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Ravenlocke

17th February 2024, 01:55

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Russia’s strikes hammer Ukrainian military-industrial sites over past week

Russian forces destroyed more than 1,820 Ukrainian troops and 134 weapons in the Donetsk area over the past week

MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. Russian forces delivered 30 combined strikes by precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises and deployment sites of enemy troops over the past week in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

"Over the period of February 11-16, the Russian Armed Forces delivered 30 combined strikes by precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex engaged in the production and repair of aircraft engines, radio-electronic equipment and ammunition. In addition, the plants producing fuel and lubricants for the Ukrainian army’s equipment, military hardware depots and the deployment sites of the Ukrainian armed forces’ units and nationalist formations were struck," the ministry said in a statement.

Russian forces gain advantageous sites in Kupyansk area over week

Russian forces repulsed 18 Ukrainian army attacks and gained advantageous sites in the Kupyansk area over the past week, the ministry reported.

"In the Kupyansk direction over the past week, units of the battlegroup West assumed more advantageous frontiers and positions and repulsed 18 attacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army’s 25th airborne, 30th, 32nd, 43rd, 44th and 60th mechanized brigades and 103rd territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Sinkovka, Tabayevka and Timkovka in the Kharkov Region and Terny in the Donetsk People’s Republic. In addition, they inflicted damage on enemy manpower in areas near the settlements of Novosyolovskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Kislovka and Berestovoye in the Kharkov Region," the ministry said.

Kiev loses over 775 troops in Kupyansk area in past week

The Ukrainian military lost more than 775 troops and two tanks in the Kupyansk area over the past week, the ministry reported.

"The enemy’s losses over this period totaled more than 775 personnel, 2 tanks, 7 armored combat vehicles, 17 motor vehicles and 5 field artillery guns," the ministry said.

Russian forces improve frontline positions in Krasny Liman area over week

Russian forces improved their frontline positions in the Krasny Liman area, killing and wounding more than 1,585 Ukrainian troops and destroying 133 items of enemy equipment over the past week, the ministry reported.

"In the Krasny Liman direction, units of the battlegroup Center improved their forward edge positions and repulsed 14 enemy attacks in interaction with aircraft and artillery. The enemy lost over 1,585 personnel killed and wounded, four tanks, 44 armored combat vehicles, 82 motor vehicles and 3 field artillery guns in that direction," the ministry said.

Over the past week, Russian forces inflicted damage on amassed enemy troops near the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova, Yampolovka and Torskoye, it said.

Russian forces repulse 46 Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk area over past week

Russian forces repulsed 46 Ukrainian army attacks and gained advantageous sites in the Donetsk area over the past week, the ministry reported.

"In the Donetsk direction, units of the southern battlegroup gained more advantageous frontiers and positions and repulsed 46 enemy attacks near the settlements of Belogorovka, Bogdanovka, Kleshcheyevka, Krasnoye, Leninskoye, Novomikhailovka and Shumy in the Donetsk People’s Republic. In addition, they inflicted damage on Ukrainian army units and National Guard formations near the settlements of Kurdyumovka, Andreyevka, Georgiyevka and Katerinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

Russian forces destroy over 1,820 Ukrainian troops in Donetsk area in past week

Russian forces destroyed more than 1,820 Ukrainian troops and 134 weapons in the Donetsk area over the past week, the ministry reported.

"The enemy’s losses in that direction totaled over 1,820 personnel, 11 tanks, 14 armored combat vehicles, 84 motor vehicles and 25 field artillery guns," the ministry said.

Russian forces repel three Ukrainian attacks in south Donetsk area over past week

Russian forces improved their frontline positions and repulsed three Ukrainian army attacks in the south Donetsk area, eliminating roughly 1,060 enemy troops over the past week, the ministry reported.

"In the south Donetsk direction, units of the battlegroup East improved their forward edge positions and repulsed three enemy attacks by their well-coordinated operations. They also inflicted damage on units of the Ukrainian army’s 58th infantry, 72nd mechanized, 127th and 128th territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Vladimirovka, Urozhainoye and Vodyanoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Priyutnoye in the Zaporozhye Region," the ministry said.

Over the past week, the Ukrainian army’s losses in that direction amounted to 1,060 personnel, 2 tanks, 10 armored combat vehicles, 23 motor vehicles and 12 field artillery guns, the ministry specified.

Russian forces eliminate over 310 Ukrainian troops in Kherson area over week

Russian forces eliminated over 310 Ukrainian troops, a tank and 14 field artillery guns in the Kherson area over the past week, the ministry reported.

"The Ukrainian army lost over 310 personnel, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, 23 motor vehicles and 14 field artillery guns," the ministry said.

In the Kherson direction, Russian air strikes and artillery fire inflicted damage on manpower and military hardware of the Ukrainian 35th marine infantry brigade, 121st territorial defense brigade and 23rd National Guard brigade near the settlements of Tyaginka, Mikhailovka, Ivanovka and Yantarnoye in the Kherson Region and Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, it said.

Thirty-five Ukrainian soldiers surrender to Russian troops over week

Thirty-five Ukrainian soldiers surrendered to Russian troops over the past week, the ministry reported.

"Over the past week, thirty-five Ukrainian service members surrendered," the ministry said.

Russian combat aircraft, air defenses destroy 405 Ukrainian UAVs over week

Russian air defense forces destroyed 405 Ukrainian unmanned aerials vehicles (UAVs) over the past week, the ministry reported.

"Over the past week, aircraft and air defense capabilities shot down a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 plane and a Mi-24 helicopter, intercepted 36 rockets of the HIMARS, Vampire and Olkha multiple launch rocket systems and a JDAM smart bomb and destroyed 405 unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.

In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 571 Ukrainian warplanes, 266 helicopters, 12,571 unmanned aerial vehicles, 469 surface-to-air missile systems, 15,060 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,221 multiple rocket launchers, 8,067 field artillery guns and mortars and 18,747 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.

Bill Ryan

17th February 2024, 19:03

A tsunami of reports from both Ukrainian and Russian media now state definitively that Avdeevka has fallen to the Russians.

The event is significant. AVdeevka was one of the principal Ukrainian strongholds from which civilians in Donetsk were being systematically murdered by missile and artillery fire almost every week. This has been happening since 2014.

Here's just one Twitter report out of hundreds, or maybe thousands. There'll be much more on this very soon from all the analysts and commentators.

https://twitter.com/cveks/status/1758739609658266079

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It's official!
Avdeevka has been successfully demilitarized and denazified.
After 10 years of terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime, civilians in Donetsk are finally safe again!
God bless the Russian defenders.

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Bill Ryan

17th February 2024, 20:10

A tsunami of reports from both Ukrainian and Russian media now state definitively that Avdeevka has fallen to the Russians.

The event is significant. AVdeevka was one of the principal Ukrainian strongholds from which civilians in Donetsk were being systematically murdered by missile and artillery fire almost every week. This has been happening since 2014.

Here's just one Twitter report out of hundreds, or maybe thousands. There'll be much more on this very soon from all the analysts and commentators.And here's the first, also maybe the best. :muscle: Alexander Mercouris states that this is probably the single most significant and dramatic event so far in the entire Special Military Operation.

Avdeyevka Total Collapse, Syrsky Full Retreat, Russia Unresisted; Euroclear Russia Asset Seizure Illegal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlAL5afMSAQ

ExomatrixTV

17th February 2024, 20:43

Ukraine to SEIZE Bank Accounts? Zelensky Shows DRACONIAN Policy to FORCE Citizens to Fight: Report

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ExomatrixTV

17th February 2024, 20:46

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Ravenlocke

18th February 2024, 00:01

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🇺🇸🇪🇪US transfers seized Russian assets to Estonia

The move allowed America to dodge its own laws against sending the money to Ukraine.

The US Justice Department has handed almost $500,000 in forfeited Russian funds to Estonia, where they will be used to help repair Ukraine’s power grid. The transfer was the first of its kind, and used Estonia as a middleman to skirt US laws forbidding a direct donation to Ukraine.

The money was used by a Latvian machining and welding company to purchase a jig grinder from a Connecticut-based firm in 2018, before a group of Latvian and Ukrainian smugglers attempted to move it into Russia in violation of US export restrictions, the Justice Department said in a statement on Saturday.

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Ravenlocke

18th February 2024, 00:18

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Front #Summary for 17 Feb 2024 by 18:10⚡️

🔹In #Kherson Direction, without changes.

🔹In #Zaporozhye Direction, on the #Rabotino - #Verbovoye line, counterbattery fighting. On the ground, our forces are clearing the defence landings.

🔹In #SouthDonetsk Direction, our army is advancing in #Novomikhaylovka. However, the position of the advanced units are still in the "fog of war". There are also persistent battles in #Georgiyevka.

🔹In #Donetsk Direction, Syrsky announced the withdrawal of the AFU garrison from #Avdeyevka. But it is too early to talk about the liberation of the entire city. Our forces are cleansing the territories from which the enemy withdrew. They are leaving through the fields with losses. Our aviation, drones are working. The waste was remotely mined.
◾️ The forces of the 3rd AFU Assault Brigade, Azov terrorists, are sitting at the Coke Plant. They are blamed for the collapse of the #Avdeyevka front. For refusing to follow orders and go to the city to help their own. Those that managed to escape from the encirclement were also retreating to the Coke Plant. Maybe someone will risk clinging to the plant, but most likely not for long. After all, the Russian flag was 👉 raised over the buildings in the southeastern part already in the afternoon.
◾️ Our forces, without letting the enemy recover, enter #Lastochkino, which means they cut the last field road. Ours take a lot of prisoners. At the same time, our army is moving the southern flank at #Severrnoye in order to crush the AFU defence at #Tonenkoye.

🔹In #Bakhmut Direction, the fighting is ongoing in the western part of the #Bogdanovka village. At #Ivanovskoye (#Krasnoye) our troops stand close to the eastern outskirts. Large forces of our army are advancing from the Ivanovo and Popovsky forests in the north. That is, #Ivanovskoe on the verge of encirclement. Around Popovsky forest there are counter battles. Our army is trying to advance towards Kanal, which is a microdistrict on the eastern outskirts of Chasov Yar, separated from the town by the Seversky Donets Donbass canal.

🔹In #Svatovo Direction, on the #Seversk front, our forces advanced towards #Vasyukovka and #Vyemka along the railway line another half a kilometer. In the #Kupyansk sector, on the northern flank of the #Sinkovka - #Petropavlovka line, ours are waiting for reinforcements for further attacks.

💥In #Panteleymonovka (suburb of #Yasinovataya), 4 civilians were killed and 6 more were wounded when the AFU hit a residential house with 5 HIMARS missiles. 3 people were rescued from under the rubble. Our air defences shot down 33 AFU drones in five different regions of #Russia.

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🇨🇿💸🇺🇦 The Czech president has located 800,000 shells for Ukraine but is seeking financial assistance to transfer them. This situation brings to mind the proverb, "with such friends you don't need enemies."

Not only did Ukraine enter a conflict with Russia in an effort to strengthen ties with Western allies, but now those allies are hesitant to provide funding for the transfer of the shells. Each country has its own priorities, with Poland wanting a repair hub, Germany seeking defense line construction contracts, and Slovakia also interested in the hub and defense line contracts.

Meanwhile, Germany and France have formed an artillery coalition and are focused on building new factories rather than providing contracts for shells and ammunition.

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😭 A gloomy atmosphere prevails at the Munich security conference, most of those present are skeptical about Ukraine's chances of defeating Russia, Politico reports.

"Only Ukraine's staunchest supporters are ready to say that it can defeat Russia. But most of those present are not ready to say this, and... behind closed doors, they are skeptical about the complete victory of Ukraine over Russia in the near future - or even in general"

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Ravenlocke

18th February 2024, 00:25

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Ravenlocke

18th February 2024, 00:28

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Commander of the Central Military District, Colonel General Mordvichev. Commanded the assault on Mariupol. Now his troops took Avdeevka.

Both times he outmaneuvered ukrainian command, forcing them to withdraw-be encircled.

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Ravenlocke

18th February 2024, 00:44

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Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Russian military on its success in Avdeyevka, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"Putin in the Kremlin listened to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's report on the liberation of Avdeyevka. The president congratulated our military and fighters on such an important victory, on such a success," Peskov said.

Putin, in a telegram to Tsentr Battlegroup commander Colonel-General Mordvichev, expressed his gratitude for the bravery of the troops he led in the liberation of Avdeyevka, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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kfm27917

18th February 2024, 01:01

https://asiatimes.com/2024/02/cult-of-the-drone-uavs-have-changed-war-but-not-outcomes/

Cult of the drone: UAVs have changed war but not outcomes

kfm27917

18th February 2024, 01:06

Saving America’s future from the Blob
How to understand – and rectify – the foreign policy disaster of 2024

https://asiatimes.com/2024/02/saving-amercas-future-from-the-blob/

ExomatrixTV

18th February 2024, 11:34

It's Not Just Russia

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All These Have The Power To Blackout Society. It's Not Just Russia

Secrets Of Russian Space Based Nuclear Lasers Revealed:

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Ravenlocke

19th February 2024, 02:42

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Ravenlocke

19th February 2024, 02:48

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Ravenlocke

19th February 2024, 03:01

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Video shared on social media shows the situation on the basement of the Avdiivka coke plant during the launch of gliding bomb attacks by Russian Aerospace Forces frontline bombers.

It is possible to see that, unlike in Mariupol, the underground locations wont sustain long

Bellum Acta

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Ravenlocke

19th February 2024, 03:05

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NATO troops, disguised as mercenaries, control MLRS, air defense in Ukraine — top brass

NATO troops "control air defense systems, tactical missiles and multiple launch rocket systems, and are part of assault detachments," Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy said

MOSCOW, February 19. /TASS/. Military personnel from NATO countries, under the guise of mercenaries, operate air defense systems, multiple launch rocket systems, and tactical missile systems in Ukraine, Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy, chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff and First Deputy Chief of the General Staff, said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

"NATO military personnel, under the guise of mercenaries, participate in hostilities. They control air defense systems, tactical missiles and multiple launch rocket systems, and are part of assault detachments," he said.

Ravenlocke

19th February 2024, 03:14

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Ravenlocke

19th February 2024, 03:18

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🇺🇦The Ukrainian embassy is openly recruiting mercenaries in South America.

Fabio Junior Di Oliveira, a former mercenary who fought on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces, tells his story.
Normally, a South American mercenary wishing to fight for Ukraine must buy an air ticket at his own expense and fly about 10,000 kilometers to Poland, and buy everything he needs. Then go by train or bus to the border crossing, and then to the Legionnaires' Training Center near Lvov. They promised him 3,000 dollars when he was in Slavyansk but they did not pay him the amount they promised. Russian forces are specifically hunting for the bases where the soldiers of fortune are stationed. Fabio managed to survive and return home. But he lost everything - friends, a teaching job, a favorite hobby. He had to sell all his photography equipment.

Most importantly, he never understood what he was fighting for. He went there to help, but realized there was nothing good in that war.

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Ravenlocke

19th February 2024, 03:24

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🇺🇸🇺🇦Democrat mega-donor Alex Soros declares "we must not abandon Ukraine"

Soros, who took over the Open Society Foundations last year from his father, Jewish activist billionaire George Soros, met with Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday to express his continued support for Kyiv in its war with Moscow.

I didn't know he had the mandate to go around speaking with Foreign Ministers, promising them support. I don't remember his name on ballots or him being a member of any administration. Do you remember voting for him or for his policies?

The American Majority

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Vicus

19th February 2024, 15:48

Russian troops did not stop behind Avdeevka and continued their offensive Yesterday

After the liberation of Avdeevka in the DPR from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russian troops did not stop outside the city, but continued to advance forward, advancing further. Official sources and monitoring resources reported this on February 18.

Thus, according to the bottom of the Russian Ministry of Defense, units of the Russian Armed Forces are already in full control of Avdeevka (the clearing has been carried out) and have advanced to a depth of 8,6 km beyond its borders, pursuing the retreating Ukrainian formations. The Russian command wants to prevent the Ukrainian Armed Forces from gaining a foothold on new frontiers and building a defense.

Stopping the offensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces will give the enemy time to take a break and organize fresh fortifications and defensive lines west of Avdeevka. The Russians are trying to prevent this from happening and go as far as they can.

In turn, the Ukrainian information platform DeepState confirmed information from the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to experts, the Russians, after taking Avdiivka, really did not stop, but continued to put pressure in this direction, pursuing the retreating Ukrainian units.

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Currently, they are actively storming the village of Lastochkino. There are fierce battles for this settlement. The speaker of the United Press Center of the Ukrainian Defense Forces of the Tauride direction, Dmitry Likhovoy, reported to the public that the Russians have already carried out 14 powerful attacks and will likely continue their efforts.

https://en.topcor.ru/44517-rossijskie-vojska-ne-ostanovilis-za-avdeevkoj-i-prodolzhili-nastuplenie.html

Vicus

19th February 2024, 15:55

The Rabotinsky garrison is being cut into two parts: the Russian Armed Forces are demonstrating to Kyiv’s NATO sponsors what a counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye region is

Russian troops continue the offensive operation in the Zaporozhye direction. Since the beginning of the last day, the Russian Armed Forces have advanced a distance of at least 1,3 km in the Rabotino area. The greatest advance was made to the east of this settlement, which is still controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The situation is such that the enemy’s Rabotinsky garrison is being cut into two parts by our troops. Moreover, one of the parts of this garrison is literally squeezed onto a narrow strip of territory northwest of the village of Verbovoye.

The enemy, who himself laid minefields on this section of the front, now finds himself in a situation where his own minefields are preventing him from maneuvering in such a way as to achieve success in defense.

Simultaneously with the division of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison into two parts, Russian fighters are putting pressure on enemy units in the southern part of Rabotino. In this regard, the enemy is trying to disperse its forces, including to counter attacks from the eastern flank. With every hundred meters of advance of the Russian Armed Forces between Rabotino and Verbov, it becomes more and more difficult for enemy formations to do this.

In this regard, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine withdraws part of its forces from the Kherson direction, throwing them into the Orekhov area, fearing that Russian troops will go there.

And the Russian Armed Forces, by their actions, demonstrate to the NATO sponsors of the Kyiv regime what a counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye region is.

https://en.topwar.ru/236609-razrezajut-rabotinskij-garnizon-na-dve-chasti-vs-rf-demonstrirujut-natovskim-sponsoram-kieva-chto-takoe-kontrnastuplenie-v-zaporozhskoj-oblasti.html

Vicus

19th February 2024, 16:05

Ukraine Used US Chemical Weapons Against Russian Troops - MoD 5 hours ago

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has recorded cases of Ukrainian troops using US chemical munitions during the special military operation, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian armed forces, said on Monday.

"During the special military operation, cases of US chemical weapons used by the armed forces of Ukraine were recorded," Kirillov told a briefing.
The Ukraine military used US-made chemical grenades dropped from UAVs several times against the Russian armed forces in 2023, and this January, Ukrainian units used an unknown toxic chemical against the Russian troops, which led to burns, nausea and vomiting.

"Ukraine, with the complicity of Western countries, does not limit itself to the use of non-lethal chemicals, but actively using chemicals from the list. I would like to draw attention to the statement by representatives of the Ukrainian armed forces about the availability of such compounds at their disposal, including analogues of the combat toxic substance Tabun, which is included in List 1 of the Convention [on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction]," Kirillov said.

Kherson Region & LPR Heads Survived Poisoning Plots by Ukrainian Forces
In August 2022, Vladimir Saldo, the head of the Kherson region administration, was hospitalized after being poisoned with ricin, a substance detected in his biomedical samples, revealed Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian Chemical Defense Forces.
In December 2023, the head of the Lugansk People Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, suffered a serious poisoning attempt from phenolic compounds, said Kirillov. Prior to that incident, Pasechnik had never experienced any such poisoning attempts.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported on the facts of the use of poisonous substances by the Ukrainian military:
-On August 19, 2022, a toxic chemical, an analog of the warfare poisoning agent "Bi-Zet," was used.
-A similar substance was found on January 28, 2024, during operational-search activities in a cache in Melitopol. It was in vials labeled "Biosporin".
-On February 8 and 16, 2023, cases of hydrocyanic acid use with drones were recorded.
-On January 31, 2024, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used an unknown toxic chemical that caused burns. Analysis showed the presence of a compound known as anthraquinone.
-On December 28, 2023, American-made gas grenades loaded with a substance called "CS" capable of causing skin burns and respiratory paralysis were dropped in the area of Krasny Liman.
-On June 15, 2023, a drone carrying a plastic container with a mixture of chloroacetophenone and chloropicrin was used against Russian troops near Rabotino.

According to him, Ukraine's requests for the supply of antidotes, gas masks and other personal protective equipment indicate plans for the large-scale use of toxic substances.

continue: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240219/russia-recorded-cases-of-ukraine-using-us-chemical-munitions-in-action---mod-1116874393.html

Vicus

19th February 2024, 16:09

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Vicus

19th February 2024, 18:03

Disguised NATO personnel fighting in Ukraine - Russian general 19 Feb 2024

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Western specialists operate Kiev's air defenses and rocket systems, Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy claims.

NATO soldiers are fighting against the Russian Army in the Ukraine conflict disguised as mercenaries, a senior Russian defense official has claimed, days after Moscow dealt a major blow to Kiev with the capture of the key Donbass city of city Avdeevka.

Ukraine's shelling of Russian civilians - a significant part of which was carried out from Avdeevka in the years prior - is happening at Kiev's behest and with the tacit consent of Western states, the deputy head of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy, told Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Monday.

The US and its allies pump Ukraine full of weapons and provide it with communications services and intelligence information, but some of the equipment requires qualified Western personnel on the ground, the official said.

"NATO soldiers disguised as mercenaries participate in the military operations. They control air defense systems, operational-tactical missiles, and multiple launch rocket systems, and enter into assault detachments," Rudskoy said.

NATO officers directly prepare military operations for the Ukrainian armed forces.

In mid-January, the Russian MOD announced it had killed over 60 foreign fighters in a precision strike, of which the majority were French speakers. Although France subsequently denied that any of their armed forces were in Ukraine, the French defense minister acknowledged that some French nationals went to fight as "volunteers" - and claimed that as a "democracy," Paris can't stop them from doing so.

According to the Russian MOD's estimates, more than 5,900 foreign mercenaries have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict in February 2022.

https://www.sott.net/article/489040-Disguised-NATO-personnel-fighting-in-Ukraine-Russian-general

Vicus

19th February 2024, 18:22

Moscow condemns neo-Nazi march in US 19 Feb 2024

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The 'Blood Tribe' group has marched through Nashville, Tennessee, openly displaying Nazi symbols and chanting offensive slogans.

The US concept of freedom applies exclusively to the "forces of evil" and effectively boils down to unleashing everything that is "taboo," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said, commenting on a recent rally held by the neo-Nazi group 'Blood Tribe' in Nashville, Tennessee.

The group's balaclava-clad members marched through the city on Saturday, carrying black flags bearing Nazi swastikas, while chanting anti-immigration slogans such as "Deportation saves the nation." Some of the masked individuals wore sport shirts with assorted runic symbols commonly used by neo-Nazis worldwide, as well as the code '2218', which stands the slogan 'Bring back Adolf Hitler'.

The offensive march went on effectively unhindered, with few onlookers confronting the Blood Tribe members, Zakharova noted in a statement on the matter released Sunday. She claimed the US has consistently made an effort to whitewash the Nazis, namely by repeatedly voting against the UN General Assembly resolution condemning "glorification of Nazism" offered annually by Moscow.

Comment: See: US & Ukraine vote AGAINST anti-Nazi resolution proposed by Russia at UN General Assembly, eyebrows raised as Germany abstains

https://www.sott.net/article/489042-Moscow-condemns-neo-Nazi-march-in-US

kfm27917

19th February 2024, 20:17

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-21824-avdeevka-liberated

kfm27917

19th February 2024, 21:26

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

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

Ravenlocke

19th February 2024, 23:53

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1759638723132559764

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1759654996763726268

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Rizotto

20th February 2024, 00:26

As a Canadian I am so disgusted with Canadian politicians, of all parties, that blindly applaud a nazi in parliament AND continue to provide military aid to corrupt Ukraine.
Meanwhile, homeless people right now in Canada are freezing to death.

"Canada will donate more than 800 drones to Ukraine as part of an additional aid package, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced."
Canada to donate more than 800 drones to Ukraine, defence minister says | CANADA-UKRAINE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB9wVdeS4WE

What gives me hope is the comment section below that video, most comments are ridiculing the 'donation' of military aid to Ukraine.

Tintin

20th February 2024, 11:50

"In particular, I was complacent in my dismissive attitude to the argument that the Western powers would back ethnic cleansing and massacre in the Donbass, by forces including some motivated by Nazi ideology. The same powers who are funding and arming Ukraine are funding and arming a genocide by racial supremacist Israeli forces in Gaza. It is beyond argument that my belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive. I apologise." - Craig Murray, February 19, 2024

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Craig Murray re-evaluates his position on the Ukraine conflict with this piece published on his blog yesterday, February 19th. It has been abundantly obvious to many of us here who have explored the history of both Israel and Ukraine that the very same mindset and vested parties are behind BOTH, and it's a source of some relief, for me, that Craig has outrightly recognised as much publicly although he would of course, I imagine, have drawn that parallel at some juncture, at least privately quite some time ago.

It's a balanced and interesting article particularly regarding national identity.

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Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity

By Craig Murray

Source: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/02/putin-history-and-the-mystery-of-national-identity/

The genocide in Gaza – or more precisely the major NATO powers’ active and practical support for the genocide in Gaza – has forced me to re-evaluate my views on Ukraine in a manner more sympathetic to the Russian narrative.

In particular, I was complacent in my dismissive attitude to the argument that the Western powers would back ethnic cleansing and massacre in the Donbass, by forces including some motivated by Nazi ideology. The same powers who are funding and arming Ukraine are funding and arming a genocide by racial supremacist Israeli forces in Gaza. It is beyond argument that my belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive.

I apologise.

This does not mean that I was wrong to call the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian state illegal. I am afraid it was. You see, the law is the law. It has only a tenuous connection to either morality or justice. A thing can be justified and morally right, but still illegal.

The proof of this is that we have an entire legal structure governing transactions which is designed to achieve massive concentration of wealth. In consequence, the world is predicted to have its first trillionaires inside the next five years, while millions of children go hungry. That is plainly immoral. It is plainly unjust. But it is not only legal, it is the purpose of the system of law.

I am, however, content that the “Right to Protect” doctrine has not become accepted in international law, because it is in general application neo-imperialist. It was developed by the Blair government initially to justify NATO bombing of Serbia and the British re-occupation of Sierra Leone, and was used by Hillary Clinton to justify the destruction of Libya on the basis of lies about an imminent massacre in Benghazi. We should be wary of the doctrine.

(That is the major theme of my book The Catholic Orangemen of Togo).

The causes of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are plain. Alarm at NATO expansionism and forward positioning of aggressive military assets encircling Russia. The Ukrainian coup of 2014. Exasperation at Ukrainian bad faith and the ignoring of the Minsk accords. The continuing death toll from shelling of Russian speakers in the Donbass.

The suppression of the Russian language, of Russian Orthodox religion and of the main pro-Russian opposition political party in Ukraine are simple facts. These I have always acknowledged: until I saw the positive enthusiasm of leaders of the Western states for massacre in Gaza, I was not convinced they could not have been addressed by diplomacy and negotiation. I now have to reassess that view in the light of new information, and I now think Putin was justified in the invasion.

It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before I did not believe that the West would sponsor mass ethnic cleansing and genocidal attack on the Donbass by extreme Ukrainian nationalist-led, Western-armed forces. I thought the “West” was more civilised than that. I now have to face the fact that I was wrong about the character of the NATO powers.

The alternative to Putin’s action probably was indeed massacre and ethnic cleansing.

The urgent need now is for negotiation to put an end to the war. On that my position has not changed. The war is a disaster for the people of Europe. The American destruction of Nord Stream has devastated the German economy and resulted in huge energy price increases for consumers all across Europe, including the UK. There was a step jump in food inflation which has not been pulled back.

The continuation of the war will of course prime the pump of the military-industrial complex. Massive defence spending is the most efficient way to ensure kickbacks to the political class who control the flow of state funds, through both legal and illegal forms of corrupt reward to politicians.

As Julian Assange said, the object is not to win wars: the object is forever wars, to keep the funds flowing.

The truth is that the longer the war persists, the less generous Russia will be over returning occupied territory to Ukraine. The deal which was torpedoed by the West nearly two years ago (and in truth the US played more of a role than Boris Johnson – I was actually there in Turkey) ceded only the Crimea to Russia, with a Minsk plus deal for the Donbass which would have remained Ukrainian. That is unthinkable now. The major question is how large a coastal corridor Russia will insist on keeping westward from Crimea, and whether Putin can be persuaded to accept less than the historical dividing line of the Dnieper.

I do not share the Russian triumphalism at the dwindling manpower resources of the Ukraine. With the obscene billions the West is pumping into remote warfare in Ukraine, that is not the factor you might expect. But the political will of the West to continue to pump in these billions is plainly sapping, as it becomes obvious there will be no successful Ukrainian offensive. Put simply, Russia will outlast its opponents.

It has always been the case that the sooner Ukraine and the West settle, the better deal they will get, and that is more true every day. But prolonging the war is an end in itself to those who make money from it.

Putin’s historical disquisition to Tucker Carlson opened some Western eyes to another national perspective, and gave rise to widespread claims by Western media that Putin was factually wrong. In fact almost all of his facts were correct. The interpretation of them, and the position of other facts which were omitted or given less weight, is of course the art of history.

There is no question I find more fascinating in history than the formation and dissolution of national identities.

My own perspective on this – and there is no subject on which it is more important to understand the vantage point of the person writing – is governed by two factors in particular. Firstly, I am a Scot and come from one of Europe’s oldest nation states, which then lost its independence and struggles to regain it after being submerged in a new “British” national identity.

Secondly, as a former diplomat I lived and worked in the political field in a number of countries with differing histories of national identity.

These include Poland, a nation state which the historian Norman Davies brilliantly quipped “Has emerged from time to time through the mists of history – but never in the same place twice”.

It includes Ghana, a state with an extremely strong sense of national identity but which was an entirely artificial colonial creation.

It includes Nigeria, another entirely artificial colonial creation but which has struggled enormously to build national identity against deep and often violent ethnic and cultural differences.

It includes Uzbekistan, a country which also has entirely artificial colonial borders but which the western “left” fail to recognise as an ex-colony because they refuse to acknowledge the Soviet Union was a continuation of the Russian Empire.

So I have seen all this, as someone with a training and interest as a historian, who has read a great deal of Eastern European history. I have also lived in Russia and was for a time both a fluent Russian and Polish speaker. I do not write this to claim I am right, but so that you know what has formed my view.

Putin argued at great length that there never was such a country as “Ukraine”. The BBC has run a “fact check” and claimed this is “Nonsense”.

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There are several points to make about this. The first is that the BBC did not, as it claimed, go to “independent historians”. It went to Polish, Ukrainian and Armenian historians with their own very distinct agenda.

The second is that these historians did not actually take issue with Putin’s facts. For a fact-check it does not really examine any of Putin’s historical facts at all. What the historians did was put forward other facts they felt deserve more weight, or different interpretations of the facts referenced by Putin. But none argued convincingly for the former existence of a Ukrainian national state or even the long term existence of Ukrainian national identity.

In fact their arguments were largely consistent with Putin. The BBC quote Prof Ronald Suny:

Mr Suny points out that the inhabitants of these lands when they were conquered by Russia were neither Russian nor Ukrainian, but Ottoman, Tatar or Cossacks – Slavic peasants who had fled to the frontiers.

