine ‘along with NATO personnel, they will immediately become a legitimate target for our armed forces.’”

President Vladimir Putin issued his warning on December 25: “Of course we will destroy it, 100 percent!”

The post-operational Russian intelligence reports of May 18 and May 20 indicate “a multifunctional radar station, as well as five launchers of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system manufactured by the United States were hit and completely destroyed.”

In the days following, Russian military operations have intensified long-range missile attacks targeting anti-aircraft defence complexes, rail marshalling yards, fuel and ammunition stocks, equipment parks, and reserve assembly areas in the west of the Ukraine, including Khmelnitsky, Rivne, Zhitomir, and Lvov. The scope of targeting goes beyond the Electric War of previous months, a NATO forces veteran comments. “It’s now a full-on campaign. Now that the US/NATO air defence has proven to be useless against Russian strike capabilities, I expect them to take to the sky. It’s all they have left.”

The source agrees with retired US military experts in the alternative media who do not believe that supplying old F-16 aircraft to Kiev adds significant air defence or air attack capability against Russia. The F-16s for the Ukraine are a deception, camouflage for a much deeper NATO attack plan, the source warns. “How about the F-16s being cover for US F-22s or other US aircraft in Romanian or Polish airspace, firing stand- off weapons?”

This is now the looming Russia-attack threat of the Ramstein “exercises”; these are scheduled to run from June 12 to June 24. Japan is one of the non-member state NATO “partners” officially acknowledged to be participating; the Ukraine is not mentioned in the NATO press releases.

The German Army is less reticent about the identity of “partners” engaged in Air Defender 23, as distinct from the NATO member states. The Germans are claiming “our Eastern partners are participating in the exercise, with air assets and planners in the Air Operations Headquarters. Additionally, we plan and conduct daily missions to show force at NATO’s eastern flank.” The Luftwaffe is planning “three big Composite Air Operations every day – with about 40-80 aircraft each, and command and control elements. All in all, it is about 250 sorties per day.”

“We created three large Exercise Areas in the east, south and north of Germany that will be used every day in sequenced activation. Additionally, our neighbours Poland and Czech Republic offered their Military Training Areas for so called continuation training, means smaller Air Defence exercise missions outside the big waves.”

“Air Defender reflects the Russian war of aggression,” the Germany military have declared. “The war in Ukraine determines our present and shapes our future…With Air Defender we send a clear signal that we absolutely guarantee the security of the alliance. Without ifs or buts. We need to train as we fight, so we can fight as we have trained.” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has been more explicit, claiming he supports air attacks on Russian territory, and is building German-Polish combat support bases on the Polish side of the border with the Ukraine. It is “completely normal” in such a military conflict, Pistorius has said, “that the attacked party also moves into the opponent’s territory, for example, to cut off supply routes.” “

German Luftwaffe chief, Lieutenant-General Ingo Gerhartz with (left) Defense Minister Boris Pistorius; (right) with US Air Force Chief of Staff, General Charles Brown, making a gift of a model of one of Manfred von Richthofen’s red “flying circus” fighters of World War I. Unlike von Richthofen, Gerhartz has risen from conscript to general without ever having faced an adversary in air combat. His only military action to date was dropping bombs on Afghan civilians.

South of the Ukrainian battlefield, Romania and Bulgaria will also be participating in the Air Defender 23 operations. Watch the rehearsals for reconnaissance, electronic warfare, targeting command and control in Romanian airspace on May 11.

These operations are far from new and no surprise to the counterpart Russians operating in the Black Sea and from Crimea.

If Russian military intelligence moves from suspicion to conviction that air attacks by US and NATO aircraft are being readied under cover of the Ukrainian F-16s, Moscow sources anticipate “asymmetrical response”. The sources believe that if and when Poland or Romania allows a “Ukrainian” F-16 to take off from a local airfield to attack Russian forces, Polish and Romanian air bases will become Russian missile targets, just as the Patriot batteries were. US and NATO air support for such an F-16 sortie, including AWACS and RC-135 warfighting systems in the air at the same time, would become collateral targets.

The Poles have been showing reluctance for direct war with Russia. President Andrzej Duda had revealed this last November 2022 when he thought he was speaking on a secure telephone line to French President Emmanuel Macron. “Do you think I need a war with Russia?” Duda said then. “No, I don’t want that. I don’t want a war with Russia, I’m extremely careful, believe me. I am extremely careful.”

That was six months ago. Last week in Iceland Duda claimed Poland would not supply F-16 aircraft to the Ukraine. He omitted what Poland is already doing, and will do next month during Air Defender 23.

According to the Polish press report, “President Andrzej Duda spoke about the possibility of transferring Polish fighters to Ukraine in Reykjavik on May 17.” “ ‘We are in the absolute vanguard of countries when it comes to the transfer of weapons to Ukraine. It is we who have handed over virtually unprecedented amounts of arms as far as the European Union is concerned. We handed over 300 tanks to Ukraine. We have already handed over to Ukraine all our MiG-29s, which Ukraine has been asking for since the very beginning of the conflict,’ he said.”

“We have a relatively small number of F-16 aircraft. We are ready to support the process of training Ukrainian pilots – I talked about this with the Prime Minister, the Minister of National Defense some time ago. However, the number of F-16 aircraft that we have does not allow us to talk about transferring any part of them to Ukraine today. We are ready to systematically hand over the MiG-29. We have a problem there, because we have some MiGs that already operate in NATO standards, they perform the Air Policing mission, and therefore they serve the defense of NATO countries, but we promised that we will successively hand over these aircraft – said Duda.”

In the third and final segment of the TNT Radio broadcast, the discussion focuses on the Jack Teixeira case in which the US is accusing Teixeira of stealing and publishing Ukraine war briefing papers from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

New evidence revealed in US federal court last week reveals how much the US Air Force (USAF) command has known about Teixeira for months before the Pentagon Papers leak, and how much encouragement Teixeira received to copy and post documents he said at the time he had no intention of disclosing.

For detailed background on the new evidence of what USAF Chief of Staff General Charles Brown and his subordinates knew, and when they knew it, read this.

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It's OFFICIAL! Putin just ENTERED the most dangerous phase of the war | Redacted with Clayton Morris


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZmL5fkZjZo&ab_channel=Redacted

Daily roundup from Redacted, all of it interesting, but the portion relating to Ukraine starts at 38:06

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It's OFFICIAL! Putin just ENTERED the most dangerous phase of the war | Redacted with Clayton Morris


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZmL5fkZjZo&ab_channel=Redacted

Daily roundup from Redacted, all of it interesting, but the portion relating to Ukraine starts at 38:06


The Eastern city of Bakhmut is now known as the Russian name Artyomovsk after Russia claimed that it has taken full control of the battleground city. Ukrainian President Zelensky has been reluctant to admit it. When asked if Ukraine still controlled the city he said, “I think no.” He wouldn’t know first hand because he has been out of Ukraine since the Kremlin attack in early May. Bakhmut is in the Donetsk region, which voted to join Russia last September. Ukraine has been fighting to change their mind even as must of the city’s 70,000 residents have since fled. President Biden says that the Russians have suffered over 100,000 casualties in Bakhmut but no one knows where that number came from. He also said that Ukraine has "been able to lock down the Wagner group" but the head of the Wagner group says that the group will leave the area on Thursday and hand over control to the Russian military. No Western tanks or F-16s were used to defend Bakhmut and President Biden says that they wouldn’t have helped anyway. This is an important loss for Ukraine and the West and even still they say that a counteroffensive is coming. The Wall Street Journal reports that Ukraine didn’t fight very hard in Bakhmut anyway because they instead “used that time to rearm and to bulk up its military.” Do you buy that? Weapons, sure. The West has kept ‘em coming. But where do these extra personnel come from?

[Tintin]

Remind one of anything?

The 'think tank' largely responsible for the perpetration of this appalling conflict subsequent to the leaking of this back in 2014 somewhat predictably removed it from their site.

But, as we know, the internet remembers and Project Avalon retrieves.

Finnish investigative journalist Janus Putkonen on the RAND Memo

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/RAND_2014_Confidential_genocide_Memo/Finnish_independent_journalist_Janus_Putkonen_-_The_truth_about_Ukraine_and_US_disinformation_%282023%29.mp4

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Source: Impious Digest (http://impiousdigest.com/61033/)

The RAND Memo’s “Guideline for genocide”
Published: August 9, 2014


When this memo was originally released, it was immediately dismissed as a hoax by the RAND Corporation. However, subsequent events have demonstrated that for a hoax, it is being remarkably emulated and adhered to by the Ukrainians, particularly in respect to the labeling of East Ukrainians as “terrorists” and the use of “non-conventional” weapons. That can mean anything from bio-weapons to tactical nukes. Already, the illegal use of phosphorus bombs, another form of non-conventional weapons, has already been used.

RT:What do you make of this leak? How realistic does it sound?

