WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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https://tass.com/defense/1531611

Over 100 strikes on Ukrainian power facilities carried out in 20 days — energy company

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said at a meeting with European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson on Tuesday that about 40% of the country's energy infrastructure had been damaged
KIEV, November 2. /TASS/. More than a hundred strikes have been carried out on Ukraine's energy facilities since October 10, when Russia launched attacks on the country's infrastructure following a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, says the Ukrainian company YASNO, one of the country's major electricity providers.

"Russia has attacked energy infrastructure 103 times <...>. Only shelling after October 10, whose consequences have been made public is taken into account," says the infographic on the company's Facebook page (a social media site banned in Russia since it is owned by Meta Corporation, which has been deemed extremist by Russia’s authorities).

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said at a meeting with European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson on Tuesday that about 40% of the country's energy infrastructure had been damaged.

YASNO supplies electricity, gas and energy solutions in Ukraine. According to the company, it serves about 3.5 million customers.

On October 10, two days after Ukraine's terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a massive attack on Ukrainian military, energy, and communications facilities with the use of long-range smart weapons. According to him, the Ukrainian authorities have long been using terrorist methods, including an attempt to blow up a section of the TurkStream gas pipeline, strikes on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and three terrorist attacks against the Kursk NPP. The Russian president then warned Kiev about a tough response to such actions.

Strikes against facilities in Ukraine were to a certain extent a response to the attack in Sevastopol, President Putin said on October 31. On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported about a terrorist attack in Sevastopol, which was carried out by the Kiev regime with the participation of British specialists against the Black Sea Fleet and the commercial vessels involved in ensuring security of the grain corridor.

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Nord Stream AG Says Completed Initial Data Collection From First Line of Nord Stream Site

MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - Nord Stream AG said on Wednesday that it completed initial data collection from the site of damage at the first line of the Nord Stream in Swedish exclusive economic zone, having found man-made craters and a completely destroyed section of pipeline at the site.



As of 2 November 2022, Nord Stream AG has completed initial data gathering at the location of the pipeline damage on Line 1 in the Swedish exclusive economic zone," the statement read.
According to preliminary results of the inspection at the damage site, man-made craters with a depth of 3 to 5 meters (9-16 feet) were found on the seabed and a damaged section of the pipeline, the operator said.
"The section of the pipe between the craters is destroyed, the radius of pipe fragments dispersion is at least 250m," the statement said.
Experts will continue to analyze the findings, according to Nord Stream AG.
Explosions occurred on September 26 at three of the four strings of Nord Stream 1 and 2 underwater pipelines built to carry a combined annual 110 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe.
The bombing halted gas deliveries to Germany ahead of the cold season, prompting a gas price hike and a scramble for alternative sources in the European Union.
Moscow has blasted the Nord Stream as an "obvious terrorist attack." The spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova has recently said the world needs to know more about a text message allegedly sent by former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to US State Secretary Antony Blinken minutes after the attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline network.
Earlier, Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload file-sharing website and an internet entrepreneur, tweeted that Truss used her iPhone to send a message to Blinken saying "It’s done" minutes after the pipeline explosion. According to the entrepreneur, the text Truss sent is well known to the intelligence service of Russia and it is the reason Moscow believes that the United Kingdom was involved in the bombing attack.

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Moscow views Oslo's military preparations as course on escalation in region — diplomat


Maria Zakharova stressed that such developments was "a deliberate pursuit of a destructive course toward escalation of tensions in the Euro-Arctic region and the final destruction of Russian-Norwegian relations" and this was not Moscow's choice

MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. Russia perceives Norway's military preparations near its borders as a course on escalation of tensions in the region, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday.

"Foreign military bases actually appeared in Norway on a permanent basis. The corresponding infrastructure has been modernized, modern equipment is being purchased, and Oslo is now among the most active supporters of NATO's involvement in the Arctic," she said, "We consider such developments near Russian borders as Oslo's deliberate pursuit of a destructive course toward escalation of tensions in the Euro-Arctic region and the final destruction of Russian-Norwegian relations."

