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Ukraine Russia War Update - Col Douglas Macgregor
Col. Douglas Macgregor: Ukraine has lost this war. It's now becoming so apparent that even the most ardent supporters of it - London-Paris-Berlin-Washington - can't stand up and say anything else. Ukraine's army is annihilated, reservists are being thrown into the buzzsaw...
Col. Douglas Macgregor: Ukraine is now a failed state. It's collapsed. People are being pushed at gunpoint into Russian fire.
It doesn't need all those features, it has an "advanced intelligence copilot guidance system" no other truck has :heart2:Quote:
Posted by Bill Ryan
That's so funny. :) My old jeep (a 1986 Isuzu Trooper, 400,000 km) has none of those — and also no electric windows, no radio, no heating, no A/C, and no computerized engine management control.Quote:
Posted by Mashika
But I don't need any of that, not at all, and it also means it's very easy and cheap to keep on the road. And if there's ever an EMP or CME that knocks out everything electrical, it'll be totally unaffected. :muscle:
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Ukraine has lost its war with Russia, but some Western leaders want to keep it going with the “real goal” of getting the United States into a direct conflict with Russia, warned retired Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor.
- ‘Ukraine Has Lost This War’: Top Army Colonel Says West ‘Doubling Down on Failure’:
“Ukraine has lost this war. I would argue it lost it some time ago,” MacGregor said Tuesday on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s podcast “Judging Freedom.”
“It’s now becoming so apparent that even the most ardent supporters of Ukraine’s war on Russia in London, Berlin, Paris, and Washington can’t really stand up and say anything else. I suppose some will, but the truth is the war is over.”
MacGregor painted a bleak picture of the Ukrainian military’s widespread logistical failures and Russia’s subsequent actions in the Donbas region.
“The Ukrainians are losing on a daily basis somewhere between 500 and 1,000 dead and wounded. Their army is effectively annihilated,” MacGregor explained. “They’re throwing reservists – the equivalent of what we would call National Guardsmen – into the buzzsaw. And the Russians are very calmly and methodically annihilating whatever shows up. The Russians have already begun consolidating their control over 25 to 30% of Ukraine where the Ukrainian forces were previously paused to attack Russia.”
And now that Russia controls the economically vital region of Ukraine, it will soon annex it into the Federation, he predicted.
“They now control territory that is responsible for roughly 80% of Ukraine’s gross national product. So I expect the Russians will hold onto this and incorporate it into Russia. It will be annexed. It was historically Russian, it is again,” MacGregor said.
MacGregor, a former senior adviser to the Secretary of Defense under Trump, warned that Western leaders are still in denial and some even want the war to continue in perpetuity with the “extremely dangerous” end goal of getting the U.S. directly involved in a hot war with Russia.
“As far as how this will end, we have a lot of people who seemed to be determined that it will not end. And that is extremely dangerous because the longer this lasts, the greater the potential for this regional conflict to widen and engulf more countries, and ultimately to drag us in, which some people think is the real goal — as incomprehensible as that may seem.”
Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s cabinet is keeping him in the dark and “running the show” in Ukraine and “doubling down on failure” in the hopes that they can pull off a win to save their credibility, he claimed.
Our friend President Biden is sort of a mushroom: they keep him in a dark place and feed him crap. I think [Domestic Policy Council director] Susan Rice, [National Security Adviser] Jake Sullivan, [Secretary of State Antony] Blinken – oligarchs, frankly, rich powerful figures that control the Democrat party, and let’s face it, the large portions of Republican party who dominate Washington – they all have much more influence now than Americans realize.
They’re running the show. They’re not telling Joe Biden anything they don’t want him to know, but more important, they’re riding this train to oblivion. And they’re not going to get off, and they’re throwing more coal into the locomotive with each passing day. They’re doubling down on failure in the belief that if they just hang on long enough, somehow, miraculously, they’re going to win.
They’re destroying NATO, they’re tearing Europe apart, Europeans are finally beginning to wake up to the disaster. They’ve lost control of Eastern Europe.
“Ukraine is now a failed state. It’s collapsed,” he added. “People are being pushed at gunpoint into Russian fire. The whole thing is a disaster. But no one wants to admit failure because if they admit failure, they lose all credibility.”