Don Debar: Well actually knowing something about RAND Corporation, that is where reports credit the memo, it rings very true. RAND Corporation in the 1950s, for example, was contracted to take a look at the emerging political power of minorities in the cities. People were learning, as they got concentrated at the ghettos, people actually learned that they could accumulate political power, elect people to Congress, and state legislators and things. And this became a problem for the status quo.

So RAND basically advised them to destroy neighborhoods, scatter the populations to the four corners of the region and thereby decimate political power. And urban renewal accomplished that. As far as its coming from RAND it is quite credible to me, it is the kind of work that they engage in.

RT: What do we know about RAND Corporation, how influential is it? Does it still have the ear of the US government?

DD: Yes, my understanding is that they advise the Pentagon to this day, yes.

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The RAND Memo



Confidential

MEMORANDUM

On the advisable course of action in case the peace plan fails

In case further negotiation with southeast Ukrainian insurgents should prove futile, the only practicable solution should be a swift crackdown on the separatists and terrorists, to be undertaken irrespective of public opinion or operation costs. Procrastination would dramatically reduce the operation’s chances of success.

Possible political and material downsides of an operation should be greatly outweighed by the following probable gains:

• Activists of a pro-Russian political movement get decimated, pro-Russian voters get disorganized.
• A significant share of the region’s coal industries get destroyed in the fighting, or are otherwise designated for a quick shutdown, thus relieving Ukraine’s budget of the burdensome subsidy costs.
• Shutting down Donbas Industries will mean a stark reduction in gas consumption, and therefore a lesser dependency on Russian energy imports.
• Rinat Akhmetov and his clan’s political and economic clout is considerably weakened.
• Ukraine’s current economic and social difficulties can be exp/ained to the public as the unwanted yet unavoidable consequences of the military operation, which the Ukrainian government has been keen yet unable to avoid due to the terrorists’ intransigence.

The Presumable Stages of a Military Operation

Stage One: Total Isolation of the rebel region

Considering that any resident of the Donetsk Region and the Lugansk Region has had enough time and opportunities to leave the area of hostilities provided that they wanted to do so# anyone who has stayed behind should be regarded as complicit in the unrest, or supportive of it.

Martial law shall be Introduced in the defiant regions. All local authorities shall have their competencies terminated, the Constitution shall be suspended. Direct presidential rule shall be Imposed.

The region shall be encircled with troops and sealed off entirely from any flow of goods and persons, both incoming and outgoing. Special attention shall be given to areas that border of Russia. Broadcasting services, Internet connection, telephone and mobile communications In the region shall be shut down. A curfew shall be imposed between 20:00 and 06-00
International media staff wording in the region shall be subject to a special procedure

Stage Two: Mop-up

The circle of troops around the rebel region shall be tightened gradually. Ground assaults shall be preceded by airstrikes against the enemy’s strategic facilities, artillery and mortar teams, and bunched-up troops. The use of non-conventional arms [e.g. tactical nuclear weapons, gas warfare, bio-warfare] shall not be ruled out in certain cases In order to ensure smaller casualties among our own personnel.

Settlements shall be liberated one by one, with armor going in first and wiping out the remaining pockets of resistance, shooting to kill anyone who bears ams. Infantry shall move in next to relocate male adults into internment camps. Anyone who attempts to resist shall be executed on the spot. Children aged under 13 and people older than 60 shall be moved to specialty equipped facilities in areas that are further away from the zone of the anti-terrorist operation.

Internment camps shall set up outside the settlements that have been cleared, and guarded by units who arc considered to be ideologically safe. People featuring traces of combat engagement, like bruises, scuff marks, gunshot and fragment wounds, traces of gunpowder and gun oil on the skin and clothes, shall be tried in court for separatism and terrorism. After a two-month period of internment, the remaining individuals shall be allowed to return to places of their residence and be placed under surveillance by security services.

Stage Three: Back to Normal

Military specialists shall be employed to restore water, heat, power supplies and communications.

The borders shall be strengthened, with checkpoints set up to avoid possible provocations by Russia and to prepare for a massive return of refugees. Those who fled the war zone shall be allowed to return to their place of residence. However, men aged 18-60 shall be checked for possible support for separatists in internment camps. The property of convicted and displaced residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions shall be nationalized by the state and later awarded to the servicemen who would be distinguished for valor during the anti-terrorist campaign.

Special focus shall be made on information security, which means that trie area of the and-terrorist campaign shall be made off limits to foreign media. Stories of heroism and courage of Ukraine’s armed forces, the National Guard and other armed units in saving civilians In the east of Ukraine from terrorists and armed gangs shall be spread as broadly as possible.

Note: If the active stage of the anti-terrorist operation ends no later than September 1, 2014, martial law shall be lifted no earlier than January 1, 2015.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/RAND_2014_Confidential_genocide_Memo/RAND_Corporation_confidential_memo_On_the_advisable_course_of_action_in_case_the_peace_plan_fails_%2 8July_2014%29.pdf

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["Genocide" Memo - continued]

Further to the above post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1558853&viewfull=1#post1558853) also note that the Ukraine Human Rights group (https://ukraine-human-rights.org/confidential-document-on-ukraine-by-the-rand-corporation-leaked/) also ran with this

Source: https://ukraine-human-rights.org/confidential-document-on-ukraine-by-the-rand-corporation-leaked/

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🇷🇺 Ukrainians shelled a nuke silo near Belgorod 14 times, using 240mm mortars, 152mm shells, and 88mm mortars. Similarly to what they do at Energodar Nuclear Plant, they are attempting to cause a nuclear disaster. At the peak of their advances, Ukrainians failed to pass Kozinka, as by then, Border Guards were able to get the situation under the control.

Unfortunately, an unarmed border clerk was shot in the back of the head point blank by Ukrainian terrorists.

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1660849539710963714

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Ukrainian DRG entered the village of Bogun-Gorodok in the Belgorod region - source Readovka

Bogun-Gorodok is located near the village of Shchetinovka. Earlier, a number of sources reported that there was a fight with Ukrainian militants.

It is reported that the Ukrainian DRG, which broke into Bogun-Gorodok from the Kharkiv region, was thrown back by Russian border guards. About the losses among the saboteurs is still unknown.

Currently, mortars are working in Bogun-Gorodok on retreating militants. In addition, a source from Shchetinovka said that the shooting could be heard even there - 7 km from Bohun-Haradok. Now Russian reserves have approached the villages.
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More than a hundred people, along with children and bedridden patients, were rescued from the villages of the Graivoronsky district, Belgorad Region, which were attacked by Ukrainian militants

Since yesterday evening, a task force led by Gladkov and the head of the regional security department, Yevgeny Vorobyov, has been evacuating residents from Glotovo and Kozinka.

The evacuation continues - in the course of pushing back the bandits, it is possible to take out the previously blocked people. So they saved a woman with shrapnel wounds and took her to Belgorod to the hospital.

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https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1660988385354194945

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🇷🇺Donbass has earned the right to recognize its heroism

The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, ****sky, calls for the honorary title of "Hero City" to be awarded to Donetsk and Luhansk. Nazi pressure longer than the Great Patriotic War. For years, the inhabitants of the republics, who did not want to bow to the military junta that seized power in Kyiv, resist and defend their right to a peaceful life, culture and the opportunity to speak their native language.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

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🇵🇱🇺🇦Poland has declared its readiness to train 30 000 Ukrainian soldiers

Minister of National Defense of the Republic Mariusz Blaszczak noted that "this process is going very fast"

Poland is ready to conduct military training of 30 thousand Ukrainian servicemen. This was stated to journalists on Tuesday by Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak following a meeting with colleagues from EU countries.

"We are ready to train 30 thousand," he said, answering a question about the training of Ukrainian servicemen on the territory of the republic. "This process is going very fast," the minister added.

According to him, most of the 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers who have already been trained in the EU countries trained in Poland. As Blaszczak assured, the course of study in the republic was positively assessed in the EU.

The head of the Foreign Policy Service of the European Union, Josep Borrel, on Monday, following a meeting of the EU Council in Brussels, announced the completion of the training of 15 000 Ukrainian military personnel

This brings the legitimate question what happenned to all those AFU soldiers trained and pumped with weapons and money since 2014...

@DDgeopolitics

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1661021754440159235

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[Vicus]

Ukraine resorting to terrorism after Artyomovsk defeat – Russian MOD 23 May, 2023

The militants involved in the latest cross-border raid have been completely destroyed, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow

Moscow has condemned Kiev’s latest attack on Russia’s Belgorod Region, accusing its armed forces of carrying out terrorist acts against the civilian population. The comments came after a Ukrainian saboteur group launched a raid into the district of Grayvoron on Monday, injuring at least eight locals.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said a Ukrainian nationalist unit had crossed the border following intensive artillery shelling of an international checkpoint and civilian targets in the Grayvoronsky district of Belgorod Region.

“The Kiev regime, having suffered a defeat in the city of Artyomovsk [known as Bakhmut in Ukraine], switched to the implementation of terrorist actions against the civilian population,” the Russian Defense Ministry said, describing Monday’s attack.