Zakharova added that this was not Moscow's choice. "Russia is always open to honest and mutually respectful dialogue, but any unfriendly actions will be followed by a timely and adequate response," the diplomat said.

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Russia ready to provide grain to the poorest countries free of charge — Putin

The Russian leader also informed his Indonesian counterpart about the situation evolved in consequence of the marine humanitarian corridor use by the Kiev regime for the sabotage action against the infrastructure and ships of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol

MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the country’s readiness to provide a significant grain volume to the poorest countries free of charge in a telephone conversation with President of Indonesia Joko Widodo, the Kremlin’s press service said on Wednesday.

"In the context of supporting the global food security, Vladimir Putin stated the fundamental Russian approaches towards implementation of Istanbul package agreements pertaining to Ukrainian grain export from Black Sea ports and unblocking of Russian agricultural produce and fertilizers exports to global markets," the Kremlin said. Russian President also noted readiness of the country to provide significant grain volumes to the poorest countries free of charge as the humanitarian aid, the Kremlin’s press service added. "Joko Widodo supported such an approach," the Kremlin noted.

The Russian President also informed his Indonesian counterpart about the situation evolved in consequence of the marine humanitarian corridor use by the Kiev regime for the sabotage action against the infrastructure and ships of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol and that the Russian side resumes implementation of the grain deal after the receipt of required guarantees from Ukraine regarding the non-use of the humanitarian route for military purposes.

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Grain exports from Ukraine via humanitarian corridor resume — Erdogan

According to the Turkish leader, an agreement has also been reached with Russia on the supply of grain to poor countries in Africa

ANKARA, November 2. /TASS/. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that grain exports from Ukraine via the maritime humanitarian corridor have resumed at 12:00 p.m. Moscow time.

"Starting at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, grain supplies have resumed," Erdogan said in parliament. He referred to a telephone conversation between the Turkish and Russian Defense Ministers, during which it was reported that grain supplies had resumed.

Erdogan specified that Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu informed his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar about the resumption of grain exports from Ukraine. According to the Turkish leader, an agreement has also been reached with Russia on the supply of grain to poor countries in Africa. "First of all, the corridor will function for deliveries <...> to the poor countries of Africa, in particular to Djibouti and Sudan," he said.

On Tuesday, the Presidents of Russia and Turkey Vladimir Putin and Tayyip Erdogan held telephone conversations discussing the grain deal and the conditions for its resumption.

Putin drew Erdogan's attention to the fact that the second part of the agreements to unblock the export of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to world markets had not been implemented. The Russian President also stated that since the agreements on the export of Ukrainian grain came into effect three months ago, deliveries of food on a priority basis to the neediest countries have not been ensured.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported on October 29 that due to the terrorist act committed by the "Kiev regime with the participation of British specialists" against ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian vessels involved in ensuring the security of the grain corridor," the Russian side suspends participation in the implementation of agreements on the export of agricultural products from Ukrainian ports.

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NATO has doubled troops on border – Russia

The number of NATO forces stationed close to Russia’s western borders has reached more than 30,000, the country’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Wednesday.

He stated that the US-led military bloc had augmented units in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in the Balkans and Baltic states.

“The contingent has grown in size by two and a half times to more than 30,000 people since February, and may grow more in the nearest future,” Shoigu said during a joint ministerial session with military officials from Belarus.

He said that such a concentration of Western forces poses a threat not only to Moscow, but to Belarus, Russia’s ally.

The defense of both countries is a “priority task” of the Union State of the Russian Federation and Belarus, he stated.

The West’s ultimate goal in its confrontation with Russia is to “destroy its economy, military potential, and to deprive it of the ability to conduct independent foreign policy,” Shoigu said.

US troops on the ground in Ukraine – media
US troops on the ground in Ukraine – media
In response to Russia’s campaign in Ukraine, NATO enhanced military units and weapon stockpiles in the east as a “deterrence” measure. The bloc described Russia as “the most significant and direct threat” to peace and security in its chief strategic document, which was updated in June.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at the time that the bloc’s rapid-response force would increase sevenfold to over 300,000. The bloc also agreed to establish four new battalion-size battlegroups in Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, in addition to those in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

Russia and Belarus announced the creation of a joint military force last month, which was said to include several thousand Russian troops. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko linked the move to tensions with the West. The first trains carrying Russian soldiers arrived in Belarus on October 15.

