WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

Maryana Naumova 🇷🇺

CONSTANTINOVKA IS UNDER CONTROL, BUT THERE'S A NUANCE:

"We, the soldiers of the 156th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, are in Konstantinovka.

The situation is under control, but there's a nuance. The situation is under the control of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.

Thank you to the soldiers of the 1465th regiment of the 4th brigade of the Armed Forces of Russia for liberating Konstantinovka together with us..."

A captured Ukrainian soldier explained the nuances of control over the city of Konstantinovka, thanking the Russian troops for the liberation.
That's how it is.

My Rutube https://rutube.ru/u/maryananaumova/

War correspondent Mariana Naumova

https://x.com/MaryanaNaumove/status/2074146106464690226

[Ravenlocke]

Kristian_B 🇷🇺 ❤️ 🇩🇪

Translated from German
🚨 Unfortunately - as almost daily - there is also today to report that the Kyiv regime once again showed its terrorist face by attacking peaceful citizens in a public bus in the #Belgorod region.

"This is a targeted attack on civilian transport, on peaceful civilians who were going about their daily business," writes the governor of the region on http://t.me/aleksandr_shuvaev.

⚠️ In the attack, six people were injured, including two children. The condition of the one-year-old girl is assessed by doctors as serious; she suffered multiple shrapnel wounds to the face, neck, head, and chest. The second affected child, a 10-year-old boy, sustained a mine explosion injury and an Akubaro injury.

🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 #Merz, Starmer, and Macron welcomed Ukrainian drone strikes on civilians as #E3 in their joint statement of June 7.

The original statement reads: "They welcomed recent (...) ground-breaking use of drone technology" 👉 http://gov.uk/government/news.

In other words: the 🇩🇪 German #Chancellor welcomes injuries to Russian children caused by Ukrainian drones.

It cannot be understood any other way.

🇷🇺 #Russia #Россия #Белгород

#Ukraine #Kyiv #Zelenskyy #Terrorist #Bandera #MassMurderer #WarCriminal #Drones #E5

https://x.com/Dr_C_Becker/status/2074139921439244454

[Ravenlocke]

Rick Sanchez

Watch these massive secondary explosions as Russian missiles hammer Ukrainian munitions plants across Kiev and other cities.

Former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik stresses the blasts point to military targets rather than indiscriminate strikes.

“If Russia wanted to go after civilians, there'd be hundreds if not thousands killed.”

Full interview on The Sanchez Effect.

https://x.com/RickSanchezTV/status/2074163060621639726

[Ravenlocke]

Olga Bazova

A detonation at an ammunition warehouse in Vyshneve, Kievv region, almost destroyed five streets, - the head of the Kiev regional state administration

▪️According to him, dozens of buildings have been damaged, and fires and detonations are still ongoing.
▪️Due to heavy smoke, the air quality has deteriorated fivefold. Residents are urged not to open windows and to follow the recommendations of specialists.
▪️A number of Telegram channels indicate that cluster bombs and shells with a depleted uranium-238 core could have been stored in the warehouses.

https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/2074092980160364913

[Ravenlocke]

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

BREAKING AND UNUSUAL

Russia summoned Sweden’s ambassador after an attack on its embassy in Stockholm, accusing Swedish authorities of failing to provide diplomatic protection.

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2074099019517964527

[Ravenlocke]

Iran Observer
@IranObserver0
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7h
⚡️BREAKING: Ayatollah Khamenei's Funeral Ceremony is Officially the Largest in recorded History - Al Jazeera

About 12 million people have attended the funeral since Friday

https://x.com/IranObserver0/status/2074075110563094986

IRNA News Agency ☫

American human rights activist and ex-US military member
@RealKenOKeefe
: Just look at this huge crowd. If Trump died, they'd be celebrating. That tells you all you need to know about America's so-called leaders.

https://x.com/IrnaEnglish/status/2074058204108009868

[rgray222]

I originally thought this should go on Day One of Trump's Presidency thread, but in reality, this article speaks more about Putin than Trump. This is an article from Pravda explaining the content of a recent telephone call between Putin and Trump.

