WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

https://readovka.world/news/102826


Since July 1, the Polish Government will no longer pay 40 PLN (about 276 UAH) daily for food and accommodation of Ukrainian refugees


This was stated by Pavel Shefernaker, government commissioner for refugees and deputy chief of Poland’s Ministry of the Interior and Administration, reports Rzeczpospolita newspaper.

«We are convinced that many people in Poland are able to become independent and adapt», – he said. However, there also will be exceptions. Benefits will be expanded for a certain group of individuals: people with disabilities, pregnant women and large families.
With a special law on assistance to Ukrainian refugees, the government originally guaranteed benefits for the first 60 days. A month ago, the period was extended by another 60 days. This law will no longer apply.

«We pay huge social remedies – from 300 PLN for everyone up to 500 PLN per child, and another benefits. Furthermore, we see that many Ukrainians are looking for a job, finding it and getting by on their own. We want to encourage others to be active. Four months of full coverage is a sufficient time in our opinion», – said a senior politician of a «Law and Justice» political party.
It is noted that the Government’s decision was dictated by the very high cost of maintaining the refugees. In particular, the Silesian Voivodeship province estimated the operating expenses for 115 thousand refugees in 190 million PLN per month, of which 160 million PLN are the daily payments of 40 PLN per person.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/...04335070945282

[Mashika]

God Damn you Elensky, God Fing Damn you. And Biden too. Because your "get rich scheme" you learned from the west

The "business of war", and here's the product to sell, and then you expect the kids seeing it also go and go die into the meat grinder, also to provide you more cash.

That's who you are, idiots supporting the western lie, look at him, look and then try to say any explanation about why he's suffering and dying there

Stupid fools


https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/13221

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mashika (here)
God Damn you Elensky, God Fing Damn you. And Biden too.

—> Mashika

Boris Johnson is right there on the list as well. He has a LOT of blood on his hands.

All three will be gone or disempowered pretty soon. Johnson within a month or two, Zelensky by September-October, and Biden will be emasculated even more than he currently is come November.

Some of this is very very hard to watch play out. There are many videos now that have been terrible to see, and witness reports that are terrible to hear. But it has to be possible that the outcome will actually be a better world in a number of ways, even though many of its citizens will be enduring various forms of individual hardship for the next 2-3 years.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mashika (here)
God Damn you Elensky, God Fing Damn you. And Biden too. Because your "get rich scheme" you learned from the west

The "business of war", and here's the product to sell, and then you expect the kids seeing it also go and go die into the meat grinder, also to provide you more cash.

That's who you are, idiots supporting the western lie, look at him, look and then try to say any explanation about why he's suffering and dying there

Stupid fools

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/13221

I do have a question about the video itself. The poor guy is as white as a sheet (from shock or blood loss or both), but it did look like he was going to live.