The unit, however, was completely destroyed in the course of a counter-terrorist operation, the ministry stated. It added that the Ukrainian nationalists had been defeated by airstrikes, artillery fire, and the actions of border guards from the Western Military District.

“The remnants of the nationalists were driven back to the territory of Ukraine, where they continued to be hit until they were completely eliminated,” the ministry reported. It claimed that over 70 Ukrainian terrorists, four armored combat vehicles, and five pickup trucks had been destroyed in the process.

The ministry also published a video purportedly showing the destruction of the Ukrainian saboteur group.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has also suggested that Monday’s attack was intended to distract from Ukraine’s loss of Artyomovsk. The Donbass city was recently fully liberated by Russian forces, although Kiev has disputed claims of the settlement’s capture.

continue:

https://www.rt.com/russia/576759-ukraine-resorting-terrorism-artyomovsk-defeat/

[Vicus]

Choose us or Russia, EU tells Serbia 22 May, 2023

Belgrade has been told it must sanction Moscow and recognize Pristina if it wants to join the bloc

Maintaining close ties with Russia harms Serbia’s chances of joining the EU, the bloc’s foreign policy commissioner, Josep Borrell, said on Monday in Brussels. He also urged Belgrade to “align” with sanctions against Moscow.

Borrell hosted the foreign ministers of Albania and four former Yugoslav republics – Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Macedonia – and Serbia’s breakaway province of Kosovo, calling on them to follow Ukraine’s example in making “swift progress” in joining the EU.

“We discussed Russia’s influence [in the region], which is trying to derail the European path of the Western Balkans candidates,” Borrell said. “We welcomed the strategic and courageous choices of some of them, who aligned fully with our foreign policy and sanctions.”

Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia have joined the bloc’s embargo. Though some officials in Brussels have said otherwise, Bosnia-Herzegovina has not. Neither has Serbia.

Singling out Serbia, Borrell revealed he told FM Ivica Dacic that “maintaining close ties with Russia is not compatible with its European Union accession process. It is also damaging to its own national interests, but certainly it is not compatible with the accession process towards the EU.”

Borrell also said that Serbia’s eventual membership depended not just on sanctioning Russia, but on “normalizing relations” with Kosovo, even though his own country, Spain, is among the five EU member states which do not recognize the breakaway province.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has pointed to the discrepancy between the EU’s insistence on Ukrainian territorial integrity and its apparent disregard for same in Serbia, in justifying his policy of not joining sanctions against Moscow. Earlier this month, he noted that sanctions were the only thing any visiting Western politician wanted to talk about.

Speaking after the meeting with Borrell, Dacic said his country didn’t face any “explicit pressure” on Monday, while everyone in Brussels could witness the “extremist” and “surreal” claims coming from Kosovo.

The European Parliament recently adopted a report on Serbia which blamed the drastic fall in popular support for joining the EU on the presence of Russian media outlets. If Vucic’s government continued to support “anti-democratic politics,” the EP said, the EU should “reconsider the extent of its financial assistance” to Serbia.

https://www.rt.com/news/576731-serbia-russia-eu-choice/

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Putin Congratulates Wagner By Name For 1st Time As Ukraine Seeks To Reframe Bakhmut Narrative MAY 22

Following Saturday's Wagner declaration of the capture of Bakhmut, President Vladimir Putin has for the first time since the war began congratulated the mercenary group by name for its battlefield victory, as The New York Times reports:

The state-run Channel 1 newscast cited statements by President Vladimir V. Putin and Russia’s Defense Ministry that gave Wagner partial credit for capturing the city. Channel 1 also featured footage of armed men described as Wagner fighters yelling, “Bakhmut is ours!”

The Russian flag as well as flags of PMC Wagner have been seen across the central part of the strategic city in the Donetsk region. “Vladimir Putin congratulated the assault units of Wagner as well as all servicemen of units of the Russian armed forces who provided them with the necessary support and flank cover, on the completion of the operation to liberate,” TASS wrote, also saying those who fought with distinction would receive military awards.
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But the Times also notes that Kiev is rejecting Russia's full victory over the city, writing "Although Russia claims it has won control of Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut after a grinding nine-month conflict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died, top Ukrainian military leaders say the battle is not over."

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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-congratulates-wagner-name-1st-ukraine-seeks-reframe-bakhmut-narrative

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NewsReal: Bakhmut Holds! Patriots Down Kinzhals! West Winning Bigly!

Sadly, none of the above claims of Western media are even remotely true, but it doesn't stop said media from repeating them ad nauseum. In this week's NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the fall/liberation of Bakhmut/Artemovsk, the torrent of misinformation about which American and Russian missiles did what in Ukraine last week, the tardy release of the Durham investigative report into 'Russiagate', and assorted 'weapons of mass distraction' designed to keep you ignorant and afraid.

https://www.sott.net/article/480458-NewsReal-Bakhmut-Holds-Patriots-Down-Kinzhals-West-Winning-Bigly

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War Weapon: The Erasure of History

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In 1933, the Nazis burned the books of Jewish or decadent authors. Today, Westerners are burning the historical traces of the collaboration between Ukrainian “integral nationalists” and the Nazis.

Wars flare up from Sudan to Ukraine. As a result, the global military spending is growing. Europe spent 13% more in 2022 than in 2021 on weapons and military operations, recording the sharpest increase in 30 years. Italy’s annual military spending has risen to more than €30 billion, or an average of more than €80 million a day.

At the same time, the real causes of wars continue to be hidden and mystified. President Biden declared that “the tragic violence in Sudan is inconceivable and must stop“.

He thereby erased a fact, when he was Vice President of the Obama Administration, he was a major architect of the US strategy that fuelled the war in Sudan to split the country in two. Thus, the artificial state of South Sudan, possessing 75% of Sudanese oil reserves, was born in 2011. This fact resulted in the further extension of internal conflicts and external interference for the control of the Sudanese region, which is important because it is rich in oil, natural gas, gold, and other raw materials, and because it has a key geostrategic position on the African continent.

In Ukraine, the United States, NATO, and the European Union continue to fuel the war against Russia, supplying the Kyiv regime with increasing quantities of weapons and all kinds of military assistance. At the same time, they make the Kyiv regime erase anything Russian from Ukraine and its history.

After Kyiv decreed to burn 100 million Russian books based on literary classics – a practice analogous to that of Hitler’s Nazism – Zelensky signed a law banning Russian place names and other symbols of the fundamental Russian component of Ukrainian history. Their use is considered by law a “criminal act” and entails serious penalties.

Zelensky also signed a law according to which, in order to obtain Ukrainian citizenship, an exam is required not only on the language but also on the “history of Ukraine“. This is rewritten by “historians” who exalt characters such as Stepan Bandera, a collaborator of Hitler’s Nazism.

[It is worth noting that Zelensky is of Russian-Jewish descent. His mother tongue is Russian. Until recently he was not fluent in Ukrainian.]

In the same framework, the Ukrainian Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that the symbols of the SS Galicia Division – made up of Ukrainian Nazis who committed heinous crimes – are not Nazi and can therefore be used as political symbols even in demonstrations. The Italian government undertakes to “rebuild” this Ukraine by investing billions of euros stolen from Italian citizens.

https://www.voltairenet.org/article219263.html

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🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin:

❗️ We often hear that Russia started some kind of war. No, Russia with its special military operation tries to stop the war, the one waged against us and our people, some of whom, due to a historical injustice, ended up living outside Russian historical borders.

🛡 But that doesn’t make them foreigners, and Russia must and will protect its people.

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Can F-16s Fly Combat Sorties Over Ukraine?

— A discussion of some of the most relevant considerations —

It is effectively impossible to base F-16s in Ukraine. The available runways are woefully deficient, and any aircraft remaining at one base for more than a single sortie are going to become a target of Russian strikes, along with the base infrastructure.

The Ukrainian air force has only managed to retain a handful of airframes to this point in time by assiduously hiding them, and constantly moving them around, using improvised airfields much of the time (highways, grass fields, etc.) The sortie rate of the remaining UAF aircraft is so small as to be nearly invisible. Indeed, with few exceptions, if they fly, they die.

But at least Soviet-era jets were designed and constructed to fly out of "guerrilla airfields". F-16s are not. F-16s require pristine runways and intensive maintenance after each sortie — almost 20 hours of maintenance for each hour of flight time!!!

This means highly trained / exceedingly experienced NATO ground crews and fully equipped maintenance hangars would need to be available anywhere the F-16 seeks to fly — along with an abundant supply of spare parts, spare engines, etc.

That simply is not going to happen in Ukraine.

‼️ This means the only plausible basing option will be at NATO facilities in Poland and/or Romania. And anyone attempting to argue against this reality is engaging in pure fantasy.

And, of course, flying F-16s against Russia from bases in Poland and/or Romania is tantamount to a formal declaration of WAR.

But let's assume NATO chooses that option ...

First, we need to consider what the mission of these F-16s will be. Is it to launch with long-range cruise missiles, rise to high altitude, and fire them from distant stand-off range? Because, as I understand it, the F-16 cannot carry, for example, a British Storm Shadow missile. The F-16 is not well-suited for the long-range stand-off role.