Which is absolutely true: 18th century Russia did not conquer a territory called “Ukraine”. Much of the land of Ukraine was under Muslim rule when conquered by Catherine the Great, and nobody called themselves “Ukrainian”.

The BBC then gives this quote:

But Anita Prazmowska, a professor emerita at the LSE, says that although a national consciousness emerged later among Ukrainians than other central European nations, there were Ukrainians during that period.

“[Vladimir Putin] is using a 20th Century concept of the state based on the protection of a defined nation, as something that goes back. It doesn’t.”

Which is hardly accusing Putin of speaking “nonsense” either. Prazmowska admits the development of Ukrainian national consciousness came “later than other Central European states”, which is very definitely true. Prazmowska herself has a very Central European take – the idea of the nation state in England, Scotland and France, for example, developed well ahead of the period of which she was speaking.

I should address the weakness in Putin’s narrative, around the origins of World War 2. Russian nationalists have great difficulty in accommodating the Stalin/Hitler pact into the narrative of the Great Patriotic War, and while Putin did briefly reference it, his attempt to blame World War 2 essentially on Poland was a low point. But even here, there was a historical truth that the standard Western narrative ignores.

The Rydz-Smigly–led military dictatorship in Poland after the death of Pilsudski was not a pleasant regime. Putin was actually correct about Munich: both the UK and France had asked Poland to allow the Soviet army to march through to bolster Czechoslovakia against Germany, and Poland refused (Ridz-Smigly did not trust Stalin, and frankly I don’t blame him). But this is an example of part of Putin’s narrative that countered the received Western tradition, that most well-informed people in the West have no idea happened, and is perfectly true.

The fusing back then of Ukrainian nationalism with Nazism, and the atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists in WW2 against not just Jews but also Poles and other minorities, were also perfectly true.

It is a simple and stark truth there never was a Ukrainian state before 1991. There just was not. Lands currently comprising Ukraine were at various times under the rule of Muslim Khans, of the Ottomans, of Cossack Hetmans (possibly the closest thing to proto-Ukrainians), the Polish-Lithuanian confederation and Russian Tsars.

As I have stated on this blog before, the boundary between Polish/Lithuanian and Russian influence became settled on the Dnieper. I have also published this map before, showing that history resonates through the current conflict.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Truce_of_Andrusovo_1667.png
Truce of Andrusovo 1667

There is also the case of third-party recognition of the Ukrainian nationality. I have read, for example, the letters and memoirs, both published and unpublished, of scores of British soldiers and civil servants involved in the Imperial rivalry with Russia in Asia. Many had contact with Russian officers or diplomats. They did clearly recognise different ethnic identities within the Russian Empire. The Russian diplomat Jan Witkiewicz was described repeatedly by British officers as “Polish”, for example. “Cossack” and “Tartar” were frequently used. I cannot recall any of these British sources ever using the description “Ukrainian”.

Nor did British officers who actually passed through Ukraine, like Fred Burnaby and Arthur Connolly, describe it as such in their memoirs. Now I am not claiming that if British imperialists did not notice something, it did not exist. But if there were a centuries-old recognition by the rival Empire of the existence of a Ukrainian national identity, that would definitely mean something. There does not appear to be such.

I should be interested to know where Ukrainian nationalists claim their cultural heritage lies as proof of early national identity. What is the Ukrainian equivalent of Shakespeare’s John of Gaunt speech, of Scotland’s Blind Harry, or even of Poland’s Pan Tadeusz? (This is a genuine question. There may be areas of Ukrainian historic identity of which I am unaware).

Putin was not wrong about history (apart from the dodgy bit about origins of the second world war). But the correct question is whether any of this matters.

It is not whether Putin’s historical analysis is broadly correct, it is whether this matters. I am inclined to the view that Putin is correct that there is little evidence that the people living in Ukraine, hundreds of years ago, ever considered themselves a distinct national entity.

But they are all dead, so they don’t get a vote. The only thing that matters is the opinion of those living there now.

It seems to me beyond dispute that there is now a Ukrainian national identity. I know several Ukrainians who consider themselves joyously and patriotically Ukrainian, just as I know patriotic Ghanaians and even patriotic Uzbeks. The question of how this identity was forged and how recently is not the point.

I should add there are undoubtedly a great many Ukrainians whose sense of national identity is not linked to Nazism. There is a historical and a current strain of Nazism in Ukrainian nationalism, and it is far too tolerated by the Ukrainian state; that is certainly true. But to claim all Ukrainian nationalists are Nazis is a nonsense.

The formation of national identity is a very curious thing. Ivory Coast has just won the African Cup of Nations at soccer, beating Nigeria in the final. The competition arouses huge patriotic fervour throughout the continent of Africa. But the boundaries of all the African nations, except arguably Ethiopia, are entirely artificial colonial constructs. They cut right across ethnic, cultural and linguistic boundaries.

Much of modern Ghana was the old Ashanti kingdom, but that extended much further into now Ivory Coast. The coastal areas were never Ashanti. In the east, the Ewe people’s lands are cut by a completely artificial boundary with Togo. To the north, largely Muslim populations live a much more rural lifestyle. Yet Ghanaians are fiercely proud of this imposed state of Ghana. They are proud it was the first African state to attain Independence, they are proud of its heritage of supporting African liberation movements including the ANC, they are proud of its education system. They have a real sense of national identity that goes far beyond the passionate support of its sporting teams.

Ghanaian identity is modern, ahistoric, within entirely colonial boundaries. But it is real and valid.

In Central Asia, the boundaries of the “stans” are again colonial boundaries that cut right across the pre-existing Khanates. The boundaries of these ex-Soviet republics were carefully designated by Stalin not to be ethnically or culturally coherent, to guard against the development of national opposition. So the greatest Tajik cities, Bokhara and Samarkand, are not in Tajikistan but Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan has important similarities to Ukraine. Both are states with boundaries of Soviet republics, which have no relationship to any pre-existing state or nation. In both – and this may be a legacy of Soviet authoritarianism – the state has attempted to force national identity by compulsory homogeneity. So Russian language medium in education was first banned in Uzbekistan, and then Tajik. Ukraine has similarly banned the Russian language. This of course is nothing new in state behaviour, as Highland Scots well know.

Yet even in Uzbekistan, a passionate national identity has been created, even among Kazakhs, Tajiks etc who reside there. The alchemy by which this happens is mystifying; partly it seems to depend on a natural loyalty to whatever authority exists, which is a rather troubling thought. For Central Asia, Olivier Roy’s The New Central Asia, the Creation of Nations has some thoughts on the sociology of the process.

I am aware I need to read more on the creation of national identity, because most of my thought is based on simple observation. It is however entirely plain that national identity can appear, and can be genuine, and can do so in a period of merely decades. There is now a Ukrainian national identity, and those who subscribe to it have the right to their state.

That they have a right to the former boundaries of Soviet Ukraine is a different proposition. Given the reality that it is plain a significant minority of the population do not subscribe to Ukrainian national identity, that civil war broke out, and that this relates to historic geographic fracture lines, it seems that division of territory is now not only inevitable but desirable.

All people of good will should therefore wish to see an end to fighting and a peace settlement, of which the territorial elements are somewhere close to the current lines between the forces, with Russia giving back some territory in return for recognition of its gains. The alternative is more death, human misery and economic malaise.

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Jaak

20th February 2024, 14:47

https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1759251674420383996

Who owns the lands of Ukraine for 2024 - suddenly someone forgot.

In 2021, the law on the sale of land came into force in Ukraine. As the Australian National Review neatly reported, "companies from the United States have used the new legislation to make massive investments in the country."

Now Cargill, Monsanto and Dupont (investors - Vanguard, Blackrock and Blackstone) own 40% of Ukraine's arable land. For permission to sell land, Ukraine received a $17 billion loan from the IMF, and offices of all three corporations were opened in Kiev.

GMA-Monsanto Corporation directly and through a number of intermediary companies already in 2022 owned 78% of the land fund of Sumy region, 56% of Chernihiv, 59% of Kherson and 47% of Mykolaiv region, She also has 34% of the land in the Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk regions pledged.

Also in 2013, the South China Morning Post reported that China (represented by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps) had acquired 3 million hectares of Ukrainian land — land the size of Belgium "leased for 99 years with the right of redemption."

"28% of Ukraine's arable land is owned by a mixture of Ukrainian oligarchs, European and North American corporations, as well as the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia."
The scientists also reported that the owners of Ukrainian (on paper) agricultural holdings "have long been American NCH Capital, French AgroGeneration, German ADM Germany, KWS, Bayer and BASF, Saudi PIF and SALIC."

In the end, American researchers come to an amazing conclusion - the Russian SMO "takes place on chernozems sold to foreigners for a long time"

https://t.me/vicktop55/21514

Vicus

21st February 2024, 16:52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQCVNd38qsc?t=1

With this 2 Giant guest , many interesting topics (military strategy,old and new politics,each one experience about U.S. ,history,the real role from Navalty,culture, etc.
and something new (for me)about some list from acknowledge people in the media
picture them quasi as enemy or worse ...(not the Ukros kill list) from "west" "story line"...
Mark: 1:25:32

Vicus

21st February 2024, 17:01

Victory in Avdeevka: How Russia forced Ukraine to retreat from the most fortified city in Donbass 20 Feb, 2024

The area was the scene of heavy fighting back in 2014, but Kiev managed to hold it against local rebels

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On Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Avdeevka – long an important stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) northwest of Donetsk city – had been liberated. The area had been seen as strategically vital as far back as 2014, when Kiev’s troops fought local Donbass separatists.

After the start of Russia’s military operation, in 2022, the situation near Avdeevka escalated again and, for the past two years, battles in the surrounds were ongoing.

The most recent encounter, which began on October 10, last year, and ended with the defeat of the Ukrainian garrison, involved additional Russian troops transferred from the Liman direction and commanded by Colonel-General Andrey Mordvichev.

The Ukrainian Army, which could not stop the Russian advance and wasn’t able to provide a permanent supply line for its garrison, hastily fled from Avdeevka, leaving behind about 850 prisoners, many bodies of its dead servicemen, and a lot of military equipment. The Ukrainians also had insufficient time to blow up high-rise buildings in the area, from which Russian troops can now obtain a clear view of the AFU’s future lines of defense. The number of Ukrainian troops killed during the battle and in the course of the withdrawal is currently unknown. According to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, in the 24 hours prior to the capture of Avdeevka, the AFU lost more than 1,500 people.

The fact that Russian troops have successfully captured the city changes the operational situation in the Donetsk direction. In addition to reducing the number of potential Ukrainian attacks on Donetsk, Makeyevka, and Yasinovataya (since the front line has been pushed to the west and north), the liberation of Avdeevka will allow Russia to rebuild the Donetsk-Gorlovka highway as well as the major railway junction in Yasinovataya. Moreover, the AFU has been forced to retreat to new, less fortified positions.

Among other things, this victory has significantly boosted the morale of Donetsk residents, giving them hope that life can go back to normal and the artillery terror under which they have been living for many years may stop. To fully understand their joy, we must delve into history. So, if you don’t mind I will take only 30 seconds or one minute of your time to give you a brief historical background.

War in Donbass and the Minsk Agreements

Before the outbreak of the war in Donbass in 2014, Avdeevka was a typical industrial city. The Avdeevka Coke and Chemical Plant, located on the northern outskirts of Avdeevka (and later turned into a strongpoint by the AFU), used to be one of the major metallurgical facilities in Ukraine.

When civil war broke out, the city came under the control of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Avdeevka was strategically important, since it was located between Donetsk (the capital of the DPR) and Gorlovka – one of the largest cities controlled by the insurgents. Battles for Avdeevka broke out in July. However, the pro-Russian militia of Novorossiya were unable to maintain control over the city, and on July 28, Ukrainian forces occupied it and continued to advance in the direction of Yasinovataya.

The Minsk I Agreements – an effort to settle the internal conflict in Ukraine by means of diplomacy and with the aid of Russia, France, and Germany – stipulated that Avdeevka would remain under the control of Ukraine. It became the main stronghold of the AFU in this direction, along with the territory of the Donetsk airport and the village of Peski near Donetsk. According to the Minsk Agreements, Ukrainian forces had to withdraw from some of these territories to create a buffer zone. But the AFU did not want to lose this foothold, which it could use to attack Donetsk and other parts of the DPR with artillery fire.

continue: https://swentr.site/russia/592738-triumph-in-avdeevka/

Vicus

21st February 2024, 17:10

Ukraine’s Bloody Maidan Coup: See How It Started (Updated: 5 hours ago)

This February marks the 10th anniversary of the Maidan coup that shook Ukraine to the core and sparked a chain of dramatic events throughout the country.

What started as social unrest in late 2013 due to the then-president’s decision to delay a trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU eventually erupted into massive political demonstrations backed by the US and the EU calling for closer ties with Europe.
Amid the bloody developments in the streets of Kiev, political upheaval was brewing in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada parliament. Radicals soon declared the government as illegitimate, thus resulting in putschists seizing power in direct violation of Ukraine’s Constitution.

The protests quickly grew increasingly violent and ultimately led to full-fledged armed clashes with Ukrainian law enforcement. Pressured by the opposition, President Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine, effectively abandoning the country amid a profound crisis.
The new Kiev government took political measures infringing on the rights of Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine. This prompted people in Eastern Ukraine to take to the streets to oppose the new authorities.

Euromaidan triggered Ukraine's war on Donbass

The deep social and political rift within the Ukrainian society sparked the beginning of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240221/ukraines-bloody-maidan-coup-see-how-it-started-1116905208.html

ExomatrixTV

21st February 2024, 18:24

Roger Waters SLAPS DOWN Bono’s Pro-War Propaganda:

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ExomatrixTV

22nd February 2024, 13:52

Russia has broken the stalemate in Ukraine. On the offensive' along the 600-mile war front:

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From Bill:

A silly video title. There never has been a 'stalemate'. That's just more western media propaganda. This is exactly the kind of video which deserves further personal comment.

As far I am aware, that is what he says ... he was quoting western mainstream-talking points to debunk them! Coming to the same conclusions you are! (or we all are).

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

Bill Ryan

22nd February 2024, 15:26

ExomatrixTV

22nd February 2024, 15:29

Bill Ryan

22nd February 2024, 15:48

Bill Ryan

22nd February 2024, 16:24

An astonishing interview — not for the content, but the skill, courtesy and tact with which Judge Napolitano discusses the war with Matt VanDyke. The way he handles this is exemplary, despite his strong personal opinion about VanDyke's participation as a mercenary.

VanDyke is an American fighting for Ukraine, wearing a Ukrainian uniform. Scott Ritter, who holds VanDyke in contempt (as do I, I have to say), predicted he would die. But it seems he's not dead yet.

Napolitano asks all the perfect questions, opting with quite some discipline NOT to respond to some of VanDyke's stated absurdities. (Such as it was the absence of US funding which led to the fall of Avdeyevka.)

And VanDyke, despite having survived his ongoing ordeal at the front lines so far, is clearly demoralized. This is highly recommended, simply for the human condition aspect of all this. The video title is a gentle play on words, as VanDyke is indeed (somehow!) still alive.

Matt VanDyke: A LIVE View from Ukraine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52yFM2O0KZU:bump:

Forgive me, but I'm taking the unusual action of almost immediately bumping my own post. This is an extraordinary interview.

Matt VanDyke may be a great personal friend, neighbor, father, husband or son. But he's so sincerely deluded (and mentally and emotionally blindfolded) about political and geopolitical realities that the entire thing serves as a perfect microcosmic case study of the enormous problem we have in the west regarding propaganda and the deliberately generated mistaken beliefs among even very decent people in the populace.

The YouTube comments are worth reading, btw. VanDyke is excoriated, with hundreds of viewers not nearly as generous as I tried quite hard to be above. Napolitano himself thanked him most sincerely at the conclusion of the interview, in a way that I'm certain I could never have brought myself to do if I had been in his position.

Do watch this, if you have time. It's half an hour long, but it's really quite an education about the whole human condition.

:flower:

Vicus

22nd February 2024, 17:16

Russia secures ‘Victory’ in Donetsk 22 Feb, 2024

Moscow’s forces have liberated the settlement of Pobeda (Victory), also defeating several Ukrainian formations in the area

Moscow’s forces have liberated the settlement of Pobeda near the capital of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), according to a battlefield update published by the Defense Ministry on Thursday.

In addition to capturing Pobeda – whose name translates as ‘Victory’ – Russian troops have also improved their positions along the front line in Donetsk, defeating Ukrainian formations near the villages of Novomikhailovka and Krasnohorivka, the ministry said.

The battles resulted in heavy casualties for Ukraine, according to the report, which claimed Kiev lost over 410 servicemen, as well as a range of military hardware, including Western-supplied systems.

The Russian military also said it had destroyed the launcher and transport-loading vehicle of a US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system, along with other Ukrainian military equipment and manpower in 114 regions.

Last week, Moscow announced the capture of the key Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka, which had served as a pivotal fortress for Kiev since the early stages of the conflict.

After months of immense pressure from Russian forces, the Ukrainian military ordered its troops to withdraw from the town on Friday, explaining that the retreat was meant to avoid heavy casualties.

The Russian Defense Ministry, however, stated that Ukrainian forces had started fleeing a day before the official order came through. It shared drone footage purporting to show large groups of Ukrainian servicemen escaping the town on foot while leaving behind heavy equipment.

Moscow has estimated that Kiev lost over 1,500 troops during the retreat, and abandoned wounded soldiers, military hardware, and equipment.

https://swentr.site/russia/592964-russia-liberates-victory-village/

Vicus

22nd February 2024, 17:54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw0BN43mfIQ

2 hours ago

shaberon

23rd February 2024, 03:44

Who owns the lands of Ukraine for 2024 - suddenly someone forgot.

This post is a pretty important operational principle here.

Then you can see through it to Nazis in all countries like the U. S., disguising themselves as "Ukrainian volunteers".

Many of them were converted to Bodies (https://southfront.press/kiev-forces-executed-mercenaries-rigged-dead-bodies-with-explosives-before-fleeing-avdeevka/) rigged with explosives. Most of the wounded were simply executed at gunpoint and turned into booby traps.

It leads to such gruesome statistics as Irretrievable Losses 377,000 (https://southfront.press/irretrievable-losses-of-ukrainian-army-exceeded-active-military-personnel/) outnumber the amount of active duty personnel.

Expectations by Belarus (https://southfront.press/nato-allegedly-planning-provocation-against-belarus/) of a Polish false flag terrorist act.

Now, like Bakhmut:

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As we see, the defenders are definitely now falling into an impenetrable hedgehog that Russia simply cannot overcome.

What it actually means is:

Russian forces eliminated 145 servicemen, five infantry vehicles, two M113 armoured personnel carriers, 26 motor vehicles, one M777 artillery system in the Avdiivka area.

I, personally, have never seen a loster cause than--anyone who fights with Russia.

Ravenlocke

23rd February 2024, 20:36

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❗️Kiev prepares to surrender Kharkov region: almost all reconstruction money has been taken away from the region

In the social networks of the Ministry of Development, Kharkov region was the first to receive funds: 993 million UAH were to be allocated for the reconstruction of the region. However, the map was later updated and only 1 million UAH was left for Kharkov region.

None of the oblasts has a smaller amount, except Sumy and Kherson oblasts, which will receive no subsidy at all," writes Ukropa Fresh. According to the new map, the Lvov region (424 million UAH) and the Dnepropetrovsk region (341 million UAH) will receive the most.

We would like to point out that the entire Kharkov region has been declared evacuated and the active removal of archives and industrial equipment from the regional centre has begun.

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Ravenlocke

23rd February 2024, 20:54

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Two years of anti-Russian sanctions in numbers

The EU introduced a 13th package of sanctions that targeted Russia's military-industrial complex today after the US announced additional sanctions earlier this week.

Since 2022, Russia has withstood over 15,000 sanctions in various sectors. The vigorous restrictions cut Russian banks off from international payment systems, restrict tech imports, and have major corporations abandon the Russian market.

Check out Sputnik’s infographics to see an illustrated layout of the number and origin of sanctions Russia has withstood in the past two years.

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Third Finnish mercenary eliminated in Ukraine, Ilta-Sanomille newspaper reported.

According to the report, the mercenary was taken out on Monday in the Artemovsk region.

This is the third Finn killed in the special military operation zone, the newspaper wrote. In total, several dozen Finnish citizens are on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces, but the exact number and duration of their stay in Ukraine is not specified.

The death of the first Finnish mercenary was reported in June, the second in October.

The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly stated that the Kiev regime uses foreign mercenaries as "cannon fodder" and that the Russian military will continue to destroy them throughout Ukraine. Those who have come to fight for money themselves have admitted in many interviews that the Ukrainian military does not coordinate its actions well and that the chances of surviving in combat are slim, since the intensity of the conflict is incomparable to their usual Afghanistan and the Middle East.

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Has US already chosen NATO secretary general by itself?

US convinced Dutch PM Rutte would make an "excellent secretary general" of NATO, has informed allies, White House says

Estonia is still undecided on support for outgoing Dutch PM Mark Rutte as next NATO secretary general, needing more time to make a carefully weighed decision, the Estonian Foreign Ministry said.

"Consultations between the Allies on the choice of a new secretary general are still ongoing. It is a decision that requires consensus, it cannot be taken lightly or hastily, and will therefore take time to reach," the ministry told Estonian broadcaster ERR.

Tallinn plans to make a decision about whether to support Rutte by the time of the NATO summit in Washington this summer, the ministry added.

Politico reported earlier this week that Eastern European countries believed a politician who had failed to meet the 2% of GDP defense spending target in the Netherlands while leading the country should not be appointed as NATO chief. Romania reportedly intends to nominate its incumbent President Klaus Iohannis as a candidate.

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23rd February 2024, 21:03

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Ravenlocke

23rd February 2024, 21:07

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⚡️ Around 22.30 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.

Duty air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Bryansk region.

🔹 Russian Ministry of Defense

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Ravenlocke

23rd February 2024, 21:11

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦The Russian army is advancing, breaking through to Rabotino!
▪️On the Zaporozhye Front, the regiments of the Southern Military District and the Airborne Forces resumed the offensive, attacking the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Orekhovsky sector on the Rabotino-Verbovoye line.
▪️Previously, ours occupied a number of support positions in the plantings adjacent to the village, gained a foothold there and resumed the offensive.
▪️Today guys in vehicles broke into the village, the fighting does not stop, the enemy is trying to stop our advance with artillery and drones.
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine again recognize our successes - they write about the breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Rabotino and Verbovoy, where they threw the Armed Forces of Ukraine behind the “Surovikin line”.
▪️"The Russians are attacking Rabotino from the south and west, and are also trying to break through north of the Verbovo-Novoprokopovka line. They have had some successes. There are battles in the vicinity, attacking in small groups."
▪️"The fighting continues near Verbovoy, Robotino and Malaya Tokmachka (northeast of Robotino and southeast of Orekhov).
The 71st Regiment of the Russian Armed Forces attacks in small groups of infantry and on high-speed all-terrain vehicles,” other Ukrainian resources write.
▪️After the start of the offensive, our troops attack on a wide front, within a week:
➖West of Rabotino, the Russian Armed Forces continued attacks with the support of armored vehicles, taking away a number of Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defenders in forest belts.
▪️South of Rabotino, enemy infantry groups advanced and consolidated in the fortified area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to counterattack.
▪️West of Verbovoy, the Airborne Forces continue assault operations along the “Surovikin Line,” regaining control over it.
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23rd February 2024, 21:18

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Front Summary for 23 Feb 2024 by 18:42

In the Kherson Direction, Russian forces pushed the AFU well, but the cleanup of the coastal zone and islands has not yet been completed.

The AFU has moved from the stage of denial to acceptance. Ukrainian resources write that the AFU has not been faced with the task of an offensive for a long time, and a piece of land in Krynki was held for the sake of "information effect".

In Zaporozhye Direction, at Rabotino, fierce battles are taking place. According to field reports, the AFU have clung to positions they have managed to fortify well since last summer and mine the approaches.

In South Donetsk Direction, after yesterday's breakthrough from the south to Krasnogorovka, Russian forces continue to attack. Now Russian fighters are already in the town limits.

This is the last major settlement near Donetsk under AFU control. Krasnogorovka, like Avdeyevka, has been turned into a powerful fortified area since 2014, so the fighting will be difficult. From this area, the AFU are also shelling settlements of the DPR.

In Avdeyevka Direction, the Russian army is attacking in several areas at once. Russian fighters have liberated Stepovoye! It is worth noting the tenacity of Russian fighters. Since October 2023, positions have changed hands, but Russian fighters went on new attacks and put the squeeze on the AFU. Now they have gained a foothold in the village, and the AFU have retreated to Berdychi, 1.2 km to the west. There are successes of Russian forces in Severnoye (on the the southern flank). The Ukrainians claim that the village is completely under Russian control, but waiting for confirmation from Russian forces. Russian fighters advanced 0.5 km to the west of the plant (towards Orlovka).

In Bakhmut Direction, Russian troops are fiercely attacking Ivanovskoye (Krasmnoye). A Russian armored column entered the first streets. The AFU understand the threat and are trying to retake lost positions. A couple of hundred meters remain to the Ivanovskoye - Kleshcheyevka supply road, and when it is cut, the AFU can only supply their garrisons in Kleshcheyevka and Andreyevka only by dirt roads. Russian drone operators and artillery help attacks on the ground and track down manpower and equipment in the rear of the AFU at "Chasov Yar".

In Svatovo Direction, Russian artillery and drone pilots are also active in the Seversk sector. They hit positions and firing points of the AFU, and the Russian formidable weapon, TOS Solntsepek, is also working. (⚠️the enemy reports on a repulsed Russian attack at Belogorovka). In the Liman sector, Russian forces have recaptured two strong points in the "Krugloy Beam", Russian fighters are leveling the frontline along the ledge in the Laptev Yar. In the Kupyansk sector, Russian fighters also advanced a bit and gaining a foothold northeast of Sinkovka. From the northern side, Russian fighters are advancing in the village itself.

In the DPR's settlements, there are wounded again. Further AFU drones were shot down over three regions.

Russian Forces carried out strikes on AFU targets in several regions at night. Preliminary, the targets were workshops for the production of surface and aerial drones, repairs, as well as locations.

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23rd February 2024, 21:28

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🇺🇦🇷🇺🚨‼️ “We don’t have troops to defend Kharkov or even Kiev” says a leader of Azov

- If now there are not enough troops to rotate in brigades that stand on the front line for a year, “then you definitely won’t have troops to defend Kyiv, Kharkov, and so on,” said Azov’s chief of staff Bogdan Krotevich.

- When asked by the Governor of the Nikolaev region, Kim, whether the Russians will be able to attack in all five main directions where they have amassed troops, Krotevich replied that the Russian Federation can quickly transfer forces from one direction to another and strike anywhere.

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Ravenlocke

23rd February 2024, 21:50

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🚨 Newsflash
One of the videos that the Western media refuse to broadcast
⚡️ here is the reality on the ground currently on the front.
Massive surrenders. Ukrainians don't want to fight for the globalist elites, for a coke addict, for Ukrainian oligarchs, for Wall Street, for US military industrial complex, for corrupt Biden family, for WEF, for Blackrock and all those POS

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Ravenlocke

23rd February 2024, 22:44

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🇺🇦🐭Le Figaro: hordes of “saboteur mice” methodically disable Western equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

It turned out to be unsuitable in a military conflict over mice. The fact is that the equipment was created in compliance with environmental standards: the sheaths of electrical wires are made of corn fiber - mice gnaw them.

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Ravenlocke

23rd February 2024, 22:57

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Ravenlocke

23rd February 2024, 23:06

Ukr Defence West Avdeyevka,
Rus Outflanks,
Ukr Troops Despair;
US/EU Escalate Failed Sanctions

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Rizotto

25th February 2024, 09:53

More devious posturing from NATO members... when peace could be had right now if they just stopped the delivery of military aid and went back to peace negotiations.
In Canada, these billions of donated $$$ could house and feed all the homeless.

https://www.rt.com/russia/593097-ukraine-security-italy-canada/

February 25, 2024

Ukraine signs security deals with Italy and Canada
The pacts pave a way for more military and financial aid to Kiev

The leaders of Italy and Canada signed security agreements with Ukraine during their visit to Kiev on Saturday, marking the beginning of the third year of the fighting between Ukraine and Russia.

According to the deal signed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Ottawa will provide $3.02 billion ($2.2 billion USD) “in macroeconomic and military support.”

Canada has provided $1.78 billion in military assistance to Kiev since the start of Russia’s military operation in February 2022, and recently pledged to deliver more than 800 multipurpose drones.

“We will continue to be there with you as long as it takes [and] with everything it takes until Ukraine wins,” Trudeau said during his meeting with Zelensky.

The details of the agreement between Zelensky and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have not been made public, although the Ukrainian leader said it will provide a foundation for deeper cooperation. “I thank Italy for its support to Ukraine, in particular the defense capability and reconstruction of our state, and for continuing to provide military aid to Ukraine,” he posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.

Italy has approved eight packages of military aid worth $722 million since February 2022, according to Germany’s Kiel Institute.

The deals reached in Kiev on Saturday follow similar pacts made with France, Germany and Denmark last week and with the UK last month. They were signed at a crucial moment for Ukraine, whose army regularly complains that they lack enough ammunition to overpower the Russians.

The deliveries of weapons and equipment, as well as financial aid, have been delayed due to the bitter political in-fighting in the EU and the US. Republicans in Congress have so far refused to approve President Joe Biden’s most-recent Ukraine aid bill.

Russia has repeatedly stated that deliveries of armaments to Ukraine do not change the course of the conflict and only increase the risks of further escalation.

ExomatrixTV

25th February 2024, 10:43

“Disgusting Subways Are The ‘Price Of Freedom’” – Jon Stewart:

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kfm27917

25th February 2024, 17:51

https://asiatimes.com/2024/02/dont-expect-a-ceasefire-in-ukraine/

Don’t expect a ceasefire in Ukraine

kfm27917

25th February 2024, 17:56

https://asiatimes.com/2024/02/fire-jens-stoltenberg-now-before-it-is-too-late/

Fire Jens Stoltenberg now before it is too late

kfm27917

26th February 2024, 14:53

CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War For Last Decade, Bombshell NYT Report Confirms

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt

ExomatrixTV

26th February 2024, 15:24

Official Narrative update: the idea that the CIA has been deeply involved in Ukraine for over a decade, waging a secret war against Russia is no longer a conspiracy theory.

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Vicus

26th February 2024, 16:50

Kremlin responds to CIA ‘revelations’ 26 Feb, 2024

It’s no secret that the US is training people in Ukraine for subversive work against Russia, Dmitry Peskov has said

The US has long been working in Ukraine to prepare operatives for subversive work against Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. His comments came after the New York Times claimed the CIA has been actively involved in Ukraine since the 2014 Maidan coup.

“The work of so-called American advisers, most of whom departmentally belonged to the CIA, is well known,” Peskov told TASS when asked to comment on the NYT article published on Sunday.

These people “occupied jobs in the building of the presidential administration of Ukraine… this is not a secret,” the Kremlin spokesman added.

According to Peskov, the CIA and other US agencies began operating in Ukraine long before 2014, actively recruiting people and preparing them for “subversive work against our country.”

In its report, the NYT claimed that the CIA has turned Ukraine into a major asset to spy on Russia since the Maidan coup. It further alleged that the US has funded and organized a network of secret bases throughout Ukraine, making Kiev part of a “secret coalition” against Moscow.

According to NYT journalists, Ukraine currently hosts at least 12 spy bases that actively gather information on Russia, eavesdrop on its military communications, coordinate drone strikes, hack into Russian, Belarusian and Chinese satellites, and manage a network of agents inside Russia itself.