Putin held a phone call with Trump — Yuri Ushakov revealed details of the conversation:


Putin personally congratulated Trump and the entire American people over the phone on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.

▪️ In his congratulations to Trump on Independence Day, the Russian president reminded him of Russia's contribution to the formation of American statehood.

▪️ Putin reaffirmed to Trump the invitation to visit Russia.

▪️ Trump stated the need to end the Ukrainian conflict as soon as possible in order to unlock the potential for Russian–U.S. cooperation in the economy.

▪️ Putin and Trump agreed to stay in touch and to hold another phone call in the near future.

▪️ Witkoff and Kushner will be ready to come to Moscow again.

▪️ The Putin–Trump conversation was businesslike and highly constructive, allowing for a frank discussion of the bilateral and international agenda.

▪️ During the conversation, Putin and Trump noted that the peoples of Russia and the United States will never forget their alliance during World War II.

▪️ Putin and Trump discussed Ukraine; the U.S. president reaffirmed his readiness to assist in finding peaceful solutions.

▪️ The European war party proceeds from a false understanding of the situation on the battlefield.

▪️ Putin told Trump about the real situation on the battlefield in the Special Military Operation, including in the context of the liberation of Konstantinovka.

▪️ The initiator of the July 4 Putin–Trump call was the United States — "that says a lot," according to Ushakov.

▪️ Putin and Trump stressed the importance of continuing Russian–U.S. contacts on military-political and economic matters.

▪️ Putin expressed hope that U.S.–Iran negotiations based on the memorandum would make it possible to find long-term solutions on key issues.

▪️ Putin reaffirmed to Trump Russia's readiness to facilitate de‑escalation around Iran.

▪️ Trump mentioned during the conversation that he is impressed by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

▪️ The Putin–Trump conversation lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Putin held a phone call with Trump — Yuri Ushakov revealed details of the conversation:

https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/07/06/2422933.html

When the Russian media reports on these calls, you know that Putin has given his approval for every word printed. Here is what is being said.

• Putin wants a solid and constructive relationship with Trump
• Putin believes that he and Trump have mutual respect for each other
• Putin's personal invitation for Trump to visit speaks volumes; it expresses a strong desire to keep diplomatic channels open and build a stronger relationship. More importantly, Putin is saying we have the same goals
• Putin focused his attention on Iran, offering assistance to facilitate solutions.
• Trump focused on Ukraine and offered to stand ready to facilitate solutions.
• Both leaders agreed not to get in each other's way "if" they start to bring the wars in Iran and Ukraine to a close
• Putin bringing up the shared historical alliance, emphasising a long history of working together, was not lost on Trump.
• Both of them agreed to view the world in a more pragmatic, diplomatic way instead of confrontational.

The American media hypes Putin as evil in the same way the Russian media normally hypes Trump as evil, but it is clear that both men have mutual respect, and the tone and content of this telephone call should be a positive sign for the world.

[Tintin]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
RussiaNews 🇷🇺

WHAT THE WESTERN MEDIA IS HIDING FROM YOU! 🤫❌

A massive military scandal caught on camera in Kiev!

Watch the shocking moment a Ukrainian U.S Patriot air defense missile malfunctions and slams directly into a residential area.

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2074121590342836719

That's a really lazy description from 'Russia News', which is certainly not a reliable source, definitely not official in any way although some officialdom should be kept at arms' length anyway. Some other consistently responsible, bonafide, and sensible Russian commentators have balked at this user account as well.

A more accurate description would have been:

Footage showing secondary detonations on a weapons munitions storage facility at Vyshneve near Kiev, and what appears to be a PAC-3 Patriot expelled from the facility following a targeted Russian strike, evening of July 6th

Nil point for Russia News here

[Ravenlocke]

Posted by Tintin (here)

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
RussiaNews 🇷🇺

WHAT THE WESTERN MEDIA IS HIDING FROM YOU! 🤫❌

A massive military scandal caught on camera in Kiev!

Watch the shocking moment a Ukrainian U.S Patriot air defense missile malfunctions and slams directly into a residential area.

