Amid separatists attempts to trigger war, and various bigger dick contests, some historians go digging for docs... Germany's Spiegel Asks "Is Vladimir Putin Right?" Over NATO Expansion https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/newly-declassified-documents-gorb... https://twitter.com/shifrinson/status/1494696937496399873 Random twitters from Juan's friends... https://twitter.com/rianru https://twitter.com/kremlinrussia_e https://twitter.com/kremlinrussia https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa https://twitter.com/michaelh992 https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba https://twitter.com/OSCE https://twitter.com/edgarsrinkevics https://twitter.com/trussliz https://twitter.com/SecBlinken https://twitter.com/vonderleyen https://twitter.com/jensstoltenberg With all eyes on the situation unfolding at the Ukraine border - as separatists in Donbas reporting intensified shelling amid a "general mobilization" of military-age males - Germany's left-leaning Spiegel asks a question fundamental to the entire conflict... "Vladimir Putin insists that the West cheated Russia by expanding NATO eastward following the end of the Cold War. Is there anything to his claims? The short answer: It's complicated." The essence of the argument is this; In September 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin penned a long letter to US President Bill Clinton, which railed against the eastward expansion of NATO at a time when Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were interested in joining the organization. Yeltsin argued that the Russian public saw this "as a sort of neo-isolation" of Russia, and that the "Two Plus Four Treaty" linked to Germany's 1990 reunification "precludes the option of expanding the NATO zone into the East." As Spiegel writes, "There is essentially no other historical issue that has poisoned relations between Moscow and the West as much in the last three decades as the disagreement over what, precisely, was agreed to in 1990." Since the 1990 letter, NATO has accepted 14 countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, which the Kremlin has complained of haaving been duped every step of the way." According to current Russian President Vladimir Putin, "You cheated us shamelessly." "You promised us in the 1990s that (NATO) would not move an inch to the East," he said late last month in comments used to justify his current demands for written guarantees that Ukraine will never be accepted into the Western alliance. But that’s not all. At the end of January, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wrote an open letter to his Western counterparts in which he cited additional understandings. In particular, he focused on the Charter for European Security, rooted in agreements reached in 1990. East and West had concurred at the time that every country has a right to freely choose the alliance it wished to be part of, while also emphasizing the "indivisibility of security." Later, that became "the obligation of each State not to strengthen its security at the expense of the security of other States," as Lavrov explicitly mentions in his letter. -Spiegel Ukraine, meanwhile, wants to know how fast they can join. Muddied waters Post-1990 NATO expansion isn't black-and-white though, according to Spiegel - and is muddied by a chorus of 'he-said-she-said' between prominent officials from the early 1990s. There is no lack of accounts from a variety of witnesses to the various discussions between the West and Moscow following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1990, a veritable army of politicians and high-ranking officials from Moscow, Washington, Paris, London, Bonn and East Berlin met for discussions on German reunification, on the disarmament of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and on a new charter for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) – which became the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1995. -Spiegel For example - former French foreign minister, Roland Dumas, said that a pledge was made that NATO troops wouldn't advanced closer to the former Soviet Union's territory. Former US Secretary of State James Baker denied it - saying no such promise was ever made. Yet, several diplomats under Baker have contradicted him. Former US ambassador to Moscow, Jack Matlock, has said that "categorical assurances" were given to the Soviet Union that NATO wouldn't continue expanding eastward. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union's last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, said on one occasion that German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had made assurances that NATO "will not move one centimeter further east." Another time, Gorbachev said that "the topic of NATO expansion was never discussed," while saying that the West had violated the spirit of various agreements regardless. What's more, US government documents declassified in 2017 appear to confirm that assurances were given. Luckily, there are plenty of documents available from the various countries that took part in the talks, including memos from conversations, negotiation transcripts and reports. According to those documents, the U.S., the UK and Germany signaled to the Kremlin that a NATO membership of countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic was out of the question. In March 1991, British Prime Minister John Major promised during a visit to Moscow that "nothing of the sort will happen." Yeltsin expressed significant displeasure when the step was ultimately taken. He gave his approval for NATO’s eastward expansion in 1997, but complained that he was only doing so because the West had forced him to. -Spiegel Der Spiegel also published a document on Friday from March 1991 which shows US, French, UK and German officials discussing the pledge not to expand to Poland and beyond. The document contains multiple references to "2+4" talks regarding German unification - which makes clear that NATO would not expand east of Germany. The document was found in the UK National Archives by Boston University political science professor, Josh Shifrinson. Honored to work with @derspiegel's Klaus Wiegrefe in drawing attention to British documents (cc: @UkNatArchives) from 1990-1991 showing senior Western diplomats believed they had indeed made a NATO non-enlargement pledge. Link below:https://t.co/hep8aCKRrM — Josh Shifrinson (@shifrinson) February 18, 2022 "We made it clear to the Soviet Union – in the 2+4 talks, as well as in other negotiations – that we do not intend to benefit from the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe," reads the document, citing US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Canada, Raymond Seitz. "NATO should not expand to the east, either officially or unofficially," he added. A UK official mentioned the existence of a "general agreement" which held NATO membership for eastern European countries as "unacceptable." "We had made it clear during the 2+4 negotiations that we would not extend NATO beyond the Elbe [sic]," according to West German diplomat Juergen Hrobog. "We could not therefore offer Poland and others membership in NATO." Minutes of a March 6, 1991 meeting of German, UK, US and French diplomats discussing NATO expansion Der Spiegel also notes a January 1990 initiative from German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who said in a Jan. 31, 1990 speech that NATO should issue a statement saying: "Whatever happens to the Warsaw Pact, there will be no expansion of NATO territory to the east and closer to the borders of the Soviet Union." Genscher's American counterpart, James Baker, said he "wasn't exactly elated" at the idea, but admitted it was "the best we had at the moment." In early February, Genscher and Baker presented the idea in Moscow independently of one another. The German foreign minister assured the Kremlin that: "For us, it is a certainty that NATO will not expand to the east. And that applies generally," clearly meaning beyond just East Germany. The American, for his part, offered "ironclad guarantees that NATO’s jurisdiction or forces would not move eastward." When Gorbachev said that NATO expansion was "unacceptable," Baker responded: "We agree with that." -Spiegel Baker and Genscher have since downplayed the events, with Baker saying that his exclusive focus had been on Germany, and Genscher later saying he wanted to simply "gauge" the Soviet response. The message was clear. If Gorbachev were to provide his acquiescence for German reunification within NATO, the West would aim at establishing a Western security architecture that took Moscow’s interests into account. Informal assurances were not unusual during the Cold War. U.S. political scientist Joshua Shifrinson compares the 1990 discussions with the verbal agreements made between the Americans and Soviets that led to the easing of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. ... Given the documents available, some even speculate that the West intentionally misled the Soviets from the very beginning. A few weeks after his trip to the Kremlin, in any case, Baker expressly told Genscher that some Eastern European countries were eager to join NATO, engendering Genscher’s response that the issue "shouldn’t be touched for now." A formulation which kept all options on the table for later. -Spiegel NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, however, said that the alliance "has never promised not to expand," and told Spiegel that "there has never been such a promise, there has never been such a behind-the-scenes deal, it is simply not true." NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg © Reuters / Ints Kalnins Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were admitted into NATO in 1999, right before launching an air war against Yugoslavia which put NATO forces along the Russian border for the first time. In 2004, the former Soviet republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia joined the Organization, putting NATO even closer to Russian assets. Now, Russia is demanding that NATO publicly renounce expansion into the former Soviet Republics of Georgia and Ukraine, and recall US forces to the 1997 boundaries of the bloc. The US and NATO have told Putin to pound sand, and that NATO's "open door" policy is fundamental. Which brings us to today. Ukraine wants to join NATO, while the threat implied by the buildup of Russian forces at the border couldn't couldn't be more clear: call it off or we're taking Kiev.

Russia makes its big move... https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/nato-osterweiterung-aktenfund-stuetzt-russisc... https://twitter.com/Reevellp/status/1495781102337900547 https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1495821979227762697 https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/1495828205286080518 https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/1495849535859527684 https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassyR https://twitter.com/bnonews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjMnTo85S4A Putin's address https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKADOlpNWxb https://twitter.com/rt_com Putin Declares Formal Recognition Of Ukraine Separatist Regions As Sovereign States Update(1:30pmET): The leaders of France and Germany were reportedly just informed by Putin that he intends to pull the trigger on issuing formal recognition of the two breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine. It's official: Putin has confirmed the change of status recognition while warning Kiev and the West that Russia's military will act against any further aggression. He warned that Ukraine's government must now halt all military actions against Donbas or whatever happens next will be on them. "Modern Ukraine was completely created by Russia," Putin stated at the outset of his speech. PUTIN SAYS UKRAINE WAS NOT ABLE TO ACHIEVE STABLE STATEHOOD AND HAS THEREFORE HAD TO RELY ON FOREIGN COUNTRIES LIKE THE UNITED STATES PUTIN: UKRAINE HAS BECOME 'A COLONY WITH A PUPPET GOVERNMENT' PUTIN SAYS UKRAINE PLANS TO CREATE ITS OWN NUCLEAR WEAPONS PUTIN SAYS WE WERE PROMISED NATO WOULD NOT EXPAND PUTIN SAYS THE OPPOSITE HAPPENED PUTIN: I WILL SAY SOMETHING IVE NEVER SAID FOR THE FIRST TIME: I ASKED CLINTON HOW WOULD YOU FEEL ABOUT RUSSIA JOINING NATO? PUTIN SAYS WE SAW FIVE WAVES OF NATO EXPANSION RECENTLY U.S. DOES NOT NEED SUCH A BIG COUNTRY AS RUSSIA IN NATO 'WHY MAKE AN ENEMY OF US PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA HAS EVERY RIGHT TO PROTECT ITS SECURITY, THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO PUTIN: UKRAINE DOESNT WANT A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION PUTIN: RUSSIA WILL TAKE STEPS TO ENSURE ITS SECURITY PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA WILL RECOGNISE INDEPENDENCE OF TWO BREAKAWAY REGIONS IN EASTERN UKRAINE President #Putin informed President @EmmanuelMacron and Federal Chancellor @OlafScholz of his intention to sign the decree to recognise #Donetsk and #Lugansk People’s Republics. pic.twitter.com/Xi4JfhLXgr — Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) February 21, 2022 LIVE FEED: The Western powers have expressed surprise and dismay at the move, as sanctions packages are being prepped in Washington and Europe. "The President of Russia informed them that he intends to sign a relevant decree [on recognition] in the immediate future. The President of France and Chancellor of Germany expressed disappointment with this development. They also expressed a willingness to continue contacts." pic.twitter.com/bbArddb98E — max seddon (@maxseddon) February 21, 2022 Official Kremlin statement confirming Russian change of status in Donbas: Official Kremlin statement confirming that Putin intends to recognize the two separatist republicshttps://t.co/11dJOvQ78p pic.twitter.com/JSqoCp9096 — Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) February 21, 2022 * * * Update(12:38pmET): Despite the evening growing late Moscow time, it appears Russia is readying a major decision on the looming question of the independence of the two breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine. The AFP is reporting that Putin will make a televised address "soon" according to state media sources. Likely it is to be carried via Russian state channels, with reports suggesting it will happen starting at 9pm local time (or 1pm ET). PUTIN TOLD SCHOLZ AND MACRON HE WILL SIGN A DECREE ON EASTERN UKRAINE REGIONS SHORTLY, WESTERN LEADERS WERE DISMAYED - RIA CITES KREMLIN PUTIN PLANS TO SIGN UKRAINE SEPARATIST RECOGNITION: KREMLIN As fighting in Donbas has continued into evening, Ukrainian government officials reported that a civilian has been killed by shelling during an attack on government-held Novoluganske, which lies a couple dozen miles north of Donetsk. Journalists are now looking for ominous signs of what might be about to come... The official account of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs changed its profile picture to what appears to be tomorrow's date. pic.twitter.com/VXjQ39iUwb — Ana Fota (@anafota4) February 21, 2022 * * * Update(10:40amET): Putin said during his addressing the Russian Security Council that "I will make a decision today" over whether or not to recognize the Donetsk and Luhansk separatist republics at a moment of heavy fighting with Ukrainian national forces. There were indications from the meeting that Russia would give the West a three day ultimatum and window before recognizing the separatist regions in eastern Ukraine - perhaps as a chance for last minute diplomacy to proceed; however, with Putin's words it appears we'll learn the fate of the region sooner than later. Russian state tv RT’s editor says Putin has already made his mind to recognise breakaway regions Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine — Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) February 21, 2022 However, Russia's top diplomat Sergey Lavrov appears to be a voice of caution while other officials within the security council were in favor of independence. Top officials in the meeting were asked whether they support the pro-Russian separatist republics... A long line of officials – some enthusiastically, some looking terrified – urge Putin to recognize the DNR. Putin says, "A decision will be taken today." Then the TV cuts out. It's like the finale of the Sopranos. What the hell did I just watch???? — max seddon (@maxseddon) February 21, 2022 It reportedly led to some uncomfortable moments as the world now awaits Putin's decision: Bizarre moment. Head of Russia's foreign intelligence agency gets flustered as Putin asks him if he supports Russia recognising the separatist regions. "I support the annexation of the regions into Russia!" Putin laughs and says "we're not talking about that". [Clearly we are.] https://t.co/WMEVtHIYUY — Patrick Reevell (@Reevellp) February 21, 2022 If Putin does pull the trigger on recognition, it could virtually assure some level of a war or serious conflict, given that the breakaway republics would come under more intense attack from Ukraine's army, leading to Russian intervention in defense of the "newly recognized" regions - if we soon get to that point. Ukraine is now urging an immediate UN Security Council meeting as tensions soar and war looks to be on the horizon... Ukrainian President Zelenskiy requests urgent meeting of the UN Security Council — BNO News (@BNONews) February 21, 2022 * * * Update(9:48amET): Separatist leader Denis Pushilin has issued a formal request to President Vladimir Putin calling on Russia to recognize the Donetsk People's Republic. The Luhansk republic has simultaneously published the same request, at a moment Putin is holding an urgent session of the Russian Security Council. This followed quickly on the heels of what Russia's southern command said was a serious attempt of Ukrainian armored vehicles to breach its border, that resulted in five Ukrainians killed. However, the Ukrainian government and army rejected the entirety of the allegations as "fake news" - rejecting that its forces are even in the area where it's said to have occurred (though without addressing the possibility that they could have been irregular forces). But Russia's FSB Director Bortnikov Russian responding by saying the Russian military "destroyed Ukrainian forces that tried to infiltrate the border and took one Ukrainian POW" - thus doubling down on the claims. Russia now says it captured one Ukrainian soldier after repelling cross-border incursion by *two* Ukrainian military units. Kyiv denies any of this happened. — Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) February 21, 2022 That a captured Ukrainian soldier could be in Russian custody would obviously provide verification, if true. But it would also be seen by the West as a massive escalation possibly leading to more direct NATO involvement. Currently Putin is speaking at a live televised meeting of the council, where he started by staying Ukraine is planning not to uphold its end of the Minsk accords. The question is also reportedly on the table of whether or in what way the Donbas region could achieve independence, even with at one point in the security council session an official raising the possibility of direct annexation. Putin said "we need to consider if we recognize the independence of the two breakaway Ukrainian regions," according to a rush translation of his words. PUTIN: WE MUST DECIDE ON RECOGNIZING SEPARATISTS PUTIN: WEST IS MAKING `THREATS, BLACKMAIL' RUSSIA'S MEDVEDEV: WE KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN WE RECOGNIZE DONBASS INDEPENDENCE, THE PRESSURE WILL BE UNPRECEDENTED, BUT WE KNOW HOW TO FACE IT Denis Pushilin, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, just went on Russian TV to ask Putin to recognize it as an independent state. Looks like Georgia 2008 all over again pic.twitter.com/tm00PkRvkQ — max seddon (@maxseddon) February 21, 2022 Putin further repeated while addressing the forum that "if Russia faces the danger of Ukraine joining NATO, the threat for our country will increase substantially." He was perhaps addressing a hugely provocative statement made by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to "60 Minutes" which aired Sunday. Kuleba on a major American television show reaffirmed Ukraine's desire to enter NATO, which without doubt inflamed tensions further from Moscow's point of view... Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told Lesley Stahl Ukraine is not willing to abandon its goal of entering NATO to please Russian President Vladimir Putin and that he still sees “room for diplomacy.” https://t.co/hqlcp4iQ5h pic.twitter.com/8CxR9PqvV1 — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 21, 2022 In response to the rapidly escalating crisis, the ruble has tumbled as much as 3%, extending its worst 3-day slump since March 2020... ... while the Moscow Exchange tumbled as much as 10%, its biggest drop since 2008... ... amid a bloodbath of most Russian stocks. * * * Earlier: In what provides Russia an 'opportunity' to pull the trigger on overt intervention in eastern Ukraine (assuming it's actually desiring to do so), rebel leaders in the breakaway Donetsk region on Monday urged Moscow's urgent military help amid worsening shelling from Ukrainian national forces, and as fighting escalates along the line of contact. This as Interfax in a breaking report cites Russian defense officials who say five "saboteurs" were killed by border guards as they attempted to enter Russia's territory. Though details are as yet unconfirmed at this early point, Russia's military says Ukrainian army vehicles attempted to breach sovereign Russian territory. Ukraine is disputing the entire narrative, however, calling it fake news and that its forces are not in the Rostov area. RUSSIA SAYS KILLED FIVE PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO VIOLATE BORDER: IFX The spokesperson's office of #Russia Southern Military District said two infantry fighting vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed forces entered Russian territory. — Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) February 21, 2022 And Bloomberg details of the breaking report: Russian forces killed five “saboteurs” and destroyed 2 armored personnel carriers of the Ukrainian forces who tried to violate Russian border, Russian army’s Southern Military District says, according to Interfax report The Russian MoD statement said the alleged "attack occurred in the Mityakinskaya area at 6 am this morning. Infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed by anti-tank missiles." The separatists are now formally asking Moscow for military and financial assistance against the "Ukrainian attacks"; however, Ukraine's army is currently denying that it's conducting offensive operations in the Donbas, according to RT and regional correspondents. Further the Kremlin is citing what it says is a major escalation, after reports that a Ukrainian shell hit and destroyed a Russian border checkpoint in the Rostov region. The Russian side now says Ukrainian munitions are landing on its sovereign soil, which some say could be used as a casus belli if Putin so chooses. Archived image of Ukrainian troops in Donbas, via Wiki Commons According to Russian state sources, Donbas officials and separatist commanders are intensifying their plea for Russian help, which if initiated could crucially in turn trigger heightened NATO intervention in the conflict: Speaking to the Solovyov Live YouTube channel on Monday, Eduard Basurin, the spokesman for the Donetsk People’s Militia said that Moscow should provide moral support “first of all,” but that “I would not refuse any - military assistance is also needed, in different forms.” The official also claimed that there is a war taking place in Donbass, adding, “the situation isn’t just difficult, it is genuinely critical.” Both breakaway republics began evacuating citizens to Russian territory, announced on Feb.18, citing fears of reprisal attacks by Ukrainian forces, with at this point a believed tens of thousands of civilians having been transferred, mostly via large passenger buses. Russia’s RIA says the alleged Ukrainian she’ll hit the Neklinovsky district of Rostov. The nearest Ukrainian positions are some 20 km away, and Russian-installed Donetsk People’s Republic controls the other side of that border. https://t.co/jP4S9osBNh — Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) February 21, 2022 One Russian media report cites that about "61,000 residents of the LPR and DPR have crossed the border into Russia as part of evacuation amid escalation in eastern Ukraine." If true this would suggest a major logistical operation still in progress amid the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the war-torn Donbas, and still with unprecedented numbers of Russian troops mustered near the border in Russia's southern regions.

On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 20:57:05 -0500 grarpamp wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJXwLzII278 Putin dropped the N-word

yep, fucking JEW-US-EUROPEAN nazis need to be nuked. Maybe a couple of nukes would make people like Stefan get a better grasp of reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzHlSLhtmM Ukraine Anthem Zelensky addresses Russians in Russian: "We are divided by a shared border of more than 2,000km. Almost 200,000 of your troops and thousands of military vehicles are standing alongside it. Your leadership has ordered them to move forward, onto another country's territory." https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage+CredibleDefense+EndlessWar+InvasionOf... https://youtu.be/jNZM_H6q1rY https://twitter.com/i/lists/1383431779751657480 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyzicW_ctB4 https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor https://liveuamap.com/ https://goo.gl/maps/49PyREbw8PTgnxWh9 https://www.youtube.com/c/OdessaONLINE/featured https://twitter.com/IntelCrab https://twitter.com/loogunda https://twitter.com/Conflicts https://twitter.com/ELINTNews https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK Lvyv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9r5rpGq9mU Kyiv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cyQPN5xQtU Maidan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ6AzlYCysY Kharkiv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ZbVufqW3s Kharkiv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNGrP5Wv_C4 Kharkiv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWyn4ff7tm4 Pisochyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtOKYCxP6iY Chernihiv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvhM2a92dvs Odessa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWKjaA-wNho Odessa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hHelJALhEo Odessa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9HskjsldsU Mariupol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE9nRMx8n6s Mykolayiv: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJvMQvqpxZvIakq4VgcooNQ Severodonetsk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho40J7dRlGQ Kalanchak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxYsvdC4-yA Severodonetsk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzQdh7Sd7ZM https://twitter.com/mrsorokaa https://twitter.com/jamiewrit https://twitter.com/IMatviyishyn https://twitter.com/nolanwpeterson https://twitter.com/olgatokariuk https://twitter.com/brycewilsonAU https://twitter.com/StefanWeichert https://twitter.com/sarahrainsford https://twitter.com/ikhurshudyan https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ALGJAoPfBemEUh_3qBrFm0e4woBB2D2ctS_F...

On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 02:37:30 -0500 grarpamp wrote:

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/press_releases.htm

I am literally laughing. So pentagon agent grancrap is now a NATO SPAMMER. Can't make this shit up =) US nazi agents outing themselves for the 1000th time? Nah, how could there be any US nazi agents in the Anarchist Cypherpunk Mailing List.

On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:21:50 +0000 zeynepaydogan wrote:

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grarpamp grarpamp@gmail.com wrote:

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https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/press_releases.htm

I am literally laughing. So pentagon agent grancrap is now a NATO SPAMMER. Can't make this shit up =)

I can see some neo-nazis in here are all over the place.Will America bring peace to the Ukrainian? LOL.

So far the US has done the exact opposite. They brought war to ukraine. The US and their european, criminal lapdog/accomplices have been pushing russia and trying to extend their NATO mafia to eventually attack russia, and this is the result. It's sad that people in ukraine have been used by the jew-US nazis for their own benefit, but it's not surprise that jew-US nazis regard their 'allies' as disposable material.

America's plan has failed.

It has, so far. But the bigger losers are the european lapdogs.

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US nazi agents outing themselves for the 1000th time? Nah, how could there be any US nazi agents in the Anarchist Cypherpunk Mailing List.

I'm not Russian, I don't want to be Russian, and I will never be Russian.

American licks can't be Russian. The United States started this war.

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 08:59:28 -0500 grarpamp wrote:

Hacker collective Anonymous declares cyber war against Russia

"CIA declares cyber war against Russia" fixed your typo.

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:24:32 +0000 zeynepaydogan wrote:

Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:

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"CIA declares cyber war against Russia" fixed your typo.

Finally yes… Finally, someone told the truth. I told you a long time ago that Anonymous had a close connection with the CIA.

Well, the pattern isn't too hard to spot I think. Young inexperienced 'hackers' who think they are going to fight against govcorp. They do a couple of 'hacks' and get caught. And then end up working for the 'authorities' or as 'security consultants' for joogle-NSA. What trivially gives them away is that once they become CIA 'assets' they start to parrot crass CIA talking points.

They've been pretending to be anarchists for years and hunting people. I've seen it myself, and I know who's in that group.Anonymous is not anonymous.

On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 03:09:56 -0500 grarpamp wrote:

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"CIA declares cyber war against Russia"

Old news.

The fact that "anonymous" is the CIA isn't news to me, and I know it isn't news to you either. I didn't mention it because it's a new fact...

Nice try though.

What do you think I tried? You copypasted NATO propaganda, suggesting that 'grass roots' 'anti establishment' 'activists' who are the 'good guys' are fighing against (evil) russia. You could have posted the propaganda AND described it as such, but you didn't. An action that is consistent with the rest of NATO propaganda you are posting.

“Black folks in America: “Pray for Ukraine.” “White folks in Ukraine are: blocking Black people from getting on trains, dragging Black people off buses, denying shelter to Black people in freezing temperatures, and holding Black students at gunpoint.” https://twitter.com/talbertswan/status/1497922289085648898?s=21

On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 09:59:00 -0500 grarpamp wrote:

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"Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Seems Putin didn't like that very much, nor all the embarassing protests, nor getting his expensive rolling stock turned into scrap metal, nor all the sanctions in response to his invasion...

oh look, grancrap is a US NATO nazi. Isn't that shocking? But wait for his next message when he poses as a fascist narcho 'pacifist' 'voluntaryst'...of the KKK trumponazi variety. will your clown performance ever end grancrap?

Elon Musk came thru with Starlink

yeah that's why technonazi turd bell is constantly spamming musko 'advertising'. Doubly shocking.

On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 15:35:28 -0500 grarpamp wrote:

Everyone knows that NATO is agent in oppressing human freedom,

Why do you work for them, then. Oh wait, you work for them because they are the top govcorp criminals on the planet.

same as all other such Govt entities, and that your performance is that of a jackass.

So you, a NATO agent are telling me...what exactly?

Seems Putin destroyed AN-225 Myria :( For no reason while she was stored in hanger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya https://twitter.com/AirlinesAntonov/status/1426076500286136325 https://twitter.com/AirlinesAntonov/status/1410866763001176064 https://twitter.com/AirlinesAntonov/status/1414235600740356097

https://twitter.com/KremlinRussia_E https://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67843 https://president.gov.by/en/ Russian Chief of General Staff, Valery Gerasimov is dismissed from his position by President Putin https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/volodymyr-zelensky-russian-mercenaries-or... https://twitter.com/MoH_Ukraine https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMoZzcGWUAkPLrf.jpg https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1497868834891464704 Ancap freemarket evironmentally conscious materials recycling plan... https://twitter.com/ng_ukraine/status/1498032680360984577 https://jamestown.org/program/the-involvement-of-russian-ultra-nationalists-... https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ukraine-crisis-who-are-russian-neo-nazi-groups-fig... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_National_Unity https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMZO0VHWQAIJlbq.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMkSYx7XoAYlolg.jpg biden+tyahnybok=bffs https://theintercept.com/2022/02/18/ukraine-weapons-neo-nazis-bob-menendez/ Greased bullets are a war crime. " War is just one big op, with all the world's governments and corporations playing the game, and you caught in the crossfire. " Best end the war now before it gets out of control...

https://www.facebook.com/zelenskiy.official with subs https://babylonbee.com/news/mysterious-large-circles-on-russian-radar-turn-o... Ukrainian sailor floods Russian boss’ $8 million super yacht Unarmed Ukrainian civilians block, turn back Russian tanks - Video Lolidiot: Biden admin says social distance, wear a mask while sheltering from nuclear bomb Leloo begs for help. https://uatv.ua/en/prosecutor-general-clarified-how-ukraine-releases-prisone... Ukraine is sending savages to the literally front lines with a green light to obliterate the enemy. https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2022/02/27/ambassadeur-oekraine-over-oorlog-in-... Photoshopped imagery, manufactured documents, script writers, he who made the Internet wields the Internet. The first fully internet enabled war... western aligned gang of politicians tripping over themselves in tweet race to be featured in the next hot viral vote-getting obvious propaganda clip. This cabal... dangerous to real human diversity sovereignty development and freedom.