Back in October, the Washington Post also reported that the CIA had invested “tens of millions” of dollars in Ukraine since 2014 to transform Kiev’s spy agencies into “potent allies against Moscow.” The outlet stated that US intelligence services maintain a “significant presence” in Kiev to this day, even as the Ukrainian Security Service has carried out “dozens of assassinations against Russian officials, alleged collaborators, military officers and prominent war supporters,” such as journalist Daria Dugina, who was killed in August 2022.

Moscow, meanwhile, has repeatedly described increased US activity on Ukrainian territory, as well as Kiev’s NATO aspirations, as threats to its national security and one of the key reasons for launching its military operation in February 2022.

https://swentr.site/russia/593199-kremlin-cia-ukraine-revelations/

Vicus

26th February 2024, 16:55

Ukraine on another retreat in Donbass – media 25 Feb, 2024

Kiev’s forces reportedly withdrew from the village of Lastochkino to safeguard their supply lines and conserve manpower

Ukrainian troops have abandoned the settlement of Lastochkino, a few kilometers west of the strategic city of Avdeevka recently captured by Russian troops, the local outlet Strana reported on Saturday citing Ukraine’s military.

The website cited a Ukrainian volunteer fighting with the neo-Nazi Aidar battalion as saying that units had to withdraw from the area to “avoid the blocking of their logistical routes” and to “save personnel.” The Ukrainian Telegram channel DeepState confirmed the development, wondering where the Ukrainian high command would announce the preparation of a new defensive line.

Several Russian Telegram channels claimed that Moscow’s troops had already entered Lastochkino, posting unverified pictures and a video of soldiers waving a Russian flag in the middle of the devastated settlement.

Neither the Russian nor Ukrainian Defense Ministries have confirmed the reports. However, officials in Moscow said on Saturday that the Russian military “continued to occupy more advantageous… positions” in the Avdeevka sector while repulsing Ukrainian counterattacks.

Moscow announced the capture of Avdeevka last weekend, which has been a frontline city since 2014. It claimed that the Ukrainian retreat had turned into a disorganized rout with heavy losses. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called the decision to withdraw “absolutely logical,” insisting that it was necessary to avoid heavier casualties.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the capture of Avdeevka was “certainly a success,” adding that it needed to be expanded upon.

The Avdeevka area was previously used by Kiev as a launching ground for attacks on Donetsk, the capital of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The Defense Ministry in Moscow previously said that the capture would help protect the latter city from “terrorist attacks by the criminal Kiev regime.”

The DPR, along with three other former Ukrainian regions, overwhelmingly voted to become part of Russia in the autumn of 2022 in public referendums.

https://swentr.site/russia/593113-ukraine-another-retreat-donbass/

Vicus

26th February 2024, 17:05

Key Incidents Involving NATO Warships & Aircraft Near Russia's Borders Yesterday

After the Ukraine conflict intensified, warships from the United States and other NATO countries increased provocative forays into the Black Sea. There has also been a surge in incidents involving NATO aircraft flying near Russia's maritime borders over the past few years.

Russia has dismissed accusations recently levelled by Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu of having “threatened” French planes in the Black Sea.
Alexey Chepa, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, underscored that Russia has never behaved “aggressively,” and invariably acts within international rules and flight assignments.
Sebastien Lecornu appeared on French radio RTL, claiming that, "A month ago, a Russian air traffic control system threatened to shoot down French aircraft in the Black Sea, even though we were in the internationally free zone in which we patrol."
In another incident dredged up by Lecornu, a Russian warship purportedly anchored in Baie de Seine, off northern France, at the edge of the country's territorial waters in a bid to "intimidate" France. He also accused Moscow of allegedly adopting an increasingly “aggressive stance" and "playing with the thresholds."

It should be noted that amid the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, there has been a surge in incidents when US and NATO warships have entered the waters of the Black Sea. In 2021, NATO sent over 30 warships to the area, breaking its own “record” that had held since 2014. There has also been an increase in incidents involving NATO aircraft flying near Russia's maritime borders, from the Barents and Baltic seas in the north and west, to the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East. From the opening days of Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine, the Black Sea has been a focal point of the NATO-led proxy war against Russia.
The fresh allegations by the French minister prompted Sputnik to take a look at provocative incidents involving NATO warships and aircraft near Russia's borders over the past few years.

continue: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240225/key-incidents-involving-nato-warships--aircraft-near-russias-borders-1116963378.html

Vicus

26th February 2024, 17:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXC3GR8M-2s

7 hours ago

ExomatrixTV

26th February 2024, 21:05

Official Narrative update: the idea that the CIA has been deeply involved in Ukraine for over a decade, waging a secret war against Russia is no longer a conspiracy theory.

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The CIA's Secret Ten Year War On Russia...From Within Ukraine!:

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The New York Times came out with a bombshell article on Sunday detailing the past ten years of CIA active warfare from within Ukraine against Russia. From building 12 CIA bases within the country, to instructing on sabotage inside Russia to providing targeting intelligence BEFORE the 2022 Russian military operation in Ukraine. And...much of the operation was kept secret from then-President Trump!

mountain_jim

26th February 2024, 21:26

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1762212104155595135?s=20

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
In case you didn’t hear, the MSM are now admitting that Ukraine is a CIA proxy.

Meaning Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was NOT unprovoked, and that the US are the expansionists, overthrowing sovereign nations for geopolitical gain.

The US brought war to Putin’s doorstep.

Meaning that every single thing Western media told you about the war in Ukraine, was based on a lie. All the analysis you heard from pompous MSM talking-heads, was based on the presumption that Putin did this unprovoked, just because he is “literally Hitler”. None of it was true.

Turns out, Putin’s accusations of Western intelligence controlling Ukraine were correct, therefore his attack is more than justified. Just imagine if Russia funded Nazi militias in Canada, started a civil war, overthrew the government, then installed their own puppet regime, then put Russian intelligence bases and biolabs all over our northern border. Every American would be calling to flatten Canada and Russia. Well that’s exactly what the US did to Russia, and they are pissed.

Russia tried to join NATO, they were denied. Russia tried to negotiate non-violent means to resolve the conflict, they were denied. Russia tried to present their grievances of US bioweapon production and espionage to the UN, they were denied. Russia tried to go the diplomatic route, and the West just cried “Russian disinformation”, while they were the ones pushing disinformation.

The West also went out of their way to censor independent journalists like me who have been telling you this from day one, because if the public knew this detail the entire time, they wouldn’t have supported sending our tax dollars there.

This is going to be a tough pill to swallow for many Americans, but Russia are not the bad guys in this scenario. The West are, and it’s not even close.

The sooner we all recognize this, the sooner we can clean up the mess.

mountain_jim

26th February 2024, 21:30

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1761960922342400370?s=20

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Zelensky is visibly high as hell on MSNBC…

How much longer are we going to let this clown show go on?

This man is coked out of his mind while getting asked about the war he is losing. This is the guy Congress wants to give another $60 billion of our money to… pic.twitter.com/K0m06ZvRE9

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) February 26, 2024

mountain_jim

26th February 2024, 21:34

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1762211208827199542?s=20

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KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
🚨BREAKING: Russian Counter-Terrorism Unit Thwarts Assassination Attempt on
@TuckerCarlson
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A Moscow man was arrested for allegedly accepting payment from Ukrainian intelligence to plant an explosive on Tucker Carlson's vehicle, targeting the American journalist during his interview with Putin.

"In November 2023, I was recruited by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

"I was trained in working with special communications, collecting, and detonating explosive devices."

"On January 31, I received a task from the curator to pick up an explosive device from a hiding place and use it to blow up a car."

What was promised to you?

"Four thousand dollars."

Where was the explosive device supposed to be used?

"In the underground parking of the Four Seasons hotel in Moscow. I was supposed to pick up the explosive device from a hiding place and place it under the car."

Who was it targeting?

"I wasn't told."

Do you know who the target was now?

"Yes. American journalist Tucker Carlson."

What went wrong?

"I was detained at the preparation stage."

Sources below.

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 26, 2024

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1762212233390809578?s=20

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KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
🚨BREAKING: Russian Counter-Terrorism Unit Thwarts Assassination Attempt on
@TuckerCarlson

Source: https://theinteldrop.org/2024/02/26/russian-man-recruited-by-ukraine-intelligence-arrested-over-terror-plot-to-kill-tucker-carlson/

Jaak

26th February 2024, 22:05

Rizotto

26th February 2024, 23:37

Even Ukrainian media now admits Navalny's death was of natural causes, i.e. blood clot. Will this ever be announced on western mainstream media?

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28630

February 26, 2024

HUR Chief Budanov Says Seems Navalny Died of Detached Blood Clot
Ukraine's intelligence says cause of Russian oppositionist's death aligns with initial assertions made by Kremlin.

(Rest of article at link above.)

Ravenlocke

27th February 2024, 01:59

Rus Advance Quickens Patriots Destroyed;
8 Year Anti Rus CIA Ukr Operation;
G7 Asset Seize Backs Off

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2024, 04:15

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🇷🇺 A real guardian angel: from the first days of the Special Military Operation, senior sergeant Olga Arzamastseva saved 3 thousand soldiers.

She is an operating room nurse: she works day and night, not paying attention to fatigue and shelling. During her service, her medical squad did not allow a single loss. - FRWL reports

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1762035313772273906

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mountain_jim

27th February 2024, 12:41

Yeah i dont know...I was born in soviet union and i know russian soul and ways pretty well and this interview with captured saboteur seems like propaganda bull****.In real life he would not have many teeth left and would have many other mental and physical injuries(caused by the russian style interrigation aka torture).But that guys body language or state of condition just seem way off...

Yes - the researcher I got this from later posted:

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Tucker Carlson gleefully escaping from his assassins.

As I mentioned in my replies, this story originates on an unknown website and YouTube channel.

Hopefully, @TuckerCarlson comments.

Meanwhile, everyone is relying on the same uncorroborated source.

Bill Ryan

27th February 2024, 13:58

russian style interrogationI think, as best I know, you may be describing Soviet style interrogation, but not anything that would be done by the Russians today. :flower:

Bill Ryan

27th February 2024, 15:01

This was at the top of Zero Hedge's news reports today:

https://zerohedge.com/military/first-m1-abrams-tank-destroyed-ukraine-shortly-after-appearance-battlefield

First M1 Abrams Tank Destroyed in Ukraine Shortly after Appearance on Battlefield

Russian forces claim they have successfully destroyed an American-supplied M1 Abrams main battle tank for the first time, coming two full years into the Ukraine war, outside the captured city of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region.

The US-made advanced tank was reportedly taken out by a kamikaze drone or loitering munition launched by Russia's 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade. Russian state media accounts made the announcement Monday and published video purporting to show the destruction of the M1 Abrams main battle tank.

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Russian media: "A close-up of the destroyed Abrams taken by a surveillance drone shows the vehicle’s ammunition compartment burned-out."Footage circulating online purports to show the vehicle with a large column of fire rising from its turret," RT wrote. "It was reportedly targeted by a FPV suicide drone and sustained at least one hit from a shoulder-mounted anti-tank grenade launcher."

The attack is said to have happened in or near the village of Berdychi, which lies northwest of Avdeevka. Ukraine forces are reportedly in retreat from the city after Russia's recent capture of it last week.

The introduction of Western main battle tanks into Ukraine appears to have made little or no actual difference in giving Ukraine a tactical advantage.

Instead, starting last spring Russian media widely circulated images showing German-made Leopard 2 tanks burning. And then in September the first UK-supplied Challenger 2 was destroyed.

Below: the widely circulating new footage purporting to show the first destruction of an Abrams main battle tank in Ukraine..

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So to some degree, these tanks being lost in battle has become a humiliation for Ukraine's Western backers, and is at the same time an immense PR victory for the Russians.

Ironically it was only last Friday that Business Insider reported on the first Abrams spotting on the battlefield (https://www.businessinsider.com/first-video-us-abrams-in-combat-in-ukraine-fighting-russians-2024-2):
Newly released video footage offers a first look at the heavy US-made Abrams tank in combat in Ukraine.
When the US delivered the tanks to Ukraine last fall, it added significant capabilities to Ukraine's ground forces. It comes with challenges as well, but the American-made tank is widely considered to be among the most capable in the world.
Only last Friday...

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Over a year ago the Kremlin warned: "If a decision to transfer to Kiev M1 Abrams is made, American tanks without any doubt will be destroyed as all other samples of NATO military equipment." Other Russian officials have since warned that Abrams tanks will "burn" on the battlefield, according to TASS.

Ukraine has reportedly received 31 Abrams tanks in total, but there are reports not all of them have been deployed to the battlefield yet. Ukrainian operators had to undergo at least six months to a year of specialized training from US advisers, but it's also possible these tanks were prematurely rushed to the battlefield with crews unprepared for direct battle.

ExomatrixTV

27th February 2024, 17:46

Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman:

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2024, 18:17

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Frontline #Summary for the Morning of 27 February 2024; pub. 08:01⚡️

🔹In the #Zaporozhye direction, the RF Armed Forces, supported by artillery, continued offensives from the west and south on the village of #Rabotino. The AFU is ⚠️holding their positions.

🔹On the Donetsk Front, Russian forces were active on most of the frontline. After shelling the enemy with long range weapons, they attacked in #Novomikhaylovka, on the eastern outskirts of the town of #Krasnogorovka, in the area of #Nevelskoye and #Pervomayskoye. Here the frontline ⚠️did not change significantly. But similar actions of the RF Armed Forces west of #Avdeyevka led to a ⚠️breakthrough in #Tonenkoye (Thin). Here, as they say, it's "on the thin". It is thin for the AFU, but it has not yet broken. To the north, after massive shelling, Russian troops established ⚠️control over the village of #Lastochkino and entered #Orlovka.
📌 Both settlements were logistically important for the AFU. Now, given the proximity of #Avdeyevka and #Donetsk, the RF Armed Forces have the upper hand.
▪️ The Russian forces' attack on #Berdychi was ⚠️unsuccessful.

🔹In the #Bakhmut Direction, the RF Armed Forces continued their assault on the heights northwest of #Kleshcheyevka and in #Ivanovskoye (#Krasnoye). The AFU ⚠️hold their positions.

🔹In the #Lugansk Direction, Russian troops, supported by long range weapons, attacked near #Terny. They also ⚠️tried to advance in #Tabayevka and #Sinkovka.
💥 The AFU is under fire in #Belogorovka, #Serebryanka and #Torskoye.

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Ukrainian police are exempt from mobilization

This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Klimenko.

“What is the difference between guys in the police and guys [working] in the national agriculture? Who will protect people, investigate crimes, respond to calls?” he explains.

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‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺🪖☠️ War Crime of #Azov

The 3rd Assault Brigade (Azov) of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine execute surrendered #Russian soldiers.

Thanks to this video the dead Russians were found and their bodies have already been exhumed.

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27th February 2024, 18:50

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INTERVIEW SPUTNIK ABOUT MACRONS WARMONGERING, FEB 27 2024
Today I and former French Colonel Jaques Hogard
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was interview by Sputnik news channel about French president Macron's statement that it was preferable, by sending western troops into Ukraine, to risk WWIII and nuclear Armageddon, instead of allowing a Russian victory in Ukraine.

Macron uses the leadership crises in NATO to strengthen his position among the (antirussian) western leaders. Even though his megalomanic and warmongering ideas have scant support among the western population.

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Macron's 'Posturing' About NATO Troops in Ukraine Can Spark 'Full Scale Conflict' With Russia

Emmanuel Macron’s belligerent statement about possibly deploying NATO troops in Ukraine is “mostly posturing, Mikael Valtersson, a former defense politician and chief of staff with Sweden Democrats, told Sputnik.
However, "even posturing can take on a life on its own and start a dangerous process down a slippery slope,” he warned. The pundit suggested that the French president was using “the paralysis within the US political system about support for Ukraine” to try and replace America as the leading pro-Kiev power in the EU.
“NATO is partially incapacitated, especially in regards to Ukraine… The second tier nations now try to fill the empty space created,” Valtersson said.

“Since NATO is out of the question because they only function as a defensive organization, and any nation could veto decisions, and the EU doesn't have any military, there must be individual countries who would participate. Macron probably means the countries that have recently signed security treaties with Ukraine, for example, France, [the] UK, Germany, Italy, etc. He might also want to include other countries that seem likely to sign security agreements with Ukraine, as some East and North European countries, he added.

“Even if this suggestion probably is posturing, it opens up a door to talk about direct Western military involvement in Ukraine,” warned the former officer of Swedish Armed Forces/Air Defence.

The outcome could be “a de facto declaration of war” and, potentially, “a full scale military conflict between Russia and several European countries.”

As Paris hosted a meeting of some 20 European leaders to discuss the situation in Ukraine on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron served up some choice statements on Tuesday, sending chills down the spines of many politicians in his own country.

“We are convinced that the defeat of Russia is indispensable to security and stability in Europe,” Macron told reporters “There’s no consensus today to send in an official, endorsed manner troops on the ground. But in terms of dynamics, nothing can be ruled out,” he said.

Emmanuel Macron’s recent “pseudo-martial” remarks about “not ruling” out sending Western troops to fight in Ukraine cannot be taken seriously, ex-colonel of the French Special Forces Task Group under NATO command in Kosovo, Jacques Hogard, told Sputnik.

The French President’s “megalomania” seems to be getting the better of reason, said Hogard, who wondered if the French leader was “going crazy!” Macron must be aware that it is "game over" for Zelensky's armed forces, even though they were supported by NATO, and in particular by "certain Western European countries vassalized by the United States,” Hogard pointed out.
Even if the French leader is under the delusion that he is “showing off his muscles,” they are those of "a paper puppet,” the pundit added.

When it comes to sending “allied” troops to Ukraine, "Macron is dreaming," emphasized the expert who served 26 years in the French Army as an airborne officer in the Foreign Legion and the Special Forces.

He pointed out why, in his opinion, this was the case. Firstly, "the US and NATO don’t want to openly enter war, preferring to act through proxies." Secondly, “European governments are extremely divided on this issue,” and “unity of the EU is in reality only an illusion.”

Furthermore, “the French army is today a ‘sample’ army, suitable for occasional military interventions, but totally undersized in terms of personnel, equipment and ammunition to embark on a high-intensity war adventure.”

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Ukrainians ridicule the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, explaining the collapse of the front and the flight from Avdiivka using a satellite image
▪️ “Pre-prepared advantageous positions between Lastochkin and Tonenky ,” Ukrainian military propagandists sneer, publishing a satellite image with bare fields, where there are practically no positions and noticeable lines of defense.
▪️The Russian army liberated Lastochkino a few days ago and quickly made its way to Tonenkoye, which it is now storming
▪️Earlier, the command of the Tavria group of troops stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were retreating to more advantageous positions.
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The reaction of the authorities of Western countries to the statement of Macron, who did not rule out sending NATO troops to Ukraine:

🇬🇧 Britain is not planning a “large-scale deployment of troops,” Sunak’s press secretary said;

🇫🇮 Finland is not ready to send its military to Ukraine, emphasized the country’s President Sauli Niinistö;

🇩🇪 Scholz said: “There will be neither ground forces nor soldiers on Ukrainian soil who will be sent there by European states or NATO countries”;

🇩🇪 "Macron proposed sending troops, but no one supported this idea," noted German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius;

🇵🇱 Poland is not going to send its soldiers to Ukraine, said Deputy Defense Minister Tomczyk.

🇸🇪 Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that Stockholm is not considering sending its military to Ukraine

🇨🇿 The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic said that there is no talk of sending Czech military personnel to Ukraine

🇮🇹 The Italian Foreign Ministry also disowned such plans, because the country “is not at war with Russia”

🤡 "NATO has no plans to send combat units to Ukraine," Alliance Secretary General Stoltenberg assured

🇫🇷 The screenshot shows the reaction of the French society represented in the Le Figaro's poll "Do you support sending French troops to the ground in Ukraine?"

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Bruce G Charlton

27th February 2024, 18:50

Assuming, as always, that this is real; then it adds evidence to the general idea that - whatever its initial "rationale" - the primary aim of this war from those on the West who sustain it, has now become sheer destruction: destruction of economies, military materiel, and human life - especially Ukrainian and NATO lives.

Because surely it has long been the case, since at least WWII, that a lone tank deployed against a peer military, without any other support and lacking air superiority, is just a ten million dollar sitting-duck/ death trap?

Ravenlocke

27th February 2024, 18:54

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Retreating Ukrainians try (and fail) to halt Russia's advance with bungled chemical weapons terror plot

Ukrainian saboteurs plotted a terrorist attack in Russia's Zaporozhye region using an analog of a US-made BZ (3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate) chemical warfare agent, the Russian Federal Security Service revealed. This would-be act of terrorism was foiled and three Ukrainian suspects behind the plot are now in custody.

"The chemical warfare agent has been used by the US since the late 1950s," Igor Nikulin, military expert, former member of the UN Commission on Chemical and Biological Weapons, told Sputnik.

"BZ is considered a non-lethal weapon, but it incapacitates a person for quite a long time. Even if one gets just one milligram of the substance, that person becomes incapacitated for 70-80 hours."

Despite being considered a non-lethal weapon, BZ can lead to paralysis of the heart muscle and death if used in large doses, Nikulin cautioned.

The expert noted that BZ was developed by the US military at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. Though it was claimed the United States had destroyed its chemical weapon stockpiles, no one can be sure, the expert emphasized. Unlike Russia, the US did not allow OPCW inspectors into their facilities. To date there has been no independent confirmation that the United States has eliminated its chemical arms, Nikulin stressed.

The expert presumed that the US supplied the BZ-like substance directly to Ukraine in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention: "The Ukrainian military is losing on the battlefield and are trying to stop the Russian offensive with acts of [chemical] sabotage."

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2024, 19:07

Macron is freaking out over Ukraine collapse

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Macron’s ‘pseudo-martial’ remarks show his ‘megalomania got the better of reason’

Emmanuel Macron’s belligerent statement about the possible dispatch of NATO soldiers to Ukraine is mostly posturing – but it could easily take Europe down a slippery slope, becoming a “de facto declaration of war,” Mikael Valtersson, a former defense politician and chief of staff with the Sweden Democrats, told Sputnik.

He suggested that the French president was using “the paralysis within the US political system about support for Ukraine” to try to replace Washington as the leading pro-Kiev power.

“NATO is partially incapacitated, especially in regards to Ukraine… The second tier nations now try to fill the empty space created,” Valtersson said. “Even if this suggestion probably is posturing, it opens up a door to talk about direct Western military involvement in Ukraine.”

According to the ex-officer, “a full-scale military conflict between Russia and several European countries” could be the end result of the French president’s escapade.

Macron must be aware that it is “game over” for Ukraine, ex-Colonel of the French Special Forces Task Group under NATO command in Kosovo Jacques Hogard added.

Macron may be under the delusion that he is “showing off his muscles,” but “they are those of a paper puppet,” Hogard added, stressing that the French president’s “megalomania” seems to be getting the better of reason.

“We are convinced that the defeat of Russia is indispensable to security and stability in Europe,” Macron told reporters after Paris hosted a meeting of some 20 European leaders to discuss the situation in Ukraine on Tuesday.

However, France failed to get any viable support, turning the “demonstration of European unity” into proof of Europe’s deep disillusionment in Ukraine.

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Are NATO soldiers already fighting in Ukraine?

Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley explains that “professional killers” from NATO militaries have been operating in Ukraine since 2015, often under the guise of mercenaries.

“These are the guys that run the complex equipment. Ukrainian soldiers aren't the ones shooting the HIMARS. Ukrainian pilots won't be the ones flying F-16s here. So, the professionals have always been here, but they've kept a low profile.”

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Battle of Donbass: Where will the next big showdown take place?

Following the fall of Avdeyevka, Russian forces have begun moving ahead towards the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk defensive line, the last major Ukrainian fortification in the Donbass. Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley breaks it down.

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French civil servants secretly confer with Le Pen, undercutting Macron's grip on power - report

Meetings between French civil servants and the leader of the right-wing National Rally parliamentary group Marine Le Pen signal diminishing influence of President Emmanuel Macron, as strategists craft blueprints for Le Pen's potential ascent to power, The Economist reports.

The National Rally is cultivating ties with Parisian elites, strategically positioning itself as a viable alternative to Macron's administration. With the recruitment of top civil servants and figures like Fabrice Leggeri, Le Pen's party is set to pose a formidable challenge in the upcoming elections, the report says.

As Macron grapples with mounting criticism and policy setbacks, the National Rally is undergoing internal reforms, shedding its once controversial image and focusing on core national interests, the report concluded.

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Special Operations Forces: Meet Russia’s Elite Commandos

Tuesday is the professional holiday of Russia’s Special Operations Forces (SOF), the high-readiness, high-mobility, specially trained and equipped troops reporting to the chief of the Armed Forces General Staff and tasked with carrying out the most complex and difficult missions and covert operations.

The SOF’s mission and capabilities include:

▪️ Reconnaissance and sabotage, including collection of information and the destruction of important enemy targets behind the lines.

▪️ Counter-terrorism, including preventing and suppressing acts of terror, freeing hostages, and conducting covert missions to eliminate terrorist leaders and groups.

▪️ Ensuring the safety of individuals, facilities and locations in difficult conditions – like providing security at the Olympics in Sochi, or ensuring President Putin’s security during his visit to Khmeimim Air Base in late 2017.

▪️ Special operations at sea and in the air, from the seizure or release of ships, to anti-piracy and smuggling missions.

SOF troops played a decisive role in the operation to secure Crimea in 2014 in the aftermath of the Euromaidan coup in Kiev amid the imminent threat of Maidan thugs descending on the peninsula to crush a pro-Russian uprising. Their surprise appearance on the peninsula, lack of identifying markings, and courteousness toward the local population gave rise to their popular nicknames ‘polite people’ and ‘little green men’.
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❗️Special forces officer: If Russians hadn’t intervened in 2014, Crimea would’ve been in total shambles

Nikolai Brovchenko is the deputy commander of the special forces battalion. He took part in the operation to defend Crimea and later volunteered for the Donetsk People's Republic militia. Ten years ago, at the end of February 2014, he came to Crimea in order to protect people from Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

"My former colleagues and I put together a group and went to Sevastopol. I had to work at Chongar, together with Berkut, to organize a defense line there. And when our regular troops arrived, we gave up these positions, left for Sevastopol itself, and carried out work in Sevastopol, Simferopol, and Feodosia," he revealed in an interview with Sputnik.

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2024, 19:14

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Maria Zakharova:

“Regarding Emmanuel Macron’s statements about the possibility of sending NATO troops to Ukraine.

I would like to remind you that just a month ago, the head of the French Foreign Ministry denied the involvement of Paris in recruiting mercenaries for the Kyiv regime, and called direct evidence “crude Russian propaganda.”

There is a strong feeling that the President of France, in principle, is not aware of either what his subordinates say or what he says himself.

And now I want to remind Macron of the history of France. She was different.

In April 1945, Berlin was defended by the French SS division Charlemagne (Charlemagne) and a number of others. They also defended the “Führerbunker” itself, Hitler’s bunker. They were among the last to be awarded the Nazi Order of the Knight's Cross in the Third Reich. The French SS men from Charlemagne became the last defenders of the Reichstag and the Reich Chancellery.

Emmanuel, have you decided to organize the Charlemagne II division (Charlemagne deux) to defend Zelensky’s bunker?”

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NATO has no plans to send troops to Ukraine — Stoltenberg

On February 26, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that a number of EU and NATO members are considering sending their military troops to Ukraine on the basis of bilateral agreements with Kiev

BRUSSELS, February 27. /TASS/. NATO has no plans to send military personnel to Ukraine, Secretary General of the alliance Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the Associated Press.

"NATO allies are providing unprecedented support to Ukraine. We have done that since 2014 and stepped up [support] after the full-scale invasion. But there are no plans for NATO combat troops on the ground in Ukraine," he said.

On February 26, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that a number of EU and NATO members are considering sending their military troops to Ukraine on the basis of bilateral agreements with Kiev. Following this, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk indicated that they did not intend to do so. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson admitted that Sweden did not have such plans.

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27th February 2024, 19:21

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Putin congratulates Special Operations Forces on their professional holiday

According to Russian President, Special Operations Forces’ units have proven in practice that they are ready, at the first order, to defend the Motherland

MOSCOW, February 27. /TASS/. Russia’s Special Operations Forces act courageously and decisively in the most dangerous areas of the special military operation and they have proven their readiness to defend the country’s interests anywhere globally, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a video message posted on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel on the occasion of Special Operations Forces’ Day.

"Congratulations on your professional holiday: Special Operations Forces’ Day. I thank all the personnel and veterans for their honest, conscientious military service and personal courage, for their loyalty to their oath and duty," the Russian leader said. "Special words of gratitude to the soldiers who participate in the special military operation. You fulfil your tasks with honor and act courageously, competently, and decisively in the most dangerous areas, on the frontline, deep behind enemy lines, and in raids and rapid attacks," he added.

According to Putin, "Special Operations Forces’ units have proven in practice that they are ready, at the first order, to defend the Motherland and protect Russia’s national interests anywhere in the world." High qualities and special training have always distinguished the soldiers and commanders of the Special Operations Forces, the head of state emphasized. Thus, they protected the people of Crimea and Sevastopol against the threats of nationalists and punitive forces, performed brilliantly in the fight against terrorism in Syria, as they are showing examples of heroism and courage in battles against neo-Nazis today, he maintained.

Commenting on the decision to create the Russian Special Operations Forces dating back to the 2008 military reform, Putin said that "was dictated by the times and the need to effectively respond to new challenges." He lauded the forces for worthily going through baptism of fire, and becoming a powerful striking force of the Russian Army.

Special Operations Forces’ Day has been an official holiday in Russia since 2015.

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🇺🇸😁Instagram has started blocking videos of an Abrams tank being hit and burning down - the official reason is to protect the company's image and business reputation.

Apparently General Dynamics, the American arms company that makes the Abrams, is losing a lot of money at the moment because of the fall in its share price.

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Dmitry Medvedev could not help but comment on Macron's words:

"People have various ailments.
Someone has urinary incontinence. About others who are prone to rash reactions, they say "urine hit the head."

But the current president of France, the Supreme Commander of the French armed forces and Prince of Andorra Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frederic Macron had two problems at once: first, urine probably hit his head, and then speech incontinence occurred.

He said that Europe needs Russia's defeat for security, and therefore it is necessary to send extended-range missiles to the Nazis in Kiev and consider sending troops of individual NATO states into Ukraine.

Coupled with the recent desire to share France's nuclear arsenal with all willing Europeans, it seems that Macron's speech incontinence has become a protracted and painful problem.

The holder of the Legion of Honor does not take care of himself. Or it's time to change your diet: oysters and champagne are a good thing, but you're not a boy anymore. Verbal enuresis at his age is dangerous.

And others don't like it either. The smell, you know…".

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27th February 2024, 19:27

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This should scare the bejesus out of you, Europe has just completely lost it.

Europeans' duty, as per the UN Charter, should be to find ways to shut the conflict down, not extend it to the whole continent.

This would be Europe starting the 3rd world war, after already starting the first two. Utterly irresponsible.

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Russian forces destroy US-made Abrams tank in Avdeyevka area, top brass reports

According tot the Defense Ministry, Russian forces took advantageous sites and repulsed two Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Kupyansk area

MOSCOW, February 27. /TASS/. Russian forces destroyed a US-made Abrams tank of the Ukrainian army in the Avdeyevka area, eliminating roughly 485 enemy troops over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

"The enemy lost as many as 485 personnel, two tanks, including a US-made Abrams tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, including a Bradley, six armored combat vehicles, 13 motor vehicles and two D-30 howitzers," the ministry said in a statement.

Russian forces liberate Severnoye community near Avdeyevka

Russian forces liberated the community of Severnoye near Avdeyevka over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Avdeyevka direction, units of the Battlegroup Center liberated the settlement of Severnoye," the ministry said.

In addition, Russian forces gained more advantageous sites and positions and repulsed nine Ukrainian army counterattacks near the settlements of Novgorodskoye, Pervomaiskoye and Petrovskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, it specified.