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2074121590342836719

That's a really lazy description from 'Russia News', which is certainly not a reliable source, definitely not official in any way although some officialdom should be kept at arms' length anyway. Some other consistently responsible, bonafide, and sensible Russian commentators have balked at this user account as well.

A more accurate description would have been:

Footage showing secondary detonations on a weapons munitions storage facility at Vyshneve near Kiev, and what appears to be a PAC-3 Patriot expelled from the facility following a targeted Russian strike, evening of July 6th

Nil point for Russia News here

Another version as reported by Sputnik,




Sputnik
@SputnikInt
🚨NATO’s dud Patriots caused Ukraine’s latest air defense fiasco against Russian strikes – military expert

🗣️"Unsafe" Patriot PAC-2/3 missiles funneled to Ukraine by its Western sponsors that failed after launch and crashed back to the ground during Russia's strike on Ukraine's military-industrial targets were likely expired munitions, military expert Yuri Knutov tells Sputnik.

💬“Under normal conditions, if a Patriot missile misses its target, it climbs to its maximum altitude, burns up all its fuel, and then self-destructs. What remains is essentially harmless scrap metal that causes no damage on the ground,” explains the pundit.

However, Patriot stocks offloaded by Poland to Ukraine reportedly required overhauls or retirement.

These missiles failed to follow their designed self-destruct protocol and plummeted back to earth - detonating on impact, speculates the expert.

📹Video: Telegram channel of Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolayev underground

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2074134019097207233

Sputnik

18h
🚨NATO allies likely dumped dud missiles on Ukraine, making its skies vulnerable - expert

Ukrainian Patriot missiles reportedly crashing onto Kiev lays bare an ugly truth: Ukraine's allies could be foisting outdated interceptors on Ukraine, military analyst Alexey Leonkov told Sputnik.

🔶Previously, missiles for Ukrainian S-300 air defense systems supplied by Eastern European countries were seen falling on its residential areas

🔶Now, the US-made Patriot systems are entering self-destruct mode and detonating over the Ukrainian capital

🔶Leonkov links the allegedly expired missiles to a political scandal in Poland over the secret transfer of Patriot interceptors to Ukraine

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2074269410823733753

[Ravenlocke]

Olga Bazova

The body of the woman who carried out the terrorist attack in Monaco was found near Kiev.

According to sources of 'Ukrainian Pravda', the woman's body was found around 11 PM on July 6. According to the sources, the woman was shot.

What's notable here is that she was legally let into Ukraine after committing the terrorist attack. This is just a clean up job by the SBU. Ukraine is a terrorist state.

https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/2074428965809266858

[Ravenlocke]

Pepe Escobar reposted

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal
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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦 The tactical framework of the conflict in Ukraine has fundamentally shifted into what Moscow views as a direct counter-terror operation.

Geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar notes that Vladimir Putin’s strategy remains cool, legalistic, and entirely unhurried as the front lines evolve.

According to Escobar, Russian forces are now explicitly positioning their battlefield operations to neutralize what they claim are swarms of NATO-backed terrorist drone tactics.

@RealPepeEscobar

🚨 🇪🇺 Europe’s escalating economic desperation is completely reshaping the landscape of global energy dependence.

Pepe Escobar emphasizes that while Western powers initially sought to weaken and economically isolate Russia, the ground reality has left European markets scrambling for survival.

As a veteran geopolitical analyst, Pepe highlights that the collective West allegedly remains deeply committed to a long-term strategy of forced regime change despite these severe domestic blowbacks.

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2074228138834538708

[Vicus]

One word spoils the NATO jamboree... Konstantinovka



The NATO instigators are tasting bitter fruit as they gather in Ankara.

The NATO summit taking place in Turkey this week was already looking fraught with simmering tensions between Trump and Europe. Now the jamboree in Ankara and the facade of unity are shattered by the dramatic liberation of Konstantinovka by Russian forces.

The Russian military’s victory over the key Ukrainian stronghold paves the way for the complete takeover of the Donbass region. The NATO-backed Kiev regime had dug its best defences at Konstantinovka, some 150 kilometers of elaborate trenches and minefields. Russian forces finally vanquished those defences with an estimated loss of 14,000 Ukrainian troops. This was not just Ukrainian defenses. It was NATO’s, the bloc having weaponized the regime since the coup in 2014 and lending its best technical advisers and engineers on the ground.

