WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1680922215850573825

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https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1680698987651686405

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[Rizotto]

You'll never hear about this on MSM:
Almost half of Poland's population opposes Ukraine joining NATO.
Poland has grievances against the nazi Banderista regime running Ukraine.

Anti Ukraine PROTESTS In POLAND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDjaSYIw9Cg

[Tintin]

A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky - Part 2

Scott's description:


In the intelligence business, every agent is assigned tasks by his or her handlers. In the case of Agent Zelensky, I’ve identified ten obligations that define his relationship with his foreign intelligence masters. Once you’ve examined each of these, it becomes clear why Zelensky the comedian said one thing, and Zelensky the President did another. What are the true reasons behind the current situation in Ukraine today? What kind of operation has the CIA been running in Ukraine over the course of many years? You will find the answers to these and other questions in Part 2 of my investigative documentary film, “Agent Zelensky.” Click here to watch Part 1.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Agent_Zelensky_Part_2_A_Scott_Ritter_Investigation_by_Scott_Ritter_%28July_2023%29.mp4

As reported a couple of pages back on this thread Part 1 was released a week or so ago and can be viewed here (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Agent_Zelensky_Part_1_A_Scott_Ritter_Investigation_by_Scott_Ritter_%28July_2023%29.mp4).

[Bill Ryan]

Just published, a new summary from The Moon of Alabama.


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-sitrep-reality-is-defeating-the-war-narrative.html#more

Ukraine Sitrep - Reality is Defeating the War Narrative

At the beginning of the war in Ukraine I pointed out that the false narrative of 'Ukraine is winning' which the 'western' propaganda steadily promoted would not win the real war on the ground.

As the war continued I made the point again and again.


Propaganda Does Not Change The War - The Ukraine Is Still Losing - Updated (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/propaganda-does-not-change-the-war-the-ukraine-is-still-losing.html) - March 25, 2022
Ukraine - War Propaganda And News Items (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/ukraine-war-propaganda-and-news-items.html) - October 11, 2022
No - Such Propaganda Delusions Will Not Win The War (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/no-such-propaganda-delusions-will-not-win-the-war.html) - June 07, 2023

In this week's SCF column Alastair Crooke makes the same point in much more detail.

A Bonfire of the Vanities (https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/07/17/a-bonfire-of-the-vanities/)
Hubris consists in believing that a contrived narrative can, in and of itself, bring victory. It is a fantasy that has swept through the West – most emphatically since the 17th century. Recently, the Daily Telegraph published a ridiculous nine minute video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts4JS2NVtqs) purporting to show that ‘narratives win wars’, and that set-backs in the battlespace are incidentals: What matters is to have a thread of unitary narrative articulated, both vertically and horizontally, throughout the spectrum – from the special forces’ soldier in the field through to the pinnacle of the political apex.
The gist of it is that ‘we’ (the West) have compelling a narrative, whilst Russia’s is ‘clunky’ – ‘Us winning therefore, is inevitable’.
It is easy to scoff, but nonetheless we can recognise in it a certain substance (even if that substance is an invention). Narrative is now how western élites imagine the world.
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The weakness to this new ‘liberal’ authoritarianism is that its key narrative myths can get busted. One just has; slowly, people begin to speak reality.
Ukraine: How do you win an unwinnable war? Well, the élite answer has been through narrative. By insisting against reality that Ukraine is winning, and Russia is ‘cracking’. But such hubris eventually is busted by facts on the ground. Even the western ruling classes can see their demand for a successful Ukrainian offensive has flopped. At the end, military facts are more powerful than political waffle: One side is destroyed, its many dead become the tragic ‘agency’ to upending dogma.
Even as reality seeps out the narrative of a 'successful' western battle tactics in form of combined arms warfare gets reinforced.

Ukraine aims to sap Russia’s defenses, as U.S. urges a decisive breakthrough (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/18/ukraine-counter-offensive-weapons-tactics/) - Washington Post
Western officials and analysts say Ukraine’s military has so far embraced an attrition-based approach aimed largely at creating vulnerabilities in Russian lines by firing artillery and missiles at command, transport and logistics sites at the rear of the Russian position, instead of conducting what Western military officials call “combined arms” operations that involve coordinated maneuvers by large groups of tanks, armored vehicles, infantry, artillery and, sometimes, air power. Ukraine’s military leaders argue that, lacking aviation might, they must avoid unnecessary losses against an adversary with a far larger pool of recruits and weaponry. To preserve manpower, Ukraine has fielded just four of a dozen trained brigades in the current campaign.
A new element in the narrative is that Ukraine is loosing because it does not use the glorious combined arms operations 'western' military told them to use.

Franz-Stefan Gady, from the British International Institute for Strategic Studies, has just been in Ukraine where he talked with Ukrainian soldiers and commanders at the frontline. In a Twitter thread he summarizes (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1681240456754077697.html) what he has seen but is strongly promoting the same narrative:
By and large this is an infantryman’s fight (squad, platoon & company level) supported by artillery along most of the frontline. This has several implications:
1st: Progress is measured by yards/meters and not km/miles given reduced mobility.
2nd: Mechanized formations are rarely deployed due to lack of enablers for maneuver. This includes insufficient quantities of de-mining equipment, air defenses, ATGMs etc. 2.) Ukrainian forces have still not mastered combined arms operations at scale. Operations are more sequential than synchronized. This creates various problems for the offense & IMO is the main cause for slow progress.
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4.) Minefields are a problem as most observers know. They confine maneuver space & slow advances. But much more impactful than the minefields per se on Ukraine’s ability to break through Russian defenses is 🇺🇦s inability to conduct complex combined arms operations at scale.
Lack of a comprehensive combined arms approach at scale makes Ukrainian forces more vulnerable to Russian ATGMs, artillery etc. while advancing. So it's not just about equipment. There’s simply no systematic pulling apart of the Russian defensive system that I could observe.
The narrative element is the same as in the Washington Post. That the Ukrainians are not using our vaunted combined arms operations is the reason for their failure.

The well synchronized New York Times piece is making the same point (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/us/politics/ukraine-war-cluster-munitions.html):
But that artillery-centric approach raises questions about whether Ukraine has lost confidence in the combined arms tactics — synchronized attacks by infantry, armor and artillery forces — that nine new brigades learned from American and other Western advisers in recent months. Western officials heralded the approach as more efficient than the costly strategy of wearing Russian forces down by attrition and depleting their ammunition stocks. Senior U.S. officials in recent weeks had privately expressed frustration that some Ukrainian commanders, exasperated at the slow pace of the initial assault and fearing increased casualties among their ranks, had reverted to old habits — decades of Soviet-style training in artillery barrages — rather than sticking with the Western tactics and pressing harder to breach the Russian defenses.
However, the narrative is wrong.

The Ukrainian do not fear increased casualties. They did try combined arms warfare in the beginning of the counteroffensive in early June. After a few days of trying again and again they noted that the attacks failed with ever greater losses and were not sustainable. A third of the tanks and other material the 'west' had sent to Ukraine was destroyed in the attempts to use 'fire and maneuver' to break through Russian mine fields and defense lines.

Ukraine then returned to the current 'mosquito tactics' where small groups of infantry soldiers try to make small progress bit by bit. The likely loss of more tanks was thus replaced with the likely loss of more lives.

The narrative element that a combined arms attack would have more success is simply false.

As Crooke explains (https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/07/17/a-bonfire-of-the-vanities/):
The hubris, at one level, lay in NATO’s pitting of its alleged ‘superior’ military doctrine and weapons versus that of a deprecated, Soviet-style, hide-bound, Russian military rigidity – and ‘incompetence’. But military facts on the ground have exposed the western doctrine as hubris – with Ukrainian forces decimated, and its NATO weaponry lying in smoking ruins. It was NATO that insisted on re-enacting the Battle of 73 Easting (from the Iraqi desert, but now translated into Ukraine).
In Iraq, the ‘armoured fist’ punched easily into Iraqi tank formations: It was indeed a thrusting ‘fist’ that knocked the Iraqi opposition ‘for six’. But, as the U.S. commander at that tank battle (Colonel Macgregor), frankly admits, its outcome against a de-motivated opposition largely was fortuitous.
Nonetheless ‘73 Easting’ is a NATO myth, turned into the general doctrine for the Ukrainian forces – a doctrine structured around Iraq’s unique circumstance.
In the first year of the second world war the German Wehrmacht used combined arms warfare to wage its blitzkrieg against inferior adversaries. The tactic failed two years later when it tried to break through solid Soviet defense lines.

In the battle of 73 Easting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_73_Easting) the U.S. army could repeat blitzkrieg tactics because he had air superiority, well trained troops and better weapons. But the circumstance in Ukraine can not be compared to a mobile war in the desert.

--- The Black Sea grain deal has, as we expected (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ap-obfuscates-the-real-grain-deal-numbers-.html), ended. The Ukraine reacted to this anticipated loss with a another successful attack on the Kerch bridge. Road traffic will be hindered or blocked for two or three months but the more important rail lines along the route are still intact.

As the grain deal was expected to fail, the Ukrainians may well have thought of breaking the blockade of its harbors by asking for more ships to come. But the Russia military has now used a large drone and missile attack to make sure that the facilities in Odessa and other Ukrainian Black Sea harbors can no longer be used to load or unload ships. It thus does not make sense for any ships to go there.

--- Over the last week the ground war in east Ukraine has further intensified. In the north of the eastern contact line the Russian army has launched its own attacks. In the center and south the Ukrainians still try to break through Russian defenses. But they are losing about 700 soldiers per day with little to show for the losses.

The Russian's are again concentrating on the defeat of the Ukrainian artillery. Over the last five days they claimed to have destroyed 27 brigade level ammunition depots. Each of these should usually hold around 30 tons of shells and missiles. Thus such attacks add up. During those five days the Russians also claimed to have destroyed some 66 Ukrainian artillery pieces. It is race of what will be completely lost first, the ammunition the Ukrainian's can use or the guns that are needed to fire it.

But some Ukrainians still insist on continuing the senseless fight.
War Monitor @WarMonitors - 10:38 UTC · Jul 18, 2023 (https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1681252163622674432) ⚡️“Returning Bakhmut is a matter of honour. We have lost many of our brothers there, we simply must recapture it”— Syrsky during a BBC interview
The way too emotional interview quote is not in the writeup (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66225691) of the BBC interview but I still have not seen a video of it.

That Ukraine has already lost many soldiers in Bakhmut should certainly not be a reason to continue fighting for it. It has by now only symbolic value. Even it would again change hands it would not change the trajectory of the bigger war.

Ukraine is loosing that war. The Jig Is Up (https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/the-jig-is-up) and NATO knows it. Ukraine will never be allowed to become a member.

A new narrative element is creeping in with talks about a ceasefire in Ukraine. It would give the Ukraine time to refit its military.

But Russia has absolutely no reason to agree to a pause in the fight. During the war its military has become larger and better and a total defeat of the Ukrainian army is only a question of time.

The U.S. and NATO will soon have lost their big proxy war against Russia.

In light of this reality the much larger, centuries old narrative of the superior West is also breaking down.

This will have global consequences for decades to come.

[Vicus]

Ukrainian naval terror drone bases destroyed – Moscow 18 Jul, 2023 09:15

The strikes came in retaliation to the Crimean Bridge attack, which claimed two civilian lives

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.07/thumbnail/64b65bc92030272264746a9d.jpg
Launch of a high-precision Kalibr cruise missile from a surface ship.

The Russian military has conducted strikes on Ukrainian facilities used to prepare terrorist attacks, the Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday. The attacks were carried out in retaliation to Monday’s attack on the Crimean Bridge, which claimed two civilian lives and left one child injured.

In a statement, the ministry said that Russian forces overnight launched “a group retaliatory strike” using high-precision sea-based weapons. The attack was aimed at facilities that were used to prepare “terrorist acts” against Russia involving unmanned drones, as well as the shipyard in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa that produced them, it added.

Apart from this, the barrage targeted depots in Odessa and Nikolaev that contained around 70,000 tons of fuel meant for the Ukrainian military. “All designated targets have been hit. Fires and detonations have been registered at the destroyed facilities,” according to the statement.

On Tuesday, Sergey Bratchuk, the head of the Odessa administration, reported a rocket attack on the city which involved six Kalibr missiles, but claimed that all of them had been downed. However, he noted that “port infrastructure facilities” and several other buildings were damaged in the strike.

Vitaly Kim, the head of the Nikolaev administration, said the attack hit “an industrial facility,” causing a fire that was promptly extinguished.

Unverified footage circulating on social media shows Ukrainian air defenses firing at an unknown target in Odessa Region, with a powerful explosion occurring several seconds later. Local media suggested that the strike could have destroyed a German-supplied Gepard air defense system.

https://www.rt.com/russia/579886-ukrainian-centers-terrorist-attacks-destroyed/

[ExomatrixTV]

Tucker Schools GOP On How To End Ukraine War:

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson moderated this past Friday’s Family Leadership Summit, a prominent Iowa gathering of conservative Christians attended by several GOP 2024 contenders, and he put them through their paces. Specifically, Carlson challenged candidate Tim Scott about his support for spending more than $100 billion on the Ukraine war effort and lack of interest in pursuing peace.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the challenge posed by Carlson to candidates used to softball questions and fawning appreciation for their warmongering.

[Michel Leclerc]

A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky - Part 2

Scott's description:


In the intelligence business, every agent is assigned tasks by his or her handlers. In the case of Agent Zelensky, I’ve identified ten obligations that define his relationship with his foreign intelligence masters. Once you’ve examined each of these, it becomes clear why Zelensky the comedian said one thing, and Zelensky the President did another. What are the true reasons behind the current situation in Ukraine today? What kind of operation has the CIA been running in Ukraine over the course of many years? You will find the answers to these and other questions in Part 2 of my investigative documentary film, “Agent Zelensky.” Click here to watch Part 1.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Agent_Zelensky_Part_2_A_Scott_Ritter_Investigation_by_Scott_Ritter_%28July_2023%29.mp4

As reported a couple of pages back on this thread Part 1 was released a week or so ago and can be viewed here (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Agent_Zelensky_Part_1_A_Scott_Ritter_Investigation_by_Scott_Ritter_%28July_2023%29.mp4).

Thank you Tintin. This is of great importance -- but unbearable to watch, or rather listen to. The continuous loud racing music from Mission Impossible Minus 1 is both painful and grotesque. What kind of consulting did Ritter buy? I have grown very suspicious of people who want to stomp messages into my gut using post-pre-Techno music. Obliterating what interviewees actually say. And with hyperspeed train images flashing by. To hell with them all!

[Rizotto]

Agreed with that! Let's send that message to Scott Ritter, en masse. Perhaps he could reproduce those videos minus the 'music'.

[ExomatrixTV]

1681627543609253888


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will run for Presidency Challenging Joe Biden 2024 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120744-Robert-F.-Kennedy-Jr.-will-run-for-Presidency-Challenging-Joe-Biden-2024)

[Gwin Ru]

...

... Scott Ritter – Ukraine Provokes with Bridge Assault (https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=271242) 16:49

(https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=271238)
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Kerch-Bridge-damage-repair-150x150.png (https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=271242)


The Ukrainian attack on the Kersch bridge was intended to provoke a Russian strike on Odessa. By so doing, Scott Ritter argues, Kiev had hoped to put grain exports from Odessa in jeopardy so that with the prospect of food shortages looming globally, Ukraine could then call for international military intervention to resolve the crisis.

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(https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=271242)

[Bill Ryan]

The Ukrainian attack on the Kersch bridge was intended to provoke a Russian strike on Odessa.Well, that happened last night. :flower: Odessa's port (not the city, which the Russians want to protect) was hammered by multiple and intense missile and drone attacks.

[ExomatrixTV]

The Real History of the War in Ukraine

A Chronology of Events and Case for Diplomacy

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By Jeffrey D. Sachs (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=%22Jeffrey%20D.%20Sachs%22), Special to The Kennedy Beacon

The American people urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine and its current prospects. Unfortunately, the mainstream media ––The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN –– have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating US President Joe Biden’s lies and hiding history from the public.

Biden is again denigrating Russian President Vladimir Putin, this time accusing Putin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65kK2VI15fc) of a “craven lust for land and power,” after declaring last year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD3VG5zhLIk) that “For God’s sake, that man [Putin] cannot stay in power.” Yet Biden is the one who is trapping Ukraine in an open-ended war by continuing to push NATO enlargement to Ukraine. He is afraid to tell the truth to the American and Ukrainian people, rejecting diplomacy, and opting instead for perpetual war.

Expanding NATO to Ukraine, which Biden has long promoted, is a U.S. gambit that has failed. The neocons, including Biden, thought from the late 1990s onward that the US could expand NATO to Ukraine (and Georgia) despite Russia’s vociferous and long-standing opposition. They didn’t believe that Putin would actually go to war over NATO expansion.

Yet for Russia, NATO enlargement to Ukraine (and Georgia) is viewed as an existential threat to Russia’s national security, notably given Russia’s 2,000-km border with Ukraine, and Georgia’s strategic position on the eastern edge of the Black Sea. U.S. diplomats have explained this basic reality to U.S. politicians and generals for decades, but the politicians and generals have arrogantly and crudely persisted in pushing NATO enlargement nonetheless.

At this point, Biden knows full well that NATO enlargement to Ukraine would trigger World War III. That’s why behind the scenes Biden put NATO enlargement into low gear at the Vilnius NATO Summit. Yet rather than admit the truth – that Ukraine will not be part of NATO – Biden prevaricates, promising Ukraine’s eventual membership. In reality, he is committing Ukraine to ongoing bloodletting for no reason other than U.S. domestic politics, specifically Biden’s fear of looking weak to his political foes. (A half-century ago, Presidents Johnson and Nixon sustained the Vietnam War for essentially the same pathetic reason, and with the same lying, as the late Daniel Ellsberg brilliantly explained (https://archive.org/details/TheQuagmireMythAndTheStalemateMachine).)

Ukraine can’t win. Russia is more likely than not to prevail on the battlefield, as it seems now to be doing. Yet even if Ukraine were to break through with conventional forces and NATO weaponry, Russia would escalate to nuclear war if necessary to prevent NATO in Ukraine.

Throughout his entire career, Biden has served the military-industrial complex. He has relentlessly promoted NATO enlargement and supported America’s deeply destabilizing wars of choice in Afghanistan, Serbia, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and now Ukraine. He defers to generals who want more war and more “surges,” and who predict imminent victory just ahead (https://kyivindependent.com/retired-us-general-petraeus-this-is-ukraines-own-greatest-generation/) to keep the gullible public onside.

Moreover, Biden and his team (Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Victoria Nuland) seem to have believed their own propaganda that Western sanctions would strangle the Russian economy, while miracle weapons such as HIMARS would defeat Russia. And all the while, they have been telling Americans to pay no attention to Russia’s 6,000 nuclear weapons.

Ukrainian leaders have gone along with the US deception for reasons that are hard to fathom. Perhaps they believe the US, or are afraid of the US, or fear their own extremists, or simply are extremists, ready to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to death and injury in the naïve belief that Ukraine can defeat a nuclear superpower that regards the war as existential. Or possibly some of the Ukrainian leaders are making fortunes by skimming from the tens of billions of dollars of Western aid and arms.

The only way to save Ukraine is a negotiated peace. In a negotiated settlement, the US would agree that NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine while Russia would agree to withdraw its troops. Remaining issues – Crimea, the Donbas, US and European sanctions, the future of European security arrangements – would be handled politically, not by endless war.

Russia has repeatedly tried negotiations: to try to forestall the eastward enlargement of NATO; to try to find suitable security arrangements with the US and Europe; to try to settle inter-ethnic issues in Ukraine after 2014 (the Minsk I and Minsk II agreements); to try to sustain limits on anti-ballistic missiles; and to try to end the Ukraine war in 2022 via direct negotiations with Ukraine. In all cases, the US government disdained, ignored, or blocked these attempts, often putting forward the big lie that Russia rather than the US rejects negotiations. JFK said it exactly right in 1961: “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” If only Biden would heed JFK’s enduring wisdom.

To help the public move beyond the simplistic narrative of Biden and the mainstream media, I offer a brief chronology of some key events leading to the ongoing war.


January 31, 1990. German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich-Genscher pledges (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16112-document-01-u-s-embassy-bonn-confidential-cable) to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that in the context of German reunification and disbanding of the Soviet Warsaw Pact military alliance, NATO will rule out an “expansion of its territory to the East, i.e., moving it closer to the Soviet borders.”



February 9, 1990. U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III agrees (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early) with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that “NATO expansion is unacceptable.”



June 29 – July 2, 1990. NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner tells a high-level Russian delegation (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16373-document-01-memorandum-boris-yeltsin-about) that “the NATO Council and he [Woerner] are against the expansion of NATO.”



July 1, 1990. Ukrainian Rada (parliament) adopts the Declaration of State Sovereignty (https://static.rada.gov.ua/site/postanova_eng/Declaration_of_State_Sovereignty_of_Ukraine_rev1.htm), in which “The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs and adheres to three nuclear free principles: to accept, to produce and to purchase no nuclear weapons.”



August 24, 1991. Ukraine declares independence (https://files.pca-cpa.org/pcadocs/ua-ru/06.%20RU%20Hearing%20Exhibits/RU-89.pdf) on the basis of the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty, which includes the pledge of neutrality.



Mid-1992. Bush Administration policymakers reach a secret internal consensus (https://www.academia.edu/50695483/NATO_enlargement_and_US_foreign_policy_the_origins_durability_and_impact_of_an_idea) to expand NATO, contrary to commitments recently made to the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.



July 8, 1997. At the Madrid NATO Summit (https://www.nato.int/docu/pr/1997/p97-081e.htm), Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic are invited to begin NATO accession talks.



September-October, 1997. In Foreign Affairs (Sept/Oct, 1997) former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski details (https://www.jstor.org/stable/20048199) the timeline for NATO enlargement, with Ukraine’s negotiations provisionally to begin during 2005-2010.



March 24 – June 10, 1999. NATO bombs Serbia. Russia terms the NATO bombing “a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter."



March 2000. Ukrainian President Kuchma declares (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep10340.5.pdf) that "there is no question of Ukraine joining NATO today since this issue is extremely complex and has many angles to it.”



June 13, 2002. The US unilaterally withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Weapons Treaty, an action which the Vice-Chair of the Russian Duma Defense Committee characterizes (https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2002-07/news/us-withdraws-abm-treaty-global-response-muted) as an “extremely negative event of historical scale.”



November-December 2004. The “Orange Revolution” occurs in Ukraine, events that the West characterizes as a democratic revolution and the Russian government characterizes as a Western-manufactured (https://www.jstor.org/stable/26323167) grab for power with overt and covert US support.



February 10, 2007. Putin strongly criticizes (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/24034) the U.S. attempt to create a unipolar world, backed by NATO enlargement, in a speech to the Munich Security Conference, declaring: “I think it is obvious that NATO expansion … represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?”



February 1, 2008. US Ambassador to Russia William Burns sends a confidential cable (https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html) to U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, entitled “Nyet means Nyet: Russia’s NATO Enlargement Redlines,” emphasizing that “Ukraine and Georgia's NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region.”



February 18, 2008. The US recognizes Kosovo independence (https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/02/100973.htm) over heated Russian objections. The Russian Government declares (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%27s_reaction_to_the_2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence) that Kosovo independence violates “the sovereignty of the Republic of Serbia, the Charter of the United Nations, UNSCR 1244, the principles of the Helsinki Final Act, Kosovo’s Constitutional Framework and the high-level Contact Group accords."



April 3, 2008. NATO declares (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm) that Ukraine and Georgia “will become members of NATO.” Russia declares (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-georgia-ukraine-russia-idUSL0315483920080404) that “Georgia’s and Ukraine’s membership in the alliance is a huge strategic mistake which would have most serious consequences for pan-European security.”



August 20, 2008. The US announces (https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2008/aug/108659.htm) that it will deploy ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems in Poland, to be followed later by Romania. Russia expresses strenuous opposition (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep08972.8.pdf) to the BMD systems.



January 28, 2014. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt plot regime change in Ukraine in a call that is intercepted and posted on YouTube (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957) on February 7, in which Nuland notes that “[Vice President] Biden’s willing” to help close the deal.



February 21, 2014. Governments of Ukraine, Poland, France, and Germany reach an Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_on_settlement_of_political_crisis_in_Ukraine), calling for new elections later in the year. The far-right Right Sector and other armed groups instead demand Yanukovych’s immediate resignation, and take over government buildings. Yanukovych flees. The Parliament immediately strips the President of his powers without an impeachment process.



February 22, 2014. The US immediately endorses the regime change (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/22/statement-press-secretary-ukraine).



March 16, 2014. Russia holds a referendum in Crimea that according to the Russian Government results in a large majority vote for Russian rule. On March 21, the Russian Duma votes to admit Crimea to the Russian Federation. The Russian Government draws the analogy to the Kosovo referendum. (https://balkaninsight.com/2014/03/18/crimea-secession-just-like-kosovo-putin/) The US rejects the Crimea referendum as illegitimate.



March 18, 2014. President Putin characterizes the regime change as a coup, stating (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/20603): “those who stood behind the latest events in Ukraine had a different agenda: they were preparing yet another government takeover; they wanted to seize power and would stop short of nothing. They resorted to terror, murder and riots.”



March 25, 2014. President Barack Obama mocks Russia (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-dismisses-russia-as-regional-power-acting-out-of-weakness/2014/03/25/1e5a678e-b439-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html) “as a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors — not out of strength but out of weakness,”



February 12, 2015. Signing of Minsk II agreement. The agreement is unanimously backed by the UN Security Council Resolution 2202 (https://press.un.org/en/2015/sc11785.doc.htm) on February 17, 2015. Former German 🇩🇪 Chancellor Angela Merkel (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel) later acknowledges (https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/merkel:-minsk-agreement-attempted-to-give-ukraine-time) that the Minsk II agreement was designed to give time for Ukraine to strengthen its military. It was not implemented by Ukraine, and President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged (https://mronline.org/2023/02/11/zelensky-admits-he-never-intended-to-implement-minsk-agreements/) that he had no intention to implement the agreement.



February 1, 2019. The U.S. unilaterally withdraws from the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty. Russia harshly criticizes the INF withdrawal as a “destructive” act that stoked security risks.



June 14, 2021. At the 2021 NATO Summit in Brussels, NATO reconfirms (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_185000.htm) NATO’s intention to enlarge and include Ukraine: “We reiterate the decision made at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance.”



September 1, 2021. The US reiterates support for Ukraine’s NATO aspirations in the “Joint Statement on the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/joint-statement-on-the-u-s-ukraine-strategic-partnership/).”



December 17, 2021. Putin puts forward a draft “Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Security Guarantees (https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en),” based on non-enlargement of NATO and limitations on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles.



January 26, 2022. The U.S. formally replies to Russia that the US and NATO will not negotiate with Russia over issues of NATO enlargement, slamming the door on a negotiated path to avoid an expansion of the war in Ukraine. The U.S. invokes NATO policy (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49212.htm#:~:text=NATO's%20%E2%80%9Copen%20door%20policy%E2%80%9D%20is,a%20say%20in%20such%20 deliberations.) that “Any decision to invite a country to join the Alliance is taken by the North Atlantic Council on the basis of consensus among all Allies. No third country has a say in such deliberations.” In short, the US asserts that NATO enlargement to Ukraine is none of Russia’s business.



February 21, 2022. At a meeting of the Russian Security Council (http://www.en.kremlin.ru/events/security-council/67825), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov details the U.S. refusal to negotiate:

“We received their response in late January. The assessment of this response shows that our Western colleagues are not prepared to take up our major proposals, primarily those on NATO’s eastward non-expansion. This demand was rejected with reference to the bloc’s so-called open-door policy and the freedom of each state to choose its own way of ensuring security. Neither the United States, nor the North Atlantic Alliance proposed an alternative to this key provision.”

The United States is doing everything it can to avoid the principle of indivisibility of security that we consider of fundamental importance and to which we have made many references. Deriving from it the only element that suits them – the freedom to choose alliances – they completely ignore everything else, including the key condition that reads that nobody – either in choosing alliances or regardless of them – is allowed to enhance their security at the expense of the security of others.”


February 24, 2022. In an address to the nation (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67843), President Putin declares: “It is a fact that over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns. Its military machine is moving and, as I said, is approaching our very border.”



March 16, 2022. Russia and Ukraine announce significant progress towards a peace agreement mediated by Turkey and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. As reported in the press (https://www.ft.com/content/7b341e46-d375-4817-be67-802b7fa77ef1), the basis of the agreement includes: “a ceasefire and Russian withdrawal if Kyiv declares neutrality and accepts limits on its armed forces.”



March 28, 2022. President Zelensky publicly declares (https://www.ft.com/content/c5aa8066-715d-43dd-8a3c-b6907d839a36) that Ukraine is ready for neutrality combined with security guarantees as part of a peace agreement with Russia. “Security guarantees and neutrality, the non-nuclear status of our state — we’re ready to do that. That’s the most important point ... they started the war because of it.”



April 7, 2022. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov accuses the West (https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/04/07/Russia-s-Lavrov-says-Ukraine-presented-unacceptable-draft-peace-deal) of trying to derail the peace talks, claiming that Ukraine had gone back on previously agreed proposals. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett later states (on February 5, 2023) that the U.S. had blocked the pending Russia-Ukraine peace agreement. When asked if the Western powers blocked the agreement, Bennett answered: “Basically, yes. They blocked it, and I thought they were wrong.” At some point, says Bennett (https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-02-06/Israeli-ex-PM-says-the-West-interrupted-Russia-Ukraine-peace-talks-1hcUB6GDDXO/index.html), the West decided “to crush Putin rather than to negotiate.”



June 4, 2023. Ukraine launches a major counter-offensive, without achieving any major success as of mid-July 2023.



July 7, 2023. Biden acknowledges (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/07/politics/joe-biden-cluster-munitions-ukraine/index.html) that Ukraine is “running out” of 155mm artillery shells, and that the US is “running low.”



July 11, 2023. At the NATO Summit in Vilnius, the final communique reaffirms (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_217320.htm) Ukraine’s future in NATO: “We fully support Ukraine’s right to choose its own security arrangements. Ukraine’s future is in NATO … Ukraine has become increasingly interoperable and politically integrated with the Alliance, and has made substantial progress on its reform path.”



July 13, 2023. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reiterates (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/13/politics/lloyd-austin-nato-ukraine-intl/index.html) that Ukraine will “no doubt” join NATO when the war ends.



July 13, 2023. Putin reiterates (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71667) that “As for Ukraine’s NATO membership, as we have said many times, this obviously creates a threat to Russia’s security. In fact, the threat of Ukraine’s accession to NATO is the reason, or rather one of the reasons for the special military operation. I am certain that this would not enhance Ukraine’s security in any way either. In general, it will make the world much more vulnerable and lead to more tensions in the international arena. So, I don’t see anything good in this. Our position is well known and has long been formulated.”

Jeffrey D. Sachs (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=%22Jeffrey%20D.%20Sachs%22) - linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-d-sachs/)


source (https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/the-real-history-of-the-war-in-ukraine)


In other words it was/is not an "unprovoked" war as Hillary Clinton falsely claims!

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳


Imagine if Zelensky decides to confess (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1567419&viewfull=1#post1567419) ...

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NATO Members Are Now Openly Discussing War Plans Against Russia :facepalm::

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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.

[Vicus]

Ukrainians Have Lost The Entire Port Infrastructure. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.07.19


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vEW51trTwA

[Vicus]

Russian military issues maritime warning for Black Sea 19 Jul, 2023

All ships heading for Ukrainian ports will be treated as potentially carrying weaponry, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.07/thumbnail/64b7fe2e85f5403ebe340eb5.jpg

The Russian military issued a new navigational warning for the Black Sea on Wednesday, declaring certain areas in its international waters to be “temporarily unsafe” for vessels. Apart from that, the military advised seafarers against attempting to reach Ukraine’s ports, stating that all vessels heading there will be treated as potential carriers of war goods starting from Thursday.

Therefore, the flag state of a ship attempting to reach the Ukrainian Black Sea ports will be deemed as “taking part in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Kiev regime,” the Russian Defense ministry said in a statement.

The military said it also declared certain areas in the international waters of the Black Sea to be “temporarily unsafe” for navigation. The areas are located in the north-west and south-east of the waterway, the military noted, adding that all the necessary navigational warnings have already been published as required under existing procedures.

“With the termination of the Black Sea Initiative and the abolition of the maritime humanitarian corridor, from 00:00 Moscow time on July 20, 2023, all ships en route to Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea will be considered potential carriers of military cargo,” the military insisted.

The new restrictions de-facto re-impose the Russian naval blockade on Ukraine, lifted under the so-called Black Sea grain deal in July 2022. The agreement, signed with mediation by the UN and Türkiye, enabled the safe shipment of Ukrainian grain through Black Sea corridors amid the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Moscow withdrew from the deal on Monday, citing the West’s failure to keep any of the promises made to Russia under the agreement, including re-enabling exports of grain and fertilizers from the country.

Over the past two days, Russia has also ramped up its cruise missile and suicide drone attacks on Ukraine, extensively striking targets in and around Odessa, the key port city of the country. The strikes come in retaliation to the new Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Crimean Bridge, which coincided with the termination of the grain deal.

https://www.rt.com/russia/579972-black-sea-military-ships/

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Tucker DESTROYS Mike Pence Over Support For Ukraine War:

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At this past Friday’s Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, moderator Tucker Carlson challenged former Vice President Mike Pence about the now presidential candidate’s stance that the Biden administration has not offered enough military support for Ukraine. Carlson also questioned Pence’s support for Ukraine despite the lack of religious freedom in the eastern European country.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss whether this exchange should essentially end the Pence campaign, to the extent that it existed in the first place.
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[kfm27917]

I hate to publish this, given all the propaganda in the article, but I think it is essentially accurate.
So read with a grain of doubt and verify waht you need.
Comments welcome !

https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-truth-about-the-conflict-with-russia/

[Rizotto]

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230719/russia-ready-to-supply-grain-while-west-sabotages-global-food-security---putin-1111995808.html

Russia Ready to Supply Grain While West Sabotages Global Food Security – Putin

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia showed miracles of endurance and tolerance when it extended the Black Sea Grain Initiative in the past, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

"This deal was signed precisely a year ago, on July 22, 2022. This so-called 'deal' was extended more than once. The last time was in May of this year for the period up to July 17 inclusive. We extended this deal again and again and, by extending, showed simply miracles of endurance and patience, tolerance,” Putin said at a government meeting, adding that the West did everything to undermine the initiative.

Putin also noted Russia sees obstacles even when it wants to donate fertilizers to poor nations.

“Of the 262,000 tonnes of products blocked in European ports, only two batches were sent,” Putin said.

The Russian president further underscored the West undermined the essence of the agreement that maintained a "colossal humanitarian significance."

“The West completely undermined and wronged this essence. Instead of helping countries in need, the West used the grain deal for political blackmail, and besides, as I said, made it a tool for enriching transnational corporations, speculators in the global grain market,” he stressed.

"No one was going to fulfill any commitments and agreements on the grain deal, they just constantly demanded something from the Russian Federation," the president added.