What was in the video dialog? Was it one Spetsnaz soldier talking to his colleague, or was he talking to the wounded Ukrainian, or to the camera?

~~~

(aside, and rather less important)

Donbass Devushka does a more-than-wonderful job. I failed to find out anything about her personally, but language made searching tricky. What is known about her?

[Mike Gorman]

Boris, Zelensky, and all of the cohort who enable this feast of lying and death, I have no words that express my disgust, my utter rejection of their deeds, this is truly 'The Information War' - it looks as if the world will have to learn in the hardest possible way just what Truth looks like! We can only hope justice and balance can be reclaimed. You say Boris et all will be gone soon? Their time has surely expired.

[9ideon]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Mashika (here)
God Damn you Elensky, God Fing Damn you. And Biden too.

—> Mashika

Boris Johnson is right there on the list as well. He has a LOT of blood on his hands.

All three will be gone or disempowered pretty soon. Johnson within a month or two, Zelensky by September-October, and Biden will be emasculated even more than he currently is come November.

Some of this is very very hard to watch play out. There are many videos now that have been terrible to see, and witness reports that are terrible to hear. But it has to be possible that the outcome will actually be a better world in a number of ways, even though many of its citizens will be enduring various forms of individual hardship for the next 2-3 years.

List is long, should be longer, trees and wind and so on.

1-) Biden
2-) Trudeau
3-) Rutte
4-) Macron
5-) Johnson
6-) Scholz
7-) Andersson
8-) Marin
9-) de Croo/Di Rupo
10-) etc.

The so called NWo is already in effect, these country borders are just illusions for Citizens, go back to February, the Canadian uprising, Trudeau was freaking out and had no clue on what to do, suddenly he bypasses parliament and takes Peoples money by freezing it through the banking system, despotic behaviour of a little fecker with no backbone. That whole scheme came from somewhere else, it is also the future for us all, Trudeau in the meantime going on like nothing matters, well idiots like that are not very self conscious when it comes to the failures which they are.

I have included the names of the Finish and Swedish Pm's too, I mean really, if you're that eager to join NATO without any dialogue with Russia, well that stinks. In any case, the Govts are riddled with these types now, it really does not make any difference anymore left, right, (all wings of that same Bird) they change their tunes a little to ensure party policies/directives, but they are all directed by the same multiplier, to control the masses.

I did not include Zelenskyy, simply because it's a sockpuppet.

[jaybee]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Mashika (here)
God Damn you Elensky, God Fing Damn you. And Biden too.

—> Mashika

Boris Johnson is right there on the list as well. He has a LOT of blood on his hands.

All three will be gone or disempowered pretty soon. Johnson within a month or two, Zelensky by September-October, and Biden will be emasculated even more than he currently is come November.

Some of this is very very hard to watch play out. There are many videos now that have been terrible to see, and witness reports that are terrible to hear. But it has to be possible that the outcome will actually be a better world in a number of ways, even though many of its citizens will be enduring various forms of individual hardship for the next 2-3 years.

Boris Johnson is an absolute menace and a real and present danger not just to the citizens of Britain but to the whole world - he seems to think he is going to go on for years to come and that the Globalists have his back - although, in spite of his enthusiastic and reckless warmongering there could be another globalist faction that wants him gone and that's why such a fuss was made through the MSM of 'Partygate' etc.. (for those who don't know..Partygate was the MSM exposing Johnson's breaking of covid rules while at the same time lecturing the country and rubber stamping restrictions...he actually got fined for it eventually..)

Back when the Globalists were using the Islamic State and Al Qaeda to try and bring about regime change in Syria (before Russia stepped in and pulled the brakes on...) Boris Johnson was full of praise and support for the White Helmets - essentially a group of actors producing propaganda videos for Western consumption - I think they have been working in Ukraine as well now...

I think Johnson, like the other western political leaders who are betraying there own citizens - has an addiction to power and international politics of the Globalist variety ... they are vain people, easily flattered and manipulated - dumb and dangerous.... just the way the super rich Globalist Elite likes them...

[TomKat]

Paul Craig Roberts explains how the US is trying to force Russia into nuclear war
with the US:

https://usawatchdog.com/paul-craig-roberts-nuke-war-coming-mysterious-deaths-dont-stop-dems-cant-win

https://rumble.com/v1ampzo-dr.-pcr-s...-cant-win.html

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v180k26

[onawah]

The Long Arm of the CIA: Behind Russia’s Ukraine War
F. William Engdahl <info@williamengdahl.com>
www.williamengdahl.com
7/2/22

"As with so much of modern history, the mainstream Western media does not tell the full story. The role of the CIA in destroying the Russian economy in the 1990s is essential background to understand the deep distrust between the Putin Kremlin and Washington going back to the Yeltsin years. The CIA followed that failed coup attempt in 2014 with a successful coup d’etat in Ukraine in which Washington installed an anti-Russian puppet regime in Kiev, many of whose key players in the Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) party and others were explicit neo-Nazis whose roots went back to the Banderistas who fought the Russians in World War II on the side of the German SS. That 2014 coup was led by then Assistant Secretary of State Viktoria Nuland and Vice President Joe Biden. Today Nuland is back and Biden is President. The following is a chapter from my best-selling book, Manifest Destiny. It details the criminal role of the CIA and US Presidents Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton in what can only be called the Rape of Russia in the 1990s.

If you have not yet done so, please consider support for my online voice. The relentless censorship of the Internet and social media by the private corporate social media companies since the 2020 Corona virus, and now the war in Ukraine, is alarming and damaging and can only be compared with book burnings in the Germany of the 1930s, or the Medieval Inquisitions with torture of heretics.

I thank you for your interest and support,

William Engdahl
www.williamengdahl.com

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Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance © F. William Engdahl

Chapter Four

Soros and the Harvard Boys Join Yeltsin and the KGB

“We learned today that officers of the United States’ CIA operated as consultants to Anatoly Chubais. But it is even funnier that upon returning to the US, they were prosecuted for violating their country’s laws and illegally enriching themselves in the course of privatization in the Russian Federation.”


—Vladimir Putin, 2013[i]

Soros’ Harvard Boys Go for the Kill

As soon as the rogue ex-KGB generals and their handpicked protégés had looted the gold reserves of the now defunct Soviet Union and stolen the significant financial assets of the now conveniently banned Communist Party—all with the blessing and complicity of Boris Yeltsin and his inner circle—Bush’s CIA old boys were ready to launch the next phase: the systematic takeover of strategic energy, raw materials, and military state industries in the Soviet Union via IMF-dictated privatization operations that were run by Yeltsin’s finance minister, Yegor Gaidar, and his accomplice, Anatoly Chubais.

In November 1991, Chubais became a minister in the Yeltsin cabinet, where he managed the portfolio of Rosimushchestvo—the Federal Agency for State Property Management, which Yeltsin decreed to be the agency responsible for devising Russia’s privatization of the state companies. Gaidar and Chubais worked in league with George Soros, the Wall Street speculator and “colleague" of the CIA front the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Soros, in turn, brought Harvard’s Jeffrey Sachs—architect of the Polish “economic shock therapy”—and other of his American “friends” to the Yeltsin circles.

George Soros and his Open Society Foundations had been linked to the CIA by Chinese intelligence and others. His Open Society institutions seemed to appear operational, of course just by coincidence, in every situation where the CIA’s NED front and the US State Department sought regime change to a pro-Washington government.

Already as far back as 1987, while Gorbachev still headed the Soviet Union, Soros took advantage of the Soviet regime’s efforts to reform by founding his Open Society Institute in Moscow. There he could give money to key researchers and others to support “market economy research.”[ii]

All actions of Yeltsin were guided by Yeltsin’s CIA and KGB handlers, notably KGB Generals Philipp Bobkov, Alexei Kondaurov, and Yeltsin’s personal bodyguard, General Alexander Korzhakov. This was the cabal which, in coordination with George H.W. Bush and his CIA old boys, staged the phony KGB “coup” attempt against Gorbachev that propelled Yeltsin, with the support of mainstream Western media, as the new Russian champion of democracy.