Thus, in one fell swoop, the narrative of the Kiev regime and its NATO sponsors has been demolished.In recent months, the Ukrainian puppet president, Vladimir Zelensky, has been busily claiming that his forces were making gains on the battlefield and that Russia was supposedly on the back foot. The European elites and the Western media amplified that narrative. At the G7 summit in France last month, U.S. President Donald Trump had also bought into the fiction that Ukraine was “making progress on the battlefield and there is now a new momentum.”

Of course, this was all empty public relations by Zelensky and the Europeans to keep the river of money rolling into the war effort. The summit in Ankara this week was billed as another round of multi-billion-dollar donations to help Ukraine win. Crucial to the fundraising was the appearance of “unity” among NATO members over their commitment to supporting Ukraine.

Fearing that irascible Trump could spoil that appearance of unity, Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary-general, went to the White House on June 24 on a grovelling mission. The former Dutch prime minister put on another cringe-making act of self-debasement and obsequiousness by hailing Trump as a savior of NATO. Rutte lavished praise on the American leader for the “Trump Trillion” effect, pointing out that European and Canadian allies had boosted military spending by €1 trillion under pressure from the U.S. president.

This insane military spending is, by the way, leading to the collapse of Europe, with governments falling from taking on unsustainable debt levels and consequent political crises. Britain is perhaps the worst basket case, looking for its seventh prime minister in 10 years.

In his White House grovelling display, Rutte, who has the odious demeanor of a concentration camp kapo, was also trying to sell the NATO spending as a lucrative market for U.S. military exports. His pandering to Trump is like a pimp for Europe.

But all this racketeering hinges on keeping the U.S. and Europe unified and committed to supporting Ukraine. That, in turn, relies on the narrative that the NATO proxy regime is worth supporting in combating Russia.

The Konstantinovka victory by Russia has smashed that narrative. The Kiev regime is now facing Russian forces “steamrolling” the dwindling defence in Donbass around Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, as former Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof put it.

NATO, for all its hundreds of billions of dollars and euros in support of the Kiev regime over the past four years, has been exposed as an utter failure. This is a political earthquake for Europe and the transatlantic alliance. The whole conflict looks more than ever like a futile war racket that has enriched Zelensky and his cronies as well as the Western military-industrial complex. Euro elites are up to their necks in this criminal proxy war.

The diversionary tactic of NATO helping the Kiev regime to inflict long-range air strikes on Russia has not worked either. Russia has absorbed those attacks and is now pushing ahead on the battlefield to roll up what’s left of the NATO proxy defenses.

If there is one thing Trump cannot abide, it’s losers and being associated with losers.

When he arrives in Ankara this week, there’s going to be embarrassing recriminations in the light of Konstantinvoka’s liberation by Russia.

Trump is feeling sore about the debacle of his failed war against Iran and has constantly huffed about how Europeans did not provide support for the U.S. in the Persian Gulf. “They were not there when we needed them,” he said.

He can now enjoy a bit of schadenfreude by telling the Europeans that they have to sort out the Ukraine mess on their own, which is rich given the U.S. and Trump’s responsibility in fomenting the conflict in the first place. He was the first president to send lethal weapons to Ukraine in 2018.

continue: https://strategic-culture.su/news/20...onstantinovka/

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Major fire in Kiev after up to 10 ballistic missiles struck the city in under 20 minutes.

Some channels are reporting that the Vizar plant has been hit again. The plant was struck in a major overnight attack a few days ago, with secondary detonations reported the following day and an evacuation ordered around the site.

The plant sits in the middle of a residential neighborhood and was reportedly used to repair air defense systems and store munitions and drones, though the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense denies it belongs to them, leaving the Kiev regime unable to explain why it kept exploding for nearly a day after the initial strikes.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2074633098227028234

[Ravenlocke]

Olga Bazova

The Zelensky regime placed a huge weapons production and storage facility right in the middle of residential neighborhoods in the Kiev suburb - a military target.