According to the Belarusian Defense Ministry, up to 9,000 Russian soldiers and around 170 tanks will be deployed in the country. The first trains carrying Russian soldiers arrived in Belarus on October 15.

In his speech on Wednesday, Shoigu said that the alliance with Minsk is especially important amid the “growing tensions across the world,” and the standoff with the West. He added that Russian and Belarusian units are training together, while the two states are conducting joint military planning as part of the new force.

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UN shown preview of RT documentary ‘Journalists Under Fire’

A segment from an upcoming RT documentary about war correspondents in the Ukraine conflict was shown at UN headquarters on Tuesday, as part of Global Media and Information Literacy Week. Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, hosted the event, with the authors of ‘Journalists Under Fire’ and one of the featured correspondents joining via video link for an hour-long Q&A session.

“The West has launched a veritable information war” against Moscow, bombing its own citizens with “information salvos” just as Ukraine has bombed the civilians of Donbass with Western-supplied shells and missiles, Nebenzia stated in his opening remarks, calling the Western media “the main purveyor and customer” of disinformation about Russia.

“War correspondents are an important instrument of transparency in armed conflict,” bringing real news from the battlefield and cutting through the fog of war, he said. Nevertheless, the US and NATO have placed sanctions on some of them – Russians and Westerners alike – for doing their job.

One such journalist is Evgeny Poddubny of VGTRK, who joined the session via Zoom along with the authors of the documentary, Artyom Somov and Ruslan Gusarov. Poddubny noted that Ukraine has put him on their infamous ‘Mirotvorets’ kill list, and that Western sanctions in effect support “this barbaric practice of the Kiev regime.”

UN inspectors visit Ukrainian nuclear sites
UN inspectors visit Ukrainian nuclear sites
While the documentary is still in the works and should be available by the end of the year, reporters in attendance were shown a 20-minute clip featuring several war correspondents.

Poddubny is shown reporting from Kupyansk during the September offensive. Pavel Kukushkin, who was embedded with a Donbass international battalion, filmed a soldier who lost a foot when he stepped on a mine. Donbass native Georgy Medvedev documented the Ukrainian shelling of civilians in Gorlovka. RT’s Murad Gazdiev was shown dodging sniper fire in Mariupol and surviving an attack by US-supplied HIMARS missiles on a Kherson hotel where journalists were staying.

The segment also featured Semyon Pegov of the independent WarGonzo project – including the moment he was wounded near Donetsk in late October. Pegov is still recovering and was not available for the event, even though he was listed as a potential participant.

Gusarov, one of the documentary’s creators, told a story from the 2008 conflict in South Ossetia in which a Western outlet “stole” a video of Russian correspondents and then changed it to blame Russia for the shelling that Georgia actually carried out.

Russian war correspondents are now “writing the new standard for war reporting,” Poddubny said, while noting the amount of time he and his colleagues have to devote to debunking the fake news churned out by Kiev and uncritically repeated by Western media.

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Germany tells Serbia to choose between Russia and EU – Reuters

Serbia must decide to align itself with either Russia or the EU, a German official told Reuters on Tuesday. While Berlin has warned Belgrade against looking eastwards, the country’s government remains skeptical of Brussels and the West.

“The need for a decision is coming to a head in view of geopolitical developments,” the unnamed German representative told reporters. The official was referring specifically to the conflict in Ukraine, which Serbia has refused to sanction Russia over. Moreover, Belgrade and Moscow signed an agreement in September to expand cooperation on matters of foreign policy.

Alignment with Brussels’ stance on global affairs is a precondition to joining the European Union. Serbia has been a candidate for membership since 2009. Should Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic renege on his agreement with Moscow and turn to the EU, Germany will offer its support, the representative revealed to Reuters.

