Developing Eastern European Crises

“Poland has doubled the number of troops to 6,000 on its Belarus border, amid an ongoing standoff with stranded migrants”
https://euobserver.com/migration/153277

“Thousands of people are stranded at the border between Poland and Belarus ... have been gathering on the Belarusian side of the Kuznica border crossing. Authorities closed the crossing on Tuesday, with aerial footage showing large crowds congregating in the area ... One Syrian asylum-seeker, who recently arrived in Poland after his third attempt at crossing the border from Belarus ... that on arriving at the border, guards caught him and three others in his group. He was beaten up ... Polish authorities said seven migrants have been found dead on Poland’s side of the border ... Since the beginning of November, there have been 4,500 recorded border crossing attempts ... recorded around 1,000 crossing attempts in the last two days ... A Polish border guard representative told CNN earlier this week that some of the migrants had been pushed toward the barriers by Belarusian services ... Journalists and aid workers have been blocked from traveling to the area by an exclusion zone ... Polish President Andrzej Duda visited the border ... a speech ... ‘ we are and we will be part of a Europe based on Christian values, which are also the foundations of our tradition and culture’ ... ‘ The time has come when you need to defend your homeland’ ... ‘ It must be done with dedication, with sleepless nights, in coldness, in hardship, in a very ungrateful situation to which we were forced by the hybrid actions of the Belarusian regime against Poland and against the European Union’ ... leading Poland to adopt a bill in October for the construction of a wall along its border with Belarus ... Russia underlined their support for the Lukashenko regime by performing two joint military exercises over Belarusian airspace this week ... The two nations then held joint paratrooper drills near the Polish border on Friday ... Ukraine is also scaling up security around border with Belarus. On Thursday, it announced it would hold military drills ... allegations from the United States on Russia’s military buildup ... The United States and the European Union have announced new sanctions against Belarus this week ... On Thursday, Germany’s acting Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told German parliament that the EU had decided to ‘expand and tighten its sanctions against Lukashenko’s regime’”
https://keyt.com/cnn-europe-mideast...us-border-heres-what-you-need-to-know-2/

“The UK has deployed ‘a small team’ of armed forces to Poland amid the ongoing border crisis with Belarus ... Russia announced on Friday it had sent paratroopers to Belarus in a show of support for its ally after Poland sent thousands of soldiers to reinforce its border ... said its troops will parachute from Il-76 transport planes into Belarus’s Grodno region, which borders Poland and the two armies will carry out combined military drills“
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-11-12...-amid-tensions-with-poland-over-migrants

An older, related thread:
http://www.awrm.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=176935#Post176935

For those unfamiliar, very briefly, the principle parties are located in Eastern Europe. Poland is a member of the NATO alliance and is a puppet of Washington, and Belarus is a member of the CIS alliance and is a puppet of Moscow.

“Putin has a message for the U.S. and its allies: Moscow won’t tolerate creeping expansion by their armed forces into Ukraine ... In Moscow, senior officials and others close to the leadership say the Kremlin aims to make clear that any further western steps to provide weapons or expand military facilities in Ukraine would cross Russia’s red line ... The moves reflect a deep conviction in Moscow that the declining power of a U.S. riven by domestic division and the imminent exit of Merkel, once Europe’s dominant voice, limits the potential for a coordinated western pushback, according to the people close to the Russian leadership ... For Putin, the prospect of North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces on Ukrainian soil is a nightmare scenario that he’ll do anything to stop, a person close to the Russian leadership said”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/putin-masses-troops-to-tell-nato-to-stay-out-of-ukraine

“U.S. officials, increasingly alarmed by Russia’s monthslong troop build-up near Ukraine, are warning their European counterparts that the Kremlin may be on the verge of another invasion of that country. One senior U.S. national security official even suggested Russian leader Vladimir Putin may also be trying to establish some military capabilities along his western borders in case he sees a need to intervene in Belarus, whose Kremlin-aligned ruler is feuding with European neighbors ... Russian units newly arrived along the border have taken to repositioning themselves under the cover of night, a change from previous troop buildups when Moscow made big, public displays of moving armor and troops on railways and highways during the day”
https://news.yahoo.com/u-huddles-allies-over-possible-184250489.html

“The Kremlin on Friday rebuffed allegations that a buildup of its troops near Ukraine reflects Moscow’s aggressive intentions, saying Russia needs to ensure its security in response to alleged NATO threats. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed Western media reports that Moscow has intentions to invade Ukraine as a ‘hollow and unfounded attempt to incite tensions.’ ‘Russia doesn’t threaten anyone,’ Peskov said during a conference call with reporters. ‘The movement of troops on our territory shouldn’t be a cause for anyone’s concern.’”
https://www.cbs17.com/news/kremlin-denies-plans-to-invade-ukraine-alleges-nato-threats/

This use of “migrants” to destabilize and overwhelm nations is sickening.

Immediately chain the invading illegal alien Hajjis together and ship them back in the 18 wheeler van trailers or in cattle cars but be nice and give them some water. We need to do the same with the illegal aliens here.

“Poland is braced for a major assault by migrants on its frontier with Belarus tonight after receiving intelligence of a huge build up of enemy troops. Polish Border Force guards claim their Belarusian counterparts are issuing the thousands of stranded migrants with instructions, equipment and weapons to force their way into the EU. The attack is believed to be planned for frontier at Kuznica, one of two main crossing points from Poland to Belarus ... ‘we are currently observing that more groups of armed officers of Belarusian services are located in the place.’ ‘We are noticing a commotion among migrants. There is also a TV broadcast van.' He added: 'Some tents are starting to disappear. Migrants get instructions, equipment and gas from Belarusian services’ ... two mass migrant incursions into Poland last night in which some 77 people were detained and deported. An estimated 150 others evaded capture and are now seeking sanctuary ... NGO Grupa Granica said in a statement it had received information about attempts by Belarus to force migrants to use violence against Polish officers ... The Polish Prime Minister today called on NATO to take 'concrete steps' to resolve the migrant crisis on the Belarus border, adding that Poland, Lithuania and Latvia may ask for consultations under Article 4 of the alliance's treaty. Under Article 4, any ally can request consultations whenever they feel their territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened ... Yesterday Warsaw revealed how Belarus was arming migrants with tear gas and knocking down border posts to push the asylum seekers over the border to Poland ... A task force of up to 600 UK troops is on standby to deploy in Ukraine amid fears that Russian troops massing near the border are planning an invasion ... 'Between 400 and 600 troops are ready. Their equipment is packed and they are ready to fly to Ukraine and either land or parachute in. They have trained for both eventualities.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...U.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

“The outgoing head of the UK’s armed forces has said the military will have to be ready for war with Russia after recent tensions in Eastern Europe.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-war-with-russia-says-armed-forces-chief

Belarus-Poland Videos:
“A Belarusian military convoy heading towards the border with the EU”
https://twitter.com/alshenko/status/1458742785335508992?s=21

“Armed military convoy escorting Iraqi and Afghan migrants in Belarus as they await transport to the Polish border.”
https://twitter.com/justice_forum/status/1458494602189680649?s=21

“Migrants from the Middle East are trying to violently force their way into Poland at the border with Belarus.”
https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1457801267967791115?s=21

“Hundreds of people, largely from the Middle East, camped at the Belarus-Poland border”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1458136064602738688?s=21

“Sunday morning at the Poland-Belarus border near Kuznica.”
https://twitter.com/tadeuszgiczan/status/1459838359627575301?s=21

“last night’s tensions at the border with #Belarus”
https://twitter.com/l_team10/status/1459842736257916936?s=21

“Armed Belarusian border guards push women and children through the Polish border fence.”
https://twitter.com/voicesbelarus/status/1457442392701800454?s=21

“Children are caught in the middle of the migrant row between Belarus and Poland.”
https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1459155903433818115?s=21

“Asylum seekers managed to tear down a part of the border fence. Polish Military Police is hindering them from moving towards #Poland”
https://twitter.com/dunyacollective/status/1457698173879738371?s=21

“Border forces arrive as migrants attempt to cross from Belarus at night”
https://twitter.com/xc4u2/status/1459703721152049153?s=21

Russia-Ukraine Videos:
“#Ukraine #Russia Boarders”
https://twitter.com/cop_american/status/1454607961888894980?s=21

“Video of #Russia-n tanks transported to #Ukraine border in city of Voronezh on Thursday”
https://twitter.com/joyce_karam/status/1459140885308923908?s=21

“Visual of military equipments movement in Krasnodar krai region #Russia which is very close to #Ukraine”
https://twitter.com/kaala_nag/status/1459941975277420548?s=21

“Russian tanks heading towards Ukrainian border”
https://twitter.com/kaala_nag/status/1458689448443617284?s=21

“Hundreds of Russian tanks are now parked on the Ukrainian border”
https://twitter.com/terror_alarm/status/1459052788898488321?s=21

More Belarus-Poland Videos:

https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1460962842073604100?s=21

https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1460969101254402051?s=21

https://twitter.com/hallonsa/status/1460936742622703618?s=21

Those “migrants” are certainly aggressive. What we observe looks a great deal more like an assault than migration. One can understand why the people and government of Poland would be strongly opposed to allowing refugees into their land who have attacked the Polish border, and therefore Poland itself. Any reasonable person can see that these are in fact not migrants, but combatants. As they’re attacking Poland, it would be very fair for Poland to retaliate in kind. Germany once invaded Poland after Poles allegedly conducted a small cross-border raid against Germany. The ongoing assault against the Polish border by enemy combatants acting as proxies of Belarus is clear. If Poland were to go onto the offensive and enter Belarusian territory to neutralize the threat there, I would find this entirely justified.

Meanwhile:
“Belarus’ oil pipeline operator has temporarily restricted oil flows to Poland for unscheduled maintenance, Warsaw said Wednesday”
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021...plies-for-unscheduled-maintenance-a75594

Yet another Belarusian attack against Poland. Poland would be justified in retaliation in this instance as well. Of course, the specter of world war looms for any NATO member directly attacking a CIS member.

“A Norwegian undersea surveillance network that is capable of detecting submarines has had its cables mysteriously cut ... The cables were cut and then disappeared, with the Institute of Marine Research describing 'extensive damage‘ ... has been offline since the outage in April ... was likely they were cut deliberately. The damage could not have been an accident.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ble-detecting-submarines-cables-cut.html

That is certainly Moscow’s M.O and it is in favor of Russia’s interests to blind its competitors to its activity in the Baltic. This isn’t a new development, but it is still relevant as well as interesting.

U.S. State Dept says 'all options' on the table over Russian troop build-up near Ukraine

by Reuters
Friday, 26 November 2021 16:38 GMT

WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - All options are on the table in how to respond to Russia's 'large and unusual' troop build-up near Ukraine's border, and the NATO alliance will decide what the next move will be following consultations next week, the top U.S. diplomat for European affairs said on Friday.

"As you can appreciate, all options are on the table and there's a toolkit that includes a whole range of options," Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried told reporters in a telephone briefing.

"It's now for the alliance to decide what are the next moves that NATO wants to take," she said, speaking ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Latvia and Sweden next week to attend NATO and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meetings, where she said Moscow's "large and unusual" troop build up would be topping the agenda.

U.S., NATO and Ukrainian officials have raised the alarm in recent weeks over what they say are unusual Russian troop movements closer to Ukraine, suggesting that Moscow may be poised to launch a attack on its neighbor, accusations Russia has rejected as fear-mongering.

Asked if Blinken was going to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov while in Stockholm, Donfried said she had no announcements to make on such a bilateral but added: "Stay tuned." (Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis; Editing by Mark Porter and Alistair Bell)



U.S. delivers 80 tonnes of ammunition to Ukraine


Ukraine has received the fourth batch of defense aid from the United States, which included nearly 80 tonnes of munitions.
That’s according to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, Ukrinform reports referring to a Facebook post by the embassy’s press service on Sunday, November 14.

“Ukraine received today the delivery of approximately 80,000 kilos of ammunition from the United States. It was the fourth shipment made by the United States as part of $60 million in additional security assistance directed to Ukraine by President Biden in August,” the statement said.

The embassy added that this demonstrates U.S. “commitment to the success of a stable, democratic, and free Ukraine.”

The diplomats also recalled that since 2014, the United States had provided more than $2.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since 2014.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, a third, consignment of security assistance from the United States government arrived in Ukraine on October 22.
The two previous consignments were delivered on October 10 and 18. In addition to the previously agreed $250 million, Ukraine receives from American partners $60 million in medical supplies, ammunition, high-precision weapons, and radar surveillance.

Russian Armor Floods Toward Border With Ukraine Amid Fears Of An "Imminent Crisis"
A flurry of alarming reports and social media posts indicate that Russia is pouring military hardware into Crimea and its border with Eastern Ukraine.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...ukraine-amid-fears-of-an-imminent-crisis

"U.S. intelligence has found the Kremlin is planning a multi-front offensive as soon as early next year involving up to 175,000 troops ... The Kremlin has been moving troops toward the border with Ukraine while demanding Washington guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO ... 'The Russian plans call for a military offensive against Ukraine as soon as early 2022 with a scale of forces twice what we saw this past spring during Russia’s snap exercise near Ukraine’s borders,' said an administration official ... 'The plans involve extensive movement of 100 battalion tactical groups with an estimated 175,000 personnel, along with armor, artillery and equipment' ... Russian forces massing in four locations. Currently, 50 battlefield tactical groups are deployed, along with 'newly arrived' tanks and artillery ... Secretary of State Antony Blinken ... warned there would be severe consequences, including high-impact economic measures, if Russia invaded ... Biden said he is preparing measures to raise the cost of any new invasion for Putin, who has dismissed the U.S. warnings ... The Russian military moves come as Moscow has raised eyebrows in Washington with a sudden mobilization of reservists this year and a dramatic escalation of its rhetoric regarding Ukraine ... Lavrov, in public comments this week, echoed Putin’s warnings about U.S. military equipment and activity encroaching on Russia’s borders and said, 'The nightmare scenario of military confrontation is returning' ... Blinken cautioned the Ukrainians not to give Russia a pretext for military action. 'We’re also urging Ukraine to continue to exercise restraint because, again, the Russian playbook is to claim provocation for something that they were planning to do all along,' he said ... Putin has demanded the United States and its allies provide signed assurances ... Putin has suggested for months that U.S. and allied military activities in Ukraine and near Russia’s borders are crossing a red line for the Kremlin ... Russia needs 'precise legal, judicial guarantees because our Western colleagues have failed to deliver on verbal commitments they made,' Putin said in a speech at the Kremlin this week ... Putin has long railed against NATO expansion into former Warsaw Pact states as a disrespectful encroachment on Moscow. He said a concrete agreement must 'rule out any further eastward expansion of NATO and the deployment of weapons systems posing a threat to us in close proximity to Russia’s territory.' White House press secretary Jen Psaki rejected out of hand the idea that Washington would provide a guarantee that Ukraine will not enter NATO ... In comments this week, Putin said drills with U.S. nuclear-capable strategic bombers flying over the Black Sea posed a threat to Moscow, along with U.S. missile defense systems in Poland and Romania. He also expressed concern about NATO deploying missiles on Ukrainian territory that could have a flight time of seven to 10 minutes to Moscow"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...e-546b-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html

"Biden dismisses Russia’s ‘red lines’ ... US President Joe Biden has vowed to hold lengthy talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the issue of Ukraine, but insists he will accept no warnings about 'red lines' from Moscow ... 'I don’t accept anybody’s red lines,' the president added ... On Thursday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry again claimed NATO had given assurances it would not move 'an inch' further east at the end of the Cold War. Despite that pledge, it has continued to expand, encompassing new member states ever closer to Russia’s borders, with Ukraine repeatedly having expressed an interest in joining the bloc in recent years. The ministry stressed that 'the only option for resolving the current situation' would be for NATO to rule out any further such expansion and to stop its ongoing military build-up on Moscow’s doorstep."
https://www.rt.com/russia/542180-biden-red-lines-putin/

"Pentagon spokesman John Kirby ... 'We don't envision any US military intervention in this conflict' ... Currently there's talk of an urgent Biden-Putin virtual summit in the works, in order to address the crisis, and where it's expected Putin will press the White House on gaining guarantees of no further eastward NATO expansion."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...ine-offensive-us-intelligence-now-claims

"The expansion of NATO further eastwards is a red line for Moscow, and Ukraine’s possible accession to the US-led bloc is simply unacceptable, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. In a statement, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned of 'serious negative consequences' if the situation on the border between Russia and Ukraine deteriorates ... According to Zakharova, the US is dragging Kiev into the military orbit of the alliance and turning it into a 'bridgehead' of confrontation with Russia. This could destabilize Europe, she said ... Zakharova believes the alliance is focused on 'fighting imaginary threats.' 'One of the pivotal topics – not for the first time – was Russia and its possible aggression against Ukraine,' she said. 'However, if we look at things realistically, it is NATO that has approached us.'"
https://www.rt.com/russia/542080-assurances-nato-expand-east/

Translation: "the Duma admits that Russia can help Donbass in the event of an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine ... The power scenario of Kiev in Donbass may force Russia to actively intervene, it is possible that Moscow will eventually recognize the independence of the LPR and DPR, according to representatives of the three largest factions of the State Duma and two specialized committees ... 'We will help the residents of Donbass as much as possible in case of active aggression' ... Russia intends to fulfill the Minsk agreements and remains their guarantor, but Kiev does not want to fulfill them. As a result, it is very difficult to predict how the situation around the two unrecognized republics will develop. If it comes to military aggression, Moscow will not be able to stand aside ... the leader of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has repeatedly argued that Moscow should recognize the LPR and DPR, moreover, in his opinion, Russia should include them in its composition, since these territories were previously part of the USSR and the Russian Empire"
https://rusvesna.su/news/1638512309

"Russian missiles have been deployed near the Japan-claimed Kuril Islands chain as tensions between Russia and other nations escalate, the Associated Press reported. In a video released Thursday, Bastion coastal defense missile systems could be seen being relocated to Matua, a deserted volcanic island in the Pacific chain's middle. The Bastion can hit targets at sea at a range of up to 500 kilometers. The missile systems were not the only thing deployed to the islands; living quarters for military personnel and vehicle hangars were also transported."
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-dep...sland-middle-chain-claimed-japan-1655535

This (and Taiwan) are such scary international disasters waiting to happen. Unfortunately we have exactly the wrong people in charge at exactly the wrong time. They (Russians and Chi-Comms) smell weakness and know that this is the time to strike.

Translation: "Russian President Vladimir Putin called what is happening in the Donbass genocide ... 'Russophobia is the first step towards genocide. We know what is happening in Donbass ... it is very reminiscent of genocide'"
https://m.lenta.ru/news/2021/12/09/genotsid/

Translation: "The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, harshly warned Ukraine about the consequences of the aggression in Donbass ... stated that the situation in Donbass was escalating, and warned the Ukrainian authorities that any provocation with an attempt to resolve the ongoing conflict by force would be suppressed"
https://rusonline.org/donbass/glava-genshtaba-vs-rf-sdelal-vazhnoe-zayavlenie-po-donbassu

"A senior Russian diplomat warned the United States and its NATO allies Friday that their own security would suffer if they 'torpedo' providing Russia with certain military guarantees. Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the West to provide guarantees that would preclude NATO from expanding to Ukraine or deploying troops and weapons there. Putin brought it up during a video call with U.S. President Joe Biden this week. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said during a news conference Friday that while it would be “naïve” to expect to get those security guarantees soon, Moscow remains committed to seeing them made. 'If our opponents on the other side — first and foremost the U.S., but also other countries, allies, the so-called allies of the U.S. — refuse, try to torpedo the whole thing, they will inevitably encounter a further worsening of their own security situation,' Ryabkov said."
https://news.yahoo.com/russia-presses-west-guarantees-amid-164243638-000840648.html

"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday rejected Russian demands to rescind a 2008 commitment to Ukraine that the country would one day become a member of the Western military alliance."
https://news.trust.org/item/20211210192039-sgjcm

"The Biden administration prepared a $200 million package of additional military assistance for Ukraine in recent weeks but chose to hold off on delivering the aid despite appeals from Kyiv and some lawmakers, according to three people familiar with the issue. A source familiar with the matter, however, said there are a number of other options on the table for further assistance to Ukraine, including a much larger package of aid that would be approved in the event of further incursion by Russia."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...-to-kyiv-amid-diplomatic-push/ar-AARHta1

"Part of a $60 million security assistance package, including small arms and ammunition, was delivered to Ukraine on Thursday, according to a State Department official in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, but a final delivery containing four counter mortar radars is still scheduled for early next year ... This year, the US has delivered approximately $450 million in security assistance to Ukraine ... Since 2014 ... the US has provided more than $2.5 billion in aid to Ukraine ... The US military also helps to train Ukrainian forces. In November, about 150 members of the Florida National Guard's Task Force Gator deployed to Ukraine as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine, replacing the Washington National Guard ... In addition to Task Force Gator, Special Operations Command Europe has a "large role" in training and advising Ukrainian special forces"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ps-to-train-countrys-military/ar-AARCuvy

“The West must send a strong message to Russia to deter it from invading Ukraine, including cutting Russia off from the SWIFT payment system ... if Russia does invade Ukraine, the West should prepare a very strong economic sanctions package, including cutting Russia off from the SWIFT international payment system”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...tion-nord-stream-latvia-says-2021-12-07/

“Kremlin reveals new independent Russian-Chinese financial systems ... Russia and China will develop shared financial structures to enable them to deepen economic ties in a way that foreign states will be unable to influence, the Kremlin has announced following talks between the countries’ leaders. The move appears to be a response to a series of warnings that Western nations could push to disconnect Russia from the Brussels-based SWIFT financial system as a form of sanctions. The payment platform underpins the vast majority of international transactions.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/543258-moscow-china-create-independent-structure/

Interesting.

“Russia has demanded that Nato, America and Britain withdraw all military bases and troops from central and eastern European countries, including those within the EU. The Russian foreign ministry published Moscow’s demands to Nato, the US and allies on ‘security guarantees’ in return for withdrawing a massive troop build-up on Ukraine’s border. Russia’s demand in the form of two draft legal treaties is highly unusual in international diplomacy and is regarded as an ultimatum that threatens the existence of the western alliance and the EU. The draft treaties call on Nato and Washington to halt any enlargement of the alliance eastwards and ‘not to deploy weapons and forces’ where it ‘would be perceived by the other side as a threat to national security’ ... Demands include an incendiary call for all troop deployments in eastern Europe to be rolled back to the levels before 1997, effectively removing Nato protection from all countries that have since joined. ‘Nato and the US must not station any additional military personnel or weapons outside the countries where they were stationed as of May 1997 (prior to the accession to the alliance of Eastern European countries) except in exceptional cases with the consent of Russia,’ said the demands ... Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic joined Nato in 1999, followed in 2004 by Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ... Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy minister, warned that relations with Nato and the West were at a ‘dangerous point’ and called for crisis talks with the US tomorrow in Geneva on the demands ... Other demands include a US commitment ‘not to establish military bases in former Soviet countries’ or ‘to develop military co-operation’ with countries that include the EU members Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. Russia is additionally demanding a ban on the deployment of Nato, US and Russian warships and aircraft to ‘areas where they can strike targets on the territory of the other party.’”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...all-troops-from-eastern-europe-tdklrrvdg
https://archive.ph/2021.12.17-173828/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russia-demands-nato-remove-all-troops-from-eastern-europe-tdklrrvdg

Clearly Moscow doesn’t expect NATO to agree to any of these demands. The Russian may be establishing Casus Belli, or may be in pursuit of some lesser goal.

They've been demanding NATO go away ever since NATO was founded. You would think, after seventy or so years, they would find a new script writer.

Onward and upward,
airforce

With Neville (Chamberlain) Biden in the White House, and his tract record for standing firm, backing allies and refusing to allow tyrants to have their will… if i lived in any of these nations I would be strongly considering my alternatives.

These former Soviet satellite nations have a right to do what THEY want to protect their own interests. Moscow has ever agreed to this concept… be it the Tsars, Soviets or the oligarchs of the Putin regime. To them… this is RUSSIAN lands that THEY allow these people to live on. If they are lucky they will get to die serving as a buffer zone protecting “mother Russia”.

it would not be a good thing for Russia to invade Ukraine. My problem is, I don't see any reason for us to get involved, other than selling arms to Ukraine. Ukraine means nothing to us, either militarily or economically, and I see no reason to put American military men's lives at risk in another war for no reason. If Ukraine wants to stay free, let them fight for their freedom. I'm perfectly happy standing on the sidelines and watching this one.

Onward and upward,
airforce

I can appreciate this line of thought, but after the fall of the evil empire, the Ukrainians inherited 1/3rd of the extensive soviet nuclear Arsenal. The US, UK and Russians came to an agreement (Budapest Accord) to de-nuclearize the Ukrainians. The only reason the Ukrainians agreed to destroy their greatest defensive deterrent was that the Russians agreed to forever respect their boundaries (oops… their fingers must have been crossed on that… sorry Crimea and Donnboss basin), and that the western allies would come to their defense if the above was threatened.

Had they known BOTH of those pledges were idle hypothetical talk… they would have kept their nukes in 1994 and been better able to prevent the intimidation and invasions they’ve seen.

With out track record of making idle promises of having nations backs in the future in exchange for current actions… it will become all the more difficult to get nations to side with us, make agreements with much less agree to major disarmament agreements. The world (including us) becomes all the more dangerous.

South Vietnam 1975
Afghanistan 2021
Ukrainian 2014 and 2022

Not a good list there.

One would be wise to note that the Russian Federation has not issued such ultimatums since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and therefore something has changed. One would also be wise to recall that Russia has a clear historic pattern of expansion and contraction, conquering and annexing Eastern Europe followed by losing those territories later. Given that established pattern, it’s likely Russia will someday repeat it, unless a novel variable interferes with that process. If NATO is that variable, that would explain why Moscow is posturing against a non-NATO Eastern European nation seeking NATO ascension, while demanding NATO abandon its present Eastern European members. That is however not to say that NATO is necessarily a sufficient deterrent to prevent Moscow from repeating its historic pattern of expansion. The Russian may perceive solutions to the threat posed by NATO, should Russia repeat its expansionist pattern, and may therefore assess methods of reliably mitigating that threat.

What we see today is an indicator of revanchism, and the execution of thoughtful planning. Beyond that, nothing is certain. It would however be unwise to dismiss Russia’s behavior based solely on normalcy bias.


What happened in Ukraine in 2014 was a western coup against the democratically elected government in Kiev, though a corrupt puppet of Moscow. The hands of western governments, western corporations and western oligarchs could clearly be seen in this event, and some called it “the most transparent coup in history.” The present government of Kiev is a corrupt puppet of Washington and Brussels, and Moscow’s intervention was/is for the purpose of stripping Ukraine from US/EU’s grasp and once again rendering it a puppet of Moscow. There are no good guys in this conflict, but all parties have interests involved.

The American people have no interests in Ukraine, but that isn’t to say that the American government and certain American corporations and American oligarchs don’t.