Do you think Russia didn't know about it all these years? Of course it knew. Why would you ask has it not hit it for all these years? Well, because it knew that it would do this to civilian buildings around it. ⬇️

Unfortunately for ordinary Ukrainians, Zelensky's actions have changed that calculus.

https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/2074706511834563069

[Ravenlocke]

Sputnik

🚨🇷🇺💥 Russia strikes Samsung-Ukraine industrial plant - MoD

▪️ The Samsung-Ukraine industrial plant was used for producing and storing components for FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles.

▪️ A workshop assembling medium- and long-range UAVs was also struck.

Russia's Armed Forces delivered a precision strike on military-industrial targets in Kiev in response to Ukrainian terrorist strikes on Russian civilian infrastructure, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Footage from social media

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2074724302960595448

[Vicus]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6QKFVeTIZWg

9 hours ago,with a BIG map!

[Tintin]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by Tintin (here)
... but I'd bet Bill's hat ( ) that ultimately, or really, this was always a combined British/US (SBS/Special services) exercise from the getgo;

Now that's a serious bet. When I first noticed it, I figured "No way - nothing is that certain!"

But then I read what you were betting on. Bill's hat remains undefeated.

Well, do remember the Liz Truss (then British PM) SMS message to Blinken stating: "It's done."

The there's the slightly sticky issue of Lloyds of London not compensating/paying out the insurance to Germany for the damage done. Smells a little high, doesn't it?

My 'bet' stands

For now, here's a Nordic Times piece originally published in 2024:

Source: "https://nordictimes.com/world/independent-investigator-elements-of-uk-government-behind-nord-stream-attacks/"

Independent investigator: Elements of UK government behind Nord Stream attacks

Published: February 13th, 2024, Updated by Editorial Staff April 29th, 2024

Nord Stream attacks

- A systematic analysis of the available evidence points to "elements of the British government" as the most likely perpetrators of the pipeline bombings.
- This according to an independent Finnish data analyst and researcher who has conducted what he calls "the only public, open Nordstream investigation".
- The enigmatic 'data detective' believes the attacks were most likely carried out by the Royal Navy's DTXG elite diving team, operating from the British nuclear submarine HMS Ambush (S120).
- A statement made by then British PM Liz Truss at the UN five days before the attacks about "cutting off toxic energy and pipelines from authoritarian regimes" raises further questions.

Then minister Alec Shellbrooke inspects HMS Ambush (S120) at HMNB Clyde in Faslane on October 12, 2022, just over two weeks after the Nord Stream attacks. The fact that the submarine's chalfont bay is covered with a tarpaulin indicates that it may have been used recently.

While the Swedish government recently closed its investigation into the largest terrorist attacks on vital infrastructure in European history, stating that "no suspects have been identified", an independent data analyst and researcher known as "Mortymer" has conducted what could be described as a thorough investigation into who carried out the Nord Stream attacks on September 26, 2022.

He presents a large amount of data that contradicts not only the official narrative that either Russia or Ukraine did it, but possibly also Seymour Hersh's alternative yet highly acclaimed theory that it was the US that led the execution of the bombings together with Norway. According to the researcher, a careful examination of the accumulated evidence points to deep involvement of certain elements within the British government.

"It looks like Norway provided US with intel about the UK's mission"

Relying on online data collection rather than physical evidence, Mortymer uses web crawlers to scrape, extract, and analyze virtually any information available on the Internet that is or could be relevant to the Nord Stream attacks.

The first clue: A mysterious submarine
Mortymer's initial hypothesis was that Ukraine was behind the attacks. That however changed when he became aware of the visit of Alec Shelbrooke, then Minister of State for Defence Procurement in the Truss government, to the naval base HMNB Clyde at Gare Loch, Faslane, Scotland.

Bringing a journalist with him to the port, Shelbrooke commented on the war in Ukraine, saying, "This is our war as much as it is Ukraine's", and explained his views on the role of Britain and NATO in the conflict.

Shelbrooke then inspected one particular submarine, the Royal Navy's HMS Ambush (S120), which had returned to the port a week earlier - that is one week after the Nord Stream attacks on September 26 - and met with the ship's captain and crew.


