WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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The U.S. has a defense budget approaching a trillion dollars a year but can't afford a competent graphic designer. 😂😂😂

In a now deleted Tweet the US Pacific fleet wished everyone a Happy Independence Day with a cool graphic featuring Su-27 fighters and a silhouette of a Russian ship against a sunset. To bad the internet is forever.

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[Ravenlocke]

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‼️☢️Kyiv is nearing the final stages of preparing a nuclear provocation: Zelensky and the Ministry of Health scare Ukraine with a catastrophe. Zelensky commented on the situation at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, stating that the world is ready to respond to any incidents. He added that there is allegedly something resembling explosives at the Zaporizhia NPP. Prior to this, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine issued instructions on what to do in the event of a nuclear disaster. Meanwhile, Kyiv media outlets are publishing a contamination map in the event of a catastrophe at the Zaporizhia NPP. http://t.me/RVvoenkor

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[shaberon]

Here is a grab at some missing insight.


Islam in Russia is there, of course, due to military exploits of Caliphates, shortly after the time of Prophet Mohammed PBUH. This established what came to be known as Volga Bulgaria, which in turn was instrumental in beating down the Khazarian Empire.

In about the same time frame as Khazaria was being degraded, Kievan Rus began to consolidate. Once it was open to possibly becoming Islamic, which wound up getting refused because the king did not like its ban on alcohol.

For all this time, there has been an Islamic culture based around Dagestan, which perhaps did not get the greatest support from anyone else, but, at least it remained intact.

As one might guess, the Soviets changed everything. Islam was kicked out to Bukhara. Simple whitewashing types of things, turning everyone into robots.



Subsequently, it has been difficult to re-integrate. Here is the challenge to it:



If in previous periods Islamic identity suffered from a combination of malign neglect and active repression, the Kremlin’s urgent need to consolidate society in 2022 has led it to project a unity of purpose, ideology, and identity across the country’s ethnic, religious, and other dividing lines.

This unity, of course, is largely fictional – and 2022 has made that clearer than ever before, provoking a sense of grievance among many of the country’s ethnic and religious minorities. And the inordinate burden borne by minority communities from the North Caucasus to East Siberia has deepened the sense that these supposedly constituent units of the Russian Federation are, in fact, being treated as colonies of a Russian empire.



It goes to a mediumishly-long article by Alisa Shishkina (https://cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/understanding-islamic-education-in-russia-the-struggle-over-identity-and-belonging-in-russias-muslim-majority-regions/), a Russian sociologist:


...the first university-type madrasah in the Caucasus was built in 1075, becoming the center of the spread of Islam in the region in the Middle Ages.



And now:


In Russia’s North Caucasian republics, high rates of unemployment as well as large-scale social transformation, intensified migration, and the growing influence of globalization have largely led to the erosion of young people’s sense of identity: The old social regulators no longer work, and new ones have not yet been established. The processes of post-Soviet political, economic, and social development created both demand for Islamic education and the conditions for radicalization in Islamic institutions — in part as a response to social dislocation, economic breakdown, and poor governance.

The situation is further complicated by the Islamic revival that has gained momentum in recent decades, which began after the collapse of the Soviet Union and emerged as a response to decades of Soviet suppression of religious identity in the USSR’s historically Islamic republics. By now, in the Muslim-majority regions of Russia, a rather strong demand for religion has arisen on the part of young people in particular.



Part of the problem is the Russian state is so fair, it cannot directly support a religious school.

The Soviets evidently let Dagestan rot while installing the entire infrastructure of Ukraine.


Compared to the Caliphate seizing part of the Caucasus. whether for good or ill, here is why their neighbors were not Islamic.


Khazaria: "Judaism is older".

Russia: "Orthodoxy has wine".


Firstly those are not what I would call interesting theological discussions, and secondly the things that have negatively affected inter-cultural relations do not seem to be any process of debate or interface whatsoever. Just arbitrary blanket policies that govern you. They didn't happen to be of Russian origin.

And it still comes out as the same medieval situation. The Islamic culture which probably holds value is dependent almost solely on private contributions in order to function. The less successful this is, the more likely the vacuum will be filled with "radicals".

The linked article does explain a bit about some intra-Islamic creeds, which we, or at least I, have almost no concept.

Unemployment and poverty are still so widespread in those areas, there is no quick fix.

What we don't see is crusading, or paranoia about how one infiltrated the other's faith, there is nothing really pro or con Islam or Christianity. However among the Muslim population may not be the most glowing support of the Russian state, it perhaps could be argued that ones such as Kadyrov are idealists, attempting some kind of post-Soviet experiment that really has no answer.

No one in the west can say they know anything about having the remains of an original Caliphate in your country.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Again my thanks to all who have posted on this potential crisis, proving again the special value I receive from Project Avalon; especially Bill, Tintin, and the redoubtable Ravenlocke...

I regard it as vital that we understand such matters - even if we cannot always do anything substantive (at least materially) to prevent them -- except that the more people know in advance, the less likely it is actually to happen (which is, I guess, why Russia is doing so much to spread advance awareness).

Of course, unless there is a change of Western leadership, then eventually They will achieve the nuclear-plus escalation They have been working for. The fact that there is no such change, and extremely little pressure or even desire for such change, in the Western nations - is evidence of broad social culpability, which means the Western masses are very far from innocent of what is happening.

[Ravenlocke]

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Situation in Zaporozhya direction as of 10:00 (Moscow time)

During the night AFU went on the offensive, without equipment, 50-70 people on foot from both sides came in. A small arms fight in the trenches ensued.
The enemy was stopped and our artillery started to destroy them. Till 4 o'clock our artillerymen dealt with finishing of the scattered groups in farmsteads and houses in Pyatihatki.

From 9 am two groups tried to come to the aid, most likely there should have been a rotation. We met them with artillery, inflicted damage. They dragged the wounded - the cars are no longer coming.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 The enemy is advancing on Kleshcheevka, heavy battles are going on, the strategically important settlement has not fallen
▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue constant attempts to break through the flanks of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) from a number of directions, wanting to take the city into pincers. For this purpose, they first of all set their sights on Kleshcheevka and Berkhovka - strategic heights dominating the city.
▪️The Russian army repels numerous attacks by armored groups and infantry assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy is trying to drive our troops out of the Kleshcheevsky stronghold and positions near the village in forest plantations.
❗️Enemy military analysts are now also denying the fall of Kleshcheevka:
"Despite the statements of Russian military correspondents, Russian troops are in Kleshcheevka and neighboring forest plantations. Fights are going on."
▪️"Complex fierce battles are going on in the direction of Kleshcheevka. Russian troops are transferring reinforcements to Kleshcheevka for counterattacks, but now they have gone on the defensive. Artillery is working intensively," the latest reports of the enemy say.

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Karchaa: APU wants to hit ZNPP with a radioactive waste missile
Rosenergoatom reported Ukraine's intention to attack ZNPP on the night of July 5

MOSCOW, July 4 - RIA Novosti. Kiev on Wednesday night is going to attack ZNPP with high-precision weapons and kamikaze drones, said Renat Karchaa, adviser to the head of Rosenergoatom, on Russia 24 TV channel.
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"Today, information has been received, which is authorized to voice: <...> On July 5, literally at night, at night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to attack the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant using high-precision long-range vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles - kamikaze," he said.
At the same time, Ukraine plans to dump ammunition with radioactive waste taken from the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant from the aircraft on July 3, said the adviser to the head of Rosenergoatom.
"The radioactive substance discharge backdrop plan provides for the use of a high-precision Tochka-U projectile filled with radioactive waste," Karchaa specified.
Fifth and sixth power units of Zaporozhye NPP - RIA Novosti, 1920, 04.07.2023
Kiev disconnected the Zaporozhye NPP from the Dnieper power line
Yesterday, 12:01
As the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted, speaking about the situation with the Zaporozhye NPP, the threats of provocations from Kiev are constant. According to him, this was demonstrated by sabotage at the Kakhovskaya HPP.

In mid-June, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he had received a report from intelligence and the SBU on Moscow's plans to allegedly stage a radiation attack at the ZNPP. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called these words nonsense. Nebenzya noted that Kiev's "frequent paranoid claims" are alarming.
At the end of June, the Ukrainian authorities in the territories of the Zaporozhye region controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced exercises in case of an emergency at the ZNPP.

Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper near the city of Energodar. In October 2022, the nuclear power plant became the property of Russia. The Ukrainian military regularly shells the city and the adjacent territory of the nuclear power plant.

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[Ravenlocke]

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️The price of the counteroffensive: 2 brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 60% of their personnel, - Khodakovsky
Deputy Head of the Russian Guard for the DPR on preparing an enemy offensive on the Vremevsky ledge at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR:
"As an illustration of my previous publication: two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which since the beginning of the counteroffensive, have torpedoed our sector, are being withdrawn for replenishment. According to information, no more than forty percent of the personnel remained in one of them. Of course, those who were caught on streets. Here it is the price of the counteroffensive and the result of our difficult perseverance. Yes, we also get it - but what I said works: if we fight, we don’t run, the enemy dies."

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AFU total losses in 24h:

The losses in personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 740 individuals in total

In terms of equipment, the Ukrainian forces lost 2 infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled guns Krab, as well as three US-made M777 artillery systems.

Russian air defense intercepted six HIMARS rockets and six UAVs.

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The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation :

◾️ The RF Armed Forces repulsed two attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction;

◾️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Razdolovka in the DPR defeated the command post of the 115th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

◾️ The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day in the Krasnolimansky direction amounted to more than 90 servicemen;

◾️ The RF Armed Forces repulsed five attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donets direction;

◾️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated three accumulations of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artemovsk;

◾️ In the Krasnoliman direction, the activities of two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stopped;

◾️ The RF Armed Forces repulsed nine attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction;

◾️ Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the fighting in the Donetsk direction amounted to 290 people per day;

◾️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost over 300 military personnel, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled guns Krab in a day in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;

◾️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlement of Nevelskoye in the DPR;

◾️ Russian troops destroyed up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers and three US-made M777 artillery systems in a day in the Kherson direction;

◾️ Russian air defense intercepted six HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and six UAVs

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[Ravenlocke]

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As of 08:00 on July 5, the water level in the Zaporizhzhya NPP cooling pond has not changed. Currently, it is 16.56 m.

The water level in the channel of the TPP, from where the ZNPP pond is fed if necessary, is at the level of 11.15 m . Note that the water level in the canal has not dropped significantly recently, its indicators no longer depend on the Kakhovsky Reservoir.

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Diplomat sees global risks in Kiev plans to conduct terror attack on Zaporozhye nuke plant

"If anything happens, everything will be affected - the air, the water, and food. And Zelensky is clearly seeking to use this factor for his extremist terrorist purposes," Maria Zakharova noted

MOSCOW, July 5. /TASS/. Ukraine is planning to conduct a terrorist attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), with potential consequences affecting the entire globe, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik radio on Wednesday.

"[Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky is going to conduct a terror attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant," the diplomat said.

According to Zakharova, neither the United States nor Great Britain sees this as a danger. "Meanwhile, not a single corner of the planet will be unaffected, because there are such things as the atmosphere, the world ocean and agriculture," Zakharova emphasized. "If anything happens, everything will be affected - the air, the water, and food. And Zelensky is clearly seeking to use this factor for his extremist terrorist purposes," the Russian diplomat lamented.

Renat Karchaa, adviser to the CEO of Russian nuclear power corporation Rosenergoatom, warned on Tuesday evening that Ukraine will attempt to attack the Zaporozhye NPP on the night of July 5, in particular by dropping munitions packed with radioactive waste extracted from the South Ukraine NPP on July 3.

Earlier, Zelensky claimed that Russia was allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on the nuclear facility. He informed the United States, Brazil, India and China, as well as European, Middle Eastern and African countries about this alleged plot but provided no evidence to back up his allegations. Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko said that Ukraine would hold drills and organize crisis centers "in case of a possible radiation leak from the ZNPP."

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov refuted these allegations as yet another lie. According to Karchaa, Zelensky’s statements may indicate that Kiev is plotting to mount a terrorist attack or strike on the ZNPP in a bid to drag NATO fully into the conflict.

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[shaberon]

Today, starting our year 5,794 of independence from the University of Britain, we would like to show where all that education went--to Orwell as Supreme Posthumous Capitaino whistling while France torches Islam.



Ukrainian Officer Expresses Dissatisfaction with French Tanks (https://southfront.org/ukrainian-officer-expresses-dissatisfaction-with-french-tanks-while-france-burns/) while France Burns:

The French-made vehicles can easily be penetrated even without suffering direct hits, thus constraining operations in a high-intensity conflict zone.

“The guns are good, the observation devices are good, but unfortunately, there is thin armour, and it is impractical to use them in the front line,” the officer added, warning against “just sending out the vehicles so they get destroyed, I consider it is impractical and unnecessary because it’s primarily a risk for the crew.”


As the Germans found, there is no need to blow up Leopards at the train station, since they are also field-disposable:


Ukrainian forces entered a Russian minefield south of Mala Tokmachka, and there, the 33rd Mechanised Brigade and the 47th Assault Brigade of Ukraine reportedly lost three of their 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks, 16 of their 109 M-2 infantry fighting vehicles and three of their six Leopard 2R engineering vehicles – apparently within minutes.


They have some new thing called "The Farmer", which can lay out fields of multiple types of mines at a furious pace.

And--speculations aside--recent events played into the hands of a more serious nuclear threat, Belarus (https://southfront.org/contrary-to-what-some-media-say-russia-became-stronger-after-failed-mutiny/):


Conspiracy theories have been circulating, without any evidence whatsoever, as is often the case, about the whole Wagner affair in Rostov being a stage “psy-op”. In the real world, when a state successfully and efficiently neutralizes a crisis and even reap advantages to its national interests out of it, this of course does not necessarily mean the state manufactured the whole crisis in the first place. It would seem however that nowadays anything goes for the sake of Russophobia: even accusing the Russian President and key Russian officials of colluding with mutineers to shoot down Russian pilots.

On June 1, Lukashenko stated the West was plotting a coup to overthrow his government – something which has always been in the West’s interest. On June 14, Lukashenko said that his country would “take care” of Ukrainian saboteur’s raids and provocations, mentioning Ukrainian activities in the Belgorod region as an example of such. He stressed, however, that a “full-blown aggression” against his country, such as sending “troops”, and not just “small units” would be a “red-line”. The day before, June 13, he had already said that an “aggression” against Belarus would be the only valid reason for employing nuclear weapons: “I believe it is unlikely that anyone would want to wage war against a country that has such weapons. It is a weapon of deterrence. God forbid if I have to make a decision to use this weapon in modern times. But I won’t hesitate should there be an aggression against us”.



Sounds to me like first-strike deterrence. But, if he enfolds part of Wagner into his own army, Ukraine will probably talk about it.

The rest of this sounds like what became World War I--a few meters of trench fight.


Orwell commanded CIA director Burns to turn Russia into France (https://southfront.org/ukrainian-conflict-an-opportunity-for-the-cia-william-burns/):


The head of American intelligence revealed in a lecture at the Ditchley Foundation in the UK on July 1 that his agency plans to explore the possible opportunities for infiltration that would arise from the weaknesses of a Russian society allegedly dissatisfied with the conflict in Ukraine. This would be, according to him, an appropriate occasion to advance anti-Russian plans in the intelligence sector.

“Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership beneath the steady diet of state propaganda and practiced repression (…) That disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us at CIA, at our core a human intelligence service. We’re not letting it go to waste”, he said.

Two days later, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky went public to reveal that his regime is constantly in cooperation with the CIA, and there are no secrets between them. Recently, Zelensky and Burns met during a director’s visit to Kiev. On the occasion, the neo-Nazi leader talked to the US official about many “important things”, such as what Ukraine “needs” to keep the proxy war on Russia.

“My communication with the CIA chief should always be behind the scenes. We discuss important things – what Ukraine needs and how Ukraine is prepared to act (…) We don’t have any secrets from the CIA because we have good relations and our intelligence services talk with each other (…) The situation is pretty straightforward. We have good relations with the CIA chief, and we are talking. I told him about all the important things related to the battlefield that we need”, Zelensky said.

According to an anonymous source linked to the American government interviewed by CNN, Burns’ visits to Kiev are frequent, despite the fact that media outlets often do not pay attention to these events:

“Director Burns recently traveled to Ukraine, as he has done regularly since the beginning of Russia’s recent aggression more than a year ago (…) As with other trips, the director met with his Ukrainian intelligence counterparts and President Zelensky, reaffirming the US commitment to sharing intelligence to help Ukraine defend against Russian aggression”, source said.

Furthermore, Burns’ words about an alleged public CIA recruitment of Russian citizens through Telegram sounded unconventional. This type of strategy sounds amateurish and ineffective in terms of security, since Telegram is an easily accessible network and Russian forces could act against citizens who search for the CIA there – in addition to infiltrating their own counterintelligence agents in the process of recruitment.

Either Burns made this announcement as a bluff to try to “scare” Russia by demonstrating that it was advancing intelligence operations, or in fact the CIA is desperate in its search for agents on the ground in Russia and is making basic strategic mistakes. In both cases, it is clear that American intelligence does not seem prepared to defeat Russia.


On the heels of the “mutiny”, Putin has declared that “Ukraine” is no longer a sovereign state. He has a legal basis for that claim since the Western Ukrainians repudiated the legal agreements that made them a state!



But this is known not to work by ex-CIA Johnson (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230705/cia-cringe-offensive-in-russia-falls-flat-1111676223.html):


The US spymaster’s assessment of the situation, however, was not shared by Larry Johnson, a retired CIA intelligence officer and US State Department official who told Sputnik that Burns sounded “delusional” and has apparently “lost touch with reality.”

“Russia is not suffering massive losses of personnel and it is thwarting Ukrainian offensive actions that are completely inspired and backed by NATO. So essentially, Russia is fighting NATO and defeating NATO so far. So how does that translate into dissatisfaction among Russian citizens?” Johnson inquired. “It underscores how out of touch and ignorant the intelligence agency is with respect to what's going on in Russia.”

He further speculated that the “exact opposite” might be true, as people in the United States who are unhappy with what he described as a “celebration of homosexuality and transgenderism” in the country, as well as with the “entire push towards treating people unequally because of their skin color” under the guise of “diversity, equality and inclusion” – might be inclined to cooperate with Russian intelligence.

“So now is the time when I think Russia would be more effective and enjoy more success recruiting than the CIA simply because that kind of recruitment is always predicated on dissatisfaction and unhappiness or alienation. That alienation is rampant in the United States,” Johnson mused.

“It's just stunning to me because, number one, that's not how you recruit. We're not hiring a barista to work at Starbucks. We're not advertising for a software guy that can come in and create video games,” he explained. “When you're trying to recruit people that are going to spy, betray their country for you, you normally want to make sure that you're recruiting people who actually have access to information that's valuable and important. And the last person you want to recruit is somebody who is spending all their time surfing telegram channels and then says ‘Hey, I think I'll join the CIA!’ It's ludicrous.”

Johnson also pointed out that, during the times of the Cold War, the United States could use its economic power and 'greater freedom' label to entice Soviet people to spy for Uncle Sam.

“Well, that's certainly not the case now. The reality is there are more political prisoners in US prisons today, that far surpass any so-called political prisoners that are being held in Russia,” Johnson remarked. “The punishment that is directed against people for expressing unpopular viewpoints, in some areas in the United States they're criminalizing the very expression of saying that there are no such thing as transgender.”


Just spiffy--in the States, you tell the truth after you leave office. Otherwise, all posts are under the Ministry of Truth.

When you rub that out of your eyes, if you want to live, you evac that notorious abuser of large land holdings, the WWF (https://tass.com/society/1643003):


The Russian Justice Ministry on Wednesday entered the World Wildlife Fund, an international non-governmental organization that had been designated as a foreign agent in Russia, into the list of organizations that have been deemed undesirable in Russia, according to data on the ministry’s website.



Let's see. Did France or Sweden dive under the power of an Islamic Caliphate. No. Seems not to be very well-adjusted, or less important than the seventeenth gender.

Did the southern Russian states get so dominated, yes. It is well-adjusted, minus the soul vacuum from the Soviets, plenty of reason to say they want it to function normally and peacefully, despite some normal materialistic hurdles. They know internally it is better for the population, and, who would want any loose ends for Burns to clutch at?

[atman]

From political commentator, civil rights activist and former entertainment lawyer Rogan O'Handley (@DC_Draino), a warning and a call for reform that are perhaps belated, but that are nevertheless much welcome and much needed:
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It’s time to start calling out NATO corruption

It started with only 12 nation members but has since expanded to 31 & counting

It’s no coincidence that as NATO has expanded closer to Russia’s borders, we’re now the closest we’ve been to WW3 with a nuclear superpower in decades

The very organization designed to keep us out of WW3 is dragging us faster towards it than anything else

If NATO puts our national security & global stability at such great risk, it’s time to reform

Peace not war!

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[Michel Leclerc]

Again my thanks to all who have posted on this potential crisis, proving again the special value I receive from Project Avalon; especially Bill, Tintin, and the redoubtable Ravenlocke...

I regard it as vital that we understand such matters - even if we cannot always do anything substantive (at least materially) to prevent them -- except that the more people know in advance, the less likely it is actually to happen (which is, I guess, why Russia is doing so much to spread advance awareness).

Of course, unless there is a change of Western leadership, then eventually They will achieve the nuclear-plus escalation They have been working for. The fact that there is no such change, and extremely little pressure or even desire for such change, in the Western nations - is evidence of broad social culpability, which means the Western masses are very far from innocent of what is happening.

Absolutely true, and very sadly so.

In France where rot leads to riot, the interpretative discourse is about how “we” can better imbibe “them” with Liberté Égalité Fraternité, the dangerous second concept of which meant right from the start “everybody is equal in the face of the guillotine”.

The youngsters (adolescent youth mainly, 16-18 teens who have (so far) kept up with the “operational effectiveness” of the police force) could not care less about LÉF — all those self-justification slogans of the “République” are empty hence void to them.

Empty because of as you write: “no such change, and extremely little pressure or even desire for such change”.

The adult, so-called “sane” population here tells me, in the best cases: "chacun doit choisir son combat” (“everybody needs to choose their battle”), meaning: “whether there is nuclear fall-out or butchery and massacre or not, it is not of my concern” (“...because I am fighting against the postponement of the pension age and that will do”)).

No sense whatsoever of danger probability: no risk analysis about anything in their own lives (cf. injections).

[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine Scam Exposed by Thierry Baudet in Dutch 🇳🇱 Parliament July 2023

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source (https://rumble.com/v2ybrly-ukraine-scam-exposed-by-thierry-baudet-in-dutch-parliament-july-2023.html)



NATO Does Not Want Peace in Ukraine - Thierry Baudet in Dutch 🇳🇱 Parliament:

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[Michel Leclerc]

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Yes, John. Thank you. Thierry Baudet. Brilliant speeches facing an empty Parliament. Dutch politicians could not care less.

But also Dutch citizens could not care less. Where are all those tractors now? Would they not be quite useful in paralysing the servile and “collaboration”-leaning society The Netherlands are (as Belgium is, and as France is) so that Dutch support for the pulverisation of Ukraine would morph into something like the Hungarian stance?

Dutch politicians with a rare exception like Baudet as well as Belgian politicians are as “bought” by BlackRockefellerschild as the American ones. When I was a student that was superciliously called "Atlantist” policy by its Belgian champions from the Eyskens family. Later, Herman Van Rompuy, the insipid haiku knitter who made it to European Council President – his name all the while being comically mispronounced in the European Parliament by his Nemesis Nigel Farage – was overheard snickeringly telling a colleague how glad he was that they had “managed to have it up Putin’s ass” or something similar – many years before the 2014 Maidan coup.

Ah, the heroes they are, defending the greatness of the civilisation of the Low Countries near the Sea! With their unsavoury asses!

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Ukrainian TG channels report Geranium UAVs in the skies of Zaporozhye and Dnepropetovsk regions. Explosions reported in Dnepropetrovsk region.

Ukrainian monitoring channels report launches of Kalibr missiles from the Black Sea

Missiles fly to the part of Kherson and Zaporozhye region occupied by the AFU

Also, there are reports of new launches and missiles flying into Odessa, Nikolaev and Dnepropetrovsk regions.

Air-raid alert declared in Kiev

Reports of new missile launches to Cherkasy region.

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🇺🇦 The State Statistics Service of Ukraine has suspended the transmission of data to the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to a cyberattack. The department announced this on its Facebook page.

“Due to disruption of work, we have stopped providing statistical data to the authorities. In addition, the provision of statistical data to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been suspended."

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Recently, Zelensky said that the Russian army placed IEDs on the roofs of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and are preparing to blow it up.
And here is a satellite image of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, made yesterday morning, July 05. Does anyone see direct signs of IEDs planted on the roofs of the reactors?

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NATO, Biden wants Ursula. Elensky, ZNPP rooftop explosives. China cancels EU Borrell. U/1

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Not surprisingly, the IAEA inspectors did not find any explosive devices at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. So, the Zelensky regime was lying. Normally, that sort of dishonesty should disqualify him from any further military support from western countries. But NATO isn’t normal, it is run by serial lying psychopaths, who instruct Zelensky to lie.

https://www.rt.com/russia/579258-iaea-inspection-zaporozhye-nuclear-mining/

IAEA issues results of probe into Kiev’s claim mines were laid at nuclear plant
The UN agency’s experts have found no mines at Zaporozhye power plant as situation there remains ‘tense’

Specialists from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have found no signs of any mines at Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the UN agency said in a statement on Wednesday, following an inspection carried out by its staff at the site.

The experts checked some parts of the facility, including “sections of the perimeter of the large cooling pond,” over the past days and weeks, the statement said, adding that they also “conducted regular walkdowns across the site.”

So far, no “visible indications of mines or explosives” have been observed, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in the statement. The agency’s team requested additional access to certain parts of the facility, including the rooftops of reactor units 3 and 4, as well as turbine halls and cooling system facilities, he added.

“Their independent and objective reporting would help clarify the current situation at the site,” he said, pointing to some “unconfirmed allegations” indicating some potential security risks at the site. The director general also confirmed that the team stationed at ZNPP had not reported any recent shelling or explosions near the site.

The facility, which is Europe’s largest, returned to the spotlight in recent weeks after senior officials in Kiev claimed that Russia was planning a nuclear incident at the facility. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky alleged that Moscow wanted to cause a “radiation leak” at the plant. A key aide to Vladimir Zelensky, Mikhail Podoliak, also accused the Russian military of laying mines at the plant’s cooling pond.

Moscow has rejected these claims as “yet another lie.” The UN nuclear watchdog previously denied the claims about mines in the cooling pond as well.

On Wednesday, the Kremlin warned about a “high threat of sabotage” at the plant in Kiev. Such an action could lead to “catastrophic” results, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that the situation around ZNPP remains “tense.”

On Tuesday, Renat Karchaa, a senior official at Russia’s nuclear power plant operator Rosenergoatom, warned that the Ukrainian military might strike the facility with long-range, high-precision weapons or kamikaze drones. He also claimed that Kiev might target the plant with a Soviet-made ballistic missile loaded with radioactive waste.

Moscow and Kiev have repeatedly accused each other of shelling the Zaporozhye plant throughout their conflict. The facility has been under Russian control since March 2022.

[ExomatrixTV]

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[Jeksey]

I'd like to share something from today:

Volodimir Zelenksyy visited Bulgaria today. The newly elected Bulgarian government (elected with the generous help of the new US ambassador, Kenneth Merten) decided, TODAY, to sell one of Bulgaria's unused nuclear reactors to Ukrainehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-nears-nuclear-deal-with-bulgaria-in-fresh-blow-for-russian-influence-e9c083ab

I leave the interpretation to you. I, for one, am very, very scared. The reactor was sold for a much lower price than it was bought for.

Another link: https://kinsights.capital.bg/energy/2023/07/06/4504257_bulgaria_to_sell_belene_npp_equipment_to_ukraine/

Buckle up.

[Ravenlocke]

I'd like to share something from today:

Volodimir Zelenksyy visited Bulgaria today. The newly elected Bulgarian government (elected with the generous help of the new US ambassador, Kenneth Merten) decided, TODAY, to sell one of Bulgaria's unused nuclear reactors to Ukrainehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-nears-nuclear-deal-with-bulgaria-in-fresh-blow-for-russian-influence-e9c083ab

I leave the interpretation to you. I, for one, am very, very scared. The reactor was sold for a much lower price than it was bought for.

Another link: https://kinsights.capital.bg/energy/2023/07/06/4504257_bulgaria_to_sell_belene_npp_equipment_to_ukraine/

Buckle up.



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When choosing cluster munitions for Ukraine, the United States will focus on shells with a low rate of failed bombs - Pentagon

Reuters reports that a package including cluster munitions will be announced tomorrow.

Ukraine will also receive ammunition for HIMARS artillery missile systems, Bradley combat vehicles and Stryker armored personnel carriers.
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The Ukrainian army of the United States and NATO has launched a new wave of offensive near Orekhov on the Zaporozhye Front: right now, the assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attacking in a number of directions at once.

The infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is going to break through in small assault groups, but there are a significant number of these groups and they are moving along a fairly wide front, attacking various Russian strongholds.
Soldiers of the 291st, 70th and 71st regiments, special forces, marines, artillerymen and regiments mobilized from Moscow and the Moscow region again meet the attacking enemy with fire.

Operation Z: Military commissars of the Russian Spring
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Due to the failure, Kiev is looking for an excuse to introduce NATO troops into Ukraine

Russia calls on the US and the West as a whole to influence the current authorities in Kiev not to organize a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant that could lead to a catastrophe, said Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov, warning that Kiev, due to failure on the battlefield, would , could find an excuse for the introduction of NATO forces into Ukraine.

"We call on the patrons of the Kiev regime to show responsibility and influence their wards in order to avoid a large-scale disaster." The Western ruling elites must understand that due to the failure on the battlefield, Kiev will try to find an excuse for the introduction of NATO contingents in Ukraine, thus bringing the regional conflict to the level of the Third World War. It is unlikely that the citizens of the United States and Europe are ready to march into the hell that Zelensky's government is dragging the planet into," the diplomat emphasized.

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Don't believe the USA's feigned hesitance to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine. With all other previous wonder weapons the weeks of hemming and hawing are only theatrics while they get the logistics in order for transfer. Another deadly escalation that will have consequences for the citizens of Ukraine for many years to come while the flag people in the west salivate waiting for footage of dead Russians.


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🌍 According to reports from European media outlet Euractiv, President Zelensky was denied an invitation to the summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Earlier, Spain had extended an invitation to Zelensky, but the Latin American alliance refused to have the Kiev leader present.

"The upcoming summit with EU countries not only faces opposition from Latin American states regarding clear support for Ukraine but also demands reparations from Europe for colonialism," the article states.

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Another bunch of AFU guys decided to lay down their arms in the Kremennaya forests.

Don't think that they were beaten, they just jumped in different directions from the F1 grenades of our assault brigade and then decided that it was much better to surrender and live in peace.

#source

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🇫🇮🇺🇦Helsinki will send military equipment worth more than €100 million to Kiev

The Finnish Defense Ministry reported that the total cost of all the equipment sent is about € 1.2 billion.

Finland will send Ukraine military equipment worth more than €100 million. This is stated in a press release published on Thursday by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic.

"This will be the 17th delivery of military equipment to Ukraine, it will cost about €105 million. The total cost of all the equipment sent [to Kiev] is about €1.2 billion," the ministry said in a press release.

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An exhibition of Byzantine icons, which were smuggled out of Ukraine at the beginning of May, opened in the French Louvre. These are the rarest icons, made in a unique technique (on the photo) of the VI-VII centuries, the earliest surviving icons that survived the period of iconoclasm, when they were destroyed, and for keeping them, they were executed. In the mid-19th century, Bishop Porfiry, head of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem, received them as a gift from St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai and brought them to the Russian Empire.

Of course, the Louvre promises to return the icons someday, but will they?

IL RUSSO
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Why do you think you will NEVER see a Putin speech broadcast in America or the west. I had to go out of my way to listen to him and when I did it completely uprooted decades of propaganda.

I thought to myself, "This cannot be the monster America told me about, this soft and well spoken man who is incredibly intelligent, learned, sensible and calm? Where is the Russian monster who drinks the blood of babies and is a stones throw from Hitler I was told of? Where is this power hungry European and Asian dictator who wishes to control the world and bring back the Soviet Union I was told of?"

I never looked back, I have been a supporter of Russia every since.

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A plausible theory?
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June 21-30: Ukraine ramped up rhetoric that Russia had plans to sabotage ZNPP.

July 1-4: Massive external scraping on Twitter causing Elon to limit user views.

July 6: Ukraine claims threat of ZNPP sabotage is no more.

I think Western Intelligence were using AI to scrape social media to gauge public perception of the ZNPP/Ukraine, to see if the public were buying their Russian sabotage psyop.

What they found was that the public logically pieced together that Ukraine/Deep State are the ones who benefit from the potential sabotage, as their goal is to convince NATO to takeover the war and drag the US directly into conflict with Russia, because the counter-offensive was a catastrophe and the Ukrainian military failed.

Nobody was buying Zelensky’s claims. Even the IAEA went out of their way to tell us that these claims of Russian-planted explosives were unverified.

I think Western Intelligence saw that the public were not buying their psyop attempt, and AI judged that they couldn’t successfully pull it off because the data they scraped showed that the public were too keen to their plot. Thus Budanov claiming the threat has magically disappeared.

In other words, I think public awareness might have just prevented Chernobyl 2.0.