This comes as Europeans are beginning to realize the protracted war in Ukraine cannot be won, as Russia reinforces economic ties with China and India, and the ruble hits a 5-year high despite Western sanctions which have so far only managed to hurt regular Americans and Europeans.
French President Emmanuel Macron called for the “Ukrainian president and his leaders” to “negotiate with Russia,” adding that the West has “done all we can.”
A German talk show also admitted that Russia has all but won the war in Ukraine and that Western leaders need to level with the public about that development and seek a diplomatic solution with Russia to end the conflict.
MacGregor first forecasted the Ukrainian military’s path to defeat as early as March 2nd, just a week after Russia first launched its military operation in Ukraine.
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A Letter by Dmitry Melnikov
in the memory of the fallen heroes of Donbass
Write me then, as if alive, a letter
but write about happiness, not about grief.
Write to me about what you see through the window
The endless blue sea
that a blue boat is sailing upon
rich in the silver catch
that the space fleet flies above
snow-white Russian cotton wool.
I broke time with my hands like steel
kissed him on black lips.
Write about love, do not write about sadness
write that I took Mariupol.
Write.
I will not give you to anyone, my dear,
we will see you soon.
I’m not dead, I am sleeping,
the Sea of Azov is approaching my feet.
NATO sending all their ATGM's which are getting captured in the thousands and now NATO-trained captured Ukrainians teach Russians in the exact training of these weapons systems.
You couldn't make it up how stupid the west is in this war.
I'm delighted to hear from Col. Douglas Macgregor again, as on his own channel he's not posted anything new for two months. This is excellent as always, as good a concise, authoritative. intelligent, acutely honest summary of the situation right now as anyone could wish for to show someone else who might have been buying into all the western media misinformation.Quote:
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Crazy crazy footage of a supposed attack of a russian ammo depot behind enemy lines on the 16th. (According to the tweet)
Idk about authenticity etc, just some nasty hell on earth footage.
The tweet responses have the full footage.
Viewer disretion is advised, but no gorey or deaths at all.
https://www.donbass-insider.com/2022...e-in-the-west/
Julian Assange, Alina Lipp, and Anne-Laure Bonnel – when truth becomes a crime in the West
Julian Assange, Alina Lipp and Anne-laure Bonnel are three journalists who are paying a high price for telling the truth in the West: attempts to suffocate them financially, followed by censorship, threats of imprisonment or imprisonment altogether, and even physical and psychological torture in the case of Assange. These three cases illustrate perfectly the reality of “democracy” in the West.
The case of Julian Assange, whose extradition has just been approved by the British authorities, is the most publicized and the most revealing of what can happen to a Western journalist who dares to tell the truth.
In 2006, Julian Assange founded Wikileaks, a non-governmental, non-profit organisation, which publishes classified documents provided by whistleblowers on its website. The site has since published millions of documents concerning human rights violations, corruption scandals and, above all, war crimes.
In 2010, just as the website was about to publish documents on the war in Iraq, Julian Assange’s request for a work and residence permit was refused by Sweden. He had chosen Sweden because of its strict legislation on the protection of journalistic sources. But to reveal the war crimes of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan is to incur the wrath of Washington and the American military-industrial complex. This is where the descent into hell begins for Julian Assange.
In 2011 the attempt to financially suffocate the Wikileaks website began. Visa, Mastercard, Bank of America, PayPal and Western Union organized a financial blockade of Wikileaks, reducing the organization’s income by 95%, which then turned to crypto-currencies to escape financial suffocation.
From 2012 onwards, censorship through massive computer attacks against the site is launched. The aim is to try to prevent people from accessing the millions of documents published on the site. For the record, it was Wikileaks that helped Edward Snowden get out of Hong Kong and gain political asylum in Russia.
In parallel, from 2010 to 2012, Julian Assange was placed under probation in the United Kingdom following a charge of sexual offence made in Sweden in 2010. Assange denounced this as a bogus charge, the sole purpose of which was to send him to Sweden from where he could be extradited to the US. Following the refusal of the UK Supreme Court to reject the extradition request to Sweden, Julian Assange took refuge on 19 June 2012 in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he lived in seclusion for seven years, under surveillance by Scotland Yard and the CIA.