He also stated the West demonstrated audacity and impudence unwilling to adhere to the terms of the deal towards Russia.

"Even Russian intensions to donate fertilizers to poorer nations are hindered by the West," Putin highlighted.

It is Russia that contributes to global food security, while statements that Ukraine feeds countries are lies," the president emphasized. Although "the continuation of the grain deal has lost all sense," Putin noted, detailing that Russia is ready to consider returning to the grain deal if all obligations concerning Moscow are implemented.

“I want to emphasize that we are not against the deal itself, as such. Especially given its importance for the global food market … And of course, we will consider the possibility of returning to it, but only on one condition - if … all the previously agreed principles of Russia's participation in this deal are implemented without exceptions,” he said.

"All obstacles for Russian banks, financial institutions that service the supply of food and fertilizers must be removed. This includes their immediate connection to the SWIFT international banking settlement system. What we need is not some promises or idea on this issue. We need implementation of these conditions."

"And one of the basic conditions for Russia to return to the grain deal is restoring the humanitarian essence," Putin stressed.

"I believe that the UN staff sincerely sought to fulfill the promises made by the West. But they never managed to achieve anything. They did practically nothing for the normal work of the deal," the leader noted.

When the problems appeared
Russia, Ukraine, Turkiye and the United Nations struck a deal to provide a humanitarian maritime corridor for ships with food and fertilizer exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports on July 22, 2022. However, while Moscow has been performing its part of the accord, pledges to lift sanctions on Russian vessels engaged in grain and fertilizer exports were not kept.
Problems with insurance and servicing of ships in ports were not addressed. Banks did not issue loans to purchasers of Russian grain and denied bank guarantees, often citing the danger of Western sanctions.
Moreover, the grain transported via the Black Sea barely reached the poorest countries, which was one of the main points of the deal. Only 2.6% of the deliveries were sent to countries in need, while 80% of supplies were heading to nations with high or above-average incomes.

[Rizotto]

Europe TURNS AGAINST Ukraine
("The Dive with Jackson Hinkle")


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqCB7-14L8

[shaberon]

I hate to publish this, given all the propaganda in the article, but I think it is essentially accurate.
So read with a grain of doubt and verify waht you need.
Comments welcome !



The article is essentially Ben Fulford's Khazarian Mafia.


While it is not entirely untrue, the thesis does have some holes, such as:


“Judaism was the most actively proselytizing religion,” explained Jewish historian Shlomo Sand. “The most significant mass conversion occurred in the 8th century, in the massive Khazar kingdom between the Black and Caspian seas.”


The reason that the Khazarian Emperor converted to Judaism was--from the Orthodox point of view--taken because no Orthodox priest was present at his religious debate--and then because he could not find any difference in the Abrahmic faiths, he selected Judaism for being the oldest.

This is not unusual, since the Russian reason for accepting Orthodoxy is like the English reason for Anglicanism, they are reacting to circumstances, and have nothing to do with what the religions believe.

The place did not really last that long, in light of which we find a huge gap in the history employed by the thesis:



Sviatoslav I of Kiev destroyed Khazaria around 1048 and absorbed it into Kievan Rus’, a territory that would later become part of the Russian Empire.

In Imperial Russia, the Ashkenazim were kept under tight control and enclosed in the Pale of Settlement, which, according to Wikipedia, “was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 where permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, was mostly forbidden.”



Didn't they just skip over 700 years?

The world stopped and an Ashkenazi diaspora groomed it for a doctrine of revenge?

No. They have ignored the important point, which is that Oliver Cromwell decided to use them for hegemony, and all British governments have continued this policy.

In the 1700s, British Christians began interpreting Russia as the adversary described in the Book of Ezekiel.

The Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory appears after the French Revolution, and is British Fascist by origin, which is a bit complicated for the country that is actually doing it. That is because it is a smokescreen.

Kol Nidra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol_Nidre) is a difficult topic because it deals with breaking vows and absolving Jews from anything they did wrong. Such as convert to Christianity--it was pretend and you were a "crypto Jew". But both Orthodoxy and Catholicism condemn them for rejecting the savior. So they have often been forcefully converted, or otherwise persecuted or shunned, due to what is actually in the religious beliefs.



I would think that after 2-300 years, one might forgive the fact of one's great-great-grandfather having been killed by some foreign country. But when I look back, I don't really see a trend of "Jewish attacks". Overlooking Aethelstan in the 900s, every single English attack on Scotland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_invasions_of_Scotland#:~:text=Duke%20of%20Gloucester.-,1500s,known%20as%20the%20Rough%20Wooing.) impacted my ancestors, and the same policy continues through this very moment. Hasn't stopped. If they had relented, I might forget about it. Right now we are at about a thousand years of the same thing.


I am not excusing Jewish or Ashkenazi scumbags, because many of them are very guilty as charged. The thesis of them having continuity of power where there is none, or autocratic control when they are mostly useful tools of larger continuous powers, is, I think, a misleading way to make Protestants look innocent.

[shaberon]

January 26, 2022. The U.S. formally replies to Russia that the US and NATO will not negotiate with Russia over issues of NATO enlargement, slamming the door on a negotiated path to avoid an expansion of the war in Ukraine. The U.S. invokes NATO policy (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49212.htm#:~:text=NATO's%20%E2%80%9Copen%20door%20policy%E2%80%9D%20is,a%20say%20in%20such%20 deliberations.) that “Any decision to invite a country to join the Alliance is taken by the North Atlantic Council on the basis of consensus among all Allies. No third country has a say in such deliberations.” In short, the US asserts that NATO enlargement to Ukraine is none of Russia’s business.


That was a pretty good timeline with a lot of references.

The paper on Origins of Enlargement (https://www.academia.edu/50695483/NATO_enlargement_and_US_foreign_policy_the_origins_durability_and_impact_of_an_idea) contains about twenty-nine pages.


From this, we see Bush I thought it might be a good idea, because otherwise the European Union might come in with its own security arrangements, and NATO and the US would become less relevant.

Bush II actually believed that by adding Georgia and Ukraine, Russia would become less aggressive.

The article contains a comment about the late 90s that links back to what I quoted above:

Confronted, too, with Russian opposition to NATO expansion and claims that the United States used its influence without regard for Russian interests, US policymakers responded by agreeing to consult with Russian officials but expressly refused to halt enlargement (Hill 2018, 114–137, 168–169).

The citation goes to a printed article:

Hill, W.H. 2018.
No Place for Russia: European Security Institutions since 1989
New York: Columbia University Press.


And so that is coming out in some pretty strong language, that one is lifted right off the NATO website, "No third country has a say..."

They might want to select "third party", as there are a lot of countries involved in the decision. One observes how emphatically they have shifted the tone from the actual text that is in the 1949 Treaty (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm):


Article 10

The Parties may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area to accede to this Treaty. Any State so invited may become a Party to the Treaty by depositing its instrument of accession with the Government of the United States of America. The Government of the United States of America will inform each of the Parties of the deposit of each such instrument of accession.



That obviously does not have a Russian veto built into it, but, it would seem to carry the understanding that a "third party" such as Russia might have external talks with members or potential members that might affect the process.

But then to actually do it in the late 90s, they have to be ostracized, they must be prevented from any kind of say or influence. We found this was the doctrine of Kissinger, Helms, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which was in opposition to the policy Clinton might have otherwise used. According to the paper:


By 1993–1994, however, Clinton and his team came around to the same basic policy regarding NATO enlargement. The main shift was in the ostensible rationale. Where Bush’s team emphasized protecting the US role in Europe, the Clinton administration presented NATO enlargement as a way of buttressing democracy and liberalism in former Soviet client states...

In contrast, Lake, Holbrooke, and other expansion advocates believed such concerns were overstated; Russia could be persuaded to embrace NATO, enlargement would help socialize former Communist states into embracing democratic-liberal norms...

By 1995–1996, the consensus was such that neither sustained Russian opposition to
expansion, nor ambivalence on the part of European NATO members such as France (Sloan 2016, 120), affected the basic approach...


US strategists beginning in the mid-1990s discussed enlargement as a way of spreading democracy and free-market economics deemed valuable to US influence...


This matches the NATO page, where they describe their own 1995 enlargement study:


According to the Study, countries seeking NATO membership would have to be able to demonstrate that they have fulfilled certain requirements. These include:

a functioning democratic political system based on a market economy...


So that is the top requirement. The Clinton era simply seems to be using "security" as a thin veil over their true interest, economics. But it remains unclear why Helms proudly had to "tell him no" over the issue of whether Russia had any say about the enlargement. Why is the wording in the Treaty inadequate? Such that "no say" has to be specifically mentioned as the actual policy now?

The actual Article Five clearly references:


...collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations...


which as we saw, was more or less force-fed by Nelson Rockefeller and his promotion of "Nazi Argentina".



My idea of "open door" is not the one they have been screaming about, but, is only a few sentences further along:


Article 13

After the Treaty has been in force for twenty years, any Party may cease to be a Party one year after its notice of denunciation...

[Mike Gorman]

I hate to publish this, given all the propaganda in the article, but I think it is essentially accurate.
So read with a grain of doubt and verify waht you need.
Comments welcome !

https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-truth-about-the-conflict-with-russia/

There is much truth among the text, I have always liked 'Brother Nathaniel 'and his ironic, precise truth, cheers for this

[Rizotto]

I hate to publish this, given all the propaganda in the article, but I think it is essentially accurate.
So read with a grain of doubt and verify waht you need.
Comments welcome !

https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-truth-about-the-conflict-with-russia/

Thanks, very interesting to see a synthesis of a history I only knew in bits and pieces over the past few years.

[Vicus]

Russian steel fist in Donetsk: Large number of T-14 "Armata" surprise attacks on Ukrainian positions and targets - Confirmation WarNews247 19/07/2023
Official confirmation from Russia!

https://warnews247.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/T14-ARMATA2-1-1100x570.jpg

The Russian Ministry of Defense dropped a "bomb" by officially announcing that the new T-14 Armata had unexpectedly hit Ukrainian targets in the Donetsk region!

WarNews247 has repeatedly reported the arrival of state-of-the-art tanks on the Donbas fronts.

It is the first official report of the participation of a large number of - as the Russians said - T-14 Armata in Ukraine.

Characteristics of the T-14 Armata

The T-14 Armata is a tank with an unmanned turret. It is equipped with a 1500-2000 hp diesel engine, a 125-mm gun which is controlled by remote control from the personnel gel as well as the missiles.

It also features an additional 30 mm autocannon with selective ammo supply, a 7.62-mm PKTM machine gun, and two twin 'Cornet' ATGM launchers.

It has a crew of three, autocannon, remote-controlled machine guns, new frontal armor up to 1400 RHA, active countermeasures against anti-tank missiles, passive countermeasures against laser beams, low combat profile, high speed, ability to destroy enemy targets with the cannon from a distance of 8,000 meters and reinforced anti-mine floor.

This tank aspires to be a benchmark for the construction of all future tanks.

"The tank has a number of unique features: it is equipped with a new generation of active protection complex 'afganit', capable of intercepting anti-tank missiles while it has the world's first electrodynamic armor known as 'Malakhit' capable of intercepting anti-tank missiles before them hit the tank," Russian media reported.

https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/ektakto-atsalini-grothia-sto-ntonetsk-megalos-arithmos-rosikon-t-14-armata-eplixan-aifnidiastika-oukranikes-theseis-epivevaiosi-warnews247/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[Vicus]

Latin America Refuses to Side With EU on Ukraine to Show Sovereignty 23 hours ago

https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/102416/16/1024161608_0:139:4960:2929_1280x0_80_0_0_c555b080fe1377210ef543922ef5ad51.jpg.webp

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Latin American countries’ refusal to adopt the European position on the Ukraine conflict at the third summit of the EU and the CELAC is motivated by their historically grounded antipathy toward the US, which is viewed as an agenda setter for the EU and NATO, Francois Asselineau, a French geopolitical analyst, told Sputnik.

The third EU-CELAC Summit took place in Brussels from July 17-18. The EU failed to convince CELAC member states to directly condemn Russia's special military operation in the final declaration, but the document still expressed "deep concern on the ongoing war against Ukraine."

"The only common position of all Latin American countries in CELAC is their cordial detestation of the Northern ‘Yankees’ that have considered Latin America as their colony for 200 years. The dominance of the USA in NATO has certainly played a role too in the Latin Americans’ refusal at the summit to adopt the European version of the Ukrainian conflict. For most of the CELAC countries, the European Union and NATO are only the ‘sock-puppets’ of the US," Asselineau said, adding that, "All Latin American countries are fiercely proud of their sovereignty, the exact opposite of the European Union's will to dismantle its member nations."

"Another failure is the absence of any progress on the free trade agreement called MERCOSUR between the EU and four main countries: Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Mexico. The agreement was concluded in 2019 but never ratified, because the Europeans want to add environmental demands that the Latin Americans refuse," Asselineau continued, dismissing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's desire to settle the issue by the end of the year as "wishful thinking."

The CELAC is an intergovernmental bloc founded in 2010 to boost integration among Latin American and Caribbean countries and reduce the United States' influence on the region. The organization currently consists of 33 member states.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230719/latin-america-refuses-to-side-with-eu-on-ukraine-to-show-sovereignty---expert-1111994391.html

[Gwin Ru]

...

... A Massive Russian Force On The Ground Now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZRt9IiD50) 35:37

https://yt3.ggpht.com/YSM6U4lNc_6fEy86SqhaQhlZa_8IwJnyyDfZJ0NvfxtC9NEGjHRpxScApYlld8k1sbRbXqUItw=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj (https://www.youtube.com/@DouglasMacgregorStraightCalls) Douglas Macgregor S.C. (https://www.youtube.com/@DouglasMacgregorStraightCalls)

Jul 20, 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.

Håkan Bergmark July 19 2023

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZRt9IiD50

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Corrupt Ukraine Defense Minister’s Daughter Buys $7 Million French House! Huh?

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[gini]

6ETmA3624PE--What Cornel West SHOULD’VE Said To Anderson Cooper About Ukraine!

Jul 20, 2023 #TheJimmyDoreShow
Green Party presidential candidate Cornel West recently appeared on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show and the two sparred over the Ukraine War. Specifically, Cooper rejected Dr. West’s comparison of the United States’ invasion of Iraq to what Russia has done in Ukraine and formerly in Chechnya.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss West’s handling of Anderson Cooper and whether Cornel is ready for prime time.

[Tintin]

Senator Chuck Grassley FBI FD-1023 released form detailing the Feds investigation into the Biden family's finagling in Ukraine:

Source: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fd_1023_obtained_by_senator_grassley_-_biden.pdf

Date of the report June 30th, 2020.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2020-06-30_FD_1023_FBI_report_obtained_by_Senator_Grassley_FINAL_%28Biden_%2B_Burisma%29.pdf

[Tintin]

The leaked conversation (audio snippet) between Petro Poroshenko and Joe Biden:

Source: https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1682096827779170305

Text:



🇺🇦🇺🇸 Poroshenko and Biden's telephone conversation was leaked to the Network, in which they discussed the removal of the Ukrainian prosecutor from office in exchange for a loan of $ 1 billion

Ukrainian President Poroshenko admitted that he fired the prosecutor who was investigating Hunter Biden's Burisma Holdings without any charges of corruption being brought against him.

➖Biden: “Tell me there is a new government and a new Attorney General. I'm ready to publicly sign a billion dollar commitment."

➖Poroshenko: "Despite the fact that we did not have any allegations of corruption, we have no information that he did something wrong, I asked him to resign."

Ostashko! Important - subscribe

1682096827779170305

I'm uncertain exactly when this conversation took place but will endeavour to find out, and where possible try an obtain a clean copy of the audio.

For now I've saved what has been shared here via this Twitter commentator:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Joe_Biden_and_Petro_Poroshenko_conversation_re_Prosecutor_General_Shokin_%28snippet%29.mp3

[Tintin]

The leaked conversation (audio snippet) between Petro Poroshenko and Joe Biden:

Source: https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1682096827779170305

Text:



🇺🇦🇺🇸 Poroshenko and Biden's telephone conversation was leaked to the Network, in which they discussed the removal of the Ukrainian prosecutor from office in exchange for a loan of $ 1 billion

Ukrainian President Poroshenko admitted that he fired the prosecutor who was investigating Hunter Biden's Burisma Holdings without any charges of corruption being brought against him.

➖Biden: “Tell me there is a new government and a new Attorney General. I'm ready to publicly sign a billion dollar commitment."

➖Poroshenko: "Despite the fact that we did not have any allegations of corruption, we have no information that he did something wrong, I asked him to resign."

Ostashko! Important - subscribe

1682096827779170305

I'm uncertain exactly when this conversation took place but will endeavour to find out, and where possible try an obtain a clean copy of the audio.

For now I've saved what has been shared here via this Twitter commentator:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Joe_Biden_and_Petro_Poroshenko_conversation_re_Prosecutor_General_Shokin_%28snippet%29.mp3

Okay, from February 18, 2016 and the New York Post (https://nypost.com/2020/05/20/joe-bidens-phone-calls-with-former-ukraine-president-poroshenko-released/) article from May 2020. Apologies if this as been posted elsewhere but it seems to fit well here on this thread. Also, for clarification, there were multiple calls compiled together, below.

The full conversations on YouTube, here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpCpI_HAB84).

Now in the Avalon Library, here:



Video (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2016-02-18_Joe_Biden_%2B_Petro_Poroshenko_telephone_conversation_discussing_Shokin_and_Burisma.mp4)

Audio, below (approx 7 minutes duration):

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2016-02-18_Joe_Biden__Petro_Poroshenko_telephone_conversation_discussing_Shokin_and_Burisma.mp3

[Bill Ryan]

An interesting new article in Australia's mainstream media. The truth is gradually coming out publicly about what's really happening in Ukraine's military. And mercenaries will have their own communications networks, and what actually happens to mercs in Ukraine will be very well-known to all of them now.

The text:

Here is a real meat grinder! - a mercenary from Australia spoke about the massacre in Ukraine and the incompetence of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, - ABC News

"This is a real meat grinder. I saw things here that, from a military point of view, are completely unacceptable," said the Australian action movie in an interview with ABC News.
— A mercenary from the international legion said that the inept actions of Ukrainian commanders endanger not only the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also foreign fighters.
— Foreign mercenaries are often not paid salaries. He personally was not paid for several months, and many were not paid anything.
— And those who try to leave the country are being frightened with prison and persecution for the truth about the "incompetence of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

https://t.me/CyberspecNews/36581

CyberspecNews/36581

[Bill Ryan]

Key points (https://t.me/CyberspecNews/36628) from Putin's statements at a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation:


There are no results of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
The whole world sees that Western equipment is on fire.
Western curators in Kiev are clearly disappointed with the results of the so-called counter-offensive.
Ukraine's mobilization resource is depleted. Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amount to tens of thousands of people.
The Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian military unit is planned to be used for the subsequent occupation of Ukraine.
In Europe, public opinion is changing. They understand that supporting Ukraine is a dead end.
Unleashing a war by Poland against Belarus means a war against Russia.

[Gwin Ru]

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[Gwin Ru]

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[Fellow Aspirant]

Putin's war crimes are having the effect of leaving him (and Russia) a smaller and smaller area of world influence and physical freedom. Witness his decision to stay safe at home rather than attend meetings in South Africa where he had been expecting to influence a small number of Russian supporters (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).

Ironically, his attack dog, Prigozhin, has the full run of the continent where his neo-nazi Wagner killers are still able to make money as mercenaries for various dictators that will have them liquidate any opposition, thus allowing Wagner to run slave enterprises in minerals extraction that have profits flowing into Prigozhin's and Putin's pockets.

Also ironic is Putin's fantasy of being welcomed in Africa given his decision to throttle grain exports to the starving across the continent, thus imposing death by starvation upon many thousands of poor humans. But, dictators gonna dictate, and given the bonding that such actions generate, he was probably hoping that Ramaphosa would be able to make it all go away. Apparently the risks are too great for the cowardly South African dictator. It will be revealing to witness the welcome extended to Putin's lackey Lavrov.

Putin's fear and his shrunken world are described by the historian and commentator Heather Cox Richardson in her latest piece, published today. I have included it (with references), in whole, below.


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July 20, 2023
Heather Cox Richardson
Jul 21

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-20-2023?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision not to attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, illustrates how fully his 2022 invasion of Ukraine has made him an international pariah. BRICS is an organization made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, all considered fast-growing economies that would dominate the global economy by 2050 at the time it began to organize in 2006.

A lot has changed since then.

Because the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, specifically his regime’s deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, he was at risk of arrest and extradition if he went to South Africa. Although that country has maintained neutrality in the war, it signed on to the treaty governing the ICC and thus has an obligation to arrest and surrender those under indictment by the ICC.

After much speculation about whether he would attend the summit while he pressured South African president Cyril Ramaphosa to agree not to arrest him, yesterday Putin announced that by “mutual agreement” with Ramaphosa, he will not attend and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov will go in his place. Alexandra Sharp of Foreign Policy noted that his inability to attend the summit shows how his position as an accused war criminal has isolated Putin and “highlights just how much the Russian leader’s global standing has changed thanks to his war on Ukraine.”

Also yesterday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced another security assistance package for Ukraine, worth $1.3 billion and including surface to air missile systems, mine-clearing equipment, fuel trucks, and tactical vehicles to tow, haul, and recover equipment. That matériel will take time to provide, but much of it signals an army retaking territory.

As if to demonstrate what power he has left, Putin’s forces attacked the key Ukrainian shipping ports of Mykolaiv and Odesa, destroying 60,000 tons of grain that Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said was destined for Africa and Asia, including China. Then Putin announced that he was ending Russian participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative as of July 20 and would consider any ships that sailed to or from Ukraine’s ports on the Black Sea a “Hostile Military Transport.” Putin’s declaration that he might target the civilian ships of foreign powers threatened to escalate the war, but he quickly backed down on that threat today. Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. said Russia is not preparing to attack civilian ships.

The Black Sea grain deal, which facilitates the export of Ukrainian grain to the world market so long as the ships travel in certain channels, already gave Russia more influence over international shipping than its 10% of the Black Sea coastline warranted. And, to maintain that control, Russia planted sea mines in the waters around Ukrainian ports outside the safe channels.

Now the White House has warned that U.S. officials have information that Russia has added more mines in those waters with the intention of blaming Ukraine if those mines cause damage to foreign ships.

There are (at least) three key aspects of this announcement. First, Putin is threatening vulnerable countries with starvation and trying to jack up grain prices around the world, which will hit all countries but primarily poorer ones. The United Kingdom’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Barbara Woodward, pointed out that 33 million tons of grain have been exported under the grain deal, and that the primary beneficiaries have been Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Turkey, Sudan, Kenya, and Somalia.

Second, he was daring the other countries on the Black Sea, three of which belong to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), to call his bluff.

Third, he is trying to destroy Ukrainian shipping infrastructure to hamstring its post-war future. Odesa is a historic and fabled city; it is also the key to shipping grain out of Ukraine. Capturing it, with its symbolic and practical value, was likely Putin’s primary goal in the first place. His willingness to destroy the city seems to indicate that he has given up on claiming it.

In response, Ukrainian forces began to use the so-called cluster munitions the U.S. provided earlier this month, firing the weapons at the Russian troops in Ukraine. Cluster munitions explode over a target, blanketing a large area with deadly smaller munitions. They are banned in more than 120 countries because those smaller munitions often hit the ground unexploded and lie there until civilians run across them, with deadly results.

Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. have not banned the weapons, and Ukraine asked the U.S. to provide them for use within Ukraine, against Russian troops. Biden did so, after months of debate within the White House and strong disagreement from those who want the weapons banned altogether. President Biden eventually decided to send the cluster munitions, apparently in part because the areas of Ukraine where they would be deployed are already uninhabitable because of Russian mines and in part because Ukrainians themselves requested the weapons to throw out the Russian invaders, who have been using cluster munitions against Ukrainian civilians.

“Of course it’s a tragedy, but everything right now is a tragedy,” former defense minister of Ukraine Andriy Zagorodnyuk told Josh Kovensky of Talking Points Memo about using the munitions. “So the question is how to end the tragedy and, unfortunately, the only way so far to get peace is to win the peace.”

The U.S. Treasury and the U.S. State Department today announced additional sanctions on companies that have given Russia access to products that feed the war, provide revenue from minerals and mining, give it access to the international financial system, or provide military technology.

—

Notes:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/world/putin-brics-summit-south-africa-intl/index.html

https://link.foreignpolicy.com/view/64427b421a7f1f1e29e10678j4o8k.11ju/b0aa6a9e

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/07/19/us-approves-13-billion-package-of-long-term-military-aid-ukraine.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/white-house-russia-may-attack-civilian-shipping-black-sea-2023-07-19/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/19/odesa-suffers-hellish-night-as-russia-attacks-ukraines-grain-facilities

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/20/at-least-11-hurt-in-russian-raids-on-ukraines-mykolaiv-odesa

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1636

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/world/europe/odesa-ukraine-putin-russia.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/world/europe/odesa-ukraine-war-russia.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-has-no-plans-attack-civilian-ships-black-sea-ambassador-2023-07-20/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/no-ships-inspected-tuesday-under-ukraine-black-sea-grain-deal-un-2023-04-11/

https://cepa.org/article/time-to-end-russias-black-sea-piracy/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-has-no-plans-attack-civilian-ships-black-sea-ambassador-2023-07-20/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-warns-ships-black-sea-ukraine-create-temporary-grains-export-route-2023-07-19/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/20/cluster-munitions-ukraine-war-russia/

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/cluster-bombs-what-the-us-debate-looks-like-from-ukraine

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[arwen]

It is a little more complicated than the above post suggests.

More context: The Democratic Alliance which controls the Western Cape is a US ally.

The DA went to court to force the ANC to arrest Putin and won:

DA claims victory as govt agrees to arrest Putin if he ever sets foot in SA (https://www.news24.com/news24/politics/government/da-claims-victory-as-govt-agrees-to-arrest-putin-if-he-ever-sets-foot-in-sa-20230721)

Extract:


The South African government has conceded that it failed to execute its international responsibilities by failing to issue a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin if he enters the country.

On Friday, the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria confirmed that the justice department had finally sent the Putin arrest warrant to National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shamila Batohi on Monday.

This was more than two months after the international relations and co-operation department sent its justice colleagues the warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC issued the warrant on the basis of Putin's responsibility for war crimes allegedly committed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The DA went to court to compel the government to arrest Putin if he travels to South Africa for the BRICS summit, scheduled for August in Johannesburg.

But after the government announced that Putin would not travel to South Africa, the DA asked the court to compel it to execute the arrest warrant any time the Russian president travels to the country.

The government agreed.

Victoria Nuland is also on her way to South Africa:

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If you read the comments in the tweets above one can see a huge division in South Africa between the DA led Western Cape which is a US ally, but not a separate country - it is just a province - and the rest of the country which is under ANC control.

The ANC has traditionally been a Putin and Russian ally.

The Western Cape and DA in addition is regarded as "white dominated and controlled" and is well run in the affluent areas - some of the wealthiest people in the world live there or have properties there - and has less service delivery and infrastructure problems. But is well known to be pro Ukraine and anti Russia. And it is hugely resented by a large portion of the Black population in South Africa.

The situation is complex.

[Rizotto]

https://www.rt.com/russia/579966-peskov-putin-brics-summit/

Putin will participate in BRICS summit by video link – Kremlin

July 19, 2023

The Russian leader’s contribution will be “comprehensive” despite joining the event remotely, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said

Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in the summit of BRICS leaders in South Africa via video link, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The host nation announced earlier on Wednesday that the Russian leader will not attend the high-profile event in person.

Putin’s contribution to the gathering next month will be “comprehensive” despite its remote nature, Peskov told the Russian media on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to Johannesburg in person to serve as Moscow’s representative, he added, confirming a previous statement by the South African government.

Earlier in the day, the office of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the two nations had agreed that Putin would not travel to the country, sending Lavrov instead.

South Africa is a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which in March charged Putin with “kidnaping” Ukrainian children. Moscow dismissed the accusation as politically motivated, baseless, and coming from a Western-compromised entity.
Due to its status, South Africa would technically be obliged to attempt to arrest Putin and hand him over to the ICC, if he were to arrive on its soil. Ramaphosa’s office earlier warned that such a move could lead to war with Russia.

Peskov denied on Wednesday that Moscow had issued any threats to that extent, but argued that there was “no need for any explanation” of the risk.

BRICS is a club of large non-Western economies which comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. In recent years, it has held virtual summits due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

[Bill Ryan]

Putin's war crimesJeez. :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

Despite being a member with full access to this thread and many others, you never seem to learn a single thing.



Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov will go in his place.Yes, Lavrov is one of the most accomplished politicians in the world, and almost certainly the most popular among foreign journalists and diplomats. He'll do a fine job, as always, of representing Russia in person, and there'll be standing room only in his press conferences.

And Putin will also be there virtually, so in that respect Russia will be represented by two of its three most competent and most respected spokespeople. (Maria Zakharova of course is the third. :heart::))

[Bill Ryan]

Wryly pointed out on The Moon of Alabama yesterday: :)


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/something-amiss.html#more

Something Amiss

There is a war happening in Europe that is, interestingly, no longer mentioned on the first two screens of the front pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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(https://www.moonofalabama.org/16i/page11.jpg) The failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive and its lack of any viable way to win the conflict seems to be sinking in.

Who wants to write or read about the huge strategic mistake the Biden administration committed when it blackmailed Ukraine (https://gordonhahn.com/2023/07/18/bidens-ukraine-blackmail/) as well as its other vassals (https://warontherocks.com/2023/06/the-art-of-vassalization-how-russias-war-on-ukraine-has-transformed-transatlantic-relations/), especially when the beltway gang is strongly in favor of another Biden presidency. The alternative, another round of artificially Trump-ed up chaos, seems unbearable to them.

This despite further evidence (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/biden-investigation-grassley-releases-fbi-document-bribery-scheme) that Biden's policies and influence were always for sale, especially to foreign bidders.

That is, by the way, another scandal that is not allowed to be on the front pages the Washington 'elite' is filling for the commons' consumption.

[Bill Ryan]

An impressive short (8-second) video that shows what modern warfare is all about now. It's a tiny event in the conflict, but more and more of these attacks are fully-automated and controlled from quite some distance away.


The Russians knew the Ukrainian camera (placed inconspicuously at the top of a tall factory stack) was there, and
It was destroyed by a pinpoint accurate quadcopter drone strike.

There are other videos which show how these simple, lightweight but very fast drones are controlled by young Russian guys using a thing like a small touchscreen iPad. For them, it's exactly like playing a video game.

https://t.me/remylind21/5514

remylind21/5514

[Vicus]

Putin: Poland Plans to Form Coalition Within NATO to Directly Intervene, Seize Land in Ukraine Yesterday

https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/07/15/1112042035_0:0:2355:1324_1280x0_80_0_0_ec03048623b50928dc4d12207885c8eb.jpg.webp

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Back in November 2022, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin has warned that the Polish leadership intends to hold referendums in Western Ukraine to substantiate its claims to Ukrainian lands.

Polish leaders plan to form a coalition under the guise of NATO and intervene in the conflict in Ukraine in order to seize land and return, as they believe, their "historical territories," Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
"As for the Polish leaders, they probably expect to form a coalition within NATO... and directly intervene in the conflict in Ukraine in order to then 'tear off' a fatter piece [of land] for themselves, to regain, as they believe, their historical territories – today's Western Ukraine," Putin said at a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council.

The union between Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, the reports on which appear in the media, is being made for the subsequent occupation of Ukraine, Putin emphasized.
"There have been media reports about plans to create a certain so-called Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian union: that is, we are not talking about some gathering of mercenaries, there are enough of them, and they are being destroyed, namely a regular, assembled, equipped military unit that is planned to be used for actions on the territory of Ukraine, including for allegedly ensuring the security of the current Western Ukraine. And in fact, if you call things by their proper names — for the subsequent occupation of these territories," Putin said at a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council.

In April 2022, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin has said that the United States and Poland are planning to establish Warsaw's military and political control over "its historical territories" in Ukraine. Eventhough the Stanislaw Zaryn, the spokesman for Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski has denied this information, soon after Naryshkin made the statement, the Polish authorities announced major military drills and large-scale relocation of the military in the northern and eastern parts of the country.
Later in Novermber, Sergey Naryshkin said that Polish special services "leaked" information to the Ukrainian media about the alleged preparation in the Lvov region of Ukraine of a referendum on the topic of joining Poland.
Former President Viktor Yanukovych also said that Ukraine’s statehood is under threat and it may be forced to merge with Poland.
"No matter how painful it is for me to write about this today, but the statehood of Ukraine is in extreme danger. It is threatened with complete destruction. At the same time, we are talking not only about the risk of losing vast territories in the south and east of the country," Yanukovych said in May 2022, adding that Ukraine "may be forced" to de-facto merge with Poland.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230721/putin-poland-plans-to-form-coalition-within-nato-to-directly-intervene-seize-land-in-ukraine-1112040943.html

[Vicus]

Summer Operations | The Russians Pummel Ukraine With Massive Strikes. Military Summary For 2023.7.21


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4QEkfqWtk

[Vicus]

Putin gives warning of Poland's intentions in Ukraine and Belarus

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Warsaw is looking to take control over western parts of Ukraine, the Russian president claims

Polish leaders are planning to form a NATO-backed coalition to intervene in the Ukraine conflict and take over parts of western Ukraine as well as, possibly, Belarus, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Friday.

Speaking at a meeting with permanent members of Russia's Security Council, Putin said the government in Kiev is willing to go to any lengths to stay in power, including selling out its own people and handing over Ukrainian territories to "foreign owners."

The first in line, according to the Russian president, are the Poles, who he claimed "probably expect to form some kind of coalition under the 'NATO umbrella' and directly intervene in the conflict in Ukraine, in order to then 'tear off' a bigger piece for themselves, to regain, as they believe, their historical territories - today's western Ukraine."

During Friday's meeting, the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, also alleged that Warsaw was considering capturing western territories of Ukraine by deploying its own troops to the region as part of a Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian security initiative.

According to Naryshkin, Polish officials are gradually coming to the realization that "the issue of Ukraine's defeat is only a matter of time," regardless of the amount of Western military assistance sent to Kiev.

Commenting on the SVR report, Putin suggested that the true purpose of such a coalition would only be to occupy Ukrainian territories. "The prospect is obvious - if the Polish units enter, for example, Lvov or other territories of Ukraine, then they will remain there. And they will remain there forever."

Putin also noted that it is "well known" that Warsaw "dreams" of also claiming parts of Belarusian territory as well.

The Russian leader warned, however, that while Ukraine has the right to sell off as much of its own territory as it wants, when it comes to Belarus, any aggression against a part of the Union State would mean aggression against Russia.

"We will respond to this with all the means at our disposal," Putin stated.

https://www.sott.net/article/482652-Putin-gives-warning-of-Polands-intentions-in-Ukraine-and-Belarus

[ExomatrixTV]

'Wow, Unbelievable': Shocking Figures About The War In Ukraine

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The Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russia has failed. Ukraine doesn't stand a chance. That's what former UN weapons inspector and Marine Scott Ritter said in conversation with Redacted's Clayton Morris (https://youtu.be/DsqIm3F02Rc).