Regardless of if this is what actually happened or not, one thing is for certain; citizen journalists are dominating in the Information War right now. We are taking Western propaganda and dismantling it in quick succession. The enemy have lost their stranglehold on the narrative and thus public perception.

We are winning.

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🇨🇿 🇺🇦 In Prague, Zelensky and Petr Pavel held a press conference.

Summarizing their key statements, they can be summarized as follows:

Zelensky:

🔹 "Regarding the counteroffensive. We are advancing. The initiative is currently ours. The offensive is not fast, that's a fact. But nonetheless, we are moving forward, not backward like the Russians. So, I see a positive aspect in this."

Czech President Petr Pavel:

🔹 "Russia is not as strong as it tried to convince us."

🔹 "After the war is over, Ukraine will join NATO. It is in our interests."

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🇺🇦👊🇧🇬 Zelensky was furious because of the position of the "pro-Russian" president of Bulgaria for refusing to give Kiev weapons and calling for peace. The main theses of Rumen Radev, which infuriated Zelensky at the meeting in Sofia:

▪️This conflict has no military solution, supplying more and more weapons does not help;

▪️As the commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian army, I am categorically against sending ammunition;

▪️We only hear the word "victory" from you, but we don't hear the word peace, but we would like to - bearing in mind Zelensky;

▪️You won't solve your problems with war, you have to sit down at the negotiating table. Casualties are growing on both sides, and you are not talking about peace:

▪️Including our compatriots in Ukraine. The conflict is getting bigger and bigger.

▪️We want to hear more of the word "peace", repeated a second time as a retort to Zelensky;

▪️The scale of the conflict has long gone beyond the borders of Ukraine, Europe is suffering from this conflict. You see what is happening - inflation, growing recession.

▪️We must also think about the future, not only about Ukraine.

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[Helvetic]

Joseph P. Farrell | News and Views from the Nefarium | July 6, 2023

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

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The drone attacks in Moscow

Articles:
Russia Says Ukrainian Drone Attacks on Moscow ‘Not Possible’ Without US Support
(https://news.antiwar.com/2023/07/04/russia-says-ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-moscow-not-possible-without-us-support/)

Ukraine 'Preparing For Nuclear Explosion' As Russia Reduces Zaporizhzhia Plant Presence (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-preparing-nuclear-explosion-russian-reduces-zaporizhzhia-plant-presence)

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President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev to Zelensky:

"I believe that Ukraine has its place in the EU, but my appeal is this. Now we hear the word 'victory, victory, victory'. Yes, of course, this is an important word for any country that is at war, but we also want to hear more of the word 'peace'. And the leading effort must be to achieve peace. I don't think we're using all the tools of diplomacy right now to work in that direction so as not to deepen the conflict."

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Zelensky, like a spoilt child couldn't hide his anger when Bulgaria's President Radev refused to give Kiev the weapons and ammunition Zelensky demands.

6 July
Radev: "I do not agree with the provision of ammunition, especially from the reserves of the Bulgarian army. As commander in chief, I have a clear responsibility for ensuring that the country's defense capability is not weakened... We would also like to hear the word "peace" more. Leading efforts must be directed towards achieving peace. I believe that at the moment we have not used all diplomatic means to work in this direction."

via https://t.me/thecoppermountain/4737

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🇷🇺 Kiriyenko and Balitsky during their visit to ZNPP and Energodar visited the site of the SSF

The First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and the Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye Region were convinced of the safety of the dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.

▪️The storage project includes the technology of ventilated concrete containers for vertical storage of spent fuel assemblies.

▪️The storage area is an open area, containers with spent nuclear fuel can be stored there for at least 50 years.

▪️The storage is designed for 380 containers containing more than 9,000 spent nuclear fuel assemblies. The condition of ventilated containers is constantly checked.

▪️All work on the site is carried out under the supervision of the IAEA mission. A special IAEA seal is installed on the bolts of the VKH-VVER cover, preventing opening.

☢️ The radiation situation near the containers at the ISFSF site is stable, there are no significant deviations from the natural radiation background.

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An Italian who fought for Russia in the Donbass and in the Northern Military District was detained in Milan, right on the airfield. There is one detail - Sasha, Alessandro, a citizen of the Russian Federation since 2021 and has been fighting in the DPR since 2015. He is facing 10-15 years of jail time. For now, he is being held in a Genoa prison. He is being denied the right to see a lawyer.

This case is similar to that of Ben Stimson, who fought for the DPR 2014-2015 and was arrested in the UK on the airstrip immediately after landing. He has just finished serving his 8 year sentence and is under a 15 year surveillance order.

https://kp.ru/daily/2752

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Russia's unemployment rate is hovering at just over 3%, according to state-owned news agency TASS. The extremely low reading comes with the economy suffering a record worker shortage as the war in Ukraine drags on. If the figures are correct, unemployment is even lower in Russia than it is in the US.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/russia-war-ukraine-unemployment-jobs-economy-labor-market-vladimir-putin-2023-7

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[shaberon]

Handout of a Storm Shadow (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230707/russian-troops-seize-near-intact-uk-storm-shadow-missile-to-be-checked-by-specialists--1111714641.html):


Russian servicemen from the BARS-11 volunteer unit and the Tsar's Wolves captured an almost intact British Storm Shadow cruise missile from the line of contact and handed it over to specialists for examination, said Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Tsar's Wolves military and technical center.

"I'm glad it was our unit that did it. Now our air defense will shoot this thing down, and it will gradually become useless," Rogozin stressed.

"The missile was dismantled into several parts by our technicians right on the battlefield, the high-explosive and shaped-charge parts separately, and the control unit separately, while the wing was folded up for easy transportation," Rogozin clarified.

"A functioning GPS tracker was there, which could have directed the strike team to the opponent. Even though we blocked it, our fighters had to relocate all the time and even engaged in battle — the enemy's sabotage and recon unit tried to catch the car with the rocket and an accompanying vehicle on the road," Rogozin added.

It took two days to evacuate the captured missile, but now it will benefit the Russian Armed Forces.

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🇷🇺 Schoolgirl Raisat Akipova told RIA Novosti that she knows Vladimir Putin since 6 years when a teacher told about him at school. The girl said that at a meeting with Putin she wanted to ask him how to become president, although she herself dreams of a hairdresser's career, and described the head of state in three words: "kind, good and ... cute".

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🇺🇸 Lloyd Austin: "Putin's war is not the result of NATO expansion, it is the cause of NATO expansion"

"The United States is determined to stand by the brave defenders of Ukraine for as long as it takes," the US Secretary of Defense said.

🇫🇲 Years go by, but Western manuals do not change. In 1949 they formed an alliance "in response" to the Warsaw Pact signed in 1955. The expansion to the east began in 1990 immediately after a promise to Gorbachev not to expand.

But "Putin's war" is always to blame for NATO expansion🤦‍♂️

Logic has left the chat.

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[Bill Ryan]

From The Moon of Alabama today:


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war.html#more

Biden Again Escalates

The Washington Post says that the U.S. will now give cluster munition to Ukraine.
Biden approves cluster munition supply to Ukraine (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/06/biden-cluster-bombs-ukraine/)
President Biden has approved the provision of U.S. cluster munitions for Ukraine, with drawdown of the weapons from Defense Department stocks due to be announced Friday.The munition will be 155mm grenades, Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (DPICM), that can be fired by 'western' provided artillery.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/16i/dpicm.jpg

The decision, likely illegal, was made because the U.S. and its allies have run out of other 155mm munitions:
The move, which will bypass U.S. law prohibiting the production, use or transfer of cluster munitions with a failure rate of more than 1 percent, comes amid concerns about Kyiv’s lagging counteroffensive against entrenched Russian troops and dwindling Western stocks of conventional artillery.It is accompanied by false statements that Russia has used such ammunition in Ukraine:
It follows months of internal administration debate over whether to supply the controversial munitions, which are banned by most countries in the world. Cluster weapons explode in the air over a target, releasing dozens to hundreds of smaller submunitions across a wide area.
More than 120 countries have joined a convention banning their use as inhumane and indiscriminate, in large part because of high failure rates that litter the landscape with unexploded submunitions that endanger both friendly troops and civilians, often for decades after the end of a conflict. The United States, Ukraine and Russia — which is alleged to have used them extensively in Ukraine — are not parties to the convention. Eight of NATO’s 31 members, including the United States, have not ratified the convention.
It is well documented, by Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/06/ukraine-civilian-deaths-cluster-munitions#:~:text=(Kyiv%2C%20July%206%2C%202023,causing%20other%20serious%20civilian%20harm.) and others (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/more-evidence-that-ukraine-fired-the-missile-which-killed-dozens-in-kramatorsk.html), that the Ukrainian military has used cluster munitions. There is nothing to support a claim that Russia has done so. The Pentagon has rejected (https://sgp.fas.org/crs/weapons/RS22907.pdf) claimed evidence of Russian cluster munition attacks:
Commenting on videos depicting alleged Russian cluster munition use, DOD officials stated during a March 1, 2022 press conference that “we’ve seen the same video that you have but we have not assessed that it is definitive with respect to the use of cluster munitions. So we are not in a position to confirm the use of cluster munitions at this time.” In a similar manner, a DOD official stated during March 3, 2022, press conference that DOD was still unable to confirm Russia’s use of cluster munitions.Cluster munition are banned by most countries because they often fails to explode on impact and thereby leave a lot of unexploded mines on the ground (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/06/biden-cluster-bombs-ukraine/):
The principal weapon under consideration, an M864 artillery shell first produced in 1987, is fired from the 155mm howitzers the United States and other Western countries have provided Ukraine. In its last publicly available estimate, more than 20 years ago, the Pentagon assessed that artillery shell to have a “dud” rate of 6 percent, meaning that at least four of each of the 72 submunitions each shell carries would remain unexploded across an area of approximately 22,500 square meters — roughly the size of 4½ football fields.Last year the Congressional Research Service found (https://sgp.fas.org/crs/weapons/RS22907.pdf) that the real dud rate is higher than what the Pentagon claims:
There appear to be significant discrepancies among failure rate estimates. Some manufacturers claim a submunition failure rate of 2% to 5%, whereas mine clearance specialists have frequently reported failure rates of 10% to 30%. A number of factors influence submunition reliability. These include delivery technique, age of the submunition, air temperature, landing in soft or muddy ground, getting caught in trees and vegetation, and submunitions being damaged after dispersal, or landing in such a manner that their impact fuzes fail to initiate.The Pentagon claims that the ammunition it will provide has a lower dud rate. But it never produced data from tests that would support its claims.

By agreeing to provide the munition Biden is circumventing or breaking the law (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/06/biden-cluster-bombs-ukraine/):
There is no waiver provision in the 1 percent limit Congress has placed on cluster munition dud rates, written into Defense Department appropriations for the last seven years. Biden would bypass it and Congress, according to a White House official, drawing down the munitions from existing defense stocks under a rarely used provision of the Foreign Assistance Act, which allows the president to provide aid, regardless of appropriations or arms export restrictions, as long as he determines that it is in the vital U.S. national security interest.Unfortunately neither Congress nor the courts are likely to intervene.

The cluster ammunition, like the Uranium tank ammunition the U.S. and Britain have sent to Ukraine, will make large parts of the country uninhabitable and unusable for agricultural purposes. It will also make attacks and retreats through affected areas difficult for military forces on both sides.

Cluster ammunition was made during the cold war for defending against large scale armored attacks. They are imprecise area attack weapons. Their usefulness against the small unit attacks with a handful of tanks which we have often seen during this war is doubtful.

As the U.S. has run out of other ammunition what will it provide to Ukraine after the DPICM fail to turn around the fate of the Ukrainian army?

Chemical weapons? Nukes?

[Gwin Ru]

...

... J. Nap + Macgregor:

Putin’s security forces raid Prigozhin’s mansion as he returns to Russia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1KM3j8BxJE)
27:19

Jul 6, 2023

https://yt3.ggpht.com/C18R3qsl2RPjGO4_ndTfiZwLb3AIj_pB6n8Tn9wDjuia4Aojs_kMDcMErExObN0ijr6YWPLHNw0=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj (https://www.youtube.com/@DouglasMacgregorStraightCalls) Douglas Macgregor Straight Calls (https://www.youtube.com/@DouglasMacgregorStraightCalls)

Col Douglas Macgregor Straight Calls - Analysis of breaking news and in-depth discussion of current geopolitical events in the United States of America and the world. Recorded July 6.

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[shaberon]

As the U.S. has run out of other ammunition what will it provide to Ukraine after the DPICM fail to turn around the fate of the Ukrainian army?


Words.

Remember, unlike the Chinese who industriously provide "stuff", the Oval Office Stooge provides the fate of nations with his mind.

[Vicus]

Russian forces strike military barracks in Lviv 06.07.2023
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/157033-lviv_strike/

The Russian Armed Forces attacked barracks in Lviv that housed as many as 800 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, foreign mercenaries, as well as military equipment, RIA Novosti reports citing a source in the Russian Ministry of Defence.
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/157033-lviv_strike/

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"In today's strike, the Russian forces targeted strategic reserves of the enemy - Western military equipment and militants on the territory of the Academy of Land Forces in Lviv," the source said.

According to the source, precision weapons hit the park zone of the academy, where Western armoured vehicles - possibly British Challenger tanks - were located.

The Russian Ministry of Defence also said that the Russian forces struck temporary deployment points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on July 6 at night.

"The strike has been conducted successfully. Significant damage has been inflicted on enemy's strategic reserves," the defense department said.


https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/157033-lviv_strike/

[Vicus]

Russian intelligence obtains all information that Washington shares with Kyiv 05.07.2023

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All information that Washington shares with the Kyiv authorities falls into the hands of Russian intelligence, Newsweek said.

"Russian intelligence is very active in Ukraine, intelligence experts say, and almost anything the U. S. shares with Ukraine is assumed to also make it to Russian intelligence. Other Eastern European countries are equally riddled with Russian spies and sympathizers, particularly the frontline countries,” article author William Arkin wrote.

Newsweek earlier reported that the White House and the Kremlin allegedly agreed in late 2021 that the United States would not interfere in the crisis on Ukrainian territory, nor would Washington seek a change of power in the Russian Federation.

According to the publication, there is a secret war with secret rules taking place at the heart of everything that happens in Ukraine.

https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/157013-gleb_lakusta/

[Bill Ryan]

From The Moon of Alabama today:


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war.html#more

Biden Again Escalates

The Washington Post says that the U.S. will now give cluster munition to Ukraine.We saw what happened when the Russians destroyed the warehouse containing the UK's gifted Depleted Uranium shells nearly two months ago.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmjweDDPoq4
They'll just do the same again. And this time, any of the unexploded cluster bombs that have not been directly destroyed in the blast will be scattered over such a wide local area that the Ukrainian firefighters will refuse to go anywhere near.

This war is continually getting more and more brutal. But the Russians will just carry on doing what they're doing to ensure their military and political goals are achieved — whatever it takes.

:flower:

[Vicus]

Attention!

This article may/may not pass here... I don't have time to search right now, but the implications will everybody
understand...

Russia briefly turned off ‘international’ internet – RBK 6 Jul, 2023
The extraordinary step was part of an annual domestic network security check-up
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Russian authorities briefly disconnected the country from the global internet earlier this week, the media outlet RBK reported on Wednesday, citing sources within the telecommunications industry. The move was part of a legally mandated test to assess whether domestic networks can handle operating on their own.

The “international Internet was turned off” at one point between Tuesday and Wednesday, as the media regulator Roskomnadzor checked the performance of Russian sites and network-dependent services in the event that the country is disconnected from abroad.

“The exercises were successful,” a Roskomnadzor representative told RBK, adding that the Sovereign Internet Law of 2019 mandated such a test at least once a year. He did not elaborate on what the drill was meant to accomplish.

“During the exercise, they could check whether RuNet would really continue to work after such a shutdown. Bulletproof vests are tested in much the same way, when they are put on mannequins and then shot,” one telecom executive told the outlet.

Sitronics Group executive Alexander Dvoryansky noted that Russia needs to take into account the possibility of being disconnected from the global network, since the root servers are controlled by the US. Tests to determine whether RuNet will continue to operate if cut off from the rest of the world are “absolutely expedient,” Qrator Labs founder Alexander Lyamin agreed.

The 2019 law envisioned creating Russia’s own national DNS system, which would store all domain names and corresponding IP addresses and provide cryptographic data protection. It also allowed Roskomnadzor to install special equipment on network nodes in order to override routing. The technology has since been used to target platforms and contents outlawed in Russia, but multiple officials have insisted it will never rise to the level of the “Great Firewall of China.”

“No one is proposing that we separate ourselves from the whole world and use [online] gateways as it is being done in China,” Aleksandr Khinshtein, the chair of the State Duma’s Information Policy and Communications Committee, told the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last month. “I’m confident that it will not happen for various reasons.”

Executives who spoke with RBK, however, noted that many Russian businessmen believed it unlikely that the West would block payment processing systems or Russian banks’ access to SWIFT, both of which ended up happening last year.


https://www.rt.com/russia/579262-sovereign-internet-blockade-test/

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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺Concerns about effects of cluster bombs on civilians do not outweigh concerns about Russian victory in Ukraine conflict - Pentagon

The full list of weapons of the $800 million military "aid" package from the US to Kyiv:
▪️32 Bradley IFVs and 32 Stryker APCs
▪️31 155mm howitzer
▪️additional ammunition for Patriot and HIMARS air defense systems
▪️air defense missiles AIM-7
▪️ Stinger MANPADS, Javelin and TOW ATGMs
▪️105mm and 155mm artillery shells including DPICM
▪️MLRS missiles, Penguin drones and explosive munitions
▪️demining equipment, spare parts, small arms and 28 million rounds of ammunition for them
▪️27 tactical vehicles for lifting vehicles and 10 for towing vehicles.
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Around 100 French mercenaries are currently fighting in Ukraine, according to radio station RTL, citing their own research.

Based on their findings, the majority of these mercenaries are men between the ages of 25 and 40 who are "searching for meaning and purpose in life." Over a third of them hold far-right beliefs, with some being "clearly neo-Nazis." RTL claims that approximately 10 mercenaries have been killed.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Klitschko is afraid that Kyiv could be attacked and will begin preparing the population for urban warfare.

The city administration has announced the registration of residents for training in "national resistance." Citizens will be taught how to handle weapons, explosives, and protect themselves from radiation and chemical contamination. http://t.me/RVvoenkor

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Zaporozhye sector as reported by Archangel Spetsnaz

"The enemy withdrew from Pyatyhatky throughout the day, according to operational information, with up to 200 individuals. They left with their belongings. Fire strikes were delivered, partially destroying the groups, while some retreated in the northern direction.

Our artillery continues to be active.

Based on intercepted communications, the enemy is facing difficulties. There are quite a few 300's [wounded] and 200's [dead] in the fields, unable to be retrieved.

Numerous mine detonations have occurred."

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[SoulValor]

I'm kind of surprised that the following website hasn't been posted yet (correct me if I'm wrong!). This was my go-to site when the war started and I still frequent it. -->

https://southfront.org/

They update quite frequently and also cover the Syrian war situation, Israel,Turkey, etc. But the focus is on Ukraine/Russia. What I like about their posts is that they often embed videos of the events (or at least pictures), whatever can be found on the net/social media. They are quite pro-Russian but when Ukraine scores a victory they usually post about that too and show media of it. Fair enough!

The only thing that sucks is the comment sections as its not moderated. While that can be interesting sometimes, it's infested with profanities and lots of bots (pro Russia as well as pro-Ukraine - which is kinda funny especially since the pro-Ukraine ones always get downvoted :ROFL:). I usually don't bother with them though.

I'm glad this thread exists as it gives even broader perspectives and further in-depth information. I just don't like to spend too much time on it (life is precious, right?)....but the whole Prigozhin affair rekindled my interest. :bigsmile:

I'm very glad the nuclear power plant event has been called off (for now)....funny, I kinda had a feeling that it would. Because there's been a lot of psy-op fear mongering going on too. Part of war, right. Kinda stupid that Ukraine is so focused on winning the information/sympathies war (Putin and the Ruskies are so evil! boohoo) instead of winning the actual war on the battlefield. :facepalm:
But then again, it is important to win over the hearts and minds of the people....so in that regard it also astonishes me that Russia doesn't bother much with counter-PR towards the West. But I guess they just don't have the means and lobby?

[Bill Ryan]

it also astonishes me that Russia doesn't bother much with counter-PR towards the West. But I guess they just don't have the means and lobby?Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman (as you probably know!) is fiercely smart and witty, and trolls the US and NATO mercilessly at every opportunity.

And there have been some wonderful, genuinely funny short videos on Russian TV that lampoon the west and their woke values. Here's just one that I found a moment ago after a quick search... there are others. :ROFL:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlPM37eCge8

But mostly, I suspect the Russians have given up on a lost cause, as many people in North America and Europe are just too dumbly and obediently hypnotized by western media PR. Knowing that most of the rest of the world (China, India, the Middle East, Africa, South America) is right behind them and understands everything that's really happening, is enough reassurance for them. :)

[shaberon]

....so in that regard it also astonishes me that Russia doesn't bother much with counter-PR towards the West. But I guess they just don't have the means and lobby?


Exactly.

This has always been the case, from Radio Free Europe, Operation Gladio, to National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which has always set things to where for any given "Commie" channel, there are sixty or a hundred "Democracy" channels, which may carry any amount of disinformation, or appear to contradict one another, etc., just so the barrage of messages overpowers the capabilities of cultures that are not quite so fixated on it. Ukraine is stuffed with NEDs, they are in all the color revolutions, and no, I don't know of anything historically that even begins to compete with them.

Same thing is here domestically, i. e. Democracy Now, etc., so we get to share a similar kind of brainwashing.

As we see these days, even while still only having a few channels, Russian messages are utterly unlike the western kind.

I personally have reached a level of disgust with westernism--it is all full of garbage, but the UK and Australia seem to be even worse, they cannot publish a title that does not have some buzzword like "Terrorizing", "Dictator", "Backwards", or what have you, while most American stuff is a bit less "sensational", while remaining completely "exceptional" and "supremacist".

Yes, Southfront has some decent updates and a few good editorials. I swiped the Chinese quip I posted earlier straight from there, in fact I have posted several articles from...a German who went to university in Beijing who has also told us a lot how "China's history by the west" is pretty seriously doctored. I mean, I have no idea what page these are on...300 or 400s maybe, or if Southfront has a decent archive of them...one including a cartoon of a "planeload of Nazis" going over who had to bribe their way to be able to ask permission to do business there, which would probably be held by 51% Chinese ghost investors. As you probably know, BASF headquarters is already there. The report was emphatic that Deutsche Bank would *not* be allowed to do speculative private banking, and they have rented out a skyscraper for twelve years in order to...eh...assist with three or four minor "consultant" roles.

Everyone on that plane was pre-Reich old silver, absolutely nothing new...and then we see in Germany that the bakery from 1688 would probably have to close because they can't afford the energy to keep baking...so, yes, I would suggest that a few of the editorialists posted on Southfront are worth the time. I believe they usually do the new articles on Monday.


"We want. China must."

[Rawhide68]

I have an old friend who lives in Kyiev, I send her some money every month (instead of this forum, unfortunately) to help her get her life going, there are no jobs and no daycare for her child.
Perhaps she could be a member of this forum and speak for her self, I shall ask.

Good bless you all!
:heart:

[shaberon]

Perhaps she could be a member of this forum and speak for her self, I shall ask.


Normally I would say this is a great idea, but Kiev is arming its citizenry right now. Considering how much they snoop, would it actually be safe to do this?

[Vicus]

disgust-asco- ekel repugnancia

My contributions to this Thread began to shrink not from interest but from a (whatever a name for that should exist) :sick:
an automatic disgust about whatever statement from "the west"... all values inverted... now if you aren't a NAZI then
what? every "Amerikan" or "EU" "speech" is just a vomit against all the Greek/Rome's heritance law and order that
based the occident "values"...

I pass automatic every "statement" from such "entities" as crap...it is just ...painful...

Nobody is an Angel , Russia too, but..."you will know them by their fruits"

What are the" fruits" from the "West" in the last 500 years?
Well , materiel a lot but...that's all.

I'm aware that's not only a "terrestrial" conflict but a spiritual one...maybe the ultimate battle...you know, the ONE
we all where training for...

N0W the players show their true colors... I liked...I waited for sooooooooooo long ... I sharp my sword for sooo long too...

well...its ShowTime! :ninja:

[ExomatrixTV]

wpHrPd-4-JE
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https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1677719475091824641

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🇺🇦 Zelensky said that Azov commanders are returning from Turkey to Ukraine

After rehabilitation in Turkish resorts, such well-known punishers as Denis Prokopenko, Svyatoslav Palamar, Sergey Volynsky, Oleg Khomenko, Denis Shlega are returning to Ukraine after rehabilitation in Turkish resorts.

Zelensky personally escorted the Ukronazis and executioners to the plane with honors.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷 Kremlin: Ankara violated agreements by releasing Azov leaders to Ukraine - Peskov (addendum):

The return of the leaders of the Azov Regiment from Turkey to Ukraine is an absolute violation of existing agreements, both from the Ukrainian and Turkish sides.

According to the terms of the agreements, the leaders of Azov were supposed to stay in Turkey until the end of the conflict.

No one informed Russia about the transfer of the leaders of the Azov terrorist group from Turkey to Ukraine.

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[Ravenlocke]

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The Ukrainian TG channel " Resident " writes that his source in Zelensky's OP told how they managed to pick up the leaders of Azov*:

" For three weeks, the Russian Aerospace Forces methodically destroyed Turkish proxies in Syrian Idlib. Erdogan could not prevent this by military means, which made him very angry with the Russians.

Having learned about this through intelligence sources, the Office of the President came out with a request to hand over the Azov people. The stars successfully converged - and the captured commanders from Azovstal go home to raise Zelensky's rating before the obviously indiscriminate NATO summit. Moreover, under AZOV they launched a campaign of 500 days of heroic resistance, on Bankovaya they are slowly transforming the meanings from the liberation of Ukrainian lands to heroic defense / protracted war.

* The Azov National Battalion is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation

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Ukro-Satanists burned the miraculous icon of the Mother of God

In Budyatichi, Volyn region, unknown people burned the icon of the Mother of God, the UOC reported.

Also, unknown people spoiled the front door of the local chapel, which is located near the holy spring.

Before that, glass had already been broken in the building, they added in the Vladimir-Volyn diocese.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1677685946811142150

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[Ravenlocke]

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Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (8 July 2023)

▫️The AFU continued to attempt offensive actions in Donetsk, Krasny Liman and South Donetsk directions.

▫️In Donetsk direction, as a result of the actions of the defending units of the Yug Group of Forces, 9 enemy attacks have been successfully repelled close to Druzhba, Severnoye, Maryinka, and Pervomaiskoye DPR.

▫️Enemy units were hit close to Krasnogorovka, Avdeevka, Veseloye and west of Klescheevka DPR.

▫️1 ammunition depot of HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system projectiles has been destroyed near Mikhailovka DPR.

▫️1 ordnance depot of 110th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Avdeyevka DPR.

▫️The enemy losses were up to 500 servicemen killed and wounded, 3 tanks, 6 AFVs, 4 motor vehicles, 2 pickup trucks, 2 U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery systems, and 1 D-30 howitzer.

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of actions by the units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, an enemy attack has been repelled near Torskoye DPR.

▫️1 AFU manpower and hardware concentration area has been hit close to Chervonaya Dibrova LPR and Serebryanka LPR.

▫️The activities of 1 SRG have been suppressed close to Torskoye DPR.

▫️The enemy losses were over 60 servicemen, 3 AFVs, 3 pickup trucks, and 2 D-30 howitzer.

▫️In addition, 3 ammunition depots of the 66th mechanised and 81st airmobile brigades of the AFU have been hit close to Novolyubovka LPR and Serebryanka DPR.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, as a result of the action of the Vostok Group of Forces, an enemy attack has been repelled and one SRG has been eliminated near Urozhaynoye DPR.

▫️In Zaporozhye direction, AFU manpower and hardware concentration areas have been hit near Pyatikhatki and Orekhov (Zaporozhye region).

▫️2 combat reconnaissance actions by AFU units near Marfopol and Rabotino were repelled (Zaporozhye region). In addition, the actions of an SRG have been disrupted close to Dorozhnyanka (Zaporozhye region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 170 servicemen, 3 AFVs, 3 motor vehicles, and 1 pickup truck. 1 French-manufactured Cezar self-propelled howitzer, 1 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system, 2 Msta-B howitzers, 2 D-20 guns and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system have been also destroyed.

▫️1 ordnance depot of the 65th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Orekhov (Zaporozhye region).

▫️In Kupyansk direction, the attacks, launched by the Zapad Group of Forces, have resulted in the neutralisation of manpower and hardware of the AFU near Stelmakhovka, Novosyolovskoye, Artyomovka LPR, Sinkovka, Berestovoye, and Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region).

▫️The enemy losses were over 30 servicemen, 2 motor vehicles and 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.

▫️In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 40 servicemen, 1 tank, 4 motor vehicles and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 102 artillery units of the AFU at their firing positions, manpower and military hardware at 126 areas.

▫️1 fuel base for AFU military equipment has been hit close to Zaporozhye.

▫️Air defence facilities have shot down 1 Su-27 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force near Novogrigorovka DPR. 6 HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system projectiles have been intercepted.

▫️In addition, 17 UAVs have been destroyed close to Verkhnekamenka LPR, Maryinka, Volodino DPR, Ostrikovka, Shirokoye, Mirnoye (Zaporozhye region), Novaya Mayachka, Novaya Kakhovka, Malokakhovka, Ulyanovka (Kherson region) and Volfino (Sumy region).

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🤡 NATO turned Vilnius into a fortress to protect Biden and other alliance leaders during the summit

NATO has significantly strengthened the defense of Vilnius (Lithuania) ahead of the alliance's summit, which will be held here on July 11-12. This is done in order to protect US President Joe Biden and the leaders of other countries that are part of the alliance. This was stated by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda.

His words are quoted by Reuters. The meeting of the leaders of the alliance will take place just 12 km from the border with Belarus.
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The NATO summit will take place on July 11-12 in Vilnius (Lithuania). The leaders of the alliance are so worried about their skin that they have built an impregnable fortress around the Lithuanian-Belarusian border.
A thousand military personnel were deployed to the country to strengthen the border, additional Patriot and NASAMS air defense systems were installed, aircraft, Caesar self-propelled howitzers were brought in, and much more. The Patriot air defense system was installed in the city itself.
Vilnius is located 32 km from Belarus.

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Zelensky said that agreements on military production were signed in Turkey

Including for the production of drones. Zelenskiy has also managed to garner Turkey's decisive support for Ukraine's aspirations to join NATO, although the alliance has not yet reached an agreement on that issue, writes The Guardian.

Erdogan said he would personally brief Vladimir Putin on the outcome of the talks with Zelensky when the Russian president visits Turkey in August

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Zelenskyy greets 5 Azov commanders who returned to Ukraine following their surrender to Russia as "heroes". Zelenskyy of course knows that Azov is run by neo-Nazis. https://pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/8/7410456/

Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion. https://thenation.com/article/world/azov-battalion-neo-nazi/

"Palamar’s neo-Nazi roots reach back even further, he belonged to the Patriot of Ukraine gang that formed Azov. Prokopenko, for his part, came out of the White Boys Club, superfans of the Dynamo Kyiv soccer team (far-right groups organized around soccer teams are common across Europe), who celebrated him when he was given an award in October 2022. The group’s Facebook posts have typically included phrases like “100% White” and “88” (code for “Heil Hitler”), praise for Holocaust perpetrators, and Waffen-SS insignia. During his time in Azov, Prokopenko’s platoon was unofficially called the Borodach Division. Its insignia was the Totenkopf, the skull-and-crossbones design used by the SS, which has become a popular neo-Nazi symbol."

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https://www.thenation.com/article/world/azov-battalion-neo-nazi/

The Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, these fighters were neo-Nazis. They still are.

Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has already resulted in millions of losers—chief among them the civilians who’ve been tortured, murdered, forced to become refugees, or forced to spend their days worrying about loved ones fighting Russia.

But there are also winners: the neofascists whom Putin’s war has turned into heroes.

For seven years, Western institutions have warned about Ukraine’s Azov Movement, which began as a neo-Nazi paramilitary group in 2014 and became notorious for its worldwide recruitment of extremists.

Then came Russia’s invasion. Within months, Azov fighters were being feted in Congress and at Stanford University. MSNBC swooned over a Ukrainian soldier whose Twitter account overflowed with neo-Nazi images. Facebook made the stunning decision to allow posts praising the Azov Battalion, even though the company admitted that it was a hate group.

This overnight normalization of white supremacy was possible because Western institutions, driven by a zeal to ignore anything negative about our Ukrainian allies, decided that a neo-Nazi military formation in a war-torn nation had suddenly and miraculously stopped being neo-Nazi.

But the truth is that this is an easily debunked fantasy spun out by a handful of propagandists. Yet Western media has repeated their falsehoods with a neglect for the basic tenets of journalism that stretches beyond the fog of war into the realm of intentional blindness.

Our whitewashing of Azov takes place amid a deadly surge of white supremacy that stretches from New Zealand to Buffalo, N.Y. That makes this a story about more than Ukraine. It’s about the deepest, nothing-matters cynicism that screams about 300 neo-Nazis in polo shirts yet embraces a brigade of battle-hardened extremists. It’s about warning that white supremacy—especially after being mainstreamed by Donald Trump and Fox News—is an existential threat to our society, while making it clear that some exclusions apply.

