1. We do not want war.
2. The opposite party alone is guilty of war.
3. The enemy is inherently evil and resembles the devil.
4. We defend a noble cause, not our own interests.(Just war theory)
5. The enemy commits atrocities on purpose; our mishaps are involuntary.
6. The enemy uses forbidden weapons.
7. We suffer small losses, those of the enemy are enormous.
8. Recognized artists and intellectuals back our cause.
9. Our cause is sacred.
10. All who doubt our propaganda are traitors.
Sounds familiar?
16th March 2022 22:01
Matthew
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
Ukraine lead the world in digitisation. Their Minister of Digital Something or other has big plans. Here's an extract
"...Ministry of Digital Transformation is going to launch an e-residency project, which will create the legal framework for foreign citizens to run a business in Ukraine without being residents of Ukraine. They will have special tax conditions and be able to receive digital services using only the e-resident’s digital signature."
I don't know what it means but a few things spring to my mind. Sharing is caring but I'll keep my wild theories to myself I'm sure the reader has their own
Kremlin responds to Biden calling Putin a ‘war criminal’
US President Joe Biden has called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “a war criminal” over the conflict in Ukraine, with the Kremlin responding that such remarks from the United States are “unacceptable and unforgivable.”
During a White House event on Wednesday, Biden was asked by one of the reporters if he considered Russia’s president a war criminal. Initially, Biden answered “No,” but then he asked the journalist to clarify the question and said: “Oh, I think he is a war criminal.”
Commenting on the American leader’s remarks, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told TASS that Moscow considers “unacceptable and unforgivable such rhetoric from the head of state whose bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world.”
Very significant, if so. Can you find all you can about this update? (It's unlikely to be on CNN...)
16th March 2022 22:16
Ravenlocke
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
Hi Bill,
I will continue to search, I was surprised that searching on twitter for the search string Forward Observation Group brings up a lot of tweets, seems that twitter doesn’t “sanitize” references to this group.
16th March 2022 22:24
Tintin
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
Concerning Mariupol ASB Military News via their Telegram account report the following:
Militants of the Azov nationalist battalion blew up the Mariupol theater building, which they rigged with explosives earlier, Russian Defense Ministry announced Wednesday.
The Defense Ministry debunked Kiev’s accusations of an airstrike on the theater building, where civilians could have been held hostage.
"During daylight on March 16, Russian aviation carried out no missions involving strikes on ground targets within Mariupol limits. According to the verified information, militants of the Azov nationalist battalion carried out another bloody provocation by blowing up the rigged theater building," the Ministry of Defense said.
"Previously, refugees that escaped Mariupol, informed that Nazis from the Azov battalion could have held civilians hostage in the theater building, using the upper floors as emplacements," the Ministry added.
The Ministry also stated that, "considering the potential danger for civilians, and considering the March 9 provocation with the Mariupol hospital number 3, the theater building has never been considered as a strike target."
Concerning Mariupol ASB Military News via their Telegram account report the following:
Militants of the Azov nationalist battalion blew up the Mariupol theater building, which they rigged with explosives earlier, Russian Defense Ministry announced Wednesday.
The Defense Ministry debunked Kiev’s accusations of an airstrike on the theater building, where civilians could have been held hostage.
"During daylight on March 16, Russian aviation carried out no missions involving strikes on ground targets within Mariupol limits. According to the verified information, militants of the Azov nationalist battalion carried out another bloody provocation by blowing up the rigged theater building," the Ministry of Defense said.
"Previously, refugees that escaped Mariupol, informed that Nazis from the Azov battalion could have held civilians hostage in the theater building, using the upper floors as emplacements," the Ministry added.
The Ministry also stated that, "considering the potential danger for civilians, and considering the March 9 provocation with the Mariupol hospital number 3, the theater building has never been considered as a strike target."