Ron Paul on the subject:
https://youtu.be/qPXMNaYSXwM
https://youtu.be/G93SlyJIQSg
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arc...-cia-fingerprints-all-over-ukraine-coup/

“Putin will convene the Russian Federation Security Council tomorrow after meeting with Defense Ministry officials”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1472960242191269890?s=21

“Looks like Russia could be calling up the reserves, another train load of heavy military equipment delivered to Klintsy, Russia not far from the Ukraine and Belarus border”
https://twitter.com/winterc25760081/status/1472781247139119104?s=21

“Russian natural gas flows to the EU have been shut off again”
https://twitter.com/soberlook/status/1472879565823434756?s=21

“European natural gas prices jumped more than 8% on Monday, nearing an all-time high, with Russian deliveries to Germany through the Yamal-Europe pipeline at very low levels ... Flows have diminished, data from German network operator Gascade showed, as Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM started to fill the second line of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline with gas on Friday“
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/gas-prices-surge-in-europe-as-russian-yamal-pipeline-exports-fall

“Russia says US response to security demands needs to be 'urgent'”
https://news.yahoo.com/russia-says-us-response-security-151621044.html

“Russia may take unspecified new measures to ensure its security if the U.S. and its allies continue to take provocative action and ignore Moscow's demand for guarantees precluding NATO's expansion to Ukraine, a senior diplomat said Saturday. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov accused Western allies of continuously pushing the envelope in relations with Russia, and warned that Moscow could also up the ante if the West doesn't treat its demands seriously.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...oscow-ante-west-ignores-demands-81830384

“Ukraine – Level 4: Do Not Travel ... The Department of State continues to advise U.S. citizens not to travel to Ukraine due to COVID-19 and to reconsider travel due to increased threats from Russia ... U.S. citizens should be aware of reports that Russia is planning for significant military action against Ukraine. U.S. citizens are also reminded the security conditions, particularly along Ukraine’s borders, in Russia-occupied Crimea, and in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine, are unpredictable and can deteriorate with little notice.”
https://ua.usembassy.gov/ukraine-level-4-do-not-travel/

Translation: “Defense Minister Shoigu: American PMCs are preparing a provocation with chemical weapons in Donbass ... ‘Tanks with unidentified chemical components have been delivered to the cities of Avdiivka and Krasny Liman to commit provocations,’ he said at an expanded meeting of the Defense Ministry board with the participation of President Vladimir Putin”
https://ria.ru/20211221/ukraina-1764715058.html

“Vladimir Putin has said he will consider a military response if Russia feels threatened by Nato ... ‘What the United States is doing in Ukraine is at our doorstep,’ he said of Washington’s support for Kyiv. ‘And they should understand that we have nowhere further to retreat to. Under [US] protection, they are arming and urging on extremists from a neighbouring country at Russia. Against Crimea, for instance. Do they think we’ll just watch idly?’ ... Russia has made it clear that an attack is on the table ... ‘If our western counterparts continue a clearly aggressive line, we will undertake proportionate military-technical countermeasures and will respond firmly to unfriendly steps,’ Putin said in televised remarks. ‘I would like to stress that we are fully entitled to do that’ ... Putin railed at Nato’s expansion and accused western powers of supporting terrorists and separatists in Chechnya ... ‘What’s happening now, this tension in Europe, is their fault,’ Putin said. ‘At every step Russia has been forced to respond, the situation has got worse and worse and worse’ … ‘And now we’re in a situation where we must make a decision. We can’t allow the situation I’ve described to develop any further’”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...itary-response-to-aggressive-nato-russia

“When the US intelligence community first picked up signs in the fall that Russia could be preparing a new attack on Ukraine, President Joe Biden directed his administration to act -- and fast ... Biden directed his national security team to use every tool possible to try to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin while a possible invasion was still assessed to be several months away, a senior US official told CNN. ‘What we have been doing is very calculated,’ the official said. ‘But we only have about a four-week window from now’ to pull it off, he added ... former senior NATO official ... ‘The forces he is amassing are exactly the forces you would amass if you were preparing for an all-out land invasion of the country’”
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-biden-russia-ukraine-obama-2014/

“Russia has stoked further tensions with its European neighbors when its national hockey team took the ice against Finland sporting Soviet-era jerseys. Finland’s former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said he was ‘surprised’ and ‘disappointed’ with Russia’s move during the Euro Hockey Tour’s Channel One Cup in Moscow over the weekend, calling the display ‘an offensive gesture’ ... jerseys sporting the letters CCCP, or USSR, across the chest.”
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/21/russias-hockey-team-sports-soviet-uniforms-riling-/

Note that like Ukraine, Finland is also an Eastern European country bordering Russia which is on the path to NATO membership. Should Russia some day conquer Ukraine, Moscow may next seek to adjust its relationship with Finland, having at least indirectly intimidated it, compelling it to distance itself from NATO and to instead gradually realign to Russia, joining Moscow’s sphere of influence.

I did not like seeng the CCCP jerseys on the ice. It was intended as intimidation. I'm not even remotely supportive of the Euromaidan government in Ukraine. Ukronazis as far as I am concerned. Crimeans speak Russian. They voted to join the Russian Federation by 89%. Painting it as an invasion is farcical as there was no shots fired. I saw much footage during the early part of the civil war where Russian speaking Eastern Ukrainian pregnant women were hung and gutted with baby and guts spilling out. I saw Right Sector and Svoboda (formerly Social Nationalist Party, name changed by the CIA) marching on protestors wearing all black, ski masks, armbands with a swastika-like symbol, armed with clubs beating unarmed people senseless.

Now to be fair, those protestors were fuckin commies, and I have no love for them whatsoever as well.

The footage I saw around, 2014-2016 I think, really stuck in my head. Satellite photos of mass graves with heat signatures of the warm bodies recently burried by Adar and Azov Batallions, which during WW2 were Ukranian Nazi battallions that to this day wear Nazi regalia on their uniforms, swastikas painted on their tanks, etc.

Donetsk and Luhansk, like Crimea, speak Russian. Unfortunately, they're fuckin commies too, so I have no love for them, but, I absolutely understand why they'd want to leave Ukraine and become independent.

Russia is not some pissant 3rd world country. Technological like us, ahead of us in hypersonic missiles which are carrier killers, and we get most of our titanium from Russia and the rest from China and that is integral to producing aircraft, commercial and military. Back when the USSR fell, Daddy Bush promised Russia we would not gobble up former Soviet Republics, but we did and I've lost count of how any times we violated that agreement. They have a legitimate security interest in keeping us from gobbling up Ukraine. No wonder they are pissed! If Canada had Chinese troops on our northern border I'd be pissed too! Oh wait... They do!

For a time there I think Russia was becoming more Free while we were losing our freedoms. Their citizens can now own firearms BTW. But I think k that window of opportunity closed thanks to US troops inside Ukraine, which Trump did as well for some exercises, arming and training them. Squandered opportunity. What we are pulling is only feeding the hardliners there who want a return to the glory days of the old USSR.

No good can come from our involvement in Ukraine. We have no legitimate National Security interest there whatsoever. Plus, my guess is Russia will not invade Ukraine propper. They might send in troops to help Donetsk and Luhansk only. Of course it will be painted as Russia is invading Ukraine which is rediculous cause those countries have been separated for several years now.

I don't know if these stories of chemical weapons and PMC's is true or not. But if it is then I smell a repeat of crap we pulled with Hyat Tahrir Al Sham and the Syrian White Helmets staging chemical false flags with crisis actors and Hollywood style filming.

Agreed Kelldor, with all the points of your post.

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“The Biden administration plans to hold talks with Moscow early next year and will marshal allies toward a plan for sanctions ... A senior U.S. diplomat said Tuesday that the Biden administration’s plan to address Russia’s escalating military aggression in and around Ukraine centers on new talks it plans to orchestrate with Moscow early next year ... ‘While we pursue diplomacy, we must also pursue deterrence, and we’re working on a coordinated and comprehensive approach’ ... Donfried’s comments represent the first specifics the administration has offered publicly since Russia issued a series of demands last week of NATO – many of which partner countries consider ludicrous”
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...llies-seek-clarity-on-threats-to-ukraine

Moscow made a series of very serious demands and requested an “urgent” response, and Washington is transparently delaying while preparing further escalation, as Moscow anticipated. Russia is therefore likely to now proceed to the next step of its plan.

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“A Belarus court on Wednesday handed two-decade prison sentences to a group of anarchists on terrorism and illegal arms charges after a closed-door trial in the authoritarian country. Sergei Romanov and Igor Olinevich were sentenced to 20 years in prison, while Dmitry Rezanovich and Dmitry Dubovsky were handed 19 and 18 years respectively. They were accused of setting fire to law enforcement cars and security service offices in the eastern Gomel province. The four anarchists were arrested in October last year near the Belarus-Ukraine border. They have since been held in a prison run by the KGB security service.”
https://www.macaubusiness.com/belarus-anarchists-given-20-year-jail-terms/

Minsk is displaying a heavy hand in an effort to deter Belorussians who would be otherwise swayed by western propaganda and western handlers to engage in destabilizing action against Lukashenko’s order, or even to directly if unwittingly participate in a western coup against Minsk.

“A top Russian diplomat has refused to rule out deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus amid continued high tensions with Ukraine and its NATO partners. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told reporters on Tuesday that "all options" would be considered if NATO moved ahead with proposed Ukrainian membership, or deployed additional weaponry in Baltic member states along the Russian border, RIA Novosti reported. Some 100,000 troops backed by armored vehicles and artillery are currently deployed along Ukraine's frontiers with Russia and Belarus ... President Alexander Lukashenko ... told RIA Novosti in November that Minsk would ask Moscow to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarusian territory if NATO did the same in Poland ... Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei told RT Arabic that Minsk ‘is considering deploying nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus.’ Such a step, he said, ‘is one of the possible responses to future possible actions by the North Atlantic alliance on the territory of Poland’ ... Rudenko said on Tuesday nothing has been ruled out. ‘We have heard such proposals from our Belarusian allies,’ the deputy foreign minister said to questions about possible nuclear deployments in Belarus. ‘All options will be considered, but much, as I said, will depend on the reaction we expect to receive from the United States and NATO’”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...d-nato-standoff-diplomat-says/ar-AAS1uTH

“Today Dmitry Kiselyov, a media mogul known as Putin’s mouthpiece, warned US-led aggression could lead to a nuclear war. He told NATO to back off, adding: ‘Otherwise, everyone will be turned into radioactive ash’”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-warns-nato-everyone-25759453

“One of Ukraine’s top politicians has alleged that signals coming from Russia indicate that Moscow could be plotting a full-blown nuclear attack against its Eastern European neighbor”
https://www.rt.com/russia/544001-ukraine-afraid-nuclear-attack/

“Putin on the ‘deployment of NATO attack systems’ in eastern Europe: ‘What about we put Russian missiles on the border of U.S in Canada or Mexico?’”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1473967392325787648?s=21

Video: “RUSSIAN TROOPS EN ROUTE TO UKRAINE. SOME ESTIMATE 265,000 TROOPS NOW AT BORDER”
https://twitter.com/the_real_fly/status/1473847172496080896?s=21

“Russia wants to avoid conflict with Ukraine and the West, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, but needs an ‘immediate’ response from the United States and its allies to its demands for security guarantees ... ‘You must give us guarantees, and immediately - now,’ he said ... the United States and NATO have said they will discuss the package with Russia early next year, aware that outright rejection could further inflame the crisis”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-we-dont-want-conflict-over-ukraine-2021-12-23/

“US not ready to agree to Russia’s security proposals regarding NATO – WH spox Jen Psaki”
https://twitter.com/rt_com/status/1474068918226591745?s=21

“Russia's foreign ministry has warned against the inclusion of Finland and Sweden in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). ‘It is quite obvious that Finland and Sweden joining NATO’ ... ‘would have serious military and political consequences that would require an adequate response from the Russian side,’ Maria Zakharova, the ministry's spokesperson, said. ‘The policy of not being part of any alliances, traditionally pursued by Stockholm and Helsinki, is viewed by Moscow as an important factor in ensuring stability in northern Europe,’ Zakharova added.”
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-12-...-Sweden-join-NATO-16jnCfg2a3e/index.html

Likely a suggestion intended to be recalled following future events which may serve to intimidate Stockholm and Helsinki, such as an impressive and successful Russian military campaign in Ukraine.

“The editor of controversial Russian nationalist website Sputnik & Pogrom, Yegor Prosvirnin, has reportedly died in the very centre of Moscow after throwing a knife and a gas canister out of a 5th floor window, and then jumping out himself. He was 35.”
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1475482686122872839?s=21

Likely a botched yet successful assassination by a small group of amateurs handled by the IC of a minor western nation which recently increased interest in Russia, and which perceives Russian foreign propaganda to be a significant problem.

“More than 10,000 Russian troops have been returning to their permanent bases after month-long drills near Ukraine”
https://www.reuters.com/markets/eur...es-after-drills-near-ukraine-2021-12-25/

“RUSSIA has warned of a new Cuban missile crisis unless demands over Ukraine meet ‘here and now’ as troops stage fresh war games. It comes amid a new round of major military exercises by Vladimir Putin’s troops amid a standoff between Russia and Western powers over Ukraine ... ‘ deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov ... ‘ I call on everyone considering this topic publicly to think whether it is shameful for Russia to meet Western ultimatum demands halfway.’ And he made clear that ‘if we cannot do it [through diplomacy], then open questions will emerge: what are further steps and what should we do?’ He thundered: ‘We are against escalation, we are against conflicts, we do not draw lines in the sand, just the logic itself leads us to say that we are not ready to make peace with the current situation.’ He added: ‘We can no longer postpone, let's deal with this serious issue’ … ‘here and now’”
https://www.thesun.ie/news/8124075/russia-warns-new-cuban-missile-crisis-demands-ukraine/

“The US military is reportedly working on a scheme to provide Ukraine with battlefield intelligence in a purported bid to respond to perceived Russian offensive ... The list of ideas being drawn up by the US Defense Department, the State Department and the White House ‘include redirecting helicopters and other military equipment once allocated for the Afghan military to Ukraine’ ... The Biden administration is also considering sending ‘additional cyber warfare experts’ to Ukraine ... ‘The information would include images of whether Russian troops were moving to cross the border. Such information, if shared in time, could enable the Ukrainian military to head off an attack’”
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/ukraine/2021/ukraine-211226-presstv01.htm

“The president of Ukraine held a video call with 20 U.S. senators and members of Congress on Friday”
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Ukraine-leader-discusses-Russia-tensions-with-US-16728364.php

“The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has extended the trade embargo on Russian goods for one year”
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ec...mbargo-on-russian-goods-for-one-year.htm

“Putin said Sunday that if NATO does not provide binding guarantees to curtail military deployments in Eastern Europe and to bar Ukraine from membership in the alliance, he will be forced to consider a variety of options, including a military response ... ‘We have nowhere to retreat,’ Putin said. ‘They have pushed us to a line that we can't cross. They have taken it to the point where we simply must tell them; Stop!’ When asked about the exact nature of the response he was proposing, Putin said it would ‘depend on what proposals our military experts submit to me’”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ato-rejects-russian-ultimatum/ar-AAS9Q18

Putin appears to be eroding his own image by posturing and threatening, then suggesting he may only intend to retaliate with more posturing and threatening, and he doesn’t have any more significant plans already developed for actual direct confrontation. At this juncture, if Moscow doesn’t strike Ukraine, Putin needs to resign to preserve Russia’s image. Otherwise, going forward, Russia will appear weak and irrelevant, like him. However, one could argue that Putin isn’t a fool, hasn’t initiated the present campaign with the obvious end-game of sabotaging his international image through lack of followthrough, and therefore does intend to attack Ukraine, perhaps following failed negotiations with NATO, and a very public diplomatic impasse. Information prior to the present crisis did after all indicate in-depth post-invasion planning of Ukraine, implying a serious desire to conquer Ukraine.

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“Russian Defence Ministry: NATO Preparing for Large-Scale High-Intensity Conflict With Moscow”
https://sputniknews.com/20211227/na...an-defence-ministry-says-1091840807.html

Families of U.S. Embassy personnel in Ukraine will begin evacuation on Monday.



Read the whole thing at the link.

Onward and upward,
airforce

Just watched a great lecture on the causes of the Ukraine conflict. Spot on. Meishiemer nails it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4&pp=QAFIAg%3D%3D


The Ukronazi's are still crucifying Russian speaking Ukrainians and burning them at the stake. DO NOT watch this vid unless you can stomach it, and DO NOT click this link if your device has weak defenses against pop-ups and crap.
https://media.deepgoretube.site/upl...om-Novorossia-in-a-sadistic-video-Up.mp4

Ignoring Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Storm Troopers
August 13, 2014
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/08/13/ignoring-ukraines-neo-nazi-storm-troopers/

Everyone is reporting the Russians plan on installing a puppet government in Kiev in advance of any invasion. It looks like their playbook hasn't changed much since they went into Afghanistan forty years ago.

Onward and upward,
airforce

NEWS FLASH: Kamala Harris is capable of a Deep Thought!"



Um, we're way ahead of you, Kammy Baby.

Onward and upward,
airforce

PUTIN RECOGNIZES DONETSK AND LUHANSK IN EASTERN UKRAINE AS INDEPENDENT STATES

The story is still developing, but this could be the pretext for Russia moving into Ukraine.

More here – https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1495821790697996289

https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1495835606328426497?s=20&t=gmhB2K3qPrY7GiFrmw2Oew

Putin Declared Eastern Ukraine as, “Independent”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...ge-immediate-russian-military-assistance

Video – Russian “Peackeepers” being bussed into Donbas

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CaQUU71tUfK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Putin Orders Russian Troops Into Ukraine Breakaway Regions

https://www.theepochtimes.com/putin-orders-russian-troops-into-eastern-ukraine-breakaway-regions_4292926.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-02-21-4&utm_medium=email&est=G08dTx5Ul30DxO0GCkzTZypCr794kbE9o9%2BouBiiL7XOHVL41cgB%2FMKLibDEuA%3D%3D

Dangerous days. I really fear for the people of Ukraine and Taiwan. If Vlad gets his way, look for Taiwan to fall, taking with it 90% of world microchip production.

Putin announced he is sending troops into eastern Ukraine. That sure sounds like an invasion to me.



Onward and upward,
airforce

Even CNN isn't impressed with Biden's response to the invasion.



Onward and upward,
airforce

Putin just launched a night full scale attack on Ukrainia
- tanks rolling in from north (Belorus), east (rebel held lands), south (occupied Crimea)
- amphibious assault of a key port on Black Sea
- paratroopers landing around Kiev airport to allow troop transports to land

This is so messed up that FJB allowed this to happen! So beyond pissed!

RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE

President Putin has just said that “he has decided to conduct and begin a Special Operation to protect people from the Genocide from the Kyiv Regime.”

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 24, 2022

Heavy attacks east of #Mariupolpic.twitter.com/hsnjHUUGOw

— marqs (@MarQs__) February 24, 2022

#Ukraine 🇺🇦: latest footage from the front in #Donbass. Sounds of intensified shelling can be heard in the village of Talakivka, east of #Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/7QsuKXJary

— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) February 24, 2022

#BREAKING: Putin: “All Ukrainian servicemen who lay down their arms will be able to return to their families”

— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) February 24, 2022

Putin to NATO: We are ready for all outcomes. All decisions have been made

— Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) February 24, 2022

The root of the matter is that Putin sees Ukrainia as Russian land that they should control regardless of the will of the people there. They can pretend to be independent but are supposed to do the bidding of the kremlin, and be a buffer zone for Moscow. Don’t look west or have any notions of being in control or you will regret it.

This feckless dementia ridden piece of crap that is sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (President FJB) so royally screwed this up (like the Afghan withdrawal) that it makes you wonder if it was his intent!

There was a time when we would have Green berets over there, training and equipping indigenous forces to conduct a guerrilla war against the aggressors. Jimmy Carter pretty much did away with that idea.

We'll see what happens when Russian ground troops move into Kiev and other major cities. If they meet any resistance at all, it will be there.

Onward and upward,
airforce

When I first saw this, I thought it was one of those satire stories. It wasn't. John Kerry - a former Secretary of State - rthinks the worst thing about the Ukraine invasion is the carbon footprint it will leave.

You can't make this stuff up.



Onward and upward,
airforce

You could easily believe that he has outsourced speechwriting to the “Babylon Bee”…. So pathetic. They always have to “circle back” any news to one of their talking points. There was a BLM spokesperson yesterday that got brutalized online for a tweet asking if Putin was the way he was because of white supremacy… asking if he was a black or Brown Russians man, would the world still be so dismissive of his aggression!

They really are this dumb. This circling back any news to an agenda talking point was actually pioneered by Karl Marx when he was a radical newspaper writer and editor.

There are reports of of Ukrainians clearing out gun shops and arming themselves with AK-47's. There are significant protests in Moscow and elsewhere, with reportedly over 150 people arrested - a number sure to rise. And the Russian stock market is tanking, and interest rates of Russian bonds are soaring.

There are some reports of success against Russian ground troops and tanks as well.



Ukraine can't win, but it's looking more and more like Putin can't either.

Onward and upward,
airforce

I’m hoping that the Russian army experiences a second “winter war” like the Finns gave them in 1939-40.

I'd settle for what the Afghans gave them.

Onward and upward,
airforce

“They Didn’t Hear What We Told Them. They Had Better Hear This Time.” — Vladimir Putin

By Paul Craig Roberts

PaulCraigRoberts.org



Think back to 2014 when the US overthrew the Ukrainian government and installed a neo-Nazi regime. The neocons were smirking, laughing at how easy it was to buffalo the Russians. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland publicly bragged about how the US had spent $5 billion dollars preparing the overthrow of Ukraine. Much cheering of how Ukraine would now be used to destabilize Russia and seize the Russian Black Sea naval base.

After a long frustrating, humiliating 8 years of trying to get the West’s attention that this was not a scheme Russia could accept, and after one last effort which got nowhere, Russia has acted.

In his speech this morning Putin explained the long years of Russian frustration in her efforts to achieve mutual security with the West which remained intent on its own domination. Here are opening words from Putin’s address:

“I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia.
I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year. I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border.
It is a fact that over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns. Its military machine is moving and, as I said, is approaching our very border.
Why is this happening? Where did this insolent manner of talking down from the height of their exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come from? What is the explanation for this contemptuous and disdainful attitude to our interests and absolutely legitimate demands?
The answer is simple. Everything is clear and obvious. In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union grew weaker and subsequently broke apart. That experience should serve as a good lesson for us, because it has shown us that the paralysis of power and will is the first step towards complete degradation and oblivion. We lost confidence for only one moment, but it was enough to disrupt the balance of forces in the world.”

The imbalance of force has been corrected, and since force is all that the West understands, Russia is using force to end the use of Ukraine as a pawn against Russia.
In the past the stupid and arrogant West ignored Russia’s warnings. In his address this morning Putin gave another warning. If the dumbshit Western leaders do not hear this warning, the West will cease to exist:

“I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside. No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, we are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will be heard.”

Update on the Ukrainian situation

Ukrainian resistance seems to have ceased as its infrastructure was put out of operation. Only a few neo-Nazi militias trapped within the Donbass territories continue to offer resistance.

Russian paratroopers captured Kiev airport. Hours ago the Russian forces had reached the Dnieper and approached the suburbs of Kiev. Ukraine has lost its air force, air defense, navy, and all military airports. With the destruction of 83 military facilities, the infrastructure of the Ukraine military has been wiped out.

The neo-Nazis will be held accountable. Ukraine will be required to renounce NATO membership, demilitarize, and renounce all claims to Crimea and the independent republics. Ukrainian soldiers will be permitted to return home to their families.

Unlike the Americans and NATO, the Russians have avoided attacking any civilian areas and the barracks and residences of military units.

German readers write to me that they are sitting in front of TVs laughing at their idiot politicians promising that Putin’s imperialism won’t go unanswered, promising more energy sanctions against the German people and facing compensation claims from German investors in the Nord 2 Pipeline. German defense officials admit that they are toothless and have no capability of sending troops even to protect NATO members, much less Ukraine.

The Europeans should have thought many times before they enabled Washington’s war crimes in Serbia and the Middle East. Putin said war criminals will be held accountable. I think he means it.

The European governments are such stupid idiots that it did not occur to them to wonder what happens if Russia responds to sanctions by cutting off the gas supply. Earlier today I asked what is Germany’s fate if Russia replies to sanctions with sanctions? Leon Birnbaum, president of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks, said that if Russia cuts gas flow to Germany, Germany´s industry would have to be cut off from the power grid.

It is difficult to imagine people so totally stupid and self-defeating as the ones Western peoples trust with leadership. Indeed, Western “leaders” are so totally stupid they may well get us wiped off the face of the earth.

This author is disturbing!

I don’t get how they can get away with calling the Ukrainian government “neo nazi”…. The head of its government is from a Jewish family with many ancestors and relatives killed in concentration camps! This is a Russian/Putin talking point that is often used by Russian politicians to drum up Russian nationalism and unity drawing on deep emotions from the “great patriotic war” (ww2).

I also don’t get how anyone can with a straight face honestly claim that a DEFENSIVE alliance is threatening! To do so is to inadvertently admit to having expansionary plans of your own against your neighbors. It’s akin to your neighbor being offended and threatened by your installing a security system and getting a large dog. This proves that he was planning on looting your house and your security plan would make that impossible.

Ukraine supported the Nazi's 80 years ago and many Neo Nazi groups exist there today. It proves nothing that Zelinski is Jewish. Soros is a Jew who collaborated with the Nazi's to save his own ass. Nato has been pushing eastward towards the Russian border for years; something Putin has repeatedly warned against. Zelinski is a puppet installed by the obama administration and the neo cons in 2014. He has been used in a proxy war with Russia ever since. When Zelinski mentioned that he might use nukes, that was the last straw for Putin. Can't say as I blame him. I remember the Cuban missile crisis quite well when the roles were reversed.

Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now


February 26, 2022

(Reuters) – Here’s what you need to know about the Ukraine crisis right now:

HEADLINES

* A defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv remained under Ukrainian control on Saturday as Russian forces renewed their assault, pounding the capital and other cities with artillery and cruise missiles.

* In a sea of blue and yellow flags and banners, protesters around the world showed their support for the people of Ukraine and called on governments to do more to help Kyiv, punish Russia and avoid a broader conflict.

* Germany changed its position about imposing restrictions on Russia’s access to the SWIFT global interbank payment system, joining other Western powers in support of harsher sanctions aimed at halting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

* The EU is in talks over a third package of sanctions on Russia, an EU diplomat told Reuters.

* Ukraine denied suggestions that it was refusing to negotiate a ceasefire with Russia but said it was also not ready to accept ultimatums or unacceptable conditions.

* Turkey has not made a decision to close the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits to Russian ships, a Turkish official told Reuters.

* Russian Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Chechen fighters had been deployed to Ukraine.

* The mayor of Kyiv extended a curfew in the Ukrainian capital on Saturday.

* Britain’s defence ministry said the Russian advance into Ukraine had temporarily slowed, probably because of logistical problems and strong resistance.

* Russian troops captured the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, Russia’s defence ministry said. But British armed forces minister James Heappey said Britain did not believe Russian forces had captured Melitopol.

* Refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued to pour across its western borders on Saturday, with around 100,000 reaching Poland in two days.

* Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) denied a report earlier on Saturday that Russian helicopters had landed in the Lviv region, a development that would have signalled a widening of the theatre of Moscow’s invasion.

* Russia will respond to the seizure of money of Russian citizens and companies abroad by seizing funds of foreigners and foreign companies in Russia, RIA news agency quoted Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the security, as saying.

* The Ukrainian border guards service said on Saturday Russia had closed off the northwestern part of the Black Sea to navigation.

* Russian forces are becoming increasingly frustrated by what the United States believes is “viable” and very determined Ukrainian resistance, a U.S. defence official said.

* Pope Francis called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and expressed his “most profound pain” for the country’s suffering.

* Twitter is being restricted for some users in Russia, the social media company said in a tweat on Saturday.

* The official website of the Kremlin, kremlin.ru, was down on Saturday, following reports of denial of service (DDoS) attacks on various other Russian government and state media websites.

* The Ukrainian government has instructed power stations to switch to natural gas to preserve strategic coal reserves, the head of the country’s biggest private power producer said.

* At least 198 Ukrainians, including three children, have been killed as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Health Ministry was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.

* France has decided to send defensive military equipment to Ukraine to support the country against Russia’s invasion, a French army spokesman said, adding the issue of sending offensive arms was still under consideration.

* Russian energy giant Gazprom said it was supplying gas via Ukraine in line with demand from European consumers despite the military conflict.

* French sea police seized a ship on Saturday that authorities suspect belongs to a Russian company targeted by European Union sanctions over the war in Ukraine.

* Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the Ukrainian military to overthrow the country’s leadership and negotiate peace.

* Russia vetoed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Friday that would have deplored Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, while China abstained from the vote.

* China is in a diplomatic scramble to limit blowback while standing by a partner with which it has grown increasingly close in opposition to the West.

* President Joe Biden instructed the U.S. State Department to release up to an additional $350 million worth of weapons from U.S. stocks to Ukraine on Friday as it struggles to repulse a Russian invasion.

QUOTES

– “We will fight as long as it takes to liberate the country,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video message posted on his social media.

– “We are urgently working on how to limit the collateral damage of decoupling from SWIFT in such a way that it affects the right people. What we need is a targeted and functional restriction of SWIFT,” Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Economy Minister Robert Habeck said in a statement.

– “I came to Berlin to shake the conscience of Germany so that they would finally decide on truly harsh sanctions that will influence the Kremlin’s decisions,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told reporters ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin.

– “In October 2020 we had the privilege to meet President Zelenskiy and the First Lady to learn of their hope and optimism for Ukraine’s future,” Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate said on Twitter. “Today we stand with the President and all of Ukraine’s people as they bravely fight for that future.”

(Editing by William Mallard, Mark Potter and Christina Fincher)

Here's a crowdsourced OSINT map of troop movements and war footage in & around Ukraine.
https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor

Compare that map to this one:

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2022/02/24/pu ... y-success/

The Russian military special operation in Ukraine coincided with the planned launch of U.S. military biolaboratories in Kiev and Odessa. On February 26, the US Embassy in Ukraine rushed to delete all documents about 11 Pentagon-funded bio-laboratories in Ukraine from its website. All these documents (now deleted by the Embassy), you can read HERE.

https://southfront.org/russian-military ... -evidence/

EU, US Agree To Expel "Selected Russian Banks" From SWIFT, Sanction Russian Central Bank

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...sias-central-bank-germany-backs-targeted

About time…

Next complete trade embargo of everything into or out of Russia, and give the world 1 week to do the same or we embargo that nation for economically enabling Russia. I don’t care if it is Great Britain, Germany, Canada or Japan. Buy or sell anything with Russia and you are done doing any business with America.

Kick every Russian out of America unless they are dual citizens with US citizenship.

Get US oil and gas industry back up and running full throttle ASAP.

Not going to happen, but this is how you do it.

There are NO clean hands in this conflict. In fact it is as much our fault as Putin's. The Neo-con globalists have instigated this conflict for 30 years. Now, Putin has had enough of their meddling. Factor in China. They may very well back Russia to take us down. If they retake Taiwan in a month or so, we will have a 2 front war. And, the current administration is too inept to wipe their own ass...let alone that of 2 super powers who've had enough of us.

Things are not going swimmingly for Vlad.



Read the whole thing at the link.