"Should he decide to go the other way, this will have consequences in reverse,” the official explained.

EU blackmailing Serbia – interior minister
EU blackmailing Serbia – interior minister
Delegations from five Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia – as well as the partially recongnized province of Kosovo, will meet in Berlin later this week.

Last month, Vucic stated that Germany and France have offered to “accelerate” Serbia’s path to EU membership if it recognizes the independence of Kosovo.

“They think this will settle one of Europe’s internal issues… [but] Serbia will not accept Kosovo’s membership in the UN for both constitutional and other reasons,” the president stressed during a televised address to the nation.

“The question is not whether we want to join the EU, but whether the EU wants Serbia,” Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin told the Novosti news site in October. “I believe that friendship with Russia is of the greatest importance and that without it we risk the physical disappearance of Serbia,” the official added.

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[Bill Ryan]

Just a thought. (I've not heard anyone else mention this, but surely some have)

The Ukrainians don't have much to be thankful for, but they may be a little thankful they've not all got electric vehicles.

[Vicus]

US forces now on the ground in Ukraine

U.S. military personnel are now on the ground in Ukraine, keeping track of and inspecting weapons the U.S. has shipped to Ukrainian forces, a senior defense official announced during a Pentagon background briefing on Monday. These U.S. personnel are some of the first the Pentagon has acknowledged have entered Ukraine since Russia launched its large scale invasion of the country in February.

The senior defense official who spoke on background during an official Pentagon event, said, “U.S. personnel have recently resumed on-site inspections to assess weapon stocks in country whenever and wherever the security conditions allow.” The official said “the return of our defense attaché and Office of Defense Cooperation personnel in country has allowed us to resume this critical function.”

The U.S. Defense attaché for Ukraine is U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Garrick Harmon.

The Biden administration ordered U.S. troops out of Ukraine in February just days before Russia launched its invasion. The Associated Press reported the administration did return some troops to provide security at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv earlier this year.

This official acknowledgement that U.S. military personnel are back in Ukraine comes as the latest sign of U.S. support for Ukraine’s military. The U.S. has sent several shipments of arms to Ukraine and, some outlets have reported U.S. intel has helped Ukrainian forces target and attack specific high-value Russian targets, including vulnerable warships and generals.

The defense official said “there have been several of these inspections” but didn’t specify when they began. The defense official’s comments come after the U.S. State Department announced a plan to prevent U.S. and western-provided weaponry from ending up on the black market or be captured by pro-Russian forces who could use them to “develop countermeasures, propaganda, or to conduct false-flag operations.”

The defense official said “the U.S. embassy has found the Ukrainians to be very transparent and able to support inspections” thus far.

When asked what the U.S. Department of Defense personnel could do inside the Ukraine, the defense official said DoD personnel are assessing various equipment needs but “otherwise, our role is to support our civilian agency counterparts if they should request our assistance as they support the Ukrainians.”

When asked how close U.S. personnel have gotten to the front lines during these inspections, the defense official said “I’m not going to get into specific details on locations of where these inspections have taken place.”


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Russians Hack U.S. "DELTA Command & Control System" - Complete Ukraine Battle Plans Exposed

The United States "DELTA" Command and Control System is the computer network that the US uses for battle operations. It is constantly updated by military planners and intelligence sources with troop deployment info, weapons stock info, and complete attack plans. Russia has HACKED it; Ukraine's battle plans totally compromised.

Equally important, the DELTA system is also constantly updated with information about the OPPOSING forces, in this case, Russia.

Here is what a Russian computer Hacker got access to, with videos proving he got access, and how it is likely to be dispositive of the entire Ukraine war, in Russia's favor:

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index...-plans-exposed

[Vicus]

War and Regrets in Ukraine

Douglas Macgregor

Of the Vietnam War, Henry Kissinger, former national security advisor and secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford, said, "We should never have been there." Before long, Americans, even the politicians inside the Beltway, will reach the same conclusion about Washington's Ukrainian proxy war against Russia.