In 2017, the CIA envisaged the pure and simple assassination of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy. But given the risk of international scandal that this would cause, the CIA gave up and opted for a more discreet and perverse plan.
On 11 April 2019, Julian Assange loses his Ecuadorian nationality obtained two years earlier, as well as his right to asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, from which he is forcibly removed by British police officers. He was then sent to prison in Belmarsh, and the “sexual offence” case was closed by Sweden for lack of evidence a few months after his arrest, proving if it were necessary that this case was just a pretext.
For three years, Julian Assange and his lawyers fought to prevent his extradition to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison! All to no avail. And during all this time, Julian Assange has been subjected to conditions of detention that are tantamount to torture: total isolation, insufficiently heated cell in winter, lack of care. Julian Assange’s condition deteriorated rapidly in these conditions, and several experts and doctors were indignant and described what was inflicted on him in Belmarsh prison as torture.
If sent to the United States, Julian Assange could be sent to Guantanamo, or elsewhere, and tortured like many other prisoners. His case should serve as an example to discourage other Western journalists from revealing inconvenient truths.
And we see that the Assange case may soon no longer be an exception. Two independent journalists, the German Alina Lipp and the French Anne-Laure Bonnel, who have been outspoken about what is happening in the Donbass, are now seeing the Western censorship machine turn on them.
Alina Lipp, who spent six months in the Donbass in 2022, telling the truth about the Ukrainian army’s war crimes, including in Mariupol, is now facing censorship.
See her two-part interview in English on Telegram:
After a first visit in 2021, she was shocked by the war crimes committed by the Ukrainian army against the civilians of Donbass. She returned at the beginning of 2022 and stayed for six months. She openly recounts and reports on the war crimes committed by Ukrainian soldiers against the civilians of Marioupol, for example.
An inconvenient truth in Berlin. So Alina Lipp’s PayPal account was blocked. Then her bank account, as well as that of her father, was closed, and the German state deducted without any justification about 1,600 euros that were still in her account. As in the Assange case, the technique of financial asphyxiation is used to silence dissident voices. Then comes censorship, with the closure of her YouTube account, where she published her reports.
And as in the case of Julian Assange, the law soon came to threaten Alina Lipp. A criminal case was opened against the journalist for supporting crimes. Because she dared to say that what Ukraine is doing in Donbass is genocide, that she understands why Russia intervened, why it launched its special military operation, and that the people she knows in Donetsk are happy that Moscow is intervening. Just because of that, for giving her opinion and telling the truth, Alina Lipp faces up to three years in prison!
You can download the document in PDF here:
Even more delirious, at the end of the indictment document, it is written that Alina Lipp will not be invited to a hearing (to defend herself) as this would disrupt the investigation process (sic)! Unsurprisingly, Alina Lipp will not return to Germany, so as not to suffer the same fate as Julian Assange.
And if some believe that what is happening to Alina Lipp could not happen in France, they should look at what is happening to Anne-Laure Bonnel. This French freelance journalist who came to the Donbass in 2015 and 2022, and who also spoke openly about the Ukrainian army’s war crimes in the Donbass.
Not surprisingly, she found herself alongside Alina Lipp and myself in the “article” in the rag Le Monde on “dangerous pro-Russian influencers”. In reality, this article is just one of many in a coordinated attack by ISD, yet another organisation claiming to fight disinformation in several Western countries, but which in reality serves to justify censorship. The accusations made against “pro-Russian influencers” by ISD have indeed been picked up by several media, in France, Germany, the United States, and surely elsewhere (I don’t have the means to check the entire world press).
Anne-Laure Bonnel has also been directly and personally attacked by several French media outlets who have simply denigrated her, even defamed her. And as in the case of Julian Assange, or Alina Lipp, the authorities are using financial suffocation to try to silence her.
As in the case of Alina Lipp, Anne-Laure Bonnel’s bank account was temporarily blocked by her bank, Société Générale, and her contract with the Sorbonne University was not renewed.
A method that was also used against Donbass Insider, who had his Patreon account and his Tipeee account blocked (via the payment provider for Tipeee) for the same reasons: to try to silence us.