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The west is going to keep poking the bear until it eats them alive.

Belarus' Lukashenko Says West Is Pushing Russia Into "Third World War"

by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Feb 27, 2022

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko responded to the drastically ratcheting sanctions being slapped on Moscow as the West is increasingly unified behind the move to block Russia's SWIFT access and taking measures against its central bank. He warned Sunday that NATO countries are pushing Russia into a "third world war".

The alarming words came just as Putin placed his nuclear force posture on "high alert" Sunday over what he called “aggressive statements” by NATO top officials. A statement from the United Nations then called the possibility of nuclear conflict "inconceivable".
Via BELTA/Reuters

Lukashenko said in his latest Sunday comments as quoted and translated in regional media: "Now there is a lot of talk against the banking sector. Gas, oil, SWIFT. It's worse than war. This is pushing Russia into a third world war."

He specified that if the West didn't start backing off from these extreme measures, the ending could lead to nuclear conflict. He called for "restraint" in this regard, even though in the past two months of tensions leading up to the war in Ukraine he issued an invitation for Putin to host Russian nukes on Belarusian soil.

"We need to be restrained here so as not to get into trouble. Because nuclear war is the end of everything."

"We have experience. We discussed this theme with Putin more than once. We’ll survive. It is impossible to starve us to death," Lukashenko said.

He vowed that both Belarus and Russia were readying retaliatory measures that he described as being "very tangible" but said Minsk and Moscow would be thinking them over "very carefully".

But he warned that should the West or NATO countries ever move nuclear weapons into bordering states with Russia, that Moscow will respond in kind - especially by moving nukes into Belarus. Currently, Ukraine and Russia are expected to begin initial talks "without preconditions" near the Belarusian border.

I can't find a link to it on the internet yet, but I'm hearing the French Foreign Legion is allowing their Ukrainian members ( of which there are apparently quite a few) to take "home leave." These are well-trained soldiers who will make a solid contribution to the Ukrainian forces. And yes, France is a member of NATO.

If and when I find a link, I'll post it.

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It would be even better if they let them take a truck load of javelins with them, maybe go east with a few volunteers.

I looked and found a few “reddit” type stories but couldn’t get them to open.

After further digging… all of the other related stories are wildly anti-Ukrainian/pro-Russia, so it is possible that this could be a fake story designed to fire up anti-NATO sentiment among Russophiles reading the stories.

Also lots of stories of veterans from all over the world rushing to get to Ukraine to join the “international legion” as they are calling it. Lots of nations are advising caution, and advising against it, but are in no way stopping them from going or putting up any obstacles.link to story

This story apparently got its start on various social media platforms. I'm starting to think it's BS, it would be out of character for the French Foreign Legion to do something like this.

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The FFL sort of has the reputation of members totally disavowing themselves fully of their past… it/they/their Prior life completely are you be forgotten as though they didn’t exist. You are a nothing and they own you till your term is up. For them to say “you can go back home” would fly against their entire ethos.

The story also said they were allowing them to go with their complete battle gear. Though I didn’t serve, I’ve heard enough stories from those that did (my father included) about how obsessive and possessive the military is about “their gear” and needing boatloads of documentation of every little item, who had it, what they did with it and accounting for its condition when it was returned. The idea of soldiers taking their gear (gun included) off base and crossing 3-4 international borders as civilians just sounded fanciful.

@thewellnesstherapist I'm sorry but there's no hope of ever being able to occupy a country full of people who just pick up mines and move them while a lit Marlboro dangles from their lips. #ukraine #russia ♬ original sound - Azadeh G

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Are peace talks beginning? Maybe, i suppose. Not sure how much good they'll do. But it's pretty clear the war isn't going as Vlad planned, and the Ukrainians are definitely winning the propaganda battle. And rather than weakening NATO, he has in fact strengthened it.



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Even Switzerland has taken a side in this, freezing Russian assets! Where will Vlad stash his money now? Even China doesn't rust him anymore.

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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." George Orwell


Ukraine: Fact, Fiction & War Propaganda Fog of War exacerbated by hardcore propaganda efforts

Which party most supports the U.S. joining the war in Ukraine? It's close, but Democrats have the edge.



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Russian oil company calls for end to the war. The source is a Turkish news outlet, so make of it what you want.



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Russian troops are shelling the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. What can possibly go wrong?

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Multiple reports are that the shelling has started a major fire. There are no conclusive reports of where the fire is located on the grounds of the facility or if the safety of the reactor is at all threatened. 25% of the nations power comes from here, and is 10x the size of Chernobyl!

Just when you think this disaster can’t get any stranger.

Shelling a nuclear power plant seems pretty insane to me. But then, nothing about this war seems very level-headed.

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Ukrainians managed to put the fire out.

The Ukrainian People Are Being Sacrificed Like Pawns On A Chessboard By The Global Elite
March 3, 2022 by Michael Snyder

44 million people live in Ukraine, and they are deeply suffering in a war that most of them did not want. Like most of us, the vast majority of Ukrainians just want to live their lives in peace and quiet, but that isn’t going to be possible now. So we should pray for the people of Ukraine, because they are going through a type of hell that is beyond what most of us even have the ability to imagine. And we should be very angry with all of those that caused this war, because it didn’t have to happen.

I want to be very clear about the fact that I do not support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russians could have achieved their goals without a full-blown invasion, but now they have started World War III.

I also want to be very clear about the fact that I place a great deal of the blame for this conflict on the global elite. The Biden administration and other western powers encouraged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to endlessly provoke the Russians and they made all sorts of promises to him. So Zelensky pushed all of his chips into the middle of the table even though the Russians knew that the U.S. and Europe would not fight if they invaded.

Now Russia has called the bluff, and the U.S. and Europe have stayed on the sidelines.

They certainly don’t want to fight the Russians, but they have no problem encouraging the Ukrainians to sacrifice countless lives fighting a battle that they can’t possibly win.

Asking the Ukrainians to fight Russia is like asking a skinny 10-year-old boy to fight a 25-year-old heavyweight boxing champion.

It isn’t a fair fight.

Many Ukrainians have fought bravely for their country, and this has given the Russian military more problems than they originally anticipated.

But as Clint Ehrlich has pointed out, Russia’s early struggles actually make the possibility of any sort of a negotiated conclusion to this conflict must less likely…

But the humiliating struggles they’ve experienced, which have been broadcast around the world, change the political calculus.

Russia no longer has the option of looking like a magnanimous victor by accepting a negotiated ceasefire.

If President Putin accepts something like a conditional surrender that preserves the integrity of the Ukrainian government, that will be spun as a defeat for Russia.

It may sound paradoxical from the outside, but Russia’s *tactical defeats* now make *strategic victory* imperative.

To preserve Russia’s aspiration to be a superpower, there must be no doubt at the end of the war who the victor was.

It must be Russia. By a crushing margin.

Even if it takes longer than originally anticipated, Russia will undoubtedly win this war.

And more Ukrainians will needlessly die with each passing day.

Of course it was the U.S. and other western powers that set the stage for all of this.

In 2014, the Obama administration and other western powers were behind the color revolution which violently overthrew the democratically elected government in Ukraine.

That resulted in an extremely violent civil war between the new U.S.-backed government and the separatists which were backed by Russia.

Things were relatively stable during the Trump administration, but then the Biden administration started filling Zelensky’s head with all sorts of ideas about joining NATO and taking Donetsk and Luhansk by force.

And Zelensky bought into what Biden administration officials were telling him hook, line and sinker.

The Russians tried to negotiate, but Zelensky and the Biden administration steadfastly refused to compromise.

So the Russians felt like they were out of options, and now the Biden administration does not want to fight a war that they helped to cause.

And even though his country is now being destroyed, Zelensky is continuing to talk tough…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued an address to the Russian people on Thursday, according to state media, in which he announced that Russia would pay “reparations” and rebuild “everything” the ongoing war has destroyed in Ukraine.

Oh really?

Precisely how does Zelensky plan to achieve that?

The Ukrainian government is also encouraging their citizens to make Molotov cocktails and to set up barriers to block the progress of Russians tanks…

The tone of Zelensky’s speech on Thursday, as reported by the government news site Ukrinform, was significantly less conciliatory than his address to the Russian people last week shortly after Putin began a full-scale assault of Ukraine, in which he emphasized friendly relations between Ukrainian and Russian people and urged Russians to pressure Putin to stop the war. The shift in tone aligns with that of statements from Ukrainian outlets on Wednesday declaring that Russian soldiers would be “slaughtered like pigs” if they attempted to surrender. Ukrainian government social media outlets are actively encouraging civilians to make Molotov cocktails, build roadblocks, and otherwise participate in the war.

Instead of telling women and children to fight the war that they helped to cause, I would like to see Zelensky and his associates get out of the bunker and do some fighting themselves.

And I would also like to see Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and other members of the Biden administration fly over to Ukraine and join the battle.

Of course the same thing applies to Vladimir Putin. Instead of hiding in a bunker in the mountains, I would like to see him on the front lines.

Needless to say, none of these global leaders are actually going to participate in the fight. They are way too important for that.

Instead, we are going to continue to see women and children face off against Russian tanks, and that is a disgrace.

Wouldn’t it be great if the international rules of war were changed to say that those that start a war must fight in it?

But instead of fighting for Ukraine, the global elite are attempting to put lots of pressure on Russia in other ways. For example, all Russian-owned and bred cats have now been banned from international competitions…

An international cat federation has banned all Russian-owned and bred cats from competing in international competitions, in a move that’s sure to stop Putin’s attack on Ukraine.

No, this isn’t a Babylon Bee story.

The Fédération Internationale Féline (FIFe) issued a statement saying it “cannot just witness these atrocities and do nothing.”

Yes, I am sure that the citizens of Kiev, Kharkiv and Mariupol will be greatly encouraged when they hear that.

And as Ukrainian cities are pummeled by relentless shelling, the U.S. Army has decided that now is a great time to be “putting its soldiers through training on gender pronouns”…

While Russia wages a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Army is putting its soldiers through training on gender pronouns and coaching officers on when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery, according to an official military presentation on the subject obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The mandatory presentation, “Policy on the Military Service of Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender Dysphoria,” was given to officers earlier this month along with instructions for them to train their subordinates on the material. Portions of the presentation were provided to the Free Beacon by a whistleblower who was ordered to undergo the training as a high-ranking officer in the Army Special Forces.

As we sit in comfort here in the western world, major Ukrainian cities are being ruthlessly encircled by Russian forces.

Millions of Ukrainians will soon be very cold and very hungry as they are relentlessly shelled by the mighty Russian military machine.

But most Ukrainians never wanted any of this. If anyone deserves such a fate, it is the global elite that actually caused this war in the first place.

For years, I have been relentlessly warning that we were heading toward a conflict between the U.S. and Russia, but most Americans weren’t interested in such warnings.

Now World War III is here, and the global elite think that they are going to be able to watch it from a safe distance.

But this won’t just be limited to Ukraine.

War is going to spread, and it will eventually deeply affect all of us.

Russian forces are now in control of that power plant. managers at the plant are working at "gunpoint." That is not good news for Ukraine.



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Is the Russian Air Force incapable of complex air operations? It sure looks that way. Too long to post here in its entirety, read the whole thing at the link.



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The Russians greatest enemy? Their own incompetence. Their logistics is hosed, and they don't have the ability to adapt to changing conditions, preferring to stick to a failed plan.[/url] Too long to post here in its entirety, but it's well worth a read. Here's a portion:



Every war plan is going to fall apart when the first shot is fired. The key is to have the ability to adapt and overcome. Ukraine has that ability. The Russians don't.

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I’m seeing reports of f similar challenges for the invading the Russian forces.

Add to this, many of their their trucks and wheeled APCs seem to be using very old and I maintained tires which when diving heavily loaded up n debris and rubble covered roads are prone to rupture then the stranded crews prone to ambush by defending forces and/or civilians.

Many of the rations of those 3 day supplies were long since expired (2014 from a video I saw) and were I edible.

To maximize the traffic a road can handle, they had 3 lanes southbound on a 2 lane road. When the lead vehicle breaks down, the ENTIRE go e to s stopped. Like in a traffic jam, those vehicles soon run out of fuel. With the road entirely blocked repair vehicles and fuel tankers are unable to get to the front… they have to take back/side roads where local forces (army and/or civilian) are waiting in ambush. To add to the invaders woes, they are having an unexpected warm spell turning the otherwise frozen fields into a quagmire of mud for heavy vehicles.

Quite simply, the Russians have totally botched the logistics of this.

The allies had a similar problem during Operation Market-Garden in WWII. The two-lane highway we used was grossly inadequate, and every time a truck broke down, the column had to stop until the road was cleared.

Add to this the ground is thawing and turning muddy, making off-road travel difficult or impossible. I remember a REFORGER exercise in southern German in the late 70's, during a "heat wave." The strong foehn winds thawed out the ground and a company of tanks trying to cross a field sank to their turrets in the mud. It wasn't until April before they could finally dig those tanks out of that field.

I keep hearing the Russians are using cheap Chinese tires, which are failing under the wet and muddy conditions. I don't know how true that is, it's likely a lot of things that brought that 40-mile convoy to a halt. If I were an A-10 pilot, I'd be drooling over photos of that convoy.

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Indeed….. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!

Here’s a story on the Chinese tires and poor Russian truck maintenance.

link to story

“When you leave military truck tires in one place for months on end. The side walls get rotted/brittle such that using low tire pressure setting for any appreciable distance will cause the tires to fail catastrophically via rips,” Telenko tweeted.

“Those aren't Soviet-era heavy truck radials. Chinese military tires, and I believe specifically the Yellow Sea YS20. This is a tire I first encountered in Somalia and Sudan; it's a bad Chinese copy of the excellent Michelin XZL military tire design,” academic Karl Muth responded to the Twitter thread. “Yes, all the things in the original thread are valid, but these Chinese tires simply don't have the load ratings needed for equipment like what's shown. They are poorly-constructed and barely-inspected truck radials. The equivalent Michelin product is inspected and x-rayed.”

Stupid commies. To keep tires in good condition on a vehicle that will sit for months put the vehicle on blocks without the tires touching the ground. They should use the stronger conventional bias ply tires instead of radials on trucks. The commies do make good AK rifles.

Russia's logistics disaster.







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I’d suspect that if the Ukrainians can maintain their independence and repelling this invasion, that in addition to using the reparations that Russia will pay to rebuild what they destroyed… they will be redoing their rail infrastructure away from the wider “Russian gauge” to the “standard gauge” that Western Europe uses. This would aid integration into the west, and have the added plus of make it more difficult for invading armies from the east to use their own infrastructure against them.

Russian invasion a total disaster, says whistleblower analyst. But like war news in general, take this with a full package of Morton's.



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Can Ukraine actually win this? BattleSwarm Blog always seems to have the best analysis of this war. Warning for adult (or, as I prefer, juvenile) language, and a long ad embedded in it. And as always, take any war reporting you see with an ocean of salt.



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Would Putin really nuke Ukraine cities? Privately, some Kremlin officials say a desperate Putin just might. And with a cold wave coming, temps are forecast to be as low as -20C, or -4F. With Russian logistics already broken, that is not likely to help.



Read the whole thing, including photos and videos, at the link.

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As in all wars, things are not as bad as one side claims nor as good as claimed by the other. Putin may do as Russia did during WWll...keep pouring men and equipment into the meat grinder until he eventually overwhelms the enemy. Much of the blame for this conflict rests solidly at the feet of the Obama/Biden/Clinton regime who provoked Putin at every turn signs 2008. Ukraine is just a pawn used by US in the war against Russia.

For sure, you have to take any news coming from a war zone with a can of Morton's. But one wonders just how long Putin can keep pouring men and materiel into Ukraine before the generals say, "Enough."

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We need to stop aiding Ukraine before it starts WW3. If Russia was aiding Mexico in a war with the US we would not like it either.

Could Putin attack Great Britain in a conventional war? Yes, says Mark Felton.



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Do not be deceived the globalists plan to depopulate the planet's 6-7 billion people to a manageable level of between 500 million and 2 billion through nuclear war.

Biden being allowed to steal the election shows that the globalists are in control of the United States and they want to destroy us.

Dig a fallout shelter while you still can. 3 feet of dirt stops radiation. I built a crawl in 2 person fallout shelter with a shovel, a pick axe, pressure treated for ground contact 4"x4"x8' fence posts for cross bracing and vertical supports, 2 sheets of 4'x8' pressure treated 3/4" plywood. Because I could not find plywood rated for ground contact I also used 25' wide 6mil plastic construction sheathing. I placed the 2 sheets of plywood in an "L" shape to make a right angel crawl in tunnel to stop radiation from coming in the entrance.

Get: Nuclear War Survival Skills Paperback by Cresson H Kearny https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1603220941/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2
or download it for free on the internet and print it out.
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"Steve Quayle tells Mike Adams: Globalists want to achieve the extermination of the human race through nuclear war"
03/11/2022 / By Kevin Hughes
https://populationcollapse.com/2022-03-11-globalists-want-termination-human-race-nuclear-war.html

The Health Ranger Mike Adams and well-known author Steve Quayle discussed the possibility of nuclear war due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which could bring about the death of billions of people.

“The globalists want one thing and this is the termination and the annihilation of the human race. The globalists are now planning, plotting, scheming to try and get the global population to go along with their own demise,” Quayle told Adams during a recent of episode of “Brighteon Conversations.”

The host and Brighteon.com founder agreed, noting that the vaccine extermination agenda has failed. However, Adams still thinks one to two billion people will die over the next decade from cancers, heart attacks and other diseases caused by the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines.

“It’s a vaccine holocaust. It’s genocide, but it’s nowhere near the goal that you just mentioned, where they want to kill off 7.4 billion people or something in that range. So they have to shift to the next global weapon system. And notice how fast they moved from COVID to World War,” said Adams, who called that particular edition of his program a “red alert episode.”

Adams mentioned the ongoing deception and propaganda, as well as the Democrats and Leftists calling for a nuclear war and the survival of human civilization.

Quayle, meanwhile, said that people need to understand that the world would be near extinction level with the threat of a nuclear war. He noted that Russia only wanted a guarantee of its 1991 agreement with the U.S. and NATO that they would not expand and put weapons near its territory.

The Health Ranger added that they are talking about the rogue governments, the cartels, the globalists and the fascists who have occupied the nations such as Russia, Ukraine, America, Canada, among others, and who are now bringing destruction to humanity.
People calling for a nuclear war have Cold War mentality

Quayle, who is also a historian and radio host, pointed out that the people who are calling for nuclear war, especially in the West, have a Cold War mentality.

“In the Ukraine, the people are wonderful. People everywhere are wonderful. It’s just the bloody governments and, in this case, the globalists that want to destroy all nations, all boundaries, all cultures and all historic references to the past,” he said.

We’re watching the global chaos that’s necessary to bring about the New World Order, which is nothing more than the old world order with Lucifer in the presence of Antichrist ruling and reigning on the planet and destroying humanity as fast as he can, wherever he can,” said Quayle, who had written books on nuclear war based on the Cold War and civil defense.

Quayle also emphasized that America cannot wage war on the basis of a lack of understanding of the enemy’s firepower and their technical developments, such as hyper-developments and hyper-dimensional physics that include hypersonic missiles, electromagnetic warfare weapons and 100-megaton nuclear torpedoes. (Related: Ben Armstrong warns Biden administration: Acting tough now against Russia could put the world on the brink of a nuclear war.)

The book author and radio host said the Department of Defense lags behind in all areas of hypersonic weapons development, electromagnetic weapon development and weather modification and control. He mentioned that there are four “Black Hole” submarines or Russian Kilo-Class subs off the America’s east coast, adding that a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) could hit its target such as Washington D.C. or New York City in under a minute.

"World War III Just Got A Lot Closer: Russia Announces Plan to Bomb NATO Convoys Entering Ukraine — Live Emergency Broadcast! Infowars.com"
March 12th 2022, 2:06 pm
"For once, Joe Biden is telling the truth and warning the world that we are on the edge of "nuclear World War III" but left-wing and right-wing chicken hawks in the US, UK, and EU are demanding more heavy weapons be sent to expanding black hole."
https://www.infowars.com/posts/worl...tering-ukraine-live-emergency-broadcast/

A Russian convoy is ambushed in Skybyn, outside Kyiv.

https://fb.watch/bJTSon2PLK/

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Here is a better version of that action with commentary and battlefield details added…

link to Rumble video clip.

Thanks, it is a little clearer. But I still can't to get it to embed.

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Is this story true? Who knows. But U.S. officials are saying Russia is asking China for military aid, because the war is taking its toll on military weapons and supplies. Personally, I'd inclined to take this story with a case of Morton's, but more than one news source is now reporting it.



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You’re the Insurgent Now

Former service members volunteering to fight the Russians in Ukraine are discovering that war isn’t quite as fun when the other side has air supremacy for a change. This is from a series of Reddit posts purporting to be from a volunteer military veteran in Ukraine:

Yes, I was here today and blown off the top bunk of my bunk bed in the barracks by the first missile. This is where all the foreign legion troops are, the 35 killed were all Ukrainian mostly due to a direct hit on their barracks next to mine. The base is destroyed, the weapons depot destroyed, possibly the end of the legion. About 60 people with their heads on straight including myself left after the attack. They’re sending untrained guys to the front with little ammo and shit AKs and they’re getting killed. The guys who stayed got bombed again in the afternoon and casualties aren’t clear. If you still want to to join them I’m not sure what the process will be since literally all the infrastructure supporting the training/assignments of volunteers is all destroyed. The guys who are there now will all be going to Kyiv and many will die, the legion is totally outgunned and has a few crazy Ukrainian leaders. After the attack one officer wanted to march everyone to Kyiv and fight. Absolute insanity. Stay home.

I didn’t go to Ukraine for the clout. I asked the right questions, deleted my posts, actually bought a plane ticket and brought my ass over. I said in another comment that yes it was 35 Ukrainians killed because their barracks got directly hit. The 180 bullshit is real Russian propaganda. If you think I’m a Russian agent you’re just in denial that the situation is absolutely fucked. Go ahead and join the legion, by all means, but be very aware of how bad Kyiv is going to get and be aware that Russians have warplanes and you will have next to nothing. Be very acceptant of the possibility of death. Those of us who left, including SF operators from multiple countries, are simply risk mitigating. No one wants to die in an unfair fight, and after getting absolutely fucking pummeled by massive cruise missiles today – yeah I kind of want people to think twice before turning their life upside down to go and volunteer.

Like a lot of dudes there have experience and really wanted to shape the battlefield and impact their advance, but ultimately they’re manning frontline positions that are going to get hammered with artillery and airstrikes, buried under rubble and your family never gets your body. That’s when a lot of guys say yeah this isn’t our fight, not like this.

Such are the perils of believing the globalist propaganda factory. These Western volunteers thought they were going to be going on patrols and hunting Russians in the same way they hunted jihadis in Afghanistan and Iraq. A dangerous sport, to be sure, but an activity that is more sport than war nonetheless. But, as they quickly discovered not long after their arrival, they’re not up against an ill-equipped, irregular 4GW insurgency, they’re up against one of the three most formidable professional militaries in the world.

Russia deliberately blew up foreign fighters and arms shipments at a Ukrainian base close to the Polish border on Sunday and has vowed to carry out more strikes in a direct warning to the West. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for Russia’s ministry of defence, said the base at Yavoriv – 12 miles from NATO territory – was struck by ‘long-range, high-precision’ weapons because it was hosting ‘foreign mercenaries and a large shipment of foreign weapons’. He added: ‘The destruction of foreign mercenaries who arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue.’
Putin deliberately targeted Ukraine’s ‘foreign legion’ with strike 12 miles from NATO border, Daily Mail, 14 March 2022

The effectiveness of the Russians can be seen in the way they have effectively destroyed the entire Ukrainian foreign legion with a single missile strike without it ever even having the chance to enter the battle space.

Here's a much longer piece on the subject

https://palaceintrigueblog.com/2022/03/ ... awakening/

Here's drone footage of an NLAW knocking out a Russian tank at point blank range. It takes balls to go up against an armored convoy at this close range.



NOTE: You have to watch it on YouTube, because it's age-restricted.

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if Ukraine can hold until May, the Russian Army will collapse. I think this is very probably true, but May is a long time away.



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Airforce, you left out the headline in the page you linked to: "War could be over by May, says Ukrainian presidential adviser" You can't believe the Ukrainians. That is just wishful thinking. The globalists want to start WW3.

The Ukrainian Military needs to quit hiding in among the civilians hoping to get civilians killed to make the Russians look bad. The Russians need to advance with their infantry in the lead not their tanks before all their tanks are taken out with anti-tank rockets.

Excerpt from: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03...carcity-crisis-global-depopulation.html#
"Biden and NATO don’t want peace in Ukraine. They need a world war in order to pick up their depopulation agenda that didn’t achieve the extermination milestones they had hoped to achieve with covid vaccines.

The covid plandemic was launched in order to achieve two key things: 1) Rapid expansion of authoritarianism by terrorizing the population with covid fear, and 2) Global depopulation / extermination through covid vaccines which are actually gene-altering infertility jabs and “clot shots.” These jabs also alter human DNA and result in gradual cancer deaths over a decade. (You will see huge spikes in cancer deaths for 2021 and 2022 once the numbers are officially reported.)

Financial analyst Edward Dowd, who works with statisticians that are analyzing CDC data, has concluded there are so far 1.1 million excess deaths in the United States since the vaccine push began. Even 1-2 billion deaths from the vaccine isn’t enough for the satanic globalists

Unfortunately for the globalists, the vaccine extermination agenda failed to achieve their depopulation milestones. Although 1-2 billion people will likely die from mRNA vaccines over the next decade (from heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, etc.), this is nowhere near the 7+ billion deaths that the depopulation globalists are trying to achieve.

In order to achieve the much larger die-off they desire, globalists need to decimate the global supply chain that provides food and energy to the world. These are also interrelated since energy (in the form of natural gas) creates nitrogen-based fertilizer that’s used to produce food. In addition, energy is a critical farm input in the form of diesel fuel that powers tractors and transportation trucks...

When the war started, I didn't think the Ukrainians could last 10 days. We're twice that now, the Russians have taken heavy losses, and they still don't have Kiev, or Mariupol, or Lviv, or most other major cities. The Russian plan seems to be to turn these cities to rubble - but rubbleized cities make them harder to occupy (see Stalingrad and Monte Cassino, among others). So yes, it certainly is not out of the realm of possibility the Ukrainians could hold out until May.

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Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges: Russian army could collapse within days. This is worth noting, but with a caveat. Take any news about war with a pallet full of Morton's.



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Germany reverses itself, will buy F-35's after all. It turns out that Putin is better at strengthening NATO than Trump was.



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We'll be hearing more about this. It's really Putin's only endgame now.



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What the Russians don’t seem to get, is the fact that having neighbors like Russia is exactly the reason why nations need Allies in the first place! For a nation with rich resources that sits on a major crossroads as they do that is also a flat open plain devoid of any natural barriers… is suicidal. When the largest border they have is shared with a MUCH larger nation with an even larger military force that has expansionist aspersions… to accept neutrality is suicidal.

Only way they could accept this would be if they were given BACK a nuclear Arsenal which they were deceived into surrendering in 1994 with the understanding that their borders would be forever respected, and that the western powers would guarantee this.

If they had a medium range nuclear arsenal, then any “hypothetical” threat would have to think long and hard before trying to invade.

The Ukrainians don't have any nukes but Putin might have the balls to start using tactical nukes on Ukrainian cities (maybe neutron tactical nukes on Ukrainian cities) and tell NATO he will nuke them all back into the stone age with his hyper-sonic nuclear missiles if they interfere.

We need stop to aiding Ukraine and stay out of their civil war no matter how many millions of dollars Ukraine kicked back the sorry damn Bidens.

"Russian submarine with 160 nukes on board surfaces off US coast"
https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/150057-russian_submarine

Switzerland's neutrality worked well, but that's because their terrain pretty much prohibits any attack, they're citizenry is well armed, and they're the world's bank. Even Hitler wouldn't screw with Switzerland.

Unfortunately, Ukraine doesn't have those advantages. I don't know how a vague promise of neutrality would work, unless they were given back their nukes.

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Switzerland is also the money laundering capitol of the world. They still hold billions in Jewish wealth confiscated during WWll. They even hold Hitler's fortune and refuse to give it to his living relatives.

Ukraine is not going to have any nukes. It would be like if Russia had nuclear missiles and bio-weapons labs in Mexico to threaten us with.

Here: https://www.infowars.com/posts/reti...or-putins-goal-in-ukraine-almost-reached
Former US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor said, "The Ukrainian military is only capable of small, “pinprick” attacks on insignificant objects, he claimed, saying, “So, the war, for all intents and purposes, has been decided.” Macgregor bluntly explained the reality of the situation is that the remaining Ukrainian units have been isolated and are surrounded in various settlements.

The issue for the Russians, Macgregor noted, is how to make military progress with limited civilian deaths and property damage. “Putin gave very strict orders from the outset that they were to avoid these things,” he explained. “The problem with avoiding it is that it has slowed the progress of the operation to the point that it has given false hope to both to the Ukrainians, but has been seized on by people in the West to try and convince the world that a defeat is in progress when in fact the opposite is the case.”