Russian forces repulse two Ukrainian counterattacks in Kupyansk area over past day

Russian forces took advantageous sites and repulsed two Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Kupyansk area, destroying roughly 30 enemy troops and four pieces of equipment over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Kupyansk direction, units of the Western Battlegroup took more advantageous sites and inflicted damage by firepower on enemy personnel and equipment near the settlements of Sinkovka and Ivanovka in the Kharkov Region. In addition, they repulsed two counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army’s 95th air assault brigade near the settlement of Terny in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Kupyansk direction over the past day amounted to 30 personnel, two motor vehicles, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery gun and a Gvozdika motorized artillery system, it specified.

Russian forces destroy over 420 Ukrainian troops in Donetsk area over past day

Russian forces struck Ukrainian army units in the Donetsk area, destroying over 420 enemy troops and several weapons systems over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Donetsk direction, units of the Southern Battlegroup improved their forward edge positions and inflicted damage on amassed manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 3rd assault, 28th and 72nd mechanized brigades near the settlements of Bogdanovka, Kurdyumovka and Antonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost over 420 personnel, two armored personnel carriers, four motor vehicles, a US-made M777 artillery system, a UK-manufactured FH70 howitzer, a Gvozdika motorized artillery system and a UK-made L119 howitzer in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russian forces repel seven Ukrainian counterattacks in Donetsk area over past day

Russian forces repulsed seven Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"They also repulsed seven counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army’s 46th airmobile and 79th air assault brigades near the settlements of Krasnogorovka, Georgiyevka and Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

Russian forces repel three Ukrainian attacks in south Donetsk area over past day

Russian forces repelled three Ukrainian army attacks in the south Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the south Donetsk direction, units of the Battlegroup East operating jointly with aircraft inflicted damage by firepower on amassed manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 127th and 128th territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Levadnoye in the Zaporozhye Region, Urozhainoye and Staromayorskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic and repulsed three attacks by assault groups of the 102nd territorial defense brigade near the settlement of Marfopol in the Zaporozhye Region," the ministry said.

The enemy’s losses in the south Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 130 Ukrainian army personnel, two motor vehicles, a UK-made FH70 towed howitzer and a Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station, it specified.

Russian forces repel three Ukrainian counterattacks in Kherson area over past day

Russian forces repulsed three Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Kherson area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Kherson direction, Russian troops gained more advantageous sites in their active operations and repulsed three counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army’s 118th mechanized brigade near the settlement of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye Region," the ministry said.

In addition, Russian forces inflicted damage by firepower on amassed manpower and military hardware of the Ukrainian army’s 65th mechanized and 128th mountain assault brigades, the 23rd National Guard brigade and the 121st territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Nesteryanka in the Zaporozhye Region and Ilyinka in the Dnepropetrovsk Region. The Ukrainian army’s losses amounted to 40 personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles and two motor vehicles, the ministry specified.

Russian forces also destroyed a Ukrainian Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station, it said.

Russian air defenses down Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in Nikolayev Region

Russian air defense forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Nikolayev Region over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 plane near the settlement of Mikhailovka in the Nikolayev Region," the ministry said.

Russian air defenses destroy 69 Ukrainian military drones over past day

Russian air defense forces shot down 69 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities destroyed 69 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near the settlements of Olshana in the Kharkov Region, Chernopopovka and Zhitlovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Yegorovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Chubarevka, Chistopolye and Sladkaya Balka in the Zaporozhye Region, Vasilyevka and Korsunka in the Kherson Region, and also a rocket of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system," the ministry said.

Russian forces strike Ukrainian army’s command post over past day

Russian forces destroyed a fuel depot, an air defense radar and a command post of the Ukrainian army over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Operational-tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groupings of forces struck a depot storing fuel for Ukrainian military equipment, a P-18 aerial target detection and tracking radar station, a command post of the 128th territorial defense brigade and also enemy manpower and military hardware in 112 areas," the ministry said.

In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 575 Ukrainian warplanes, 267 helicopters, 13,523 unmanned aerial vehicles, 474 surface-to-air missile systems, 15,252 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,226 multiple rocket launchers, 8,176 field artillery guns and mortars and 19,138 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.[COLOR="red"]

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2024, 19:40

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‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺🪖☠️ War Crime of #Azov

The 3rd Assault Brigade (Azov) of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine execute surrendered #Russian soldiers.

Thanks to this video the dead Russians were found and their bodies have already been exhumed.

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1762503964803686766

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https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1762465786784805258

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2024, 19:50

https://x.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1762312010539135346

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1762444611107049641

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Ravenlocke

27th February 2024, 19:58

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1762444789495083261

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ExomatrixTV

27th February 2024, 21:14

Government Shutdown DISASTER over Ukraine funding is happening | Redacted:

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bojancan

28th February 2024, 01:01

Elensky doesn't get to dictate peace proposal I think... he can only ask for peace... accept, the all terms Russia offers him... we shall see..
Still the clown.. sad!

Ukraine Proposes Peace; Will Russia Accept? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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kfm27917

28th February 2024, 14:54

NATO's Debate Over Direct Military Intervention In Ukraine Shows Its Desperation

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/natos-debate-over-direct-military-intervention-ukraine-shows-its-desperation
(if you read this article: there4 are some interesting reader comments)

Kryztian

28th February 2024, 15:14

Putin's forces may soon invade New York! The Russians are already at the outskirts of New York, waiting to seize the town by force. New Yorkers beware!

But this isn't New York, New York, but New York, Donetsk, Ukraine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_Ukraine) (or by other standards Donetsk, Russia). The town has appeared on the map as "New York", "Niu York" or "Нью-Йорк" since 1846, but it isn't clear if is named after the big U.S. city or after the German town of Jork.

In any event, it should make some interesting headlines when they do.

Here is a closeup map from https://liveuamap.com/ . Russian controlled areas are in red.

https://i.imgur.com/sPplvo5.jpeg

kfm27917

28th February 2024, 15:30

https://geoalliance.asu.edu/sites/default/files/maps/EU_BeforeWW1.pdf

no Finland, no Baltic states, no Ukraine -just Russia

https://geoalliance.asu.edu/sites/default/files/maps/EU_BeforeWW1.pdf

mountain_jim

28th February 2024, 15:43

copying here

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1762635680625107255?s=20

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Now that the MSM admit the CIA had bases in Ukraine since 2014, let’s revisit this infamous phone call.

Two weeks after Trump was elected in 2016, then VP Biden called then Ukrainian President Poroshenko, nervous about Trump finding out where the money was going in Ukraine.

Biden says he did not want Trump to get “sophisticated enough” to understand what was going on in Ukraine, implying that the US funding was not going towards the stated purpose.

What was going on in Ukraine that Biden and Obama were so desperate to prevent Trump from figuring out?

You decide for yourself, but if it was legal, they wouldn’t be trying to cover it up.

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) February 28, 2024

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1762609242781999602?s=20

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Clandestine
@WarClandestine
In case everyone forgot, a human-engineered pathogen just killed millions of people around the globe.

Russia and China claim the US did it. The US claim that nature did it, and censored the top scientists who suggested it was man-made.

Forgive me if I don’t believe the US.

mountain_jim

28th February 2024, 15:57

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1762723164881301877?s=20

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Wow! Adam Entous, the New York Times reporter behind the recent CIA press release on the Ukraine War, fervently promoted the Russia Collusion Hoax.

CIA-MSDNC disinformation.

At the Washington Post, he baselessly slandered Trump, Flynn, Kushner, Prince, and others, fraudulently alleging they were Russian puppets in numerous articles, shamelessly lying to the American people:

"Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel"

"Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin"

"National security adviser Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador, despite denials, officials say"

"Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House"

"Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, officials say"

How does one seamlessly transition from promoting the Russia Collusion Hoax to authoring a CIA press release on the Ukraine War?

For the Washington Post and the New York Times?

Jaak

28th February 2024, 18:02

kfm27917

28th February 2024, 20:38

Good point , Jaak
Obviously the political history of the region has up and downs.

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Russian military presence in Transnistria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_presence_in_Transnistria

Breakaway Transnistria Asks Russia For 'Protection' - Setting Stage For Military Intervention
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/breakaway-transnistria-asks-russia-protection-setting-stage-military-intervention

ExomatrixTV

28th February 2024, 22:46

SnowStorm | The Russians Entered Krasnohorivka | Transnistrian Crisis | Orlivka Was Taken. 2024.2.28:

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THE MAP: https://dev.militarysummary.com

ExomatrixTV

28th February 2024, 22:54

Kremlin warns of war with NATO if European members send troops to Ukraine:

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pounamuknight

28th February 2024, 23:26

Estonias have been there 10 000 years or so

I give you another kind of map ,show me where is russia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Roman_Empire_125.png

https://i.postimg.cc/y8KBYxyn/Roman-Empire-125.png (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Roman_Empire_125.png)

More forum friendly map of the Emperor Hadrian's Roman world shared by Jaak, with no modern Russian Federation 1899 years ago

Jaak

29th February 2024, 00:05

Whats your point or beef ? post before showed a map of russian empire during WW1 where Finland and Baltics were part of Russian empire,implying that this is how it should be again? I just wanted to show with my map that slavic people are foreign species in the north...

Ravenlocke

29th February 2024, 01:59

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⚡️What is known about Moldova's self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria that asks Russia for "protection"?

Facts and Figures

· Transnistria, with its capital of Tiraspol, occupies a narrow strip of land lodged between the Dniester river and the Ukrainian border.

· Overall area of #Transnistria is 4,163 sq km, with a population of around 465,000.

· The breakaway republic has a predominantly Russian-speaking population. Other languages used in the region are Romanian and Ukrainian.

· It has its own constitution, parliament, flag and anthem, and currency, the Transnistrian ruble (rubla).

History

· Predominantly Russian-speaking Transnistria, 60 percent of whose ethnic population are Russians and Ukrainians, had been seeking to secede from Moldova since the break-up of the Soviet Union.

· A 1989 law that made Moldovan an official language added to the tension.

· The region seceded from the Soviet Republic of Moldova in 1990.

· The secession led to an armed conflict, with the territory's paramilitary forces taking over Moldovan public institutions in the area in 1991.

· After Moldova failed to resolve the conflict by force, a ceasefire was signed in July 1992 and a demilitarized security zone was established.

· The settlement was enforced by Russian troops stationed in the territory.

· In 1992, Transnistria became a territory de facto beyond the control of the Moldovan capital Kishinev.

· The conflict has remained unresolved. Peace in the area is maintained by a joint peacekeeping force comprising Russian, Transnistrian and Moldovan servicemen.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1762824155274133793

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❗️ Ukraine's western neighbour asks Russia for "protection"

Transnistria (The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) turned to Russia for help in connection with Moldova's economic blockade: an official declaration was adopted by the republic's Congress of Deputies.

Find out more about the self-proclaimed republic in our video.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1762879020318790127

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Tiraspol asks Russia to step up its political and diplomatic settlement of the ongoing conflict, Transnistrian Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev said on Wednesday.

“We have asked to intensify political and diplomatic measures, since the Russian Federation is one of the international mediators in the international settlement process in the 5+2 format,” Ignatiev said.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1762851589671305722

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https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1762855547567583733

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Ravenlocke

29th February 2024, 02:03

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Key statements by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova at today's briefing:

▪️ The NATO military is already in Ukraine and is actively helping the Ukrainian Armed Forces, while Moscow will consider the participation of the Western soldiers in the conflict as a direct escalation.

▪️ Russia's steps after Sweden joins NATO will depend on Stockholm's specific actions in the alliance.

▪️ The Danish decision to stop the North Stream investigation confirms the West's lack of interest in identifying the clients and perpetrators of terrorist attacks.

▪️ Media reports about secret negotiations between Germany and India on the purchase of ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine are information stuffing.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1762867443200934187

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Ravenlocke

29th February 2024, 02:15

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1762955836727697703

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https://www.rt.com/russia/593328-transnistria-moldova-economic-blockade/

NATO applicant’s breakaway region asks Moscow for help

Transnistria, an unrecognized republic that split from Moldova in the early 1990s, asked Russia on Wednesday for help amid mounting pressure from Chisinau, which it describes as an “economic blockade.”

The call for help was made at a congress of Transnistrian legislators at all levels, which adopted a declaration on the matter. The lawmakers asked Moscow to take “measures to protect Transnistria amid mounting pressure from Moldova,” stressing that nearly half of the 450,000 people living in the unrecognized country are Russian citizens.

“We’ve asked to intensify political and diplomatic measures, since the Russian Federation is one of the international mediators in the settlement process,” the self-declared republic’s foreign minister, Vitaly Ignatyev, explained while speaking to the broadcaster Rossiya 24.

The congress also raised the issue of the “economic blockade” with the UN Secretary General, OSCE, the EU parliament, and other international bodies and organizations, urging them to put pressure on Chisinau.

Moscow promptly reacted to the call for help, promising to address it shortly. “Protecting the interests of Transnistria residents, our compatriots, is one of our priorities. All requests are always carefully considered,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The Russian parliament will evaluate the Transnistrian plea as soon as the document actually reaches Moscow, Konstantin Zatulin, a senior lawmaker with the lower chamber, the State Duma, told RIA Novosti.

The move has already been condemned by Moldova, with the country’s Vice PM on Reintegration, Oleg Serebyan, dismissing Tiraspol’s call as “propaganda” and denying putting the breakaway territory under an “economic blockade.”

“The Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration and the Bureau for Reintegration Policies of the Moldovan Government firmly dismiss propagandistic statements from Tiraspol. They emphasize that the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova enjoys peace, security, and economic integration policies with the European Union,” Serebyan said in a statement.

Transnistria, a narrow strip of land between the left bank of the Dniester rover and Ukraine, proclaimed independence from Chisinau in the early 1990s, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Following Chisinau’s botched attempt to reclaim the territory by force, a ceasefire was reached in 1992, with Russia maintaining a small peacekeeping force in the region. Over the years, Tiraspol has taken multiple steps to integrate with Moscow, with the republic’s population overwhelmingly backing the idea to join Russia in the mid-2000s.

pounamuknight

29th February 2024, 02:23

Whats your point or beef ?

No beef :handshake: My point is, on the outskirts of the Roman Empire of your map, this is what inhabited Estonian to Russian lands pretty much looked like

52779

Apart from a few angry Romans failing to subjugate them- you won't find modern Estonia, or modern Russia... or Victoria Nuland's cookie recipe of Russia (https://www.rt.com/russia/593142-victoria-nuland-putin-defeated/)

Just tribal humans living their best Iron Age lives :muscle:

Ravenlocke

29th February 2024, 02:38

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🇺🇦⚔️🐶 🇷🇺Ralph and Dobby live in Artyomovsk. The other day they suffered from shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they couldn’t even get up. There are no veterinarians at the front but leaving little brothers to die is not a way for the Russian soldiers. Therefore, the guys took the poor dogs to the hospital and went online to watch videos from the Internet how to treat animals as they had not done it before.

First, the diagnosis was made: a displaced bone fracture. Afterwards they bandaged them and put on a plaster cast. Successfully.

The soldiers say that medical equipment from the Popular Front, including X-ray machines, helped. With them, they can save a wounded soldier and a furry friend.

https://x.com/dana916/status/1762938477581148401

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Ravenlocke

29th February 2024, 10:32

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Extraordinary!

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, delivered a speech in which he totally torched Russia. He not only announced that Israel is going to provide an early warning systems against missiles for Ukraine but also called Ukraine an “ally”. He also equates Russia with Hamas and attacks Russia for hosting another visit of Hamas in Moscow.

You can be sure that this speech comes in coordination with the Israeli Prime Minister. It clearly marks the end of the relationship between Putin and Netanyahu. This whole instance reminds when Amir Weitmann delivered his viral statement in RussiaToday where he announced that “Russia is going to pay the price” (check out the repost). I think we are witnessing what this means.

Israel’s pro-Ukraine position will also have ramifications in the US and the ongoing discussion for military aid.

Source of video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=F5oIatX-3QI

https://x.com/Tendar/status/1762580747171348549

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Tintin

29th February 2024, 12:02

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Extraordinary!

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, delivered a speech...

You can be sure that this speech comes in coordination with the Israeli Prime Minister. It clearly marks the end of the relationship between Putin and Netanyahu. This whole instance reminds when Amir Weitmann delivered his viral statement in RussiaToday where he announced that “Russia is going to pay the price” (check out the repost). I think we are witnessing what this means.

Um, quite the character, isn't he :) :facepalm:

It may be worth a reminder of why there is such attention paid to this area (to include Crimea) and its casus belli against Russia.

Screenshot from a segment of Igor Berkut's 2017 interview where he discusses the (many decades old) proposal for a zionist enclave - a 'Heavenly New Jerusalem' - in the following regions:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Capture_Igor_Berkut_on_New_Jerusalem_from_2017.PNG

The video segment can be viewed here (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2017_Interview_segment_w_Igor_Berkut_a_founder_of_Heavenly_Jerusalem_Project_discusses_establishment _of_this_idea_in_southern_Ukraine.mp4)

Rest assured that Russia will secure these areas, that remain to be seized, thereby scuppering the zionists goals.

Bill Ryan

29th February 2024, 13:17

An immensely powerful tweet by David Sacks. It's had 2.4 million views. :muscle:

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1758976951744897179

The text:
A WAR OF LIES

The war in Ukraine is based on lies — lies about how it started, how it’s going, and how it will end.

We are told that Ukraine is winning when in fact it is losing. We are told that the war makes NATO stronger when in fact it is depleting it. We are told that Ukraine’s biggest problem is a lack of funds from the U.S. Congress when in fact the West can’t produce enough ammunition — a problem that will take years to fix. We are told that Russia is suffering greater casualties when in fact Ukraine is running out of soldiers — another problem money can’t fix.

We are told that the world is with us when in fact the Global Majority believes U.S. policy is the height of folly. We are told that there is no opportunity to make peace when in fact we have rejected multiple opportunities for a negotiated settlement. We are told that if Ukraine keeps fighting, it will improve its negotiating position when in fact the terms will only get much worse than what was already available and rejected.

Nevertheless the lies will succeed in dragging out the war. Congress will appropriate more funds. Russia will take more territory. Ukraine will mobilize more young men and women to feed into the meat grinder. Discontent will mount. Eventually there will be a crisis in Kiev and the Zelensky government will be toppled.

And then, when the war is finally lost, when the whole country lays in smoldering ruins on a funeral pyre of their own making, the liars will say “well we tried.” Having prevented any alternative, having smeared anyone who told the truth as puppets for the enemy, the liars will say “We did our best. We stood up to Putin.”

In fact, they will claim, we would have succeeded but for the fifth column of Putin apologists who stabbed the Ukrainians in the back. Then, having shifted blame and patted themselves on the back, they will blithely move on to the next war, as they moved onto Ukraine after their disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The lies are comprehensive — but they will work.
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kfm27917

29th February 2024, 13:58

https://geoalliance.asu.edu/sites/default/files/maps/EU_BeforeWW1.pdf

no Finland, no Baltic states, no Ukraine -just Russia

Slavic people moved to the region around 1000 years ago while Estonias have been there 10 000 years or so. The violent slavs wiped out dozens of smaller cultures and enslaved others. Something they continue to do.

I give you another kind of map ,show me where is russia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Roman_Empire_125.png

good point.
do you have a map where the USA is at that point in time ?

Gwin Ru

29th February 2024, 14:13

...

... in case one is ready for an earful about mercenaries, NATO, Tucker, Ukraine, BRICS etc... Last 1/4 about Netanyahu:

NATO is Done - Ukraine Defeated - Netanyahu's Destructive Attitude | Scott Ritter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpQlL_aTas) 1:09:47

Feb 29, 2024 Interviews (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzImU_KHY9-JjAIg0AZXxHaMhJD6UXfNj)

https://yt3.ggpht.com/Q9UCnaOs12cNvvrwzIZlQwAfwNatTfbWp1llrPacCNibUMT1TMMUvayJJ5gLdGddMq65Bs_QRQ=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj (https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01) Dialogue works (https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01)

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Tintin

29th February 2024, 14:29

Bill Ryan

29th February 2024, 14:29

This is very very interesting — all about a new report in the Financial Times, analyzed as best he could by Chris Martenson. If this is all for real, we might expect to be hearing quite a lot more about it in the next few days.

Russian Nuclear Documents Leaked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Xy_Ze6lSI

ExomatrixTV

29th February 2024, 17:11

400 people arrested in Russia for Comments Posted on Social Media... (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?122760-400-people-arrested-in-Russia-for-comments-posted-on-social-media...)

Ravenlocke

29th February 2024, 17:48

Zelensky's army. In Ukraine, recruitment to the "Snow White"
battalion was announced.

119 A separate brigade of the territorial defense of Ukraine announced the recruitment of a women's battalion in the Chernihiv region. It is expected that it will consist of girls from 16 to 30 years old who will go to the front voluntarily.

The first volunteer ladies are already being trained.

https://t.me/vicktop55/22099

https://x.com/vicktop55/status/1763251921270222911

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kfm27917

29th February 2024, 19:12

Ravenlocke

29th February 2024, 19:46

Text:

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says if Ukraine falls he really believes NATO will be in a fight with Russia

Now everyone sees who the aggressor is - Washington, Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented regarding Lloyd Austin's statements.

"Is this a direct threat to Russia or an attempt to come up with an excuse for Zelensky? Both are crazy," Zakharova said.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1763261344055185487

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From ‘Scout’ to ‘Warrior’: meet Russia's amphibious vehicles

Tests of the Triton amphibious vehicle for the special operation zone are slated for this summer, with an array of such vehicles - a means of transport viable on land and water - currently at the service of the Russian Armed Forces.

These include such all-terrain and waterborne vehicles as:

▪️The Plastun (Scout) is already being used in the special military operation, where the vehicle helps evacuate all those wounded during hostilities. Notably, the Plastun is fitted with light armor that can withstand the Kalashnikov assault rifle’s 7.62 mm bullets fired from a distance of one hundred meters.

▪️The Aleut, which has a modular design and is capable of tackling snowy areas and swamps. The vehicle is capable of transporting up to 20 people, including the driver, and has a total carrying capacity of 2.5 tons. "The Aleut’s temperature mode of operation ranges from -40°С to +40°С and perfectly suits the local sharply continental climate,” according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

▪️The Vityaz (medieval Russian warrior), which is even more advanced and ensures the movement of the vehicle amid extreme temperatures (from -50°С to +50°C) on soils with low bearing capacity (swamps, virgin snow land, off-road, and rugged wooded areas).

▪️The Ruslan, equipped with the system of forced folding links in the vertical plane that enables the vehicle to overcome various obstacles with the height of up to 1.8 m. The Ruslan is capable of tackling almost any swampy terrain thanks to its powerful engine.

▪️Last but not least, the MT-LB (multi-purpose light armored tractor hauler), also known as Object 6 or “motolyga”. The vehicle can carry 11 people, plus two crew members. In addition, the MT-LB carries a significant range of weapons, including missile systems. The 9.7-ton platform has a cruising range of 500 km (310 miles).

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1763259219132772573

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mountain_jim

29th February 2024, 20:55

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tucker-carlson-gives-wide-ranging-reflection-putin-interview-americans-are-being-lied

"Americans Are Being Lied To About Ukraine" - Tucker Carlson Reflects On Putin, Zelensky, Navalny & Nuclear War

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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tucker-carlson-gives-wide-ranging-reflection-putin-interview-americans-are-being-lied

"Americans Are Being Lied To About Ukraine" - Tucker Carlson Reflects On Putin, Zelensky, Navalny & Nuclear War

BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, FEB 29, 2024 - 06:11 AM
The international attacks on Tucker Carlson, especially from within US mainstream media and NATO-connected circles, have only increased following his hugely controversial eight day visit to Russia earlier this month where he interviewed President Vladimir Putin. Russian state media has even this week claimed authorities uncovered an "assassination plot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_hD6uWLg0)" - rumored to have been backed by Kiev.

This week the former FOX prime time host was interviewed about his trip and the whole Putin interview experience in three-hour podcast hosted by Lex Fridman. Tucker Carlson revealed more about what motivated him to do the televised Putin segment, and further discussed his personal take on the Russia-Ukraine war and where it could go from here, now having entered its third year. Interestingly, Carlson's main critique of the war focused not on Putin or the Kremlin's actions in Ukraine, which of course are not under his control or influence, but on the impact to America.

Carlson explained that the West's escalation of the conflict long ago into a full-blown proxy war has not only resulted in more needless Ukrainian deaths, but it has been devastating for the United States. "I reject the whole premise of the war in Ukraine from the American perspective," Carlson told Fridman. "There’s a war going on that is wrecking the US economy in a way and at a scale that people do not understand." He also generally characterized the response of the US political class to the conflict, along with the American public which has uncritically followed, as naive.

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Carlson emphasized that what would be a cautiously realist approach was utterly abandoned by Washington from the start, as has been typical of the past decades of US interventionism abroad. "It doesn’t even matter what I want to happen… that’s a distortion of what is happening," Carlson explained, and pointed to Russia having 100 million more people and more defense industry might "than all of NATO combined."

He described that a big part of the rationale behind the Putin interview was to bring "more information" to the West so that "people could make their own decisions about whether" escalation of weapons to Kiev and jingoistic rhetoric from Western capitals is a good idea.

Ultimately, he said, Americans are being lied to:

"Just to be clear, I have no plans to move to Russia. I think I would probably be arrested if I moved to Russia. Ed Snowden, who is the most famous openness, transparency, advocate in the world, I would say along with Assange, doesn’t want to live in Russia. He’s had problems with the Putin government. He’s attacked Putin. They don’t like it. I get it. I get it. I’m just saying, what are the lessons for us?

The main lesson is we are being lied to in a way that’s bewildering and very upsetting. I was mad about it all eight days I was there because I feel like I’m better informed than most people because it’s my job to be informed. I’m skeptical of everything and yet I was completely hoodwinked by it."

Topics highlighted throughout the long-ranging conversion included Carlson's personal take on being one-on-one with a seemingly "nervous" Putin, the question of ending the war in Ukraine, the role of the CIA and Western intelligence services, the prospect that the crisis could spiral into nuclear confrontation with the West, the Alexei Navalny saga, as well as a foray into the Israel-Palestine conflict near the end. Watch the full Carlson-Fridman interview below...

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The following are some key excerpts of Tucker Carlson's words from the interview (https://lexfridman.com/tucker-carlson-transcript/#chapter2_navalny), selected by ZeroHedge [emphasis ours]...

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Carlson On Putin. "I want to know who this guy is."

I thought he seemed nervous, and I was very surprised by that. And I thought he seemed like someone who’d overthought it a little bit, who had a plan, and I don’t think that’s the right way to go into any interview. My strong sense, having done a lot of them for a long time, is that it’s better to know what you think, to say as much as you can honestly, so you don’t get confused by your own lies, and just to be yourself. And I thought that he went into it like an over-prepared student, and I kept thinking, “Why is he nervous?” But I guess because he thought a lot of people were going to see it...

I mean, I asked him as I usually do the most obvious dumbest question ever, which is, “Why’d you do this?” And he had said in a speech that I think is worth reading. I don’t speak Russian, so I haven’t heard it in the original, but he had said at the moment of the beginning of the war, he had given this address to Russians, in which he explained to the fullest extent we have seen so far why he was doing this. And he said in that speech, “I fear that NATO the West, the United States, the Biden administration will preemptively attack us.” And I thought, “Well, that’s interesting.” I can’t evaluate whether that’s a fear rooted in reality or one rooted in paranoia. But I thought, “Well, that’s an answer right there.”

And so I alluded to that in my question and rather than answering it, he went off on this long from my perspective, kind of tiresome, sort of greatest hits of Russian history. And the implication I thought was, “Well, Ukraine is ours, or Eastern Ukraine is ours already.”...

I want to know who this guy is. I think a western audience, a global audience, has a right to know more about the guy, and so just let him talk. Because I don’t feel like my reputation’s on the line. People have already drawn conclusions about me, I suppose to the extent they have. I’m not interested really in those conclusions anyway, so just let him talk. And so I calmed down and just let him talk. And in retrospect, I thought that was really, really interesting. Whether you agree with it or not, or whether you think it’s relevant to the war in Ukraine or not, that was his answer. And so it’s inherently significant.

American falsehoods & the Ukraine war

I mean, I guess I reject the whole premise of the war in Ukraine from the American perspective, which is a tiny group of dumb people in Washington has decided to do this for reasons they won’t really explain. And you don’t have a role in it at all as an American citizen, as the person who’s paying for it, whose children might be drafted to fight it. To shut up and obey, I just reject that completely. I think, I guess I’m a child of a different era. I’m a child of participatory democracy to some extent, where your opinion as a citizen is not irrelevant. And I guess the level of lying about it was starting to drive me crazy.

The idea that Ukraine would inevitably win this war. Now victory was never, as it never is, defined precisely. Nothing’s ever defined precisely, which is always to tell that there’s deception at the heart of the claim. But Ukraine’s on the verge of winning. Well, I don’t know. I mean, I’m hardly a tactician or military expert. For the fifth time, I’m not an expert on Russia or Ukraine. I just looked at Wikipedia. Russia has a hundred million more people than Ukraine, a hundred million.

It has much deeper industrial capacity, war material capacity than all of NATO combined. For example, Russia is turning out artillery shells, which are significant in a ground war at a ratio of seven to one compared to all NATO countries combined. That’s all of Europe. Russia is producing seven times the artillery shells as all of Europe combined. What? That’s an amazing fact, and it turns out to be a really significant fact. In fact, the significant fact. But if you ask your average person in this country, even a fairly well-informed person of good faith who’s just trying to understand what’s going on, who’s going to win this war? Well, Ukraine’s going to win. They’re on the right side.

...And I raised that question in my previous job, and I was denounced as of course a traitor or something. But okay, great, I’m a traitor. What’s the answer? What’s the answer? [Vic]Toria Nuland, who I know, not dumb, hasn’t helped the US in any way, an architect of the Iraq war, architect of this disaster, one of the people who destroyed the US dollar. Okay, fine, but you’re not stupid. So you’re trying to get a war by acting that way, what’s the other explanation? By the way, NATO didn’t want Ukraine because it didn’t meet the criteria for admission. So why would you say that? Because you want a war, that’s why. And that war has enriched a lot of people to the tune of billions. So I don’t care if I sound like some kind of left-wing conspiracy nut, because I’m neither left-wing nor a conspiracy nut. Tell me how I’m wrong.

On feeling sorry for Zelensky

If I’m a Russian or a Ukrainian, let’s just be sovereign countries now. We’re not run by the U.S. State Department. We’re just our own countries. I believe in sovereignty, okay? So that’s my view. I also want to say one thing about Zelensky. I attacked him before because I was so offended by his cavalier talk about nuclear exchange because it would kill my family. So I’m really offended by that. Anyone who talks that way I’m offended by. But I do feel for Zelensky. I do. He didn’t run for president to have this happen.

I think Zelensky’s been completely misused by the State Department, by Toria Nuland, by our Secretary of State, by the policymakers in the U.S. who’ve used Ukraine as a vessel for their ambitions, their geopolitical ambitions, but also the many American businesses who’ve used Ukraine as a way to fleece the American taxpayer, and then by just independent ghouls like Boris Johnson who are hoping to get rich from interviews on it. The whole thing, Zelensky is at the center of this. He’s not driving history. NATO and the United States is driving history. Putin is driving history. There’s this guy, Zelensky. So I do feel for him, and I think he’s in a perilous place.

The prospect of nuclear war

Well it’s been what, 80 years? Not even 80 years, 79. And so we haven’t had a world war in 79 years. But one nuclear exchange would of course kill more people than all wars in human history combined.

I am counting. Because I think it obviously, it’s completely demonic and everyone pretends like it’s great. Nuclear weapons are evil.

