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Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last year and, for that matter, its first invasion of its neighbor eight years before are impossible to justify. Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to convince his public that this war is existential, but with little success. Russia’s existence as a strong, sovereign state is not dependent on its control of Ukraine or even parts of the Donbas or Crimea. That’s why, since Putin implemented a partial mobilization last fall, hundreds of thousands of men have fled Russia rather than march to the sound of the guns, and it’s why he still refuses to declare war and order a full mobilization.

 
Truth is the first casualty of war

Russia is ‘getting hammered’: Top US general on Bakhmut battle​

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Most people I won't say all that think it is a good idea to support Ukraine believe in the clot shot. Just sayin. This is the end of the US empire is what I read from people a whole lot smarter than me. So it goes down kicking and screaming with a mental patient at the wheel. It would be funny if it wasn't so serious. Anyway this should go down with Winken Blinken and Nod.


 
It's a big club, and you ain't in it!

follow along... paint the picture, connect the dots!









 
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Why the Battle of Bakhmut Continues. Ukrainians are Bleeding Out. Col. Tony Schaffer​

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ICC's Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself​

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a network of camps inside Russia.
  • The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a network of camps inside Russia. The warrant was based on a report by the Yale HRL center, which is funded by the US State Department.
  • US journalist Jeremy Loffredo visited one of Russian government-sponsored camps in question. At The Donbas Express, located just outside of Moscow, Loffredo met youth from war-torn regions who were flourishing thanks to free music instruction, and grateful to be in a secure environment. This article features his exclusive video report.
  • A Grayzone review of the Yale HRL report found the paper’s content contradicted many claims contained in the ICC warrant. It also undercut incendiary statements its director, Nathaniel Raymond, issued during media appearances.
  • In an interview with Loffredo, Yale HRL’s Raymond further contradicted allegations he made in a CNN interview about a massive “hostage situation” underway in Russia, acknowledging that most of the camps he researched were “teddy bear”-like cultural programs. He also disclosed his collaboration with US intelligence.
On March 17, the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, introduced an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Llova-Belova. The warrant, which accused Putin and Lolva-Belova of conducting the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a “network of camps” across the Russian Federation, inspired a wave of incendiary commentary in the West.

 

The "Battle of Bakhmut" + Russia's GLONASS-Guided Glide Bombs​

 
How can they call these money transfers, loans ?
Secured by real estate in Bakhmut .......... Salt mines in Soledar ?
Paid back over 100 years as a permanent drain on a destroyed economy ?

Your tax dollars working hard for you
 
How can they call these money transfers, loans ?
Secured by real estate in Bakhmut .......... Salt mines in Soledar ?
Paid back over 100 years as a permanent drain on a destroyed economy ?

Your tax dollars working hard for you

It's the unwritten payback that THEY own you after you can't pay it back. They don't want the money back, they want to own them to make them another puppet. But in Ukraine I think they already did that back in 2014 and that is why this conflict is so different. It's a direct attack on the Western puppet masters.
 
Moscow will determine how its future relations with Western nations will develop only after they come to their senses, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.

Speaking at the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund, which provides support to Russian and foreign NGOs and think tanks, Lavrov accused the US and its allies of being “mired in cave Russophobia, while sacrificing the glaring problems in their own societies.”

“When and if they sober up, we will decide on our position regarding further relations with them. But we will make this decision, of course, on our own and based on our terms,” the foreign minister added.








RT:

"The main suspect in the murder of prominent Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, Darya Trepova, has admitted she was recruited by a man with ties to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), news outlet Shot claimed on Monday, citing sources. Tatarsky was killed on Sunday by a blast from an improvised explosive device.

The attack on Tatarsky was orchestrated by Roman Popkov, a former journalist with the MBKh Media outlet founded by exiled oligarch and staunch Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Trepova is reported to have said. According to the suspect, Popkov “taught her journalism” initially but then asked her to carry out a task for his “contact. “

Shot claimed that Popkov’s contact was an SBU agent, although his identity was not revealed. The Russian Interior Ministry published a video on Monday in which Trepova admitted to bringing the bomb camouflaged as a statuette to Tatarsky’s meeting."



It would be ironic if Pan-Arabism is the result of the West's wars and CIA MI6 black ops to prevent the rise of... Pan-Arabism.