Furthermore, an F-16 at altitude over Ukraine is going to be seen by Russian AD assets from hundreds of miles away, and Russian air to air missiles and S-400 SAMs will outrange the F-16s capability to defend itself in almost any scenario.

Additionally, the Russians have clearly demonstrated the capability to routinely shoot down any stand-off munition NATO has launched against them.

I don't see how an F-16 mission to launch long-range stand-off strikes against Russian targets is going to produce any meaningful tactical successes, let along appreciable strategic effects. And I am certain it would only take the Russians a day or two to formulate highly effective ambushes against this tactic. Each subsequent F-16 sortie would then become a one-way kamikaze attack.

As for close-air support (CAS) of ground troops or combat air patrol (CAP) against Russian attack aircraft, there is simply no way the F-16 can accomplish either of those missions without readily available in-air refueling! And that is simply not going to happen over Ukraine. NATO's big, fat, slow tankers will be shot out of the sky at will by the Russians! There is no way of getting around that reality.

Moreover, from the moment the first F-16 commences an attack sortie from a NATO airfield, all NATO ISR assets in the theater will become targets. They will either cease to fly, or cease to exist. And, without them, the F-16 is no longer a useful tool.

Neither F-16s, nor any variety of NATO strike aircraft, are made to function in isolation from the huge logistical infrastructure that supports them. Therefore, the very sentence "Send F-16s to Ukraine" is a logically nonsensical statement.

Simply put, I cannot conceive of ANY way F-16s can be used against Russian forces in Ukraine, even if the latest generation of F-16 Vipers were being flown by experienced NATO pilots.

And, quite frankly, the same limitations would apply to ANY variety of NATO strike aircraft attempting to fly against the Russian military in its own backyard.

If the policy makers of the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult succeed in initiating an air war against Russia in eastern Europe, it will result in catastrophic losses for US/NATO air power and the comprehensive destruction of the myth of US military supremacy.

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Residents of Graivoron and Golovchino have returned home after being evicted while a sabotage and reconnaissance group was liquidated, said Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

"The situation as of today. Graivoron and Golovchino - residents have returned to their homes. And the residents of Gora-Podol, Glotovo and Kozinka will return centrally in the near future," explained the head of the region.

He added that residents of surrounding villages continue to stay in temporary accommodation centres in Stariy Oskol, Yakovelevsky district, as well as in Ivnyansky and Rakityansky districts. They will be able to return home after the permission of the military personnel.

Also the restoration of the disrupted power supply has already begun and food deliveries have been organised.

"Tomorrow after 3 p.m. the electricity should be restored, along with cellular communication and water supply," he promised.

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Ukraine Fighting - What's Next, after Bakhmut? Larry Johnson fmr CIA

All the Hatred for Putin... and all things Russian

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Polish "Encyklopedyja Powszechna", 1867:

Ukraine. In the old Polish language "ukraina" was a common word and meant the land lying in the borderlands, on the border of the state, at the country, at the shore. For this reason there used to be many ukrains.

I think every schoolchild both in Russia and Poland knows it. But not ukrops. They think ancient ookrs dug the Black sea, built the pyramids and discovered America (https://t.me/denatofication/2195).

Source: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/65058

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A very interesting historical television clip, from 1991 as described here:


A few months prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union, a gathering of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) took place in Lvov on June 24th, 1991.

Source: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/65063

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/1991-06-24_TV_news_clip_on_gathering_of_the_Organization_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists_%28OUN%29_Lvov_on_June_24 th_1991.mp4

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Although this would be a regular occurrence for any Prime Minister to conduct in the course of their diplomatic duties I do wonder whether Mikhail Mishustin may be a candidate for the Russian presidency, should Vladimir Putin decide to call it a day - just musing, but it has to be possible I'd have thought. We'll find out next year when the election takes place.

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🇷🇺🛬🇨🇳Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin arrived in Beijing

At the ramp, the Head of Government was met by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China Ma Zhaoxu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Russia Zhang Hanhui, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to the People's Republic of China Igor Morgulov.

In the capital of the People's Republic of China, Mikhail Mishustin will visit Tsinghua University, take part in Russian-Chinese talks and meet with Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Qiang and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-05_%28May%29/2023-05-23_Russian_Prime_Minister_Mikhail_Mishustin_arrived_in_Beijing.mp4

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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin - at the Russian-Chinese business forum in Shanghai:

“Last year, Russia was subjected to an unprecedented scale of sanctions pressure. Its goal was to break our economy, collapse the national currency, provoke devastating inflation, hit the standard of living of ordinary citizens.

Nothing that our ill-wishers dreamed of happened. We have not only survived, but we continue our progressive development. I am sure that the deepening of Russian-Chinese interaction and the expansion of cooperation will also have a positive impact on strengthening the economies of both our countries.

Today in Russia there are great opportunities for almost any line of business. We welcome partners from friendly countries, and especially from China, to launch promising long-term projects in many sectors of the economy."

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Article source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/mearsheimers-latest-talk-on-the-war-in-ukraine.html

From Moon of Alabama today and a link to a recent John Mearsheimer talk.

They pick up on the following:


Yesterday the well known international relations scholar John Mearsheimer gave a talk (video, 1:33h) about the war in Ukraine to the Committee for the Republic.

Mearsheimer made two major points:

Ukraine can not win this war because the kill ratio in this war is in its disfavor. Mearheimer estimates that two Ukrainians die for one Russian soldier but says that many of his friends think that the ratio is more like 3:1 or 4:1. The reason for this is the WWI-style static war in which artillery is the most deadly weapon. Russia has an immense artillery advantage. During an offensive the attacker will often have more casualties than the defender. But in this war the Ukraine side has been (counter-)attacked most of the time while the Russians defended.

The Ukraine also has a much smaller population than Russia. The current ratio is about 5 Russians for 1 Ukrainian. With a much smaller population and much higher casualties the Ukraine will run out of able bodies way before Russia does.

Mearsheimer expects that Russia, which already has incorporated four Ukrainian oblast plus Crimea, will take another four oblast from Ukraine. (I predicted this on February 24 2022, the day the war began. Those eight oblast plus Crimea are historically Russian land inhabited by Russian people. During the last thirty years they have consistently voted for pro-Russian candidates while the people in west Ukraine consistently opted for anti-Russian candidates.) Ukraine will end up as a dysfunctional (and poor) rump state.

Mearsheimer says that there will be no peace agreement in Ukraine. The war is seen by both sides as existential. Ukraine insists of regaining territory it sees as part of the country. Ukraine wants security guarantees from the 'west' which Russia opposes. The problem of hyper-nationalism (fascism) on the Ukrainian side also makes peace impossible. Then there is the problem that Russia, after having been lied to over the Minsk agreements, has zero trust in any 'western' word.

Posted by b on May 24, 2023 at 9:41 UTC | Permalink

Mearsheimer's Latest Talk On The War In Ukraine

UKRAINE SALON

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(Referencing Mearsheimer in the above post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1558984&viewfull=1#post1558984))

A more than revealing comment here (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/mearsheimers-latest-talk-on-the-war-in-ukraine.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02b7518169e6200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02b7518169e6200b) on that Moon of Alabama thread:



"It was obvious to me back in 2014 while watching the columns of tanks and other armoured vehicles rolling east past my dacha east of Zaporozhye that the war would expand and the split of Ukraine was inevitable. I also witnessed the jets that took out MH-17 on that fateful day. The talk back then was the reformation of Novorossiya with the flag prominent in many places at the time, if you were game enough to fly it considering the nazi goons present everywhere. There is nothing new in this article.

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Source: https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/25651

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German social networks are actively discussing how the Bundeswehr is covering up war crimes committed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Germans wrote (https://t.me/Ubersicht_Ukraine_Kanal/28280) that Bundeswehr General Andreas Marlow had knowledge of the facts of war crimes committed by Ukrainian servicemen against Russian prisoners of war. At the same time, their appeals, filed in February 2023, have not been answered by the German Public Prosecutor's Office or the Ministry of Defence.

Lieutenant General Andreas Marlow heads the Multinational Special Training Centre, under whose supervision the Ukrainian military is trained. And for months now, Marlow has been trying to initiate a federal investigation into the crimes committed by the Ukrainian military. In February 2023, he sent an official appeal to the Federal Prosecutor of the German Supreme Court, Duscha Gmel, as well as a copy to the German Ministry of Defence. To date, the agencies have not responded in any way to his request.

In particular, he claimed that Ukrainian servicemen training at the Wildflecken and Hummelburg bases repeatedly showed videos of torture and executions of Russian prisoners of war, confirming Ukrainian involvement in war crimes.

Although dozens of German officers have seen these videos, they have been ordered not to broadcast what they have seen. Most of them do not want to lose their official position, so they do not publicise the facts of the crimes.