The childrens story... https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMx59NvXEAMonz5.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMx5-OjX0AYzEbk.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMvlFX1XEAMQ6fQ.jpg https://twitter.com/DSM4USA/status/1498876239066587137 https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMvzZGRXEAUPKuv.jpg https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1498337141075681287/pu/vid/640x368/9D1L... https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMxouhbXoAQUONn.jpg https://twitter.com/yopwoblem/status/1498735293683355655 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCYuq6bWTAo https://twitter.com/yopwoblem/status/1498094140936142853 https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMslspVWUAAt_rr.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMslspSXIAg9jXR.jpg https://tinkoff.ru/about/exchange/ https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMtLBMUXEAEI6tI.jpg https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1498774349473628160 https://nypost.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-says-it-has-neutralized-chechen-zelens... https://twitter.com/sbreakintl https://twitter.com/TheIntelLab

Grarpamp,Rat and Chameleon right now

Putin violates residences, schools, apartment complexes, civilians, nuclear power plants. Sen. Lindsey Graham calls for Russians to carry out a Julius Caesar-style assassination of Vladimir Putin: 'Is there a Brutus in Russia?' "Just because one guy wants something, why should these kids suffer." https://v.redd.it/0cltr4i958l81 https://v.redd.it/voursd11g8l81 https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM9WVDlX0AI4OcP.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM9WWWGWQAMk075.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM9WWI5XwAIIEoB.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM9WV8wXIAA2rDB.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM9WVvpXoAA6eHG.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM8d4C7WYAQbFHc.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM8d3olWUAcL466.jpg https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1499470800428183571/pu/vid/640x352/vNpW... https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1499430125762404355/pu/vid/360x640/wvl2... https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1499435125997817856/pu/vid/720x1280/Mnj... https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t4usmj/burning_national_university... https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM9HB2KXsAERDS0.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM8njOFXoAI1VWJ.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM8ni-vXoAIppkr.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM8TuJsXoAYPIJN.jpg https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1499454440717365259/pu/vid/478x848/VvPc... https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFMsu-eYWQAAadXI.jpg Join the Ukraine Foreign Legion, 16k already moving. "Lady Death of Donbas'... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-kill-andrei-s... https://i.redd.it/526gfg6809k81.jpg Help engineer Belarus access... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agznZBiK_Bs https://nypost.com/2022/03/03/ukraine-president-zelensky-survived-three-assa... " Garry Kasparov We are witnessing, literally watching live, Putin commit genocide on an industrial scale in Ukraine while the most powerful military alliance in history stands aside. It's impossible not to be emotional, but let us also be rational and focus our rage on the facts. Putin once again told Macron to go to hell, no surprise. NATO/EU has already told Putin they won't touch his forces, so why should he listen? Russia is lifting target limitations and the death toll is rising every hour and lack of water & electricity is critical. No treaty forbids NATO nations from fighting to defend in Ukraine. It's a choice based on the risk of Putin going nuclear, many say. That arming Ukrainians is an acceptable risk of WWIII & the citizenship of the pilot or soldier changes Putin's nuclear calculus, or NATO's. If they care so much about the fine print and think Putin does too, ask Zelensky to issue Ukrainian passports to any volunteer to fly in combat. Sell jets to Ukraine for \xe2\x82\xac1 each and paint UKR flags on them. Do you think Putin will care? Is it worth the lives lost? This is already World War III. Putin started it long ago & Ukraine is only the current front. He will escalate anyway, and it's even more likely if he succeeds in destroying Ukraine because you have again convinced him you won't stop him even though you could. Biden & others insist NATO would retaliate should Putin attack Baltic members. Watching Ukraine, I am not sure of that at all, and Putin won't be either. If the calculation is about nuclear risk, it's no different over Estonia than Ukraine. Don't say "Putin would never". If this sounds familiar, it's the same argument from 2014, when Putin invaded E Ukraine and annexed Crimea. It was too risky to stop him, I was told, as I pleaded for intervention and warned he would never stop there. Here we are, with bombs raining down. Risk and costs are higher now because the "reasonable" people in the West always choose lower risk today to guarantee higher risk tomorrow. Clearing the UKR skies after a warning period is risky. Letting Putin destroy Ukraine is riskier, & a human and moral disaster. There is no waiting this out. This isn't chess; there's no draw, no stalemate. Either Putin destroys Ukraine and eventually hits NATO with an even greater catastrophe, or Putin falls in Russia. He cannot be stopped with weakness. The corridors to get weapons, food, and medicine in and refugees out are narrowing and can be closed. Putin can bomb the trains, close the borders with NATO nations. The odds of Russian forces hitting a NATO asset are increasing, and then what? Still watching? If your answer is no, that if a wing of a RU jet crosses Polish airspace, of course NATO will engage immediately, ask why thousands of Ukrainians civilians dying first matters less than a treaty, and what that says to Putin. That you're honorable, or a fool? We know. As I said in 2014 and a fateful week ago, the price of stopping a dictator always goes up. What would have been enough to stop Putin 8 years or 6 months or 2 weeks ago is not enough today, and the price will rise again tomorrow. Fight. Find a way. Putin vows to exterminate Ukrainians while we watch. Ukraine did nothing wrong but try to join the democratic world that is now witnessing crimes against humanity in real time. Not unable. Unwilling. #CloseTheSky "

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https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1500518858263830532 This horrific 500-kg Russian bomb fell on a residential building in Chernihiv and didn’t explode. Many other did, killing innocent men, women and children. Help us protect our people from Russian barbarians! Help us close the sky. Provide us with combat aircraft. Do something! #8_березня 💙💛Жінки – воїни. Замість букетів квітів – взяли в руки зброю. Їх не злякали постріли, вибухи, кров та холод. Тендітні панянки пліч-о-пліч з чоловіками 2️⃣4️⃣ на 7️⃣ боронять українську землю! З 8 березня любі наші жінки💐. Мирного неба над головою! Кохання під час війни: на Київщині одружилася пара військових💍👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 На Київщині одружилася пара військовослужбовців Національної гвардії України. Без квітів, сукні та урочистостей, але у колі бойових побратимів двоє закоханих створили нову гвардійську родину. Бабуся Марія з Тернопільщини пече хліб нашим захисникам 🙏🏻 З такою підтримкою перемога точно за нами💙💛 «Волонтери працюють вдень і вночі у кожному куточку міста. Люди дуже швидко об’єднались та зреагували на потребу підтримати наших воїнів, які сьогодні дають гідну відсіч армії агресора! Тішить, що наші люди щедрі, добрі, готові до дії», - ділиться капелан Іван Хміль з Рівного. Жителі Рівненщини допомагають підрозділам Національній гвардії України: шиють амуніцію, збирають предмети особистої гігієни, медикаменти, готують їжу. Усе необхідне для рівненських гвардійців збирає капелан отець Іван Хміль. У цьому йому активно допомагають волонтерські центри, благодійні організації, торгівельні заклади та парафії Української греко-католицької церкви. «Що ми робимо у бомбосховищах, коли нас бомблять з неба» Скрипалька грає «Ніч яка місячна» для слухачів у бомбосховищі. Відео опублікувала перша керівниця Центру стратегічних комунікацій Любов Цибульська. Нас не вбити, допоки у кожному живе Україна 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 Енергодар Народ прийшов прощатися з захисниками загинувшими на Запорізькій атомній електростанції🙏🏻🇺

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look the jewnazi and NATO turd grancrap is now spamming FUKIN BLOOMBER propagada =) can't make this shit up. hey turd, why don't you tell us who bloomber is? Impress us with your vast knowledge of govcorp jewnazi criminals, and your infinite knowledge of Freedom (the freedom of the jewnazi US oligarchy that is).

Stop the Murder Killing Violence, Stop the War... https://callrussia.org/ https://twitter.com/i/status/1501225212704354306 https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFNXHOVhXMAUJeDl.png https://twitter.com/Apocalypto321/status/1501299970212876290 https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFM7ZZcfX0AEWcKr.jpg https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1501188552318664711 https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/03/8/7329534/ https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3424249-vid-rosijskih-aviaudariv-u-sumah... https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3424234-z-cornomorskoi-ta-azovskoi-opera... https://www.facebook.com/securserukraine https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1501297958251163651 Russian soldiers, who invade #Ukraine for their own gain, are looting and killing civilians. The video shows horrible footage of the #Kyiv district, near the capital. The Russian military are murderers! #StopRussia #UkraineRussiaWar +1 танк у народне господарство.

On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:58:46 -0500 grarpamp wrote:

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How to join International Legion to defend Ukraine

look, US, jewnazi, NATO scum grancrap is defending NATO. Shocking

The devil who massacres babies will get the right answer. #OpRussia

lawl, the jewnazi, NATO turd grancrap is literally a religious nutcase too. Shocking. go have a jesus enema grancrap

Putin continues bombing innocent civilian apartment complexes residences neighborhoods hospitals churches life infrastructure etc...

https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFN8fnVxXsAAFD0O.jpg https://nitter.nl/pic/media%2FFN8SISAXsAIBMTw.jpg https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503093721499414539 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503056423365877772 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503055884037107723 Russians killed Brent Renaud, a correspondent, who worked for New York Times. A representative of the international press was shot in the back of the head in #Irpin (Ukraine). #Putin doesn’t respect the rules of war at all. He must be stopped! #StopRussia https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503693655252652039 A battalion of the #AZOV Ukrainian Armed Forces in #Kharkiv destroyed a unit of Russian soldiers. It was these war criminals who shelled residential areas of the city. Now they definitely won’t kill civilians! #StopRussia https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503675456599560195 The video shows missile strikes on #Kharkiv. The Russian Federation continues to deliberately destroy residential areas of the city. They want to create chaos and force Ukrainians to capitulate! #StopRussia https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503793600928391175 A destroyed house in #Kyiv. Peaceful people slept there at night and now their homes have been destroyed. Some residents will be permanently disabled due to injuries. What #Putin and his soldiers are doing in #Ukraine is a real war crime! #StopRussia https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503662478592548869 Horrible videos from #Severodonetsk, #Luhansk district. The houses destroyed by Russians are what #Putin's army has done to this city. It’s real barbarism! #StopRussia #UkraineRussiaWar https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503446294169276418 Russian troops continue shelling #Mariupol. Officially more than 2,000 civilians were killed and God knows how many are still under the rubble. Putin must be stopped and he must stop the warfare. Otherwise the number of victims will continue to grow. #StopRussia https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503396591159414788 One of the pregnant women who was injured in a Russian air strike on a maternity hospital in #Mariupol died with her unborn child. #Putin is literally killing the future of humanity and #Europe! #StopRussia https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1503376139632492545 #Russia failed to capture big Ukrainian cities, so now they're shelling civilian infrastructure. The night of shelling in #Rivne. Where Russian missiles hit, people die. The war in #Ukraine is a real tragedy! #StopRussia https://twitter.com/UKRINFORM https://twitter.com/Pavlo_Kyrylenko https://twitter.com/DefenceU https://twitter.com/GeneralStaffUA https://twitter.com/Denys_Shmyhal https://twitter.com/MorawieckiM https://twitter.com/P_Fiala https://twitter.com/JJansaSDS https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa https://twitter.com/oleksiireznikov https://twitter.com/verkhovna_rada https://twitter.com/APUkraine https://twitter.com/EuropeanPravda https://twitter.com/24tvua https://twitter.com/chastime

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=245342 What could possibly go wrong with setting an example like this? Cogent Communications will pull the plug on its connectivity to customers in Russia in response to President Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The US-based biz is one of the planet's largest internet backbones – the freeways of the internet – and says it carries roughly a quarter of global 'net traffic. Modern-day "aggregators", of which Cogent is one, often are the source of address delegations as well. Cogent has confirmed they're canceling IP addresses delegated out; when you are using an aggregator you don't actually "own" any delegations you may have as for routing purposes the aggregator has the registration on those. For residential users this is not a major issue, but for commercial places where reverse mapping is a factor it can be at least a moderate hassle. Much-more ominous, however, is this: ICANN on Wednesday rebuffed a request from Mykhailo Fedorov, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, to revoke all Russian web domains, shut down Russian DNS root servers, and invalidate associated TLS/SSL certificates in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. First, ICANN has no ownership of DNS root servers; they're privately owned and operated. What they could do is remove "undesirable ones" from the "hints" file that is publicly distributed. Actually getting ISPs around the globe to change their hint files is quite-possibly another matter. Again, this is a distributed data set and what is distributed in terms of the root hints are suggestions, not commands. Could ICANN revoke the .RU top-level domain? Yes, but doing so risks a schism. Again there is nothing that can be done to enforce upon ISPs (or for that matter anyone willing to run their own local resolver, such as I do here at my home) what top-level domains exist and who is the delegated authority for them. Back during the "domain war" times when MCSNet was operating we were part of, and participated in, expanding the TLD space when what was to become ICANN refused, claiming "technical impossibility without overload problems." I knew this was bull**** and proved it along with others; the entire debate was in fact political and the so-called "mavens" that were running it and exploiting domain registrations to make an obscene, monopolist profit were claiming technical limitations that did not exist. I and a handful of others set it up, proved it worked and were slowly getting adoption by ISPs around the globe when one of the protagonists took to a bit of cyber hackery. I left the project immediately when I discovered it because not only was that going to doom its acceptance but it was wildly unethical at best and possibly felonious and I wanted nothing to do with any group associated with that. But eDNS, which is what we called it, studiously avoided, intentionally, any interference with the existing TLDs. That is, we were an extension but never a conflict source for same and I made very clear to all the participants that my engagement, software development and participation was utterly dependent on same -- and if there was any attempt to violate that by any member of the group we would immediately and loudly walk away even though doing so would mean abandoning a very sizeable -- maybe billion dollar or better -- business opportunity. Non-interference in this process was and is very important for Internet continuity for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is that TLD delegations, and the sub-delegations within them are in fact tied to SSL certificates and if you can corrupt one you could also impersonate someone with disastrous results. Today domains can be signed with cryptographic keys (and in fact market-ticker.org is) but that integrity relies on the chase upward to the TLD being single-source. That is, if I can successfully replace ".org" and its cryptographic zone signature then I can also replace "market-ticker.org" and its cryptographic zone signature with a counterfeit. This then, in turn, means I can replace the certificate with a counterfeit and having done so all the automated checking that is usually done will in fact test as "good"! That would be catastrophic for Internet data and transport security, including every single financial transaction that flows through that TLD since it would destroy the chain back to the root of trust and by doing so make impersonation very possible. ICANN wisely told Ukraine to go blow goats, but what also concerns me is that the people in Ukraine who made the request do not understand how this all works because in addition to asking for imposition of a deliberate schism they also asked for all Russian TLS/SSL certificates to be revoked. ICANN does not issue said certificates nor does it control the issuers, directly or indirectly, that people use as the "root of trust" for said certificates. As just one example ICANN has no operational control over Verisign which is one of the many firms that issues end-entity certificates. If you go to PayPal's web page their certificate is issued by DigiCert and they, and only they, are the ones who validate that indeed they issued it and PayPal owns it. The various operating system firms distribute a base "trusted root" list and there's a consortium that agrees (most of the time) on what goes in and is removed from there; for example Google (Chrome) and Mozilla (Firefox) both have such a list and are part of the consortium that makes such decisions, as does Microsoft, the various Linux distributions, Apple and FreeBSD. Attempts to tamper with this for political reasons are extremely unwise because while they may indeed be a "weapon" that can be used to inflict pain on various entities for political purpose any abuse of this sort risks a schism on the Internet as a whole and evasion of the sanction, if undertaken and it will be by the targeted parties, wildly increases the risk of compromise of the entire trust structure on which secure transactions rest. The impact of such an event will not be localized to the sanctioned parties; by definition if you do that the impact is likely to be global. I don't expect we've heard the last of this, nor do I expect people to tell the truth about what they intend and how "safe" doing it might be either. And yes, my considered opinion on this is from actual expert experience. Tampering with the roots of trust on the Internet for political reasons, no matter how well-intended you may think it is, risks severely damaging or even destroying the transport security literally everyone relies on in daily life today. Any nation or other entity that tries this should be not only instantly rebuffed but also turned into a permanent economic pariah as their action, no matter the motivation, cannot be kept local to their territory and has a very high probability of wildly screwing everyone.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq5Sqc3GQ8 Oliver Stone w Putin pt1 https://www.youtube.com/embed/UoRojyazmQc Lindsey Graham Assassination https://rumble.com/vwdgap-globalists-hide-putins-speech-from-the-world.html https://sputniknews.com/20220317/resurfaced-video-shows-biden-confessing-he-... https://twitter.com/colonelhomsi/status/1504223212049162247 https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1999-04-10-9904100232-story.html https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/1504622361173143556 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/what-happened-when-us-b-2-bomber-%E... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3170821/china-harks-back-b... https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-forces-try-to-hold-mariupol-as-combat... Joe Biden... the Lifetime Angry Violent Dangerous Snapping Asshole Rager Boy... Clip Of Biden Boasting He Proposed NATO's 78-Day Airstrikes On Belgrade Goes Viral In China Both Russian and Chinese media and state officials have in the last days been widely circulating a resurfaced video from 1999 wherein then senator Joe Biden bragged about being the first US official to propose bombing Belgrade and destroying the city's infrastructure. State media in Russia wrote this week while featuring the footage: "The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, reposted the footage on his social media account, reminding the current US President of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia that is estimated to have killed about 2,500 people, including 89 children." Russian officials used the clip to blast Biden over his latest description of Vladimir Putin as a "war criminal" and "thug" due to the invasion of Ukraine. It's also getting wide circulation on Chinese social media. "I was the one who suggested the bombing of Belgrade. I was who suggested to send American pilots and blow up all the bridges over the Danube".. Joe Biden, 1999 pic.twitter.com/NrkvmTqN33 — Geo_monitor (@colonelhomsi) March 16, 2022 "I suggested bombing of Belgrade. I suggested that American pilots go there and destroy all bridges on the Drina," Biden had said at the time. The 78 days of air strikes lasted from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999. The bombs kept falling even on Serbia's Easter - called Pascha - which is the holiest day of the Orthodox Christian year. "I was suggesting very specific action," Biden said while seeming to praise his own 'muscular' proposals which helped lead to the NATO war against the Serbs. China's mission to the EU also called out prior US action over what was Yugoslavia, condemning the outrageous May NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy - which killed and injured multiple Chinese nationals and journalists. China to NATO: “[W]e will never forget who had bombed our embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. We need no lecture on justice from the abuser of international law…” Wow.https://t.co/bMYHiEAPDo pic.twitter.com/FxK5e9GA1j — Nina 🐙 Byzantina (@NinaByzantina) March 18, 2022 According to a summary of the incident in The National Review, "Despite the seemingly extensive target vetting, on May 7 the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was struck by five Joint Directed Attack Munition satellite-guided bombs, delivered by U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bombers. Three Chinese journalists—Shao Yunhuan of Xinhua, and Xu Xinghu and his wife Zhu Ying of the Guangming Daily—were killed in the attack. Twenty other Chinese nationals were injured, five seriously." On Thursday China's foreign ministry said in a statement "we will never forget" - and related it to Washington's outrage over ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine: The Chinese diplomatic mission in the European Union said on Thursday that Chinese people could fully relate to the suffering of other countries because “we will never forget who bombed our embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia”. “We need no lecture on justice from the abuser of international law,” it said. “As a Cold War remnant and the world’s largest military alliance, Nato continues to expand its geographical scope and range of operations. What kind of role has it played in world peace and stability? Nato needs to have good reflection.” Destroyed Chinese embassy in Belgrade, 1999 While the US downplayed it as an "accidental targeting" incident, evidence later emerged that it was likely done deliberately amid accusations that Yugoslav army communications were being transmitted from the embassy. Biden had actually gone on to boast about his role in the NATO attack on Belgrade in multiple different venues... In the above archived clip, for example, he said in a fiery speech, “I will continue with every fiber in my being to keep America involved with troops that can shoot and kill….” “I believe it is absolutely essential for American troops to be on the ground with loaded rifles and drawn bayonets.”

Crime of Genocide

is the jewnazi, NATO turd grancrap talking about the jewnazi genocide that jewnazis comit in palestine? Sorry, i mean US-jewnazis! I wouldn't want to offend a US-jewnazi like grancrap by not fully acknowledging his lineage!

zeynepaydogan: Ukrainian Nazi Army abused , tortured Russian civilians

Don't be naive to history... once wars start, *all* sides devolve into doing base shit, it's human nature encoded in DNA brain. Humans are also quite capable of destroy humanity themselves, they don't care about that, it only ends when they all get tired give up and go home, or erase their "leaders" that they foolishly put in power, or obliterate their opponents. History is not unrollable, but there are moments of choice, Putin chose to initiate a major new aggression across borders with a massive army blasting and killing, thereby triggering a new wave of escalation war abuses and violence in the world that will get 10k/100k/1M+ killed, including perhaps many here. The next point of choice will be when it's over... whether or not to continue repeating the mistake of reinstalling powerarchy into that beautiful vacuum and moment of peaceful life. Stop repeating that mistake.

https://fightforua.org/ https://t.me/itarmyofurraine

jewnazi grancrap vomited:

I am a U.S. Army veteran. I’ve made the decision to go to the Ukraine

look, grancrap admiting that he's a piece of non human, US jewnazi, military shit. Shocking. As to the turd actually going to 'the' ukraine, well, his job is vomiting arpanet propaganda, so no, he isn't going to 'the' ukraine.

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I am a U.S. Army veteran. I’ve made the decision to go to the Ukraine

On 3/20/22, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:

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...But really, what's the point of discussing anything with an idiotic US cop like you.

Lol that’s perfect. Grarpamp admitted to being U.S.asshole. Punk was always right. Everything Punk said about the Grarpamp was true.Oh wait… You always blamed punk for kids, but punk was just against the law. I wonder now How many children do you think Grarpamp killed? I mean, you're a U.S. asshole, Grarpamp

I didn't read his post. But I'm sure he would love to join the Ukrainian-American army.

Some are now on the ground working to... https://nitter.eu/pic/media%2FFO3G9uKWUAkTlnt.jpg