In December 1991, four months after that fake coup, Yeltsin, then president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic—the largest federated “republic” within the Soviet Union—met with the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus and signed what was called the Belavezha Accords, declaring the dissolution of the USSR that had formally existed since 1922. It was the key note in the US-backed coup to open up the rape of Russia. By that time Gorbachev had been utterly discredited and had resigned in disgrace.

Russia’s Shock Therapy

As part of the Belavezha Accords agreement, the newly created Russian Federation took legal title to all state assets of the former USSR, now nonexistent, and assumed all foreign debts of the USSR. Yeltsin was told to name a thirty-two-year-old friend of George Soros named Yegor Gaidar to become his economics czar. Gaidar, who formally was made finance minister of the new Russian Federation in February 1992, named another young economist, Anatoly Chubais, his director of state asset privatization.

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Two young US-steered economists, Anatoly Chubais (l) and Yegor Gaidar (r), implemented the Harvard shock therapy program to loot Russia for themselves and their Western friends.

Gaidar was then taken to Poland by the Soros circles in order to study the Polish “shock therapy” model, the process that had been introduced by George Soros’s young Harvard economist protégé, Jeffrey Sachs. Back in Moscow, Yegor Gaidar, using the Polish example of Sachs, convinced Yeltsin to “let prices rise to increase supply and to scrap trade barriers so that foreign commodities could begin to fill store shelves.” [iii]

It was a lie. The Soviet economy was self-sufficient in everything except perhaps bananas and coffee. The shops had been full until November 1991, when Yeltsin announced the exact date when price controls were to be lifted: December 31 of that year. Shop owners promptly hid their goods, waiting for the announced profit bonanza of price decontrol. Shops were suddenly empty. Within a week of Yeltsin’s speech, rationing was imposed on Muscovites. It was just the beginning of almost a decade of economic horror for most Russian citizens.[iv]

Harvard, the CIA and Larry Summers

Gaidar was instructed and guided by the US Treasury from a new Clinton Administration that had taken office in January 1993. The key person at the Treasury for the ensuing Gaidar–Chubais looting of Yeltsin’s Russia was a former Harvard economist named Larry Summers. Summers used the powerful influence of the US Treasury to funnel International Monetary Fund (IMF) dollars to the cash-hungry Yeltsin government, advising Yeltsin and Gaidar that Russia must open to unrestricted imports if they wanted to receive the IMF and other Western loans.

Gaidar soon delivered a policy that served the demands of Washington and of the KGB’s new banking oligarchs around Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Menatep Bank and others. Under the Gaidar decrees, Russian manufacturing was to go bankrupt in the face of unrestricted foreign competition, but, curiously, domestic banking was to be protected from competition.[v]

After the November 1992 US election victory of Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, the new US Treasury deputy secretary responsible for Russian “reform”—himself a former Harvard economics professor—brought a group of his former Harvard colleagues, including George Soros’s Polish shock therapy adviser, Jeffrey Sachs, and economics professor Andrei Shleifer to Moscow under the auspices of their Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). That Sachs–Shleifer–Summers triangle essentially orchestrated all key aspects in the implementation of the Gaidar–Chubais “shock therapy” in the early Yeltsin years.[vi]

In 1991, just months before joining the Clinton Treasury, Summers had been chief economist at the World Bank. There, Summers had named his former Harvard student Shleifer, a Russian-born American citizen, as World Bank “adviser” to the Yeltsin government. Soon after Summers became Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration in early 1993, Shleifer would join Jeffrey Sachs’s HIID in Moscow as Project Director.

HIID had been chosen by Summers as the key advisory agency to work with Gaidar and Chubais to organize the colossal looting known as Russian privatization. From his Washington US Treasury office, Summers named all key actors in the Chubais privatization rape of Russia in the early 1990s. They were what could be called a Harvard mafia.

Summers hired David Lipton from Harvard, a former consulting partner of Jeffrey D. Sachs & Associates, to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Sachs was named Director of HIID in 1995. Sachs’s HIID received USAID grants for the institute’s “work” in Russia from his former partner, now at the Treasury, David Lipton. It was a tight-knit circle Summers had created.[vii]

The USAID was known as a CIA front agency, keeping the CIA’s role of regime change and such hidden behind the veil of a charitable US government agency spending for economic development. It was a key money link for the directing of every step of the Chubais privatization operations through the Summers–Sachs Harvard boys.[viii]

Harvard was a clever choice to be the CIA’s hands-on operator for the Chubais privatization. CIA monies via a Harvard University front gave an aura of impartial academic respectability and of plausible deniability that the CIA and the US Treasury were actually responsible. Shleifer, a Russian-born émigré and protégé of Summers, was already a tenured professor of economics at Harvard in his early thirties. Shleifer became Sachs’s head of the HIID’s Russia project based in Moscow.

Then Summers brought in yet another Harvard boy, a former World Bank consultant of Summers named Jonathan Hay. In 1991, while still at Harvard Law School, Hay had also become a senior legal adviser to Chubais’s GKI state privatization agency. In 1992, Hay, a lawyer, was made the HIID’s General Director in Moscow. Hay assumed vast powers over contractors, policies, and program specifics. He not only controlled access to the Chubais circle but was its spokesperson as well.[ix]

Both Jonathan Hay and Andrei Shleifer were identified later as CIA agents. President Vladimir Putin, in an April 2013 annual dialogue with Russian citizens—though he discreetly did not name the names—referenced Hay and Shleifer as identified CIA agents working with Chubais and Gaidar in the criminal Russian privatization:

We learned today that officers of the United States’ CIA operated as consultants to Anatoly Chubais. But it is even funnier that upon returning to the US, they were prosecuted for violating their country’s laws and illegally enriching themselves in the course of privatization in the Russian Federation. They did not have the right to do this as active CIA officers. In accordance with US law, they were not allowed to engage in any kind of commercial activity, but they couldn’t resist—it’s corruption, you see.[x]

Both Hay and Shleifer were “protected” by Washington, despite having to pay multi-million dollar fines when, in 2006, the US District Court in Boston fined them personally $2 million and Harvard University $26.5 million for their Russian illegal activities. Summers—who by then had l eft Washington to become Harvard President—was forced to resign on the revelation of his role in the Moscow HIID scandals in 2006. Before he left, however, Summers managed to get Shleifer named to an endowed Harvard professorship chair. Hay later resurfaced as founder of the Ukrainian branch of the Polish “free market” Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE) during the CIA coup d’état in Kiev in 2014.[xi]

Harvard’s Criminal Russian Privatization

The criminal Russian privatization of state assets that Hay and Shleifer had created together with Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar after 1992 was done to the last detail by Chubais’s new American advisers. When the announcement of the proposed vouchers-for-shares privatization received cold response from Russians already reeling from the economic shock of price de-freezing, Hay and Shleifer arranged for slick US public relations experts from Burson-Marsteller and the Sawyer Miller Group to devise an advertising campaign to be aired on the TV channels then owned by the newly created Russian oligarchs to convince Russians to accept the Gaidar–Chubais privatization scam.

The Harvard–Chubais privatization scheme which began in 1992 was as simple as it was criminally fraudulent. It was proclaimed by Yeltsin in August 1991 by presidential decree, bypassing a hostile Duma.

Anatoly Chubais, as head of the state GKI state property agency, issued 150 million “vouchers” to each and every Russian citizen. In turn, citizens could invest their voucher in a share in a Russian privatized state company or shop or sell it at an established market price pegged to the US dollar. As most Russians were concerned when, if ever, the next pension payment would be paid or where jobs could be found in the collapsing industrial economy that was a predictable result of the Sachs–Harvard–Chubais shock therapy, millions simply sold their vouchers for cash.

Vouchers could be bought or sold on every street corner in Russia in June 1992. They were traded at new Moscow “commodity exchanges” set up by Harvard’s Jonathan Hay and the USAID monies channeled via the HIID. Voucher investment funds sprung up everywhere to gather citizens’ vouchers by the millions. Gaidar, Chubais, and their Harvard advisers made certain those “investment funds” would be unregulated. The ruble was made domestically convertible to the US dollar on the advice of the Sachs HIID team, further weakening the ruble and dollarizing the economy.

In the twenty months that the voucher-for-shares program lasted, voucher prices swung from a high of $20 to a low of $4 a voucher. As they were made freely tradable, it was ripe for the billionaire oligarchs around Yeltsin to buy them up, which is precisely what they did.[xii]