According to Marlow, German instructors who have worked with Ukrainians agree that they were not interested in the training programme offered by the German army. They were much more interested in ways to intimidate the enemy, including ways that could be qualified as war crimes. Particularly frequently, the Ukrainians referred to the effectiveness of punitive actions carried out by SS troops in the occupied territories of the USSR.

In addition, the Ukrainians requested access to Bundeswehr documents on punitive operations, both contemporary and from the Second World War. According to them, British representatives had already shared similar information with them and expected the same from the Germans.

❗️Una amazing story of how Ukrainians went to learn how to butcher Russians and perfect their Nazi techniques. It would be interesting to know if there are war criminals among the Ukrainians trained in Spain and other European countries. Because if there are, then the Spanish government would be directly encouraging these crimes. I would like to believe that the media will not ignore this story, otherwise this shame will fall on many officials.

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

Epic events are unfolding in Germany but no one seems to talk about them.

A top ranked German General Andreas Marlow has been appointed to train Ukrainians at an "international training center" but after realising who he is actually dealing with, he contacted the prosecutor's office and the German MOD to launch an investigation on Ukrainian war crimes against Russian POV's and civilians.

During his work with the Ukrainian neo-Nazis soldiers he pointed out in particular that Ukrainian soldiers trained at the bases of Wildflecken and Hummelburg repeatedly bragged and showed videos of brutal tortures and executions of Russian prisoners of war, confirming Ukrainian involvement in war crimes.

Although dozens of German officers saw these videos, they were ordered not to disclose what they saw in oder to avoid ruining Ukraine's "reputation".

Since many of German officers do not want to lose their official posts, they do not make the facts of the Ukrainian war crimes public.

Funny enough, it gets even worse, Ukrainian soldiers according to the report have showed great interest in the archives of the Nazi SS torture programs and repeatedly asked their German trainees to be familiarized with the archives of the "special methods" used against the Soviet captives during the WW2.

Apparently Marlow is one of the few generals in the west who will not step over his honor and will not accept the policy of concealing war crimes even if it will cost him his position or rank.

He is convinced that the torture facts must be investigated, and the officers should be allowed to speak up on what they saw during their work with the Ukrainians..

Even though Marlow submitted a formal application to Duscha Gmel - the federal prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice, and a copy to the German Ministry of Defense back in February of 2023, he still did not receive any official response from the authorities.

Source: https://t.me/Ubersicht_Ukraine_Kanal/28280

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The sharp increase in the production of T-90 tanks scared the West

Intelligence shows that in the West, the main concern is a sharp increase in the production of T-90M tanks - with a production rate of more than 100 units per month from the assembly line.

At this rate, the T-90 can replace the T-72 and T-80, which formed the backbone of armored formations in the early stages of the SMO.

The fears of the Westerners are due to the vagueness of the prospects for the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for which nine armored brigades were formed and trained.

Russian armored vehicles, unlike Ukrainian ones, are not used to break through but are intended for fire support or accurate fire on reconnoitered targets. The RF Armed Forces, by the way, began to apply a new thermal camouflage on the T-90, significantly reducing the detectability at long distances. In particular, the probability of being hit by various anti-tank systems at a distance of more than 1400 m has decreased.

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The West is preparing an armed coup in Belarus with the support of the Polish army.

Polish General Skshipchak said that the republic is preparing for an armed "uprising" in Belarus and participation in its support.
On the air of the Polsat TV channel, the former Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland clarified that it was a military operation.
"We need to be ready to support the troops who will conduct the operation against Lukashenka. We have reasons to help them, as we help Ukrainians," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
According to the general, Belarusians who are currently fighting on the side of Kiev can take part in the coup: "They will go to Belarus. I hope it will cause an uprising."
In March, Lukashenko warned about the threat of Western invasion of Belarus: "The formation of certain regiments and legions is in full swing."

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❗️The moment of the shelling of military officers Readovka in the Belgorod region of Russia.

Military correspondents Readovka, along with other correspondents from various media, came under targeted fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Kozinka checkpoint.

“Sounds are heard,” the military commander of Readovka, Stas Czapsky, managed to say.

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❗️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine targeted the journalists - now the military commander Readovka and representatives of other media have left, everything is fine with them

All members of the film crews who came under fire in the Belgorod region are alive and are now safe. Arrivals fell right at the checkpoint in Kozinka - there were two of them.

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Ukrainian Su-24M as a carrier of Storm Shadow missiles - a photo accidentally or purposefully exposed by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace during today's visit to Kiev.

Clearly shows that the transfer of missiles and modifications of the SU-24 to be able to accommodate these missiles was planned months ago, it probably started last year.

It's also safe to say that Russia are most likely going to intensify strikes on airfields and hangars, as well as major munitions depots.

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Rzeczpospolita: Russia is discussing the issue of compensation from Poland

We are talking about 750 billion dollars in compensation for the reconstruction after the war, the newspaper writes. This is Moscow's response to the Russophobic policy of Warsaw, which wants to receive reparations from both Germany and the Russian Federation.
Rzeczpospolita notes that in Poland they were shocked by the invoice, they say, it was the USSR that “robbed” them. According to Polish officials, the Soviet Union "did not build factories and enterprises in Poland, but took them away to itself."

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Warsaw is preparing for an armed coup in Belarus and participation in its military support, said the former Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland Skshipchak.

“We need to be ready to support those troops who will conduct an operation against Lukashenka. We have reasons to help them, as we help Ukrainians ,” the general said.

Imagine if the Old Man said that they fully support the coup d'état or the military junta in Poland?!

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https://en.mriya.news/149285-warsaw-is-preparing-for-an-armed-coup-in-belarus-and-participation-in-its-support

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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's key statements at the international security summit:

▫️ NATO countries are directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine on Kiev's side;

▫️ An increasing proportion of Western arms shipments to Ukraine are spilling over into the world;

▫️ Moscow calls on Washington and Brussels to abandon attempts to marginalise the UN;

▫️ The expansion by NATO countries reflects the same intentions that underpinned Hitler's policies;

▫️ Western countries deliberately provoke inter-state and inter-ethnic conflicts in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Mearsheimer's Latest Talk On The War In Ukraine

v-rHBRwdql8Just a few small observations here. This is clearly a carefully worded, in some ways rather diluted presentation which is partially intended for those who really don't understand (or are in denial about) what's actually happening. (One might imagine Maria Zakharova speaking on much the same topic, and dispensing with everything in very clear-cut terms in 10 minutes flat. :muscle::))

Some of Mearsheimer's statements are wrong, but he may have deliberately watered them down them so as not to shock his audience too much. For instance:


The ratio of Russian to Ukrainian population he puts at 5:1. It's actually approaching 10:1 now, as so many have left Ukraine (more than he knows or states). But civilian population doesn't matter nearly so much as industrial capacity, as well as young men in good physical shape who are military-capable. (Ukraine barely has any left that are not already in uniform.)



The KIA (killed in action) ratio he puts at 2:1, meaning 2 Ukrainians killed to every 1 Russian. It's certainly more than 5:1, very likely 7:1, 8:1 or more.



He says the Russians have the upper hand now (true!), but also says that Ukraine had the upper hand through most of 2022. Not true at all.



He says that Ukrainian soldiers match the Russians in terms of determination to fight. That might have been true a year ago, but not at all so much now.

Having said all that, his argument that Russia intends to take control of 4 other Ukrainian oblasts is compelling. And he's quite right that there's no peace or ceasefire anywhere in sight.

Finally, to refer to another point which I increasingly feel is very important (though I've not yet listened to the entire thing), I'm not aware if he touches on the dangers of escalation to nuclear conflict — a real, non-zero risk.

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Deputy Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, General Vadim Skibitsky, said in an interview with Welt that the purpose of intelligence is to kill Putin and Prigozhin.

To the question, "What is your relationship with Yevgeny Progizhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group?"

Skibitsky replied: "We are trying to kill him."

He also said that Putin is "at the top of the list" of GUR targets.

Skibitsky stated that "our priority is to destroy the unit commander who orders his men to attack."

He stated that "Putin notices that we are getting closer and closer to him, but he is also afraid of being killed by his own."

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The murder of Putin and Prigozhin is the goal of Ukrainian intelligence - Deputy Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, General Vadim Skibitsky, in an interview with Welt.
To the question, "What is your relationship with Yevgeny Progizhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group?" Skibitsky replied: "We are trying to kill him."
He also said that Putin is "at the top of the list" of GUR targets.

I think that soon we will hear about new, real, Russian goals in Ukraine. And we will see the achievement of these goals in action and the Nazi Ukrainian state will be finished.
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Wagner Chief Reveals 20,000 Of His Fighters Killed At Bakhmut, Says Putin's War Has Backfired

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wagner-chief-reveals-20000-his-fighters-killed-bakhmut-says-putins-war-has-backfired

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Europe has set out to enlist the support of South America in the issue of support for Ukraine, but "unfortunately for them, Latin America does not listen to them," Politico writes, citing Brazilian and Chilean officials.

Thus, Brazil, despite condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, excludes any increase in support for Kiev, a Brazilian official told the publication.