Russia has a new enemy in Ukraine: the Forward Observation Group. FOB contractors, former special forces elements, are in Kiev to help defend the city. They will be a nightmare for inexperienced young Moscow soldiers
In Ukraine there is a special army, small but extremely prepared, which will help Kyiv defend itself from the probable and imminent Russian offensive: they are the members of the Forward Observation Group (FOB), a group of contractors specialized in supporting the operations of maneuvering units. They are retired members of the special forces, especially the United States and Canada ones, but not only. They are the worst nightmare that Moscow soldiers, mainly conscript boys enlisted by deception, can hope to encounter. These contractors, in fact, are experts in targeting and in urban warfare. In addition, they are equipped with cutting-edge and high-tech materials, unlike their counterparts, sent to fight without fuel and with food rations that have expired for years.
Moscow Turns U.S. Volunteers Into New Bogeyman in Ukraine
With Russia’s use of mercenaries growing, the Kremlin seeks distractions.
By Justin Ling, a journalist based in Toronto.
A British combat volunteer, who did not want to be identified and who said he was going to Ukraine to fight against the invading Russian forces, heads toward the Ukrainian border in Przemysl, Poland, on March 7. SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES
MARCH 15, 2022, 2:30 PM
As scrutiny of Russia’s increasing reliance on mercenaries in Ukraine mounts, the Kremlin is trying to deflect it back onto U.S. veterans who have volunteered to defend Ukraine. By targeting foreign fighters, Moscow may be trying to create a boogeyman to blame if it deploys chemical or biological weapons.
Russia Invades Ukraine
A major land war looms over Europe.
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In a statement released on March 11, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned of “potential chemical provocations in Ukraine.” The statement, without evidence, accuses U.S. special operations forces and “[r]adical Ukrainian groups” of plotting a chemical weapons attack on Ukrainian civilians in an attempt to blame Russia.
The Kremlin’s statement, in describing the material it submitted to the United Nations Security Council, accuses Ukraine of plotting to bomb two chemical factories, in Severodonetsk and Odesa, and of plotting “the destruction of containers with toxic chemicals in highly populated areas.”
This is in keeping with a concerted effort from the Kremlin to accuse Ukraine, and by extension the United States, of threatening Russia’s security by engaging in the development of biological and chemical weapons—claims for which it has supplied no credible evidence and which have been roundly debunked.
The statement makes the very specific allegation that, in December 2021, “Ukrainian radicals delivered 200-litre metal barrels with foreign markings to Donetsk Oblast. As they were being unloaded, four Ukrainian soldiers received severe chemical [burns] and poisoning.”
There appears to be no backing for such a claim—or for the following allegation that the “general coordination of the delivery and warehousing of hazardous freight was carried out by the staff of the private American military contractor Forward Observation Group.”
The U.S. State Department, in a statement to Foreign Policy, called the allegations “preposterous,” describing the Russian account as a “false pretext we have been warning the Kremlin would invent” and warning that it may be cover for the future use of chemical weapons by Russia.
“It’s Russia that has a long and well-documented track record of using chemical weapons, including in attempted assassinations and poisoning of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s political enemies like Alexey Navalny,” a State Department spokesperson said. “It’s Russia that continues to support the Assad regime in Syria, which has repeatedly used chemical weapons. It’s Russia that has long maintained a biological weapons program in violation of international law.”
Russia’s fingering of a specific entity, the Forward Observations Group, is a curious inclusion: It is a real organization that has fought alongside Ukrainians in the Donbass region and that has showed up to help defend the country from the Russian invasion. But the group’s members are volunteers, not contractors.
See what happens when you tack a rider on an omnibus:
The White House has announced that it will be “winding down” a range of COVID-related programmes, including efforts to detect new variants, and testing, treatment, vaccination and boosters for people without health insurance.
The move comes following Congress’s failure to add $22.5 billion in proposed Covid spending into the $1.5 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022.
$6B for Ukraine must be a lesser evil than $22B for Covid. Ukranian nonsense can be stopped easier, they are already playing with NLAWS, Stingers, and Javelins taken from the heavily fortified areas.
It is just whispers from an alleged quote:
...most of the Forward Observations Group and their instructors died at the training ground in Yavoriv. The rest have already fled Ukraine.