The Ukrainians are facing a problem: there are almost no soldiers left. They started with an army of about 1.2 million men. “They are no longer there. They are gone." "Wow," Morris replied.


We have no ammunition

They are running out of deployable forces, Ritter emphasized.

“The number of casualties is staggering. Countries that support Ukraine are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men. Ukraine cannot win this war, he said. “There is no scenario in which Ukraine wins. They no longer have trained troops.”

Ukraine fires between 5,000 and 7,000 artillery shells a day. The United States produces 85,000 a year. In less than a month, Ukraine is therefore rushing through an entire year's supply. "Wow," said Morris again.

What the Pentagon and the president are not telling you is that we cannot win any conflict if we went to war today, Ritter said. “We have no ammunition. We gave everything to the Ukrainians.”


We are not ready for this conflict:

Russia fires 60,000 artillery shells every day. “We are not ready for this conflict.” The Russians produce a sloppy 3.4 million a year and will only increase production from now on.

In addition, 200,000 Lancet drones roll off the production line every year. That should be two million a year. These drones are cheap, manoeuvrable and can do a lot of damage. "Incredible," Morris replied.


Large-scale counterattack:

What nobody talks about is that Russia has been training an army of 200,000 troops since October, equipped with the most modern equipment. Their job is to wait for the steam to dissipate from the Ukrainian attacks and then launch a full-scale counter-attack.

100,000 of these troops are stationed at Kharkiv to push back the Ukrainians, Ritter knows.


Collapse completely:

Ukraine has mobilized 60,000 troops for the counteroffensive, of which 20,000 have now been killed. The remaining 40,000 will die. The Russians are coming with 200,000 troops. There are rumors that another 100,000 will be stationed in the Kherson region. "Why? Odessa."

Ritter expects Kharkov and Odessa to be taken by the Russians in the summer or fall. He also foresees that the Ukrainian army will collapse completely.


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cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳


Imagine if Zelensky decides to confess (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1567419&viewfull=1#post1567419) ...

[ExomatrixTV]

...

So let me get this straight, you get your talking points mainly from:

cnn
foreignpolicy
reuters
theguardian
treasury.gov
nytimes
washingtonpost

???

:facepalm:

[David Trd1]

...



:facepalm:

This emoji has never been more apt

[Ravenlocke]

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🪖 Arrived in Odessa at least seven times

Explosions are heard in the area where the Office of Operational Command "South" is located and in the port.

In the region, arrivals are heard in Krasnoselka, where the Krivoy Rog center of the RER "South" is located, as well as in Krasnoselka, where the Chabanka training center of the 28th Motorized Brigade is located.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1682879511921057792

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Ukrainian channel Legitimny writes:

Literally everything is flying towards Odessa. Arrivals continue. Already more than a dozen in different parts of the city and suburbs. Now the launch of “Calibres”. Another long night awaits the region.
Odessa is being hit for two reasons:
1. Due to the cancellation of the grain deal;
2. Because of the launches of drones/ missiles from Odessa towards Crimea.

@Slavyangrad
https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1682879184010375170

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https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1682876822646833152

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[Michel Leclerc]

It is a little more complicated than the above post suggests.

More context: The Democratic Alliance which controls the Western Cape is a US ally.

The DA went to court to force the ANC to arrest Putin and won:

DA claims victory as govt agrees to arrest Putin if he ever sets foot in SA (https://www.news24.com/news24/politics/government/da-claims-victory-as-govt-agrees-to-arrest-putin-if-he-ever-sets-foot-in-sa-20230721)

Extract:


The South African government has conceded that it failed to execute its international responsibilities by failing to issue a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin if he enters the country.

On Friday, the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria confirmed that the justice department had finally sent the Putin arrest warrant to National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shamila Batohi on Monday.

This was more than two months after the international relations and co-operation department sent its justice colleagues the warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC issued the warrant on the basis of Putin's responsibility for war crimes allegedly committed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The DA went to court to compel the government to arrest Putin if he travels to South Africa for the BRICS summit, scheduled for August in Johannesburg.

But after the government announced that Putin would not travel to South Africa, the DA asked the court to compel it to execute the arrest warrant any time the Russian president travels to the country.

The government agreed.

Victoria Nuland is also on her way to South Africa:

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If you read the comments in the tweets above one can see a huge division in South Africa between the DA led Western Cape which is a US ally, but not a separate country - it is just a province - and the rest of the country which is under ANC control.

The ANC has traditionally been a Putin and Russian ally.

The Western Cape and DA in addition is regarded as "white dominated and controlled" and is well run in the affluent areas - some of the wealthiest people in the world live there or have properties there - and has less service delivery and infrastructure problems. But is well known to be pro Ukraine and anti Russia. And it is hugely resented by a large portion of the Black population in South Africa.

The situation is complex.

Ms Neuland – what a charming and heartwarming (in one word heartschwarming) personality beaming from the pictures! She looks like she just left the stage after performing with Zorro Zillionski as on that clip where he, the needle high heeled seducer, punctuated his song chorus with hot glances into her bosom bare down to the steel clad nipples.

May South Africa’s baboon people reserve her a well-deserved welcome!

[Michel Leclerc]

About Fellow Aspirant’s latest text. Apart from its sources: the style, the vicious characterisations. Obviously a (would-be) propaganda piece. Ignore.

[Fellow Aspirant]

Yes, Arwen, you are absolutely right: the politics of the Republic of South Africa are now and always been very complicated, owing to its fractious makeup. For some time now it has been stumbling along the edge of the abyss of a failed state.
Currently, in the multi-polar rebuilding of international alliances its tendencies seem to be for building it's future with the nations of BRIC, dominated by China, or to continue deepening ties with Russia. Given China's hold over Russia, they probably amount to the same thing. Ramaphosa will continue trying to get the best mineral extraction deals with both of them. The eastern region does not currently have enough money to arm itself for a civil war, but Russian and Chinese aid in this respect is not out of the question. And it has happened before: witness the successful overthrow of Southern Rhodesia by militants recruited, trained and armed by Russia and China (and Cuba) acting in concert in the 1970s.
It's a highly volatile part of the world.

Brian

[Fellow Aspirant]

Putin's war crimesJeez. :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

Despite being a member with full access to this thread and many others, you never seem to learn a single thing.



Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov will go in his place.Yes, Lavrov is one of the most accomplished politicians in the world, and almost certainly the most popular among foreign journalists and diplomats. He'll do a fine job, as always, of representing Russia in person, and there'll be standing room only in his press conferences.

And Putin will also be there virtually, so in that respect Russia will be represented by two of its three most competent and most respected spokespeople. (Maria Zakharova of course is the third. :heart::))




Why Bill, you seem to be of the opinion that I should learn only things that you believe. I can assure you that my information is from a multitude of sources, this forum included.

If, however, the single thing you are hoping that I will "learn" is that you are right on absolutely everything, then with regards to this, I am beyond your sway.

For example, while I consider myself able to discern most truths from falsehoods, I must admit that your position as a Putin Fan Boy is beyond my ken.

Yours respectfully,

Brian

[Fellow Aspirant]

An interesting new article in Australia's mainstream media. The truth is gradually coming out publicly about what's really happening in Ukraine's military. And mercenaries will have their own communications networks, and what actually happens to mercs in Ukraine will be very well-known to all of them now.

The text:

Here is a real meat grinder! - a mercenary from Australia spoke about the massacre in Ukraine and the incompetence of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, - ABC News

"This is a real meat grinder. I saw things here that, from a military point of view, are completely unacceptable," said the Australian action movie in an interview with ABC News.
— A mercenary from the international legion said that the inept actions of Ukrainian commanders endanger not only the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also foreign fighters.
— Foreign mercenaries are often not paid salaries. He personally was not paid for several months, and many were not paid anything.
— And those who try to leave the country are being frightened with prison and persecution for the truth about the "incompetence of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

https://t.me/CyberspecNews/36581

CyberspecNews/36581



So, you consider "Cyberspec News", a lonely Telegram outpost run by a virtual nobody with 1200 subscribers, to be "Mainstream Media" now?

Bill, Bill, Bill :facepalm:

Brian

[Bill Ryan]

An interesting new article in Australia's mainstream media. The truth is gradually coming out publicly about what's really happening in Ukraine's military. And mercenaries will have their own communications networks, and what actually happens to mercs in Ukraine will be very well-known to all of them now.

The text:

Here is a real meat grinder! - a mercenary from Australia spoke about the massacre in Ukraine and the incompetence of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, - ABC News

"This is a real meat grinder. I saw things here that, from a military point of view, are completely unacceptable," said the Australian action movie in an interview with ABC News.
— A mercenary from the international legion said that the inept actions of Ukrainian commanders endanger not only the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also foreign fighters.
— Foreign mercenaries are often not paid salaries. He personally was not paid for several months, and many were not paid anything.
— And those who try to leave the country are being frightened with prison and persecution for the truth about the "incompetence of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

https://t.me/CyberspecNews/36581

CyberspecNews/36581

So, you consider "Cyberspec News", a lonely Telegram outpost run by a virtual nobody with 1200 subscribers, to be "Mainstream Media" now?

Bill, Bill, Bill :facepalm:

Brian~~~

You're not paying attention. The Telegram channel was reporting a mainstream article from ABC News (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Here it is, and I'll copy it in full:


https://abc.net.au/news/2023-07-20/soldier-blows-whistle-on-ukraine-commanders/102610670

Australian in Ukraine's International Legion alleges 'incompetent' commanders are putting soldiers in danger

An Australian man serving with the Ukrainian International Legion is alleging that Australians, Ukrainians and other volunteers are being put in danger and threatened with repercussions for speaking out by some incompetent Ukrainian commanders.

Key points:


Tens of thousands of volunteer soldiers have joined the Ukrainian International Legion, including an unknown number of Australians
An Australian whistleblower with the group alleges some incompetent Ukrainian commanders are threatening soldiers and putting them in danger
The federal government is being urged to step up and advocate for Australians fighting in Ukraine

The former Australian soldier, who is serving with the GUR legion — the military intelligence component of the Ukrainian International Legion — has spoken in an exclusive interview with The World Today on ABC Radio.

The ABC has agreed to refer to him by the call sign "Bush" to protect his identity.
In the interview, Bush alleged some foreigners and Ukrainians have been put in danger in the war against the Russian invasion due to the leadership incompetence of some Ukrainian commanders, while others have been threatened with jail for trying to leave.

Bush said he and his comrades in Ukraine's International Legion have been raising concerns about the situation and have proposed ways to improve accountability, but that their suggestions have been ignored.

"The simple fact is that it is a meat grinder out there," the man told The World Today.
"My mates have died, and are dying."

"This is a matter of life and death and this needs to be solved, pronto.

"I've seen things out here that, from a military perspective, are beyond unacceptable and are unfortunately hurting Ukraine."

He also said some foreign fighters have not been paid at all for their service, and said that some Australians with specialist military skills, including those qualified to drive the Bushmaster armoured vehicles donated by Australia to Ukraine for the war effort, have not been fully utilised.

Asked by The World Today whether he feared for his safety in speaking out, the man replied: "Absolutely, 100 per cent."

Recording reveals depth of frustration

The International Legion was set up by the Ukrainian government not long after the Russian invasion to recruit foreigners to help defend Ukraine.

Bush is one of tens of thousands of foreigners who have joined the war effort, including an unknown number of Australians.

Bush said the situation has now reached a breaking point and, in a recorded exchange from two weeks ago, shared with The World Today, he can be heard warning one of his commanders that members of the Legion will leave if poor leadership by some Ukrainian commanders and mistreatment are not addressed.

In the recording, Bush tells the commander the system is broken to the extent that it has become impossible to do tasks as simple as transferring men from one unit to another.

"I mean, we're quite happy to say, 'We're out', and we'll just take our guys and we'll go somewhere else, and you won't have this capability," Bush tells the commander in the recording.

"And that's what you need to communicate to higher: We're all about to walk, and that's what will happen."

Bush also tells the commander in the recording that the concerns of members about particular commanders within the International Legion are being ignored.

"We will not continue to serve in a military that mistreats us," he tells the commander.

"We need someone to advocate for us, and I will not allow idiots like this to affect the war effort.

"We need to win."

In response to the comments made by Bush in the recording, the commander can be heard acknowledging that members of the Legion are angry and frustrated.

Lawyer receiving 'horrendous' requests from Australians in Legion

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/6c04480078c1a1e387539f149d082f65?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3333&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=575 Glenn Kolomeitz is a lawyer and former Australian Army officer. (ABC News: Tom Hancock)

The issues raised by the Australian whistleblower are part of a much bigger, disturbing picture: Ukrainian media outlet The Kyiv Independent has reported extensively on allegations of illegal conduct by some commanders of the Legion.

The World Today has also spoken with Glenn Kolomeitz, a lawyer, defence analyst and former Australian Army officer based in Australia, who has received requests for legal advice from Australians and other members of the Legion fighting in Ukraine.

He said the foreigners allege they are being threatened by some Ukrainian commanders if they ask to leave.

"They are threatened with jail and all manner of nonsense," he told The World Today.
Mr Kolomeitz describes some of the threats received by members of the Legion as "horrendous" and "shocking".

"We're talking about some very, very experienced people — officers who have been there for a long time now, that they have invested so much in.

"They want to see Ukraine win, and then they are threatened with jail because they are simply trying to get the job done, so it is distressing," he said.

Legion fighters 'not being paid', whistleblower says

Mr Kolomeitz also said the basic logistics of the Legion are so bad, some foreigners have not even been paid since they joined up.

In one example, detailed to The World Today, one member of the Legion, who is a highly skilled cyber security expert, was allegedly sent to the trenches after asking why his men had not received their combat pay.

[Bill Ryan]

your position as a Putin Fan BoyMade me laugh. :) Hardly a 'fan boy'. Here's the definition:
A male fan, especially one who is obsessive about comics, music, movies, or science fiction.
However, I am someone who carefully reads Putin's long and detailed speeches (all recorded here on http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news, and who knows the real history pretty well (which is distorted, omitted, or plain lied about in western media and by western western politicians).

I'm also someone who regards Putin as one of the few living politicians in the world with integrity, intelligence, and a deep knowledge of European and Asian history, who is actually very moderate and restrained in his decisions, and who is willing to state Emperor's New Clothes type truths about the so-called collective west on public record.

It's the US, Canada, and Europe which are now becoming more like the old Soviet Union. Not a joke.

So no, I'm not a 'Putin shill', or any kind of 'fan boy'. But I fully support his stances on global affairs. I have quite a few Russian friends, have visited the country twice, was impressed with everyone I met, and (as Edgar Cayce famously foresaw), I view Russia as 'the hope of the world'. (There may well be other 'hopes', but painted with a broad brush this could be the most influential one.)

I hold all these views based firmly on everything I believe I know and understand, and I have no problem stating that openly.

[Bill Ryan]

A very nice email we just received, which I'll post in full here with name and address redacted, :thumbsup:

~~~

Hi Bill, I'm not a member of your forum but just want to say how much I appreciate 'most' of the commentators and information that has been posted to the WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia thread, especially Ravenlocke. It has been invaluable. Thank you all.

[Bill Ryan]

Light relief. Clearly, this is the latest wunderwaffe. :) (But there seem to be no videos to prove this!)

https://businessinsider.com/ukrainian-air-force-crew-says-women-flash-them-fly-over-2023-7
(https://businessinsider.com/ukrainian-air-force-crew-says-women-flash-them-fly-over-2023-7)
Ukrainian helicopter crew say women flash them as they fly overhead, boosting their morale as they fight Russia

[Gwin Ru]

...

... French volunteer shocked by EU attitude towards Ukrainian neo-Nazis (https://www.sott.net/article/482665-French-volunteer-shocked-by-EU-attitude-towards-Ukrainian-neo-Nazis)

Rossa Primavera News Agency (https://eu.eot.su/2023/07/22/french-volunteer-shocked-by-eu-attitude-towards-ukrainian-neo-nazis/)
Sat, 22 Jul 2023 21:04 UTC


https://www.sott.net/image/s34/683744/large/aa6e71c7c2f8_e1517859930306.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s34/683744/full/aa6e71c7c2f8_e1517859930306.jpg)
European parliament. Brussel. Belgium. © Rossa Primavera news agency


The truth about the Nazi crimes of Azov (organization banned in Russia) began to leak out to the West, Andrey Bersenev wrote in his article From Kharkov extremists to an International neo-Nazi Network published on 12 July in The Essence of Time newspaper.

Back in May 2022, Frenchman Adrian Bocquet, while on a humanitarian mission to Ukraine, became convinced that the Ukrainian military committed war crimes in the country. He said this in an interview with the French Sud Radio.
"Bocquet specifically emphasized for the Western listener dumbfounded by such news: 'I have seen many war crimes. Except that the war crimes that I myself saw there were committed by the Ukrainian military. And not by the Russian military'," Bersenev writes.
The French volunteer said that the Azov battalion's members (organization banned in Russia) are Nazis. Bocquet drew attention to "their beautiful neo-Nazi patches."
"I am deeply shocked that Europe gives weapons to the neo-Nazi, in my opinion, military with the neo-Nazi abbreviation SS, which everyone is waving in Ukraine! It is seen everywhere and there is no problem about it. I worked with these people... They were laughing, discussing that if they met Jews or black people, they would kill them," said Adrian Bocquet. Bocquet spoke about the Ukrainian military's attitude toward Russian prisoners:
"Every soldier pulled out of that van received a bullet from a Kalashnikov in the knee."

Bocquet added that the captives "were defenseless and tied up." And that "people who had the misfortune to say they were officers were shot in the head."
Bocquet also described how in Bucha, where he was, the Azov (organization banned in Russia) fired from poorly adjusted equipment, shells from which landed in a small park. US journalists filmed the traces of shells falling as consequences of Russian strikes, the article's author said.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency (https://rossaprimavera.ru/news/24a8896a?tlg=1)

[ExomatrixTV]

“Dead Ukrainians Don’t Matter!” – Says Liberal Washington Post:

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In a recent Washington Post column, opinion writer David Ignatius argued that the Ukraine War has been an unalloyed success for everyone on the Ukrainian side before adding parenthetically, “except for Ukraine.” So nice of him to acknowledge that the one downside to continued American imperialism has been the tragic deaths of tens of thousands of Ukrainians.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger talk to Revolutionary Blackout Network’s Nick Cruse about all the ways the Ukraine War has been a disaster for NATO countries and Ignatius’ blithe dismissal of Ukrainians’ suffering.


Imagine if Zelensky decides to confess (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1567419&viewfull=1#post1567419) ...

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇷🇺 The main theses of Vladimir Putin's article "Russia and Africa: joining forces for peace, progress and a successful future"

Our country's partnerships with Africa have strong, deep roots and have always been characterized by stability, trust and goodwill. We have consistently supported the African peoples in their struggle for liberation from colonial oppression.

🔹We have always strictly adhered to the principle of "African problems - an African solution" and stood in solidarity with Africans in their struggle for self-determination, justice and upholding their legitimate rights. We have never tried to impose on partners our own ideas about the internal structure, forms and methods of management, development goals and ways to achieve them.

🔹The new, multipolar world order, the contours of which have already been outlined, will be more just and democratic. And there is no doubt that Africa, along with Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, will take its rightful place in it, and finally free itself from the heavy legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism, rejecting its modern practices.

🔹I would like to note with satisfaction that Russia's trade with African countries in 2022 increased and reached almost 18 billion US dollars. However, we are all well aware that the potential of our trade and economic partnership is much higher.

🔹We have always paid great attention to issues related to the supply of wheat, barley, corn and other crops to African countries. And they did it both on a contractual basis and free of charge, as humanitarian aid.

🔹The "grain deal", which was publicly presented in the West as a manifestation of their concern and benefit for Africa, in fact was shamelessly used exclusively to enrich large American and European businesses that exported and resold grain from Ukraine.

🔹Our country is able to replace Ukrainian grain both on a commercial and gratuitous basis, especially since we again expect a record harvest this year.

Ostashko! Important - subscribe

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1683225247867191296

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development of the offensive by the Russian armed forces in the Svatov area.

Thus, it is reported that our units managed to successfully cross the Zherebets River and occupy a number of heights on the other bank, thereby expanding and deepening a bridgehead with an area of 5 by 7 kilometers. At the same time, good tendencies for further development of the offensive emerged in this area.

In addition, according to a number of sources, while developing the offensive from the direction of Karmazinovka, assault units of three motorized rifle brigades captured several AFU strongholds.

Sources in the AFU also claim that the Russian Armed Forces also succeeded in the forests near Kremenna, where they managed to dislodge the enemy from a number of strongholds and seize forest belts, gradually advancing to key heights controlled by the Ukrainian army.

#source
@Slavyangrad

Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1683223353300074496

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1683245652573052928

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Russia on the Grain Deal at the UN Security Council:

"Most of you expressed, in one way or another, disappointment at the termination of the so-called grain deal that provided for exports of Ukrainian grain to global markets. I have a question to you. What was it that you expected?

From the very start, we have been drawing everyone’s attention to the fact that the initiative did not meet the initially proclaimed goal and was gaining a well-defined commercial nature. In fact, from the very beginning, developed countries have taken the lead among those buying food from Ukraine. However, no steps were taken to remedy this trend.

During the Black Sea Initiative, a total of 32.8 million tonnes of cargo was exported, of which more than 70% went to high- and upper-middle-income countries, including the European Union. The poorest states, notably Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Somalia, accounted for less than 3%...

Such geography and commercialization of an initially humanitarian initiative is easily explained by the fact that the owners of a significant part of Ukrainian arable land (more than 17 million hectares) are Western corporations Cargill, DuPont and Monsanto. They bought up Ukrainian land after Kiev lifted a 20-year moratorium on its sale at the request of the IMF and became the main beneficiaries of Ukrainian grain exports.

On the other hand, the Europeans who buy Ukrainian food at dumping prices then process it at home and resell as ready-to-consume goods with high added value. In other words, they earn twice. What does this have to do with the task of getting food delivered to the poorest countries, about which we have heard again today?"

https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1682769951289950208

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[Ravenlocke]

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Soldiers of the volunteer detachment BARS-11 "Kuban" after the battle in the Zaporozhye direction, after which, among other things, they managed to take a whole BMP M2 Bradley.

It is also worth noting that back in that year, the Kuban successfully held back the attacks of the enemy, which was advancing on the Krasny Liman, despite everything, the BARS fighters, instead of the units of the Armed Forces and the 2nd Corps of the LPR, managed to delay the fall of the Liman, and after a number of volunteers were awarded state awards.

@Slavyangrad

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1683223143907827717

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https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1683229448034742274

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[Fellow Aspirant]

...

So let me get this straight, you get your talking points mainly from:

cnn
foreignpolicy
reuters
theguardian
treasury.gov
nytimes
washingtonpost

???

:facepalm:

Exomatrix,

To help you actually get things straight:

no, I do not limit my reading to the sources you have listed.

If you read the article a little more slowly, you'll be able to recognize that those are all the sources listed by the person who wrote the article, Ms. Heather Cox Richardson.

My sources often include some/most of those, depending on the story, but are by no means limited to them.

Cheers,

Brian

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1682387582334779392

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1683243090352525315?s=20

https://www.rt.com/russia/580151-ukraine-record-losses-western-vehicles/

15 Leopards, 20 Bradleys destroyed in one day – Putin
The Russian military has destroyed a record amount of Ukraine’s Western-supplied armor in the last 24 hours while repelling Kiev’s much-hyped counteroffensive, President Vladimir Putin told his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday.

The Russian leader delivered the remarks while speaking to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg. Lukashenko, citing his own data, said that Moscow’s forces had taken out at least 15 German-made Leopard tanks and over 20 US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in just one clash.

Putin appeared to agree with this assessment, saying that “apparently, [we] have never destroyed so much in one day” and proceeding to explain that this figure stemmed from the fact that Russian troops were facing Ukrainian units that were “fully equipped with foreign hardware.”

He added that since the start of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the early days of June, Kiev had lost more than 26,000 service members, describing the long-anticipated push as “a failure.” Putin also noted that “foreign mercenaries” fighting for Kiev had suffered heavy losses as well, due to their “stupidity,” vowing to make this reality known to the public in the countries that had sent those people to the frontline.

Putin’s remarks come after on Saturday several Telegram channels released an unverified video showing a tightly packed group of four Bradleys that were apparently destroyed by Russian forces in Zaporozhye Region.

Last week, the New York Times reported that the Ukrainian military had lost 20% of its battlefield equipment, including many Western-provided vehicles, in the first two weeks of the offensive, which Moscow says has failed to gain any ground. On July 11, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu estimated Ukrainian losses at 3,000 units of military hardware.

Meanwhile, several other media reports have suggested that Kiev’s Western backers are alarmed at Ukraine’s slow progress on the battlefield, with a recent Wall Street Journal article claiming that they were also “jolted” by the “swift loss” of armor. However, numerous Ukrainian officials attempted to explain the difficulties in the offensive by pointing to delays in Western military assistance.

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Poland will create a new sapper battalion to blockade Kaliningrad – ERR

The unit will be sharpened to carry out subversive operations in the Suwalki corridor along the border with Lithuania.
The Suwalki Corridor is the northern section of Poland, which is located between Belarus and Kaliningrad. It also cuts off the Baltics from the rest of NATO.
In Poland, they fear that Wagner forces in Belarus may attempt to seize the corridor and permanently connect Kaliningrad with the rest of the Union State.

https://twitter.com/SpriterTeam/status/1683251199493959683

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/mazzenilsson/status/1683241937569034240

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1683228178188214274

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https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1683222869172518913

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
⚡️ They report about the crossing of the Zherebets River and the advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in the Izyumov direction

In the Oskol area, our troops crossed the Zherebets River in a new location and are entering the operational space in the Izyumov direction. This is reported by the TG-channel "Militarist" with reference to Turkish sources.

🇷🇺 Probably, the Russian army found a gap in the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction.

Ostashko! Important - subscribe

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1683209742133473280

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[arwen]

I had to put this here, it is also a little light relief that is irresistible and delightful. Russians are ordinary people just like all of us. Anyone who demonizes them, demonizes themselves. 4 minutes.

PVsVxpJoF78

[Fellow Aspirant]

...



:facepalm:

This emoji has never been more apt

I presume you are agreeing with exomatrix's take on Heather Cox Richardson's post, and to whom I gave full attribution, which I included here as a cut 'n' paste. I trust I have cleared up his confusion, and yours, in my reply.
Please read it.
Respectfully,

Brian

[Fellow Aspirant]

About Fellow Aspirant’s latest text. Apart from its sources: the style, the vicious characterisations. Obviously a (would-be) propaganda piece. Ignore.

Please, Mssr. Leclerc, enlighten me about what you are referring to as "vicious characterisations".
Are you referring to something I said?
Brian

[Fellow Aspirant]

Well, friend Bill, thanks for the amplification/clarification.

I hope I can be excused for thinking that you were using a Telegram posting as a source, given that the title of the post was listed as having being lifted from "Cyberspec News", with the Telegram icon beside it.
Of course, in order to get to your source I would have had to pay enough "attention" to have gotten beyond your posting headline, and then gotten to the infinity squiggle to the ABC attribution, to the original source, which was indeed a Telegram post.
Don'tcha hate it when information is layered like a bunch of Matryoshka dolls?

Cheers,
Brian

[Fellow Aspirant]

Yeah, the Ukrainian Foreign Legion has some significant problems, for sure. And I'm glad that the fine Australian men and women who have joined up to fight the Russian invaders are able to get legal representation to help make things right. I wish them well and am grateful for their selfless actions.
If only the Russian soldiers could get some help sorting out their problems with their commanders. Except for the Wagnerian murderers, who had to march on Moscow to get their demands listened to, all the other conscripts are without anyone willing to fight for their rights.
Cheers,
Brian

[Fellow Aspirant]

your position as a Putin Fan BoyMade me laugh. :) Hardly a 'fan boy'. Here's the definition:
A male fan, especially one who is obsessive about comics, music, movies, or science fiction.
However, I am someone who carefully reads Putin's long and detailed speeches (all recorded here on http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news, and who knows the real history pretty well (which is distorted, omitted, or plain lied about in western media and by western western politicians).

I'm also someone who regards Putin as one of the few living politicians in the world with integrity, intelligence, and a deep knowledge of European and Asian history, who is actually very moderate and restrained in his decisions, and who is willing to state Emperor's New Clothes type truths about the so-called collective west on public record.

It's the US, Canada, and Europe which are now becoming more like the old Soviet Union. Not a joke.

So no, I'm not a 'Putin shill', or any kind of 'fan boy'. But I fully support his stances on global affairs. I have quite a few Russian friends, have visited the country twice, was impressed with everyone I met, and (as Edgar Cayce famously foresaw), I view Russia as 'the hope of the world'. (There may well be other 'hopes', but painted with a broad brush this could be the most influential one.)

I hold all these views based firmly on everything I believe I know and understand, and I have no problem stating that openly.


So, given everything that Putin claims is fiction, and often science fiction, as when he touts the capabilities of his world beating missiles and torpedoes, I'd say that with you have just owned yourself as being a Putin Fan Boy.

It fits the bill perfectly. ;)

Brian

[Bill Ryan]

I had to put this here, it is also a little light relief that is irresistible and delightful. Russians are ordinary people just like all of us. Anyone who demonizes them, demonizes themselves. 4 minutes.

PVsVxpJoF78Wonderful! :Party: :grouphug: :Party:

To compliment that, here's Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dancing the Kalinka before an audience. MUST SEE. :)

:heart:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7uhHEGFzm8

[Bill Ryan]

the fine Australian men and women who have joined up to fight the Russian invaders are able to get legal representation to help make things right. I wish them well and am grateful for their selfless actions.
They're mercenaries, doing it for the money. Some of them are doubtless good people, as misled about the ethics and history of the conflict as many others are in the 'western' world. And now they're being slaughtered.

As you may know, a large number of them are fleeing the battlefield, stating on record in mainstream news interviews that the Ukraine military is in disarray, their commanders are corrupt and incompetent, and that the entire situation is a kind of deadly flytrap the kind of which none of them have ever seen before. There are many interviews and articles, which I expect you're aware of.


So, given everything that Putin claims is fiction, and often science fiction, as when he touts the capabilities of his world beating missiles and torpedoes, I'd say that with you have just owned yourself as being a Putin Fan Boy.I'm not aware of anything Putin has claimed or stated as being 'fiction'. Nothing at all. And yes, Russian missile and other military technology has shown itself to be the best in the world right now. Their missiles and missile defense systems are far superior to anything the US or EU has.

[Vicus]

To compliment that, here's Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dancing the Kalinka before an audience. MUST SEE. :)

:heart:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7uhHEGFzm8

with those shoes...Russian woman...yummy...:inlove:

[Bill Ryan]

This is the extent to which hapless and uninformed North American and UK/EU citizens are being grossly lied to and misled. I could hardly believe this, faithfully reported by Reuters. (But yes, Blinken really did say this.)

It might be fun to see if and how Dmitry Medvedev or Maria Zakharova might respond. :)

Ukraine has recaptured 50% of the territory that Russia seized, Blinken says

https://reuters.com/world/blinken-says-ukraine-has-taken-back-50-territory-that-russia-seized-2023-07-23 (https://reuters.com/world/blinken-says-ukraine-has-taken-back-50-territory-that-russia-seized-2023-07-23/)

[pounamuknight]

The empire's Ukrainian proxy make no bones about it: Crimea is a target!

NATO's Ukrainian president (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-says-ukraine-preparing-attack-crimea) & military chief (https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-military-chief-counteroffensive-crimea-target-2023-1740939) admit it


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NATO's media admit it


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Heck, NATO admits it (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_217320.htm):

The Black Sea region is of strategic importance for the Alliance. This is further highlighted by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. We underline our continued support to Allied regional efforts aimed at upholding security, safety, stability and freedom of navigation in the Black Sea region

NATO Communique, Vilnius Summit, July 11 2022

2020, before Russia went in to protect the Donbas, NATO were conducting bombing exercises in Romania (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/11/23/the-us-army-has-a-rocket-surprise-for-russian-troops-in-crimea/?sh=770299d93ad3)

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NATO media gloated that HIMARS missiles launched at Crimea:

flying in and out of Romania pose a serious, and unpredictable, threat to Russian forces forces in the region

Just to make sure Russia got the point, a few days later NATO openly declared the target (https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2020/12/pdf/201201-Reflection-Group-Final-Report-Uni.pdf):

In the long term until 2030, Russia is likely to remain the main military threat to the North Atlantic Alliance

NATO 2030 Report, November 25 2020

You see, NATO's been lusting after Crimea for a loooooong time

A 2014 article by Maurizio Blondet (https://www.imolaoggi.it/2014/06/09/la-sovversione-anti-russa-distruggera-la-ue/) detailed NATO's plot to take over Crimea's naval base


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According to Blondet, the success of the Maidan Coup puffed up NATO confidence

As Victoria Nuland dispatched a new regime to Kiev (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k), NATO dispatched a fleet of warships to Crimea

At last, Sevastapol Naval Base belonged NATO!


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However, NATO's plans were scuppered when Crimea voted to go back home!


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https://i.postimg.cc/2SFHxHvL/phpun-PHPy-Image00004.jpg

Maurizio Blondet article is in Italian, but just use a simple translation app (https://gikken.co/mate-translate/) because it's really good. It goes in to how important Crimea is to Russia and the chess moves played to retain it

Final note: remember the 2014 Black Sea incident involving a US warship and Russian jet?

Well, that was part of that NATO fleet dispatched to take over Sevastopol and Russia saying Иди домой! :p

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[ExomatrixTV]

NATO's Ambitions Just Destroyed The US Constitution With This Move:

https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/D/D/m/8/DDm8k.gaa.mp4

What is the most important document in the United States of America if you said the US Constitution unfortunately that's no longer correct. The United States Senate just voted to give the north Atlantic Treaty organization supreme power over the United States in war, making decisions.


source (https://rumble.com/v31a5i5-nato-just-destroyed-the-us-constitution-with-this-move-redacted-with-clayto.html)

Flashback:
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July 2023 Dr. Paul, Reps. Roy and Davidson Reaffirm Congress’ Constitutional Authority to Declare War (https://www.paul.senate.gov/dr-paul-reps-roy-and-davidson-reaffirm-congress-constitutional-authority-to-declare-war/)
Reuters July 2023 Fact Checking Rebuttal (https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-nato-congress-war-965257487277) (How to Frame Things Differently) I remember Father Ron Paul (https://www.youtube.com/@RonPaulLibertyReport/videos) exposing the same issue way back!

[Vicus]

Ex-Russian president suggests surprise response to Ukrainian drone attacks 24 Jul, 2023

Moscow could strike “non-typical targets” beyond military warehouses and energy infrastructure, Dmitry Medvedev has said
https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.07/article/64be77e885f5406154003ced.jpg

Ukraine is carrying out attacks on civilian targets in Russia in order to divert attention from its floundering counteroffensive, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed. Commenting hours after Ukrainian drones attempted to strike targets in Moscow and Crimea, Medvedev suggested that Russia’s response should be “unexpected.”

Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on Telegram on Monday that Ukraine was starved of any military success and needed to score “informational wins, even if bogus and bloated.”

“That’s why the [Ukrainian] Nazis and the population recruited by them also find strikes on civilian facilities acceptable,” Medvedev stated. He also claimed there are rising concerns among the Ukrainian public and cited the “impatience” of Kiev’s “Western masters” for battlefield victories.

“Therefore, the Bandera bastards increasingly choose peaceful, civilian targets for their vile attacks. Everyone should be ready for this,” Medvedev warned, referring to the infamous Ukrainian Nazi collaborator during World War II.

We need to choose non-typical targets for our strikes. Not only warehouses, energy hubs, and oil bases. There are other places where they are not expecting us yet. And where the effect will be very significant.

Medvedev’s remarks followed an attempted Ukraine drone strike on Moscow on Monday morning. The incident involved two UAVs which were suppressed by electronic warfare measures and crashed into non-residential buildings. The attack did not result in any casualties or serious damage, officials said.

The same day, the Russian Defense Ministry said that a Ukrainian UAV attack had hit an ammunition depot in Crimea, adding that Moscow’s forces had downed a total of 17 drones.


https://www.rt.com/russia/580208-medvedev-ukraine-drone-surprise/

[shaberon]

What is the most important document in the United States of America if you said the US Constitution unfortunately that's no longer correct. The United States Senate just voted to give the north Atlantic Treaty organization supreme power over the United States in war, making decisions.


No, because NATO is a Treaty, which is handled by the Senate.

This is a "balance of power" designed to limit the President, which is what the Constitution is designed for.


NATO Article V does not stipulate a declaration of war--it stipulates what members deem appropriate.

What Russia is doing is not war, in a similar manner to how American interventionism is not war.


It is a difficult argument to say the Constitution is "higher" than Treaties, since Treaties are laws agreed to by one or more other countries.

The Senate already voted to agree in giving the Treaty the power to invoke military force, and Congress still has the only authority to declare war. A war is not a battle, it is a legal entity, resolved by Treaties.

No "decision making power" is transferred, as if a German military man could order a draft in California.


As to whether NATO or the Constitution are worth keeping at all, it seems doubtful, but even in their current context, the recent submission and its rejection are frivolous.

The current S 2226 for FY 2024 currently has 872 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2226/amendments) proposed amendments.


If we don't want NATO influence, all you have to do is withdraw, simple as that. Just withdraw!

[Tintin]

your position as a Putin Fan BoyMade me laugh. :) Hardly a 'fan boy'. Here's the definition:
A male fan, especially one who is obsessive about comics, music, movies, or science fiction.
However, I am someone who carefully reads Putin's long and detailed speeches (all recorded here on http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news, and who knows the real history pretty well (which is distorted, omitted, or plain lied about in western media and by western western politicians).

I'm also someone who regards Putin as one of the few living politicians in the world with integrity, intelligence, and a deep knowledge of European and Asian history, who is actually very moderate and restrained in his decisions, and who is willing to state Emperor's New Clothes type truths about the so-called collective west on public record.

It's the US, Canada, and Europe which are now becoming more like the old Soviet Union. Not a joke.

So no, I'm not a 'Putin shill', or any kind of 'fan boy'. But I fully support his stances on global affairs. I have quite a few Russian friends, have visited the country twice, was impressed with everyone I met, and (as Edgar Cayce famously foresaw), I view Russia as 'the hope of the world'. (There may well be other 'hopes', but painted with a broad brush this could be the most influential one.)

I hold all these views based firmly on everything I believe I know and understand, and I have no problem stating that openly.


So, given everything that Putin claims is fiction, and often science fiction, as when he touts the capabilities of his world beating missiles and torpedoes, I'd say that with you have just owned yourself as being a Putin Fan Boy.

It fits the bill perfectly. ;)

Brian

Fellow Perspirant enters the room, after a 2 or 3 month hiatus. God spare us, but, alas, Nazi sympathisers just simply HAVE TO make their presence felt, Yawn, yawn. And you are, a Nazi sympathiser. I have to applaud our patience here in the forum toward your ilk, but really enough should be enough.

We don't do Nazis here so it's time for you to leave. And you are a patronising little sh*t.

You're blocked from this thread. And by rights should be from the forum, proper. That's not my call, but Nazis aren't welcome, I'm calling you out and you ought to be grateful that I don't go full on South London on your lousy arse.

You should know better, at your age, and I've said that before. Good luck.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Avatars/familyguybrian.gif

[shaberon]

And you are, a Nazi sympathiser. I have to applaud our patience here in the forum toward your ilk, but really enough should be enough.


I don't blame you, and, erm, thanks.

I have no issue with someone disagreeing with, for example, me, but the thing is that so far, it seems like I have already written their script by having analyzed the school of thought, and nothing new has ever been presented. As you can probably tell, I am not in favor of knee-jerk blame the Jews/Chinese/Pagans/or whoever embodies the "devil" of your choosing, particularly since it appears we Anglos face the "enemy within", something usually in a Protestant disguise and appearance of "normality".

I don't really like to clutter a thread with basic contradictions, so after one or two instances I usually just give up on the counter points.

I just recalled something from when I posted earlier, if we look at what our Congress does that may become law--rather than Resolutions which mostly express attitudes--we are on the way to having Hip Hop Day, and, as if that were not enough, Hip Hop Month, those are actually together in one package. I guess that is the freedom we are so busy defending in Syria and the rest of the universe.

After all, Nazism is just the absorption of Eugenics as invented in the Ivy League and Oxbridge. Bismark didn't come up with it. Moreover, it was almost a direct response of granting Italians automatic citizenship through most of the 1800s--politically motivated to begin with--and then the "experts" decided that "Meds" were lazy and moronic. Foot meet mouth?

[Bill Ryan]

And you are a Nazi sympathiserMod note from Bill:

I don't want to further divert the thread from its main purpose (it mainly reports potentially important news and updates, as almost anything could happen in Ukraine or Russia at any time), but I felt it appropriate to note a few points here. The mods have been having quite a discussion about this behind the scenes, as one might imagine. (This is part of our job. :))

I wrote this to Tintin, and I think this is true:
The issue is that Fellow Aspirant doesn't know he's a Nazi sympathizer. He's just hypnotized by western media PR, as so many millions are. He's like a representative of everyman, who happens to be on the forum. He's actually very polite most of the time. He's just plain wrong in everything he believes.
The wider issue, of course, is that Fellow Aspirant's views are shared by the majority of people in the collective west. So we're just seeing a microcosmic sample of it here. The problem is twofold:


The relentless media and political propaganda.
The lack of critical thinking. (And/or, maybe, the lack of TIME that most family men and women have to engage in any critical thinking at all.)

And there's also this factor, discussed in another thread:


Social media discussion rarely changes anyone's minds. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120133-Social-media-discussion-rarely-changes-anyone-s-minds.)

So, sadly, the exchanges like the ones that Fellow Aspirant has been part of make practically no difference. They'll make no difference to him, and no difference to the great majority of members or guests who read them. And doubtless as a result of Tintin's executive decision to block him from this thread, that'll reinforce in his mind the belief that we're all pro-Putin bigots (or 'fan boys'!) who are just as wrong and propagandized as I personally am 100% certain he is himself.

So there's no way out. This thread also says quite a lot about this:


Do you feel great sadness with world division?
(https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121398-Do-you-feel-great-sadness-with-world-division&highlight=division)

And so does this one:


Why you can't convince your friends of the truth - and what to do about it (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?115352-Why-you-can-t-convince-your-friends-of-the-truth-and-what-to-do-about-it)

