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👀 The head of Lithuania's finance ministry has urged citizens to 'step out of their comfort zone' to find money for defence.
Gintare Skaiste's proposals included raising income tax rates and increasing excise duties on fuel and alcohol, local media reported. She hopes the Seimas will support her "great ideas".
http://t.me/ukraine_watch
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1793233950493593847
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Ukrainians are massively entering incorrect addresses into the Reserve+ mobile application, which was supposed to simplify the registration of those liable for military service.
Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Bovsunovsky reported this. According to him, the service has “zero benefit.”
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https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1793244939532255419
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❗️The EU will not pay Russia the proceeds of its frozen assets even after sanctions are lifted
According to yesterday's EU Council decision, frozen Russian assets are not sovereign assets. Therefore, the rules protecting sovereign assets do not apply to these proceeds.
The final approved decision is that 90% of these proceeds will be transferred to the EU budget for military aid and reconstruction in Ukraine, while 10% will be retained by custodians to cover possible risks.
This decision was added to the EU's package of economic sanctions against the Russian Federation.
We would like to remind you that the US is ready to lend Ukraine 50 billion dollars at once, but has asked the EU to guarantee that revenues from Russian assets will cover this loan in the future.
http://t.me/ukraine_watch
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1793234782358212679
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🇪🇺⚔️🇬🇪 European officials from the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden and Estonia want to impose sanctions against Georgia if the country passes a law on foreign agents.
Possible restrictions include the suspension of the visa-free regime with the EU, the freezing of funds and sanctions against officials, the Financial Times reports.
American politicians also threatened sanctions, but they wanted to impose them only against members of the Georgian government.
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https://x.com/dana916/status/1793241341419237866
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Already 70 children have been reunited with their relatives in Ukraine during the special military operation
This time, a group of six boys who were in Russia will be reunited with their relatives in Ukraine through the mediation of Qatar, Russia's Children's Ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova said.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1793214919971598761
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❗️In recent days, the Russian Sever Battlegroup has managed to expand the front line; it is already spreading to the eastern part of the Kharkov region, said the head of the Russian administration of the region, Vitaly Ganchev.
According to him, almost 300 square kilometers of the region’s territory are under the control of Russian forces.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1793265791049007572
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Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, said that she has lists of 500 Ukrainian prisoners of war, whom Kiev has been refusing to exchange for four months, and promised to publish them.
"Zelensky has selected 38 people from Azov* [Battalion] and the like and is ready to take only them. Ukraine does not need the rest of the Ukrainian soldiers," she said.
*Azov is recognized by Russia as a terrorist organization and banned
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1793273120977031387
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Pentagon sends five times as much expensive, old weaponry to Ukraine, not knowing “how to buy stuff cost effectively,” largest American PMC CEO says
"Most of that money goes to five major US defense contractors to replace at five times the cost, what the weapons cost that we already sent the Ukrainians. If we send them something that was built ten years ago, now it's going to cost four and five times as much. So again, it's a massive grift paid by a Pentagon that doesn't know how to buy stuff cost effectively,” Erik Prince, founder of the largest American PMC Blackwater, told famous US journalist Tucker Carlson.
Russia is winning right now, while Ukraine may not remain an independent country, Prince stated.
“I don't know if [Ukraine] survives as an independent country, if they take Odessa. If they take the ability for Ukraine to export its grain, that really threatens the long term economic viability. Look, western Ukraine used to be part of Poland. Eastern Ukraine used to be part of Russia. So maps move depending on military victories, drive diplomatic breakthroughs, and right now, the Russians are winning, and they're going to have a very good summer.”
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1793307553125871917
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US lawmakers ask Biden Admin. to allow Ukraine to use US weapons inside Russia
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding that he allow Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range weapons to carry out strikes inside Russian territory.
"We write in our capacity as members of the US House of Representatives to convey our strong support of several urgent requests on behalf of our Ukrainian colleagues: Authorizing the Use of US-Provided Weapons to Strike Strategic Targets within Russian Territory Under Certain Circumstances," US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Michael Turner and other lawmakers said in the letter.
The Biden administration has repeatedly said since the start of Russia's special military operation that it discourages Ukraine from carrying out strikes on Russian territory and restricts Kiev from using US-supplied weapons for such strikes.
The West has recently been increasingly discussing direct intervention in the Ukrainian conflict. For example, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the French military might be sent to Ukraine, while British Foreign Minister David Cameron said that it was acceptable for the Ukrainian army to strike Russian territory with British missiles.