It’s about “good people on both sides.”

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Azov was born shortly after the 2014 uprising that ousted Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych. Those events triggered a counter-revolt by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern regions who supported Yanukovych.

It quickly became apparent that the Ukrainian Army had been severely degraded by decades of corruption, leaving the new government struggling to combat the rebels. Into that void stepped far-right groups that formed volunteer battalions to fight for Kyiv. One of these groups, created out of the Patriot of Ukraine neo-Nazi gang, gained fame by helping restore Ukrainian government control over the city of Mariupol, a port on the Sea of Azov. It became known as the Azov Battalion.

Azov’s tactics and ideology were exactly what you’d expect from a paramilitary element formed by neo-Nazis. Its insignia features popular neo-Nazi symbols: the Wolfsangel (a runic double hook) and the Sonnenrad (sun wheel). Since then, the unit has become infamous for torture and for its aggressive recruitment of white supremacists from around the globe.

In November 2014, Kyiv sought to gain control of the Azov Battalion by absorbing it into the government. Azov became a regiment in Ukraine’s National Guard, which made it a potential direct recipient of American aid. The prospect of organized white fanatics being aided by the US quickly came to the attention of Congress, where lawmakers attempted to ban the Pentagon from working with Azov, though they were ultimately unsuccessful. Later, in 2018, a ban on providing US military aid to the Azov Regiment did pass.

The media also ramped up scrutiny. “Volunteer Ukrainian Unit Includes Nazis,” USA Today reported in March 2015. The Daily Beast followed with a piece titled “How Many Neo-Nazis Is the U.S. Backing in Ukraine?”

Patriot of Ukraine—the gang whose members formed the original core of the Azov Battalion—always had geopolitical ambitions. Its leader, Andriy Biletsky, who was Azov’s first commander, capitalized on its notoriety to develop political and street-muscle wings for the Azov brand. The regiment soon became just one part of a far larger entity: the Azov Movement.
In 2016, Biletsky, who by then had left the regiment, established the far-right National Corps Party, headed by Azov veterans. Ukraine, despite Putin’s lies, is not teeming with fascists, which is why the National Corps has performed abysmally in elections. Where it did find success was in global networking with extremists.

Azov began sponsoring neo-Nazi concerts and sporting tournaments that attracted radicals: In 2018, the FBI arrested California white supremacists who had met with a member of the Azov Movement.

By 2021, the Azov Movement’s position as a premier hub of transnational white supremacy was firmly established. It was tracked by researchers; its fighters were banned from receiving military aid by Congress; and it was kicked off Facebook. The State Department declared its political wing a “nationalist hate group.” Journalists exposed its enlistment of fighters from Sweden to Australia.

Then came Russia’s invasion. Within months, many of these same institutions had plunged into an Orwellian stampede to persuade the West that Ukraine’s neo-Nazi regiment was suddenly not a problem.

It wasn’t pretty. In 2018, The Guardian had published an article titled “Neo-Nazi Groups Recruit Britons to Fight in Ukraine,” in which the Azov Regiment was called “a notorious Ukrainian fascist militia.” Indeed, as late as November 2020, The Guardian was calling Azov a “neo-Nazi extremist movement.”

But by February 2023, The Guardian was assuring readers that Azov’s fighters “are now leading the defence of Mariupol, insisting they have shed their previous dubious politics and rapidly becoming Ukrainian heroes.” The campaign believed to have recruited British far-right activists was now a thing of the past.

The BBC had been among the first to warn of Azov, criticizing Kyiv in 2014 for ignoring a group that “sports three Nazi symbols on its insignia.” A 2018 report noted Azov’s “well-established links to the far right.”


Shortly after Putin’s invasion, though, the BBC began to assert that although “to Russia, they are neo-Nazis and their origins lie in a neo-Nazi group,” the Azov Regiment was being “falsely portrayed as Nazi” by Moscow.

Meanwhile, Germany’s state-owned Deutsche Welle required only three months after the invasion to pivot from calling Azov “a neo-Nazi volunteer regiment” to saying it was “accused of having [a] neo-Nazi past” by Russia. By this logic, the BBC’s and Deutsche Welle’s previous Azov coverage had been lies concocted by the Kremlin.

There is a kernel of truth in the allegations that Azov is just a Russian bogeyman. The Kremlin and Ukraine’s neo-Nazis have a symbiotic relationship that reaches to the very heart of this war: Putin needed a pretext to justify his illegal invasion; for that, he turned to Azov. Moscow seized on Azov’s existence to paint all of Ukraine as a cesspool of fascism in need of “denazification.” Azov is the linchpin in Putin’s narrative—without it, his excuse for the war is gone.

In turn, Azov’s defenders have capitalized on Russia’s obsession by implying that anyone who criticizes the group is a Putin apologist. Moscow and Azov use each other to defend the indefensible: For Russia, it’s acceptable to invade a sovereign country to fight neo-Nazis; for the West, it’s appropriate to lionize neo-Nazis because they’re fighting Russia.

The rest is here,
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/azov-battalion-neo-nazi/

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Unless this is some other attempt at lame humour from Biden and it wouldn't be his first lame attempt, I actually do think he may have been telling the truth.

This amounts to a tacit admission that it's a lost cause, something most of us here have known for the best part of the last 9 months or so. Utter madness :facepalm:

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Wow...

Reporter: "Cluster munitions? Why now??"

Biden: "We've run out of ammunition..."

Now imagine what Bidens will do once they run out of cluster munitions?

Nukes?

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CFR NeoCons Held Secret Talks With Russia About Ukraine: Report

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Compared with many posts on this thread, this is merely light relief. :) A 30-second video shows a Russian truck driver taking his leisurely time while a drone hovers overhead. You can see him getting into his cab at the very start of the video, in no hurry at all, and then as he pulls away the Ukrainian drone bomb misses completely.

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... Exclusive Interview: Russian Forces and U.S/NATO Forces Will Collide Directly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLZW-gnIzCw) 36:49

Jul 9, 2023 Recorded July 8, 2023.

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Colonel Douglas Macgregor Straight Calls - Analysis of breaking news and in-depth discussion of current geopolitical events in the United States of America and the world. Recorded July 8, 2023.

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Ukr Fears Losses, Defeat, Doubts Cluster Shells, Kerch Strike Fails; Russia Accuses Erdogan Betrayal

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The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Turkey had a telephone conversation.

Sergei Lavrov and Hakan Fidan discussed the "grain deal" and the situation in Ukraine.

This is the first high-level contact between Moscow and Ankara since Turkey's decision to transfer Azov commanders to Ukraine (banned in the Russian Federation) in violation of earlier agreements between the parties.

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Sergei Lavrov discussed with the Turkish Foreign Minister the return of the leaders of "Azov" (recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation) to Kyiv, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.

Lavrov, in a conversation with the Turkish Foreign Minister, pointed out the destructiveness of the course to continue the supply of military equipment to Kyiv, the ministry added.

The Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation and Turkey confirmed the need to maintain and strengthen the trusting nature of relations between Moscow and Ankara.

Lavrov and the Turkish Foreign Minister also discussed issues of global food security and a schedule of upcoming contacts.

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Ukraine is begging the US for more time for a counteroffensive

Ukraine is trying to convince the US that it needs more time to launch a successful counteroffensive. The relevant negotiations are being held by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak.

📝 “Kyiv is trying to convince the United States that Ukraine needs much more time to conduct a successful counteroffensive. Washington continues to put pressure on Kyiv, demanding results, ”the authors of the Military Review report, citing Ukrainian sources in Zelensky’s OP.

At the same time, the United States, like other Western countries, requires success from the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by September of this year. Otherwise, Ukraine will lose the support of the West in the form of military equipment.

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Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (9 July 2023)

▫️The AFU continued unsuccessful attempts at offensive actions in South Donetsk, Krasny Liman and Donetsk directions.

▫️In Donetsk direction, the Yug Group of Forces have successfully repelled enemy attacks close to Belogorovka, Opytnoye, Pervomaiskoye and Severnoye DPR.

▫️AFU manpower and hardware concentration areas have been eliminated close to Konstantinovka, Krasnoye, Avdeevka, and Krasogorovka DPR.

▫️The enemy losses were up to 180 servicemen and foreign mercenaries, 4 AFVs, 3 motor vehicles, 1 Czech-manufactured RM-70 Vampire multiple-launch rocket system, 1 Msta-B howitzer, and 1 U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system.

▫️AFU ammunition depots of 53th and 115th mechanised brigades have been destroyed close to Karlovka and Kramatorsk DPR.

▫️In South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the Vostok Group of Forces have repelled enemy attacks close to Rabotino, Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).

▫️Manpower and hardware concentration areas of the 65th and 72nd mechanised brigades of the AFU and the 105th Brigade of Ukrainian Territorial Defence have been hit near Priyutne, Rabotino, Malaya Tokmachka, Novodanilovka (Zaporozhye region), Makarovka and Nikolskoye DPR.

▫️The activity of a SRG have been suppressed close to Rovnopol DPR.

▫️The enemy losses were over 210 servicemen and foreign mercenaries, 4 tanks, 3 IFVs, 2 AFVs, 2 pickup trucks, 1 Grad MLRS, 2 D-20 and 1 Msta-B howitzers, and 1 U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system.

▫️1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery warfare radar has been destroyed near Lukyanovskoye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of actions by the units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, enemy attacks by the units of the enemy 21st, 63th, and the 66th mechanised brigades have been repelled close to Torskoye DPR, Novovodyanoye and Nevskoye LPR.

▫️Manpower and hardware clusters of the 63rd, 67th mechanised, 95th Airborne Assault brigades of the AFU and the 15th Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine have been hit near Yampolovka, Torskoye, Terny, Stariy Karavan, Grigorovka DPR and Chervonaya Dibrova LPR.

▫️The activities of 2 SRG have been disrupted in Serebryansky forestry area.

▫️The enemy losses were up to 80 servicemen, 1 IFV, 2 AFVs, 2 pickup trucks, 1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, 2 D-30 howitzers and 1 D-20 howitzer.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, as a result of operations of the Zapad Group of Forces, enemy manpower and hardware concentration areas have been neutralised close to Novomlynsk, Kamenka, Olshana, Kislovka, Timkovka and Borshchevaya (Kharkov region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 20 servicemen, 2 motor vehicles, 1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, as well as 1 ammunition depot of the 127th Territorial Defence Brigade near Staritsa (Kharkov region).

▫️In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 60 servicemen, 1 tank, 8 motor vehicles, 1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, as well as 1 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 86 artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and military hardware in 109 areas.

▫️1 ammunition depot of the 228th Logistics Battalion of the 9th Army Corps of the AFU has been destroyed near Zadorozhnoye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️Air defence facilities have shot down 10 UAVs close to Orlinskoye, Zaitsevo, Petrovskoye and Soledar DPR, Zolotaryovka, Privolye, Dachnoye, Raygorodka and Kovalyovka LPR.

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Our artillerymen burned down an AFU ammunition depot in Artemovsk direction

AFU militants had set up an ammunition depot in one of the houses in what was once a housing estate, to provide ammunition for the assaulting units. Our reconnaissance team discovered the target and had reported the coordinates. A precise hit destroyed the depot.

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🔞Terrifying shots: the trenches near Orekhov are littered with the corpses of the UAF fighters 🔞🔞

On the Zaporozhye front, our soldiers went for trophies and filmed a terrible picture of the consequences of the bloody failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
It is not recommended for people with an unstable psyche to watch

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A Ukrainian missile was shot down over Bytosh, Bryansk region. According to the governor a total of two missiles were intercepted, one of which fell on a sawmill in the village.

It is noteworthy that the downed missile fell in the village of Bytosh, the distance from which to the Ukrainian border exceeds 170 kilometers, which indicates the use of long-range missiles by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Douglas Macgregor - Russians Entered The First Town...:

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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/congress-has-removed-a-ban-on-funding-neo-nazis-from-its-year-end-spending-bill/

Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill

Under pressure from the Pentagon, Congress has stripped the spending bill of an amendment that prevented funds from falling into the hands of Ukrainian neo-fascist groups.

In mid-December 2015, Congress passed a 2,000-plus-page omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2016. Both parties were quick to declare victory after the passage of the $1.8 trillion package. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters “we feel good about the outcome, primarily because we got a compromise budget agreement that fought off a wide variety of ideological riders.” The office of House Speaker Paul J. Ryan touted the bill’s “64 billion for overseas contingency operations” for, among other things, assisting ”European countries facing Russian aggression.”

It would be safe to assume that one of the European countries which would stand to benefit from the omnibus measure—designed, in part, to combat “Russian aggression”—would be Ukraine, which has already, according to the White House, received $2 billion in loan guarantees and nearly $760 million in “security, programmatic, and technical assistance” since February 2014.

Yet some have expressed concern that some of this aid has made its way into the hands of neo-Nazi groups, such as the Azov Battalion. Last summer the Daily Beast published an interview by the journalists Will Cathcart and Joseph Epstein in which a member of the Azov battalion spoke about “his battalion’s experience with U.S. trainers and U.S. volunteers quite fondly, even mentioning U.S. volunteers engineers and medics that are still currently assisting them.”

And so, in July of last year, Congressmen John Conyers of Michigan and Ted Yoho of Florida drew up an amendment to the House Defense Appropriations bill (HR 2685) that “limits arms, training, and other assistance to the neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia, the Azov Battalion.” It passed by a unanimous vote in the House.

And yet by the time November came around and the conference debate over the year-end appropriations bill was underway, the Conyers-Yoho measure appeared to be in jeopardy. And indeed it was. An official familiar with the debate told The Nation that the House Defense Appropriations Committee came under pressure from the Pentagon to remove the Conyers-Yoho amendment from the text of the bill.

The Pentagon’s objection to the Conyers-Yoho amendment rests on the claim that it is redundant because similar legislation—known as the Leahy law—already exists that would prevent the funding of Azov. This, as it turns out, is untrue. The Leahy law covers only those groups for which the “Secretary of State has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.” Yet the State Department has never claimed to have such information about Azov, so funding to the group cannot be blocked by the Leahy law. The congressional source I spoke to pointed out that “even if Azov is already covered by Leahy, then no there was no need to strip it out of final bill.” Indeed, the Leahy law cannot block funding to groups, no matter how noxious their ideology, in the absence of “credible information” that they have committed human-rights violations. The Conyers-Yoho amendment was designed to remedy that shortcoming.

Considering the fact that the US Army has been training Ukrainian armed forces and national guard troops, the Conyers-Yoho amendment made a great deal of sense; blocking the avowedly neo-Nazi Azov battalion from receiving US assistance would further what President Obama often refers to as “our interests and values.”

That neo-Nazis (or neo-fascists, if you prefer) are a distinctly minority taste in Western Ukraine, is clear and is not in dispute. Of late, however, there have been troubling signs that they may become a force to be reckoned with. According to The Jerusalem Post, in Ukrainian municipal elections held last October, the neo-Nazi Svoboda party won 10 percent of the vote in Kiev and placed second in Lviv. The Svoboda party’s candidate actually won the mayoral election in the city of Konotop. Meanwhile, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported in November that Azov operates a boot camp that exposes children to “the regiment’s far right-wing ideology.”

Whether White House spokesman Josh Earnest was referring, in part, to the Conyers-Yoho amendment as one of those “ideological riders” the administration fought to defeat is unclear. What is clear is that by stripping out the anti-neo-Nazi provision, Congress and the administration have paved the way for US funding to end up in the hands of the most noxious elements circulating within Ukraine today.

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🇵🇱 Mass action against Ukrainian nationalists takes place in Poland

Several hundred Poles came out to protest near the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw with posters: “Volhynia – remember”, “This is not our war”, “Russia is not our enemy”, “Ukraine is not fighting for the freedom of Poland”, “No – for membership Ukraine in the EU and NATO”.

▪️ The action " Volyn - we remember " acquires a national character. The Poles print posters with the inscriptions “Ukrainian genocide against the Polish people” on their own and hang them in public places, in public transport and on administrative buildings.

✖️ The Poles have always regarded the Volhynia massacre of 1942-1943 as an open genocide and ethnic cleansing and claimed the death of up to 130 thousand people as a result of it. The apogee of the atrocities of the Ukrainian nationalists was July 11, 1943, when the executioners attacked more than 100 settlements and killed hundreds of children and old people of ethnic Poles.

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Dmitry Medvedev on Telegram:

If an attempted attack by NATO missiles is confirmed on Smolensk (Desnogorsk) NPP, it is necessary to consider the scenario of a simultaneous Russian strike on the South Ukrainian NPP, Rovno NPP and Khmelnitsky NPP, as well as on nuclear facilities in Eastern Europe. There is nothing to be ashamed of here.

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It became known about the attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack a nuclear power plant in the Smolensk region, Russia.

Ukrainian troops tried to attack the Desnogorsk nuclear power plant (NPP) in the Smolensk region, the Mash channel reports.

Also, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to strike at a military airfield in the Kaluga region, Russia.

Presumably, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to attack both objects with British Storm Shadow cruise missiles, but both missiles were shot down by the Russian air defense system in the sky over the Bryansk region.

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https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/16779653043857530911677965304385753091

Bumping this short video. :flower:It's 4 minutes long, but there are excellent English subtitles and one doesn't have to listen to the audio. I followed it to the end, and I was glad that I did.

This is clearly a very good man, dragged off the street (when he was on his way to work) and thrown to the front line with zero training and almost no equipment. He may well be a professional. His answers are so very interesting — and compelling for all Ukrainians to hear, if this reaches them somehow.

He simply urges his fellow-conscripts to surrender at the first opportunity (as he did) — and promises them that the Russians will treat them well.

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Will the Ukraine war be the undoing for the European Union?
The European Union's missed opportunities and self-destructive path

Source: https://www.meer.com/en/74782-will-the-ukraine-war-be-the-undoing-for-the-european-union

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"The 27 EU members hold the majority among NATO members and could, or better yet, should have used their influence to prevent this war and, once it had broken out, to end it as quickly as possible. In the conflict over NATO's eastward enlargement, which had been brewing since 1994, the EU, in its own interests, should have tried to mediate between the geopolitical ambition of the USA in expanding its global dominance and Russia's fears of being militarily encircled by NATO and cut off from its access to the Black Sea. After the war broke out, the EU should have supported the Russian-Ukrainian peace negotiations in March or April 2022 and attended the Istanbul peace summit. It could have ended the war one month after it started. However, the EU didn’t do either."



"..it is the EU countries that, together with the UK, are supplying the most advanced tanks, war drones, long-range missiles, and uranium munitions. It is also a European coalition that now plans to provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Even the EU Commission has become an arms dealer; its multi-billion-dollar ammunition purchases for Ukraine are ironically financed through the European Peace Facility (EFF)."



"This path of confrontation and escalation taken by the EU was in no way preordained or even inevitable. In 1990, only one year after the end of the Cold War, all European states, as well as the USA and Canada, solemnly pledged, in the “Charter of Paris for a New Europe”, to build a common peaceful Europe spanning from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, including Russia, a Europe that would be free of wars and military blocs. According to the Charter, the security of each state in Europe should now be regarded as inseparable from that of all other states, and any conflict that arises should be settled peacefully in accordance with the UN Charter. In other words, a lasting peace in Europe could only be created by working together and not against each other. There was no role envisaged for NATO; NATO was not mentioned once in the Charter of Paris."

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Extracts above from a powerful and damning critique from Michael Von Der Schulenberg, former UN Secretary General published on July 6th. A near faultless and starkly justified slamming of the pax Anglo-Americana-EU nexus of crisis.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Articles/2023-07-06_Will_the_Ukraine_war_be_the_undoing_for_the_European_Union_by_Michael_Von_Der_Schulenberg_%28fmr_ UN_Sec_Gen_for%20Meer.com%29_July_06_2023.pdf

[Bill Ryan]

Zelenskyy greets 5 Azov commanders who returned to Ukraine following their surrender to Russia as "heroes". Zelenskyy of course knows that Azov is run by neo-Nazis. https://pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/8/7410456/

Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion. https://thenation.com/article/world/azov-battalion-neo-nazi/Interesting, but three things seem clear.


These five Azov commanders will be hunted down and killed.
The western media is in a tricky position trying to explain why this is significant. ("What's 'Azov'?" some people will ask.)
It won't make any difference to the war.

[Bruce G Charlton]

The thing is, articles such as the one cited, assume that the EU leaders want to improve life for the inhabitants of the EU nations. Yet their strategy has (for several decades) been to implement policies to terrorize, weaken, impoverish and kill EU citizens. The conduct of EU leadership through the Ukraine war has been fully consistent with anti-EU health and happiness motivations. If the EU leadership are able to devastate the continent in a world war, they will congratulate themselves on a job well done.

[Mike Gorman]

The EU is a terrible cancerous club of awful elitists and despicable anti-human types who have nothing but contempt for ordinary, non-billionaire people, I hope the Russians go on to expunge the world of their kind, and herald a new age for humanity where people can live with dignity and prosper in peace.

[ExomatrixTV]

Stop The NATO Madness! Germany Should Leave the Alliance | Sevim Dagdelen, German 🇩🇪 MP:

sAMcUMyN4tQ


youtube.com/@neutralitystudies/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies/videos) :dog:

[Gwin Ru]

...

... what he says: he ain't dead! So, what gives?
[...]
(https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom)Ukraine Offensive - Already Failed? w/ Larry Johnson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBMMOJqnjlg) 20:47



Mention of Prigo and his Wagner staff meeting with Putin...


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

Streamed live 71 minutes ago #Ukraine (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/ukraine) #Russia (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/russia) #Putin (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/putin)

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Related:


Putin met Wagner chief after mutiny – Kremlin (https://swentr.site/russia/579468-putin-met-wagner-chief-uprising/)

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1678418210297724934
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-sitrep-mosquito-tactics-s-200-land-attacks.html
(https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-sitrep-mosquito-tactics-s-200-land-attacks.html)
Ukraine SitRep: 'Mosquito' Tactics - S-200 Land Attacks

The U.S./NATO doctrine, as it had been taught to the Ukrainian units that were prepared for the counter-offensive, has failed.

As a comment allegedly made on a forum of veterans of the West Point Academy describes (https://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2023/07/07/colonel-cassad-419/) it:
Classic attacks under our combat regulations involve the preliminary suppression and destruction of enemy defensive positions by artillery and aircraft, as well as the simultaneous destruction of its combat controls to the depth of the defense zone and the prevention of the approaches of its reserves.

Since Ukrainians have almost no aviation and they are significantly inferior to the Russians in the amount of artillery, classic attacks lead to nothing but a massive loss of expensive military equipment on the way to Russian positions, disorganization and demoralization of attackers with subsequent retreat.

Almost three weeks of such attacks could not break through the Russian support band, in addition, as I was told by the G-3 from USAR EUR-AF in Stuttgart, they lost up to a quarter of our Bradleys, and they are now forced to urgently send two companies of Bradleys and a large quantity of other equipment to replenish and restore the combat readiness of two brigades of the Ukrainian strike unit.When I was in officer school, pre-1991, NATO was less dependent on air-superiority than it is today. We also had some good air defense systems. Our artillery was not superior to the Soviet one but was well layered - from short, medium to long ranged systems - and would have created very significant damages. We also had good pioneer equipment that allowed for the crossing rivers and ditches as well as serious mine fields.

All this changed after the 1991 Gulf war in which U.S. air superiority and tank fist destroyed the Iraqi defense forces. That war was misconstrued as a big win when it in fact was simply the effect of a by far superior professional force over a unmotivated conscript army with old and often defunct weapons.

As an effect of the first Gulf war and later operations in Serbia, Afghanistan and again in Iraq the believe in NATO air-land doctrine was reinforced. Air superiority was the holy grail while the strong land force capabilities atrophied. An emphasis on guerilla suppression and on vehicles that could withstand simple improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan further unbalanced the force.

It explains why the Ukrainian troops were miss-trained and miss-equipped for a counter-offensive even when the opposing force was a much harder to crack one than some goat herders from Helmand, Afghanistan.

The Ukrainian combined-arms-warfare units, without air-support and little artillery, were defeated. Western mining equipment failed to clear real 20 kilogram anti-tank mines from the heavy Ukrainian grounds. Armored Ukrainian troops were destroyed in mine fields (video (https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1677612347677081601)) well before they could reach their targets.

Seeing that the tank heavy concept was failing the Ukrainians switched to a much older and more bloody technique:
In these conditions, our guys, together with Ukrainian commanders, developed tactics of “mosquito” promotion: continuous attacks of Russian positions by small tactical groups of Ukrainian infantry. The Russians, who are much more sensitive to losses in manpower, try to prevent close (“contact”) battles and retreat when Ukrainians reach their trenches, allowing artillery to destroy the enemy.

This usually succeeds: Ukrainians die or retreat. But this tactic has a positive effect. Several such attacks almost completely destroy the Russian position, most often with their own fire, after which the Russians are forced to retreat to a new line, where this tactic is repeated. That’s how in two weeks the Russians were pushed back three miles from Makarov’s strategically important position.

And this tactic is constantly improving. Our side believe that, at the continuing pace of such progress, in two weeks Ukrainians will be able to overcome the Russian support band and start storming their main line of defense, while maintaining the offensive potential of their strongest brigades. Perhaps that’s what General Milley meant yesterday about the ten weeks of the Ukrainian offensive.

This tactical technique has another important effect. Russians are forced to spend more artillery shells to repel such “mosquito” attacks, the stocks of which they replenish more slowly than they spend. And in two weeks of such battles, they may well approach the depletion of their stocks. Of course, this leads to great losses of Ukrainians but, as I said at the beginning, they are not sensitive to the death of their soldiers.

In addition, advances however small are a better justification for their death than unsuccessful attacks. And here, we must admit that the Russians today are much closer to the armies of Western countries than the Ukrainians are in this respect: the Russians take care of their soldiers ...
The "mosquito" technic replaces losses in armored vehicles will more heavy losses of infantry. The 128th Mountain Assault Brigade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/128th_Mountain_Assault_Brigade_(Ukraine)), which had led the fight on the western part of the Zaporozhia front, has just been pull back from the front line because it had lost too many of its soldiers.

After the Russian lost a few trenches to storming Ukrainian troops that did not care for their own losses they modified their own tactic. Its troops still leave the forward trenches when under pressure but they now booby-trap those before taking off.

These videos (https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1678095947350278146) show (https://twitter.com/agitpapa/status/1677660687433187329) how Ukrainian troops jump into an empty Russian trench only to be blown up by several small explosions. The Russian's need no artillery to do that. The trenches are kept intact but for a number Ukrainian corpses that can easily be moved aside.

A few days ago the Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner said in an interview (https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/politik/Oberst-Reisner-Die-Ukrainer-aendern-jetzt-die-Taktik-article24234827.html) (in German) that Ukraine had deployed all but four of its twelve reserve brigades that were supposed to be the armored counter-offensive fist that would defeat Russian defenses. Since than the 116th, 117th, and 118th Mechanized Brigades, part of last reserve, have been deployed near the Zaparozhia front.

They will replace the 128th and other units that were mostly destroyed while gaining only a few kilometer in the sparsely inhabited countryside. Half of Milley's ten weeks (https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jul/01/russia-ukraine-war-live-top-us-general-predicts-very-long-counteroffensive-cia-chief-reportedly-visits-kyiv-for-talks?page=with:block-649fb2808f08d551cf54b7ff#block-649fb2808f08d551cf54b7ff) of counter-offensive operations have passed with no relevant gains for the Ukrainian side. The next five weeks will likely destroy the rest of the battle ready Ukrainian forces.

Another change has been made in long range fire capabilities on the Ukrainian side. Yesterday it launched several S-200 missiles against the Kerch bridge and other Russian targets. The Russian side says that all these attacks were defeated by its air-defense forces.

The S-200 is an air-defense missile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-200_(missile)) first deployed in the mid 1960s. Unlike the Nike-Hercules and S-300 it does not have inherent land attack capabilities. Its original targeting system is unable to steer it towards certain points on the map:
The missile uses radio illumination mid-course correction to fly towards the target with a terminal semi-active radar homing phase.The Ukrainians, likely with some foreign help, must have developed and tested a completely new targeting system to give the S-200 some land attack capability. Its maximum range of about 300 kilometer is sufficient to attack strategic targets on the Russian side. But even standard Russian air-defenses have no problem with it.

That this was even tried, shows again the hybris of western military thinking. Like 80 years ago there is still a believe that Russia is, economically and militarily, incapable of defending itself. Please read Conor Gallagher's latest piece on this:
Underestimate Russia at Your Own Risk: A Comparison of Hubris by Germany During WWII and Today’s Collective West (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/07/underestimate-russia-at-your-own-risk-a-comparison-of-hubris-by-germany-during-wwii-and-todays-collective-west.html)
NATO's doctrine is still depending on air-superiority. It lacks infantry and good tanks. It constantly underestimates Russian capabilities.

How would the real fight look if it had to overcome the superior Russian air-defenses while depending itself on system like the very expensive Patriot with a poor record (https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/28/patriot-missiles-are-made-in-america-and-fail-everywhere/) of hitting anything but its own forces?

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Per multiple sources the Ukrainians made an attempt to strike the Kerch bridge during daytime hours (thus with a lot of civilian traffic on it) with British/French made Storm Shadow missiles. So far all missiles have been intercepted and the bridge has not been hit.

The work of the Crimean bridge, stopped after the missile attack, was resumed, said the Minister of Transport of Crimea.

In the Kerch area, a cruise missile was shot down by air defense forces, there were no casualties, the head of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov said in his Telegram channel.

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1678448913622380545

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[Ravenlocke]

Yes I remember there were rumors of a US general in Azovstal..

https://twitter.com/21WIRE/status/1678395296911376387

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https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1678398424750895104

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:

According to recent information, more than 4,800 mercenaries, mostly from the United States, Canada, and European countries, have been killed on the side of Kiev, while an additional 4,800 have fled from Ukrainian territory.

Several statements from the Russian Ministry of Defense regarding foreign mercenaries have been collected:

Since the beginning of the special operation, 11,675 foreign mercenaries from 84 countries have officially arrived to participate in combat actions in Ukraine.

In light of the failure of another wave of mobilization in Ukraine and with the aim of concealing the catastrophic losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Kiev regime has intensified recruitment efforts in Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries to attract foreign mercenaries.

Currently, there are still 2,029 mercenaries active within the ranks of the AFU.

In the past month, Ukraine has launched recruitment of mercenaries in Argentina, Brazil, Afghanistan, Iraq, and in areas of Syria controlled by the United States.

The majority of foreign mercenaries, over 2,600 individuals, have arrived in Ukraine from Poland.

The recruitment of foreign mercenaries by Kiev is carried out with the assistance of Western intelligence agencies, primarily the CIA.

Commanders of AFU units operating on the frontlines are not held accountable for losses among mercenaries.

Due to a significant decline in interest from Poland and the United Kingdom, Kiev has intensified recruitment activities in the United States and Canada.

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1678388051087880194

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"I can confirm to you that the USA and Germany are blocking Ukraine's official request for NATO membership," a high-ranking informant told BILD.

"Preparations for the blockade of the Ukrainian NATO membership request". A country must officially ask NATO if it can join before the process can begin.

This is exactly what Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky had planned to do on Tuesday, as BILD learned. In front of the heads of state and government of the 31 NATO member states and the whole world, Zelensky wanted to ask for his country to be admitted to NATO in Vilnius.

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1678357076089921537

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https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1678363834648776711

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[Vicus]

Disgust 2...and counting... 9 Jul, 2023

EU state fines citizens for celebrating WW2 victory over Hitler :sick:

For a number of Latvian nationals, the penalty was reportedly up to €350

Multiple Latvians have been fined for marking WW2 Victory Day online, local news outlet Delfi reported on Sunday, citing accounts of citizens affected by the penalties. The offences date back to celebrations on May 9 and apparently involve sharing pictures on social media and leaving comments to commemorate the anniversary.

It was not immediately clear how many Latvians were affected by the fines, reaching up to €350 ($384). According to the head of the Russian Union of Latvia, Miroslav Mitrofanov, “hundreds” of people may be involved.

“Naturally, we’re not aware of all the instances. Probably, hundreds of people will be fined for comments, pictures and likes related to May 9,” Mitrofanov told the outlet.

Latvia’s police have acknowledged imposing the fines, but refused to provide any explanation for their legal basis. “We will refrain from commenting on figures or providing any other information related to that,” police spokeswoman Simona Gravite told Delfi.

The penalties were imposed based on two articles of Latvia’s administrative code, which prohibit display of symbols used for “glorification of the Soviet totalitarian regime,” or “military aggression,” the outlet noted, citing documents it has obtained. It was not known how exactly the fines were applied under these articles, given that such display must be made in “public spaces,” and Latvia’s laws do not define social media pages as such

Alongside the other Baltic states, Latvia has ramped up its decades-long efforts to weed out its Soviet past amid the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Back in April, the country adopted legislation to prohibit “certain public events” on May 9, when Soviet-style WW2 Victory Day celebrations have traditionally been held. According to the law, Latvians are only allowed to celebrate what is known as ‘Europe Day’ on that date. Some people however, defied the ban, with over two dozen detained on May 9 this year, and with nearly 40 administrative cases launched.

https://www.rt.com/russia/579447-latvia-victory-day-fines/

Europe is just a Titanic without compass. :crazy:

[Ravenlocke]

“A strategic failure for Ukraine” even when corrected he stills it’s a failure for Ukraine!
https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1678475603027312640

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[Bill Ryan]

Europe is just a Titanic without compass. :crazy:Not a bad analogy.
"This ship is unsinkable. No iceberg can harm us. Full Steam Ahead."