Nearly six hundred voucher funds obtained forty-five million vouchers. The largest, calling itself First Voucher, collected four million vouchers.[xiii]

At the stated price for the vouchers, Chubais and his Harvard boys had de facto valued the entire Russian economy—which included the world’s largest nickel company; some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, including Sibneft and Gazprom; RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminum company; vast gold mines and numerous high-tech defense companies—at a total that was less than the market value of the US General Electric company. In the privatization auctions, based on the number of total vouchers that were circulated, the entire Russian industrial system, including mines, oil companies, and factories, had a total valuation of under $12 billion. It was theft on a colossal scale. [xiv] The face value of each voucher was 10,000 rubles, which Chubais told the public was sufficient to buy two or even three Volga cars, at the time Russia’s finest auto. It was a lie.

Creating CIA Oligarchs

Because they had been allowed by the Bush CIA networks that controlled the financial side of the Yeltsin mafia to be the first Russians with big money, select Yeltsin oligarchs were able to buy up hundreds of thousands of vouchers and redeem them for entire industries, which would later be stripped and sold. Although they were supposedly acting on behalf of the Russian state, the bank auctioneers of oligarch-owned banks rigged the process. This was how Bank Menatep’s Mikhail Khodorkovsky got a 78 percent share of ownership in Yukos, worth about $5 billion, for a mere $310 million. It was how Boris Berezovsky got Sibneft, another oil giant worth $3 billion, for about $100 million. [xv]

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CIA-tied Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky manipulated Chubais’s voucher privatization to literally steal the huge Yukos Oil Company in league with Jacob Lord Rothschild, Henry Kissinger, and other Western shadowy figures.


Using his Yeltsin connections, Khodorkovsky was able to purchase several factories in investment tenders and large blocks of shares in timber, titanium, pipe, and copper-smelting companies. In total, Khodorkovsky gained control of more than one hundred companies before getting control of the giant Yukos Oil.

Under growing pressure from the Duma parliament, then dominated by Communist Party deputies, Chubais agreed to prohibit voucher sales of state companies to foreign investors.

There were, however, two notable exceptions. In 1995, in the wake of the Yeltsin referendum victory financed by George Soros, the Harvard Management Company (HMC), which invests the university’s large endowment, and George Soros, who brought Harvard’s Sachs to work with Chubais, were the only foreign entities allowed to participate. Both HMC and Soros became major shareholders in Novolipetsk Steel, Russia’s second-largest steel mill, and Sidanko Oil, which had estimated oil reserves exceeding those of Mobil Oil.

HMC and Soros also invested in Russia’s high-yielding, IMF-subsidized, domestic GKO short-term bond market. And in 1997 Soros bought 24 percent of Svyazinvest, the telecommunications giant, together with Uneximbank’s Vladimir Potanin, the nominal spokesman of the new Russian oligarchs.[xvi]

Soros to Yeltsin’s Rescue

This left many Russian citizens feeling cheated, royally screwed, and furious as their dreams of a promised share in “capitalist private property” vanished, along with their savings, during the Central Bank hyperinflation money printing, another part of George H. W. Bush’s Operation Hammer.

By 1993, pressures were growing from all sides, including the Duma. The population were demanding action. The Supreme Soviet, the Russian upper house, was drafting a bill that would freeze the entire privatization process. The opposition was becoming so great that Chubais ultimately had to rely largely on Yeltsin’s presidential decrees, not parliamentary approval, for implementation.

Harvard HIID’s Moscow man, the CIA’s Jonathan Hay, and his HIID associates drafted many of the decrees. As USAID’s Walter Coles, whose office funded the Chubais privatizations via HIID, described it, “If we needed a decree, Chubais didn’t have to go through the bureaucracy.”[xvii] Russia’s nascent efforts to establish some form of parliamentary democracy or even checks on dictatorial Presidential power were of little interest to Clinton, Summers, or other Washington officials.

At that point, as opposition threatened to get out of hand, Yeltsin felt forced to agree to a national referendum on the entire privatization process. The date was set for April 25, 1993.

The referendum contained four yes/no questions: (1) Do you support Yeltsin? (2) Do you support Yeltsin’s economic policy? (3) Do you want early elections for president? And (4) Do you want early elections for parliament?[xviii]

Facing sure defeat, Chubais, most likely on advice from his Harvard mentors, arranged to secretly meet with US billionaire George Soros, who agreed to finance—on behalf of Yeltsin—the Yeltsin referendum campaign. Soros funneled $1 million, a huge sum in Russia at the time, to offshore accounts set up for Chubais’s use to buy media exposure. Yeltsin survived the referendum by a slim 52 percent, and the privatization of major Russian industrial companies went forward.[xix] Yeltsin was giving the crown jewels and much more to a cabal of CIA-backed Russian oligarchs.


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Hungarian-born hedge fund speculator George Soros financed the 1993 Yeltsin referendum that kept the criminal Russian privatization alive.

From Washington, Larry Summers at the Treasury architected the Chubais–Gaidar privatization with Jeffrey Sachs and Andrei Shleifer, serving to directly convey the plans to Yeltsin’s economic advisers. It was a theft on a scale unprecedented in any nation, even in wartime. The US–French–British Versailles reparations of 1919 were almost humanitarian, in comparison to what was done to Russia in the 1990s under Yeltsin’s stewardship.

Oligarchs Buy Yeltsin’s Reelection

By 1996, with the Russian economy deep into hyperinflation, Yeltsin faced certain defeat in scheduled national elections. The head of the Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, promising a return to stability, was far ahead in the polls. Some of Yeltsin’s close advisers even suggested canceling the elections and declaring a de facto dictatorship.

By then, Yeltsin’s daughter Tatyana Borisovna Yumasheva had become her father’s closest adviser, together with Berezovsky, Gusinsky, and the other USAID–CIA-made oligarchs. Russian media labeled the clique controlling Russia, especially after Yeltsin’s heart attack that year, “The Family,” as in mafia family, not blood family.[xx]

Following the Russian Communist Party’s success in the December 1995 Duma elections the International Monetary Fund in Washington—de facto controlled by the US Treasury--made an extraordinary $10.2 billion loan to the Yeltsin government. In that loan, $1 billion was secretly intended for the campaign to keep Yeltsin president in the 1996 elections. Tape recordings later made public of conversations between President Bill Clinton and Yeltsin showed that in return for the US support, Yeltsin would exempt longtime Clinton supporter, campaign donor, and Arkansas-based Tyson Chicken’s exports to Russia—then a $700 million annual business—from a threatened 20 percent import tariff increase. The corruption was seemingly unbounded.[xxi]

Berezovsky and Gusinsky, the Clinton–Summers–Harvard–Soros-backed new Russian oligarchs, fearing the loss of their stolen billions to the opposition communists, in turn formed what they called the “Group of Seven.” The group included Berezovsky, Gusinsky, Khodorkovsky, Potanin, Vinogradov, Smolensky, and Friedman. With aid the of US Madison Avenue spin doctors, the Group of Seven—which then owned the two major TV stations, with the third still state owned (i.e., Yeltsin controlled), and their control of major press—ran a US-style media campaign assault for Yeltsin’s reelection. At the same time, they blocked Zyuganov from buying media time.

Yeltsin posters carried the cynical Madison Avenue slogan, “Choose with Your Heart.” Another ad featured Yeltsin’s family in photos while Yeltsin recalled events in his childhood as an athlete, rebel, father, and grandfather. All the while, sentimental Russian music played in the background.[xxii]

The oligarchs hired Chubais, the man responsible for creating their fortunes, as Yeltsin’s campaign manager. He created a private fund aptly called the Center for the Protection of Private Property--his and the Yeltsin oligarchs’ private property in reality.

Chubais received $5 million from the Group of Seven for the campaign. Fake newspapers were created overnight, printing stories that claimed the “discovery of secret minutes” of a Communist Party leadership meeting where Zyuganov was alleged to have said, “We will not be able to give the people anything that we promised.” Gaidar’s re-election fund also funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars, a fortune in the time of hyperinflation of the ruble, to major Russian journalists to write fraudulent articles in praise of Yeltsin and discrediting Zyuganov.[xxiii]

During the 1996 pre-election campaign, polls showed that Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov would defeat Yeltsin. The Russian population rightly felt cheated and humiliated. Yeltin’s support was less than 4 percent. Gaidar, Chubais, and the other “reformers” around Yeltsin began to panic.

