Good news. I look forward to hearing what he can’t say now. And I hope the Chile gov had a hand in that.
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Boris Johnson and other warmongers in Britain are an absolute menace and seem determined to lead the UK and everyone else into WW3.. I suspect Johnson and Ukraine's Zelensky are the Globalist's allocated Spearhead in all this but it's frustrating to watch it all unfold - unfortunately vast numbers of people/public in the UK are mind controlled into believing the whole Demonizing of Putin and Russia... the conditioning and social engineering is everywhere even if you don't watch the MSM propaganda...
Piece by Jimmy Dore...
The U.K. Is Dragging The U.S. Into WWIII In Ukraine
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PS... I'm very happy to see that Gonzalo Lira is alive and well...
Gonzalo Lira is now on in real time with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris from The Duran. The livestream has been going for 50 minutes so far.
I've not started listening, but it'll be most interesting to see what Gonzalo can (or is allowed to) share about his experiences having been captured by the SBU. It all seems like an Easter miracle that he came to no harm, and I'm guessing that the Chilean (and maybe even the US) authorities must have somehow intervened.
:heart:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_PulorgALjY
news just arrived in my inbox
https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/04...little-friend/
I am extremely relieved to see Gonzalo is safe, and active again, he is humble enough to say others deserve the attention more, but so many have grown to love this guy, he is like a grizzled uncle you adore coming round, I'm sure we all feel the same way.
Thank goodness for UKcolumn news
https://www.ukcolumn.org/
Real news from the front line, raison d’etre, safe journalists, and absolutely rotten funding to promote NATO. Even Obummer raises its pot-stirring head yet again.
Love this news channel, please support, their links are absolutely truthful. All presenters with credible CV’s, no political agendas - just facts. We can decide for ourselves, real journalism at last.:heart:
This is a 4 minute video of Gonzalo Lira explaining his arrest and detention with the Ukrainian authorities. In the other video that was posted already, he mentioned he had to sign an agreement not to discuss their investigation of him. The earlier posted video runs about 2 hours and is mostly current events if you have the time and has very little video feedback, it is mostly audio.
The explosions remind me of the TianJin's port city explosion in 2015 which was inexplicably large, killing at least 200 people.
http://tribune-intl.com/wp-content/u...n-1140x641.jpg
There were conspiracy theories about the event. One possibility was the attempt to assassinate Xi, who was supposed to visit the port city.
There was also the talk of space weapon being used. Something like in an old James Bond movie in which the villain used to blackmail the world.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-revealed.html
U.S. space weapon
Natural News, a website which describes itself as America's truth bureau and claims to have more than seven million readers, claims China and America are at war and the explosions were carried out by a Pentagon space weapon.
It claims the attack was an act of 'kinetic retaliation' by the Pentagon in response to the devaluation of the Yuan.
The site tells readers that the U.S. used a secret space-based kinetic weapon called the 'rod of god' that can be dropped from 'high orbit to strike almost any land-based target'.
Is such a weapon used to strike Russian and China? Hope that Russia can produce incriminating evidence if this is the case.
Not to have read about all your good info
But I had a mail from a girl in Kiev.
They live like you and me.
She sent me a film of her neighbers cat left to her as she had desided to go.
- Missing Youtuber In Ukraine Found ALIVE & The Details Are VERY Interesting... Gonzalo Lira Located!
Live now with Richard Medhurst
https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/...79513852579844
Two high-quality minutes of Col. Douglas Macgregor with Tucker Calrson, today — who, to his credit (but maybe unsurprisingly to those familiar with him), listens very carefully.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OYEBu6JeIm4
This is pretty interesting, reported on Sputnik News:
https://sputniknews.com/20220422/classified-us-army-manuals-found-at-azov-neo-nazis-base-near-mariupol--video-1094974576.html
Classified US Army Manuals Found at Azov Neo-Nazis' Base Near Mariupol
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The unearthed materials are just the latest addition to a collection of trophies of military equipment and weaponry that western countries have been sending to Ukraine for years, despite objections from Moscow.
The inspection of the former base of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi battalion Azov near Mariupol led to a discovery of classified manuals — courtesy of the US Army.
