WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Mashika]

Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)

Posted by Mashika (here)

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Gogol, most of my friends in Mexico assumed he was Russian, they could not understand that Ukrainian born and Russian born are two different things, it was the same old "USSR is Russia" mentality. Hard times trying to make them understand the difference

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Well Mashika... I have to shamefully admit that I did not know that Gogol was not Russian (he was Ukrainian, have I got that right?). But he did write his masterworks in Russian, didn’t he?, and hence belongs to Russian literature and Russian-language civilisation — doesn’t he?

He was Ukrainian, and yes he did write in Russian, but here are some points about that

A lot of people consider St. Petersburg as a culture center, so was it back then as well. If you wanted to be noticed or famous, you had to go there and merge into the culture, so Russian was a requirement. But otherwise he would have written in Ukrainian if he could have achieved the same results

He wasn't hateful or resentful of Russian culture, as far as know, he did not even remotely think of Russia in that way, so having Russian as a first language for his writings was just normal and accepted. Different times than current Ukraine

The thing is this, the way people tend to see Russia, from my experience is that it equals the Soviet Union, but Gogol was born in Ukraine, at the time the USSR didn't even exist. He was no Soviet citizen But since people do this (USSR is Russia) then they somehow get it all mixed up and just think of him as a "Soviet Russian" writer

I tried to explain the historical context and some other stuff but i never got through, it was an uphill battle that i very soon gave up trying to fight

He does belong to Russian literature, but this should not take away that he was Ukrainian and that he also belongs, or should belong to Ukrainian literature, because he was influenced by it and his writings were very clearly 'Ukrainian' in nature, even if written in Russian. Back then, he was considered a very good example of Ukrainian literature, even if his writings were in Russian, see? And he had no problem with being considered that, a great example of Ukrainian literature originally written in Russia because the language was used all over Ukraine at the time and there was no shame or reason not to.

Well the thing is, some of the people i talked to about this back then in Mexico, always tried to show off like they had great knowledge of those things and details, but they didn't and it was a bit bothersome so when we talked a bit more about it they got angry because they suddenly were not "the experts". It was more like an ego thing. They could not just say "oh i didn't know that, have to read more about his life then", it was always more like "I'll keep trying to figure out how to come on top and make you look lesser educated than me about this subject" thing

[norman]

In this video, at 29 minutes 50 seconds in, Lara Logan tells the hosts about one of Putin's demands for a peace solution. To hand over the scientists from the bio weapons labs so that he can take them to the Hague world court as part of his evidence.

https://rumble.com/v22i5r0-foc-show-...d-nations.html

She also says that her intel sources told her Russia has destroyed at least 8 labs but there are 3 they have not destroyed because the materials inside them are too dangerous to be dealt with in that way.

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v1zw0vu

[shaberon]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
It's one of a bunch of clear markers of the collapse of what we used to call western culture. (David Paulides did a whole video about this yesterday, all about how to destroy a nation — referring to the US. One of the markers was moral weakness and decay, combined with loss of integrity and humanity in every area of so-called 'authority'.)

Something like this?


Four Fabians, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw, founded the London School of Economics with the money left to the Fabian Society by Henry Hutchinson.


Formed out of a prior club, because:


Some members also wanted to become politically involved to aid society's transformation; they set up a separate society, the Fabian Society.



And this seems completely correct:


Bertrand Russell briefly became a member, but resigned after he expressed his belief that the Society's principle of entente (in this case, between countries allying themselves against Germany) could lead to war.


A few responses:


Although H. G. Wells was a member of the Fabian Society from 1903 to 1908, he was a critic of its operations, particularly in his 1905 paper "The Faults of the Fabian", in which he claimed the Society was a middle-class talking shop. He later parodied the society in his 1910 novel The New Machiavelli.