Continuing, Macgregor said Putin could quickly achieve victory if he were to disregard civilian life and unleash his full military force on Ukraine, but continues to choose the more difficult and peaceful path. The retired colonel thinks Washington is trying to drag out the conflict as long as possible by interfering with Ukrainian officials’ negotiations with Russia so they have time to work on their next move.

Never underestimate the Russian capability. That was a fatal mistake made by Napoleon and Hitler. Putin has not put the full weight into this conflict...yet. He has not committed his elite forces nor his best equipment. The bombing campaign has been limited up till now. He is committed to this fight and will not back down. If pushed to far he will rain fire down on Europe.

Putin has already lost. His generals know it, his deputies in the Kremlin know it, and even his own people are slowly becoming aware of it. Even if Zelensky surrenders today, he has lost.

Putin is an international pariah. His economy is toast. He took over the poorest country in Europe, an area the size of Texas, which is in ruins and is full of people who hate him. And he actually managed to make NATO stronger. That is not a win.

If I were Putin, I wouldn't be getting a lot of sleep these days.

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I think Airforce believes the fake controlled major news media. I knew better than to take the clot shot. There is no way Ukraine can win their civil war against the Russians even though that sorry damn senile puppet Biden is giving Ukraine $13.6 billion (source: https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-biden-calls-putin-war-criminal-kremlin-responds ) that US tax payers will have to pay plus interest. At least Putin hates faggots instead of giving the faggots in the US Military a sex mutilation operation and female hormones at US tax payer expense like Biden is.

Of course, Putin could beat Ukraine. If he wanted to, he could turn Ukraine into a radioactive slag heap. But what would he gain by it?

You can't defeat a people that refuses to be defeated. See Afghanistan.

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Where is the Russian Air Force? And why aren't they using more precision guided bombs?

Maybe because they're running low on precision bombs, or they're saving them for something else. And because Ukrainian SAM's are still a problem. And because Russian pilots lack training, and are unable to conduct complex air operations.

Too long to post here, but the article - and accompanying videos - are well worth a read.

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No matter who "wins", this war will cause a global famine which will ensure more chaos on a massive scale. This is just the opening salvo of the war to come.

If the entire western world turns on Putin he still has allies who will stick by him who could make life very difficult for the west. And, if push comes to shove and he's backed into a corner, he still retains the nuclear option.

In a phone call to Turkish President Erdogan, Putin expressed his demands for a peace deal with Ukraine.



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With what has gone on the last 3 weeks… it would be suicidal to “demilitarize” in any way/shape or form. Putin’s heavy hand is only serving to unite the people of Ukraine like never before, and to make any notion of being in Russian sphere impossible and making the people look west to Europe more than ever.

Putin is like that alcoholic abusive husband who thinks he can kick the $hi+ out of his wife and kids to keep them from leaving. He can’t let them get any notion that THEY are in control of their future, then he has lost his power over them. He needs to “set them straight”, destroy any independent thought and make them dependent and fearful of them.

That’s Putin.

You are parroting the fake major news medias views that are dictated to them by the globalists who want to destroy the US. Ukraine can unite in loss all they want but it won't help them. Ukraine can't win. Russia will totally destroy Ukraine if they have to.

"NO ESCAPE: Ukrainian authorities are destroying passports and sending foreign mercenaries to suicide missions in Kyiv"
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-18-foreign-mercenaries-sent-to-kyiv-suicide-missions.html#

"MintPress study: NY Times, Washington Post driving U.S. to war with Russia over Ukraine"
https://journalism.news/2022-02-08-nyt-wapost-driving-us-to-war.html#

It may be a lost cause… but the alternative is for them to roll over on their bellies, prostrate themselves to the Kremlin and hope for the best. We had no hope of victory against the British in 1775. When it comes to David vs Goliath stories, and patriots defending their homeland against a stronger invader… I will ALWAYS side with the underdog. I will never apologize for it. It’s a character thing. I hate to see bullies forcing their will on a weaker neighbor. I hate totalitarians and bullies and will always root for/support the underdog in these fights, even if lost causes.

The globalists did not kill off enough of us with their Covid bio-weapon and their bio-weapon clot shots so they want to push Russia into starting WWIII to have a major population reduction.

The best Ukraine can hope for is peace if they let the areas that are mostly Russian Ukrainians be annexed by Russia and stay out of NATO.

"ANALYSIS: Russia is winning, America is self-destructing… prepare for EXTREME POVERTY as 50-year economic fairy tale implodes"
Friday, March 18, 2022 by: Mike Adams
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03...ucting-prepare-for-extreme-poverty.html#

I could care less about either side in this conflict. We should have no involvement in it.

There in lies the rub.

This war did not begin with Putin's invasion of Ukraine. It's been an ongoing conflict for over 8 years. Most Americans are oblivious to the fact that the Obama/Biden administration started it. Has everyone forgotten Hunter? The neocon/globalists implemented a coup in 2014; ousted the duly elected president of Ukraine and installed a puppet who would serve their interests. They have repeatedly violated treaties signed with Russia that guaranteed Ukrainian neutrality and now they want to bitch because Putin is pissed off.

What aggravates me is all the dumbass americans who are cheer leading Ukraine. They didn't give a shit about Ukraine until the propaganda ministry told them to. But, now they've jumped on the bandwagon demanding war with Russia to save the Ukrainians. 38% are even stupid enough to think we should nuke Russia while seemingly failing to realize that they can do the same to us.

The Ukrainian and the Russian people will suffer because of globlaist ambitions and so will Europe and America.

There will be NO winners in this.

What you aren't supposed to say about the war in Ukraine. From Joseph Solis-Mullen at the Mises Institute.



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Russia is giving Mariupol about three more hours to surrender. I doubt they're going to do it.

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I agree…. Giving a proud, stubborn, determined, dug-in enemy that thus far has shown no signs that they are deterred by odd stacked against them or by overwhelming odds such an ultimatum is bound to result in their be of two things…

1. A bloody disaster where the invaders spend so many reserves that they are unable to continue their offensive (akin ironically to General Palouse’s 6th army in Stalingrad)
2. The defenders fight to the last man in a massacre which only serves to make them into natural martyrs inspiring a national sense of identity to destroy the invaders (akin to Santa Anna’s attack on the Alamo)

Ouch, I bet that hurt.

Businessmen are donating weapons to Ukraine. A lot of people don't think America is doing enough to help Ukraine. And some of them are doing something about it.



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Most wars these days produce a number of bad movies, and bad songs. So, I suppose it was just a matter of time before this came along. WARNING: Juvenile language in the translation. Sorry. And apologies to Queen as well.





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There's a report that rail lines in Belarus carrying supplies for the Russian invasion are being sabotaged. But the report is from the [b]Jerusalem Post[/b], so take it with a grain of salt.

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In Poland there is a east bound highway leading into Belarus that is blocked at the border by hundreds of Polish protesters that have been there refusing to allow these trucks (that are largely bound for Russia) to leave the country. It is over 40 miles long. Many trucking firms are now refusing to take these jobs as they don’t want their rigs/drives stuck in this.

The globalists through the controlled news media are pushing for the use of tactical nukes to start WW3.

Here is excerpt for the New York Time that was on Yahoo News
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/smaller-bombs-could-turn-ukraine-114147827.html

..."The psychological bar was so high that nuclear strikes came to be seen as unthinkable. Today, both Russia and the United States have nuclear arms that are much less destructive — their power just fractions of the Hiroshima bomb’s force, their use perhaps less frightening and more thinkable"...

As Grandpa used to say...If you play in shit you'll get it all over you.


British Fighters Triggered Deadly Missile Strike On Ukrainian Base With Their Cell Phones
March 21, 2022

British volunteer fighters are suspected of triggering a deadly attack on a Ukrainian military base after their cellphones were traced in the vicinity.

When 30 Russian cruise missiles slammed into the Yavoriv site near the Polish border on March 13, at least 35 persons were killed, possibly including three British ex-special forces men.

The International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security, where Ukraine was training foreign civilian volunteers for its international brigade, is thought to have been the primary focus on the site.

In the hours leading up to the missile attack, monitoring gear in the vicinity saw about 12 to 14 phone numbers beginning with +44.

Mercenaries employed by the Wagner Group, a covert military firm with ties to the Kremlin, were suspected of acting on the field at the time, according to security sources.

It has sparked suspicions that the hired guns were prepared to intercept the numbers using their own screening technology and relay them on to Russian intelligence, which connected the information to ex British military members and authorized an assault right away.

When a gadget pings a local phone mast to link to the network so a client may place calls or send messages, the phone number can become exposed to eavesdropping technologies.

Russia is claimed to have a massive database of phone numbers related to special British forces, gathered through classified surveillance operations near British military facilities.

Several of the British men who’ve already chosen to assist the opposition to Vladimir Putin’s special military operation had already served in these forces, so their presence on a Ukrainian phone network would set off alarm signals in the Kremlin.

A source said: “As soon as Moscow got any whiff of possible British presence on the base, they would have immediately ordered a strike.”

The bombardment on the base, one of Putin’s deepest ventures west in the three-week-old war, highlights the dangers that British recruits face if they travel into the conflict zone, especially if they neglect to employ caution when using technological devices.

There is also suspicion that Russian operatives have penetrated the expanding volunteer force that reacted to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s rallying call.

“There was potentially a mole placed in the unit (on the Yavoriv base) who was seen running from the camp around 30 minutes before the attack, with a laptop and kit,” a source said.

The disorganized character of the effort to train foreign recruits frightened British volunteers who, by a strange coincidence, fled the camp barely hours before the strike, according to the Telegraph earlier this week.

Carl Walsh of Wales’ Rhondda Valley and Ollie Funnell of Eastbourne, East Sussex, claimed they had obtained guarantees from Ukrainian officials that they would be able to join the international brigade as doctors ahead of time.

However, when the soldiers landed at the base, they were told that they would be dispatched to engage in the Battle of Kyiv after only 48 hours of training – despite the fact that they had no military experience.

“They didn’t even have weapons in camp to train with,” claimed Mr Walsh, a 50-year-old veteran combat medical technician.

To avoid getting pulled into a direct battle with Russia, Britain has not sent soldiers to Ukraine, but a large number of former military veterans have traveled there to either combat or teach and assist local forces.

The British Army revealed earlier this month that a “small number” of active soldiers went absent without leave to attempt to enter the conflict.

It has heightened fears that Russia may use the capture or execution of any rebellious British servicemen to declare Britain has joined the war.

Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, has cautioned that any soldiers who go to Ukraine to participate will be prosecuted when they return.

Russia's military radio communications system is falling apart. it's becoming harder and harder to get radios on the same encryption code, so they're resorting to less secure comms with disastrous results.



Read the whole thing at the link.

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Everything you need to know about the Switchblade (or "Kamikazi drone"). We're sending 100 of these to Ukraine.



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"The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What's Left Is Mop-Up"

By Mike Whitney
The Unz Review

March 23, 2022


Question 1– Can you explain to me why you think Russia is winning the war in Ukraine?

Larry C. Johnson– Within the first 24 hours of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all Ukrainian Ground Radar Intercept capabilities were wiped out. Without those radars, the Ukrainian Air Force lost its ability to do air to air intercept. In the intervening three weeks, Russia has established a de facto No Fly Zone over Ukraine. While still vulnerable to shoulder fired Surface to Air Missiles supplied by the U.S. and NATO to the Ukrainians, there is no evidence that Russia has had to curtail Combat Air Operations.

Russia’s arrival in Kiev within three days of the invasion also caught my attention. I recalled that the Nazi’s in Operation Barbarossa took seven weeks to reach Kiev and the required 7 more weeks to subdue the city. The Nazis had the advantage of not pulling punches to avoid civilian casualties and were eager to destroy critical infrastructure. Yet many so-called American military experts claimed that Russia was bogged down. When a 24 mile (or 40 mile, depends on the news source) was positioned north of Kiev for more than a week, it was clear that Ukraine’s ability to launch significant military operations had been eliminated. If their artillery was intact, then that column was easy pickings for massive destruction. That did not happen. Alternatively, if the Ukrainian’s had a viable fixed wing or rotary wing capability they should have destroyed that column from the air. That did not happen. Or, if they had a viable cruise missile capability they should have rained down hell on the supposedly stalled Russian column. That did not happen. The Ukrainians did not even mount a significant infantry ambush of the column with their newly supplied U.S. Javelins.

The scale and scope of the Russian attack is remarkable. They captured territory in three weeks that is larger than the land mass of the United Kingdom. They then proceeded to carry out targeted attacks on key cities and military installations. We have not seen a single instance of a Ukrainian regiment or brigade size unit attacking and defeating a comparable Russian unit. Instead, the Russians have split the Ukrainian Army into fragments and cut their lines of communication. The Russians are consolidating their control of Mariupol and have secured all approaches on the Black Sea. Ukraine is now cut off in the South and the North.

I would note that the U.S. had a tougher time capturing this much territory in Iraq in 2003 while fighting against a far inferior, less capable military force. If anything, this Russian operation should scare the hell out of U.S. military and political leaders.

The really big news came this week with the Russian missile strikes on what are de facto NATO bases in Yavoriv and Zhytomyr. NATO conducted cyber security training at Zhytomyr in September 2018 and described Ukraine as a “NATO partner.” Zhytomyr was destroyed with hypersonic missiles on Saturday. Yavoriv suffered a similar fate last Sunday. It was the primary training and logistics center that NATO and EUCOM used to supply fighters and weapons to Ukraine. A large number of the military and civilian personnel at that base became casualties.

Not only is Russia striking and destroying bases used by NATO regularly since 2015, but there was no air raid warning and there was no shutdown of the attacking missiles.

Question 2– Why is the media trying to convince the Ukrainian people that they can prevail in their war against Russia? If what you say is correct, then all the civilians that are being sent to fight the Russian army, are dying in a war they can’t win. I don’t understand why the media would want to mislead people on something so serious. What are your thoughts on the matter?

Larry C. Johnson– This is a combination of ignorance and laziness. Rather than do real reporting, the vast majority of the media (print and electronic) as well as Big Tech are supporting a massive propaganda campaign. I remember when George W. Bush was Hitler. I remember when Donald Trump was Hitler. And now we have a new Hitler, Vladimir Putin. This is a tired, failed playbook. Anyone who dares to raise legitimate questions about is immediately tarred as a Putin puppet or a Russia stooge. When you cannot argue facts the only recourse is name calling.

Question 3– Last week, Colonel Douglas MacGregor was a guest on the Tucker Carlson Show. His views on the war are strikingly similar to your own. Here’s what he said in the interview:

“The war is really over for the Ukrainians. They have been ground into bits, there is no question about that despite what we hear from our mainstream media. So, the real question for us at this stage is, Tucker, are we going to live with the Russian people and their government or we going to continue to pursue this sort of regime change dressed up as a Ukrainian war? Are we going to stop using Ukraine as a battering ram against Moscow, which is effectively what we’ve done.” (Tucker Carlson– MacGregor Interview)

Do you agree with MacGregor that the real purpose of goading Russia into a war in Ukraine was “regime change”?

Second, do you agree that Ukraine is being used as a staging ground for the US to carry out a proxy-war on Russia?

Larry C. Johnson– Doug is great analyst but I disagree with him—I don’t think there is anyone in the Biden Administration that is smart enough to think and plan in those strategic terms. In my view the last 7 years have been the inertia of the NATO status quo. What I mean by that is that NATO and Washington, believed they could continue to creep east on Russia’s borders without provoking a reaction. NATO and EUCOM regularly carried out exercises—including providing “offensive” training—and supplied equipment. I believe reports in the United States that the CIA was providing paramilitary training to Ukrainian units operating in the Donbass are credible. But I have trouble believing that after our debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, we suddenly have Sun Tzu level strategists pulling the strings in Washington.

There is an air of desperation in Washington. Besides trying ban all things Russian, the Biden Administration is trying to bully China, India and Saudi Arabia. I do not see any of those countries falling into line. I believe the Biden crew made a fatal mistake by trying to demonize all things and all people Russian. If anything, this is uniting the Russian people behind Putin and they are ready to dig in for a long struggle.

I am shocked at the miscalculation in thinking economic sanctions on Russia would bring them to their knees. The opposite is true. Russia is self-sufficient and is not dependent on imports. Its exports are critical to the economic well-being of the West. If they withhold wheat, potash, gas, oil, palladium, finished nickel and other key minerals from the West, the European and U.S. economies will be savaged. And this attempt to coerce Russia with sanctions has now made it very likely that the U.S. dollar’s role as the international reserve currency will show up in the dustbin of history.

Question 4– Ever since he delivered his famous speech in Munich in 2007, Putin has been complaining about the “architecture of global security”. In Ukraine we can see how these nagging security issues can evolve into a full-blown war. As you know, in December Putin made a number of demands related to Russian security, but the Biden administration shrugged them off and never responded. Putin wanted written assurances that NATO expansion would not include Ukraine (membership) and that nuclear missile systems would not be deployed to Romania or Poland. Do you think Putin’s demands are unreasonable?

Larry C. Johnson– I think Putin’s demands are quite reasonable. The problem is that 99% of Americans have no idea of the kind of military provocation that NATO and the U.S. have carried out over the last 7 years. The public was always told the military exercises were “defensive.” That simply is not true. Now we have news that DTRA was funding biolabs in Ukraine. I guess Putin could agree to allow U.S. nuclear missile systems in Poland and Romania if Biden agrees to allow comparable Russian systems to be deployed in Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico. When we look at it in those terms we can begin to understand that Putin’s demands are not crazy nor unreasonable.

Question 5– Russian media reports that Russian “high precision, air-launched” missiles struck a facility in west Ukraine “killing more than 100 local troops and foreign mercenaries.” Apparently, the Special Operations training center was located near the town of Ovruch which is just 15 miles from the Polish border. What can you tell us about this incident? Was Russia trying to send a message to NATO?

Larry C. Johnson– Short answer—YES! Russian military strikes in Western Ukraine during the past week have shocked and alarmed NATO officials. The first blow came on Sunday, March 13 at Yavoriv, Ukraine. Russia hit the base with several missiles, some reportedly hypersonic. Over 200 personnel were killed, which included American and British military and intelligence personnel, and hundreds more wounded. Many suffered catastrophic wounds, such as amputations, and are in hospital. Yet, NATO and the western media have shown little interest in reporting on this disaster.

Yavoriv was an important forward base for NATO (see here). Until February (prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine), the U.S. 7th Army Training Command was operating from Yavoriv as late as mid-February. Russia has not stopped there. ASB Military news reports Russia hit another site, Delyatyn, which is 60 miles southeast of Yavoriv (on Thursday I believe). Yesterday, Russia hit Zytomyr, another site where NATO previously had a presence. Putin has sent a very clear message—NATO forces in Ukraine will be viewed and treated as combatants. Period.

.Question 6– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been lionized in the western media as a “wartime leader” and a modern-day “Winston Churchill”. What the media fails to tell its readers is that Zelensky has taken a number of steps to strengthen his grip on power while damaging fragile democratic institutions in Ukraine. For example, Zelensky has “banned eleven opposition-owned news organizations” and tried to bar the head of Ukraine’s largest opposition party, Viktor Medvedchuk, from running for office on a bogus “terrorist financing” charge. This is not the behavior of a leader that is seriously committed to democracy.

What’s your take on Zelensky? Is he really the “patriotic leader” the media makes him out to be?

Larry C. Johnson– Zelensky is a comedian and an actor. Not a very good one at that in my view. The West is cynically using the fact he is Jewish as a diversion from the size-able contingent of Neo-Nazis (and I mean genuine Nazis who still celebrate the Ukrainian Waffen SS unit’s accomplishments while fighting with the Nazis in WW II). The facts are clear—he is banning opposition political parties and shutting down opposition media. I guess that is the new definition of “democracy.”

Question 7– How does this end? There’s an excellent post at the Moon of Alabama site titled “What Will Be The Geographic End State Of The War In Ukraine“. The author of the post, Bernard, seems to think that Ukraine will eventually be partitioned along the Dnieper River “and south along the coast that holds a majority ethnic Russian population.” He also says this:

“This would eliminate Ukrainian access to the Black Sea and create a land bridge towards the Moldavian breakaway Transnistria which is under Russian protection. The rest of the Ukraine would be a land confined, mostly agricultural state, disarmed and too poor to be build up to a new threat to Russia anytime soon. Politically it would be dominated by fascists from Galicia which would then become a major problem for the European Union.”

What do you think? Will Putin impose his own territorial settlement on Ukraine in order to reinforce Russian security and bring the hostilities to an end or is a different scenario more likely?

Larry C. Johnson– I agree with Moon. Putin’s primary objective is to secure Russia from foreign threats and effect a divorce with the West. Russia has the physical resources to be an independent sovereign and is in the process of making that vision come true.

Bio– Larry C Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and the left, which means he must be doing something right. His analysis and commentary can be found at his blog, https://sonar21.com/

Has Mariupol fallen? No one really seems to know. Russian troops have reached the center of the city, and Ukraine says that Mariupol "no longer exists." But there haven't been any independent journalists in there for a couple weeks now, and fighting seems to be continuing. It seems to me that whoever finally does win the Battle for Mariupol will have a pretty pyrrhic victory.

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https://southfront.org/shocking-evidence-of-ukrainian-regimes-essence-video-21/

Boss, I can't connect to that website. Someone might be hacking it. Which wouldn't be too surprising, since I'm hearing from a few sources (like this one)that Southfront has close ties to the Russian intelligence services.

What was in the video?

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I connected to
https://southfront.org/shocking-evidence-of-ukrainian-regimes-essence-video-21
fine. Maybe your isp is pro Nazi and anti-Commie or is for starting a nuclear war with Russia like the Pervert in Cheif Biden is.
The video calims to show Russain that were shot after they surrendered.

I'm still having problems loading the page for some reason,and I've tried it with both Firefox and Edge. It must be hitting one of my firewalls.

In any event, I take war news like this with a case of Morton salt. If there's a neutral party in this war, I haven't found him yet.

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Enter the link into a free proxy server if you want it to work.

The globalists want the Russians to start using their nukes to start WW3. Ukraine is on the Bidens side and the Ukrainians don't have any nukes so I hope the Ukrainians to loose so then Biden will stop the sanctions against the Ruskies since the sanctions are hurting us besides the Russians. I don't like communists and I don't like Nazis either. And I sure don't like our deficit spending to help the Ukrainians or anyone.

No thanks, I'll pass. But here's some more war news to take with a mountain of Morton's. How can a Russian soldier get $10,000? By selling his tank to the Ukrainians.

Did this really happen? Who knows.



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Airforce, the link opens in Firefox with no problems when I click it.

I have McAfee and a couple other firewalls, which I'm very reluctant to bypass. I just tried it again, and I still get the "problem loading page" thing. I think Texas Resistance gave me the gist of it anyway.

The Ukrainians may have captured a Krasukha-4 electronic warfare command module. If so, this is huge. They're reporting it will be taken by road to Ramstein AFB. Why would they report that? Don't ask.



How much of this is true, and how much is BS? The best advice is, question everything.

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The link shows the neo-NAZI Azov battalion torturing Russian prisoners.

airforce, if you copy and paste this link

https://us11.proxysite.com/process.php?d=argS%2BJbZes%2Fqlc1qO3%2B%2BDJbg7vKEBC3epvahbGjyRame6ylqXlb9BsnaOu2y208FZQy3pCCwRSYc3%2B4mmZ9tMr8bAZMIW7nEeJU%3D&b=1&f=norefer
It will connect to
https://southfront.org/shocking-evidence-of-ukrainian-regimes-essence-video-21
so you can watch the video.

There are similar videos here:
"Live Updates: Shocking Video Reportedly Shows Ukrainians Shooting & Torturing Russian POWs"
https://www.infowars.com/posts/live...-warfare-by-russia-as-he-heads-to-europe

I would not torture my worst enemy. When Ukraine looses pay back will be a bitch. Never surrender in a war. Go out in a blaze of glory if you have to.

This is not war it's criminal. It is sick:
"Ukrainian Soldiers Film Themselves Calling Up Mothers of Russian Soldiers Killed in Action And Mocking Them"
by Paul Joseph Watson
March 28th 2022, 6:55 am
https://www.infowars.com/posts/ukra...ldiers-killed-in-action-and-mocking-them

Damn the democrats for supporting the Ukrainians. The Democrats want world war because they know that they will loose big time in the next election without another of their fear tactics like they used with their Corona Virus Genocide and their Clot Shot Genocide. Damn the major news media for their lies.

Even Old Testament law was an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Not torture and terrorizing an enemies mother.

"The rule of “an eye for an eye” was part of God’s Law given by Moses to ancient Israel and was quoted by Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount. (Matthew 5:​38, King James Version; Exodus 21:24, 25; Deuteronomy 19:21) It meant that when dealing out justice to wrongdoers, the punishment should fit the crime.
The rule applied to deliberate injurious acts against another person. Regarding a willful offender, the Mosaic Law stated: “Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, the same sort of injury he inflicted should be inflicted on him.”​—Leviticus 24:20."

I saw the video, thanks. Here's my take on it - which, like everyone else's opinion, take with a grain of salt:

Did this really happen? Very possibly. Atrocities happen in every war. The Japanese and Germans were infamous for it, but they were far from the only ones. Almost a hundred thousand Germans surrendered after Stalingrad, only a few thousand were ever returned - and that was years after the war ended. And Roosevelt put thousands of American citizens into concentration camps because they looked Japanese.

Could the Russians themselves have faked the video? Yes, they could.

What are the odds that a Ukrainian officer would allow a war crime like this to be recorded on video? Pretty small, I would say. Of course, everyone has a video camera on their phone these days, so it's also possible someone saw this happening, taped it without anyone else noticing, and sent it to a Russian news agency with close ties to the Russian intelligence services. Possible, but not too likely.

If I were a gambling man, my bet would be that it's a propaganda film. But I've lost bets before.

Personally, I take any news coming out of this or any other war with a whole lot of skepticism.

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The mayor of Bucha says 300 citizens were murdered by Russian troops. And if you've been watching Fox News this morning, you've seen photos of bodies lying in the street - some of them with their hands tied behind their backs.

Is it real? I don't know. I tend to take reports like this with an ocean of salt., and the Ukraine propaganda force seems thus far unscathed from the war.



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Biden is calling for a war crimes trial against Putin. It's not likely to get Putin to the negotiation table, and even less likely to actually happen. But he must have had some reason for saying it, I guess.



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My great uncle served under Patton and was captured in 44. He was sent east to a concentration camp. When the Russian army started getting close to the camp he said the German guards were "terrified". They said the Russians would kill them all and began marching the prisoners west to surrender to the allies. When NAZI's claim someone is brutal I have no doubt that they don't play nice.

The Russian's who live in the Donbass area have claimed the Ukrainian neo-nazi brigade has been murdering civilians for 8 years. Maybe some pissed off Russian troops are getting a little payback.

Questions Abound Over Bucha [UPDATE II]

https://www.newswars.com/questions-abound-over-bucha-update-ii/

When you're fighting a war, it might not be a good idea to loot your enemy's IPhones. And you should probably throw away your fitbit, too.



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When you're fighting a war you should not carry any kind of a cell phone. Both the Ukraine Nazi's and the Russian Commie's commanders should ban all cell phones. The Russians are most likely tracking the Ukraine Nazis cell phones too. This should be a good lesson for militiamen if we have to uphold the constitution. Cell phones are designed to continually track you by continually pinging the nearest cell phone tower. The camera can be turned on remotely to watch you and the micro phone can be turned to record your private conversations. The photos you take with a cell phone include geo-tracking tags in the photo that can be used against you. How stupid to carry a tracking device into combat. I hate cell phones especially smart phones. If you absolutely have to have a cell phone for your job, get the dumbest phone you can find. Woketards panic if they can't always have a cell phone. Before cell phones I used to be able to have a good fistfight for at least 3 minutes before someone could call the police and I did not have to worry about some woketard videoing me beating the crap out of some faggot. Now you can't find a pay phone anywhere. Now they have a law in Texas called assault causing injury with much more severe penalties than simple assault even when you don't use a weapon. A real man should be able to cause injury in every fight with just a few punches. The idiot woketards are obeying the fake news media and are all for getting NATO to fight the Russian Commies in Ukraine to start World War 3 which will be Nuclear.

Did elite Russian paratroopers stage a mutiny? I'm inclined to doubt this story, but it is being widely reported.



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Ukraine’s Army has been Defeated; all that is left is Mop-Up
April 8, 2022
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/08/ukraines-army-has-been-defeated

Larry C Johnson; veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, claims the Ukrainian Army has been defeated up and all that’s left is “mop-up”. The veteran who provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years sat down with Mike Whitney to explain why.

nterview conducted by Mike Whitney

Question 1– Can you explain to me why you think Russia is winning the war in Ukraine?

Larry C. Johnson– Within the first 24 hours of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all Ukrainian Ground Radar Intercept capabilities were wiped out. Without those radars, the Ukrainian Air Force lost its ability to do air to air intercept. In the intervening three weeks, Russia has established a de facto No Fly Zone over Ukraine. While still vulnerable to shoulder fired Surface to Air Missiles supplied by the U.S. and NATO to the Ukrainians, there is no evidence that Russia has had to curtail Combat Air Operations.