The Kremlin called what is happening an unprecedented round of escalation of tension that requires special attention and measures. According to presidential spokesman Dmitriy Peskov, the Europeans see that the situation is changing rapidly and is fraught with a complete collapse for Ukraine, so they deliberately escalate the situation.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1793102732619842042
Zelensky Asks US Weapons Attack Rus;
Neocons Agree;
Rus Takes Kleshcheevka,
Pincers Close Chasov Yar
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------------------------------------------------------A quite simply superb but shorter than usual history piece here from Simplicius which I post in its entirety but will omit many of the images used so as not to provide too long an entry here :muscle: For the full experience do see the link below. A fair few points he makes have already been made here in this thread by various of us commentators.
Last Dance at the Vampire Ball: West Searches for Answers to Its Demise
By Simplicius
Date: May 23rd, 2024
Link: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...m_medium=email
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As the reality of the coming Russian victory over the combined NATO Leviathan has slowly dawned on the West, it has engendered a poignant shift in the increasingly high-pitched narrative. The comprador elite class has awakened to the fact that their global order is on the brink of dissolution, following Russia’s unclothing of their designs. The many decades of Gladio and other subversions are coming undone before our very eyes, as the dreams of a certain line of elite architects stretching back many generations are being washed away by the fitful birth of a new world.
Everywhere you turn, this elite moral panic is playing out front and center. As their industries die, their people gnash and seethe, and institutions flirt with collapse, the hoarse-voiced compradors crawl over each other to bleat out litanies of frantic warnings about saving themselves and their class.
The Global South sees clearly the writing on the wall: the Western order is falling.
As the West comes to grips with its slow pitch over the edge, its bellwethers and canaries have raced to trace the problem’s roots with the hopes of understanding how to stop it or where it might lead.
The problem with the technocrats’ solutions is that they are more of the same. They are using the crisis of their impending collapse as a way to usurp control over the sovereignty of all European nations. Take the insidious ‘inside man’ Draghi’s article above, about needing ‘radical change’ to compete with China and the newly shifting global order. What he urgently prescribes reads like a script from his crony controllers at Davos: a call to action to ‘integrate’ the countries of the EU with an iron fist, coercing them into giving up their individual points of leverage to some higher, unelected bureaucracy.
The dialectic is always the same: create a bogeyman to artificially unite people under one flag for ‘security’s’ sake—it’s the plot to 1984 and many other prescient works.
What we are witnessing is the agonizing death of a centuries’ old colonialist system of exploitation. It is the hegemonic European and Anglo-Empire’s corrupt extractive dominance of the global economy for the trickle-up benefit of a class of elite merchant and banking families whose power and influence spans centuries.
The way this Western order has cartelized and gamified the global economy is of course through their control of the banking monopoly, which mediates the flow of world finance and commerce to which they can apply endless arbitrage and seigniorage via control of the money supply by way of issuance of the dominant reserve currencies. To this day these remain: the Dollar and Euro, which together have combined for nearly 90% of global exchange.
This system is the direct carryover of the predatory mercantile fusions of state, banking, and corporate powers which saw organizations like the Dutch and British East India Companies ravage the world. But as the sun set on the British Empire in particular at the turn of the 20th century, the Crown began to get increasingly restive about the rising powers of China and Russia.
