WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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Russian forces thwart Ukrainian attacks near Krasny Liman - Defense Ministry

According to Igor Konashenkov, over 60 Ukrainian troops were killed

MOSCOW, November 5. /TASS/. Russian forces thwarted Ukrainian attacks towards Krasny Liman, killing over 60 troops, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday.

"In the Krasny Liman direction, the attacks of three Ukrainian company tactical teams towards Stelmakhovka, Ploshchanka and Kremennaya in the Lugansk People’s Republic were thwarted," he noted.

According to Konashenkov, over 60 Ukrainian troops were killed, while a tank, two combat armored vehicles, three pickup trucks and a motor vehicle were destroyed.


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Russian army defeats Ukrainian forces south of Donetsk, killing over 120 troops

Two armored personnel carriers, two armored vehicles, a pickup truck and two motor vehicles were destroyed

MOSCOW, November 5. /TASS/. Russian troops defeated Ukrainian forces south of Donetsk, killing over 120 troops, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday.

"South of Donetsk, artillery units and assault groups defeated Ukrainian forces near the Donetsk People’s Republic’s Novomikhailovka, Pavlovka and Vremevka settlements. Over 120 Ukrainian troops were killed, while two armored personnel carriers, two armored vehicles, a pickup truck and two motor vehicles were destroyed," he specified.

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I believe the last few days have been quietly pivotal and provocative when you look at the new world order and at the global agenda being defined. Xi Jinping has been meeting with world leaders over the last few months but he purposely waited until the new 20th national Chinese Congress was in place and the new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz put his foot (that's important) on Chinese soil before he delivered his first true global edict. Xi told Putin in no uncertain terms on a global stage not to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. The point is not that Putin was or was not going to use nuclear weapons the point is that Xi Jinping is seen around the world as the real power and Russia is now starting to be viewed as China's subordinate or China's sidekick and I am being polite in the choice of adjectives.

Xi Jinping has recently had term limits removed from the Chinese Constitution which allows him to stay in power for life. The vote was widely regarded as a rubber-stamping exercise. Two delegates voted against the change and three abstained, out of 2,964 votes. (lol)

While the reasonably new German Chancellor (Dec 2021) was in town and while Xi was on a roll to further cement his world leader status he very pubically asked Germany and Europe to “play an important part in calling for peace and facilitating negotiations.” These words are calculated and purposely chosen. China has the most to gain with the new world order and Xi (who will be turning 70 this year) is now on a mission and the clock is running out.

I find this all very comical and sad because Putin, Jinping, and Biden (Zelenskyy is a pawn) could care less about human life.

There are dozens of articles about Scholz's visit to China from both east and west new organizations but here is one from Politico.

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The article from Politico, is below. The headline is misleading saying Xi warns Putin, what Xi actually said as quoted in the article is highlighted in Bold.


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China’s Xi warns Putin not to use nuclear arms in Ukraine
Chinese leader makes the call during a visit by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

TAIPEI — Chinese leader Xi Jinping made his most direct criticism yet of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine on Friday, warning the Russian president not to resort to nuclear weapons and calling on visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to push for peace talks.

Xi’s warning comes just over a month after Putin threatened Ukraine with a nuclear attack, a sign of how far Ukrainian forces had rocked the Kremlin with their advances against invaders in the East.

The international community, said Xi, should “jointly oppose the use of, or threats to use, nuclear weapons,” according to a statement carried by Xinhua, China’s state news agency. The world should also “advocate that nuclear weapons cannot be used, a nuclear war cannot be waged, in order to prevent a nuclear crisis” in Europe or Asia, Xi added.

The Chinese leader, who just weeks ago secured a norm-breaking third term in office, asked Germany and Europe to “play an important part in calling for peace and facilitating negotiations.”

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Xi also called for “improving the humanitarian situation” in the crisis areas especially during the winter.

Still, the Chinese leader, who before the war referred to Putin as his best friend, notably stopped short of asking Russia to withdraw, a key demand for Ukraine and its Western backers. He also made no mention of Putin’s refusal to honor the U.N. agreement on facilitating Ukrainian grain exports, with his premier instead advocating the export of Chinese grain to help ease the food crisis.

In September Putin publicly acknowledged for the first time that Xi had “questions” and “concerns” about the war. Shortly after that meeting between the Chinese and Russian leaders, Putin upped the ante and raised the notion that nuclear weapons could be used. “To defend Russia and our people, we doubtlessly will use all weapons resources at our disposal,” Putin said. “This is not a bluff.”

“We cannot afford any further escalation,” China’s outgoing Premier Li Keqiang said at a press conference. Referring to Scholz who was standing next to him, Li said: “Both of us … hope the crisis ends soon.”

Scholz wants business

Xi’s show of opposition to Putin’s nuclear threats was hailed as a major diplomatic victory by Scholz, who has faced weeks of criticism for leaning too closely toward Beijing.