The use of them is evil, and the technology itself is evil. And in my opinion, I mean, it’s like if you can’t, that’s just so obvious. And what I’m saying is I’m not against all technology. I took a shower this morning. It was powered by an electric pump, heated by a water heater. I loved it. I sat in an electric sauna. I’m not against all technology, obviously, but the mindless worship of technology?

The possibility of Russia-Ukraine Peace: Putin "wants a settlement"

He [Putin] wants a settlement, he wants a settlement. He doesn’t want to fight with them rhetorically and he just wants to get this done. He made a bunch of offers at the peace deal. We wouldn’t even know this happened if the Israelis hadn’t told us. I’m so grateful that they did that, that Johnson was dispatched by the State Department to stop it. I mean, I think Boris Johnson is a husk of a man. But imagine if you were Boris Johnson and you spend your whole life with Ukraine flag, “I’m for Ukraine,” and then all those kids died because of what you did, and the lines haven’t really moved. It hasn’t been a victory for Ukraine. It’s not going to be a victory for Ukraine. It’s like, how do you feel about yourself if you did that? I mean, I’ve done a lot of ****ty things in my life, I feel bad about them, but I’ve never extended a war for no reason. That’s a pretty grave sin in my opinion.

Well, the U.S. government’s not allowing negotiations. So that for me is the most upsetting part. It’s like in the end, what Russia does, I’m not implicated in that. What Ukraine does, I’m not implicated in that. I’m not Russian or Ukrainian. I’m an American who grew up really believing in my country. I’m supporting my country through my tax dollars. It’s like I really care about what the U.S. government does because they’re doing it in my name, and I care a lot because I’m American. We are the impediment to peace, which is another way of saying we are responsible for all these innocent people getting dragooned out of public parks in Kiev and sent to go die. What? That is not good. I’m ashamed of it.

On the Alexey Navalny saga

Well, it’s awful. I mean, imagine dying in prison. I’ve thought about it a lot. I’ve known a lot of people in prison a lot, including some very good friends of mine. So I felt instantly sad about it. From a geopolitical perspective, I don’t know any more than that. And I laugh at and sort of resent, but mostly find amusing the claims by American politicians, who really are the dumbest politicians in the world actually, “This happened and here’s what it means.” And it’s like, “Actually as a factual matter, we don’t know what happened. We don’t know what happened.” We have no freaking idea what happened. We can say, and I did say, and I will say again, I don’t think you should put opposition figures in prison. I really don’t. I don’t, period. It happens a lot around the world, happens in this country, as you know, and I’m against all of it.

But do we know how we died? The short answer? No, we don’t. Now, if I had to guess, I would say killing Navalny during the Munich Security Conference in the middle of a debate over $60 billion in Ukraine funding, maybe the Russians are dumb. I didn’t get that vibe at all. I don’t see it. But maybe they killed him. I mean, they certainly put him in prison, which I’m against. But here’s what I do know is that we don’t know. And so when Chuck Schumer stands up and... Joe Biden reads some card in front of him with lines about Navalny, it’s like, I’m allowed to laugh at that because it’s absurd. You don’t know.

An interesting CIA anecdote

I was like, live in foreign countries, see history happen. I’m for that. I applied to the Operations Directorate. They turned me down on the basis of drug use actually. True. But anyway, whatever. I was unsuited for it so I’m glad they turned me down. But the point is I didn’t see CIA as a threat, partly because I was bathing in propaganda about CIA and I didn’t really understand what it was and didn’t want to know. But second, because my impression at the time was it was outwardly focused. It was focused on our enemies. I don’t have a problem with that as much. The fact that CIA is playing in domestic politics and actually has for a long time, was involved in the Kennedy assassination, that’s not speculation. That’s a fact. And I confirmed that from someone who had read their documents that are still not public, it’s shocking.

You can’t have that. And the reason I’m so mad is I really believe in the idea of representative government. Acknowledging its imperfections, but I should have some say, I live here, I’m a citizen. I pay all your freaking taxes. So the fact that they would be tampering with American democracy is so outrageous to me. And I don’t know why Morning Joe is not outraged. This parade of dummies, highly credentialed dummies they have on Morning Joe every day. That doesn’t bother them at all. How could that not bother you? Why is only Glenn Greenwald mad about it? I mean, it’s confirmed. It’s not like a fever dream. It’s real. They played in the last election domestically, and I guess it shows how dumb I am because they’ve been doing that for many years. I mean, the guy who took out Mosaddegh lived on my street. One of the Roosevelt's, CIA officer.

Carlson on the Israel-Palestine conflict

I mean, it’s not a topic that I get into a lot because I’m a non-expert and because I’m not… Unlike every other American, I’m not emotionally invested in other countries just in general. I mean, I admire them or not, and I love visiting them. I love Jerusalem, probably my favorite city in the world, but I don’t have an emotional attachment to it. So maybe I’ve got more clarity. I don’t know, maybe less. Here’s my view. I believe in sovereignty as mentioned, and I think each country has to make decisions based on its own interest, but also with reference to its own capabilities and its own long-term interest.

And it’s very unwise for… I’m not a huge fan of treaties. Some are fine, too many bad. But I think US aid, military aid to Israel and the implied security guarantees, some explicit, but many implied, security guarantees of the United States to Israel probably haven’t helped Israel that much long-term. It’s a rich country with a highly capable population. Like every other country, it’s probably best if it makes its decisions based on what it can do by itself. So I would definitely be concerned if I lived in Israel because I think fair or unfair-

But now it’s not possible. If you had a coalition of countries against Israel, I know Israel has nuclear weapons and has a capable military and all that and the backing of the United States, but it’s a small country, I think I’d be very worried. So there’s that. I don’t see any advantage to the United States. I mean, I think it’s important for each country to make its own decisions.

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This week there's been a curious story to emerge in Russian state media sources involving a bizarre 'assassination plot' linked to Kiev, which allegedly was supposed to target Carlson while he was in Russia. Interestingly, the allegations have been picked up in major Indian media outlets, among some other international outlets, though it warrants a high degree of skepticism...

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1762195806075883571?s=20

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ExomatrixTV

29th February 2024, 22:52

CIA Built 12 Spy Bases in Ukraine Near the Russian Border Over Past Decade:

news.antiwar.com/2024/02/26/cia-built-12-spy-bases-in-ukraine-near-the-russian-border-over-past-decade (https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/26/cia-built-12-spy-bases-in-ukraine-near-the-russian-border-over-past-decade)

bojancan

1st March 2024, 02:04

There are some tough questions... interesting interview...

In this exclusive interview with DW's Ines Pohl, retired US Army officer Ben Hodges discusses German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's announcement that there are British troops in Ukraine before the UK has announced it, and why it seems inadvisable for Scholz to rule out Germany sending its own troops to Ukraine. Hodges also touches on the oft-mentioned subject of what the chances really are that Putin would deploy his nuclear arsenal...

Germany's Scholz undermines leadership on Ukraine | Ben Hodges interview | DW News
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How serious are Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats against NATO? | DW News
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This is also from today... So sad.. so sad situation around the world...

Will Europe Use Frozen Russian Assets to Arm Ukraine? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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Vicus

1st March 2024, 11:14

Nuland accidentally reveals the true aim of the West in Ukraine 27 Feb, 2024

Regime Change Karen has said the quiet part out loud, complaining that Putin’s Russia is “not the Russia we wanted”

US State Department fixture and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, aka “Regime Change Karen,” apparently woke up one day recently, took the safety off her nuclear-grade mouth, and inadvertently blew up the West’s Ukraine narrative.

Until now, Americans have been told that all the US taxpayer cash being earmarked for Ukrainian aid is to help actual Ukrainians. Anyone notice that the $75 billion American contribution isn’t getting the job done on the battlefield? Victory in military conflict isn’t supposed to look like defeat. Winning also isn’t defined as, “Well, on a long enough time axis, like infinity, our chance of defeat will eventually approach zero.” And the $178 billion in total from all allies combined doesn’t seem to be doing the trick, either. Short of starting a global war with weapons capable of extending the conflict beyond a regional one, it’s not like they’ve been holding back. The West is breaking the bank. All for some vague, future Ukrainian “victory” that they don’t seem to want to clearly define. We keep hearing that the support will last “as long as it takes.” For what exactly? By not clearly defining it, they can keep moving the goal posts.

But now here comes Regime Change Karen, dropping some truth bombs on CNN about Ukrainian aid. She started off with the usual talking point of doing “what we have always done, which is defend democracy and freedom around the world.” Conveniently, in places where they have controlling interests and want to keep them – or knock them out of a global competitor’s roster and into their own. “And by the way, we have to remember that the bulk of this money is going right back into the US to make those weapons,” Nuland said, pleading in favor of the latest Ukraine aid package that’s been getting the side eye from Republicans in Congress.

So there you have it, folks. Ukrainians are a convenient pretext to keep the tax cash flowing in the direction of the US military industrial complex. This gives a whole new perspective on “as long as it takes.” It’s just the usual endless war and profits repackaged as benevolence. But we’ve seen this before. It explains why war in Afghanistan was little more than a gateway to Iraq. And why the Global War on Terrorism never seems to end, and only ever mutates. Arguably the best one they’ve come up with so far is the need for military-grade panopticon-style surveillance, so the state can shadow-box permanently with ghosts while bamboozling the general public with murky cyber concepts that it can’t understand or conceptualize. When one conflict or threat dials down, another ramps up, boosted by fearmongering rhetoric couched in white-knighting. There’s never any endgame or exit ramp to any of these conflicts. And there clearly isn’t one for Ukraine, either.

continue: https://swentr.site/news/593261-nuland-nukes-west-ukraine-putin/

Vicus

1st March 2024, 11:45

Bundeswehr considering strike on Crimean Bridge, leaked audio purportedly indicates

RT
Fri, 01 Mar

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Kiev has long sought to destroy the critical Russian infrastructure, with two bombings damaging the bridge in the past two years.

German military leaders allegedly discussed an operation to bomb the Crimean Bridge, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan claimed on Friday, citing audio leaked by Russian security officials.

The recording purportedly features a 40-minute conversation between high-ranking Bundeswehr officers, Simonyan said on social media.

They discussed how to carry out the attack while maintaining plausible deniability for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, according to her account of the conversation.

They also remarked that the German military was keeping its distance from the Ukraine conflict, unlike the American and the British, who they said had been "directly involved for a long time," Simonyan claimed.

She did not publish the audio, but said she was tempted to do so.

Requests for comment have been sent to German officials, including the ambassador, the foreign ministry, and the chancellor's office, Simonyan added.

The German media now have "a good reason to show their independence and ask questions" of Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said, reacting to the post.

The Crimean Bridge is the largest structure of this kind in Europe and was built to connect the Russian peninsula to Krasnodar Region across the Kerch Strait. Before hostilities with Kiev broke out in February 2022, it was the only land connection between the former part of Ukraine and the rest of Russia.

Kiev executed two bombing attacks on the bridge in October 2022 and July 2023, using a truck and naval drones. Civilians were killed on both occasions. Ukrainian officials claim that destroying the bridge has a military purpose.

Some Western officials have made similar arguments, such as former US defense secretary and CIA director Roberts Gates in an interview with the Washington Post last week.

"If you want to give the Russians a pause, if you want to interrupt that sense of momentum that they have, why not be able to do things like drop the Kerch Strait Bridge?" he said.

Gates urged Western donors to give Ukraine the capability to do that, saying a successful attack would hurt the Russians "psychologically as well as militarily."

https://www.sott.net/article/489385-Bundeswehr-considering-strike-on-Crimean-Bridge-leaked-audio-purportedly-indicates

Open Minded Dude

1st March 2024, 11:47

Didn't know Putin was a Marvel Movie fan.
:shielddeflect::blackwidow:;)

About the Western warmonger politicians:
"These are, you know, people who have not experienced harsh trials, who have already forgotten what war is. We, even our current generation, have gone through these harsh trials in the fight against international terrorism in the Caucasus, and now - in the conflict in Ukraine - the same thing is happening. But they think that these are all just some comic book movies."

https://www-anti--spiegel-ru.translate.goog/2024/putin-im-o-ton-ueber-macrons-drohung-nato-truppen-in-die-ukraine-zu-schicken/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Entire article:

Putin in the original tone about Macron's threat to send NATO troops to Ukraine
The Russian President's speech to the nation was almost exclusively about domestic issues and very little about foreign policy. But Putin responded clearly to Macron's threat to send Western troops into NATO.
from Anti-Mirror
February 29, 2024 1:08 p.m

I will translate in full the speech that President Putin gave to the nation. Since it lasted a little over two hours, this may take some time. Here I am only translating the part in which Putin addressed French President Macron's threat to possibly send Western troops to Ukraine.

Start of translation:

The West provoked the conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East and other regions of the world and continues to lie. Now they say without any embarrassment that Russia is allegedly planning an attack on Europe. This is plain and simple – we get it – nonsense. At the same time, they themselves select targets for attacks on our territory and decide on what they consider to be offensive weapons. You talked about the possibility of sending NATO military contingents to Ukraine.

But we remember the fate of those who once sent their contingents to our country. But now the consequences for potential interventionists will be even more tragic. They must finally understand that we also have weapons - yes, you know this, I just said it - that can hit targets on their territory.

And all the things they are now thinking up, with which they are frightening the whole world, don't they understand that this threatens a real conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and thus the destruction of civilization? These are, you know, people who have not experienced harsh trials, who have already forgotten what war is. We, even our current generation, have gone through these harsh trials in the fight against international terrorism in the Caucasus, and now - in the conflict in Ukraine - the same thing is happening. But they think that these are all just some comic films.

What can we say, in fact, Russophobia, like other ideologies of racism, national superiority and exclusivity, blinds and eliminates reason. The actions of the USA and its satellites have led to the virtual dismantling of the European security system. This brings risks for everyone.

Vicus

1st March 2024, 12:45

US Defense Secretary Austin Says NATO Will be in Fight With Russia if Ukraine Falls 18 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Thursday that he “really believes” that if Ukraine loses in the ongoing conflict, NATO will have to fight Russia next.

“Quite frankly, if Ukraine falls, I really believe that NATO will be in a fight with Russia,” Austin told a House Armed Services Committee hearing.

"Is this a direct threat to Russia or an attempt to make an excuse for Zelensky? Both are insane. But now everyone sees who the aggressor is, it's Washington," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented in response to the statement.

continue: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240229/us-defense-secretary-austin-says-nato-will-be-in-fight-with-russia-if-ukraine-falls-1117061184.html

Kryztian

1st March 2024, 14:06

Transcript released of purported German discussion on attacking Crimean Bridge
The text in Russian has been published by RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, hours after she reported receiving the recording
https://www.rt.com/news/593511-transcript-german-attack-crimean-bridge/

The full text of what is claimed to be a discussion by senior German military officers on how to attack the Crimean Bridge in Russia was published by RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan on Friday. She reported that Russian security officials had leaked the recording hours earlier and has pledged to release the original audio shortly.

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Simonyan identified the officers as General Ingo Gerhartz, the German Air Force commander, and senior leaders responsible for mission planning. The alleged conversation took place on February 19, according to the source of the leak.

The transcript reveals the officials discussed the efficiency of the Franco-British cruise missile called Storm Shadow by the UK and SCALP by France. Both nations donated some of their stockpile to Ukraine.

Kiev has called on Germany to provide some of its Taurus missiles. The officers in the leaked recording debate whether the weapon system was adequate for hitting the Crimean Bridge in Russia, which connects eastern Crimea to Krasnodar Region across the Kerch Strait.

According to the transcript, the officers discussed how a successful attack on a key piece of Russian infrastructure would require additional satellite data, possible deployment of missiles from French Dassault Rafale fighter jets, and at least a month of preparation.

One participant observed that due to the size of the bridge, which is the longest in Europe, even 20 missiles may not be enough to cause significant damage. It is comparable to a runway in that regard, he noted.

”They want to destroy the bridge… because it has not only military strategic importance, but also political significance,” Gerhartz is quoted as saying, apparently referring to officials in Kiev. “It would be concerning if we have direct connection with the Ukrainian armed forces.”

The officers went on to discuss how close the German military should be working on the proposed operation so as not to cross the ‘red line’ of being involved directly. Secretly training Ukrainians in the use of German weapons and helping them plan the operation were deemed acceptable. Concerns about the press learning about such cooperation were also raised, the transcript reveals.

Senior officials in Berlin have repeatedly made public statements explaining their reservations about sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said this week that the Germany’s military cannot do for Ukraine what “was done on the part of the British and French in terms of target-control and target-control assistance.” The remark was rebuked by London and Paris, for allegedly distracting public attention from German unwillingness to donate arms to Kiev.

According to the released text, a large segment of the conversation was about practical aspects of preparing Kiev’s forces for deploying Taurus missiles, from training its military personnel, to adapting hardpoints of Ukrainian military jets for Berlin's weapons, to providing technical support remotely via a safe link. The officers were concerned that speeding up the proposed handover may result in civilians being killed “again” in a weapons mishap.

When assessing the intelligence necessary for targeting the missiles, Gerhartz allegedly mused that, to provide such information, there are plenty of “people in civilian clothes with American accents” in Kiev that would cover up for the Germans.

https://www.rt.com/news/593511-transcript-german-attack-crimean-bridge/

ExomatrixTV

1st March 2024, 15:21

CIA Admits To Instigating War With Russia

Western imperialism comes out of the closet

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Greg Reese (https://substack.com/@gregreese)

Mar 1, 2024

Transcript:

Putin has made it clear in several interviews that he is well aware of how US presidents come and go and US policy never changes.

Presidents come and go, but the politics don't change.

Do you know why?

Because the power of bureaucracy is very strong.

When a person is elected, he comes with one idea, and people with cases come to him, well-dressed and in dark suits, as I have, but not with a red tie, but with black or dark blue, and begin to explain how to do it.

And everything immediately changes, you know?
And this happens from one administration to another.

Putin is well aware that it is the CIA who directs US policy, and it is the intelligence agencies of NATO countries who have been covertly instigating war with Russia for decades.

In the Tucker Carlson interview at the Kremlin, President Putin seemed to be speaking directly to the CIA, twice playfully hinting that Tucker is a representative of the intelligence organization.

With the backing of whom?
With the backing of CIA, of course.

The organization you wanted to join back in the day, as I understand.

We should thank God they didn't let you in.
Although it is a serious organization.

I understand.

Who blew up Nord Stream?

You for sure.
I was busy that day.

I did not blow up Nord Stream.

Thank you though.

You personally may have an alibi, but the CIA has no such alibi.

And the CIA responded to Putin via their New York Times media outlet in the recent article The Spy War How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin.

The article admits that the CIA, operating through three different presidential administrations, has transformed the Ukraine into Washington's most important intelligence partners against the Kremlin.

They have secretly trained and equipped Ukrainian intelligence officers over the past decade and constructed a network of 12 secret bases along the Russian border used to launch cross-border attacks on Russian territory.

This means the CIA is responsible for the attacks on oil refineries and energy infrastructure.

The article describes secret underground command centers established near the Russian border, financed and equipped by the CIA.

A CIA program called Operation Goldfish enabled Ukrainians to hack into Russian military networks, break into satellites, and decode secret conversations.

Two years after the 2014 Western-backed coup in Ukraine, the CIA set up training programs for an elite Ukrainian commando force known as Unit 2245.

The CIA trained Ukrainian spies who operate inside of Russia, across Europe, and in other places where Russia operates.

The article points out that this operation may have been hidden from Trump.

While Trump's rhetoric was friendly to Russia, his administration of anti-Russia war hawks such as Mike Pompeo and John Bolton kept Western aggression moving forward, which is what Putin has been pointing out for years.

Presidents come and go and the policy never changes.

The article says nothing about the several bioweapons labs that the US admitted to having along Russia's border.

Some of these labs were seized by the Russian Federation, who say they are preparing to release a report on them, but have so far remained silent.

Putin has made it clear that Russia's actions in Ukraine was in response to decades of hostile US-NATO military expansion on Russian borders, and the CIA is now admitting this to be true.

Reporting for InfoWars, this is Greg Reese

Putin has made it clear in several interviews that he is well aware of how US Presidents come and go, and US policy never changes.

Vladimir Putin: I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but the politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.Putin is well aware that it is the CIA who directs US policy. And it is the intelligence agencies of NATO (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries)countries who have been covertly instigating war with Russia for decades.

In the Tucker Carlson Interview at the Kremlin, President Putin seemed to be speaking directly to the CIA. Twice, playfully hinting that Tucker is a representative of the Intelligence organization.

Tucker Carlson: With the backing of whom? Vladimir Putin: With the backing of CIA of course. The organization you wanted to join back in the day as I understand it. We should thank God they didn't let you in. Although it is a serious organization, I understand. Tucker Carlson: Who blew up Nord Stream? Vladimir Putin: You for sure. Tucker Carlson: I was busy that day. Do.. do you have... I did not blow up Nord Stream, thank you though. Vladimir Putin: You personally may have an alibi, but the CIA has no such alibi.And the CIA responded to Putin via their New York Times media outlet in the recent article, The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin.

The article admits that the CIA, operating through three different presidential administrations, has transformed the Ukraine into "Washington’s most important intelligence partners against the Kremlin." They have secretly trained and equipped Ukrainian intelligence officers over the past decade. And constructed a network of 12 secret bases along the Russian border used to launch cross-border attacks on Russian territory.

This means the CIA is responsible for the attacks on oil refineries and energy infrastructure.

The article describes secret underground command centers established near the Russian border. Financed and equipped by the CIA.

A CIA program called 'Operation Goldfish' enabled Ukrainians to hack into Russian military networks, break into satellites and decode secret conversations.
Two years after the 2014 Western backed coup in Ukraine, the CIA set up training programs for an elite Ukrainian commando force known as Unit 2245
The CIA trained Ukrainian spies who operate inside of Russia, across Europe, and in other places where Russia operates

The article points out that this operation may have even been hidden from Trump. While Trump’s rhetoric was friendly to Russia, his administration of anti-Russia war hawks, such as Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, kept Western aggression moving forward. Which is what Putin has been pointing out for years. Presidents come and go, and the policy never changes.

The article says nothing about the several bio-weapons labs that the US admitted to having along Russia’s border. Some of these labs were seized by the Russian federation, who say they are preparing to release a report on them, but have so far remained silent.

Putin has made it clear that Russia’s actions in Ukraine was in response to decades of hostile US-NATO (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries) military expansion on Russian borders. And the CIA is now admitting this to be true.

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kfm27917

1st March 2024, 18:10

interesting speech by Putin on Ukranian history

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

Ravenlocke

1st March 2024, 19:13

https://x.com/MoonofA/status/1763609067895808002
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/lloyd-austin-doubts-protective-value-of-nato.html#more (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/lloyd-austin-doubts-protective-value-of-nato.html)|

Lloyd Austin Doubts Protective Value of NATO

Newsweek is lying with this headline:

NATO Will Be Drawn Into War With Russia if Ukraine Loses: Lloyd Austin
(https://www.newsweek.com/nato-will-drawn-war-russia-if-ukraine-loses-lloyd-austin-1874913)
Its wording leaves out the (faulty) reasoning Austin attempts to apply:
Speaking at a Republican-led House Armed Services Committee hearing to discuss his recent absence while hospitalized for complications from prostate cancer surgery, Austin predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not "stop" if Moscow wins the war in Ukraine.
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"We know that if Putin is successful here, he will not stop," Austin said. "He will continue to take more aggressive action in the region. And other leaders around the world, other autocrats, will look at this and they'll be encouraged by the fact that this happened and we failed to support a democracy."There is however no evidence, as in zero, that Russia is interested in taking even the whole of Ukraine or, moreover, anything beyond that.

Austin's logic is also faulty with regards to a different aspect.

The original claim was and is that Ukraine should enter NATO because that would protect it from being attacked by Russia.

But if Russia would, as Austin claims, attack the Baltics, i.e.beyond Ukraine, it would attack NATO member states. That claim thus puts the whole theory of a protective value of a NATO membership into question.

Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal has published parts of the draft peace deal that had been negotiated in spring 2022 between Ukraine and Russia:

Document From 2022 Reveals Putin’s Punishing Terms for Peace (https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-ukraine-peace-deal-2022-document-6e12e093) (also here (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/document-from-2022-reveals-putin-s-punishing-terms-for-peace/ar-BB1j9bgO))

Draft peace deal drawn up shortly after Russia’s invasion shows Ukraine was confronted with becoming a neutered state

The agreement was not punishing, but according to Ukrainian sources, very much in favor of Ukraine. It would have been kept as a wholesome sovereign state and could even become a member of the EU. The only restriction being to not join NATO and to have some limits on the size of its armed forces. Those conditions were much better than anything Ukraine will be able to achieve in any future negotiations.

The results of those will look much different:

The Kremlin said that the draft peace agreement from March-April 2022 is no longer relevant (https://strana.news/news/459047-v-kremle-nazvali-neaktualnym-proekt-mirnoho-sohlashenija-ot-marta-aprelja-2022-hoda.html) - Strana (machine translated)
Russian presidential press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the draft peace agreement of March-April 2022 is no longer relevant. "The conditions have changed," Putin's spokesman told reporters.
He claims that the peace talks were stopped by Ukraine "at the command of London."
According to Peskov, the Kremlin would not like to publish the draft of that document.
Recall that today its individual provisions were published in The Wall Street Journal.
From this publication, it follows that Russia was ready to withdraw its troops from the territories captured after February 24, 2022.
That is, judging by Peskov's statement, the conditions for the withdrawal of troops are no longer relevant.
Earlier, David Arakhamia stated that Ukraine did not agree to sign that agreement , including because of the position of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Ravenlocke

1st March 2024, 19:22

Text:
⚡️ Excerpt from negotiations between German military personnel about the attack on the Crimean Bridge (with subtitles)

German Air Force officials discussed the possibility of attacking the bridge with Taurus missiles.

One of the participants in the conversation notes that one should “avoid direct participation” in task planning.

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1763623442006315211

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🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦🚨‼️ IMPORTANT: The Leaked German army call!

1) The British have military personell in Ukraine which help load the Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles

2) The British remotely via “reach back” do the mission planning for the Storm Shadow missiles!

3) Germans are afraid that if Ukranians do the mission planning themselves, the Taurus can “hit a kindergarten”

-> Brits are directly involved in the war!

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https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1763629142380028354

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Ravenlocke

1st March 2024, 19:26

Text:
🇫🇷⚔️🇷🇺France is considering allowing special forces and other army forces to cross the Ukrainian border to pose a “strategic dilemma” for the Russian Federation, - Le Monde
▪️Paris officially denies the presence of its military in Ukraine. Possible permission to cross the Ukrainian border is seen as a means of creating a “strategic dilemma” for Russia.
▪️The French military presence could “protect some territories of Ukraine” and limit attacks from the Russian Armed Forces, Le Monde believes.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1763636826999308371

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Ravenlocke

1st March 2024, 19:40

Text:
The full transcript of Bundeswehr officers' conversation in English.

Key points of its content:

1️⃣ Verification of Defense Minister's Position: Discussion on verifying Defense Minister Pistorius's stance on supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

2️⃣ Misinformation Concerns: Addressing rumors and misinformation about the functionality of Taurus missiles.

3️⃣ Technical and Operational Planning: Detailed considerations on missile delivery timelines, training for Ukrainian forces, and compatibility with aircraft.

4️⃣ Financial and Budgetary Issues: Concerns over budget implications for the Bundeswehr, particularly regarding the F-35 infrastructure at Büchel.

5️⃣ International Comparisons: Reference to British and French military aid practices to Ukraine for strategic insights.

6️⃣ Logistical Strategy for Missile Supply: Discussing phased delivery and involvement of missile manufacturer MBDA for logistical planning.

7️⃣ Training and System Integration: Emphasis on efficient training and integration of missile systems with Ukrainian military assets.

8️⃣ Political Coverup: Debates on Germany's direct involvement in the conflict and efforts to avoid being seen as a combatant party.

❗️ Specific Focus on Crimean Bridge Attack:

🔻 Target Prioritization: Discussion centers on the strategic importance of the Crimean Bridge and ammunition depots as potential targets for Taurus missile attacks.

🔻 Operational Challenges: Consideration of the technical and tactical challenges in executing an attack on the bridge, including the need for precise targeting and potential for collateral damage.

🔻 Collaborative Planning: Debates on the feasibility of involving Ukrainian forces in detailed planning and execution phases, considering their capabilities and limitations.

🔻 Escalation. Political Implications: Acknowledgment of the sensitive nature of targeting the Crimean Bridge, considering its military, strategic, and political significance.

🔻 Comprehensive Planning Effort on the attack: The conversation reflects a thorough planning effort, balancing the operational, technical, political, and political considerations of military aid and specific operations like an attack on the Crimean Bridge.

@ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1763605879033598029

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https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1763634464846958736

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German involvement in plot to attack Crimean Bridge would be act of war

If implemented, the Bundeswehr representatives' plot to attack Russia's Crimean Bridge with Taurus missiles would be nothing short of an act of war, retired Lieutenant Colonel Earl Rasmussen told Sputnik, commenting on the transcript of chatter between high-ranking German military officers that was released by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group.

"Definitely it is an act of war," he said. "Well, I mean, just like the Nord Stream pipeline was really an act of war. And yet they just kind of let it happen and with no response from European countries. Germany specifically stood there right next to President Biden and just kind of like, 'okay'."

According to Rasmussen, details such as where missiles are fired from and who's behind the button are very important.

"We already know that, you know, Western NATO countries are involved in targeting to begin with. And I would say targeting not only within the Donbass, but targeting and plans for terrorist activities within Russia proper. So this would just be another, this would be a major, major escalation," the retired lieutenant colonel warned.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1763626544214208627

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Is NATO seeking to drag Russia into direct conflict?

A series of leaks concerning NATO's involvement in the ongoing Ukraine conflict, including the leaked chatter between high-ranking German officers, appear to indicate that the transatlantic alliance is seeking to drag Russia into a direct conflict, according to Earl Rasmussen, a retired lieutenant colonel with over 20 years in the US Army and and international consultant.

"There shouldn't be a concern of Russia attacking NATO, but they're definitely trying to create that situation. And so if they're attacked by NATO, then Russia will counterattack," Rasmussen told Sputnik.

A leaked transcript of a recent German Bundeswehr representatives' conversation was published online by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group. One of the officers mentioned a planned trip to Ukraine on February 21 to coordinate attacks on Russian objects. Apparently this push stems from Ukraine's losses on the ground and growing divisions within NATO over further arming and supporting Ukraine, the consultant presumed.

"They're creating this conflict into an existential threat for NATO. You noticed this statement from Macron the other week, they've got divisions inside NATO, I think, heavy, heavy divisions," Rasmussen said. "They're in a very critical, desperate situation."

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1763613533885825279

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⚡️Another Ukraine neighbour asks Russia for support

Gagauzia, experiencing internal problems, followed Transnistria and turned to Russia for help.

"This goes beyond all limits": Gagauzia's head met with Russian senior lawmaker Valentina Matvienko and said the rights of Gagauzians are being suppressed by Moldova's central government.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1763606879849095387

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ExomatrixTV

1st March 2024, 20:24

Europe To Send Troops To Ukraine! Says Slovakian Prime Minister:

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Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has revealed that there are plans afoot for European nations to send soldiers to fight in Ukraine. Other European leaders disputed the story and called Fico a “conspiracy theorist,” but French President Emmanuel Macron pointedly refused to deny Fico’s allegations.

Jimmy and Kurt Metzger discuss the very real danger of escalation that European deployments to Ukraine would entail.