Now lacking military or industrial means to overpower these competitors, the waning British Empire was forced to resort to progressively devious and underhanded tactics to ‘rig’ the game invariably in its favor, hamstringing the Eastern giants at every turn. Over time this has led observers to wonder: what is behind the perceived infernal animosity Britain has for Russia? After all, both ruling monarchs were closely related:
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Recently, Jeffrey Sachs gave an interesting account of this very question on the Duran show: https://youtu.be/TAbi_2mbVKM
"I want to take it back to the 1840s, to the real roots of hegemony, which is Great Britain. Never was there a hegemon with such ambition and such a curious view of the world. But Britain wanted to run the world in the 19th century and taught America everything it knows. Recently, I read a fascinating book by a historian named J.H. Gleason, published by Harvard University Press in 1950. It's an incredibly interesting book called 'The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain.' The question is, where did England's hate of Russia come from? Because it's actually a little surprising. Britain has HATED Russia since the 1840s and launched the Crimean War that was a war of choice in modern Parliament—a war of choice by Palmerston in the 1850s—because it hated Russia. So, this author tries to understand where this hate came from, because it was the same kind of iterative hate that we have now. And by the way, we hated the Soviet Union because it was Communist, but we hated Russia afterwards when it wasn't communist. It doesn't matter. So, it's a deeper phenomenon, and he tries to trace where this hatred came from. The fascinating point is, Russia and Britain were on the same side in the Napoleonic Wars from 1812 to 1815, from the Battle of Moscow in Russia to Napoleon's defeat in Waterloo. They were on the same side, and in fact, for many years, the relations weren't great, but they were kind of normal. So, this historian reads every snippet of the newspapers, what's written, of the speeches, to try to understand where the hatred arose. The key point is there was no reason for it. There was nothing that Russia did. Russia didn't behave in some perfidious way. It wasn't Russian evil; it wasn't that the tsar was somehow off the rails. There wasn't anything except a self-fulfilling lather built up over time because Russia was a big power and therefore an affront to British hegemony. This is the same reason why the US hates China: not for anything China actually does but because it's big. It's the same reason, until today, that the United States and Britain hate Russia—because it's big. So, the author comes to the conclusion that the hate really arose around 1840 because it wasn't instantaneous, and there was no single triggering event. The British got it into their crazy heads that Russia was going to invade India through Central Asia and Afghanistan—one of the most bizarre, phony, wrongheaded ideas imaginable—but they took it quite literally. And they told themselves this: 'We're the imperialists. How dare Russia presume to invade India?' when it had no intention of doing so. So, my point is, it's possible to have hate to the point of war and now to the point of nuclear annihilation for no fundamental reason. Talk to each other."As he states, Russia and Britain were on the same side in the early 1800s, during the Napoleonic Wars, then something started to change by the 1840s. There is nuance to everything: Britain long believed Russia had aims to steal India from it, which at the time was being gobbled up by the East India Company, with—as some believe—major support from the Rothschild clan.
But according to Sachs, the author concludes that there was no one real scintillating reason for the ‘hatred’ other than opportune geopolitical exigency in the form of Russia posing a grave emergent threat to the British order. This segued into the rush of the Great Game to central Asia, not long after which Mackinder set forth his ‘Heartland’ theory.
At the time the Ottoman Empire was dying and Britain’s fears were once more stoked, as Russia stood to gain inordinate geopolitical heft by seizing much of the Ottoman’s territory, which—in Britain’s view—would push Russia over the top as a Great Power.
This Forbes article goes into detail about how British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli—to this day the only Jewish PM in British history—went to great lengths to prop up the failing Ottoman Empire as long as possible simply to keep its peripheries out of Russian reach. The author, James Kaplan, nevertheless concludes it still all revolved around keeping Russia from gaining access to India, which the British continued to believe was Russia’s goal.
The escalation continued to the pre-WWI era when Britain got another bolt in its quiver against Russia in the form of the Jewish diaspora. At the time, the Russian pogroms had caused a wave of resettlements of Russian Jews to the ‘Pale of Settlement’, which mostly consisted of modern day Poland, western Ukraine, the Baltics, etc.
And this is where the two-pronged attack on Russia began. Benjamin Disraeli is cited by many as one of the fathers of Zionism, not only having put forth one of the first ‘Zionist’ visions in his book The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, but likewise even positioning himself to be the Messiah of the Jewish people by creating Israel.
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The British quest to create a colony in the Middle East under the auspices of ‘Zionism’ was always linked to maintaining British interests in the Heartland, keeping France from the region, as when Napoleon had conquered Egypt, as well as Russia from encroaching on the erstwhile Ottoman lands.
To quote Mao:
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At the time of the rise of truly international banking, Rothschild and many other Jewish bankers were ascendant. So this was perfect time to utilize these combined vectors as a new attack on Russia. It is why Jacob Schiff funded both the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese war, as well as the Bolsheviks leading up to the 1917 revolution. Since the most powerful dynasties like that of the Rothschilds made their home in Britain the country became a single coordination point against Russia. However, it’s not quite as black and white as it seems. After the Bolsheviks took power and began stripping Western banking and other assets, Schiff and his brood quickly turned against them, pulling out his money. Britain, likewise, sent an expeditionary force on the side of the White forces against the Bolsheviks, who had effectively co-opted the Western plan.