Putin's two recent manifestos / speeches (random web translations)... February 21, 2022 Dear citizens of Russia! Dear friends! The topic of my speech is the events in Ukraine and why this is so important for us, for Russia. Of course, my speech is also addressed to our fellow citizens in Ukraine. I will have to speak at length and in detail. The problem is very serious. The situation in the Donbass has once again become critical and acute. And today I am addressing you directly, not only to assess what is happening but also to inform you about the decisions that are being taken and possible further steps in this direction. I would like to emphasize once again that Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It is an integral part of our own history, culture and spiritual space. It is our friends, our relatives, not only colleagues, friends and former work colleagues, but also our relatives and close family members. Since the oldest times the inhabitants of the south-western historical territories of ancient Russia have called themselves Russians and Orthodox Christians. It was the same in the 17th century, when a part of these territories was reunited with the Russian state, and even after that. It seems to us that in principle we all know this, that we are talking about known facts. However, in order to understand what is happening today, to explain the motives of Russian actions and the goals we have set, it is necessary to say at least a few words about the history of the issue. So let me start with the fact that modern Ukraine was created entirely by Russia, more precisely, by Bolshevik communist Russia. This process began almost immediately after the 1917 Revolution, and Lenin and his comrades-in-arms did it in a very crude way with Russia itself – by secession, cutting off parts of its own historical territories. Of course, no one asked the millions of people who lived there for anything. Then, before and after the Great Patriotic War, Stalin already annexed some territories that had previously belonged to Poland, Romania and Hungary to the USSR and transferred them to Ukraine. As a kind of compensation, Stalin gave Poland some of the ancestral German territories, and in 1954, for some reason, Khrushchev took Crimea away from Russia and gave it to Ukraine. In this way, the territory of Soviet Ukraine was created. But now I would like to talk especially about the initial period of the creation of the USSR. I think this is very important for us. We will have to start, as they say, from a distance. I would like to recall that after the October coup of 1917 and the subsequent civil war, the Bolsheviks began to build a new state system, and there were quite sharp disagreements between them. Stalin, who in 1922 held the posts of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RKP and People’s Commissar for Nationalities in personal union, proposed to build the country according to the principles of autonomization, that is, to give the republics – the future administrative-territorial units – far-reaching powers when they joined the unitary state. Lenin criticized this plan and suggested making concessions to the nationalists, as he called them at the time – the “independents.” These were precisely Lenin’s ideas of an essentially confederative state structure and the right of peoples to self-determination up to and including secession, which formed the basis of Soviet statehood: first in 1922 in the Declaration on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and then, after Lenin’s death, in the 1924 Constitution of the USSR. Many questions immediately arise here. And the first of them is actually the most important: why was it necessary to satisfy any boundlessly growing nationalist ambitions on the edges of the former empire? The transfer of huge, often arbitrarily formed administrative units, the Union Republics, which often had no relation to the territory. I repeat: they were transferred together with the population of historical Russia. Moreover, these administrative units were in fact given the status and form of national state entities. Once again I ask myself: why was it necessary to make such generous gifts, which the most ardent nationalists did not even dare to dream of before, and, moreover, to grant the republics the right to secede from the unitary state without any conditions? At first glance, this is completely incomprehensible, it is madness. But it is so only at first sight. There is an explanation for it. After the revolution, the main task of the Bolsheviks was to maintain power, at any cost. For this they did everything: they accepted the humiliating conditions of the Brest Treaty at a time when Imperial Germany and its allies were in the most difficult military and economic situation and the outcome of the First World War was actually already predetermined, and they complied with all the demands, all the wishes of the nationalists inside the country. In view of the historical destiny of Russia and its peoples, the Leninist principles of state-building were not only a mistake, but far worse than a mistake. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 this became absolutely obvious. Of course, the events of the past cannot be changed, but we must at least speak about them directly and honestly, without reservations and without political coloration. I can only add that the considerations of the current political conjuncture, however spectacular and advantageous they may seem at a given moment, should not or cannot under any circumstances form the basis for the fundamental principles of statehood. I do not want to accuse anyone now, the situation in the country at that time and after the civil war, before the civil war, was incredibly difficult and critical. I just want to say today that it was exactly like that. That is a historical fact. As I have already said, the Bolshevik policy led to the emergence of Soviet Ukraine, which even today can rightly be called “Vladimir Lenin Ukraine”. He was its author and architect. This is fully confirmed by documents in the archives, including Lenin’s strict directives for the Donbass, which was literally squeezed into Ukraine. And now the “grateful descendants” have demolished Lenin monuments in Ukraine. They call this decommunization. (Translator’s note: “Decommunization” means the eradication of everything that reminds of communism, similar to the denazification in Germany after World War II). You want to decommunize? Well, that’s perfectly fine with us. But you should not, as they say, stop halfway. We are ready to show you what real decommunization means for Ukraine. Returning to history, I repeat that the USSR was founded in 1922 on the territory of the former Russian Empire. However, life itself immediately showed that it was impossible to maintain such a large and complex territory or to govern it according to the proposed amorphous, quasi-confederal principles. They were completely disconnected from reality and historical tradition. It is only logical that the Red Terror and the rapid transition to Stalinist dictatorship, the domination of communist ideology and the monopoly of power of the Communist Party, nationalization and the planned economy system in practice made the declared but unimplementable principles of statehood a mere declaration, a formality. In reality, the Union Republics had no rights of sovereignty at all; these rights simply did not exist. In practice, a strictly centralized, completely unitary state was created. Stalin, in fact, put into practice not Lenin’s, but his very own ideas of statehood. But he did not make any corresponding changes in the systemic documents, in the constitution of the country, did not formally reconsider the proclaimed Leninist principles of building the USSR. Obviously, there was no reason for that – everything worked under the totalitarian regime and it looked very nice, attractive and even super-democratic on the surface. Nevertheless, it is a great pity that the vile, utopian fantasies inspired by the revolution, but absolutely destructive for a normal country, were not promptly removed from the basic, formally legal foundations on which our entire statehood was built. No one, as was so often the case with us in the past, thought about the future. The leaders of the Communist Party seemed convinced that they had succeeded in forming a solid system of government and that they had finally solved the national question through their policies. But the distortions, changes of concepts, manipulation of public consciousness and deception were costly. The bacillus of nationalist ambition had not disappeared, and the original mine that had been laid to undermine the immunity of the state to the contagion of nationalism was just waiting to explode. This landmine, I repeat, was the right to secede from the USSR. In the mid-1980s, against the backdrop of growing socioeconomic problems and an obvious crisis in the planned economy, the national question intensified, the core of which, as always, was not the expectations and unfulfilled aspirations of the peoples of the Union, but first and foremost the growing appetite of local elites. But instead of thoroughly analyzing the situation and taking appropriate measures, especially in the economy, as well as gradually, thoughtfully and consciously transforming the political system and state structure, the CPSU leadership confined itself to putting into words the Leninist principle of national self-determination. As the power struggle unfolded within the Communist Party itself, each of the opposing sides, in order to broaden its base of support, began to ruthlessly incite, promote and play on nationalist sentiments by promising its potential supporters whatever they desired. Amid superficial and populist rhetoric about democracy and a bright future built on the basis of a market or planned economy, but in the real conditions of impoverishment and total deficit, no one in power thought of the inevitable tragic consequences for the country. And then they followed the well-trodden path of satisfying the ambitions of nationalist elites nurtured in their own party ranks, forgetting that the CPSU – thank God – no longer had such instruments as state terror and a Stalin-style dictatorship to maintain power and the country itself. And so even the infamous leadership role of the party itself disappeared like a morning mist without a trace before their eyes. In September 1989, the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU adopted an essentially fatal document – the so-called national policy of the Party in modern conditions, the CPSU Platform. It contained the following provisions, and I quote, “The Union republics shall have all the rights commensurate with their status as sovereign socialist states.” Another clause read, “The supreme representative organs of power of the Union Republics may challenge and suspend the decrees and orders of the Union Government in their territories.” And finally, “Each Union Republic shall have its own citizenship, which shall apply to all its inhabitants.” Was it not obvious, then, what such formulations and decisions would lead to? This is neither the time nor the place to discuss issues of state or constitutional law and to define the concept of citizenship. Nevertheless, the question arises: why did the country have to be shaken even further under these already difficult circumstances? Already two years before the collapse of the USSR, its fate was practically sealed. Now the radicals and nationalists, including and especially in Ukraine, are claiming the achievement of independence for themselves. As we can see, this is not the case at all. The collapse of our some country was caused by historical, strategic mistakes of the Bolshevik leaders, the leadership of the CPSU, made at different times in state building, economic and national policy. They have on their conscience the collapse of the historical Russia, which bore the name of USSR. Despite all these injustices, fraud and open robbery of Russia, our people recognized the new geopolitical realities that emerged after the collapse of the USSR, recognized the new independent states. And not only that – Russia itself, which was in a very difficult situation at the time, helped its CIS partners, including its Ukrainian counterparts, from whom numerous requests for material support were already received at the time of the declaration of independence. And our country provided this support while respecting the dignity and sovereignty of Ukraine. According to expert estimates, confirmed by a simple calculation of the prices of energy carriers, the volume of preferential credits and economic and trade preferences granted by Russia to Ukraine amounted to about $250 billion for the Ukrainian budget from 1991 to 2013. But this is far from all. At the end of 1991, the USSR’s debt obligations to foreign countries and international funds amounted to about $100 billion. Originally, it was assumed that these loans would be repaid in solidarity by all former Soviet republics in proportion to their economic potential. However, Russia assumed the entire Soviet debt and repaid it in full. It completed this process in 2017. In return, the newly independent states were to renounce their share of Soviet foreign assets, and agreements to this effect were reached with Ukraine in December 1994. However, Kiev did not ratify these agreements and later simply refused to implement it. It laid claim to the Diamond Fund, the Gold Reserve, and property and other assets of the former USSR abroad. However, despite the well-known problems, Russia has always cooperated with Ukraine openly, honestly, and, I repeat, while safeguarding its interests, and our relations have developed in a wide range of areas. For example, bilateral trade turnover in 2011 amounted to more than $50 billion. I would like to point out that the volume of Ukraine’s trade with all EU countries in 2019, before the pandemic, was below this figure. In this regard, it jumps to the eye that Ukrainian governments preferred to act in such a way that in relations with Russia they had all the rights and benefits, but no obligations. Instead of partnership, dependence prevailed, which the official bodies in Kiev sometimes considered almost a peccadillo. Suffice it to recall the constant extortion in the field of energy transit and the banal theft of gas. (Translator’s note: details of the gas conflicts past, to which Putin alludes here, can be found here). I should add that Kiev has tried to use dialogue with Russia as a pretext to negotiate with the West, to blackmail it into rapprochement with Moscow, and to gain advantages for itself: on the grounds that otherwise Russian influence in Ukraine would increase. At the same time, from the very beginning, I would like to emphasize, from the very first steps, Ukrainian governments have started to build their statehood on the denial of everything that unites us, they have tried to distort the consciousness and historical memory of millions of people, whole generations living in Ukraine. Not surprisingly, Ukrainian society was confronted with the rise of extreme nationalism, which quickly took the form of aggressive Russophobia and neo-Nazism. Hence the involvement of Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis in terrorist gangs in the North Caucasus and the increasingly vocal territorial claims against Russia. Foreign forces, which have used an extensive network of NGOs and intelligence agencies to cultivate their clientele in Ukraine and bring their proxies to power, have also played their part. It is also important to understand that Ukraine has basically never had a stable tradition of genuine statehood. Since 1991, it has gone the way of mechanical copying of foreign models, detached from its history and Ukrainian reality. The state’s political institutions have been constantly reshaped to serve rapidly rising clans with their own interests, which have nothing in common with the interests of the Ukrainian people. The purpose of the so-called pro-Western civilizational decision of the Ukrainian oligarchs was and is not to create better conditions for the welfare of the people, but to subserviently serve Russia’s geopolitical rivals in order to save billions of dollars stolen from Ukrainians and stashed by the oligarchs in Western bank accounts. Some industrial financial groups that took over parties and politicians initially relied on nationalists and radicals. Others paid lip service to good relations with Russia and cultural and linguistic diversity and came to power with the votes of citizens who wholeheartedly supported such aspirations, including millions from the southeast of the country. But once in office, they immediately betrayed their constituents, abandoned their campaign promises, and implemented policies at the behest of radicals, sometimes persecuting their former allies – those civil society organizations that advocated bilingualism and cooperation with Russia. They took advantage of the fact that the people who supported them were usually law-abiding, moderate in their views, and accustomed to trusting the government. The radicals, in turn, became more and more brazen, and their demands grew year by year. It was not difficult for them to impose their will again and again on a weak government, itself infected with the virus of nationalism and corruption, and to cleverly replace the true cultural, economic and social interests of the people and the real sovereignty of Ukraine with various kinds of speculations with national justifications and foreign ethnographic features. There is still no permanent statehood in Ukraine and the political electoral processes serve only as a cover, a projection screen for the redistribution of power and property between different oligarch clans. Corruption, which is undoubtedly a challenge and a problem for many countries, including Russia, has taken on a special character in Ukraine. It has literally impregnated and corroded Ukrainian statehood, the entire system, all branches of power. Radicals exploited people’s legitimate discontent, saddled on the protest and led the Maidan to a coup d’état in 2014. In the process, they received direct support from abroad. Material support from the U.S. Embassy to the so-called protest camp on the Maidan in Kyiv, according to our information, amounted to one million dollars per day. Other very large amounts were brazenly transferred directly to the bank accounts of opposition leaders. And we talked about tens of millions of dollars. And how much did those who were actually injured, the families of those who died in the clashes in the streets and squares of Kiev and other cities, get in the end? It is better not to ask about that. The radicals who came to power organized persecution, outright terror against those who spoke out against anti-constitutional measures. Politicians, journalists and public figures were mistreated and publicly humiliated. Ukrainian cities were overtaken by a wave of pogroms and violence, a series of spectacular and unpunished murders. The horrific tragedy in Odessa, where peaceful protesters were brutally murdered and burned alive at the Trade Union House, makes one shudder. The criminals who committed this atrocity have not been punished and no one is looking for them. But we know their names and we will do everything to punish them, to find them and bring them to justice. The Maidan did not bring Ukraine closer to democracy and progress. With the coup d’état, the nationalists and the political forces supporting them finally led the situation to a dead end and pushed Ukraine into the abyss of civil war. Eight years after these events, the country is divided. Ukraine is in an acute socioeconomic crisis. According to international organizations, in 2019, almost six million Ukrainians, I emphasize about 15 percent of the total population, not the working-age population, were forced to go abroad in search of work. As a rule, these are casual jobs. The following fact is also significant: since 2020, more than 60,000 doctors and other health workers have left the country during the pandemic. Since 2014, water tariffs have increased by nearly a third, electricity prices by several times, and gas prices by ten times. Many people simply don’t have the money to pay utilities; they literally have to survive. What’s happening? Why is all this happening? The answer is obvious: it is because the dowry, which dates not only from the Soviet era, but also from the Russian Empire, has been squandered and embezzled. Tens and hundreds of thousands of jobs that provided people with a stable income, including through close cooperation with Russia, and brought taxes into the state coffers were lost. Industries such as machine building, instrument making, electronics, shipbuilding, and aircraft construction either lie idle or have been destroyed, whereas they used to be the pride not only of Ukraine, but of the entire Soviet Union. In 2021, the Chernomorsky shipyard in Mykolaiv, where the first shipyards were built in Catherine II’s time, was closed down. The famous Antonov concern has not produced a single production aircraft since 2016, and the Yuzhmash plant, which specializes in the manufacture of rocket and space equipment, is on the verge of bankruptcy, as is the Kremenchuk steelworks. This sad list could be continued indefinitely. The gas transportation system, which was built by the entire Soviet Union, is so dilapidated that its operation is fraught with great risks and environmental hazards. And this raises the question: are poverty, hopelessness, loss of industrial and technological potential the choice of the pro-Western civilization that deceived millions of people for years and promised them paradise? In pracis, it has come down to the fact that the collapse of the Ukrainian economy is accompanied by outright plundering of its citizens, while Ukraine itself is simply placed under foreign administration. This is happening not only on the instructions of Western capitals, but also on the ground through a whole network of foreign consultants, NGOs, and other institutions that have spread themselves throughout Ukraine. They have direct influence on all major personnel decisions, on all branches and levels of government, from the central government to the municipalities, on the main state enterprises and corporations, including Naftogaz, Ukrenergo, Ukrainian Railways, Ukroboronprom (the defense industry), Ukrposhta (the postal service), and the Ukrainian Seaport Administration. There are simply no independent courts in Ukraine. At the request of the West, the Kyiv government granted representatives of international organizations the priority right to select the members of the highest judicial bodies – the Judicial Council and the Judicial Qualification Commission. In addition, the U.S. Embassy directly controls the National Agency for Corruption Prevention, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau NABU, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, and the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court. All of this is done under the plausible pretext of making the fight against corruption more effective. Fine, fine, but where are the results? Corruption is in full bloom and thriving better than ever. Are Ukrainians themselves aware of all these methods of their administration? Do they realize that their country is not simply under a political and economic protectorate, but has been reduced to the level of a colony with a puppet regime? The privatization of the state has led the government that calls itself the “power of patriots” to lose its national character and consistently pursue the complete de-sovereignization of the country. De-Russification and forced assimilation continue. The Verkhovna Rada ceaselessly enacts more and more discriminatory laws, and a law on so-called indigenous peoples is already in force. People who consider themselves Russians and want to preserve their identity, language and culture have received a clear message that they are strangers in Ukraine. According to the laws on education and functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language, Russian is banned from schools, from all public areas to ordinary stores. The law on so-called lustration, the “purge” of power, made it possible to dismiss disagreeable officials. Laws giving Ukrainian law enforcement agencies grounds for rigorous suppression of freedom of expression and dissent, as well as persecution of the opposition, are being bred. The sad practice of unilateral illegitimate sanctions against other states, foreign individuals and legal entities is known worldwide. Ukraine has outdone its Western curators and invented such an instrument as sanctions against its own citizens, companies, TV channels, other media and even members of parliament. Kiev also continues to massacre the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. And this is not an emotional assessment, but concrete decisions and documents prove it. The Ukrainian government has cynically turned the tragedy of the church split into an instrument of state policy. The current leadership of the country does not respond to the requests of the citizens of Ukraine to repeal the laws that violate the rights of believers. Moreover, new draft laws against the clergy and millions of parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate were registered in the Rada. I would like to speak separately about Crimea. The people on the peninsula have freely chosen to belong to Russia. The government in Kyiv has nothing to counter this clear and unequivocal will of the people and therefore relies on aggressive actions, on activating extremist cells, including radical Islamic organizations, on sending subversive groups to carry out terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure and to kidnap Russian citizens. We have direct evidence that such aggressive actions are carried out with the support of foreign intelligence services. In March 2021, Ukraine adopted a new military strategy. This document is almost exclusively dedicated to confrontation with Russia and is aimed at drawing foreign states into conflict with our country. The strategy envisions building a kind of terrorist underground in Crimea and the Donbass. It also outlines the contours of the expected war, which, according to today’s strategists in Kiev, should end – and I quote from here – “with the help of the international community on terms favorable to Ukraine.” And also, as Kiev expresses itself today, and I quote here as well, please listen more carefully, “with the military support of the international community in a geopolitical confrontation with the Russian Federation.” Basically, this is nothing but preparation for military action against our country-against Russia. We also know that there have already been statements that Ukraine will develop its own nuclear weapons, and this is not empty boasting. Ukraine has Soviet nuclear technology and the means to use such weapons, including aircraft and Tochka U missiles, also of Soviet design, with a range of more than 100 kilometers. But they will increase that, it’s just a matter of time. There is Soviet-era know-how. So it will be much easier for Ukraine to get hold of tactical nuclear weapons than for some other states-I won’t name them now-that actually do such developments, especially if it gets technological support from abroad. And we must not rule that out either. If Ukraine comes into possession of weapons of mass destruction, the situation in the world, in Europe, especially for us, for Russia, will change dramatically. We cannot but react to this real danger, especially to the fact that the Western patrons could facilitate the appearance of such weapons in Ukraine to create another threat to our country. We can see how persistently the Kiev regime is pumped full of weapons. The United States alone has provided billions of dollars since 2014 for this purpose, including weapons, equipment, and specialized training. In recent months, Western arms have flowed steadily into Ukraine, ostentatiously and in full view of the world. The Ukrainian armed forces and intelligence services are run by foreign advisors, we are well aware. In recent years, military contingents from NATO countries have been almost constantly on Ukrainian territory under the pretext of exercises. The command and control system of Ukrainian troops has already been integrated into NATO forces. This means that command over Ukrainian forces, including individual units and subunits, can be exercised directly from NATO headquarters. The U.S. and NATO have begun shamelessly opening up Ukrainian territory as a theater for potential war. The regular joint exercises are clearly anti-Russian. Last year alone, they involved more than 23,000 troops and more than a thousand pieces of military equipment. A law has already been passed on allowing armed forces from other countries on the territory of Ukraine in 2022 to participate in multinational exercises. It is clear that we are talking about NATO forces in the first place. At least ten such joint maneuvers are planned for this year. It is obvious that such events serve as a cover for the rapid buildup of the NATO military force in Ukraine. This is all the more true since the network of airfields developed with the help of the Americans – Boryspil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chuguev, Odessa and so on – can ensure the transfer of military units in the shortest possible time. Ukrainian airspace is open to flights of American strategic bombers and reconnaissance aircraft and drones used to monitor Russian territory. I would like to add that the American-built Maritime Operations Center in Ochakov makes it possible to support the actions of NATO ships, including their use of precision weapons against the Russian Black Sea Fleet and our infrastructure along the entire Black Sea coast. At one time, the U.S. wanted to build similar facilities in Crimea, but the Crimeans and the residents of Sevastopol thwarted those plans. We will always remember this. I repeat, today such a center is being established, it has already been established in Ochakov. Let me remind you that in the 18th century soldiers of Alexander Suvorov fought for this city. It is thanks to their courage that it became a part of Russia. At the same time, in the 18th century, the Black Sea lands, annexed to Russia as a result of the wars with the Ottoman Empire, were called Novorossiya. Today, these milestones of history are forgotten, as are the names of statesmen of the Russian Empire, without whose actions many large cities and even access to the Black Sea in modern Ukraine would not exist. Recently the monument to Alexander Suvorov in Poltava was demolished. What to say about it? You deny your own past? From the so-called colonial heritage of the Russian Empire? Well, then be consistent here. Further. I would like to point out that Article 17 of the Ukrainian Constitution does not allow the establishment of foreign military bases on the territory of Ukraine. However, it turned out that this is just a convention that can be easily circumvented. NATO countries have sent training missions to Ukraine. In fact, they are already foreign military bases. They just call the bases “missions,” and it’s bagged. Kiev has long proclaimed a strategic course toward NATO membership. Yes, of course, every country has the right to choose its own security system and enter into military alliances. And that would all be so if there were not a “but.” International documents explicitly enshrine the principle of equal and indivisible security, which, as you know, includes the obligation not to strengthen one’s own security at the expense of the security of other states. I can refer here to the OSCE Charter for European Security adopted in Istanbul in 1999 and the OSCE Declaration of Astana in 2010. In other words, the choice of security should not be a threat to other states, and Ukraine’s accession to NATO is a direct threat to Russia’s security. Let me remind you that in April 2008, at the Bucharest Summit of the North Atlantic Alliance, the U.S. pushed through the decision that Ukraine and, for that matter, Georgia would become members of NATO. Many European allies of the U.S. were already aware of all the risks of such a prospect, but had to bow to the will of their senior partner. The Americans simply used it to pursue a clearly anti-Russian policy. A number of Alliance member states are already very skeptical about Ukraine joining NATO. At the same time, we are getting a signal from some European capitals saying, “What are you worried about? It’s not literally going to happen tomorrow.” In fact, our American partners are talking about it, too. “Well,” we say, “not tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow. What does it change in the historical perspective? Basically nothing.” More than that, we are aware of the position and words of the leadership of the United States that the active hostilities in eastern Ukraine do not preclude the possibility of that country joining NATO if it can meet the criteria of the North Atlantic Alliance and defeat corruption. Yet they keep trying to convince us that NATO is a peace-loving and purely defensive alliance. They say that there is no threat to Russia whatsoever. Once again, they suggest that we take their word for it. But we know the true value of those words. When the issue of German reunification was discussed in 1990, the Soviet leadership was assured by the United States that NATO’s jurisdiction and military presence would not be extended one inch eastward. And that German reunification would not lead to an eastward expansion of NATO’s military organization. That is a quote. They talked, made verbal assurances, and it all turned out to be empty noise. Later, we were assured that NATO membership of Central and Eastern European countries would only improve relations with Moscow, relieve those countries of the fear of their difficult historical legacy, and, moreover, create a belt of Russia-friendly countries. The exact opposite has occurred. The governments of some Eastern European countries, peddling their Russophobia, brought their complexes and stereotypes about the Russian threat into the alliance and insisted on building collective defense capabilities to be used primarily against Russia. And this happened in the 1990s and early 2000s, when relations between Russia and the West were at a high level thanks to openness and our goodwill. Russia fulfilled all its obligations, including the withdrawal of troops from Germany and from the Central and Eastern European states, thus making a great contribution to overcoming the legacy of the Cold War. We have always offered various opportunities for cooperation, including within the framework of the NATO-Russia Council and the OSCE. More than that, I am going to say something now that I have never said publicly before, I am going to say it for the first time. In 2000, when outgoing U.S. President Bill Clinton visited Moscow, I asked him, “What would America think about admitting Russia into NATO?” I won’t divulge all the details of that conversation, but the response to my question looked outwardly, shall we say, very guarded, and how the Americans actually reacted to that possibility can be seen in their practical steps toward our country. These include open support for terrorists in the North Caucasus, a dismissive attitude toward our demands and security concerns in the area of NATO expansion, withdrawal from the ABM Treaty on the prohibition of missile defense, and so on. It makes you wonder: why? What is the point of all this? All right, you don’t want to see us as a friend and ally, but why do you have to make an enemy out of us? There is only one answer: it is not because of our political regime or anything else, they simply do not need such a big independent country as Russia. That is the answer to all questions. It is the source of traditional American policy toward Russia. Hence the attitude to all our security proposals. Today, it is enough to look at the map to see how the Western countries have “kept” their promise not to expand NATO to the East. They have simply deceived us. We have seen five waves of NATO expansion, one after another. In 1999, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary were admitted to the Alliance. In 2004, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. 2009 Albania and Croatia. 2017 Montenegro and 2020 Northern Macedonia. As a result, the Alliance has come right up against Russia’s borders with its military infrastructure. This was one of the main causes of the Euro-security crisis and has had a very negative impact on the whole system of international relations, leading to the loss of mutual trust. The situation continues to deteriorate, including in the strategic sphere. For example, positions for missile defense missiles are being established in Romania and Poland as part of the U.S. global missile defense project. It is known that the launching pads placed there can be used for Tomahawk cruise missiles, i.e. offensive attack systems. (Translator’s note: details can be found here). In addition, the U.S. is developing the universal Standard 6 missile, which not only solves air and missile defense problems, but can also hit sea and land targets. In other words, the supposedly defensive U.S. missile defense system is being expanded and new offensive capabilities are emerging. The information available to us gives us every reason to believe that Ukraine’s accession to NATO and the subsequent stationing of NATO assets in that country are a foregone conclusion; it is only a matter of time. It is clear to us that in such a scenario the military threat to Russia will increase many times over. And I particularly point out that the danger of a surprise attack on our country will increase many times over. I would like to clarify that the American strategic planning documents – they are official documents! – provide for the possibility of a so-called preemptive strike against enemy missile systems. And we also know who is the main opponent of the U.S. and NATO. It is Russia. NATO documents officially declare our country directly as the main threat to Euro-Atlantic security. And Ukraine will serve as a springboard for such a blow. If our ancestors heard this, they probably would not believe it. And we don’t want to believe it today, but it’s true. I want this to be understood both in Russia and in Ukraine. Many Ukrainian airfields are close to our borders. NATO tactical aircraft stationed here, including high-precision weapon carriers, will be able to hit our territory as far as the Volgograd-Kazan-Samara-Astrakhan line. The deployment of radar reconnaissance equipment on Ukrainian territory will allow NATO to strictly control Russian airspace all the way to the Urals. After the United States broke the treaty on short- and medium-range missiles, the Pentagon is already openly developing a range of ground-based offensive weapons, including ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets up to 5,500 kilometers away. If deployed in Ukraine, such systems could strike targets throughout Russia’s European territory as well as beyond the Urals. Tomahawk cruise missiles would take less than 35 minutes to reach Moscow, 7 to 8 minutes for ballistic missiles from the Kharkov region, and 4 to 5 minutes for hypersonic missiles. That is what you call having the knife at your throat. And I have no doubt that they will implement these plans just as they have repeatedly done in recent years, expanding NATO eastward and moving military infrastructure and equipment to Russia’s borders, completely ignoring our concerns, protests, and warnings. Along the lines of, excuse me, we don’t give a damn about them, and we’ll do whatever we want, whatever we think is right. And, of course, we are also expected to continue to behave according to the wellknown saying, “The dog barks, but the caravan moves on.” I say right away that we have not agreed to that and never will. At the same time, Russia has always been and still is in favor of solving the most complex problems by political and diplomatic means at the negotiating table. We are aware of our great responsibility for regional and global stability. As early as 2008, Russia presented an initiative to conclude a European Security Treaty. The key message was that no state or international organization in the Euro-Atlantic area can strengthen its security at the expense of the security of others. However, our proposal was rejected from the outset: Russia could not be allowed to restrict NATO’s activities. More than that, we were explicitly told that only members of the North Atlantic Alliance could have legally binding security guarantees. Last December, we sent our Western partners a draft treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on security guarantees and a draft agreement on measures to ensure the security of the Russian Federation and NATO member states. The response from the United States and NATO consisted of many common words. While there were some reasonable points, they dealt with secondary issues and looked like an attempt to divert the discussion in another direction. We responded accordingly, stressing that we are ready to go down the road of negotiations, but on condition that all issues are considered as a package, as a whole, without separating them from the basic Russian proposals. And these contain three important points. The first is the prevention of further NATO enlargement. The second is the refusal to allow the alliance to deploy offensive weapons systems on Russia’s borders. And finally, the return of the bloc’s military capabilities and infrastructure in Europe to where they were in 1997, when the NATO-Russia Founding Act was signed. It is precisely these our principled proposals that have been ignored. Our Western partners, I repeat, have once again uttered the hackneyed phrase that every state has the right to freely decide how to ensure its security and join any military alliances and alliances. In other words, nothing has changed in their position, and they keep referring to NATO’s infamous “open door policy.” Moreover, they are trying to blackmail us again by threatening us again with sanctions, which, by the way, they will impose anyway as Russia’s sovereignty and the power of our armed forces increase. And a pretext for another sanctions attack is always found or simply invented, regardless of the situation in Ukraine. The goal is the same – to suppress Russia’s development. And they will do it as they have done before, even without any formal pretext, because we will never compromise our sovereignty, our national interests and our values. I want to say clearly that in the current situation, when our proposals for an equal dialogue on fundamental issues have gone virtually unanswered by the United States and NATO, when the scale of threats to our country is increasing significantly, Russia has every right to take countermeasures to ensure its own security. That is exactly what we are going to do. As for the situation in the Donbass, we see that the leadership in Kyiv is constantly stating publicly that they are not ready to implement the Minsk package of measures to settle the conflict and that they are not interested in a peaceful solution. On the contrary, they are once again trying to organize a blitzkrieg in the Donbass, as they did in 2014 and 2015. We still remember how these adventures ended then. Now practically not a day goes by without shelling of towns and villages in the Donbass. A large group of troops constantly uses attack drones, heavy equipment, rockets, artillery and multiple rocket launchers. The killing of civilians, the blockade, the mistreatment of people, including children, women and the elderly, continues unabated. There is no end in sight. And the so-called civilized world, the only representatives of which our Western colleagues have appointed themselves, prefers not to take note of this, as if all this horror, genocide, to which almost 4 million people are subjected, did not exist, and only because these people did not agree with the Western-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014 and resisted the increased state movement towards a cavalier and aggressive nationalism and neo-Nazism. And they are fighting for their most basic rights: to live in their own country, to speak their own language, to preserve their culture and traditions. How long can this tragedy continue? How much longer can we endure it? Russia has done everything to preserve Ukraine’s territorial integrity and has fought hard and patiently all these years for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2202 of February 17, 2015, which enshrines the Minsk Agreement of February 12, 2015 to resolve the situation in the Donbass. All in vain. Presidents and deputies of the Rada change, but the essence and aggressive, nationalistic character of the regime that took power in Kiev does not change. It is exclusively a product of the 2014 coup d’état, and those who took the path of violence, bloodshed, and lawlessness have not recognized any solution to the Donbass issue other than a military one and will not do so in the future. In this context, I believe it is necessary to take a long-overdue decision: to recognize the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic without delay. I ask the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to support this decision and then ratify the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with both republics. These two documents will be drafted and signed in the near future. And from those who have taken and hold power in Kiev, we demand the immediate cessation of hostilities. Otherwise, the responsibility for the possible continuation of bloodshed will rest solely on the conscience of the regime that governs the territory of Ukraine. In announcing the decisions taken today, I trust in the support of the citizens of Russia and all patriotic forces of the country. I thank you for your attention. February 24, 2022 Citizens of Russia, friends, 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. As a result, the old treaties and agreements are no longer effective. Entreaties and requests do not help. Anything that does not suit the dominant state, the powers that be, is denounced as archaic, obsolete and useless. At the same time, everything it regards as useful is presented as the ultimate truth and forced on others regardless of the cost, abusively and by any means available. Those who refuse to comply are subjected to strong-arm tactics. What I am saying now does not concerns only Russia, and Russia is not the only country that is worried about this. This has to do with the entire system of international relations, and sometimes even US allies. The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a redivision of the world, and the norms of international law that developed by that time – and the most important of them, the fundamental norms that were adopted following WWII and largely formalised its outcome – came in the way of those who declared themselves the winners of the Cold War. Of course, practice, international relations and the rules regulating them had to take into account the changes that took place in the world and in the balance of forces. However, this should have been done professionally, smoothly, patiently, and with due regard and respect for the interests of all states and one’s own responsibility. Instead, we saw a state of euphoria created by the feeling of absolute superiority, a kind of modern absolutism, coupled with the low cultural standards and arrogance of those who formulated and pushed through decisions that suited only themselves. The situation took a different turn. There are many examples of this. First a bloody military operation was waged against Belgrade, without the UN Security Council’s sanction but with combat aircraft and missiles used in the heart of Europe. The bombing of peaceful cities and vital infrastructure went on for several weeks. I have to recall these facts, because some Western colleagues prefer to forget them, and when we mentioned the event, they prefer to avoid speaking about international law, instead emphasising the circumstances which they interpret as they think necessary. Then came the turn of Iraq, Libya and Syria. The illegal use of military power against Libya and the distortion of all the UN Security Council decisions on Libya ruined the state, created a huge seat of international terrorism, and pushed the country towards a humanitarian catastrophe, into the vortex of a civil war, which has continued there for years. The tragedy, which was created for hundreds of thousands and even millions of people not only in Libya but in the whole region, has led to a large-scale exodus from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe. A similar fate was also prepared for Syria. The combat operations conducted by the Western coalition in that country without the Syrian government’s approval or UN Security Council’s sanction can only be defined as aggression and intervention. But the example that stands apart from the above events is, of course, the invasion of Iraq without any legal grounds. They used the pretext of allegedly reliable information available in the United States about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. To prove that allegation, the US Secretary of State held up a vial with white power, publicly, for the whole world to see, assuring the international community that it was a chemical warfare agent created in Iraq. It later turned out that all of that was a fake and a sham, and that Iraq did not have any chemical weapons. Incredible and shocking but true. We witnessed lies made at the highest state level and voiced from the high UN rostrum. As a result we see a tremendous loss in human life, damage, destruction, and a colossal upsurge of terrorism. Overall, it appears that nearly everywhere, in many regions of the world where the United States brought its law and order, this created bloody, non-healing wounds and the curse of international terrorism and extremism. I have only mentioned the most glaring but far from only examples of disregard for international law. This array includes promises not to expand NATO eastwards even by an inch. To reiterate: they have deceived us, or, to put it simply, they have played us. Sure, one often hears that politics is a dirty business. It could be, but it shouldn’t be as dirty as it is now, not to such an extent. This type of con-artist behaviour is contrary not only to the principles of international relations but also and above all to the generally accepted norms of morality and ethics. Where is justice and truth here? Just lies and hypocrisy all around. Incidentally, US politicians, political scientists and journalists write and say that a veritable “empire of lies” has been created inside the United States in recent years. It is hard to disagree with this – it is really so. But one should not be modest about it: the United States is still a great country and a system-forming power. All its satellites not only humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot it at the slightest pretext but also imitate its behaviour and enthusiastically accept the rules it is offering them. Therefore, one can say with good reason and confidence that the whole so-called Western bloc formed by the United States in its own image and likeness is, in its entirety, the very same “empire of lies.” As for our country, after the disintegration of the USSR, given the entire unprecedented openness of the new, modern Russia, its readiness to work honestly with the United States and other Western partners, and its practically unilateral disarmament, they immediately tried to put the final squeeze on us, finish us off, and utterly destroy us. This is how it was in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia. What victims, what losses we had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that time before we broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus! We remember this and will never forget. Properly speaking, the attempts to use us in their own interests never ceased until quite recently: they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human nature. This is not going to happen. No one has ever succeeded in doing this, nor will they succeed now. Despite all that, in December 2021, we made yet another attempt to reach agreement with the United States and its allies on the principles of European security and NATO’s non-expansion. Our efforts were in vain. The United States has not changed its position. It does not believe it necessary to agree with Russia on a matter that is critical for us. The United States is pursuing its own objectives, while neglecting our interests. Of course, this situation begs a question: what next, what are we to expect? If history is any guide, we know that in 1940 and early 1941 the Soviet Union went to great lengths to prevent war or at least delay its outbreak. To this end, the USSR sought not to provoke the potential aggressor until the very end by refraining or postponing the most urgent and obvious preparations it had to make to defend itself from an imminent attack. When it finally acted, it was too late. As a result, the country was not prepared to counter the invasion by Nazi Germany, which attacked our Motherland on June 22, 1941, without declaring war. The country stopped the enemy and went on to defeat it, but this came at a tremendous cost. The attempt to appease the aggressor ahead of the Great Patriotic War proved to be a mistake which came at a high cost for our people. In the first months after the hostilities broke out, we lost vast territories of strategic importance, as well as millions of lives. We will not make this mistake the second time. We have no right to do so. Those who aspire to global dominance have publicly designated Russia as their enemy. They did so with impunity. Make no mistake, they had no reason to act this way. It is true that they have considerable financial, scientific, technological, and military capabilities. We are aware of this and have an objective view of the economic threats we have been hearing, just as our ability to counter this brash and never-ending blackmail. Let me reiterate that we have no illusions in this regard and are extremely realistic in our assessments. As for military affairs, even after the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today’s Russia remains one of the most powerful nuclear states. Moreover, it has a certain advantage in several cutting-edge weapons. In this context, there should be no doubt for anyone that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country. At the same time, technology, including in the defence sector, is changing rapidly. One day there is one leader, and tomorrow another, but a military presence in territories bordering on Russia, if we permit it to go ahead, will stay for decades to come or maybe forever, creating an ever mounting and totally unacceptable threat for Russia. Even now, with NATO’s eastward expansion the situation for Russia has been becoming worse and more dangerous by the year. Moreover, these past days NATO leadership has been blunt in its statements that they need to accelerate and step up efforts to bring the alliance’s infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders. In other words, they have been toughening their position. We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would be an absolutely irresponsible thing to do for us. Any further expansion of the North Atlantic alliance’s infrastructure or the ongoing efforts to gain a military foothold of the Ukrainian territory are unacceptable for us. Of course, the question is not about NATO itself. It merely serves as a tool of US foreign policy. The problem is that in territories adjacent to Russia, which I have to note is our historical land, a hostile “anti-Russia” is taking shape. Fully controlled from the outside, it is doing everything to attract NATO armed forces and obtain cutting-edge weapons. For the United States and its allies, it is a policy of containing Russia, with obvious geopolitical dividends. For our country, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation. This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty. It is the red line which we have spoken about on numerous occasions. They have crossed it. This brings me to the situation in Donbass. We can see that the forces that staged the coup in Ukraine in 2014 have seized power, are keeping it with the help of ornamental election procedures and have abandoned the path of a peaceful conflict settlement. For eight years, for eight endless years we have been doing everything possible to settle the situation by peaceful political means. Everything was in vain. As I said in my previous address, you cannot look without compassion at what is happening there. It became impossible to tolerate it. We had to stop that atrocity, that genocide of the millions of people who live there and who pinned their hopes on Russia, on all of us. It is their aspirations, the feelings and pain of these people that were the main motivating force behind our decision to recognise the independence of the Donbass people’s republics. I would like to additionally emphasise the following. Focused on their own goals, the leading NATO countries are supporting the far-right nationalists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine, those who will never forgive the people of Crimea and Sevastopol for freely making a choice to reunite with Russia. They will undoubtedly try to bring war to Crimea just as they have done in Donbass, to kill innocent people just as members of the punitive units of Ukrainian nationalists and Hitler’s accomplices did during the Great Patriotic War. They have also openly laid claim to several other Russian regions. If we look at the sequence of events and the incoming reports, the showdown between Russia and these forces cannot be avoided. It is only a matter of time. They are getting ready and waiting for the right moment. Moreover, they went as far as aspire to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not let this happen. I have already said that Russia accepted the new geopolitical reality after the dissolution of the USSR. We have been treating all new post-Soviet states with respect and will continue to act this way. We respect and will respect their sovereignty, as proven by the assistance we provided to Kazakhstan when it faced tragic events and a challenge in terms of its statehood and integrity. However, Russia cannot feel safe, develop, and exist while facing a permanent threat from the territory of today’s Ukraine. Let me remind you that in 2000–2005 we used our military to push back against terrorists in the Caucasus and stood up for the integrity of our state. We preserved Russia. In 2014, we supported the people of Crimea and Sevastopol. In 2015, we used our Armed Forces to create a reliable shield that prevented terrorists from Syria from penetrating Russia. This was a matter of defending ourselves. We had no other choice. The same is happening today. They did not leave us any other option for defending Russia and our people, other than the one we are forced to use today. In these circumstances, we have to take bold and immediate action. The people’s republics of Donbass have asked Russia for help. In this context, in accordance with Article 51 (Chapter VII) of the UN Charter, with permission of Russia’s Federation Council, and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic, ratified by the Federal Assembly on February 22, I made a decision to carry out a special military operation. The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation. It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force. At the same time, we have been hearing an increasing number of statements coming from the West that there is no need any more to abide by the documents setting forth the outcomes of World War II, as signed by the totalitarian Soviet regime. How can we respond to that? The outcomes of World War II and the sacrifices our people had to make to defeat Nazism are sacred. This does not contradict the high values of human rights and freedoms in the reality that emerged over the post-war decades. This does not mean that nations cannot enjoy the right to self-determination, which is enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter. Let me remind you that the people living in territories which are part of today’s Ukraine were not asked how they want to build their lives when the USSR was created or after World War II. Freedom guides our policy, the freedom to choose independently our future and the future of our children. We believe that all the peoples living in today’s Ukraine, anyone who want to do this, must be able to enjoy this right to make a free choice. In this context I would like to address the citizens of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia was obliged to protect the people of Crimea and Sevastopol from those who you yourself call “nats.” The people of Crimea and Sevastopol made their choice in favour of being with their historical homeland, Russia, and we supported their choice. As I said, we could not act otherwise. The current events have nothing to do with a desire to infringe on the interests of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. They are connected with the defending Russia from those who have taken Ukraine hostage and are trying to use it against our country and our people. I reiterate: we are acting to defend ourselves from the threats created for us and from a worse peril than what is happening now. I am asking you, however hard this may be, to understand this and to work together with us so as to turn this tragic page as soon as possible and to move forward together, without allowing anyone to interfere in our affairs and our relations but developing them independently, so as to create favourable conditions for overcoming all these problems and to strengthen us from within as a single whole, despite the existence of state borders. I believe in this, in our common future. I would also like to address the military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Comrade officers, Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did not defend our common Motherland to allow today’s neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine. You swore the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and not to the junta, the people’s adversary which is plundering Ukraine and humiliating the Ukrainian people. I urge you to refuse to carry out their criminal orders. I urge you to immediately lay down arms and go home. I will explain what this means: the military personnel of the Ukrainian army who do this will be able to freely leave the zone of hostilities and return to their families. I want to emphasise again that all responsibility for the possible bloodshed will lie fully and wholly with the ruling Ukrainian regime. 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. Citizens of Russia, The culture and values, experience and traditions of our ancestors invariably provided a powerful underpinning for the wellbeing and the very existence of entire states and nations, their success and viability. Of course, this directly depends on the ability to quickly adapt to constant change, maintain social cohesion, and readiness to consolidate and summon all the available forces in order to move forward. We always need to be strong, but this strength can take on different forms. The “empire of lies,” which I mentioned in the beginning of my speech, proceeds in its policy primarily from rough, direct force. This is when our saying on being “all brawn and no brains” applies. We all know that having justice and truth on our side is what makes us truly strong. If this is the case, it would be hard to disagree with the fact that it is our strength and our readiness to fight that are the bedrock of independence and sovereignty and provide the necessary foundation for building a reliable future for your home, your family, and your Motherland. Dear compatriots, I am certain that devoted soldiers and officers of Russia’s Armed Forces will perform their duty with professionalism and courage. I have no doubt that the government institutions at all levels and specialists will work effectively to guarantee the stability of our economy, financial system and social wellbeing, and the same applies to corporate executives and the entire business community. I hope that all parliamentary parties and civil society take a consolidated, patriotic position. At the end of the day, the future of Russia is in the hands of its multi-ethnic people, as has always been the case in our history. This means that the decisions that I made will be executed, that we will achieve the goals we have set, and reliably guarantee the security of our Motherland. I believe in your support and the invincible force rooted in the love for our Fatherland.