No one in the White House, the Senate, or the House consciously set out to turn the proxy Ukrainian war with Moscow into a contest of "competitive societal collapse" between Russia and NATO. But here we are. No one imagined that the Biden administration and the bipartisan war party would drive Americans and Europeans into a political, military, and economic valley of death, from which there is no easy escape. Yet that is precisely what is happening.

For the moment, Washington remains blind to these developments. Whether in print, radio, television, or online, the narrative is clear: despite horrific losses — at least 400,000 Ukrainian battlefield casualties including 100,000 soldiers killed in action — Ukrainian forces are winning. Moreover, the narrative says, America's financial and economic dominance will ultimately overwhelm the deceptively weak Russian economy.

The Ukrainian-victory narrative admittedly benefits hugely from Western media that actively "tune out" opposing views and depict Russia and its armed forces in the worst possible light. The fact that nearly half a century of the Cold War conditioned Americans to think the worst of Russians certainly helps.

The stupefying air of self-righteousness the Biden administration assumes when it attacks erstwhile strategic partners such as Saudi Arabia or delivers moralizing lectures to Beijing's leadership, or when its media surrogates express contempt for the Russian state, is downright dangerous. Political figures in Washington are ready to indulge any transgression if it is committed in the name of destroying Russia. They do not view U.S. foreign policy in the context of a larger strategy, nor do they comprehend Russia's capacity to hurt the United States, a bizarre judgment of Russia's actual military and economic potential.

The ongoing buildup of 700,000 Russian forces with modern equipment in Western Russia, Eastern Ukraine and Belorussia is a direct consequence of Moscow's decision to adopt an elastic, strategic defense of the territories it seized in the opening months of the war. It was a wise, though politically unpopular choice in Russia. Yet, the strategy has succeeded. Ukrainian losses have been catastrophic and by November, Russian Forces will be in a position to strike a knockout blow.

Today, there are rumors in the media that Kiev may be under pressure to launch more counterattacks against Russian defenses in Kherson (Southern Ukraine) before the midterm elections in November. At this point, expending what little remains of Ukraine's life blood to expel Russian forces from Ukraine is hardly synonymous with the preservation of the Ukrainian state. It's also doubtful that further sacrifices by Ukrainians will assist the Biden administration in the midterm elections.

The truth is Moscow's redline concerning Ukrainian entry into NATO was always real. Eastern Ukraine and Crimea were always predominantly Russian in language, culture, history, and political orientation. Europe's descent into economic oblivion this winter is also real, as is support for Russia's cause in China and India and Moscow's rising military strength


continue: https://www.sott.net/article/473808-...ets-in-Ukraine

[Vicus]

Moscow Wants Answers Over Truss' Alleged 'It's Done' SMS to Blinken Moments After Nord Stream Blasts

Europe lost access to up to 110 billion cubic meters worth of natural gas on September 26, when a series of explosions rocked the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines carrying Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea. After a comprehensive, month-long investigation, the Russian military concluded that the Royal Navy was behind the sabotage.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wants answers regarding the mysterious “It’s done” iPhone message allegedly sent by then-Prime Minister Liz Truss to the US secretary of state moments after the sabotage attacks against the Nord Stream network in late September.

“To be honest, I don’t care who got this information and how. I’m interested in London’s answer to the following question: Did Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain send a message to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken immediately after the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up with the words ‘It’s done’?” Zakharova asked in a Telegram post Tuesday.

On Monday, a US defense and national security news outlet reported that among the information suspected to have been leaked from Truss’s "hacked cell phone" was the aforementioned text message between the now former UK leader and the US top diplomat.
Internet entrepreneur and free speech activist Kim Dotcom mentioned the “It’s Done” message in a Twitter thread Sunday, shortly after British media ran a piece on Truss’s hacked phone.

How do the Russians know that the UK blew up the North Stream pipelines in partnership with the US?

Because @trussliz used her iPhone to send a message to @SecBlinken saying “It’s done” a minute after the pipeline blew up and before anybody else knew?

iCloud admin access rocks!