Although Alina Lipp and Anne-Laure Bonnel are not yet in the terrible situation Julian Assange is in, his case should make everyone realize that Western countries are only democratic in name, and that what is happening to this journalist today could well happen to them one day soon, if they happen to tell an inconvenient truth. That is why we must fight to prevent Assange from being extradited to the United States. To prevent telling the truth from being considered a crime!
For as Martin Niemöller so aptly put it:
“They came for the socialists first, and I didn’t say anything
Because I was not a socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I said nothing
Because I wasn’t a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews, and I said nothing
Because I wasn’t a Jew
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to defend me.
Today they come for Julian Assange, Alina Lipp, Anne-Laure Bonnel, or myself. But one day they will come for you. So act now! Demand that Julian Assange’s extradition to the US be cancelled! Let it be known that you do not want a society where truth is a crime!
Very sad…meaningless loss of life for insane, greedy rulers😢
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https://thecradle.co/Article/News/12095
By News Desk - June 22 2022
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According to a 21 June report from Russian state-owned RIA Novosti, a special monitoring body from Belarus has presented evidence to a visiting Iraqi delegation of the abuse and killing of Iraqi refugees by the Polish army on the Poland-Belarus border.
The special monitoring body is known as the Investigative Committee of Belarus.
The report cited a statement from the official website of the Investigative Committee, which outlined the evidence presented to the Iraqi delegation.
Belarus presented the Iraqi delegates with evidence of what they say were Polish crimes against humanity, war propaganda, and deliberate failure to provide assistance to refugees, which resulted in the deaths of many of the refugees.
“Belarusian investigators have documented criminal actions committed against 135 Iraqi citizens, who were physically injured in the violence used against them by Polish security forces,” the statement read.
Belarus is investigating three specific cases of deliberate bodily harm and expulsion from EU territory into Belarus, which led to the deaths of Iraqi refugees who were subjected to violent treatment.
Minsk also accused Poland of the execution and secret burials of refugees. They further alleged that the abuse and killing of refugees was discriminatory against those originating from West Asia and Afghanistan, which included a large number of Iraqi refugees.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will start to investigate the statements of the Belarusian committee in February 2023.
A high number of migrants, hoping to connect with their relatives in western Europe, arrived in Belarus as a transit point. Many stationed themselves along the border with Poland.
Western media have accused Minsk and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as a tool to create pressure on its western European adversaries, such as Poland.
Belarus denies these claims, stating that many of the refugees are in Belarus, due to being forcibly expelled by Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia.
President Lukashenko further denied the claims during an interview with British state-funded BBC in November 2021, stating: “I told them [the EU] I’m not going to detain migrants on the border, hold them at the border, and if they keep coming from now on I still won’t stop them, because they’re not coming to my country, they’re going to yours.”
The Belarusian leader further confirmed to the BBC that Minsk had shut down various Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) suspected of being western-funded fronts for covert regime change operations in the country.
On 25 January, Polish border security announced the construction of a 186km long border fence to prevent the crossing of migrants on their way to Germany and other western European states through Poland.
Refugees who arrive to western Europe often face mistreatment and harsh living conditions, according to reports about migrant living conditions in the UK and Germany.
https://www.rt.com/russia/557608-us-...grad-blockade/
US comments on blockade of Russian exclave
The US says that it “appreciates” anti-Russian sanctions imposed by EU nations and that its military is committed to the defense of Lithuania, after the country banned some Russian goods from passing through its territory to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Ned Price, the spokesman for the US state department, dismissed Moscow’s displeasure with the Lithuanian blockade of its territory as “saber-rattling” and “bluster.” Speaking at a daily briefing, he said he didn’t want to “give it additional time.”
“We, of course, appreciate the unprecedented economic measures that many countries around the world… including in this case Lithuania, have joined us in taking against Russia for its unprovoked war in Ukraine,” he said.
Price said that the US would protect Lithuania from any military attack, as is due under its NATO obligations.
“Lithuania has been a stalwart partner in this. We stand by NATO. We stand by our NATO Allies, and we stand by Lithuania,” he said.