The documents, contain instructions on to conduct counter-insurgency and reconnaissance operations, were supposed to be destroyed to prevent them from falling into enemy hands, but Azov fighters failed to do so.
https://t.me/sputniknewsus/12368
(video here, which can be seen on Telegram)The manuals, written in the Ukrainian, Russian and English languages according to a video shot by a journalist who was briefly able to study them, were discovered at the base where a sabotage team named SS Medvedi had been stationed. One of the manuals mentions the US Army Intelligence Centre at Fort Huachuca, while the other was published by the US Department of the Army.Proof of "who is responsible for what's happening" in Ukraine?
Secret US Army manuals and guidelines, in particular for intelligence units, were found at the base of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion near Mariupol, a Sputnik correspondent reports from the site
According to the Russian military, such documents must be destroyed if they cannot be retrieved but Azov radicals failed to do so in time.
Most of Mariupol, barring the Azovstal steel plant, has recently come under control of the joint forces of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Russian military, which extended help as a part of the special military operation launched on 24 February.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was "forced" to start the operation to end the tragedy, genocide and suffering in Donbass, which has been sustaining shelling by Ukrainian forces for years.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OYEBu6JeIm4
Macgregor on Tucker 22APR22 "What's happening is the final annihilation of Ukraine's best forces"
The latest SitRep (situation report) from The Saker's blog: (a very long one, but as valuable in its detail as always. I've embedded the videos that were embedded in the original article, but not the many others.)
http://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-13
The biggest development is the announcement by Russia/Putin of Mariupol’s “official liberation.” I’ve written before about how Russia often ‘jumps the gun’ on announcements, but it’s true that the city proper is liberated with the exception of the industrial complex of Azovstal. With that said, there are still upwards of 2000 or more highly trained, fanatical Azov militants and marine remnants of the 36th Brigade holed up in the factory, and they have extreme amounts of incentive not to surrender any time soon.
Bizarrely, western media continues to refer to Mariupol as ‘besieged’ and even Zelensky now claims Mariupol will be taken back soon and that a force is being ‘prepared’ to liberate the city from Russians. It’s hard to discern if this is complete delusion or pure propaganda – maybe a mix of both.
Putin also announced the cancellation of plans to ‘storm’ the complex in order to reduce risks to Russian servicemen, instead opting to besiege it and starve the Zelensky regime militants out.
DPR flag was hung at the highest point of Mariupol in honor of the liberation:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/m28IHMBBOm7F
On the topic of sieging the Azovstal, some additional information: Firstly, according to well-connected Aleksandr Sladkov, the sieged Azovstal remnants have around two weeks’ worth of food/supplies still left and that they had much more but it was destroyed in Russian strikes. So my original guess was roughly accurate that they could theoretically hold out another week or two, maybe more.
But with that said, the remaining allied forces will not simply stand idly by and ‘wait them out’. The tactic will be to continue air and artillery strikes on the factory complex in order to keep the psychological pressure on the Azovites high to accelerate their eventual surrender. So regular combat will continue around the complex, but the troops simply will not attempt to do the job of ‘tunnel rats’ and storm the ‘catacombs’ as Putin put it. As you know some enemy forces still maintain positions on the surface, in buildings etc., and those will continue to be engaged and eliminated while the ones deep below wait and fester.“The blockade ring around the [Azovstal] plant is now saturated with technical reconnaissance equipment, drones are constantly in the air.” We talked with the former chief of staff of the Alfa anti-terror group, Sergey Polyakov, about how to clean up Azovstal from nationalists: If someone leans out of the ground through the exits from bunkers or storm sewers, and even with a mortar, artillery fire opens on him. Whether it be during the day or at night.” According to Polyakov, aviation will continue preventive point bombing: Following the fire strikes, our assault groups will move forward. Today they took the Azovstal plant management. And so it will continue: the positions of the enemy will be gnawed out meter by meter. Time is now working for us.”Meanwhile, the Somali Battalion has already been fully recalled for redeployment back to the Donbass, headed mostly to the Avdiivka frontline.
Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/qS4PmtrkayTH
Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/XqKf154lqMRZ
Chechens also celebrate the liberation:
Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/2j3ZJjSdcFmP
Russian tankers are happy as well:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3f78yPPGv9Rh
A lot of reconstruction and cleaning up is already happening around Mariupol, administrative services returning and the like. First school classes in some sections as well. Other towns around the region and elsewhere are already de facto integrating into the Russian Federation more and more. For instance passes being issued in Berdiansk for official vehicles are now being registered with a seal that says Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Berdiansk, Russia.
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And in liberated LPR cities like Svatove and Starobelsk, LPR license plates for cars are already being issued to replace Ukrainian ones.
A Ukrainian politician has stated the following:“Ludmila Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights, says that the Russians are planning to hold an independence referendum in Kherson during May 1-May 10 to create another DNR and LNR like statelet in southern Ukraine. Ballots are reportedly being printed.”Also:
“Crimean Tatars support the inclusion of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions in the Crimean Federal District. The Crimean Tatars proposed to recreate the Crimean Federal District with the inclusion of the south of Ukraine. This statement was made by the head of the regional national-cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars Eyvaz Umerov.”Today Ukraine threatened that if ‘Russia holds a referendum for the Kherson People’s Republic, then Ukraine will withdraw from all negotiations with Russia.’ Likely Russia isn’t worried.
“Residents of the Kherson and Azov parts of the Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine, who once belonged to the Tauride province together with Crimea, speak of their desire to return to Russia, because they no longer want to be under the yoke of Ukrainian nationalists.
“At least 2/3 of the residents of southern Ukraine, in particular, Kherson oblast, parts of Nikolayev oblast and Zaporozhye, would vote in favor of joining Russia, if an appropriate referendum were to be held”, says Crimean senator of the Russian Federation Council Sergei Tsekov
And now there’s word that Kharkov too may eventually be allowed to hold a referendum, giving us a clue as to Russia’s ultimate vision for Kharkov Oblast.“Following the stabilization of the situation in the liberated territories of the Kharkov region, a referendum or a poll of citizens can be held on the political future of the region, head of the interim political administration of the liberated Kharkov region, told RIA Novosti.”Rustam Minnekaev, deputy commander of the Central Military District of Russia has stated that the goal of Phase 2 is to capture Donbass and create land corridor to Crimea. Then Peskov reaffirmed the goal to integrate most of the southern areas of Ukraine into the ‘Russian space’.
‘Minnekayev also said that controlling southern Ukraine would open “another way to Transnistria,” where he claimed “there are also instances of oppressing the Russian-speaking population.”’
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It’s looking more and more likely that some version of the map above is the minimum of what will come about as a result of the SMO. I say minimum because there is no indication whatsoever that Phase 2 is the “final phase”, simply that these are roughly the objectives of Phase 2. There may very well be further phases to capture the rest of Ukraine, although even if/when captured, Russia will most likely not incorporate those territories but rather conduct regime change and thorough de-militarization/de-nazification on the remaining rump-state of Ukraine to make sure it cannot be a threat ever again.
In other news, a group of Communist Party deputies led by Gennady Zyuganov proposed a bill to the State Duma to change the national flag of Russia. They propose to replace the white-blue-red stripes with the Soviet red banner with a hammer and sickle. Doubtful that this will work but they are clearly trying to ride the new wave of patriotism.
Also, Russia will increase the production of Kalibr missiles.“This conclusion is made by the analyst “InformNapalm” Anton Pavlushko on the basis of data discoveries.With that said there appears to be sabotage strikes aimed at stopping these efforts as yesterday an important military research facility in Russia suddenly burned down with 7 dead and 20-30 injured. It happened in the same day that a large chemical plant also caught fire under suspicious circumstances.
He cites information that the UEC-Saturn plant in the Russian city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, is recruiting up to 500 new employees due to “increase in production volumes.” It is at this plant that engines for Caliber missiles are produced.
And then our Western friends got excited, because according to their version, Russia has long since run out of missiles, and there is nothing to produce new ones from.”
https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/l...earch-facility
But not to be left out, the U.S. suffered its own humiliation. A B-1B lancer, one of the U.S.’s most advanced supersonic bombers worth $300 million, burned down during routine maintenance. The whole fleet was grounded last year to investigate problems with the fuel system – I guess they never managed to fix them. The whole fleet seems in trouble.
Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/NvI0HRhsLeoH
Another interesting development, in the Donbass a member of the OSCE was arrested for espionage.
OSCE employee detained:
https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/statu...56096956276736
More and more reports recently have come to light showing how deviously the OSCE has been operating. One report said that OSCE officials even provided artillery fire correction for the AFU forces by leaving cameras on their cars in the vicinity which transmitted feeds to the AFU. The organization has truly been exposed as a clandestine operation for the West akin to the White Helmets.
On the war front, Russia has begun bombing rail infrastructure, this time striking bridges and railways in Zaporizhzhia and Dnieperpetrovsk to hamper AFU resupplies.
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“BREAKING: A Russia strike in the north of Mykolaiv Oblast has killed up to 80 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed 23 Armoured vehicles, including a command post.”
It also took control of a massive secret underground arsenal in the Kharkov region, which is said to be the largest in all of Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/MarQs__/status/1517549948048494594
This underground bunker has a storied history, reportedly built in WW1 to supply the Russian army and was used strategically in WW2 as well. There appears to be thousands of tons of built up armaments, including western artillery ammo, etc that is now seized by the RF.
https://twitter.com/MarQs__/status/1517547827664232448
https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/stat...37143631106057
“Since the beginning of the military operation and the appearance of Ukrainian prisoners, many of them tell how the Ukrainian command intimidated them with inhuman torture in Russian captivity. They were convinced that Russian officers would torture them, cut them with belts, burn them alive, etc. Having been taken prisoner, they were surprised at the humane attitude towards their miserable skins. However, there are cases when Ukrainian soldiers, believing in the stories of their commanders, try to commit suicide in order not to be captured by Russian “sadists”.”And such a true story emerged yesterday when two new prisoners were captured, one of them said how their own commander shot himself in the head when the Russian forces approached. However this commander missed and the bullet went through his jaw – he survived and was treated in captivity. There’s a photo of him floating around, I’ll post if I can find it again.
“The photo shows a Ukrainian officer who was captured with his fighters in the area of n. Staromayorskoe village (DPR). But he believed in the tales of his command about torture and decided to leave for another world quickly. He tried to shoot himself, putting the muzzle of his machine gun to his chin, but he chose the wrong trajectory – and the bullet went through the jaw. Now he has to be treated. But this suicide will now be able to make sure that the military-political leadership of Ukraine are liars and traitors.”The irony is that the Ukrainians are terrified to surrender to the Russians because their command lies to them of the ‘barbarity’ of the Russians with claims they are brutally torturing and killing all captives, hiding the truth from them that it’s in fact their own side that’s doing that to Russian POWs. And the same tactic is used on civilians in besieged cities like Kharkov to keep them from rising up or evacuating. They shoot all civilians who try to leave then say it’s the Russians who are shooting all cars on the road.
- Gabbard Pulls Out Wild Card In Feud With Romney:
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard discusses sending a cease and desist letter to Sen. Mitt Romney for accusing her of 'treason' on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
A cease and desist letter is, as a matter of law, not worth the paper it’s written on. It has zero legal force and effect. It is nothing more than a warning to stop whatever conduct the author of the letter is complaining of.
Such letters never work when the author and the recipient are at, or near, equal strength and bargaining power.
They sometimes work when the author is strong and the recipient is weak, or perceives himself weaker than the author.
If Gabbard’s lawyers send such a letter Romney will ignore it.
Here is an unconfirmed report:
On Arpil 22, a column of Ukrainian tanks reportedly attempted to break into the Russian territory from the Kharkiv region. According to the Russian sources, the Ukrainian command decided to send a tank company of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the offensive from the territory of the Kharkiv region towards the Russian Belgorod region. The breakthrough attempt was thwarted.
The incident took place in the area of Goptovka, near a checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Dergachevsky district of the Kharkiv region. 10 Ukrainian tanks headed towards the checkpoint. It is reported that Russian troops were hit and then returned fire. According to the reports by Russian military reporters, 8 Ukrainian tanks were destroyed as a result of fighting, 2 others turned back.