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1678469249189158928

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[Ravenlocke]

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❗️NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is considering the possibility of involving the forces of Ukrainian paramilitary formations – such as the Azov, Kraken and other battalions, which have extensive experience in urban combat operations not only against external enemies, but also against internal opponents of the current Ukrainian government – to suppress the French unrest.
Involving paramilitary forces of a NATO partner country to suppress internal disturbances in a NATO country would require the legal formalization of a new practice for the organization, but the need for such a decision is obvious, and the procedure can be formalized as soon as possible 😳😳😳
https://nato.ws/cps/en/natohq/news_216762.html?selectedLocale=en

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1678462423680921600

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇫🇲For the first time since the Cold War, NATO agreed on plans to defend against an alleged possible Russian attack - Reuters, citing three diplomats

📝 “NATO allies reached agreement on Monday on regional plans outlining how the alliance could respond to a Russian attack... the revival of the plans highlights an important shift as this is the first time NATO has prepared such plans since the end of the Cold War.” , the article says.

The publication notes that Turkey has blocked the approval of plans due to wording that refers to geographical locations such as Cyprus. However, this did not affect the decision of the members of the military bloc.

Ostashko! Important - subscribe
https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1678461422127161349

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[Vicus]

Russian defense minister oversees contract soldier drills

Moscow has previously announced plans to create a large reserve force amid the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has inspected newly formed military units during drills based on combat experience gained during the Ukraine conflict.

In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said that Shoigu had checked “the organization of combat training of contract soldiers in newly formed… military units” at the training grounds of the Southern Military District, without specifying the exact location.

The military personnel are receiving instruction in tactics and weapons proficiency while learning how to drive and fire from tanks, with a focus on how to destroy Ukraine’s Western-supplied hardware. The entire intensified combat training course takes 38 days, the ministry said.

Shoigu inspected troops that are honing their combat skills on Russian T-90 tanks, the ministry noted, adding that servicemembers have a high opinion of the advanced armor, the statement read.

The ministry also shared a two-minute clip from the training ground, featuring a long line of tanks as well as intensive combat exercises with a lot of shooting in an urban environment and in field trenches.

“All training involves new military hardware and modern equipment,” the minister stressed, adding that soldiers are being instructed by veteran officers that have gained battle experience during the Ukraine conflict.

According to the statement, all of the soldiers have already undergone individual battle training, with operational coordination training now underway.

Shoigu said last month that Russia was recruiting a massive reserve force. At the time, the minister said that on average about 1,300 people – roughly equivalent to one regiment – join the military under a contract every day. In total, some 114,000 contract soldiers and 52,000 volunteers had enlisted in the army, he added.

His remarks came after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow did not need to call up more soldiers for now, noting that the army was enjoying a steady inflow of volunteers.

Russia announced a partial mobilization last September calling to arms some 300,000 reservists, citing the need to protect the long frontline against Ukrainian troops.


videos: https://www.rt.com/russia/579376-shoigu-inspection-contract-soldiers/

[Bill Ryan]

Text:
❗️NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is considering the possibility of involving the forces of Ukrainian paramilitary formations – such as the Azov, Kraken and other battalions, which have extensive experience in urban combat operations not only against external enemies, but also against internal opponents of the current Ukrainian government – to suppress the French unrest.
Involving paramilitary forces of a NATO partner country to suppress internal disturbances in a NATO country would require the legal formalization of a new practice for the organization, but the need for such a decision is obvious, and the procedure can be formalized as soon as possible 😳😳😳
https://nato.ws/cps/en/natohq/news_216762.html (https://nato.ws/cps/en/natohq/news_216762.html?selectedLocale=en)

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1678462423680921600

1678462423680921600I found this a little challenging to believe, so I checked the website (https://nato.ws/cps/en/natohq/news_216762.html) and sure enough, all that was in the article.

But then I realized that the actual official NATO website is https://nato.int, and https://nato.ws (which has no home page of its own) appears to be a very clever, slightly falsified near-clone, linking to everything on the official site but with some mischievous fake articles added in. :) (I might be wrong! But anyone reading this who may be interested, please do take a look and compare the two sites.)

[Bill Ryan]

Ukraine Offensive - Already Failed? w/ Larry Johnson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBMMOJqnjlg) 20:47
In this interview (always excellent, Judge Napolitano with Larry Johnson, each week), Johnson makes a passing comment that Ray McGovern was talking to veteran journalist Robert Scheer about all things Russia and Ukraine, and Robert Scheer was genuinely incredulous that Ukraine was losing the war.

That interested me so much that I looked it up. The audio interview is embedded in the foot of this page:


https://kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/ray-mcgovern-russias-coup-is-actually-bidens-disaster

There are buttons where you can skip ahead 30 seconds, or skip back 15 seconds. Scheer is asking McGovern to pretend to brief Biden on Ukraine, so McGovern happily goes ahead with the play-acting.

McGovern is a little like the Old Man of the Mountains telling a long story (whatever he's talking about!), but it gets interesting after about 20:00 or so. You can start in round about then.

A few minutes after that, the Biden-briefing game is suddenly all over when Scheer breaks in and cannot believe what McGovern is saying — because Scheer, like many American patriots, has simply been dutifully following American media.

Soon after that, McGovern talks at length about Iraq and the Vietnam war (when Americans were similarly deceived), but at 44:00 Scheer brings it back to topic and asks again what's really happening in Ukraine — "because the war has been going terribly for the Russians."

Scheer genuinely believed that with all his integrity. He continued to quote all the media reports. But to his credit, he was truly wanting to understand what McGovern was trying to tell him.

Then the conversation really gets going. 50-55 minutes in, it's fascinating. One really gets to empathize with someone who'd been totally duped by mainstream propaganda. You can totally feel Scheer's cognitive dissonance as he struggles to comprehend.

It was high entertainment — but also a really sobering wake-up call about just how obedient, unquestioning and malleable even respected and highly experienced professional journalists can be. This is Robert Scheer's Wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scheer). Like McGovern, he's in his 80s. And even he had not a single clue what was really happening.

If you do listen to some of this, then Enjoy. :)

[shaberon]

In the conflict over NATO's eastward enlargement, which had been brewing since 1994, the EU, in its own interests, should have tried to mediate between the geopolitical ambition of the USA in expanding its global dominance and Russia's fears of being militarily encircled by NATO and cut off from its access to the Black Sea.

In 1990, only one year after the end of the Cold War, all European states, as well as the USA and Canada, solemnly pledged, in the “Charter of Paris for a New Europe”, to build a common peaceful Europe spanning from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, including Russia, a Europe that would be free of wars and military blocs.




I accidentally discovered something about this.

The common myth is that the strategy is as recorded at the University of Virginia (https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/downloads/v979v3303?filename=Purnell_AlexanderWarner_2009.pdf):


...crafted in the mid 1990s by the Clinton administration...



whereas there was actually a huge bi-partisan handshake among the likes of Bush and Clinton, Helms and Biden (https://www.congress.gov/event/107th-congress/senate-event/LC17176/text?s=1&r=48), as recorded in some congressional records ca. 2000. Notice at that point, Biden has occupied Helms's prior post--Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate.

Brookings adds the not-surprising work of Helms and McCain (https://www.brookings.edu/articles/nato-enlargement-moving-forward-expanding-the-alliance-and-completing-europes-integration/) on the Baltic States.


Here, we are going to learn two things at once.

First, in the separation of powers, the Senate has control over Treaties, which is why they have Foreign Relations. The Executive branch has the State Department, a far later office than this separation of powers granted by the Constitution.

Secondly, Helms was quite proud of his ability to argue against the State Department on foreign policy. In general, that would mean he is disputing the CFR.

Now in the Congressional records linked above, you will see language about how "Russia has this great opportunity for dialogue."

What does that mean?

Khruschev accepted the United Nations for one reason: USSR gets a veto.

They also happened to ask if they could join the original NATO and got blank stares.


What Helms was so proud of--and what was unconditional and against the presidential administration--was verily to prevent this veto power in any NATO-related treaties. He quite articulately describes President Wilson hating the Senate during the League of Nations era, and runs up against the president To Say No (https://www.americanheritage.com/sometimes-our-job-say-no):



Early in the process the Foreign Relations Committee raised a number of reservations about the administration’s approach to NATO expansion. For example, Dr. Henry Kissinger came and testified before the committee about his concern that by giving Russia a voice in NATO decision making, we were letting the fox into the henhouse. And so the committee drafted conditions in the Resolution of Ratification that built a “fire wall” in the NATO-Russia relationship. Also, over the next nine months, I and fellow committee members worked with the Secretary of State to address a number of other concerns. The result: The Senate overwhelmingly approved NATO expansion. Had the administration dug in its heels and expected the committee to rubber-stamp the expansion protocols, I can assure you the Senate would still be deliberating the wisdom of NATO expansion today.


Clinton would have probably passed something that would have allowed Russia to "nyet" the entrance of new countries. Instead, they were given an EU-style "dialog process", which, they say they showed up to it and recorded a pack of lies, and here we are.

Of course, it was self-justified, wise, and good, in their eyes at the time. On Senate-related matters, the CFR does not automatically get their way--this one was close, but flawed, and they would not have been effective despots.

Helms of course was more or less a Bircher who aims to suppress "communism" no matter what.

[ExomatrixTV]

More than 120 countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of the weapons. Russia, Ukraine and the US have all declined to sign the treaty (https://www.clusterconvention.org/). Since the adoption of the convention in 2008, 99% of global stockpiles have been destroyed, according to (http://www.the-monitor.org/media/3348257/Cluster-Munition-Monitor-2022-Web_HR.pdf) the Cluster Munition Coalition.


Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine NOT the Way to Go w/ Col Doug Macgregor:

mcxUoDKE-10

[Bill Ryan]

More than 120 countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of the weapons. Russia, Ukraine and the US have all declined to sign the treaty (https://www.clusterconvention.org/). Since the adoption of the convention in 2008, 99% of global stockpiles have been destroyed, according to (http://www.the-monitor.org/media/3348257/Cluster-Munition-Monitor-2022-Web_HR.pdf) the Cluster Munition Coalition.I felt I needed to educate myself about this. I thought others might appreciate the info.

They're little bomblets, that scatter in all directions randomly to explode all at once like grenades. Militarily speaking, they're an efficient way of killing (say) a whole group of 100 troops with just one shell.

But that's not the issue. Some of them don't explode there and then, maybe because they don't impact anything solid that triggers the explosive. So to handle that, after the attack is over, a radio signal is sent to the UNexploded bomblets to THEN explode them on command. That's supposed to clear the remaining danger, so that (e.g.) the troops that fired the cluster munition can now advance safely.

So when someone like Admiral John Kirby is talking about 'duds' and 'the dud rate', he's referring to the unexploded bomblets which (a) fail to detonate on impact, and (b) fail to detonate from the radio signal.

So they just sit there, unexploded. The explosive is still active. But no-one knows where they are.

The reason they're banned by many countries is that even quite a while later when a war is over, they can explode if (e.g.) a civilian drives over them in a car (they're not powerful enough to damage a tank), or a farmer's tractor hits one, or some children start playing ball with one. (They're small and round.)

So a 'dud' simply means that it's silently lying in wait for a civilian to find it and be killed or injured much later. If there were no 'duds' at all (i.e. they 100% all exploded, or were exploded, during an offensive), then they'd be a perfectly legal weapon, as terrible as they are. (The Russian TOS-1 flamethrower system is even more terrible, but nothing remains that can possibly harm anyone after its use in an attack.)

:flower:

[Michel Leclerc]

Text:
❗️NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is considering the possibility of involving the forces of Ukrainian paramilitary formations – such as the Azov, Kraken and other battalions, which have extensive experience in urban combat operations not only against external enemies, but also against internal opponents of the current Ukrainian government – to suppress the French unrest.
(...)😳😳😳
https://nato.ws/cps/en/natohq/news_216762.html?selectedLocale=en

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1678462423680921600

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The fact that the French are still demonstrating for an early pension age and destroying city landscape for the latest sweater, game or mobile is really an excellent reason for Stoltenberg to entice Macron into deploying racist killers with combat experience.

Pension at 70! No new shoes!

[shaberon]

I am not sure what to make of the sense of cooperation here:



Australia sending AWACS (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230710/australia-to-deploy-awacs-aircraft-in-germany-to-patrol-natos-eastern-flank---scholz-1111794072.html) planes to Ramstein to patrol NATO's eastern flank for six months.


I thought Australia already had its hands full with a dangerous enemy called The Outback and mankind's assistance in making it take over the whole place.

Is Lithuania part of this flank? What is going on here? Do they attempt to aim HIMARS systems? Why can't they land in Bulgaria, like a reckless interloper?

I bet this is expensive.

[Bruce G Charlton]

It's hard to understand if one is trying to discover how a decision is likely to promote the national interest. But easy to understand if one assumes that the national leaders are
instead united in promoting an agenda of destroying the nations they "lead". If we assume that the national leaders are under globalist control, and the globalists want WW III.

[Tintin]

I'm not sure on the reliability of the IntelDrop as a resource, my memory can't recall immediately, but this editorial may well be exactly what is happening, and given the depths of depravity on display in the Ukrainian, EU, US and British circles of Hell one wonders whether Dante would have regretted not having more time to devise, and script, a 10th circle. Perhaps he did a draft and deemed it not quite diabolical enough: come the time I'll make sure I'll check in with him and find out.

In the meantime Satan's lackeys continue to 'do'....

____________________________________________________________

Source: https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/07/09/ukraine-deploys-us-stockpile-mustard-gas-against-russia-at-artemivsk/#comment-6554

Ukraine Deploys US Stockpile Mustard Gas Against Russia at Artemivsk

posted by INTEL-DROP July 9, 2023


Shipped to Ukraine instead of being destroyed, sent along with banned cluster munitions


The Ukrainian army has once again flagrantly violated an international convention by using banned chemical weapons in the Artyomovsk area. This was told by one of the fighters of the “Wolves” unit.

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Our positions on the line of contact were hit by an artillery strike. Literally after 2-3 minutes I felt a pungent smell, dizziness and nausea began. After evacuation, ulcers appeared on the body
– said the fighter.

According to him, now his condition has returned to normal, but the consequences of the chemical attack are still making themselves felt.

Note that just a few days ago, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons made a statement according to which all stockpiles of chemical weapons in the world have been destroyed. This loud statement was made shortly after Joe Biden’s words about the destruction of chemical munitions in the United States.

The U.S. has successfully destroyed the last munitions from this stockpile, bringing us closer to a world free of horrendous chemical weapons.
– said the head of the White House.

In the context of the use of chemical munitions by the Ukrainian army, only a very big idealist can believe the US President’s statements about the destruction of chemical weapons.

Washington has repeatedly proved that it will not hesitate to use any means to achieve its goals. At the same time, the States, along with Ukraine, accuse Russia of using banned weapons. However, neither Kyiv nor Washington can provide any evidence of this.

https://topcor.ru/37029-vsu-snova-primenili-zapreschennoe-himicheskoe-oruzhie-pod-artemovskom.html

___________________________________________________________

Given that this has come from a soldier direct from experience, I think we may have to assume this is true

[Bill Ryan]

I'm not sure on the reliability of the IntelDrop as a resource
BREAKING - Administration announces second phase of Weapons For program will include delivery of mustard gas and napalm to the beleaguered nation.
Nonsense, of course :ROFL:, but if IntelDrop is a genuine news site they're not smart enough to realize this was a [very funny!] spoof.

[Tintin]

I'm not sure on the reliability of the IntelDrop as a resource
BREAKING - Administration announces second phase of Weapons For program will include delivery of mustard gas and napalm to the beleaguered nation.
Nonsense, of course :ROFL:, but if IntelDrop is a genuine news site they're not smart enough to realize this was a [very funny!] spoof.

Yes, they totally missed the humour in Convexity's tweet OP: they must have been short on sub-eds :bigsmile:

[shaberon]

It's hard to understand if one is trying to discover how a decision is likely to promote the national interest.


That bit I put was also sarcasm.

Australia married the United States in 1975. Hard to find a better-fitting footstool.

[Tintin]

WOW, this is some footage :muscle:

Russian pilot ejects over Ukraine, and his helmet cam catches the whole thing:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-07_%28July%29/2023-07-03_Russian_pilot_helmet_cam_records_ejection.mp4

Mod note from Tintin: just trying to verify the source - it might not be quite what is claimed. Some suggestions that it is an EzDubs creation (?)or that it was a plane that caught electrical wiring in Belgorod, possibly from October 2022. I'll remove this if it proves to be a fake, with apologies if so.

[Hamish]

WOW, this is some footage :muscle:

Russian pilot ejects over Ukraine, and his helmet cam catches the whole thing:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-07_%28July%29/2023-07-03_Russian_pilot_helmet_cam_records_ejection.mp4

Mod note from Tintin: just trying to verify the source - it might not be quite what is claimed. Some suggestions that it is an EzDubs creation (?)or that it was a plane that caught electrical wiring in Belgorod, possibly from October 2022. I'll remove this if it proves to be a fake, with apologies if so.

Hello,

Unsure if this helps but this was posted on Telegraph Youtube page about 8 months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g5yvlAbrCk

and same by the sun newspaper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTs0rk6Vtk

Someone in the Sun comment section said:
It’s sad how many news outlets are getting this wrong, this wasn’t caused by a missile, the pilot hit a power line during a test flight and needed to eject, the radio chatter heard after the pilot hits the ground is between him and his colleague, and his colleague asking if he is okay, and the jet seen at 0:30 was also his colleague

[Vicus]

Disgust 3 and counting...

BUT, it will be delicious to watch footage when all vanish in smoke...

German tank factory to open in Ukraine 10 Jul, 2023

Moscow has already warned it will target the facility with cruise missiles

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.07/thumbnail/64ac5fac203027647e4cd7bb.jpg
Technicians assemble a Leopard 2A4 battle tank at a Rheinmetall facility in Unterluess, Germany, June 6, 2023

German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall will open a tank and armored vehicle plant in Ukraine within the next 12 weeks, CEO Armin Papperger has told CNN. The company claims it will be able to produce 400 tanks per year at the facility, but Russia has already threatened to halt production with missile strikes.

The factory will be located in western Ukraine and jointly operated by Rheinmetall and Ukrainian state weapons firm Ukroboronprom, CNN reported on Monday, citing an interview with Papperger last week.

“[Ukrainians] have to help themselves,” he said. “If they always have to wait [for] Europeans or Americans [to] help them over the next 10 or 20 years… that is not possible.”

Rheinmetall first announced its plans to develop a facility in March, with the company stating at the time that the plant would cost $200 million to build, and would be capable of turning out 400 of its latest ‘Panther’ tanks per year.

Papperger told CNN that Rheinmetall’s ‘Fuchs’ armored personnel carriers would be the first vehicles to roll off the factory’s production lines. He added that Ukrainian workers would be trained to build and repair these as well as Rheinmetall’s other products, which include Marder infantry fighting vehicles, Leopard 2 tanks and Panzerhaubitze 2000 artillery systems.

Russia regularly strikes military targets in western Ukraine with drones and cruise missiles, and considers stockpiles of foreign weapons and military vehicles to be legitimate targets. Rheinmetall’s factory would be no exception, Russian Security Council deputy chairman Dmitry Medvedev warned in March.

“If [the] Krauts still go on with it for real, they’re very welcome,” he wrote on social media. “The decision should be greeted with fireworks by Kalibrs and other Russian pyrotechnic devices.” :chuckle:

Papperger insisted to CNN that Rheinmetall could protect its factory. “There are a lot of factories at the moment which are producing military goods [in Ukraine]. It is just another one, and we can protect that also,” he said, without elaborating on how he would achieve this.

The conflict in Ukraine has boosted Rheinmetall’s earnings to record levels, with the firm making €6.4 billion ($7 billion) last year, an increase of 27% from 2021. As well as building a plant in Ukraine, Rheinmetall plans on expanding its factory in Lower Saxony and hiring hundreds of new workers as it works through a €28.2 billion backlog of orders, German newspaper Die Welt reported earlier this month.

https://www.rt.com/russia/579503-rheinmetall-tank-factory-ukraine/

[Vicus]

Summer operations | The Russians Are Advancing In Avdiivka and Seversk. Military Summary 2023


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogNAqs5cgc

[Hermoor]

German tank factory to open in Ukraine 10 Jul, 2023

Moscow has already warned it will target the facility with cruise missiles

Why hasn't Moscow targeted The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine yet?

Or the Verkhovna Rada?

Or sent devastating missiles down the chimney of wherever Zelenskyy is working or sleeping?

Or.... etc. Ad nauseum.

Because both national puppets and their minions are controlled by the same Overlords.

It's another staged war on the global stage.

But, hey, Moscow will send devastating missiles down the chimney of a tank factory in Ukraine.... just because.

Oh dear. :facepalm:

[PlasmaVortex]

German tank factory to open in Ukraine 10 Jul, 2023

Moscow has already warned it will target the facility with cruise missiles

Why hasn't Moscow targeted The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine yet?

Or the Verkhovna Rada?

Or sent devastating missiles down the chimney of wherever Zelenskyy is working or sleeping?

Or.... etc. Ad nauseum.

Because both national puppets and their minions are controlled by the same Overlords.

It's another staged war on the global stage.

But, hey, Moscow will send devastating missiles down the chimney of a tank factory in Ukraine.... just because.

Oh dear. :facepalm:

I second this. Both are Jewish and are slaughtering the goys of both sides. The reconstruction will be the usual suspects. As Christopher story said Russia is controlled opposition to the new world order you should find his book on pdf if interested.
The new underworld order Christopher story.

[Gwin Ru]

...

... Douglas Macgregor & Kim Iversen: The Russians Have 750.000 Troops Ready to Attack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0rgUwpHX6M) 27:33

https://yt3.ggpht.com/wBdTxbJHKZePBH6JsXGIBoCdbBCjDGrZDtma4sS6ezRvP9LmwDXsQpin18DGcyCRGe1uuy7xdg=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj (https://www.youtube.com/@DouglasMacgregorStraightCalls) Douglas Macgregor S.C. (https://www.youtube.com/@DouglasMacgregorStraightCalls)

Jul 11, 2023

Colonel Douglas Macgregor Straight Calls - Analysis of breaking news and in-depth discussion of current geopolitical events in the United States of America and the world. Recorded July 10, 2023.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0rgUwpHX6M

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Units of the 58th Army of the Russian Armed Forces destroy armored vehicles of the Ukrainian army of the United States and NATO in the Rabotino area on July 10.

Artillerymen with high accuracy destroy the enemy. The footage shows wrecked and abandoned tanks, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and enemy armored vehicles. The remnants of the surviving Ukrainian servicemen are trying to leave the burning equipment in a panic.

https://t.me/vicktop55/16009

https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1678828485484113941

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[shaberon]

Because both national puppets and their minions are controlled by the same Overlords.

It's another staged war on the global stage.


That does not seem to be a valid conclusion.

You don't just automatically assassinate a head of state or other forms of leadership, unless maybe they were Hussein or Qadafi, because it was the U. S. in action.

Or, if the Overlord can be identified and the method of control explained, we might take that into consideration.

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Zelensky has failed in his latest desperate bid to get an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO - The Guardian

The leaders of 31 countries signed a declaration that did not provide a clear timetable or clear conditions for its eventual membership.

Ostashko! Important

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1678862009360678912

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¤=[Post Update]=¤

Text:
Medvedev’s TG Channel Message:

„The preliminary outcomes of the NATO Summit. Just as we thought:

1. The action plan for Ukraine's membership in the Alliance (PDCH) will be canceled. They want to expedite the process of acceptance.

2. They will invite "Country 404" to NATO. But it's uncertain when and under what conditions they will be accepted.

It's quite likely that it may never happen. This is what realists within the Alliance are afraid to openly say.

3. Military aid to the Kiev regime will be increased, using all possible means: missiles, cluster munitions, and aircraft. The West, which has completely lost its sanity, couldn't come up with anything else. The predictability is at the highest level of idiocy. In reality, it's a dead end. The Third World War is getting closer.

What does all of this mean for us? It's quite obvious. The special military operation will continue with its previous objectives.

One of them is to force the Kiev nationalist group to renounce their membership in NATO, which we have insisted on from the very beginning (although it is impossible).

Therefore, it will be necessary to liquidate this group (which is possible and necessary).

P.S. It was reported that Tokmak was shelled with cluster munitions. This means it's time to unleash our arsenals of this inhumane weapon.“

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1678853816853094400

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🪖 Interrogation of a captive sushnik who was left to die after being blown up by a mine "Petal"

The mobilized militant confesses that he was forced to go to fight.

In captivity, they didn’t beat them, they gave them water to drink. They will heal and send to the Russian Federation, wait for the end of the SVO.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1678827984290041858

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
In a live interview with Al Jazeera television, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the TV channel the reason for the NATO alliance refusing Ukraine entry into NATO is not because NATO would be drawn into war with Russia.

She stated NATO is already at war with Russia, and the true reason for the denial is that allowing Ukraine into NATO would require official recognition of Ukraine's borders.

This is unacceptable to the alliance because there is an intention to annex western Ukraine into Poland at the conclusion of the war.

https://t.me/dpr_mfa/3321

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1678857711499313152

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[ExomatrixTV]

More than 120 countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of the weapons. Russia, Ukraine and the US have all declined to sign the treaty (https://www.clusterconvention.org/). Since the adoption of the convention in 2008, 99% of global stockpiles have been destroyed, according to (http://www.the-monitor.org/media/3348257/Cluster-Munition-Monitor-2022-Web_HR.pdf) the Cluster Munition Coalition.



Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine NOT the Way to Go w/ Col Doug Macgregor:

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Did They Really Think We Wouldn't Find This?:

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Remember you owning a firearm is bad. Dropping clusterbombs is A-Ok. The logic fails. :facepalm:


See The First Meme In This Video:

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[SoulValor]

I would love to have ‘Mashika’s’ take on all of this current news ..

Viking

I agree! Would be quite interesting. But Mashika hasn't been around for a while, has she. I hope she's ok!


Jewish pedophille Putin mentions blackmail attempt...

https://news.sky.com/story/any-blackmail-is-doomed-to-failure-defiant-putin-warns-after-attempted-rebellion-12910112

Hi PlasmaVortex,
you state two things as factual yet I've never seen evidence of this. That Putin is a) jewish and b) a pedophile. I like most of your posts but I think you should be careful about statements like these - because how can you be so sure? Do you have (irrefutable) proof? Or at least some type of inciriminating material? I remember you mentioned earlier that Jewish intelligence has pedophile material on Putin but you didn't provide a link/source for that.

I am open to the idea that he might be jewish as well as a pedophile but it doesn't really sound right to me. I mean I know that a lot of the elite including politicians - especially in the west - have been pretty much exposed as pedophiles. (And a lot of them are Jews too.) Even though there isn't often hard evidence either we have at least witness reports from victims. (Which of course could still be untrue or inaccurate but the sheer volume of different accounts/witnesses tells us there's something to it. And of course, there's Epstein.) But I've never seen any witness reports regarding Putin being a pedophile, let alone videos or pictures. Have you?

I am aware of the footage of him kissing a boy on the tummy in public. That doesn't constitute proof however. And having an affair or relationship with a young but full aged female gymnast doesn't either. :bigsmile: That's just understandable. ;)
Sure, there was the Russian refugee Alexander Litvinenko who got poisoned in Britain who claimed that Putin is a pedophile - but again, where's the proof? From what I've seen he never produced any evidence either. His wikipedia article only links to the following but I don't see any proof in there either: https://web.archive.org/web/20081211235729/http://www.chechenpress.co.uk/english/news/2006/07/05/01.shtml
It could be just slander and defamation which we know Putin had/has to endure quite a lot (from the West). And for Litvinenko, there could be all kinds of reasons why he got whacked...


I personally have reached a level of disgust with westernism--it is all full of garbage, but the UK and Australia seem to be even worse, they cannot publish a title that does not have some buzzword like "Terrorizing", "Dictator", "Backwards", or what have you, while most American stuff is a bit less "sensational", while remaining completely "exceptional" and "supremacist".

Hello shaberon.:)
A lot of the German MSM articles are unbearable too. Just the headlines alone...so most often I don't bother reading any further. Heck, I try to avoid even the headlines now. But it really makes me wonder - do they actually believe these things themselves or do they try to perform a type of magic - you know, manifesting what they wish for by reporting on it as if its already reality (Russia's defeat). They've been doing it in regards to desired political results too - stating like its fact this or that candidate or party will lose. Fortunately it doesn't always seem to work that way. :D


one including a cartoon of a "planeload of Nazis" going over who had to bribe their way to be able to ask permission to do business there, which would probably be held by 51% Chinese ghost investors. As you probably know, BASF headquarters is already there. The report was emphatic that Deutsche Bank would *not* be allowed to do speculative private banking, and they have rented out a skyscraper for twelve years in order to...eh...assist with three or four minor "consultant" roles.

Everyone on that plane was pre-Reich old silver, absolutely nothing new...and then we see in Germany that the bakery from 1688 would probably have to close because they can't afford the energy to keep baking...so, yes, I would suggest that a few of the editorialists posted on Southfront are worth the time. I believe they usually do the new articles on Monday.

I'm afraid you kinda lost me there. From what I can tell the original BASF headquarter is still in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The east asian regional HQ is located in Hongkong however. Is that the one you're referring to?

Also, what do you mean with "bakery"? Are you still talking about BASF?

[Bill Ryan]

German tank factory to open in Ukraine 10 Jul, 2023

Moscow has already warned it will target the facility with cruise missiles

Why hasn't Moscow targeted The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine yet?

Or the Verkhovna Rada?

Or sent devastating missiles down the chimney of wherever Zelenskyy is working or sleeping?

Or.... etc. Ad nauseum.

Because both national puppets and their minions are controlled by the same Overlords.

It's another staged war on the global stage.

But, hey, Moscow will send devastating missiles down the chimney of a tank factory in Ukraine.... just because.

Oh dear. :facepalm:

I second this. Both are Jewish and are slaughtering the goys of both sides. The reconstruction will be the usual suspects. As Christopher story said Russia is controlled opposition to the new world order you should find his book on pdf if interested.
The new underworld order Christopher story.

1) As best I know, Putin is not a Jew. I looked around to see if I could find any references, but failed. His Wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin) (which may or may not be accurate) states:
Under Putin, the Hasidic Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia became increasingly influential within the Jewish community, partly due to the influence of Federation-supporting businessmen mediated through their alliances with Putin, notably Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich.
According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Putin is popular amongst the Russian Jewish community, who see him as a force for stability. Russia's chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, said Putin "paid great attention to the needs of our community and related to us with a deep respect".
In 2016, Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, also praised Putin for making Russia "a country where Jews are welcome".So he's very supportive of Jews in Russia. But that doesn't mean he's a Jew.

2) The Russians really are slaughtering the Ukrainian troops (though not civilians), but not really vice versa. Estimates vary, but most agree that Ukrainian:Russian losses are something like 7:1 since the start of the SMO and maybe as much 17:1 in the last month. Ukraine has almost no military personnel left of its own.

On the other hand, since 2014 Ukraine has deliberately targeted and killed over 14,000 civilians in Donbass (maybe 15,000-16,000 by now), with equal proportions of men, women, children, and elderly people.

The west says nothing. You have a continuing war crime of immense proportions right there, visible every day for anyone who cares to look and see.

In short: you can't compare Zelensky and Putin unless you're drawing attention to how diametrically different they are in absolutely every human respect you can think of.

3) I don't believe Putin is an agent of the NWO. I'm not going to be convinced of that by anything anytime soon, and I've spent the last year and a half looking into this in immense depth literally every day. Look at the history. Look at today's geopolitics. Look at everything that Putin has written or said on record (many dozens of hours of clear, detailed statements with official on-record transcripts). Look at how desperately the US neocons want to cling on to their hegemony.

The US neocons are the psychopaths in this picture. Putin knows this and is standing against them. I'm certain of that.

And Zelensky is just a cocaine-addict puppet, a cartoon figure with no morals, conscience or observable soul who is systematically destroying his own country. That suits Russia just fine. :) Russian Spetsnaz could have assassinated him within a week of the start of the SMO, but they're happy to have have a clown as their opponent in this game. (Imagine if the commander-in-chief of Ukraine was someone moral, rational, humane, consultative, and intelligent.)

The west is now fast tiring of Zelensky, while the Chinese, Indians and Africans can't abide him. He's not going to last long; but neither (I suspect) is the war.

[PlasmaVortex]

German tank factory to open in Ukraine 10 Jul, 2023

Moscow has already warned it will target the facility with cruise missiles

Why hasn't Moscow targeted The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine yet?

Or the Verkhovna Rada?

Or sent devastating missiles down the chimney of wherever Zelenskyy is working or sleeping?

Or.... etc. Ad nauseum.

Because both national puppets and their minions are controlled by the same Overlords.

It's another staged war on the global stage.

But, hey, Moscow will send devastating missiles down the chimney of a tank factory in Ukraine.... just because.

Oh dear. :facepalm:

I second this. Both are Jewish and are slaughtering the goys of both sides. The reconstruction will be the usual suspects. As Christopher story said Russia is controlled opposition to the new world order you should find his book on pdf if interested.
The new underworld order Christopher story.

1) As best I know, Putin is not a Jew. I looked around to see if I could find any references, but failed. His Wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin) (which may or may not be accurate) states:
Under Putin, the Hasidic Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia became increasingly influential within the Jewish community, partly due to the influence of Federation-supporting businessmen mediated through their alliances with Putin, notably Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich.
According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Putin is popular amongst the Russian Jewish community, who see him as a force for stability. Russia's chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, said Putin "paid great attention to the needs of our community and related to us with a deep respect".
In 2016, Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, also praised Putin for making Russia "a country where Jews are welcome".So he's very supportive of Jews in Russia. But that doesn't mean he's a Jew.