ExomatrixTV

1st March 2024, 20:55

Putin Warns West Missile Strikes, NATO Troops Ukr; Kerch Bridge Attack Talk; Ukr Total Defeat Summer:

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Ravenlocke

1st March 2024, 21:20

Text:
🇳🇮Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega:

We see that in NATO, in Europe and in the United States they unite to defend Nazism. While the Russian people, Russian soldiers are fighting Nazism in Ukraine. And now we even openly hear European presidents, the president of France, the president of France, the same France that killed millions of people in Algeria and other occupied countries, they are talking about bringing in European troops and they want to accompany American troops to defend Nazism in Ukraine. The blood shed in Palestine and the blood shed in Ukraine is blood shed because of the Nazi-fascist attitude of NATO. We are facing an attempt by world capitalism, imperialism, to reintroduce fascism, Nazism, not only in Europe, not only in Ukraine, but also in our Latin American and Caribbean countries.

@ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1763653896310841582

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Ravenlocke

1st March 2024, 21:44

Text:
#French Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Sejourne announced that #France will not be sending troops to #Ukraine to carry out military operations.

"The framework has been set, which is to prevent #Russia from achieving victory without engaging in war with it," he clarified.

He previously remarked that the deployment of French soldiers in Ukraine serves "non-combat purposes", asserting that the involvement of Western military personnel in the region would not signify complicity in the ongoing armed conflict.

On February 26, President Emmanuel #Macron suggested that the option of dispatching #European troops to Ukraine should not be ruled out. His remarks sparked considerable backlash.

#WarInUkraine

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1763673372020322547

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ExomatrixTV

2nd March 2024, 03:35

Latest ANALYSIS & BREAKDOWN of Leaked WAR PLANS against Russia by top German officers

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Ravenlocke

2nd March 2024, 05:35

Just a little Humor:silent::silent::silent::blushing:

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1763475286933299317

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Ravenlocke

2nd March 2024, 05:46

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ExomatrixTV

2nd March 2024, 13:01

Col. Douglas Macgregor: How Close Is WWIII?

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Macgregor, a voice of sanity in the western asylum.

Bill Ryan

2nd March 2024, 14:55

Putin Warns West Missile Strikes, NATO Troops Ukr; Kerch Bridge Attack Talk; Ukr Total Defeat Summer:

QhFVpivWX8AThe first half hour of this is an excellent and detailed summary of Putin's new major speech, which is the Russian equivalent of the American State of the Union address — the difference being that it's primarily forward-focused rather than retrospective, and of course, as we could expect from Putin, highly articulate and full of hard information and statistics.

As Mercouris points out, however, the parts of this of primary interest to western politicians and military specialists are his statements about Russian military readiness and capacity, including that about new weapons, now tested and about to be entered into service.

And, as has already been much discussed in western media (rather hysterically!), his statement of deterrence (not a 'threat') in the form of a reminder that Russia has the ability and willingness, if ever necessary, to strike accurately and with devastating force at any target in the world.

ExomatrixTV

2nd March 2024, 22:30

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ExomatrixTV

3rd March 2024, 00:21

G7 Frustration Trying To Seize Russian Frozen Assets:

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Last year, the EU approved 12 sanction packages against Russia and the Russian economy grew 3%. Meanwhile, the EU economy is in "tatters". The EU sanctioned itself.

kfm27917

3rd March 2024, 01:16

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240301/full-transcript-of-german-top-military-officials-leaked-plot-to-attack-crimean-bridge-1117078481.html

Full Transcript of German Top Military Officials' Leaked Plot to Attack Crimean Bridge
Yesterday (Updated: 17 hours ago)

shaberon

3rd March 2024, 06:15

Here for another condescendingly polite explanation of failure (https://southfront.press/nato-bet-on-kiev-lost/):

The main success of the Russian army was the blistering advance west of Avdeevka. After completing the mop up operations in Lastochkino, Severnoe and Stepovoe, the Russian military broke through the main line of Ukrainian defense in the region and almost took the full control of it. The Ukrainian military has no chance to regain the initiative and is already retreating across the steppes under heavy Russian artillery fire.

NATO warmongers clearly understand the failure of their bid for Kiev in this war, and no longer hide their plans to enter the battles on the ground. In response, the Russian political elites, as well as its military-industrial complex, demonstrate their full readiness for any development of the conflict. Despite all the efforts by Western leaders to hide it, Russia has been fighting with a NATO military contingent in Ukraine for years. Russian soldiers have already gained successful experience in confronting the Western military machine on the battlefield. While European and American soldiers are nurtured by Western propaganda about this war and have little idea what they may face in the Ukrainian steppes.

That really dangerous regrouping outside of the last Big Fortress looks like this:

https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2march2024_Ukraine_Avdiivka_map-768x768.jpg

It might be fair to say that Ukraine still has a handful of places maybe like a half-strength Avdivka. The net result seems to be Russian momentum everywhere.

It is what I would call a Point of Diminishing Return, a crumbling shell game, perhaps to follow its late backer from England.

wegge

3rd March 2024, 09:09

ExomatrixTV

3rd March 2024, 11:34

I looked into Tom Bearden's book "Gravitobiology" yesterday. It seems the Russians had highly advanced EM weapons in the 1950s and 60s. So this modern today war seems to be fought mainly with kindergarden tech, compared to what must be available. Makes one wonder why.

Maybe because if they did/do use it, it would/could trigger others to do the same (eventually) ... meaning they may not have the exact same tech but what if it gets leaked or copied through other means?

I remember strange beam-weapons also used in IRAQ war (https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna20497575) 2003-2011 done by the UK/USA.

MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20497575/): Since 2003 US military leaders repeatedly and urgently requested âmdash; and were denied âmdash; an energy beam weapon called the Active Denial System. The device, which is perched on a Humvee or a flatbed truck, has a range of 500 yards and uses directed-energy beams that can penetrate a few millimeters under the skin causing pain. As the soldiers train it on a crowd, the pain makes them disperse."I am convinced that the tragedy at Fallujah would not have occurred if an Active Denial System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System) had been there," Air Force science advisor Gene McCall told Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to an e-mail obtained by Associated Press. The system should become "an immediate priority," McCall said.However, the international red cross and other non-profit organizations, and other governments have a number of concerns related to the deployment of energy-based weapons, including whether such devices break the Geneva Convention on torture (http://www.ohchr.org/english/) and the convention on conventional weapons (http://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/(httpPages)/4F0DEF093B4860B4C1257180004B1B30?OpenDocument). See also an earlier Physics Today news pick on laser blinding weapons (http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2006/05/laser_blinding_weapons_in_iraq.html) being deployed to Iraq. Laser blinding weapons in Iraq (http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2006/05/laser_blinding_weapons_in_iraq.html) Federation of American Scientists web site on the Convention on Conventional Weapons (http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/ccw/) convention on conventional weapons web site (http://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/(httpPages)/4F0DEF093B4860B4C1257180004B1B30?OpenDocument) Active Denial System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System).

U.S. Military Master Laser Safety Homepage (http://www.acq.osd.mil/ens/sh/LASER.HTML)
Laser Safety Related Resources (http://www.rli.com/) @ LaserNet
LASER RANGE SAFETY (https://nuke.fas.org/control/ccw/316-98/index.html) Range Commanders Council, White Sands Missile Range, OCTOBER 1998 United States Battlefield Laser Systems

Stingray (https://nuke.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/stingray.htm)
Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) Defense System (https://nuke.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/thel.htm)
Laser Target Designators (https://nuke.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/lgb.htm)

Iraqi Anti-Personnel Lasers (https://nuke.fas.org/guide/iraq/other/laser.htm)
Weapons Which Cause “Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering” (http://www2.healthnet.org/MGS/MGSV5N1-3.html)
RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF BLINDING LASER WEAPONS AND LANDMINES (http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/reports/report5/contents.htm) February 1997
Non-Lethal Technologies: Military Options and Implications (http://www.foreignrelations.org/studies/transcripts/nonlethal.html) Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations
Laser Anti-personnel Weapons (http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~mellerj/vision/laser.htm#weapon)

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

Bill Ryan

3rd March 2024, 11:47

ExomatrixTV

3rd March 2024, 12:25

Tucker Carlson On How War In Ukraine Will End:

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Tucker Carlson Advice To Lex Fridman On Interviewing Putin:

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Vicus

3rd March 2024, 14:13

kfm27917

3rd March 2024, 14:38

The Endgame, Part I: The Russo-Ukrainian War And Geopolitics Of Europe

https://mtmalinen.substack.com/p/the-endgame-part-i

Long analisis of NATO I consider to be accurate.
stay tuned for part 2

ExomatrixTV

3rd March 2024, 17:45

U.S. Media ADMITS Russia’s Economy Booming Despite Western Sanctions!:

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ExomatrixTV

3rd March 2024, 19:21

New British 🇬🇧 RAF "The Jackal" Drone Will Change Battlefield:

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airforce-technology.com/projects/jackal-vertical-take-off-and-landing-vtol-drone-uk (https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/jackal-vertical-take-off-and-landing-vtol-drone-uk/?cf-view)

My comment I placed on above YT video, quote: "Russians have ADVANCED directed EMP beam weapons (since the 1960s & 1970s onward) that can NEUTRALIZE any drone if need be ... and when neutralized it may be captured for close inspections >>> looking for weaknesses and/or reverse engineer it to produce an improved version of it ... or they have already something similar but much better ... The problem with this video, it is NOT about telling the whole truth, but only what they want you to see or hear. For the record, I am Dutch 🇳🇱 and against ANY war! Am also against lies (endless false narratives pushed) used to justify wars". unquote

If it is not "buried" and you can see my comment under that video ... give it a like ... the more people do that, the greater the chance it gets featured at the top of all comments!

Drones like that will eventually (most likely) run by A.I. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?102409-A.I.-is-Progressing-Faster-Than-You-Think-) ... not humans anymore, they just "forgot" that to mention to all of us watching.

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

kfm27917

3rd March 2024, 19:51

Nazi rescue of Mussolini a US model for Zelensky
US Pentagon is no doubt gaming out rescue plans should Zelensky’s unravelling and unpopular government fully collapse

https://asiatimes.com/2024/03/nazi-rescue-of-mussolini-a-us-model-for-zelensky/

Ravenlocke

4th March 2024, 01:24

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1763959655292923990

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https://x.com/TomatkaP/status/1764163382091853924

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https://x.com/colonelhomsi/status/1764032985932738984

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Ravenlocke

4th March 2024, 01:29

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1764400013868691917

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Ravenlocke

4th March 2024, 01:35

Text:
🇩🇪🇫🇷⚔️🇷🇺The head of the German Air Force revealed secret operations of Britain and France in Ukraine: Paris delivers SCALP cruise missiles to Kyiv on German Audi Q7
▪️The head of the Luftwaffe caused alarm in Berlin and London by discussing a way to deliver cruise missiles to Kyiv over an unsecured telephone line intercepted by Russia
▪️So, France delivers SCALP cruise missiles to Ukraine on German Audi Q7 vehicles, said German Air Force commander Gerhartz in a leaked conversation.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1764342093126729879

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Ravenlocke

4th March 2024, 01:54

Ravenlocke

4th March 2024, 02:04

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1764371090774667472

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Ravenlocke

4th March 2024, 02:07

https://x.com/narrative_hole/status/1764375547302326598

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Ravenlocke

4th March 2024, 02:13

Text:
🇺🇦 Ukraine hated the World Youth Festival in Sochi

The 🤡🤡🤡🤡militants promise to come for every representative of the country participating in the Festival. According to them, after participating in the event, these countries “will not be able to get out.”

🌐 Representatives from Paraguay, Turkey, Serbia, Congo, India, South Africa, Kuwait, Ecuador and many others performed at the festival.

⚫️ Videos with direct threats to forum participants once again confirm the true essence of Bandera’s supporters.

https://x.com/TobiAyodele/status/1764388044365287859

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Ravenlocke

4th March 2024, 02:19

Text:
⚖️ A lawsuit against the German officers who planned the attack on the Crimean bridge....

...is submitted to the Office of the Attorney General of Germany. It was filed by representatives of the party "Free Saxony", because the negotiations of the Bundeswehr officers fall under Article 13 of the International Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Germany ("Crime of aggression").

"An attack on the Crimean bridge with German participation would start a war of aggression against Russia. And possibly would be the starting point for World War III," the statement said. And all this, for a second, makes the threat of retaliatory military action against Germany quite real.

@ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1764376071460274316

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Ravenlocke

4th March 2024, 02:32

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1764284298981437875

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1764338190645699013

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shaberon

4th March 2024, 04:15

Rizotto

4th March 2024, 09:48

Perhaps this should also be posted in the Israel Hamas war thread.

https://www.rt.com/news/593705-israel-more-aggressive-russia/

March 4, 2024

Israel to get more ‘aggressive’ with Russia – MP
West Jerusalem will ramp up its Ukraine aid to retaliate for Moscow’s alleged backing of Hamas, Amir Weitmann has claimed

An Israeli lawmaker has suggested that his government will take a harder line against Russia by boosting its support for Ukraine because it sees Moscow as somehow involved in the Hamas war against West Jerusalem.

“Israel will take a more aggressive stance against Russia,” MP Amir Weitmann told US media outlet Business Insider in an article published on Saturday. He added that amid its current battle with Hamas, his government doesn’t have munitions to spare, but if the war in Gaza ends before the conflict in Ukraine, “Israeli weapons would find their way” to Kiev.

Weitmann made his comments in response to plans by Israel – revealed on Wednesday at the UN – to provide an early warning system to help Kiev counter Russian airstrikes and drone attacks. The announcement by Gilad Erdan, Israel’s permanent representative to the UN, did not “come out of the blue,” the lawmaker said.

“Russia is heavily involved in what is happening in Israel,” Weitmann claimed, referring to the war with Hamas, which was triggered by surprise raids on southern Israeli villages on October 7. He offered no details on Moscow’s supposed role in the war and said it was not clear “at what level” Russia was involved.

Weitmann, who heads the libertarian faction of Israel’s ruling Likud Party, was less restrained during an RT interview in October. “Russia is supporting Nazi people who want to commit genocide on us, and Russia will pay the price,” he said. The MP added, “We will make sure that Ukraine wins. We will make sure that you pay the price for what you have done.”

Business Insider said Israel may have already “torched its relationship with Russia” by pledging to supply an early warning system to Ukraine. The system is similar to Israel’s Tzeva Adom radar, which quickly detects rocket launches and broadcasts alerts to endangered areas so civilians can take shelter.

After two years of walking a diplomatic “tightrope” over the Ukraine crisis, sending only humanitarian supplies to avoid provoking Russia, the decision to provide Kiev a radar system “signals a major about-turn in Israeli foreign policy,” Business Insider said. Israel will likely send “specialist soldiers” to help Ukrainians set up the system, the outlet noted.

Speaking at the UN on Wednesday, Erdan referred to the Ukrainians as “allies” and “friends in need.” He claimed that Israel has stood in “solidarity” with Ukraine since the conflict escalated in February 2022. “This is the moral thing to do, especially as a country that knows exactly how it feels to be aggressively invaded.”

Tintin

4th March 2024, 14:09

Extracted (from the article, not the speech)

This speech is simply the application of Talmud to Ukraine and Russia

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Toe-curlingly reminiscent of the protocols (https://avalonlibrary.net/Protocols_of_the_Learned_Elders_of_Zion/The%20Protocols%20of%20the%20Learned%20Elders%20of%20Zion.pdf), as acknowledged in this article.

The "values" that are so often uttered by people like Von Der Leyen et al are the very same as espoused by Schneerson, and others before him, and the very same behind the foundation of 'Israel' and the current iteration of carnage unleashed on the Palestinians.

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CHABAD LEADER, MESSIAH MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON ON HIS PLANS TO DESTROY SLAVS

Source: https://justice4poland.com/2016/05/17/chabad-leader-messiah-menachem-mendel-schneerson-on-his-plans-for-destroying-ukraine-and-russia-reprint/

Zio-Nazi atrocities in Novorossia are the ethnical cleansing / mass genocide of the indigenous people — Russians — on the ancestral Russian land, absolutely identical to the Zio-Nazi atrocities in Palestine which are the ethnical cleansing / mass genocide of the indigenous people — Palestinians — on their ancestral land.

Ashkenazi Khazars (93% of the world “Jewry”) are fake “Jews.” They are the Turks from the Russian great mother, according to their own genetic research. They are not even Semites (half-black-half-white). Khazar-Ashkenazi-pseudo-Jews have nothing to do neither racially nor historically with the authentic, Negroid Jews of the Tanakh / Old Testament of the Tribe of Seth [Set] / Tribe of Judah from the Land of Seth [Set] (Upper Egypt). Their homeland is Turkestan. The land of Palestine and the land of Rus’ (Russia) never belonged to them rightfully. Both in Palestine, and in Russia, they were invaders and slave owners.

This speech [a letter sent to the newspaper] of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Chabad Leader and Messiah (the Lubavitcher Rebbe), was published in the Vologda newspaper “Slavyanin», N-4 (32), 2001 in Russia.

Following the publication, the court was unable to prosecute its editor, V.F. Popov, under trumped up charges under Article 282, as he operated on the facts, and several Russian scientists stood up for him, including Academician Y. K. Begunov and Doctor of Law O.G. Korotayev.

This speech was uttered by Menachem Mendel Schneerson in 1994. There is much debate about its authenticity, as once argued about the validity of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” but it is an indisputable fact that almost all the goals, laid out by Schneerson, have been achieved by now. This speech is simply the application of Talmud to Ukraine and Russia. Talmud says: Jews should murder and enslave goyim worldwide. This speech says: Jews should murder and enslave goyim in Ukraine and Russia. Yes, the speech by Menachem Mendel Schneerson is monstrous. For a normal person, it is hard to believe that a religious leader can be a MURDERER, and that the religion can be THE IDEOLOGY OF MURDER. That is why, the text of this essay has every criminal passage from the speech next to the criminal passage from Talmud. The face of the Zionist Messiah also speaks for itself: it is the face of a TERRORIST, full of hatred and menace.

https://irenecaesar.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/schneerson_1.jpg?w=520&h=671

[I]1. Our special tactics to combat Slavs is a secret knowledge, because of its exclusivity limited to the god’s chosen people. The main weapon of struggle we will direct against the Slavs, except for renegades, “married” with the Jews by common interests. True, all these “married to us” will be withdrawn from our society once we use them for our own purposes.

Slavs, and among them Russians – are the most unbending people in the world. Slavs are unbending as a result of their psychological and intellectual abilities, created by many generations of ancestors. It is impossible to alter these genes. Slav, Russian, can be destroyed, but never conquered. That is why this seed is subject to liquidation, and, at first, a sharp reduction in their numbers.

Our methods of conquest will not at all be military, but ideological and economic, with the use of power structures, armed with the most modern types of armament for the physical suppression of revolt with even greater ferocity than it was done in October 1993 with gunning of the Supreme Council of Soviet Russia.

First of all, we will divide the Slavic nations (of 300 million, half of them Russians) into the small countries with weak and severed connections. For this, we will use our old method: Divide and conquer. We will try to pit these countries against each other, and suck them into civil wars for the sake of mutual destruction.

The Ukrainians would think that they are fighting against the expansionist Russia and struggling for their independence. They will think that they have finally gained their freedom, while they become fully subdued by us.

The same will be thought by Russians, as though they defend their national interests to return their lands, “illegally” taken away from them, and so on.

We will do all of this under the guise of different sovereignties, the struggle for their national ideals. At the same time, we will not give either party any self-determination, based on the national values and traditions.

In this war of fools, the Slavic moronic herd will be weakening itself and strengthening us, the main controllers of the chaos, pretending to stand aside, not only without participating in the bloody events, but also without involvement.

Moreover, we will fully protect ourselves. In the consciousness of the Slavic fools (uninitiated), we will lay such stereotypes of thinking in which the world “anti-Semite” would become the most terrible word. The word “Jew” would be pronounced in a whisper.

We will scare the cattle with several court cases (such as the trial of an anti-Semite Ostashvili, followed by his destruction) and other methods (radio, television – frightening movies, such as revenge of the Israeli Mossad super-spies for killing of Jews). We will frighten the cattle so bad that not a single hair will fall from the head of a Jew, while the Slavs will be shot in packs, destroyed by thousands – on the borders, where the Jews do not serve in peacekeeping forces, via terrorist acts, and via criminal and professional killings [such as the acts of terrorist at Beslan school that took hundreds of lives, in the Moscow subway, and so on].

Dumb Slavic people do not realize that the worst fascists are those who never and in no place proclaim fascism aloud, but, instead, organize it all supposedly according to the most democratic standards. On the contrary, we will make the very word “fascist” a dirty word.

Everyone will be scared that we will stick this label to him. We know very well that nationalism strengthens the nation, making it strong. The slogan of “internationalism” is outdated and no longer works as before. We will replace it with the “universal human values”, which is the same thing.

We will not allow any nationalism to evolve. And we will destroy by fire and sword all those nationalist movements that seek to lead people out of our dictate, as it is done in Georgia, Armenia and Serbia. Instead, we will insure the full prosperity of our nationalism – Zionism, and, more precisely: Jewish fascism, which, in its secrecy and power, is super-fascism.

It is not for nothing that in 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which defined Zionism as the most blatant “form of racism and racial discrimination”, but repealed this resolution in 1992, because of our triumphant march across the planet. We have made UN a weapon for our goals of seizing power over “all kingdoms and nations.”

We will deprive the population of Slavs of their national elite, which is the one that determines the development of events and the progress of the country, and, ultimately, the whole course of history. To do this, we will lower their level of education – in the next 5 years, we will close half of their universities, and it is us who will get educated at the other half.

We will allow the Armenians there, Chechens, Gypsies and others. We will work to ensure that the governments of the Slavic countries would contain as little as possible of the indigenous peoples who will be replaced by our Jewish elite.

In the mass media – radio, television, press, art, literature, theater, cinema – we will gradually push out national staff and replace them with our staff or, in extreme cases, the cosmopolitan staff.

....and so it goes on. (https://justice4poland.com/2016/05/17/chabad-leader-messiah-menachem-mendel-schneerson-on-his-plans-for-destroying-ukraine-and-russia-reprint/).....

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As an addendum to this please do see this 12 minute or so long video segment - source unknown at this stage - on the Babylonian origins of the Talmud:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Segment_on_Babylonian_Talmud.mp4

ExomatrixTV

4th March 2024, 17:35

Boris Johnson Demanded $1 MILLION For An Interview! – Tucker Carlson:

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Open Minded Dude

4th March 2024, 19:50

Roeper...

https://www-anti--spiegel-ru.translate.goog/2024/erste-russische-reaktionen-auf-die-angriffsplaene-der-bundeswehr-auf-die-krimbruecke/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Participation in the war

First Russian reactions to the Bundeswehr's attack plans on the Crimean Bridge
The published telephone call from the leadership of the Federal Air Force, in which the details of an attack on the Crimean bridge were discussed, caused horror and strong reactions in Russia. Here I summarize some of the initial reactions.
from Anti-Mirror
March 1, 2024 5:56 p.m

The published telephone conversation in which the highest leadership of the Federal Air Force can be heard discussing the details of an attack on the Crimean Bridge caused horror and strong reactions in Russia. Here I translate the initial reactions of high-ranking Russian politicians.

Senator and foreign policy expert Konstantin Kosachev, deputy chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, wrote on Telegram :

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The scandal surrounding the recordings of conversations between named and very high-ranking officers of the Bundeswehr, in which concrete plans to attack the Crimean Bridge were discussed, must have serious consequences. Unless a convincing refutation and evidence follows, Germany's true role in the Ukraine conflict will have to be completely reconsidered, which, as it now turns out, completely refutes Chancellor Scholz's statements about Germany's fundamental non-participation in the conflict. It's a direct involvement, and it couldn't be more direct: "We're at war now," says one of the Germans.

To quote a classic: Scholz has never been so close to failure. It is naive to suspect that some high-ranking military officials are preparing something behind the Chancellor's back. This means that Berlin, as they call it, is up to its neck in direct warfare and is even preparing plans to attack Russian infrastructure. And this is not about military facilities, but about a bridge over which passenger trains and thousands of civilian cars pass. We will have every reason to consider the German leadership as a direct accomplice in the crimes of the Kiev Nazis, for whom attacks on civilian objects and civilians are normal.

The Bundestag has just given the green light to supply the Kiev regime with weapons that can be used to carry out “targeted attacks on strategically important facilities deep behind Russian lines.” Judging by the intercepted conversations of the German military, it is no longer just about the delivery of weapons. What Berlin wanted so much to hide from the public is already a fact: Germany is fighting on the side of Ukraine. It absolutely ignores the will of its own people.

The German leadership must give not only us, but also its own citizens, an exhaustive answer to the facts that have become known and the attempts to drag the country into a direct military conflict with a nuclear power.

Recently, Bundestag member R. Kiesewetter declared the need to “take the war to Russia” and destroy not only military facilities and factories, “but also ministries.” And if Ukraine fails with its plans, then, in his opinion, “the German world order and the EU will collapse and we will become participants in the war.”

It took the world and our country in particular a lot of effort to make the past “German world order” disappear. It seems to me that the Germans are better off not tempting their fate a second time.

End of translation

Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, demanded an official statement from the federal government . In another post on Telegram she wrote:

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I read it! Imagine if today's German leadership refers to the experiences of the Third Reich! You've gone crazy!

The Inspector (Commander) of the Air Force Ingo Gerhartz in a conversation with high-ranking officers of the Bundeswehr on February 19, 2024:

“We are now fighting a war that is carried out with much more modern technology than our good old air force.”

☠️🇩🇪💣

The full transcript

End of translation

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, wrote on Telegram :

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About the conversation between Bundeswehr officers about planned attacks on our country

Our eternal enemies – the Germans – have once again become sworn enemies. Look with what thoroughness and in what detail the Germans discuss attacks on our territory using extended-range missiles, select objects for attacks and the most likely ways to inflict maximum damage on our Fatherland and our population. They do not forget the use of lying rhetoric about Germany's non-participation in the conflict.
Who could have imagined this just a short time ago?
How should one react to this diplomatically?
I don't know it…

But I know one thing. You can't say it better than the poet:

“He wanted it that way, it’s his fault.
Let his house burn, not yours,
And not your wife,
but his wife, let his widow become a widow.
Your wife shall not weep,
but his mother who bore him shall weep.
Not yours, but that of his family
shall wait in vain.
Kill at least one of them!
Kill him faster!
As often as you see him
Kill him as often as you see him!
(K.Simonov. Kill him! 1942)

And again the call of the Great Patriotic War became relevant:
DEATH TO THE GERMAN-FASCIST OCCUPIERS!

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Michel Leclerc

4th March 2024, 22:01

I can't help thinking that the collective West including America, with Ukraine at the front line, is being deliberately destroyed from within, using and forcing Russia to be the means to that end

Well yes but that is how you can identify this is a failure.

Such a "plot" is certainly the case of UK vs. its "breakaway colonies" and one might say the mission of CIA & MI6 to move it forward. Call that the twentieth century.

The problem is it didn't work.

Remember that the people in charge of the west are good at one thing, telling someone else what to do, whereas the people in charge of Russia...well usually I think that to even be alive they must be tougher and smarter than me. They make results.

The western mentality is neither capable of producing a system that actually works, nor being considered a part of the civilized world.

A lot of the western commanders who have been to these places know what time it is. They would not make those stupid political decisions or risk grave consequences. The politicians are engrossed with "superiority" to the point where they live in a fantasy which unfortunately is inhabited by God. It really is right out of the Bible. Unless they are politically corrupted, military and police types do what they have to, go after violent offenders, and otherwise they don't waste their time on fluff or meaningless risks. You might think of the Colonel's Coup which is why Qaddafi was so successful and so popular. The office of a Colonel is much closer to on-the-ground, day-to-day reality. Comparatively, a General's Coup has a political bloc, or a vested interest or other strings attached.

Remember, the Empire already went to its grave in Syria. It wasn't big enough so nobody believed it. Ukraine is further details on how insane it actually is, which is not quite new, starting from Operation Belladonna 1946.

Just the failure of a Great Game which could have never worked, because these people don't know how to work. They have beliefs.

Rereading this. Brilliant Shaberon – over time I have come to think that your basic analysis that all this “Roi Ubu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubu_Roi)” histrionics (by Alfred Jarry) of the Empire is a failure and will ultimately prove to be a failure is correct — whereas since the 90s when I preached to friend and client that the Empire’s merciless financial vampirism to submit the Japanese economy (once again – after the 30s – a threat enough to “capitalism” to use the most barbaric means to end it (with the belated Fukushimayama or Fukuyamashima hiccup to finish it off)) demonstrated to everybody that it would resort to scorched earth tactics as soon as Europe would wrestle itself free from the Imperator’s grip and/or the nuclear-backed dollar economy would collapse........ now I agree with you that this would ultimately fail. However.

However. The “media-that-be” do not insist on repeating to us that “Israel”’s Matsadah myth (defending the fortress up to the last suicidal samurai) is actually a Samson myth (the suicidal samurai collapses the palace or temple roof onto the “zombies”) for nothing: yes, the Empire will fail, but it will follow the Zionihilist example and take the entire world with it.

"If the the radiant city on the hill is destroyed, may the hill itself then cease to exist.” Or: “even if Jesus does NOT come back, we will still armageddon the world as if he were coming back”.

A merger of millions – billions – of “may I be damned” psychoses into one: “we will suicide humankind”.

Michel Leclerc

4th March 2024, 22:26

I looked into Tom Bearden's book "Gravitobiology" yesterday. It seems the Russians had highly advanced EM weapons in the 1950s and 60s. So this modern today war seems to be fought mainly with kindergarden tech, compared to what must be available. Makes one wonder why.Yes, I agree, and I've often thought exactly the same thing. I wonder why as well, and I can't see any simple answers. :)

It would be like using the S-500.

You don't even want to "turn something on" unless it is a last resort.

So far I have found *two* CIA reports from the 1970s explaining the Soviets were also deep into medical plasma research...and that this is something the west should also look into...because they ignored it, and all similar research went into mind reading, thought control, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, i. e. the weaponized versions of whatever a machine or human being could do using "advanced electronics". So I can promise you, on the medical aspect, the west lags by 60+ years or have just entered the "proof of concept" phase.

As to the weaponized aspect, I'll reserve judgment.

I mean, we spent so many years screaming "nuclear war" that was never real.

Perhaps I should repeat, Russia has the capability to sanitize every American population center plus natural weaknesses like the San Andreas and Yellowstone Faults in a matter of hours. That's what will happen if you manage to scare them.

If not, then, no, I don't see why they would roll out anything particularly "advanced", especially since the game is still to reduce American tech with essentially hand grenades.

So far we have seen limited use of Father of All Bombs and Kinjhal--which are bad enough. Obviously, they could vaporize Kiev at will, and the fact of this not happening shows a very conservative approach, with no reason to change it.

This Russian refusal to actually use their weaponry instead of just allowing its phantom-like apparitions, shows, I think, that it is all psychological warfare using military confrontation to make it real enough. Since the beginning we have heard that “Russia is fighting the media battle very badly”. I do not think so. The strategy is to appear losing it – for quite some time – in order to be revealed triumphant in the end (thanks to “facts”, objective critical media in the West, Carlson etc.) when the Western audience will have finally grown suspicious of its leaders. Their aim is that this disillusionment of the “golden billion” will bring the downfall of the Western leaders – and thereby, the cessation of their war efforts. In order to make it succeed, Russia will have to bleed a lot – and they are doing that – and it may even cost them a few more years. This gamble would be the real "war of attrition” – seemingly against Ukraine, but in truth against the West. What “worries” me (to the extent that I still do) its that such “go” or “chess" strategy still presumes that people act rationally (in this case: the electorate who will ultimately throw their leaders out) – but the West is populated by a sufficient number of lunatics who prefer to see a grand fireworks at the end of the "show” called civilisation – at the cost of civilisation itself.