Russian soldiers start using Piranya FPVs, capable of withstanding electronic warfare systems
Russian soldiers received FPV drones Piranya capable of withstanding electronic warfare systems, developed by Simbirsk Design Bureau, Izvestia reported on May 22.
“We recently supplied them with drones using our unique frequencies, which are not jammed by electronic warfare system. Here they launched the first one, and immediately hit the target,” the Simbirsk Design Bureau’s public relations manager told reporters.
He explained that the UAV was equipped with a new multi-frequency communication system, which helps to avoid the impact of electronic warfare systems. The drone is controlled using non-standard frequencies. In addition, when exposed to a signal, the operator changes the drone’s frequency and continues to control it.
Russian soldiers have already destroyed US armored vehicle with rocket launcher, German IFV Marder, anti-tank grenade launcher SPG-9, mortar, warehouse with ammunition and other targets using Piranya FPVs.
https://eu.eot.su/2024/05/23/russian...rfare-systems/
The National Interest: Russian S-500 Prometheus could change conflict in Ukraine
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Testing of S-500 SAM system at Kapustin Yar test range
The delivery of the new S-500 surface-to-air missile system (SAM) to the Russian army could significantly change the course of military actions in Ukraine, The National Interest wrote on May 22.
According to the expert, the appearance of the S-500 SAM systems in the zone of Russia’s special military operation “could change the conflict and give Russia a noticeable advantage.” The article notes that the Russian system is capable of destroying not only the latest enemy aircraft, but also low-orbit satellites.
In April 2024, then-Defense Minister of Russia Sergey Shoigu announced the planned delivery of new S-500 air defense systems to the Russian Armed Forces in 2024. According to Shoigu, the air defense systems will come in two modifications – long-range surface-to-air missile systems and missile defense systems.
https://eu.eot.su/2024/05/22/the-nat...ct-in-ukraine/
I remember that he tried to grab hold of most of russias oil resources and sell them to west. Why he got thrown to prison by Putin .
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This is a good analysis--shouldn't be too surprising--published in 1950. Same story continues!
What is missing is the 1700s British interpretation of Ezekiel 38:
Gog and Magog
Germany and Russia
So this is a non-governmental, populist movement, giving Millinerian Eschatology a way to go berserk.
In actuality, England had been trading in the Ukrainian area since the 1500s and things seemed relatively normal/progressive.
Even when the shift starts--I may have the names mixed up, but, I believe it was Tsar Nicholas II and Queen-to-be Victoria were well in love with each other. The nuptial didn't go through because mom and dad said no, we just don't do these things.
Everything I have seen would agree the intellectual and political precursors became fused in Palmerston, the handler of Mazzini.
That combines unreasonable hatred with terrorism -- "everywhere".
People who were less motivated by religion could go just as berserk with Nationalism, and, voila! Suddenly the Crimean issue is Britain's business.
This is a large part of why I say the English language is ruined, it has no background or context other than this.
They manipulate everything--next, we find an ancient, implacable enemy, France, spontaneously welded--Britannia and Marianne, the Entente Cordiale:
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That's unnatural.
You can just stop fighting, you don't have to strangle Germany from ever becoming robust, and, say, friends with Russia.
Oh--Germany is stagnated and unable to act like an adult. Oh. Kind of Americanized. Wait, how did the Brits get back on the American side? What happened to our Independence? /joke
But yeah. You have to give the Gog and Magog thing a hundred years to percolate before Palmerston arrives on the scene. And yes, we have the same broken record, infinite loop, being postured as if others are still going to take it seriously.
The entire freaking language is undermined, this is going to take a lot of work to catch up with what was already published in 1950.
When Disraeli published in 1877, a million Jews had already gone to the United States, and Zionism did not go as quickly as he planned. I think we could say it was faster after 1945.
The United States also got an unreasoning fear/hatred of China in the 1850s. Well, the U. S. was friends with Russia at the time, so this was easier. Instead of changing, it simply added the British opinion.
These different scenes are not unrelated and cannot really be separated.
I don't personally know what it is like to "spontaneously hate" some ethnicity, I just don't have what it takes to react in that manner. I object to a lot of things, most of which comes from other English speakers similar to me. They seem to be seriously developmentally disabled.
The difference is, in the United States, I can find counter-arguments up through the early 1900s. I don't know if you can dredge from any archive some person that dissented against Palmerston or anyone around London opposing the trend. If you can find one, I think you need to revive it.