2) The Russians really are slaughtering the Ukrainian troops (though not civilians), but not really vice versa. Estimates vary, but most agree that Ukrainian:Russian losses are something like 7:1 since the start of the SMO and maybe as much 17:1 in the last month. Ukraine has almost no military personnel left of its own.

On the other hand, Ukraine has deliberately targeted and killed over 14,000 (maybe 15,000-16,000 my now) civilians, with equal proportions of men, women, children, and elderly people, in Donbass since 2014. The west says nothing. You have a continuing war crime of immense proportions right there, visible every day for anyone who cares to look and see.

In short: you can't compare Zelensky and Putin unless you're drawing attention to how diametrically different they are in absolutely every human respect you can think of.

3) I don't believe Putin is an agent of the NWO. I'm not going to be convinced of that by anything anytime soon, and I've spent the last year and a half looking into this in immense depth literally every day. Look at the history. Look at today's geopolitics. Look at everything that Putin has written or said on record (many dozens of hours of clear, detailed statements with official on-record transcripts). Look at how desperately the US neocons want to cling on to their hegemony.

The US neocons are the psychopaths in this picture. Putin knows this and is standing against them. I'm certain of that.

And Zelensky is just a cocaine-addict puppet, a cartoon figure with no morals, conscience or observable soul who is systematically destroying his own country. That suits Russia just fine. :) Russian Spetsnaz could have assassinated him within a week of the start of the SMO, but they're happy to have have a clown as their opponent in this game. (Imagine if the commander-in-chief of Ukraine was someone moral, rational, humane, consultative, and intelligent.)

The west is now fast tiring of Zelensky, while the Chinese, Indians and Africans can't abide him. He's not going to last long; but neither (I suspect) is the war.

Putin has a Jewish birth certificate and was raised by Jewish step parents. I can send you this, also he is very close with chabad lubavitch which is only possible for a number of reasons. Soviet Russia never died bill, it slipped into mufty and moved to Israel.

How can Putin not be controlled opposition when he's carrying out Soviet long range strategy to a t as outlined by top defector anatomy golitsyn. Which I have mentioned before. Why would the international bankers leave it to chance to have a landmass as big as Russia not under their control? Considering the 1917 revolution I see no reason to assume anything has changed. Russia is completely controlled opposition based on the fact that without wallstreet Russia wouldn't even have the absolute basic parts for vehicle manufacture as explained by Anthony Sutton. If it was genuine why haven't they deployed scalar weaponry on Ukraine? How come the invasion occured straight after COVID in magical tandem with the shock doctrine used by the west. And yes most of the neocons are Jewish disciples of leo Strauss who have intermarried with other Jewish disciples.

[SoulValor]

I felt I needed to educate myself about this. I thought others might appreciate the info.

They're little bomblets, that scatter in all directions randomly to explode all at once like grenades. Militarily speaking, they're an efficient way of killing (say) a whole group of 100 troops with just one shell.

But that's not the issue. Some of them don't explode there and then, maybe because they don't impact anything solid that triggers the explosive. So to handle that, after the attack is over, a radio signal is sent to the UNexploded bomblets to THEN explode them on command. That's supposed to clear the remaining danger, so that (e.g.) the troops that fired the cluster munition can now advance safely.

So when someone like Admiral John Kirby is talking about 'duds' and 'the dud rate', he's referring to the unexploded bomblets which (a) fail to detonate on impact, and (b) fail to detonate from the radio signal.

So they just sit there, unexploded. The explosive is still active. But no-one knows where they are.

The reason they're banned by many countries is that even quite a while later when a war is over, they can explode if (e.g.) a civilian drives over them in a car (they're not powerful enough to damage a tank), or a farmer's tractor hits one, or some children start playing ball with one. (They're small and round.)

So a 'dud' simply means that it's silently lying in wait for a civilian to find it and be killed or injured much later. If there were no 'duds' at all (i.e. they 100% all exploded, or were exploded, during an offensive), then they'd be a perfectly legal weapon, as terrible as they are. (The Russian TOS-1 flamethrower system is even more terrible, but nothing remains that can possibly harm anyone after its use in an attack.)

:flower:

If the Ukraine will use these Russia may reciprocrate:

DEFENSE MINISTER SHOIGU RECALLED RUSSIA HAS CLUSTER MUNITIONS THAT ARE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN AMERICAN ONES (https://southfront.org/defense-minister-shoigu-recalled-russia-has-cluster-munitions-that-are-more-effective-than-american-ones/)


In response to Washington’s decision to supply the Ukrainian military with dangerous cluster munition, Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu recalled that Russian forces also have similar weapons and they will be forced to use them against the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Shoigu noted that similar Russian shells are more effective than those made by the US, but the Russian military refrained from using them because of the threat to civilians.

[Bill Ryan]

Putin has a Jewish birth certificate and was raised by Jewish step parents. I can send you this, also he is very close with chabad lubavitch which is only possible for a number of reasons. Soviet Russia never died bill, it slipped into mufty and moved to Israel.

From the Jewish website Jewish Unpacked:


https://jewishunpacked.com/putin-is-not-jewish-but-the-president-of-ukraine-is

Putin is not Jewish but the president of Ukraine is


How can Putin not be controlled opposition when he's carrying out Soviet long range strategy to a t as outlined by top defector anatomy golitsyn. Which I have mentioned before. Why would the international bankers leave it to chance to have a landmass as big as Russia not under their control? Considering the 1917 revolution I see no reason to assume anything has changed. Russia is completely controlled opposition based on the fact that without wallstreet Russia wouldn't even have the absolute basic parts for vehicle manufacture as explained by Anthony Sutton. If it was genuine why haven't they deployed scalar weaponry on Ukraine? How come the invasion occured straight after COVID in magical tandem with the shock doctrine used by the west. And yes most of the neocons are Jewish disciples of leo Strauss who have intermarried with other Jewish disciples.

I'll only reply to part of this diatribe. :)

Why haven't they deployed scalar weaponry on Ukraine?

Russia could turn Ukraine into a Texas-size sheet of glass if they wanted to (and something like this may yet happen), but their goals in Feb 2023 were not to destroy the country, or its people. Just to neutralize it militarily, and to de-Nazify it.

There were two problems to solve:


NATO.
Ukraine's continuing genocide of civilians in Donbass.

That's why Putin has never referred to this as a 'war'. It's a Special Military Operation, limited in its goals and scope. (But if the US/NATO wants a full-scake war, which some factions seem to, then Russia is ready. The west would be destroyed within a day.)

Analysts who know what they're talking about have grown tired of trying to explain, over and over and over again, why Russia never went in in hard, and 18 months later still hasn't.

They are specifically not targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure, and only began to target Ukraine's power facilities to induce them to use up all their air defense resources, a project which is 95+% complete. (You'll notice that now all Russia's missiles are targeting ammunition dumps and other military facilities.)

How come the invasion occurred straight after COVID?

It depends what 'straight after' means. The Feb 2022 timing of the SMO was because Ukraine was massing troops to invade Donbass once and for all. If Russia had left it a couple weeks later, they might have lost their advantage. Prior to that, Putin had been trying to address the west about all this as late as December 2021. If you'd been following all this closely, you'd know all this.



I would love to have Mashika’s take on all of this current news.I agree! Would be quite interesting.It'd be more than interesting. :) Posts like those of PlasmaVortex would have exasperated her so much we'd all be treated to a popcorn-feast of Mashika mercilessly taking him apart line by line in long, witty and scathing posts, leaving almost nothing left.

:focus:

[Satori]

None of us know what we are talking about because none of us have enough truthful, verified facts and confirmed, reliable information upon which to form viable opinions—much less to take action—and to make any definitive statements with real confidence about anything of significance to Mankind and Mother Earth. That’s a fact.

Add: My point is that we are left with beliefs, which could be right, wrong, or somewhere in between. Very rarely is there a “knowing”. And when there is, those in the know are usually not in a position to do anything about it, except on a personal and sometimes familial level.

[SoulValor]

Because both national puppets and their minions are controlled by the same Overlords.

It's another staged war on the global stage.


That does not seem to be a valid conclusion.

You don't just automatically assassinate a head of state or other forms of leadership, unless maybe they were Hussein or Qadafi, because it was the U. S. in action.

Or, if the Overlord can be identified and the method of control explained, we might take that into consideration.

Indeed. Why bother with killing Zelensky when he's the "best" leader Putin can hope for? ;) Putin/Russia from the very beginning of this conflict seemed to take pages out of Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War". In this instance, perhaps: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake". And Zelensky is one big mistake. :ROFL:
(This approach would apply to other "competent" leaders in the Ukraina apparatus too)

I think they also go a lot by "“Appear weak when you are strong" - fooling the entire West.

[PlasmaVortex]

Putin has a Jewish birth certificate and was raised by Jewish step parents. I can send you this, also he is very close with chabad lubavitch which is only possible for a number of reasons. Soviet Russia never died bill, it slipped into mufty and moved to Israel.

From the Jewish website Jewish Unpacked:


https://jewishunpacked.com/putin-is-not-jewish-but-the-president-of-ukraine-is

Putin is not Jewish but the president of Ukraine is


How can Putin not be controlled opposition when he's carrying out Soviet long range strategy to a t as outlined by top defector anatomy golitsyn. Which I have mentioned before. Why would the international bankers leave it to chance to have a landmass as big as Russia not under their control? Considering the 1917 revolution I see no reason to assume anything has changed. Russia is completely controlled opposition based on the fact that without wallstreet Russia wouldn't even have the absolute basic parts for vehicle manufacture as explained by Anthony Sutton. If it was genuine why haven't they deployed scalar weaponry on Ukraine? How come the invasion occured straight after COVID in magical tandem with the shock doctrine used by the west. And yes most of the neocons are Jewish disciples of leo Strauss who have intermarried with other Jewish disciples.

I'll only reply to part of this diatribe. :)

Why haven't they deployed scalar weaponry on Ukraine?

Russia could turn Ukraine into a Texas-size sheet of glass if they wanted to (and something like this may yet happen), but their goals in Feb 2023 were not to destroy the country, or its people. Just to neutralize it militarily, and to de-Nazify it.

There were two problems to solve:


NATO.
Ukraine's continuing genocide of civilians in Donbass.

That's why Putin has never referred to this as a 'war'. It's a Special Military Operation, limited in its goals and scope. (But if the US/NATO wants a full-scake war, which some factions seem to, then Russia is ready. The west would be destroyed within a day.)

Analysts who know what they're talking about have grown tired of trying to explain, over and over and over again, why Russia never went in in hard, and 18 months later still hasn't.

They are specifically not targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure, and only began to target Ukraine's power facilities to induce them to use up all their air defense resources, a project which is 95+% complete. (You'll notice that now all Russia's missiles are targeting ammunition dumps and other military facilities.)

How come the invasion occurred straight after COVID?

It depends what 'straight after' means. The Feb 2022 timing of the SMO was because Ukraine was massing troops to invade Donbass once and for all. If Russia had left it a couple weeks later, they might have lost their advantage. Prior to that, Putin had been trying to address the west about all this as late as December 2021. If you'd been following all this closely, you'd know all this.



I would love to have Mashika’s take on all of this current news.I agree! Would be quite interesting.It'd be more than interesting. :) Posts like those of PlasmaVortex would have exasperated her so much we'd all be treated to a popcorn-feast of Mashika mercilessly taking him apart line by line in long, witty and scathing posts, leaving almost nothing left.

:focus:


I think you’re arrogance is slowly morphing into patronising delusion, diatribe? Coming from the man who created the monster of Kerry Cassidy that’s ironic. I have nothing but an endless stream of sources, therefore you’re attempt to put me down has failed like you’re mental health in your behaviour. You’re appeal to ridicule says a lot about you as a man bill. You can make your fancy posts with all the bells and whistles but it still adds to to complete nonsense and pathetic sophistry on behalf of Russian agitprop technocracy. I think you are ignoring the elephant in the room and/or deliberately ignoring what I’ve said in favour of ridicule. So when Chanda Lubavitcher brag out creating the kgb that’s diatribe?

[Satori]

Putin has a Jewish birth certificate and was raised by Jewish step parents. I can send you this, also he is very close with chabad lubavitch which is only possible for a number of reasons. Soviet Russia never died bill, it slipped into mufty and moved to Israel.

From the Jewish website Jewish Unpacked:


https://jewishunpacked.com/putin-is-not-jewish-but-the-president-of-ukraine-is

Putin is not Jewish but the president of Ukraine is


How can Putin not be controlled opposition when he's carrying out Soviet long range strategy to a t as outlined by top defector anatomy golitsyn. Which I have mentioned before. Why would the international bankers leave it to chance to have a landmass as big as Russia not under their control? Considering the 1917 revolution I see no reason to assume anything has changed. Russia is completely controlled opposition based on the fact that without wallstreet Russia wouldn't even have the absolute basic parts for vehicle manufacture as explained by Anthony Sutton. If it was genuine why haven't they deployed scalar weaponry on Ukraine? How come the invasion occured straight after COVID in magical tandem with the shock doctrine used by the west. And yes most of the neocons are Jewish disciples of leo Strauss who have intermarried with other Jewish disciples.

I'll only reply to part of this diatribe. :)

Why haven't they deployed scalar weaponry on Ukraine?

Russia could turn Ukraine into a Texas-size sheet of glass if they wanted to (and something like this may yet happen), but their goals in Feb 2023 were not to destroy the country, or its people. Just to neutralize it militarily, and to de-Nazify it.

There were two problems to solve:


NATO.
Ukraine's continuing genocide of civilians in Donbass.

That's why Putin has never referred to this as a 'war'. It's a Special Military Operation, limited in its goals and scope. (But if the US/NATO wants a full-scake war, which some factions seem to, then Russia is ready. The west would be destroyed within a day.)

Analysts who know what they're talking about have grown tired of trying to explain, over and over and over again, why Russia never went in in hard, and 18 months later still hasn't.

They are specifically not targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure, and only began to target Ukraine's power facilities to induce them to use up all their air defense resources, a project which is 95+% complete. (You'll notice that now all Russia's missiles are targeting ammunition dumps and other military facilities.)

How come the invasion occurred straight after COVID?

It depends what 'straight after' means. The Feb 2022 timing of the SMO was because Ukraine was massing troops to invade Donbass once and for all. If Russia had left it a couple weeks later, they might have lost their advantage. Prior to that, Putin had been trying to address the west about all this as late as December 2021. If you'd been following all this closely, you'd know all this.



I would love to have Mashika’s take on all of this current news.I agree! Would be quite interesting.It'd be more than interesting. :) Posts like those of PlasmaVortex would have exasperated her so much we'd all be treated to a popcorn-feast of Mashika mercilessly taking him apart line by line in long, witty and scathing posts, leaving almost nothing left.

:focus:


I think you’re arrogance is slowly morphing into patronising delusion, diatribe? Coming from the man who created the monster of Kerry Cassidy that’s ironic. I have nothing but an endless stream of sources, therefore you’re attempt to put me down has failed like you’re mental health in your behaviour. You’re appeal to ridicule says a lot about you as a man bill. You can make your fancy posts with all the bells and whistles but it still adds to to complete nonsense.

You are a total asshole.

[PlasmaVortex]

Putin has a Jewish birth certificate and was raised by Jewish step parents. I can send you this, also he is very close with chabad lubavitch which is only possible for a number of reasons. Soviet Russia never died bill, it slipped into mufty and moved to Israel.

From the Jewish website Jewish Unpacked:


https://jewishunpacked.com/putin-is-not-jewish-but-the-president-of-ukraine-is

Putin is not Jewish but the president of Ukraine is


How can Putin not be controlled opposition when he's carrying out Soviet long range strategy to a t as outlined by top defector anatomy golitsyn. Which I have mentioned before. Why would the international bankers leave it to chance to have a landmass as big as Russia not under their control? Considering the 1917 revolution I see no reason to assume anything has changed. Russia is completely controlled opposition based on the fact that without wallstreet Russia wouldn't even have the absolute basic parts for vehicle manufacture as explained by Anthony Sutton. If it was genuine why haven't they deployed scalar weaponry on Ukraine? How come the invasion occured straight after COVID in magical tandem with the shock doctrine used by the west. And yes most of the neocons are Jewish disciples of leo Strauss who have intermarried with other Jewish disciples.

I'll only reply to part of this diatribe. :)

Why haven't they deployed scalar weaponry on Ukraine?

Russia could turn Ukraine into a Texas-size sheet of glass if they wanted to (and something like this may yet happen), but their goals in Feb 2023 were not to destroy the country, or its people. Just to neutralize it militarily, and to de-Nazify it.

There were two problems to solve:


NATO.
Ukraine's continuing genocide of civilians in Donbass.

That's why Putin has never referred to this as a 'war'. It's a Special Military Operation, limited in its goals and scope. (But if the US/NATO wants a full-scake war, which some factions seem to, then Russia is ready. The west would be destroyed within a day.)

Analysts who know what they're talking about have grown tired of trying to explain, over and over and over again, why Russia never went in in hard, and 18 months later still hasn't.

They are specifically not targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure, and only began to target Ukraine's power facilities to induce them to use up all their air defense resources, a project which is 95+% complete. (You'll notice that now all Russia's missiles are targeting ammunition dumps and other military facilities.)

How come the invasion occurred straight after COVID?

It depends what 'straight after' means. The Feb 2022 timing of the SMO was because Ukraine was massing troops to invade Donbass once and for all. If Russia had left it a couple weeks later, they might have lost their advantage. Prior to that, Putin had been trying to address the west about all this as late as December 2021. If you'd been following all this closely, you'd know all this.



I would love to have Mashika’s take on all of this current news.I agree! Would be quite interesting.It'd be more than interesting. :) Posts like those of PlasmaVortex would have exasperated her so much we'd all be treated to a popcorn-feast of Mashika mercilessly taking him apart line by line in long, witty and scathing posts, leaving almost nothing left.

:focus:


I think you’re arrogance is slowly morphing into patronising delusion, diatribe? Coming from the man who created the monster of Kerry Cassidy that’s ironic. I have nothing but an endless stream of sources, therefore you’re attempt to put me down has failed like you’re mental health in your behaviour. You’re appeal to ridicule says a lot about you as a man bill. You can make your fancy posts with all the bells and whistles but it still adds to to complete nonsense.

You are a total asshole.
I am the biggest asshole

[SoulValor]

Text:
In a live interview with Al Jazeera television, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the TV channel the reason for the NATO alliance refusing Ukraine entry into NATO is not because NATO would be drawn into war with Russia.

She stated NATO is already at war with Russia, and the true reason for the denial is that allowing Ukraine into NATO would require official recognition of Ukraine's borders.

This is unacceptable to the alliance because there is an intention to annex western Ukraine into Poland at the conclusion of the war.

https://t.me/dpr_mfa/3321

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1678857711499313152

1678857711499313152

I kind of doubt that that's the reason. But pretty clever of her...

There could also be a desire by Hungary to get (back) the very southwestern part of Ukraine (populated mostly by Hungarians). Not that NATO would support that but they may have no more say anyway once this whole thing's over...

[Bill Ryan]

I think you’re arrogance is slowly morphing into patronising delusion, diatribe? Coming from the man who created the monster of Kerry Cassidy that’s ironic. I have nothing but an endless stream of sources, therefore you’re attempt to put me down has failed like you’re mental health in your behaviour. You’re appeal to ridicule says a lot about you as a man bill. You can make your fancy posts with all the bells and whistles but it still adds to to complete nonsense and pathetic sophistry on behalf of Russian agitprop technocracy. I think you are ignoring the elephant in the room and/or deliberately ignoring what I’ve said in favour of ridicule. So when Chanda Lubavitcher brag out creating the kgb that’s diatribe?

I apologize... I looked up the exact definition (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diatribe) of diatribe, and I had misused the word:
A bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing.
That doesn't describe what you wrote earlier. But it perfectly describes your reply quoted above. :)

You have emotional issues, anger issues, and self-expression issues. None of that is your fault, but you don't manage that well in conversation or dialog with others. You're not good at making friends with people or diffusing issues with humor. And you seem to have a compulsion to be provocative, making extreme statements (whether they're correct or not), as if you're desperate to be heard and believed by at least someone out there.

You've done this four times now on the forum in just a few weeks, if I've counted that right, each time apologizing later. It's starting to look like a pattern that is likely to repeat. That's a problem.

I'm aware I've exacerbated this to some degree here, but if you make extreme statements, claiming them to be fact, you're likely to get pushback, as has happened in the last few hours on this thread from others as well as myself.

Is this what you want to happen every time?
Are others' responses to you part of the repeating pattern?
Has this happened elsewhere?

There may be another thing to learn, as well, which is about how to present information in such a way to be most likely to be considered by others. I totally confess that while I have all the skills to do that, my patience in the last 6-9 months has been slowly growing thin, and I myself am growing gradually more angry at the world.

So I too make definitive statements sometimes (all beliefs, of course, as Satori wisely points out (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1567060&viewfull=1#post1567060), though I'm pretty certain of most of them) — but I also try my utmost to be kind.

I'm now going to close down for the evening and watch the new Indiana Jones movie. I'm told it's dreadful... but I'm not going to take that on belief until I check it out for myself.

:)

[shaberon]

I'm afraid you kinda lost me there. From what I can tell the original BASF headquarter is still in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The east asian regional HQ is located in Hongkong however. Is that the one you're referring to?

Also, what do you mean with "bakery"? Are you still talking about BASF?



Oh dear, I figured it out.

Here is a post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1526635&viewfull=1#post1526635) in this thread with the guy I was drawing from, Thorsten Pattberg. I see the problem. He was a contributor on The Saker site.

When The Saker shut down due to the inconveniences of being Russian, the universe as I know it ceased to exist.

Fortunately, it was archived, but without graphics. So we lost the cartoon of guys who were on that plane.

The archive contains Pattberg's articles (https://thesaker.is/?s=pattberg) in text. Most of them are about Asia, but, what he has to say about Germany is, to put it bluntly, blunt.



The way I put it is not literally true, but is the trend of transfer that they require Chinese business because Europe is not profitable:



Oct 27, 2022 — BASF seeks 'permanent' cost cuts at European operations

Feb 27, 2023 -- With 700 positions to be axed, Ludwigshafen will be hit hard by the employment cutbacks.

Jun 28, 2023 — Today, BASF is inaugurating the expansion of its Innovation Campus Shanghai



Over there, they probably are majority-owned by Chinese--whereas Chinese Volkswagen is *completely* owned by Chinese.


The post on Lambertz Bakery (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1534191&viewfull=1#post1534191) is much shorter and was just at the point where "increased demand" is not good enough to cover "rising energy costs", so, I don't know what happened to it--just an example of where you stand if you are not Rheinmetal.

[mizo]

A picture paints...
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1678915489005993984

[PlasmaVortex]

Rothschilds in Russia https://fitzinfo.net/rothschilds-in-russia/?amp

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-moscow-chief-rabbi-calls-on-russia-jews-to-flee-after-top-official-attacks-chabad/

controlled opposition data. https://fitzinfo.net/2018/03/10/putin-dossier/amp/
Putin fires top official who described Chabad as a cult

https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-fires-top-official-who-describes-chabad-as-a-supremacist-cult/

https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/12/putin-spoke-about-chabad-as-if-he-were-an-emissary/

How putins man made his way to the top of European Jewry

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2016-02-01/ty-article-magazine/how-putins-man-made-his-way-to-the-top-of-european-jewry/0000017f-db8c-d3ff-a7ff-fbac3f240000


If you can’t study this data synoptically and come to non politically correct conclusions then it’s time to reorient your paradigmatic template for future discourse.please bear in mind this is the tip of the iceberg with regards to ‘alternative facts’. Don’t look at me look in the mirror. I only attack those that attack me. I struggle to communicate my ideas which are backed up by years of research and scientific based study, yes my punctuation and type face is atrocious, but I felt offended and this is the last time I allow you or anyone else on here to use pedantic language combined with appeals to ridicule. You've been had by the Rothschild scripted melodrama that's not my fault and I deliberately threw in the scalar weapons to see if you'd predictably attack me and you did. This is not acceptable respect is a two way street.

P s pulling people into the Hegelian dialectic of east vs west is starting in error therefore anything after this premise is immediately questionable. Zelensky is a Jewish actor, created by a Jewish gangster, for a quasi Jewish state created by the Jewish wall street crowd who on average know five years in advance (documented by Pentagon strategists) what is coming down the pike, so their Intel is second to none. This is a hill I am prepared to die on, win loose or draw. Despite your assertions of diatribe which are inflammatory I am prepared to forgo this incident.

[Rizotto]

Indeed, even western media is beginning to turn on Zelensky. Usually Sky News is a staunch promoter of 'Ukraine is winning the war'. But the following video is about mercenaries leaving Ukraine because they don't have a chance on the battlefield. And did I hear this young Irish man correctly, did he say that he realized he didn't know why he was fighting there?
Foreign fighters leave Ukraine due to witnessing atrocities


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNUZS7rdco

[Rizotto]

MUST SEE this report: How a Zelensky presidency was put in place by USA & UK intelligence. Zelensky has apparently been taking directives from UK’s MI6. Etc.

A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky - Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLeBb6hPUC8

[Tintin]

WOW, this is some footage :muscle:

Russian pilot ejects over Ukraine, and his helmet cam catches the whole thing:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-07_%28July%29/2023-07-03_Russian_pilot_helmet_cam_records_ejection.mp4

Mod note from Tintin: just trying to verify the source - it might not be quite what is claimed. Some suggestions that it is an EzDubs creation (?)or that it was a plane that caught electrical wiring in Belgorod, possibly from October 2022. I'll remove this if it proves to be a fake, with apologies if so.

Hello,

Unsure if this helps but this was posted on Telegraph Youtube page about 8 months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g5yvlAbrCk

and same by the sun newspaper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTs0rk6Vtk

Someone in the Sun comment section said:
It’s sad how many news outlets are getting this wrong, this wasn’t caused by a missile, the pilot hit a power line during a test flight and needed to eject, the radio chatter heard after the pilot hits the ground is between him and his colleague, and his colleague asking if he is okay, and the jet seen at 0:30 was also his colleague

Many thanks Hamish :muscle: Yes, this really helps to clear things up. Something did niggle me a little about this, and you've helped to clear things up nicely here :highfive:

[Tintin]

MUST SEE this report: How a Zelensky presidency was put in place by USA & UK intelligence. Zelensky has apparently been taking directives from UK’s MI6. Etc.

A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky - Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLeBb6hPUC8

:muscle: YES, an absolute must. I had time to watch this this morning before getting into work too. Much of the subject matter covered is very familiar to us, but some of it not so, and it has a kind of made for TV quality to it, which means it's quite slick but succinct too.

[ExomatrixTV]

Hi PlasmaVortex,
you state two things as factual yet I've never seen evidence of this. That Putin is a) "jewish" and b) a "pedophile" ... I like most of your posts, but I think you should be careful about statements like these - because how can you be so sure? Do you have (irrefutable) proof? Or at least some type of incriminating material? I remember you mentioned earlier that Jewish intelligence has pedophile material on Putin but you didn't provide a link/source for that.

I am open to the idea that he might be Jewish as well as a pedophile, but it doesn't really sound right to me. I mean, I know that a lot of the elite including politicians - especially in the west - have been pretty much exposed as pedophiles. (And a lot of them are Jews too.) Even though there isn't often hard evidence either, we have at least witness reports from victims. (Which of course could still be untrue or inaccurate, but the sheer volume of different accounts/witnesses tells us there's something to it. And of course, there's Epstein.) But I've never seen any witness reports regarding Putin being a pedophile, let alone videos or pictures. Have you?

I am aware of the footage of him kissing a boy on the tummy in public. That doesn't constitute proof, however. And having an affair or relationship with a young but full aged female gymnast doesn't either. :bigsmile: That's just understandable. ;)
Sure, there was the Russian refugee Alexander Litvinenko who got poisoned in Britain who claimed that Putin is a pedophile - but again, where's the proof? From what I've seen he never produced any evidence either.


:bump:

It seems a growing trend that more and more "conspiracy researchers" share >>> accusatory claims (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121234-Accusatory-Claims-in-a-Controversial-Conspiracy-Research-World) <<< without adding the necessary source links, so that we can study WHY (they are) he or she is "so sure" of things!

I wonder how we should deal with this growing trend respectfully, as part of me is totally fed up with that!

For the record: I have nothing against "accusatory claims" as long as they are 100% truthful, and I am almost always open-minded enough to consider the possibility ... So it is not me who tries to dismiss it by default, I just postpone any judgment before the accuser can back up the claims with irrefutable evidence that can be triple checked & verified!


If the accuser refuses to do so, then I realize I wasted my time on reading their claims ... Which is happening more and more last few months ... I wonder why that is.
I also like to believe that Project Avalon Forum stands out inhaving higher standards in how we deal with (highly) controversial issues/topics ... And in this context me using the word: "believe" is correct ;)

In general terms: if you chose to (and/or):


Suggest
Insinuate
Judge
Imply
Assume
Challenge
Point to
Indicate
Defy
Frame
Label
Brand
Summon
Charge
Incriminate
Hold some one accountable
Point the finger at
Blame
Allege
Attribute
Bring charges
Attack verbally (direct or indirectly)
Accuse Foul Play or Someone being Compromised

To anyone that is highly respected ... you know you also have to "face the music":

... and show to us that you care, by responding to all valid legit points that are made that contradict your assumptions.

If not ... and your mind is already made up ... (because your "gut feeling" supersede anything else?) ... what is the point of all this?


and in my view, the above insights applies to all of us.

cheers,
John Kuhles (https://substack.com/@johnkuhles) 🦜🦋🌳

[Bruce G Charlton]

In dealing with other people, whether IRL or online, IMO the only valid stance is to disbelieve them - except and unless I judge them to be well motivated, honest and competent. If I am not satisfied in any of these criteria, I will do my best to ignore and avoid them. This is more important now than ever before, since the world is more pervasively evil, and more advanced in evil, than before. Trust must be won. So, anyone who demands that I believe his statements and claims, is permanently deleted from further consideration.

[ExomatrixTV]

It's Happening! NATO Just Put 300,000 Troops on High Alert After MEGA Biden (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112590-Evidence-of-Biden-Family-Crimes--heavily-media-suppressed-) Error! Ukraine Disaster!: :facepalm:


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rumble.com/c/RestrictedRepublic (https://rumble.com/c/RestrictedRepublic)

[ExomatrixTV]

...

exactly my sentiment, trust has to be earned not blindly given

... and that will cost some time ... even then it is always okay to verify/check what is claimed!

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[Gwin Ru]

...

... July 12 - Is the West Preparing to Bail on Ukraine? (https://www.henrymakow.com/)

July 12, 2023


https://henrymakow.com/odd-man-out.png
A picture is worth a thousand words. NATO has turned their backs on Zelensky. Without NATO's direct military intervention, Ukraine will perish, making Zelensky a dead man walking. The West sacrificed Ukraine and its People in an attempt to weaken Russia. They failed.


It's counterintuitive but Ukraine is actually a war to bankrupt and destroy the West. Remember Vicky Nuland was recorded saying, "**** the EU." Cabalists doing what they do best - DESTROY
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Zelensky slams NATO for omitting a timeline for Ukraine to join -- Alliance says Ukraine can join when 'conditions are met.' Zelensky says the statement is 'absurd.'

Snippet from the article (https://en.topcor.ru/37115-wp-amerikanskaja-delegacija-v-jarosti-iz-za-avantjury-zelenskogo-s-kritikoj-nato.html): "Members of the U.S. delegation were furious with Zelensky's tweet, according to an official familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive diplomatic considerations."

Little wonder that Z is being snubbed...

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/14xao63/its_over/

[Vicus]

Meanwhile on the home front Russia is wining too!

Transgender politician fails in Russian election bid 10 Jul, 2023
The would-be candidate has not managed to gather the minimum support to run for governor of Altai Region

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.07/thumbnail/64ac564b2030275d14601e4a.jpg
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Russia’s first-ever transgender candidate for governor has abandoned the idea after failing to get enough backing to get on the ballot. Yulia Aleshina (born Roman Aleshin), 31 years old, announced on Monday that she would not run for the head of Altai Region.

Aleshina, who belongs to the right-leaning centrist party Civic Initiative, announced the withdrawal of her candidature in the aftermath of Sunday’s party meeting. She revealed she had not managed to rally enough support, as in order to run for governor one must obtain the signatures of at least 502 legislators and village heads.

“Some 19 municipal deputies have expressed unequivocal readiness to put signatures in support of my nomination as a candidate for the governor post,” Aleshina said in a Telegram post.

At the same time, she claimed that “many” others initially supported her as well, yet ultimately withdrew their signatures citing proposed legislation to impose a blanket ban on gender reassignment in Russia. That bill is currently being considered by the State Duma, having passed only the first reading. Aleshina did not provide an exact figure for the number of backers to cancel their support, nor did she identify her 19 sponsors, stating only that it would be “inappropriate in the current situation.”

The local chapter of Civic Initiative has expressed its anger over the failed bid, branding the upcoming elections “undemocratic,” as well as blasting the requirement to gather support from municipal officials. Since her bid flopped, the party will not advance a candidate for the office at all, Aleshina said.