During the First World War, Vladimir Lenin wrote that the Fabians were "social-chauvinists", "undoubtedly the most consummate expression of opportunism and of Liberal-Labour policy". Drawing from Friedrich Engels, Lenin declared the Fabians were "a gang of bourgeois rogues who would demoralise the workers, influence them in a counter-revolutionary spirit".

In the 1920s, Leon Trotsky critiqued the Fabian Society as provincial, boring and unnecessary, particularly to the working class. He wrote that their published works "serve merely to explain to the Fabians themselves why Fabianism exists in the world".



I am not sure they have done much "in their name", but, the LSE is slightly older than the U. S. Federal Reserve, the implications are obvious. And it seems to me that these "monetary tools" cause that same decay to those who are trampled by it. It seems more and more there are "parts missing" from everyone around me. I am of the view that "intelligence", i. e. primarily CIA, has this mission which is more or less by request from the British side. This kind of Capitalism is like a disease which is by no means necessary.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mashika (here)
Well the thing is, some of the people i talked to about this back then in Mexico, always tried to show off like they had great knowledge of those things and details, but they didn't and it was a bit bothersome so when we talked a bit more about it they got angry because they suddenly were not "the experts". It was more like an ego thing. They could not just say "oh i didn't know that, have to read more about his life then", it was always more like "I'll keep trying to figure out how to come on top and make you look lesser educated than me about this subject" thing

I'm one who didn't know at all about Gogol being Ukrainian. Here's the Wiki page:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque, in works such as "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt". These stories, and others such as "Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their proto-surrealist qualities. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol's strange style of writing resembles the "ostranenie" technique of defamiliarization. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls). The novel Taras Bulba (1835), the play Marriage (1842), and the short stories "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", are also among his best-known works.

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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/569163-ukr...ssile-belarus/

Minsk comments on Ukrainian missile 'provocation’


An incident in which a Ukrainian missile was downed in Belarusian air space may have been a deliberate provocation, a senior Minsk military official has said. The projectile was reportedly intercepted by Belarusian air defense forces on Thursday.

Kirill Kazantsev, who commands the Belarusian air defenses, said in a video statement that “questions remained” about the nature of the episode.

The commander explained that the possibility of an intentional provocation by Ukraine was one of two considered by Minsk. The other option was an accident stemming from weapon malfunction or the poor skills of Ukrainian troops, he said.

The missile was fired by an S-300 anti-aircraft system and was shot down by Belarus over the bordering Ivanovo district in the Brest Region, the country’s Defense Ministry previously reported.

The incident happened amid a reported Russian missile barrage directed at targets in Ukraine. Kiev’s air defense fires have missed the mark on several other occasions, with neighboring nations affected as a consequence.

READ MORE: Poland missile incident is step towards World War III – Medvedev
In mid-November a missile hit a Polish border village, killing two residents. Kiev claimed that it originated from Russia, but Polish authorities confirmed it to be an S-300 missile that was “most likely” fired by the Ukrainian military.

Similar incidents occurred in Moldova in late October and early December, though neither resulted in casualties. Chisinau declined to identify the projectiles involved in either case.

[mountain_jim]

In case this was not posted here, I copied in

https://bioclandestine.substack.com/...ng-names-fauci

Russian MIL Begin Naming Names! Fauci and Collins of the NIH Created C19!



Clandestine
16 hr ago



Biological Update from Russian Ministry of Defense, pertaining to the conclusion of the Ninth Review Conference of the BWC.1

To put it briefly, no ground was made. The West blocked all proposals put forth by Russia to amend the Biological Weapons Convention, in order to hold the US accountable for their actions in Ukraine.

However, this is far from the end of the road. Russia exhausted all the formal diplomatic channels to no avail, but they show no intent to stop their mission to hold the West accountable for their biological genocide in Ukraine.

In response to the West’s lack of cooperation, Russia have decided they are going to start dropping names. It’s time for scorched Earth.