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You sons of the bitch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TieYdWRFPuw Welcome to hell!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByguweBm6gY 60Minutes: Zelensky

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On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:38:14 -0400 jewnazi grancrap vomited:

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yeah, twatter, the source of all of grancrap's jewnazi lies. that's how stupid the cop is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai... Putin initiated mass aggression invasion across borders to murdered 10-20 of thousand of innocent civilians and fucked over tens millions more, destroyed their homes jobs schools churches hospitals and neighborhoods, executing raping and stealing, ruining their lands, destroying untold $Billions worth of civilian infrastructure civic and private, starving people and worse, and generally messing up the rest of the world in the process. And he's declared hell bent intent on murdering thousands more. Someone needs to take this motherfucker out. Fuck Putin and his invaders.

World needs to step up and beat Putin's army back across the border... all armas and Foreign Legion helpers to Ukraine... Fuck Putin he murder and flatten all civilians... https://twitter.com/UA_struggle https://twitter.com/ResistUA "Hell is what's happening there." — The Red Cross expected to evacuate 1,500 people from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia but only 76 were allowed to leave. And the horror stories are only just emerging. NewsThey (Russia) are not going to stop. The command of the russian central military district announced the next victim of the russian aggression. After gaining control over the southern Ukraine, russia plans to invade Moldova In Irpen three russian soldiers forced a 17 year old girl watch as they raped her mother and 15-year-old sister to death. She was spared because "she was ugly" and because they wanted her to pass on the message. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/04/16/7340121/ https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1516829338242621442 https://twitter.com/GeneralStaffUA https://twitter.com/ukraine https://twitter.com/brave_ua https://www.reddit.com/ukraine https://twitter.com/ZMiST_Ua https://twitter.com/IntlCrimCourt

https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/2782022-42285 https://www.facebook.com/100069073844828/posts/303810061931453/ https://twitter.com/oleksiireznikov/status/1518568813620510720 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK8Q3yQdXf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8wk_jMknag https://twitter.com/i/status/1518498192370905088 https://twitter.com/clarissaward/status/1518711322397057024 https://twitter.com/dw_ukrainian/status/1518601429811871746 https://twitter.com/greenpeacepress/status/1518521123574591493 Norwegian police arrested seven Greenpeace activists after they chained themselves to a Russian oil tanker to try to prevent it from docking at a port in Norway operated by Exxon. IN AZIONE! Abbiamo scritto “Peace not oil” (Pace non petrolio) sulla fiancata della nave SCF Baltica arrivata al largo di Siracusa con un carico di petrolio dalla Russia. Bisogna abbandonare tutte le fonti fossili, alimentano guerre e cambiamenti climatici! #StopFuellingWar Activists of @GreenpeaceSuomi & @elokapina block a Russian coal train entering port of Hanko today. We are calling for @FinGovernment railways & Operail of @EstonianGovt to STOP Russian #FossilFuels freight traffic NOW! #Ukraine can´t wait anymore. #StopFuellingWar https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1518610212009226243 Fuck Putin! https://www.open.online/2022/04/24/guerra-ucraina-armi-italia-verso-nuovo-de... https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1518598472303366144 The video of the apartment in #Odessa that was hit by the Russian missile was published on the internet. 7 deaths have been officially confirmed. 18 people were injured. https://twitter.com/AlchevskUA/status/1518221322698039296 Rashist pilot Alexander Krasnoyartsev, who bombed Chernihiv, was declared suspected of violating the laws and customs of war and premeditated murder For bombing civilians in Chernihiv, he faces life imprisonment. Moldova's Security Forces are holding an emergency meeting. On the agenda is the explosion in Tiraspol at the Ministry of State Security building earlier today https://twitter.com/DI_Ukraine/status/1518650878382718977 GUR received documentary evidence that the explosions near the building of "MGB PMR" in Tiraspol is a deliberate provocation of Russians in the company of "Transnistrians". Mariupol residents who managed to escape from the city, told about the filtration camps of Russian fascists. https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1518654601611956229 +4 FTW ;) https://twitter.com/vipgal51/status/1518594151109042176 Sweden transfers its FH77 BW Archer to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The start time is 14 seconds, in 2.5 minutes a fully automatic system pours a 21,155-mm projectile over a range of up to 50 km. This ACS is like a work of military art. RuZZnya should appreciate the novelty In the suburbs of Moscow, the shopping center "Silk Road" caught fire. Now the evacuation is underway. https://nitter.eu/pic/media%2FFRMMHNEXEAAD8sh.jpg https://nitter.eu/pic/media%2FFRH-3EeXEAEg_2j.jpg https://twitter.com/CanadianUkrain1/status/1516120274005016588 https://twitter.com/vitalij_kim/status/1518500822841180161 The first batch of British light army trucks converted into military armored ambulances arrived in Lviv. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1511356433991933957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngUk4iZ8fg «Коли іде пекельний біль, Ці люди з темряви виходять Як фантоми! Нещадно гатять наших ворогів І знову в темряві зникають в катакомбах! Вони дали присягу нації людей Які в руках тримають прапор України! АЗОВ - це сталь і я не про метал АЗОВ - це сила, вірність і відвага!» https://twitter.com/Arslon_Xudosi/status/1518172205829570560 Ukrainian forces started to use suicide drones, as you can see explosives are placed on the front of the drone. https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1518700432947884032 https://www.unian.net/war/voyna-v-ukraine-vsu-vzyali-v-plen-okkupanta-zhena-... Remember that enemy scumbag whose wife told him to rape Ukrainian women? Well, he was just captured by our forces near Izyum, and hopefully he will be charged with war crimes. https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1518483660240039936 https://twitter.com/nastyabakulina_/status/1517982821759000576 In Kiev on Victory Square dismantled two bronze images of orders with a profile of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin Waiting for the Motherland to finally take the hammer and sickle. https://twitter.com/nickreeves9876/status/1518664394963574785 https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/status/1518565178215915520 https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/10/23/russias-clandestine... Putin ignored and denied all temporary ceasefire and evacuation corridor requests and instead proceeded to murder many innocent civilians on Easter. Putin will be called to answer, not only in this life, but in the next. Two months of the war have passed. The Ukrainian people continue to heroically repel the russian aggressor. We have allies in this struggle. Weapons, sanctions, money, humanitarian aid will help us protect the world. Our Friendship is Our Victory. https://nitter.eu/pic/media%2FFRG_-P-X0AE5r_i.jpg The power of Pysanka, Ukrainian traditional Easter egg, is magical. The good will definitely defeat the evil. To make it faster, #ArmUkraineNow. https://twitter.com/i/status/1518553444042301441 https://twitter.com/Ukraine_AF/status/1518547843958591488 https://twitter.com/AS7404542949/status/1518666365606973447 https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1518572652419502082 https://twitter.com/prof_preobr/status/1512522233792634881 Путин войдёт в историю как человек, который шанс на возрождение России употребил на то, чтобы Россию уничтожить. По-перше: незалежність не дається задарма. Тим паче, коли ти - Держава, що стоїть на перетині західної і східної цивілізацій, коли ти - територія, що має безальтернативну геополітичну цінність для всього світу, коли ти народ, що тисячу років веде боротьбу коли ти - нація, яку хотіли стерти з лиця Землі, але не змогли, проте стерли твою пам‘ять і тобі потрібно згадувати себе з нуля. По-друге: війна була неминучою, оскільки історичний контекст має свої суворі, об‘єктивні реалії, а не ті, в які хочеться вірити. Найбільшим акцентом цієї війни є те, що наша історія куди величніша, ніж історія мокші і чуді та інших наглухо пропитих східних племен. Ми - Русь, вони - мордва і т.і. Ми ніколи не були братніми народами, цей міф був навіяний з однією метою - вкрасти нашу Спадщину. По-третє: всі, хто сьогодні ниє «нєт - войнє», має ричати «так - перемозі»! Нас не питали, чи хочемо ми воювати. Ми воюємо тому, що інакше загинемо. Кожна загибель горісна до сліз, але не така страшна, як смерть нації, яка згадала себе. Тому я не вірю перемовинам. Перемовини не зупинять потвору, яка прагне вкрасти нашу історію, називати себе Руссю. Але Русь - ми, а вони - брудна, зачухана стая. Будь-які перемовини і перемир’я мають бути використані для модернізації озброєння і створення оборонних споруд. Чужого нам не треба, а своє маємо відстояти ми, щоб не довелося нашим дітям. Ми - Русь. В наших жилах тече кров Святослава. Ми - велич, ми - щит і меч Європи, останній форпост європейської культури і цінностей. Ми - Україна, яка має один шлях - до Перемоги.»

The more you know... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0hJnWtvk4LgyJVfX-xOw3w UA_Struggle_Center #Азов! On the website of the legislative assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory published news about plans to "expropriate the surplus harvest of farmers in the Kherson region." Russia repeats in Ukraine not only the atrocities of German Nazism, but also the scenario of almost a century ago - the Holodomor. Hello everyone! Again, the opportunity to get in touch. According to the situation in the #Маріуполь: we stand and stand, no one is going to give up!!! EVERYTHING WILL BE UKRAINE.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1517958546712928259 Russia descends even deeper into medieval barbarism, as a pundit argues on state TV that the exits at Azovstal should be sealed off with concrete. Host prefers the idea of capturing Ukrainians and showing them at public markets, allowing anyone to do "whatever they want" to them. http://www.hisutton.com/Russian-Navy-Moskva-Cruiser-Wreck.html #Russian Navy deploys unique 110-year-old ship to investigate Moskva wreck. Likely carrying a DSRV minisub. @CovertShores Defense Analysis, Submarines, #OSINT, illustrations and history. Author of Covert Shores books. Write for @USNINews, @navalnewscom http://www.hisutton.com/Navy-Marine-Mammal-Programs.html Evidence #Russian Navy trained dolphins deployed to entrance of Sevastopol Harbor during #Ukraine war. You heard it here first. First found in low-resolution Sentinel 2 imagery Thx for help from @COUPSURE and unnamed other Ru Navy dolphins part of defenses in Sevastopol #OSINT @Saturnax1 @oryxspioenkop @UKDefJournal @UAWeapons @mupper2 @hoje_no @NavyLookout @The_Lookout_N @JosephHDempsey @AlexLuck9 @MalcolmNance @detresfa_ @TheSubHunter1 @TheIntelLab @AuroraIntel @Aviation_Intel @KyleMizokami Brady Africk @bradyafr Apr 27 SAR imagery from today shows ships grouped off the west coast of Crimea (45.32, 32.96). These ships are near the Southern Naval Base in Lake Donuzlav

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1522896126730551297 https://twitter.com/myroslavapetsa/status/1522896029733081089 Putin gets a statue in Kyiv. But probably not quite what he’d like it to be. The place is symbolic - it’s only meters aways from where Lenin used to stand in Kyiv. You know, the one who “created Ukraine” acc to Putin. Lenin is no longer there - his statue was demolished in 2013. https://twitter.com/Polk_Azov/status/1522569940682878977 https://nitter.eu/pic/media%2FFSFBX3CXEAIG3yV.jpg Attention! From some Internet sources, information is circulating that the defenders of Mariupol went to the Russian military with a white flag. In fact, to implement the plan to evacuate civilians, white flags are used by both groups. And this time, to evacuate citizens from the territory of the Azovstal plant, both groups used such banners. We would like to note that this procedure is being carried out for the fourth time. Consequences of evacuation vehicle shelling (1) Consequences of evacuation vehicle shelling (2) Attention: !️ During the ceasefire, a car was hit on the territory of the Azovstal plant by the Russians, using ATGMs. This car was moving to civilians in order to evacuate them from the territory of the plant. As a result of shelling, 1 soldier was killed and 6 wounded The enemy continues to violate all agreements and not to observe safety guarantees when evacuating civilians.

https://www.change.org/p/save-mariupol-192ea846-9fe1-476c-bb72-5474538c7c06 https://www.change.org/p/save-mariupol-71185d02-b260-4525-91ef-7f46add880c7/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmRWPOoESGQ Press Conference Azovstal On May 8, a press conference was held with the soldiers who hold the azovstal defense in the Ukrainian Mariupol. On the territory of the plant remain blocked Ukrainian military, which from the first days of a full-scale war defend the city. The soldiers say that they hope for a miracle, and ask everyone to make every effort to evacuate the military. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that work is underway to find diplomatic options for saving our military, which remain on Azovstal. Influential mediators and states are involved. Link to the petition for the UN to convene the General Assembly and rescue Ukrainian fighters and civilians from the Azovstal plant: https://cutt.ly/NG8FjZR Journalists and editors Hromadske continue to work in each region of the war-disrupted country. They continue to work from improvised offices, shelters, and bunkers. We do so because our weapon now is the truth. Subscribe to us so as not to miss the main news of Ukraine and the world: https://www.youtube.com/user/HromadskeTV https://hromadske.ua/ " SAVE MARIUPOL Kitty Prokhorenko started this petition to https://www.un.org/ and 1 other. May 6, 2022 We, the undersigned activists, non-governmental and non-profit organizations, politicians and celebrities, call on the United Nations, and in particular the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and regional leaders from around the world to launch an urgent "extraction" procedure, namely: 1 To resume the eleventh special session of the UN General Assembly for consideration of the humanitarian situation in Mariupol resulting from the aggression against Ukraine. 2. We demand that the General Assembly adopt a resolution obliging the Russian Federation, the aggressor country, to ensure the evacuation of all people to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government or to the territory of third safe countries. 3. We call on all world leaders to take all necessary measures to ensure and implement the resolution, and to act as guarantors of security. The civilian population, as well as the soldiers defending the city, are experiencing inhumane conditions: a number of world leaders have already recognized the actions of the aggressor's country as genocide of the Ukrainian people. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to violate the rules of war, which is already partially reflected in the UN General Assembly Resolution of April 7, 2022 on the suspension of membership rights of the Russian Federation in the Human Rights Council. The enemy violates the rules of warfare, uses non-traditional weapons, regularly and purposefully attacks the locations of civilians, wounded servicemen, the bodies of fallen servicemen. Despite the inhumane conditions, the Ukrainian military controls the territory of the Azovstal plant, which, in particular, serves as a shelter for civilians and the wounded. Such conditions are a real humanitarian catastrophe, artificially created by the Russian Federation. There is a significant shortage of food, medicine, hygiene and personal protective equipment in the city. Due to the total damage to infrastructure and housing, the city of Mariupol no longer exists. Now the time is running out, the occupiers have partially broken into the territory of the Azovstal plant, every minute of delay could cost huge losses to all those who found shelter on the territory of the plant. We call on the United Nations, the UN Secretary-General, and regional leaders around the world to begin an immediate "extraction" procedure of the evacuation of civilians, all wounded, the bodies of the fallen and Ukrainian servicemen from blockaded Mariupol. With the immediate help of international figures, we still have the opportunity to save people's lives. We call for decisive action by the international community to: • provide an urgent ceasefire with guarantees from both sides in Mariupol; • organize immediate monitoring of compliance with the ceasefire by a third party; • organize the maritime evacuation of civilians and Ukrainian servicemen to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government or to the territory of a third intermediary state. Maritime evacuation may be accompanied by a land humanitarian corridor for civilians and the Ukrainian military to territory controlled by the Ukrainian government or to a third intermediary state. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrCajXydhkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwMhk6ZFNik

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-05-10/lithuanian-lawmakers-b... NATO Country Among 1st To Adopt Law Declaring Russia's Invasion "Genocide" & "Terrorism" The Baltic country of Lithuania has become among the first NATO member countries to formally call Russia's military action in Ukraine a "genocide" while legally declaring the invasion state-sponsored "terrorism". Its parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt the motion into law, also calling for future Nuremberg style war crimes trials for top Russian officials - something which most pundits and legal experts agree is likely impossible to practically carry out. Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius: The Associated Press Reuters details that "The motion, co-sponsored by Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, said Russian forces' war crimes in Ukraine included the deliberate killing of civilians, mass rape, forcible relocation of Ukrainian citizens to Russia and the destruction of economic infrastructure and cultural sites." "The Russian Federation, whose military forces deliberately and systematically select civilian targets for bombing, is a state that supports and perpetrates terrorism," the Lithuanian parliamentary motion reads. It follows a prior similar designation by Canada's parliament. In mid-April, President Joe Biden raised eyebrows in calling Russia's invasion a "genocide" for the first time. It was met with some controversy among analysts in the United States given that the United Nations' definition for formal application of the term has strict requirements and typically isn't thrown around loosely. A Russian parliament official was the first to respond to the Lithuanian action, explaining that the Baltic state is merely obediently following Washington's lead: Leonid Slutsky, head of the International Affairs Committee of Russia's lower house of parliament, said the resolution was not legally binding and that it merely repeated what he called the United States' Russophobic views. He said the resolution was part of an "anti-Russia project" and biased actions against Russia that "have nothing to do with reality," the TASS news agency cited him as saying. A month ago Ukraine's President Zelensky spoke virtually to Lithuanian parliament, which is in the capital of Vilnius, and declared that the country had been the "first" in Europe to come to Ukraine's aid. “Dear Lithuanians, I am grateful to address you on behalf of the Ukrainian people today. You have been among the first to come to Ukraine’s aid. You remain among those who care most about peace and security in Europe,” he told the lawmakers. His message to various bodies of friendly countries' lawmakers worldwide has focused heavily on allegations of Russian war crimes, claiming also that Russian forces actively target Ukrainian civilians - a charge the Kremlin has consistently denied.

Spy vs Spy: CIA Recruiting Disaffected Russians via Tor CIA Trying To Contact Russians Who Are Against Ukraine War Via Dark Web https://news.antiwar.com/2022/05/03/cia-trying-to-contact-russians-who-are-a... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-russians-oppose-ukraine-war/ https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-business-europe-media-7f6a05... The CIA is trying to contact Russians who are against the war in Ukraine and has offered a secure way to contact the agency. The spy agency wants Russians to communicate with them through a website the CIA set up on the dark web. “We are providing Russian-language instructions on how to safely contact CIA — via our Dark Web site or a reputable VPN — for those who feel compelled to reach us because of the Russian government’s unjust war,” a CIA official told CBS News. The CIA says Russians disaffected by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine may be trying to get in touch with U.S. intelligence. It wants them to go to the darknet, part of the internet accessible only through tools that provide more anonymity. https://t.co/QOXQz0ZI5P — The Associated Press (@AP) May 2, 2022 According to CBS, the CIA established a site on the dark web in 2019 and has used it to elicit information from people across the world. The CIA has released instructions in Russian on how to access the site on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other social media sites. The site requires users to use the web browser Tor, which encrypts a user’s internet activity. The CIA is hoping that Russians, both civilians, and soldiers, will use the site to give information to the US. An intelligence official told the Associated Press: “It’s not safe to directly engage Americans physically or virtually” in Russia, the official said. “For those people that want to engage with us securely, this is the way to do it.” The CIA’s call for Russian contacts could also be related to the US goal of attempting to put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin by stirring unrest in Russia. Sanctions imposed by the US and its allies were meant to turn the Russian populace against Putin, but his approval rating soared to 83% in March, up from 69% in January.

https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1526995583759798279 https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1526992391730876416 https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1526964453539041280 https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1527043574445096962 #buymeafighterjet is an initiative launched by Ukrainian pilots in response to NATO's unwillingness to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. It crowdfunds to buy Su-24, Su-25, Su-27 and MiG-29 for Ukraine: https://buymeafighterjet.com/ https://twitter.com/RipRawlings/status/1526971641070292992 https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-russia-war-crimes-11652582051

https://fainemisto.com.ua/donate https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-... https://bank.gov.ua/ua/about/humanitarian-aid-to-ukraine https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1497594592438497282 https://time.com/nextadvisor/investing/cryptocurrency/donate-crypto-to-ukrai... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of_Ukraine https://www.embassypages.com/ukraine Help Ukrainians defend themselves and push the Putin invader back across the border. #HelpZelenskyyReload https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberArmyOfUkraine+VolunteerWithUkraine+foreignVolu... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwm2F1k8h0 Regiment "Azov": From the beginning of the war to the present - chronicles of the struggle for Mariupol soldiers "Azov", who have already been called "steel". The enemy planned to take Mariupol in three days. Regiment "Azov" took an unequal battle with the superior forces of the enemy, the number of the grouping of which exceeded 14,000 troops. Despite enemy aircraft, multi-ton bombs, superior enemy forces and ship artillery, the defenders stood between the enemy and the whole of Ukraine. #Азов! https://fainemisto.com.ua/donate https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR Moscow has attempted to trade Ukrainian civilians for Russian military prisoners, according to Ukraine’s deputy prime minister - a move forbidden by the Geneva Convention. Ukraine declined and instructed Russia to send back Ukrainian civilians it had taken. “The Russian Federation wants to arrange a parade of Ukrainian prisoners on May 9th. This is a very serious violation of the Geneva Convention and all the rules of war!” https://v.redd.it/tekbhlvu0jw81 When shit’s fucked up And Putin’s nuts Who you gonna call? ORCBUSTERS! When you're dropping nades through a lada's roof Who you gonna call? ORCBUSTERS! When there's orc thieves lootin' and the toilet's gone Who you gonna call? ORCBUSTERS I ain't afraid of no orcs 155s make me feel good! Bustin bustin bustin bustin... Has putin gone nuts? Are russian soldiers terrorizing your neighborhood? Has your washing machine and toilet gone missing? If yes don't wait another minute. Pick up your phone now and call the professionals OrcBusters! We're ready to defeat you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oua0Puihrkc https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/04/29/7343018/ 3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish - Destroy the Orcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1c7saYc0Mo Destroy the Orcs https://twitter.com/deadlinewh/status/1520181262312431622 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqX0kNjMdw Odesa Mama! https://www.ebay.com/itm/294949888919 Hero former US Marine, 22, who fought because he ‘believed in what Ukraine was fighting for’ was killed by Russians and left behind wife and 7-month- old baby. Vira Hyrych, a journalist at Svoboda Radio, died during last night’s airstrike from a missile that hit her apartment building in Kyiv. Tetiana Kushnir, doctor with the National Guards of Ukraine, died in #Mariupol #Azovstal. 40 days ago her husband was killed. They have a baby son left (he's safe). Patron met with the children at Okhmadit Children's Hospital. A 14-year-old girl who won gold medals in Ukraine's national weightlifting championships has been killed by Russian shelling in Mariupol, the city's council has said. Alina Peregudova was a candidate for the national team of Ukraine and aspired to represent her country at the highest level. https://twitter.com/Polk_Azov/status/1519643709138161666 !!️Attention!!! All night on the military field hospital, which is located on the territory of the plant "Azovstal" in Mariupol and where the wounded defenders are, the Russians massively dumped multi-ton bombs capable of breaking through any concrete protective structures. Then, having already caused destruction, they continued to mercilessly shell the ruins with ship's artillery. Among the wounded soldiers are dead, again wounded and concussed. Due to an enemy attack, part of the room collapsed - in particular, the operating room. This makes it impossible now to help our soldiers even in the conditions that were before. We emphasize! The Geneva Convention guarantees the protection of inpatient and mobile medical facilities and should not be attacked! Protection should be used by the wounded and sick. Regardless of whether they are civilians or military persons (combatants). The wounded should be provided with the necessary assistance without discrimination of any kind. We call on international human rights organizations to respond to the fact that Russia continues to destroy Mariupol! The video was filmed immediately after the shooting. The footage shows how to dig up the fallen dead soldiers who were in the hospital with serious injuries and provide first aid to the victims!!️ An appeal from the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, Captain Svyatoslav Palamar, a friend of Kalyna, today. This night is just a colossal number of airstrikes, phosphorous bombs, missiles, art, and anything that a barbarian can use against humanity. For all military words and actions are the same thing, so it is difficult for us to understand why we are promised and do not act. I call for decisive action on deblocking or evacuation of all those who believe in the Motherland. Today I will say not "Mariupol is Ukraine", but "Ukraine is Mariupol"

Putin the invader criminal continues to destroy entire cities and murder maim starve and ruin many civilian lifes...