Rizotto

5th March 2024, 12:11

"NATO's involvement, and the ethics of targeting civilian infrastructure. A must-listen episode for anyone following the Ukraine crisis."
Scott Ritter: How close are we to global confrontation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5KLzPbUheE

kfm27917

5th March 2024, 13:21

on the 'ligher" side
Vogue Magazine's Ukraine edition gets behind the mobilization push by promoting it to women

https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn/status/1764296695389585631
(https://twitter.com/SeosQuinn/status/1764296695389585631)1764296695389585631

Vicus

5th March 2024, 17:11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf9C9oD_Csg

2hours ago

Vicus

5th March 2024, 17:36

Another video type, with funny comments, at last... 1 hour ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjiTK01D3jg

ExomatrixTV

5th March 2024, 18:05

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Gwin Ru

5th March 2024, 18:29

...

... job done... over 1/2 million Ukrainian blood sacrifices offered to her "god":

Victoria Nuland Leaving Post While Ukraine On The Ropes, US Policy In Shambles (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/victoria-nuland-leaving-post-ukraine-ropes-us-policy-shambles)

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_desktop_2x/public/2024-03/nulandout.jpg?h=1c87a73f&itok=8bI4_I5r (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/victoria-nuland-leaving-post-ukraine-ropes-us-policy-shambles)

Victoria-'F**k the EU'-Nuland retires & leaves legacy of ashes...

TUE MAR 5, AT 7:20 PM

ZeroHedge 408 (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/victoria-nuland-leaving-post-ukraine-ropes-us-policy-shambles#comment-stream)

shaberon

5th March 2024, 23:48

Text:
Russian army soldier's address to the US President
@JoeBiden
:

Dear Mr. Joe Biden, President of the United States of America!

As Russian Warriors, we want to express you most sincere gratitude for the Abrams tanks that the US is supplying to Ukraine now.

As you probably know, we are paid bonuses for destroying such tanks. We would like to ask you to, please, send more tanks, because, right now, there are so few tanks that is not going to be enough for all of us. We have to spend a lot of time and effort to find them.

Wish granted:

FIRST US ABRAMS TANK DESTROYED HOURS (https://southfront.press/breaking-first-us-abrams-tank-destroyed-hours-after-it-was-first-deployed-near-avdeevka/) AFTER IT WAS FIRST DEPLOYED NEAR AVDEEVKA

The tank was destroyed only a day after the Ukrainian military shared a pompous video of the tank riding near the frontlines in the Avdeevka region. Russian soldiers are ruining the myths of the almighty Western equipment.

Confirmed. The first American Abrams MBT with BRAT active armor system was destroyed on the Avdeevka frontlines.

The Abrams tank was first spotted by Russian forces near the village of Berdychi. It was moving under close control of the Russian reconnaissance UAV.

The tank was reportedly destroyed by the servicemen of the Russian 15 Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade. The tank was first attacked by the small and cheap FPV drone, and then finished off with a light anti-tank grenade launcher. The additional active armor did not save the tank from the usual attack of small forces.

While the Frogs can't find Paris (https://southfront.press/breaking-three-french-warplanes-intercepted-by-russian-su-27-over-black-sea/):

On the afternoon of March 5, three French military aircraft attempted to violate the Russian airspace. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the ‘interception’ foreign warplanes over the the Black Sea.

The French warplanes included an E-3F long-range radar detection and control aircraft and two Rafale—C multipurpose fighters of the French Aerospace Forces. They were ‘welcomed’ by the Su-27 fighter jet of the Russian air defense forces on duty, which was immediately lifted into the air “in order to prevent violations of the state border of the Russian Federation.”

As soon as the Russian fighter approached the French aircraft, they immediately turned back, flew away from the Russian state border and left the airspace over the Black Sea.

Au revoir.

The sound investment of millions in an Abrams vehicle is assuredly to prove that Ukraine is next to nothing (https://southfront.press/ukrainian-defense-on-avdeevka-front-destroyed-russian-army-took-control-of-berdychi-orlovka-tonenkoe/):

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The situation on the frontlines near Avdeevka is changing very rapidly. As soon as official sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed control over the entire first line of Ukrainian defense west of the city, reports from the front announced the fall of the second, main line of Ukrainian defense in the region.

In the afternoon of February 28, both Russian and Ukrainian sources reported that the advancing Russian forces had seized control of three villages on the Berdych-Orlovka-Tonenkoe line.

The reports from the front varied slightly. Some settlements have reportedly come under full Russian control, while fighting continued on the outskirts of the other villages. Any footage from the villages is yet to confirm the control by any of the warring sides, and the Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet declared control over the new settlements. However, it is already clear that the Ukrainian defense line west of Avdeevka has fallen.

Reports of the liberation of the villages of Orlovka and Tonenkoe by Russian forces came almost simultaneously.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Orlovka was one of the most important supply hubs for the Ukrainian garrison in Avdeevka. After the defeat in the city, the Ukrainians claimed that they had retreated to “the newly prepared defense lines”, where Orlovka appeared to be the central stronghold of the retreating Ukrainian garrison; but it turned out that Ukrainian defense was completely unable to contain the Russian offensive.

After the victory in Lastochkino, Russian troops continued their offensive in two directions, west to Orlovka and southwest, cutting the line of communication between Orlovka and Tonenkoe and took control of an important road junction in the southern part of Orlovka.

On the eve of another defeat, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, ordered his troops to maintain control of Orlovka; but rapidly advancing from two directions, Russian forces managed to repel the Ukrainian grouping from the village in a couple of days.

According to the latest data, the village came under full Russian control on the night of February 29. The final mop up and deming operations continue on the streets.

The remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated to the west towards Umanskoye, forced to move in an open area under fire from Russian artillery. According to reports from the front, the retreating Ukrainian forces were also shelled by friendly fire from Ukrainian artillery. Probably, the Ukrainian command made a mistake, but it is possible that this is how Ukrainian officers punish the retreating units.

The Ukrainian line of defense was supposed to lay in villages along the small river Durnaya. The river itself does not a significant obstacle to the advancing Russian troops, but it brought problems for the Ukrainian soldiers. The settlements on the river banks are located in the lowlands comparing to the Russian positions on the outskirts of Avdeevka. As a result, the retreating Ukrainian garrison was under constant close fire control of the Russian artillery and suffered heavy losses.

Berdychi, Orlovka and Tonenkoe are mostly located on the eastern bank of the river; unlike Semenovka, which remains under Ukrainian control on the western bank. Russian forces already control territories on the western bank to the north near Berdychi and to the south in the Orlovka area. If the Ukrainian command continues to resist, Ukrainian forces in Semenovka may soon be surrounded. Most likely, the remnants of the Ukrainian army there will retreat to save the military personnel and the village will soon come under Russian control.

The rapid Russian offensive showed that the defeat of the Ukrainian army was not an “organized withdrawal to more advantageous lines,” as it was declared by the Ukrainian military command, but it was a chaotic escape that had devastating consequences for the defense in the entire Donetsk direction.

Attempts by the Ukrainian military to hastily build a new line of defense along the eastern bank of the Durnaya River have failed. The remnants of the Ukrainian garrison are now forced to retreat to a new line of defense on the Netailovo-Umanskoye-Novoselovka Persha line, where their maneuverability will be significantly limited by the Karlovskoe Reservoir behind their backs, and the strongholds in these villages are located at a considerable distance from each other. There are no significant fortifications there, and the Ukrainian military is unlikely to have time to build them, since the pace of the Russian offensive is not slowing down.

Now, Ukrainian soldiers are forced to retreat across the fields under Russian fire. Anticipating the imminent retreat, the Ukrainian forces did not mine the fields. This gives the advancing Russian forces the opportunity to immediately continue their attacks to the new line of Ukrainian defense.

kfm27917

5th March 2024, 23:54

Guide To Ukraine's Long Range Attack Drones

http://www.hisutton.com/Ukraine-OWA-UAVs.html

shaberon

6th March 2024, 00:16

However. The “media-that-be” do not insist on repeating to us that “Israel”’s Matsadah myth (defending the fortress up to the last suicidal samurai) is actually a Samson myth (the suicidal samurai collapses the palace or temple roof onto the “zombies”) for nothing: yes, the Empire will fail, but it will follow the Zionihilist example and take the entire world with it.

Yes, of course it will--that is, it will drag down anything it can reach.

It's like the Israeli modification of martial arts, Krav Maga. It may be similar to Russian Samba, but, it emphasizes what do do when you lose control of motor functions from anger and fear.

You will be so insane that you will attack someone with your stomach, for example.

It certainly is an obsession with death.

I do not think the long-term future will allow this mental disease to continue, however, actually stopping it comes at a horrible, painful price. As of months ago, we have seen the confessions it goes on "even if the whole world turns against us"--what kind of a victory would that be, if you took over a few miles that is the Gaza strip and lost all your special treatment?

With still hundreds of miles of angry Arabs still going after you?

Either the Zionist entity is stopped, or, this conflict never ends.

Again, it is trivial, like a flea, in the sense that eliminating it would not damage anybody in the wider spheres. Ukraine was much more "hooks in" to the world economy, which is why the British would like to keep it. Israel has nothing but grandstanding statements and artificial beliefs that are an excuse for hatred.

As to what they can do to someone who is not corralled in an open-air prison, regarding Lebanon, they just get their rumps handed back to them. That is a prime example because the Lebanese government *is* a narrow oligarchy of western favoritists, who, of course, do not build a national military that can compete. Hence, private forces take over.

So, yes, the overall Plan is a complete and total failure because it can't possibly work, but, it can definitely destroy a lot of life while proving its inadequacy.

Ukraine is something more like The Rock of capitalism and theoretically divisive to Russia; Zion is little but Arab genocide. However the neighboring puppet governments may have been used divisively, we do, indeed, see a trend of shifts that let us know they have seen through it. "Something" will remain in the Middle East, although, yes, it might be along with a vast de-population.

shaberon

6th March 2024, 00:46

Ashkenazi Khazars (93% of the world “Jewry”) are fake “Jews.” They are the Turks from the Russian great mother, according to their own genetic research. They are not even Semites (half-black-half-white).

I have to harp on this whenever I see it, because, no, Ashkenazis are not Khazars.

Fantasy.

Roughly put, Israel was destroyed by Assyria. Around the 1600s, French and British Israelists decided "there must be Lost Tribes" and then on to "some of those tribes are us". But, let's face it, in the 1600s, the French and English were dumb as a box of rocks.

The remnants are the Mountain Jews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Jews) of Iran and the Caucasus. who have been sitting there the whole time. They have never been a source of civil strife. Probably because they were not under Catholic laws that heavily suppressed them.

The remainder, or, the southern part was the kingdom of Judea, however, this was taken over by Edom around 200 B. C. E., resulting in forced marriages, and ritual contamination of their holiness by non-Jews. It must be these Edomites that have steered the dialogue since then, because the Mountain Jews keep to themselves mostly.

It would be more correct on a mental and genetic basis to say that Jews are Edomites. That may not be remarkable on a DNA basis, such as a northern Turkish component would be, if it existed, which it does not.

The Protocols *do* address the right ideas, but they are ahistorical, it is not real information. More than likely, it was composed by the Tsarist Okhrana or Secret Service to expose/discredit this line of thinking.

That did not work, so, as the line continues, with ever-more misinformation tucked under its wing, then this does indeed become real:

Dumb Slavic people do not realize that the worst fascists are those who never and in no place proclaim fascism aloud, but, instead, organize it all supposedly according to the most democratic standards. On the contrary, we will make the very word “fascist” a dirty word.

Exactly.

Take out "Slavic" and you have the card that has been played on all of us.

The Slavs figured it out for themselves, the hard way. The Bolsheviks were perhaps not "democratic" enough, so the disguise was tuned up, and voila, the democratic Ukraine of Nu-land and perfidious contention that "Jews can't be Nazis".

Well, we can easily take some 150 years of Zionist deception and vaporize it with almost no effort.

Dismantling its War Industry is another matter, especially since many millions of my countrymen adore it. That alone is reason enough to say we cannot live under the same government. Might need to put New York in toxic bubble wrap. Anyone care to justify union with that state?

ExomatrixTV

6th March 2024, 01:48

Scott Ritter Joins On Putin's Warning To Nato, Nuland Resigns, Russia Puts Germany On Notice:

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Tintin

6th March 2024, 11:29

I have to harp on this whenever I see it, because, no, Ashkenazis are not Khazars.

Fantasy.

...and I'm glad you have :handshake:

And thanks for the historical reminders here too: your entire response to this is (typically) very good, and thankyou :highfive:

Vicus

6th March 2024, 18:19

Today I post this to celebrate!

Because this weapon was the ukros favorite to massacre the civil folk from Donbass...

Watching this video in full display made my day!

Ukrainian HIMARS destroyed in Donbass (VIDEO)

One of the US-supplied systems has been destroyed by a Russian high-precision strike, drone footage shows

A Ukrainian US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launcher has been destroyed in Russia’s Donbass, footage circulating online shows.

The video, shot by a surveillance drone, emerged on Tuesday. The HIMARS launcher was reportedly knocked out in the vicinity of the Ukrainian-controlled town of Dobropolye, more than 40km from the front line.

The launcher, as well as two other Ukrainian vehicles, was detected near a wooded area just as it apparently was being readied to fire. It was hit by an unspecified projectile, which caused the detonation of its ammo stock, as well as the uncontrolled launch of its missiles, the images show.

The explosion sparked multiple fires in the vicinity and completely obliterated the vehicle itself.

The systems have been widely celebrated by Ukraine as an ultimate weapon of sorts, given their ability to carry out high precision long-range strikes, while being able to promptly relocate to avoid counter-battery fire.

The launchers have been systematically used by Kiev’s forces against civilian targets and critical infrastructure in Donbass and elsewhere, including with controversial anti-personnel shrapnel munitions.

https://swentr.site/russia/593829-ukrainian-himars-destroyed-video/

shaberon

6th March 2024, 22:42

And thanks for the historical reminders here too: your entire response to this is (typically) very good, and thankyou :highfive:

I try not to be too harsh, since I think most posts are well-intentioned, but the internet is flooded with low-hanging fruit. Such as this whole Khazarian thing. At the bottom of all this, we have one basic contention:

In the Diaspora, Jews have been subject to repressive laws for basically all time.

So, it is not surprising they might have been a bit rebellious in Europe, as was the case under Roman governors of Palestine.

European reactions were so severe, the Jews mostly abandoned western Europe, and became numerically stronger in Ukraine around the 1600s. Those are Ashkenazis. It's not a Khazarian Black Nobility hiding under the radar for 500 years. More like a human cattle drive.

Only at that point do you find European sympathy towards Jews, as if they did have human rights and ought to be treated like normal people, and this sympathy engendered most of the conflicts since then. Then from Ukraine, to Israel, starting in the late 1800s as a fairly transparent social engineering.

The whole premise backing it--before the big move--is simply called Israelism, a belief in the significance of the Lost Tribes.

Wiki is somewhat convoluted here, since the page for French Israelism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Israelism#:~:text=French%20Israelism%20(also%20called%20Franco,of%20the%20Tribe%20of%20Benjam in.) lacks:

... the French Huguenot magistrate M. le Loyer's The Ten Lost Tribes, published in 1590, provided one of the earliest expressions of the belief...

which is posted on the page for British Israelism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Israelism#:~:text=British%20Israelism%20(also%20called%20Anglo,Lost%20Tribes%20of%20ancient% 20Israel.).

That is simply hand-in-glove with the first Bible translations coming from Switzerland in the 1560s. New Bible translations = Protestant injections of Israelism that are not possible for Catholicism. So this festers on the private side for a while, until it gets the attention of governments who put it right to work.

It doesn't come from any government, and it doesn't come from the Jews. It's nothing but a speculation, based on nothing, some 1500 years after the distant events on which it claims to be based.

Orthodox counties are clean, they don't have this problem.

Of course, Talmudic Judaism may contain various dirty tricks which are understandable after many episodes of conflict, but, it has no policy of mass emigration, and it has no power base whatsoever. All of that was handed over by complicit, supposedly Christian power structures. As we know, yes, the best thing is to be able to enslave someone on a voluntary basis. That is why I think these are very dangerous beliefs that have no scriptural basis.

And yes, the British formulation interprets Germans and Russians as racial enemies, Christianity notwithstanding.

This is extremely popular in America. We just had a spat of John Birch in the Israeli thread. Yes, of course, anyone can shape a mountain of data and statistics to give voice to whatever they want--but if the thesis is flawed, the data are irrelevant and misleading.

Does this lead to anyone re-evaluating their beliefs?

Again, the disturbing thing is not just what is believed, but the rigor mortis of the mental grasp on it. That is totally my experience every time I have encountered this camp.

Russia, at least, has the capability to de-Nazify Ukraine. Elsewhere, I am not so sure.

Bill Ryan

6th March 2024, 23:39

A nurse returns from the SMO after 9 months and surprises her daughter in her college dorm

:heart:

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/103519

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Bill Ryan

7th March 2024, 14:31

From The Moon of Alabama. (And well said, too)

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-cookie-monster-retires.html

Ukraine - Cookie Monster Retires

A big fat rat is leaving the ship.

One might interpret this as the State Department's admittance of defeat in the U.S. war against Russia in Ukraine:

On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland (https://www.state.gov/on-the-retirement-of-under-secretary-of-state-for-political-affairs-victoria-nuland/) - Anthony Blinken / State Department, Mar 5 2024
Victoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – a role in which she has personified President Biden’s commitment to put diplomacy back at the center of our foreign policy and revitalize America’s global leadership at a crucial time for our nation and the world.
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[I]t’s Toria’s leadership on Ukraine that diplomats and students of foreign policy will study for years to come. Her efforts have been indispensable to confronting Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, marshaling a global coalition to ensure his strategic failure, and helping Ukraine work toward the day when it will be able to stand strongly on its own feet – democratically, economically, and militarily.
...
President Biden and I have asked our Under Secretary for Management John Bass to serve as Acting Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until Toria’s replacement is confirmed.Victoria Nuland, a member of the neo-conservative Kagan clan (https://asiatimes.com/2021/12/neocons-bent-on-starting-another-disaster-in-ukraine/), is only 62 years old - too young to retire regularly.

She will be remembered for handing out cookies to anti-government demonstrators in Ukraine and for installing the 2014 coup regime (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957).

That has been her main project in the State Department. But the 2014 Maidan putsch that turn the Ukraine into a battering ram against Russia, has ended in a complete failure.

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Neither was Russia 'weakened (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/russia-weakedend-lloyd-austin-ukraine)' by the war nor has Ukraine any perspective to survive but as some Russian controlled land-locked backwater country in Europe's east.

Given that billions were spent on Ukraine with little controls and nothing to show for Nuland, and her family, have certainly made a bit on the side. One wonders if any of the ongoing and coming investigations into the black hole Ukraine will leave them unscarred.

As even Guardian commentators are now waking up (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/nato-ukraine-russia-germany-military-leak) to the mess they helped create it is high time for European politicians to also finally accept this reality:
Western Europe has no conceivable interest in escalating the Ukraine war through a long-range missile exchange. While it should sustain its logistical support for Ukrainian forces, it has no strategic interest in Kyiv’s desire to drive Russia out of the majority Russian-speaking areas of Crimea or Donbas. It has every interest in assiduously seeking an early settlement and starting the rebuilding of Ukraine. As for the west’s “soft power” sanctions on Russia, they have failed miserably, disrupting the global trading economy in the process. Sanctions may be beloved of western diplomats and thinktanks. They may even hurt someone – not least Britain’s energy users – but they have not devastated the Russian economy or changed Putin’s mind. This year Russia’s growth rate is expected to exceed Britain’s.
The crass ineptitude of a quarter of a century of western military interventions should have taught us some lessons. Apparently not.

Bruce G Charlton

7th March 2024, 15:03

It is difficult to know what really are the aims of the neo-con/ Kagan cult inside their minds. I'm sure that weakening Russia is one of these aims, and that plan has failed.

But... I suspect that they are absolutely delighted by the annihilation, crippling, suffering, and removal abroad of so many millions of those Slavic, Orthodox Russian-ethnics and cousins of the Russians, who (until recently) inhabited Ukraine - and similarly pleased the absolute destruction of Ukraine as a viable nation.

So it seems likely that VN is regarded as a major success and a great heroine among those whose good opinion she most craves.

Vicus

7th March 2024, 16:48

What Helped Russia's T-72B3 Tank Destroy Ukraine’s Abrams? 23 minutes ago

https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e8/03/07/1117192071_0:160:3072:1888_1920x0_80_0_0_e788d64046801d947fe76df46af38e9b.jpg

The T-72B3’s performance characteristics added significantly to the tank's ability to make Ukraine’s Abrams bite the dust on the battlefield, Russian military expert Alexander Bartosh told Sputnik.

A US-supplied M1Abrams tank was recently destroyed in Ukraine by a single shot from Russia’s T-72B3 tank, the third such armed vehicle that has been obliterated in the special military operation zone in the past several weeks.

Several major factors, including the crew’s skill and intelligence work, added to the T-72B3 winning a first duel against the Abrams, Russian expert Alexander Bartosh at the Center for Military-Diplomatic Analysis and Assessments of the League of Military Diplomats said in an interview with Sputnik.

Another aspect is Russian military technical specialists, who very accurately identified the Abrams' vulnerabilities and calculated how and where the T-72B3 should fire, according to Bartosh.
He explained that “it’s necessary to hit the Abrams’ area between the turret and the hull, so that the tank can suffer severe and irreparable damage, after which it will be unable to run on the battlefield or carry out combat missions.”

Last but not least, the performance characteristics of the T-72B3, which is equipped with "an excellent gun and special equipment, made it possible to destroy the Abrams with the first shot," the Russian expert pointed out.

The T-72B3's ability to obliterate the "miraculous Abrams" with one shot shows the professionalism of the Russian military and "the inability of America and Western countries to endanger Russia," Bartosh stressed.
When asked whether the destruction of the third Abrams will affect the West’s drive to send more similar armed vehicles to Ukraine, Bartosh said that Western countries’ resolve "has already been shaken," not least because the destruction of the Abrams and the Leopards is “a serious blow to the competitiveness of Western firms."

On the whole, the Russian military-industrial complex shows its superiority - when it comes to both tanks and aircraft – over Ukraine’s Western-supplied equipment, the expert pointed out.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240307/what-helped-russias-t-72b3-tank-destroy-ukraines-abrams-1117192733.html

Vicus

7th March 2024, 17:02

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG2sq95z7Gk

1hour ago

Codename: Operation Golden Fish | The Full Front Scenario of Russia's Upcoming Summer Offensive

Vicus comment:

Just speculations,what IF...this way or that way... etc... but interesting...

Michel Leclerc

7th March 2024, 20:49

Jaak

7th March 2024, 21:56

Military recruiters want to mobilize a lumberjack from a horse in Chernivtsi, but his buddy arrives in Lada and crashes into the recruiters!

He then attacks them with the axe!

You can hear cursing and phrases like “Recruiters took one son from us and he’s now MIA”

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1765842933251465659
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Ravenlocke

8th March 2024, 02:11

Rus Destroys Odessa Drone Base,
Novomikhailovka Falling;
NATO Plays w/ Fire,
EU Saudi & Sudan Shells

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Ravenlocke

8th March 2024, 02:19

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1765792759426764967

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Former Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny has been appointed as Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on its official website.

"On Thursday, March 7, [Volodymyr Zelensky] approved the candidacy of Valery Zaluzhny for the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," the statement read.

There had been much speculation regarding General Zaluzhny's next steps following his ousting from command last month. Many interpreted his removal as stemming from Zelensky's disappointment over the Ukrainian forces' unsuccessful counteroffensive last summer. Additionally, concerns over Zaluzhny becoming a political rival given his popularity in Ukraine were also thought to have played a role.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1765853288275005492

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Ravenlocke

8th March 2024, 02:37

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Which 2023 event was the most vivid and memorable for Vladimir Putin?

At a meeting with female pilots of the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School, the Russian president explained that for him, that the most significant things happened on the battlefield in the special operation zone.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1765726243494724093

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Ravenlocke

8th March 2024, 03:04

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Moldova is planning to arrest the head of the autonomous region of Gagauzia, Evgenia Gutsul, after her return from Russia, according to opposition politician Ilan Shor.

"We have insider information that they are preparing to arrest Yevgenia Gutsul right at the airport," Shor said.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1765747358514524475

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Moldova's threats to the head of the Gagauz autonomous region, Yevgenia Gutsul, show that Moldovan President Maia Sandu is using the rule of law for political settling of scores and pressure, Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"Sandu is no longer even ashamed of her actions, although everyone understands perfectly well that she uses the rule of law for exactly the opposite purposes of the law... as an element of political settling of scores, pressure", Zakharova said.

According to Zakharova, under the guise of democracy, the Sandu administration is trying to build a dictatorship on its territory.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1765781546366112116

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The head of Moldova's autonomous region of Gagauzia, Evgenia Gutsul, intends to raise the issue of infringement of the rights and freedoms of the Gagauz people at the UN.

“I raised the question of the possibility of discussing at the UN the infringement of the Gagauz people and pressure from the central authorities of Moldova. We need to draw the attention of the international diplomatic community to the arbitrariness occurring in our so-called 'democratic' country,” Gutsul wrote on social media.

Earlier, during the meeting with Russian senior lawmaker Valentina Matvienko, Gutaul said the rights of Gagauzians are being suppressed by Moldova's central government.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1765801237025259712

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Ravenlocke

8th March 2024, 03:30

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🇺🇦 Kharkov Region has announced forced and mandatory evacuation from a number of settlements in the Kupyansk direction

This was reported by the local governor Sinegubov.

Parents with children must leave 18 settlements in Velikoburluk and Olkhovatska communities. And all residents must leave another 55 settlements, the names of which are not given.

@ukraine_watch
https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1765811006700134425

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Vicus

8th March 2024, 16:49

Medvedev: We Would Have Hit 'Genital Musician' Zelensky if We Wanted to Mar 7, 2024

Ukrainian president became famous for playing the piano with no hands. :chuckle:

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Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s national security council, addressed the recent missile strike that landed near Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Odesa and said there was no planned attack on the motorcade.

“If a target had been set, they would have hit it,” he said, according to TASS.

Medvedev also mocked Zelensky and referenced the time the Ukrainian Churchill” played the piano with his penis.

He called Zelensky a “cocaine shadow of his master, a blind anti–Russian weapon.” He also called Zelensky a “genital musician,” referencing his experience playing the piano with no hands.

https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/medvedev-we-would-have-hit-genital

Vicus

8th March 2024, 17:13

US embassy warns of ‘imminent’ attack in Moscow 7 Mar, 2024

Diplomats have urged American citizens to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours

The US Embassy in Moscow has warned that “extremists” are plotting attacks in the Russian capital that could happen within the next few days.

“The embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and US citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours,” the diplomatic mission said in a statement on its website in the early hours of Friday local time.

It urged Americans to stay vigilant and “monitor local media for updates.” The embassy did not provide any additional details about the alert.

The Russian authorities have not commented on the notice yet.

The alert comes at a time of heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington. On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned American Ambassador Lynne Tracy, demanding that the embassy cut all ties with three US-funded NGOs whose work was recently banned in Russia.

The Foreign Ministry further threatened to expel “any US Embassy employees” who will attempt “to interfere in the domestic affairs of the Russian Federation, including subversive campaigns and misinformation” in the context of the conflict in Ukraine and the upcoming presidential election in Russia.

https://swentr.site/russia/593951-us-embassy-attack-moscow-alert/

Vicus

8th March 2024, 17:30

Taurus Missiles to Not Be Decisive for Ukraine Crisis, Germany to Not Cross Line - Official 6 hours ago

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BERLIN (Sputnik) - Long-range Taurus missiles will not be decisive for the conflict in Ukraine and will only help in certain areas, but Germany does not intend to cross this line, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Friday.

After a conversation between four high-ranking German military officers discussing possible supply of long-range Taurus missiles to Kiev was leaked last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz once again ruled out supplying the missiles to Ukraine since it could require the presence of German troops on the ground to help deploy them.

"Nobody wants to send troops into Ukraine. Of course, such discussions continue. But they should stop. Now let's move on to another aspect —long-range missiles. We have always emphasized that such long-range missiles will not solve this [crisis]," Pistorius said at a joint press conference with Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen.

Such missiles "could help at one point or another" at the front, but Germany does not intend to "cross the decisive line" and is not ready to supply Taurus missiles, the minister added.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240308/taurus-missiles-to-not-be-decisive-for-ukraine-crisis-germany-to-not-cross-line---official-1117209292.html?rcmd_alg=collaboration2

Vicus

8th March 2024, 17:37

Why Ukrainian Fortifications Are Not as Good as Russian Ones

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Having liberated the city of Avdeyevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic last month, Russian forces continue advancing further to the west, driving away the Kiev regime forces who try to halt their march.

The Ukrainian forces’ inability to stabilize the front line in the wake of Avdeyevka’s liberation has already been attributed by some Western media outlets to the poor quality of fortifications the Kiev regime forces hastily constructed in the field.
The New York Times, for example, described these fortifications as “sparse, rudimentary trench lines” that “lack many of the additional fortifications that could help slow Russian tanks and help defend major roads and important terrain.”
The newspaper also pointed out that the Ukrainian fortifications are a far cry from the defensive lines that helped the Russian troops defeat the overhyped Ukrainian counteroffensive last year.
While the Ukrainian government has allocated some $34 million for the construction of fortifications in areas of the Zaporozhye region currently controlled by Kiev regime forces, it remains unclear how effective this effort is going to be, said military analyst and retired colonel of the Russian Armed Forces Anatoliy Matviychuk.

With Ukraine’s military-industrial complex in tatters, Kiev simply lacks the capability to produce components needed for the construction of fortifications, Matviychuk explained.

“So they dig into the ground, try to create some obstacle zones that are simply not effective and do not match the criteria of modern warfare,” he said. “They fail in both the quality and the quantity of such fortifications that they build along their defensive lines.”

Today, Ukraine lacks the ability to create multi-layered defensive positions akin to those built by Russia, featuring anti-personnel and anti-tank minefields and dragon’s teeth fortifications, and the shipments of materials from the West are not enough to help Kiev bridge that gap.

“We [Russia] could lay between 500 to 1,000 mines per one kilometer of front line, we established lines of dragon’s teeth with gaps no more than one-and-a-half meter wide, which would not allow modern main battle tanks to pass without special engineering assistance,” Matviychuk added. “Today, Ukraine cannot do that.”

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240307/why-ukrainian-fortifications-are-not-as-good-as-russian-ones-1117196522.html?rcmd_alg=collaboration2

Ravenlocke

9th March 2024, 01:47

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🇷🇺588th Night Light Bomber Women's Aviation Regiment

During the Second World War, the Soviet Union became one of the few states in the world that not only recruited women into the armed forces, but also formed them into full-fledged combat units. Among them was the 588th Night Aviation Regiment.

From 1941 to 1945, pilots of the air regiment made 23,672 missions, destroying Wehrmacht combat positions and equipment in the Caucasus, Kuban, Crimea, Belarus, Poland and Germany. For exclusively night flights and the practice of turning off engines during a dive, the Germans nicknamed Soviet pilots “night witches.”

🏅 For their bravery the women's 588th night air regiment was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov, III degree, and since 1943 the air wing has been awarded the name "Guards".

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Ravenlocke

9th March 2024, 01:56

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A full-size van with 34 men of conscription age who hoped to avoid mobilization was stopped near the Romanian border in Ukraine, the Ukrainian newspaper “Strana” reported on its Telegram channel, citing a local source.

According to media reports, the draft dodgers paid 10,000 euros each for a chance to cross into the neighboring country illegally to avoid fighting for the Kiev regime.

Ukrainian telegram channels later posted a video of the brutal detention where the men are forced to lie down on top of each other after being pulled out of the car and beaten.

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9th March 2024, 02:04

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's idea to hold a peace summit with Russia's participation.

"We don't see Russian representatives at such a summit," Zelensky said at a joint conference with the Turkish leader in Istanbul, reiterating his old thesis that a peace plan should be prepared by other countries without Moscow's participation - an idea already repeatedly rejected by Russia.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara is ready to host a peace summit on Ukraine with Russia's participation. He recalled that the Black Sea Initiative prevented a global food crisis.