Meanwhile, let us contemplate the intensely anti-personnel ratio in the official statement:
Over the past 24 hours, Russian artillery and missile forces have launched strikes against 1,285 military facilities in Ukraine, including 9 fuel facilities and 37 control points. 1221 strong points of Kyiv’s forces have been hit.
Additionally, a strike with Kalibr cruise missiles “destroyed up to a battalion of enemy personnel with weapons and military equipment near Miliorativnoe railway station”, the Russian military said.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed near Novoselka as well as a command post and an area of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration near Aleksandrovka. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, up to 80 nationalists, as well as more than 23 armoured vehicles and cars, were destroyed in the strike on Aleksandrovka.
Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 58 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 4command posts, 3 fuel depots, and 51 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration.
That sounds like unsustainable attrition to me, a thousand ground targets and fifty hunters, anyone want to call it some light scratches or a few headaches? The "regrouping" of Ukraine causes them to abandon sometimes 50km at a time. But there is nowhere to go. Whenever there is a Russian pulse, these forces are losing hundreds to a thousand or more, one way or another, every day.
Alex Christoforou mentioned this photo in the attached video update called "Kherson Ukraine exit. EU concedes 'gas for rubles' defeat. Alphabet truck troll. Update 1".
This short video is about 28 minutes but it is really informative.
It is unclear if the photo is real or just b.s., does anyone know?
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Yes, It's real. :) (I posted it on the 'Z' is canceled thread :thumbsup: )
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It is unclear if the photo is real or just b.s., does anyone know?
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Ooops. Quote is above. ^^^^
(this is me, Orph) ---> Just my opinion, but it looks photoshopped to me. Take a close look at the truck in the background. The lettering is exactly the same. If somebody simply took a paintbrush and painted the letters on by hand, there would be some kind of differences between the two trucks. Again, that's just my opinion.
While this is almost four years old, there are some interesting thoughts here about Russia and the Ukraine and the problems between Russia and the West, and what is really driving this conflict, starting at the 1 hour and 28 minute mark and continuing to the end.
At the very end, the conversation shifts to 9/11 and touches on what people like Putin and Trump know about it. Dolan ask Farrell if he thinks the truth will ever come out and Farrell responds with the money quote: "I think you are watching it now. I am viewing the history of the United States from the assassination of President Kennedy to 9/11 as one arc in our history, and that arc is being controlled by what we are now calling "The Deep State" and it is now unraveling. So I do think it is going to come out."
Just wondering if this war can lead to the final unraveling?
Not only are they not super soldiers, they are not even normal:
Neo-Nazi Azov Regiment troops considered themselves superior to other branches of the Ukrainian military, to the point of having violent confrontations with their comrades-in-arms, Major Vladimir Labuzov, an officer from the medical service of the 36th Marine Brigade, said in an interview.
“Azov fighters considered themselves superior, not only to the Marines, but to other troopers of the Ukrainian Army. I don’t know why this is the case, but they constantly glorified themselves, constantly showed that they were better, ‘faster, higher, stronger’ than everyone else, let’s put it that way”, Labuzov, who surrendered to Russian and Donetsk forces alongside over 1,000 other Ukrainian troops last week, said. “It’s possible that this is tied to their ultranationalist ideology”, the officer suggested.
Labuzov recalled an incident in 2017 in which four marines had to be given urgent medical assistance after a conflict with Azov fighters in Mariupol, with high command seeking to cover up evidence of such conflicts.
“They didn’t raise a fuss, and troops were simply told that they were ‘fools for getting into a conflict with them’, and that’s it”. Command didn’t seem to want interested parties, including the military police, getting involved with their investigations, the officer said.
Labuzov also provided details on how he and his fellow soldiers were trained in the use of Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missiles provided by the US and the UK.
“There were Javelins and NLAWs. They arrived in 2022 for sure, probably in January…It was interesting. The NLAW is an interesting and simple device. Of course it was interesting… On the mock-up they showed it to us – place here, press here, hold here, something like that took place. This happened at some point in January. But to go to the training ground and to try shooting one – that didn’t happen”, he said.
Labuzov said he and his comrades made the decision to surrender in Mariupol after their commanders “disappeared”.