While still blasting away murdering the injured and starving trapped in Mariupol, now Putin the asshole just launch massive new attacks on main western cities like Lviv... Hypocrite Russia is also getting much armaments, supplies, money, trade, and supports from many other countries and routes... but uses same excuse to bomb Ukraine everywhere. When will the bastard Putin die... Barrage Of Cruise Missiles Rock Western Ukraine, Plunging Lviv Into Darkness On Tuesday multiple media correspondents reporting from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv said they heard several large blasts in the evening hours. It has since emerged that railway power substations are coming under attack, after the Kremlin last week indicated its military would ramp up efforts to thwart Western arms deliveries into Ukraine. Ukrainian Railways has announced Tuesday night that a number of trains are delayed after the blasts. "In particular, trains have been detained at the entrance to Lviv, information is being updated," a statement from the rail authority quoted by CNN said. The attacks, which are being called the biggest cruise missile strikes on Lviv and perhaps across Ukraine since the war's start, have knocked out power and internet to parts of the city. Vital power and train stations have also been hit in other key areas of the country Tuesday night (local time). Confirmed: An internet disruption has been registered in Lviv, western Ukraine, amid reports of explosions and power outages following a Russian missile strike; real-time network data show connectivity down to 87% https://t.co/VD8tMFSwEG via @netblocks pic.twitter.com/rUsWPdOyKo — Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) May 3, 2022 Traffic throughout the city also came to a halt, correspondents on the ground noted. Largescale strikes on Lviv have been a rarity throughout Russia's over 2-month long invasion, given the major Western city's distance from the frontlines of fighting, which remains in Donbas as well as to the south. Whole sections of the city are also without power: Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said that parts of the city are without power. Sadovyi also said that "as a result of the missile strikes, two power substations were damaged." Explosions were reported in multiple locations across the city, including in positions south, east and west. It's believed though unconfirmed that at least five cruise missiles slammed into Lviv - and there were many more across other parts of the country. #BREAKING: Large smoke column over Lviv, Ukraine following reported Russian cruise missile strikes. https://t.co/JoYTwK8XS5 pic.twitter.com/yMRssccdch — Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) May 3, 2022 CNN correspondents are reporting: Blasts heard in Lviv, Ukraine, coming from east, south and west of the city center. One site is close to the city center. From another, a huge plume of black smoke can be seen billowing across sky. All the lights across city appear to be out. The moment of one of the missile strikes on Lviv #Ukraine. According to local officials, three electrical substations were damaged. pic.twitter.com/JQGutUNNbl — Ostap Yarysh (@OstapYarysh) May 3, 2022 The Monday prior, Russian forces attacked at least six railway stations and facilities, some of them also near Lviv. Multiple Russian cruise missile strikes on infrastructure targets across Ukraine tonight, parts of Lviv without power. Likely the biggest barrage since the beginning of the war. — Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) May 3, 2022 Ukraine's military command previously commented that targeting rails has been part of ongoing Russian efforts to completely disable the country's military transport infrastructure, specifically with an eye on foreign arms transfers as what the Kremlin previously dubbed "legitimate targets". Kiev and the UN have also condemned attacks on civilians and vital civilian transport at a time of unprecedented numbers of internally displaced war refugees. A Ukrainian military statement published last week alerted the public that the Russians "are trying to destroy the supply routes of military-technical assistance from partner states. To do this, they focus strikes on railway junctions." #Russia has hit an "infrastructure facility" in the mountains of Zakarpattia Oblast, the governor says. The 1st strike in the westernmost region. Tonight 🇷🇺 targeted railways system. I'm afraid, they hit the Beskydy Tunnel in the Carpathian between Zakarpattia and Lviv Oblasts. https://t.co/jbWkhY8rP0 — Alexander Khrebet/Олександр Хребет (@AlexKhrebet) May 3, 2022 The below video was reportedly taken days ago: Man riding a train witnessed a Russian cruise missile attack on Fastiv 2 days ago. After he started recording, a second missile hit close to the train. Dramatic footage from an attack that could have killed dozens of passengers. pic.twitter.com/D4mCGcTuXm — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 1, 2022 And further attacks on railway and power infrastructure are being reported into the Tuesday night hours in various parts of the country. 🚨 Alert is over in Western Ukraine but not everywhere: Cherkasy, Kropyvnytskyi, Mikolaiv & Odesa in Central Ukraine, & Luhansk in the East, are still on high alert. In Lviv, there are power & water outages in some parts of the city, officials say they're working on fixing it. pic.twitter.com/LxyZRKB0tb — Emmanuelle Chaze (@EmmanuelleChaze) May 3, 2022 A number of cities continue to be on high alert as the Russian military is apparently increasing its targeting of power and transport infrastructure sites.

Nuland-Pyatt Ukraine Coup Tape Removed From YouTube After 8 Years https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/25/nuland-pyatt-tape-removed-from-youtube... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1529523242989494274 https://twitter.com/Consortiumnews/status/1529530688751513604 The smoking gun proving US involvement in the 2014 coup in Kiev has been removed from YouTube after eight years. It was the most complete version of the intercepted and leaked conversation between then Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt, the then US ambassador to Ukraine, in which the two discuss who will make up the new government weeks before democratically-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in a violent coup on Feb. 21, 2014. The US State Department never denied the authenticity of the video, and even issued an apology to the European Union after Nuland is heard on the tape saying, "Fuck the E.U." Mainstream media at the time focused almost exclusively on that off-color remark, ignoring the greater significance of U.S. interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs. Consortium News has numerous times embedded the YouTube video in articles about the overthrow of Yanukovych. CN successfully embedded it earlier this week in an article now being written, but on Wednesday the video suddenly appeared this way in the draft article: This is a screenshot taken earlier from the video that has now been removed. Nuland in screenshot from now removed YouTube video. Timing of Removal The removal of a video that had existed online for eight years raises major questions as it comes during the war in Ukraine. Corporate media has studiously avoided mentioning the causes of the current conflict, including NATO eastward expansion, the rejected Moscow treaty proposals in December, the civil war in Donbass and the 2014 coup in Kiev that led to the Donbass uprising and violent repression by the coup government. The coup in 2014 is the starting point that led to all these events culminating in Russia’s invasion in February. Removing the video would be consistent with the suppression of any information that falls outside the enforced narrative of events in Ukraine, including whitewashing any mention of the U.S.-backed coup. There is, of course, massive censoring by Big Tech of conservative voices, as well as leftist anti-establishment ones. But overlooked: their primary allegiance when censoring is to the US Security State. Big Tech censorship always aligns with US intelligence and military aims.👇 https://t.co/1dRj1gkoE1 — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 25, 2022 It was the original, most complete, and widely viewed recording of the call on YouTube: There are a couple of other versions on YouTube but this one had the most views. It was posted on April 29, 2014 and had 181,533 views. It's on Odyseey and Rumble but they don't have the reach that YouTube has nor this particular video. — Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) May 25, 2022 Transcript Still Online The BBC on Feb. 7, 2014 — 14 days before Yanukovych was toppled- — published a transcript of the Nuland-Pyatt conversation. Consortium News is republishing the transcript here, lest it be removed from the internet as well: * * * Voice thought to be Nuland’s: What do you think? Voice thought to be Pyatt’s: I think we’re in play. The Klitschko [Vitaly Klitschko, one of three main opposition leaders] piece is obviously the complicated electron here. Especially the announcement of him as deputy prime minister and you’ve seen some of my notes on the troubles in the marriage right now so we’re trying to get a read really fast on where he is on this stuff. But I think your argument to him, which you’ll need to make, I think that’s the next phone call you want to set up, is exactly the one you made to Yats [Arseniy Yatseniuk, another opposition leader]. And I’m glad you sort of put him on the spot on where he fits in this scenario. And I’m very glad that he said what he said in response. Nuland: Good. I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary, I don’t think it’s a good idea. Pyatt: Yeah. I guess… in terms of him not going into the government, just let him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I’m just thinking in terms of sort of the process moving ahead we want to keep the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok [Oleh Tyahnybok, the other opposition leader] and his guys and I’m sure that’s part of what [President Viktor] Yanukovych is calculating on all this. Nuland: [Breaks in] I think Yats is the guy who’s got the economic experience, the governing experience. He’s the… what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch going in… he’s going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it’s just not going to work. Pyatt: Yeah, no, I think that’s right. OK. Good. Do you want us to set up a call with him as the next step? Nuland: My understanding from that call – but you tell me – was that the big three were going into their own meeting and that Yats was going to offer in that context a… three-plus-one conversation or three-plus-two with you. Is that not how you understood it? Pyatt: No. I think… I mean that’s what he proposed but I think, just knowing the dynamic that’s been with them where Klitschko has been the top dog, he’s going to take a while to show up for whatever meeting they’ve got and he’s probably talking to his guys at this point, so I think you reaching out directly to him helps with the personality management among the three and it gives you also a chance to move fast on all this stuff and put us behind it before they all sit down and he explains why he doesn’t like it. Nuland: OK, good. I’m happy. Why don’t you reach out to him and see if he wants to talk before or after. Pyatt: OK, will do. Thanks. Nuland: OK… one more wrinkle for you Geoff. [A click can be heard] I can’t remember if I told you this, or if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman [United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs] this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy Robert Serry did I write you that this morning? Pyatt: Yeah I saw that. Nuland: OK. He’s now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU. Pyatt: No, exactly. And I think we’ve got to do something to make it stick together because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude, that the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it. And again the fact that this is out there right now, I’m still trying to figure out in my mind why Yanukovych (garbled) that. In the meantime there’s a Party of Regions faction meeting going on right now and I’m sure there’s a lively argument going on in that group at this point. But anyway we could land jelly side up on this one if we move fast. So let me work on Klitschko and if you can just keep… we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych but we probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place. Nuland: So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [US vice-president’s national security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [US Vice-President Joe] Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden’s willing. Pyatt: OK. Great. Thanks.

Putin the invader murdered tens of thousands, destroyed and mostly controls an entire eastern crescent from northeast to southwest. Ukraine, while exhibiting earnest defense, was at onset at least a year behind and ill prepared in training and arms. Zelensky have difficult work to retake Ukraine lands from Putin, but is doubling down words to do it. https://t.me/UA_struggle https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1536416721971576832 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1536282051003006977 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1536274768382545923 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1535931633949368321 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1535897105029599232 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1534937482139254786 https://www.patreon.com/posts/67678138 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1535683289662496769 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1534850614844395521 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1535566556461252608 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1535242183506382850

https://www.johnspenceronline.com/urban-warfare The Mini Manual For The Urban Defender After events like today I'm even more proud for having written a book to help Ukrainians fight evil Russians soldiers. Translated into Ukrainian, distributed by the Ministry of Defense, and published/distributed across the country 100,000+ Putin's brutality continues... https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/ukrainian-pow-castrated-by-russians-in-sickeni... https://twitter.com/kvitneviy_/status/1552994326707306498 https://twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/1553169662430457862 “John Spencer, the US Army veteran who chairs the Washington, DC-based Urban Warfare Studies, also implored world leaders to act.” You damn right I did. I just watched the video showing Russian soldiers cutting off the genitalia of Ukrainian POWs. How do you unsee that? WTF are we waiting on to halt this evil? Stop incrementally sending weapons, we all know they need- 100 MLRS, all types of rounds, ATACMs, tanks, etc, send it! https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1552978759669645314 Russia has committed another petrifying war crime by shelling a correctional facility in the occupied Olenivka where it held Ukrainian POWs. I call on all partners to strongly condemn this brutal violation of international humanitarian law and recognize Russia a terrorist state. In what country is this not immediate grounds for kicking those diplomatic personnel out of your country @GOVUK ? Russian Embassy, UK @RussianEmbassy : Azov militants deserve execution, but death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they’re not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death. Russia uses Heavy Flamethrower System TOS-1 MLRS against our Warriors. They destroy everyone even in the trenches. https://twitter.com/UA_struggle https://t.me/polkazov/4413 https://gordonua.com/bulvar/news/zhena-komandira-polka-azov-denisa-prokopenk...

Putin's brutality continues... https://twitter.com/UA_struggle Putin the Invader, go fuck yourself.

Prediction Markets: "Will 'The Bridge' Fall?" While Ukraine gets lucky smashing RU air and ammo dumps in formerly verboten areas such as Crimea, Russia and all others in the world bid on diabolical weaponry... Russia Shows Off Robo-Dog With RPG At Military Convention Russia displayed new and experimental technologies at its annual defense convention at the Patriot Center near Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered an opening speech at the Military and Technical Forum ARMY 2022 on Tuesday, organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense, and said that over "28,000 modern samples of military and dual-use products" are being showcased by approximately 1,500 Russian manufacturers to defense officials from 72 countries. In the speech, Putin continued: "We are ready to offer our allies and partners the most modern types of weapons, from small arms to armored vehicles and artillery, from warplanes to drones. These guns are in demand among military professionals all over the world for their reliability, quality, and most importantly, their high efficiency. Almost all of them have been used many times in real military operations." 👏🇷🇺🌎🌍🌏Putin Speech at the opening ceremony: of the Army 2022 forum and the International Army Games 2022: Aerobatics teams at the opening of the military-technical forum #Army2022 :International military-technical forum "Army-2022" Vladimir Putin took part in the opening pic.twitter.com/A5Hts9VYoK — World News 24 (@DailyWorld24) August 15, 2022 One of the most modern types of weapons that Putin was referring to appears to be an intelligent four-legged robo-dog wielding an RPG-26 rocket launcher on its back. Videos of Russian engineering company Intellect Machine's M-81 robotic system roaming the convention center floors with a rocket launcher went viral on social media. Ohh my… Innovation level: Russian robot dog with rocket launcher at Russia’s Army 2022 Defense Exposition. pic.twitter.com/c839c3GJo5 — CaucasusWarReport (@Caucasuswar) August 16, 2022 A Russian robot complex, assembled using Chinese technology and capable of using RPGs, at the #Army2022 forum. pic.twitter.com/vrdTMFRIgB — خالد اسكيف (@khalediskef) August 16, 2022 😳 #ARMY2022 A robot dog with a grenade launcher on his back appeared at the forum. This is a Chinese technology, the cost is about 1 million rubles(16,161.75 US Dollars). Robopes became the star of the first day of the forum. pic.twitter.com/lCnJkHpgun — DanBardak (@DanBardak) August 15, 2022 This would not be the first time the West's adversaries have displayed a robo-dog for war. Last month, a video surfaced on social media of a Chinese robot dog by Hangzhou-based company Unitree Robotics with a machine gun mounted on its back. All the people who laughed off the “worrywarts” years ago for freaking out about the Funny Dancing Robot Dogs (tm) should be forced to watch this video once a day for the remainder of the year. pic.twitter.com/WBIrlGah3w — Sean Chiplock @ (SOON) PWR^ South Bend (@sonicmega) July 20, 2022 Here are the other weapons displayed at the defense convention that wraps up on Sunday: Russian Helicopters Company, a subsidiary of state-owned Rostec Corporation displayed during the 8th International Military-Technical Forum (Army 2022) exhibition a new unmanned helicopter, called the “Bas-750”. pic.twitter.com/5TguC8OyhZ — Vnation 111 (@Vnation_111) August 17, 2022 Future "Arctic" SSBN concept: "Arktur" and its companion UUV "Surrogat-V". Photos by @MuxelAero. Borei-A for comparison. #ARMY2022 pic.twitter.com/nVcunL7NFG — Dmitry Stefanovich (@KomissarWhipla) August 15, 2022 First day of Russian forum #Army2022 #Армия2022. What’s new in #UAV game? Not much so far. Two models of wannabe MQ-1 Predator - Orion-E with control station, and old Foton-601 construction developed by Ruskosmos with Samara University. pic.twitter.com/Kr6I4Gc1Jg — Intel Takes (@inteltakes) August 15, 2022 Mini missile for Pantsir-S1M of which reportedly up to 48 can be fired from a single launch vehicle. #ARMY2022 pic.twitter.com/2w4qC3YuMn — Reggie Meezer (@ReggieMeezer) August 16, 2022 X-69 (Kh-69) air launched missile with 290km range....it has apparently been tested in Ukraine already #ARMY2022 pic.twitter.com/T7wdlwBW5M — Reggie Meezer (@ReggieMeezer) August 16, 2022 "Linza" combat ambulance of the 2nd series #Army2022 pic.twitter.com/jkCEFqBnZv — Prateek🎧 (@PrateekRoutray) August 15, 2022 It seems @RosatomGlobal has exhibited models of 152mm & 203mm tactical #nuclear #artillery shells at #Army2022 in #Russia . Signalling going out here ! Also products depicted are often for sale to "friends" , some 203mm nuclear artillery wouldn't be a bad thing to have you know. pic.twitter.com/uF6JHRoSvO — Ninjamonkey 🇮🇳 (@Aryan_warlord) August 17, 2022 In Moscow region at #Army2022 Military and Technical Forum representatives of 70 countries can see the latest defense technology as well as to hold debates on pressing geopolitical topics. Photos from https://t.co/AeQf10SYCu pic.twitter.com/DyJzqf58rN — Embassy of Russia in Bangladesh (@RussEmbDhaka) August 17, 2022

Sinn Fein style, Putin not going to like that very much... https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1561114291377283072 https://t.me/pushilindenis/2548 Today, the Head of the Presidential Administration in Ukraine, Andrey Yermak, said that, "Our task is to make sure that not only the current generation of Russians, but their children and grandchildren will pay". Eight hours later, Alexander Dugin's daughter Darya was killed. pic.twitter.com/tSNhsxTR7A — Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) August 20, 2022 Denis Pushilin, the Russian proxy leader of Ukraine's occupied Donetsk, angrily blamed “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime” for the blast, writing on Telegram that they had been “trying to liquidate Alexander Dugin” but “blew up his daughter.” “In loving memory of Darya, she is a true Russian girl,” Pushilin wrote. Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels and social media pages similarly blamed Ukraine for the explosion and called on Russians to “avenge” Dugina’s death. This, along with recent attacks inside Crimea, could indeed mean greater escalation in the Ukraine war.

The Old Game: Spy Op vs Spy Op... https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias-75-year-old-pro...

So the question remains what (or who) caused the blasts?

Remember what President Biden said weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine:

"If Russia invades... then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1490792461979078662

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So the question remains what (or who) caused the blasts?

Remember what President Biden said weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine:

"If Russia invades... then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1490792461979078662

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1574767709258137606 January 27, 2022 VICTORIA NULAND: “If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.”

https://twitter.com/warmonitors https://twitter.com/WarfareBackup Many Mariupol azovstal defenders have been released from Russian POW Camp, returned to Ukraine to organize and fight. https://bit.ly/3CbwAXI The award has met its Hero! The commander of the AZOV regiment, Denys "Redis" Prokopenko, received the "Golden Star" order. President Zelenskyy awarded Redis the Hero of Ukraine title in March when he led the defense of Mariupol. The award ceremony occurred during the Azovstal defenders' meeting with Andriy Yermak and Olena Zelenska in Turkey. The heroes could finally hug their families for the first time after being released from captivity. "Azov regiment people show transcendental heroism, motivation, and fortitude to fight. It's not easy to describe it. We are on our land; we know what we can overcome and fight to the last drop of blood". Lieutenant colonel Denys "Redis" Prokopenko, the commander of the AZOV RTG. We are consistently moving towards our goal – the release of all captives and all Mariupol defenders. We will facilitate the processes of the return of our fighters with the Coordination Headquarters, The Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families, and the AZOV Patronage Servic

UN Security Council Votes Down Probe Into Biolabs In Ukraine https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1506105274515533827 The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has voted down a Russian proposal to establish a commission to investigate claims of a joint US-Ukraine "military biological" program. Going back to at least March, Moscow has alleged Ukrainian biolabs have been studying and stockpiling deadly pathogens like anthrax and cholera at US-sponsored labs, saying further this is a violation of the 1972 international convention on biological weapons. Stepnogorsk biological weapons complex in Kazakhstan. Image: US via Department of Defense. At Wednesday's security council vote, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the United States and its ally the Ukrainian government have been "through Russia's allegations in Geneva, point by point, and debunked every single one." US, Britain, and France voted against Russia's proposal - but crucially China backed it, while ten rotating council members abstained, among the 15-nation body. "The United States does not have a biological weapons program. There are no Ukrainian biological weapons laboratories supported by the United States," Thomas-Greenfield countered. Instead of military biolabs, Washington has presented the following narrative on its program in Ukraine: During a series of U.N. meetings prompted by the Russian allegations, the U.S. has described the non-military biological labs it has supported in Ukraine since the 1990's, including one called the "Biological Threat Reduction Program" that was created to disassemble the former Soviet Union's programs, to "reduce legacy threats from nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons left in the Soviet Union's successor states." One key facility that Russian allegations have long focused on remains the Virology Reference Laboratory in Kiev. The lab says they get regularly inspected by a World Health Organization team, and further that after the Russian invasion started, and bombs started falling, they destroyed "particularly dangerous biological strains they had in storage," according to the lab's director as quoted in CBS. Russia and China have pointed out that Congressional testimony from earlier in the war by US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland was particularly damning and is confirmation that US-backed research into deadly pathogens at Ukrainian facilities was happening. Daily reminder that yes, Victoria Nuland actually said all these things about biolabs pic.twitter.com/5Otnh90vPa — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 22, 2022 As for China, during the same month that Nuland gave her testimony (in March), Beijing demanded that the Biden administration "give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification." In response, the US has consistently rejected the allegations as a "conspiracy theory" with US officials meeting with Chinese counterparts in Rome at a previous bilateral meeting being "shocked" at the assertions.

Putin continues invasion, willfully directly smashing yet more Civilians and Civilian Infrastructure, intentional not even trying to claim as collateral, where no such peoples were being actively smashed any moment before. Vladimir Putin is an asshole. Fuck Putin. May indeed his most trusted, or any other actor[s], take his ass out. Same for any other smashing marauder on the planet... Do you really want to starve and freeze to death because of your asshole "leaders"? You don't need them, throw them all out, and never replace them with anyone or anything ever again. Live and do things on your own, even together as desired.

Putin the asshole that already needed to die for mass invasion, is now also freezing millions to death without power in winter, someone needs to take this cocksucker out. Satellite Imagery Shows Extensive Destruction Of Ukraine Power Grid It was only a matter of time. The recent Russian pull-back of troops clearly indicated a broad shift in tactics, and the one thing that the Kremlin avoided for several months seemed like the next most logical step - Full spectrum strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure. Initially, Ukraine's media spin suggested that the precision strikes were "ineffective", with western news outlets showing only a handful of images of craters in streets and some scarred apartment buildings. There were limited admissions of damage to the power and water grids, but Ukraine claimed that these systems would be back and functional within days. This did not happen. Not surprisingly, Ukraine suffered far more damage to their utilities than the government and media let on. Later estimates ranged from 60% to 80% of the nation's grid destroyed or unusable and the latest satellite photos of active lights at night support this. Below, we can see lights across Ukraine on February 24th at the start of the war. Next, we have an image taken from November 24th. More than half the nation is in total darkness and the comparison to neighboring countries is stark. For the majority of the war Ukraine enjoyed near full use of their power grid, internet, water, gas, and other amenities, which is highly unusual during an invasion. The reasons for Vladimir Putin seeking to avoid damage to infrastructure are unknown, but public optics are the most likely explanation. With power resources nearly destroyed, the citizenry of Ukraine is facing a long cold winter with little to no relief in sight. No doubt the media will portray this as a cold weather holocaust, though, elimination of infrastructure is usually the first measure of a large scale attack. It is standard operating procedure for the US military, for example. At this point, the coldest temperatures have yet to hit Ukraine, with average lows of 21°F (-6°C) in December. This kind of weather is not a problem with infrastructure intact, but with the grid down there will be chaos. Water pipes will freeze and bust across major population centers, leaving only well water. The effects of the cold will be cumulative, and without heating and electric most other operations including economic operations will grind to a halt. Ukraine's population will have gone from relative comfort to brutal survival in the span of a couple months. The next most obvious outcome is a refugee crisis, with millions of people seeking shelter in neighboring countries in order to escape the cold. Though mainstream analysts are finally admitting to the grid problem, there is still very little coverage of the actual consequences we are about to witness. The assertions that Ukraine is "winning" the war are harder to sell while at the same time acknowledging the massive economic and humanitarian disaster that is escalating in the wake of supposed victory.

https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1593197960409780224 This is why Russians are losing in Ukraine. An ordinary civilian in Kherson explains. https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1593190259067858945 When the news says "Russia has struck Ukraine's infrastructure," it looks like this. Destroyed homes, flames in residential areas - a real daily terrorist war against Ukrainians. https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1579103714740084736 Horrific footage taken from the phone of a Russian soldier. The video shows Ukrainian civilians killed in Kupyansk, which was occupied by Russian troops at the time. This is how genocide was taking place on Putin's orders. https://twitter.com/Polk_Azov/status/1597980706893746179 http://fainemisto.com.ua/en http://azov.org.ua/donate/ http://azov.org.ua/join Faine Misto is the largest charitable foundation working alongside the Special Operations Detachment "Azov" since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The foundation helps the unit with armor, equipment, medicine and financially supports the families of fallen soldiers.