Russia’s arrival in Kiev within three days of the invasion also caught my attention. I recalled that the Nazi’s in Operation Barbarossa took seven weeks to reach Kiev and the required 7 more weeks to subdue the city. The Nazis had the advantage of not pulling punches to avoid civilian casualties and were eager to destroy critical infrastructure. Yet many so-called American military experts claimed that Russia was bogged down. When a 24 mile (or 40 mile, depends on the news source) was positioned north of Kiev for more than a week, it was clear that Ukraine’s ability to launch significant military operations had been eliminated. If their artillery was intact, then that column was easy pickings for massive destruction. That did not happen. Alternatively, if the Ukrainian’s had a viable fixed wing or rotary wing capability they should have destroyed that column from the air. That did not happen. Or, if they had a viable cruise missile capability they should have rained down hell on the supposedly stalled Russian column. That did not happen. The Ukrainians did not even mount a significant infantry ambush of the column with their newly supplied U.S. Javelins.

The scale and scope of the Russian attack is remarkable. They captured territory in three weeks that is larger than the land mass of the United Kingdom. They then proceeded to carry out targeted attacks on key cities and military installations. We have not seen a single instance of a Ukrainian regiment or brigade size unit attacking and defeating a comparable Russian unit. Instead, the Russians have split the Ukrainian Army into fragments and cut their lines of communication. The Russians are consolidating their control of Mariupol and have secured all approaches on the Black Sea. Ukraine is now cut off in the South and the North.

I would note that the U.S. had a tougher time capturing this much territory in Iraq in 2003 while fighting against a far inferior, less capable military force. If anything, this Russian operation should scare the hell out of U.S. military and political leaders.

The really big news came this week with the Russian missile strikes on what are de facto NATO bases in Yavoriv and Zhytomyr. NATO conducted cyber security training at Zhytomyr in September 2018 and described Ukraine as a “NATO partner.” Zhytomyr was destroyed with hypersonic missiles on Saturday. Yavoriv suffered a similar fate last Sunday. It was the primary training and logistics center that NATO and EUCOM used to supply fighters and weapons to Ukraine. A large number of the military and civilian personnel at that base became casualties.

Not only is Russia striking and destroying bases used by NATO regularly since 2015, but there was no air raid warning and there was no shutdown of the attacking missiles.

Question 2– Why is the media trying to convince the Ukrainian people that they can prevail in their war against Russia? If what you say is correct, then all the civilians that are being sent to fight the Russian army, are dying in a war they can’t win. I don’t understand why the media would want to mislead people on something so serious. What are your thoughts on the matter?

Larry C. Johnson– This is a combination of ignorance and laziness. Rather than do real reporting, the vast majority of the media (print and electronic) as well as Big Tech are supporting a massive propaganda campaign. I remember when George W. Bush was Hitler. I remember when Donald Trump was Hitler. And now we have a new Hitler, Vladimir Putin. This is a tired, failed playbook. Anyone who dares to raise legitimate questions about is immediately tarred as a Putin puppet or a Russia stooge. When you cannot argue facts the only recourse is name calling.

Question 3– Last week, Colonel Douglas MacGregor was a guest on the Tucker Carlson Show. His views on the war are strikingly similar to your own. Here’s what he said in the interview:

“The war is really over for the Ukrainians. They have been ground into bits, there is no question about that despite what we hear from our mainstream media. So, the real question for us at this stage is, Tucker, are we going to live with the Russian people and their government or we going to continue to pursue this sort of regime change dressed up as a Ukrainian war? Are we going to stop using Ukraine as a battering ram against Moscow, which is effectively what we’ve done.” (Tucker Carlson– MacGregor Interview)

Do you agree with MacGregor that the real purpose of goading Russia into a war in Ukraine was “regime change”?

Second, do you agree that Ukraine is being used as a staging ground for the US to carry out a proxy-war on Russia?

Larry C. Johnson– Doug is great analyst but I disagree with him—I don’t think there is anyone in the Biden Administration that is smart enough to think and plan in those strategic terms. In my view the last 7 years have been the inertia of the NATO status quo. What I mean by that is that NATO and Washington, believed they could continue to creep east on Russia’s borders without provoking a reaction. NATO and EUCOM regularly carried out exercises—including providing “offensive” training—and supplied equipment. I believe reports in the United States that the CIA was providing paramilitary training to Ukrainian units operating in the Donbass are credible. But I have trouble believing that after our debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, we suddenly have Sun Tzu level strategists pulling the strings in Washington.

There is an air of desperation in Washington. Besides trying ban all things Russian, the Biden Administration is trying to bully China, India and Saudi Arabia. I do not see any of those countries falling into line. I believe the Biden crew made a fatal mistake by trying to demonize all things and all people Russian. If anything, this is uniting the Russian people behind Putin and they are ready to dig in for a long struggle.

I am shocked at the miscalculation in thinking economic sanctions on Russia would bring them to their knees. The opposite is true. Russia is self-sufficient and is not dependent on imports. Its exports are critical to the economic well-being of the West. If they withhold wheat, potash, gas, oil, palladium, finished nickel and other key minerals from the West, the European and U.S. economies will be savaged. And this attempt to coerce Russia with sanctions has now made it very likely that the U.S. dollar’s role as the international reserve currency will show up in the dustbin of history.

Question 4– Ever since he delivered his famous speech in Munich in 2007, Putin has been complaining about the “architecture of global security”. In Ukraine we can see how these nagging security issues can evolve into a full-blown war. As you know, in December Putin made a number of demands related to Russian security, but the Biden administration shrugged them off and never responded. Putin wanted written assurances that NATO expansion would not include Ukraine (membership) and that nuclear missile systems would not be deployed to Romania or Poland. Do you think Putin’s demands are unreasonable?

Larry C. Johnson– I think Putin’s demands are quite reasonable. The problem is that 99% of Americans have no idea of the kind of military provocation that NATO and the U.S. have carried out over the last 7 years. The public was always told the military exercises were “defensive.” That simply is not true. Now we have news that DTRA was funding biolabs in Ukraine. I guess Putin could agree to allow U.S. nuclear missile systems in Poland and Romania if Biden agrees to allow comparable Russian systems to be deployed in Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico. When we look at it in those terms we can begin to understand that Putin’s demands are not crazy nor unreasonable.

Question 5– Russian media reports that Russian “high precision, air-launched” missiles struck a facility in west Ukraine “killing more than 100 local troops and foreign mercenaries.” Apparently, the Special Operations training center was located near the town of Ovruch which is just 15 miles from the Polish border. What can you tell us about this incident? Was Russia trying to send a message to NATO?

Larry C. Johnson– Short answer—YES! Russian military strikes in Western Ukraine during the past week have shocked and alarmed NATO officials. The first blow came on Sunday, March 13 at Yavoriv, Ukraine. Russia hit the base with several missiles, some reportedly hypersonic. Over 200 personnel were killed, which included American and British military and intelligence personnel, and hundreds more wounded. Many suffered catastrophic wounds, such as amputations, and are in hospital. Yet, NATO and the western media have shown little interest in reporting on this disaster.

Yavoriv was an important forward base for NATO (see here). Until February (prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine), the U.S. 7th Army Training Command was operating from Yavoriv as late as mid-February. Russia has not stopped there. ASB Military news reports Russia hit another site, Delyatyn, which is 60 miles southeast of Yavoriv (on Thursday I believe). Yesterday, Russia hit Zytomyr, another site where NATO previously had a presence. Putin has sent a very clear message—NATO forces in Ukraine will be viewed and treated as combatants. Period.

Question 6– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been lionized in the western media as a “wartime leader” and a modern-day “Winston Churchill”. What the media fails to tell its readers is that Zelensky has taken a number of steps to strengthen his grip on power while damaging fragile democratic institutions in Ukraine. For example, Zelensky has “banned eleven opposition-owned news organizations” and tried to bar the head of Ukraine’s largest opposition party, Viktor Medvedchuk, from running for office on a bogus “terrorist financing” charge. This is not the behavior of a leader that is seriously committed to democracy.

What’s your take on Zelensky? Is he really the “patriotic leader” the media makes him out to be?

Larry C. Johnson– Zelensky is a comedian and an actor. Not a very good one at that in my view. The West is cynically using the fact he is Jewish as a diversion from the size-able contingent of Neo-Nazis (and I mean genuine Nazis who still celebrate the Ukrainian Waffen SS unit’s accomplishments while fighting with the Nazis in WW II). The facts are clear—he is banning opposition political parties and shutting down opposition media. I guess that is the new definition of “democracy.”

Question 7– How does this end? There’s an excellent post at the Moon of Alabama site titled “What Will Be The Geographic End State Of The War In Ukraine“. The author of the post, Bernard, seems to think that Ukraine will eventually be partitioned along the Dnieper River “and south along the coast that holds a majority ethnic Russian population.”

He also says this:

“This would eliminate Ukrainian access to the Black Sea and create a land bridge towards the Moldavian breakaway Transnistria which is under Russian protection. The rest of the Ukraine would be a land confined, mostly agricultural state, disarmed and too poor to be build up to a new threat to Russia anytime soon. Politically it would be dominated by fascists from Galicia which would then become a major problem for the European Union.”

What do you think? Will Putin impose his own territorial settlement on Ukraine in order to reinforce Russian security and bring the hostilities to an end or is a different scenario more likely?

Larry C. Johnson– I agree with Moon. Putin’s primary objective is to secure Russia from foreign threats and effect a divorce with the West. Russia has the physical resources to be an independent sovereign and is in the process of making that vision come true.

Bio– Larry C Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years.

You don't give up ground you've already won unless you have to. The Ukrainians are certainly outgunned, but the Ukrainian army is fighting well with what they have. The Russian army is not. And if Boris Johnson follows through on sending Harpoon missiles to Ukraine, that could be a game changer.

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U.S. Military Intelligence Official Refutes 'Russian Atrocities' Claims

Russian soldiers left the town Bucha in Ukraine on March 30. Two days later the Ukrainian Gestapo like SBU and men of the fascist Azov battalion moved in to find and remove 'traitors'. On April 2/3 video was published that showed freshly killed men laying on the streets of Bucha. Several of them had white arm bands signaling to Russian forces to see them as friendlies.

The 'west' and Ukrainian officials immediately called those dead the result of 'Russian atrocities'.

I had called it a provocation:

The Bucha 'Russian' atrocities propaganda onslaught may have worked well in the 'west' but it lacks evidence that Russia had anything to do with it.

The former Indian ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar calls it an outright fake: ...

And a fake it was.

Thankfully there are still some sane U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency officials and William Arkin is talking with them:

Last Wednesday, Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk said that 320 people had been killed in the town of 37,000.
...
"It is ugly," a senior official with the Defense Intelligence Agency tells Newsweek. "But we forget that two peer competitors fought over Bucha for 36 days, and that the town was occupied, that Russian convoys and positions inside the town were attacked by the Ukrainians and vice versa, that ground combat was intense, that the town itself was literally fought over."
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"I am not for a second excusing Russia's war crimes, nor forgetting that Russia invaded the country," says the DIA official. "But the number of actual deaths is hardly genocide. If Russia had that objective or was intentionally killing civilians, we'd see a lot more than less than .01 percent in places like Bucha."

320 of 37,000 is not .01 percent. But we do not know how many of those dead were Russian or Ukrainian soldiers. Some of the dead were so called 'civilian defenders' which were supposedly local civilians to whom the government had handed guns to 'fight the Russians'. During a war a 'civilian' with a government issued gun shooting at enemy soldiers is a combatant, not a civilian.

The DIA official continues:

"Have the Russians been indiscriminate? Absolutely. But it shouldn't too surprising. It's part and parcel of the Russian way of war, lining up their artillery guns and letting loose," the DIA official says. "But here in particular, in Bucha and the other towns around it—Irpin and Hostomel—there was intense ground fighting that involved almost 20 battalion tactical groups."

I doubt that there is really intentional 'indiscriminate' Russian artillery fire. The Russians have held back quite a lot and paid in blood for it.

One should also note that the often shown mass graves in Bucha were not from recent actions but had been dug on March 10 after heavy fighting when Russian soldiers tried to enter the town:

Maxar Technologies, which collects and publishes satellite imagery of Ukraine, said the first signs of excavation for a mass grave at the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints were seen on March 10.

"More recent coverage on March 31st shows the grave site with an approximately 45-foot-long trench in the southwestern section of the area near the church," Maxar said.

The DIA official clearly says the civilian casualties in Ukraine, which are quite low, get overplayed and that attributing them solely to Russia is wrong:

On Monday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said it had recorded 1,793 deaths and 2,439 injuries to civilians in all of Ukraine since the war began on February 24. U.S. intelligence believes that the true number is some five times greater, as previously reported by Newsweek.

"It's bad," the DIA official says. "And I don't want to say it's not too bad. But I can't help but stress that beyond the clamor, we are not seeing the war clearly. Where there has been intense ground fighting and a standoff between Ukrainian and Russian forces, the destruction is almost total. But in terms of actual damage in Kyiv or other cities outside the battle zone, and with regard to the number of civilian casualties overall, the evidence contradicts the dominant narrative."
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The official says that it is dangerous to attribute one or even several graves and scenes of civilian disaster to Russian barbarism rather than just being realistic about the depredations of war.

The official also worries that attributing the destructiveness only to Russian conduct, rather than to war itself, creates future dangers.

"If we blame all the damage on Putin, as if he commanded it and that it is due solely to Russian war crimes, we are going to walk away from Ukraine with some illusion in our heads that modern warfare can be fought more cleanly, that the Ukraine war is an anomaly solely created by Russia's behavior. This war is just demonstrating how destructive any war on this scale would be."

One should avoid to wage war whenever possible but it also important to end wars as quickly as possible:

"Maybe it's heartless to urge that we look at Ukraine with precision, without human emotion," says the DIA official.

"But for those who think tens of thousands have died and Russia is intentionally killing civilians and pursuing genocide, I say that's even more of an argument to find a diplomatic solution to cease fighting. But nothing is going to happen in the coming days or weeks to change the reality on the battlefield. That's why stopping the fighting should be our highest priority."

Unfortunately ending the war is not a priority for the U.S. nor the EU. Their leaders are drunk on the idea that the Ukraine defeated Russia around Kiev. They seem to believe that the Ukraine can defeat Russia everywhere.

But the retreat from Kiev was ordered because the deceptive move towards it had fulfilled its purpose of keeping a large number of Ukrainian soldiers in place around Kiev while the Russian army opened the land corridor to Crimea.

The Ukraine has no chance to defeat the Russian army no matter how many old tanks or airplanes the U.S. and EU countries move to it.

Sending more weapons only prolongs the war and inevitably creates more military and civilian casualties on both sides.

A Russian Navy cruiser, the Moskva, is sailing back to Sevastapol reportedly still on fire from a Ukrainian Neptune missile. It's not clear if the ship is sailing on its own, or is being towed. The crew had earlier abandoned ship.

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According to Russian media. The Moskva has sunk. They say it simply caught fire, which seems a little unlikely to me.



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Sweet! That is some good news for the defenders. No doubt the invaders will want to do everything possible to not allow the Ukrainian to make this into a win for them, or to cause the Russian military or public to really know how bad things are going. Morale is a lot like momentum. Once it starts going in one direction it is very difficult to change.

Russians have probably captured the Port of Mariupol, though isolated groups of Ukraine soldiers remain active. Most of the organized Ukraine resistance is apparently in the Azovstal factory, which Russian forces are trying to crush with overwhelming firepower rather than costly clearing operations.

See the complete assessment from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) at the link.

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Here's a photo of the Azovstal ironworks and steel plant in Mariupol, taken before the war.



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I can't imagine the Russians are going to let the Moskva sink without some serious payback. The issued a pretty strong statement about it over the weekend.

I can't either. But the Russians themselves pretty effectively defended Stalingrad using factories a lot like this one. They're formidable defensive positions to begin with, and after they're damaged or rubbleized, even more so. Taking that factory is going to be no easy task.

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Last I had heard the Kremlin was still sticking to the “accidental ammo fire” storyline to not give Ukrainians the propaganda win, or have to fess up to the Russian prof their loss. Have they finally acknowledged that it was in fact sunk by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world...m_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated

The Ukrainian Air Force just got bigger. Someone just send Ukraine some for Mig-29's, or at least the spare parts for them. We don't know who, but good guesses would be Bulgaria, Poland, or Slovakia.



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Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin are going to meet with Zelensky in Kiev tomorrow. Given this administration's propensity to ruin things, I'm more than a little worried.



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“One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition[/b]

Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy·April 17, 2022


While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has framed his country’s war against Russia as a battle for democracy itself. In a carefully choreographed address to US Congress on March 16, Zelensky stated, “Right now, the destiny of our country is being decided. The destiny of our people, whether Ukrainians will be free, whether they will be able to preserve their democracy.”

US corporate media has responded by showering Zelensky with fawning press, driving a campaign for his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and inspiring a flamboyant musical tribute to himself and the Ukrainian military during the 2022 Grammy awards ceremony on April 3.

Western media has looked the other way, however, as Zelensky and top officials in his administration have sanctioned a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and assassination of local Ukrainian lawmakers accused of collaborating with Russia. Several mayors and other Ukrainian officials have been killed since the outbreak of war, many reportedly by Ukrainian state agents after engaging in de-escalation talks with Russia.

“There is one less traitor in Ukraine,” Internal Affairs Ministry advisor Anton Geraschenko stated in endorsement of the murder of a Ukrainian mayor accused of collaborating with Russia.

Zelensky has further exploited the atmosphere of war to outlaw an array of opposition parties and order the arrest of his leading rivals. His authoritarian decrees have triggered the disappearance, torture and even murder of an array of human rights activists, communist and leftist organizers, journalists and government officials accused of “pro-Russian” sympathies.

The Ukrainian SBU security services has served as the enforcement arm of the officially authorized campaign of repression. With training from the CIA and close coordination with Ukraine’s state-backed neo-Nazi paramilitaries, the SBU has spent the past weeks filling its vast archipelago of torture dungeons with political dissidents.

On the battlefield, meanwhile, the Ukrainian military has engaged in a series of atrocities against captured Russian troops and proudly exhibited its sadistic acts on social media. Here too, the perpetrators of human rights abuses appear to have received approval from the upper echelons of Ukrainian leadership.

While Zelensky spouts bromides about the defense of democracy before worshipful Western audiences, he is using the war as a theater for enacting a blood-drenched purge of political rivals, dissidents and critics.

“The war is being used to kidnap, imprison and even kill opposition members who express themselves critical of the government,” a left-wing activist beaten and persecuted by Ukraine’s security services commented this April. “We must all fear for our freedom and our lives.”
Torture and enforced disappearances “common practices” of Ukraine’s SBU

When a US-backed government seized power in Kiev following the Euromaidan regime change operation of 2013-14, Ukraine’s government embarked on a nationwide purge of political elements deemed pro-Russian or insufficiently nationalistic. The passage of “decommunization” laws by the Ukrainian parliament further eased the persecution of leftist elements and the prosecution of activists for political speech.

The post-Maidan regime has focused its wrath on Ukrainians who have advocated a peace settlement with pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east, those who have documented human rights abuses by the Ukrainian military, and members of communist organizations. Dissident elements have faced the constant threat of ultra-nationalist violence, imprisonment, and even murder.

The Ukrainian security service known as the SBU has served as the main enforcer of the post-Maidan government’s campaign of domestic political repression. Pro-Western monitors including the United Nations Office of the High Commission (UN OHCR) and Human Rights Watch have accused the SBU of systematically torturing political opponents and Ukrainian dissidents with near-total impunity.

The UN OHCR found in 2016 that “arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment of such conflict-related detainees were common practice of SBU… A former Kharkiv SBU officer explained, ‘For the SBU, the law virtually does not exist as everything that is illegal can be either classified or explained by referring to state necessity.”

Yevhen Karas, the founder of the infamous neo-Nazi C14 unit, has detailed the close relationship his gang and other extreme right factions have enjoyed with the SBU. The SBU “informs not only us, but also Azov, the Right Sector, and so on,” Karas boasted in a 2017 interview.
Kiev officially endorses assassinating Ukrainian mayors for negotiating with Russia

Since Russia launched its military operation inside Ukraine, the SBU has hunted down local officials that decided to accept humanitarian supplies from Russia or negotiated with Russian forces to arrange corridors for civilian evacuations.

On March 1, for example, Volodymyr Strok, the mayor of the eastern city of Kreminna in the Ukrainian-controlled side of Lugansk, was kidnapped by men in military uniform, according to his wife, and shot in the heart.

On March 3, pictures of Strok’s visibly tortured body appeared. A day before his murder, Struk had reportedly urged his Ukrainian colleagues to negotiate with pro-Russian officials.

Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, celebrated the mayor’s murder, declaring on his Telegram page (see below): “There is one less traitor in Ukraine. The mayor of Kreminna in Luhansk region, former deputy of Luhansk parliament was found killed.”

According to Geraschenko, Strok had been judged by the “court of the people’s tribunal.”

Read the rest here.

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/17/...-kidnapping-arrest-political-opposition/

As Finland considers joining NATO, Finnish citizens are preparing for war. As should we.



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Why are the Russian military weapons failing so badly? Because the commies never really stopped being commies. It is competition that leads to improvements in military weapons, like everything else.

You can skip the first 1:45 at the start, it's a long commercial.



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It's getting harder for Putin to convince his people this isn't really a war, when things keep blowing up in Russian cities.



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Will Russia invade Moldova? it seems unlikely, Russia already has their hands full in Ukraine. but they're already shelling Moldova radio stations.



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Russia is losing the hacker war too. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Russian companies and government agencies have been hacked in retribution for the Ukraine invasion.



Read the whole thing at the link.

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Germany will send 50 Cheetah antiaircraft tracks to Ukraine.





More at the link.

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Musk's Starlink satellites changed the war in Ukraine's favor. Putin wanted to destroy Ukraine's communications, command, and control capability. Now he can't.



One more reason to like Elon Musk.

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I like Elon Musk if he restores the right of freedom of speech on Twitter but now I'll bet Putin takes down those satellites or nukes the Ukrainians. Unelected Joe Biden (Obama's sock puppet) who is so senile that he belongs in a nursing is going to cause an economic collapse and World War 3 supporting Ukraine.

"Biden Explains Why Ukraine Needs Another $33 Billion Of US Taxpayer Money"
Thursday, Apr 28, 2022
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...ine-needs-another-33-billion-us-taxpayer

"Putin warns of “lightning-fast” response if America, West try to intervene in Ukraine war"
Thursday, April 28, 2022
https://naturalnews.com/2022-04-28-putin-lightning-fast-response-if-america-intervenes.html

Don't read too much into this. Russian officers have been shooting Russian draftees for a long time, in both winning and losing wars.



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Russian State TV Warns of Underwater Nuclear Drone Strikes on West
May 2nd 2022, 5:50 pm
https://www.infowars.com/posts/russian-state-tv-warns-of-underwater-nuclear-drone-strikes-on-west

"There’s no way of stopping this underwater drone. The warhead on it has a yield of up to 100 megatons. The explosion of this thermonuclear torpedo by Britain’s coastline will cause a giant tsunami wave up to 500 meters high," says presenter."

A Russian state news anchor warned that Great Britain could be “plunged into the sea” by an underwater nuclear strike if it continues supplying weapons to Ukraine.

News anchor Dmitry Kiselyov, known as “Putin’s mouthpiece”, explained over the weekend the chilling hypothetical scenario of tidal-wave producing underwater nuclear attack should the UK continue “playing games” with Russia over the Ukraine conflict.

“There’s no way of stopping this underwater drone. The warhead on it has a yield of up to 100 megatons. The explosion of this thermonuclear torpedo by Britain’s coastline will cause a giant tsunami wave up to 500 meters high. Such a barrage alone also carries extreme doses of radiation,” Kiselyov said.

“This tidal wave is also a carrier of extremely high doses of radiation. Surging over Britain, it will turn whatever is left of them into radioactive desert, unusable for anything. How do you like this prospect?”

Kiselyov is likely referring to Russia’s Poseidon warhead, a state-of-the-art nuclear torpedo launched from an unmanned submarine.

He then suggested that Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missile Sarmat aka the “Satan II” alone could render the UK into a “radioactive desert, unfit for anything for a long time.”

“Why do they threaten vast Russia with nuclear weapons while they are only a small island? The island is so small that one Sarmat missile is enough to drown it once and for all,” Kiselyov said.

“Russian missile Sarmat, the world most powerful is capable of destroying an area the size of Texas or England.”

“A single launch, Boris, and there is no England anymore. Once and for all. Why do they play games?” he added, taunting UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Since the UK is a member of the NATO alliance, such an attack by Russia would be reciprocated by the West in kind, plunging the world into a full-blown nuclear war.

This comes as the far-left New Yorker magazine acknowledged on Sunday that the U.S. is now locked in a “full proxy war with Russia” by sending billions of dollars in heavy weapons and equipment to Ukraine.

This new resolution, if adopted, would allow the President to send troops to Ukraine. It was introduced by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R - Illinois).



Here we go.

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Damn that Republican in name only Adam Kinzinger. As soon as the US Troops arrive in Ukraine to help the Ukraine Nazis the Russian Commie Rats will nuke us. Everyone needs to contact their Congress Critters demanding The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to Defend America's Allies Resolution of 2022 never be passed. That diaper wearing fugitive from a nursing home child molesting Biden need to be impeached for senility and removed from the presidency.

The constitutionalist in me is nostalgic about the days when the President would call a joint session of congress to request a vote on the declaration of war… yes… the good old days.

Me too. Of course, it has never happened in my lifetime so I can't really say I'm nostalgic about it, but yeah.

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My lifetime either… (born mid 70s) but I’m a history buff so I can get nostalgic about times before mine!

Russia: NATO Not Taking Nuclear Threat Seriously

by Tyler Durden
Friday, May 06, 2022 - 07:30 AM

Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,

Russia’s ambassador to the US said on Thursday that NATO leaders are not taking the threat of nuclear war seriously enough.

“The current generation of NATO politicians clearly does not take the nuclear threat seriously,” ambassador Anatoly Antonov told Newsweek. While it’s widely believed that a direct war between NATO and Russia would quickly turn nuclear, the danger doesn’t appear to be factored into the Western approach to the war in Ukraine.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the US and its NATO allies have been pouring weapons into the country and are openly sharing intelligence with the Ukrainians that is being used to kill Russian troops. On top of the strong support for Ukraine, the US and many other NATO countries have abandoned diplomacy with Moscow.

The Western campaign clearly risks sparking a direct war with Moscow, prompting Russian officials to warn of the danger of nuclear war. But the US has denounced the Russian warning as saber-rattling and continues to escalate its support for Kyiv. Antonov criticized what he called “a flurry of blatant misrepresentation of Russian officials’ statements on our country’s nuclear policy.”

Antonov reiterated Russia’s stance on the potential scenarios where it would use nuclear weapons. He said they “can be used in response to the use of WMD against Russia and its allies, or in the event of aggression against our country when the very existence of the state is jeopardized.”

The US and Russia possess about 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons, but today, there is only one major arms control treaty between the two nations, the New START, which limits the number of missiles, bombers, and nuclear warheads each power can have deployed. Early on in Biden’s presidency, he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to extend New START for five years, but progress on arms control has stalled since.

At a summit in Geneva last June, Biden and Putin agreed that the US and Russia would hold arms control talks, but Antonov said the dialogue has been “frozen” by Washington. “Regrettably, Washington has unilaterally ‘frozen’ the bilateral strategic stability dialogue that was launched at the Geneva summit, thus jeopardizing the prospects of keeping the foundation of arms control in place,” he said. “Russia is ready to resume the consultations as soon as the United States is ready.”

Anatoly Antonov is wrong. We certainly take nuclear war seriously. It's the empty threats from Moscow that we don't take seriously. Nor should we.

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Guided missile frigate Admiral Makarov may be damaged by a Ukraine missile. The Kremlin is saying they have no information about it.



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The Biden regime, being controlled by Obama and the Globalists who would love to kill off 90% of us is not only is not taking Russian threats of nuclear war seriously they are trying to provoke the Russian Commie Rats to turn the war nuclear to keep the democrats in power. Without a crisis the Democrats will loose in the next elections. Most of the ultra-rich moved to the Southern Hemisphere months ago to avoid the blasts and the nuclear fallout.

The leftist idiots in the controlled major news media are suppressing the relevant news to help destroy us.

The US is the cause of the stupid Ukrainian Nazis being able to sink the Russian ship Moskva and now the Admiral Makarov ship. See: https://www.infowars.com/posts/us-i...sel-officials-claim-bombshell-escalation

The US has shut down diplomacy with the Russians and initiated an economic war with Russia defaulting on contracts and initiating economic sanctions effectively stealing billions of dollars from them.

The US spent 224 million dollars for Ukraine to create biological weapons to kill Russians with. See: https://naturalnews.com/2022-05-05-pentagon-spent-224million-bioweapons-programs-ukraine.html

Bible scholars can not find the USA mentioned in Bible prophecy so it is likely that we will be nuked starting with a high altitude EMP strike that will fry most power transformers and all most computer chips that now besides running passenger vehicles run off road vehicles, industrial engines, and tractors too. Without electricity to circulate the coolant our nuclear power plants will melt down.