“They said they had decided to attempt a breakthrough… They got into an armoured personnel carrier and left. At some point we realised that we did not have a brigade commander, a head of staff, a deputy brigade commander… These [roles] are the three pillars upon which the exercise of command is based. At that point we gathered in a narrow circle of officers and began thinking about what to do next. The only sensible and logical option in this situation was to surrender”, he said.
Labuzov said that somewhere around 10 March, high command ordered forces in Mariupol to “hold on”, promising repeatedly to break through a corridor by which it would be possible to replenish supplies and medicines and to evacuate the injured. “And from 10 March, even 2-3 days, they would constantly tell us ‘soon-soon-soon’”, he said.
The 36th Marine Brigade lost about 130 troops killed and at least 300 seriously injured, according to the medical officer’s calculations. “These are the troops I know about. There are also those missing in action that I don’t know about yet”, he said, noting that these number at least 100 people.
Labuzov also indicated that high command seemed unconcerned about the scale of losses which he would regularly report. He recalled that he would tell them “guys, we have 12 wounded and 9 dead, and this is only for today. And if we take the week as a whole… They were very disinterested in attempts to evacuate the heavily wounded. Very disinterested”, he said.
Again, to me, at least, it seems like Ukraine is trying to genocide the Ukranians, and the west is trying to destroy its own countries, so the leadership will have nothing to work with. $4 Billion invested in their military by the Biden administration alone, and they think dirty tricks are going to rally a new Crusade?? Perhaps this is the way to de-nazify the planet. The swindle of the "voting" process doesn't do it. Let's keep over-reporting things that Russia does not do, and cover up the diseases and vaccines that appear to be culling the affected populations, especially UK and Israel. Snuffed by their own experts.
US troops too close to Ukraine for comfort:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DB6ceOKr5Jw
So I asked Joseph Farrell about this through Facebook and he responded:
https://i.imgur.com/69ZELOy.jpg?1
What seems fairly normal is they will admit when non-combatants are affected:
On April 23, at least six Russian missiles hit the Ukrainian region of Odessa. Missile strikes targeted AFU military infrastructure facilities. However, at least one multi-storey civilian building was hit. Casualties were reported.
The incident was probably due to anti-air interception, since a direct hit would have obliterated the whole place:
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What may have happened along with today's SAS:
Earlier, senior international correspondent for the French newspaper Le Figaro, Georges Malbrunot arrived in Ukraine with French volunteer fighters. He also reported, referring to a source in French intelligence, that soldiers of the British SAS and soldiers of the First operational unit of the special Forces “Delta” of the US Army have been deployed on the territory of Ukraine since the very beginning of the Russian special operation.
Farrell is probably spot on that it likely is the case that Ukraine hosts a true face of The Lie, which likes to employ a Money Launderer, which is still somewhat in the Biblical sense.
Kind of like charging Mortgage is Satanism. That is what Islam says.
$30 Trillion in prior debt, floating on whatever Deutsche Bank is really made of, $4 Billion more for Ukraine from Joe already, and from a visit to DC:
I spent two weeks in this diseased city wondering, “What are they thinking? The country is disintegrating internally, inflation growing like kudzu on a Georgia roadcut, living standards falling, the schools going to hell, and Washington is worried about…the Ukraine? Things crumble, resources are desperately needed domestically, and Washington buys the B-21, which Aviation Week prices at $640 million a copy of which, by design, you have probably never heard.”
Disband the Union.
Anyone who has had any dealings with the military, joined civilian cadet corps, or 'weekend warrior' type activities know only too well just how difficult it is to gain a disciplined, organized result from bunches of blokes; the espirit de corps is not easily nurtured, plus the organizational intelligence, equipment supply, not to mention training on specific weapons, driving large vehicles and tactical maneuvering is extremely difficult to achieve: many of the weapons and equipment being made today have a lot of 'IT' components, aiming, and positioning - all of this requires great skill and determination to succeed: consider the education levels and motivation of these people, many of whom barely finished lower high school, they are sending sophisticated equipment that very few people know how to optimally execute on! Military humor is often squarely based on the dark realities of incompetence, this is widely understood by veterans. Much waste, and lots of blundering takes place.