'Casus belli': What Kaliningrad blockade means for Russia
'Casus belli': What Kaliningrad blockade means for Russia
The row between Russia and its Baltic neighbor erupted last week after Lithuania started blocking the transit of goods between mainland Russia and Kaliningrad region. The partial restrictions came into force last Saturday, with Vilnius claiming it was a natural part of enforcing EU sanctions against Russian trade. Roughly half of the traffic is estimated to be affected. The banned items include coal, metals, and construction materials.
Moscow said the restrictions were crossing every line and warned that there would be serious consequences for what it described as a Lithuanian blockade of its exclave. The decision clearly violated international law, the Russian government noted. Some experts suggested that it could even amount to a casus belli – a cause to start a war over.
Kaliningrad region is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania and has access to the Baltic Sea, which technically allows Russia to ferry goods to it. The relatively small exclave also hosts a significant number of Russian troops and weapon systems, making it a key component in the country’s national security.
An excellent, half-hour long, detailed and informed discussion about the entire Kaliningrad-Lithuania situation, from The Duran.
I have to say, for what it's worth, that Russia would be wise to turn the other cheek to what is obviously a deliberate provocation and just support Kaliningrad by sea, which it easily can. That seems to be the response right now.
But if there were to be western naval interference in those sea supplies, then the world will be at war and that's when we'd start to see Russia sinking NATO ships in the Baltic Sea.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zp7shqAO8EU
Breaking News: It's all over. Russia clearly has to surrender now.
Ukraine now has killer robots with machine guns
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v26RmVUfpxU
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In Mariupol abandoned SBU office secret documents etc found.
I managed to work thoroughly in the Mariupol department of the Security Service of Ukraine. I want to immediately express my gratitude to the SBU staff for neglecting the safety of state secrets and the abundance of material provided for analysis. Just a huge number of official and secret documents were scattered on the floor and left in safes. Together with my comrade Colonel @kommunist Vitaly Kiselyov we opened several repositories and found a lot of interesting documents.
Secret disks and SD cards, documents for cooperation with the SBU, telephone wiretaps, requests to state institutions - all this and much more we found in the safes of SBU employees. Now there is a thorough analysis of the documents that will help identify the criminals. I have no doubt about it!
There have been several [unsuccessful!] western attempts to persuade African nations to condemn Russia's military actions. On 20 June, Zelensky tried to hold a kind of African summit of his own, but almost no-one showed up. :)
The African leaders may be presiding over fairly poor nations. But they as leaders, often themselves western-educated, are very smart. As the British say, they know which side of their bread is buttered.
They understand that if they ally themselves with Russia and China (which they certainly will), they're likely to be able to form trade agreements that will be mutually beneficial. Africa has a great deal of undeveloped natural resources, the Chinese have been investing in Africa very heavily for years, and now the Russians will join in by doing their best to guarantee them supplies of food and fuel which for many of their citizens will literally be matters of life and death.
Putin is fully aware of this, and whatever some may think, he's not a cruel and barbaric man. But of course, he is also absolutely a pragmatist.
Here are two articles which are interesting to read, but which I'll not copy and paste here:
- Behind closed doors with Zelensky and the African Union
https://theafricareport.com/215651/w...-african-union
- How (not) to persuade Africa to support Ukraine and denounce Russia
https://theafricareport.com/197109/h...enounce-russia
- How the War in Ukraine FAST-TRACKS the Great Reset:
One of the most eye-opening explanations of the Great Reset Glenn has ever heard comes from a former MTV VJ known as “the Podfather.” Glenn sits down with Adam Curry, the man who introduced Joe Rogan to the ESG movement and its role in the Great Reset. “I take the elites at their word,” he tells Glenn, as they dive into the terrifying realities playing out around the world, including in Ukraine. They both agree that something’s off about the global response to Russia’s invasion, and Adam has a shocking theory as to why. But he’s tackling the problem in an interesting way: with his voice. From his humble beginnings on pirate radio in Holland to starting the first podcast in 2004, “The Daily Source Code” (which caught the attention of Steve Jobs), Adam tells Glenn the amazing story of his decades of experience as a tech media innovator. Now, he’s pioneering a game-changing new way of podcasting that not only puts content creators first, but, he argues, solves the censorship problem so many are now facing.
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Not realizing that Russia could do the same tenfold (or worse) ... they only make it more obvious that Russia have reason to do so ... provoking the bear is stupid by default.Quote:
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cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