~~~

My conclusion for now:

Part of the problem is certainly the 24/7 firehose of information (both correct and incorrect) that drowns us all every day. Part of that problem is this:


"I can't keep up any more." The world of Future Shock is already here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105362-I-can-t-keep-up-any-more.-The-world-of-Future-Shock-is-already-here)

Most people, simply to maintain their stability and emotional comfort (in strictly psychological terms, this would be all about protecting the ego, i.e. preserving one's sense of self in the world), restrict and limit their absorption of new information, falling back on what they believe they already know and understand — and reinforcing that all the time.

So friends and families steadily becomes more and more divided. There seems to be nothing we can do about it. For those whose views are misguided (like those who tragically believed the claims of governments and big pharma about the effectiveness of the covid vaccine!), it may be that only major subsequent national and global developments can ever force a change of opinion — maybe many years later.

:flower::focus: :flower:

[Tintin]

And you are a Nazi sympathiserMod note from Bill:

I don't want to further divert the thread from its main purpose (it mainly reports potentially important news and updates, as almost anything could happen in Ukraine or Russia at any time), but I felt it appropriate to note a few points here. The mods have been having quite a discussion about this behind the scenes, as one might imagine. (This is part of our job. :))

I wrote this to Tintin, and I think this is true:
The issue is that Fellow Aspirant doesn't know he's a Nazi sympathizer. He's just hypnotized by western media PR, as so many millions are. He's like a representative of everyman, who happens to be on the forum. He's actually very polite most of the time. He's just plain wrong in everything he believes.
The wider issue, of course, is that Fellow Aspirant's views are shared by the majority of people in the collective west. So we're just seeing a microcosmic sample of it here. The problem is twofold:


The relentless media and political propaganda.
The lack of critical thinking. (And/or, maybe, the lack of TIME that most family men and women have to engage in any critical thinking at all.)

And there's also this factor, discussed in another thread:


Social media discussion rarely changes anyone's minds. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120133-Social-media-discussion-rarely-changes-anyone-s-minds.)

So, sadly, the exchanges like the ones that Fellow Aspirant has been part of make practically no difference. They'll make no difference to him, and no difference to the great majority of members or guests who read them. And doubtless as a result of Tintin's executive decision to block him from this thread, that'll reinforce in his mind the belief that we're all pro-Putin bigots (or 'fan boys'!) who are just as wrong and propagandized as I personally am 100% certain he is himself.

So there's no way out. This thread also says quite a lot about this:


Do you feel great sadness with world division?
(https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121398-Do-you-feel-great-sadness-with-world-division&highlight=division)

And so does this one:


Why you can't convince your friends of the truth - and what to do about it (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?115352-Why-you-can-t-convince-your-friends-of-the-truth-and-what-to-do-about-it)

~~~

My conclusion for now:

Part of the problem is certainly the 24/7 firehose of information (both correct and incorrect) that drowns us all every day. Part of that problem is this:


"I can't keep up any more." The world of Future Shock is already here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105362-I-can-t-keep-up-any-more.-The-world-of-Future-Shock-is-already-here)

Most people, simply to maintain their stability and emotional comfort (in strictly psychological terms, this would be all about protecting the ego, i.e. preserving one's sense of self in the world), restrict and limit their absorption of new information, falling back on what they believe they already know and understand — and reinforcing that all the time.

So friends and families steadily becomes more and more divided. There seems to be nothing we can do about it. For those whose views are misguided (like those who tragically believed the claims of governments and big pharma about the effectiveness of the covid vaccine!), it may be that only major subsequent national and global developments can ever force a change of opinion — maybe many years later.

:flower::focus: :flower:

:flower:

Thanks. Really nicely put too - 100% with that. I lost my temper but I had very patiently sat on my hands for what seemed ever so long, as I know you and others in the team had. I've little doubt that he's probably a kind and well intentioned soul actually. Perhaps my message was just a little too strong but it's done now.

:heart:

:focus:

[Bill Ryan]

I don't want to further divert the thread from its main purpose (it mainly reports potentially important news and updates, as almost anything could happen in Ukraine or Russia at any timeAnd sure enough, we have some overnight developments. I or others will post more later, but briefly:


Ukraine's defensive lines south of Svatove have collapsed completely. There's now nothing at all to prevent the Russians from advancing to the Oskil river.
This may seem like a small thing in a big conflict, but strategically and politically it has quite an impact on events. It's bad news for Zelensky and the collective west.



There was a drone strike on Moscow, at 4 am local time, but there were no casualties.
This is a tiny pinprick in the larger scheme of things, but is sure to elicit a definitive Russian response.

[Gwin Ru]

...

... Russian retaliation attacked NATO infrastructure arteries in ports on Danube River (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19zHX26Z14Y) 2:51

Jul 24, 2023

https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AOPolaQzcnRid2b9WmKg1vrPkHshrGzxN0bGo8QUeDtGng=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj (https://www.youtube.com/@MILITARYTUBETODAY) MILITARY TUBE TODAY (https://www.youtube.com/@MILITARYTUBETODAY)

The Russian retaliation struck infrastructure arteries of NATO America in the ports of Reni and Izmail on the left bank of Danube River in Odessa region. Missile and drone strikes destroyed weapons and equipment depots, fuel depots along with port infrastructure. This is access to the Black Sea, a supply line for weapons to the Kiev regime under the guise of a grain agreement.

19zHX26Z14Y

[BMJ]

"Ukraine is DISINTEGRATING the hospitals are FULL" Col. MacGregor | Redacted w Clayton Morris

Redacted is back with a big update on military advancements in Ukraine as the western media runs out of lies to tell about the war. Col. Douglas MacGregor joins Redacted to discuss the latest breakthroughs in the war indicating that the "Europeans have had it" with this war. Events on the ground are beginning to overtake the carefully orchestrated charade in Kiev. So what now?

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[Vicus]

Lightning Advance 10km: Russian Armies Reach Oskol River and Enter South Kharkiv – Ukraine Sends All Reserves
The Russians have captured the train station and are marching in
25/07/2023 - 01:33


The Russians with a surprise maneuver broke through the Ukrainian defense in Donetsk: They are advancing towards Krasnogorovka - They captured important Ukrainian strongholds

A picture of a collapsing Ukrainian front prevails on the Kupyansk-Svatovo axis as Russian troops advanced 10 km in length reaching the east bank of the Oskol River entering South Kharkiv.

There are reports that Russian vanguards have penetrated even deeper into the Ukrainian defenses, reaching the Borovo settlement of Kharkiv.

The Ukrainian military command is mobilizing all available reserves in order to stop the Russian advance as the Russians encircle Kupyansk in a "pincer".

Read also: Crushing of the Ukrainians in Kupyansk-Svatovo: The Russians broke through the Ukrainian defenses with Blitzkrieg - Captured five fortresses and four settlements

Video: Russian forces locate Ukrainian stronghold with the help of drones in the Krasny Liman region


The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its military forces captured the Molchanovo railway station outside Liman Pervy in the Kharkiv region. Russian troops then cleared the forest area and settlements north of Kupyansk.

The Russian Army resumed offensive operations south of Liman Pervy and began to advance towards the town of Syn'kivka/Синькивка. Heavy fighting is taking place in the area.

"The purges were completed, Russian forces captured the fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, several groups of Ukrainian military personnel, including junior officers, were captured," Russian military sources said.

Russian troops then approached the east bank of the Oskol River north of Kupyansk. The Oskol River has become a dividing line in the east of Kharkiv region.

Russian sources note that “the advance through the forest in the direction of Kupyansk continues and is supported by artillery, which is located on the heights east of the Oskol plain.

The Ukrainian command, realizing the prospect of a possible blow to Kupyansk with pincers (Russian troops are moving towards the city from the southeast), transfers units of two reserve Brigades.

These brigades include units of the Kharkiv Troops (Territorial Defense), which are tasked with preventing the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from gaining a foothold on the left bank of Oskol and reaching the northern districts of Kupyansk.

The 32nd Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade is already deployed in the area.

In turn, the Russian troops intensified the actions of the air force in this direction, causing losses, among others, to the Ukrainian reserves approaching Kupyansk.

https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/proelasi-keravnos-10-chlm-to-koupiansk-se-tanalia-oi-rosikes-straties-eftasan-ston-potamo-oskol-kai-bikan-notio-charkovo-i-oukrania-metakinei-oles-tis-efedreies/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[ExomatrixTV]

Massive Russian Offensive On The Lyman Slovyansk Axis:

mdUPYNGB-PU
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.

Interview with Steve Turley on July 24, 2023.

[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine Offensive Achieving NOTHING w/Col Doug Macgregor (ret):

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[shaberon]

...doesn't know he's a Nazi sympathizer. He's just hypnotized by western media PR, as so many millions are. He's like a representative of everyman, who happens to be on the forum. He's actually very polite most of the time. He's just plain wrong in everything he believes.


It is a touchy situation, and, to the extent you haven't issued a total forum ban (that I know of), then, it hasn't come down to iron-fisted censorship.

Of all places, this thread seems the least-appropriate to post Western favoritism, or long-identified anti-Russian views.

The threads you linked are about communication problems and the like, but, I don't know of one with a title indicating that it would be good to make pro-Western or even (perhaps unaware) Nazi-sympathetic suggestions, in fact you should probably change the title of the Multi-polar thread because it's not "coming", all of these changes have already swept the rug from under us, and we complacently stand there like a deer in headlights, still believing...something...

It would probably be a good compromise to have an area where people could post about why they think the West is superior, or valid, or somehow justified, and we could try to non-confrontationally address it. I am not sure what the title would be. But, as you have proven, it is difficult to pay attention to begin with, or process information which is probably emotionally disturbing, and most of the threads that we do have would be taken as phenomenally hostile and divisive in that regard. There might need to be some kind of a landing pad where people can extract, in a way that works for them, why most of this site already thinks the way it does.

Otherwise, we are probably seen as commie bots with no reason to exist other than Putin really is behind the WEF, which we follow slavishly.

[Ravenlocke]

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The NATO client regime in Ukraine has been selling off public assets to Western capital in a fire sale.

Zelensky announced on Wall Street that $400+ billion in public assets are for sale (more than twice Ukraine's entire GDP).

It even created the website http://privatization.gov.ua to make it easier for foreign capitalists to gobble up the country. (Note how it uses the US, not British, spelling of privatization -- which makes sense, because USAID is overseeing all of this.)

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1683843554672517121

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Russia Pushes to Oskol River, Rus General: War End Spring; Shoigu to North Korea in Surprise Visit

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The NATO client regime in Ukraine has been selling off public assets to Western capital in a fire sale.



Amazing.

Normally, that is called "Victory" by Capitalism, and not by the host country.

The procedure is not quite new:




UAH 195 million for the non-operating Odesa Sparkling Wine Factory – online privatization auction completed
1 February 2022


One of the terms of ownership is that you must comply with cultural mandates, which needs no explanation.

However, on the map, the auction pins cover the country with no room to spare.

Right now it just has ten small auctions.

What is "new" is the preparation of 145 "small" and twenty "large" objects for sale.

I call it a "cash grab by government".

What happens in the near future if you buy a mine or a real estate company is--let's say--indeterminate.

If Russia were to declare war and legally snuff the Ukrainian state, then, they could perhaps dictate what happens.

If not, it could perhaps be argued that "de-Nazification" means, at the very least, lifting the cultural thing. If not, then, what it would mean to own this stuff just sounds like risky business, perhaps to be undertaken by someone like Nestle, who, having no interest in an apartment complex, may have interest in the water table under it.

It may be something worth watching, just to see who takes hold of these things.

[Vicus]

'Bullseye': Watch Russian Helicopter Gunship Land Direct Hit on Ukrainian Armor
15 hours ago (Updated: 10 hours ago)

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The Ka-52 Alligator, NATO reporting name Hokum B, has been cited by Western legacy media in recent weeks as a major factor frustrating the Ukrainian Army’s summer counteroffensive.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has published footage of a Kamov Ka-52 missile attack against a Ukrainian piece of armor in Zaporozhye.
The video shows the helicopter firing a single Vikhr (Whirlwind) laser-guided missile at the stationary vehicle, with gunship’s targeting screen showing the missile’s approach.

http://https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/06/0d/1111116564_0:403:3111:1647_1280x0_80_0_0_c68925c73f8e01f11b41d180cf8e54ff.jpg.webp
Russian Ka-52 Alligator chopper targets Ukrainian armored vehicle in Zaporozhye direction

The Ka-52 is known to be armed with up to a dozen Vikhr laser-guided missiles, designed specifically to target armored vehicles, including those with reactive armor, at ranges of up to 8 km.

The missiles are fitted with a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) fragmentation warhead with contact and proximity fuses. In addition to attack helicopters, the Russian military is known to attach Vikhrs to aircraft like the Su-25 ground attack jet and some warships.

“So what?” an operator is heard saying, asking whether the missile had hit its target. “It’s flying, it’s flying,” a second operator says. “Bullseye,” he adds as the armored vehicle explodes moments later.

The Vikhr is designed specifically to engage heavily armored targets, including vehicles fitted with reactive armor. The missile is equipped with a multistage HEAT and separate fragmentation warhead, allowing it to literally burn through heavy armored plates, entering the enclosed space inside the vehicle and detonating. This explains the multi-second delay in the video between the moment the missile impacted its target and the explosion from inside.
Ka-52s can carry up to 12 Vikhr missiles at a time. Overwhelming Russian air superiority and the falling availability of NATO-provided air defense systems as they are expended and destroyed have been cited as major factors in why the Ukrainian military’s summer counteroffensive has failed to gain ground, with Ukrainian Army sources and Western officials saying Russian helicopter gunships are often able to operate with almost complete impunity even in enemy territory.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230725/bullseye-watch-russian-helicopter-gunship-land-direct-hit-on-ukrainian-armor-1112128350.html

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This is a slightly extended re-post from yesterday, as the same story has been repeated by Eric Zuesse (https://southfront.org/eric-zuesse-how-u-s-congress-just-voted-to-make-war-permanent/). He has done a lot of articles which are historically informative, and, usually on the moral side, but in some instances he has mistakes or omissions.

Interestingly, he backs up what he wants from the U. S. government in Iceland, which seems a bit unnecessary, because the government does not alter or erase these documents. That means it openly confesses to every problem it has caused, if you are able to understand it in perspective.

This week he was appalled at the Paul rejection:




...they voted that the U.S. Constitution’s clause which demands a congressional authorization before the U.S. President may send U.S. forces abroad into a war, be nullified if NATO declares war. (For example: if NATO declares war against Russia regarding Ukraine — which COULD happen — then America is automatically at war against Russia, and no congressional authorization is needed in order for the U.S. to immediately launch a nuclear invasion of Russia.)


That's not possible; NATO is not a country; it cannot declare war.

If, for example, Belarus attacked Poland, then NATO members are obliged to react, but that says nothing about the countries declaring war. They could send over some spare tires and say "I'm done".

What is more interesting is that he adds another bit on National Emergencies. The first thing to get from this is that there are no permanent Emergency Banking Powers, if you believe that, you have been hosed by a veterinarian from Denver who acted like there was no year 1977. Everything goes year-to-year, and it is up to the President. So the list at least is the accurate thing here:




On 17 February 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden issued his “Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Libya”, and — though around half of U.S. Senators have grandstanded publicly against U.S. arms-sales into Middle-Eastern wars — he publicly announced that America will continue the “National Emergency” which President Obama had announced in 2011 to get rid of Muammar Gaddafi (even though Gaddafi did become assassinated on 11 October 2011). Congress did nothing to object to Biden’s continuation of that authorization by Biden, for Biden to continue America’s participation in those wars. Then, finally, on 13 June 2023, the Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar headlined “Gosar Introduces Legislation Terminating Libya National Emergency Declaration”, and reported that Gosar had just introduced “H.J. Res. 70, legislation terminating the national emergency related to Libya declared by President Obama on February 25, 2011 in Executive Order 13566.” It’s all for show, even if he does support it, because for many decades now, the U.S. Congress never votes against America’s armaments contractors. In fact, Gosar’s press release admitted that “There are currently 41 declared national emergencies still in effect in the United States.”


His link there shows that those ‘U.S. national emergencies’ are against: Iran, Nicaragua, South Africa, Libya (1986), Panama, Iraq (1990), Chemical and Biological Weapons (of which the U.S. has been the biggest producer — but this 1990 Executive Order 12735 was directed only against foreign countries) — Haiti, Serbia and Montenegro, UNITA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Terrorists,” Cuba, Burma, Sudan, Serbia and Montenegro again, Taliban, Sierra Leone, Western Balkans, “Terrorists” again, Zimbabwe, Iraq again (2003), Syria, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Belarus, DR Congo, Lebanon, North Korea, Somalia, Libya (2011), Russians in Ukraine (2014), South Sudan, Central African Republic, Venezuela, Burundi, Nicaragua again, Mali, China, China again, Burma again, Russia again, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Russia again. Others were against things, such as narcotics. However the ones that I listed were already 45 “U.S. National Emergencies,” in which the President could bring the U.S. to war regardless of the U.S. Congress.


Those are basically all packages of sanctions. Business transactions to the named parties are blocked, and if you worm your way around the blockage, you have committed a crime.

There is nothing in the Libya Order, per se, that has anything to do with "war", not even military force.

There is the mindless claim that the Libyans threaten U. S. national security and foreign policy.

As to this foreign policy, and how such a threat may justifiably be a "National Emergency", is...lunacy of a high caliber.



Perhaps the role model for these definitions, the Korean War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War), was between "two Koreas", one of whom gained battlefield support by a command authorized by the UN Security Council:


The fighting ended on 27 July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to separate North and South Korea, and allowed the return of prisoners. However, no peace treaty was ever signed, and the two Koreas are technically still at war, engaged in a frozen conflict.


In the U.S., the war was initially described by President Harry S. Truman as a "police action", as the United States never formally declared war on its opponents and the operation was conducted under the auspices of the United Nations.



So, one could examine the mechanism of how NATO may have originally gotten involved in attacking Yugoslavia, and then Libya and the other places it soiled, but I don't think it has to do with a response to someone evading an economic sanction. It would probably have more to do with a self-authorized "command" that makes its decisions regardless of the Security Council.

The Russian SMO invokes UN Article 51 about "regional defense", which superficially is similar to the Korean enterprise, except Ukraine really is the "Russian borderlands", not an ideological foe around the world.

None of the Executive Orders are hidden or misrepresented, anybody can pick through every single one to look for an aspect of "war" or violence at any level, and I think you will come up empty-handed. That's not quite how it works.


Although the UN *did* authorize NATO force in 1995, later, it did not, and the command was given because Solana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Solana) of Spain flipped like a pancake:


Solana and the party changed their previous anti-NATO positions into an atlanticist, pro-NATO stance. On 12 March 1986 Spain held a referendum on whether to remain in NATO, with the government and Solana successfully campaigning in favour. When criticised about his anti-NATO past, Solana argued that he was happy to be its representative as it had become disassociated from its Cold War origins.

Solana justified the attacks on humanitarian grounds, and on the responsibility of NATO to keep peace in Europe and to prevent recurrences of ethnic cleansing and genocide similar to those which occurred during the Bosnian War (1992–1995).

Solana and NATO were criticised for the civilian casualties caused by the bombings. On 23–24 April, the North Atlantic Council met in Washington D.C. where the Heads of State of the member nations agreed with the New Strategic Concept, which changed the basic defensive nature of the organisation and allowed for NATO intervention in a greater range of situations than before.




He just spit out that justification, and massive force was unleashed. This is "different" from the Cold War by an organization which no longer intends to be "defensive".

That is relatively authoritarian, has little to do with any national government as such, but only those who cling to this idea with the ability to spring it into action. In consequence:


On 7 May, the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists and injuring at least 20. The US defence secretary explained the cause of the error as "because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map", but the Chinese government did not accept this explanation. The Chinese government issued a statement on the day of the bombing, stating that it was a "barbarian act". The target had been selected by the Central Intelligence Agency outside the normal NATO targeting regime.



As to what it means to be "directed" by Sec-General (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_General_of_NATO) (Stoltenberg of today):

The secretary general does not have a military command role...


It does have more or less an American and a European commander, neither of whom yet sound independently active. When traced back, the person in charge appears to be the North Atlantic Council (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Council):


...when decisions have to be made, action is agreed upon on the basis of unanimity and common accord. There is no voting or decision by majority.


Daring to look, there is not even any information on the French representative who has been sitting for four years. The German simply "became" the representative. This is how the innocuous-sounding Ms. Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julianne_Smith) of America got there:

On June 15, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Smith to serve as the United States permanent representative to NATO. On September 15, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. On October 19, 2021, her nomination was reported favorably out of committee. Her nomination was confirmed by United States Senate on November 18, 2021 by voice vote.


Polish? "was nominated".

Spanish? "was assigned".

British? "was appointed".


All this Autocracy is Democracy, so they tell us.

Member nations still retain sovereignty. In no cases can they make your country go to war. They can, however, sling out any violent act which as a hive mind they deem significant. It sounds like "might makes right".

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https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1683880410634244096
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/who-can-guarantee-ukraines-security.html
Who Can Give Security Guarantees To Ukraine?

A main question for Ukraine since it became an independent state was who or what could potentially guarantee its security.

In the first years after 1991 the Ukrainian government thought that it could secure itself. It had inherited some Soviet nuclear weapons and it tried to bring those to use. But it failed to circumvent the security locks the Russian engineers had integrated into the nuclear warheads.

There was also pressure from the U.S. to get rid of those devices as the Ukraine at that time was prolific in selling its Soviet era weapons to various shady actors around the world.

Ukraine, together with Belarus and Kazakhstan, was pressed to enter the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In exchange it got the Budapest Memorandum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum), a weak promise of non-interference:
The memoranda, signed in Patria Hall at the Budapest Convention Center with US Ambassador Donald M. Blinken amongst others in attendance, prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, "except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations." As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.Two side notes are of interest:


Ambassador Donald M. Blinken is the father of the current Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
Formally Russia has not broken the Budapest Memorandum. It recognized the People's Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent states. It signed security agreements with them and then entered the war in Ukraine, which had been ongoing since 2014, under Article 51 - common self defense - of the Charter of the United Nations. Jurists will debate that argument for years but it is not dissimilar to the argument NATO used to justify the violent break-up Yugoslavia.

After the Budapest Memorandum was signed the Soviet nuclear weapons weapons Ukraine and others still had were sent back to Russia.

By mid of the first decade of the third millennium Russia had largely recuperated from the shocks that had followed the break up of the Soviet Union. The Ukraine had meanwhile fallen further apart. The population sharply decreased, its industries broke down and wide spread corruption was eating up what was left from its riches. Its own army, while on paper still well armed, was no longer able to defend the country. That was fine at that time as no one was really interested in threatening it.

But NATO, in breach of promises given to Russia (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early), expanded and crept nearer to the Ukrainian border. In 2008, and also in Budapest, the U.S. used a NATO summit to press other NATO countries to offer Ukraine a Membership Action Plan (MAP). There was however no future date attached to that promise.

In 2013 the European Union pressed the Ukraine to sign a free trade agreement with it. Russia, which was the biggest trading partner of Ukraine, made a counter offer that was financially better and had less political restrictions attached to it. Then President Victor Yanukovych of Ukraine had to reject the EU agreement. The U.S., together with the German secret service BND, had long standing ties with the right-wing groups in west-Ukraine which had previously cooperated with Nazi Germany and had been attached to the German Nazi-Wehrmacht. The CIA reactivated these groups and instigated a violent color-revolution (https://uottawa.academia.edu/IvanKatchanovski#articles) in Kiev.

That revolution led to a civil war as large parts of the ethic Russians in east Ukraine rejected the new regime that had been installed by a west Ukrainian minority.

While the ethnic Russians in Ukraine lost control over most of their original areas they also soon defeated what was left of the Ukraine army. They did so twice.

Since 2015 the conflict was stalled. The Minsk agreements, under which Ukraine was supposed to became federalized, were signed, but Ukraine stalled their implementation. Meanwhile the U.S. and Britain used the time to reinstate and rearm the Ukrainian army.

By 2021 the Ukraine was ready to attack the People's Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk. Russia activated its army and warned that it would have to interfere with such plans. The imminent launch of an Ukrainian attack was called off. In early 2022 the U.S. gave the Ukrainians a green light to launch their long planned attack. Russia intervened and the current war started.

The U.S. plans behind the war expected that the pre-coordinated western sanctions that immediately followed would ruin Russia, that Russia would be shunned by the rest of the world and that a military defeat of the Russian army would lead to regime change in Moscow.

The Ukraine expected that, after winning a war against its separatists, it would immediately become a member of NATO.

Neither of the (totally unrealistic) expectations was met.

The Ukraine is now obviously losing the war. It will soon need to sign a capitulation like ceasefire agreement with Russia.

But who or what can guarantee that any such agreement will be held up?
NATO membership is no longer an option.

On July 11 a summit of the North Atlantic Council in Vilnius declared (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/natos-big-climb-down.html) that Ukraine would not have to follow the formal Membership Action Plan. But it then replaced the formal MAP conditions for membership with a way more vague formulation:
We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when Allies agree and conditions are met.The NATO Secretary General was even more explicit:
... unless Ukraine wins this war, there's no membership issue to be discussed at all.There will be no NATO membership or NATO security guarantees for Ukraine, neither now nor ever.

A direct full security guarantee from Washington to Kiev is also impossible. It would create a high likelihood of a direct war between the U.S. and Russia which would soon become nuclear. The U.S. will not want to risk that.

So when, during the preparations of the Vilnius summit, it had become clear that allies would not agree to Ukraine's membership, U.S. President Biden presented an alternative (https://www.globalvillagespace.com/us-preparing-israel-style-security-guarantees-for-ukraine-biden/):
The US is willing to offer Kiev a sort of security arrangement currently offered to Israel instead of membership in NATO, President Joe Biden told CNN in an interview previewed on Friday. “I don’t think it’s ready for membership in NATO,” Biden said of Ukraine. “I don’t think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war.”
“And one of the things I indicated is, the United States would be ready to provide, while the process was going on, and that’s gonna take a while, to provide security a la the security we provide for Israel: providing the weaponry they need, the capacity to defend themselves,” Biden said, adding, “If there is an agreement, if there is a ceasefire, if there is a peace agreement.”That however is even more unrealistic than a NATO membership. As Geoffrey Aronson convincingly argues (https://nationalinterest.org/feature/biden%E2%80%99s-search-security-model-ukraine-comes-short-206653):
The relevance of the Israel model embraced by Biden to Ukraine’s security is deeply flawed conceptually and practically.
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In operational terms, the Israel model is barely relevant to the predicament that Ukraine finds itself in and hardly a good model upon which to build the desired security relationship between the United States, NATO, and Ukraine. In conceptual terms, there is little beyond a superficial comparison between Jerusalem and Kyiv to recommend the concept.
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U.S.-Israel security ties were born out of three principal elements: (1) Cold War competition in the Middle East; (2) Israel’s overwhelming victory in June 1967; and (3) Israel’s surreptitious development of a nuclear weapons capability from the 1950s onward.

It is all but impossible that Ukraine will be able to exit its war with Russia with the kind of total territorial victory that provided the basis for U.S.-Israel ties after June 1967.
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In this context, there may well be those in Ukraine (but one hopes not in Washington) who see the Israel model—creating an integrated nuclear weapons option while maintaining nuclear ambiguity as long as the conventional weapons pipeline from Washington is open—as instructive.

But here too reality intrudes. The U.S. bargain with Israel aims explicitly at assuring Israel’s superiority in conventional weapons against any combination of Arab/Iranian enemies. To that end, through FY2020, the United States has provided Israel with $146 billion in military, economic, and missile defense funding—$236 billion in 2018 dollars.

In just the first year of the war, Ukraine received $77 billion from Washington, about one-half of its total military, economic, and humanitarian assistance.

At best, the U.S. military support at current historic levels has won Kyiv a military stalemate. Ukraine, certainly out of NATO and arguably even as a member, will never enjoy an Israeli-style Quality Military Edge (QME) over Moscow, or be able to command the region’s strategic or security agenda as Israel has done in the Middle East.
Russia's might makes even an attempt of an Israel like security guarantee for Ukraine too costly for the U.S. and thereby simply impossible.

There is only one country in the world that can guarantee peace in Ukraine and the security of its borders. That country is Russia!

But any such guarantee will of course come with conditions attached to it. Either Ukraine will accept those or it will never be secure from outer interference.
That is simply a fact of life Ukraine has had to, and will have to live with.


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https://twitter.com/BhadraPunchline/status/1683701389615042561

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https://www.indianpunchline.com/glimpses-of-an-endgame-in-ukraine/

Glimpses of an endgame in Ukraine

The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors. The Russian objectives of “demilitarisation” and “de-Nazification” of Ukraine wore a surreal look. The western narrative that the war is between Russia and Ukraine, where central issue is the Westphalian principle of national sovereignty, wore thin progressively leaving a void.

There is a realisation today that the war is actually between Russia and NATO and that Ukraine had ceased to be a sovereign country since 2014 when the CIA and sister western agencies — Germany, the UK, France, Sweden, etc.— installed a puppet regime in Kiev.

The fog of war is lifting and the battle lines are becoming visible. At an authoritative level, a candid discussion is beginning as regards the endgame.

Certainly, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s videoconference with the permanent members of the Security Council in Moscow last Friday and his meeting with Belarus President Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg on Sunday become the defining moment. The two transcripts stand back-to-back and need to be read together. (here and here)

There is no question that the two events were carefully choreographed by the Kremlin officials and intended to convey multiple messages. Russia exudes confidence that it has achieved dominance on the battle front — having thrashed the Ukrainian military and Kiev’s “counteroffensive” moving into the rear view mirror. But Moscow anticipates that the Biden administration may be having an even bigger war plan in mind.

At the Security council meeting, Putin “de-classified” the intelligence reports reaching Moscow from various sources indicative of moves to insert into Western Ukraine a Polish expeditionary force. Putin called it “a well-organised, equipped regular military unit to be used for operations” in Western Ukraine “for the subsequent occupation of these territories.”

Indeed, there is a long history of Polish revanchism. Putin, himself a keen student of history, talked at some length about it. He sounded stoical that if the Kiev authorities were to acquiesce with this Polish-American plan, “as traitors usually do, that’s their business. We will not interfere.”

But, Putin added, “Belarus is part of the Union State, and launching an aggression against Belarus would mean launching an aggression against the Russian Federation. We will respond to that with all the resources available to us.” Putin warned that what is afoot “is an extremely dangerous game, and the authors of such plans should think about the consequences.”

On Sunday, at the meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg, Lukashenko picked up the thread of discussion. He briefed Putin about new Polish deployments close to Belarus border — just 40 kms from Brest — and other preparations under way — the opening of a repair shop for Leopard tanks in Poland, activation of an airfield in Rzeszow on Ukrainian border (about 100 kms from Lvov) for use of Americans transferring weaponry, mercenaries, etc.

Lukashenko said: “This is unacceptable to us. The alienation of western Ukraine, the dismemberment of Ukraine and the transfer of its lands to Poland are unacceptable. Should people in Western Ukraine ask us then we will provide support to them. I ask you [Putin] to discuss and think about this issue. Naturally, I would like you to support us in this regard. If the need in such support arises, if Western Ukraine asks us for help, then we will provide assistance and support to people in western Ukraine. If this happens, we will support them in every possible way.”

Lukashenko continued, “I am asking you to discuss this issue and think it through. Obviously, I would like you to support us in this regard. With this support, and if western Ukraine asks for this help, we will definitely provide assistance and support to the western population of Ukraine.”

As could be expected, Putin didn’t respond — at least, not publicly. Lukashenko characterised the Polish intervention as tantamount to the dismemberment of Ukraine and its “piece meal” absorption into NATO. Lukashenko was upfront: “This is supported by the Americans.” Interestingly, he also sought the deployment of Wagner fighters to counter the threat to Belarus.

The bottom line is that Putin and Lukashenko held such a discussion publicly at all. Clearly, both spoke on the basis of intelligence inputs. They anticipate an inflection point ahead.

It is one thing that the Russian people are well aware that their country is de facto fighting the NATO in Ukraine. But it is an entirely different matter that the war may dramatically escalate to a war with Poland, a NATO army that the US regards as its most important partner in continental Europe.

By dwelling at some length on Polish revanchism, which has a controversial record in modern European history, Putin probably calculated that in Europe, including in Poland, there could be resistance to the machinations that might drag NATO into a continental war with Russia.

Equally, Poland must be dithering too. According to Politico, Poland’s military is about 150,000 strong, out of which 30,000 belong to a new territorial defence force who are “weekend soldiers who undergo 16 days of training followed up by refresher courses.”

Again, Poland’s military might doesn’t translate into political influence in Europe because the centrist forces that dominate the EU distrust Warsaw, which is controlled by the nationalist Law and Justice Party whose disregard for democratic norms and the rule of law has damaged Poland’s reputation across the bloc.

Above all, Poland has reason to be worried about the reliability of Washington. Going forward, Polish leadership’s concern, paradoxically, will be that Donald Trump may not return as president in 2024. Despite the cooperation with the Pentagon over the Ukraine war, Poland’s current leadership remains distrustful of President Joe Biden — much like Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

On balance, therefore, it stands to reason that the sabre-rattling by Lukashenko and Putin’s lesson on European history can be taken as more of a forewarning to the West with a view to modulate an endgame in Ukraine that is optimal for Russian interests. A dismemberment of Ukraine or an uncontrollable expansion of the war beyond its borders will not be in the Russian interests.

But the Kremlin leadership will factor in the contingency that Washington’s follies stemming out of its desperate need to save face from a humiliating defeat in the proxy war, may leave no choice to the Russian forces but to cross the Dnieper and advance all the way to Poland’s border to prevent an occupation of Western Ukraine by the so-called Lublin Triangle, a regional alliance with virulent anti-Russian orientation comprising Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine, formed in July 2020 and promoted by Washington.

Putin’s back-to-back meetings in Moscow and St. Petersburg throw light on the Russian thinking as to three key elements of the endgame in Ukraine. First, Russia has no intentions of territorial conquest of Western Ukraine but will insist on having a say on how the new boundaries of the country and the future regime will look and act like, which means that an anti-Russian state will not be allowed.

Second, the Biden administration’s plan to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat in the war is a non-starter, as Russia will not hesitate to counter any continued attempt by the US and NATO to use Ukrainian territory as a springboard to wage a renewed proxy war, which means that Ukraine’s “piece meal” absorption into NATO will remain a fantasy.

Third, most important, the battle-hardened Russian army backed by a powerful defence industry and a robust economy will not hesitate to confront NATO member countries bordering Ukraine if they trespass on Russia’s core interests, which means that Russia’s core interests will not be held hostage to Article 5 of the NATO Charter.

[Tintin]

Ukraine Offensive Achieving NOTHING w/Col Doug Macgregor (ret):

C-zs24H1L5A

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Yes, a typically excellent level-headed and informed analysis - again - by Doug Macgregor.

The Kennedy Beacon article - this is Doug Macgregor's Substack page - linked, below:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Col_Douglas_Macgregor/2023-07-20_Discarding_Illusions_Ending_Wars_by_Doug_Macgregor_%28The_Kennedy_Beacon%29.pdf

[AlaBil]

Thanks Tintin. Especially for the information about MacGregor's substack. I much prefer reading rather than listening.:highfive:

[Rizotto]

https://www.rt.com/russia/580383-putin-pledges-grain-aid-africa/

July 27, 2023

Putin pledges grain aid to Africa

Russia will be ready to ship free grain to some of Africa’s poorest nations within the next three to four months, President Vladimir Putin has announced. He made the pledge during a speech at the Russia-Africa summit being held in St. Petersburg.

Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somali, the Central African Republic, and Eritrea will each receive 25,000 to 50,000 tons of grain, the Russian leader said. Moscow will also cover the delivery costs of the shipments, he added.

The announcement comes a week after Moscow refused to renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an arrangement which had allowed Ukraine to export grain by commercial ships. The UN- and Türkiye-mediated deal had been touted as a humanitarian effort to protect the world’s poorest nations from surging food prices.

However, Moscow has long insisted that the agreement had failed achieve its purported aims and had turned into a purely commercial enterprise. Putin reiterated that the UN’s inability to persuade Western nations to lift economic sanctions on Russian food and fertilizer exports, which was part of the deal, had marred the entire reasoning for the operation.

“They created obstacles even to our plans to donate fertilizers to the poorest nations that needed them,” the Russian leader said. “Out of 262,000 tons of the fertilizers blocked in European ports, we’ve managed to ship only two lots: merely 20,000 tons to Malawi and 34,000 tons to Kenya. The rest remains in the hands of the Europeans.”

Western leaders are hypocritical to accuse Moscow of causing instability on the global food market, considering their efforts to undermine Russian exports, Putin claimed. Despite Western-imposed sanctions, Russia is ramping up supplies to Africa, both commercial and humanitarian, he added.

[Bill Ryan]

This is like Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize. :facepalm:


https://zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/dr-peter-mccullough-lebron-james-sons-cardiac-arrest-and-potential-role-spike

No Joke: Ursula Von der Leyen's EU Commission Just Received "World Prize For Peace And Freedom"

Few political figures have done more to keep Ukrainians fighting - and dying in huge numbers - in a bloody, futile proxy war of attrition than Von der Leyen.

(...the critical article continues (https://zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/dr-peter-mccullough-lebron-james-sons-cardiac-arrest-and-potential-role-spike))

[Tintin]

"At this point, with the Ukraine counteroffensive against Russia thwarted, the official said, “Zelensky has no plan, except to hang on. It’s as if he’s an orphan—a poor waif in his underwear—and we have no real idea of what Zelensky and his crowd are thinking. Ukraine is the most corrupt and dumbest government in the world, outside of Nigeria, and Biden’s support of Zelensky can only come from Zelensky’s knowledge of Biden, and not just because he was taking care of Biden’s son.”" - from Sy Hersh

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Another important Substack article from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sy Hersh. This is only a partial copy of a full article - a full Substack paid subscription is required - which may perhaps have been published in full elsewhere - I'll do a little digging there. In essence he's reporting from comments made from insiders within the Beltway, who are somewhat critical.

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OPERA BUFFA IN UKRAINE


As the war drags on, delusions mount, with no end, or victory, in sight
SEYMOUR HERSH
JUL 27 PREVIEW

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Russian President Vladimir Putin drives a construction truck across the road-and-rail bridge over the Kerch Strait linking mainland Russia to Crimea during its opening ceremony on May 15, 2018. On July 17 the bridge was attacked for the second time by the Ukrainian military, using a pair of submersible drones. / ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images.

Let’s take a look at recent events in the Ukraine war from the point of view of those in the American intelligence community who don’t feel they have the ear of President Joe Biden but should.

On July 17 Ukraine attacked for a second time one of Russian President Vladimir’s proudest achievements: the 11.25-mile Kerch Bridge linking Crimea to Russia. The 3.7 billion dollar bridge, with separate spans for auto and train traffic, was opened for auto traffic in May of 2018 and for trucks five months later, with Putin himself driving the first one to make the crossing.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made it clear before the Russian invasion early last year that he considered the bridge a legitimate military target. Ukraine initially attacked the bridge last October, using a submersible drone, but it was fully repaired within seven months. The most recent attack, by a pair of submersible drones, killed a couple who were driving across when the explosion occurred and injured their child. Damage to one of the auto spans was severe.

The Biden administration’s role in both attacks was vital. “Of course it was our technology,” one American official told me. “The drone was remotely guided and half submerged—like a torpedo.” I asked if there was any thought before the bridge attack about the possibility of retaliation. “What will Putin do? We don’t think that far,” the official said. “Our national strategy is that Zelensky can do whatever he wants to do. There’s no adult supervision.”

Putin responded to the second attack on the bridge by ending an agreement that enabled Ukrainian wheat and other vital food crops, stymied by the ongoing war, to be shipped from blocked ports on the Black Sea. (Before the war Ukraine exported more grain than the entire European Union and nearly half of the world’s sunflower seeds.) And Russia began steadily intensifying missile and rocket attacks in Odessa, whose initial target list has expanded from port areas to inner city sites.

The official said there was a lot more than grain and sunflower seeds flowing into Europe from Odessa and other Black Sea ports: “Odessa’s exports included illegal stuff like drugs and the oil that Ukraine was getting from Russia.”

At this point, with the Ukraine counteroffensive against Russia thwarted, the official said, “Zelensky has no plan, except to hang on. It’s as if he’s an orphan—a poor waif in his underwear—and we have no real idea of what Zelensky and his crowd are thinking. Ukraine is the most corrupt and dumbest government in the world, outside of Nigeria, and Biden’s support of Zelensky can only come from Zelensky’s knowledge of Biden, and not just because he was taking care of Biden’s son.”

There are some in the American intelligence community, the official said, who worry about Putin’s response to the recent Ukrainian drone attacks in central Moscow. “Will Kiev be next?”

[Tintin]

It's rare we get to hear Maria Zakharova speak in English, but, here's a sample :heart: :)

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Source: https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1684493843364806658

:focus:

[pounamuknight]

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova welcomes the participants of the second Russia-Africa Summit in Saint-Petersburg, wishing them fruitful work

Contrast that with these diplomatic geniuses :frusty:

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[Gwin Ru]

...

... Geopolitics & Empire 7/23/2023 (https://www.bitchute.com/video/YNipub3uSGtw/) 37:24


Watch (https://www.bitchute.com/video/YNipub3uSGtw/#video-watch)

First published at 06:55 UTC on July 27th, 2023.

douglasmacgregorTV2 (https://www.bitchute.com/channel/douglasmacgregortv2/)
douglasmacgregorTV2 (https://www.bitchute.com/profile/n5Q72hBv5V5J/)

Hrvoje Morić0 talks with Col. Douglas Macgregor: NATO is an Appendage of Globalist Foreign Policy

Col. Douglas Macgregor discusses the threat of globalism and how NATO has become instrumentalized to work as an appendage of globalist foreign policy run out of Washington and London. He provides his view on the current state of the war in Ukraine, how America is staring at armageddon financially, and multipolarity.


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[Vicus]

Russia launches massive strikes on Ukrainian airfields – MOD 27 Jul, 2023

Moscow’s military has set off a major barrage of cruise missiles at Ukraine, targeting its military infrastructure

Moscow has launched fresh long-range strikes against Ukraine’s military infrastructure, targeting weaponry stockpiles, ammo and fuel depots, as well as several airfields, the Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily briefing on Thursday.

The strikes, conducted over the past 24-hour period, involved “long-range, air- and sea-based high-precision weapons,” the military said, without elaborating. The strikes targeted “command and control” centers of the Ukrainian military, as well as multiple rear repair bases, storage sites and airfields, it added. The targeted storage facilities were used to stash “water drones, as well as missiles, weaponry and military equipment received from European countries and the US,” according to the ministry. All the designated targets were successfully hit, the military stated.

The strikes also affected multiple fuel depots, including an aviation-fuel storage facility in Ukraine’s western region of Khmelnitsky, as well as a major fuel and ammo stockpile in Zaporozhye Region, which has seen a sharp uptick in fighting over the past day.

Russian troops have repelled a major attack in the area, inflicting heavy losses on Ukrainian forces. According to the country’s military, Kiev’s troops lost more than 280 personnel, at least 25 tanks and ten infantry fighting vehicles during the battle.

https://www.rt.com/russia/580411-ukraine-airfields-missile-strikes/

[Vicus]

The Front Line Is Boiling. The Defense Is Cracking. Military Summary 2023.07.26


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

[Bill Ryan]

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=HLeBb6hPUC8And here's Part 2: :thumbsup:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq-Jab4DUhA.

[shaberon]

Here is what happens when you let a crooked "Grain Deal" expire (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230727/russias-fsb-says-found-another-ship-with-explosives-going-to-russia-for-grain-1112175969.html):


Explosives were found on cargo ship BMO RIVER on July 26, while it was going from Turkiye to the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to ship grain, the FSB said, adding that the ship had been in a Ukrainian port earlier.

It was decided to prohibit the ship from the passage under the Crimean bridge and force it to leave the Russian territorial waters, the statement also read.