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) October 30, 2022

A series of explosions knocked out three of the four strings of the Nord Stream network on September 26. Western officials and media immediately began singing in unison that Russia blew up its own $20 billion pipeline infrastructure for reasons unknown. The Kremlin accused the West of an “unprecedented act of state terrorism” involving Nord Stream, but did not name any specific states, with President Vladimir Putin only hinting involvement by the “Anglo-Saxons” (typically a reference to Brits and Americans in Russian usage).

https://sputniknews.com/20221101/mos...102909463.html

[Vicus]

Russia Deploys MiG-31Ks With Deadly Hypersonic Missiles To European Border In A Clear Warning To The West

Russia’s deployment of MiG-31K armed with Kinzhal (NATO nomenclature: AS-24 KILLJOY) missiles to Belarus is drawing the attention of the West, according to a Twitter thread posted by the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) this morning.

More than the missiles’ presence, the West appears rattled over the lack of secrecy on the part of Russia over the escalatory deployment.

The combination of MiG-31K and Kinzhal missile is the most potent conventional weapon system in Russia’s arsenal. The deployment puts all possible targets in Europe and the UK, even the most heavily defended ones, at risk.

By shunning secrecy, Russia is making sure the West pays attention. Russia’s deterrent messaging includes flying MiG-31Ks, each armed with a Kinzhal missile, over cities in broad daylight and letting Western satellites take a good look at what may well be the next Russian step on the escalation ladder.

On October 16, 2022, six Russian MiG-31K fighters with Kinzhal missiles were spotted over the Belarusian capital of Minsk.

According to the Ukrainian National Resistance Center, “three IL-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Air Force flew to the airfield ‘Machulyshchi’ from the Russian Federation” to support the Russian deployment in Belarus.

Kinzhal Features

The Kinzhal is an air-launched aeroballistic missile with a range of over 2000 kilometers when launched from a MiG-31K. The hypersonic missile cannot be accurately tracked using radar because, at hypersonic speeds, the air pressure in front of it forms a plasma cloud that absorbs radio waves.

The missile is capable of advanced maneuvering ruling out engagement by any existing anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system.
he 2,000-kilogram missile with a speed of Mach 12 can strike a target with pinpoint accuracy. Because of its high impact speed, the missile’s 500-kilogram warhead packs destructive kinetic energy of 16.9 gigajoules, the equivalent of 4,000 kilograms of TNT.

The Kinzhal is essentially the 9K720 Iskander missile adapted for launch by high-speed aircraft. It can hit static and mobile targets such as aircraft carriers.

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Russia Still Demands US, Kiev Explain Military Bio-Labs on Ukraine Territory - Polyanskiy

UNITED NATIONS, November 3 (Sputnik) - Russia will still require clarifications from the United States and Ukraine regarding their military bio-laboratories across the Ukrainian territory, the Russian Deputy Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy told the UN Security Council members.
"Regardless of the outcome of the vote today, the questions to the United States and Ukraine is something that we do retain and the evidence which accompanied our complaints still require clarifications," Polyanskiy said on Wednesday.
Earlier, the Russian Federation submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council for consideration.
According to the document, the Security Council would decide "to form a commission consisting of all members of the Security Council to investigate the claims presented in the complaint of the Russian Federation against the United States and Ukraine regarding their compliance with obligations under the Convention in the context of the activities of biological laboratories on Ukrainian territory."
The resolution was not adopted due to lack of votes.

[Michel Leclerc]

Posted by Mashika (here)

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So they are doomed in several ways. But this is something most people also can't grasp or are even aware of

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Thank you Mashika. But — I am not so sure that they are doomed.

