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SCOTT RITTER: NATO Can't do Anything (with Redacted, 18 minutes)
"What is the military tactic in Ukraine that the media won't explain to us? Don't worry, we've got former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter on the show to explain how Ukraine is on the ropes, no matter what Ukraine or NATO does. "
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mmYg2oiDl1Q
Apparently, the head of the Wagner military group, Prigozhin, has stated that Ukraine has been hiding 200,000 troops in planning a major offensive against Russian military when the ground dries up. Here's this short clip by Stephen Gardner:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vvTIXKX5uoY
Here's another source:
https://tass.com/politics/1604659
Military operation in Ukraine - April 14, 2023
Taking Artyomovsk not to ensure fast victory over Ukraine — Wagner PMC founder
"Behind Bakhmut follow Seversk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka and Chasov Yar: settlements that comprise the so-called ‘Donbass ring’ and that constitute a fortified region," Yevgeny Prigozhin said
MOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Taking the city of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) will not ensure a prompt victory over Ukraine, Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an article, published on his press service’s Telegram channel Friday.
The PMC founder noted that the strategic importance of the city is not too high.
"Behind Bakhmut follow Seversk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka and Chasov Yar: settlements that comprise the so-called ‘Donbass ring’ and that constitute a fortified region," he added.
"On the one hand, Bakhmut is a part of this fortified region, but, on the other hand, taking Bakhmut by itself will ensure neither a prompt victory over Ukraine, nor a clear road to Dnieper, nor even taking of Donbass," Prigozhin said.
He noted that there is constant infighting in Kiev regarding the "need to cling to Bakhmut."
"They try to promote this city as a sacral symbol," the Wagner PMC founder said.
"The Ukrainian Army has gathered enough forces. About 200,000 rather trained fighters that underwent two or three months of training and coordination are ready to perform their duties. The amount of weapons and ammunition is quite enough for these 200,000 people to commence an offensive on various directions," Prigozhin concluded.
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I just wanted to say to you I love your posts... constantly bringing juicy information from Twitter to us here on PA.
I probably only thank 20% of those posts because they are so constant and overwhelming (just checked more like less than 5%, given the constant flow), but regardless of not ticking the 'Thanks Button' to every one of your posts... I've decided to say outright, I love the work & time you put into this for the rest of us on Project Avalon.
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Been hearing rumours of a "Kinzhal" attack on a NATO bunker in the Lviv region for the last month, which reportedly killed 160 NATO officers.
According to military observer and retired Col. Viktor Baranets, this missile strike did occur, and the bodies were simply left in the bunker.
It seems the Russians have developed bunker-busting technology.
https://twitter.com/CheburekiMan/sta...36197337108481
Patriarch Kirill's Easter 2023 message :flower:
- Simplicius The Thinker, April 2023They are scrambling to pit friend against friend in a desperate ploy to gain the upper-hand. But the civilizational giants with which the pipsqueak Eagle is toying with have no more patience for its flighty games. The era of Russian-Chinese dominance starts now, and the Bald Eagle will soon be just a plucked turkey.
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It's a close run thing as to what may be most infuriating to look at: Alexander Mercouris' wallpaper, but we can forgive him that as he talks such good sense nearly always. Or John Bolton's revolting moustache which I won't dwell upon. If it should leap off his face and run toward you take pains to capture it and then arrange to exterminate it in a manner of your own choosing.
This, today, from Simplicius The Thinker:
John Bolton Declares Total War on Russia
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
APR 16
Source: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...s-total-war-on
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John Bolton will go down in the annals of history as an unparalleled devotee of war and endless escalation. It’s often been said that he’s never seen a conflict he didn’t like.
He’s now published a rabble-rousing OpEd in the Wall Street Journal that’s so wantonly incendiary as to deserve its own article response. It is a total declaration of war on Russia, with the openly stated intent to see Russia completely destroyed, balkanized, and absorbed.
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Original article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-a...taiwan-da555cf
Un-paywall’d link: https://archive.is/YyDsU
It’s titled ‘A New American Grand Strategy to Counter Russia and China’. But nothing of the strategy is new, though it is decidedly American. The “strategy”, if it can even be called that, is breathtaking in its reckless brazenness.
I’ll summarize the main points. But first, it must be contextualized by calling to notice Bolton’s repeated invocation of NSC 68, which he mentions no less than three times in the relatively brief column. For those that don’t know, NSC 68 is the top secret document issued by Harry Truman in 1950 that effectively began the Cold War.