They also do not intend to impose sanctions against the Russian Federation.

"In an ideal world, the British would like Brazil to join the sanctions. But they are smart enough to understand that the ideal world does not exist, and everything is as it is," the source said.

Asked if the UK could persuade Chile to provide military assistance to Ukraine, the Chilean official replied that "it won't happen, not at all."

Both Chile and Brazil have hundreds of German-made Leopard tanks that could go to Ukraine, Politico notes.

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Wagner Chief Reveals 20,000 Of His Fighters Killed At Bakhmut, Says Putin's War Has Backfired

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wagner-chief-reveals-20000-his-fighters-killed-bakhmut-says-putins-war-has-backfiredI don't think Prigozhin 'reveals' it, I think he says it. And what he says often changes wildly from day to day. :)

The Kremlin will be figuring ways to quietly sideline him without demoralizing his men — a tricky project, also bearing in mind that he's popular in Russia. As many have pointed out, in any other country's military command structure he'd have been dismissed on the spot months ago for insubordination.

And his unpredictable personality swings show all the signs of PTSD, which would be understandable. That's a mitigating factor in human terms, but he's still a wild card that sometimes does Russia no favors considering that this is at least partly a PR war.

The thing to remember is that he's not a military commander, nor has he ever served in any military ever. Others with senior military experience determine Wagner's tactics on the ground, not him. He's more of a talisman, showman and spokesperson, though his larger-than-life role in motivating his soldiers can't be underestimated.

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Wagner Chief Reveals 20,000 Of His Fighters Killed At Bakhmut, Says Putin's War Has Backfired

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wagner-chief-reveals-20000-his-fighters-killed-bakhmut-says-putins-war-has-backfiredI don't think Prigozhin 'reveals' it, I think he says it. And what he says often changes wildly from day to day. :)

The Kremlin will be figuring ways to quietly sideline him without demoralizing his men — a tricky project, also bearing in mind that he's popular in Russia. As many have pointed out, in any other country's military command structure he'd have been dismissed on the spot months ago for insubordination.

And his unpredictable personality swings show all the signs of PTSD, which would be understandable. That's a mitigating factor in human terms, but he's still a wild card that sometimes does Russia no favors considering that this is at least partly a PR war.

The thing to remember is that he's not a military commander, nor has he ever served in any military ever. Others with senior military experience determine Wagner's tactics on the ground, not him. He's more of a talisman, showman and spokesperson, though his larger-than-life role in motivating his soldiers can't be underestimated.Alexander Mercouris discusses Prigozhin's statements at 38:09, for about 8 minutes, in his video update for today:


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Yevgeniy Prigozhin👏👏👏:

❗️Bakhmut results:
1. 6.5 thousand foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
2. 10 thousand units of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
3. 35 thousand units of weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were taken as trophies.
4. More than 50 aircraft and helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
5. 55,000 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed.
6. 85 thousand soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were wounded.
7. Such a large percentage of the dead was due to the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were almost surrounded and did not have time to take out the wounded.
8. PMC Wagner has also losses, but several times less.
9. 10 brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were completely destroyed and deprived of combat capability.
10. 21 brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated and withdrawn to the rear for reorganization.
11. All these brigades were preparing for the offensive but instead of an offensive, they were defeated in Bakhmut.

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Brilliant synopsis of the historical context for the Ukraine War. Can anyone read this and still maintain, as the Biden administration does incessantly, that the invasion was “unprovoked”? #Kennedy24 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kennedy24?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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Kissinger's final warning

How one chooses to celebrate Kissinger’s Century depends on where you sit in the “Kissinger wars”. To his detractors, Henry Kissinger was an imperialist who pursued US global supremacy with unmatched ruthlessness and cynicism. To his supporters, he was a diplomatic genius and a peacemaker.

In The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens famously called for his prosecution “for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offences against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture”. For him, the Kissinger Doctrine was dangerously straightforward: the US reserved the right to intervene anywhere in the world in defence of its interest, including by conspiring against democratically elected governments.

This manifested itself in a number of ways: in Kissinger’s support for Pinochet’s violent overthrow of Allende’s socialist government in Chile and for the 17-year-long dictatorship that followed; in his approval of the equally brutal Argentinian military junta of Jorge Videla; in his enabling of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and the campaign of state-sponsored terror that followed; in his secret support for Pakistan as it committed shocking atrocities in Bangladesh; and in his encouragement of Nixon’s secret bombing campaign against neutral Cambodia and Laos, which killed an estimated 150,000 civilians. So wide-ranging was US interventionism under Kissinger that, in 1976, a 33-year-old Joe Biden accused him of trying to promulgate “a global Monroe Doctrine”.

Of all the offences committed by Kissinger, the Indochina bombing campaign is perhaps the most damning. In Kissinger’s Shadow, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin chronicled the scope of the destruction. The United States, Grandin wrote, dropped “a trillion pieces of shrapnel — either ball bearings or razor-sharp barbed darts” on Indochina. In Laos, American pilots deployed “a ton of explosives for each and every” citizen, which continue to maim and kill Laotian men, women and children to this day. As a portrait of Kissinger’s “grand strategy”, it is hard to disagree with Hitchens’s conclusion that his actions reveal a “a callous indifference to human life and human rights” — and to democracy, one may add.

With his reputation largely (and questionably) untainted by Watergate, Kissinger went on to found, in 1982, his own lucrative geopolitical consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, which he continues to run. We know relatively little of the work it carries out. Several attempts have been made, at the congressional level, to get the company to hand over its secretive “client list” — but all have failed. In 1989, Senator Jesse Helms unsuccessfully demanded to be shown it before he would consider confirming Lawrence Eagleburger (a Kissinger protégé and an employee of Kissinger Associates) as Deputy Secretary of State. In 2002, Kissinger chose to quit as chair of the 9/11 Commission rather than hand over the list for public review.

It is no secret, however, that Kissinger has used his extensive knowledge of and close relationship with foreign governments — including, one must assume, the several dictatorships he helped come to power — to advance the interests of some of the world’s largest corporations, including American Express, Coca-Cola, Daewoo, Heinz, Ericsson, Fiat and Volvo. As Grandin writes: “Kissinger Associates was an early player in the wave of privatisations that took place after the end of the Cold War — in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America — helping to create a new international oligarchic class.”

The rest here,

https://unherd.com/2023/05/kissingers-final-warning/

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Very wry :bigsmile:

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What a week so far!

We liberated Artyomovsk with shovels.

Made a contribution to fight climate change by canceling the ukrainian carbon footprint in Belgorod in an afternoon

Blew another ukrainian cope mission out of the water in the black sea

And, according to the cope poodles in my comments, also liberated Kursk. 😁

I sincerely hope they manage to put Zaluzhny back together cause the perfomance they have now is just sad, even by their standards.
This is just Kamala Harris level of comedy now.

It's almost as if AFU is lead by a third tier comedian and a incontinent senile old guy.

Crazy times.

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The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

By recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Only diplomatic efforts can do that.


Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs (https://www.commondreams.org/author/jeffrey-d-sachs) May 23, 2023

George Orwell wrote in 1984 that "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Governments work relentlessly to distort public perceptions of the past. Regarding the Ukraine War, the Biden administration has repeatedly and falsely claimed that the Ukraine War started with an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In fact, the war was provoked by the U.S. in ways that leading U.S. diplomats anticipated for decades in the lead-up to the war, meaning that the war could have been avoided and should now be stopped through negotiations.

Recognizing that the war was provoked helps us to understand how to stop it. It doesn’t justify Russia’s invasion. A far better approach for Russia might have been to step up diplomacy with Europe and with the non-Western world to explain and oppose U.S. militarism and unilateralism. In fact, the relentless U.S. push to expand NATO is widely opposed throughout the world, so Russian diplomacy rather than war would likely have been effective.

The Biden team uses the word “unprovoked” incessantly, most recently in Biden’s major speech (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/02/21/remarks-by-president-biden-ahead-of-the-one-year-anniversary-of-russias-brutal-and-unprovoked-invasion-of-ukraine/) on the first-year anniversary of the war, in a recent NATO statement (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_192648.htm), and in the most recent G7 statement (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/19/g7-leaders-statement-on-ukraine/#:~:text=We%20express%20our%20full%20sympathy,the%20rest%20of%20the%20world.). Mainstream media friendly to Biden simply parrot the White House. The New York Times is the lead culprit, describing the invasion as “unprovoked” no fewer than 26 times, in five editorials, 14 opinion columns by NYT writers, and seven guest op-eds!

There were in fact two main U.S. provocations. The first was the U.S. intention to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia in order to surround Russia in the Black Sea region by NATO countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, in counterclockwise order). The second was the U.S. role in installing a Russophobic regime in Ukraine by the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014. The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovych’s overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe.

The key to peace in Ukraine is through negotiations based on Ukraine’s neutrality and NATO non-enlargement.