This is a passage from General Kirillov’s briefing. Absolutely astonishing:

“We have previously presented materials confirming the involvement of Hunter Biden and his Rosemont Seneca Foundation, as well as other US Democratic Party-controlled entities, in funding the Pentagon's main contractors operating in Ukraine.

It has been shown how deeply the son of the current US president, Hunter Biden, is involved in funding the US DOD-controlled company Metabiota.

However, some participants in closed projects remain in the shadows, although they are key players in Ukraine's military-biological programme.

They include former DITRA director Kenneth Myers, executive vice president of the CIA-controlled In-Q-Tel venture capital fund Tara O'Toole, former head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thomas Frieden, former the National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins, former Battelle Memorial Institute executive director Jeffrey Wadsworth, chief scientist and president of international research, development and medicine at Pfizer and many others.

All of them, in one way or another, are beneficiaries of the Pentagon's biological projects and are linked to the US Democratic Party, whose leaders act as the masterminds of military- biological research and the creators of covert money-laundering schemes to benefit a narrow circle of US elites.

It is these people who should be asked why taxpayers' money is being spent on illegal military-biological research in Ukraine and other countries around the world.”









Russian is no longer pulling any punches. They are directly accusing the named individuals, one of which my followers will know very well, Dr. Collins, former Director of the NIH, the co-conspirator along with Dr. Fauci behind the cover up of the origin of Covid 19.

Don’t worry, Kirillov didn’t forget about Fauci.

“Despite formal bans, the US budget is being spent on dual-use research. In this connection, the Republican Party has initiated an investigation into the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden's chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci. Public funding through an intermediary organisation was confirmed for experiments to enhance the pathogenicity of viruses, including coronaviruses, the incidence of which was not widespread until 2019.

The investigation found that Fauci openly lied and deliberately concealed US government involvement in the research programmes.

At the same time, his collusion with social media management to manipulate public opinion on the causes of COVID-19 was revealed.

Such revelations raise legitimate questions for the US about the causes of new human-caused pathogens and the patterns of pandemic spread.”

So now Russian MIL are bridging the gap between the creation of Covid 19, and the coverup via social media and MSM influence, facilitated by one Dr. Anthony Fauci.





Russian MIL’s narrative is on a collision course with Elon about to drop the Fauci Files and C19 portion of the Twitter Files. Russian MIL’s narratives also seem to coincide with that of Trump/Q narratives, that C19 was released intentionally by the Deep State to implement a medical police-state and force mail-in voting to steal 2020 with ballot fraud. It’s all pointing to the same conclusion.

Slowly, the public is being made aware that Covid 19 was a bioweapon, and the same people who made it, covered up the origin, covered up viable treatments, and pushed vaccines that didn’t work, which they profited off of, all in an effort to retain and gain power.

Russia, and the rest of the non-NATO countries, want reparations for the millions of lives (purportedly) lost, and the irreparable economic and psychological damage, caused by the outbreak of the bioweapon created and set loose by the US Democrat National Party and their affiliates.

It’s happening. The world will know the truth about Covid 19.

-Clandestine

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[Vicus]

15,000 Active-Duty Troops from Poland on the front lines in Ukraine!

The country of Poland has, over the past months, inserted fifteen thousand (15,000) regular, active-duty, Polish Army troops into Ukraine and they are waging illegal war against Russia inside Ukraine.

This information comes from intel sources just back from the actual front lines inside Ukraine, and these sources are unimpeachable intel sources.

Many have known for months that NATO countries have been sending "advisors" into Ukraine, to "teach" Ukrainian troops how to use advanced weapons being supplied by NATO countries. But all along, NATO emphasized "we are not a party to the conflict." That is a lie.

NATO troops from Poland, and from the United States and United Kingdom are, in fact, participating in the war and this covert military participation is going to get a lot of us in America, and in Europe, killed, when the Russian declare us to be participants, and begin launching attacks against us, to stop what we're doing to them.