Russia's MFA:

"...Serious pressure is being put on the UN and other multilateral institutions the intended purpose of which, as platforms for harmonizing the interests of the leading powers, is artificially devalued. The international legal system is put to the test: a small group of states is trying to replace it with the concept of a rules-based world order.

...Considering the strengthening of Russia as one of the leading centres of development in the modern world & its independent foreign policy as a threat to Western hegemony, the US and their satellites used the measures taken by Russia as regards Ukraine to protect its vital interests as a pretext to aggravate the longstanding anti-Russian policy and unleashed a new type of hybrid war. It is aimed at weakening Russia in every possible way.

In response to unfriendly actions of the West, Russia intends to defend its right to existence & freedom of development using all means available...."

 
Good commentary



https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1lDxLnaYbvqGm

Garland Nixon
UKRAINE ENDGAME NEARS - NATO RUNS FROM NORD STREAM ATTACK



In connection with the murder of the Russian journalist V.Tatarsky as a result of terrorist act plotted by Intelligence Service of Ukraine in Saint-Petersburg on April 2, we expect immediate response from UNESCO Director General A.Azoulay

We draw attention to the fact that in accordance with the resolution of 29th session of UNESCO General Conference of 12 November 1997 «Condemnation of violence against journalists», mentioned in decision on Safety of Journalists at 33d session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication of 25 November 2022, the Director General should «condemn assassination of journalists and any physical violence against journalists as a crime against society».

We recall that the brutal murder of the Russian journalist D.Dugina by Ukrainian terrorists on 20 August 2022, was condemned by UN Secretary General, but received no response from UNESCO Director General. (https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1829350/?lang=en)
☝We expect that this time A.Azoulay will fulfill her mandate!

 
Bombing civilians is a war crime


Utter horror in Donetsk today....





️The consequences of the shelling of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk.

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The wounded are taken to an ambulance.

To the moment, 7 wounded and 9 dead have been reported. The numbers are being specified.
 

PROOF - PUTIN WAS PROVOKED - DECADES OF US PROVOCATIONS​

Regis delivers proof that Russia and Putin have been provoked at least since the Russian Revolution that was funded by western capital. The proof is unmistakable. The US lies and distorts reality and because of its reckless behavior has the whole world on the brink of nuclear annihilation.

www.bitchute.com/video/ifnU93lt46tk/
 

New Leak of Classified Documents on Social Media Alarms Pentagon​

Secret documents that appear to detail American national security secrets on Ukraine, the Middle East and China have surfaced online.


By Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Apr 07, 2023 11:49 PM
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WASHINGTON — A new batch of classified documents that appear to detail American national security secrets from Ukraine to the Middle East to China surfaced on social media sites on Friday, alarming the Pentagon and adding turmoil to a situation that seemed to have caught the Biden administration off guard.

 

"On Friday, photos appeared of a document allegedly containing details on a planned imminent Ukrainian offensive on territories controlled by Russia. The ‘leak’ coincided with suggestions that the NATO Defender 2023 exercises – planned for the end of this month – could be a cover for an operation to supply and support Ukrainian units. However, upon closer examination, doubts arise concerning the document’s authenticity.

...The document, dated March 1, says Kiev's brigades need 253 tanks, more than 380 infantry fighting vehicles and APCs, 480 vehicles, 147 artillery pieces, and 571 HMMWV armored vehicles to carry out the offensive.

Which information is most suspect?
The probable locations of Russian units, indicated on the combat map in red, appear to have been collected from open sources. Several pro-Kiev resources that track military operations contain almost identical information.

Also, the ratios of killed and wounded for the Ukrainian and Russian Armed Forces which initially appeared in these ‘secret plans’ have since been changed. When first posted, the losses for the Ukrainian side were underestimated at about 16,500 –17,000 people. Then (probably to be more realistic), they increased almost fivefold, up to 65,000 – 75,000. At the same time, the numbers given for Russia's purported losses of vehicles and equipment coincide with data published by Kiev's Ministry of Defense.

What else is wrong with the published AFU offensive plans?
The blatant falsification of data on the readiness of Ukrainian military formations catches the eye. The document states that, of the nine supposedly to be trained up to US and NATO standards by March 31 and April 30, five of Kiev's brigades have had zero training: these are the 82nd Airborne, the 32nd, 117th, and 118th Territorial Defense, as well as the 21st separate mechanized.