According to the Kremlin, the conflict in Ukraine can move to a peaceful course if the de facto situation and new realities are taken into account, and all of Moscow's demands are well known.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said later that if Ukraine wants a negotiation process, performative gestures are not the way. It is necessary to cancel the decree prohibiting negotiations with Russia. According to the president, Russia has never been against the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine by peaceful means, but insists on the observance of Russian security guarantees.

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9th March 2024, 02:11

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9th March 2024, 02:18

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Scott Ritter on Biden’s State of the Union address: ‘America's running away from Ukraine’

“Instead of a State of the Union address, the US Congress and indeed the American people were treated to a rousing campaign speech which POTUS was using to kick off the 2024 presidential election campaign,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and independent military analyst Scott Ritter tells Sputnik.

Citing Joe Biden as saying during the address that America “will not walk away from Ukraine”, Ritter notes that “in many ways, the 46th US president is right.”

“Biden didn't walk away from Ukraine. He ran away from there, straight into issues about domestic politics because it's a campaign address, not a State of the Union speech,” the ex-US Marine Corps intelligence officer insists.

“America's running away from Ukraine. And that's the reality,” Ritter said, adding that “people need to understand” that the next months will see Biden “almost singularly focused on domestic American policy, trying to differentiate himself from [Donald Trump].”

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Ravenlocke

9th March 2024, 02:25

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Biden and Blinken chose a China hater over their chief Russophobe. This may have pushed her over the edge

The forthcoming resignation of US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has given rise to various theories as to the reason for her unexpected departure from the State Department. Moscow believes it’s due to the failure of the “anti-Russian course” and of the overall American “Ukrainian project.” As well as that, eyes in Washington are turning to the nomination of Kurt Campbell, currently responsible for Indo-Pacific policy, to the role of second-ranking official in the State Department. The media and analysts interpret this as evidence that Asia is becoming Washington’s top priority against the backdrop of declining US interest in Ukraine.

Nuland’s announcement came as a surprise to many. The veteran US diplomat, who played an active part in the 2014 Maidan events in Ukraine, is remembered not only for handing out cookies in Kiev, but also for her involvement in major international crises and conflicts in recent decades.

Her record of more than 35 years at the US State Department under various administrations looks more impressive than the CV of the current secretary of state, Mr Blinken. On Tuesday, Blinken himself rushed to pay tribute to Nuland’s achievements and solemnly escorted her out of the State Department and straight into the history and diplomacy books. Recalling that she had served under six presidents and ten secretaries of state, Blinken argued that in her last post in the Joe Biden administration she had embodied the desire to restore “America’s global leadership.”

The head of the State Department paid special attention to the role played by Nuland in the formation of the anti-Russia coalition after the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, calling her efforts indispensable, and saying they will be studied by future diplomats and students.

The main task that Nuland has been working on in recent years, he said, was the “strategic defeat” of Russia and helping Ukraine “to stand on its own feet democratically, economically and militarily.” But despite all her experience and influence, it seems Blinken didn’t try to dissuade her from resigning.

The news triggered an avalanche of reactions from leading Russian politicians, diplomats, experts and the media.

According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Nuland was forced to resign because of the failure of Biden’s course on Russia.

“This is a failure of the policy associated with Nuland, because she was the central figure who pursued a Russophobic policy towards our country, the whole story was tied to Nuland,” Zakharova said. According to her, the outgoing US deputy secretary of state was “not just a high-ranking representative of the State Department, but a key figure in US interagency cooperation.”

“She was a coordinator of anti-Russian sentiment and anti-Russian policy by the United States, especially in the context of Ukraine. I can’t say that she was an ideologue. There are people out there who hate us more, but she really was a coordinator, she is associated with that policy. And that is how they said goodbye to her,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

Meanwhile, a theory has emerged in Washington that Nuland’s resignation was the result of a power struggle in which she lost the race for the post of first deputy foreign policy chief.

Some pundits see a battle of narratives, with behind-the-scenes jockeying of personalities. All part of a dispute over the long-term shape of US foreign policy and its priorities.

It should be recalled that after Wendy Sherman resigned last summer as US deputy secretary of state, her duties were carried out for six months by Nuland. At the end of last year, however, the White House made the unexpected decision to nominate Campbell, another veteran of American diplomacy, for the second post in the diplomatic service. Campbell, who does not have as big a name in the diplomatic world as Nuland, has made his career not in the Euro-Atlantic but in the Indo-Pacific region.

“Ms. Nuland was considered the natural candidate to replace Ms. Sherman on a permanent basis. But Mr Blinken nominated Kurt Campbell, the former National Security Council representative for Asia,” the New York Times commented on the reshuffle. James Carden, a former US State Department official, told RIA Novosti: “I was actually surprised that she lasted as long as she did. I realised her time was up when Kurt Campbell got the second-ranked job at the department.” In a Senate vote on 6 February, his nomination received broad bipartisan support: 92 senators voted in favour, with five voting against.

“President Biden’s choice of Kurt Campbell signals a desire to continue the efforts begun by his predecessors decades ago to shift the focus of US foreign policy to China as the major challenge facing America in the future,” AP commented on the reshuffle.

“Kurt Campbell played a key role in developing President Barack Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’ into President Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy,” Yuri Tavrovsky, chairman of the expert council of the Russian-Chinese Friendship, Peace and Development Committee, told Kommersant.

“In practical terms, he was particularly active in the creation of the anti-Chinese military bloc AUKUS (Australia, the UK and the US) and in strengthening the military component of the QUAD group (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue - Australia, India, the US and Japan,” Tavrovsky said. “The appointment of Campbell to the second-highest post in the State Department demonstrates the White House’s long-term course of containing China, despite words and gestures that look like a desire for reconciliation.”

Thus, according to Mr Tavrovsky, “the second place in the State Department went not to the greatest hater of Russia, but to the greatest hater of China.”

Ravenlocke

9th March 2024, 02:29

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shaberon

9th March 2024, 04:12

It is difficult to know what really are the aims of the neo-con/ Kagan cult inside their minds. I'm sure that weakening Russia is one of these aims, and that plan has failed.

It's not terribly complicated.

As you know, once, the United States severed its relationship to Britain, in a way that was mostly due to Parliament.

Around that time, within Britain, was a marriage of scriptural Israelism with Imperialism--result, mindless abhorrence of Russia. That could have vanished with the marriage of the future queen to the man she really liked, but, of course, "mom and pop won't hear of it".

To generalize, from what I can tell, this type of Millenialist belief in scripture was started/avidly followed by maybe about 1/3, then there was another 1/3 who were aware of and opposed it, and about a remaining 1/3 who don't know/stay out of it.

At the time, it meant very little to America. With the advent of steam power, it was around the 1850s that the Americans got into China. The reaction on the part of some commanders was sheer horror: there are so many Chinese, they're going to take over the world. This is still the same today, call it John Birch.

With the re-marriage of America to Britain in the late 1800s, the freakish ideas became one.

Ever since then, our entire language is based on marginalization and othering, particularly of Russians and Chinese. The people in power today have never been in a situation understood as anything other than dominating threats.

That's all they know.

Nothing is "working" in those noggins, it's a tired old script, like an endless loop on a player piano.

Now, for a quick word on why Russia doesn't turn on or even use a lot of equipment, from Singapore (https://southfront.press/singapore-inadvertently-reveals-more-about-direct-us-involvement-in-ukraine/):

It’s an axiom that the United States is deeply involved in the Ukrainian conflict. In fact, the warmongering elites in Washington DC initiated it a decade ago, just as they either started or are covertly behind virtually every single conflict in modern history. War is the only industry that still functions in America, which explains its obsession with death and destruction. And yet, we have reached the point when profit doesn’t really matter, as the consequences of direct confrontation with a country like Russia will most certainly nullify the very logic of profiteering. In other words, who stands to gain from blowing up the world? What’s the point of having money and power if all of it burns in a thermonuclear apocalypse that would be over in around 15-20 minutes? And yet, the political West keeps playing precisely with such a scenario.

Although arms shipments can certainly be considered direct involvement, Moscow chose not to use it to escalate the conflict. It should be noted that it certainly could, especially because NATO personnel are often operating these weapons. And yet, the US-led political West keeps pushing the boundaries toward ever more direct involvement, including with the usage of ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) assets against the Russian military. The battlefield data acquired by these platforms is then relayed to the Kiev regime forces which use it to attack not only Moscow’s troops, but also civilians in Donbass and former regions of southern Ukraine. The exact number of casualties is yet to be determined, but it’s most likely in the thousands. This is yet another proof that NATO only wants death and destruction.

This time, a rather unlikely source revealed the extent of US/NATO aggression in Europe. Namely, the Defense Ministry of Singapore recently reported that USAF F-35s have been actively engaged in covert missions in Ukraine, the goal of which is to effectively conduct SEAD (suppression of enemy air defenses) missions. In other words, American F-35s are flying around Ukraine and using their sensors to pinpoint the location of Russian SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems. Needless to say, these are then relayed to the Kiev regime forces, which use them to attack the Russian military or find ways to circumvent its air defenses. NATO certainly has extensive SEAD capabilities, as it’s been mastering them in various illegal invasions and its general aggression against the world, particularly in the last several decades.

“In recent activities, the United States has mobilized its F-35s to identify the deployment of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems within Ukraine. The gathered intelligence is subsequently disseminated to NATO countries,” Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said at a session of the Parliamentary Committee on Public Procurement.

Hen’s statement came after the February 28 announcement that Singapore would acquire F-35A fighters in addition to the previously ordered F-35B variant. The main difference between the two is that the latter is a STOVL (short take-off, vertical landing) aircraft. The Pentagon didn’t even bother to deny the revelations, with one of its spokespeople declining to comment, insisting that “it’s not their place to speak for Singapore’s MOD [Ministry of Defence] or try to clarify [its] comments”. Rather interestingly, the spokesperson added that the US doesn’t fly F-35s in Ukraine. It should be noted that this isn’t a denial of their usage. Namely, the US fighter jet has a plethora of sensors that can be used outside of Ukrainian airspace. Hen’s revelations about this are part of the procurement process that aims to justify the F-35B’s enormous acquisition costs.

It’s still unclear if the statement by the Singaporean MoD is simply inadvertent or just a peculiar marketing strategy that the Pentagon wants to use to increase foreign sales. In addition, it’s not the first time F-35s are being used in this capacity. According to military sources, the jets were forward deployed to Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany since February 16, 2022, which was around a week before the special military operation (SMO). The USAF’s 388th Fighter Wing and its Reserve’s 419th Fighter Wing were the first units deployed to the region. Their primary mission was ELINT (electronic intelligence) gathering on Russian positions, with a particular focus on air defense systems. At the time, the Pentagon made similar statements about their supposed “non-involvement in Ukraine”, insisting they’re “merely observing”.

“We weren’t crossing the border. We’re not shooting anything or dropping anything. But the jet is always sensing, gathering information. And it was doing that very, very well… We had all hoped it was going to work like it’s supposed to, but then to see it actually perform very, very well in that role was great,” commander of the 388th Fighter Wing Colonel Craig Andrle said in an interview in early 2023, adding that they also faced issues with Russian EW (electronic warfare) systems: “We’re looking at an SA-20 [S-300PMU-1/2]. I know it’s an SA-20. Intel says there’s an SA-20 there, but now my jet doesn’t ID it as such, because that SA-20 is operating, potentially, in a war reserve mode that we haven’t seen before.”

This was also confirmed by the 388th Operations Group commander Colonel Brad Bashore, who also commented on collecting battlefield data on Russian SAM systems.

“We don’t have a ton of weapons where we can decimate the entire space. We’re sharing data and making sure that everybody has awareness — surface-to-air and air-to-air — of what’s out there in the environment,” Bashore said, adding: “They’re doing the same thing that we’re doing. We just looked at each other… No direct interaction and nothing that was unprofessional on either side.”

It should be noted that, while the F-35 is certainly an embarrassment for the US in terms of its flight performance and an absolutely atrocious track record, the jet is a potent ISR platform that can be used in various “non-kinetic” ways. ELINT is just one of them and it can certainly be beneficial to the Neo-Nazi junta forces that are having a lot of trouble with Russia’s second-to-none air defenses. However, this can lead to Moscow’s (rightful) anger and even a direct response, as pairing the F-35’s sensors with the strike capabilities of long-range weapons such as the ATACMS can be quite a challenge for the Russian military. And while it’s certainly not the end of the world for the Kremlin, the range of such missiles means that Russia needs to invest even more in SAM systems and other air defenses, as the Kiev regime has the habit of attacking civilian areas.

Bruce G Charlton

9th March 2024, 10:50

@Shaberon - I don't personally believe that historical explanations are sufficient - and, in particular, it seems to me that the nature of dominating evil has changed over the centuries (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120761-The-nature-of-evil-in-the-modern-world).

Indeed, the brand of evil to which VN allies herself has changed from one that wanted to bring the whole world under a tyrannical totalitarian control, to an evil that is spitefully destructive - even when that destruction strongly tends to destabilize, and will eventually end, the globalist totalitarian project.

In a phrase: destruction now trumps control.

(Destruction even trumps self-enrichment and luxury in the medium to long term: the ravaged world that is wanted will be poorer, more dangerous, and much less comfortable for everybody.)

It is the difference between wanting to control a functioning Russia, and wanting to destroy the livelihood, lives and actual physical land of Russians (and - eventually - everybody). This destructive mania is why not just ancient enemies, but even Israel, has been set-up for annihilation.

One great danger is that, for such people, all-in nuclear war* would be a feature - not a bug.

*Although I wonder quite seriously how many of the nuclear bombs and missiles would actually work if they were used - probably nothing like so many as is supposed... But I'd rather not find-out.

ExomatrixTV

9th March 2024, 21:05

Pumping more money into the war in Ukraine has become a money laundering exercise to feed the military industrial complex. If we really cared about Ukraine we'd do something to bring Peace, but we've opposed dialogue and diplomacy and wasted billions supporting this #US #NATO Proxy War.

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Ravenlocke

10th March 2024, 16:59

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Residents of #Mariupol - those who managed to escape the clutches of the Neo-Nazis - tell the TRUTH about the way they were treated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and about the atrocities of the infamous Neo-Nazi "Azov" Battalion, who shelled and punished civilians. And in contrast, how the Russian military assisted.

The Truth that the mainstream media will never show or tell.

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Ravenlocke

10th March 2024, 17:05

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🇨🇿🇺🇦 The Czechs want to take part in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but only in a covert way

One of the possible options for Prague's assistance to Kiev is to send its instructors to train AFU recruits. In this case, however, Czech soldiers would become legitimate targets for the Russian Armed Forces, according to Lidovky.

As soon as Czech soldiers cross the Ukrainian border to help the AFU, they will become a legitimate target for Russia,
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Ravenlocke

10th March 2024, 17:15

🇪🇺 NATO is divided. Italy has taken umbrage at French and Polish plans to send troops to Ukraine.

Paris and Warsaw cannot talk about sending forces to Ukraine on behalf of the entire alliance. This was pointed out by the head of the Italian defence ministry, Guido Crozetto.

According to him, the deployment of military forces would be a step towards unilateral escalation, which would 'erase the path of diplomacy'. Crozetto believes that the West must help Ukraine by other means, by activating diplomatic channels.

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Ravenlocke

10th March 2024, 17:27

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❗️In the Donetsk area, Ukrainian losses amounted to 280 people, 11 armored vehicles and two warehouse.

🇷🇺🪖 Other statements from the Russian Defense Ministry briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In South Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to over 150 soldiers;

▪️In the Avdeyevka area, Russian forces occupied more advantageous positions and repeled two attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 310 soldiers and 16 armored vehicles;

▪️In the Kupyansk area, Ukrainian losses amounted to over 110 soldiers;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down three Ukrainian HIMARS missiles and destroyed 130 drones.

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10th March 2024, 17:30

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France and Poland cannot speak on behalf of NATO, and the alliance's intervention in the conflict "will erase the path to diplomacy," Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said, commenting on the idea of Paris sending troops to Ukraine and statements on the subject from Warsaw.

"France and Poland cannot speak on behalf of NATO, which has not formally and voluntarily intervened in the conflict from the very beginning. Sending troops to Kiev means a step towards a unilateral escalation that will erase the path to diplomacy," he stated.

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10th March 2024, 17:36

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Boris Johnson travelled to Venezuela, threatened Nicolás Maduro to “embrace democracy” and support Ukraine

The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom made a secret trip to Venezuela in February for unofficial talks with President Nicolás Maduro, The Times reported.

According to the newspaper, the former PM spoke with the President about the Ukraine crisis and normalizing relations with Britain, which still questions the legitimacy of Maduro’s administration.

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Pope Francis urges Zelensky to save lives, find “courage of the white flag” to end Donbass conflict

Pope Francis said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should resume negotiations with Russia, urging the leader to work with international mediators to negotiate an end to fighting in the Donbass.

“The word negotiate is a courageous word,” said the Pope in an excerpt from an interview recorded last month. “When you see that you are defeated, that things are not going well, you have to have the courage to negotiate.”

“I think that the strongest one is the one who looks at the situation, thinks about the people and has the courage of the white flag, and negotiates,” the cleric insisted.

On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to host a summit between Ukraine and Russia, a prospect that’s undermined by a decree issued by Zelensky in late 2022 forbidding negotiations with Russia. Zelensky instantly rejected Erdogan's idea.

The development took place after at least two attempts by Putin to negotiate an end to hostilities early in the conflict. Both rounds of negotiations were scuttled by the United States, which intervened to end separate diplomatic efforts involving then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in 2022. The US role came to light in media reports emerging shortly after.

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Ravenlocke

10th March 2024, 17:40

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US President Joe Biden has admitted that American invasions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine (!) were mistakes.

“But we shouldn't have gone into Ukraine. I mean, we shouldn't have gone into the whole thing in Iraq and Afghanistan,” muttered Biden in an interview with liberal news outlet MSNBC.

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10th March 2024, 17:52

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What does the US have to do to end the Ukraine conflict? Stop supporting Kiev

At least that's what former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor, wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

McGregor said that to stop the fighting, the United States must stop supplying Ukraine with any aid. Also, according to him, Washington must inform Moscow of its desire to resolve the conflict as quickly as possible and notify its allies about this. He argued that negotiations between Moscow and Kiev will bring an end to the conflict.

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Why Poland is seeking to strip Ukraine of EU trade benefits

"The fact that Poland has changed its attitude to [Ukraine's] agricultural benefits at a state level is an indicator of the effectiveness of the farmer protests," Peter Kolchin, a political analyst, told Sputnik.

Polish farmers have been protesting against the import of products from Ukraine since late January. They are also demanding that the EU's climate policies be reverted. Thousands of Polish farmers have been seen blockading the border with Ukraine, throwing away Ukrainian grain and even carrying slogans urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to "put things in order" in Brussels and Warsaw.

In response, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has proposed stripping Ukraine of EU trade benefits and modulating Brussels' climate policies.

The chances of Brussels okaying Warsaw's ideas are very low, according to Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod, professor of economics at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Spain. Kolchin argued that Brussels may only lend a sympathetic ear to Tusk's ideas given that farmer protests have engulfed the whole EU.

The experts agreed that Warsaw's protectionist measures could create a precedent for the rest of the EU. If Ukraine's trade benefits are canceled, that could deal a heavy blow to the Kiev regime.

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▪️Ukraine is suffering huge losses due to the blocking of border checkpoints by Polish farmers - Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Taras Kachka.

According to him, the country needs imports in the form of fuel, medicines, cars, but the volume of imports by road transport decreased by 14% over the month.

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🇵🇱 Polish protesters have unblocked the Krakoviec checkpoint, but...

only until March 13. A representative of the Ukrainian Border Guard Service, Andriy Demchenko, complains about it on the air of the telethon.

At the same time the blocking of checkpoints in five directions continues. 1700 trucks are standing in queues.

They took pity on the poor neighbours for three whole days.

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Important news for Sunday morning, March 10:

🔷 At night, air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region, the Ministry of Defense reported.

🔷 Ukrainian prisoner Alexander Guprin told RIA Novosti that since September, one third of the battalion in the 58th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces remained, and 14 soldiers remained of the company of 106 people.

🔷 The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the village of Kulbaki in the Kursk region early in the morning, said the regional governor, Roman Starovoyt. As a result of a direct hit from a shell, a residential building caught fire, killing a woman inside, and her husband received serious burns. He is receiving medical care.

🔷 Also, a Ukrainian drone fell and caught fire on the territory of an oil depot in the Kursk region.

🔷 The air defense of the "South" group destroyed 49 UAVs and three HIMARS shells in the DPR. In addition, Russian fighters shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 and destroyed a Hammer guided bomb. - FRWL reports

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 An epic moment when the air defense system intercepted a Ukrainian drone in the Volgograd region yesterday morning.

In total, the region was attacked by 15 drones from Ukrainian territory at night and in the morning; the Ministry of Defense announced the successful destruction of all threats. - ISZ reports

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🇷🇺 Russian forces shot down 130 Ukrainian UAVs and three HIMARS multiple rocket launchers — Russian Defence Ministry briefing.

☑️ On the Avdeevka direction, the Ukrainian side lost up to 310 servicemen, a tank, M109 Paladin and Gvozdika self-propelled artillery and two D-30 howitzers;

☑️ On the Donetsk direction, up to 280 troops and a tank were eliminated, and an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery, a D-30 howitzer and two ammunition depots were also destroyed;

☑️ On the South Donetsk direction, the Ukrainian side lost more than 150 soldiers, armoured combat vehicles and cars, two D-20 howitzers, and an AFU ammunition depot was also destroyed;

☑️ In the Kupyansk direction, three enemy counterattacks were repelled, with losses totalling over 110 soldiers. In addition, a Krab and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery pieces were destroyed.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 A Ukrainian soldier who surrendered took care of a Russian soldier for three days.

Sergey was seriously wounded during the capture of Avdeevka and, hiding, awaited evacuation. He was found by Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman Alexander. The 25-year-old guy voluntarily surrendered and waited with the wounded man for our soldiers to come for Sergey.

For three days Alexander took care about Sergey. It turned out that he was caught at the bus stop and sent to the battle field soon.

Sergey's wife thanked him so much for rescuing her husband. She says that Russia and Ukraine were always brotherly people, and there are good people even among our enemies. - FRWL reports

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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦The delay in Western aid forces Ukraine to consider not only plan B, but also plan C, - head of the Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee Roksolana Pidlasa

▪️ “We have actually reached the limit of our capabilities - all internal resources are used to finance the army,” said Pidlasa.
▪️According to her, Ukraine’s plan A was that new financial assistance from the US and EU would begin to arrive in January.
▪️ “Funding delays mean that Kyiv has begun to consider plan B and even plan C,” noted the head of the committee.
▪️At the same time, she did not disclose the content of these plans, but noted that Kyiv “is negotiating additional budgetary support with other G7 countries, especially Japan and Canada, and the possibility of significant reductions in non-military spending and tax increases is also being considered.”
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⚡️ Ukraine's credit rating was cut by S&P Global Ratings, which said it's "virtually certain" that the government will include Eurobond holders in its debt-relief efforts, writes Bloomberg.

The agency cut Ukraine's credit rating by two notches to "CC", which is the second-lowest level above default.

"Ukraine faces bond payments of $4.5 billion this year,"
Bloomberg stresses.

It should be noted that Ukraine already restructured its external debt in 2022. According to the memorandum with the IMF published in December 2023, Kiev intends to carry out a new restructuring in 2024. Ukraine will seek to restructure the debt of its creditors in the form of a moratorium on debt payments for the entire duration of the work programme with the IMF. That is, until 2027.

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10th March 2024, 18:16

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❗️Russian artillery has destroyed an AFU stronghold on the right bank of the Dnieper estuary. From there, Ukrainian troops have been monitoring the Russian forces.

The stronghold in the village of Dmitrovka in the Ochakovsky district was used by Ukrainian fighters to conduct reconnaissance and monitor the movements of the Russian Armed Forces. Now it is impossible to do this, because a powerful 122 calibre artillery barrage from the Russian D-30 howitzers has hit the AFU positions.

@ukraine_watch

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📹🚁Russian specialists of the search and rescue group are conducting combat operations in the Kupyansk region.

The combat group of the Army aviation consisting of the Mi-35 attack helicopter and the Mi-8 helicopter carried out another combat mission. The specialists of the search and rescue group on the Mi-8 helicopter escorted the Army aviation attack helicopters during the combat mission.

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From smoke to smother: HMS Queen Elizabeth on fire in latest malfunction

A minor fire broke out onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in a new embarrassment for the UK Royal Navy flagship worth a whopping £3.5 billion ($4.5 billion).

The incident occurred while the 65,000-ton aircraft carrier was in dock at Glenmallan in Scotland awaiting repairs.

A Royal Navy spokesperson confirmed it was a "small, isolated" fire that was "quickly brought under control and extinguished," with no injuries and ordnance involved in the blaze. The cause of the fire is being investigated.

This comes shortly after the flagship - nicknamed Big Lizzie - withdrew from a NATO drill after a coupling on the vessel’s 33-ton starboard propeller malfunctioned. The vessel was replaced with its sister ship HMS Prince of Wales, which, however, faced the same malfunctioning.

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Pope Francis urges Zelensky to save lives, find “courage of the white flag” to end Donbass conflict

Pope Francis said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should resume negotiations with Russia, urging the leader to work with international mediators to negotiate an end to fighting in the Donbass.

“The word negotiate is a courageous word,” said the Pope in an excerpt from an interview recorded last month. “When you see that you are defeated, that things are not going well, you have to have the courage to negotiate.”

“I think that the strongest one is the one who looks at the situation, thinks about the people and has the courage of the white flag, and negotiates,” the cleric insisted.

On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to host a summit between Ukraine and Russia, a prospect that’s undermined by a decree issued by Zelensky in late 2022 forbidding negotiations with Russia. Zelensky instantly rejected Erdogan's idea.

The development took place after at least two attempts by Putin to negotiate an end to hostilities early in the conflict. Both rounds of negotiations were scuttled by the United States, which intervened to end separate diplomatic efforts involving then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in 2022. The US role came to light in media reports emerging shortly after.

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CNN: “This is hell” - New Russian guided bomb undermined the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, changed the balance of power and leads to heavy casualties
▪️Russia began using a powerful air bomb, which undermined the Ukrainian defense and changed the balance of power at the front. The Russian Federation has turned a basic Soviet-era weapon into a glide bomb that can leave a crater 15 meters wide. It is guided towards its target using a guidance system and retractable wings that allow it to glide towards the target.
▪️The bomb is a FAB-1500, essentially a 1.5-ton military weapon, almost half of which consists of high explosives. It is applied from above by fighters from a distance of up to 70 km, beyond the reach of many Ukrainian air defense systems.
▪️The Russian FAB-1500 with UMPC, which is massively used by the Russian Aerospace Forces, “destroyed the Ukrainian defense and changed the balance at the front,” CNN reports, citing interviewed military personnel and experts.
▪️A soldier of the 46th airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces told CNN in Krasnogorovka: “Previously, we were only fired at from artillery. Now the Russians are taking over the city more aggressively [and] have begun using air force assets, particularly the FAB-1500.”
▪️“Why do they use FAB-1500? Because the damage it causes is very serious. If you survive, you are guaranteed shell shock.”
💀“This puts a lot of pressure on the morale of the soldiers. Not all of our guys can withstand this. Although they are already more or less accustomed to the FAB-500, the FAB-1500 IS HELL.”

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10th March 2024, 18:42

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10th March 2024, 18:49

The Duran discuss,

Nuland resigns.
China hawks take over

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Ravenlocke

10th March 2024, 19:06

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Masterful takedown by Dominique de Villepin, former French Prime Minister, of Macron's utterly irresponsible rhetoric on sending NATO ground troops to Ukraine (Villepin himself calls it irresponsible).

I translated it in full, because I think it's so important people are aware of the extreme danger behind Macron's (and some other NATO leaders) attempt to escalate the conflict:

"For this debate [over sending ground troops] to have been useful, it would have first been necessary for us to be able to answer 5 questions. Five risks associated with this escalation, this step we would be taking if we were to send ground troops, send fighters. Five risks.

The first is the expansion of the conflict. If we send ground troops, do we know if on the Russian side others will send, on the other side, ground troops? Will we face African fighters, will we face Asian fighters, will we face Middle Eastern fighters in this global south that also wants to take on the West? First risk.

[Host comments: This does not seem to me a favored scenario...]

If Westerners, Europeans, French send troops there, don't you think that solidarity will also play on the Russian side? I think we still need to ask ourselves that question. In any case, our diplomacy has not done what it should have to isolate Russia. If Russia were isolated, we would know it... I think, by the way, that we are more isolated, unfortunately, than Russia.

Second major question: new front. Risk of a new front. I warned, I was among the few voices to say 'be careful, Ukraine is a dangerous situation but what happens if another front opens?'. The front in Gaza and the Middle East has opened. But there are other fronts that can open: in Korea, in Africa... And so, are we going to wage war like this on all 5 continents? This reality must be taken into account: the world is not limited to the drama and tragedy of Ukraine. It turns out that America is a global power and that we claim to be a global power too, so we are concerned by the major balances and the order of the world, and unfortunately our diplomacy does not sufficiently take into account these disorders which concern the Congolese, the Sudanese, etc.

Third risk which is important: the terrorist risk. I am not thinking of terrorism that would come from our opponents in Ukraine, I am thinking of opportunistic terrorism. When there are situations of this type of disorder, terrorism strikes. And I remind you: we have planned here in France not a year of war, but a year of celebrations. In a few months, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and delegations will come from all over the world. We are going to spend several months celebrating the Olympics. If we need to mobilize, let's mobilize, but maybe it should have been done a bit more: I don't see a war economy, the preparation of minds in terms of civil defense and hybrid warfare, I see nothing... You don't just pull the idea of going to war in Ukraine out of a hat without having prepared a little...

Fourth risk: we are on the eve of an American election that will determine the new world order. It's a safe bet that we are heading for a new era of isolationism and protectionism like the world has never seen. We are seeing a split in this new world order between Trump and a China that has just celebrated the reunion of its parliament and is becoming more introverted, more focused on its security than ever. This is a general global context that must be taken into account.

And then there's one last element that may be one of the most important, which is the nuclear risk. I know the good experts, the great experts who speak on this subject and I respect them immensely. But sending ground troops, fighters, places us in a situation in terms of deterrence that we have never known. Forty years of Cold War: the forces of the Warsaw Pact and NATO forces never clashed. And it's not by chance: it's because of a reality that relates to the grammar of nuclear.

The rule of deterrence is based on the principle of mutual assured destruction. That is, if one uses the bomb and the other responds, we're all dead. [...] I think the nuclear grammar means that today the risk of NATO ground troops in Ukraine presents a risk and that this risk, for responsible powers, is unacceptable. I travel enough around the world to have observed something for 15 years: the use of nuclear weapons is based on political cultures, societal cultures, and civilizations. The world is changing and what seemed unthinkable 10 or 15 years ago appears today differently: the rhetoric of the enemy, the hatred of the other, has developed to a point where we live in an international community that may want to settle scores with the other. [...] Today, and I'm not just thinking of the Russians, let's not forget nuclear proliferation with countries like Pakistan and many others that now have nuclear weapons.

And it is in this that the principle of responsibility is essential, and there is a rule that must be drawn from all this: the logic of force, when not controlled, leads to an escalation that can be deadly. This is what makes the situation in Ukraine a real danger and it's also what makes - because this principle of the logic of uncontrolled force I would gladly apply to the situation in Gaza - it's what makes the Israeli policy applied today to Gaza a real danger. Because there is no control over the use of force. And when you look [...] all fronts are linked, all crises are linked."
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