While France appears to be busy militarizing Vanuatu in order to fulfill NATO's monetary commitment, the U. S. has sent a slew of these things (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230727/us-armed-forces-order-490mln-package-to-fix-more-deficiencies-in-f-35-fighters-1112174836.html) to pressure Iran:


"Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company [of] Fort Worth, Texas is awarded a $489,464,143 modification ... order ... to procure various material mod kits, special test/tooling equipment, as well as ... product engineering," the Department of Defense said in a press release.

The new equipment will be used to retrofit and modify engineering change proposal efforts on F-35 aircraft to correct aircraft deficiencies and upgrade F-35 aircraft with the Technology Refresh Three package, the Defense Department said.



Hooray, I believe I will celebrate with an out-of-date cookie.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ducaena/status/1684653884701077504

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[Ravenlocke]

We are on the path to war and we are in the hands of a president who is not entirely stable.

NATO Members are now openly discussing war plans against Russia.

Poland has indicated they are going to enter Ukraine regardless of what the NATO alliance says.

We are on the path to war and we are in the hands of a man, [Joe Biden] who is not entirely stable.

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/DougAMacgregor/status/1684740441176977408

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[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=HLeBb6hPUC8And here's Part 2: :thumbsup:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq-Jab4DUhA.

As previously reported here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1567978&viewfull=1#post1567978), these are in the Avalon Library :thumbsup: - no need for YouTube in this instance :sun:

[Bill Ryan]

A first for Ukraine (temporarily). A sole Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle, unsupported by anyone or anything, trundles south across a field all on its own and immediately falls straight into one of Russia's massively fortified anti-tank ditches. It's the one and only Ukrainian vehicle to have reached that far since the counter-offensive started on 4 June.

There's no explanation of why this happened, but there's speculation that the Ukrainian driver was disoriented and lost, simply heading in the wrong direction. (But Alexander Mercouris suggests (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iir4LFjDciQ) that this may have been a driver and his crew trying to desert or surrender.)

There's also no explanation of why the Russians didn't destroy the vehicle with a drone or an anti-tank missile (easy to do!). It might either have been that they knew they could do this at any time if they had to, and were curious to see what would happen when the thing encountered the ditch, or they knew via radio contact that the vehicle was trying to surrender. (In which case, why they didn't warn them about the ditch is also unexplained. Or maybe they did, but the message wasn't understood or didn't get through.)

For the record, this is what the tank traps look like:

https://i.insider.com/64c2c127048ff200190c1adc?width=1400&format=jpeg&auto=webp

https://alchetron.com/cdn/anti-tank-trench-ea6dd159-e02d-4a27-9661-856c0db9ead-resize-750.jpeg

https://twitter.com/i/status/1684613843593330704
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[Vicus]

perhaps not the right place to post this, but maybe as curiosity ... :chuckle:

Amerikans Move to Russia to Preserve Traditional Values
4 hours ago
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The aggressive promotion of so-called “diversity” and “inclusivity” in the United States nowadays has apparently led some Americans to move to countries such as Russia, where traditional values are respected and protected by the government and society.

An unspecified number of Americans, all of them “accomplished people of traditional values,” have ended up moving from the United States to Russia and settling near the city of Serpukhov in the Moscow Region, said Evgeny Primakov, head of the Russian Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation.
According to Primakov, all of these “settlers” have or had their own businesses back in the US, which they are willing to sell or which they have already sold in order to relocate to Russia.
“They are mostly people with traditional values, faithful but not necessarily Orthodox Christian,” he said, adding that these Americans also do not necessarily have any Russian ancestry.
Most of these Americans have large families and, as Primakov explained, they regard Russia as a place where their children can grow up and become free sensible people with a “normal moral gauge,” as Primakov said.

“I call it a continent of adequacy,” he remarked while explaining how these American settlers perceive contemporary Russia.

Last month, Primakov mentioned that construction of a village in the Moscow Region where immigrants from the United States might settle is being negotiated, with some 27 hectares (around 66.7 acres) of land near Serpukhov being allocated for this project.
“There are foreigners who are already settling near Yaroslavl,” he told media in June, noting that these immigrants regard Russia as an “ark of adequacy and tranquility.”

While authorities in the United States seem eager to provide so-called “gender affirming care” to kids and teenagers who regard themselves as transgender, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law last week that effectively bans gender reassignment in Russia.
Russian legislation also features provisions aimed at protecting the faithful from their beliefs being publicly mocked, and the curricula at Russian educational institutions is devoid of subjects such as critical race theory.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230728/americans-move-to-russia-to-preserve-traditional-values-1112214643.html

[Vicus]

Ukrainian Troops Blown Up By Their Own Mines – Russian Military 6 hours ago

VOLNOVAKHA DISTRICT, DPR (Sputnik) — A group of Ukrainian infantry troops were taken out their own mines while attempting an attack in the direction of Ugledar in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), a Russian soldier with the call sign "Buka" from the 2nd Dmitry Donskoy Rifle Battalion told Sputnik.

"Just a few days ago, there was another attempt by the Ukrainian forces to launch an offensive in the direction of Ugledar. A group of infantry accompanied by three units of heavy equipment tried to advance, but the attempt was unsuccessful as they couldn't reach our positions; instead, they triggered their own mines." :chuckle:
"In addition, our Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) quickly responded with additional air strikes, once again thwarting their offensive," the source said.

He emphasized that the Ukrainian armed forces are constantly trying to launch offensives against the Russian positions, but to no avail.
Last Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the elimination of Ukrainian troops and equipment in the area of Ugledar and Makarovka.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230728/ukrainian-troops-blown-up-by-their-own-mines--russian-military-1112212122.html

[Bill Ryan]

Yesterday, Judge Napolitano did one of his regular video interviews (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6RlnYph1tw) with Matt VanDyke, who has been in Ukraine serving as a US trainer.

In that interview, he told Napolitano that he was going to join the Ukraine military to actually fight on the front lines as a soldier.

Today, Napolitano talked to (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR294YJmGeM) Scott Ritter, and near the end of the interview asked him for his thoughts on this, and what he'd say to VanDyke if he had the opportunity. This was Ritter's reply.
You're gonna die.

[shaberon]

An unspecified number of Americans, all of them “accomplished people of traditional values,” have ended up moving from the United States to Russia and settling near the city of Serpukhov in the Moscow Region, said Evgeny Primakov, head of the Russian Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation.


I would say it is interesting and relevant.

On the other hand, what is missing, is, who would give us refugee asylum?

Our tired, our poor, our huddled masses...who would take them? I don't think they will.

These moves are not necessarily that hard for anyone who is "accomplished", but it is a different story if you have nothing. Sort of like we don't have ratlines to defenders' militias in Yemen or Syria, but if you want to get in ISIS or Ukrainian Armed Forces, we see a lot of stories about that. One story recently told us how disrespected the American exclave in Mexico City is, and it was not because of running drugs or prostitutes or things that "other immigrant communities" are accused of. Seemed to be more like the Gringo attitude that can't be washed off.

"Adequacy" in the article above does not sound like it refers to material supplies.

"Devoid of critical race theory"...not sure what they mean...perhaps "lack of supremacy"?

Seems to be more the subject that "Americans move to raise children normally". Whereas "preserving values" has a defensive militarized tone, since Hitler claimed the same thing. It might not be incorrect if clarified by "preserving values against other Americans". That would make sense.

[Ravenlocke]

Text:

What is known about the strike on the SBU building in Dnepr at the moment.

- The left wing of the building of the SBU department building in Dnepropetrovsk region was partially destroyed. Judging by the nature of the arrival, a buried object or room located in the left wing was presumably assigned to the hit.

- Statements that the building was empty and there was no one there at the time of the impact do not stand up to criticism. In the car park of the SBU department at 23 Svyatoslav Khrabrygo Street, there were many cars, presumably of the employees of the special service.

- The accuracy of the arrival is striking. The other buildings around remained intact, a separate section of the building was destroyed. This is reminiscent of the strike on the GUR building in Kiev.

- It is also curious that the strike was carried out without an air alert being declared, all AFU air defence interception equipment in the area, as well as target detection radars, failed to identify what was presumably a ballistic missile.

- Earlier, the speaker of the Air Force of the AFU, Yuriy Ignat, said that the Ukrainian air defence had nothing to shoot down the Russian Armed Forces' ballistic speed missiles. This statement, as well as the accuracy of the arrival, suggests that ballistic missiles of the Iskander missile defence system were most likely used on the SBU headquarters building in Dnepr.

Slavyangrad

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1685025921701498880

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The attack on the SBU building in Dnepropetrovsk was carried out with Iskander-M missile

Turkish report, citing their Ukrainian sources, report that an urgent call for blood donation in Dnepropetrovsk indicates that the affected SBU building was not empty, and the previous Russian blows in Ukraine were also successful.

According to them, helicopters and sanitary aircraft flew back and forth from Polish bases along the Ukrainian border after a Russian missile strike a few days ago.

And someone was evacuated, possibly, NATO personnel from underground headquarters or air base.

According to the Turks, important events continue to occur, showing that the Russian side seriously strengthened its intelligence capabilities, which instantly caused serious losses among the NATO military and Ukraine

IL RUSSO

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1685077724375773184

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[Ravenlocke]

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Special operation, 28 July.

Main:

▪️The Kiev regime hit the residential infrastructure of Taganrog with a missile of the S-200 air defense system converted into a strike version, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported;

▪️According to the latest data from the Governor of the Rostov Region, 9 people were hospitalized after the terrorist attack in Taganrog, the children were not injured;

▪️At about 17:15, the Kiev regime tried to re-attack the territory of Russia with a S-200 air defense system converted into an attack missile, it was intercepted near the city of Azov, Rostov Region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported;

▪️ At night, a Ukrainian drone tried to attack objects in the Moscow region, it was destroyed by air defense systems, the Russian military department said;

▪️Russia reserves the right to a tough response after the shelling of Taganrog and the drone attack on Moscow, the Foreign Ministry said;

▪️Russian troops are moving forward in the Krasno-Limansky direction, capturing the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense said

▪️Putin, speaking about the situation in Ukraine and NATO expansion, said that all problems should be resolved during negotiations;

▪️There are no changes on the Ukrainian settlement track, Kiev still rejects the possibility of negotiations, Peskov said;

▪️Russian specialists studied 6 types of NATO vehicles captured during a special operation, the High-Precision Systems Holding said;

▪️Ukraine lost almost 300 people and 5 NATO tanks in the South Donetsk direction, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;

▪️Russian troops repelled 7 attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction, more than 260 people were killed, the ministry said.

Lord of War

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1685015171788353537

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[ExomatrixTV]

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[ExomatrixTV]

America ‘Wants’ The War With Russia: RFK Jr. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120744-Robert-F.-Kennedy-jr.-May-Run-for-Presidency-Challenging-Joe-Biden-2024)

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As soon as RFK Jr. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120744-Robert-F.-Kennedy-jr.-May-Run-for-Presidency-Challenging-Joe-Biden-2024) starts winning an argument, Hannity (who is harrowing dumb) just changes the subject... :facepalm:

[ExomatrixTV]

The Russians Have Foreclosed NATO Of Committing Large Ground Forces:

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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.

Unpublished interview from July 13.

[Ravenlocke]

Disastrous Ukr Attack Orekhov Fails, Rus Advance Kupiansk, Oskol, Missile Strike UKr Dnepro HQ

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1685360674640171009

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https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1685413176597168128

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1685345683031965696

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https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1685400178000605184

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[Ravenlocke]

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During the meeting with Putin, the head of the Republic of Congo revealed that African delegations faced obstacles in reaching St. Petersburg for the summit with Russia.

They had to re-rent a plane in Dubai, where it was insured because Western insurers prohibited flights to Russia.

"Other delegations also encountered difficulties, particularly regarding overflight rights over certain countries," said Denis Sassou Nguesso.

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1685344607746576385

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✈️🚫 The West tried to disrupt the visit of African leaders to St. Petersburg

Western intelligence agencies put pressure on insurance companies that refused to provide services for flights from Dubai to Russia. President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso told Vladimir Putin about this.

📝 “Other delegations also faced difficulties, in particular with regard to the right to fly over a number of countries,” he added.

🇪🇺 Europe cannot come to terms with the loss of its colonies on the "dark continent".

Ostashko! Important - subscribe

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1685365692688650241

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[Ravenlocke]

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Breaking News: 247th Airborne Regiment Dominates Enemy Retreat and Secures Staromayorsky

In a show of unparalleled prowess, the 247th Airborne Regiment is obliterating the retreating enemy forces, demonstrating their unwavering determination and combat proficiency. As the enemy withdraws, they leave behind a trail of abandoned equipment, including a tank, serving as a testament to the relentless pursuit of victory by the regiment.

The Archangel of the Special Forces, an emblem of valor and expertise, is leading the charge, spearheading the strategic maneuvers that have forced the enemy into a full-scale retreat. Their swift and decisive actions on the battlefield are proving to be pivotal in turning the tide of the conflict.

Stay tuned for further developments as the 247th Airborne Regiment continues to demonstrate its tenacity in securing Staromayorsky.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1685378890091433984

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺There is a heavy battle in Satromayorskoye: the DPR paratroopers and special forces knock out the enemy, capturing a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
▪️On the Vremevsky ledge at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR, our Stavropol airborne fighters, together with the special forces of the DPR OBTF "Kaskad", launched a counterattack on Staromayorskoe in the first half of the day.
▪️Ours knocked out the enemy from the forward positions, destroying and capturing an entire unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - more than 10 militants.
▪️Assault groups of the Airborne Forces are moving forward, the enemy has been trying to contain our counterattack with active artillery fire all day.
▪️The fights don't stop.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1685342221568966661

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺⚔️🇬🇪At Artyomovsk, the Russian Aerospace Forces covered a detachment of Georgian mercenaries, killing the commander and crippling militants
The leader of the Black Eagle unit, 35-year-old Achiko Gigolashvili, was killed by an airstrike. His gang is fighting as part of the 28th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of the strike, several more Georgian mercenaries and Ukrainian militants were crippled.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1685341983626182658

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇵🇱⚔️🇷🇺The situation is getting more dangerous: 100 fighters of the Wagner group are moving towards Poland, - Prime Minister Morawiecki

“The situation is getting more and more dangerous. We have information that more than 100 mercenaries of the Wagner group moved towards the Suwalki corridor near Grodno in Belarus, ” Morawiecki said at a press conference at an armored vehicle factory in Gliwice.

He suggested that the “Wagnerites” could disguise themselves as Belarusian border guards, helping illegal migrants to enter Poland. Warsaw is also afraid that the PMC fighters themselves can pretend to be migrants and infiltrate Poland.

The Suwalki corridor separates the Republic of Belarus from the Kaliningrad region.

@Slavyangrad

Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1685321178590728192

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1685326154952003584

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ The 101st Troop Brigade surrenders en masse to our soldiers near Kupyansk during the offensive of the Russian army
Captured by ZVO fighters in the Liman Pervy area. The motivation of the militants is very low, the morale and psychological state is terrible.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1685331377493770240

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"Death ahead! Stop and don't move forward. Losses are irretrievable, a lot of dead. Of the 100 fighters of the company, 40 people remained. Just stop ... "

The commander of the 7th company of the 116th brigade Nezovtsev Evgeny Aleksandrovich turned to his brothers. He was lucky to be captured and survive - he knows what he is talking about.

The 116th brigade is the same “elite” 10th corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was supposed to break through our defenses and victoriously enter the Crimea. But something went wrong.

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‼️🇷🇺“Art and UAV decides”: A powerful report on how a Cossack assault battalion restrains the enemy’s advance on the northern flank of Artyomovsk day and night

▪️The Skif volunteer battalion as part of the Terek brigade consists mainly of experienced fighters who have gone through various hot spots of the world, as well as volunteers from Donbass. Their base is near the front line.
▪️Stormtrooper told RT military commissar S. Obishchenko that Soledar and Artyomovsk are ritual destinations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, have almost religious meaning:
➨ “How much they leave their own here and how much they tumble in here in total is incommensurable. On the other hand, it feels like they are already choking.”
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine are constantly trying to break through, yesterday the UAV operator recorded equipment, after adjusting the fire, it was destroyed from the second strike.
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In memory of the angels of Donbass.

Today. I was there. May all children rest in peace.

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🇷🇺 Putin met with Governor of St. Petersburg Beglov

At the meeting, the Russian president asked about the progress of construction in the "northern capital" and thanked the city authorities for the satisfactory organization of the summit with African leaders.

✔️Vladimir Putin stressed that the Africans really liked the organization of the meeting and the city as a whole.

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🇷🇺“My stay here is more important than my stay at the BRICS summit”: Vladimir Putin explained why he won’t go to South Africa

The Russian leader is in constant contact with all the leaders of the BRICS countries: with the President of Brazil, South Africa and China, so "my participation in the summit in South Africa is hardly more important than my presence here," Putin said.

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Vladimir Putin on the identity of Ukraine

The President of the country noted that Ukraine has been looking for its identity since 1991.

✖️However, you cannot search for your identity based on the ideas of neo-Nazism.

🇫🇲 The West is using neo-Nazi Ukraine against Russia, as they once used Al-Qaeda militants in the North Caucasus.

❗️ But NATO does not understand that all this is returning like a boomerang, like terrorism, which has migrated from the East to the countries of Europe.

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🇵🇱🇺🇦 Putin spoke about Poland's plans to seize part of Ukraine

Russia does not yet see threats to its national security in Poland's plans to occupy part of Ukraine, but everything is moving towards this.

📝 “This may be the beginning of the path to the rejection of the western territories in favor of Poland,” the Russian president said.

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🪖 "Everything can be done if it is beneficial for us": Putin on the exchange of "Azov" * for Russian prisoners of war

“When it is in our interests, everything can be done if it is beneficial to us,” the president said.

He added that Russia carried out exchanges of "Azov" * with Russian pilots.

* extremist organization, banned in Russia

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🇷🇺 Putin recalled Warsaw as part of the Russian Empire

📝 “When at the Yalta Conference, as historians say, there was a conversation about what kind of device should be in Europe, and Stalin said that Lvov should be part of the Soviet Union, Western Ukraine, Churchill objected to him and said that Lvov would never was not part of the Russian Empire.

📝 To which Stalin replied: “But Warsaw was included.” So Lviv ended up as part of the Soviet Union and was transferred to Ukraine.”

✖️ The President believes that the introduction of units of the Polish army or security forces into Ukrainian territory will mean the end of "Ukrainian presence on these lands."

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Russia does not want military clash with US, says Putin

"We are always ready for any scenario, but no one wants this," Putin said
ST. PETERSBURG, July 30. /TASS/. Russia is ready for any scenario, but does not want a direct military clash with the US, the country’s President Vladimir Putin said when asked about the US side's provocations in Syria.

"We are always ready for any scenario, but no one wants this, and on the initiative of the American side we once created a special mechanism to prevent these conflicts. Our heads of certain departments communicate directly with each other, have the opportunity to consult on any crisis situation. This shows that no one wants clashes," Putin told reporters.

According to the Russian side, since the beginning of this year, the aviation of the US-led international coalition has made 23 dangerous approaches to the aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the skies over Syria, while drones have violated flight safety in Syria 340 times. On July 27 alone, fighter jets of the pro-US anti-terror coalition violated Syrian airspace eight times.

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US stance blocks possibility of peace talks on Ukraine – diplomat

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed to Washington's desire for a strategic defeat of Moscow "on the battlefield"

ST. PETERSBURG, July 29. /TASS/. The position adopted by the US administration which wants to strategically defeat Russia "on the battlefield" is blocking the possibility of peace talks on Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the Second Russia-Africa Summit.

"This is a principled stance by the US administration which not simply thinks about but made it its mission - the necessity of not simply achieving results but a strategic defeat of our country on the battlefield," she said replying to a question about the factors that block negotiations on Ukraine.

The diplomat stressed that the Ukrainian conflict is extremely profitable for the US. "Because the conflict allows them to avoid discussing their own pertinent problems. Because the conflict for them is the opportunity to resolve their issues by introducing this chaos to global geopolitical affairs," she pointed out.

"So, on the sidelines of the [Russia-Africa] Summit, as you know, words ‘peace’ and ‘peace initiative’ were heard from the Africans. I know that relevant meetings took place. We are grateful for this genuine sincere interest. Yet there are objective factors connected to the West and Kiev regime’s position which is implementing precisely the Western agenda," Zakharova concluded.

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Maria Zakharova: “They are eccentric clowns in the West. We don’t see any true political actors with the ability to sacrifice for the benefit of others in the West. They have nothing to give to others. Jesus Christ changed the course of history and drew humanity to a new level. That is the example that we should follow. Western ideology and Western politicians are falling down and it is causing a lot of turbulence in the world.”

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🇺🇦 There’s a war going on in the Ukrainian rear: A war of extermination of the entire male population of the country under the name of “mobilization” which every day takes more and more gruesome and grotesque forms.

The current Ukrainian government has organized a hunt for its own citizens. Men of military age, in gross violation of the law, are seized on the streets, sent by force to the army, after which in very many cases they are sent to the front with virtually no military training and because of this they quickly die or are seriously injured. Many men try not to go out at all, being at home as much as possible. But the need to work to feed himself and his family makes it impossible to avoid appearing in public places.

The class essence of the ruling oligarchy in the situation of mobilization manifests itself as clearly as possible. It is also understandable why the leading Western media are silent about this, not wanting to destroy the media picture they created of “unity of the democratic Ukrainian government and people”, which has little to do with reality.

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Russia forgives again: Moscow wrote off $ 20 billion of debt to African countries

At the Russia-Africa forum in St. Petersburg, an agreement was reached on the partial cancellation of Somalia's debts. "Two historic documents" were signed on debt totaling $691 million.

In total, Moscow has written off $20 billion of debt to African countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in May. Angola was forgiven a $3.5 billion debt that arose as a result of the purchase of weapons from the USSR, Ethiopia - $5 billion, Algeria - $5.7 billion, Libya - $4.5 billion.

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I've been out the whole day, and wanted to catch up on any news here. My thanks for all the many videos covering the whole range of events — from a crazy-brave and highly skilled Russian tank crew (recommended (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1569628&viewfull=1#post1569628)! The English-captioned real-time commentary is terrific) to a Russian soldier playing the flute (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1569646&viewfull=1#post1569646) so very beautifully with live fire in the background, to an African delegation singing the Russian National Anthem (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1569651&viewfull=1#post1569651). And more.

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I find it humorous that Poland is disturbed by a hundred Wagnerites, while Russia doesn't care if west Ukraine becomes Polish.


Along with the Chinese, Zakharova aptly expressed that the foe is not necessarily the countries, but NATO.

Correct me if I am wrong. The Sec-Gen is just a sort of spokesperson for the Council. This council consists of thirty-one unelected representatives, and it only acts by doing so unanimously.

Meanwhile, the thing itself is merely a treaty, which actually has an exit clause written into it. So your country can simply assert its sovereignty by dropping out. If not, they do not mind surrendering a part of their budget and a military commitment to the other thirty decision-makers. When this happens, it can be shown that the equipment is inferior, and the armies are too small to be relevant. One of the better pieces being the Cesar gun equates to Denmark giving its entire arsenal to Ukraine. Its own military is understaffed, even if historically the Normans and Angles/Anglos are Danes. It represents the opposite path from Jesus, and has nothing beneficial to give its own people, mostly just a message about how anyone outside of this grasp must be dealt with severely.

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Ukraine’s baby factories rake in record profits amid chaos of war

While average Ukrainians suffer amid NATO’s proxy war against Russia, business is booming for the surrogate baby industry, which requires a steady supply of healthy but financially desperate women to lease their wombs to affluent foreigners.

Surrogates “have to be from poorer places than our clients,” explained the medical director of Kiev’s largest “baby factory.”


Ihor Pechonoha of the Swiss-based BioTexCom says the business model that has helped him build one of the most profitable surrogacy companies in the world is simple exploitation: “We are looking for women in the former Soviet republics because, logically, [the women] have to be from poorer places than our clients.”

It is no surprise then that BioTexCom has turned to Ukraine for an almost endless pool of young women willing to sell their wombs to ease their financial distress. Eight years of civil war followed by a proxy war between NATO nations and Russia has plunged Ukraine into economic disaster. As its citizens sank into poverty, the country swiftly emerged as the international epicenter for surrogacy, and now controls at least a quarter of the global market. With the rise of the burgeoning industry, a seedy medical underworld filled with patient abuse and corruption has taken root as well.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team have actively encouraged the Western plunder of their war-torn country, inking an investment partnership with the global asset management firm Blackrock, stripping workers of labor protections, and handing state owned companies over to private firms.

But less attention has been paid to Ukraine’s surrogacy industry, which brought over $1.5 billion into the country’s economy in 2018 alone. Since then, the global market for surrogate babies has more than doubled. The industry was valued at over $14 billion last year, and it’s projected to grow by around 25% every year going forward, according to an analysis by Global Market Insights.

As more countries slam the door on the surrogacy industry, Western officials appear to be turning a blind eye to the abuse-ridden business flourishing in a deregulated, politically unstable Ukraine.

Emma Lamberton is a Master of International Development candidate at the University of Pittsburgh who published a paper in Princeton’s Journal of Public and International Affairs on the risks posed to Ukrainian women by the country’s surrogacy industry.

“The main concern of advocates on the ground in Ukraine is that legislators and even news organizations aren’t looking at this as a human rights violation,” Lamberton told The Grayzone.

“A government would never see human rights violations like child abuse as something to simply be regulated,” she explained. “They’d never say ‘you should only be able to beat your children on Wednesdays’ — that would be incredibly ridiculous. And so from the perspective of advocates on the ground in Ukraine, this is an abuse issue and therefore, it should not be regulated and instead it should be outlawed.”

Long before the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine in early 2022, the country was known as a fertile hunting ground for shady characters and agencies seeking to prey on desperate Ukrainian women.

Asian nations with weak regulatory systems and masses of impoverished citizens like India, Thailand, and Nepal also provided popular surrogacy markets. But their governments could not ignore the mounting record of human rights abuses by top industry players and ultimately closed their doors to wealthy foreigners seeking surrogates.

The restriction of these national surrogacy markets has channeled global demand to Ukraine, and kicked off a race to the bottom among child-vending firms. Now, childbirth profiteers have effectively exported the industry from impoverished nations to one in the midst of a grinding conventional war with its neighbor.

“The war has brought to the forefront the need for unified international regulation on the topic of surrogacy, as surrogates are currently forced to choose between staying in a war zone or fleeing to neighboring countries that don’t recognize the legality of surrogacy,” Lamberton noted to The Grayzone.

“As with any humanitarian crisis, human trafficking becomes an even greater risk,” she said, “and international agreement on surrogacy and human rights violations are needed to protect the vulnerable women and children in Ukraine.”

“They don’t treat you as a human being”: impoverished mothers held hostage in baby farms

The BioTexCom Center for Reproduction is by far the biggest player in the international surrogacy market. The owner of the “reproductive technology services” claimed in 2018 that the company controlled a mammoth 70% of the national surrogacy market and a full 25% of the global market.

While BioTexCom’s website boasts that the company has given “the joy of parenthood” to thousands of couples from over the world, its real history and operations reveal a gut-wrenching pattern of abuse, secrecy, malpractice, and even allegations of human trafficking.

Alina, a Ukrainian woman interviewed by Al Jazeera in 2018, explained the conditions that led her to entering a contractual pregnancy agreement with BioTexCom.

“It’s hard to find a well-paid job in Ukraine…I wanted to set aside money for my son’s university fees – they’re very expensive,” she said.

Another Ukrainian BioTexCom surrogate mother carrying a child for an American couple told El Pais that she decided to sell her womb because of her financial situation. “I grew up without a home. It’s important for me to have an apartment of my own. [Surrogacy] is the only way I can do that.”

BioTexCom’s Medical Director, Ihor Pechenoha, openly admitted to the Spanish investigative magazine La Marea that his company targets women from poor areas, and that “all those who work as surrogate mothers do so out of financial hardship.”

“We are looking for women in the former Soviet republics because, logically, [the women] have to be from poorer places than our clients,” Pechenoha explained.

Ultimately, he added, “I have not met a single woman with a good economic situation who has decided to go through this process out of kindness, because she thinks she has enough children and wants to help someone else who wants them.”

“They do it because they need that money to buy a house, for the education of their children,” Pechenoh continued, concluding: “if you have a good life in Europe, you’re not going to do it.”

One Ukrainian woman who sold her womb to foreigners confirmed the BioTexCom director’s comments, telling The Guardian, “the only reason why I agreed to do this is just for the financial benefits.”

“Plus, since my husband left for the frontline, I need a way to support my other four children,” she added.

“Surrogate mothers, they’re a flow of incubators,” another one of BioTexCom’s former surrogates explained in 2019. “They don’t treat you as a human being.”

A 2020 report published in Princeton’s Journal of Public & International Affairs also took note of the foreign exploitation driving Ukraine’s surrogacy boom.

“While proponents claim that women freely choose to become surrogates, vulnerable women are often manipulated through the presentation of choice. Potential surrogates are forced to choose between providing for their families through a practice that may violate their moral beliefs or forfeiting a financial opportunity to provide for their families.”

Oksana Bilozir, a Ukrainian MP pushing to ban foreigners from leasing Ukrainian wombs, told the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) that “there are two categories of Ukrainian surrogates: those wanting to do it for the money and those who already have.” She insisted to ABC that surrogacy offers so much economic value to Ukraine that it may be impossible to outlaw.

Bilozir lamented that the corrupt, oligarchic forces that hold sway over the Ukrainian government have effectively stymied the legislative fight against the surrogacy industry.

“Really it’s now a big fight with business and their lobbyists who are unfortunately present in the Parliament,” she said. “Surrogacy was written into our laws purely as a business.”

Emma Lamberton, the author of the Princeton report on Ukraine’s surrogacy industry, noted BioTexCom is actually a foreign company operating inside of Ukraine. Documents from the firm’s website suggest the company is registered in Switzerland.

Despite BioTexCom’s associations with the wealthy banking center – and its promotional material flaunting state-of-the-art facilities and luxury accommodations for surrogate mothers – a raft of reports indicate the conditions in its residential centers are more akin to prison than any four star hotel.

One mother explained that while she was pregnant on behalf of BioTexCom, the company did, in fact, put her up in an apartment as promised, but she was forced to share the apartment with four other pregnant women, and to also share a bed for 32 weeks of her pregnancy.

Some who have witnessed the company’s practices from the inside say it weaponizes the surrogates’ financial straits to keep them from leaving their living quarters.

“If we weren’t home after 4 P.M., we could be fined 100 euros,” a former BioTexCom surrogate told London-based freelance journalist Madeline Rouche. On average, the monthly stipend for surrogates ranges from 200 to 350 euros. In other words, leaving the living quarters could cost a BioTexCom surrogate half of their monthly compensation.

“We were also threatened with a fine if any of us openly criticized the company, or directly communicated with the biological parents,” she said. “We were treated like cattle and mocked by the doctors.”

The financial compensation, she said, was not nearly enough to make her decision seem worthwhile: “I would never be a surrogate mother again. It was a terrible experience.”

After birth, many infants are kept under lock and key in hotels with militarized security until their purchasers arrive to pick them up. As the Guardian reported in 2020:

“These newborns are not in the nursery of a maternity hospital, they are lined up side by side in two large reception rooms of the improbably named Hotel Venice on the outskirts of Kyiv, protected by outer walls and barbed wire.”

Meanwhile, top Ukrainian officials allege the abusive industry has found powerful guardians in Washington.

US accused of protecting BioTexCom as Western press pumps out PR

During a 2019 interview with The Hill, Ukraine’s then-general prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko alleged that US ambassador Maria Yovanovitch handed him an “untouchables list”, or a list of powerful people whom Washington forbade him from investigating or prosecuting.

Lutsenko oversaw a series of criminal investigations into BioTexCom following accusations of fraud and human trafficking. He eventually had the founder of BioTexCom, a German citizen named Albert Tochilovsky, placed on house arrest for two months in 2018.

But Lutsenko was removed from his post in 2020. Today, he “believes the investigations into BioTexCom have stalled as a result,” the Guardian reported.

While Ukraine’s former top prosecutor accused the US of protecting BioTexCom’s founder, top Western outlets have produced glowing, public relations-like coverage of the company, papering over the abuse and exploitation lurking behind its maternity ward curtains.

In October 2022, The New York Times published an article that could have been drawn directly from BioTexCom marketing material. The Times framed the resumption of BioTexCom’s surrogacy operations in the midst of a war with Russia as a valiant act of patriotic defiance, describing the baby business as “an industry that many childless people rely on.”

Instead of pressing BioTexCom’s medical director on the business model that relies on the financial coercion of poor women or the reports of mistreatment, the Times tossed Pechenoha softball questions about the status of the surrogacy market.

“The war has not diminished the appeal of surrogacy for couples desperate to have children,” because the company’s clients “are in a hurry,” he explained. Ultimately, “we managed to bring all our surrogate mothers out from under occupation and shelling,” Pechenoha bragged.

Baby farms in bomb shelters

As the Ukraine proxy war began, the lucrative business of supplying foreign women with babies at the expense of poor Ukrainian women adopted a militarized posture.

According to The Atlantic, the company secured a bomb shelter near their compound to ensure that newborn production can continue unimpeded in the event of an attack. A video published by BioTexCom in early 2022 shows a typical shelter equipped not only with beds, cribs, and sleeping bags, but with gas masks as well.

A primetime promotional-style ABC News package on the company celebrated its Russian bomb-proof baby factories. “Ukrainian Surrogacy Agency Does Whatever it Takes to Keep Patients Safe,” was the title of the segment

The report opened with ABC’s David Muir commending Ukraine’s “largest surrogacy agency” for “taking all measures possible to make sure their patients and their babies are safe.”

The segment went on to feature a softball interview in which BioTexCom’s medical director insisted without a scintilla of pushback that the company’s medical standards were “so high.” Muir then commended him for being “courageous and brave” and working for such a “wonderful” company.

BioTexCom clearly treats some of humanity’s most daunting challenges as business opportunities, from war to the supposedly looming threat of depopulation.

The next phase of surrogacy: artificial fetuses outside the body

In a note accompanying an article promoted by the company, BioTexCom highlighted the birth rate crises faced by developing countries, arguing that their “artificial insemination technology” is a “chance for survival for humankind.”

“In 50 years the population of most countries of the world will be reduced by half,” the piece declared.

Tochilovsky, the German owner of BioTexCom, has argued that as long as his company remains at the forefront of the wider biotech industry, it promises a revolution in futuristic reproductive biotechnology, in which babies are generated in artificial wombs and genes are edited with computers.

In an interview with Delo, a Ukrainian newspaper, Tochilovsky discussed the digital transformation in the context of the “reproductive technology industry.”

Referencing climbing infertility rates and theories of “population collapse” popularized by the tech billionaire Elon Musk and Chinese businessman Jack Ma, Tochilovsky insisted that the entire human race will be rescued by biotechnology.

“Reproductive medicine is the future of humanity,” he said.

“The most important thing is ectogenesis, the ability to raise a child outside the human body…an artificial uterus. Something like factories that we all saw in the movie The Matrix. I think within five to seven years we will get ectogenesis.” Tochilovsky said that BioTexCom is “working in this direction.”

When asked by the Ukrainian journalist how BioTexCom plans to resolve the legal and ethical issues around engineering and organizing baby factories, the CEO replied that the answer was simple: eliminate outside oversight.

“The most important thing,” he insisted, “is to prohibit law enforcement agencies from interfering in the work.”

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
A Canadian mercenary testified that a church in Kiev was used as a military base.

"It was used as a military base while the priests were there and the church was active!"

Ukrainian Nazis turn schools, churches and hospitals into military bases and then use the deaths of innocents to emotionally manipulate the Western public into supporting their government's decision to increase military and financial support for the Kiev regime.

Ukraine is a terrorist state ‼️

https://twitter.com/GabeZZOZZ/status/1685345510285000704

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The whole interview is here,

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https://twitter.com/LowStudies/status/1685703467271065600?s=20

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1685727001808646144

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1685729201851133952

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🪖 “Wagnerites” infiltrate Poland under the guise of migrants – Polsat News

A new wave of panic has swept over Poland. Local residents are sure that illegal immigrants enter the country from Belarus, who are actually fighters of the Wagner PMC.

🇧🇾 Ex-Minister of Culture and former Ambassador of Belarus to Poland, France and Spain, and now an escaped opposition leader Pavel Latushko, said this on the air of the local PN TV channel.

❗️Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki has already ordered to strengthen the representation of the country's armed forces on the Polish-Belarusian border. All this is due to the fear that the "musicians" can break through the Suwalki corridor that separates the Kaliningrad region from the rest of Russia.

Ostashko! Important - subscribe

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1685715165243654145

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1685750040600453120

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[ExomatrixTV]

The Russian Forces Have Broken Through In Great Strength:

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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.

Interview with L. Todd Wood on July 26, 2023.

[Vicus]

VIDEO: Ukraine Troops SURRENDER en-masse; WHITE FLAGS on Tanks 30 JULY 2023

Hundreds of Ukrainian troops, displaying white flags on their tanks and infantry vehicles, surrendered en-masse to Russia today. More and more common as troops see with their own eyes, it is hopeless to continue fighting.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/video-ukraine-troops-surrender-en-masse-white-flags-on-tanks

[Gwin Ru]

...

... video from above post:


https://htrs-special.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Ukraine-troops-surrender-enmasse-white-flags-on-tanks.mp4

[Bill Ryan]

Another tiny thing (and I'm sure some Ukrainians do this also), but I'd like to share this. :flower:

The text:

There is room for goodness and humanity everywhere.
It has been reported (https://t.me/Kharkov_Perviy) that Russian fighters rescued a small fox near Kupyansk.
The fox is just a baby. Considering that it approached humans on its own, it can be assumed that the baby's mother is no longer with him, most likely having passed away. Now this little fox is under the reliable protection of the rescuers. :)

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/57452
Slavyangrad/57452

[Bill Ryan]

This is very interesting, and I think predictable. (The original Times article (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mod-destroyed-challenger-tanks-that-could-have-gone-to-ukraine-hklr9wpv6) is behind a subscription wall)

Many reading this will know that British Challenger 2 tanks were promised to Ukraine months ago, but none have ever been seen on the battlefield.

The reason seems obvious: after the carnage of so many of the German Leopard 2s, the British never wanted to see their Challengers publicly (and easily!) destroyed in the same way. (And the same, of course, with the US Abrams tanks, also never yet delivered.)

The text:

Britain disposed of 43 Challenger 2 tanks instead of transferring them to the APU, - The Times


43 tanks were destroyed with the wording "not repairable", although they could be repaired.
“The Ministry of Defense destroyed dozens of tanks that could have been sent to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 43 Challenger 2 tanks were disposed of. They were called beyond repair,” the newspaper writes.
The Times clarifies that the disposal cost the country's taxpayers millions of pounds.


https://t.me/Slavyangrad/57461 (https://t.me/Slavyangrad/57461)
Slavyangrad/57461

[Bill Ryan]

From The Moon of Alabama just now:


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukrainian-soldiers-tell-of-high-losses-and-few-wins.html#more

Ukrainian Soldiers Tell Of High Losses For Little Gains

Yesterday I linked to a fresh NY Times piece about the horrors of the war in Ukraine.

It has a somewhat uplifting headline and the first few paragraphs describe an Ukrainian 'success'.

Amid the Counterattack’s Deadly Slog, a Glimmer of Success for Ukraine
(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/world/europe/ukraine-counteroffensive-russia.html)
Recapturing the village of Staromaiorske was such welcome news for the country that President Volodymyr Zelensky announced it himself. But formidable Russian defenses have stymied progress elsewhere.

The piece is accompanied by this staged photo which shows some trashed uniform on a dirt road with two boots put next to it.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/16i/starom3-s.jpg
bigger (https://www.moonofalabama.org/16i/starom3.jpg)

The line below the picture, which I strongly believe is false, says:
The body of a Russian soldier outside a village in the Zaporizhzhia region of southern Ukraine this month.
Credit... Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesI wonder what the editors thought when they came up with it.

Now onto the first paragraphs of the report:
For 10 days, Ukrainian marines fought street by street and house by house to recapture the southeastern village of Staromaiorske, navigating artillery fire, airstrikes and hundreds of Russian troops. The Russians put up a ferocious defense but that ended on Thursday when they folded and the Ukrainians claimed victory. “Some ran away, some were left behind,” said an assault commander from Ukraine’s 35th Marine Brigade, who uses the call sign Dikyi, which means Wild. “We were taking captives,” he added.
The recapture of Staromaiorske, a small village that is nonetheless critical to Ukraine’s southern strategy, was such a welcome development for Ukraine that President Volodymyr Zelensky announced it himself.