There is an apparent retort from FOG that I don't think I can post because of strong language, but, they are seeking revenge at a ratio of a thousand kills per fallen comrade. These are the kind of people we will harbor in society while they nurse their emotions. As far as we know--that is the Voice of Peacekeeper.
We don't know if that or a picture of a patch is really from there, but, if you were in a position of shooting anybody you wanted, wouldn't that be the first choice?
That is why it is so quiet, like vaccine injuries and deaths. Like how last year's Iranian missiles caused "a few headaches". Excuse me. Year before that. Trump said it.
I guess it is a new era. NATO mercs and Mossad can be offed at any moment. Remember this is what all bases in the middle east are worth on a strategic level. Oh, and for the most part, aircraft carriers.
The only thing I had seen was something like three British, a French, and a Brazilian, which leaves something like ~175 "international" casualties. Statistical distribution tells me 120 of these are Indian and Chinese. If they had been, I bet we would know about it a lot easier.
17th March 2022 04:39
Agape
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
The UN International Court of Justice orders Russia to immediately suspend its military operations in Ukraine that started on Feb 24:
Russia has promised to bring US astronaut Mark Den Hei back to Earth on March 30th.
The fate of ISS is uncertain beyond that point due to age of ISS and level of technical cooperation required by Russia to run it .
It’s likely that it’s life time won’t be extended indefinitely , especially in case of continuing war between the parties above and ISS will be crashed ..somewhere in the East part of globe according to experts.
Hold to the wheel I suggest 🍩
They only had doughnuts sorry.
Just in case you did not notice,
Japan was hit by another 7.3 magnitude earthquake in the area of Fukushima last night and issued tsunami alert.
the good news is, Nazanine Zaghari-Ratcliffe was returned her passport and flown out of Iran , through Muskat Oman back to the UK to rejoin her family after 6 years of imprisonment.
I wonder if Russia submitted to the ICJ Jurisdiction?
In contentious cases (adversarial proceedings seeking to settle a dispute), the ICJ produces a binding ruling between states that agree to submit to the ruling of the court.
The key principle is that the ICJ has jurisdiction only on the basis of consent.
If parties do not comply, the issue may be taken before the Security Council for enforcement action. There are obvious problems with such a method of enforcement. If the judgment is against one of the permanent five members of the Security Council or its allies, any resolution on enforcement would then be vetoed. That occurred, for example, after the Nicaragua case, when Nicaragua brought the issue of the United States' noncompliance with the court's decision before the Security Council. Furthermore, if the Security Council refuses to enforce a judgment against any other state, there is no method of forcing the state to comply.
...sound familiar? Anybody know this routine??
17th March 2022 04:54
gini
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
--Tucker Carlson clashes with Rep. Salazar over Russia-Ukraine war and borders-Rep. Maria Salazar explains her approach to the Russia-Ukraine war and immigration policy on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’17/3/22--18min--
Al Mayadeen has a link on that page to an eighty-page document showing how NED worked in the Ukraine (i. e. financing and companies). As we have discussed being more "open" about things:
As the New York Times pointed out in 1997, the NED was set up under the Reagan administration in the 1980s “to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades”.
Marjorie Cohn recently reminded us that William Blum wrote: “the idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities”. NED co-founder Allen Weinstein affirmed: “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”
In Ukraine, the Russia invasion provoked a strong US reaction to the exposure of their clients. For much the same reason, the NED hides the identities of most of its funded agencies inside Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. The NED was a key sponsor of Iran’s failed ‘Green Revolution’ of 2009. These paid propaganda channels, in the name of ‘liberty’, facilitate the desired cultural context for economic wars and direct interventions.
It actually has the name, Democracy. Very expensive. Propaganda Ministry.
It is hard to compete with the State Department because every time you change channels, you get a different one of them. Could be a few details there, including some kind of "off books" budget and always the potential to directly channel funds to armed groups. This is not to say the CIA is not doing on the ground dirty work. It is to say that almost any "message" in the media is from them. I'm not going through eighty pages of all that stuff, it's being shut down, there is nothing left to trash talk. Everybody knows how bad it was.