Putin Violated All when initiated crossing Ukraine border with mass Russian Air Land Sea armed forces to murder tens of thousands and destroy everything when no such mass violent aggression had occured across Russia's borders. Putin is a criminal. 4 Minutes Of Undiluted Truth On Mainstream TV https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/4-minutes-of-undiluted-truth-on-mainstream-tv/ https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1600669913676648451 The last thing you’d ever expect to hear on a mainstream news channel, is the truth. But - strange as it might seem - that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday night on the Tucker Carlson Show. Carlson interviewed veteran journalist Glenn Greenwald in a 4-minute segment that provided the best ‘easy-to-understand’ summary of the Ukraine War you’ll hear anywhere. And what was so shocking about the interview, was how casually both men veered onto topics that are essential to grasping “How we got to where we are today” but which are entirely banned on all the other cable news channels. You are not allowed to know, for example, that Russia was “lured into the conflict in Ukraine”. That does not fit the script that has been passed-along from the Biden State Department to their lapdogs at the cable news stations. You’re also not allowed to know that the US does not fight wars “to spread democracy” or that “the US has no vital interests in Ukraine” or that “Russia is not really our enemy”. All of those topics are verboten. You’re not even allowed to think about these things, which is why– for the most part– they have been completely scrubbed from any-and-all discussion of foreign policy in the corporate media. That’s what makes the segment with Greenwald such a stunner, because it’s 4 glorious minutes of pure, unvarnished truth delivered from a platform that typically only produces, lies, disinformation and propaganda. Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald: "If you want to believe the fairy tale that the US government goes to war to spread democracy, Ukraine is not the place for you." pic.twitter.com/dxgaVNYuj7 — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 8, 2022 That’s why I transcribed the entire interview. Any mistakes are mine. Here it is: Tucker Carlson– What bothers me is not so much what Zelensky is doing– there’s a lot of tyranny abound the world (and) I don’t brood on it. But the fact that (a) we are paying for it, and (b) our leaders are defending it. I think every American should be upset about that. Glenn Greenwald– “I think in general, Americans should be very skeptical when the government says ‘We’re going to fight wars on the other side of the world and spend tens of billions of dollars in military aid to spread democracy.’ The US government doesn’t actually care about spreading democracy. Many of its closest allies in the world have always been some of the world’s most despotic regimes like Saudi Arabia and Egypt. All the US government cares about is whether these regimes serve US interests. …If you want to believe the fairy tale that the US government goes to war to spread democracy, then Ukraine is not the place for you. You mentioned the argument that ‘Zelensky is in war, he has to curb liberty’, but go back to 2021, a year before Russia invaded and you’ll find articles where he shut down opposition television stations and shut down opposition political parties (which is) the hallmark of what every tyrant or despot does….and that was true even before Russia invaded.” Tucker Carlson– I wonder how Republicans can continue to defend this (because) I think you are right; I think our foreign policy is almost always about defending our interests…. But I don’t see our critical interests at stake here, so, what is this about? Glenn Greenwald– If the US government was honest… they would get rid of this script that we have to go and defend democracy. That is a fairy tale that tries to get Americans to feel better about the fact that we are involved in many, many countries all over the world. That is not the real reason. The only reason to do it is for ‘vital US interests’. The line in Washington for decades was the US has no vital interests in Ukraine. That was Obama’s view, that was the bipartisan view. Why did that change? The only reason is because we saw an opportunity to trap Russia inside Ukraine all based on the view that Russia is our enemy (which is) something only Democrats should believe because they think Russia is to blame for the 2016 election and Hillary’s defeat. But why would Republicans want confrontation with Russia? What American benefits from that except arms manufacturers? … Tucker Carlson– That’s a really good question, and I haven’t unraveled it. (But) It seems pretty clear that the Biden administration baited Russia into this invasion. You had the Vice President (Kamala Harris) in western Europe days before telling Zelensky to join NATO which, of course, they knew was a red line (for Russia) They wanted this invasion, I think that’s very obvious. Do you think this was all about ‘preparing for war with Russia’? Glenn Greenwald– If you think Russia is a grave enemy of the United States, then it makes sense to try to lure them into a war that they can’t win, like we got lured into Afghanistan for 20 years or like we lured the Soviet Union into Afghanistan back in the ’70s because it does deplete your enemy. The question is: Why should Russia be seen as our enemy? Both Obama and Trump said there’s no reason to see Russia that way. It has one-fifteenth the size of our military budget. It’s not threatening American borders. Why are we so obsessed with spending tens of billions of dollars to weaken Russia which we could be using here at home to benefit the lives of American citizens when Russia is not doing anything to the United States unless you are a crazy ‘resistance’ person who believes they’re the reason Donald Trump won. But if you don’t believe that, what is the rational for this? There is none.” Tucker Carlson– “I know, and as always, they have hijacked the best instincts of the American people, their compassion, and turned it against them. Glenn Greenwald, great to see you tonight”.

Putin Violated All when initiated crossing Ukraine border with mass Russian Air Land Sea armed forces to murder tens of thousands and destroy everything when no such mass violent aggression had occured across Russia's borders. Putin is a criminal.

Putin is a mass Invader, Murderer, Destroyer, and Criminal against Humanity. Putin willfully freezes million of Civilians. Fuck Putin, he will die soon. 80% Of Kiev Region Without Power Amid Rolling Emergency Blackouts https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/12/20/russia-ukraine-live-putin... Ukraine is bracing for yet more Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure, and has accused Moscow of intentionally unleashing additional suffering on the population headed into Christmas. "Repairs continue but the situation remains really difficult," Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a briefing before other government ministers. "Russian terrorists will do everything to leave Ukrainians without electricity for the New Year," he claimed. "It is important for them for Christmas and the New Year to take place in darkness in Ukraine," and then warned: "That's why we should prepare for new attacks." Kyiv Governor Oleksiy Kuleba has described the power crisis as being at its worst since the war began, with some 80% of the entire capital region being without electricity for a second day in a row, after drone strikes hit power stations Monday. Capital plunged into near total darkness, via AFP. "The situation with electricity supplies remains critical," Kuleba said in a written announcement. "I want to stress that with every shelling by the enemy, the complexity and duration of the repairs increase." Meanwhile Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of trying to "steal" Christmas, on a day where drones continued to hit the national power grid: Kyiv officials on Monday illuminated a Christmas tree in the city center, refusing to let Russia "steal" the festive season from Ukrainian children. The day, which started with swarms of attacks on critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital, ended with the unveiling of the 12-meter (40-feet) high artificial tree decorated with white peace doves. A few dozen residents braved the sub-zero temperatures to admire the tree located next to the Saint Sophia Cathedral and its emblematic golden domes — and take selfies. National energy operator Ukrenergo said it is fast working to restore services but initially this will allow power to less than half the population. "Supplies to critical infrastructure are a priority. We expect that today we will be able to turn on equipment to enable the security of supplies to be increased, reduce the capacity deficit and connect more consumers," it said Tuesday. There were reports that many neighborhoods saw power restored later in the day and into night hours, amid rolling emergency blackouts. Trudging home in icy conditions during #Kyiv #blackout. Temperature -5 C, but heating still on at home. Water also unaffected. Power out for 24 hours, most of time no Internet and very little news. Listened to radio. pic.twitter.com/ENYrVhJq3l — Euan MacDonald (@Euan_MacDonald) December 20, 2022 Across the border, in Russia's Belgorod region, emergency crews are also working to restore power after a rare Sunday cross-border attack launched by the Ukrainian military left thousands in the dark. At the same time, temperatures continue to plunge headed into the colder winter months in both countries.

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Putin is a mass Invader,

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https://twitter.com/ACRains https://patreon.com/ACRains https://t.me/UA_struggle https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1606279202180694016 https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1606279484633595904 https://www.amazon.com/History-forbidden-symbol-Idea-Nation-ebook/dp/B0BQCKG... The sign ꑭ (Idea of the Nation). Why is it used by the AZOV regiment? Why is it getting so much attention from Russians? And why are Facebook and Instagram banning it? By popular demand, we are publishing a translation of a huge thread from journalist @ACRains 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 “Ukrainian Struggle” is an international information centre that publishes only verified information from the war zone in Ukraine. #StopRussia #Ukraine ❗️ 🇺🇦 Kyiv, Ukraine https://t.me/UA_struggle Joined February 2022 Tweets 1,202 Following 5 Followers 9,456 Likes 2 1,190 Photos and videos Pinned Tweet https://twitter.com/UA_struggle/status/1579103714740084736 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 9 Oct 2022 Horrific footage taken from the phone of a Russian soldier. The video shows Ukrainian civilians killed in Kupyansk, which was occupied by Russian troops at the time. This is how genocide was taking place on Putin's orders. 655 3,528 1,069 5,999 347,056 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 The Idea of the Nation (the symbol ꑭ or ꏢ) is a monogram made up of the letters I and N. Not in the modern, but in the old Ukrainian (Slavic) spelling, similar to the Latin script. The letter N looked like this until the 18th century. Before Russian Tsar Peter I's reform. 2 17 4 98 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 If you look at historical documents (for example, the signature of the daughter of Kyivan Prince Yaroslav the Wise, Queen Anne of France, or the Ukrainian Constitution by Pylyp Orlyk), you can easily see the use of the letter N. 2 7 2 85 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 The Idea of the Nation is considered a monogram, although similar symbols were used in Ukrainian heraldry before. Such coats of arms were used by the Olshevsky, Gurko, Voyni-Yasenytsky, and Bilykovych families. They belonged to the Cossacks. 1 11 1 89 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 Ukrainian nationalists use this sign in two meanings. On the one hand, as a homage to historical tradition; on the other, as a visual demonstration of their main principles. That is, loyalty to the Idea of the Nation, loyalty to their people, and loyalty to their country. 2 11 2 90 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 The Idea of the Nation was first used as a symbol of Ukrainian nationalism in 1992 in Lviv by activists of the SNPU (Social National Party of Ukraine). 2 8 1 81 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 The SNPU adhered to the ideology of social nationalism, a set of ideas set forth by Yaroslav Stetsko, an OUN ideologist and political prisoner of German concentration camps. This worldview has NOTHING to do with Hitler's National Socialism! 2 12 1 89 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 The Idea of the Nation sign, inspired by Ukrainian heraldry and old spelling, was drawn for the SNPU by the artist Nestor Proniuk (in the photo). Together with the management, he developed the concept of deciphering this monogram for the general public. 1 7 70 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 The SNPU was one of the largest nationalist organizations in Ukraine in the 1990s. After its reorganization (it became the Svoboda party), the Idea of the Nation sign began to be associated with Ukrainian nationalism in general. 2 7 1 73 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 Various organizations, from the Kharkiv-based Patriot of Ukraine to the Social Nationalist Trade Unions, have used the Idea of the Nation in various forms since the 2010s. 1 7 70 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 In 2014, the newly formed AZOV battalion used the Idea of the Nation sign as its main symbol. The reason is simple: most of the volunteers in this formation shared the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism. 1 7 1 80 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 After expanding to the size of a regiment, AZOV retained the Idea of Nation in its symbols. On the regimental chevron, this sign is still present in the "attacking" form. 1 7 66 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 A little more about shapes. The Idea of the Nation has received many visual interpretations over the years. There are more than 13 of them (here are some examples). If this question is interesting, there will be a separate thread on this topic. 1 7 75 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 But why is the Idea of the Nation sign sometimes called "Nazi" in the media? The reason is Russian propaganda. For years, the Kremlin has invested millions of Russian money in creating fakes about Ukrainian nationalist symbols. 2 19 1 85 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 For example, here is a photo (2009) from a newspaper in Alchevsk (Luhansk region, Donbas). Without any evidence, the Idea of the Nation sign is titled as Wolfsangel rune and swastika. Russians really wanted to at least somehow attach "Nazism" to Ukrainians for their own purposes. 2 8 76 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 The activity of Russians was not limited to regional newspapers. In the international media, paid experts "exposed" Ukrainian "neo-Nazis", creating more and more fakes. This is how the Kremlin's network of influencers works. 1 10 76 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 Unfortunately, it partlially worked. Today, Meta social networks (Facebook and Instagram) are banning publishing the Idea of the Nation sign. Even posts about the fallen Ukrainian fighters. 3 9 1 79 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 In 2022, the Idea of the Nation sign began to be associated primarily with the heroic defense of Mariupol and Azovstal plant. Fighters of the AZOV regiment are heroes, and their symbols are respected at the national level. 3 9 85 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 Nevertheless, Russians continue to create fakes about the neo-Nazi meaning of the Idea of the Nation sign.The most effective way to fight Russia's lies in the information space is to promptly refute them and tell the truth. 2 15 96 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 A separate book was written for this purpose: History of the forbidden symbol "Idea of the Nation". It is now available as a pre-order on Amazon in English: amazon.com/History-forbidden… 4 15 93 Ukrainian Struggle Centre 🇺🇦 @UA_struggle 23 Dec 2022 The book contains more facts about this sign and about those who use it (including the AZOV regiment). If the thread was interesting, add it to your favorites. We will ask @ACRains to tell you more. 8 13 113

Putin's took the bait and initiated mass invasion warfare murder and destruction. History shows that once someone takes the bait, all bets are off, and risk goes ballistic. Be prepared. Anonymous Operations @AnonOpsSE #Anonymous #OpSerbia #KiraSec #Ukraine Domain of the Republic of Serbia hacked. 🔗 inokomerc.co.rs Glory to Ukraine! Fuck Russia and Serbia. Stop WAR! So we stop! Serbs stop supporting russia! This Site Has Been Pwned By ./KIRASEC_ https://twitter.com/thunderbirdsua Walter Report 🇺🇦 @walter_report russian HQ in Soledar swatted with the help of @thunderbirdsua https://twitter.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1613292971851665408 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @Heroiam_Slava 💪"The situation in Soledar is absolutely controlled. All borders are preserved and under the full control of the Armed Forces" There are 559 civilians in Soledar, including 15 children. Due to active hostilities, it is impossible to evacuate them now АЗОВ South @Azovsouth The Rashists failed an attempt to encircle #Soledar, instead this particular attempts costed them equipments and 💀☠. Despite repeated and suicide attempts the Rashists have failed to make any significant tactical progress in #Bakhmut. Вірте в ЗСУ🇺🇦 АЗОВ South @Azovsouth 🔥The Battles for #Soledar. The enemy continues to suffer heavy losses💀☠. Our forces are well equipped and are in good spirits. Believe in the Armed forces🇺🇦✊🏻 Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel Surovikin was removed from the position of the commander of the joint troops in Ukraine, and became a deputy of the Chief of the RU General Staff Valery Gerasimov. https://twitter.com/FckKazaps ✙GhostOfFckruspida✙ https://twitter.com/FckKazaps/status/1580548074815967232 1/ The similarity of the speeches of putin and hitler are enormous, not just rhetorically but also about the content and their views. The way their Propaganda works and what it tells is shockingly similair. https://twitter.com/sankuperis/status/1613576623512776704 The last Lithuanians saw on their TVs 32 years ago. Tonight (the night from Jan 12 to 13), 32 years ago, Moscow attempted to re-occupy Lithuania. 14 killed, hundreds wounded, some of them for life. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1613814049900314625 English Luhansk @loogunda Dec31 #Makiivka, Donetsk oblast (occupied): Russian mobiks ready to welcome the upcoming GMLRS rockets that would come soon https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1613799953972830208 MilitaryLand.net @Militarylandnet 📽️Ukrainian troops, with a Wagner prisoner, in Krasna Hora near #Soledar. Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv Thread. Wagner trash is going to be destroyed. ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki 1/ Yevgeny Prigozhin's apparently premature announcement of Soledar's capture has reportedly led to a desperate push by Wagner to make it a reality. Wagner is fighting without regard for casualties, not just to gain Soledar, but for Prigozhin's reputation. https://twitter.com/Milan8662/status/1613621470709837824 NO WAR! @Milan8662 The 66th brigade shows the destruction of orc vehicles KyivPost @KyivPost “The war will end at the 1991 borders with a tribunal…” - the head of the President’s Office Mikhail Podolyak. Михайло Подоляк @Podolyak_M Once again about the official position. 1. The RF shouldn’t hope for a repeat of the 2014 scenario: "we kill you, you pay us with your lands, we take a break, then we come to kill you again." 2. The war will end at the 1991 borders with a tribunal, reparations and life sentences. https://twitter.com/TarasBerezovets/status/1613486356210098176 The main roads connecting Bakhmut and Soledar with Sloviansk and Kostyantynivka are under the full control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The enemy tried to break through to the road, but all attempts failed with devastating consequences for the enemy. Filmed at Bakhmut. https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1614063470202290177 Russia’s UN ambassador: Ukraine has become a private NATO enterprise, supplied with money, weapons, reconnaissance and targeting intel. https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1614063118195326978 Ukraine is a de facto member of NATO and is spilling the blood of Ukrainians to advance NATO objectives, Ukraine’s defense minister admits. https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1614006093453135878 Kamala Harris explains on cards why the US government is at war with Russia: - Ukraine is a country in Europe, it exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a larger country. Russia is a powerful country. She attacked the smaller one, well, that's not right at all' US may lose control of world finance due to conflict in Ukraine — French expert Emmanuel Todd is certain that the United States is in a phase of long-term decline and, against the backdrop of its waning influence in the world Exclusive documents! US Providing for Border Security of Ukraine but NOT to their OWN Border Security!⚡ And guess who oversaw Ukrainian Border Security Service as well as US Military Biological Programs in Ukraine? You're right! Victoria "Cookies Queen" Nuland! https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1613999625643479071 There has been further confirmation that some units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bakhmut direction are using chemical weapons. https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1613997613124096001 Russia: 'Liberation' of Soledar completed on evening of January 12

https://twitter.com/be_cashy/status/1618319305212579841 @mtracey etc According to @JoeBiden WW3 starts with the shipment of “offensive equipment” like “tanks”to Ukraine. Welcome to WW3! “We are fighting a war against Russia.” It’s official. The EU and Germany are at war with Russia according to @ABaerbock, Foreign Minister of Germany. Do not underestimate the seriousness of the situation. Russia will shortly begin a major offensive with 500k fresh troops to demilitarize Ukraine while @ZelenskyyUa rips untrained middle aged men from their family homes and sends them to die. If NATO troops get involved it’s WW3. NATO won’t just walk away because of the historic embarrassment for the West when Russia defeats Ukraine despite over $150 billion in western aid and arms. A Russian victory is unacceptable for the bankrupt US Government. It means the end of American domination and prosperity. The world is closer to nuclear war than ever before. But where are the protests? Where is the outrage of the masses? A failing US empire led by a senile fool is dragging all of humanity into the fire. Get up, protest and demand peace, wherever you are. Unite against World War 3. "Security Assistance Group-Ukraine" or "SAG-U," the new joint US command -- slated to be up and running by "early 2023" -- recalls an earlier example of a joint US command: "Military Assistance Command-Vietnam" or "MACV," established in 1961 and led by a three-star general. Kennedy established the command in December of 1961. In November, he had received the "Taylor report" recommending a new phase of US military involvement in the war, namely an infusion of US personnel nominally for the purpose of handling "logistics" and organizing "flood relief" Kennedy commissioned the report in October 1961 as Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam, was escalating his requests for US "support." He lobbied for fighter jets (as Ukraine is doing right now) as well as "trainers" who'd be falsely presented as serving a "non-combat" role In the Pentagon Papers it is speculated that shortly thereafter, Kennedy personally leaked false info to the New York Times that the General leading his inquiry was "reluctant" to send combat troops Vietnam. "Simply untrue," it concludes. (JFK was a prolific leaker to the NYT) Today we receive earnest assurances in the New York Times that Biden was "reluctant" to send the Abrams battle tanks, but did it anyway. More palatable to be seen as "reluctant" than "eager," I guess, even if it makes no substantive difference whatsoever. Paul Harkins, the general who ran "Military Assistance Command, Vietnam," later acknowledged in a 1981 interview that the command's mission went well beyond "training" and "assistance," despite the false assurances that had repeatedly been given to the public at the time Napoleon Reluctantly Invades Russia Bush Reluctantly Invades Iraq Alexander the Great Reluctantly Invades Persia Hitler Reluctantly Invades Poland

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So, by purchasing any of item you will receive a valuable digital asset and support Ukraine. nitter Logo Мінцифра @mintsyfra Цифровізуємо🇺🇦 Official page of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Ukraine thedigital.gov.ua Joined January 2018 Tweets 1,133 Following 149 Followers 12,064 Likes 136 852 Photos and videos Tweets Tweets & Replies Media Search Мінцифра @mintsyfra Jan 18 🗣 Diia.Reels stream at the World Economic Forum 2023 Join the presentation of the Estonian government application mRiik, based on the code and UX/UI design of Diia. piped.kavin.rocks/Zv4HVp6UP8Y Diia.Reels at World Economic Forum 2023 This time in Davos team of the Ukrainian Digital Ministry will share updates on the digital resilience of Ukraine, digital transformation during wartime and ... youtube.com 1 1 16 Мінцифра @mintsyfra Jan 18 Страшна трагедія в Броварах. Щиро співчуваємо родинам усіх загиблих. 1 4 31 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 23 Dec 2022 609 events that will stay forever in 🇺🇦 history are already in @Meta_History_UA NFT collection — Warline. More & more famous artists join the project. So, by purchasing any of item you will receive a valuable digital asset and support Ukraine. 278 870 2 864 2,042 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 7 Dec 2022 Ukrainian civil servants joined the «Misinformation, disinformation and deepfakes» training. It's crucial to develop digital skills & learn how to fight fakes during the ongoing war. Thanks, @UNICRI AI Centre, @NATO, @NCIAgency and all the experts for this amazing opportunity! Irakli Beridze, Head AI, UNICRI, United Nations @Irakli_UN 7 Dec 2022 @UNICRI AI Centre together with @NATO @NCIAgency with support of top global experts just kicked-off a specialized training for @Ukraine @mintsyfra on Disinformation, misinformation and deepfakes! We support Ukraine 🇺🇦 to build its capacity ! @GMamediieva @FedorovMykhailo 2 6 15 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 30 Nov 2022 A new column about the Ministry’s activities by @Valeriya_Ionan was published in @ALIHarvard. Read about the past, present and future of MinDigital via the link: bit.ly/3Fdrs8p Digital Transformation in Ukraine: Before, During, and After the War — ALI Social Impact Review Despite the war disrupting many of Ukraine’s development goals, Valeriya Ionan, the Deputy Minister for Eurointegration, outlines the digital innovations born out of conflict and how the Ministry of... sir.advancedleadership.harvard.edu 2 3 11 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 22 Nov 2022 Digital cooperation of 🇺🇦& 🇦🇹: signed Memo on cooperation to share experience of eServices development. To support our digital infrastructure Austria is ready to donate generators and telecom equipment. We are grateful to State Secretary @FTursky for standing with Ukraine. 1 6 22 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 11 Nov 2022 Game-changing fundraiser at @U24_gov_ua announced by @ZelenskyyUa: Ukraine creates world's first fleet of naval drones. It’ll protect 🇺🇦 waters & cities. For this, we need 100 maritime drones, $250K each. Let's raise funds for 10 of them in one day. Join: u24.gov.ua/uk/navaldrones 6 7 2 33 526 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 3 Nov 2022 Big tech support by @microsoft: $100 mln of technological aid to Ukraine! 🇺🇦 gov institutions & critical infrastructure will use Microsoft services & cloud for free till the end of 2023. Thanks @BradSmi for being a part of revolutionary changes in Ukraine. 13 5 2 48 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 3 Nov 2022 Разом з найвідомішим сапером @PatronDsns збираємо на другу машину для розмінування Armtrac 400. 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And the more you share it, the more people will learn about it. That’s how one little action can restore the country. 11 460 40 658 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 20 Oct 2022 Yesterday our team had a meeting with Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of @Netflix to award the company with a Peace Prize from the President of Ukraine @ZelenskyyUA. We are grateful to you for standing with Ukraine! 1 24 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 20 Oct 2022 The first thing russians do when they occupy Ukrainian territories is cut off the networks. Why they do it & how Ukraine resists at the telecom front — read in the @TIME article via the link: bit.ly/3ML9SKV The Battle for Control Over Ukraine's Internet Inside the scramble to restore communication to Ukraine's liberated areas time.com TIME @TIME 18 Oct 2022 Replying to @TIME In the aftermath, telecommunications workers have emerged as “invisible heroes.” “It’s still very dangerous to do this work, but we can’t wait to do this, because there are a lot of citizens in liberated villages who urgently need to connect,” says Prybytko Show this thread 1 2 14 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 15 Oct 2022 Thanks @elonmusk for standing with Ukraine🇺🇦 Elon Musk @elonmusk 15 Oct 2022 The hell with it … even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free Show this thread 9 15 465 Мінцифра @mintsyfra 14 Oct 2022 New fundraising by @monobankua, @igorlachenkov & @united24_gov_ua! 🇺🇦 needs UAH 100 mln for a special anti-drone systems to destroy Shahed-136 UAVs. 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Corrupt JPMorgan slides in and buys out Corrupt Ukraine.

Rickards: The Horrifying Endgame In Ukraine https://dailyreckoning.com/the-horrifying-endgame-in-ukraine/ In yesterday’s issue, I addressed the biggest and most complex topic on the geopolitical landscape today — China. But today I’m discussing what is by far the most alarming topic on the geopolitical landscape today. That’s the war in Ukraine and the dangers of escalation. I’ve written extensively about two facets of the war in Ukraine that you don’t hear from legacy media in the United States or U.K. The first is that Russia is actually winning the war. U.S. outlets such as The New York Times (a channel for the State Department) and The Washington Post (a channel for the CIA) report endlessly about how Russian plans have failed, about how incompetent they are about how the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have pushed back Russians in the Donbass, and how NATO weapons such as U.S. Abrams tanks, U.K. Challenger tanks and German Leopard tanks will turn the tide against Russia soon. This is all nonsense. None of it is true. Reality Check First off, the Ukrainian advances that took place in late summer were against lightly defended positions that the Russians quickly conceded to conserve forces. The Russians were willing to give up the land so that they wouldn’t lose valuable men and materiel. The Russians withdrew to more defensible positions and have been badly mauling Ukrainian attacking forces ever since. Ukraine has wasted incredibly large amounts of men and equipment in these futile and ill-advised attacks. In all, credible reports indicate that AFU casualties are nearing 500,000 and are increasing at an unsustainable rate. On the other hand, reports of 100,000 Russian dead are almost certainly wild exaggerations put out by Ukraine. The BBC attempted to verify these numbers and could only find about 20,000 confirmed Russian dead based on extensive searches on funeral notices, public records, etc. Send in the Tanks — Eventually! What about the tanks NATO is supposedly sending? Well, the tanks have not been delivered yet and most won’t be for months or longer. Our own M1 Abrams tanks might not even arrive for a year or more. We actually have to custom build these tanks so that they don’t have the special armor and other advanced systems that our own M1s have. The Pentagon doesn’t want them falling into Russian hands if they’re destroyed or captured. Besides, we’re only sending 31 tanks anyway. When the NATO tanks do arrive, they’ll likely quickly be destroyed by Russian artillery, anti-tank weapons and precision missiles. They’re good tanks, but far from invincible. For decades, the Russians have been developing powerful weapons specifically designed to destroy these NATO tank models. The Russians aren’t particularly worried about them. Aside from that, tanks rely on effective air cover for protection, which Ukraine lacks. They’ll be sitting ducks on the battlefield. It doesn’t really make sense to send tanks to Ukraine unless you send combat aircraft to give them cover (more on that below). Russia’s Winning on the Battlefield Meanwhile, Russian forces have nearly encircled the city of Bakhmut, which is a major transportation and logistics hub, with several key roads and rail lines passing through it. It’ll probably fall to the Russians within weeks. Losing Bakhmut will be a major blow to Ukraine, despite claims in the western media that it really isn’t very important. Ukraine’s entire 800-mile defensive line would probably begin to crumble, and they don’t have heavily fortified positions to fall back on. Ukrainian troops, while brave and competent soldiers, are exhausted and running out of supplies as it is. On top of that, it appears likely that Russia is preparing a devastating offensive with massive amounts of men, tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery, helicopters, drones and fixed-wing aircraft. This Russian army is not the same army that invaded Ukraine a year ago. It’s much better trained, led and equipped. It’s learned from the mistakes it made during its initial invasion last February. Ukraine shouldn’t expect them to repeat those mistakes. Does all this mean I’m cheering on a Russian victory in Ukraine? No, I’m just observing the facts on the ground and consolidating them to perform an objective analysis. That analysis leads me to believe that Russia will win the war militarily. Western military assistance may prolong the fighting but won’t affect the ultimate outcome. It’ll just delay the inevitable and get a lot more people needlessly killed. The Much Greater Risk The second facet of this war not reported in the media, or at least downplayed, is the growing risk of nuclear war. This risk increases with every escalatory step by both sides. The U.S. is the leader in reckless escalation by supplying long-range artillery, Patriot anti-missile batteries, intelligence, surveillance, and now the tanks. Russia responds at each step. There’s a number of steps before the two sides arrive at the nuclear level, but neither shows a willingness to step back. By the way, Russia has every legal right to attack those NATO countries supplying arms to Ukraine. By supplying arms to a party to the conflict, they’ve given up their neutrality and have become, in effect, combatants. Russia hasn’t done this because it doesn’t want to bring NATO directly into the fight. But legally, it can. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Ukraine’s demands on the U.S., UK and the rest of NATO for advanced weapons to fight Russians know no limits. The West began by supplying Ukraine with cash, intelligence and anti-tank weapons such as the Javelin missile. Soon we were supplying long-range artillery, drones, and more cash. As Russian advances continued, Zelensky demanded and got Patriot anti-missile batteries that can destroy incoming Russian missiles. The U.S. artillery was aimed at Russian Crimea. Several drones struck inside Russia at sensitive air bases with nuclear weapons nearby. The next demand for more weapons involved advanced tanks that are in the process of being supplied by the U.S., UK, Germany, and Poland. In the latest move, that comes as no surprise, Ukraine is now demanding F-16 fighter jets from the U.S., one of the most advanced aircraft in the world. But Russia has the most sophisticated air defense system in the world and is very capable of shooting down F-16s in large numbers. Biden has denied Zelensky’s request so far, but he previously ruled out sending tanks before finally giving in. The same thing will probably happen with the planes. But they won’t turn the tide against Russia. Once these advanced systems show they can’t help, what’s the Ukrainian’s next demand? Russia can escalate just as quickly and lethally as the U.S. This entire scenario is a long slow march toward nuclear war or the complete disintegration of Ukraine. Is Anyone Really Prepared for This? The U.S. won’t end the weapons deliveries because Joe Biden is afraid of losing face and his closest advisors such as Victoria Nuland have an irrational hatred for Russia and are total warmongers. Now, we can add a new danger, resulting from desperation. This is the fact that the U.S. itself may be the biggest loser in the war. As Ukraine disappears under a massive Russian onslaught, the U.S. will grow increasingly desperate. Its credibility is on the line after committing so much money, materiel and moral weight to Ukraine’s defense. The Biden administration has essentially turned the war in Ukraine into an existential crisis for the U.S. and NATO, when it never should have been. Ukraine has never been a vital U.S. interest. But the war is existential for Russia, and won’t give up. Is the U.S. just going to throw up its hands and concede Russian victory? NATO may actually disintegrate in the face of such spectacular failure. So, we’ll probably double down. Maybe a desperate Biden orders troops into western Ukraine as a buffer against a complete Russian takeover of the country. You can imagine what could go wrong. That situation may quickly devolve into a direct war between the U.S. and Russia rather than the proxy war that it is now. The American people and investors in particular are not prepared for any of this. They should be. It’s becoming increasingly likely.