The Russian have engines that still run without electronics, radios that are EMP resistant running with vacuum tubes, underground fallout shelters for a millions of their citizens, and underground factories.

The Russian have drone submarines right now sitting on the ocean floor off our east and west coasts ready to fire their 300 megaton nuclear torpedoes causing radio active tidal waves.

The sorry damn leftists are continuing to promote the murder of unborn babies and promoting the mutilation of children with surgery and hormones of their opposite sex. Males can never be changed into female and females can never be changed into males. All they become are mutilated sodomite freaks.

The USA is coming under severe judgment of the Lord God. Prepare to meet you maker. Your soul is eternal. Everyone will either be in Hell or in Heaven forever. Get right with the Lord Jesus Christ while you still can as you might not survive World War III.

Dig nuclear fallout shelters, plant gardens, and lean how to live without electricity. Never surrender your firearms for food and never let them put you in a FEMA camp.

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https://naturalnews.com/2022-03-15-...s-game-of-global-chicken-with-putin.html
“We have developed unmanned submersible vehicles that can move at great depths – I would say extreme depths – intercontinentally, at a speed multiple times higher than the speed of submarines, cutting-edge torpedoes and all kinds of surface vessels,” said Putin.

"It is reported that the main goal of the torpedo is to deliver a thermonuclear warhead to enemy shores in order to destroy important coastal infrastructure and industrial objects, as well as ensure massive damage to the enemy’s territory by subjecting vast areas to radioactive tsunamis and other devastating consequences of a nuclear explosion.

"The function of the Poseidon drone system is to unleash a dirty bomb effect onto an enemy’s coastal regions by detonating a cobalt-enriched nuclear warhead under the ocean, several miles off the coast."

"Russian State TV Warns of Russian State TV Warns of Underwater Nuclear Drone Strikes on West"
May 2nd 2022, 5:50 pm
https://www.infowars.com/posts/russian-state-tv-warns-of-underwater-nuclear-drone-strikes-on-west

"There’s no way of stopping this underwater drone. The warhead on it has a yield of up to 100 megatons. The explosion of this thermonuclear torpedo by Britain’s coastline will cause a giant tsunami wave up to 500 meters high," says presenter."

That is exactly what's happening and most refuse to see it coming.

We still have to beware of the Chi-Coms who own that child molesting crooked election stealing traitor Biden.
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Latest intel: Biden using Ukraine theater of war to DISPOSE of America’s munitions arsenal … FEAR the “thermobaric” bomb
Friday, May 06, 2022 by: Mike Adams
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-05...spose-of-americas-munitions-arsenal.html

During the recent military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden regime left behind $10+ billion in US military hardware, including aircraft, helicopters, armored vehicles, missiles, munitions, firearms and more. This was, of course, a deliberate effort to arm America’s enemies while depleting America’s own military hardware stockpiles.

The Ukraine conflict is yet another scheme where Biden, under the control of communist China, is disposing of America’s munitions by feeding them into the “Russia grinder” where these weapons are destroyed on their way to the front lines in Ukraine.

The goal of this is not merely to help Ukraine win the war (which looks hopeless at this point) but rather to deplete America’s weapons stockpiles in an effort to weaken America before China’s long-planned invasion gets under way.

China is watching carefully and calculating the rapid draw-down of America’s anti-tank weapons, drones, armored vehicles, artillery units, artillery ammunition and other key elements that would be necessary for America to defend herself against a Chinese invasion. The more of these weapons are sent to Ukraine, the weaker America’s homeland defenses become.
The Biden regime is run by Obama, who has been working to weaken and dismantle the USA

Understand that Biden is run by Obama, and Obama has been working with globalists to destroy the United States from the very start of his administration in January, 2009. Some of the attacks on America that have been waged with the help of Obama include culture wars, racial division, extreme censorship, economic warfare, dumbing down of public education, mass depopulation efforts with deadly vaccines, the purging of conservatives from the US military and the carrying out of mass domestic terrorism by the FBI, which ran the Gov. Whitmer “kidnapping” false flag operation.
Brighteon.TV

Despite all the attacks, America has a very strong military, so every effort is being made to wipe out USA military hardware and personnel. The shipping of hardware to Ukraine is only one small part of that effort, however.

The larger effort appears to be a deliberate attempt to provoke Putin into a retaliation against America’s military troops who are gathering in Poland in anticipation of a summertime counter attack against Russia. The most likely weapon that will be used in this escalation, according to our sources, is a Fuel Air Explosive weapon, also known as a “thermobaric” bomb.

A thermobaric bomb is devastating against personnel but unable to breach concrete bunkers or armored vehicles. However, it disintegrates the human body with horrifying efficiency, and it can cover a very wide area when deployed. Russia has possessed such weapons since the 1960s and has mastered their deployment.

Some people claim the following video records the deployment of a Russian thermobaric bomb in Ukraine, in early March. Although it appears to depict a mushroom cloud, there was no radiation from this blast, indicating it was not a nuclear weapon.

Biden is pushing Russia into escalating retaliation

Observing the fact that the Pentagon is now bragging to the NYT about taking part in the sinking of the Moskva (Russian flagship), it is apparent that Biden wants to goad Russia into an escalating retaliation against NATO and the USA.

Russia’s primary choices of weapons for that escalation are:

Hypersonic cruise missiles – impossible for NATO to stop, typically carry kinetic explosives
Thermobaric bombs (Fuel Air Explosives) – highly effective anti-personnel bombs which can destroy large numbers of people, but do not release radiation
EMP weapons – Plunges the target area into a 19th century existence without power, but may risk causing nuclear power plants to lose control, leading to meltdowns
Nuclear weapons – Unleashes radioactivity and invites international condemnation and possible breaking of ties with India and Turkey

Thus, the most obvious retaliatory weapon of choice for Putin to attack US and NATO troops stationed in Poland is the use of a thermobaric bomb.

Obama / Biden no doubt invite this because it would destroy the ranks of the US military and leave America even more defenseless against an invasion from China.

Remember: Everything Biden does is calculated by Obama to erode the defensive power of the US military, either through attrition of active duty soldiers or the disposal of US munitions. Biden’s handlers are treasonous actors who hope to bring down America and see it conquered by communists.

Get more details in today’s Situation Update podcast:

Brighteon.com/98df403e-d4b8-42dd-b02e-45ab8594b867

A lot is being said about Russia's hypersonic missiles. It's true they've tested them - but testing a couple missiles is a long way from actually deploying them. That takes years, and presents a whole slough of more problems - not the least of which that most all of Russia's missiles rely on parts from Ukraine. By contrast, Raytheon and other suppliers can churn out Javelins, counterbattery fire systems, and antiaircraft systems pretty quickly.

But most importantly, the Ukraine military is simply fighting well, while Russia's is not. Russia's tactics haven't changed a whole lot since WWII, while Ukraine - with training provided by the U.S. and other NATO countries, has the ability to adapt to changes in the battlefield. In short, it's no longer a given that Russia can or will win this war.

Disclaimer: I own stock in Raytheon.

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Finland's leaders support joining NATO. Finland's membership would more than double NATO's borders with Russia, a nightmare for Putin. Once Finland and Sweden formally apply, their acceptance into NATO will likely be swift.

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Well, so much for 200 years of neutrality. Sweden is expected to apply for NATO membership along with Finland.

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Trukey's President Erdogan is saying he will block Finland and Sweden from joining NATO. He's not happy with how they are willing to host Kurdish militants.



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Curious how strongly they will object and how much the rest of the alliance will pressure them to back down on this.

My personal opinion is that they are using this as a bargaining chip to use on some or various other issues. I’m the end the Turks will extract something or improve their negotiating position on some issues, and they will sign off on the expansion of NATO to include these two Nordic nations.

Probably. But to be honest, I have a hard time figuring out what Erdogan is doing. I can't figure him out any more than I can Putin.

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Now Putin is saying he has no problem with Finland and Sweden joining NATO. I think reality may be setting in.



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For gun bunnies, counterbattery fire is the coolest thing since pineapple on pizza. And the M777A2 is especially good at it.



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French former Marine returns from Ukraine shocked

French ex-soldier Adrien Bocquet spent three weeks in Ukraine and what he saw there will be etched on his mind forever, he said. Once back home he was dismayed to learn that the media keep inviting "experts" who have not been to Ukraine and have no idea what is going on there.

Published: May 14, 2022, 12:55 pm

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Courbevoie

Speaking to French radio station Sud Radio, Adrien Bocquet said he had witnessed “a lot of war crimes“. All those war crimes were committed by Ukrainian soldiers and not by Russian soldiers, he pointed out. Bocquet is therefore enormously alarmed that Europe is sending weapons to Ukrainian neo-Nazis. They wear all kinds of Nazi symbols on their uniforms. They do not hide these symbols. What is more, they boast about them, he said.

“I worked with them and gave them medicine. Do you know what they said? That they would skin Jews or blacks if they had the chance.” This certainly does not align with the mainstream narrative of saving “democracy” and “our values” in Ukraine.

“People can say whatever they want. I was there. I saw what happened there,” emphasised Bocquet, who says he has made many dozens of videos of war crimes. He saw in a barn Russian prisoners of war who had been beaten and tied up. “Fighters from the Azov battalion asked them who the officers were. Each Russian soldier was shot in the knees with a Kalashnikov. I have videos that prove it, otherwise I would not dare to say such a thing.”

Officers were immediately shot in the head. “That’s how it goes, at least in the Azov battalion,” the French ex-marine said.

He went on to say that he had seen an American cameraman blatantly staging footage and the Ukrainian army hiding ammunition in homes at night without informing civilians.

In Stunning Shift, WaPo Admits Catastrophic-Conditions, Collapsing-Morale Of Ukraine Front-Line Forces

by Tyler Durden
Friday, May 27, 2022

With Russia's war in Ukraine now in its fourth month, mainstream media consumers have been treated to seemingly endless headlines and analysis of Russia's extensive military losses. At the same time Ukrainian forces have tended to be lionized and their battlefield prowess romanticized, with essentially zero public information so far being given which details up-to-date Ukrainian force casualties, set-backs, and equipment losses.

But for the first time The Washington Post is out with a surprisingly dire and negative assessment of how US-backed and equipped Ukrainian forces are actually fairing. Gone is the rosy idealizing lens through which each and every encounter with the Russians is typically portrayed. WaPo correspondent and author of the new report Sudarsan Raghavan underscores of the true situation that "Ukrainian leaders project an image of military invulnerability against Russia. But commanders offer a more realistic portrait of the war, where outgunned volunteers describe being abandoned by their military brass and facing certain death at the front."

As many careful and less idealistic observers suspected the whole time, a steady stream of both wartime propaganda and one-sided social media feeds where it seems the only tanks being blown up are Russian ones has served to present a very skewed portrayal of the battlefield to the Western public. While it's perhaps easier to get sucked into this pro-Ukraine bias based on the innumerable so-called open source intelligence self-anointed 'experts' on Twitter, this is less so if one wades into Telegram, where a flood of uncensored videos from both sides gives a truer picture, as the fresh report seems to also suggest.

The Washington Post report belatedly admits the avalanche of propaganda based in a pro-Kiev, pro-West narrative from the outset: "Videos of assaults on Russian tanks or positions are posted daily on social media. Artists are creating patriotic posters, billboards and T-shirts. The postal service even released stamps commemorating the sinking of a Russian warship in the Black Sea."

The report then pivots to the reality of an undertrained, poorly commanded and equipped, rag-tag force of mostly volunteers in the East who find themselves increasingly surrounded by the numerically superior Russian military which has penetrated almost the entire Donbas region. "Ukraine, like Russia, has provided scant information about deaths, injuries or losses of military equipment. But after three months of war, this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths, injuries and desertions," the report reads as it follows one particular battalion.

The report's sources speak out despite threat of being court-martialed amid a heavily controlled information flow:

“War breaks people down,” said Serhiy Haidai, head of the regional war administration in Luhansk province, acknowledging many volunteers were not properly trained because Ukrainian authorities did not expect Russia to invade. But he maintained that all soldiers are taken care of: “They have enough medical supplies and food. The only thing is there are people that aren’t ready to fight.”

The report references a video widely circulating online this week wherein a group the size of a platoon declares they simply can't fight for lack of weaponry, ammunition, food and proper command support:

“We are being sent to certain death,” said a volunteer, reading from a prepared script, adding that a similar video was filmed by members of the 115th Brigade 1st Battalion. “We are not alone like this, we are many.”

Ukraine’s military rebutted the volunteers’ claims in their own video posted online, saying the “deserters” had everything they needed to fight: “They thought they came for a vacation,” one service member said. “That’s why they left their positions.”

In the wake of the video, the Ukrainian troops featured are being accused of 'desertion':



Additional videos have surfaced that are similar: units complain even of being left to fight in already impossible conditions with WWI and WWII-era rifles, which can do little up against Russia's far superior firepower.

The stunning WaPo report further documents volunteer groups of men who were previously oil well technicians, salesmen, or other ordinary jobs like farmers being sent to front line positions in the south and east - even though they thought they were first bound to simple security posts in much less intense environs like Lviv.

“We shot 30 bullets and then they said, ‘You can’t get more; too expensive,’” one volunteer described. And more: “When we were coming here, we were told that we were going to be in the third line on defense,” Lapko said. “Instead, we came to the zero line, the front line. We didn’t know where we were going.”

The situation has gotten more dire as even water is in short supply amid the most intense Russian push to surround Ukrainian positions in the Donbas to date:

And in recent weeks, he said, the situation has gotten much worse. When their supply chains were cut off for two days by the bombardment, the men were forced to make do with a potato a day.

They spend most days and nights in trenches dug into the forest on the edges of Toshkivka or inside the basements of abandoned houses. “They have no water, nothing there,” Lapko said. “Only water that I bring them every other day.”

Meanwhile the very noticeable shifting rhetoric issued from prominent officials and pundits of late has strongly suggested not all is well for Ukraine's military...

The WaPo further includes the following devastating testimony and assessment:

“Many got shell shock. I don’t know how to count them,” Lapko said.

The casualties here are largely kept secret to protect morale among troops and the general public.

“On Ukrainian TV we see that there are no losses,” Lapko said. “There’s no truth.”

Many of the casualties suffered by the above referenced volunteer unit were due to lack of logistics available to transport the wounded to hospitals behind the front lines. The report emphasizes that the entirety of the catastrophic conditions of frontline forces has led to officers and enlisted increasingly refusing to follow orders from higher command.

With this fresh and unexpected Washington Post report, the mainstream seems to now belatedly be admitting what only weeks ago could get a person banned from Twitter...

"Lapko and his men have grown increasingly frustrated and disillusioned with their superiors. His request for the awards has not been approved," the report finds. "His battalion commander demanded that he send 20 of his soldiers to another front line, which meant that he couldn’t rotate his men out from Toshkivka. He refused the order."

The globalists want nuclear war with Russia and China. Their satanic spokesman George Soros advocated for war with Russian and China in his recent speech to the globalists in Davos Switzerland.

In his speech here:
https://www.georgesoros.com/2022/05/24/remarks-delivered-at-the-2022-world-economic-forum-in-davos
and here: "Soros Says Civilization May Not Survive Russia's Invasion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kmgrq-7drI
Soros said, "Therefore, we must mobilize all our resources to bring the war to an early end. The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible. That’s the bottom line."

Soros is a satanic lying damn globalist. Putin will nuke the US before he lets Russia be defeated and the Chi-Com are readying to attack us too. The ocean shipping delays of goods from China is becasue the Chi-Coms are loading munitions on ships instead of consumer good for an attack on us.

The Chi-Coms can't feed their people so they plan to attack us and take our farmland. For over 36 years the faggot Chi-Coms killed 400 Million female infants with their one child per family policy. Now the Chi-Coms who aren't faggots don't have enough women so they want to attack us, murder all US males, and rape our females.

That traitor fake president Biden will be glad to surrender the US to the Chi-Coms. Soros and the globalists want to destroy the US and kill off most of the population with a nuclear World War III. Many of the ultra-rich have moved to the Southern Hemisphere to avoid the nuclear blasts and the radioactive fallout.

Ukraine needs to surrender all the Ukrainian territory that has already been lost to Russia and make peace with Russia. Biden is severely depleting our munitions which take years to replace, bankrupting the US, and is causing hyper inflation by giving 40 Billion Dollars to the Ukrainians who cannot win their war with Russia.

From: https://www.infowars.com/posts/geor...survive-unless-russia-china-are-defeated
Globalist billionaire George Soros warned the World Economic Forum attendees at Davos that “civilization may not survive” unless Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping are defeated.

The 90-year-old Hungarian financier claimed that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may have marked the “beginning of the Third World War” and delayed the WEF’s Great Reset agenda.
“Other issues that concern all of humanity — fighting pandemics and climate change, avoiding nuclear war, maintaining global institutions — have had to take a back seat to that struggle,” Soros said Tuesday. “That’s why I say our civilization may not survive.”
“Therefore, we must mobilize all our resources to bring the war to an early end. The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible. That’s the bottom line,” he added.
Soros claimed that Putin and Xi have made “mind-boggling mistakes” in pursuing their separate national interests for which the world is now paying the price.
“They are tied together in an alliance that has no limits. They also have a lot in common. They rule by intimidation, and as a consequence they make mind-boggling mistakes,” Soros said. “Putin expected to be welcomed in Ukraine as a liberator; Xi Jinping is sticking to a Zero Covid policy that can’t possibly be sustained.”
Soros claimed that Putin must also be swiftly defeated because his military operation in Ukraine has put the WEF’s climate change initiatives on the back burner, which he said also threatens civilization.
“While the war rages, the fight against climate change has to take second place. Yet the experts tell us that we have already fallen far behind, and climate change is on the verge of becoming irreversible. That could be the end of our civilization,” he said.
But Ukrainian forces face an uphill battle because the war has reached “a new phase” where they must confront Russian forces on open terrain, where the former Soviet nation can leverage its “numerical superiority” on the battlefield.
“The invasion of Ukraine has now entered a new phase which is much more challenging for the Ukrainian army,” Soros said. “They must fight on open terrain where the numerical superiority of the Russian army is more difficult to overcome.”

Ukraine Was Building Dirty Bomb. Advance Of Russian Troops Reveals New Circumstances

https://southfront.org/ukraine-was-...ussian-troops-reveals-new-circumstances/

Possible creation of a nuclear bomb in Ukraine

Just before the beginning of Ukraine’s war with Russia, Vladimir Putin uttered a key phrase, the meaning of which was that Russia could not allow Ukraine to reacquire even tactical nuclear weapons and that Kiev was literally one step away from creating them. It was this emphasis that immediately fell out of the public spotlight amid claims of “denazification” and “demilitarization”. What is a dirty nuclear bomb and how likely is Kiev to have one?

The classic nuclear charge has a monstrous destructive power, but the effect of using such weapons is relatively short-lived. Yes, indeed, during a nuclear explosion extremely dangerous isotopes are formed, including strontium-89, strontium-90, cesium-137, zinc-64 and tantalum-181. These isotopes, once in the body, accumulate there, causing severe and often incurable diseases. For example, radioactive iodine accumulates in the thyroid gland, cesium in muscles, strontium in bones and so on.

At the same time, the affected area of a nuclear explosion denuclearizes rather quickly, i.e. actively loses radioactivity. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only cities in the history of mankind to have been nuclear bombed, are a case in point. The masses were under the impression that they left a scorched desert for decades, which is not true. As early as August 1949, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law was passed, which gave an immediate start to the total reconstruction of the city. That is, little more than four years had passed since the nuclear strike.

The principle of the dirty bomb is different. This type of munition is much simpler in its construction and does not require complex technical solutions. In fact, it is simply a delivery vehicle (missile, bomb or artillery shell) to which a container with radioactive filler is attached. One of the potentially most effective and therefore dangerous applications in general involves simply spraying radioactive dust from an airplane or any other aircraft.

Dangerous isotopes with long half-lives are deposited on the surface of the earth, plants, and further into the ground and aquifers, making the area dangerous to live in for many decades. To a man to develop radiation sickness it is enough to get just one sievert dose (Sv), a dose of 3 to 5 Sv leads either to death in a couple of months or to the development of cancer, 6 to 10 Sv is a guaranteed death as the irreversible death of bone marrow begins.
Ukraine Was Building Dirty Bomb. Advance Of Russian Troops Reveals New Circumstances

The consequences of the Chernobyl explosion are close to a dirty bomb explosion

The issue of the possibility of Ukraine, which renounced nuclear missile weapons as part of the Budapest Memorandum, creating a dirty bomb has been repeatedly considered by various experts. Most of them agreed that it is impossible for a number of reasons.

First, for political reasons: Western allies will not give the unpredictable government in Kiev such a bargaining chip. Second, Ukraine does not have the appropriate technical capabilities, no centrifuge capacity for uranium enrichment, and no suitable means of delivery. Some experts do not agree with the latter assertion, because a large amount of equipment and specialists capable of creating such means has been preserved since the Soviet Union days.

Ukraine currently holds a large amount of spent nuclear fuel that has not been removed from the territory of Ukraine since 2020 and that has been stored on the territory of nuclear power plants awaiting the construction of a nuclear fuel storage facility in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

In addition, the Kiev regime had accumulated 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. This was reported by Wall Street Journal journalist Lawrence Norman, citing IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi. The head of the international nuclear watchdog agency noted that although the nuclear power plant is under Russian control, it is run by Ukrainian reactors. That is why the IAEA needs to urgently send its experts to assess the situation and find out whether there are stocks of uranium and plutonium missing (alas, earlier Kiev has lost Javelins, bulletproof vests, etc.).

Ukraine Was Building Dirty Bomb. Advance Of Russian Troops Reveals New Circumstances

Laurence Norman’s post

In response, Ukraine’s Energoatom announced the IAEA head’s words as a fake and tried to explain that plutonium and enriched uranium are only in fuel assemblies (tubes) at nuclear power plants, while spent nuclear fuel is present at every nuclear power plant.

“This is a sly thing. If the state has sufficient competence to dismantle fuel assemblies, the spent nuclear fuel can be used to make weapon-grade isotopes. And for sure, in order to fill a missile warhead with it, a subversive charge, to arrange a dirty bomb, when the territory is contaminated without a nuclear explosion. And the activity of such a bomb will be higher than that of a cobalt bomb by one and a half times,” said the expert.

“Let’s take the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran as an example – the whole Western world demanded from Russia to close the project at first, and then they agreed – Russia takes the spent nuclear fuel so that Iranians would not accidentally start using it illegally for weapons-military purposes. For some reason it was scary in Iran, it was a stumbling block, but with Ukraine it is not frightening”.

As for the creation of delivery vehicles, nothing is impossible. The legendary Yuzhmash plant of the past is really going through a period of total decay today, while, remember, for many decades it has produced a fairly wide range of products for the space industry, including fuel modules. In other words, both the documentation and some of the production facilities that make it possible to assemble a hull of especially durable metals, where a load of spent nuclear fuel could be placed, are likely to have remained in place.
Nor would it have been a matter of delivery vehicles. If the Neptun missiles of their own production failed, the allies are full of their own much more powerful and long-range counterparts. Arms deliveries to Ukraine did not open with the start of the Russian special operation. And there have been serious discussions about supplying Kiev with heavy weapons.

In conclusion, the threat of Kiev creating a dirty bomb is serious. This is confirmed, albeit indirectly, by statements by experts, journalists around the world, and Russian officials. Despite the revelation that a large amount of spent nuclear fuel is stored at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, no one knows reliably how much is stored at other nuclear power plants. We can only hope for the remnants of the adequacy of the Ukrainian government. Otherwise, it could do irreparable harm not only to Russia and Belarus, but also to their neighbours.

Information from Ukraine is nearly impossible to verify, but I've seen this from a few sources now. Ukraine's counterattack in Severodonetsk looks like it's succeeding.



Read the whole thing at the link.

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Screw the damn controlled news media New York Post and screw $5 per gallon gasoline. Soon food prices will be doubling. The US Government needs to quit wasting our munitions on the Ukrainian Nazis. The Russian Commie Rats are getting ready to attack NATO countries if Russia keeps loosing their war with the Ukrainian Nazis. It will start a nuclear WWIII in which Biden will quickly surrender the USA to the Chi-Coms.

Everyone who wants war can buy a plane ticket to Ukraine to join the war but don't promote a nuclear war we cannot win.

The damn Demorats know they will loose in the November elections so they want a war to stay in power so the can cancel the elections. The satanic globalists want to kill off billions of people with a nuclear war.

The sorry Ukrainians could easily negotiate peace with Russia if they gave up the Russian speaking areas of Ukraine and promised to stay out of NATO.

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Russia transitioning from “special operation” in Ukraine to taking aim at all of NATO in sweeping “demilitarization” move
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-06-04-russia-takes-on-nato-sweeping-demilitarization-move.html
Saturday, June 04, 2022

The United States is flooding Ukraine with so many weapons that Russia has announced that it must take a more global approach to its “special operation” in Ukraine.

Instead of just dealing with the globalist problem in that country, Russia quickly realizes that all of NATO is its enemy. The axis of evil is much greater than just Ukraine’s puppet government is a simple way of putting it.

“I have some unpleasant news,” said Olga Skabeeva on the Russian state TV program 60 Minutes. “Even though we are methodically destroying the weapons that are being delivered [to Ukraine], the quantities in which the United States are sending them force us to come up with some global conclusions.”

“Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge that maybe Russia’s special operation in Ukraine has come to an end, in a sense that a real war had started: WWIII,” she added. “We’re forced to conduct the demilitarization not only of Ukraine but of the entire NATO alliance.”

These are big words, but ones that have been written on the wall for quite some time now. Many could see that this was moving towards World War III once NATO decided to gang up on Russia for dealing with the Ukraine problem.

Both the United States and Poland, along with other NATO countries such as Germany, have been funneling weapons and other gear into Ukraine as part of a unified front against Russia. This leaves Russia with very little option other than to fight back against the whole shebang.

“Indeed, we need to remember the words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who said that anyone who tries to interfere in the special military operation will pay a heavy price,” added Vladimir Avatkov from Russia’s Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Brighteon.TV

“We never forget about these words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but a great number of people are already standing in line, trying to interfere in Russia’s special operation on the territory of Ukraine,” Skabeeva quickly interjected.

“Turns out, we have to act – but we’re yet to figure out how we can act without conducting a nuclear strike.”
Russia warns Poland: Mind your own business or your “current borders will be worthless”

During the conversation, Russian parliament member Oleg Matveychev weighed in that if Poland “starts any intervention … its current borders will be worthless,” to which Skabeeva added that it is not just Poland that needs to back off and mind its own business.

“I wasn’t just talking about Poland, but mainly about Great Britain and the United States,” Skabeeva said, adding that “they’re all lined up.”

“No need to rush,” chimed in Avatkov. “There is a line. Everything in its time!”

Poland is simply first in line, according to Russia, because it is said to be moving to seize territories in western Ukraine. The Russian government also claims that Poland is “actively working to dismember Ukraine.”

On Russian state TV, hosts and pundits regularly refer to Ukraine as “the territory formerly known as Ukraine.” They also discuss matters pertaining to the “denazification” of the country, which is one of Russia’s goals with the operation.

“For us, the special military operation is just the first act, an introduction,” said Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov in an interview on Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov.

“The war that is going on right now … it’s not just an economical war and info-war, this war is about our faith. It’s about our right, as the people, to have faith in what we want to believe, to love those we want to love, and to live the way our ancestors would have wanted, on our land and by our birthright.”

This is big. Turkey is lifting its objections to Sweden and Finland joining NATO.



Russia has already lost the war. They must be starting to realize that now.

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America's involvement in Ukraine increasingly looks like war.



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I seem to remember a little place called Viet Nam. First it was some money and weapons, then "advisors" and before long thousands of American GI's thrown into a meat grinder.

Hmmmm....

We have so many "Forever Wars" now, what's one more?

Yeah, Vietnam crossed my mind too.

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The Gooks and the Chi-Coms did not have nuclear superiority but the Russians do. The Russians maintained their civil defense fallout shelters while we did not. The Russians still have radios that run by tubes, gasoline engines that run by mechanical ignition points and carbureators and trucks that run by mechanical fuel injection so Russia will still function after an EMP pulse but the US won't.

If Russia starts loosing they will nuke NATO then WW3 will start. The US is lead by an election stealing senile traitor who that knows that without a war the Democrats will be out in the elections this November and Trump will be president in 2024. Putin is dying from cancer and has nothing to loose. The US should not have had bio-weapons labs for Ukraine to use against Russia. Maybe they will run out of Ukrainians who are dying by the thousands each day.

Escalation: Pentagon Provides Kiev with Surface-to-Air Missile Systems
https://www.infowars.com/posts/escalation-pentagon-provides-kiev-with-surface-to-air-missile-systems
July 2nd 2022

The US Department of Defense is providing an additional $820 million package of military aid for Ukraine, including two surface-to-air missile defense systems, Pentagon spokesman Todd Breasseale announced on Friday.

This brings total US security assistance provided to Ukraine to approximately $6.9 billion since the start of Russia’s offensive in late February.

The new deliveries will include ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), up to 150,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition, and four additional counter-artillery radars.

Breasseale stressed that Washington continues to work with its allies “to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its evolving battlefield requirements.”