Aleshina has repeatedly blamed her political hardships on increasingly strict LGBTQ legislation in Russia. She briefly led the local chapter of Civic Initiative in October 2022, but stepped down from the post, citing the pending law prohibiting LGBTQ propaganda which was ultimately passed by Russia’s parliament. Simultaneously, she announced the end of her political career altogether, though her statement now appears to have been premature.

https://www.rt.com/russia/579496-transgender-governor-bid-fail/

[Vicus]

Ukraine Lost 26,000 Troops and 3,000 Arms Since Start of Counteroffensive – Shoigu Yesterday

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported about the situation in special military operation zone.
Shoigu stressed that Kiev failed to achieve its goals in all directions and lost roughly 26 thousands of troops and 3 thousands of military equipment.

"To sum up some results, what did they achieve for this widely promoted and announced, as they called it, strategic counteroffensive. As a result, what have they got approaching the NATO summit? Since June 4, the enemy's losses have amounted to more than 26,000 military and 3,000 units of various weapons," Defense Minister stressed.

Russian army decimated 21 Ukrainian aircraft, 5 helicopters, over 1200 tanks and other armored vehicles, including 17 Leopards.

Unsuccessfull Counteroffensive Effort

High-precision strikes of the Russian military against the reserves of the Ukrainian military, including Western equipment, significantly reduce the offensive potential of the enemy, the minister concluded. Shoigu stressed that should the US supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, the Russian Armed Forces would use similar arms against Kiev militants.

Sergey Shoigu added that the Russian Armed Forces launched its own counterattack in Krasny Liman direction and advanced 1.5 km.

continue:

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230711/ukraine-lost-26000-troops-and-3000-arms-since-start-of-counteroffensive--shoigu--1111814809.html

[ExomatrixTV]

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See the 2nd video (response video) :facepalm:

[ExomatrixTV]

Zelenskyy LASHES OUT At Biden's 'ABSURD & UNPRECEDENTED' Move To Block NATO Membership:

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[Bill Ryan]

This from Roseanne Barr (talking to Piers Morgan, who's a ****ing idiot) should be mandatory listening for anyone who's a thinking person in the west.

Some of it goes like: (my paraphrase to show the tone of this)
Roseanne: My family was murdered by Nazis in Ukraine. They were all buried alive.
Morgan: Well, I disagree with your opinion on that.
Go figure. I can't recommend this too highly. Trust me.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzXZOICjWA

[Satori]

A picture paints...
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1678915489005993984

There’s a similar picture of Biden from a year or so ago at some type of elitist event. Barry Sotero a/k/a Barack Obama was there. Most everyone was swarming around Sotero and fawning over him. There were also smaller circles of people engaged in conversation.

Biden was, just like Zelenskyy, standing all alone almost off stage (from a production or directing standpoint). No one was paying any attention to him. He was being snubbed yes, but I also got the sense that those present had lost any awareness of Biden’s presence. He was a non person.

It’s clear that the powers-that-be are showing Biden the door and using the mainstream media, among other instruments, to get the message out to everyone that it’s OK to come down on Biden, and now (maybe) Zelenskyy—but with some discretion.

[shaberon]

Australia sending AWACS (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230710/australia-to-deploy-awacs-aircraft-in-germany-to-patrol-natos-eastern-flank---scholz-1111794072.html) planes to Ramstein to patrol NATO's eastern flank for six months.




This is doubly cooperative:

Germany sends troops to Australia for the First Time (https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-07-10/germany-sends-troops-to-australia-in-a-first-as-berlin-shifts-focus-to-indo-pacific)


...with some 30,000 service members from 12 other nations...

Mais said up to 240 German soldiers, among them 170 paratroopers and 40 marines, will take part in the Talisman Sabre exercise from July 22 to August 4, the largest drills between Australia and the U.S., held bi-annually.

The Germans will train in jungle warfare and landing operations alongside soldiers from countries such as Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, France and Britain.

"We aim to demonstrate that we are reliable and capable partners that contribute to stabilizing the rules-based order in the region", Mais said.

When asked what message the first deployment of German troops to Australia was meant to send to China, he underscored Berlin did not aim to antagonize anybody.

"It generally makes sense to get to know the perspective others have upon the world", said the lieutenant general, adding that the current security challenges were much less clear-cut than before 1990.

"The Cold War was easy, it was a bi-polar world. Today, we can no longer focus on Europe only...we have to position ourselves much more broadly," the army chief underscored.

Mais plans to visit the German troops in Australia and a Rheinmetall plant assembling Boxer armoured transport vehicles for both armies in mid-July, before travelling on to Japan and Singapore.

"Japan is a partner that holds a lot of potential for a deepening of our bilateral military cooperation," he said. As for Talisman Sabre, the German troops already have orders to return to Australia for the next exercise in 2025.



I am not sure what "stabilizing the rules-based order in the region" could possibly be.

Sounds like they are In the Magic Kingdom (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57641.htm):


Isn’t it just peachy, living in the Magic Kingdom? I mean, aren’t you thrilled and gratified to be entertained by your government with pleasant and often exciting fantasies, instead of having to be oppressed with ugly and disturbing facts? Isn’t it wonderfully calming to enjoy constant relief of conscience and stress through a dependable stream of jolly, uplifting tales rather than to have your emotional core attacked and threatened by dismal truth?


To provide you with this service your government has adopted Disneyfication as its new operating principle. Sure, it’s always put a heroic polish on whatever noble action it takes—Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, nothing new in that—and it has pampered your ego by affirming your Exceptional status as a people; as a kind of Master Race, really. It has labored for generations to keep you from being exposed to brutal, actual information that could upset you, or disturb your inner Wa. Just going back to Vietnam days you can trace the intensification of this effort to keep you from having to absorb facts that might impair your self-regard.


Having had their trust betrayed by disloyal reporters in that noble pacification, they “embedded” the latest ones under military supervision in Iraq to prevent you from having to see and be hurt by nasty Wikileaks propaganda such as the “Collateral Murder” videos. Why should you be subjected to such unpleasantness?

This salutary conceptual prophylaxis devised by our empathetic governing powers has entailed constant, diligent efforts to ensure that events such as, for example, the mass attitude adjustment required of the villagers of My Lai, the behavioral modification of the headstrong sects of Fallujah, or the even-handed doctrinal discipline administered to miscreants in the Abu Ghraib detention center, are not misrepresented and utilized by evildoers in such a way as to inflict serious pain on your collective psyches.


America’s guarding of its clear, limpid stream of pure information was unimpaired in its therapeutic effect until recently, when a villainous pattern of vicious assaults on their policy of guided veracity intensified, led by dark entities who wish us ill. Sad to relate—though we have been assured for years by high officials that most of these despicable attacks were from the usual nefarious source—Russia and demonic dictator, Putin—it has become clear that we harbor in our very bosom, malevolent traitors eager to erode the protective integument that has kept our consciences untroubled so well for so long. Yes, there are those among us who would strip us of our emotional defenses and expose us to a frightening factual world view.


This odious assault on our protective cognitive shield prompted our government to go Full Disney. The idea is this: Disney magic defeats all unpleasantness by addressing it with a light-hearted, spontaneous insouciance that overcomes all pernicious negative vibes. It is so irrepressibly, effervescently positive that dark, grim facts are powerless against it. In the full knowledge of this our government has begun utilizing that Disney spirit through classic melodies in the battle against dangerous negative thinking.


In this spirit, “Zip-e-de-doodah”, a peppy, invincibly affirmative tune, was chosen as the Anthem of the Biden administration in its amicable nation-building, installing happy, friendly regimes such as those of Guaido and Bolsonaro, who eliminate base envy and rage toward paternal elites. Rest assured that, in Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru, plenty of sunshine is going their way.


The critical importance of always maintaining a cheerful outlook has not been forgotten in regard to the recent disturbances in Ukraine, either, where our government is using the enticing promise of the dulcet melody, “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes”, to frame its positive policy there. It is said to have become a favorite theme of what remains of the Azov Battalion and Right Sektor, and a real inspiration in their Spring Offensive.


Quite recently there was nearly a civil war in Russia when a certain fat, middle-aged, billionaire mercenary honcho rebelled against his master, Putin. Many feel his daring coup attempt was in response to continual broadcasting by American intelligence agencies of that wonderfully uplifting appeal to hope entitled, “Someday, My Prince Will Come”, in the War Zone. Although the predicted civil war did not result, America was heartened that the threat of it persisted for a full twenty-four hours, enough to shake the throne and threaten the overthrow of the deranged despot.


Elsewhere, our government’s aggressive challenge to the world’s second Hitler clone dictator—Biden called him one, just the other day—the odious Xi of greedy, perfidious China, is now being pursued with vigor to the accompaniment of that glorious, lyrical summons to deep faith, “When You Wish Upon A Star”. We can feel confident that our impressive diplomatic team will have that song on their lips as they labor to replace that monster.



And we haven’t forgotten our chief domestic downer, surely this time to be in convict stripes, that Russian lackey, Trump. Against him our government has deployed the monitory “Never Smile At A Crocodile”, which should keep him from attempting another fraudulent takeover of our sanctified democratic nation.


And though things are perhaps not quite as wonderful as they might be for working Americans, we can rejoice that the super-wealthy have more money than ever, pay almost no taxes, and chump change to Social Security, which just supports slackers and deadbeats, anyway, while buying back each others stocks to drive their profits ever higher. Just so no untoward thoughts arise among Hoi Polloi, our vigilant government plays an endless loop of “A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down” for them, so all is just dandy in this Happiest Kingdom on Earth.

[ExomatrixTV]

Authoritarian type ET's posing as 'Saviors' between 2023 and 2030? (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121510-Authoritarian-type-ET-s-posing-as-Saviors-between-2023-and-2030)

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[Bill Ryan]

A long (and quite important) piece on Zero Hedge today, referencing a devastating Bloomberg article which is behind a register wall. All this is worth reading.


https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-leaders-tell-zelensky-cool-it-rare-dressing-down-summit

"War Effort In Shambles As Hawks Turn On Each Other" At NATO Summit

Bloomberg is just out with a devastating behind-the-scenes account of a hot-headed Zelensky at the NATO summit in Vilnius, and the growing Western backlash in the face of his obvious frustration and what's being seen as ingratitude for the steady flow of billions of dollars in arms to Kiev.

Apparently even the mainstream media agrees with our own assessment of the Ukrainian leader having thrown a "tantrum" (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-throws-tantrum-over-weak-absurd-nato-summit-stance-ukraine-membership) as he complained about the "weak" and "absurd" NATO stance on Ukraine's membership. The blistering tweet he issued in English while en route to Lithuania exposed cracks in the alliance, as Bloomberg highlights in the opening of its very revealing Wednesday piece (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-12/nato-is-papering-over-the-cracks-after-zelenskiy-loses-his-cool#xj4y7vzkg):
Volodymyr Zelenskiy was running hot ahead of his sit-down with NATO leaders on Tuesday evening. The Ukrainian president had been angered earlier in the day by what he said was an "absurd" reluctance to give his country a clear timeline on membership.
That outburst in turn riled the partners who have funneled billions of dollars of weaponry and aid into Ukraine’s defense against the Russian invasion — the US had been given no warning before Zelenskiy unleashed his attack on social media.
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1679133277058113536
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All day Wednesday, the above (very real) photo of an isolated and defeated-looking Zelensky standing amid NATO heads of state (with backs turned) circulated widely on social media.

And things were even more tense behind the scenes, as Bloomberg writes: "Over dinner in Vilnius, with US President Joe Biden back at his hotel, the other leaders delivered a clear message to Zelenskiy, according to one person who was present. You have to cool down and look at the full package, Zelenskiy was told."

While it's not quite yet a full on 'hero to zero' story... things are certainly sliding in that direction, given it's unprecedented that the Ukrainian president who previously enjoyed rockstar status in Western capitals since the start of the invasion could be told to basically 'cool it'!.

Bloomberg continues in reference to Zelensky: "He had, after all, been given a renewed commitment to eventual membership and new security guarantees from the Group of Seven nations. By the next day, the message appeared to be sinking in." The publication was privy to some key Western leaders' exact words, presenting the rare dressing down as follows (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-12/nato-is-papering-over-the-cracks-after-zelenskiy-loses-his-cool#xj4y7vzkg) [emphasis ZH]:
"Whether we like it or not, people want to see gratitude," UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told reporters the following morning. "You’re persuading countries to give up their stock" of weapons and ammunition, he added.
This account of the behind-the-scenes wrangling is based on interviews with more than a dozen diplomats and officials involved in the summit who asked not to be named discussing private conversations. NATO leaders were trying to thread a needle on Ukraine’s membership bid when they arrived in Vilnius: They were seeking language that looked like progress and that Ukraine could sell as progress but fundamentally didn’t leave them any closer to getting dragged into a war with nuclear-armed Russia.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/zelatnato.jpg?itok=h-M-7TZW


Ultimately the hawks (mainly among the Baltic and Eastern Europe states) have lost at Vilnius. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has admitted "There was a lack of political will." Thus it appears that Zelensky's angry, desperate tweet lashing out at Western partners was a last ditch effort at shaming NATO into conceding to its demands of being immediately fast-tracked to membership.

Bloomberg reveals further, that "Crucially, it was the US and Germany that insisted on dialing back the commitment to Ukraine joining the alliance. Earlier drafts of the communique offered a clearer pathway to Ukraine eventually joining, but Biden and Chancellor Olaf Scholz were wary of going too far."

"Their teams demanded changes in the final days before the summit, upsetting lots of the other European nations, as well as the Ukrainians." Indeed Biden in a CNN interview at the start of the week confessed the obvious: that Ukraine's admission into NATO with the war still going would automatically unleash war between nuclear-armed powers - a WW3 doomsday scenario. Hence the West is now telling Kiev: just stop.

In Zelensky's next big NATO summit appearance Wednesday following a no doubt awkward evening, things were different as he belatedly "got the message" (https://thehill.com/policy/international/4092859-zelensky-strikes-more-conciliatory-tone-after-nato-criticism/)...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (https://thehill.com/people/volodymyr-zelensky/)on Wednesday struck a more conciliatory tone on the subject of Ukraine joining NATO after he raised criticism this week over his country not being formally invited to join the alliance.
Zelensky said at a joint press conference (https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/bezpeka-ce-nashe-klyuchove-zavdannya-na-samiti-nato-volodimi-84269) with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (https://thehill.com/people/jens-stoltenberg/)on Wednesday that Ukraine has already come a “long way in interoperability” with the organization and praised NATO’s decision to remove the need for procedural step — for Ukraine to have a Membership Action Plan — to join the alliance.
More rare, awkward moments of Zelensky being on the receiving end of chastisement and humiliating sarcasm:

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1679132414621229058
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Just the day prior: Below is the much more confident Zelensky brimming with self-righteous rage, attempting to convince NATO leaders to change course on stating firm "conditions" for future possible membership.
He demanded... Ukraine "deserves respect".
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1678707674811187200
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he New York Times' summation (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/world/europe/ukraine-nato-summit-biden.html) of precisely what fell short in the NATO communique explains: "NATO declared on Tuesday that Ukraine would be invited to join the alliance, but did not say how or when, disappointing its president but reflecting the resolve by President Biden and other leaders not to be drawn directly into Ukraine’s war with Russia."

Indeed it's being widely called more vague--and with greater possible restrictions, or "conditions"--than even what came out of the 2008 Bucharest summit.

Below is the offending part of the official Vilnius Summit Communiqué (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_217320.htm?selectedLocale=en):

Issued by NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Vilnius 11 July 2023:
11. We fully support Ukraine’s right to choose its own security arrangements. Ukraine’s future is in NATO. We reaffirm the commitment we made at the 2008 Summit in Bucharest that Ukraine will become a member of NATO, and today we recognise that Ukraine’s path to full Euro-Atlantic integration has moved beyond the need for the Membership Action Plan. Ukraine has become increasingly interoperable and politically integrated with the Alliance, and has made substantial progress on its reform path. In line with the 1997 Charter on a Distinctive Partnership between NATO and Ukraine and the 2009 Complement, Allies will continue to support and review Ukraine’s progress on interoperability as well as additional democratic and security sector reforms that are required. NATO Foreign Ministers will regularly assess progress through the adapted Annual National Programme. The Alliance will support Ukraine in making these reforms on its path towards future membership. We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when Allies agree and conditions are met.But Zelensky is still holding out hope that one day...

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1679130807816933381
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However, President Biden has remained unmoved, and responded by explaining before reporters that Ukraine "will not be in NATO for a while".

* * *

The geopolitical analysis news site Moon of Alabama observes correctly (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/natos-big-climb-down.html#more)...

"Well. The little comedian seems disappointed. As if the whole play had not been obvious from the very beginning. Since 2008 the Ukraine was to be used as a tool to nag Russia. It is otherwise of little value. It will end up as a discarded rag while NATO will, in the end, again recognize the Russian Federation as the super power that that it is. NATO will have to relearn to listen to and negotiate with it."

MofA then highlights the inevitable negative impact (to say the least) on Ukrainian morale: "Now lets wait and see what NATO's climb down will do to the morale and motivations of the Ukrainian army and people."

Update: David Sacks agrees that for the hawks of NATO-land, the way things are going for the Ukrainian war effort and the West's prior optimism and muscular support in general have reached a low-point.

Sacks writes below (https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1679229577732792320) [emphasis ZH's]...
Despite Biden’s best efforts to put a happy face on it, Vilnius will be remembered as the NATO Summit where tensions boiled over. Zelensky denounced the Alliance’s admission policy as “absurd” and disrespectful.
UK Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace chastised Zelensky for ingratitude. Lindsey Graham attacked the Biden administration for weakness. Ben Hodges criticized Jake Sullivan for lack of “strategic bravery.” Even NAFO mascot Adam Kinzinger no longer appears to be a “fella.”
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/fella.jpg?itok=10cZq6gD

https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1679161847654625280
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[Ravenlocke]

Ukr Offensive Into Reverse, Rus Advance Bakhmut, Avdeyevka, Vuhledar, Kupyansk; NATO Aid Ukr Reduce

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Trollstoy88/status/1679548031442493442

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[Ravenlocke]

Col Douglas Macgregor & Trish Wood: Ukraine Is On Its Last Legs

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
@BorisRozhin (ColonelCassad) Ukrainian War SitRep, as at 21:24 MSK, on July 13, 2023:

1. The Zaporozhye direction.

The enemy continued attacks in the area of Pyatikhatki and Rabotino, but failed to achieve significant results, once again suffering appreciable losses.

The enemy's inability to ram through the front in these areas reflects an operational failure on the part of the AFU—both villages were supposed to have been taken in the first week of June, according to the enemy's plans of the offensive in the Orekhov direction.

In the Gulyai Pole direction, things are even more fruitless for the AFU. On the Vremevka bulge, the enemy continued to probe our front near the settlements of Urozhaynoye and Makarovka.

The enemy is regrouping in all areas in order to resume attacks, but it is already obvious that the original plans of the operation have had to be redrawn. That is why there are statements about the revision of tactics, and the themes of deep breakthroughs, which NATO and the U.S. bet on all spring and in early June, are being removed from public propaganda.

2. The Artyomovsk direction.

The enemy continued attempts to advance in the direction of Berkhovka, Kleshcheevka and Kurdyumovka. Since the beginning of enemy attacks on May 10th, the enemy has failed to capture a single village in the Artyomovsk direction.

Nonetheless, Syrsky continues to expend reserves heavily to continue the attacks here, hoping that local successes near Artyomovsk would compensate for the operational failure in the Zaporozhye direction. A possible attempt to break through into Artyomovsk may serve the purpose of media cover for the "Zaporozhye failure."

All the same, even here the AFU have not been successful so far—the Russian troops are holding Berkhovka, as well as the bulge near Dubovo-Vasilievka. In the area of Kleshcheyevka, the Russian Armed Forces hold a key height, the village itself and a number of important positions for its defence. The enemy was unable to break through to Kleshcheyevka from march. In the Kurdyumovka area, our troops are also repelling attacks at the canal and the dam.

3. The Svatovo direction.

The RF Armed Forces continue to operate quite successfully in the area of Torskoye, Kuzemovka, and Novoselovskoye. The enemy has lost a number of positions and suffered significant losses in recent days, forcing it to move operational reserves here to counterattack and stabilise the front.

Torskoye itself is still partially under the AFU. The Russian Armed Forces control approximately 20% of Novoselovskoye. The situation has also become more difficult for the enemy near Kupyansk. The occupation administration is being evacuated from the city. Our troops are pressing in the area of Sinkovka.

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BREAKING: Biden Orders Reserve Military Members To ACTIVE DUTY!

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[Bill Ryan]

BREAKING: Biden Orders Reserve Military Members To ACTIVE DUTY!Yes, this is also reported in the mainstream — though at first sight it only seems a small thing, involving 3,000 troops and other personnel. (And of course, it might be just a cosmetic gesture to bolster NATO's plummeting morale after the recent Vilnius conference.)

We'll likely hear some more about this today from Alexander Mercouris, and (if this means anything significant) from Doug Macgregor, Scott Ritter and others.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/simpatico771/status/1679719040116314112

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https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-71423-popovs-sound-and-fury

SITREP 7/14/23: Popov's Sound and Fury and Vilnius Signifying Nothing

Let’s begin with the most talked about news, which is that the Russian commander of the 58th Army was removed for allegedly questioning his higher-ups, i.e. Shoigu and Gerasimov.

General Ivan Popov was replaced by Lt. General Lyamin, who was his previous deputy in the 58th. A little background: Popov was a relatively young, fast-rising general who only became the commander of the 58th army relatively recently. The 58th is the flagship combined arms army of the Southern Military District, and is not only the storied army group which single handedly trashed Georgia in 2008, but has also recently been the group handling the entire Zaporozhye front, heroically repelling the AFU’s largest offensive of the war. Also, it should be noted that Gerasimov himself once commanded the 58th.

Now, to take you chronologically through what happened, Popov released an audio recording, which we now know was posted to an exclusively private group of his own subordinates and was not meant for wide release. This changes a lot of the calculus as it clearly shifts the perceived tone of what Popov was trying to accomplish. Initially, it would seem he was going ‘rogue’ like Prigozhin, and publicly denouncing the superiors, but in fact that’s not the case.

The person who leaked the audio was none other than State Duma deputy and respected ex-General, Andrey Gurulyov. Russian senator Turchak blamed him thusly:

Turchak said that yesterday's statement of General Popov was distributed in closed chats of the 58th army and its publication on the network is a personal initiative of General Gurulev: "The appeal of General Popov was not public and was posted in closed chats of commanders and fighters of the 58th Army. The fact that" deputy " Gurulev somehow got it and made a political show out of it, let it remain on his conscience. As well as his other statements and comments. And Ivan's conscience is clear. The Motherland can be proud of such commanders. The army was and remains outside politics."

First, let’s play the recording itself:

The AI translation above is a little rough around the edges, so here’s a fuller translation below, to follow along:

Address by Major General Ivan Popov, commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, to his soldiers.

Good night, my beloved gladiators, loved ones, relatives. [We are a] family. I had to gather my thoughts, a lot of events happened during the last two days.

Now I can confidently say this: I've been removed from my command, suspended from my post. Lieutenant General Lemin has arrived and taken command of the army. Here, I am waiting for my further fate—[my] military [fate], changes, some proposal for further service.

I was honest with you from the very beginning. I've been frank with you. I have shortened distances with all the gladiators from a soldier to a marshal—in our case, Major General Medvedev.

Because we are the same, all of us get to experience fear equally, all of us get to feel pain and hardship equally. I do not make any distinction between us whatsoever. And I have always been honest, as much as possible, from the first day of my arrival in our army.

So honestly I tell you, a difficult situation arose (came about) with the senior leadership, when it was necessary that I either remain silent and small-minded, and say what they wanted to hear, or to call things by their names.

In the name of you, in the name of our fallen friends, I had no right to lie, so I outlined all the problematic issues that exist today in the army: With respect to the combat work and supply [organization]. I called all things by their names and focused attention on the most important tragedy of the modern warfare. This is the deficiency of the counter-battery work and reconnaissance that have led to the deaths and injuries of our brothers from enemy artillery. I also raised a number of other problems and expressed them at the highest level frankly and with the utmost firmness.

With this, apparently, the senior command sensed some danger in me and promptly, in the course of one day, made up an order. They brought the order to the Minister of Defense, and they got rid of me.

As many commanders of regiments and divisions said today, our army could not be broken from the front by the forces of Ukraine, but instead we were hit from the rear by our senior commander, who treacherously and underhandedly decapitated the army in the most difficult and tense moment.

But at the same time I will remain available constantly to all soldiers, sergeants, and warrant officers of the army—to all—absolutely, 24/7, for any problems, domestic family, rear, or combat—any problems whatsoever. We continue to work as a group. I am available to you all the time, and I am honored to stand in the same line with you. I am proud and will do everything in my power even more to make it easier for you to fight and to keep alive as many of our fighting comrades as possible. I will continue to fulfill my combat mission.

The main thing is that in the name of those who will never return from the battlefields, in the name of their memory, in the name of spilled blood of soldiers and officers in Zaporozhye, we are obliged with you to defeat the enemy to repel his offensive and to create conditions for subsequent actions. And thus to honor the memory of our fallen comrades.

Always with you, always in touch,

Yours, [callsign] Spartak.

Let me first touch on why Gurulyov may have leaked this recording. It seems clear that Gurulyov, being a patriot and ex-military himself, felt that this should be heard and seen by all of Russia. In fact, Gurulyov previously commanded this very same 58th Army a decade ago, and obviously has reason to protect it even against the MOD or other politicians. From the beginning, Gurulyov has been an outspoken maximalist, almost akin to a Zhirinovsky stripe, calling for Russia to go all the way to the Polish border, destroy everything, etc. With that said, he’s never quarreled with the leadership of the country previously, to my knowledge, and is in good standing with everyone, rather than being a 5th/6th columnist type.

As usual, everyone is now jumping to conclusions. Very few are offering a balanced and nuanced approach to analyzing the situation. It’s mostly regurgitating Prigozhin’s talking points about Shoigu/Gerasimov being traitors, or once in a while the polar opposite, with accusations of Popov himself being a treasonous quibbler. Strelkov, for instance, fanned the flames with his usual: that Russia is now “one major military defeat away from a new ‘march on Moscow’ of the actual Russian army”.

First, let’s lay out the facts. About 97% of everything being thrown around is either anecdotal or apocryphal or both. There is precisely one guy on Telegram who made the unsupported claim that “Popov is loved by the troops” and this is instantly taken as gospel and used as proof that “Gerasimov/Shoigu are traitors!” and the heroic patriot Popov has come to save the kingdom.

The fact is, not much is known about Popov, though he appears upstanding and there are some reports of him being well-regarded. But there is also the fact that, according to open source info, he led the 11th Army Corps tasked with defending Balakleya in the Izyum area during last year’s Kharkov Offensive by the AFU. Which would mean he’s the one responsible for what many call a “disastrous retreat” of the Russian forces. I state this not to tarnish his name but simply to keep it balanced and expose the hypocrisy of many propagandists who now crawl from the woodwork to extol this unknown commander when they had previously ridiculed his own actions without even knowing it was him.

But is that to say he’s wrong or lying? No, much or all of what he says could be completely true. Gerasimov and Shoigu may be complete scoundrels for all we know. My point is simply to state that there isn’t enough true data to be jumping to such conclusions and feigning understanding of a likely complex subject.

The fact is, during war time, a soldier must obey his superiors because the superior has a much wider viewpoint, seeing things under his purview that the soldier doesn’t know about and hasn’t considered. The same goes in this situation. Popov’s chief criticism appears to stem from a perceived lack of artillery counter-battery support, and the attendant systems thereof, like presumably counter-battery radar units. Does anyone actually think that Shoigu or Gerasimov are underhandedly withholding such units from the front? If the units were available then they would likely be handed over. But since this is beyond Popov’s purview, he apparently wouldn’t know this.

Shoigu and Gerasimov perhaps had reason to actually withhold things from Prigozhin. After all, he enacted a self-fulfilling prophecy of attempting a coup on the country. They knew this, which is why they previously denied his request to have 200k troops under his command. In retrospect, we can see that this would’ve been disastrous, as Prigozhin was power-hungry and unstable.

But does the MOD have reason to withhold things from the actual Russian army proper? No, of course not—why would they? So what type of dimension do Popov’s complaints take on or represent? Is he speaking from the standpoint of equipment he feels is there but is not being given? Or perhaps from the standpoint that he believes this is more of a systemic training issue within the Russian army, and that proper tactics are not being carried out to suppress the enemy?

If we take the former option, we can say that he’s speaking out of order because the supreme commander is responsible for husbanding the equipment of the entire armed forces, and distributing it effectively to where it’s needed. Sure, the southern Zaporozhye front is important, but there are other fronts as well, and Popov may not understand the distributions taking place nor the total stockpiles of certain types of equipment in the armed forces. With that said, such things can obviously be solved through simple communications and talking; but we don’t know the character of their talks. Did he wildly complain and name-call? We have no way of knowing.

As to the latter possibility: if Popov’s complaint revolves around a systemic issue with the army’s tactics/doctrines themselves, then his complaint seems similarly dubious due to the fact that these are not things you can change in the middle of an offensive. And secondly, he’s the general of the entire 58th army, which means the tactics utilized therein are entirely under his purview. Thus, he would be responsible for adjusting and adapting the tactics to whatever need he feels he has.

But now, let’s cover the opposite perspective. Even if his complaints were invalid to some extent, is it right to boot him in the middle of an ongoing offensive? In general, such a thing is certainly not right, as relieving the general of an entire army group in the middle of ongoing kinetic action is flagrantly nonsensical.

So, what are the two main theories for why this could possibly have happened?

The first is that Shoigu and Gerasimov are merely ‘corrupt/treacherous/whatever’ and are trying to cement some perceived ‘hold on power’ by instantly squashing any and all dissent. Could it be true? Sure, anything is possible. But is there any evidence to such a disposition from Shoigu/Gerasimov? No, only the now disproven words from a raging treasonous oligarchic warlord who had a clear axe to grind. That would be Prigozhin, for those who missed my reference.

The second more ‘intriguing’ theory is that the Popov situation is somehow tied to the ongoing Prigozhin witchhunt. Ever since the Wagner rebellion, there’ve been stirrings of a hunt for other collaborators within the Russian MOD itself. For instance, in the past we know that General Mizintsev was viewed by the MOD as sort of sympathetic toward Wagner, having allegedly snuck them ammo from hidden stores. And he was later removed and given to Wagner, becoming one of their commanders.

Similarly, General Surovikin had a close affinity to the PMC unit and since the rebellion in June, there’s been continued rumor that Surovikin has been either arrested, placed on house arrest, or demoted/transferred in some way. At first, it may have seemed the province of pro-Ukrainian conspiracy theory, and I myself dismissed it as such. However, there is an intriguing new video showing Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov being asked by a journalist, “Where is Surovikin?”

Army General Sergei Surovikin "is now resting and is not yet available," said Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee.

Recall that Surovikin has not appeared in public since June 23, when his appeal to the leadership and fighters of the Wagner PMC was published

In connection with his long absence, speculation began to spread that Surovikin was allegedly arrested on suspicion of involvement in the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin or dismissed.

As it says in the above, Surovikin has not been seen now since June 23. That’s a very long “vacation” to be had in the midst of the most dire enemy offensive and highest level of combat intensity since last year. Russian news channel Readovka also allegedly ‘confirmed’ that Surovikin is on vacation in Rostov.

And for those that didn’t have their ear to the ground, about two weeks ago in some kind of leaked call from a friend, Surovikin’s own daughter reportedly claimed that everything was fine and he was ‘working’. Admittedly, though, her voice in the call appears strangely nervous to me.

The rest of the lengthy article here,

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-71423-popovs-sound-and-fury

[Ravenlocke]

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NATO Summit: Analysis with Scott Ritter & Dmitry Polyanskiy | Maverick News

Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy and Former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter join Maverick News Hosts, Rick Walker and Lori Spencer for a round table analysis of the NATO Summit 2023. Russia's response to the NATO Summit and the new NATO Declaration.
In this rebroadcast the issues covered include:

* NATO saying no to Ukraine UN Membership
* Economic Factors for the Conflict in Ukraine
* Finland and Sweden NATO Membership
* Zelensky and his role as an ACTOR


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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
❗️🇺🇸🇹🇷 Seymour Hersh: Biden promised Erdogan help from the IMF in exchange for Sweden's admission to NATO

According to the journalist, Biden said the IMF would provide Turkey with a "$11-13 billion line of credit" if Erdogan ratifies Sweden's NATO bid.

📝 "Biden needed a win, and Turkey is in an acute financial crisis," Seymour Hersh quoted a source as saying.

✖️ The Turkish leader needs to rebuild the country after the devastating earthquakes, so "he did not give up the money." Unlike principles...

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 The enemy is storming Urozhaynoye, trying to break through the front at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR
Deputy Head of the National Guard for the DPR A. Khodakovsky on the situation on the Vremevsky ledge on the South-Donetsk sector of the front:
➨"After a massive artillery preparation, the enemy went for a breakthrough in the direction of the settlement Urozhaynoye to the right of Velikaya Novoselovka.
➨ At the moment, he is suffering significant losses, but he does not stop trying to break through our defenses. Harvest is not the first time attacked: apparently, after unsuccessful attempts to capture Novodonetsk, the enemy determined this direction for himself as the most optimal vector of advance.

#source

@Slavyangrad
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Kiev is sounding the alarm over the alleged new agreement to hand over to Hungary several AFU servicemen of Hungarian nationality who had been taken prisoner by Russia.