Russian Diplomats Issue Dire Warnings That War With US Is Close https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/russian-diplomats-issue-dire-warnings-... https://mid.ru/ru/press_service/minister_speeches/1854365/ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expa... https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/02/15/the-origins-of-the-ukraine-cris... https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2022-02-10/html/CREC-2022-02-10-pt1... https://archive.ph/LFo4j https://www.cato.org/commentary/making-ukraine-nato-member-all-name https://www.newsweek.com/red-lines-crossed-us-russia-ukraine-war-1781413 https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/09/ukraine-relies-on-intelligence-by-us-for... https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1626216956218208257 https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/15/russia-requests-un-security-council-meet... https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2022/12/12/not-trusting-russia-with-... The Kremlin’s top diplomat has warned that Western involvement in Ukraine is nearing "the point of no return," accusing the United States and the NATO bloc of attempting to transform the country into a "Russophobic military stronghold." Meanwhile, Moscow’s UN envoy declared that all of Russia’s "red lines" have already been crossed. Addressing lawmakers at Russia’s State Duma on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov outlined the causes of the current conflict in Ukraine and the deterioration of US-Russia relations, saying Washington has a "maniacal desire to revive the neo-colonial unipolar world order." File image: AP "An integral part of this policy is the long-term containment of Russia, including through the expansion of NATO towards our borders, as well as the transformation of fraternal Ukraine into a Russophobic military stronghold," he said. "In recent years, this line of Washington and its European satellites has reached the point of no return." After the fall of the Soviet Union, Washington and several other Western states gave assurances to Moscow that the NATO alliance would not expand beyond Germany. However, in the years since, Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump have each allowed new members to join the alliance, all of them inching closer to Russia’s borders. Starting in 2008, NATO has repeatedly declared its intention to someday allow Ukraine to become a member, again reiterating that pledge at a recent alliance summit. The move would cross the "brightest of all red lines" for Moscow, as was previously noted by then-State Department official and current CIA Director William Burns, who penned a 2008 memo warning of the geopolitical perils of extending membership to Kiev. Still, President Joe Biden has refused to change course, insisting it is up to Ukraine whether it would like to join the US-led military bloc while effectively making Kiev a de facto member in the meantime. In an interview with Newsweek on Tuesday, Russia’s UN envoy Dmitry Polyanskiy argued that the West has not respected Moscow’s core security concerns, and has become directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine. "All the red lines have already been crossed by Western countries. There is already semi-direct involvement of NATO in the conflict because it’s not only weaponry but it’s intelligence," he said. "It’s the situation when the targets of certain artillery systems, in particular HIMARS, these targets can be hit only with the coordination with Washington." Last week, the Washington Post reported that Ukraine relies on American intelligence for selecting targets. Since the start of the year, the White House has authorized the shipment of main battle tanks and long-range rockets to Kiev. Additionally, NATO appears to be preparing to send Western-made warplanes to Ukraine. "It means that NATO is not only providing weapons but also are choosing the targets for Ukrainian strikes," Polyanskiy continued. He went on to allege that citizens from NATO countries are already fighting – as well as getting captured and killed – in Ukraine. "We know this from the people that we capture and from the bodies that we see on the battlefield." The ambassador said Western weapons would only escalate the conflict, even warning that foreign intervention could eventually trigger a nuclear war. 🚨#BREAKING: "NATO must be ready for long standoff with Russia" - Secretary General of NATO And remember, in the last few days: - Tanks sent to Ukraine - NATO considering jets - Possible US responsibility re Nordstream attack Yet all we are talking about are balloons... pic.twitter.com/w2kMN96Tfw — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 16, 2023 "It’s absolutely clear that any deliveries of weapons to the zone of conflict, of course, is like pouring oil into the fire," he said, adding "If you are dealing with a nuclear power and if you are citing the goal of inflicting defeat to this nuclear power, you should have all the options in mind of our possible response." In their remarks, both diplomats also pointed to potential American involvement in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. Last week, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a bombshell report claiming that Washington planned to bomb the pipelines. The White House has denied that it had any part sabotaging the line, though Senator Mike Lee later acknowledged that it was possible. On Wednesday, Polyanskiy said that Moscow requested a UN meeting next week to address Hersh’s reporting. Lavrov rejected denials from the Biden administration, saying the West is "lying, hiding the truth about the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines, just as they lied about the Minsk agreements." Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed the Minsk agreement, which ostensibly was meant to end the civil war in Ukraine, was really intended to give Kiev time to build up its military. In a December 1 interview with Der Spiegel, Merkel said that she believes that during the Minsk talks, she was able to buy the time Ukraine needed to better fend off a Russian attack.

From Putin to Biden to Xi, Mass Invaders and Authoritarians never change, they only get overthrown...

China Blasts America's "Illegal" Occupation Of Syria In Wake Of Failed House Vote China has weighed in on the Pentagon's continued occupation of Syria in the wake of Wednesday's Republican-sponsored War Powers Resolution in the House, which according to Congressman Matt Gaetz was aimed specifically at forcing President Biden to withdraw all American troops from Syria. In a Friday press briefing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning was asked for a response to the vote. She demanded that the US "immediately end the troops’ illegal occupation and plundering" and to halt the sanctions regimen which is crushing the Syrian economy and thus increasing the misery of common people. "Since the US began its illegal interference in the Syrian crisis, its military operations in Syria have taken away a large number of innocent civilian lives and caused grave humanitarian disasters," she said. Mao also sought to underscore that Washington is increasingly isolated on the issue, noting the US has been "criticized multiple times" by the United Nations. She further said US forces have conducted "indiscriminate attacks that may amount to a war crime." She called on Washington to "respect other countries’ sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity," and that it must stop "aggravating humanitarian disasters" in Syria - in reference to widespread reports that US sanctions hindered rescue efforts in the wake of last month's earthquake. As for the bipartisan push to get troops out of Syria led by Matt Gaetz, The Intercept has revealed a possible last-minute effort by hawks to sabotage the bill and paint its supporters into a corner: Before the Rules Committee approved the War Powers Resolution for a vote, Republican leaders added a clause to its consideration that would have blocked Congress from voting again on a motion "introduced during the first session of the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress pursuant to section 5 of the War Powers Resolution with respect to Syria." The language slipped past the resolution’s supporters, including the three Freedom Caucus members who won new seats on the Rules Committee, Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Thomas Massie, R-Ky. Now it all makes sense:@HouseGOP & @DeptofDefense aimed to crush the Syria vote, then block any more action by Congress, giving Admin free rein in Syria. This explains why they flew @thejointstaff Milley to Syria for 1st time & @HouseForeign put huge effort into floor debate. https://t.co/Y6nt5IjgnG — Erik Sperling 🌍 (@ErikSperling) March 10, 2023 The update in The Intercept continues: According to sources familiar with the fallout, Massie, Roy, and Gaetz discovered the language and pressed Republican leadership to strip it out, with some members threatening to vote down the rule if the language wasn’t removed. Ultimately, the lobbying worked, and Massie went to the floor to ask that the language be removed by unanimous consent, which requires the full chamber to agree, or at least not to contest the move. Democrats went along with the motion. One Republican member of Congress involved in the negotiations said that his initial assumption that party leadership was trying something nefarious – grant a vote on the resolution but then crush it and bar any future votes – evolved into a belief that the move had been driven by "muscle memory," as both Democratic and Republican party leaders had consistently confronted efforts to use the War Powers Act with counter efforts to limit its use. And yet, it still remains entirely unclear what the real "mission" is in Syria. The Trump administration had said it was to "secure the oil" - while Biden has pushed a 'counter-ISIS' focus. But many analysts have pointed to the real underlying reason of the US wanting to keep squeezing Damascus by controlling the country's natural resources (US troops are occupying the country's oil and gas fields in the northeast) at a moment crippling sanctions have been ratcheted up. Or in other words, despite President Assad having emerged victorious in the decade long war, this is all a remnant part of Washington's regime change playbook.

Jon Stewart Skewers Military-Industrial Complex: Lost Wars & 'Pentagon Got A Raise' In a rare interview Jon Stewart skewered the military-industrial complex and Washington policymakers behind the last two decades of failed wars in the Middle East. The well-known comedian pressed former US Army General and CIA Director David Petraeus in particular on the fact that repeat failures, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, have only led to the Pentagon receiving a "raise". "It looks to me like we lost 20 years in Afghanistan, 20 years in Iraq, and the Pentagon got a raise," Stewart said on “The Problem with Jon Stewart." Petraeus while on the defensive admitted that the decades of 'nation-building' in the Middle East "tempered enthusiasm" among the population for interventionist action abroad. But Stewart pressed him further on the constant record-breaking defense budgets of the past years and this year's. "They got 50 billion more dollars than they even asked for," he said in reference to the Defense Department getting approved for an additional $58 billion beyond what it even requested. Petraeus then claimed it is all necessary due to "a return of great power rivalries and the need to transform the force" - an particularly China. "Look, if we don’t do it, someone else will," Petraeus said. Watch the tense exchange below: Has our military industry given us a complex? We ask Gen. David Petraeus. to talk about what, if anything, we have learned from our often cavalier approach to foreign policy. Watch the full interview in our latest episode, “The Military Industrial Excess,” on @appletvplus. pic.twitter.com/VONLIGyFyL — The Problem With Jon Stewart (@TheProblem) March 10, 2023

Welcome your new global overlords... A Prelude To War Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, While the Biden administration’s weakness and decline in military readiness concerning China goes unreported or under-reported in the United States, those nations most vulnerable to Chinese aggression and intimidation are aware of the rising risk of war. When nations assess their national security status, they analyze all alliances and associations, including military, economic, etc. A critical aspect of that analysis will be the United States and its ability and willingness to fulfill its strategic security obligations. Fading US Security Guarantees in the Region Today, those obligations, first and foremost, involve the threats that China and its de facto proxy, North Korea, pose to the region. Every national security advisor or minister of defense in the Asia-Pacific region that relies on U.S. security guarantees must ask themselves, “Are we as secure today as we were yesterday under American security guarantees?” In other words, the governments in Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Canberra, and Manila all see the growing threat coming from China. These governments’ actions indicate that they’re all questioning their belief that the United States will be able to defend them. Unfortunately, most are increasingly unsure about America’s ability to defend them. In the Pentagon, however, the answer is definite, No, we will not be able to protect you. Over the past decade, with the possible exception of the Trump administration, the United States has pursued a graduated weakness defense posture in the region (as well as elsewhere) by failing to address threats with tangible military development and deployment effectively. Meanwhile, China continues to increase its defense spending to record levels. Asia-Pacific Nations React to China Threat and US Decline As a result, South Korea is seriously considering building its nuclear arsenal in response to the rising threat posed by both China and North Korea. Given North Korea’s reliance on China for food and fuel, one must conclude that its aggression and acts of intimidation toward South Korea and Japan are tacitly, if not explicitly, approved by Beijing. Tokyo is also radically redefining its defense posture across the board in light of China’s rising threat to the status quo. The Japanese are doing so because they don’t see a commensurate rise in America’s ability to stop China. In Taipei, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that he expects a Chinese attack by 2027, if not sooner. Xi Jinping has prioritized conquering Taiwan and continues to escalate China’s provocative behavior. Consequently, Taiwan has extended compulsory military service from four months to a year and seeks to develop drone and missile production. Again, that’s a no-confidence vote on America’s willingness and capability to deter an attack from China or even answer one. Australia’s response is less about re-arming and deepening its strategic international relationships. That applies not only to the United States, which is more or less a given but also to expanding its ties with India. That makes sense since India is China’s only regional nuclear and military counterweight. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese before a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on March 10, 2023. (Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images) In the Philippines last month, Manila granted the U.S. increased use of its military bases in direct response to the rising threat from China. In all practical terms, expanding America’s military presence in the Philippines is the equivalent of a military buildup. Beijing Redefines US-Based Security Agreements in the Region What’s more, Beijing is clearly signaling to the region and the United States that the U.S. security guarantee to the regional nations alliance is now unacceptable. This shift mirrors China’s rise to global power and its desire and intent to challenge U.S. supremacy in the region. China’s leadership, including Xi Jinping and his Minister of Foreign Affairs Qin Gang, has made it clear how Beijing views the current Asia-Pacific security arrangement, describing it as “encirclement” and “containment and suppression, a zero-sum game of life and death.” Intimidation Rhetoric But who was Beijing speaking to? Was the message primarily aimed at its domestic audience to gin up nationalism, as left-wing The Guardian claims? Is the Chinese leadership expressing its fear of a life-and-death struggle between itself and the United States? Perhaps, but not likely. It’s more realistic that Beijing was sending a message to the other nations in the region to intimidate and affirm their doubts about America’s security commitment. Using Cold War terms like “containment” also points to the regional nations as the intended audience since they’re framing the current voluntary security arrangements as belligerent rather than defensive. It’s no surprise why they would make such a forward-leaning assertion. The U.S. military state of readiness is already stretched thin in various contexts, including the massive commitment of war materiel to Ukraine. US in ‘Terminal Decline?’ Beijing regards the United States as being in “terminal decline” and sees an opportunity to exploit the weakness of the Biden administration regarding its reunification plans with Taiwan. Moreover, China’s navy has already surpassed the United States’ surface fleet numbers. According to Kris Osborn of Warrior Maven, it also possesses nuclear-enabled, hypersonic, anti-ship missiles, against which the U.S. Navy “may or may not” be able to defend itself. Therefore, it’s reasonable to think that the “zero-sum game of life and death” phrasing applies more to U.S. allies in the region rather than to China. What could be the reason for Beijing’s massive military build-up? The simple fact is that no country or group of countries has any interest in, intention to, or capability of invading China. Unfortunately, it’s not likely that any country or group of countries will be able to deter China from invading and conquering other nations in the Asia-Pacific region. That reality has finally dawned on them and the rest of the world. Fight Brewing Between Congress & Biden On Labeling Wagner A Terrorist Organization Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is leading the charge along with six other Democratic and Republican senators to get Russia's Wagner Group mercenary firm labeled a terrorist organization. Shaheen's legislation, titled the Holding Accountable Russian Mercenaries (HARM) Act would force the State Department to add Wagner to the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list. It's designed also to force the Biden administration's hand, which has remained resistant to issuing a terror label, only dubbing it more ambiguously as a global criminal organization and thus bringing limited financial sanctions. This as Wagner is increasingly the focus of international headlines for its leading role in fighting for Bakhmut. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force, via Reuters. Biden's reluctance is causing anger in Congress, and allegations of White House shortsightedness given Wagner's outsized role in fighting in Ukraine's east. "We’ve seen that again and again in terms of this support for the Ukrainians and this war, where Congress has been out ahead of the White House," Sen. Shaheen said in a weekend statement. "It’s been true since Russia invaded Ukraine. I remember in 2014 supporting lethal weapons for Ukraine, and the White House refused to support that. I don’t see this as unusual," she added. "I hope the administration and the State Department comes on board." The FTO designation would impose far-reaching costs on the group and open up more means of targeting the mercenary firm by Washington, including going after third parties that deal with Wagner. And given widespread accusations from Ukrainian and Western officials that it is committing atrocities in Ukraine, this has left some Congress members scratching their heads over why Biden hasn't pulled the trigger on the FTO. But one Congressional aide explained to The Hill that it relates to other regions of the world where Wagner is active, and that unexpected consequences would accrue and impact US relations with certain countries: “[The State Department] is concerned that if suddenly the FTO designation lands on Wagner, that those governments, where there’s various officials that deal with them [Wagner], that they would all, immediately be blocked from travel to the United States and have their assets seized for coming into contact with the FTO. So that’s the nature of their concern,” the aide said. “They claim they’re not opposed to it on Ukraine grounds, but they’re opposed to it on Africa grounds.” Wagner meanwhile, last week announced a major recruiting expansions, opening up new offices and recruitment centers in over 40 cities across Russia. The group with ties to President Putin has lately come under severe criticism by the Russian Defense Ministry and regular military chain of command for being too unaccountable and acting as a rival to authorized commanders.

From all the wreckage and confusion of the last two years, there emerges one undeniable truth. Most Americans are right to be distrustful of and dissatisfied with their government. President Biden comes across as a cardboard cut-out, a stand-in for ideological fanatics in his administration, people that see executive power as the means to silence political opposition and retain permanent control of

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-gathering-storm/ The Gathering Storm America’s self-inflicted trouble in Ukraine aggravates our dangerous trouble at home... The crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasuries are losing their value. The market’s proverbial “vibes”—feelings, emotions, beliefs, and psychological penchants—suggest a dark turn is underway inside the American economy. American national power is measured as much by American military capability as by economic potential and performance. The growing realization that American and European military-industrial capacity cannot keep up with Ukrainian demands for ammunition and equipment is an ominous signal to send during a proxy war that Washington insists its Ukrainian surrogate is winning. Russian economy-of-force operations in southern Ukraine appear to have successfully ground down attacking Ukrainian forces with the minimal expenditure of Russian lives and resources. While Russia’s implementation of attrition warfare worked brilliantly, Russia mobilized its reserves of men and equipment to field a force that is several magnitudes larger and significantly more lethal than it was a year ago. Russia’s massive arsenal of artillery systems including rockets, missiles, and drones linked to overhead surveillance platforms converted Ukrainian soldiers fighting to retain the northern edge of the Donbas into pop-up targets. How many Ukrainian soldiers have died is unknown, but one recent estimate wagers between 150,000-200,000 Ukrainians have been killed in action since the war began, while another estimates about 250,000. Given the glaring weakness of NATO members’ ground, air, and air defense forces, an unwanted war with Russia could easily bring hundreds of thousands of Russian Troops to the Polish border, NATO’s Eastern Frontier. This is not an outcome Washington promised its European allies, but it’s now a real possibility. In contrast to the Soviet Union’s hamfisted and ideologically driven foreign policymaking and execution, contemporary Russia has skillfully cultivated support for its cause in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. The fact that the West’s economic sanctions damaged the U.S. and European economies while turning the Russian ruble into one of the international system’s strongest currencies has hardly enhanced Washington’s global standing. Biden’s policy of forcibly pushing NATO to Russia’s borders forged a strong commonality of security and trade interests between Moscow and Beijing that is attracting strategic partners in South Asia like India, and partners like Brazil in Latin America. The global economic implications for the emerging Russo-Chinese axis and their planned industrial revolution for some 3.9 billion people in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are profound. In sum, Washington’s military strategy to weaken, isolate, or even destroy Russia is a colossal failure and the failure puts Washington’s proxy war with Russia on a truly dangerous path. To press on, undeterred in the face of Ukraine’s descent into oblivion, ignores three metastasizing threats: 1. Persistently high inflation and rising interest rates that signal economic weakness. (The first American bank failure since 2020 is a reminder of U.S. financial fragility.) 2. The threat to stability and prosperity inside European societies already reeling from several waves of unwanted refugees/migrants. 3. The threat of a wider European war. Inside presidential administrations, there are always competing factions urging the president to adopt a particular course of action. Observers on the outside seldom know with certainty which faction exerts the most influence, but there are figures in the Biden administration seeking an off-ramp from involvement in Ukraine. Even Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a rabid supporter of the proxy war with Moscow, recognizes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s demand that the West help him recapture Crimea is a red line for Putin that might lead to a dramatic escalation from Moscow. Backing down from the Biden administration’s malignant and asinine demands for a humiliating Russian withdrawal from eastern Ukraine before peace talks can convene is a step Washington refuses to take. Yet it must be taken. The higher interest rates rise, and the more Washington spends at home and abroad to prosecute the war in Ukraine, the closer American society moves toward internal political and social turmoil. These are dangerous conditions for any republic. the federal government. Americans are not fools. They know that members of Congress flagrantly trade stocks based on inside information, creating conflicts of interest that would land most citizens in jail. They also know that since 1965 Washington led them into a series of failed military interventions that severely weakened American political, economic, and military power. Far too many Americans believe they have had no real national leadership since January 21, 2021. It is high time the Biden administration found an off-ramp designed to extricate Washington, D.C., from its proxy Ukrainian war against Russia. It will not be easy. Liberal internationalism or, in its modern guise, “moralizing globalism,” makes prudent diplomacy arduous, but now is the time. In Eastern Europe, the spring rains present both Russian and Ukrainian ground forces with a sea of mud that severely impedes movement. But the Russian High Command is preparing to ensure that when the ground dries and Russian ground forces attack, the operations will achieve an unambiguous decision, making it clear that Washington and its supporters have no chance to rescue the dying regime in Kiev. From then on, negotiations will be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

Putin the Invading Murderer gets sent up to the Hague... Arrest Warrant Issued For President Putin By Hague-Based ICC https://twitter.com/IntlCrimCourt/status/1636771769313902592 https://www.axios.com/2023/03/17/icc-war-crimes-cases-russia-ukraine https://apnews.com/article/icc-putin-war-crimes-ukraine-9857eb68d82734039496... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/politics/pentagon-war-crimes-hague.htm... As part of the West's attempt to ramp up the pressure on President Vladimir Putin, the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader. It's a largely symbolic step, given detaining Putin remains entirely unenforceable, but is enough to create a firestorm of hyped and breathless headlines. Another arrest warrant for a top official was announced simultaneously for Russia's commissioner for children’s rights Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova. The warrants for both Putin and Lvova-Belova allege severe human rights violations against children, and mark the first formal international charges brought by the ICC against Moscow. Street scene in Barcelona, via AFP The ICC said in a statement that Putin "is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation." According to Axios, it stems from allegations that "Russia systematically relocated at least 6,000 children from Ukraine to Russia since the start of the war" - based on findings by a group called Conflict Observatory and their report published in February. "Many of the children, who were taken to camps or other facilities, engaged in pro-Russia reeducation efforts, per the report," Axios details. "Some of the facilities were used for foster care or adoption in Russia and Crimea." But it remains that the warrants are largely merely symbolic. "The ICC is doing its part of work as a court of law,” ICC court president Piotr Hofmanski said. “The judges issued arrest warrants. The execution depends on international cooperation." Given the ICC doesn't have a police force, any actual attempt to detain Putin would be the decision of a government, so needless to say it could not possibly be enforced. However, it does complicate Putin's ability to travel to European or other capitals which cooperate with the ICC. This also means it could hinder peace efforts in the scenario Putin might choose to personally engage in negotiations or diplomacy in a European city. Statement by Prosecutor #KarimAAKhanKC on the issuance of arrest warrants against President Vladimir Putin and Ms Maria Lvova-Belova Read more ⤵️ https://t.co/qGNPQrBV5O #Ukraine — Int'l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) March 17, 2023 The Kremlin responded quickly to the ICC warrants, with Dmitry Peskov stressing that Russia doesn’t recognize the international court, calling its decisions "legally void." He blasted the attempt to go after the recognized head of state of Russia as "outrageous and unacceptable." Recent debate at the Hague-based ICC ahead of Friday's announcement certainly put Washington in an awkward position, with Axios pointing out that "The New York Times reported earlier this month that the Pentagon was blocking the Biden administration from sharing U.S. intelligence with the ICC about Russian war crimes in Ukraine for fear that it could set a precedent for prosecuting Americans."

What Follows US Hegemony Authored by Vijay Prashad via thetricontiental.org, On 24 February 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a twelve-point plan entitled ‘China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’. This ‘peace plan’, as it has been called, is anchored in the concept of sovereignty, building upon the well-established principles of the United Nations Charter (1945) and the Ten Principles from the Bandung Conference of African and Asian states held in 1955. The plan was released two days after China’s senior diplomat Wang Yi visited Moscow, where he met with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Russia’s interest in the plan was confirmed by Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov shortly after the visit: ‘Any attempt to produce a plan that would put the [Ukraine] conflict on a peace track deserves attention. We are considering the plan of our Chinese friends with great attention’. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the plan hours after it was made public, saying that he would like to meet China’s President Xi Jinping as soon as possible to discuss a potential peace process. France’s President Emmanuel Macron echoed this sentiment, saying that he would visit Beijing in early April. There are many interesting aspects of this plan, notably a call to end all hostilities near nuclear power plants and a pledge by China to help fund the reconstruction of Ukraine. But perhaps the most interesting feature is that a peace plan did not come from any country in the West, but from Beijing. When I read ‘China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’, I was reminded of ‘On the Pulse of Morning’, a poem published by Maya Angelou in 1993, the rubble of the Soviet Union before us, the terrible bombardment of Iraq by the United States still producing aftershocks, the tremors felt in Afghanistan and Bosnia. The title of this newsletter, ‘Birth Again the Dream of Global Peace and Mutual Respect’, sits at the heart of the poem. Angelou wrote alongside the rocks and the trees, those who outlive humans and watch us destroy the world. Two sections of the poem bear repeating: Each of you, a bordered country, Delicate and strangely made proud, Yet thrusting perpetually under siege. Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore, currents of debris upon my breast. Yet today I call you to my riverside, If you will study war no more. Come, Clad in peace, and I will sing the songs The Creator gave to me when I and the Tree and the rock were one. Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your Brow and when you yet knew you still Knew nothing. The River sang and sings on. … History, despite its wrenching pain Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again. History cannot be forgotten, but it need not be repeated. That is the message of Angelou’s poem and the message of the study we released last week, Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’. In October 2022, Cuba’s Centre for International Policy Research (CIPI) held its 7th Conference on Strategic Studies, which studied the shifts taking place in international relations, with an emphasis on the declining power of the Western states and the emergence of a new confidence in the developing world. There is no doubt that the United States and its allies continue to exercise immense power over the world through military force and control over financial systems. But with the economic rise of several developing countries, with China at their head, a qualitative change can be felt on the world stage. An example of this trend is the ongoing dispute amongst the G20 countries, many of which have refused to line up against Moscow despite pressure by the United States and its European allies to firmly condemn Russia for the war in Ukraine. This change in the geopolitical atmosphere requires precise analysis based on the facts. To that end, our latest dossier, Sovereignty, Dignity, and Regionalism in the New International Order (March 2023), produced in collaboration with CIPI, brings together some of the thinking about the emergence of a new global dispensation that will follow the period of US hegemony. The text opens with a foreword by CIPI’s director, José R. Cabañas Rodríguez, who makes the point that the world is already at war, namely a war imposed on much of the world (including Cuba) by the United States and its allies through blockades and economic policies such as sanctions that strangle the possibilities for development. As Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said, coups these days ‘do not need tanks. They achieve the same result with banks’. The US is attempting to maintain its position of ‘single master’ through an aggressive military and diplomatic push both in Ukraine and Taiwan, unconcerned about the great destabilisation this has inflicted upon the world. This approach was reflected in US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin’s admission that ‘We want to see Russia weakened’ and in US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul’s statement that ‘Ukraine today – it’s going to be Taiwan tomorrow’. It is a concern about this destabilisation and the declining fortunes of the West that has led most of the countries in the world to refuse to join efforts to isolate Russia. As some of the larger developing countries, such as China, Brazil, India, Mexico, Indonesia, and South Africa, pivot away from reliance upon the United States and its Western allies, they have begun to discuss a new architecture for a new world order. What is quite clear is that most of these countries – despite great differences in the political traditions of their respective governments – now recognise that the United States ‘rules-based international order’ is no longer able to exercise the authority it once had. The actual movement of history shows that the world order is moving from one anchored by US hegemony to one that is far more regional in character. US policymakers, as part of their fearmongering, suggest that China wants to take over the world, along the grain of the ‘Thucydides Trap’ argument that when a new aspirant to hegemony appears on the scene, it tends to result in war between the emerging power and existing great power. However, this argument is not based on facts. Rather than seek to generate additional poles of power – in the mould of the United States – and build a ‘multipolar’ world, developing countries are calling for a world order rooted in the UN Charter as well as strong regional trade and development systems. ‘This new internationalism can only be created – and a period of global Balkanisation avoided’, we write in our latest dossier, ‘by building upon a foundation of mutual respect and strength of regional trade systems, security organisations, and political formations’. Indicators of this new attitude are present in the discussions taking place in the Global South about the war in Ukraine and are reflected in the Chinese plan for peace. Our dossier analyses at some length this moment of fragility for US power and its ‘rules-based international order’. We trace the revival of multilateralism and regionalism, which are key concepts of the emerging world order. The growth of regionalism is reflected in the creation of a host of vital regional bodies, from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), alongside increasing regional trade (with the BRICS bloc being a kind of ‘regionalism plus’ for our period). Meanwhile, the emphasis on returning to international institutions for global decision-making, as evidenced by the formation of the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter, for example, illustrates the reinvigorated desire for multilateralism. The United States remains a powerful country, but it has not come to terms with the immense changes taking place in the world order. It must temper its belief in its ‘manifest destiny’ and recognise that it is nothing more than another country amongst the 193 members states of the United Nations. The great powers – including the United States – will either find ways to accommodate and cooperate for the common good, or they will all collapse together. At the start of the pandemic, the head of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urged the countries of the world to be more collaborative and less confrontational, saying that ‘this is the time for solidarity, not stigma’ and repeating, in the years since, that nations must ‘work together across ideological divides to find common solutions to common problems’. These wise words must be heeded.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/03/16/why-we-need-to-repeal-both-the-... West raised messaging rhetoric also lost early chance of a clean UA defensive pushback of the invader by delaying arms support requests into a slow ramp. One year later... Saboteurs everywhere. Euros now shipping in jets. Poland et al becoming agitated to enter UA. Belarus ready to jump in. Putin may be recalled by Monday's Xi meeting, if not, escalation risk grows much higher. Gold price soaring in response. All sides are guilty now. Letting things grow is bad. As usual, seek peace, and be prepared.