Sure, the start of the Cold War is typically thought of as even earlier, but this was the document that essentially cemented it with the types of hyper-militarization and massive spending the period was associated with. The document was existential in nature, invoking the end of all ‘civilization’, should the U.S. fail to stop the Soviet Union.
This mien is important to understand in order to truly comprehend the scale of what Bolton is now calling for; it is a cry of desperation of historical proportions. We know Bolton to be a war hawk without equal, but this is beyond the pale even for him.
So, here are the points:
- As mentioned, he invokes NSC 68, and states that the U.S. should immediately enact a new contemporary version of said policy.
- Washington and its allies “should immediately increase defense budgets to Reagan-era levels.” A major military buildup is ‘necessary’, at the expense of social programs and ‘income distribution schemes.’
- He references modern advances like cyber, drone warfare, and hypersonic missiles, stating that the U.S. has fallen behind in critical areas, particularly in the nuclear stockpile.
- He calls for the U.S. to resume underground nuclear weapons testing.
- He calls for the massive expansion of NATO by adding Israel, Japan, Australia, and others, ignoring, of course, the fact that the N.A. of NATO stands for North Atlantic. I suppose they can always change it retroactively to simply ‘Nuclear Armed Terrorist Organization’, as we’ve all known it to be.
- U.S. should “exclude Russia and China” from influence in the Middle East. He deliberately keeps the method by which he intends to carry this out vague, but we can only imagine what those methods might be.
- U.S. should develop a prototypical Asian-NATO which includes U.S., Japan, and South Korea.
- U.S. and European allies should provide Taiwan with much more military aid and also embed Taiwan into aforementioned alliances, presumably like the ‘Asian-NATO’.
- He states directly that “After Ukraine wins the war, we must split the Russia-China axis.” To do this he believes, firstly, that losing the war will “unseat Putin’s regime,” and that Russia’s ‘fragmentation’ east of the Urals is even possible (with the implication that U.S. should obviously push for same).
This region holds ‘incalculable mineral wealth’ (one could picture him salivating into his moustache) and according to him, China must be certainly “eyeing this territory” (projection much?). Russia’s Bering Strait region should be offered to China as enticement.
In short, the U.S. should push for Russia to lose the war, then be instrumental in completely balkanizing and fracturing Russia, then selling off the pieces to China in a bid to woo them into a new Sino-American partnership a la the Kissinger/Nixon/Sino-Soviet split era.Bolton: "Significant portions of this region were under Chinese sovereignty until the 1860 Treaty of Peking transferred “outer Manchuria,” including extensive Pacific coast lands, to Moscow. Russia’s uncontrolled dissolution could provide China direct access to the Arctic, including even the Bering Strait, facing Alaska."
The utter callousness and total disregard for any norms of international law with which he candidly calls for the complete breakup of Russia is both appalling and shocking to witness. And to think this is a creature who maintains a hefty influence on policy in the Beltway is a frightening notion.
With that said, his ideas are as pedantically fusty and outdated as his appearance, merely rehashing old-hat Kissinger-era memes which would merely provoke a belly-laugh from both Russia and China. Bolton is the prototypical low-IQ MIC apparatchik who apes the ideas of greater men. He is exactly the type of worm that the ancient, civilizational-wisdom-bearing statesmen of Russia and China could do nothing but mock behind his back.
If he thinks enticing China with some Siberian mineral wealth like a cheap drug kingpin giving a sniff will sway President Xi from his deeply-rooted partnership with Putin and Russia, then he must truly have a Bolt-on brain, and not one of natural make. What these one-trick apparatchiks never seem to grok is that China’s memory is as long as the roots of the Ginkgo tree. They have emerged from their ‘Century of Humiliation’ with lessons learned and will never again fall to the whims and wiles of abject, two-bit Western creatures like Dolt-on.
For all his simplicity, his calls for mass global hyper-militarization on the other hand are no less dangerous. His pleas are likely representative of the ‘old guard’ of war hawks’ sentiments, which means these are the types of blind Cold War Redux escalations we can expect to continue on indefinitely.
But the Dolt should really be careful of what he wishes for. With the direction things are headed in his own country, it’s far more likely it will be the U.S. that fractures and is forced to pawn Alaska back to Russia, rather than his juvenile fantasy of glomming off Russia’s Bering Strait territories to China.