I have bad news for the NY Times readers. The village Staromaiorske (Staromayorskoye in Russian writing) is no longer in Ukrainian hands but in the gray-zone:
Tony @Cyberspec1 - 22:00 UTC · Jul 30, 2023 (https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1685953562810241024) ❗️Despite the fact that [Donetsk leader] Pushilin announced the recapture of Staromayorsk, our troops are absent from the village itself. The enemy is knocked out, but there is nowhere to gain a safe foothold.
Russian troops periodically enter the village to organize ambushes. Yesterday, several AFU soldiers were taken prisoner in this way.
There is also video of Russian artillery bombarding the village (https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1685954355529441280).

Staromajorske (at the bottom of the map) on June 04 2023

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via LiveUAmap (https://liveuamap.com/en/time/04.06.2023) - bigger
(https://www.moonofalabama.org/16i/starom20230604.jpg)
Staromajorske on July 31 2023

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via LiveUAmap (https://liveuamap.com/en/time/31.07.2023) - bigger
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Satellite picture of Staromajorske

https://www.moonofalabama.org/16i/starom4-s.jpg
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After two months of 'counter offensive' the frontline south of Velyka Novosilka has moved only some six kilometers south of the original frontline. Starmajorske consist of about 200 houses. Like the other four small villages along the way it has largely been destroyed.

This was not a 'counter offensive' but a bloody slog with mediocre results.

The NY Times piece is by Charlotta Gall who at times writes realistic reports (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/nyt-ground-report-debunks-nyt-claim-of-strikes-against-ukraines-civilians.html) from the ground in Ukraine.

After the uplifting start of her piece the reporting becomes grim:
As officials celebrated Ukraine’s progress in Staromaiorske, troops elsewhere on the ground said that Russian defenses and firepower remained formidable and in places impassable. A soldier at a medical post, awaiting evacuation for a concussion, recently described how his battalion had been decimated when it came under Russian artillery and tank fire. His brigade, the 23rd, was one of nine newly formed, Western-trained units prepared and equipped for the counteroffensive. But the brigade, he said, had been thrown into the fight without sufficient artillery support and had been unable to defend themselves against Russian firepower.
In one battle in which his unit took part, Ukrainian soldiers attacked in 10 American-made MaxxPro armored vehicles, but only one came back, he said. He showed photographs of the damaged vehicles, ripped open and burned out, which he said had been hauled back to a repair base. The soldier declined to give his name for fear of getting into trouble with his superiors.
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The soldier lost a 22-year-old friend, Stas, in the shelling the day before, he said, adding that in just over a month, his battalion had suffered so many dead and wounded that only 10 men remained at the front line.
Previously that battalion has had some 400 to 500 men.

Next Gall speaks to a soldier from a different unit:
Another soldier, who joined up last year and asked to be identified only by his first name, Oleksiy, said that his unit had taken heavy losses as Russian troops directed artillery fire and aerial bombs onto their positions. “We were shot like on a shooting range,” he said. “A drone was flying above us and correcting the artillery fire.” Their positions were in former Russian positions, hemmed in by minefields, he said, and the Russian forces were able to keep them pinned down and under constant drone surveillance.
Soldiers were running out of ammunition and water but could only sneak in and out of their positions in ones or twos, on foot, when the light was poor just before dawn and at dusk, he said.
And a third case:
Interviews with Ukrainian soldiers and a review of military surveillance footage from a recent attack indicate that many Ukrainian units are sustaining heavy losses. A group with special operations training, deployed last month to storm Russian positions in a village on the western part of the front, took such heavy casualties in four days of assaults that they had to pull out without success.
After their armored vehicles were largely destroyed by artillery strikes on the first day, they revised their plan to approach the village on foot through a tree line that had been mined. The Ukrainians cleared a narrow path with demining explosives and the first soldiers reached the Russian positions and dropped down into a trench.
Drone footage of the event showed what happened next. Explosions suddenly detonated inside the trenches and other strikes hit soldiers on the edge of the tree line. The video footage has been verified by The New York Times.
“The trenches were mined,” said the assault commander, who uses the call sign Voskres, short for Resurrection. “Our guys started jumping in the trenches and blowing up,” he added. The Russian forces were watching, and they remotely detonated the mines, he said.
Those who managed to avoid the mines came under attack from multiple Russian kamikaze drones. “It seemed like they had a drone for each person,” he said. “The amount of equipment the Russians have, had we known, it was like mission impossible.”
Several weeks later, the village remains in Russian hands.
Since the Ukrainian 'counter-offensive' was launched the Russian Defense Ministry has reported on average 710 Ukrainian casualties per day.

The U.S., and its Ukrainian proxy, have sent these soldiers into battle knowing well that the 'counter offensive' would have no chance to win anything.

As the Wall Street Journal wrote a week ago (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-s-lack-of-weaponry-and-training-risks-stalemate-in-fight-with-russia/ar-AA1edW4t):
When Ukraine launched its big counteroffensive this spring, Western military officials knew Kyiv didn’t have all the training or weapons—from shells to warplanes—that it needed to dislodge Russian forces. But they hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day. They haven’t. ...
Largely untrained draftees with mediocre equipment and without sufficient artillery and air-support were willfully pushed into a fight they had no chance to win or even survive.

It was a cruel policy (https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2023/07/30/americas-cruel-war-policy-in-ukraine/). Those who pushed them, and in fact anyone with military training and knowledge of military history, had known that all along (https://mate.substack.com/p/unlocked-us-admits-to-pushing-ukraine).

[ExomatrixTV]

⚔️ Ukraine's Last Stand: 🪖 How Long Can the Ukrainian Military Withstand the Russian Punishment:

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Colonel Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, retired US Army Colonel, author and foreign policy expert who is widely recognized for his leadership in the Battle of 73 Easting during the Gulf War – the US Army’s largest tank battle since World War II.


londonreal.tv/colonel-douglas-macgregor-ukraine-cannot-win-this-war-its-time-to-negotiate-with-putin (https://londonreal.tv/colonel-douglas-macgregor-ukraine-cannot-win-this-war-its-time-to-negotiate-with-putin)
Imagine if Zelensky Decides to Confess :dog: (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1567419&viewfull=1#post1567419)

[Vicus]

Just for relief...

UK training elite Ukrainian force to seize part of Russia – media 30 Jul, 2023

About 2,000 ‘commandos’ would enter the fray in a bid to recapture the Crimean Peninsula “before Christmas,” the Sunday Express claims

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.07/thumbnail/64c66f5320302718ef10ca13.jpg
A Ukrainian recruit aims an unloaded AK-47 rifle during a combat training course with the UK armed forces in southern England on

British instructors are training an elite Ukrainian unit that is supposed to help Kiev retake Crimea, the Sunday Express has claimed, citing sources. Ukrainian officials have been talking for months about plans to take back the Russian peninsula during its much-hyped counteroffensive, which has so far failed to live up to expectations in the West.

According to the report, more than 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers comprising “an elite commando brigade” arrived at a training camp in Devon in southwest Britain to prepare for an attack that is supposed to “recapture Crimea before Christmas.” :ROFL:

The brigade is expected to “form the tip of the spear” and will be supported by two other forces, the tabloid’s sources claimed. The Express also noted that the operation would involve combined strikes from air, land, and sea, with Kiev’s armored formations attempting to breach Russian defenses while being backed by long-range attacks using Western-supplied missiles. :ROFL:

An unnamed senior defense source told the paper that UK instructors aim to teach Kiev’s troops how to use NATO tactics to “shape the battle space” before committing forces for a decisive thrust. :chuckle:

Despite apparent problems with the counteroffensive, Kirill Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, claimed on Saturday that Kiev would take Crimea “soon,” without giving an exact timeline. Last year, he already predicted that this would happen in the spring of 2023, a projection that failed to come true. :chuckle:

https://www.rt.com/russia/580553-uk-training-ukraine-crimea-attack/

[Ewan]

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... video from above post:


https://htrs-special.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Ukraine-troops-surrender-enmasse-white-flags-on-tanks.mp4

-OFF-Topic-

Honest to God, can no-one upload a video with out overlaying some horrific music track that adds nothing of any value? How about some subtitles so folks know what is going on?

Even today you see so much content where the uploader is flinging his arms round in something approximating gang signs saying "What'sUpYoutubeListeners" or similar. Not an ounce of creativity or originality amongst them.. copy, copy, copy.

Rant over...

:focus:

[Michel Leclerc]

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... video from above post:


https://htrs-special.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Ukraine-troops-surrender-enmasse-white-flags-on-tanks.mp4

-OFF-Topic-

Honest to God, can no-one upload a video with out overlaying some horrific music track that adds nothing of any value? How about some subtitles so folks know what is going on?

Even today you see so much content where the uploader is flinging his arms round in something approximating gang signs saying "What'sUpYoutubeListeners" or similar. Not an ounce of creativity or originality amongst them.. copy, copy, copy.

Rant over...

:focus:

They are sick, Ewan. Their stance vis-a-vis the content in itself is sick (a bizarre mix of excitement over the technology involved and the "heavy metal" equipment whether effective or destroyed, vicarious pleasure in watching killing and repressed self-chastisement for their glee) and their riskless observing of violence (explosions!) is sick. (Stilted sex lives, psychoanalysis would say.)

Because of that, they are part of the problem instead of part of the solution.

I have come to thank the members posting for the “news" only, the information snippet, shutting off the sound, and watching only the shortest possible part necessary for understanding how the images contribute to understanding the context of the news item.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1686139476370706432

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/colonelhomsi/status/1686045703435419648

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1686144297970597888

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
AFU servicemen choose life and captivity in first battle

▫️ POWs said they were forcibly mobilised into the army. The ukrainian military commissars, despite the illnesses and contraindications to hard physical labour of the servicemen, declare everyone fit for the service and send them for training. The soldiers were trained at firing ranges near Rovno, Lvov and even 3 weeks in France, but the training was poor: during practical firing, the grenade launcher was allowed to fire just once. 'I served in the Soviet Army - there was more training,' said the prisoner.

▫️ On the front line, Ukrainians were equipped only with assault rifles and grenade launchers, they had no special equipment. Morale in the unit was low. There were no commanders at the front lines: Ukrainian officers directed the troops from the rear area by radio. 'A private was appointed a senior soldier. They gave him a walkie-talkie, and that was it,' said a prisoner.

▫️ Both captives surrendered in the first battle, they sat and waited for Russian servicemen to arrive.

▫️ Captured AFU servicemen urge their fellow servicemen to think with their heads and act as the servicemen did - surrender to stay alive.

Russian Defence Ministry

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1686117836643549184

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1685972281959337985

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https://sputnikglobe.com/20230731/how-many-americans-were-killed-in-ukrainian-conflict-1112246583.html

How Many Americans Were Killed in Ukrainian Conflict

While the material support the US and its NATO allies provide to Ukraine is openly discussed by Western politicians and media, the foreign militants who contribute to Kiev’s efforts on the battlefield don't seem to be getting as much spotlight, especially when these militants start coming back home in body bags.

In March 2022, Ukrainian officials boasted that about 20,000 foreign militants signed up to fight for Kiev, with over 3,000 applications allegedly being submitted by US citizens.

Both Ukrainian and Western authorities, however, act a lot less boastful and a lot more reserved when it comes to counting the number of these foreign militants who got killed in Ukrainian conflict zone.

How Many Foreign Mercenaries Have Been Killed in Ukraine?


A total of 4,990 foreign mercenaries fighting for Kiev regime have been killed since the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict in February 2022, with another 4,910 having turned tail and fled from the conflict zone, according to the data announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense in July 2023.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/SpriterTeam/status/1686165918877933569

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇺🇦🚀 Another counteroffensive option: Ukraine bets on drone attacks on Russia - The New York Times

Ukraine is seeking to expand its fleet of domestically produced drones to attack Russia more frequently.
This could become “another direction for the UAF counteroffensive,” TNYT observers say.

❗️ Experts believe that at least three different Ukrainian-made drones have already participated in attacks on Russian territory, including Moscow, which indicates the growing role of UAVs in the arsenal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

❓The authors of the article are sure that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are secretly developing new types of UAVs that will be actively used to attack Russian regions.

So far, apart from self-made drones of handicraft production and threatening cartoons, Kyiv has not managed to surprise with anything.

Ostashko! Important - subscribe

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1686113812292730880

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[Tintin]

UPDATE: Gonzalo Lira has reappeared on Twitter/X - - and has provided an update on his incarceration. Zelensky apologists and fanboys may wish to look away now :)



"My indictment explicitly states that all I did was discuss publicly known facts about the war—the epitome of free speech in a democracy. But Zelensky’s Ukraine is no democracy—it is a thieving, corrupt, murderous gangster regime PRETENDING to be a polite “western” democracy.



"In other words, the formalities were carried out scrupulously—while judicial and ethical grotesqueries ruled. That's Zelensky’s Ukraine. That's what his thuggish regime cares about: The >perception< of democracy and the rule of law, so as to mask the sordid, corrupt reality.

Source: https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1686140766685384704

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(Note: we've kept the bird icon :muscle: )

[Tintin]

-OFF-Topic-

Honest to God, can no-one upload a video with out overlaying some horrific music track that adds nothing of any value? How about some subtitles so folks know what is going on?

Even today you see so much content where the uploader is flinging his arms round in something approximating gang signs saying "What'sUpYoutubeListeners" or similar. Not an ounce of creativity or originality amongst them.. copy, copy, copy.

Rant over...

:focus:

Same here Ewan actually and thanks for posting this, so I have a bookmark for my own pet annoyance at the moment which is: why oh why does practically every piece of video, anywhere these days, have to be accompanied by subtitles/text, in English when it's already an English spoken video (perhaps for a deaf audience, maybe, I get that) but why so many?

There, I feel better now :)

(end of mini rant)

:focus:

[ExomatrixTV]

Large Russian Military Power Sitting On NATO's Eastern Border:

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[ExomatrixTV]

Ukrainian Drones STRIKE MOSCOW In Major Escalation, Zelensky Targets "Symbolic Centers":

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Elon DENIES Starlink For Ukraine Offensive:

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[ExomatrixTV]

UPDATE: Gonzalo Lira has reappeared on Twitter/X - - and has provided an update on his incarceration. Zelensky apologists and fanboys may wish to look away now :)

"My indictment explicitly states that all I did was discuss publicly known facts about the war—the epitome of free speech in a democracy. But Zelensky’s Ukraine is no democracy—it is a thieving, corrupt, murderous gangster regime PRETENDING to be a polite “western” democracy.

"In other words, the formalities were carried out scrupulously—while judicial and ethical grotesqueries ruled. That's Zelensky’s Ukraine. That's what his thuggish regime cares about: The >perception< of democracy and the rule of law, so as to mask the sordid, corrupt reality.Source: https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1686140766685384704

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(Note: we've kept the bird icon :muscle: )


Gonzalo Lira 3 UPDATES Merged in to one 46 min 15 sec video!

https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/x/d/i/m/xdiml.caa.mp4

First video since his arrest in Ukraine 3 months back. Out on bail, but [illegally] heading for the border. His chances of success largely unknown at this point. Here's a merge of 3 YouTube videos he uploaded earlier today, 31st July. God speed Gonzalo


source (https://rumble.com/v33rnx3-gonzalo-lira-update.html)
twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968 (https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968)

[Vicus]

Kremlin ‘inspired’ by Russian troops in one-vs-seven armor standoff 1 Aug, 2023

The engagement, which took place in June, may end up in military textbooks, Dmitry Peskov suggested

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/thumbnail/64c92f6d85f54050a2761c7f.jpg

The Russian soldiers involved in a battle in which a single tank ambushed an entire Ukrainian armored column inspire pride and definitely deserve military decorations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Footage of the tense engagement filmed from a drone, complete with agitated chatter between its operator and an identified unit leader, went viral last week, after being published on social media. Asked about it on Tuesday, Peskov confirmed that the presidential office had watched it too and was left in awe.

“Such heroism, professionalism inspires pride and admiration of our military,” he said. “That footage and the situation were unique, almost fit for a textbook case study.”

The Kremlin official wouldn’t say whether the censored version of the video shown by Russian media or the original, audio from which was laced with profanity, was circulated in President Vladimir Putin’s office.

Instead, Peskov expressed confidence that the troops would receive military decorations for their actions. The Defense Ministry said later in the day that the relevant paperwork was in the pipeline and confirmed that the clash had taken place in June on the frontline in Zaporozhye Region.

The video showed the single tank, which has since been nicknamed Alyosha after a call sign mentioned in the Russian communications, driving towards a column of two Ukrainian tanks and at least five US-made MRAP M1224 MaxxPro vehicles.

The drone operator called him a “beautiful crazy kamikaze” and urged other troops on the ground to provide support fire with anti-tank missiles, grenade launchers, and heavy machine guns. Meanwhile, the tank began maneuvering and shooting at the enemy.

The adversary’s heavy weaponry was apparently obliterated. The Ukrainian tanks reportedly drove over anti-tank mines and then were hit by artillery and fire from the Russian tank. 'Alyosha' was reportedly unscathed in the standoff, which lasted almost ten minutes.

https://www.rt.com/russia/580666-single-tank-peskov-inspired/

Vicus comment: it is about this battle:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1569672&viewfull=1#post1569672

[Vicus]

Kiev attempts 'terror attack' on Russian civilian ships – MOD 1 Aug, 2023

The raid occurred as the vessels were heading for the Bosporus Strait, the Defense Ministry has said

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/thumbnail/64c8e92985f5404ef704c68c.jpg

Ukrainian maritime drones have tried to attack Russian civilian vessels in the Black Sea, but were destroyed by Russian navy escort ships, the Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday.

In a statement, the ministry claimed that “overnight, the Kiev regime tried to stage a terror attack on Russian civilian transport ships heading for the Bosporus Strait in the southwestern part of the Black Sea, which used three semi-submersible unmanned boats.”

Earlier in the day, defense officials said that Ukrainian drones had mounted an unsuccessful attack in the same area on two Russian patrol vessels, the Sergey Kotov and Vasily Bykov, adding that the ships continued their operations.

The Sergey Kotov had previously been attacked by two Ukrainian sea drones in the Black Sea last week but managed to destroy the incoming UAVs.

https://www.rt.com/russia/580657-kiev-attack-attempt-civil-ships/

[kfm27917]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungarian-foreign-minister-says-eu-expects-fund-war-ukraine-another-four-years

[ExomatrixTV]

Project Avalon :Avalon: Forum Thread called: "WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia)" has now: 1,003,931+ Views and 11,441+ Replies !!
Maybe the biggest open, uncensored discussion on this topic on the planet ...

I wonder if anyone who is a big CNN watcher or any other Propaganda "News" outlet can handle any of it, lol ... their (brainwashed) heads might explode. :boom:
cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[Bill Ryan]

This is a very short video with barely any detail, just one tiny thing in the raging conflict, but it shows a solitary Ukrainian soldier surrendering to a group of Russians, coming forward all on his own, limping, with his hands up.

One has to assume he was the only surviving member of his unit. There's carnage happening there.

:flower:

https://t.me/remylind21/6320
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[Bill Ryan]

This is a very short video with barely any detail, just one tiny thing in the raging conflict, but it shows a solitary Ukrainian soldier surrendering to a group of Russians, coming forward all on his own, limping, with his hands up.

One has to assume he was the only surviving member of his unit. There's carnage happening there.From the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-ukraine-a-surge-in-amputations-reveals-the-human-cost-of-russias-war-d0bca320) yesterday:
Since the beginning of the SMO(Special Military Operation), approximately 20,000 to 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers have lost one or more limbs. This scale of limb loss is comparable to WWI, during which around 67,000 Germans and 41,000 Britons also lost limbs.

The actual number of affected individuals might be even higher, as prosthetics take time to be provided, and some wounded individuals have to wait weeks or even months for amputation.

[Bill Ryan]

This new Politico article (https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraines-plan-volodymyr-zelenskyy-dies-russia-war/) is interesting. Here's the headline:

Ukraine’s plan if Russia assassinates Zelenskyy

If this were a Tom Clancy movie, the script might be that US special forces murder Zelensky as a false flag, blame it on Russia, and set him up as a martyr — maybe his only remaining value to western propaganda.

[ExomatrixTV]

How does Putin see Ukraine after the victory of Russia?!:

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In general, Nazism is bad, but if neo-Nazis can be used in the fight against Russia, then this suits the West! ... At the end of the Russia-Africa summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin answered questions from media representatives. Some of the questions concerned the crisis around Ukraine.


This War Is Over, Russia Has Won:

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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.

[Bill Ryan]

A short video (21 seconds) zooming in from a drone on a whole dogpile of destroyed and/or abandoned Ukrainian tanks and other vehicles in Rabotino.

https://t.me/remylind21/6329
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[Gwin Ru]

...

... U.S. Intelligence & Ukraine War w/Scott Ritter fmr UN Weapons Inspector (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaaTvNUUm-4) 25:20

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 25 minutes ago

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[ExomatrixTV]

NATO Are Responsible For Pushing Mass Suicide Missions ... sacrificing 100,000s Ukrainian fathers, uncles, sons etc. and many are forced to fight for a totally corrupt undemocratic Tyrants that hijacked the country!

What we all have learned by now is that Tanks/Armored Vehicles are useless in any 2023 war ... Because of much cheaper weaponized drones warfare! (easier to mass produce).

And maybe USA/UK/Germany (NATO) knows that and want to get rid of the old stuff (dumping it in Ukraine calling it "help" to fight for "Democracy" = double deception & insanity!) ... All done to eventually invest new generation warfare equipment of all kinds ... (semi-) autonomous future A.I. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?102409-A.I.-is-Progressing-Faster-Than-You-Think-) warfare included.

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳


Imagine if Zelensky Decides to Confess (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1567419&viewfull=1#post1567419)

[Vicus]

Ukraine Using Colorful Toy-like Bombs to Kill Civilians as West Runs Out of Ammo 2 hours ago

When it comes to the use of artillery and missiles, Ukraine’s strategy has baffled Western and Russian observers alike, with troops expending precious and dwindling stocks of NATO-caliber ammunition to terror bomb civilians in Donbass. Now, the Ukrainian military appears to have found a low cost, barbaric workaround.

Enthusiast weapons makers in Ukraine and Europe are churning out cheap, home-made munitions, their casings made of 3D-printed plastics, and given cutesy names like "Zaychik" ("Little Rabbit") "Big Egg," and "Zefirka" (a confectionery treat popular across the former Soviet Union).
Low cost is the name of the game, with the shells, which can be made for as little as $3.85 apiece, packed with C4 explosives mixed with steel shrapnel, ball bearings, or a copper and aluminum combo, and designed to be dropped from drones onto people or armored vehicles.
The munitions are called "candy bombs," apparently due to the multicolored plastics often used in their production.
One Kiev-based group of amateur bombmakers reportedly manufactures casings for about 4,000 bombs per month. A second Ukraine-based group has churned out over 30,000 over the past four months.

https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/08/03/1112370272_0:0:1344:756_1280x0_80_0_0_a5c444d246a2ac33553c2d15c2517552.png.webp
Photo provided to Western media by Ukrainian amateur bombmaker.
© Photo : Photo provided to Western media by Ukrainian amateur bombmaker.

“Candy bombs" come in different shapes and sizes, with anti-personnel bombs packed with explosives and metal fragments, meant to sprawl into the surrounding environment and sear into flesh. Larger, 5 kg anti-personnel bombs are said to have proven effective up to 20 meters from the point of detonation.
Some of the bombs were reportedly originally packed with nails, but this was switched to metal pieces after testing showed that the nails would partially vaporize on detonation. Makers say they would prefer to use ball bearings, but these are expensive and availability is limited.
Larger "candy bombs" are made for use against armored vehicles, packed with a copper and aluminum mixture which transforms into a plasma jet to puncture armor.
The bomb-making enthusiasts are said to be constantly honing their craft to make them more effective, with amateur engineers even reportedly asking ChatGPT for advice, and using other software to model lethality.
A Ukrainian trooper operating in Donbass estimated that Ukraine's drones carry upwards of 200 different kinds and sizes of "candy bombs," with efforts underway to standardize production.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230803/ukraine-using-colorful-toy-like-bombs-to-kill-civilians-as-west-runs-out-of-ammo-1112367541.html

[Vicus]

‘Shrubs’ hindering Ukrainian counteroffensive – UK military 3 Aug, 2023

Earlier media reports suggested that Kiev’s Western backers are unimpressed with its efforts to breach Russian lines

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/xxs/64cabf3885f5407b641d64f9.jpg

Growing vegetation on the battlefield is hampering Ukrainian attempts to breach Russian defenses, the UK Defense Ministry claimed on Thursday. :chuckle:

In its regular intelligence update, the ministry described “undergrowth regrowing” in the southern part of the front as a likely factor “contributing to the generally slow progress of combat in the area.”

UK officials explained that arable land, which is abundant in the region, has been “left fallow for 18 months, with the return of weeds and shrubs accelerating under the warm, damp summer conditions.”

According to the ministry, this provides extra camouflage cover for Russian troops and complicates Kiev’s mine-sweeping efforts. “Although undergrowth can also provide cover for small stealthy infantry assaults, the net effect has been to make it harder for either side to make advances,” it added.

https://www.rt.com/russia/580766-shrubs-hinder-ukraine-counteroffensive/

[Gwin Ru]

...

... Ukraine turning into a Grave Yard w/Col Douglas Macgregor 24:54

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 1 hour ago #Ukraine (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/ukraine) #Putin (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/putin) #biden (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/biden)

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[Gwin Ru]

...

... Colonel Douglas Macgregor LIVE With Jackson Hinkle - Ukraine, Africa, China (https://www.bitchute.com/video/HBtimvsLZjvK/) 41:57

First published at 07:31 UTC on August 4th, 2023.

Watch (https://www.bitchute.com/video/HBtimvsLZjvK/#video-watch)

The Dive with Jackson Hinkle 8/3/2023

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[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine CANNOT WIN The Real War:

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Max Blumenthal and Stephen Gardner discuss the evil in DC. Colonel Douglas Macgregor and Tucker Carlson have said Donald Trump's biggest sin was the threat to interrupt the money flow to the military-industrial-congressional complex. Ukraine is being used by DC to enrich government contractors. The "real war" is between DC and Putin with so much financial interest involved, DC will let Ukraine bleed to death before they give up their profits. Zelenskyy is a pawn in a money-grabbing scheme. DC is loaded with corrupt people making more money off this war than ever before so they fly their flags to support Ukraine but really they are supporting their huge incomes.


0:05 Henry Kissinger (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121206-Bilderberger-Kissinger-100-Years-Old-New-War-Crimes-Revealed) said the key to destroying Russia is controlling Ukraine
1:20 DC swamp will stop any candidate that would try to end the war
3:00 Colonel Macgregor and Tucker Carlson say interrupting the flow of money to war is the biggest sin in DC
7:20 Arresting Trump sets a terrible precedent and will lead to petty lawsuits and arrests
9:00 RFK says we should stop the war and start fighting with Iran to defend Israel better

[ExomatrixTV]

NEW POLL: Most Americans Reject Biden’s War in Ukraine (https://rumble.com/v34q12a-system-update-124.html) starts at 8:42

[ExomatrixTV]

Russian Warship Damaged In Ukrainian Drone Attack On Russian Naval Base (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcYKX2PGD_M) :facepalm:

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1687584183038742529

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⚡️ Recordings of alleged communications from the disabled tanker "Sig" have emerged in several channels. According to a crew member, the tanker cannot move independently without a tugboat, its engine compartment is flooded, and the vessel is floating in ballast. (Source: [Link](https://t.me/OstashkoNews/88117))

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1687587320285806593

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https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1687597712097542144

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇺🇦 Ukrainian diplomats massively refuse to return to the country - "Mirror of the Week"

🔹 Since the beginning of 2022, 40-60% of diplomats have not returned from Ukrainian embassies abroad.

🔹 For example, about twenty employees of embassies and consulates were supposed to return from the United States last year, but only one returned. From some embassies no one returned at all.

One of the factors for refusing to return to Ukraine is the fear of mobilization, the newspaper writes.

OstashkoNews

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1687640407616692224

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[shaberon]

Let's see. Leopard tanks are at a score of about minus 25 compared to their possible gain of two unimportant villages very temporarily.


For the clusters (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230804/watch-russian-soldier-explain-how-to-beat-ukrainian-cluster-shelling-1112396562.html):


The Ukrainian forces fired those munitions every eight minutes with great precision, the soldier said, noting that it is difficult to hide from this kind of weaponry in a trench.

Yet despite the severity of the threat, the Russian soldiers did not sustain any casualties during the shelling as they quickly learned how to counter this tactic.


Swedish CV-90 (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230804/which-nato-weapons-has-russia-captured-in-ukraine-1112391714.html):


The armored vehicle, touted as one of the most advanced of its class, ended up being disabled by a rocket fired from an RPG-7 – a weapon adopted back in the early 1960s – and promptly seized by Russian troops after what was left of the vehicle’s crew beat a hasty retreat.


The offensive in Zaporozhie:


https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1020_b9261fa1/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20230804/1398181.jpg



If Ukraine wasn't so doggone big, with millions of hectares of prime agricultural land, and millions of tons of a huge variety of valuable metals under that, then, this destruction would not be so widespread.

One would expect Odessa to no longer be a part of it, nor the other oblasts bordering the ones that already seceded, plus a buffer zone if there are any long-range missiles to be found, which would be a removal of 43% of the territory it held only a few short years ago.

That is a lot of work, and, realistically, they do hit about twenty Russian targets per day, which simply can't compete with the two hundred that hit them. The eight guys that know English well enough to actually be trained on the F-16 had better be glad that one person can fly the Falcon. That means it is enough to compose a squadron in a limited sense of the word. Will they be able to evade the oldest generation of Buks? Fire a shot of their own? No promises, but, guys, you are being really brave with this.

[Bill Ryan]

Russian Warship Damaged In Ukrainian Drone Attack On Russian Naval Base (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcYKX2PGD_M) :facepalm:


This may or may not be true. It's not been reported anywhere in the Russian mainstream or social media, but a very different ship (a tanker) has been hit, as in post #11458 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1570650&viewfull=1#post1570650) above.

[Bill Ryan]

NEW POLL: Most Americans Reject Biden’s War in Ukraine (https://rumble.com/v34q12a-system-update-124.html) starts at 8:42


Yes. The Moon of Alabama did a piece on this yesterday:


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/three-polls-on-support-for-the-war-in-ukraine.html

Three Polls On Support For The War In Ukraine

There are new polls out which show the changing opinion of U.S. citizens and others about supporting the war in Ukraine.

Newsweek came first, with a very deceiving headline:

U.S. Troops Should be Sent to Ukraine, Third of Americans Say
(https://www.newsweek.com/us-troops-ukraine-poll-russia-joe-biden-america-military-1816570)
The text describing the poll does not really support what the headline says:
A total of 31 percent of eligible voters in the U.S. support or strongly support American military forces heading to the battlefields of Ukraine, polling conducted exclusively for Newsweek by Redfield & Wilton Strategies has revealed. A quarter of respondents neither supported nor opposed the idea of sending U.S. soldiers to Ukraine, with 34 percent against the suggestion. Just under one in ten respondents did not know.
Can anyone tell me why one would put the loosing share of the opinion poll into the headline?

What is surprising, at least to me, is the huge difference of opinions between the young and the older voters:
In the poll, those identified as "Millennial," between 27 and 42 years old, were most likely to "strongly support" committing U.S. troops to Ukraine. However, more respondents aged between 18-26 (Gen Z) said they would support the measure overall, 47 percent saying they supported or strongly supported sending U.S. troops. Nearly a third of respondents aged over 59 said they opposed pledging U.S. troops to Ukraine, with a further 25 percent "strongly" opposing the suggestion.
The pro-war Gen-Z-lers should be put through a boot camp to be shipped off to Europe. I have no doubt that it would change their opinion in no time.

In contrast to Newsweek the CNN poll pice is correctly headlined:

CNN Poll: Majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine in war with Russia (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/cnn-poll-ukraine/index.html)
Most Americans oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia (https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-08-04-23/index.html), according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23897329-cnn-ukraine-poll), as the public splits over whether the US has already done enough to assist Ukraine.
Overall, 55% say the US Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine vs. 45% who say Congress should authorize such funding. And 51% say that the US has already done enough to help Ukraine while 48% say it should do more. A poll conducted in the early days of the Russian invasion in late February 2022 found 62% who felt the US should have been doing more.
The CNN poll seem to contradict the one by Newsweek on the most important question:
When asked specifically about types of assistance the US could provide to Ukraine, there is broader support for help with intelligence gathering (63%) and military training (53%) than for providing weapons (43%), alongside very slim backing for US military forces to participate in combat operations (17%).There is a strong partisan divide about supporting the war:
Within both parties, there are splits by ideology. On providing additional funding, liberal Democrats are far and away the most supportive, 74% back it compared with 51% of moderate or conservative Democrats. Among Republicans, about three-quarters of conservatives oppose new funding (76%) compared with 61% of moderate or liberal Republicans. Independents mostly say the US has done enough to help Ukraine (56%) and that they oppose additional funding (55%).
The progressives in the U.S., like the Greens in Europe (https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2023/08/04/the-european-greens-parties-are-a-disaster-in-domestic-as-well-as-foreign-policy/), are now the fringe that is most eager to pursue the war. They are, of course, also those who are the least eager to serve in the military.

It is interesting to compare that with a change in opinion of young Poles (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-war-young-poles-think-125459246.html), aged 16-34:
There has been a fundamental shift when it comes to the stance that young Poles think their government should adopt in the war in Ukraine. In 2022, an overwhelming majority of 83% argued that the government should support Ukraine – but this number has changed drastically. Now, 65% of respondents back continuous support for Ukraine, whereas the remaining 34% wish for Poland to stay neutral. Clearly, more than one and a half years into the current phase of the conflict and amid fears of other countries being pulled into the war, young people have become more cautious.
Those numbers are a month old. It is likely that the support has sunk further and will no longer be in a majority by the end of this year.

While no poll can be trusted fully they show in aggregate that the general opinion is moving away from supporting the war.

That gives some hope that any unnecessary prolonging of the war, which some neoconservative circles seem to wish (https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/03/ukraine-war-negotiations-russia-china-saudi-african-union-diplomacy/), will be met by a strong opposition.

[Tintin]

A Ukrainian Unit commander notice issued July 28th, 2023 to take effect August 1st, in Kherson City. Of course this a translation, not the original in the Ukrainian language.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2023-07_%28July%29/2023-07-28_Ukraine_MoD_Order_Cmdr_Military_Unit_A3056_To_prevent_military_aged_males_to_leave_Kherson_region .jpg

[ExomatrixTV]

Very Very Dangerous! The Russians Will NOT Tolerate It:

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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.

Interview with Ron Paul on August 2, 2023

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Former senior advisor to President Trump's Secretary of Defense and decorated war hero Col. Douglas Macgregor joins today's Liberty Report to discuss the state of the US/NATO proxy war with Russia through Ukraine. Is there danger of further escalation from the Biden Administration and what might that look like? When and how does this war end?


Make Peace, You Fools!

America’s proxy war with Russia has transformed Ukraine into a graveyard.

Incrementalism—the tendency to inch forward rather than to take bold steps—is usually preferred by political and military leaders in warfare, because the introduction of a few forces into action puts fewer personnel at risk, and, in theory, promises a series of improvements over time, often through attrition.

In 1950, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, led by the then-chairman General J. Lawton Collins, recommended short envelopments (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/118690) along the Korean coastline that were designed to gradually increase the size of the U.S. and Allied enclave known as the Pusan Perimeter. The idea was to buy time to assemble enough forces to launch a breakout on the Normandy model. But General of the Army Douglas MacArthur disagreed (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/world/asia/korean-war-history.html). He argued for a daring, deep envelopment that promised to cut off the North Korean Forces south of the 38th Parallel that were encircling Pusan.

As it turned out, MacArthur was right. Today, we know that the short envelopments were exactly what the North Korean command was prepared to defeat. In retrospect, it is certain that along with their Chinese allies, the North Koreans were familiar with the operational employment of U.S. and Allied forces during WWII. Eisenhower’s insistence on a broad front strategy (https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2021/12/01/the_folly_of_generals_how_eisenhowers_broad_front_strategy_lengthened_world_war_ii_805886.html) that moved millions of troops in multiple armies in parallel across France and Germany to Central Europe conformed to the low-risk formula.
In light of this history, it was reasonable for the North Koreans to believe that MacArthur would never split his forces and launch an amphibious assault far behind North Korean lines. It was simply too risky. And the operational concept for Inchon was also inconsistent with the way U.S. forces were employed during the Civil War (https://iupress.org/9780253202888/grant-and-lee/) and World War I—wars won through attrition (https://time.com/5406235/everything-you-know-about-how-world-war-i-ended-is-wrong/), not maneuver.

In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin opted for incrementalism in his approach to the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine. Putin committed fewer than 100,000 Russian troops to a shallow penetration attack on a broad front into a country the size of Texas. Having failed over a period of nearly 15 years to persuade Washington (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2014-08-18/why-ukraine-crisis-west-s-fault) and the collective West of Moscow’s opposition to NATO’s advance to the east, Putin seems to have concluded that Washington and its NATO allies would prefer immediate negotiations to a destructive regional war with unknowable potential for escalation to the nuclear level.

Putin was wrong. He made a false assumption based on rational choice theory. Rational choice theory attempts to predict human behavior based on the assumption that individuals habitually make choices in economics, politics, and daily life that align with their personal best interest.

The problem with the theory is that human beings are not rational. In fact, the human mind is like a black box. (https://dichgiacamchi.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/the_misbehavior_of_markets_-_benoit_mandelbrot.pdf) It is possible to observe what goes into the black box and the decisions that come out of it, but the actual decision-making process that unfolds inside the black box is opaque.

In international relations and war, the defining features of human identity—history, geography, culture, religion, language, race, or ethnicity—must also figure prominently in any strategic assessment. For reasons of culture, experience, and innate character, MacArthur was a risk-taker. As Peter Drucker reminds his readers, culture is the foundation (https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/1990/08/peter-druckers-the-new-realities/) for human capital. These realities routinely defeat the unrealistic expectations that rational choice theory creates.

Instead of approaching the negotiating table, Washington discarded the caution, given Russia’s nuclear arsenal, that had guided previous American dealings (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250219459/kissingeronkissinger) with Moscow. Washington’s political class, with no real understanding of Russia or Eastern Europe, subscribed to the late Senator John McCain’s notion that Russia was a “gas station with nuclear weapons.”

Putin is not a risk-taker. But he abandoned incrementalism, and rapidly reoriented Russian forces to the strategic defense, an economy of force measure designed to minimize Russian losses while maximizing Ukrainian losses until Russian Forces could return to offensive operations. The Russian change in strategy has worked. Despite the unprecedented infusion of modern weaponry, cash, foreign fighters, and critical intelligence to Ukrainian forces, Washington’s proxy is shattered (https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2023/7/13/why-ukraine-wont-be-joining-nato-anytime-soon). Ukraine’s hospitals are brimming with broken human beings and Ukrainian dead litter the battlefield. Kiev is a heart patient on life support (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/18/ukraine-and-the-west-are-facing-a-devastating-defeat/).

Russia’s attrition strategy has achieved remarkable success, but the success is making the conflict currently more dangerous than at any point since it began in February 2022. Why? Defensive operations do not win wars, and Washington continues to believe Ukraine can win.

Washington discounts Ukrainian losses (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/ukrainian-soldiers-crimea-top-defence-official-zelensky-kerch-bridge-b1097527.html) and exaggerates Russian losses. Officers present at meetings in the Pentagon tell me that minor Ukrainian battlefield successes (that are almost instantly reversed) loom large in the discussions held in four-star headquarters, the White House, and Foggy Bottom. These reports are treated as incontrovertible evidence of inevitable Ukrainian victory. In this climate, staff officers are reluctant to highlight effective Russian military performance or the impact of Russia’s expanding military power (https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/07/06/russia-plans-to-mobilize-additional-500000-soldiers-ukraines-general-staff/).

The Western media reinforce these attitudes, arguing that the Russian generals and their forces are dysfunctional (https://www.newsweek.com/russian-army-headed-totally-incompetent-people-ex-russian-vp-warns-1777590), mired in corruption and sloth, and that Ukraine can win if it gets more support. (https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/ukraine-does-not-have-everything-they-need-for-counteroffensive-gen-jack-keane/vi-AA1ercql?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=08b2de057d5d47d5836e6c0188fd1dc7&ei=17) As a result, it is a good bet that Washington and its allies will continue to provide equipment and ammunition, though probably not in the quantities and of the quality they did in the recent past.

Warsaw, whose leadership of NATO’s anti-Russian crusade is prized in Washington, finds comfort in the Beltway’s belief in Russian military weakness. So much so, that Warsaw seems willing to risk direct confrontation with Moscow. According to French sources in Warsaw, if Ukrainian forces are driven back, “the Poles may introduce the first division (https://twitter.com/SpriterTeam/status/1680936608256729089?s=20) this year, which will include the Poles, the Balts, and a certain number of Ukrainians.”

Now, Washington is misjudging Moscow. The Russian national command authorities may well think that Warsaw’s actions align with Washington’s intentions. President Biden’s executive order to extend hazard pay (https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/07/27/us-troops-in-ukraine-can-now-earn-hazard-pay/#:~:text=The%20bonus%2C%20known%20as%20imminent,base%20salary%20and%20other%20bonuses.) to American soldiers currently serving in Ukraine (who are not supposed to be there) no doubt reinforces this opinion.

But it is far more likely that the Polish tail wants to wag the American dog. The Poles know their military intervention in historic Galician Ukraine (https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-warns-poland-attack-belarus-russia/) will provoke a military response from both Belarus and Russia (https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-warns-poland-attack-belarus-russia/), but Warsaw also reasons that Washington’s air and ground forces in Europe are unlikely to sit quietly in Ukraine, Romania, and the Baltic littoral while Polish forces fight a losing battle.

America’s proxy war with Russia has transformed Ukraine into a graveyard (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/26/ukraine-isnt-killing-enough-russians/). Indulging Poland’s passion for war with Russia (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/18/polands-nato-role) encourages Poland to follow the Ukrainian example. The very idea must leave Moscow no choice but to bring all of Russia’s military power to bear simultaneously against Ukraine, before the collective West stumbles into regional war. Make peace, you fools, before it’s too late.