Drone Wars Coming... Russia Establishes Anti-Drone Police As Threat To Cities Grows Russia has launched an anti-drone police force in St. Petersburg, which is likely to also be rolled out in other major cities, as the population comes under increasing threat by drone activity from Ukraine. The force's head, Roman Uvarov, described its purpose as to "ensure the protection of public order" during large public events, such as this week's Victory Day celebrations which took place in major cities across Russia. Reuters describes that "The unit will include officers armed with sniper rifles and carbines, groups trained to neutralize unmanned aerial vehicles, and mobile patrols to detain those suspected of operating drones." "Video footage from this year's Victory Day parade showed heavily armed officers standing on rooftops above Palace Square holding drone-detection equipment and groups of snipers patrolling along the nearby Neva river in boats," the report continues. The creation of anti-drone units follows the May 3rd drone attack on the Kremlin complex, which Russian leaders called a 'terroristic' attempt to assassinate President Putin. Getty Images A small drone was filmed exploding just above a large dome of the Kremlin complex. Anti-drone weaponry may have intercepted it in the split-second before impact, some footage appeared to show. In addition to these small-scale drone attacks on cities, there's been a devastating drone campaign targeting Russia's oil infrastructure as well... When an oil depot in Russian-annexed Crimea was attacked in late April, the resulting fire sent a plume of thick black smoke into the sky. The incident at the facility in Sevastopol was one of at least five attacks on oil infrastructure in southern Russia in less than two weeks. There was also a double attack on the Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region, a strike on an oil refinery in the Rostov region, a reported attack Wednesday on the Druzhba oil pipeline carrying Russian crude to Eastern Europe and an attack on an oil storage facility Thursday in Russia’s Bryansk region. Attacks on energy infrastructure in both countries have been a common tactic since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. 🚩Clearest footage of the drone attack against the #Kremlin pic.twitter.com/4Gvztzq86r — Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) May 3, 2023 The strikes on oil facilities could be aimed at dampening Russia's logistical and supply lines ahead of Ukraine's counteroffensive, which has been previewed as coming at some point in the Spring.

How the US blew up the Nordstream pipelines (Radar Evidence) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG71NGXr4vU ASDS Engineer Exposes Nordstream Sabotage https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0vwBWh-Qex80eMieEfJvw revisionfour In this short video I lay out how the United States blew up the Nordstream pipelines. I go through the motive, means and exactly how it was carried out. In this video I include incriminating radar evidence that places the United States Navy at the scene of the crime at the time of the crime. Please watch the video all the way through before commenting Baltops 22 Advanced Seal Delivery System Flightradar24 Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk Boeing P-8 Poseidon Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Enjoy the video and please do your own research! Like and subscribe for more to come! I am writing to you as a concerned citizen of the world, wishing for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine. My identity is not of importance. What matters is the sharing of my story so that the world can understand... Once the explosives were planted, they would be triggered by sonobuoy. On September 25, at roughly 10:52 pm UTC, a US Navy Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk appeared on radar in the Baltic Sea, east of Bornholm Island. Radar data indicates that this state-of-the-art helicopter, equipped... Meanwhile, on September 25, at roughly 11:28 pm UTC, a US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon equipped with sonobuoy and with NO CALLSIGN appeared on radar east of the Faroe Islands. This Boeing P-8A Poseidon headed directly to the site of the first Nord Stream explosion near Bornholm... At this juncture, the Poseidon had completed the first part of its mission, confirming the detonation of the explosives. It then flew over land near Miastko and rendezvoused with a US Air Force Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker for in-air refueling at 1:20 am UTC on September 26. The... The same US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon with no callsign reappeared on radar at 6:22 am UTC on September 26, east of Bornholm Island. It flew to the site of the first explosion for a second look at 7:00 am UTC, then flew back and disappeared from radar at roughly 9:04 am UTC east... After the second wave of explosions at 5:03 pm UTC on September 26, the original US Navy Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk reappeared on radar in the Baltic at roughly 6:42 pm UTC. It then hovered for over two hours until approximately 8:50 pm UTC, at which point it went off radar. During... How the US blew up the Nordstream pipelines (Radar Evidence). I urge the public to review the publicly available radar data for themselves and witness the events as they unfolded, as it is easily verifiable. -- ASDS Engineer

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The West wasted its claim to defending against invading aggressor by slow-walking defense arms into UA instead of loading them up as fast as possible, time which RU used to landgrab more territory and destroy and murder... now any defensive pushback of invader across border is much harder, and any shift in rhetoric toward that hard to backtrack, and cross-border attacks now escalating. "See You In The Hague!": Lindsey Graham Snarks Back After Russia Issues Arrest Warrant Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has hit back after Russia issued a warrant for his arrest - calling it a "badge of honor." "Here’s an offer to my Russian ‘friends’ who want to arrest and try me for calling out the Putin regime as being war criminals: “I will submit to [the] jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court if you do," Graham said in a May 29 press release. "Come and make your best case. See you in The Hague!" he continued, adding "To know that my commitment to Ukraine has drawn the ire of Putin’s regime brings me immense joy." "I will continue to stand with and for Ukraine’s freedom until every Russian soldier is expelled from Ukrainian territory." Graham, a massive proponent of the Ukraine war, stated in a video of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that "the Russians are dying," adding that the US military aid provided to Ukraine was "the best money we've ever spent." Ever? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2023 While Graham appeared to have made the comments at separate points in the conversation, the brief video produced by Ukraine’s presidential office juxtaposed them, sparking outrage in Russia. Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that it was hard to imagine a greater shame for the United States than having individuals like Graham as senators. -Epoch Times In February, Graham said that the US shouldn't be worried about provoking Russia by helping Ukraine. "The British are training Ukrainian pilots. I believe a decision will be imminent here when we get back to Washington that the administration will start training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16. They need the weapons system," he told ABC's "This Week" on Feb. 19. Putchist Lindsey Graham: "I'm not worried about provoking Putin. I want to hit him and how do you hit him? We will defeat him by giving the Ukrainians the military capability to drive the Russians out of Ukraine." THIS CORRUPT GRAHAM WILL PROVOKE THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF UKRAINE pic.twitter.com/mmHyTFxYFd — Michel Petrucci ❤️ 🇮🇹 (@appolo007) February 20, 2023 Graham has urged his fellow politicians to declare Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, and has advocated for the US to begin training Ukrainian pilots on F-16s. "They need the weapons system," said Graham in the above interview, which echoed VP Kamala Harris' claim that Russia was guilt of "crimes against humanity." "So, we need to do two things quickly," said Graham. "Make Russia a state sponsor of terrorism under U.S. law, which would make it harder for China to give weapons to Russia, and we need to start training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 now." RFK Jr Calls For "Mature Conversation" On Ukraine As Admin Is "Lying To Us" 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has once again blasted the United States government for lying to the public and to the world about Ukraine, while calling out the Military Industrial Complex in particular. It's not the first time. Earlier this month an avalanche of mainstream media headlines condemned his take when he told UnHerd the following: "We should have listened to Putin over many years. We made a commitment to Russia, to Gorbachev, that we would not move NATO one inch to the east. Then we went in, and we lied." More recent speaking engagements wherein he utters unpopular truths on Ukraine have gone viral this week. In one of them, he tells an audience at a campaign event, "Our government is lying to us about it. The media is going on with the lie…It’s a laundering operation for the Military Industrial Complex." Robert F. Kennedy Jr Says We Are Being Lied To About the Proxy War in Ukraine “Our government is lying to us about it. The media is going on with the lie…It’s a laundering operation for the Military Industrial Complex.”@RobertKennedyJr pic.twitter.com/wOKPB600Qz — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) May 30, 2023 Among Kennedy's chief talking points is that the country needs a "mature conversation" on the conflict, but that the American public is not getting that. Interestingly, he said that while many Americans are moved by compassion for the Ukrainian people, including his son who actually early on went to fight within Ukraine's foreign legion, Washington has been deceptive in selling Americans on the billions in defense aid poured into the conflict. "We were told that the reason we were going over there is because it was a humanitarian mission," RFK Jr said. "But then every choice that we made along the way, that's been about prolonging the war and increasing the bloodshed, and refusing to negotiate. If it was a humanitarian mission we would won't to terminate the war, to shorten it, and to reduce the amount of bloodshed," he continued. He then talked about the "real reason" for escalation of the conflict seen in the rhetoric of Biden and some of his top officials as including regime change against Vladimir Putin, as well as weakening and exhausting Russia's military in order to prevent its effectiveness in future conflicts elsewhere in the world. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has long been on record as saying this is about 'weakening' Russia. Below is an April speech that included similar statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr... BREAKING: Here is the full UNEDITED clip of RFK Jr on Ukraine pic.twitter.com/VJy2VI3C2r — Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 30, 2023 "Well as it turns out, opposing Vladmir Putin has been for 20 years the principle focal aspiration of the neocons who were thrown out after the debacle in Iraq. And we thought they were all gone for good, but now they've all reemerged in the Biden White House... it's the opposite of a humanitarian mission." He further described Ukraine as a small country which is now tragically being "ground into dust by the geopolitical ambitions of the neocons in the White House." Ultimately the Ukrainians find themselves stuck in the middle of a proxy war between two rival superpowers, he explained. Among the more interesting of RFK Jr.'s remarks on the issue... "If Mexico did that and then started killing – they killed 14,000 Russians in Donbass, the Ukrainian government – if Mexico did that to expatriate Americans, we would invade in a second," Kennedy said, adding that Putin "repeatedly told us: these are the red lines, you are crossing." As expected, mainstream media sources have dismissed him as a "crackpot" for this analysis, including recently in The Daily Beast. At the same time, many such MSM publications are currently dying and struggling for readership when compared to a number of prominent and rising independent outlets.

Background to the US vs RU War in Ukraine, from proxies to snipers and more... https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html https://rumble.com/vwy6pm-revealing-ukraine.html https://wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/28/dphs-m28.html https://rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html https://www.academia.edu/8776021/The_Snipers_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukrai... https://odysee.com/@canal666disorder:d/estonian-foreign-minister-urmas-paet-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR1NFI6TBH0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0rR2Fh1zWI There's an Italian documentary which has been nearly scrubbed from the internet that interviewed Georgian mercs who were brought in and told to fire into the crowd to work people up. Said there was an American there running things. Gian Micalessin, the Hidden Truth. GL finding it.

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Not even Biden-Dems 50 corrupt sleazebag CIA agents who covered up and FUD'd for the Biden Crime Family Laptop could pull off a coup against Putin in Russia so that Biden would have appeared to be war ending hero thus fraudulate 2024 election too. What a bunch of total incompetents, caught every time.

Lunatic war criminal hypocrite politicians all signalling their garbage virtues by trying to imprison old men Trudeau Apologizes To Zelensky & Canadian Public For NaziGate, Quietly Tells MPs Don't Speak About It Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday issued formal apology to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over what's coming to be known as the 'NaziGate' scandal. He indicated that this apology was sent through diplomatic channels. Trudeau confirmed this in a press conference regarding the House of Commons' honoring a veteran of Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces as part of last week's events centered on hosting Zelensky. "This was a mistake that has deeply embarrassed Parliament and Canada. All of us who were in this House on Friday regret deeply having stood and clapped even though we did so unaware of the context," Trudeau told reporters. TRUDEAU EMBARRASSES HIMSELF AGAIN OVER NAZI-GATE pic.twitter.com/BhQTdaazpn — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) September 27, 2023 "It was a horrendous violation of the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holocaust," he continued, in the statement which also appeared to put sole blame on now resigned Speaker Anthony Rota. 98-year old Waffen-SS Galicia Division veteran Yaroslav Hunka is now possibly being sought by Poland, and extradition proceedings are being mulled in Warsaw. Trudeau now says "Canada is deeply sorry" for involving Zelensky, who along with all of Canadian parliament was seen enthusiastically applauding Hunka with a standing ovation. Trudeau further called the whole event "deeply, deeply painful" to Jewish people, Poles, Roma, and the so-called "2SLGTBQIA+" "community" (yes, it's an official Canadian govt designation, absurd as it is). He also sought to assert (or rather deflect) once again that this fiasco is playing into Russia's hands, which is seeking to "politicize" it. Thus the prime minister is continuing to spin it as somehow really a story of 'Russian disinformation'. Wow! "Trudeau apologizes after a Ukrainian Nazi veteran was celebrated at Zelenskyy speech. Liberal caucus sources have told CBC News that Trudeau told MPs Wednesday they should avoid speaking to the press about Hunka's invitation and the subsequent fallout, and that the media… pic.twitter.com/0SVZBaaP12 — Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski) September 27, 2023 But perhaps more interesting is what Trudeau and his staff are reportedly telling members of parliament in private. They are to stay "tight-lipped" in hopes that the scandal and international media coverage will just 'go away'. According to Canada's national broadcaster CBC: Liberal caucus sources have told CBC News that Trudeau told MPs Wednesday they should avoid speaking to the press about Hunka's invitation and the subsequent fallout, and that the media frenzy would die down if they stayed tight-lipped. Trudeau's remarks come after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said inviting Hunka to attend Zelenskyy's historic address to Parliament is the "biggest single diplomatic embarrassment" in the country's history. Poilievre is blaming Trudeau for the mishap, despite outgoing Speaker Anthony Rota's assertion that he alone was responsible for inviting Hunka. But as GrayZone journalist Max Blumenthal points out, this may actually be the tip of the iceberg for Canada's NaziGate... Canada's @cafreeland perpetuates her Nazi grandfather's legacy through Ukraine proxy war After serving as one of Hitler's top Ukrainian propagandists in occupied Poland, Michael Chomiak joined thousands of Nazi collaborators on the ratline to Canada during the 1950s. Following… pic.twitter.com/u8m0mHogWO — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 27, 2023 Below is Blumenthal's full backgrounder on the disturbing associations and past activism of Trudeau's Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland [emphasis by ZH]... * * * After serving as one of Hitler's top Ukrainian propagandists in occupied Poland, Michael Chomiak joined thousands of Nazi collaborators on the ratline to Canada during the 1950s. Following Chomiak's death in 1984, his granddaughter, Chrystia Freeland, followed in his footsteps as a reporter for various Ukrainian nationalist publications. Freeland was an early contributor to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, which was edited by her grandfather's former boss in Poland, the Nazi collaborator and ethnic cleansing advocate Volodymyr Kubijovyč. Next, she took a staff position at the Edmonton-based Ukrainian News, where Chomiak had served as editor. A 1988 edition of Ukrainian News featured an article co-authored by Freeland, followed by an ad for a book called “Fighting for Freedom” which glorified the Ukrainian Waffen-SS Galician division. During Freeland’s time as an exchange student in Lviv, Ukraine, she laid the foundations for journalistic success. From behind cover as a Russian literature major at Harvard University, Freeland collaborated with local regime change activists while feeding anti-Soviet narratives to international media bigwigs. “Countless ‘tendentious’ news stories about life in the Soviet Union, especially for its non-Russian citizens, had her fingerprints as Ms. Freeland set about making a name for herself in journalistic circles with an eye to her future career prospects,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported. Citing KGB files, the CBC described Freeland as a de facto intelligence agent: “The student causing so many headaches clearly loathed the Soviet Union, but she knew its laws inside and out – and how to use them to her advantage. She skillfully hid her actions, avoided surveillance (and shared that knowledge with her Ukrainian contacts) and expertly trafficked in ‘misinformation.'” In 1989, Soviet security agents rescinded Freeland’s visa when they caught her smuggling “a veritable how-to guide for running an election” into the country for Ukrainain nationalist candidates. She quickly transitioned back to journalism, landing gigs in post-Soviet Moscow for the Financial Times and Economist, and eventually rising to global editor-at-large of Reuters – the UK-based media giant which today functions as a cutout for British intelligence operations against Russia. When Freeland won a seat as a Liberal member of Canada’s parliament in 2013, she established her most powerful platform yet to agitate for regime change in Russia. Milking her journalistic connections, she published op-eds in top legacy papers like the New York Times urging militant support from Western capitals for Ukraine’s so-called “Revolution of Dignity,” which saw the violent removal of a democratically elected president and his replacement with a nationalist, pro-NATO government in 2014. Weeks after she was appointed in January 2017 as Foreign Minister – a post she predictably exploited to thunder for sanctions on Russia and arms shipments to Ukraine – her grandfather’s role as a Nazi propagandist in occupied Poland became the subject of a raft of reports in the alternative press. The Trudeau government responded to the factual reports by accusing Russia of waging a campaign of cyber-warfare. “The situation is obviously one where we need to be alert. And that is why the Prime Minister has, among other things, encouraged a complete re-examination of our cyber security systems,” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale declared. Read my full report on Canada's longstanding policy of training and protecting Ukrainian Nazis - including the grandfather of the country's second most powerful official https://t.co/uXOsugSYka — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 27, 2023 Yet few, if any, of the outlets responsible for excavating Chomiak’s history had any connection to Russia’s government. Among the first to expose his collaborationism was Consortium News, an independent, US-based media organization. For her part, Freeland deployed a spokesperson to lie to the public, flatly denying that “the minister’s grandfather was a Nazi collaborator.” When Canadian media quoted several Russian diplomats about the allegations, Freeland promptly ordered their deportation, accusing them of exploiting their diplomatic status “to interfere in our democracy.” By this time, however, her family secrets had tumbled out of the attic and onto the pages of mainstream Canadian media. On March 7, 2017, the Globe and Mail reported on a 1996 article in the Journal of Ukrainian Studies confirming that Freeland’s grandfather had indeed been a Nazi propagandist, and that his writing helped fuel the Jewish genocide. The article was authored by Freeland’s uncle, John-Paul Himka, who thanked his niece in its preface for helping him with “problems and clarifications.” “Freeland knew for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi newspaper in occupied Poland that vilified Jews during the Second World War,” the Globe and Mail noted. After being caught on camera this September clapping with unrestrained zeal alongside hundreds of peers for a Ukrainian veteran of Hitler’s SS death squads, Freeland once again invoked her authority to scrub the incident from the record. Three days after the embarrassing scene, Freeland was back on the floor of parliament, nodding in approval as Liberal House leader Karina Gould introduced a resolution to strike “from the appendix of the House of Commons debates” and from “any House multimedia recording” the recognition made by Speaker Anthony Rota of Yaroslav Hunka.

Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 Wow! Maidan massacre trial verdict confirms that Hotel Ukraina rooms of German ARD TV journalists were shot from "territory controlled by "Maidan,"" specifically, Main Post Office (far-right Right Sector headquarters) & Conservatory, occupied by far-right-linked Maidan company. There are no investigation & no media reports even though bullet from Right Sector HQ narrowly missed female ARD producer in her room 925. ARD Moscow correspondents claimed that Maidan snipers is "conspiracy theory" even though now Maidan massacre trial verdict confirms that Maidan snipers massacred many Maidan protesters and police and shot at ARD and BBC TV journalists. youtu.be/bpFCaFzsDB4?si=3dCv… Verdict: "In addition, the specified data proved with all propriety that the premises of the "Ukraine" hotel were the object of massive shelling with firearms of various calibers, in particular,... from the side of the Conservatory - according to the examined photo and video materials, the territory controlled by "Maidan" (room No. 825); from the side of the Central Post Office - according to the examined photo and video materials, the territory controlled by "Maidan" (room No. 925)." Nov 21, 2023 · 3:06 PM UTC 59 1,297 200 2,730 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 x.com/I_Katchanovski/status/… Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 14 Wow! Maidan massacre trial verdict confirms that in addition to at least 3 killed & many wounded Maidan activists, BBC crew was shot from Hotel Ukraina, that this documents "targeted use by the activists of firearms" & that hotel was "activists-controlled." It states there was no involvement of law enforcement & Russian snipers in massacring these protesters from this hotel. bbc.com/news/av/world-europe… All this was shown in my academic studies but denied & called "conspiracy theory" & "propaganda" by prosecution, media with some exceptions, self-proclaimed experts & info-warriors. Ukrainian government investigation revealed that deputy of far-right Svoboda lived in Hotel Ukraina room, from which BBC crew was shot at and in which ICTV filmed snipers shooting Maidan protesters in the back. Maidan activist testified at the trial that after this shooting protesters told him that these were “our snipers.” Verdict text: "Also, this [BBC] video captures the shelling from the side of the Ukraina Hotel building of the camera crew of BBC journalists (a single shot is heard) (from 09 min. 34 sec. of the recording), and in the premises of the Ukraina Hotel, an activist is recorded with an object that, by its obvious external appearance signs can be perceived as a pistol-type firearm (10 min. 26 sec. recording)... The jury, after hearing the opinion of the trial participants, evaluated the video recording provided by the defense in the context of the indictment as documented data from the activist-controlled building of the Ukraina Hotel in Kyiv about the targeted use by the activists of objects that, by their external features, are clearly similar to firearms, weapons of the type of hunting weapons, which are incompatible with the concept of forms and means of a peaceful protest action." reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/… 3 87 1 259 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 Maidan Massacre Trial Verdict Selected Excerpts Confirming the False-Flag Massacre in Ukraine (English Google Translation) academia.edu/109357708/Maida… Maidan Massacre Trial Verdict Selected Excerpts Confirming False-Flag Massacre (English Google... Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. academia.edu 2 84 242 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 My video appendix of peer-reviewed journal article shows shooting at American, Australian, British, German, Polish & Russian journalists by Maidan snipers during Maidan massacre in Ukraine. There are no investigations & no media reports. youtu.be/bpFCaFzsDB4 Shooting at Western, Polish, and Russian Journalists during the... This video appendix shows shooting at American, Australian, British, German, Polish, and Russian journalists during the Maidan massacre in Ukraine on Februa... youtube.com 5 82 220 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… Journalists from "ABC News (US), ABC (Australia), ARD (Germany) twice, the Associated Press (US), BBC, TVP (Poland), RT (Russia), and Sky News (UK) were also shot at by snipers from Maidan-controlled buildings and areas, in particular, the Right Sector headquarters, the Music Conservatory, and the Bank Arkada" The “snipers’ massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine This study analyzes which party of the conflict was involved in the 2014 Maidan massacre in Ukraine. The massacre of Maidan protesters and the police on 20 February 2014 was a turning point in Ukra... tandfonline.com 1 50 2 172 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 x.com/I_Katchanovski/status/… Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 10 Orwellian: Maidan massacre trial verdict, quoted below, confirms my studies findings that 2 specific Maidan protesters from this group were killed & 1 wounded from Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina & that gunshot from this hotel hit tree behind them. Edited Belgian TV video of their luring & massacre was misrepresented to several hundred million people in Western countries & Ukraine as massacre by government snipers. Massacre of these protesters by snipers in far-right Svoboda-controlled Hotel Ukraina was denied as "conspiracy theory" by prosecution, Maidan victims lawyers, media, self-proclaimed experts & propaganda peddlers. youtube.com/watch?v=aHok-Df7… Verdict clearly states that trial did not establish evidence of Berkut & other law enforcement involvement & that Hotel Ukraina was not under law enforcement control. Svoboda statement, videos & testimonies show that this far-right party controlled & guarded this hotel & that far-right-linked group of Maidan snipers was shooting at protesters from upper floors of this hotel. But propaganda peddlers by means of primitive fraud continue to call this false-flag massacre "conspiracy theory," whitewash mass murderers & smear me. “The court takes into account the testimony of the victim PERSON_921, who was also in the mentioned group of activists and was wounded in the back from the hotel "INFORMATISIA_161", objective information about the fatal neck wound from the same group of the victim PERSON_1849 from the upper floors of the "Ukraine" hotel...” Secondly, PERSON_921's testimony that he received a wound in the back from the "Ukraine" hotel, in addition to being categorical and not assumptions, is confirmed by the very circumstances of the events, when prior to that, firing from this sector was recorded, not only by visualizing the traces of a shot on tree, but also by the documented joint reaction of persons who were potentially in the affected area. Within the scope of this court proceeding, data on the involvement of law enforcement officers in such an injury to the victim, and even more so the accused, have not been established. The gunshot wound was inflicted on PERSON_1852 from the direction of the "Ukraine" hotel, that is, from the territory that was not controlled by law enforcement agencies at that time. This shot was aimed at a crowd of people. Moreover, fatal gunshot wounds to the body (chest and abdomen) were received by PERSON_1770 from the side of the hotel "INFORMATION_161" and the area in front of it, which were not under the control of law enforcement agencies, and hence the involvement of the accused and RSP [Berkut company] fighters in them, and as a result, the victim's death, is excluded." reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/… 2 38 161 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 x.com/I_Katchanovski/status/… Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Oct 27 Wow! Unreported 1,000,000-word Maidan massacre trial verdict corroborates my academic studies by stating as its “categorical conclusion” that there were snipers shooting from Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina & that it cannot be ruled out that 8 protesters were killed & 20 wounded by “unknown persons,” who were not "law enforcement officers." This implies Maidan snipers since the verdict states that the trial disproved claims about presence of Russian snipers. reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/… The verdict also confirms my study findings that there is no evidence of order given by Yanukovych or his ministers to massacre Maidan protesters and that 4 police officers were killed & 39 wounded by Maidan-snipers. In addition to acquitting two Berkut policemen for killing and wounding protesters, it states that all accused Berkut members were baselessly blamed for killing 13 & wounding 29 Maidan protesters. As usual there are zero media reports. Prosecution, Maidan lawyers, media with some exceptions, self-proclaimed experts & propaganda peddlers denied shooting by snipers located in Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina & called it conspiracy theory. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… 1 30 120 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 threadreaderapp.com/thread/1… Thread by @I_Katchanovski on Thread Reader App @I_Katchanovski: Wow! Maidan massacre trial verdict confirms that Hotel Ukraina rooms of German ARD TV journalists were shot from "territory controlled by "Maidan,"" specifically, Main Post Office... threadreaderapp.com 1 11 51 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 x.com/I_Katchanovski/status/… Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Oct 29 Like my studies, Maidan massacre trial verdict states that 3 other Maidan protesters (Vaida, Kostenko & Pekhenko) were also killed from Maidan-controlled locations & not by Berkut or other law enforcement units. It also confirms my studies that Berkut did not kill 2 other protesters, who were shot by pellets, like Vaida, at same place & time. Verdict confirmed my study that they were shot before Berkut company, which was charged with their killings, was even deployed there. youtube.com/watch?v=flztD56U… 1 9 48 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 21 My open access peer-reviewed journal article: brill.com/view/journals/rupo… "Maidan massacre of protesters and police led to the overthrow of the Yanukovych government and ultimately to the Russian annexation of Crimea, the civil war and Russian military interventions in Donbas, and the Ukraine-Russia and West-Russia conflicts which Russia escalated by illegally invading Ukraine in 2022. The absolute majority of wounded Maidan protesters, nearly 100 prosecution and defense witnesses, synchronized videos, and medical and ballistic examinations by government experts pointed unequivocally to the fact that the Maidan protesters were massacred by snipers located in Maidan-controlled buildings." The Maidan Massacre Trial and Investigation Revelations: Implications for the Ukraine-Russia War... Abstract This study analyzes revelations from the trial and investigation in Ukraine concerning the mass killing that took place in Kyiv on 20 February 2014. This Maidan massacre of protesters and... brill.com 2 30 3 75 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 22 x.com/I_Katchanovski/status/… Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski Nov 22 With few notable exceptions, @nytimes & other mainstream media continue to propagate fake news even after Maidan massacre trial verdict confirmed false-flag massacre of protesters & police: "The protests were peaceful at first but escalated into violence as the police started firing live ammunition into crowds of demonstrators, who armed themselves with makeshift shields and clubs. The fighting killed more than 100 people, including a dozen police officers. Increasingly unpopular, Mr. Yanukovych fled to Russia and was removed from office by Ukraine’s Parliament, a moment that the country celebrated as a historic democratic victory." nytimes.com/2023/11/21/world… 1 4 33 Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski 13h threadreaderapp.com/thread/1… Thread by @I_Katchanovski on Thread Reader App @I_Katchanovski: Wow! 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