“In particular, DoD recognizes Norway’s cooperation to enable the historic provision by the United States of modern air defense systems that will help Ukraine defend against Russia’s brutal air attacks,” the Pentagon spokesman said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has responded to the latest military supplies, expressing his gratitude to the US and personally to President Joe Biden for the package which, he stressed, “also includes very powerful NASAMS systems.”

“This is an anti-aircraft missile system that will significantly strengthen our air defense. We worked hard for such a supply,” the Ukrainian leader said.

Russia has repeatedly urged the West not to provide Kiev with weapons, saying it will only prolong the conflict and lead to long-term problems. It has warned that Russian forces will consider any foreign weapons on Ukrainian territory as a legitimate target.

Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that “pumping up” Ukraine with Western weapons will only lead Russia “to perform more missions on the ground.”

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”

In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

If we keep escalating this conflict, the end result will be a nuclear cataclysm
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-07-03-if-we-keep-escalating-this-conflict-nuclear-cataclysm.html
Sunday, July 03, 2022

There will be nuclear war if we stay on this path. Almost every day, we get more news about how both sides are escalating the conflict in Ukraine. If the American people truly understood what was at stake, there would be giant protests in the streets of every major U.S. city right now. But they don’t. Most of us are entirely convinced that our leaders can do whatever they want in Ukraine without sparking a nuclear war. But the Russians see things very differently. On Russian television there are endless discussions about how the war in Ukraine is really a proxy war between the United States and Russia, and pundits openly discuss the possibility that eventually nuclear weapons will be used. In fact, the destruction of specific U.S. cities has even been discussed on Russian television, but most Americans never hear anything about this.

(Article by Michael Snyder republished from TheMostImportantNews.com)

In a nuclear conflict, the side that uses their weapons first has the best chance of surviving, and the Russians understand this very well.

If push comes to shove, the Russians won’t hesitate to strike if they believe that nuclear war has become inevitable.

So we need to stop this madness while we still can.

Unfortunately, our leaders seem to have no interest in ending the conflict in Ukraine. Instead, they just keep doing things to raise tensions even higher.

This week, Joe Biden announced that the U.S. will be sending “thousands more troops” to eastern Europe…

America will deploy thousands more troops to Europe along with fighters, air defences and ships, Joe Biden announced today, as NATO reinforces its eastern flank in a new Iron Curtain to protect the continent from Russia.

Joe Biden, speaking at a NATO summit in Madrid today, announced the creation of a new base for the US Fifth Army Corps in Poland – the first permanent American base in the country – along with 3,000 extra soldiers to be sent to Romania and ‘enhanced’ troop rotations for the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

This commitment from Biden is part of an overall NATO effort to increase the total number of “high readiness forces” in Europe to “well over 300,000”…

NATO will enhance its battle groups in the eastern part of the alliance up to brigade levels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced Monday.

“We will increase the number of high readiness forces to well over 300,000,” he said at a news conference in Brussels.

This includes “more pre-positioned equipment and stockpiles of military supplies; more forward-deployed capabilities, like air defense; strengthened command and control, and upgraded defense plans with forces pre-assigned to defend specific allies,” Stoltenberg added.

To the Russians, this looks like a potential invasion force.

Of course the Russians continue to do things to escalate the conflict as well. For example, Vladimir Putin just announced that the Russians will be putting “nuclear-capable ballistic missiles” in Belarus…

Russia plans to place nuclear-capable ballistic missiles in Belarus, a NATO-neighboring Russian ally that housed the forces that invaded Ukraine and attacked Kyiv.

That missile placement would continue a trend of Russian President Vladimir Putin subordinating Belarus to his vision of a “union-state” led by the Kremlin while sending an ominous signal to NATO — perhaps especially Poland and Lithuania, whose borders separate Belarus from Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave near the Baltic Sea.

“Our decision has been made: We will hand over a number of tactical missile systems Iskander-M to Belarus within the next few months,” Putin said during a meeting with Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. “They can fire ballistic and cruise missiles with conventional and nuclear warheads.”

The Russians have also suggested that Cuba may be a good location for missiles as well.

If you know your history, that should set off some alarm bells.

So much is happening right now, but most Americans are not paying attention.

At this point, the U.S. is providing more funding for the war in Ukraine than anyone else, more weapons for the war in Ukraine than anyone else, and more intelligence for the war in Ukraine than anyone else.

The Ukrainians are providing the dead bodies, but it is the U.S. that is really running the show.

And thanks to the New York Times, we have learned that CIA operatives have been secretly operating on the ground in Ukraine all throughout the war…https://archive.ph/X6JQb


As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize eastern Ukraine, the nation’s ability to resist the onslaught depends more than ever on help from the United States and its allies — including a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training, according to U.S. and European officials.

Much of this work happens outside Ukraine, at bases in Germany, France and Britain, for example. But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the massive amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials.

But despite all the help that Ukraine has been getting from the United States, the Russians continue to take more ground just about every single day.

Instead of admitting that the Ukrainians are in a fight that they can’t possibly win and looking for a peaceful way out, our leaders just keep upping the ante instead.

And at this point, Congress is going to give the Pentagon and the CIA literally everything that they want for the war in Ukraine…

“I don’t think people realize that right now the spigot from Congress is fully open. Money, weps, intel, whatever they need,” tweeted Jack Murphy, journalist and Iraq/Afghanistan vet. “The American public is not being appropriately informed about what our government is up to as basically every single op DOD/CIA proposes is getting the green light.”

The only way that an overwhelming Russian victory can be prevented at this point would be for the United States to get far more involved in the war.

But if we keep getting deeper and deeper into this conflict, at some point the United States and Russia will start shooting at one another.

And once we reach that juncture, things could go nuclear very rapidly.

You may be thinking that there is no point in being concerned about a nuclear war because if one happens we will all be dead anyway.

If that is what you think, you are dead wrong.

Studies have determined that only about 20 percent of all Americans would be immediately killed by a full-blown nuclear exchange. Here is one example…

This full-scale nuclear war was estimated to cause 770 million direct deaths and generate 180 Tg of soot from burning cities and forests. In the US, about half the population would be within 5km of a ground zero, and a fifth of the country’s citizens would be killed outright.

But that doesn’t mean that most of us would survive. https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/03/what-the-science-says-could-humans-survive-a-nuclear-war-between-nato-and-russia/#:~:text=This%20full%2Dscale%20nuclear%20war,citizens%20would%20be%20killed%20outright.

Ultimately, the vast majority of the population would slowly starve to death.

A full-blown nuclear exchange would cause a “nuclear winter” and very little food would be able to be grown for an extended period of time…

A subsequent study, published in 2019, looked at a comparable but slightly lower 150 Tg atmospheric soot injection following an equivalent scale nuclear war. The devastation causes so much smoke that only 30-40 percent of sunlight reaches the Earth’s surface for the subsequent six months.

A massive drop in temperature follows, with the weather staying below freezing throughout the subsequent Northern Hemisphere summer. In Iowa, for example, the model shows temperatures staying below 0°C for 730 days straight. There is no growing season. This is a true nuclear winter.

So it could be argued that those that are wiped out during a future nuclear exchange will actually be the lucky ones.

Could you imagine the horror of watching your family slowly starve to death in a world that has gone completely mad?

We must not let things get to that point.

We need to try to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine while we still can.

Unfortunately, Joe Biden has surrounded himself with the worst foreign policy team in U.S. history, and they seem to have ruled out trying to find a way to have peace with the Russians.

So we continue to steamroll toward a nuclear cataclysm, and very few of us even seem interested in changing course.

Read more at: TheMostImportantNews.com

Ukraine fight on, but some Western allies are wavering.



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It looks like the long-awaited Kherson counteroffensive may have begun Ukraine troops are reported to have hit the occupied Kherson Oblast, in the Russian rear:



You should take any war news coming from these sources with a huge grain of salt. But if true, the outcome of this battle could well determine how this war ends.

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How does the Ukraine military locate Russian bases and troop concentrations? By posing as attractive women on social media. You can't make this stuff up.



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It is almost worthy of an old school cartoon! Hysterical if true.

Scenes from a Russian rout. The Russians seem to be leaving behind more military stuff than we ever gave them. This is anything but an orderly withdrawal.

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The Russian Commie Rats are sore losers. They are claiming that missiles were fired from a NATO country and Russia is likely to declare war on NATO and launch tactical nukes according to Mike Adams here: "Situation Update, Sep 12, 2022 - Ukraine's cities go DARK; Russia poised to declare WORLD WAR"
https://www.brighteon.com/9d2517c9-d88c-4df7-94cc-76e9712af121

The US and NATO should stop helping the Ukraine Nazis before it starts WWIII.

I would be highly suspicious of such claims from the Russians. They have a hard time admitting that their much smaller neighbor (with western support) is able to withstand their prolonged assault and to now turn the tables. The mythology of the invincibility of the vaunted red army is being proven to be just that… a myth. The only way in their distorted sense of inflated ego this is possible is if it s not the Ukrainians doing it.

The Russian Commie Rats sent troops into Ukraine on February 24th, because the Ukrainian Nazis failed to abide by the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.” In February 2022, Russia recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc.

But the sorry damn globalists want to reduce the human population by arming the Ukrainian Nazis to start a Nuclear World War III. The sorry damn Democrats want to start World War III so they can't be voted out in the November elections.

The Russians are not using their first rate troops in Ukraine. They are holding their first rate troops in reserve in case World War III starts. And they are letting their second rate troops get some combat experience. Russia has been fighting a limited war in Ukraine. Russia could have bombed every power plant, destroyed every airport, every highway, every rail line, and every water treatment system in Ukraine.

The economic sanctions against Russia have put them in a better economic situation while the stupid socialist Europeans will be freezing and their economy will be collapsing since Russian pipelines into Europe have been shut down.

It doesn't matter if what Russia claims is true or not because if Ukraine attacks into Russia then Russia will use tactical nukes on the Ukrainians which will start a Nuclear World War III.

Russian propagandists are having a hard time putting any sort of positive spin on the latest news. And now, support for Putin seems to be on the decline. it will be interesting to see what happens when the magnitude of these losses become known to ordinary Russians.

Long, and the whole article is worth a read. here's a part of it:



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The Kremlin has admitted defeat in Kharkiv Oblast for the first time.



More at the link.

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Russian military reservists are fleeing the country - or trying to.



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Gonzalo Lira (Coach Red Pill who made many good videos advising men how to deal with sleazy women)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNMgqL7KppdZyyEkX8qVXgw/videos
who lives in Ukraine tells Mike Adams:
Zelensky’s recent offensives have caused the death of over 12,000 Ukrainians
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-21-zelensky-offensives-caused-12000-ukrainian-deaths.html

Ukraine-based novelist and filmmaker Gonzalo Lira told the Health Ranger Mike Adams that there’s a complete disconnect between the reality on the ground in Ukraine and what is being sold to the general public. Lira, known for his uncensored videos and roundtable discussions https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfUzUq5L9NFv2GMVGbEBgkg/videos on what is truly happening in Ukraine, talked about the three huge offensives by Kyiv that led to the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians. https://www.brighteon.com/63f0b0f4-1628-4b23-a29a-a3328ebb62ac

“These offensives were catastrophic for the Zelensky regime and for the Ukrainian side. They lost over 12,000 men in action in these three offensives and the wounded is likely double that number,” Lira related during the September 16 edition of “Health Ranger Report: Situation Update.” (Related: The economic ANNIHILATION of Europe – Gonzalo Lira and Mike Adams publish epic interview.) https://naturalnews.com/2022-09-16-...lira-and-mike-adams-epic-interview.html#

According to Lira, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces carried out the attacks and exposed their troops in doing so. Russians have an advantage in artillery fire and in aircraft and air defense systems. Lira pointed out that Ukrainian forces no longer have air defense systems because the Russians have destroyed them all.

“Russians don’t care about territory. Their objective is to destroy the armed forces. So for them, this was like Christmas morning because they got to destroy a whole bunch of soldiers who will not be fighting them in the future,” he said.

But at the same time, the Russians are gaining territories. Russia has already captured over 150,000 square kilometers or about a quarter of Ukraine so far.
http://russiareport.news

Lira said Ukrainian forces “don’t even make a dent” against the Russian defense. He further cited a recent incursion by Ukrainian troops around the Kurdistan region, where the Russians blew up a dam.

“The Russians didn’t blow up the dam just to harm civilians as they are not interested in destroying civilian infrastructure. When they destroyed the dam, it flooded a river. Now there are 4,000 to 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers there that were cut off,” Lira said, adding that these soldiers were disconnected from reinforcements and unable to retreat. “They’re going to be annihilated.”
Izyum being retaken by Kyiv does not matter to Russia

Zelensky visited Izyum just days after his country’s troops retook it from Russian forces. Al Jazeera reported that the loss of the city was a “huge blow” to Russia.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/14/ukrainian-flag-raised-zelenskyy-visits-retaken-izyum

“Izyum is a logistical hub and it’s from there that Russia was supplying its troops that are further east in the Donbas region round places like Kramatorsk and Sloviansk,” the report stated.

This was debunked by Lira. “The Russian troops were able to reroute and make their logistics more efficient. So they didn’t need the eastern Ukraine city,” he said. “Izyum was essential two months ago. The fact that they lost it doesn’t mean anything. Because ultimately, their goal is to destroy Ukrainian forces. It is not to capture territory just to capture territory.”

Lira said the Russians knew exactly what they were doing – they give up territories that were of no military use to them. “And now they’re in a much better position. So from their point of view, this was a win,” he said. “At the end of the day, you don’t win the war on Twitter, you win the war on the ground by defeating the enemy army. That’s the whole point.”

Adams agreed. “It doesn’t matter where they operate geographically. Their goal is to diminish the ability of the Ukrainian forces to wage future actions,” Adams said.

The Health Ranger also mentioned that Russian officials have been warning the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to stop funneling weapons through Ukraine, training Ukrainian soldiers and essentially running the war for Ukraine as they may face larger counter-attacks by Russia.
http://wwiii.news

According to Adams, the Russians are very much prepared for this war. They’re winning not just on the ground.

Adams pointed to the ongoing energy crisis in Europe to support his claim. “Winter becomes almost a weapon. Suicide sanctions initiated by the West have backfired so catastrophically to the point their industry leaders are now warning about ‘permanent de-industrialization of the continent,’ and all [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has to do is wait for winter to kick in,” he said, noting that this season’s chilling weather is even cheaper than artillery costs.

Lira added: “The people in Europe will go cold, dark and hungry and the EU did it to themselves because they were anti-nuclear due to their green parties and climate change narratives.” He also cited the Western sanctions on Russian crude that caused the energy prices to go soaring to record highs while Russia is still making lots of money selling its gas to India and China.

The West has miscalculated the sanctions they placed on Russia as the country is self-sufficient. “They’d be fine because they have the key resources: energy, food and raw materials for industry. They can shut themselves off from the rest of the world and become a hermit country,” Lira said.

Visit UkraineWitness.com for more news on what’s truly happening in Ukraine.

Watch the full segment of “Health Ranger Report: Situation Update” featuring Gonzalo Lira below.
https://www.brighteon.com/63f0b0f4-1628-4b23-a29a-a3328ebb62ac

"NUKE ALERT: Putin Prepares For War With US, Says He's Not Bluffing"
https://banned.video/watch?id=632b8d90e706e307ad59dc71

In the above video Alex Jones says that Russia is loosing in Ukraine because they are really fighting against NATO. Russia and NATO have always said if they are loosing a conventional war then they will take it nuclear. Putin says he is about to start a nuclear war against all of NATO.

If electrical power is lost then all of the nuclear power plants will melt down. Most of the ultra rich have already moved to the Southern Hemisphere in anticipation of a Nuclear World War 3 that the Globalists are trying to cause to wipe out most of the population of the world.

Also see: "Alex Jones details the scale of economic, political, and social collapse taking place worldwide, engineered by the cabal global elites"
https://www.infowars.com/posts/alex...sing-collapse-stop-now-you-crazy-maniacs

Russia mobilizes 300,000, promises defensive use of nuclear weapons while psychopathic western leaders beg for annihilation
Thursday, September 22, 2022
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-22-russia-mobilizes-300000-defensive-nuclear-weapons.html

Russia’s recent “partial mobilization” will call up 300,000 military reservists who, over the next few months, will be trained and put into service in the ongoing conflict with Ukraine. It is now well known — although western nations continue to deny the obvious — that Ukraine’s military offensives are being run by NATO troops, using NATO satellites, training and gear. In essence, Russia is already fighting NATO in a continental war, and Russia realizes that western nations will not be satisfied with anything less than the complete obliteration of Russia as a sovereign nation.

Four Donbass region republics are reportedly voting on a referendum to officially become part of Russia. Ukraine’s government is threatening up to five year prison sentences for anyone who even votes in these elections, proving that Ukraine has zero interest in democracy or self-determination of the people. Nevertheless, these votes are taking place, and it’s highly likely that these republics will join Russia, making them part of Russian territory.

Once that is established, Russia will consider that any attack against those newly-joined regions (which were of course once part of the Soviet Union, and where most of the people are ethnic Russians who speak Russian and who actually want to join Russia) is an attack on Russia itself. Such attacks could trigger defensive responses from Russia, and those defensive responses may include every type of weapon available to Russia’s national defense, including nuclear weapons, Putin recently reminded the world.
Brighteon.TV

Western media outlets and nations are trying to provoke a first strike nuclear holocaust

Western media, which now lies even more vehemently than Pravda ever did, claims this is Putin threatening the first use of nuclear weapons. That is of course a lie, but it is a convenient lie that’s being used by western media to call for a western preemptive nuclear strike against Russia in order to stop “Russia’s aggression.”

This is a very dangerous development, because if Russia takes such threats seriously, then classical game theory would require Putin to strike first, in order to preempt the anticipated preemptive strike by the West. Thus, we find ourselves in a rapidly escalating feedback loop which could end in nuclear disaster, especially given that the Biden regime appears to be actively trying to start World War III before the mid-term elections, allowing him to declare a national war footing and try to postpone the ballot box lashing that Democrats are sure to endure if the elections take place.

Even worse, while Putin appears to be acting rationally from his own national self-interest, western leaders are behaving like psychopaths who are utterly disconnected from reason and reality. They do not even acknowledge the fact that their own economic sanctions against Russia unleashed the catastrophic economic misery and energy crisis that Western Europe imminently faces (with mass famine and an industrial collapse soon to follow). There seems to be zero recognition among the leaders of Germany, the UK or the USA that provoking Russia into a nuclear exchange will go horribly wrong for the West (and would likely spell the end of Western civilization).

In classical game theory, analysts talk of “two scorpions in a jar,” each capable of striking the other to death even if they are struck themselves. Yet the reality is that We the People are all trapped in that jar with a bunch of psychopathic scorpions who possess powerful weapons but no rationality, intelligence or ethical grounding for managing the use of such weapons.

It’s like we’re all wearing highly flammable clothing at the birthday party of a spoiled brat child, and the parents just give him a flamethrower. What do you suppose happens next? We all get burned.

Translated into reality, we’re already suffering under the economic devastation of the west’s attempted anti-Russian sanctions (known as “suicide sanctions” at this point), and now western media influencers are begging the Pentagon to authorize first-strike nuclear warfare with Russia, a nation that has 20-30 years more advanced anti-air defense systems and ICBMs with hyperglide vehicles that can evade every defensive system currently possessed by NATO nations, including the USA. Provoking Russia into a nuclear exchange while Russia has the best anti-ICBM missile systems is like getting into a gun fight with an opponent who is carrying the world’s best ballistic shield. It’s another suicide wish, yet it’s exactly what western media outlets (and governments) are begging for.

Prepare for nuclear war NOW

At this point, every informed person should be preparing for nuclear war, understanding that it is being desperately provoked by the USA and NATO. Russia doesn’t want nuclear war, and fortunately for humanity, Putin is a far more measured and patient man than any western leader, meaning he won’t irrationally lash out with nuclear weapons for political purposes.

The same can’t be said of western nations and their insane, deranged leaders. They will provoke absolutely anything — including nuclear terrorism or nuclear war — to try to remain in power, even if it means the mass slaughter of millions of innocent people. John Moore (The Liberty Man) explains this in today’s featured interview.

Here’s today’s full podcast, covering Russia, the Texas declaration of war against drug smugglers, the DOJ’s prosecution of 47 people for a massive food fraud operation mostly run by somalis in Minnesota, and much more:
Brighteon.com/081433a6-ac61-4e33-a02e-ac8517cabef2

World War III has already begun, but the truth is being withheld from the public until the very last moment
Friday, September 23, 2022 by: Mike Adams
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-23-world-war-iii-has-already-begun.html

World War III has already begun. You simply aren’t being told this because your government and dishonest media outlets are dedicated to keeping you in the dark. After all, they want to use the remaining time to stockpile food, ammunition, medical supplies and precious metals for themselves, and this can only be accomplished by withholding the truth about the situation for as long as possible.

The Prime Minister of Serbia may be an exception to this, as he is now publicly warning that the world is about to experience a “great world conflict” that will likely begin in the next two months.

“Aleksandar Vucic made the alarming comments during the first day of the UN General Assembly session in New York,” reports Paul Joseph Watson at Summit.news.
https://summit.news/2022/09/21/serbian-president-warns-of-great-world-conflict-within-two-months

The full quote from Vucic is:
I assume that we’re leaving the phase of the special military operation and approaching a major armed conflict, and now the question becomes where is the line, and whether after a certain time – maybe a month or two, even – we will enter a great world conflict not seen since the Second World War.
NATO is already at war with Russia, and Putin is gearing up for a continental battle

What’s happening is that psychopathic western nations have — the real aggressors in this war — have unleashed not just “suicide sanctions” against Russia, but are also running Ukraine’s military operations against Russia. This means NATO is already in the war, even if NATO won’t admit it yet. Worse yet, NATO leaders are openly demanding the complete destruction of Russia and the occupation / exploitation of Russia’s natural resources, which is of course the entire model of global exploitation and pillaging typically carried out by the west. (Disrupt, pillage, control. That’s the CIA model that has been unleashed against other nations for decades…)

Conditions are already long past the point of negotiation or de-escalation between Russia and the west. The psychopathic leaders of the west (Victoria Nuland comes to mind) are russo-phobic Russia haters who are determined to carry out genocide against the Russian people, even if it means destroying their own economies and agricultural supply chains in the process. These psychopaths, Putin has come to realize, can’t be reasoned with or trusted to abide by any agreements whatsoever. Russia realizes it must fight or die. That’s where we are right now.

Unfortunately, the insanity of western nations has escalated this conflict to a condition where whoever launches nukes first has the advantage. This is a very dangerous dynamic, obviously, and it stems from the fact that the west has repeatedly signaled it will not allow the existence of Russia in its “New World Order” vision of planet Earth. With friends like Victoria Nuland calling the shots, who needs enemies?
Russia has a 30+ year advantage over the west in terms of nuclear weapons and anti-air defenses

An important realization in all this is that NATO’s nuclear arsenal is ancient — mostly running on designed originally engineered in the 1970s — while Russia’s nuclear capabilities are at least two generations ahead, modernized with hyperglide reentry vehicles, evasive maneuver capabilities for ICBMs, hypersonic cruise missiles which are nuclear capable, and highly advanced anti-air defense systems that can even intercept and take down incoming ICBMs. In addition, Russia possesses secret “doomsday” weapons — far beyond their thermobaric bombs — that the world hasn’t even seen yet. On the current trajectory, those weapons are going to be introduced to the west without any warning whatsoever, resulting in the complete annihilation of Western European governments, currencies and industry.

I have no doubt whatsoever that Russia has already designated the targets of its first strike, and that those targets include London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, US naval fleets and virtually all military bases across Western Europe. We are now just one launch away from a civilization-ending event.

The USA and NATO have deluded themselves into thinking they can win a nuclear exchange with Russia, but this is just as delusional as thinking “men can get pregnant” or that money printing doesn’t cause inflation (notably, the brain dead Biden regime insists that both of these absurdities are absolutely true). Over the past two decades — and more recently led by the insanity of wokeism — the west has become fully invested in delusional thinking and fairy tale narratives that have no connection with reality. While the west has been waging a propaganda narrative war, Russia has been engineering the world’s most advanced nuclear weapons. Once the nuclear exchange begins, there’s no question whatsoever about its outcome. Russia will lose a few million people — far less than what they lost in World War II — but they will annihilate Germany, Poland, France and the United Kingdom. Western Europe will be plunged into a generation of despair and darkness, while the U.S. suffers a cascading financial collapse due to exposure to European banks, currencies and debt markets.

Western journalists and kleptocrats are incapable of seeing this reality, and they are similarly incapable of acting to stop it. They are caught in their own delusional world of self-inflicted brainwashing and propaganda, believing (somehow) that they can bully Russia into capitulating to the west’s insane demands. But Russia is no Third World nation. Russia can’t be economically dismantled with western sanctions, and Russia has its own domestic supply chain for literally everything it needs to feed its people, build more weapons and earn a fortune in exports of energy and commodities to willing trade partners like India, China, Turkey and Iran.

Finally, Putin will not back down, and Putin is far more intelligent than any of the cognitively-challenged lunatics running the USA, UK or NATO countries. In a chess match between Putin and Biden, you’d probably see Joe Biden augmented with remote controlled vibrating diapers to send him chess move signals through his rectum, and he still wouldn’t understand the meaning of chess notations anyway. The leaders of western nations are so utterly incompetent that they don’t even qualify as “clowns,” since good clowns are actually intelligent, capable communicators who can make people laugh. Biden, Blinken, and Nuland just make us all want to puke.

The West has already grossly miscalculated with “suicide sanctions” but still won’t admit to their catastrophic errors

As proof of the incompetence of western nations, consider the fact that their “suicide sanctions” against Russia — originally implemented to try to force Russia into a currency collapse — has had the opposite effect. The sanctions are destroying the Euro, not the Ruble, and now all of Western Europe faces a winter of darkness, famine and freezing to death. That’s on top of the “permanent deindustrialization” of European industry that is already well under way, https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09...-lira-and-mike-adams-epic-interview.html with about 70% of metals smelting and ammonia production already offline. Fertilizer production has ground to a halt, the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been halted, and to add insult to injury, Belgium is proudly announcing the shutting down of a nuclear power plant, right as Belgium faces an energy scarcity catastrophe. https://www.euractiv.com/section/en...clear-reactor-to-be-shut-down-in-belgium

Germany, meanwhile, is putting another $8 billion into bailing out Uniper, https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/germany-nationalize-struggling-uniper-deepening-energy-crisis a major natural gas provider, and that’s on top of $15 billion already spent trying to prevent Uniper’s collapse. Germany’s industrial base is being wiped out at astonishing speed, and nobody in the German government is telling the German people they won’t have jobs as industry collapses.

Putin must be astonished at the speed of which Western Europe — and Germany in particular — is destroying itself. Recall that Germany destroyed Western Europe twice already: World War I and World War II. Now, Germany (still largely run by Nazis) is leading the way to the total destruction of Europe yet again. At one level, Putin need not launch any nukes at all… he merely needs to wait for winter to kick in and for the laws of thermodynamics and economics to do the rest.
The greens must be proud: Entire forests are being clear cut for firewood

Yesterday I spoke with war correspondent Michael Yon who had just traveled through Germany (my interview with him will post tomorrow on Brighteon.com). He told me the forests were being clear-cut everywhere across Germany (at least that he could see) in a desperate effort by the people to stockpile firewood for the coming winter. This is the new “green” agenda on parade: Clear-cutting forests that will take decades to grow back. Will the greenies celebrate all the dead forests because at least Germany didn’t burn fossil fuels? Does anybody realize that a 19th century economy can’t support a 21st century population? Famine is a mathematical certainty.

To stop this crisis, all Germany has to do is apologize to Russia, drop the economic sanctions and beg Gazprom to turn the gas back on, but no, they won’t dare do that, even if hundreds of thousands of German citizens starve to death and die of exposure. In exactly the same way Adolf Hitler threw starving, freezing German soldiers into Russia’s defensive lines at Stalingrad in 1943, today’s German leaders are sacrificing the lives of their own citizens in a desperate bid to try to economically harm Russia … and it isn’t even accomplishing that! In the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet Union surrounded and defeated Germany’s Sixth Army, which surrendered more than 220,000 soldiers to the Russians. Today, Germany is willing to sacrifice millions of its own citizens if necessary, proving that Nazi-style suicide maneuvers remain alive and well in Berlin, even generations after the catastrophic outcome of World War II.

You can beat the Nazis out of Russia, but you can’t beat the Nazi tendencies out of the German political leaders.

Russia, meanwhile, is sitting on massive quantities of low-cost energy, minerals, steel manufacturing, fertilizer production, successful food crops, electronics manufacturing and everything else needed to keep civilization on its feet. Yet to this very day, there isn’t one Western European politician who will admit the truth of where things stand. Too bad propaganda can’t heat homes, or the western media would be the ultimate renewable energy source for the entire planet.

The upshot of all this? Anyone living in Western Europe should prepare for economic collapse, famine and nuclear war.

Those living in North America should prepare for economic collapse and worldwide nuclear fallout that will disrupt crops for years to come.

Those who don’t store food will end up eating radioactive food, if they can find any at all.

Prepare accordingly.