source (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/make-peace-you-fools/)

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[shaberon]

Can anyone tell me why one would put the losing share of the opinion poll into the headline?

Yes:


In the poll, those identified as "Millennial," between 27 and 42 years old, were most likely to "strongly support" committing U.S. troops to Ukraine. However, more respondents aged between 18-26 (Gen Z) said they would support the measure overall, 47 percent saying they supported or strongly supported sending U.S. troops. Nearly a third of respondents aged over 59 said they opposed pledging U.S. troops to Ukraine, with a further 25 percent "strongly" opposing the suggestion.
Youth Movement of whatever nationality.

Same thing goes on at the WEF gathering.

I would describe almost the exact same thing as happening to me when I was young. At first I would have gone to any Antifa-type mob to make any kind of disorganized vandalistic attacks on anything that smelled like The Establishment. Then I thought I became more civilized by "cooperating" with the then-newish Green Nazi policies of the Clinton era. It gives you the crusaders' mentality that your oh-so-wonderful ideas should be enforced around the world by someone else. That is the "American way" compared to someone like Young Turks trying to clean up their own yard.

In my view, Clinton wiped my slate with bombing Yugoslavia, and then I noticed none of those greenish campaign promises had done a damn thing. So I snapped out of it, which was probably easier because I had not gotten sucked in to a serious organization like WEF, and I did not live on a cell phone with a steady slew of millions of buddies repeating the same formula.

It has a lot to do with young minds, and so when I see China clamping down on time spent with phones and games, I kind of wish that had happened here.

Words can easily lead you astray, which is why for example when four years old, Alexandra David-Neel's father made her look at corpses lying around the Paris Communes. Then you become a lot harder to manipulate by politicians. Economics is the science of keeping the corpses out of sight, so British and American people have been particularly easy to steer into supporting foreign military intervention.

[Ravenlocke]

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In total, three series of missile strikes were carried out at the Starokonstantinov airbase today: in the morning by cruise missiles and Kinzhals, at night by Geraniums and Kalibr, and now they have added Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles. This is the most massive missile attack on a single air base during the entire war; previously, no airfield has received so much attention and means of destruction. What's the matter?

Firstly, it is from this air base that Ukrainian Su-24 bombers take off, which are carriers of the British Storm Shadow cruise missiles. At the moment, these cruise missiles are the most dangerous and long-range missile armament of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which the enemy army does not disdain to hit bridges, ammunition depots and command posts. Destruction of Shtorm carriers and their bases is the highest priority task for the RF Armed Forces.

Secondly, Ukrainian Su-24s do not stand close to each other on the ground like some do , but are hidden in concrete arched shelters, of which there are as many as 40 on the AB. Starokonstantinov's satellite imagery shows the scale of the Soviet approach to airbases and air defense against weapons, a legacy that now serves the Air Force. In order to get Ukrainian aviation, you first have to "drill" these bulk hangars, which requires a large number of cruise and ballistic missiles.

The result of today's activities will be known over time, but do not forget about the enemy's high awareness of all our missile movements, so it is possible that the Su-24 was relocated to reserve airfields at the time of the strike, we wrote about this in detail. Nevertheless, the trend towards an increase in missile strikes against Ukrainian air bases pleases, we should not stop.

#source

@Slavyangrad

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1688013557516910592


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@dana916
Russia is disabling "sophisticated" missiles that Ukraine's Western allies provided by scrambling their GPS coordinates, according to reports.

Russian technologies were able to jam missiles' GPS coordinates, disable Ukrainian drones, and suppress Russian radar signals that were used by Ukraine to identify targets to attack.

One such system, the R-330Zh Zhitel, is able to suppress satellite signals. It's not the first time concerns have been raised about the effectiveness of Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAMs, in Ukraine, with the UK think tank The Royal United Services Institute in January citing leaked US documents in which officials expressed concern that Russia was jamming JDAM GPS coordinates.

Russian defenses have proven resilient against Western-supplied weapons, with Western tanks largely ineffective in the face of the huge minefields Russia has created to defend its positions in south and east Ukraine. Western offensive tactics have so far not secured Ukraine a decisive breakthrough.

ZradaXXII

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1688028150578495489

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1687847144512802816

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦❗️ — Khinzal Hypersonic missiles launched from Tambov Oblast, Russian Federation, reportedly towards Starokonstantinov air base in Ukraine

❗️ — Kinzhals launched towards Zhitomyr Oblast of Ukraine
❗️ — Kinzhals spotted flying towards Vinnytsia oblast, western Ukraine
❗️ —Explosions reported in Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi oblasts
❗️ — Ukrainian media reports that rockets/missiles are being launched from Belarusian territory towards Ukraine
❗️ — Critical Air raid threat declared over Ternopil, Northern Ukraine
❗️ — New Khizal hypersonic missiles launches detected over Sumy Oblast, Northeastern Ukraine, flying towards Kyiv
❗️ — A Hypersonic missile of the Kinzhal type was spotted flying in the direction of the Vinnytsia region, western Ukraine

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https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1687863479808475137

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1687943845525245952

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1688009336046469120

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An air alert has been declared in Kiev, as well as in the Kiev Region and six other regions of Ukraine. Local media are reporting explosions in the Kharkov and Khmelnytskyy regions.

A series of explosions occurred in Vinnitsa region, followed by a repeated missile strike on the airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region.

All TU-95MS aircraft have reached the launch line. Ukrainian channels are also reporting missile launches from Russian Navy ships in the Black Sea.

"Geraniums" have flown from the Khmelnitsky region to the Rivne region.

Slavyangrad

https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1687963807736266752

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/its_maria012/status/1687895988772728832

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https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1687914772082176000

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[Tintin]

A timely reminder for those that would ever need it :flower:

Let's not go there again:

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🕯 #OTD in 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of #Hiroshima, annihilating over 80'000 people in a flash of nuclear fire.

The US remains the only nation to use nukes in war. This crime against humanity has #NoStatuteOfLimitation.

🔗 https://t.me/MFARussia/16939

[shaberon]

I've got something to sell.

All you have to do is figure out the right URL!

I don't know it, and if I told you, I'd have to kill me.

Usually they are not really hidden by much. Just something like a picture within a picture, or, someone will text it to you.

https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1-4.jpg


January 1-December 31, Third Millenium (https://southfront.org/organs-of-ukrainian-servicemen-spotted-on-european-black-market/) of Our Lord:


The organs of the fallen soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were reportedly found on the website of one of the largest stores in the darknet. According to the advertisement, there you can buy any organs from €5,000 apiece.

The seller asks from 5 thousand euros for one organ, in particular, 25 thousand euros for prompt delivery of a heart and 12 thousand euros for a kidney. The items are transferred exclusively to the EU in a special medical box in 48 to 60 hours. The parcel can be picked up at the agreed place after full prepayment or handed over personally after an advance payment of 35% of the purchase.

It’s no secret that organs of Ukrainian servicemen are cut out, from newly deceased wounded soldiers in hospitals. However, black transplantologists can easily take organs of servicemen who could be saved. Amid the huge losses of the Ukrainian Army, their crimes remain unnoticed.

The seller also provides support to the Ukrainians willing to escape from the country to the EU for €8,000. Ukrainians can move abroad with fake documents. This is a very lucrative business in the war-torn country where men are captured on the streets and are taken to the frontlines without any necessary procedures and training.

According to some reports, the Kosovo Liberation Army may be involved in the activities of the trading platform. One of their leaders is a suspect in the case of organ trafficking of dead Serbian servicemen and civilians during the Yugoslav War. The Army is reportedly still functioning under a different name and its fighters can take part in hostilities in Ukraine as mercenaries.

The black market is flourishing in Ukraine, where the Kiev regime is in no hurry to stop the dangerous activities since it is covering the criminals and pleases its patrons in the EU.


This next one is twistier, it's what happens when you drop out of one of those special schools (https://southfront.org/kiev-kidnaps-kids-and-force-them-to-participate-in-war-propaganda/) I mentioned earlier:



The great mass of Western readership is completely befuddled by the blandishments of mainstream propaganda. Putin is evil, Russia is the aggressor, the United States and the EU are the lands flowing with milk and honey, the corrupt Kiev regime is a wonderful democracy. Everyone knows that the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of forcibly moving people, primarily children, from the territory that Ukraine daily bombards with NATO shells.

However, no clear evidence was presented. We cannot consider as such the ardent speeches of Ukrainian “individuals” of draft age “without vaginas,” or those of young “individuals with vaginas,” who stand in the public squares of European cities, pouring red paint on themselves and shaking their breasts – and intimidating the families of respectable Europeans.

This worries Kiev, and to an even greater extent it worries Washington and Brussels. But there is a way out. If there is no evidence, then it must be created. This requires human material to work with, and preferably that of children – whether alive or dead.

On April 19, 2023, a four-hour hearing was held at the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs under the dramatic heading “Exposing Putin’s Crimes: Evidence of Russian War Crimes and Other Atrocities in Ukraine”. The chairman stated that they were going to consider cases of Russian crimes against TWO civilians (think again about the scale of the “evidence”), a woman and a teenager. At the beginning of the hearing, the chairman played the video (most likely a forgery). The video contains footage of the war and allegedly eyewitness testimony. An attentive viewer will see the following: one man says that he was slapped on the head and legs several times (which is very far from the definition of “beaten”). A woman speaking in Russian describes how she saw a beaten man – not the one who was shown before, but another. Someone had told her about torture. In addition, other people talk about the horrors of the war against the background of staged footage, bodies laid out. Staged footage from Bucha, was also included.

This video was used to create a context for the ostensible subject of the hearings; children who were evacuated by the Russian side from the combat zone. The full video of the hearings shows the attempts of American congressmen and representatives of Kiev “to pound a square peg into a round hole”.

We decided to help our American colleagues with their investigation. We have studied the question in detail, using plentiful open-source material, and evidence provided by journalists. Some journalists had been approached by the family of Bogdan Yermokhin, a boy evacuated from Mariupol. According to Kiev, Yermokhin had been forcibly detained by the Russian special services on the territory of the Russian Federation.

The controversy over the plight of orphans such as Bogdan Yermokhin began as a result of the battle for the city of Mariupol, located on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). In 2014, his mother died and soon his father was killed by unidentified men. Bogdan had been given away to a local Ukrainian family after being left an orphan. However, after the outbreak of hostilities in 2022, his Ukrainian adoptive parents abandoned him and another girl (Bogdan’s adoptive sister), running off to the West.

Until June 2022, some abandoned teenagers (4 underage boys and 2 girls, all orphans) hid in the basement of the college they had attended as students. After fighting for the city began, the college administration left the orphans to an uncertain fate, and fled with all their documents.

The children suffered an acute shortage of food. The Ukrainian military, who controlled this territory at that time, did not share anything with them.

At the end of June 2022, the Russian military evacuated children to the city of Donetsk. This group, together with other children who were left without parental care, were later evacuated to the Moscow region and adoptive families were found for them. In the Russian Federation, as in Ukraine, there is legislation according to which the priority is to raise orphans in families, rather than in boarding schools.

From that moment on, these children became the occasion for the Ukrainian special services to falsify evidence, in order to accuse the Russian Federation of forcibly moving children.

In November 2022, one of this group of children, a boy named Sergei, disappeared from his foster family, and after a short time re-emerged on Ukrainian territory. With his participation, videos were recorded where he claimed that he wanted to return to the territory of Ukraine, which he did. It is known that when Sergei was on the territory of the Russian Federation, work was actively carried out with him from the Ukrainian side through social networks, that is, he was persuaded to relocate to the territory of Ukraine. Apparently, this work was carried out by Ekaterina Bobrovskaya, the same Ukrainian woman who was invited to a hearing in the US House of Representatives Committee.

At the end of November 2022, Sergei, contacted Bogdan from his home in Ukraine, through Telegram. He wrote that he had successfully reached Ukraine and tried to persuade Bogdan to follow his example. Bogdan wrote in response: “I will think about it”, and “I am not ready yet”, but he expressed a desire to meet with Sergei as a friend and showed interest in how he was able to get to Ukraine. Bogdan did not initiate communication with Sergei, but answered him when he sent messages. Communication between them did not bring results in the form of any actual actions on the part of Bogdan. Subsequently, Sergei did not get in touch with Bogdan anymore.

In March 2023, a woman calling herself ‘Catherine’ contacted Bogdan, posing as a lawyer allegedly acting on behalf of Bogdan’s sister. However, she did not specify from which sister. It is known that Bogdan has two close relatives left: a full sister who lives in Italy and a cousin, Valeria, who lives in Ukraine. His blood sister had maintained communication with Bogdan and even with his Russian adoptive mother, Irina Rudnitskaya. She also informed him that she wanted to save money and come to Russia to visit her brother. She never urged him to return to Ukraine and did not say that she had engaged a lawyer to assist him in this. A cousin, Valeria, with whom Bogdan had rarely been in contact, lives in the western region of Ukraine. According to Bogdan, he called her, on March 9, to congratulate her on the annual women’s holiday (March 8). In the conversation, she also did not ask Bogdan to return to Ukraine and did not mention anything about a “lawyer”.

Ekaterina Bobrovskaya, the so-called Ukrainian “lawyer,” although more likely an SBU agent, began to put pressure on Bogdan after establishing contact. Realizing that persuasion would not work, she began to threaten the teenager. According to Bogdan, she told him: “If you do not come, your sisters will not live happily ever after”. She steadily increased the pressure, moving on to direct blackmail: “Your Russian adoptive family will have a hard time”. Ekaterina stated the exact address in Russia, where Bogdan’s adoptive family lives. Bogdan’s foster mom has 10 young children, mainly girls aged from 3 to 17 years.

Under this pressure, Bogdan began to become depressed and anxious, which manifested itself in apathy, behavioural changes, and loss of appetite. The boy, who had already endured many upheavals in his life, had become fearful for the fate of his loved ones, both his sisters and his newfound family. Imagine the incongruity of a 16 year-old boy who had survived severe hunger, then going on to lose his appetite. This would be impossible in a normal situation. The level of pressure and blackmail on him from Bobrovskaya was beyond any norms of morality and law.

As a result, Bogdan decided that the best way to take the pressure off his family and close relatives, and to stop the blackmail, was to fake an “escape”. The logic of his subsequent actions was to allegedly begin to follow the instructions of the kidnappers, but in such a way that the abduction did not take place, for reasons seemingly beyond his control. He was confident that he and his family were being spied on. He repeatedly stated this in an interview, where he described the motives for his actions.

Bogdan’s Russian adoptive mother, a professional psychologist, Irina Rudnitskaya, later explained that two weeks before Bogdan left in the direction of the border with Belarus, he seemingly became severely depressed. Later, on April 4, 2023, two media reports on this situation were released on Russian television. This is the air of the NTV channel at 13:20 (Moscow time) and the air of the Russia24 TV channel at 21:30 (Moscow time). Both reports are available on the Internet.

On March 21-22, 2023, Bogdan decided that he had enough. He told Ekaterina that he was ready to follow her instructions. She gave him detailed, step-by-step instructions to follow, and 20,000 rubles (about $280 at that time) was transferred to his personal bank card to facilitate his escape.

Ekaterina told the teenager: “In the morning, when you go to college, make sure you take your Russian passport with you. Then take a bus from your village to a particular stop in the city of Ruza (Bogdan’s college is in Ruza). When you get off, leave your mobile on the bus”.

It is worth pointing out that in Bogdan’s adoptive family’s house, his passport was easily accessible to him. It was simply kept in a cupboard, in a package with the rest of his documents. No obstacles were put in the way of the teenager to simply take his documents.

On March 24, Bogdan began to implement his plan. He wanted to give the impression of strictly following the instructions, whilst at the same time ensuring that his ‘escape’ would not succeed. Firstly, he did NOT take his passport with him. Moreover, and contrary to Ekaterina’s instructions, he only withdrew 10,000 rubles from his card, rather than 20,000.

“From Ruza, you need to get to Smolensk by taxi”, Ekaterina had instructed him. Bogdan did just that. He paid the driver the 10,000 rubles that he had withdrawn in cash from an ATM. The cost of a trip from Ruza to Smolensk, through the largest Russian online service, is 6,400 rubles, but Bogdan used a local private carrier, which charged about 10,000 rubles.

The distance from Ruza to Smolensk is 316 km, about 4 hours of travel. On the way to Smolensk, the taxi stopped several times, at a gas station and at a roadside cafe, where Bogdan paid for small purchases with his own card, deliberately leaving an electronic “trail”. The boy knew perfectly well that all his bank card transactions are visible and available to his adoptive mother, through a banking application that allows you to control the expenses of minors. This is common practice in Russia.

He finally reached Smolensk, a large regional center near the border of Belarus. There, in accordance with Bobrovskaya’s instructions, Bogdan boarded a shuttle passenger bus to the “Pochinki” border crossing, between Russia and Belarus. After crossing the border, Ekaterina was supposed to pick him up and take him to the consulate of Ukraine, where Ukrainian documents were already waiting for him, the very ones that the director of his college in Mariupol had fled with. They had told him, however, that after crossing the border he had to be seen to spend at least one night on his own, anywhere on the territory of Belarus, even in a ditch.

Bogdan continued to implement his plan to simulate fulfilling the requirements of the kidnappers. He arrives at the border crossing “Pochinki”, and calmly approached the passport control window, saying that he wanted to cross the border, but did not not have any documents.

The bewildered border control officer called his supervisor. He asked Bogdan why he did not have any documents and why he wanted to cross the state border. The boy told the officer the whole story, that is, that he had been coerced into trying to get to Belarus, where he was to be picked up by a certain Ekaterina. Bogdan, from memory, told the border guards the phone number of his adoptive mother Irina, so they could contact her (as we have seen, he had left his mobile with his address book on the bus on the way to Ruza).

The surprised border guards contacted Irina. She immediately drove to the “Pochinki” crossing, where Bogdan was being fed and cared for in the rest room.

No one had forcibly detained or interrogated the child. He had willingly asked the border guards for help. Later, when talking to journalists, the boy described with enthusiasm how kind and helpful they had been.

Soon his adoptive mother arrived and they drove home together. It would appear that this is a story with a happy ending. Yet Ekaterina (the same Ukrainian alleged “lawyer”) continued to write and call Bogdan.

In response, Bogdan told her that he was unable to get to Belarus due to circumstances beyond his control. Ekaterina began to demand that he record a video message for her, saying that he wanted to go to Ukraine. Bogdan would not do this.

At this time, between March 25-26 and April 2-3, 2023, Bogdan and Irina began to notice that their house was being spied on. They were being shadowed by a car that did not belong to anyone in the village. Bogdan’s adoptive mother decided that the only way to keep her family safe was to seek some publicity. She contacted the leading Russian television channels Russia24 and NTV, as well as the Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova.

It should be noted that the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova, on March 17, 2023. According to the court, Lviv-Belova “is allegedly responsible for a war crime” – the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

On April 4, and with the NTV cameras rolling, Bogdan called Ekaterina Bobrovskaya and asked her what exactly he needed to record in the message. She told him that his video message should state that he was not allowed to go outside, that he was not allowed to play music, and that he wanted to return to Ukraine. She again tried to manipulate him with faux empathy: “You need to write it down, I’m worried about you! I contacted Valeria, your sister, she is also worried (Valeria is Bogdan’s cousin, with whom he maintained only formal relations). Record a video message so that I can become your lawyer… ” It should be noted that Ekaterina had earlier introduced herself to Bogdan as already being his lawyer.

This was another lie. If Ekaterina had really been in contact with Bogdan’s cousin Valeria, the latter could have already applied to the state authorities of Ukraine to be recognized as his legal guardian. Yet Valeria had never done this, despite having had many months to act.

Ekaterina decided to try another tactic, reminding Bogdan of his friend Sergei. She suggested: “Come on, I’ll send you his new contact details. He now lives in a hostel, he is doing well, contact him”.

All this was recorded by Russian journalists on cameras. This coercive behaviour unambiguously falls under the criminal clause “attempted abduction of a minor by deception, psychological pressure and blackmail”, regardless of whether it is the continental or Anglo-Saxon system of law.

The question arises, why make such efforts to take this particular teenager out of Russia? After all, according to the US authorities and the court in The Hague, thousands of Ukrainian children were “forcibly” taken to Russia from under Ukrainian shelling. Why exactly Bogdan?

The answer is simple. Everything was done for only one purpose – to fabricate at least some evidence of the “forcible export” of minors from the former territory of Ukraine. The Ukrainian side thought that of all the “thousands of children” they had managed to effectively blackmail Bogdan. He became the number one target.

Bogdan’s adoptive mother, Irina Rudnitskaya, and Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova report that this attempt was far from the only one. In the same period of time, the Russian side recorded similar attempts to kidnap children aged 14-17 years. The tactic was always the same – alternating persuasion and threats. From the point of view of the Kiev special services, children of this age are ideal goals for their efforts. They are independent enough to be mobile, are highly impressionable, and are minors at the time of the alleged “escape”.

Bogdan is now 17 years old, and in less than a year he will become an adult. At that point, no one will be able to limit his freedom of movement. He will be able to go to Ukraine, or to China, or the United States. His adoptive sister, who was also abandoned in Mariupol, is now 18. She is located on the territory of Russia. Obviously, the Ukrainian special services are not interested in those who have crossed the formal age threshold. Apparently, in their opinion, these young people will be difficult to use as examples of the “crimes” of the Putin regime.

This is another example of a joint operation of the Ukrainian and American special services. They are targeting both underage boys and girls. The latter are at a particular risk of violence if they succumb to persuasion and threats. The idea is that if one in ten can be successfully nobbled, then the rest are not important.

The purpose is to fabricate evidence to support the far-fetched accusations against Russia. The hearing in the US Congress Committee has been convened to marshal outright fakes and fabrications for the legal charade in The Hague. Yet the Internet is full of videos detailing the atrocities of Ukrainian Nazis against Russian-speaking residents of the former Ukraine. It is clear that the guiding principle of Western leaders and their fawning media is: “If our statements contradict the facts, then the worse for the facts”. Whilst the myth of the ‘infallibility of the forces of good and democracy’ is crumbling, they are ready to take any steps to delay the inevitable reckoning.

Returning to the story of Bogdan, we would like to note that at the time of writing this article, the boy is still in the Russian Federation, lives in the same Russian family and is again making plans for the future. The boy still remembers the atrocities of Ukrainian militants in Mariupol, and repeatedly declares his support for Russia. Bogdan social media posts reveal his support for the Russian army. His adoptive mother, Irina Rudnitskaya, notes that the young man continues to study as an auto mechanic, and composes music.

We hope that this terrible event in the boy’s life will prove the final ordeal for him, and that everything will be fine for Bogdan in the future!

[norman]

I've only just heard about the Gruinard Island explosion and fire ( just off the coast of Scotland ). It was the British anthrax experiments island, apparently.

It may have been mentioned here on this forum before.

The fire happened in March 2022, just as this Ukraine affair was getting going. I may be jumping in the wrong direction to reach for dots to join, but the first thing I thought of when I heard about it was the Ukraine special operation and it's inevitable uncovering of bio weapons labs in Ukraine.

Anthrax Island fire: The dark and dangerous history of Gruinard
https://www.thenational.scot/news/20024442.anthrax-island-fire-dark-dangerous-history-gruinard/


https://www.thenational.scot/resources/images/13617278.jpg?type=mds-article-962


https://www.thenational.scot/resources/images/13617131.jpg?type=mds-article-620


https://www.thenational.scot/resources/images/13617280.jpg?type=mds-article-620

[Bill Ryan]

If this is correct (and it might not be), this may be an important and potentially escalatory development. It's been reported that the Russian Air Force has used an ODAB-500 thermobaric bomb for the first time at Novgordskoe (New York, its unlikely actual name) in the Donetsk region. Thermobaric (air fuel bombs) are the most powerful non-nuclear explosive weapons.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1687897312301920256
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Below is a 4-second video of a thermobaric bomb deployed in Syria in 2019. (The video shown in the Twitter report is this one, not one from Ukraine.) :worried: We may need to await confirmation if this report is true.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UsCkiMHuv4


Edit to add:

I'm pretty sure now this is fake news. There's no other confirmation that I can find.

But I'll keep the post up because the short video is fearsome to see. The Russians certainly do have these weapons (and much larger ones, too), but they haven't used them yet in Ukraine. It may be something to bookmark in case things really do escalate in Europe.

[ExomatrixTV]

Ex CIA Analyst’s Warning To Biden - ‘Russia’s NOT Gonna Lose’:

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern makes a clear cut message to Biden. Ray uses his decades of experience to explain why Russia can't lose, and why we are only harming Ukraine in this conflict.

Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst turned activist. He headed the CIA branch analyzing Russian foreign policy in the 70s. From 1981 to 1985, he presented, in person, the early morning briefings of The President’s Daily Brief. Ray was awarded the Intelligence Commendation Medallion at retirement; in an act of conscience in early 2006 Ray returned the Medallion, explaining, “I do not want to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.” In January 2003, two months before the U.S. attacked Iraq, he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity to warn the President that the “intelligence” on Iraq was fraudulent.


raymcgovern.com (https://raymcgovern.com)
facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063579788299 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063579788299)



Is Putin in Control... or Unstable? w/ Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern:

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[ExomatrixTV]

Imagine you know how much of all critical reports worldwide "exposing Ukraine" are actually (partly) DELIBERATE dis-info/mis-info/(partly) fake news (ESPECIALLY VIRAL MEMES!) to be used by so-called: "fact-checkers" sites to have the appearance they are doing a "good job" and are "necessary" fighting and combating "fake news" ... I would not be surprised if they are part of the same scheme!


Now, why is this insight very important to fully comprehend how psychological warfare (psyops (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States))) works and WHY it is so effective to the vast majority of "neutral" people?

Easy: As long as "neutral" people have an excuse NOT to investigate what is claimed by real (mostly honest (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia)) reporting of what happened in Ukraine they WILL use any excuse to "not get involved" in any controversial topic, just to be sure they are not labeled as: "spreading ('dangerous') fake news" blah blah ... even if it can be proven that "fact-checkers" sites were on many occasions super biased and proven to be incorrect , even blatantly lied so many times EXCEPT the ones they "exposed" that were part of the same scheme (psyop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States))) I just explained to you!


Do I make sense, or is it "too difficult" to comprehend how psyops (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States)) may work?
If true, it is a really sad world we live in! :shocked:
At the same time, this type of psyop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States)) is helped by some of the so-called "conspiracy researchers" spreading all kinds of memes and/or short Twitter/YT/TikTok videos without checking the sources! :facepalm:
If I had a say in translating the word "psyop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States))" (psychological operations/warfare) more accurately in any (online) dictionary, I would suggest adding "perception wars" to make more sense of what is happening on a massive scale connected to "Mass Formation Psychosis (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119992-The-Psychology-of-Totalitarianism)"!

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cheers,
John Kuhles (https://www.facebook.com/groups/stop5g) aka 'ExomatrixTV'
August 7th, 2023 🦜🦋🌳

[ExomatrixTV]

Jeffrey Sachs Interview - NATO Enlargement and Russian Resistance:

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Jeffrey Sachs is a well-known American economist, academic, and public policy analyst who has made significant contributions to the fields of sustainable development and economic development. He has held various prestigious positions throughout his career, including serving as the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and as a special advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. Sachs has authored numerous books and articles on topics related to economics, poverty reduction, and sustainable development.


jeffsachs.org (https://jeffsachs.org)

[ExomatrixTV]

How The West Forced Putin's Hand:

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains the options Putin had when faced with NATO at his doorstep. How did the U.S. and NATO force Putin into a corner?

Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst turned activist. He headed the CIA branch analyzing Russian foreign policy in the 70s. From 1981 to 1985, he presented, in person, the early morning briefings of The President’s Daily Brief. Ray was awarded the Intelligence Commendation Medallion at retirement; in an act of conscience in early 2006 Ray returned the Medallion, explaining, “I do not want to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.” In January 2003, two months before the U.S. attacked Iraq, he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity to warn the President that the “intelligence” on Iraq was fraudulent. raymcgovern.com (https://raymcgovern.com)

[ExomatrixTV]

Russia's military arsenal in Ukraine war | Hypersonic missiles to tanks | Russia-Ukraine war live

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[Kryztian]

The tide has turned. The majority of Americans (55%) now reject funding the war in Ukraine. Funding the war is most popular among liberal Democrats.

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[shaberon]

Do I make sense, or is it "too difficult" to comprehend how psyops (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States)) may work?
If true, it is a really sad world we live in!


Not telling you anything you don't know, but, it may be a bit more streamlined to stick to classic terms such as the Red Herring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring):

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion.


This plus the 85/15 "disinformation rule".

I saw a slick one yesterday on Lord MacCaulay from an 1835 speech to Parliament. It was not physically possible because he was not in London in 1835. I personally could see right through the 15% disinformation, which was stuck in the 85% generally-true part that he was a supremacist of a similar mindset to what was being claimed.

And, of course, yes, the article/fake photo is copied across a bunch of websites, even though someone could type in a basic search and disprove it immediately. The story I posted yesterday in this thread was also similar, about the Congressional hearing on "Russian kidnapping", which was unraveled by just a few minutes of open-source documentation. Same with the Nigerene Minister of Finance.

Not everything crumbles that easily, but a lot of it does.

Unfortunately even with something simple like the term "False Flag" getting popular a few years back, suddenly the belief is installed that everything that happens is a decoy. Or, the ability to manipulate two sides of a conflict means that Russia must be serving the same command as NATO in order to "run the Ukrainian show".


I am a little confused by your post because I do not know what the world-wide fake fact-checkers are. Do you mean stuff like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International? Southern Poverty Law Center? Veterans Today?

[ExomatrixTV]

Do I make sense, or is it "too difficult" to comprehend how psyops (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States)) may work?
If true, it is a really sad world we live in!


Not telling you anything you don't know, but, it may be a bit more streamlined to stick to classic terms such as the Red Herring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring):

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion.

This plus the 85/15 "disinformation rule".

I saw a slick one yesterday on Lord MacCaulay from an 1835 speech to Parliament. It was not physically possible because he was not in London in 1835. I personally could see right through the 15% disinformation, which was stuck in the 85% generally-true part that he was a supremacist of a similar mindset to what was being claimed.

And, of course, yes, the article/fake photo is copied across a bunch of websites, even though someone could type in a basic search and disprove it immediately. The story I posted yesterday in this thread was also similar, about the Congressional hearing on "Russian kidnapping", which was unraveled by just a few minutes of open-source documentation. Same with the Nigerene Minister of Finance.

Not everything crumbles that easily, but a lot of it does.

Unfortunately even with something simple like the term "False Flag" getting popular a few years back, suddenly the belief is installed that everything that happens is a decoy. Or, the ability to manipulate two sides of a conflict means that Russia must be serving the same command as NATO in order to "run the Ukrainian show".

I am a little confused by your post because I do not know what the world-wide fake fact-checkers are. Do you mean stuff like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International? Southern Poverty Law Center? Veterans Today?

I mean all fact-checkers sites (like Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/fact-check)) working closely with Big Social Media Platforms like: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Tumblr, Meta, WeChat etc. to be used to FLAG people resulting in being: shadowbanned, deplatformed, buried, delisted, censored, demonetized, eventually banned completely.

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[ExomatrixTV]

Russia Ukraine War: The TRUTH Behind How It All Started - Not Explained By MSM!

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Ritter's takedown of Agent Zelensky: rumble.com/v2zkv06-a-scott-ritter-investigation-agent-zelensky-part-1.html (https://rumble.com/v2zkv06-a-scott-ritter-investigation-agent-zelensky-part-1.html)


Russia Ukraine War UPDATE: The Sheer Might Of The Russian Army Won't Be Overcome!

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Godfrey Bloom gives another update on the military situation regarding the Russia Ukraine war. This time he explains the military assets of the Russian army - addressing the mainstream media lies of 'no boots' and 'rusty rifles'. Godfrey Bloom yet again calls for peace to end the war.

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🇺🇦 “Ukrainians die for an Ukraine without Ukrainians” — A rally of mothers of dead soldiers has started in Kiev. One of the protesters is sure that the war is for an Ukraine separate from Ukrainians, where all the land will be bought up by foreigners and local people will be used only as organ donors. She is also sure that it is not her son’s body that lies in the grave, but the remains, which were placed in the coffin to put a “dot” in the story of the missing man.

https://twitter.com/apocalypseos/status/1688714690388701184
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[Kryztian]

An unnamed Ukranian woman asked about Zelensky's whereabouts, therefore, Putin has a secret plot to kill Zelensky.


Ukraine claims it foiled Russian plot to kill Zelensky
A woman allegedly feeding information on the president’s whereabouts has been arrested
https://www.rt.com/russia/580978-ukraine-zelensky-plot-sbu/

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Monday that it had arrested a woman who had passed intelligence to the Russians about the location of President Vladimir Zelensky, so they could try and kill him.

The suspect is a resident of the port city of Ochakov, in Nikolaev Region, who used to work at a military supply store as a sales clerk, according to the authorities. The SBU said they caught her “red handed” while passing intelligence to the “invaders.”

The woman, who has not been named, allegedly inquired about Zelensky’s schedule and route ahead of his visit to Nikolaev in June. The SBU detected her and implemented additional security measures to protect the president, while deploying agents to gather more evidence on the suspected “Russian informant.”

Ukraine’s security service alleges the woman also sought to identify the location of electronic warfare systems and ammunition warehouses in the Ochakov area, so that the Russians could target them in a “massive air strike.” She allegedly traveled around the district and photographed the location of Ukrainian Armed Forces objects, while also secretly inquiring about them in the “social institutions” of the region.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Monday that it had arrested a woman who had passed intelligence to the Russians about the location of President Vladimir Zelensky, so they could try and kill him.

The suspect is a resident of the port city of Ochakov, in Nikolaev Region, who used to work at a military supply store as a sales clerk, according to the authorities. The SBU said they caught her “red handed” while passing intelligence to the “invaders.”

The woman, who has not been named, allegedly inquired about Zelensky’s schedule and route ahead of his visit to Nikolaev in June. The SBU detected her and implemented additional security measures to protect the president, while deploying agents to gather more evidence on the suspected “Russian informant.”

Ukraine’s security service alleges the woman also sought to identify the location of electronic warfare systems and ammunition warehouses in the Ochakov area, so that the Russians could target them in a “massive air strike.” She allegedly traveled around the district and photographed the location of Ukrainian Armed Forces objects, while also secretly inquiring about them in the “social institutions” of the region.

[shaberon]

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Monday that it had arrested a woman who had passed intelligence to the Russians about the location of President Vladimir Zelensky, so they could try and kill him.


That part of the report is essentially meaningless.

Russia could do that at almost any time, and if they were going to have done it then, what "measures" might have possibly prevented it?

The rest of it is plausible, there are such woolgatherers everywhere. The point of "watching" her for an extended period of time neither makes sense, nor protects much of anything. I don't recall it being a significant targeting area lately. Nevertheless, one would expect SBU to pounce on someone rather more quickly. This actually suggests to me that Ukraine is wanting to move in some valuable equipment to attempt more sea-based warfare while Odessa falls apart.

You can see Ochakiv on today's big map on the coast between Odessa and Kherson:

https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/7august2023_Ukraine_map.jpg




Does it look like you would make it from Kiev if Russia was trying to hit you?

It sounds to me like predictably lame PR about someone who perhaps was not very good at her job, or, there is stuff that as of the past few days that they don't want to be spied on.

The fact of having to use this big map to even find it, shows that it is a zone of practically no military activity so far.


And I just found a quote from another page:

The activity of Ukrainian forces in the area of Orekhov remains low.

[shaberon]

I mean all fact-checkers sites (like Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/fact-check)) working closely with Big Social Media Platforms like: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Tumblr, Meta, WeChat etc. to be used to FLAG people resulting in being: shadowbanned, deplatformed, buried, delisted, censored, demonetized, eventually banned completely.


Okay.

Well, just looking at what Reuters has today, they dismissed an alleged quote from Yuval Harari. This is almost exactly like the 1835 Lord MacCaulay thing I just mentioned. They go on to add:



She also said that Harari has never met Schwab and that he has never been a WEF employee, board member or adviser.

A spokesperson for the Forum, Dai Di, also said Harari is “not affiliated” with the WEF.

While Harari has spoken at WEF events (tinyurl.com/yc38spuk), his name does not appear among the Forum’s board of trustees, managing board or executive committee (here (https://www.weforum.org/about/leadership-and-governance)).


Which, as far as I know, may be completely true.

Ideologically, does he feed them a bunch of stuff that I, personally, don't like--yes, he still is not someone whose decisions I would want to affect me.

It is a mixed bag, because if I want to call out what he really says and WEF voluntarily agrees with, then, attributing him with things that are *not* what he says and does, are an obstruction.

The damning quote was about this exact same subject, people being "eliminated", or, that is, banned from the internet, and, when tracked to the group that extracted such from a podcast a few weeks ago:


The People’s Voice did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


Rather, in the “conspiracy” section of the podcast, Harari spoke about why conspiracy theories are so attractive and how dangerous they can be.


"Freedom of speech" seems to make everything get twisted around quickly--and it is not all CIA controlled opposition. India has at least 700 millions repeating the 1835 distortion of a speech that actually took place in Calcutta, not London...these are mostly the Modi supporters.

On the other hand, rules that force you to conform to politically-correct speech are not any better.

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https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1688784723848396800

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Text:
🚨MUST WATCH:
In 2013 Ukrainian students had a gathering and chanted all their European values!

The US and Victoria Nuland saw that and fell in love. She thought: “These people need to be supported! These are our values!”

Values are:
- Hang the Russians
- One language one country
- Ukraine is Europe
- Death to the enemies
- Ukraine is above everything

Hm, aren’t we told Ukraine is a peaceful nation?

This is something the media actually hides. Gets deleted off YouTube quicker video than you can upload. 🤣

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1688289435270406144

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[Bill Ryan]

Russians are human too. :heart:
(A special message here for anyone reading this who still doesn't believe that)This is an insane assumption.. Unbelievable and in my opinion it is impossible for anyone who comes here to think that Russians are not people. insane and ridiculous.

:stop: :facepalm:Some people state that Russians are NOT human.They actually say those words. Look at this, from yesterday.

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Spokesman of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces, Sarah Ashton Cirillo, describes the difference between the Ukrainian and Russian combatants:

"We're human, and those guys... most definitely aren't."


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[Matthew]

Ten things about dehumanising that will surprise you!

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Sorry :chuckle:
For some people, like some people we all know, who are tagging along with the narrative, well this dehumanising slant once they think about it, it could be a clear sign to themselves they have taken a wrong step. It won't convince everyone but it's a pretty good angle imho. So I thought I'd clickbait it.


:stop: :facepalm: Some people state that Russians are NOT human. They actually say those words. Look at this, from yesterday.

Humans v.s. humans play football at Christmas between the trenches.

Saladin was praised for his political and military skills AND his generosity and chivalry. I have a feeling these historical combatants regarded their foes as human in amongst the heat. After all is said and done I feel for the conscripted Ukrainians.

Here are the ten things about dehumanising that won't surprise you, but might surprise someone:

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[Kryztian]

In spite of U.S. and NATO sanctions against Russia, the Russian economy is flourishing, and the oligarchs of Russia are falling in line behind Putin.
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[Vicus]

Russian army hits Ukraine’s drone command center east of Makarovka — Defense Ministry 7 AUG

The forward units of the battle group East, supported by artillery, have been delivering pre-emptive fire strikes on the enemy

MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. Russia’s battle group East has wiped out a temporary deployment site of Ukrainian militants in the Ugledar district, manpower in the Uglesborochnaya district and a drone command center, the group’s spokesman Oleg Chekhov has said.

"Howitzer artillery destroyed the militants’ temporary deployment site in the area of Ugledar, the nationalists’ manpower in the area of Uglesborochnaya, a mortar crew east of Urozhaynoye, and a drone command center east of Makarovka," Chekhov said in a video uploaded to the Russian Defense Ministry's Telegram channel.

The forward units of the battle group East, supported by artillery, have been delivering pre-emptive fire strikes on the enemy.

"Artillery fire has destroyed a pickup truck with nationalists near Novomikhailovka, a mortar crew and a group of militants north of Nikolskoye. <...> An M777 howitzer west of Neskuchnoye was destroyed with a Lancet loitering munition," Chekhov added.

He specified that Russian aircraft hit the sites of temporary deployment, as well as the Ukrainian army’s manpower and equipment in the areas of Staromayorskoye, Makarovka and Priyutnoye.

"The crew of an anti-aircraft missile system Tor shot down Ukraine’s unmanned aerial vehicle Leleka," he said

https://tass.com/politics/1657433

[Vicus]

Russian troops liberate five settlements in Kharkov Region — administration 8 AUG

Vitaly Ganchev pointed out that the movement of Russian forces "deep into the enemy's territory is quite active"

MOSCOW, August 8. /TASS/. Five settlements in the Kharkov Region have come under the control of the Russian armed forces in recent days, the head of the Kharkov military-civilian administration Vitaly Ganchev said.

"In recent days, five settlements have been added to the territories of the Kharkov Region that are under our control," he said during a Channel One TV broadcast, calling this result of the advance of Russian forces "a serious indicator."

Ganchev pointed out that the movement of Russian forces "deep into the enemy's territory is quite active."

https://tass.com/politics/1658087