Alec Shelbrooke meeting with the crew of the HMS Ambush at the naval base HMNB Clyde at Gare Loch, Faslane, Scotland. Photo: PA News Agency

As can be seen in the featured photo, the top of the submarine was conspicuously covered with a tarp, which according to Mortymer covers a chalfont bay, which can accommodate mini-submarines and is used by divers for exit and re-entry during deep diving missions. The fact that the bay is covered by a tarp indicates that it may have been used recently.

Mortymer also reveals that Shelbrooke was in the Royal Navy's chain of command and at the head of the Royal Navy DTXG team, a specialized unit of the British military's Special Boat Service (SBS).

The DTXG elite diving team
The DTXG, which stands for Diving & Threat Exploitation Group, is an elite group of Royal Navy "clearance divers" - frogmen and underwater bomb disposal experts. The group was only created in the beginning of 2022, just months before the Nord Stream attacks, as a result of a restructuring and rebranding within the Royal Navy that replaced the long-standing Fleet Diving Squadron with the DTXG.

– "This once-in-a-generation transformation has enabled the Royal Navy's Clearance Divers to be the most agile, lethal and technically advanced they have ever been", comments Commanding officer Sean Heaton on the reorganization.

In addition to relatively less dramatic tasks such as "carrying out emergency underwater maintenance on warships", "dealing with historic explosives and improvised explosives around the UK", and "clearing sea mines around the world" the group is also tasked with "delivering discreet special operations".

– We recognise and embrace modern, innovative technology such as autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles (known as AUVs and ROVs) to deliver operations and enhance training, comments Carl Thomas, Chief Petty Officer of DTXG's special operations team Alpha Squadron, who is excited that the group "continues to evolve and move with the times".

DTXG probe was blocked by defence minister

Shortly after Shelbrooke's visit to the port, a lot happened. He himself was fired and Liz Truss was forced to resign as British Prime Minister, making her the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history. Curiously, the head of the port was also fired. At the same time, Russia officially accused "British naval specialists" of being behind the attacks, prompting the British Parliament to launch an inquiry to question the DTXG, but the probe was soon blocked by Ben Wallace, then Secretary of State for Defence.


Alec Shelbrooke on the HMS Ambush (S120). Photo: PA News Agency

Intrigued by these striking coincidences, but wary of jumping to conclusions, Mortymer began a slow, thorough, and extensive data-gathering operation. Utilizing his data-gathering expertise, he started collecting news stories, announcements, discussions, images, videos, mentions of "Nord Stream", "Russian gas", and similar keywords, as well as various government policies and legal files related to the Nord Stream pipelines.

After completing this groundwork, which took about three months and, the researcher notes, was entirely legal and used only publicly available sources, he went on to analyze how the data matched statements made by government officials from what he considered to be the top 12 countries suspected of the attacks, including Russia, Ukraine, Norway, the US and the UK.

Hersh's theory "complementary but not contradictory"

As for Seymour Hersh's acclaimed theory that the US (together with Norway) was the perpetrator of the attacks, Mortymer's position seems to be that while the US was aware of the plans to blow up the pipeline, it ultimately opposed them and instead actually tried to help German forces protect the pipelines from attack. In this post, Mortymer makes numerous arguments as to why Hersh's theory often doesn't hold up to close scrutiny. For example, he finds the idea that explosives were planted during NATO's BALTOPS 22 exercise "very odd" because it relies on a "surface approach" rather than the "sub-surface approach" that many official investigations suggest is most likely. In another post, Mortymer writes that "Hersh's story and data may be complementary, but not contradictory" to his own findings and conclusions.

"If my conclusions are right, the US vacated the Baltic Sea and VIPs of EU, US, NATO were informed on 22/09"

One notable intersection between Hersh's and Mortymer's theories is a joint "Maritime Post-Blast Investigation Course" that took place in late January 2022 at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, USA. During the course, Alec Shelbrooke's DTXG worked with the FBI's Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Section and three US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams to "expand and develop their maritime post-blast exploitation techniques through seven days of classroom instruction, diving, and strategic case study analysis". In other words, a course in underwater post-blast forensics.