They are worried that it is enough for a fighter to surrender and declare himself a Hungarian in order not only to save his life, but also to find himself in the EU, and even in a country where the SBU will not reach him. We can assume that many people will start to declare themselves, for example, as Ruthenians, whom Hungary is also ready to patronise. And someone will be able to jump out of the meat grinder, where the Nazis sent him.

So far, neither Budapest nor the Russian Orthodox Church has confirmed Kiev's information.

#source

@Slavyangrad
https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1679789874461671427

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺 Yesterday in the evening:

The main statements of Vladimir Putin on the air of the Rossiya-24 TV channel:

◾️ Ukraine's NATO membership will pose a threat to Russia's security;

◾️ NATO membership will not increase the security of Ukraine itself;

◾️ The possible entry of Ukraine into NATO was one of the reasons for the special operation;

◾️ The missiles supplied to Kiev cause damage to the Russian Federation, but nothing critical;

◾️ Russia has destroyed 311 Ukrainian tanks since June 4 alone, of which at least a third are Western ones;

◾️ New arms deliveries to Ukraine will only fuel the conflict more;

◾️ The Ukrainians themselves do not want to get into Western tanks, as they burn more than the Soviet ones;

◾️ Ukraine has the right to ensure security, but not at the expense of creating threats to the Russian Federation;

◾️ In the draft Istanbul agreement, Ukraine's security guarantees were specified in great detail;

◾️ The Russian Federation is not against discussing security guarantees for Ukraine, but not to the detriment of its own security;

◾️ The Russian Federation considered the draft Istanbul agreement with Ukraine generally acceptable;

◾️ The economic policy of the West during the pandemic is wrong;

◾️ Sanctions against the Russian Federation have aggravated the situation in the global food and energy markets;

◾️ Many European countries began to refuse Ukrainian grain and discriminate against it;

◾️ Only slightly more than 3% of the food under the grain deal went to the poorest countries, the rest went to "well-fed Europe";

◾️ No guarantees to the Russian Federation on the grain deal were fulfilled;

◾️ The grain deal is a one-sided game;

◾️ The Russian Federation will still think about how to act on the issue of extending the grain deal;

◾️ The Russian Federation may suspend participation in the grain deal until the fulfillment of promises to take into account its requirements;

◾️ The Russian Federation will extend the grain deal "exactly at the moment" as the obligations to it under these agreements are fulfilled.

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[ExomatrixTV]

I know the chance of this ever to going to happen is extremely slim (near zero!) but hear me out:

Imagine if Zelensky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy) decides to confess he was/is paid & manipulated by the totally corrupt part of NATO with certain "promises", he admits he FEARS for his life and the safety of his loved ones because of the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis called AZOF Brigade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade) having a track record of killing 1000s of Russian Civilians in the 2010s up to now violating the Minsk Agreements (https://mronline.org/2023/02/11/zelensky-admits-he-never-intended-to-implement-minsk-agreements).

That was KNOWN even reported by the western mass media, but refusing to call it provoking a War with Russia! ... Mass media admitting multiple times on record (before the war started) that Ukraine is the most corrupt nation of all nations, Eurasia (Europe/Asia).

Admitting he knew Ukraine has no chance of winning but rely heavily on becoming a "NATO member" >>> even if that becomes a reality, there is no guarantee that "all goes well" for humanity as a whole! ... Meaning: WW3 will start with global mutual nuclear destruction as a result.

Imagine he admits crushing all Ukrainian dissenting voices, including all common sense people in Ukraine! ... dismantling all kinds of Ukrainian: opposition, media, multiple democratic political parties in Ukraine which is obvious the opposite of "Defending Democracy".


On top of all that, Ukrainian adult males (that are not represented anymore) were forced to use weapons in a totally useless, hopless, unwinnable war! ... And many Russian soldiers/officers KNOWS THAT ... that is why they show countless videos how they treat Ukrainian soldiers waving a white flag to surrender with great respect & decency! <<< but you will not see that in any pro-NATO Western Media, they do not care about the unrepresented Ukrainians being sacrificed to serve a bigger "New World Order (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?163-The-New-World-Order)" plan.

How many Ukrainian children lost their: father, brother & uncle ... Fathers losing their sons NOT because they were against Russia, but they were not represented anymore and FORCED to join the totally insane war PUSHED by all Pro-NATO mass media worldwide! <<< in my view, they all have blood on their hands!

Remember Hillary Clinton repeating over and over the blatant lie that what the Russians did was so called: "unprovoked" and how the mass media only promotes a certain narrative to push Ukraine over the cliff!


How much of the billions of US/EU Tax money spend in Ukraine was not spent for the Ukrainians at all!

Imagine if Zelensky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy) will expose it all and tell the truth for a change,"even asking for forgiveness" that 100,000s died needlessly. 100,000s of fathers, brothers, sons, uncles, husbands.

After confessing all that, Zelensky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy) will not survive that not only because of the totally ruthless Ukrainian Neo-Nazis AZOF Brigade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade), but he will most likely be killed by the rage of almost all (unrepresented) Ukrainians!

... and maybe he knows that!

--o-O-o--


In my view, the biggest systematic push of a tunnel vision "Russia Phobia" narratives started, when Hillary Clinton openly threatened to use Nuclear weapons if Russia "interferes" with the 2016 elections on multiple levels ... not mentioning that anything can be considered "interference" even TELLING THE TRUTH via RT dot com (https://rumble.com/c/RTNews) or RT on YouTube ... Hillary Clinton quote: "We Are Losing The Information War (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fGWuillRXM)"



The ultra hypocrisy of The USA is extreme harrowing knowing how they manipulated almost all elections in all countries worldwide!



So when a different source other than western Mainstream Media (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120654-Why-We-Don-t-Trust-Mainstream-Media-The-Munk-Debates) sharing hard verifiable truths & facts that HAVE an impact on how people think & judge how they are "governed" >>> will be seen as an "election intervention" even if it is 100% the truth that is exposed!




Many hard hitting uncovered truths that have been shared on RT (Russia Today) were ALREADY shared on Alex Jones's infowars (https://www.infowars.com) and countless other American based independent alternative media outlets ... Most, if not all were originally investigated & exposed by Americans not Russians >>> the moment RT used some of it Hillary claimed that is "proof" that Alternative Media is spreading "Russian Propaganda" WHICH IS A BLATANT LIE! ... It was RT using real independent research done by Americans and HELPS better understand how we all get scrwed on this (fcked up) planet done by lying psychopathic control freaks & dystopian technocrats (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118748-Top-10-Creepiest-Most-Dystopian-Things-Pushed-By-The-World-Economic-Forum).


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cheers,
John Kuhles (https://www.facebook.com/groups/stop5g) aka 'ExomatrixTV'
July 14th, 2023 🦜🦋🌳

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Hillary Clinton 2016:

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I posted it also on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/stop5g/posts/1703005503467931) ... let's see how long they allow it to be shown!

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[Bill Ryan]

BREAKING: Biden Orders Reserve Military Members To ACTIVE DUTY!Yes, this is also reported in the mainstream — though at first sight it only seems a small thing, involving 3,000 troops and other personnel. (And of course, it might be just a cosmetic gesture to bolster NATO's plummeting morale after the recent Vilnius conference.)

We'll likely hear some more about this today from Alexander Mercouris, and (if this means anything significant) from Doug Macgregor, Scott Ritter and others.Sure enough, here's Alexander Mercouris discussing this in the opening 5 minutes of a 20-minute update published a few minutes ago. :thumbsup:

US 3,000 reservists, mission creep or trip wire. Putin to ditch grain deal


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

[Vicus]

Just to remember...

2 of the "west rebuilder" after WW2... :sherlock:

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[shaberon]

Just to remember...

2 of the "west rebuilder" after WW2...


Are you in Argentina?

If so, wouldn't that give you something to say about the persistence of these Germans?

Or, that coups orchestrated in South America in the 1930s were intentionally done, to lead to the formation of the United Nations?

[ExomatrixTV]

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During the debate on recent developments in Ukraine and Russia, MEP Marcel de Graaff (FVD) gave a painful summary (https://marceldegraaff.nl/gebruik-de-eu-gelden-voor-vrede-en-welvaart/) of the crimes committed by Ukraine on Wednesday. This is to the visible displeasure of VVD MEP Malik Azmani.

“Ukraine is not a democracy. Opposition parties have been banned, opposition leaders have been murdered, elections are a thing of the past,” De Graaff said.


VVD member shakes his head

“Ukraine is a country led by war criminals who set up combat positions in hospitals and schools, who bomb apartment blocks and shopping malls, who torture and kill prisoners of war, who loot churches and imprison priests,” De Graaff boomed, as Azmani shook his head.

Moreover, as this House has emphasized often enough, Ukraine is deeply corrupt. Zelensky and his clique are siphoning hundreds of millions out of international aid money, he added.


Prosperity and peace

“This political choice for Ukraine has led to a sharp increase in Ukrainian organ trafficking, child trafficking, arms trafficking and hundreds of thousands of migrants, to priceless energy and groceries for our citizens, to the financial abyss of hundreds of thousands of families in the EU.”

“Citizens are paying the price and that is why the EU must immediately stop this war in Ukraine and use EU funds for prosperity and peace for our citizens,” the MEP stressed.


dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/kijk-vvder-reageert-hoofdschuddend-op-bulderspeech-marcel-de-graaff-in-eu-parlement) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[BMJ]

Whilst TV ads ask for donations for starving kids, Australian kids that is, and tent cities are starting to pop up in Sydney due to unaffordable rent prices we donate 890 million dollars to Ukraine.

How about looking after our own backyard and put the money to good use here, instead blowing it overseas in a failed war.

In turn we would be shortening this war by starving the Zelensky regime of western support, as President Putin noted.


Australia Gifts 30 Additional Bushmasters to Ukraine

Australia will provide 30 additional Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles to Ukraine, demonstrating our ongoing commitment to their defence against Russia’s aggression.

The contribution expands on Australia’s previous commitment of 90 protected mobility vehicles, taking Australia’s provision of Bushmasters to Ukraine to 120. This takes Australia’s total military assistance provided to over $710 million and Australia’s overall assistance to Ukraine to approximately $890 million.

This announcement follows the recent gifting of 70 assorted highly capable military vehicles, a supply of critical 105mm ammunition and a $10 million contribution to the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund announced by Australia in late June.

Royal Australian Air Force E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to Germany

This also builds on the Government’s commitment earlier this week to deploy a Royal Australian Air Force E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to Germany for approximately six months from October to help protect a gateway of international humanitarian and military assistance to Ukraine. This deployment includes up to 100 crew and support personnel.

The aircraft will provide early warning in the event of any threats outside of Ukraine against the gateway for humanitarian and military assistance.

Along with our international partners, Australia continues to look for practical ways to assist the Ukraine Government and people and help bring about a rapid conclusion to the immoral and unprovoked invasion by Russia.


Quotes attributable to Prime Minister, the Hon. Anthony Albanese MP:
“I am pleased to have met President Zelenskyy again today and to inform him of Australia’s decision to gift 30 additional Bushmasters to Ukraine.

“Australia remains steadfast in its commitment to support Ukraine.

“We are proud to provide additional Bushmaster vehicles to assist the brave men and women fighting for their home and their nation’s sovereignty.

“Russia unilaterally launched this illegal and immoral invasion and should withdraw its troops and end the conflict immediately.”

Link: https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/media-releases/2023-07-12/australia-gifts-further-bushmasters-ukraine

[Vicus]

Just to remember...

2 of the "west rebuilder" after WW2...


Are you in Argentina?

If so, wouldn't that give you something to say about the persistence of these Germans?

Or, that coups orchestrated in South America in the 1930s were intentionally done, to lead to the formation of the United Nations?

To respond ASAP without "research":

_No, I don't live in Argentina
_My "knowledge" about NAZIS and Germans in Argentina has a before and after Internet.

Before Internet:

When finished primary school we "school graduate" make a trip to Brazil or to south Argentina where snow fall...we vote. I wanted Brazil (sun, beaches, sanba and tangas...) nope... the winner was the city Bariloche in the south.
After 1 and half days by bus we landed in an "alien" city for us...
For Europeans is something like a minor city at the Alpen foot...full in snow and all sports related...and the construction too, dark brown wood (?)

Another trip to other province (Carlos Paz, Cordoba, middle Argentina , again same "alien" housing constructions...(?) later learned "German colony"

In general when I was in Argentina I don't knew nothing about your questions,it was wayyyyyy before my time, I knew only one family friend German origins, and he and his family produced and sold typical German sausages (I never knew a German restaurant...)

After Internet:
_Before WW2 the later president Juan Domingo Peron was as military attaché in Berlin, at that time Germany was seem as example for recovery and freeways...
nobody knew the real propose ( for tanks...)
_Shortly before the war I saw a video where the stadium Boca juniors. one of the 2 biggest foot ball clubs was full with 60.000 Nazis in support Germany...
_I reed a reportage about a stranded submarine in south Argentina, it was circa begin 1930! the commandant was Canarys, later Almirant and chief from Hitler espionage...after stranded they mapped all the way from Atlantic cost until... Bariloche! this city was founded by Germans!

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

_In Bariloche there is a lake with an island in the middle where was the Argentina atom research...somehow Argentina and Brazil suspend together all atomic projects.
_ Peron was the initiator from "the third way" "no alienados" country's that mean no pro soviet neither USA, and for that was pay with a putsch from Big Brother...
and on and on...across decades...everybody knows USA "politic", with us or else...
_No surprise Nazis escape to South America, they have colony's in Argentina, Chile
Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia.

_Argentina was neutral in WW2 (good for business and espionage...) only at the end
were against Germany.

[Rizotto]

"If you support Ukraine, do you support Ukrainian lives? New data shows that Ukrainian soldiers are defecting at astonishing rates because they are scared, untrained, and unsupported. Morale is at an all-time low, according to our Redacted correspondent."
Ukraine soldiers being FORCED to do this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uo_wOmchc4

[ExomatrixTV]

The Truth About Ukraine's "Rejected" NATO Membership:

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[shaberon]

_Before WW2 the later president Juan Domingo Peron was as military attaché in Berlin, at that time Germany was seem as example for recovery and freeways...
nobody knew the real propose ( for tanks...)


Okay. This is very close to something I think we should know.


First of all, there is the semi-suppressed story of American Capitalist Fascism that nearly erupted in the 1933 Business Plot (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/trump-fdr-roosevelt-coup-attempt-1930s):


...prominent American elites and antisemites such as Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford.

Butler referred to them as “the royal family of financiers” that had controlled the American Legion since its formation in 1919. He felt the Legion was a militaristic political force, notorious for its antisemitism and reactionary policies against labor unions and civil rights, that manipulated veterans.

Butler demanded to know why the names of the country’s richest men were removed from the final version of the committee’s report. “Like most committees, it has slaughtered the little and allowed the big to escape,” Butler said in a Philadelphia radio interview in 1935. “The big shots weren’t even called to testify. They were all mentioned in the testimony. Why was all mention of these names suppressed from this testimony?”


So, it has been reduced to hearsay and allegations..."nothing happened" officially, and "we don't really know"...except obviously something big was underway.

There is no shortage of information about how primarily American and British finance and industry re-built Germany after World War I, scrapping and re-writing the war reparations from the Versailles Treaty, Dawes Plan, etc., and the amazing way in which this decimated country turned into a slick war machine quite rapidly.

Same crew was doing the same stuff in South America.

This is not exactly news or all that difficult to study. It is big, and there are a lot of details. But then it boils down to something fairly singular and simple, the formation of the United Nations and NATO, as we brought up last year in this
previous post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1497165&viewfull=1#post1497165):



One of the main participants in creating the U. N. Charter was the pro-Soviet Alger Hiss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss#:~:text=Hiss%20was%20Secretary%2DGeneral%20of,1945%20to%20June%2026%2C%201945.):


Hiss served as executive secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, which drew up plans for the future United Nations.


For the U. N.:


Franklin D. Roosevelt's original idea was designed to encompass American global power.

"Stalin dropped opposition to the American version of the veto with a wave of his hand, dismissing it as an insignificant matter.... He was quite prepared to sacrifice any independent stake in the construction of the UN, clinging to the belief that veto powers would neutralize any danger from it.



That is crucial. Stalin accepted the UN because of the veto, Khruschev asked to join NATO and stunned the audience to silence, and then we found that Kissinger and Helms *blocked* Clinton's 1990s proposal, which would have given Russia a veto influence on NATO expansions--they were relegated to think tanks and dialogues.



The relationship from the military to the UN is such that:


A few years later, Schlesinger documents, at a dinner with Rockefeller, Dulles said: "I owe you an apology. If you fellows hadn't done it, we might never have had NATO."


This is because Rockefeller was bringing "Nazi Argentina" into the fold via Dumbarton Oaks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton_Oaks_Conference):


Schlesinger noted that although Nelson Rockefeller did not have an official role in the conference, he asked the FBI that he would be the one who passed reports to Stettinius. The FBI indeed passed all reports to Rockefeller. Schlesinger also explains how the UN logo was designed in a way to exclude Argentina for its friendship with Nazi Germany. Rockefeller insisted that Argentina, despite its pro-fascist government, must be allowed to join the UN. Rockefeller had the Latin American delegations on his side, a relationship that angered Nicolo Tucci, the head of the Bureau of Latin American Research in the US State Department, who resigned, declaring that ‘my bureau was supposed to undo the Nazi and Fascist propaganda in South America but Rockefeller is inviting the worst fascists and Nazis to Washington.

While Washington was aiming at the creation of a world body, Rockefeller was pressuring the conference to accept the Chapultepec Pact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American_Conference_on_Problems_of_War_and_Peace):


Therefore, the conference adopted a formal resolution called the Act of Chapultepec which proclaimed the principle of collective self-defense through regional pacts. This policy was adopted by the United Nations and Article 51 of the UN charter, which authorized regional security arrangements.



In other words, this Latin American agreement was "transferred" to the U. N., and then that same principle is attributed with the foundation of NATO.


That I what I suggest we focus on understanding--it is like our Bill of Rights was a kind of window-dressing propaganda so that our Constitution would be ratified quickly, without concern for the remaining issues. Similarly, anything we read about the UN is going to focus on "the horrors of World War II", the "struggle for world peace", and so on.

It is not going to tell us about this insidious craftsmanship of how...it was specifically Argentina in this pivot position that was used to slip the security agreement into the San Francisco Conference of 1945, subsequently to NATO, and then to shut Russia out of what has happened to the EU countries in our time. It practically summarizes the whole twentieth century. An orchestrated manner of throwing independent countries into an "international order", primarily by British and American businessmen, who are Capitalist Fascists.

Obviously, they were against the independent country of Germany and not its inner drivers, seeing as how Operation Paperclip basically rewarded the crew that millions of lives were lost in supposedly stopping.

[rgray222]

Putin wants to attend an August summit. Host country South Africa doesn't want to have to arrest him

https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1202editorial.jpg?w=863

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month and the country is desperately trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant, South Africa's deputy president said in an interview with a news website on Friday.

As a signatory to the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court, South Africa is obliged to arrest Putin on an indictment the court issued against the Russian leader in March for war crimes involving the abduction of children from Ukraine.

Moscow has dismissed the warrant. South African authorities are likely to breach the treaty and not arrest Putin, but some opposition parties, rights groups and legal activists have said he should be arrested and have threatened to do it themselves, raising security issues for the BRICS summit in Johannesburg.

Having already decided not to condemn Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, South Africa faces the prospect of further straining relations with the West if it allows Putin to freely attend the summit of the BRICS emerging economies bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Putin hasn't yet traveled to a country that is a signatory to the court treaty since the arrest warrant against him was issued.

The Kremlin has not said that Putin will attend and the brief rebellion in Russia by the Wagner private military group appeared to make it unlikely he would travel after such a serious threat to his rule.

But Russia does want Putin to attend alongside Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the other presidents, South Africa Deputy President Paul Mashatile said in the interview with News24, a top South African news outlet. All the leaders were invited to the summit before the indictment against Putin was issued, South Africa has said.

“It’s a big dilemma for us. Of course, we cannot arrest him," Mashatile said. “It’s almost like you invite your friend to your house, and then arrest them. That’s why for us, his not coming is the best solution. The Russians are not happy, though. They want him to come."

Mashatile was put in charge of finding a solution by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Russia has rejected the alternatives, which included moving the summit to China, holding a virtual summit or Russia being represented by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Mashatile said.

Ramaphosa will now attempt to convince Putin not to travel to South Africa when they meet at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg at the end of this month, Mashatile said.

“We’ve now decided to leave this matter with the president, who is talking to Putin,” Mashatile said. “The president is going to the Russia-Africa summit later this month, so they will continue to talk. We want to show him the challenges that we face because we are part of the Rome Statute and we can’t wiggle out of this.”

South Africa has history on the issue after failing in 2015 to arrest then-Sudan President Omar al-Bashir on a visit to South Africa when he was wanted by the ICC tribunal for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Allowing Putin to attend the BRICS meeting would put more pressure on South Africa's relations with the U.S. and its other important Western diplomatic and trade partners.

U.S.-South Africa relationships are already under strain after the U.S. accused Africa's most developed country of providing weapons to Moscow for the war in Ukraine on a Russian cargo ship that visited South Africa's main naval base near Cape Town in December.

South Africa has denied there was any weapons transaction but Ramaphosa has ordered an investigation into the visit of the Lady R ship, which is under U.S. sanctions for allegedly transporting weapons for Moscow.

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/putin-wants-attend-august-summit-165142582.html

[Gwin Ru]

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Remember, knowledge is power.

Good contextual re-cap of why we end up where we are at...

[ExomatrixTV]

The Russians Are Now Launching An Offensive Towards Kharkov Through Lyman:

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Colonel Douglas Macgregor Straight Calls - Analysis of breaking news and in-depth discussion of current geopolitical events in the United States of America and the world.

[Gwin Ru]

...

... Poland. Same People. Same Old Playbook (https://odysee.com/@kevinboyle:d/American-Muslim-Analyses-Ongoing-USA-Policies:d) 08:45

July 13, 2023

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[Ravenlocke]

Fighter jet deal in jeopardy. Biden angers Erdogan

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Text: 🤡 Kharkiv police are looking for Ukrainians who fled to the EU through Interpol

The Kharkiv police, together with Interpol, began to enter into the database information about Ukrainians who fled to the EU countries. This was told by the head of the investigative department of the National Police in the Kharkiv region Sergey Bolvinov.

📝 “We are the first in Ukraine to test a scheme on how to prevent traitors from hiding in the civilized world,” Bolvinov wrote on social networks.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680120735031865344

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇺🇦 The visit of the President of South Korea to Ukraine did not change the position of the republic regarding the supply of weapons

Seoul refused to send equipment and ammunition, imposing strict export control rules on such shipments abroad, according to The New York Times.

Ukraine received only humanitarian aid and financial support from South Korea.

@Slavyangrad
https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680290829678571523

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers are being taken to the front line under an armed escort and they are not issued machine guns until the very end:

"We were waiting for machine guns and first-aid kits yesterday. We are being taken under escort, an officer with a machine gun, damn it, in every bus. They are taken to Kremennaya through Kharkov, like convicts - without weapons, under guard, like the last mother****ers."
https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680227414863904768

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Text:

🇺🇦 Armed Forces of Ukraine during the counter-offensive lost more than 26 thousand soldiers

During the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since June 4, 1244 Ukrainian tanks and other combat vehicles have already been destroyed, including 17 German Leopard tanks and 12 American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, as well as five French AMX wheeled tanks.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680223601440563200

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Sappers mine the flanks of Artemovsk at night

Due to the constant attempts of Ukrainian fighters to break through to Russian positions, sappers-paratroopers have to update the minefields at the forefront of our defense every night.
Manually, meter by meter, the soldiers of the Tula Airborne Forces set up anti-tank and anti-personnel minefields to provide reliable protection for positions.

During the night, fighters can lay more than four hundred mines, on which Ukrainian units begin to blow up in the morning.

Some results of the work of sappers - at the end of the video

@Slavyangrad

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680216912926588928

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
The Russian army is advancing on Kupyansk, breaking through the enemy’s defenses near Liman the First
▪️ In the Liman Pervy - Sinkovka - Masyutovka area, heavy fighting is going on throughout the day, the fighters are reporting from the spot.
▪️ Our people crossed the railway and attacked the enemy's defenders.
▪️"Our guys are destroying the enemy behind a piece of iron," the fighters report.
▪️ Enemy resources confirm that Russian troops are on the offensive, using TOS-1A "Solntsepyok", artillery, aircraft and demining vehicles - Ur-77 "Serpent Gorynych".
▪️In the daily report of the Ministry of Defense, it was reported that operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery of the Western Military District hit the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, incl. area n.p. Estuary First Kharkov region.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1680292189199278081

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1680271502237659138

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Text:
The Kremlin reported that Putin had a phone conversation with the President of South Africa.

Here's what they discussed:

The consideration of the African peace initiative regarding Ukraine will continue in connection with the "Russia-Africa" summit at the end of July.

The President of South Africa expressed gratitude to Putin for a constructive conversation regarding possible ways to resolve the situation surrounding Ukraine during his visit to St. Petersburg.

They agreed to hold a separate meeting at the summit to exchange views on bilateral and international agendas.

Putin informed the President of South Africa that the commitments to eliminate obstacles for the export of Russian food and fertilizers have not been fulfilled. The main goal of the grain deal, namely supplying grain to countries in need, including those in the African continent, has not been achieved.

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1680205523180994567

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
A powerful strike has been delivered against the concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces near Orehovo, from where the AFU are attempting to break through the Zaporozhye front.

Currently, the intensity of combat operations has decreased along the front line from Kopani to Rabotino to Verbovo.

The command of the AFU is regrouping its forces in preparation for new waves of assaults and occasionally sending units for reconnaissance missions.

Meanwhile, the Russian army is identifying AFU force accumulations and launching strikes against them.

The AFU's greatest activity is observed at the junction of the defense lines of the 291st and 70th regiments in the fields near Rabotino. Previously, the Ukrainians managed to establish positions in trenches here and continue to consolidate them.

The current battles have taken on a positional character. Howitzers, multiple rocket launch systems, mortars, tanks, infantry engage in mutual exchanges of fire, without escalating into large-scale combat actions.

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1680278881755099138

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[Ewan]

Only posting this to see how far you can make it before you STOP watching. Mind-bogglingly bull**** from start to finish.

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(I made it to 5m 45s - sorry for the distraction if you find it a waste of time).

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To compensate, here (from 4 days ago) is a Sky News report about foreign mercenaries evacuating Ukraine.

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[jaybee]

Only posting this to see how far you can make it before you STOP watching. Mind-bogglingly bull**** from start to finish.


2 mins 45 secs

only morbid curiosity kept me going that long.... :/

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Serbia will provide Ukraine with humanitarian assistance to overcome the consequences of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the website of the Serbian government reports.

Assistance includes, in particular, goods and medicines from the Republican Directorate of Commodity Reserves and goods from the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration.

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a press conference on Friday that from the beginning of the war until about 2027, Ukraine will receive about €17 billion worth of weapons from Germany.

"Russia's aggressive war continues to affect our lives and worry all of us very much, which is why Germany is the second country after the United States in terms of military assistance provided to Kiev," Scholz said

https://twitter.com/SpriterTeam/status/1680303448938491906

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/SpriterTeam/status/1680302407106850818

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https://twitter.com/SpriterTeam/status/1680302399280259072

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https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680322736961224708

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1680293346697150465

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[grapevine]

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1680205523180994567

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Rhamaphosa is a deluded individual if he thinks he can make a difference in Ukraine. He has more than enough to do in his own country to fix the energy situation and unacceptable number of daily electricity blackouts, not to mention ongoing water shortages. It's freezing cold there atm and people are sitting in the dark without heating. :crazy:

:focus: with apologies for rant

[Rizotto]

Interesting that this is a poll commissioned in Ukraine by a US organization...

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230715/ukrainians-unwilling-to-resist-russia-or-leave-cities--survey-1111872286.html

Ukrainians Unwilling to Resist Russia or Leave Cities – Survey

A recent US-commissioned poll has shown that Ukrainians are reluctant to fight against Russia and leave their cities, even if military tensions escalate.
The poll was carried out by the Ukrainian sociological group "Rating" in late June but commissioned by the US-based non-profit organization International Republican Institute (IRI) and funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

It found that the majority of Ukrainian citizens have not suffered any damage to their homes during the special operation; that residents do not intend to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) if the situation near their cities deteriorates nor plan to leave their homes.

Low Willingness to Resist

Rating surveyed 16,800 residents of 21 cities under Ukrainian control, including the Russian city of Zaporozhye.
When asked about their plans during escalating military tensions, the majority of respondents expressed their intent to stay in their cities. Only a small percentage showed a willingness to join the UAF and resist Russian troops, primarily from respondents in western Ukrainian cities less affected by the conflict.

Specifically, 6% in Kharkov, 8% in Odessa, Chernigov, and Zaporozhye, and 9% in Nikolayev plan to join the Ukrainian Army if tensions escalate. These study results differ from the information promoted by Ukrainian propaganda.

Problems With Bomb Shelters

The study also revealed widespread dissatisfaction with bomb shelters. In 18 out of 21 cities surveyed, the majority of respondents described their quality as "bad," "horrible," or "unavailable."
In the less affected western cities of Uzhgorod and Ivano-Frankovsk, "difficult to say" slightly outweighed the negative responses.
In Ternopol and Lutsk, two other western cities, the number of respondents who found it "difficult to answer" was equal to those who rated the shelters as "poor."
Similarly, in Odessa, the number of people unsure about the quality of bomb shelters was equal to those who rated them as "bad" or "terrible."

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Russia was the unequivocal good guy in the Syrian civil war, stepping in at the last moment to prevent the genocide our jihadist proxies were openly bragging was coming.

In Ukraine, perhaps there are no good guys, but the record shows clearly that a) from 2014-22 Russia tried to avoid a war, b) Russia had valid and obvious security concerns acknowledged by everyone from George Kennan to current CIA Director William Burns (those known Putin stooges), c) Ukraine was becoming a de facto NATO outpost and Russia invaded when they believed Ukraine would soon be too strong for them to prevent it, d) Russia has tried to avoid escalating the conflict by not going after Kiev or the Zelensky regime, not attacking weapons shipments and training centers outside of Ukraine, and not attacking international infrastructure in retaliation for NordStream. Meanwhile, what are our motivations for being involved? Hawks like
@LindseyGrahamSC
and
@DanCrenshawTX
will tell you plainly: we just want to see Russians die.

Russia was unequivocally in favor of peace according to the terms laid out in the Minsk agreements, which we acknowledged to be a cynical ploy to buy time. Putin and Zelensky had a draft deal in place to end the war early on, but we vetoed it. We say we’re defending democracy, but Ukraine’s elected leaders aren’t even allowed to choose for themselves whether to continue a war. All this while we have overwhelming evidence that the current US President was taking bribes from Ukrainian interests.

I don’t know if there are any good guys in the Ukraine war, but there is definitely a bad guy, and, just like in Syria, we’re it. I don’t like saying any of this. I’m a veteran and come from a family of veterans. I worked as a civilian engineer for the DOD. It’s in my blood to be a flag-waving Team America superfan. But after Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and now Ukraine, I just have to be honest about what we’ve become. And some will respond that there is no “we,” that our rulers don’t act in their name, but when the bill comes due for America, the collectors aren’t going to make that distinction.

https://twitter.com/martyrmade/status/1680041743864188930

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
We need to give up our names. Because the names are Russian and therefore 'imperialist'’. A Ukrainian immigrant in Bulgaria complains about another mad policy of the Kiev Regime. Now they want to turn Russian-speaking people into Ukrainians by changing their names.

Hat tip to Genie

@Slavyangrad

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680515974104064002

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680518660014714880

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🇷🇺 Russian troops repulsed the attack on the village of Staromayorskoye

📝 “It is reported about the tactical success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction: the Ukrainian military captured the village of Staromayorskoye (north-east of Urozhainy). According to my information, this is not so, ”commissioner Sladkov said.

According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to capture the village of Staromayorskoye at night, but the attack was repulsed. At the moment, at 12:11 there are Russian forces.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680514457816924161

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🇷🇺 Putin spoke about the fate of captured NATO equipment

📝 “We have a very effective technique. Take, for example, the T-90 "Proryv" tank - this is the best tank in the world. But the enemy also produces modern equipment. If there is an opportunity to look in and see what can be applied here, then why not,” Vladimir Putin said.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680513815652229120

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Text:
🪖 PMC "Wagner" will become an addition to the regional grouping of the Union State on the territory of the Republic of Belarus

The introduction of Wagner PMC into the regional grouping is a significant step in the development of military cooperation between the two countries. This may lead to an increase in the defensive capabilities of the Belarusian-Russian alliance.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680514641284288518

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/SpriterTeam/status/1680522405251371010

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The enemy struck with "Grads" in the area of ​​​​the central market of Shebekino

Governor V. Gladkov: "To my great sorrow, 1 person died - a woman was cycling along the sidewalk at the time of the shelling. The facade of the trade pavilion and two cars were damaged."

@Slavyangrad
https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680491312674492419

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[Tintin]

Ukrainian servicemen ambush civilians, kill them, and then hide their vehicle

More extraordinary footage this time from the grey zone near Ugledar.

A commentator has provided an analysis of what is being shown here, and it's another episode that gives one cause to empathy; whoever these civilians are it's unlikely their bodies may ever be recovered or worse still their fate discovered to anyone who may have known them :flower:

WARNING: both moving and horrifying in equal measure - we're spared gruesome close-up footage given the camera didn't zoom in.