Podcast Situation Update, Sep 23, 2022 - World War III has already begun, but the truth is being withheld from the public
Brighteon.com/6fe87c7c-05e5-44b4-a867-e63a6ff088e4

See NuclearWar.news for more coverage of nuclear war risk on planet Earth.

Russia's 1st Tank Regiment is being sent to Kherson with no additional training. Not even target practice. I guess the next step is when Putin calls up the Volkssturm.

Onward and upward,
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The Democrats, Globalists, and the controlled media are still lying and want to kill off most of us.

Without Russia supplying natural gas to Germany BASF won't be making any fertilizer which will cause many to starve to death.
"FERTILIZER COLLAPSE: Chemical giant BASF to slash ammonia production in Germany amid natural gas crisis, reducing nitrogen-based fertilizer supply"
https://naturalnews.com/2022-07-30-basf-slash-ammonia-germany-natural-gas-crisis-fertilizer.html

Now the Nordstream natural gas pipe line running in between Germany and Russia has been ruptured and Biden says he will ship liquid natural gas to Europe which will make natural gas for heating cost too much for many Americans to afford.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/blasts-detected-near-nord-stream-as-images-reveal-huge-leak

It looks like with Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine all voting to join the Russian Federation; Russia will declare those areas to be part of Russia. Then instead of a limited war the Russian Commie Rats will launch an all out war on the Ukraine Nazis blowing Zelensky’s and his headquarters in Kiev to bits and taking down the whole electrical power grid in Ukraine. Unless they have a back up generator the nuclear power plant in Ukraine will totally melt down releasing massive amounts of radiation.

The US and NATO should quit supplying Zelensky's Nazis. Zelensky should negotiate for peace before it is too late. If either side uses tactical nukes it will escalate into Russia nuking all of NATO as well as the USA.

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More On The Referendum Game Changer
26 September 2022
https://sonar21.com/more-on-the-referendum-game-changer

Remember three weeks ago when Putin and the Russian military were on the ropes and the Ukrainian army was steamrolling through Kharkov? That was then and Urkaine’s promised victory failed to materialize. With the benefit of hindsight, it appears that Russia abandoned the strategically meaningless territory in the Kharkov Oblast of Ukraine and re-deployed forces to the Donbas, Zaporhyzhia and Kherson. Why? To be in position for the referendum–i.e., to defend the Ukraine oblasts that would be given the chance to vote whether or not to reunite with mother Russia. Putin’s subsequent announcement of the referenda, which began last Friday, was not a Hail Mary pass nor an act of desperation. The planning for this had been in the works for at least a month, maybe longer.

While Ukraine continued to throw its troops against the Russian lines and launched artillery strikes on civilian targets, it paid a terrible price in terms of human casualties and destroyed tanks and combat vehicles, and failed completely to disrupt the vote. There have been international observers monitoring the vote throughout the four oblasts. I wish at least one reporter would ask these observers when they were first contacted and asked to come to the Russian controlled territory and do the monitoring. That detail would provide some insight into the extent of the pre-planning for the referenda.

It appears that the vote to reunite with Russia will be overwhelming in favor of becoming Russian republics. Once the results are certified the Russian Duma will act to accept the decision and Putin will put the cherry on the sundae and make it official. At that point–this Friday–the special military operation in Ukraine will end and Russia will be in position to defend its new territory.

I expect Putin to speak commemorating the event and will put Ukraine, NATO and the United States on notice that any further attacks on Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporhyzhia and Kherson will be an attack on Russia. Ukraine and the west will be on notice. The ball will be in their court.

This will create an opportunity for what is left of Ukraine to seek peace. I doubt that Ukraine and the west will accept this chance. The attacks on the new Russian population will continue and Russia will act. In contrast to the restraint demonstrated during the course of the last six plus months, Russia is likely to respond with more aggressive tactics that may include turning off the power in Ukraine and attacking command centers, including Zelensky’s headquarters in Kiev. This will lead to a significant escalation in the combat, but Ukraine and NATO will have a limited capacity to respond. Why?

The west no longer has the industrial base to match Russia’s production of war material. This weakness is compounded by the double whammy of inflation and economic collapse that is savaging Europe and starting to hurt the United States. The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank, recently published an important essay detailing this decline:

The war in Ukraine has proven that the age of industrial warfare is still here. The massive consumption of equipment, vehicles and ammunition requires a large-scale industrial base for resupply – quantity still has a quality of its own. The mass scale combat has pitted 250,000 Ukrainian soldiers, together with 450,000 recently mobilised citizen soldiers against about 200,000 Russian and separatist troops. The effort to arm, feed and supply these armies is a monumental task. Ammunition resupply is particularly onerous. For Ukraine, compounding this task are Russian deep fires capabilities, which target Ukrainian military industry and transportation networks throughout the depth of the country. The Russian army has also suffered from Ukrainian cross-border attacks and acts of sabotage, but at a smaller scale. The rate of ammunition and equipment consumption in Ukraine can only be sustained by a large-scale industrial base.

This reality should be a concrete warning to Western countries, who have scaled down military industrial capacity and sacrificed scale and effectiveness for efficiency. This strategy relies on flawed assumptions about the future of war, and has been influenced by both the bureaucratic culture in Western governments and the legacy of low-intensity conflicts. Currently, the West may not have the industrial capacity to fight a large-scale war. If the US government is planning to once again become the arsenal of democracy, then the existing capabilities of the US military-industrial base and the core assumptions that have driven its development need to be re-examined.
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare

This is the work of Lt Col (Retd) Alex Vershinin, a US citizen. He spells out in detail the challenge the United States and its NATO allies face if they dare to engage Russia in a tit-for-tat battle:

Presently, the US is decreasing its artillery ammunition stockpiles. In 2020, artillery ammunition purchases decreased by 36% to $425 million. In 2022, the plan is to reduce expenditure on 155mm artillery rounds to $174 million. This is equivalent to 75,357 M795 basic ‘dumb’ rounds for regular artillery, 1,400 XM1113 rounds for the M777, and 1,046 XM1113 rounds for Extended Round Artillery Cannons. Finally, there are $75 million dedicated for Excalibur precision-guided munitions that costs $176K per round, thus totaling 426 rounds. In short, US annual artillery production would at best only last for 10 days to two weeks of combat in Ukraine. If the initial estimate of Russian shells fired is over by 50%, it would only extend the artillery supplied for three weeks.

The US is not the only country facing this challenge. In a recent war game involving US, UK and French forces, UK forces exhausted national stockpiles of critical ammunition after eight days.
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare

Russia, by contrast, enjoys the luxury of defense plants that are operating 24-7 and producing ammunition, vehicles, tanks, drones, missiles and rockets. The west still labors under the delusion that Russia’s economy is barely tottering along. Russia has the minerals, material and qualified personnel required to produce what the Russian military needs to sustain operations; especially intense combat operations.

I do not know if this was the Russian plan from the outset–i.e., conduct operations that would create a de facto disarmament of the United States and Europe–or if this is pure serendipity. Regardless, the west has no viable options, short of nuclear war, of defeating Russia in Ukraine.

The coming weeks will expose fractures in the NATO alliance. Britain, for example, woke up this morning to learn that the once mighty pound Sterling, which once had twice the value of the US dollar, is now worth less than the dollar. That means that the Brits will be paying more for products they import from the United States. Although the United States only accounts for 12% of the UK imports, the price increase will further inflame the inflationary spiral in the UK. Newly minted British Prime Minister Liz Truss already is facing push back from the Tories about her proposed economic plan. The death of Queen Elizabeth put the political problems on a back burner for a couple of weeks. That honeymoon is over and the pressure of domestic politics in the UK will make continued support for Ukraine less certain.

The collapsing economies in France, Germany and Italy also will compel those countries to spend more time trying to quiet growing domestic unrest. When you factor in the energy crisis and Ukrainian military setbacks as winter sets in, the foundation of NATO unity vis-a-vis Ukraine, is likely to crack.

"The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines have been leaking natural gas at 3 separate locations in the Baltic Sea, leading to accusations by various governments that the damage was an act of sabotage by Russia or the United States."
"Pres. Biden: "If Russia invades...then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.""

Source:
https://www.infowars.com/posts/bide...ipeline-sabotage-months-before-gas-leaks

Blowing up the Nord Stream Pipelines will start World War 3. These Globalists controlled Democrats want nuclear war with Russia. They are desperate to stay in power.

"Resident Joe Biden, Russophobic State Department official Victoria Nuland and GOP Senator Ron Johnson are all on the record demanding the Nord Stream pipelines be taken out, implying they will use any means necessary to achieve that outcome."
See: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09...chestrated-by-ruthless-biden-regime.html

Who sabotaged those pipelines? There are a few possibilities - including a (remote) possibility it was an accident due to poor maintenance by the Russians. (The two explosions were 17 hours apart - pretty sloppy work for a saboteur.)



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airforce

Maybe nobody blew up that pipeline after all. from Lawdog:



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Russian positions in the Kherson Oblast are crumbling.



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Russian forces are collapsing on multiple fronts. If those in the Kremlin and elsewhere were smart, they'd give Putin his 9mm retirement package and withdraw from Ukraine.

Too long to post here in its entorety, but here's the takeaway (I do encourage you to read the whole thing):



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In spite of initial assumptions…. The longer this goes on the weaker the invading army gets, and stronger the defending army gets. The Russian forces are loosing their best “professional” (by their standards) units only to replace them by totally untrained conscripts. On the other side, the green Ukrainian (largely volunteer) soldiers are getting real combat experience and becoming battle hardened. They are being reinforced by units fresh from training in NATO countries where they learned how to effectively use the new high tech precision hardware they are being given by supporting nations. The Russian soldiers will to carry on this fight dwindles as they realize the false reasons for the war and face the demoralizing psychological effects of the crimes they have seen been parts of. The Ukrainian forces are becoming more resolute in their determination to NEVER give up till their land and it’s people are free.

With both forces having their momentum going in opposing directions (experienced soldiers, equipment/supplies, morale, public support)… it is NO wonder. The longer the Russians avoid the inevitable, the harsher their reality will become, both in the field and on the home front.

Slava Ukraine!

Who blew up that bridge in Crimea? First of all, they're saying it was a truck bomb, which seems unlikely since all vehicles crossing the bridge are searched for explosives. And, like with the Nordstream pipelines, we're not real sure who did it.





Onward and upward,
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It happened on Vlad’s birthday. The Ukrainian minister of national security (or something like that) posted a video on social media of the damaged bridge on fire with the audio of Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy Birthday Mr. President” then said that this was just the beginning.

The Ukrainians are masters at trolling the Russians, or as they call them Moscals!

Russia is (allegedly) replacing its Eastern Military District commander. That's a job I wouldn't be thrilled to get.



Onward and upward,
airforce

Its unfortunate that the Ukrainian people have been duped into fighting a war to enrich the globalist oligarchy. Its appalling how easily public opinion was molded to support this conflict while hundreds of billions of dollars of money are funneled away from the American people to prop up a corrupt third world regime and to line the pockets of the Biden family and their ilk. Zelensky is no saint and you can trace the money that put him in power right back to Soros, (look into studio Kvartal 95 if you want to know more about this)

This conflict should come as no surprise. Consider the US backed coup in 2014, the placement of Nato weapons within 500 miles of Moscow, placing shady bio labs in Ukraine, the Hunter Biden stuff, the Ukrainian government killing the ethnic Russians in Donbass, violating the Minsk agreement... the list goes on.

This was not an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine, this is a globalists effort to undermine Russia and institute regime change. The best thing for the Ukrainian people would have been for them to have surrendered to Russia. Ukrainians speak Russian and have only been independent for a short while. Russia is no saint but they would have welcomed them back or accepted a pledge of neutrality. We have no reason to think that Russia would have given them any less freedom than they had as an independent state. (They could not own property as it was....) Now the people are being subjected to horrible brutalities by both sides which is hardly preferable.

The narrative of poor Ukraine being picked on by Russia while its noble people struggle for freedom lead by honorable warrior Zelensky, fighting day and night for his freedom is an insidious fabrication. Its design is to enable the leading few to enrich themselves at the expense of our tax dollars and out lives while eliminating competition.

This conflict has brought our already shaky economy to the brink of ruin (the EU has it even worse than we do), reduced our strategic resources to unacceptably low levels, and is costing the American people 1 billion+ dollars a day.

Please do your research on this conflict, If you are supporting any side of it, you are being duped.

Bank of Finland: The war is bleeding the Russian economy dry.



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David you are 100% on the nark.

Don't believe the controlled major news media. Helping Russia decouple from the world economy is doing them a favor. The price they can get for their natural gas and the value of their ruble has greatly increased from the sanctions. Their energy resources will always increase in value unless cold fusion really works and can be developed which I highly doubt.

All nations including the US needs to decouple from the world economy. The world economy will lead to the UN One World Beast Government predicted in Revelation.

Screw the Russian Commie Rats and screw the Ukrainian Nazis we need to stay out of it. Let them fight it out. We need to quit arming Ukraine with deficit spending. Instead the US should spend money on a totally secure border, advanced weapon development, manufacturing ability, and arming up with weapons technology the is more advanced than the Russians.

Europe should have never gotten dependent on Russia or any other country for natural gas or any other source of energy. The US needs to leave the rest of the world alone so we will have manufacturing ability and not be dependent on any country. USA First and forget about the rest of the world.

The US saved Europe in WWI and WWII becasue of our manufacturing ability which is now gone because of the traitors who started having goods manufactured by the Chi-Coms and destroyed our manufacturing ability. Damn Richard Nixon and his traitorous trip to the Chi-Coms in 1972 while the Chi-Coms were supporting the Vietnamese Commie Rat Gooks we were fighting in Vietnam.

Biden, the Democrats, and the globalists are trying to start WWIII with the Russians so they will not lose in the November elections.

I'm skeptical about this, for a couple reasons. It's not wise to take any news from the front lines at face value, and the story itself is from the Daily Beast, a somewhat less than reliable source. But with those caveats, this is a tactic the Russians have used in the past, and it certainly sounds believable now. Developing a "second front line" to snuff out deserters certainly seems possible, and maybe even likely.

(Warning: Juvenile language is in this report.)



Read the whole thing at the link.

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Putin is having trouble on the home front. To say that Russian journalists support the government and Putin would be an understatement. When Russian journalists criticize Putin, it means that something is afoot.



Read the whole thing at the link.

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If it gets too "dangerous" for Putin then Putin will be more likely to take it nuclear in Ukraine which will start a Nuclear World War III which Biden, the Democrats, and the Globalists want.

A Russian missile veered into eastern Poland, killing two people, according to Fox news just now. Reuters is reporting the premier of Poland is in an urgent meeting of his national security committee.

Could this trigger Article V? Yep, if it was intentional. And maybe even if it wasn't.

This is just breaking, we may know more later. Unless everyone involved decides to just ignore it, which is an option.

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It looks like the Democrats and the Globalists will get their wish and WWIII will start. Get Potassium Iodate or Potassium Iodide pills so your thyroid would not be destroyed by radiation and dig an expedient fallout shelter while you still can. 3 feet of hard packed dirt stops radiation and radio active fallout rapidly decays.

"US buys $290 million in anti-radiation drugs amid Putin’s nuke threats" October 7, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/10/07/us-buys-290m-in-anti-radiation-drugs-amid-nuke-fears

The Ukraine Nazis are not willing to negotiate peace with Russia so the Russians have launched a massive missile attack. Soon the entire electrical power gird in Ukraine will be down. https://www.foxnews.com/world/russi...d-kill-2-senior-us-intelligence-official

Maybe it was a missile fired by the Ukrainians falsely claiming it was fired Russia to start WWWIII.
"Moscow says the missile that struck Przewodow was not Russian" https://www.rt.com/russia/566589-russia-no-strikes-on-poland

U.S. officials are looking into the reports of a missile strike in Poland.



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The Ukrainians fired the missle on Poland

They fired it in self defense, trying to shoot down a Russian missile. For NATO - as well as in common law - the aggressor party is responsible for any actions taken in self defense.

As an example in common law, suppose you are being robbed at gunpoint. In self defense, you shoot at and slightly wound the robber - but the bullet travels on, and kills an innocent bystander. In such a case, the robber can be charged with felony murder, even though he's not the one who fired the shot.

I don't expect a lot to come of this. Poland may ask Russia to pay reparations for the act, Russia will refuse, and Ukraine will get more military aid. C'est la guerre.

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The armed robber might be charged too but if you shoot an armed robber and your bullet goes through the armed robber and kills an innocent bystander behind him you will be tried for shooting the innocent bystander. You must not take the shot if anyone is behind your target. So it is still Ukraine's fault for not firing their interceptor missile in a safe direction.

Ukraine needs to make peace with Russia and give up the parts of Ukraine that voted to join Russia before Russia defeats all of Ukraine or starts WWWIII.

A while back, I floated the possibility the rupture of the Nordstream pipeline was due to faulty maintenance. Well, Swedish investigators have found traces of explosives at the rupture site, so it looks like the theory is a goner.

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Damn the idiots who blew up the pipeline and those who gave the order to blow it. They will burn in Hell for it. The globalists want to kill off as many people as they can.

Millions of Europeans will suffer and many will freeze to death because of it. No one has to obey an unlawful order. The Europeans should have never gotten dependent on Russian natural gas and oil. If they are smart they will go back to mining coal and building nuclear power plants. They are already cutting down most of the forests for wood to burn but it won't be dried in time.

Oath Keepers put law enforcement on notice not to follow unlawful orders but in the event of martial law the government plans to coerce law enforcement in to compliance with threats to their families. Oath Keepers was falsely vilified and their founder Stewart Rhodes is still on trial in a kangaroo court on trumped up charges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/us/politics/oath-keepers-sedition-trial-rhodes.html

"We support Active Duty US Military, Veterans, and Police who will honor their oaths to uphold and defend the US Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic and who promise not to obey any unlawful orders:

We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people.
We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal.
We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a state of emergency on a state.
We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to keep the peace or to maintain control.
We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances."

"Zelenskyy Caught Lying About Russia Launching Missiles at Poland"
https://banned.video/watch?id=63755704e3f1ec3fb1e881e1

Here's more on what the Swedish team found. Russia is still blaming the British for blowing it up.



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Putin has cancelled his annual year-end press conference amid speculation he is either very sick, or running from the war, or both.



Read the whole thing at the link.

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Is The War In Ukraine About To Go To An Entirely New Level?

January 17, 2023 by Michael


If Russia intends to make a major move to win the war in Ukraine, it needs to do it very soon. As you will see below, representatives from over 50 different nations will gather this week for a historic meeting in Ramstein, Germany. The goal of that meeting will be to implement a plan to absolutely flood Ukraine with tanks and missile systems in an attempt to turn the tide of the war. At the moment, the Russians have regained the initiative and the Ukrainians are steadily losing territory in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainians are hoping to buy enough time for the next massive influx of military aid to arrive, because it could potentially change everything.

Most of you have probably not heard about the meeting that will be held in Ramstein, Germany on Friday. The following originally comes from the Wall Street Journal…

Representatives of more than 50 countries supporting Ukraine are set to gather in Ramstein, Germany, to discuss provisions for Kyiv and pledge fresh supplies later this month. The U.S.-led assembly, known as the contact group, includes all countries in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and allies, including Japan, South Korea and Australia, offering lethal and nonlethal aid.

Ukraine is expected to receive Patriot missile systems, which Ukrainian officials say would hobble Russia’s missile attacks that have wreaked havoc on Ukraine’s civilian and critical infrastructure. Some Western officials also said that the first-ever shipment of Western-made main battle tanks could also be announced at the Friday meeting in Ramstein.

The only way that the Russians will be able to stop all of this equipment from getting to Ukraine would be to launch an enormous new invasion from the north that completely cuts off the flow of aid from the western powers.

Russia has been moving troops and equipment into Belarus for months, and many believe that such an offensive will soon happen.

And it is interesting to note that Russia and Belarus just initiated “a series of air-force exercises” on Monday…

Russia and its ally Belarus launched a series of air-force exercises Monday along the border with Ukraine in an effort to boost cooperation ahead of what Ukrainian officials and military analysts believe could be a fresh effort by Moscow in the coming months to retake battlefield momentum.

Throughout history, military exercises have often been used as a cover for major military operations.

But that doesn’t mean that the Russians will pull the trigger in this case.

Perhaps the Russians are just bluffing and are simply trying to hold a large number of Ukrainian forces along the northern border as the main push happens in the east.

At this point we just don’t know.

But many analysts in the western world do believe that the Russians will launch some kind of new offensive in the coming months…

“The Kremlin is likely preparing to conduct a decisive strategic action in the next six months intended to regain the initiative,” said a note from the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank that publishes daily reports on the war in Ukraine.

Actually, I think that if the Russians are going to make a move it will happen soon.

When the mud returns in the spring, it will be much more challenging for Russian tanks to move around efficiently.

So if a major offensive is going to take place, it will almost certainly be conducted within the next several weeks.

Meanwhile, Russian television continues to be filled with talk of nuclear war…

One of Vladimir Putin’s allies has claimed World War Three has already started as he called for Russia to launch a nuclear missile strike on Britain, France and Poland.

TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov told Russians that Moscow should target the West to disrupt NATO countries from sending supplies to Ukraine.

You don’t hear this sort of talk on television here in the United States.

In fact, at this point most Americans still believe that the risk of nuclear war is extremely low.

But they see things very, very differently inside Russia.

These remarks by Solovyov were in response to reports that NATO powers are getting ready to ship large numbers of tanks and armored vehicles to Ukraine…

It comes as Britain is poised to supply Challenger II main battle tanks to Kyiv, in the first such move of the war.

France is shipping French AMX-10 reconnaissance vehicles, Germany is sending 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, and the US is promising 50 M2 Bradley fighting vehicles.

Both sides just continue to escalate matters, and that has brought us dangerously close to nuclear conflict.

Earlier this month, Dmitry Medvedev made headlines all over the globe when he “threatened the United States of America with hypersonic cruise missiles”…

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev threatened the United States of America with hypersonic cruise missiles and compared the American government’s policies to that of Nazis in a Thursday Telegram post in response to a US embassy appeal to Russian citizens for peace.

“The main gift of the New Year was the arsenal of Zircon missiles that went yesterday to the shores of NATO countries,” said Medvedev, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who currently serves as Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council.

The nuclear warhead-capable Zircon missiles were reported by Reuters Wednesday to have been placed on the frigate Admiral Gorshkov to be deployed to the Indian and Atlantic oceans.

By the way, we have absolutely no way to defend against those hypersonic cruise missiles.

If the Russians launch them, they will hit their targets.

If our leaders were sane, they would be trying to find a peaceful way out of this mess while there is still an opportunity to do so.

Sadly, that window is rapidly closing.

If the Russians launch another massive invasion of Ukraine from the north, there will be no going back.

Both sides will just keep escalating the conflict until someone crosses a line that will never be able to be uncrossed.

On Russian television, they are already talking about the inevitability of a nuclear conflict.

Unfortunately, most Americans don’t even realize that our leaders have us on the brink of the unthinkable.

Hopefully people will start to wake up before it is too late, because the clock is ticking.

Damn the Globalists, the damn Democrats, and the lying damn controlled major news media.
Here comes World War 3 and it will be nuclear.

Russian Patriarch Kirill Warns 'Any Desire to Destroy Russia Will Mean The End of the World'
Chris Menahan, Information Liberation Jan. 19, 2023
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63553

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill on Thursday warned the "madmen" running the West that Russia has "powerful weapons" and "any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world."

From RT, "Russian Orthodox Church issues apocalyptic warning": https://www.rt.com/russia/570134-russian-church-apocalyptic-warning

Any attempts to destroy Russia could spell disaster for the entire world, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, warned on Thursday.

Speaking after a religious service marking the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany, the primate claimed that both the international community and Russia are facing "very huge threats."

According to Patriarch Kirill, the root of the problem is that some "madmen" believe that Russia, which "has powerful weapons and is populated by extremely strong people… who had never given in to an enemy and had always emerged victorious, could be defeated under the current circumstances."

Neither would it be possible to "impose on them certain values that cannot even be called values, so that they would be like everyone else and obey those who have the power to control most of the world," he noted.

"We pray to the Lord so that he enlightens those madmen and helps them understand that any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world," he added.

The Patriarch's remarks echo a statement by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday, who warned those countries wishing to see Moscow defeated in Ukraine that nuclear powers such as Russia had "never lost a major conflict on which their fate depended." Should such a nation lose a conventional war, it could trigger a nuclear conflict, he added.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that the US is "warming" to the idea of working with Ukraine to attack Crimea because Russia has yet to use nuclear weapons.

From The New York Times, "U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea":

For years, the United States has insisted that Crimea is still part of Ukraine. Yet the Biden administration has held to a hard line since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, refusing to provide Kyiv with the weapons it needs to target the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia has been using as a base for launching devastating strikes.

Now that line is starting to soften.

After months of discussions with Ukrainian officials, the Biden administration is finally starting to concede that Kyiv may need the power to strike the Russian sanctuary, even if such a move increases the risk of escalation, according to several U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive debate. Crimea, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, is home to tens of thousands of dug-in Russian troops and numerous Russian military bases.

The moderation in position has come about as the Biden administration has come to believe that if the Ukrainian military can show Russia that its control of Crimea can be threatened, that would strengthen Kyiv’s position in any future negotiations. In addition, fears that the Kremlin would retaliate using a tactical nuclear weapon have dimmed, U.S. officials and experts said — though they cautioned that the risk remained.

Biden's neocon handlers are essentially taunting Russia to use nukes against Ukraine.

"Fighting to the last Ukrainian" is their official policy.

With the reclaiming last year of Kherson in the south, Ukrainian forward lines can now use [American-provided HIMARS, long-range rocket systems] to hit the main supply routes coming out of Crimea, one American military official said in an interview.

This week, top U.S. and Ukrainian commanders will hold a high-level planning meeting in Germany to game out the offensive planning, another senior U.S. official said. The drill, the official said, is meant to align Ukraine’s battle plans with the kinds of weapons and supplies NATO allies are contributing.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the World Economic Forum on Wednesday that providing Ukraine weapons is "the way to peace."

"If we want a negotiated, peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine, we need to provide military support to Ukraine. That’s the only way," Stoltenberg said. "Weapons are the way to peace."
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenber is a lying damn son of a bitch.

Ukraine's position is not as secure as most people think. The campaign in the Donbas region is usually portrayed as static, with Ukraine forces taking a terrible toll on Russian convict soldiers. In fact, the opposite is true: Russia enjoys a nine to one advantage in artillery tubes, and they're quite content to simply hang back and pound Ukraine defenses. The campaign in the Donbas region is starting to look more like Verdun than anything else.

Far too long to post here, so This is just a short summary. Read the whole thing, and draw your own conclusions:



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It has been clear from the start that the Ukraine Nazis cannot defeat the Russian Commie Rats. The major news media is controlled by the Globalists and only fools believe the major news media.

News reports from the Ukraine war have to be taken with a gigantic grain of salt. Would the Russians really be satisfied with a static artillery duel - even if they are winning? Under Stalin, no. And I'm not sure Putin has that much patience, either.

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Putin may be negotiating for U.S. weapons left behind in Afghanistan.



Lots of photos at the link.

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All equipment left behind should have been destroyed with thermite, fragmentation grenades, sledge hammers, cutting torches etc. All those responsible for leaving any usable equipment for the enemy should be tried for treason or court-martialed. What a bunch of idiots! Obama is a damn Mooslem Traitor and Biden is his puppet.

Biden committed election fraud, is a traitor, is a crook, belongs in a nursing home, and should never have be a president.

Get ready for incoming Russian hypersonic nukes.

Agreed. But we have a long history of leaving weapons for our enemies. Who do you think armed ISIS?

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Iran has been supplying Russia with hundreds of Shahed and Mohajer drones, which Russia uses to attack front-line Ukraine forces and civilian infrastructure. And now, drones have attacked the factory in isfahan making those drones.

Coincidence? I think not.



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If it's stupid but it works, it ain't stupid. Ukraine soldiers are destroying BMP-3's with RPG's strapped to drones.





Will this be the war that makes armored tanks and manned military aircraft obsolete? Hmmmm...

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Lt. Col. Daniel Davis Warns of Nuclear War: U.S. Has ‘No Plan’ in Ukraine, This Is Not a ‘Video Game’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...r-us-no-plan-ukraine-this-not-video-game

Everyone is denying it, but a reliable Swiss newspaper is reporting that Biden offered Putin 20% of Ukraine to end the war. Both Putin and Zelensky rejected the plan.



read the whole thing at the link.

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Here is a link to the article that works https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...mp;cvid=d967749d1d9240dc87806443bf7777d9

Here it is reported on Infowars: White House denies Biden offered Putin ‘20% of Ukraine’
https://www.infowars.com/posts/white-house-denies-biden-offered-putin-20-of-ukraine

If Biden and NATO would quit supplying the Ukrainians they would make peace.

Clearly Biden is fighting war by proxy against Russia and Biden wants to start a nuclear World War III.

“The idea that we’re going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews — just understand, don’t kid yourself, no matter what y’all say, that’s called World War III,” Biden said on March 11, 2022, while speaking at a gathering of House Democrats in Philadelphia. Source: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politi...raine-would-start-world-war-iii-n1665207

Russia will nuke Ukraine if they have to and it will start a nuclear World War III.