The practical aspects of the course involved participants taking part in underwater post-blast event simulations, collecting evidence to be analyzed in a mobile forensics facility. The theoretical aspects of the course involved taking parts in various workshops, such as one held by Royal Navy DTXG Commanding Officer Cdr. Sean Heaton.

He explains that a forensic investigation involves not only technical aspects, but also techniques typically associated with any crime scene, such as collecting evidence, interviewing witnesses, and making logical deductions about who and what is responsible for the attacks.


The VideoRay Pro 4 Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) films during an underwater post-blast investigation course (not the one referenced in the article). Photo: facsimile/VideoRay

Truss: "We are cutting off the toxic power and pipelines"

While none of this constitutes "evidence" akin to a "smoking gun", Mortymer seems sure that the hypothesis that the UK, or more specifically elements within the Truss government, were behind the Nord Stream attacks is the one that best fits the available data. Of note in this context are the statements made by Liz Truss to the UN General Assembly on September 21, 2022, just five days before the attacks.

– "We are cutting off the toxic power and pipelines from authoritarian regimes and strengthening our energy resilience. We will ensure we cannot be coerced or harmed by the reckless actions of rogue actors abroad."

After attending a meeting with the Biden administration the day after, Truss unexpectedly went into hiding, only to re-emerge three days after the Nord Stream attacks had taken place.

On the same day, according to Mortymer, the UK became a net energy exporter for the first time in 44 years.

_______________________________

I will leave you to make of this what you will

________________________________



_________________________________

More on Lloyds of London, here:

Source: https://x.com/Draregbio/status/2029196649864540285

"Further to the coming undersea cables sabotage via the british navy
@GovIE under the guise of The Action Plan for Insurance Reform 2025–29 slipped in significant deals for the British City of London legacy company Lloyds insurance. The main node again is the subversive @Paschald"

Press release here: https://www.lloyds.com/insights/media-centre/press-releases/Lloyds-and-Irelands-Department-for-Finance-announce-strategic-collaboration#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHosting%20a%20Lloyd's%20innovation%20programme,further%20deliver%20on %20those%20priorities.%E2%80%9D

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Tintin (here)

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by Tintin (here)
... but I'd bet Bill's hat ( ) that ultimately, or really, this was always a combined British/US (SBS/Special services) exercise from the getgo;

Now that's a serious bet. When I first noticed it, I figured "No way - nothing is that certain!"

But then I read what you were betting on. Bill's hat remains undefeated.

...
My 'bet' stands

Nord Stream attacks

- A systematic analysis of the available evidence points to "elements of the British government" as the most likely perpetrators of the pipeline bombings.
- This according to an independent Finnish data analyst and researcher who has conducted what he calls "the only public, open Nordstream investigation".

Truss: "We are cutting off the toxic power and pipelines"
...
On the same day, according to Mortymer, the UK became a net energy exporter for the first time in 44 years.

=== ===

The score so far:

Bill's Hat: 1
Truss government: 0

=== ===

[Tintin]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by Tintin (here)

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by Tintin (here)
... but I'd bet Bill's hat ( ) that ultimately, or really, this was always a combined British/US (SBS/Special services) exercise from the getgo;

Now that's a serious bet. When I first noticed it, I figured "No way - nothing is that certain!"

But then I read what you were betting on. Bill's hat remains undefeated.

...
My 'bet' stands

Nord Stream attacks

- A systematic analysis of the available evidence points to "elements of the British government" as the most likely perpetrators of the pipeline bombings.
- This according to an independent Finnish data analyst and researcher who has conducted what he calls "the only public, open Nordstream investigation".

Truss: "We are cutting off the toxic power and pipelines"
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On the same day, according to Mortymer, the UK became a net energy exporter for the first time in 44 years.

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The score so far:

Bill's Hat: 1
Truss government: 0

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What??!! Which part of this sordid episode don't you get, dude? Please don't tell me you're a lunatic VAR assistant?

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The score so far:

Bill's Hat: 0
Truss government: 2

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[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Tintin (here)
VAR assistant

I don't know off-hand what a "VAR" assistant is.

Probably best I don't disturb my blissful ignorance.