Chubais and Yeltsin turned to the new Oligarchs—called by cynical Russians as “Russia’s corporate politburo”—to save the day. Chubais called a press conference where he claimed that if the Communist Party returned to power, they would forbid the “free” press and put their political adversaries into prison, predicting a “big bloodshed in Russia.” The fact that the Yeltsin oligarchs had gotten a near monopoly on Russian TV and print media made it possible to tilt the vote to Yeltsin 54 percent. The Russian corporate politburo was now firmly in the saddle, with Yeltsin and Chubais their horses, or so they believed.[xxiv]

The Destruction of the Ruble

The next step in the rape of Russia for Washington and the secret CIA Operation Hammer was to create hyperinflation and ruin the ruble currency—state default.

By 1998, the casino of short-term debt in the state GKO bond market, at times paying interest of up to 290 percent or more, was reeling out of control. Billions of speculative hot dollars were pouring in from foreign hedge funds and other speculators. The improbable yields on three-month paper on the Russian market’s GKO bonds were paid with US taxpayers’ money via IMF loans.

By yielding those kinds of ultra-high returns, the bond market ensured that all the country’s resources and all it was capable of attracting went to the support of the state, the state apparatus then controlled by Yeltsin’s tight-knit mafia around Chubais and Gaidar.[xxv]

It also insured that the giant Ponzi scheme would soon topple. It did, triggered by an August 1998 op-ed in the influential London Financial Times by the US hedge-fund billionaire and Russian oligarch insider George Soros. By the time of the ruble crisis of August 1998, Russian industrial output had fallen by almost half and poverty had increased from 2 percent of the population to over 40 percent. Until August 1998, the ruble was overvalued, making it impossible for domestic producers to compete with imports.

The IMF did not want Russia to devalue, and it provided billions of dollars to prop up the exchange rate.[xxvi] That was to no avail, however. The devaluation was forced deliberately, part of the Operation Hammer agenda to destroy Russia.

On pressure from the Clinton Treasury, especially from Deputy Secretary Larry Summers, the IMF made a $22.6 billion Russian bailout to save the financial assets of their bankers and oligarchs, not to save the ruble. With the IMF money in the pipeline, Soros wrote a prominent guest article in the London Financial Times where he stated, “The meltdown in Russian financial markets . . . has reached terminal phase. Bankers and brokers who had borrowed against securities could not meet margin calls and forced selling swamped both the stock and bond markets.”[xxvii]

Given Soros’s financial market reputation as an uncanny and unusually well-informed trader, Western investors led a panic exit from ruble GKO bonds and Russian stock shares. Trading on the Russian stock market was suspended amid growing fears of debt default, devaluation of the ruble, banking collapses, or a combination of all three.

Then on August 18 Prime Minister Sergey Kiriyenko and the Russian Central Bank jointly announced a devaluation of the ruble, a suspension of trading in government GKOs, and a ninety-day moratorium on the repayment of ruble-denominated foreign debt. Short-term debt due by the year end was $20 billion, with $6.5 billion owed to foreigners. Foreign reserves totaled a mere $17.5 billion and were vanishing at the rate of $1 billion a week to try to support the ruble–dollar peg.[xxviii] That signaled the end of shock therapy and the Harvard Boys but the beginning of a dramatic change in fortunes of certain oligarchs.

The Silent Putsch

Following the Russian debt default and ruble crisis, the Yeltsin oligarch cabal in the Kremlin was forced to compromise in September 1998, when the Duma refused to approve the notoriously corrupt Viktor Chernomyrdin as Prime Minister. In a desperate bid to calm opposition, the Yeltsin cabal named a highly respected outsider to head the government, Yevgeny Primakov—a former head of the KGB foreign intelligence successor, SVR, and former foreign minister—as the new prime minister.

Primakov soon went after the most powerful Yeltsin oligarch, Boris Berezovsky. On April 5, 1999, prosecutors and armed men in camouflage and black masks raided Berezovsky’s companies in Moscow, and an arrest warrant was issued for Berezovsky for his involvement in a scam involving Aeroflot ticket sales. In May 1999, members of the state Duma tried to impeach President Yeltsin. The impeachment vote failed. It was rumored that votes had been bought by the Kremlin at $30,000 apiece.[xxix] Clearly the political tide was turning in Russia.

When Prime Minister Primakov learned of the illegal US bombing of Serbia in March 1999, he was aboard a Russian jet en route to Washington for meetings. He ordered the pilot to immediately return to Moscow in what came to be called in the Russian media the “Primakov loop.” Back in Moscow, Primakov vehemently protested that Yeltsin and the Russian government must act to support the Serbs. Yeltsin responded by firing Primakov some weeks later, using the economy as excuse.

On June 11, 1999, the Russian military rejected the Kremlin’s capitulation to the NATO bombing of Serbia and ordered Russian troops to seize the airport in Pristina, Kosovo. Yeltsin had lost control over his own military. This was the beginning of what would become a silent coup. With little choice, Yeltsin’s administration agreed to require the foreign ministry to coordinate its activities with the military and security apparatus that Primakov had headed.

An Unknown Named Putin Takes Over

On August 10, 1999, Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Sergei Sephashin and replaced him with Vladimir Putin, an unknown former KGB officer who had spent the Cold War in Dresden in communist East Germany. Putin briefly had been head of the FSB and otherwise seemed to be a man with little prior political experience other than a short time as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. Berezovsky, Gusinsky, and the other Yeltsin oligarchs believed they could “do business” with the novice Putin. They made a major error.[xxx]

According to informed reports, Putin gave Yeltsin the ultimatum to resign or face serious consequences, an offer he apparently could not refuse. Yeltsin resigned on December 31, 1999, naming Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting president until the March 2000 elections. By then, the CIA and their undesirable NGOs had wreaked untold damage on Russia and the Russian people.

Once in office as president on December 31, 1999, Vladimir Putin made clear to the oligarchs he was not intending to be their man. Following an electoral victory in June 2000, Putin called to the Kremlin the eighteen most powerful oligarchs, those who had made staggering fortunes at the expense of Russia. He denounced the shocked oligarchs by calling them creators of a corrupt state through backroom deals and insider ties. Soon after that, Putin’s Kremlin launched criminal cases against media and banking oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky of Media-Most, the financial–industrial group Interros headed by Vladimir Potanin, and Sibneft, an oil company controlled by Roman Abramovich, as well as businesses connected with Boris Berezovsky.[xxxi]

Incalculable Human Economic Toll

The human cost of the US-imposed Russian shock therapy brought by Soros, Jeffrey Sachs, Larry Summers, and a stable of CIA-linked financial and legal operators, such as Jonathan Hay and Andrei Shleifer, was beyond belief. Between 1991 and 1997, the Russian GDP—the value of all goods and services that Russia produces—collapsed by 83 percent. Farm production had declined by a staggering 63 percent as state support for large farms ended. Investment into the economy decreased by 92 percent.

More than 70,000 factories were closed down. That led to Russia’s producing 88 percent fewer tractors, 76 percent fewer washing machines, 77 percent less cotton fabric, 78 percent fewer TVs, and on and on. In a country that had been without unemployment under the Soviet era, thirteen million people lost their jobs under Yeltsin’s “free market” Russia. Those who still had work had their wages cut in half. The average life span for men had been shortened by six years, down to the same level as in India, Egypt, or Bolivia. Alcoholism became epidemic as depression spread among the population. It was a shock therapy indeed, the kind of shock a country experiences only in a major war.[xxxii]

The CIA and their fake democracy NGOs had more than Russia and the destruction and looting of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in their sights. The People’s Republic of China was also being targeted for drastic regime change at the same time Washington brought the Soviet Union to collapse. Leading circles in the US and Britain had decided to try to destroy all state communist powers at the same time—a massive, if foolish ambition. "

Endnotes:

[i] Vladimir Putin, Direct Line with Vladimir Putin, Channel One, Rossiya-1 and Rossiya-24 TV, April 25, 2013, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/17976.

[ii] Sebastian Mallaby, More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 2010, p. 212.

[iii] John Lloyd, The Russian Devolution, August 15, 1999, The New York Times Magazine, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/15/ma...evolution.html

[iv] Anne Williamson, Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives September 21, 1999, http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Othe...balEconomy.htm.

[v] Ibid.

[vi] Janine R. Wedel, The Harvard Boys Do Russia, The Nation, May 14, 1998, https://www.thenation.com/article/ha...oys-do-russia/

[vii] Ibid.

[viii] Mark Ames, The murderous history of USAID-- the US Government agency behind Cuba’s fake Twitter clone, April 8, 2014, https://pando.com/2014/04/08/the-mur...twitter-clone/.

[ix] Janine R. Wedel, op. cit.

[x] Ibid.

[xi] Vladimir Putin, Direct Line with Vladimir Putin April 25, 2013, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/17976.

