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Putin’s going nowhere. The West needs to get a grip.​

Don’t think that social media memes and clever stunts will topple Putin. Only a defeat in Ukraine can do that.

KYIV — Wishing something were true doesn’t make it so.

And yet, for the past two years, we’ve had a plethora of predictions suggesting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s days are numbered, that Russians will turn on him or that he’ll be ousted in a Kremlin coup by oligarchs and Russia’s elite, now targeted by Western sanctions and angry over their frozen overseas assets.

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Putin hasn't begun to fight...

There's a reason he declared an SMO and not war.
 

Western banks warn of risks in EU plan to grab Russian assets, sources say​

  • Banks fear confiscation may expose them to litigation
  • Indemnities may be tough to design, not protect banks
  • Kremlin says proposals would undermine international law
LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - Some western banks are lobbying against EU proposals to redistribute billions of euros in interest earned on frozen Russian assets, senior industry sources said, fearing it could lead to costly litigation.

European Union leaders on Thursday agreed to move ahead with work on a plan to use up to 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) a year to supply arms to Ukraine as they try to bolster Kyiv's fight against Russia, which would still own the underlying frozen assets. EU leaders said the proceeds could be used within a few months.

Some banks fear, however, that they might later be held liable by Russia if they are involved in any transfer of money to Ukraine and that the EU plan could be extended to assets in accounts they hold for sanctioned individuals and companies.

Such an extension has not yet been raised by the EU.

The sources are also concerned that the proposals will lead to a wider erosion of trust in the western banking system.

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Citizens of Ukraine.

The terrorists wanted to hide on the territory of your still existing state. Because they knew that they would receive new documents and leave for Europe. So tens and hundreds of terrorists have already been legalized in it

The terrorists wanted to go to Ukraine because they knew that the Kiev junta, which had usurped power, would definitely help the ghouls.

Whether it was prepared by the GUR, the SBU, or whether they acted as a layer between the CIA and the killers - it doesn’t matter.

Kiev is now a concentration of Nazi officials. Who are not going to live in it afterwards.

And you will stay. It’s good if you live and don’t die for Biden in the fields.

Now the whole world knows who your authorities support. Although you are currently being used against Russia, at the first opportunity they will abandon you and shoot you like rabid dogs.

Of course, unless you yourself help to demolish this anti-human junta that revelled in the death of innocent people.

Prove your right to be called people by actions, and not by conversations in kitchens.

Unite, help the Russian Army, stop sending your relatives to slaughter.

This is a difficult and dangerous path. But Zelensky will still kill all of you or sacrifice you for his beloved.

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US Policymakers Regularly Consider Using Terrorism vs US Enemies

In 2009 Brookings' "Which Path to Persia" paper had a whole chapter discussing the use of MEK terrorists against Iran (pic 1&2);

FP Magazine among many others during the height of the US proxy war in Syria attempted to whitewash/use (https://archive.ph/1nfJO) Al Qaeda to overthrow the government in Damascus (pic3);

The US used terrorist orgs to overthrow the Libyan government in 2011;

US has used terrorism so often it should be the first suspect when attacks like in Moscow take place, regardless of the proxy used, including Ukraine;

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This BBC map shows ISIS territory in Syria and Iraq before/after Russia's intervention.

You can clearly see ISIS was flowing over the borders of NATO-member Turkiye and Jordan which both hosted US troops and according to the NYT CIA operators overseeing the arming of militants.

ISIS dried up when Russia attacked and cut its lines of communication to its US-led sponsors.

This is another example of how extensive US use of terrorism is as a means of advancing foreign policy all while posing as "fighting" ISIS.

If the US was clearly sponsoring ISIS, what wouldn't the US do? Who wouldn't it work with against targeted nations?

 
Singing like a bird on video! These people are really stupid.



One of the terrorists detained on suspicion of the attack at Moscow's Crocus City Hall said he had been offered half a million rubles to kill people.

The detainee confessed that the curators had given him the task of killing everyone in the hall.

He also admitted that he flew from Turkiye on March 4, according to the video of the interrogation published by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group.

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Russia takes care of their people... think $700 per person for Lahaina Hawaii



Main info at the moment about terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall:

The Crocus City Hall auditorium has been destroyed and completely burned out. What is left of the ceiling is in danger of collapse. Rescuers continue to remove the rubble and look for people, the work will continue for at least a few days.