With that said, we must take his urgent plea as an admission of the Empire to the seriousness of the current ground-shifting changes the world is undergoing. Bolton himself references the shift of history’s tectonic plates in his opener:
And the reverent tone with which he recalls both Xi and Putin’s recent remarks as to the ‘momentous’ nature of the world’s ongoing epochal changes, leaves one with the firm conclusion that the Empire, for the first time, is truly, duly worried."The U.S. and its allies can’t afford to drift aimlessly as history’s tectonic plates shift."
They are scrambling to pit friend against friend in a desperate ploy to gain the upper-hand. But the civilizational giants with which the pipsqueak Eagle is toying with have no more patience for its flighty games. The era of Russian-Chinese dominance starts now, and the Bald Eagle will soon be just a plucked turkey.
'Russian Duma Report: Thousands of Ukrainians Used as Guinea Pigs for US Bioweapons Research, at Least 20 Died
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he Russian Parliament investigation into the activities of US biolaboratories in Ukraine claims that at least 4000 Ukrainians were used as guinea pigs for US bioweapons experiments, of which at least 20 died, reports Edvard Chesnokov in Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“At least 4,000 Ukrainians, mostly military personnel, became experimental guinea pigs as part of American research into dangerous pathogens. In the Kharkiv biolaboratory alone, about 20 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine died during “experiments”, and about 200 were hospitalized, including because the U.S. tested unlicensed pharmaceuticals on them”, Chesnokov writes.
One of the goals was to create viruses by means of “directed evolution” and study how the local inhabitants react to certain pathogens, Chesnokov claims.
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“Directed evolution” is a codename for “gain of function” bioweapons research, as Pfizer executive Jordon Trishton Walker revealed on hidden camera to Project Veritas in a video released in January.
“With the assistance of the Kiev regime, the USA created about 50 biolaboratories in Ukraine, where illegal experiments were conducted on the residents of Ukraine”, according to Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya, a member of the biolab investigative committee, who called the bioreaserch program “a new Manhattan Project”
US bioresearch activity began in Ukraine immediately after 1991 with the Nunn-Lugar programme run by the Pentagon’s Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), according to Yarovaya. “The U.S. Embassy in Kiev actually worked as a Pentagon outpost, sending biological samples, including viruses and pathogens, by diplomatic mail both ways, to hide the truth from the rest of the world.” Yarovaya called it “a monstrous abuse of diplomatic channels.”
In 2005, then Senator Barack Obama visited former Soviet biological and chemical facilities in Ukraine, and “established the US Deep State roots in Ukraine to “counter bioweapons”, according to blogger WarClandestine. After 2005, DTRA contractor Black & Veatch built and upgraded 8 biolabs in Ukraine, including a biolab in Odessa for the study of “pathogens that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.”
Yarovaya noted that on the eve of the Maidan 2014, the Ukrainian Parliament Verkhovna Rada was considering banning foreign laboratories in Ukraine. The bill was shelved after the US-sponsored coup, which was backed by current Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, current National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and then-Vice-President Joe Biden., as Nuland stated in a leaked phone call 2014.
After Vice-President Joe Biden became point man for Ukraine for the Obama administration in Spring of 2014, Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners invested at least 500.000 $ in San Francisco-based US bioresearch firm Metabiota, as e-mails on the Hunter Biden laptop show.
Metabiota then received a $23.9 million contract to run biolabs in Ukraine for the Pentagon and the CIA. Metabiota partnered with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance on the PREDICT program, which was initiated in 2009 to “strengthen global capacity for detection and discovery of viruses with pandemic potential that can move between animals and people” its website states, including “coronaviruses, the family to which SARS and MERS belong.” Critics like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. charge that this “preventative” research is merely a US government cover for banned bioweapons research.
The PREDICT project is part of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats program and was led by the UC Davis One Health Institute, its website states.
In his book “The Truth about Wuhan”, Former EcoHealth Alliance vice-president Andrew Huff charges that EcoHealth Alliance developed the SARS-CoV2 virus “during my employment (from 2014 to 2016),” as part of the PREDICT program, which Huff worked on. EcoHealth boss Peter Daszak acknowledged working for the CIA, which invested in EcoHealth Alliance and Metabiota via CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, Huff claims.
Huff also saw evidence of “the apparent testing of experimental drugs, therapeutics and vaccines on members of the Ukrainian military and local population”, he writes.
“By 2022, Ukraine planned to deploy a comprehensive biological intelligence system on behalf of the United States”, Russian deputy Irina Yarovaya charges, citing “possible ‘biological aggression’ of the West” as one of the reasons for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The 207-page Russian Duma biolab report will now be sent to the Kremlin for approval, and then will be published for general study.'
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