From the United States, the military has been routinely creating false identities for Active-Duty U.S. troops, and sending them into Ukraine. The false identities are coordinated with Ukraine so that if the troops are caught, or killed, there is no traceable tie to the USA.

It is not known if the UK is also doing this. But tonight, Thursday, December 29, 2022, around 8:00 PM eastern US Time, intel sources revealed to me personally that 15,000+ Polish troops are in Ukraine, on the payroll of the Poland Army, waging war against Russia.

As a matter of common sense, Russia now has the right to go after those troops - and they have been - but also has the right to attack the logistics locations INSIDE POLAND which are supplying those troops.

Poland and its NATO buddies think the Russians won't dare attack because if they do, Poland will scream they've been attacked by Russia and invoke Article 5, Collective Self-Defense, in the NATO Treaty.

Since NATO already knows that Poland ahs sent active duty troops into Ukraine, and NATO has done NOTHING to stop this illegal war, it is likely that NATO would then honor Poland's invocation of Article 5 and go to war against Russia overtly

This is how close we all are to actual World War 3, and what is taking place is not only a violation of the law, and of the NATO Treaty, it is a covert action that can have repercussions for civilians in Europe and America.

If Russia decides to declare Poland a "participant" in the Ukraine war, and attacks Poland, then YOU and I will find ourselves in a war, without our consent, by virtue of the NATO Treaty, as missiles from Russia begin raining down upon us all.

Citizens in Europe and in America must step-up to confront this illegal activity by Poland, taking place with a wink-and-a-nod, from NATO.

Citizens MUST call, write, FAX and Email their elected officials to tell them "the jig is up, we KNOW you're waging undeclared war against Russia in Ukraine, and we want this stopped immediately before YOU get US killed."

If citizens sit back and do nothing, this situation in Ukraine will escalate into World War 3 and it __will__ go nuclear.


https://halturnerradioshow.com/index...nes-in-ukraine

[Vicus]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fEHrn81hTDM

[Vicus]

Surovykin pincer maneuver: Bakhmut flanked & 50,000 Ukrainians trapped – Advance to Toretsk – Bila Hora – Kleeshevka & Pidhorodne

The developments on the Bakhmut front are extremely important as the Russian Army, with a surprise maneuver, stopped the unsuccessful frontal attacks and flanked all the Ukrainian fortress settlements that cover and protect the city's perimeter!

If the maneuver goes to Surovikin, then he will make history in Russia as he will have trapped and destroyed a very large part of the Ukrainian Army.

This resulted in the Russian Army advancing north towards Chasiv Yar with the Ukrainian defenses weakened.

This is a scenario that was revealed at the beginning of the month by WarNews247 and is the worst possible development for the Ukrainian Army.

Read also: Big risk V. Zelensky: Moves all available reserves to Bakhmut - Russian offensive begins towards Chasiv Yar and Toretsk

Analytically:

Apart from Opitne where fighting is still raging, the Russian Army is on the outskirts of Pidarodni (or Pidhorodne) has surrounded Kleeshevka and has advanced towards Toretsk and Bila Hora (Belaia Gora).

Due to these developments which may prove disastrous for the Ukrainian Army, WarNews247 lists detailed maps with the situation on the battlefield.

This sudden development has already forced the Ukrainian Army to move new large reinforcements to Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar to immediately replace the losses.

The battle began on the eastern outskirts of the village causing shock to the Ukrainian Army.

North of Toretsk, units of the 28th Ukrainian brigade attempted a counterattack near the Dyliivka area. Russian forces repulsed the attack and the Ukrainians retreated to their original positions with casualties.

Russian forces captured two fortified Ukrainian positions in Opytne and three in the southern suburbs of Pidarodny. Wagner's forces succeeded and broke through the Ukrainian defenses at Pindarodny forcing the Ukrainians to send in the 17th Armored Brigade.