719 people are involved in the work to eliminate the fire in Crocus City Hall;

The condition of 16 injured, including one child, is extremely serious. Another 44, including two children, are in serious condition, the Russian Ministry of Health said. A total of 107 people are now in hospitals;

The death toll from the terrorist attack has risen to 143, Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya news agency, Sputnik's parent company, reported;

Relatives of those killed in the terrorist attack will receive 3 million rubles ($32,500) each, victims in hospitals - 1 million rubles ($10,800) each. The authorities of Moscow and the Moscow region will undertake the organization of funerals of those killed in the attack;

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin instructed to make additional monthly payments for children who lost their parents in a terrorist attack;

Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Bortnikov reported to the president on the detention of 11 people, including four terrorists directly involved in the attack;

Four terrorists were detained in the Bryansk region near the border with Ukraine. The weapons used had been prepared in advance in a cache. After committing the terrorist act, the criminals intended to cross the border between Russia and Ukraine and had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side, FSB said;

One of those detained on suspicion of the terrorist attack admitted that he had arrived from Turkey on March 4. The video of the interrogation was published by Simonyan. He also said that he was offered money for killing people;

Terrorists detained in Bryansk region are currently being transferred to Moscow, FSB said.

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Ukraine is nothing more than a shell company for the CIA at this point. And, yes, the CIA has been using terrorism to sway public opinion for decades. Including here. Who do think was providing those pallets of bricks that were mysteriously appearing on street corners during the democrat's "Summer of Love"? They will happily provoke WW3 rather than let Trump have another term.

 
They're not the brightest bulbs in hte box....


The terrorist attack in Moscow was the work of Ukraine and the "terrified" US knew it, a former CIA officer has said.

Just a day ago, open source intelligence source OSINTdefender reported that Washington was "increasingly frustrated by Ukraine's unauthorised, blatant actions" against Russia. "This means that the US knew Ukraine was up to something, had an idea of what it was going to do. And there's a good chance that Ukraine not only did it, but did it with weapons and support provided by the United States," former CIA analyst Larry Johnson told Judging Freedom.

This version is also supported by the State Department's hasty words that Kiev had nothing to do with the attack, a statement made before Moscow itself had any accurate information about what had happened. "They know Ukraine did it," the former intelligence official said confidently. That's why the US was so quick to declare no involvement in the attack, and why it expressed concern about Ukraine's "egregious" actions the day before. "That's why the White House was so scared to death," Johnson explains.

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With news like this...: Ukrainian military survivor of Russian attack talks about Kiev's propaganda

A Ukrainian soldier who survived the Russian tank attack on Ukraine's Bradley IFVs described how 20 men were left to cover the retreat of a thousand-strong Ukrainian military group from Avdeyevka, and how Kiev's media is lying about the situation in the Zaporozhye region.

"The boys died, everything there was destroyed, everything was bombed. And according to the news that day, it turns out, they say, that the Ukrainian Armed Forces achieved success at Rabotino [village in the Zaporozhye region], they went two kilometers deep. God damn! Looking at the news like this, we should already be near the Urals, understand?" he said.

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FYI Sputnik is a good source of info


️The Russian military overnight launched a strike with high-precision weapons, including Kinzhal missiles, on Ukrainian energy infrastructure and air defense facilities, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports

The goal of the strikes was achieved, all objects were hit, it notes.

More statements from the daily MoD report:

️ Russian air defenses destroyed 175 Ukrainian drones and shot down 21 HIMARS and Vampire MLRS missiles;

️ Units of the Russian Yug battle group took more favorable positions in the Donetsk area;

️ Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian S-300 radar station;

️ Russian troops repelled four attacks by Ukrainian assault groups near Kupyansk;

️ The Russian army improved its position on the front line near Avdeyevka and repulsed eight counterattacks by Ukrainian forces. The enemy lost more than 305 soldiers;

️ Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk area lost more than 300 servicemen.

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New Evidence Emerges of Ukraine’s Horrific “Forced Fertilization” Program, Inspired by Nazi Lebensborn​

March 30, 2024
William O'Brien

The Foundation to Battle Injustice has uncovered shocking evidence of egregious violations of women’s rights by Ukrainian authorities through a monstrous “socio-medical experiment” with roots tracing back to Nazi Germany’s infamous Lebensborn program. After a months-long investigation involving sources including a former high-ranking SBU official, a Ukrainian Health Ministry official, and a direct victim, the Foundation has verified the existence of a forced fertilization program in Ukraine.

They have identified the specific methods and facilities used to kidnap women and hold them in specialized incubator laboratories against their will to be forcibly impregnated. Disturbingly, the Foundation has also named the high-ranking Ukrainian officials responsible for operating this reprehensible program, which sees Zelensky’s regime exploiting state resources to locate, abduct, illegally detain, and medically violate unsuspecting victims.

 
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