[xii] David E. Hoffman, The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia, New York, Public Affairs Press, Chapter 8, p. 193.

[xiii] Ibid., p. 197.

[xiv] Ibid., p. 202.

[xv] Marshall I. Goldman, Putin and the Oligarchs, Foreign Affairs, November/December, 2004, http://www.cfr.org/world/putin-oligarchs/p7517

[xvi] Janine R. Wedel, op. cit.

[xvii] Ibid.

[xviii] David E. Hoffman, op. cit., p. 202.

[xix] Ibid.

[xx] Wikipedia, Tatyana Yumasheva.

[xxi] Anne Williamson, Testimony..., op. cit

[xxii] David E. Hoffman, op. cit., p. 345.

[xxiii] Ibid, p. 345.

[xxiv] Ibid., p. 327.

[xxv] Anne Williamson, Testimony..., op. cit

[xxvi] Joseph Stiglitz, The Ruin of Russia, The Guardian, 9 April, 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...sandhumanities.

[xxvii] Nick Beams, Russian question hangs over international markets, 18 August 1998, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/08/rus-a18.html.

[xxviii] Ibid.

[xxix] David E. Hoffman, op. cit., p. 461.

[xxx] Justin Cowgill, The Silent Coup: Putin vs. the Oligarchs, December 27, 2015, http://www.heinrichplatz.tv/?p=24157.

[xxxi] Ibid.

[xxxii] Dan Josefsson, Shock Therapy: The Art of Ruining a Country, 1 April, 1999, http://josefsson.net/artikelarkiv/51...a-country.html

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by TomKat (here)
Paul Craig Roberts explains how the US is trying to force Russia into nuclear war
with the US:

https://usawatchdog.com/paul-craig-roberts-nuke-war-coming-mysterious-deaths-dont-stop-dems-cant-win

https://rumble.com/v1ampzo-dr.-pcr-s...-cant-win.html

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v180k26

I watched this with interest, and Paul Craig Roberts always has to be respected. But here, I think he's wrong.

The Russians don't care at all what the western media says about them, and the real western powerbrokers aren't influenced by the media either, as they understand the entire thing perfectly well — including Russia's very measured response to all the provocation.

Of course, there are hawks among the US neocons, but NATO is not as strong as it likes to pretend it is. One thing that's been very visible is how effective the Russian military machine is, and how ineffective western weapons are in a "real" war against a strong adversary.

The neocons may rattle their sabers and make a lot of noise, but as best I can see they're really doing this for one another. Everything I believe I know and understand suggests that Russia is in full control of all this, militarily, financially, and geopolitically.

And most of the world's nations are quietly behind them. However the western media tries to frame this, all politicians with any perception of reality at all (but maybe that excludes many in Europe, and of course Biden himself!) will understand this very clearly.

[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/...90354603237378

Reported by Zero Hedge:

The Israeli-Ukrainian fighter, 40-year-old Vladimir Kozlovsky, said:

"We had foreign weapon systems but we didn't know how to use them. We were not trained to fight and nevertheless were sent to the battlefield. They didn't tell us we were going to fight either. We thought we'd stay in Western Ukraine, but we were deployed to Lysychansk. We were thrown to the battleground like cannon fodder."

Kozlovsky said Ukrainian military commanders encouraged the hapless conscripts to fight to the death.

"We've received messages from the Russians saying we'll be better off if we surrendered. The soldiers also discussed this before, but commanders tried to prevent these talks. They told us that if we surrendered, the Russians would torture us to death, so it is better not to be taken alive."
(my added emphasis)

[Bill Ryan]

According to Zero Hedge, as of a couple of hours ago:

• Russia Asserts Full Control Over Luhansk Region With Fall Of Lysychansk

Edit to add:

Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu reports that Luhansk territory is completely liberated.

https://t.me/RVvoenkor/18262

Translation:

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Putin on the liberation of the entire territory of the Luhansk People's Republic.
As a result of successful military operations, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, together with units of the People's Militia of the LPR, have established full control over the city of Lisichansk and a number of nearby settlements, the largest of which are Belogorovka, Novodruzhesk, Maloryazantsevo and Belaya Gora. The total area of the territories liberated over the past day amounted to 182 square kilometers.

Two photos, with probably many more to follow:

[Spiral]

Interesting insight, you really wouldn't want to be a Ukrainian solder !

The retreating Ukrainian army suffers serious losses with every onslaught of our troops. I will describe one of our major offensive operations I participated in.

Before advancing on Ukrainian positions they are subjected to massive artillery fire, so massive that I'm not afraid to call it artillery terror. Even before the end of the preliminary bombardment the forces of our infantry begin to advance in the direction of the enemy (to the line).

At the end of the preliminary bombardment, the enemy without time to recover faces an assault on his positions. If the enemy finds the strength to show even slightest resistance our infantry does not continue the attack but retreats in an organized manner to the original position and the artillery terror begins again.

Then again our infantry approaches. This can be repeated multiple times, until the enemy finds himself in a position in which it is simply pointless to continue fighting - huge losses and destroyed fortifications. Very often our infantry take the positions already left by the enemy [and simply have no chance to kill someone].

[Spiral]

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Idelija2/status/1543555224631185408

https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/stat...27193052463107

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/stat...74848490852355

https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1543596483710156803

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1543593387584065537

[Tintin]

Here's the most recent Wednesday briefing by Maria Zakharova from which I've extracted her updates on Ukraine. I always find them refreshingly candid, honest and informative:

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, June 29, 2022

Source: MFA Russian Federation website

Update on Ukraine

Almost the entire territory of the LPR, a considerable part of the DPR, all of the Kherson Region and big parts of the Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions, as well as the ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk in the Sea of Azov have been liberated from the neo-Nazis since the start of the special military operation. In the liberated areas, people are returning to a peaceful life, restoring the economy and industry, and rebuilding infrastructure. Companies are starting up again and schools, kindergartens, outpatient clinics and hospitals are reopening. The resumption of freight and passenger railway traffic between Crimea and Melitopol is scheduled for July 1 this week.

As Russian leadership has stated more than once, our Armed Forces are striking only military facilities and using only precision weapons in the operation. A ceasefire is regularly established and humanitarian corridors are created for evacuating civilians from dangerous areas. Since the start of the operation, over 2,150,000 people, including over 340,000 children have left for Russia. Russia is providing humanitarian aid to the Ukrainians who have been freed from the neo-Nazis, as well as to people in the DPR and the LPR. Since February 24 of this year, it has delivered about 37,000 tonnes of food products, medications and other basic necessities to these areas.

The Vladimir Zelensky regime is stepping up its anti-Russia misinformation campaign against this background. New fabricated excuses are being invented to accuse our country of killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure (this is what they are saying). Thus, they allege that Russian Armed Forces attacked a residential building in Kiev’s Shevchenkovsky District with missiles resulting in the death of a 6 year-old girl. In reality, on June 26 of this year a Ukrainian anti-aircraft S-300 missile was downed by Ukrainian air defence and fell on a building that was damaged back in April. This was an abortive attempt to resist the Russian Aerospace Forces that destroyed with a precision missile strike the nearby Artem plant that made ammunition for Ukrainian multiple launch rocket systems. No damage was inflicted on civilian infrastructure.

Another outrageous provocation was the Zelensky regime’s attempts to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of striking a shopping centre in Kremenchug on June 27. According to Kiev, about a thousand civilians were in the mall at the time. Unfortunately, all these fake reports have multiplied and spread. According to the Kiev regime, there was a fire in the centre and some people were killed and wounded.

I’d like to draw your attention to the materials submitted by the Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation. Our foreign offices have also supported these materials at international organisations. They show that the shops of the Kremenchug Road Machine Plant – Kredmash Defence Plant – are located several dozen metres away from this shopping centre. These shops stored weapons and ammunition that were sent by the US and EU countries for use by Ukrainian Armed Forces units in Donbass.