May I again refer to my AlphaGo - Sedol match model. A vast majority of people was convinced, ahead of the match, that Lee Sedol would win against AlphaGo 5-0, including Sedol himself. He lost 1-4. The way Alphago played was such that even Sedol seconded by the ten best Go grandmasters would not have been able to win (that said in hindsight, but in this case the hindsight is the only option), so "puzzling" were AlphaGo’s moves. Decisive was, probably, that each and every move of AlphaGo was the result of AlphaGo’s real-time calculation of the statistical chance that a potential move would lead to ultimate victory, and after having ranked "all" ("all" being determined by the size of the computer memory) those moves according to that probability of their leading to a victorious outcome (or, phrased otherwise, according to those moves’ probability of not impeding a victorious outcome), chose the "best" move. Lee Sedol was unable to (1) access a collection of moves so vast as AlphaGo’s, to (2) rank such a vast collection of moves according to their "victory potential". He won one of the five matches because he introduced a move that was not in AlphaGo’s database, or was not sufficiently similar to any of the moves in AlphaGo’s database for AlphaGo to run its probability engine. This move of Lee Sedol (considered a move of genius by all specialists following the match) was indeed the result of "what humans are capable of", i.e. an almost (or genuinely) supernatural level of invention. As a result Lee Sedol was, after the match, initially confident that he could beat AlphaGo if he had more time to study its weaknesses. However, that was too optimistic, because AlphaGo would not sleep after the match and went on a probably exponentially better learning curve to become “OmegaGo" as I called it. As a result, Lee Sedol – a genius of Go – tragically decided to give up competition altogether, because he guessed that "human creativity with a supernatural genius quality" would not be able to beat a future “OmegaGo”.

I think the AlphaGo metaphor teaches us a lesson.

Another point: you remember Donald Rumsfeld’s, or was it Dick Cheney’s?, telling journalists or academics, something along the lines of "you are still interpreting reality while we are already changing it". The implication being that interpreting reality is always slower than reality itself, especially when reality keeps changing in real time before the eyes of the interpreters. When the strategy of warrior A is inherently based on interpreting the strategy of warrior B, then B will win when he changes his own (B’s) strategy fast enough for A to get caught up in interpreting instead of fighting. In a way that may have been the cause of Sedol’s winning the forth match: he suddenly changed his own strategy so fast that AlphaGo was not able to reduce his move to any of the moves available for its analysis and started blundering.

The combination of both aspects leads me to surmise that our champion for freedom can only win against the "Empire of Evil" if his country’s version of AI is better than the Empire’s version.

I entertain the idea that that is exactly the case. Incidentally my quasi-certitude, or my belief if you will, is fed by my study of the great achievements of Russia as compared to the United States, in the field of artistic creativity. It is difficult to find an equivalent of Dostoyevski – I would choose Melville – but Dostoyevski is a hero of the entire Russian culture; Melville is ”too difficult” to be understood by college-level students. Russia’s great 20th-century modern composers (Scriabin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Weinberg) are played in all Russian concert halls, continuously; Ives, Carter, Feldman – to name their American equivalents, are considered "Avantgarde" composers only understood by "specialists" and hence deemed not worthy the average citizen’s interest.

There is a good chance that Russia’s AI is better. That would be our real chance. It is probably so good that it even does not consider it necessary to remote-control the Russian president when he takes decisions or explains them to the country’s citizens.

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• The US Now Has Boots on the Ground in Ukraine:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5wsBeo6omHA

"But don't worry they're just checking to make sure the Ukrainians don't sell stinger missiles on the black market": archive.ph/X4Oat

[Rizotto]

Great interview with Col. Douglas MacGregor about the increasing involvement of USA military in Ukraine, which might lead to use of nuclear weapons. (20 minute video):

"Why is NO ONE stopping this? NATO readies MASSIVE attack, Putin sounds alarm | Redacted"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4yt16j-Ah8

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=d4yt16j-Ah8

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/st...35525025808386

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/st...35530704900098

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/st...35536157401088

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/st...35541404741632

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https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/st...07776651304960

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https://twitter.com/SprinterMonitor/...70054394601474

[Tintin]

Roses Have Thorns (Part 1) Euromaidan & Crimea - originally released in 2014

Having seen a fair few documentaries now concerning the Ukraine coup of 2014 I'm absolutely certain there's a lot more footage here that I haven't seen before.

This is an intelligently and sensibly very well put together compilation, which features some of the usual suspects such as Obama, Nuland, Pyatt, et al and how some mainstream broadcasters covered events. A very useful historical record which I'll pop in the library at some point.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wwVUp4IWEKw