Remember that name, Democracy, these messages, and, what was seen here.
Meanwhile, although the U. S. perhaps only manages to scarf a portion of the oil in the "outgoing" direction, near Yemen:
The executive director of the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) said US and British warships are preventing tankers carrying fuel and oil derivatives from mooring in the strategic Western port of Hudaydah and take them to Saudi ports, despite the fact that the vessels have obtained the necessary permits from the United Nations Verification and Inspection Mechanism for Yemen (UNVIM).
Hrm. If international law had any teeth, somebody would have voted against this. It doesn't until or unless the whole Security Council says so. From my study of history, in the 1600s, British Parliament voted against anti-smuggling, since, the senior members of Parliament were in fact these smugglers. Isn't that...I mean...this is in its seventh year because the Saudis were just sold $650B of weapons from the U. S. alone, and, according to Xinhuanet and Presstv.ir, the main ones getting killed are the Sudanese.
17th March 2022 12:25
Bill Ryan
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
[Even] more invented propaganda about Ukraine's "victories":
In another example of the fog of war and the myths that have emerged around the conflict in Ukraine, video footage and pictures appeared online today showing the Russian Navy's Project 22160 patrol shipVasiliy Bykov sailing into the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula without any visible damage.
The Ukrainian military reportedly severely damaged, if not sunk this vessel in the Black Sea more than a week ago using unguided artillery rockets fired from the shore. A video purportedly of Vasiliy Bykov burning after the supposed attack may actually show a commercial ship that was seriously damaged by an errant Russian missile early in the conflict and that remains on fire in the Black Sea nearly three weeks later.
Ukraine is implementing the ‘Great Reset’ via Social Credit Application combining Universal Basic Income (UBI),Digital Identity & Vaccine passport all within their Diia app.
< rest at link >
17th March 2022 13:15
Mike Gorman
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
What do we think about this apparently bi-partisan intent to provide Ukraine forces with increasingly sophisticated killer drones, jet fighters and Patriot style anti-missile kit so the can generate their own 'No Fly Zone' over the country?
This is damned foolishness, apart from the skills needed to operate this equipment, which the USA will also have to provide, Putin will see this as a massive intrusion and declaration of war with the American forces, I cannot see how else this could be responded to...
All the senators seem to be on board with this, and it is moving very fast, they seem intent on WWIII (or whichever number you believe it is) and the conflagration of nuclear war, how else can we see this unfolding?
17th March 2022 13:22
Bill Ryan
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
Quote:
Posted by Mike Gorman
What do we think about this apparently bi-partisan intent to provide Ukraine forces with increasingly sophisticated killer drones, jet fighters and Patriot style anti-missile kit so the can generate their own 'No Fly Zone' over the country?
This is damned foolishness, apart from the skills needed to operate this equipment, which the USA will also have to provide, Putin will see this as a massive intrusion and declaration of war with the American forces, I cannot see how else this could be responded to...
All the senators seem to be on board with this, and it is moving very fast, they seem intent on WWIII (or whichever number you believe it is) and the conflagration of nuclear war, how else can we see this unfolding?
All the signs (to me, and to many objective and well-informed analysts out there) seem to show that the US is deliberately trying to provoke a wider/larger conflict.
If that happens, the west will be brought tumbling down (certainly economically, at least), and many countries (like India, Indonesia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia) would hasten to form alliances and trade/economic agreements with Russia and China.
That could cleave the planet in half militarily, economically, and in terms of sourcing every kind of commodity (wheat, oil, minerals, and everything else). It'd be the end of the road of the petrodollar, and the US as a major influential nation.
My personal guess is that this is being done under direction of the globalists/WEF, because to implement the "Great Reset" they have planned and want to see, it'll be much easier if the "New World Order" looks like the one I've just outlined.
Putin made an important speech today which the Russians officials are in no hurry to translate. So here is a machine translation from Boris Rozhin (aka Colonel Cassad): (only partial extracts from the full transcript, emphasis added by me, Andrei)
The operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine is developing successfully, strictly in accordance with plans.