Biden and his foreign policy team refuse to discuss these roots of the war. To recognize them would undermine the administration in three ways. First, it would expose the fact that the war could have been avoided, or stopped early, sparing Ukraine its current devastation and the U.S. more than $100 billion in outlays to date. Second, it would expose President Biden’s personal role in the war as a participant in the overthrow of Yanukovych, and before that as a staunch backer of the military-industrial complex and very early advocate of NATO enlargement. Third, it would push Biden to the negotiating table, undermining the administration’s continued push for NATO expansion.

The archives (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early) show irrefutably that the U.S. and German governments repeatedly promised to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch eastward” when the Soviet Union disbanded the Warsaw Pact military alliance. Nonetheless, U.S. planning for NATO expansion began early in the 1990s, well before Vladimir Putin was Russia’s president. In 1997, national security expert Zbigniew Brzezinski spelled out (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/1997-09-01/geostrategy-eurasia) the NATO expansion timeline with remarkable precision.

U.S. diplomats and Ukraine’s own leaders knew well that NATO enlargement could lead to war. The great US scholar-statesman George Kennan called NATO enlargement a “fateful error,” writing in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/05/opinion/a-fateful-error.html) that, “Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.”

President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Defense William Perry considered resigning in protest against NATO enlargement. In reminiscing about this crucial moment in the mid-1990s, Perry said the following (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/russian-hostility-to-west-partly-caused-by-west) in 2016: “Our first action that really set us off in a bad direction was when NATO started to expand, bringing in eastern European nations, some of them bordering Russia. At that time, we were working closely with Russia and they were beginning to get used to the idea that NATO could be a friend rather than an enemy ... but they were very uncomfortable about having NATO right up on their border and they made a strong appeal for us not to go ahead with that.”

In 2008, then U.S. Ambassador to Russia, and now CIA Director, William Burns, sent a (https://www.dropbox.com/s/lhhe26kvd1rz972/Burns%20Memo%202008%20Nyet%20Means%20Nyet.pdf?dl=0)c (https://www.dropbox.com/s/lhhe26kvd1rz972/Burns%20Memo%202008%20Nyet%20Means%20Nyet.pdf?dl=0)able (https://www.dropbox.com/s/lhhe26kvd1rz972/Burns%20Memo%202008%20Nyet%20Means%20Nyet.pdf?dl=0) to Washington warning at length of grave risks of NATO enlargement: “Ukraine and Georgia's NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region. Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russia's influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests. Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face.”

Ukraine’s leaders knew clearly that pressing for NATO enlargement to Ukraine would mean war. Former Zelensky advisor Oleksiy Arestovych declared in a 2019 interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwcwGSFPqIo) “that our price for joining NATO is a big war with Russia.”

During 2010-2013, Yanukovych pushed neutrality, in line with Ukrainian public opinion. The U.S. worked covertly to overthrow Yanukovych, as captured vividly in the tape (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE) of then U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (https://www.commondreams.org/tag/victoria-nuland) and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt planning the post-Yanukovych government weeks before the violent overthrow of Yanukovych. Nuland makes clear on the call that she was coordinating closely with then Vice President Biden and his national security advisor Jake Sullivan, the same Biden-Nuland-Sullivan team now at the center of U.S. policy vis-à-vis Ukraine.

After Yanukovych’s overthrow, the war broke out in the Donbas, while Russia claimed Crimea. The new Ukrainian government appealed for NATO membership, and the U.S. armed and helped restructure the Ukrainian army to make it interoperable with NATO. In 2021, NATO (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_185000.htm) and the Biden Administration (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/joint-statement-on-the-u-s-ukraine-strategic-partnership/) strongly recommitted to Ukraine’s future in NATO.

In the immediate lead-up to Russia’s invasion, NATO enlargement was center stage. Putin’s draft US-Russia Treaty (https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en) (December 17, 2021) called for a halt to NATO enlargement. Russia’s leaders put NATO enlargement as the cause of war in Russia’s National Security Council meeting on February 21, 2022 (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67825). In his address to the nation (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828) that day, Putin declared NATO enlargement to be a central reason for the invasion.

Historian Geoffrey Roberts recently wrote (https://geoffreyroberts.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Now-or-never-Putins-Decsion-for-War-with-Ukraine.pdf): “Could war have been prevented by a Russian-Western deal that halted NATO expansion and neutralised Ukraine in return for solid guarantees of Ukrainian independence and sovereignty? Quite possibly.” In March 2022, Russia and Ukraine reported progress towards a quick negotiated end to the war based on Ukraine’s neutrality. According to Naftali Bennett (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O10svZJ2Fps), former Prime Minister of Israel, who was a mediator, an agreement was close to being reached before the U.S., U.K., and France blocked it.

While the Biden administration declares Russia’s invasion to be unprovoked, Russia pursued diplomatic options in 2021 to avoid war, while Biden rejected diplomacy, insisting that Russia had no say whatsoever on the question of NATO enlargement. And Russia pushed diplomacy in March 2022, while the Biden team again blocked a diplomatic end to the war.

By recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Russia will escalate as necessary to prevent NATO enlargement to Ukraine. The key to peace in Ukraine is through negotiations based on Ukraine’s neutrality and NATO non-enlargement. The Biden administration’s insistence on NATO enlargement to Ukraine has made Ukraine a victim of misconceived and unachievable U.S. military aspirations. It’s time for the provocations to stop, and for negotiations to restore peace to Ukraine.

Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the date of William Burns' 2008 cable warning about NATO enlargement. That error has been fixed.


source (https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-war-in-ukraine-was-provoked-and-why-that-matters-if-we-want-peace)

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Jeffrey Sachs Interivew - From Ukraine to China: New Drumbeats of War (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOWAvvcVnFI)

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In my view most in Mainstream Media KNOWS it is the truth but chose to play the "ignorance card" acting dumb about it ... willful ignorance of mass crimes & mass murder is NOT an excuse to be excluded for future severe punishments ... as long as they think they can "get away with it" they will continue until they can't ... that simple.

Most Western Mainstream Media is 100% complicit in the continuation of War Crimes in Ukraine! ... Without their specific role in "perception management" & selling only tunnel vision narratives, prolongation of the War would not be possible.

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May 27th, 2023 two days from now ... War Criminal Henry Kissinger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger) will be 100 years old (... I wonder if he uses Adrenochrome (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?113721-Adrenochrome-Paper-Trail-Data-Dump--2020-/page2) ... :eyebrows::rant::yell:).


When he is 100 years old, what "new info" will be released to the masses about him? ... Or do they (all mainstream media networks) use this as an opportunity to present (sell) him as a "hero" blah blah blah. :facepalm:

Klaus Schwab (student of War Criminal Henri Kissinger (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Kissinger)) founder of WEF (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118748-Top-10-Creepiest-Most-Dystopian-Things-Pushed-By-The-World-Economic-Forum) was a long time part of the "Bilderberg Steering Committee" which sadly enough most Alternative Media Networks forget to mention .... I exposed The Bilderbergers (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121161-The-69th-Bilderberg-Meeting-2023-Is-Underway-and-the-Media-Are-Still-Clueless) since 1990 onward on Local Radio & TV Amsterdam ... Been in Dresden Germany 2016 Bilderberg Conference Protest interviewing among others: Dan Dicks of PressForTruth (https://pressfortruth.ca), Luke Rudkowskiof WeAreChange.org (https://wearechange.org) & Tony Gosling of Bilderberg.org (http://www.bilderberg.org/) ... If you go to big alternative video server platforms and search for Bilderberg Meeting 2023 in Portugal, you will see it is happening again for a couple of days! << and most of the Mainstream Media REFUSE to report (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121161-The-69th-Bilderberg-Meeting-2023-Is-Underway-and-the-Media-Are-Still-Clueless) on it.

"World Economic Forum" WEF (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118748-Top-10-Creepiest-Most-Dystopian-Things-Pushed-By-The-World-Economic-Forum) Founded by Klaus Schwab (https://twitter.com/MattGubba/status/1560529318857609217) who is in the "inner circle" of The Secretive Bilderberg Group Meetings (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121161-The-69th-Bilderberg-Meeting-2023-Is-Underway-and-the-Media-Are-Still-Clueless) (started in 1954 The Netherlands (https://rumble.com/v2jvg44-bilderberg-the-movie-2017-by-daniel-estulin.html) 🇳🇱 partially financed by the CIA & Rockefellers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_family)) of the (unelected) Ultra Elite deciding Future Policies & Agendas which was first denied & ridiculed for decades until "conspiracy researchers" exposing them are now totally vindicated >>> now they admit "they still exist"...

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cheers,
John Kuhles (https://whynotnews.eu/) aka 'ExomatrixTV'
May 25, 2023 🦜🦋🌳

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🇬🇧🇺🇦 Where were the Ukrainian formations aiming in Crimea?

The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried once again to strike with drones on the Crimean peninsula. In total, seven Mugin-5 UAVs were used at facilities in different parts of the Republic. Target designation was provided by the American RQ-4B UAV.