At the same time, Russian forces together with Donetsk forces expanded the buffer zone around Andriivka by taking control of the new railway section near the artificial lakes, and began to advance towards Kleeshevka…

The Russians have cut off Kleeshevka from the north and south by capturing the Ukrainian fortifications. The battle is currently taking place at the settlement's railway station.

Russian military sources report heavy clashes in the eastern suburbs of the city. The Ukrainians have begun to mine the center of the region.

At the same time, in the city of Bakhmut, fighting continues in the southeastern suburbs of the city. Russian troops attack the fortified Ukrainian positions in the 56th kindergarten of Bakhmut.

Russian and allied forces retook the southern part of Fedora Maksymenka Street and reached the outskirts of the Miasokombinat area.

They then occupied most of the forest area and the first buildings of the Miasokombinat area. In addition, Russian troops made small advances in the orchards of the S. Sobachivka area

Finally, Russian Army and Donetsk forces took control of some positions along the Soledar-Bakhmut road.

continue: many videos

https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog..._x_tr_pto=wapp

[Vicus]

Kyiv lost about 20 officers in the Svatovo-Kremennaya section in the Donbass
Officer NM LNR: Kyiv lost about 20 officers while trying to counterattack in the Donbass in a week

LUGANSK, December 30 - RIA Novosti. Ukrainian troops have lost dozens of officers in the Donbass over the past week, Andrei Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR , told RIA Novosti.
"Over the past week, about 20 Ukrainian officers have been killed in the zone of responsibility of the second army corps (People's Militia of the LPR. - Ed.)," the source said.
According to him, Kyiv suffered the most losses when trying to attack Russian positions in the area of ​​​​the Svatovo-Kremennaya front line in the north of the LPR.
The situation in the Svatovsky direction in Donbass escalated a few months ago. Ukrainian security forces regularly shell Svatovo from American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and try to break through the defenses in a strategically important area.

https://ria-ru.translate.goog/202212..._x_tr_pto=wapp

[ExomatrixTV]

• Watch Greene Leaves Biden Speechless With Brutal No Ukraine Aide Call ... Shows Dirty Corruption Proof:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H23sUUJBKHY

Maybe it's time for congress to change the way bills are written. First, one subject only no additional hang ons. Second a maximum number of pages for a bill, say 300-500 pages and no larger. Third, all proposed bills and bills passed must be published for the public to review. These measures should become law with penalties for noncompliance with the bill rejected, and the congressman responsible censored.

[mountain_jim]

If not posted already in this thread, Dave Collum's summary for Peak Prosperity (this is part 2 of his 2022 summary)

https://peakprosperity.com/2022-the-...ar-in-ukraine/

2022 The Year in Review: The War in Ukraine



< long article at link >

later - an early excerpt

We can all agree that the list of victims in this war is non-statistically populated by Ukrainians. They are dying, and their world is being upended. If, however, you think that this is a simple story about good versus evil, you need a CT scan. I am especially talking to the devout members of the Sanctimony-Industrial Complex—Eric Hoffer’s fanatical True Believers—who will take any opportunity to be part of a grand movement to elevate their lives by signaling their virtue. I was on a Zoom call with a member of the clergy in which he stated that “it is Putin’s fault because Putin attacked.” I curtly told that punk-ass zealot—quite an impressive one actually— “If I have some guy in my face, and it is clear that this is not going to resolve well, my immediate goal becomes finding a way to land the first punch to ensure there is no second punch.” (I did say that.) Months later I discovered that I had inadvertently paraphrased Putin. If you think Putin is, by definition, wrong because he attacked first, you have neither read much nor thought very deeply about the Ukraine conflict or the origins of wars.