The original without the text analysis:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-07_%28July%29/2023-07-14_Ukrainian_unit_ambushes_and_kills_civilians_then_hides_the_victims_car_and_drives_off.mp4

The analysed version:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-07_%28July%29/2023-07-14_Ukrainian_unit_ambushes_and_kills_civilians_then_hides_the_victims_car_and_drives_off_%28video_an alysis%29.mp4

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1680537888725909504

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Speaker Ignat assured Ukrainians that air defense will continue to shoot down missiles on their homes

The speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat, said that Ukrainian air defense cannot shoot down Russian drones and missiles away from residential buildings. Therefore, installations will continue to be installed in densely populated areas.

According to him, air defense systems have to be placed as close as possible to populated areas, otherwise the RF Armed Forces will be easier to detect gaps in the defense and strike.

https://twitter.com/SpriterTeam/status/1680542406591102976

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🪖 Putin: our soldiers go on the offensive in some sectors of the front

Vladimir Putin said that our troops are showing heroism during the counteroffensive. At the same time, sometimes our army itself goes on the attack, occupying advantageous heights and positions.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680536694011969537

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📝 “All attempts by the enemy to break through our defenses, and this is a task, including using strategic reserves, they were unsuccessful during the entire offensive,” the president said.

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The Incredible Shrinking NATO

I've been waiting for the hubbub to die down since the NATO conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 11-12 July 2023, waiting for someone — anyone — to point out the obvious reason for why the Ukraine's cocaine-sniffing mascot-president Zelensky, having been lionized only a year ago, has suddenly fallen into disfavor with this organization.

Yes, the Ukraine might still some day be invited to start the long and arduous process of joining NATO, but only after some undefined number of NATO members decide that it has done enough to comply with "NATO standards" (I'll explain what those are later) and various other vague things. Keeping in mind that back on 20 September 2018 the Ukrainian parliament approved amendments to the constitution that would make the accession of the country to NATO and the EU a central goal and the main foreign policy objective, such a turn of events is most embarrassing for the mascot president and his backers and handlers.



Oh, the vicissitudes of fortune! Lots of analysis and commentators offered ready explanations for this turn of events. Yet not a single one of them saw it fit to dig just the tiniest bit and discover the glaringly obvious reason for this momentous shift.

Perhaps all of them, for a variety of reasons, loathe to admit the reality of what NATO is, what it does, and why the Ukraine is suddenly a threat rather than a boon to its core mission.

You may want to read all of that commentary at your leisure — if you have trouble falling asleep. The official NATO Summit Communiqué, fantastically verbose and filled with irrelevancies, makes for particularly somniferous reading.

So, what did the Ukraine do to fall into such disfavor? Perhaps it did something that jeopardized NATO's core mission? That seems like a good guess. But then what is NATO's core mission?

In the movie "Silence of the Lambs," Hannibal Lecter refers to a quote by Marcus Aurelius when he says to Clarice Starling, "First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature?" The quote is from Book Three of "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, and it emphasizes the importance of understanding the essence of things.

NATO was formed on 4 April 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, more popularly known as the Washington Treaty, supposedly for the purpose of thwarting the Soviet Union in Europe. The USSR responded by forming the Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) — a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries for the express purpose of defending them from NATO. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved on 1 July 1991 and, shortly thereafter, on 26 December 1991, the USSR itself followed suit, but NATO continues to exist. By this point, the Warsaw Pact had existed for slightly less than NATO has existed, and the USSR had existed for only slightly more than that. Clearly, the communist threat as a rationale for NATO's existence was but a ruse, a smokescreen... a red herring.

So, what was NATO's real purpose? There are many ways to answer this question, but the Ukraine's sudden fall from grace offers what is perhaps the most graphic explanation.

Was it that the war there was dragging on? No, a slow burn would be exactly what the Pentagon ordered, so that it would have a chance to keep up with Russia's hectic pace of weapons and ammunition deliveries.

Was it that the Ukraine was losing the war? No, the Ukraine wasn't losing; it just wasn't winning. In particular, its attacks on Russia's defensive lines, which the Russian troops termed "meat attacks" because of the huge and useless losses they incurred on the Ukrainian side, seemed rather futile.

Was it that the Ukraine was about to be defeated? Again, no, the Russians were happy to advance a few kilometers here and there, with their main objective the establishment of a buffer zone wide enough so that Ukrainian artillery would stop shelling what are now Russian civilian districts.

Was it that NATO ran out of weapons and ammo to give to the Ukrainians? Again, no, there is still quite a lot of semi-obsolete junk that could be handed over to the Ukrainians.

So, what did the Ukrainians do to raise the ire of the Pentagon so suddenly, and as a direct consequence, fall into disfavor with NATO?

In short, the Ukrainians demonstrated that NATO's weapons are crap.

Evidence of this built up slowly over time.

First, it turned out that various bits of US-made shoulder-fired junk — anti-aircraft Stingers, anti-tank Javelins, etc — are rather worse than useless in modern combat.

Next, it turned out that the M777 howitzer and the HIMARS rocket complex are rather fragile and aren't field-maintainable.

The next wonder-weapon thrown at the Ukrainian problem was the Patriot missile battery. It was deployed near Kiev and the Russians quickly made a joke of it. They attacked it with their super-cheap Geranium 5 "flying moped" drones, causing it to turn on its active radar, thereby unmasking its position, and then fire off its entire load of rockets — a million dollars' worth! — after which point it just sat there, unmasked and defenseless, and was taken out by a single Russian precision rocket strike.

This was sure to have seriously pissed off US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, whose major personal cash cow happens to be Raytheon, the maker of the Patriot. Yes, the Patriot proved useless using the First Gulf War, where it failed to protect Israel against ancient Iraqi Scud missiles; and it proved useless later on when it failed to protect Saudi oil installation against ancient Yemeni Scud missiles... but you aren't supposed to advertise that fact. And now this!

And to top it all off, the German-donated Leopard 2 tanks and the US-donated Bradley infantry vehicles, not to mention the silly French wheeled non-tanks, performed absolutely miserably during the recent Ukrainian efforts to approach, never mind penetrate, Russia's first line of defense. Rubbing salt into the wounds, Putin remarked off-the-cuff that Western armor burns rather more easily than the old Soviet-made stuff.

The latest desperate move would be to give the Ukrainian air force (which, by the way, no longer exists) some older F-16 fighter jets. These can be anywhere up to 50 years old and are peculiar in having an air intake that's very close to the ground, making them very effective as runway vacuum cleaners during takeoff. They cannot operate from the dirty and pitted runways that are typical in the Ukraine because the debris would get sucked into the engine and destroy it. If the Ukrainians attempt to pave new runways for them, the Russians would instantly spot this from the geosynchronous satellite that is permanently pointed at Ukrainian territory. Rather than put some fresh bomb craters on these new runways, they could do something more subtle: use one of their super-cheap Geranium 2's to spread metal shaving for the F-16's engines to vacuum up... and burn up in flight. And since these are single-engine planes, there is no possibility of limping home on the remaining engine: the pilot would have to catapult and the plane would crash. But there is an even more important reason why the idea of giving F-16's for the Ukraine is unworkable: these planes are able to carry nuclear bombs and Russia has already announced that it would see this step as a nuclear escalation. But provoking a nuclear conflict with Russia is verboten, so F-16's are a no-go.

Why is the failure of relentlessly propagandized Western weaponry more important than just about anything else, including the increasingly dire state of Western finances, the ridiculous failure of anti-Russian sanctions, the obscenely huge numbers of Ukrainian casualties or the general Western fatigue with all things Ukrainian and especially with the flood of Ukrainian refugees that the West can no longer cope with?

The reason is simple: NATO is not a defensive organization (remember, USSR has been gone for over 30 years); nor is it an offensive organization (well, it did bomb Serbia and a few other relatively defenseless countries, but it can't possibly think about facing off against Russia or any other well-armed nation).

Rather, NATO is a captive buyers' club for US-made weapons. That is what vaunted NATO standards, with which the Ukraine must comply before it is deemed worthy to be invited to join NATO, are all about: to comply with these standards, your weapons have to be mostly US-made. That is also the reason for all of the various wars of choice, from Serbia to Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya and Syria: these were demonstration projects for US weapons, with the additional goal of using up the weapons and the munitions so that the Pentagon and the rest of NATO would have to reorder them. The geopolitical rationales for these military conflicts are mere rationalizations. For instance, between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. dropped more than 2.5 million tons of bombs on Laos during 580,000 bombing sorties—equal to a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years. What was the geopolitical rationale? Nobody can even remember if there ever was one. But those bombs were about to expire and needed to be used up and reordered to keep the money flowing.

In response to such strange inducements, US-made weapons tend to be overly complex (so that their makers can charge more for the useless extra features) and rather fragile (never tested against a peer adversary like Russia or China, or even against Iran), developed slowly (to clean up on R&D funding), built slowly (because what's the rush?) and very high-maintenance (so that US defense contractors can get even richer delivering spare parts and service). These weapons were supposed to be tested every so gently by giving hell to backward tribesmen armed with old Kalashnikovs and RPGs.

Ukraine is a different story altogether. There, the Ukrainians, with their mismatched hand-me-down Western armor, are being asked to penetrate three lines of hardened Russian defenses. After about a month of effort and staggering losses of men and equipment, they haven't yet been able to reach the first defensive line. The sight of Western armor ablaze does not make good advertising. Consequently, the US defense contractors must be very eager to stop this steady stream of negative advertising for their products to stop right this second — before their reputations end up completely ruined; hence the unseemly haste with which the entire Ukrainian project is being orphaned.

The alternative to active warfare, now that that's failed, is what in the West is usually called "negotiation" but in reality would involve acceding to Russian demands made in November of 2021 (which include NATO rolling back its weapons to where they were in 1997), plus more recent requirements, such as denazification, demilitarization and neutrality for what remains of the Ukraine, recognition of Russia's new borders (which include Crimea, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Lugansk regions) and prosecution for all of the Ukrainian war criminals, including all the ones that have been torturing prisoners of war and shelling civilians since 2014. Oh, and the lifting of all the insipid sanctions would be required as well.

But this is rather a lot to take in at a single sitting, and so NATO has decided to take lots of bite-sized pieces. The official NATO document linked above is maximally verbose and full of fluff, but a close reading of its turgid bureaucratese will reveal quite a number of concessions, or at least hints at concessions:

"We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when Allies agree and conditions are met." To use a vernacular Russian saying, this will happen "when a crawfish up on a mountain whistles" — i.e., never. That is, the Ukraine will never become part of NATO.

"The circumstances in which NATO might have to use nuclear weapons are extremely remote." Translation: We're standing down! Please don't kill us! Apparently, NATO heads have been briefed on the capabilities of Russia's new strategic weapons, both offensive and defensive, and don't want to even consider any sort of direct military confrontation with Russia.

"We urge all countries not to provide any kind of assistance to Russia’s aggression..." Translation: we wish they would stop, although we've asked enough times already and they haven't listened and so we aren't holding out much hope that they will listen now.

"The deepening strategic partnership between the PRC and Russia and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules-based international order run counter to our values and interests." But the deepening strategic partnership is entirely congruent with both Russia's and China's values and interests and they aren't about to ask anyone for permission. Yammering on about the "rules-based international order," even though it no longer exists, is a bit pathetic, but what else is there left for them to do? Boo-hoo!

"Russia’s deepening military integration with Belarus, including the deployment of advanced Russian military capabilities and military personnel in Belarus, has implications for regional stability and the defence of the Alliance." Well, that's exactly what that military integration was designed to accomplish and it's good that they've noticed. The implication is that NATO will never mess with Belarus again.

"We remain willing to keep open channels of communication with Moscow to manage and mitigate risks, prevent escalation, and increase transparency." That's welcome news indeed! Phone the Kremlin any time you want to hear a recitation of Russia's security demands, to refresh your memory.

"The People’s Republic of China’s stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, security and values." And NATO's interests and values challenge the PRC and its security, so we're at an impasse. In other news, Russia just passed a law banning all sex change operations; how does that comply with "Western values"? Come on, shake your tiny fists in impotent rage!

"NATO does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia. In light of its hostile policies and actions, we cannot consider Russia to be our partner." And in light of NATO's hostile policies and actions, Russia considers NATO countries to be hostile nations (and certainly not partners). How does giving weapons to Ukrainian Nazis not pose a threat to Russia?

"We reiterate our clear determination that Iran must never develop a nuclear weapon. We remain deeply concerned about Iran’s escalation of its nuclear programme." So, Iran is the only country that toothless old NATO can still find the courage to bark at. That seems safe, since by now Iran can't even hear them.

And that's where it stands.

Europe looks in horror at the US, which is still its weapons purveyor and security guarantor, but is headed by a barely functioning senile old man whose furious outbursts are causing his cabinet members to shy away from the Oval Office, and whose only possible replacement — the imbecilic, cackling Kamala — would hardly be any better.

It may be slowly dawning on some of the more lucid European leaders that a way of backing out of the Russophobic cul-de-sac, of their own creation, in which they now find themselves, must somehow be found, but they see no way of achieving that without a massive loss of face.

Let's give it another year and see whether by then they still have a face to save.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/incredible-shrinking-nato

[Vicus]

Just to remember... (2)

2 of the "west rebuilder" after WW2...

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[Vicus]

The Russian Armies are advancing: the Ukrainians are evacuating Liman-Kupiansk-Kharkov! – The Russians took Novoselifsk and Anat. Zerebets
Ukrainians move defense companies out of Kharkiv - New records
15/07/2023 - 21:38

Kiev ordered the local administration of the settlements of Kupyansk and Liman to withdraw and immediately prepare to defend Kharkiv as Russian troops advanced six kilometers into Ukrainian defenses.

The Russians captured the settlement of Novoselevskoe after eight months of fighting and cleared the entire area east of the Zerebets River and NE of Torski.

Both are very important successes for the Russians. Especially in the area of ​​Zerebets they occupied two dominant heights unifying their forces opening a way to Krasny Liman.

The Russians have the absolute initiative of the movements in the region, something that has worried Kiev a lot. The movements of the Ukrainians in Kharkiv show that the time of the Russian attack on the city is approaching.

The British have long reported the concentration of a very strong Russian force of around 120,000 troops in the Kremina area.

Read also: They were taken in a row: Disorderly retreat of the Ukrainians on the Svatovo-Kremina axis – The Russians entered the center of Torske and pressed on... Seversk!

Video: Commando action of Russian forces in the forest of Kremina

Video: Operators of a UAV spotted Ukrainian forces in the area of ​​Torske in Kremina

Russian advance 6 km deep towards Kupiansk and Liman
The Ukrainian General Staff in the morning report recognized the Russian advance in several sectors at once, in the Krasnolimansky direction west of the Dibrova settlement and east of Novosadovo.


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UKRAINE HAS LAUNCHED AN ATTACK AGAINST RUSSIA'S KURSK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT! 15 JULY 2023

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The Ukraine government has launched a drone attack against Russia's Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, shown above. Thankfully, Russian air defenses caused the drone to go down just 4km from the plant as shown in the video below. The plant WAS NOT damaged.

The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant is located in western Russia, about 100km from the Ukraine Border, as shown on the scalable map below:

Ukraine fired what is initially described as a "kamikaze drone" at the plant, but the brief video below sounds far more like an actual missile, than a drone:


https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-has-launched-an-attack-against-russia-s-kursh-nuclear-power-plant

[shaberon]

But then what is NATO's core mission?

Rather, NATO is a captive buyers' club for US-made weapons.



I would not say that is the core mission.

NATO is a derivative product of "collective security agreements" as we posted the other day, that were almost personally installed by Nelson Rockefeller and Allen Dulles (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1567571&viewfull=1#post1567571).


It concerns manipulations of South America--a sort of pre-NATO, now somewhat defunct--whose methods passed into the hands of "rabid anti-Communists".

The two things merged in the Truman Doctrine, since "Nazi enemies" were replaced by "Communists" on the turn of a dime, such as from this Critique (https://www.rand.org/pubs/documents/D17910.html) of a recent Brookings Agenda:


Truman's memoirs make clear that he was incensed in December 1945 about Iran and other places where the Communists seemed to him to be on the march (meaning the Straits, Turkey, Japan, China, Korea, among others).

The third goal, protecting other parts of the world than Europe or the United States, is limited again to the case of Communist expansion and is said to be "... both later in time and lesser in importance." This statement is at best unclear. Does it mean that West Europe is more important than all the rest of the world outside the continental United States put together?

In fact it was an event in Asia, the Korean War, that made the NATO Treaty words into flesh. Line 24 mentions the "...Rio pact of 1947 covering 19 Latin American powers, ..." Its language about an attack against any member state being considered an act of aggression against all antedates the NATO Treaty and derives from the Act of Chapultepec in 1945.


Chapultepec was, so to speak, a "first plan", which was soon ratified in a Treaty, abbreviated to TIAR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American_Treaty_of_Reciprocal_Assistance) or "Rio Treaty":


At the Inter-American Conference on the Problems of War and Peace, at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City during February and March 1945, discussions of the post-war world order were held by the U.S. secretary of state and by the foreign secretaries of all the Latin American countries except El Salvador and Argentina, resulting in the Act of Chapultepec of 6 March 1945. The Act included a framework for the negotiation of a regional security treaty. It also shaped Latin American pressure during the United Nations conference in San Francisco for clauses in the UN Charter to facilitate regional collective defense, under Article 51.

During the delay, global tensions between the United States and Soviet Union grew. In light of the developing Cold War and following the statement of the Truman Doctrine on 12 March 1947, the United States wished to make those new anti-communist commitments permanent, as did many anti-communist leaders in Latin America.



In 2001, the United States invoked the Rio Treaty after the September 11 attacks.



...several members have breached the treaty on multiple occasions.


As revolutionary and nationalist governments spread through Latin America through the 1950s and 1960s, the fear of a shared enemy that was experienced during WWII dissipated and the idea of defensive cooperation became strained.


In September 2002, citing the Falklands example and anticipating the invasion of Iraq, Mexico formally withdrew from the treaty; after the requisite two years, Mexico ceased to be a signatory in September 2004.

Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, under the leadership of leftist governments, initiated the retirement from the TIAR, a decision which the Obama administration described as "unfortunate" but respected. The treaty was officially denounced by Nicaragua on 20 September 2012, Bolivia on 17 October 2012, Venezuela on 14 May 2013, and Ecuador on 19 February 2014.




The non-official Rockefeller made himself the sole source of the original reporting about South America to the FBI, and more or less rewarded Argentinian Nazis. Allen Dulles, in turn, credits his success as the thing that made NATO possible. The American Secretary of State resigned due to the Nazi favoritism.


It is not that much of a secret about the "security agreements" themselves, but it takes some careful analysis to dig into the non-governmental prop-up of the Nazis, followed by their absolution, and switch to Communism as the "threat". This easily nested in the older anti-Russia stance of the British, who of course had a hand in replacing the Tsars with Communists to begin with. Who cares what kind of government, as long as suppression happens?


When NATO was formed, American weapons were not sub-par, in fact the versatility of the M1 rifle was a tremendous benefit. Probably up to the time of the F-16 it remained a contender. Maybe even the F-18. But now you might have second thoughts about the F-35. This has more to do with the ineffectiveness of Capitalism, compared to more efficient systems. Because Capitalism is not a military doctrine, one might say it "bought" rabid anti-Communism, in about the same way that someone might buy an F-35 today. Misguided, bad plans from listening to "experts".


Like the Rio Treaty, you can simply get out of NATO. In that case, Mexico--the original host where Chapultepec Castle is--in turn becoming the first to withdraw, is exemplary.

NATO is more like the private, secretive expansion of Fascism, doing everything to talk sideways to convince us otherwise.

British Russophobia goes back to the 1700s. Churchill thought Hitler was great. The Third Reich would have probably worked if he had not ignored his generals and attacked Russia--he was a maniacal devotee of British Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory.

I think the strategy is rather continuous, and the "falling behind" of western weaponry is just symptomatic that this strategy does not actually work. They're just wrong. They are not right about anything.

[DNA]

It's looking like things are going back to Syria.
Russia with Iran is preparing to kick the USA out of Syria.
Wow that's crazy.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-iran-coordinating-expel-us-troops-syria-report

[shaberon]

It's looking like things are going back to Syria.
Russia with Iran is preparing to kick the USA out of Syria.




Never left.

This is from the other day, 35 Oil Tankers (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230716/us-ramps-up-systematic-looting-of-syrian-oil-ships-35-tankers-out-of-country-1111927580.html) out, 30 cement trucks in:


The US operates about a dozen military bases in Syria, all of them without the permission of the internationally recognized Damascus government. An estimated 90 percent of Syria’s oil and gas resources are concentrated east of the Euphrates River in areas controlled by the US and its Kurdish allies.

However, the US occupation of a third of the country, which also includes much of its most fertile agricultural lands, has turned Syria into a net importer of both energy and food, with Iran and Russia stepping in to assist. Crews of Iranian ocean-going tankers often have to risk life and limb to make it to Syria’s Mediterranean coast to offload their fuel cargoes amid sabotage operations by Israel, a sworn enemy of both Damascus and Tehran.



I am not sure what to make of ZH:


... a high-ranking US military official was quoted as saying that Russian and Iranian forces in Syria have been coordinating with the specific aim of forcing Washington’s troops to eventually withdraw from the country.

The official said that "he's seen signs that Russian military commanders in Syria have been quietly coordinating with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on long-term plans to pressure the United States to withdraw its forces" from Syria...




He hasn't really said anything. More normally:


Syrian and Russian officials have broadly dismissed the US’s allegations, emphasizing that the US presence in Syria is illegal.


But it continues to stop short of a shooting war. Unless you actually shoot them, talk, and plans, have never been found to be effective. Pressure? To sanction the US from Iranian goods? Or? After all, this is the "rules-based order" at work--it listens to nothing.

Concerning the shooting, yes, one Iranian missile on the U. S. barracks a few years ago was definitely a message with some pressure on it.

The removal of Israel would perhaps be one such form of pressure. It is not our ally, since we have no defense pact. That does not mean most of the known world would not rush to its assistance, just that it is not legally compelled.

Or, a drastic change of the U. S. from within could do it, and, if Al Quds can help me figure out how to pull it off, I'm listening. After all, it is our House of Representatives which has been terribly interested in more weapons to Ukraine, and this is the branch that represents "the people", like me, but they didn't ask. I tend to think our least-damaging fallout would be secession, and maybe make new countries out of a few regional blocs.

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A video has emerged of the Crimean Bridge emergency. The video is graphic, depicting the horror experienced by the occupants of a vehicle. A woman was conscious and had been thrown partially through the windshield. Other occupants appeared to be dead.

"Someone" is responsible for this. I mean an actual person. Not a country, not an ideology, a person.

Someone pushed a button, or guided a surface drone, or packed explosives. Who does this to innocent civilians who have no direct involvement in a war? There was no military target here. This is pure terrorism.

Americans wake up! On 11 September 2001, the Pentagon, as well as purely civilian targets in America, were attacked, and thousands of innocent people died. Do you remember how you felt on that day, Americans? Was an attack on your civilians warranted?

You obviously answered, "No." Well then, how is it that constant terror attacks on Russian people are ok in your thinking?

Do you remember how angry you were on 12 September 2001? You wanted revenge. You wanted an immediate response and dead terrorists on television.

So, do you not understand how the Russian people feel when their innocent people are constantly killed in acts of terrorism?

I will not speak for the Russian people and say they want an expanded war. It is for them to express their feelings themselves.

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1680789305243975680

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https://twitter.com/RoyalIntel_/status/1680815977636798464

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[Ravenlocke]

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Attack on the Crimean Bridge - What is known as of 10.00?

After the morning attack in the Network appeared footage of damaged supports. Judging by the photo and video footage, the explosion actually occurred under the bridge, causing the structure to be thrown up onto the supports.

However, there is no complete destruction, which will significantly reduce the repair time. This indirectly confirms that an uncrewed boat was used for the strike, which approached the target from the waters of the Sea of Azov.

The Ukrainian authorities admitted to organizing a terrorist attack that killed a civilian man and a woman, and their daughter is in hospital. It was quite obvious that the Ukrainian armed forces would try to repeat last year's result against the background of the end of the "grain deal".
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https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1680839438207975424

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Resident UA TG Channel: Our source in the Ukrainian president’s office said that the attack on the Crimean bridge was carried out using the British REMUS 600 autonomous underwater robot with an additional load of explosives. Thanks to its ability to move under water at a depth of up to 600 meters and easy control from a laptop, it was launched from a civilian vessel in the Black Sea, it has a flight duration of about 70 hours at a speed of up to 5 knots. With increased cargo capacity, it has a range of 286 nautical miles, almost 500 km.

—Source resident_ua

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1680888453246877696

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https://twitter.com/BrianJBerletic/status/1680891742181294081

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https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680868006748905472

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Drone strikes are expected in Nikolaev, Chernigov and Sumy regions.

As we reported earlier, the commission of terrorist attacks has no effect on the fulfilment of combat missions using Geran-2 drones and combat aviation. Yesterday there was a massive strike on the industrial zone of Kharkov and in Zaporozhye, today the combat work continues in the northern border area, as well as in the southern regions of Ukraine. You can't call it a military response, because it's likely to come a little later, but the planned practice on air defence facilities, AFU depots and locations with personnel appears to be on schedule.

#source

@Slavyangrad
https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1680912405616893952

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[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine Will Never Be In NATO Says Former US Ambassador to NATO:

KX2i8Z1ns5g

[Vicus]

Belarusian troops receive Wagner training 16 Jul, 2023

Fighters from the PMC are sharing their experience from the Ukraine conflict with local territorial defense units, according to Minsk

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Less than a month after launching a short-lived mutiny in Russia, members of the Wagner private military company are training Belarusian troops and sharing the battlefield experience they gained from the Ukraine conflict, according to the Defense Ministry in Minsk.

In a statement on Friday, the ministry said that together with the Wagner leadership it had developed a “road map” for military training and sharing experience.

It also noted that Wagner troops were instructing Belarusian territorial defense forces in exercises near the town of Osipovichi in the central part of the country. The drills focused mainly on tactical movements across the battlefield as well as firearms, engineering, and first aid training, according to the statement.

Voyen TV, an outlet affiliated with the Belarusian Defense Ministry, shared footage of the exercises involving territorial defense forces, which are typically tasked with protecting borders and strategic facilities. Several unnamed soldiers interviewed by the channel praised Wagner’s battlefield experience.

“Listening to them is very interesting, of course. They have seen live action, and this experience is very useful for the Belarusian army. We have not taken part in hostilities since the end of the Afghan War,” he said, referring to the Soviet-era conflict that lasted from 1979 to 1989.

Wagner troops were given the option of either to returning to civilian life, signing contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry, or moving to Belarus. Earlier this month, Lukashenko suggested that fighters from the PMC could be used to defend the country, adding that he was “not worried” about Wagner’s presence.

https://www.rt.com/russia/579784-wagner-belarus-training/

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Russian Forces Destroy Enemy Infantry Trying to Attack in Zaporozhye Direction 14 hours ago

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Service members of the Russian "Vostok" Group of Forces have destroyed all Ukrainian infantry groups that were trying to attack in the Zaporozhye direction, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson told Sputnik.

"In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy made attempts to attack our positions with small groups of infantry… All groups have been destroyed," the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added that, in the south Donetsk direction, the "Vostok" Group of Forces has been systematically attacking Ukrainian troops, having destroyed a pickup truck with nationalists and two mortar crews.
Russian aerial reconnaissance has uncovered a concentration of nationalists in the Novodaryevka area, which was then destroyed by artillery fire, the spokesperson told Sputnik.

In addition, Russian forces have destroyed the command and observation post of the Ukrainian military in one of the sectors of the south Donetsk direction and prevented a planned attack.

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For all us who cant Russian language (yet)... a practical map until the end. :sherlock:

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“They know they lost. Their troops are falling apart. Today, Defense Minister Shoigu announced an offensive in the Liman direction. And this is clearly aimed, as far as I can tell, at Kharkov. So the Russians are now on the offensive in the northeast of the defensive lines. To Kharkov through Liman. And what is this man, Zelensky, most likely to do with weapons that are capable of hitting Russian territory? He will launch them. Why are you even giving him anything? Because he is desperate and wants to drag us into the war.”

What is important to understand, is that Zelensky is a puppet, and Ukraine a vassal state, this is a proxy war. Zelensky’s wishes are of no consequences, it’s the puppet masters, that have been engineering a conflict against Russia for decades, they are the ones sending weapons and money to drag and escalate the conflict.

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According to Business Insider, almost a third of the Bradley IFVs supplied to Ukraine by the US have been lost or damaged.

It is reliably known that 28 to 34 of the 109 M2 Bradley IFVs have been taken out of service.

America needs another day of celebration, or rather a day of mourning for the destroyed military equipment and the taxes of ordinary citizens.

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Russia's main objections to the grain deal:

The Black Sea Initiative was concluded almost a year ago, on 22 July 2022, and in addition to the export of foodstuffs from Ukraine, provided for the fulfilment of a number of Russian conditions, which have been sabotaged:

🔹 Rosselkhozbank has not been reconnected to SWIFT for a year.

🔹 The Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline did not work and was undermined in Kiev-controlled territory in June.

🔹 Food from Ukraine has not been sent to the poorest countries in Africa and Asia, despite the original deal being aimed at preventing a global food crisis.

🔸The humanitarian corridor for ships to pass through was used by Ukraine to attack Sevastopol both last year and this year.

Today, Dmitry Peskov said that the deal would be "terminated". At the same time, he said that Russia would return to the deal as soon as the agreements on it were fulfilled.

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Russian Offensive in Kharkov

The Russian army has launched an offensive in the Kupyansk direction, according to the Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

"The goal of the Russian troops is to defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk area and continue the offensive deep into Ukrainian battle formations," stated Syrsky.

Kharkov governor also mentioned a Russian offensive in Kupyansk earlier today

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Russia: Kiev committed a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, we are checking the involvement of the West

"Civilians Aleksej and Natalija Kulik, residents of the Novooskolj city district of the Belgorod region, who were crossing the bridge by car, died. Their 14-year-old daughter Angelina was left an orphan and was hospitalized in a medium serious condition," the Russian MSP announced.

If it is revealed that the drones that attacked the bridge are of Western origin or that Western countries are involved in the planning, financing and execution of this operation, this will confirm their complicity in the terrorist activities of the Kiev regime, concludes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

Russia strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, which is a purely civilian object, hoping that the international community will show integrity and provide an appropriate assessment of the crimes committed by the Ukrainian authorities.

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Putin pointed out that the "good news" is that the columns of the Crimean bridge were not damaged, "and that is the most important thing".

The Russian president said that he is waiting for concrete proposals to improve security on the Crimean bridge, because this is the second terrorist attack on a strategically important transport facility

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Russia's response to the terrorist attack will certainly follow, with the Russian Ministry of Defense already preparing relevant proposals, says Putin.

Key statements from Putin regarding the explosion on the Crimean Bridge:

It is necessary to provide all the necessary assistance to the girl injured in the terrorist attack on the bridge and her relatives.

Reconstruction work on the Crimean Bridge should begin promptly.

Putin is waiting for specific proposals to enhance security on the Crimean Bridge.

It is important to provide comprehensive support to people who have been affected by the closure of the Crimean Bridge.

Putin has instructed to thoroughly investigate the incident on the Crimean Bridge.

Putin referred to the undamaged supports of the Crimean Bridge as "good news" and emphasized it as the most important aspect.

The terrorist attack by the Kiev regime on the Crimean Bridge was not only senseless but also cruel, as innocent civilians lost their lives.

Putin holds Kiev responsible for the attack of unmanned naval vehicles on the Crimean Bridge.

The situation after the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge is "generally clear."

Putin deemed Kiev's attack on the Crimean Bridge as meaningless from a military perspective.

Russia will respond to the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, with the Ministry of Defense preparing proposals.

The Crimean Bridge has long ceased to be used for military transportation.
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New details of yesterday's massive strike on Kharkov from Napravets in Ukraine...

"In Kharkov last night, two S-300 missiles attacked the dormitory of the Law Academy of Yaroslav the Wise (Dinamovskaya St., 4)

The facility was a temporary accommodation for foreign mercenaries. Immediately after the strikes, several ambulances arrived on the territory of the building. There is information that up to 30 militants were liquidated and wounded."

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Putin vows retaliation for new Crimean Bridge strike

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed retaliation for a new strike on the Crimean Bridge, targeted by two Ukrainian naval drones overnight. Exact retaliatory measures are currently being weighed by the country’s Defense Ministry, he said during an extraordinary meeting with senior officials on Monday.

“The incident is a yet another terrorist attack by the Kiev regime. This crime is pointless from the military point of view, since the Crimean Bridge has long not been used for military transport, and brutal, since only innocent civilians were killed and injured,” the president stressed.

Putin said Moscow would retaliate harshly for the attack. The Russian Defense Ministry is already preparing “necessary proposals” for such measures, he added.

The president also urged officials to ramp up security measures around the bridge, noting that this marks the second such blow against it. Both the road and railway sections were heavily damaged last October, when a truck packed with explosives was detonated on the bridge.

“I am waiting for specific proposals to improve the security of this strategically important transport facility,” Putin added.

The bridge received considerable damage in the new attack, with one of its road sections “completely destroyed,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, tasked with organizing repairs to the structure, said during the meeting. However, he told the president that the bridge’s pillars had not been damaged in the blast.

“That’s good news. If we can speak about some good news here at all. But the fact that the pillars are not damaged is the most important thing,” Putin replied.

The morning blasts, believed to have been caused by seaborne drones, killed two Russian civilians who were traveling across the bridge in a vehicle, and left their now orphaned 14-year-old daughter injured.

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