▪️In the north of the peninsula, one UAV was planted by an electronic warfare unit near the village of Steregushchee . The drone could move further in the direction of Dzhankoy or in the direction of the airfield south of Slavny .

To the north of Dzhankoy, two Mugins were destroyed by air defense rifle detachments near the Mamut railway station : the Armed Forces of Ukraine again intended to disrupt logistics with the Kherson region.

Also, one UAV was suppressed near Maslovo , and it was heading either further to the railway line or to military depots in the southeast. Dropped Mugin-5 in the Komsomolsk area to a warehouse.

▪️In the south, one drone was destroyed near the village of Zavetnoe . Its target was most likely a water pumping station : the UAV was shot down by a rifle squad a couple of hundred meters away.

Also, two Mugin-5 UAVs were shot down by a mobile air defense detachment at the naval aviation airfield of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy near Kacha . The drones were destroyed by small arms on the approach.

🔻The drone attack was quite expected. In anticipation of the air raid over the Black Sea, five reconnaissance aircraft of the US Air Force and NATO Air Force were operating .

In this case, it is more interesting how effectively the air defense units of the RF Armed Forces have adapted to regular attacks. If earlier anti-aircraft missiles were used, now most of the UAVs are shot down by rifle detachments, which have proven their effectiveness against low-flying targets.

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What a Ukraine win, lose or draw means for China
China has a huge stake in the conflict’s outcome and the new international order that comes thereafter

https://asiatimes.com/2023/05/what-a-ukraine-win-lose-or-draw-means-for-china/

[kfm27917]

Belgorod: Has the ground war crossed into Russia?
Battle reported close to the Ukraine border, in a region with a mixed Russian and Ukrainian ethnic population

https://asiatimes.com/2023/05/belgorod-has-the-ground-war-crossed-into-russia/

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🇺🇦 This war in Ukraine was not "unprovoked." 🇺🇦

Jeffrey Sachs, long-time Washington insider, walks through a brief and important history of the decades-long prelude to Russia's invasion:

1. In the early 90s, the US promises Gorbachev that it will not expand NATO "one inch" eastward.

2. The US instead chooses to pursue a strategy of global hegemony, violating this promise with first Clinton and then Bush incorporating many former Soviet states into NATO.

3. Putin gives a famous speech in 2007 at the Munich Security Conference, demanding the US stop this expansion up to Russia's border.

4. In 2008, Bush expresses strong support for Ukraine's attempt to join NATO.

5. In 2013, the US supports a violent coup that overthrew Ukraine's government to install a more US-friendly leader.

Whatever this war is, it didn't come out of nowhere.

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Another on put on the Kill list,

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💥 The dam of the Karlovskoye reservoir, 40 km north-west of Donetsk, which was used to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction, has been blown up.

The blown up dam is of military importance - it was one of the roads used to supply Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk direction.
The Kiev regime blames the Russian army for this; Karlovka is under Ukrainian control.

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Jeffrey Sachs: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

Syriana Analysis

Renowned American economist and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs wrote a brilliant article titled “The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace”.

In this video, Kevork Almassian sheds light on this important opinion article because as Professor Sachs argued, by recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. And why only diplomatic efforts can achieve peace.


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Jimmy Dore Added To Ukraine Government’s Kill List! :facepalm:

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The notorious Ukrainian “kill list” that identified the Zelensky regime’s opponents like Aaron Maté, Scott Ritter, Roger Waters and even Henry Kissinger has added a new name: Jimmy Dore. The list is ostensibly maintained by an independent group, but an investigation into funding reveals that the Ukrainian government is behind the effort, as well as U.S. and NATO cutouts. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger speak with The Grayzone reporter Max Blumenthal about the individuals named on the list who have been assassinated and what being added means for Jimmy.


NATO’s Latest Stunt To Keep Ukraine War Going :facepalm:


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Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently traveled to Texas in an effort to maintain support among prominent elected Republicans for the Ukraine War. Johnson notably traveled to Kiev during the early days of the war to tell Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the NATO powers would not support a peace deal with Russia.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger talk to The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal about the reasoning behind the war machine and defense manufacturers sending the wildly unpopular Johnson to do their bidding in Texas.


Read Max's work at The Grayzone here: thegrayzone.com (http://thegrayzone.com)
Follow Max on Twitter: twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal (https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal)

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In Canada, a Russian woman wrote on her house "Bakhmut is ours. Thank you, Wagner" and ZV

A group of ukies came and forced her to take it off. Accompanying it by insults, threats. They yell:

"You must not be in this country!"
"Go to Russia!"
"You must be an idiot to write this!"
"Take off this dirty flag!"
"Bakhmut will never be Russia!"
"300 000 of your people died there!"

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John McCain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. To the best of my knowledge, he recorded this interview in or around 2015. Whether you argree with his words or not it is interesting to look back almost 10 years later. Just for perspective Russia invaded and occupied parts of Ukraine in Feb 2022 which was a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had begun in 2014. The invasion (most reliable sources say) has resulted in anwhere between 200,000 to 400,000 (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-war-already-with-up-354000-casualties-likely-drag-us-documents-2023-04-12/) deaths on both sides, and instigated Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.

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On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded and occupied parts of Ukraine in a major

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Russia MFA Spokeswoman ZAKHAROVA: "The West is conducting true ethnic cleansing in Ukraine. The disaster unfolding before our eyes cannot have any other description or definition. The Western curators are doing all they can for the complete destruction of Ukrainians as a people, a community."

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A sniper of the special forces "Akhmat" with the call sign "Hades" (pictured):
"A Polish sniper specifically shot our infantry soldiers in the neck and armpits so that the guys would die a painful death. I've been tracking him for a long time. On the day of reckoning, the Pole tried to use the tactics of the cuckoo — the tactics of the Finnish snipers, that is, he sat on a tree from where he had a better view, hoping to track me down. The crunch of a branch gave him away. After my shot, he fell from a tree with a hole in his neck."

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An important possible development here concerning Mike Jones and Maria Lelyanova apparently reported 'missing' in the Donbass.

The concern here is that they may probably have been picked up by the SBU. John Mark Dougan is clearly very tired here; this situation clearly seems to be taking its toll.

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Mike (iEarlGrey) Jones missing in Donbass



American exile John Mark Dougan reports that Mike Jones (iEarlGrey) along with translator Maria (Masha) Lelyanova, who were last seen on the front lines in the Soledar area, have gone missing.

#Source https://youtu.be/UNitApoiIco


Source: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/47824

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"All of This Could End In..": Wagner Chief Threatens Russia Amid Ukraine War

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"All of This Could End In..": Wagner Chief Threatens Russia Amid Ukraine War | Vantage on Firstpost
Following his controversial victory in Bakhmut, Ukraine, Russian mercenary leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin has raised an alarm. In a startling revelation, he warns that Russia's escalating conflict in Ukraine could trigger a revolution in the country, unless the nation's privileged class steps up. Prigozhin was speaking after two Russian rebel militias, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion, had made a dramatic incursion into the Belgorod region along Ukraine’s northern border. What could this mean for Russia’s future? Catch this in-depth analysis from Vantage on Firstpost.

Russia is threatening "extremely harsh" consequences after pro-Ukraine militia attacked a Russian border town. Who are the Russians fighting the Russian state? Why are they opposed to the Kremlin? Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, meanwhile, has claimed that Russia could face another revolution if its leadership does not improve its handling of the war. Prigozhin was speaking after two Russian rebel militias, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion, had made a dramatic incursion into the Belgorod region along Ukraine’s northern border.

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Question: Is this (among others) what NATO was/is "hoping for" ??? ... or is it all a "nothing burger" ?

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

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Masha And Mike Missing On The Front Lines... Never Made It Back! Let's All Pray They Are Okay (https://rumble.com/v2q33l1-masha-and-mike-missing-on-the-front-lines...-never-made-it-back-lets-all-pr.html)

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Two interesting moments with Scott Ritter on his current - or at least recent - speaking and book tour in Russia.

Here he is on Crimea24 TV:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Scott_Ritter/2023-05-24_Scott_Ritter_on_Crimea24_TV.MOV

Here at a journalist and student's meeting being questioned by Alina Lipp:



Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter: "Nazi ideology is alive today both in Ukraine and in the US!" "Russia stands on the right side of history!"

At a meeting with students and journalists, German Alina Lipp asked Scott Ritter, to comment on the fact that Germany supports Nazis in Ukraine who terrorize and kill the Russian-speaking population.

In response, Ritter very emotionally stated that he hates Nazi Germany and cannot understand that German tanks are going to Russia again 💪

In his opinion America, Germany and Canada have forgotten their history, where Nazi ideology is still alive today. Even not far from where Scott Ritter lives in the United States, a monument to Bandera has been erected.

Therefore, Russia, according to him, stands on the right side of history in the current conflict.

Video from a meeting with Scott Ritter at Sevastopol University on May 22.

Source: @neuesausrussland

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Scott_Ritter/2023-05-22_Scott_Ritter_at_Sevastopol_University_on_May_22_w_Alina_Lipp.mp4