When I get caught in conversations with those with certainty about Russia as the only instigator, I resort to moral equivalency and ask, “Which sovereign state bombed more countries and killed more people over the last two decades, the U.S. or Russia? The U.S. has militarily intervened 251 times since 1991. 6 The Obama administration bombed seven Muslim countries. Bush Jr. killed upwards of a million Iraqis. Which of those countries attacked us? (Hint: none.) The US conducted three consecutive days of airstrikes in Syria this year. The Pentagon said, “these strikes are a message to Tehran.” 7,8 That’s so odd because I didn’t even realize Tehran is in Syria, or did we bomb one country to send a message to a different country? I can hear somebody saying, “But…but…but…they were dangerous because…” Oh shut the **** up, and go hum a few bars of Crimea River, Justin. 9 That does not give us the right to bomb them back to the stone age. There are many countries with nukes that we don’t bomb. Here are Leslie Stahl and Secretary of State Madeline Albright comparing notes on the Iraq War: 10

Lesley Stahl: We have heard that a half million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.

You’re right Madeline: nobody gives a **** about brown people anyway, what Chris Hedges sarcastically calls “bad victims” unworthy of our empathy. Check out this montage of virtuous members of the US press expressing why we should care about the Ukrainians unlike other victims—they are like us! 11 By the way, while Madeline was green-lighting the slaughter of children, does anyone remember the Western press airing footage of those atrocities? Any photos of the half-million bloated and dismembered carcasses of children? Agree with Madeline if you like, but statistically speaking, the U.S. leaders are the ones who should be taken to the Hague for crimes against humanity.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

~ Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General


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If you want the accepted War in Ukraine narrative, turn on CNN or MSNBC. My strategy was to examine the events that pre-date the Drums of War. After the War in Ukraine began, the media coverage was bull**** (and turtles) all the way down.

In the following sections, I’ll talk about my sources and delineate the key players in this drama. We’ll then wander through some contemporary events that run counter to the mainstream narrative. Just to reiterate: from a dead cold start, there is no way I got the whole story correct. I can, however, offer up pieces of a huge jigsaw puzzle that seem to match up. I identify as a Reagan Republican, not some commie dog, although I appear to be playing one on the internet. Woof. I am challenging conventional wisdom because I wish to fulfill our dreams of being the good guys.

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Over 3,000 bodies of civilians recovered in Mariupol – investigators


The criminal actions of Ukrainian troops during the battle for Mariupol resulted in thousands of civilian deaths, Russian investigators have claimed. Local authorities have reportedly recovered over 3,000 bodies of people who were allegedly forced by Kiev's troops to remain in the city while the conflict raged.

The figure was revealed in a statement by Russia’s Investigative Committee on Friday, after committee chief Aleksandr Bastrykin held a meeting in Mariupol with officials investigating alleged Ukrainian crimes.

The port city, located in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), saw intense fighting between February and May, as Ukrainian troops were pushed back and encircled by Russian and DPR forces. Russia created humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave the city, but the Ukrainian side would not allow them to use the escape routes, Russian officials claimed.

“With no opportunity to leave the city, civilians moved around in search of food and became living targets for the Ukrainian punishers, who murdered them using various kinds of weapons,” the statement said.

‘I was nearly shot for not knowing Ukrainian’: Mariupol residents on the horrors of war and the city’s restoration
‘I was nearly shot for not knowing Ukrainian’: Mariupol residents on the horrors of war and the city’s restoration
In April alone, the bodies of 51 civilians were found at positions previously held by Ukrainian forces, while the total number of civilians found in the city was over 3,000, according to the prosecutors.

Russia has opened criminal cases targeting the people directly involved in the alleged transgressions as well as those above them in the Ukrainian chain of command. The list includes Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the head of the country’s armed forces, according to the Investigative Committee. They are being probed for offenses related to the use of banned methods of war, with prosecutors collecting evidence of possible criminal orders to kill civilians and prisoners of war.

Officials remarked that identifying many of the victims was challenging. They suggested that people searching for missing relatives in Mariupol be urged to donate their DNA so that the samples could be compared against a database of samples collected from the recovered bodies.