“We have agreed that threatening nuclear attacks is irresponsible and dangerous,” Scholz told reporters, referring to his meeting with Xi. “I have told President Xi the importance for China to exert its influence on Russia.”

Scholz brought with him a delegation of big businesses and also recently approved a deal by a Chinese state-owned company to acquire part of a terminal in the strategically important port of Hamburg.

Indeed, during the opening remarks at his meeting with Xi, Scholz again recalled his earlier career as the Hamburg mayor, while urging Xi to deepen trade ties with Germany, the EU’s biggest economy.

Scholz named few deliverables, apart from a deal for expatriates — not local Chinese people — to take BioNTech coronavirus vaccine shots in China, and vowed cooperation on climate change and disease prevention.

Taiwan tensions

Before the press conference drew to a close without a single question from reporters, Scholz brought up the escalating tension across the Taiwan Strait.

“Any change to the status quo of Taiwan can only take place through mutual agreement and peacefully,” he said, adding that he also raised the issue of the human rights abuses against China’s Muslim minority in Xinjiang.

Scholz alluded to Beijing’s economic coercion against Lithuania when the Baltic country pursued closer ties with Taiwan, saying: “It is also important to be clear: Economic measures against individual EU member states are directed against the entire EU internal market, and sanctions against EU parliamentarians are also unacceptable to us.”

While Scholz didn’t play up the trade focus of his trip, his Chinese host made sure to send a clear message to German businesses, which China considers to be a major source of stability in otherwise shaky EU-China relations.

“We continue to be prepared to assist Germany in accessing our market,” Premier Li told reporters at the press conference, calling for a “sound and stable” relationship with Germany. “We support a multipolar world, free trade, and want to meet our partner on an equal footing.”

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Snowden mocks ‘Russian bots’ trope

The whistleblower posted a meme on Twitter about the trend of blaming Russians for everything

US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has posted a picture on Twitter, mocking the ‘blame Russia’ fad. Snowden had apparently dug up a meme dating back to the Trump-era trend of finding elusive ‘Russian trolls’ everywhere.

The picture, posted by the whistleblower without any context, turned out to have aged well and prompted a heated discussion on his feed.

It shows a book cover, mimicking the iconic Little Golden Books series, titled ‘Everyone I don’t agree with is a Russian bot’. The subtitle of the ‘book’ explains that it provides a “child’s guide to media and government excuse-making for political failings.”

Some users appreciated the meme, providing other ‘guidebooks’ about omnipotent evil forces that are often mentioned in online political discussions.

Others, however, apparently failed to see the irony, accusing Snowden of being a “literal Russian bot” himself.

The whistleblower, who fled the US after leaking top-secret documents almost a decade ago, finally received Russian citizenship back in September, having applied for it in 2020 upon receiving a permanent residency permit.

Washington still wants Snowden returned home to face espionage charges over his 2013 leak revealing the NSA’s extensive surveillance operations. The leak, which was never published in full, showed that surveillance targeted American citizens to a far greater degree than previously known. Since then, the surveillance program exposed by Snowden has been declared unlawful by a US appeals court.

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British Spies Training Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Crimea, Leaks Show

British intelligence agencies are already prime suspects in two recent provocations in the Crimean peninsula, which voted overwhelmingly to reunite with Russia in the 2014 referendum. But investigative journalists have unearthed a plan to train a 'stay behind' guerrilla army in the region.
Leaked documents have revealed that British spies are training an army of Ukrainian insurgents to attack Russian military and civilian targets in Crimea.
Russia has already accused the UK of responsibility for the September 26 bombing of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines across the Baltic Sea, the October 8 truck bombing of the Kerch Strait bridge to Crimea and the October 29 attack on the Crimean port of Sevastopol with seven marine and nine aerial drones.

However, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands are the only countries known to have supplied Kiev with underwater and surface drones.
Other incidents in the Crimean peninsula are suspected to be the work of covert units, including an explosion at a military airfield in August and an attack using a small drone to drop explosives. Some have speculated that the sinking of the Russian Navy cruiser Moskva in April was caused by a saboteur, rather than by shore-based anti-shipping missiles as Kiev claims.
Investigative news website The Grayzone named the key players working with the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in Odessa, the Black Sea port to the west of Crimea, to set up the covert force.
They include military consultant Hugh Ward, who works for private security firm Rezolutionz, MI6 veteran Guy Spindler, former Lithuanian defence minister Audrius Butkevicius and veteran intelligence agent Chris Donnelly.
Donnelly is a former advisor to late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and co-founder of the Institute for Statecraft in 2009. He and his think-tank were later behind the sinister information warfare outfit the Integrity Initiative.
Leaked internal memos showed that Donnelly was concerned that even Kiev's staunchest backer, US President Joe Biden, feared an endless proxy war with Russia following recent statements from Washington sounding vague support for a negotiated peace.

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