Maybe the Western public should ask their governments why they delivered and stored weapons in the direct vicinity of a shopping centre? This question hasn’t occur to you, has it? Nobody thought of this – not Western correspondents, nor Western NGOs, nor the humanitarians that are so concerned about the situation in Ukraine. Why are the Western countries supplying Ukraine with weapons that are stored in direct proximity to densely populated civilian infrastructure? This is done deliberately. This is exactly what we call hiding behind civilians. They are used as shields and have become hostages to geopolitical interests. Russian Aerospace Forces’ precision strikes destroyed the plant’s shops, not the shopping center or the civilians.

Emotions are still running high around the artificially created myth of the global food apocalypse, allegedly provoked by Russia due to the blockade of Ukrainian grain. The most surprising thing is that neither the figures nor the facts, nor the data from international organisations, or the Western countries’ own data on food production, confirm this. None of these things are taken into account when repeating this myth. This picture was made up, and abstracts recorded in manuals are sent out. Not a single global fact with food production figures, nor the facts of grain deliveries to Western countries can impinge on this information campaign. This fabricated story has reached a global scale.

Just look at the unreasonable and unacceptable statements by Foreign Minister of Germany Annalena Baerbock: “Russia is consciously using hunger as a military weapon taking the whole world hostage.” She is not just lying, but lying arrogantly and cynically. Annalena Baerbock forgets that it was her country that historically used hunger as a weapon and took people hostage, destroying the civilian population in trying to wipe our country from the face of the earth.

I repeat: Russia is not preventing the export of grain from Ukraine. The Russian Defenсe Ministry opens safe corridors every day and informs its partners and the International Maritime Organisation about them. We are ready to ensure the safe passage of foreign merchant ships from the Bosporus to Ukrainian territorial waters and back. This has been repeatedly discussed at all levels. Of course, this is subject to ships being inspected for military equipment and provisions or not being escorted by foreign warships, aircraft, or drones.

What is the real obstacle to the export of Ukrainian grain? Right now it is the Ukrainian authorities that are responsible for ensuring the safe passage of merchant ships in their territorial waters by demining or by safe pilotage.

In addition, Russia is ready to export tens of millions of tonnes of its own grain if Western bans against it are lifted. What is the West worried about, preventing hunger in the world? Then stop blocking the food supply chain, which is what Washington, Brussels and London are doing. Let me remind you that Western prohibitions apply to ships calling at Russian ports, servicing Russian ships in foreign ports, shipping insurance, and bank transfers. Everything has been done to artificially escalate this situation. But it’s being done by Washington, London and Brussels. Unfortunately, the US, Great Britain and the EU are not ready to accept responsibility for their own actions even to eliminate the risk of the global hunger they always talk about. Conferences are being held on how to avoid hunger on the planet.

The same people who are developing new restrictions on logistical, financial and economic services are intelligently discussing what to do to freely distribute foodstuffs to all countries at the negotiating table. What is this? Cynicism? Stupidity? Impudence? I think this is a crime of universal scale and someone must be held responsible for it as is always the case when the Western countries want to hide or obscure what has become known to the public. Now it’s happening more quickly. We won’t have to wait five or ten years, or even a year. We will find out the truth about how and who fabricated this food apocalypse on our planet. We know that this is the work of Western regimes. There are specific names. I think we will find out soon enough.

The United States and its allies continue flooding Ukraine with weapons. According to Western analysts, the amount of military, financial and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine they pledged since January 24 totals over $80 billion, of which 45 percent goes towards purely military support. Arms supplies pose a security threat not only in Ukraine, but beyond its borders as well. Soon enough, thousands of Stinger MANPADS, Javelin ATGMs, grenade launchers and other military equipment may and will find their way to global black markets. Law enforcement agencies in several Western and Eastern European countries have already noted a significant increase in criminal trafficking in weapons coming from the Kiev-controlled territories. Don't say you weren't warned. We warn you every day. Every weapon that is supplied to Ukraine will make it back primarily to Europe through the black market.

The West continues to whip up tensions and artificially draw out the special military operation by providing Kiev with military assistance and political support. This is how we view the decision made during the EU summit of June 23-24 about granting Ukraine candidate status for European Union membership, which, in fact, is another case of the Western regimes trying to exploit Ukrainian territory and use it to contain Russia. It has nothing to do with developing Ukraine’s economy, or financial and democratic institutions. This is what their own assessments are saying as they point to Ukraine’s inadequacy in achieving the benchmarks set for the candidates. But who will be stopped by it when a political order is at stake and flooding Ukraine with all types of weapons must be accounted for? Dragging out the special operation will do nothing but increase the number of civilian casualties in the republics of Donbass and Ukraine. The West is aware of that.

They just don't care. These are the lives of people who, they believe, are unlike them. The Westerners are exceptional, but the people (and the West has always believed so throughout history) who live to the east of the “centre” of Europe do not deserve the same treatment, and their lives aren’t worth as much as the lives of the people who live in the West. The only question is where this centre of Europe is to be found? Why did Brussels decide that it was there? Anyone who is good at geography (we know that they aren’t) can take a ruler and find the centre of the European continent. I'm not even talking about Eurasia. Let's figure things out with Europe first.

The West’s aggressive attempts to push its vision of the world order on everyone and the cynical use of the Ukrainian factor towards this end is yet more proof of the relevance of the special military operation’s goals, which, as the Russian leadership made clear, will be fulfilled no matter what.

The UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine

An urgent meeting of the UN Security Council was convened by the Albanian chairmanship at the request of Kiev on June 28 in connection with the recent missile strikes that targeted a number of Ukrainian cities, including the city of Kremenchug.

In violation of established Security Council practice, the Western countries pushed through President Zelensky’s online participation in the meeting. His function is clear to everyone. He plays the role of showman, so his all-too-familiar face had to be seen by everyone this time as well. A week ago, Foreign Minister of the Central African Republic Sylvie Baipo-Temon was turned down as an online participant in the meeting. Is it racism? A representative of the African continent can’t get what the white man is entitled to? Are you okay? What century are you living in? How is it even possible that a white person can join a UN Security Council meeting online, whereas a representative of Africa cannot? Is that a new kind of segregation? Our country never knew racism or the slave trade. Historically, our country has combated these deeply shameful things around the world and stood strongly for decolonisation. It is unacceptable for this neo-colonial logic to gain dominance again, because a small group of countries thought for a moment that they could decide who can or cannot participate in the UN Security Council meetings, or who deserves to be connected via video and who doesn’t. I believe that those who made it impossible for a representative of the African continent to join a UN Security Council meeting should clarify why a representative of the “Western community” was accorded such an opportunity and privilege.

Clearly, Kiev's key goal was to overcome fatigue from the Ukrainian issue and create a favourable background for scaling up military support from Western states. However, Zelensky failed to fulfill his goals and turn up the “degree of discussion” in the Council even after he presented another product concocted by Ukrainian propaganda. We understand that the whole story around the city of Kremenchug is timed to coincide with the NATO summit in Madrid. That’s clear. We have a question for the Western regimes. Not even for them, because they will never tell the truth, but primarily for Western society. Do you understand where the weapons supplied by the Western regime are being stored? By and large, these Western “mines” of all kinds (I’m speaking figuratively) are laid under civilian infrastructure and are located in its immediate vicinity. Clearly, to use it as a cover. This is a case of the 21st century barbarism.

On our part, yet again we gave a resolute and well-grounded rebuff to Kiev’s attacks by providing a timeline of the activities of Ukraine’s “factory of fakes” starting with “Ukrainian defenders” from Zmeiny Island and ending with a “missile strike” on the city of Kremenchug. We noted again that as they continue the special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces do not target civilian sites, and flooding the Kiev regime with weapons will only bring more violence and casualties.

Ukraine’s withdrawal from nuclear security agreements with Russia