The tactics of the Russian Defense Ministry in Ukraine have fully justified themselves, everything is being done to avoid civilian casualties. Before the operation began, Moscow offered Kiev to withdraw troops from Donbass, but they refused. All the tasks set will certainly be solved.
If Russian troops had stopped at the borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, this would not have been the final solution, it would not have removed the threat to Russia.
Russia is not going to occupy Ukraine.
There was no task to storm major cities.
The strike on Donetsk on March 14 is a bloody terrorist attack.
Russia will not allow Ukraine to remain a springboard for anti-Russian actions.
The whole planet has to pay for the ambitions of the West, the myth of the “golden billion” is collapsing.
The West is trying to convince its citizens that their difficulties are the result of Russia’s actions, but this is a lie.
Sanctions against the Russian Federation are hitting the Europeans and Americans themselves, “it is not necessary to shift from a sick head to a healthy one.”
The US and the EU actually defaulted on their obligations to Russia, freezing its reserves – now everyone knows that the state’s reserves can simply be stolen.
Russia – unlike Western countries – will respect the right of ownership.
Arrests of foreign assets of the Russian Federation and business – a lesson for Russian entrepreneurs, there is nothing more reliable than investments at home.
We now know who cowardly betrayed their partners and failed to fulfill their obligations to employees.
Trying to “cancel” Russia, the West has torn off all the masks of decency.
I am sure that after blocking the accounts of the Russian Federation in the West, many countries will convert their reserves into goods, which will increase the deficit.
It is obvious that the current events draw a line under the global dominance of Western countries both in politics and in the economy.
Moreover, they themselves question the economic model that has been imposed on developing countries in recent decades. Yes, in general, the whole world.
I emphasize that the sanctions obsession of the United States and its supporters is not shared by countries where more than half of the world’s population lives. It is these states that represent the fastest growing, most promising part of the global economy, including Russia.
The “empire of lies” of the West is powerless against truth and justice, Russia will continue to bring its position to the whole world.
The West relies on the fifth column, national traitors, such mental[ity] are there, in the West, and not in Russia. The West is trying to split our society, speculating on combat losses, on the consequences of sanctions. The people will be able to distinguish patriots from scum and traitors and just spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew in. The natural self-purification of society will strengthen our country.
“There is so much misinformation being spread. We've never experienced anything like this," journalist Lara Logan, who has been a war reporter for 35 years, told America's Voice AM . We must hate Vladimir Putin and believe everything that is said about him, and we must love Ukraine.
Lara Logan Hands Out Red Pills to Morning Viewers:
Putin knew exactly what he was doing when he invaded Ukraine , Logan said. He did not go directly to Kiev. Russia went to all those biolabs in the country. We should not just believe our leaders. After all, they lied about corona.
According to the journalist, there is much more going on that no one is talking about. Think of the Azov Battalion, which is funded by the United States and NATO. There are photos of them holding up a NATO flag and a flag with a swastika. And their emblem includes the black sun, an occult symbol also used by the SS. It also includes the SS double lightning bolt, she said.
This is why Crimea wanted to belong to Russia
According to our leaders, only a few troops are involved. That is not true. The Azov battalion is leaving a trail of death and destruction in eastern Ukraine, the war reporter said. “This is why Crimea wanted to belong to Russia.”
She pointed out that Ukraine was a headquarters of the SS. Ukrainian Nazis were given immunity from prosecution by the CIA after World War II. So the US and US intelligence agencies have been funding and arming the Nazis in Ukraine for a long time, Logan said. “These are not neo-Nazi groups, but real Nazis.”
Truth Bombs
“I don't like to be lied to. We are being lied to on an epic scale,” the journalist emphasized. “We are told to stand 100 percent behind Zelensky, who is a puppet and has been selected like so many other leaders.”
Many people agreed with Logan's statements. For example, they said that she "detonated truth bombs" and "is a real journalist".