Even if only two or three companies in these brigades were trained, and self-preparation wasn't completed, their level of training couldn’t be zero. At the same time, the highest percentage of readiness was recorded only in the 47th mechanized(40%) and the 46th airborne assault (60%).


The plan also gives perplexing figures for military equipment.

For example, out of 109 M2 Bradley BMPs sent to armed forces, for some reason only 99 are to participate in the offensive. Moreover, the vehicles are not distributed among the brigades and only assigned to one formation – Kiev's 47th mechanized brigade, which doesn't have heavy tanks.

Rather than Soviet T-72s or T-64BVs, this grouping has only Slovak T-55Ss with 105mm guns, which are difficult to use in a large-scale offensive.

The small, but important, errors and inaccuracies in the calculations of equipment, the adjusted accounting of losses, as well as the presence of units with ‘zero’ readiness, indicate that this document, which was issued as a ‘secret plan,’ was probably prepared and distributed not by the military but by a group of civilians, probably pro-Kiev analysts.

The purpose of this planted misinformation may be to underreport the actual number of combat-ready Ukrainian units to be deployed for the offensive or to distract attention from other events related to the real operation."

 

New Leaks of U.S./NATO Military Intelligence Documents Alarm Washington​

By Larry Johnson Apr. 8, 2023



Washington, you have a problem. News broke late today that a new batch of classified documents have hit the internet and the Biden Administration is scrambling to put a band aid on a sucking chest wound. (Note, the image above was from the previous release and is all over Twitter and Telegram.)

A new batch of classified documents that appear to detail American national security secrets from Ukraine to the Middle East to China surfaced on social media sites on Friday, alarming the Pentagon and adding turmoil to a situation that seemed to have caught the Biden administration off guard.​
The scale of the leak — analysts say more than 100 documents may have been obtained — along with the sensitivity of the documents themselves, could be hugely damaging, officials said. A senior intelligence officials called the leak “a nightmare for the Five Eyes,” in a reference to the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the so-called Five Eyes nations that broadly share intelligence.​
The latest documents were found on Twitter and other sites on Friday, a day after senior Biden administration officials said they were investigating a potential leak of classified Ukrainian war plans, include an assessment of Ukraine’s air defense capabilities.​
One slide, dated Feb. 23, is labeled “Secret/NoForn,” meaning it was not meant to be shared with foreign countries.Mick Mulroy, a former senior Pentagon official, said the leak of the classified documents represents “a significant breach in security” that could hinder Ukrainian military planning. “As many of these were pictures of documents, it appears that it was a deliberate leak done by someone that wished to damage the Ukraine, U.S., and NATO efforts,” he said.​
Let me state up front what I believe — these documents are authentic and the leak probably did not originate from the NATO countries. Why? Because several are marked “NOFORN”, which means those documents with that marking are for U.S. eyes only. In other words, not to be shared with foreigners, such as the UK, France, Germany and, especially, Ukraine. Here is one example of a NOFORN document:

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These docs smack of a psy op targeting us I.e. folk trying to make sense of everything.
and a clever use of the ‘bumbling cover up‘ to ensure they get plenty of attention and implied credibility.

there’s nothing in them that would not be known to Russia and blaming it on pissed off ukrainian military person/s allows for an easy blame game.
 
The intro is great!

Macron-China panic. Ursula exits China, passport check. Telegraph Putin fantasy; Et tu, Brute? U/1​

 
How can they call these money transfers, loans ?
Secured by real estate in Bakhmut .......... Salt mines in Soledar ?
Paid back over 100 years as a permanent drain on a destroyed economy ?

Your tax dollars working hard for you

Because they can.


American entry into World War I


J.P. Morgan issued loans to France including one in March 1915 and, following negotiations with the Anglo-French Financial Commission, another joint loan to Britain and France in October 1915, the latter amounting to US$500,000,000.
Although the stance of the U.S. government was that stopping such financial assistance could hasten the end of the war and therefore save lives, little was done to insure adherence to the ban on loans, in part due to pressure from Allied governments and American business interests.
The American steel industry had faced difficulties and declining profits during the Recession of 1913–1914. As war began in Europe, however, the increased demand for tools of war began a period of heightened productivity that alleviated many U.S. industrial companies from the low-growth environment of the recession.
 
Putin Apologist



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