On June 24 of this year, Ukraine announced its withdrawal from the 1996 cooperation agreements between its Ministry for the Protection of the Environment and Nuclear Security and Russia’s Federal Service for Oversight on Nuclear and Radiation Safety. It also terminated the 2002 agreement on the exchange of information and cooperation in regulating safety in using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes between the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) and Russia’s Federal Service for Oversight on Nuclear and Radiation Safety (now Rostekhnadzor).

In the past, to implement these agreements, Russia and Ukraine held regular bilateral meetings, seminars and consultations in both countries. They cooperated on different aspects of regulating nuclear and radiation safety, including lawmaking, licensing and oversight.

Cooperation in these areas was also conducted on a multilateral basis, for instance, in the CIS Commission for the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy and the forum of regulatory bodies of the countries using NPPs with VVERs.

There has been no practical cooperation on the said agreements in the past decade. Moreover, as of today, the SNRIU is not a member of the aforementioned international associations. Considering the foregoing, we do not see any real damage to Russia from Ukraine’s withdrawal from these agreements because they have long been dead weight and not at our initiative.

That said, these actions by the Zelensky regime are unfortunate. They show once again that the Kiev regime is going down a very destructive road of breaking all ties with Russia and wrecking the normative foundation of bilateral relations. This is all the fault of the Kiev regime and its Western handlers.

Threats made by Vladimir Zelensky against Russian journalists

In his nightly video address, a sort of “Good Night, Adults” [allusion to “Good Night, Kiddies!”, a children’s television programme], posted on Ukraine’s official media resources on June 28, 2022, President Vladimir Zelensky allowed himself to make barefaced threats against Russian journalists, promising to “punish” them for doing their job. In other words, the Kiev regime decided to subject members of the Russian media to punishment as retribution for faithfully carrying out their professional duties.

Since Vladimir Zelensky did not deem it necessary to give details of how he was going to make good on his threats, comparisons with the terrorist act by Ukrainian Nazis that was disrupted on April 25, 2022 come straight to mind as it targeted several prominent members of the Russian media, including Vladimir Solovyov, Margarita Simonyan, Dmitry Kiselev, Olga Skabeyeva and Yevgeny Popov. By way of reminder, the Ukrainian intelligence service, with the knowledge of their Western curators, had coordinated the planning and execution of that terrorist act.

There are such people who were unaware for eight years that there was this internal Ukrainian conflict in Donbass and that civilians were being killed there. Such people do exist. I will say this specially for them, and it may sound strange that the Ukrainian intelligence service maintains some sort of relationships with journalists. Many will say that this cannot happen in a country that claims to be democratic. We are allegedly inventing all this.

It is an open and democratic system that espouses freedom of speech, pluralism and all forms of diversity. The Ukrainian intelligence service will confirm that they have nothing to do with journalists beyond official and legal contacts, to say nothing of attempts on their lives. This could be true, if we did not know how many journalists have been killed in Ukraine. Those assassinations have not been solved. The Western community often reproves Russia for failing, as they say, to fully investigate crimes committed against Russian public figures. That is, the perpetrators of the crimes were found and brought to trial, and they received the sentences which they deserved and which they are serving, but they still say in the West that the people who gave the criminal orders or the intermediaries have not been found. One is free to speculate on this as long as one wishes. I want to note that in a country that has been a protectorate of the West for many years the murders of journalists have not been investigated at all. Not even the killers were caught, let alone those who gave the orders or acted as intermediaries.

The Ukrainian intelligence service has been working closely with the journalistic milieu for a long time, masterminding horrendous provocations. They devised to kill Russian journalists. Just to remind you what they did with a person working on their territory. They threw pig’s blood on Arkady Babchenko or smeared ketchup on him to stage his “assassination”. Afterwards they fed this [story] to Pavel Klimkin, their Foreign Minister at the time, who referred to this information at a UN Security Council meeting, at least, he cited it as information that needed to be thoroughly investigated, linking it to our country. Later it transpired that it was a “harmless” special operation by the Ukrainian intelligence service and the journalist himself, who were in it together. They provided an entire “philosophical” justification, though nobody could understand why they did it.

As you see the Ukrainian intelligence service’s “ties” with journalists are twisted. We remember well how the Ukrainian intelligence service used the self-styled Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon to achieve their ends. The man even takes pride in it. People can have very different sources of pride. This is his. We can only guess what the Ukrainian intelligence service might think up for Russian – though not only Russian – journalists. The logic is complete twisted, and that’s a fact.

In an attempt to intimidate our journalists with the specter of punishment, the Kiev regime is demonstrating a new level of lawlessness and misanthropy. This is not just cynicism or hypocrisy.

It is nothing short of lawlessness.

It is very symptomatic that Vladimir Zelensky’s video containing these threats was made public immediately after the Ukrainian President, speaking in the UN, tried to accuse our country of terrorism. This is how his mind operates. Those accusations were leveled by the head of state, a state where the military deliberately and systematically shells cities, uses civilians and civilian infrastructure as human shields, stages vile spectacles like those in Bucha, Kremenchug and Kramatorsk and sends terrorist groups to kill members of the media. Responding to the murderous histrionics of Vladimir Zelensky,

I want to note that the crimes committed by the Kiev regime are being meticulously documented. This will also be added to the files. All those guilty will be held accountable and will receive the sentences they deserve under the law.

Vladimir Zelensky, do you hear me? Stop bullying people working in the media and threatening them. You are living in the 21st century, and what you believe you can do in your country is unacceptable in Russia and in the world you call civilised.

Update on Kaliningrad transit

Official EU representatives promised to come up with the European Commission’s legally binding “recommendations” as soon as possible in order to resolve the situation artificially created by Brussels as it imposed restrictions on Kaliningrad freight transit. According to available information, Vilnius is reviewing these proposals. It points out that it will not succumb to the pressure that Russia allegedly exerts on Lithuania. I’m not sure who is putting pressure on whom. So far, we’ve been doing nothing but reading news from Lithuania and Brussels. In this regard, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis’ remarks to the effect that “Russia should not get a diplomatic victory on the issue of sanctions” are quite telling. In that case, you should be more consistent and honest to the end. If you are talking about victories, then, gentlemen from Brussels and Lithuania, politicians and officials, you should acknowledge that you have unleashed a war. Or, have we misunderstood you?

This Lithuanian politician is unable to understand the most important thing. There can be no barriers to connectivity between two parts of Russia in principle.

We are closely following the developments and provide our comments as requested by the media and as more materials become available.

To reiterate, Russia is preparing a response which Lithuania will find painful and which we will follow through with if the situation with Kaliningrad transit does not get back to normal. We hope our “partners” will show some common sense, although this situation can in no way be called partnership.

The Netherlands disrupting a Russian representative’s participation in a high-level meeting of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs donor support group in The Hague

A high-level meeting of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs donor support group is being held in The Hague on June 27-29. Contrary to its commitments as a host state, the Netherlands failed to issue an entry visa to a representative of Russia who was planning to travel to The Hague to attend this event.

We regard this obstructionist move as a deliberate attempt to limit Russia’s participation in the international organisations’ activities. This is not the first time that the Dutch authorities have shown their unwillingness to act properly as a country hosting international events as they extend their confrontational approach in bilateral relations to multilateral formats.

We condemn this practice.

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• Ukraine has Collapsed & is a Failed State:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VlKYN5SPdcs

Mod addition from Bill:
This is Col. Douglas Macgregor, very highly recommended. He starts at 1:33.

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