[Michael Z. Williamson] This is going to upset a lot of Brosheviks, many of whom should know better.
I'm going to point out the hate fact that Ukraine has not committed ANY war crimes.
ALL PHOTO DOCUMENTED:
Russia started by attacking civilian habitation with no military necessity--shelling apartment blocks to the ground and calling in strikes on entire subdivisions IN CLEAR ON THE RADIO.
Three days in, they were stealing food without payment or signing for compensation.
They bombed marked hospitals, including a maternity hospital.
They bombed a marked civilian shelter.
They murdered refugees who didn't take the official, "we'll only let you flee to Russia" route they declared.
They stated they'd murder uniformed mercenaries as "War criminals," which they are not. But if Russia does murder them, it certainly is a war crime.
While sending in their own mercenaries to rape and murder.
They raped and dismembered civilian women.
They desecrated bodies by pulling out the gold teeth to sell.
THEIR PRESIDENT PUBLICLY STATED AN INTENT TO GENOCIDE THE ENTIRE POPULATION AND MAKE CHILDREN "SUFFER" FOR THEIR PARENTS DARING NOT TO BE RUSSIAN.
Genocide counters any Hague or Geneva restrictions.
Ukrainians rounding up Russian "soldiers" and exterminating them like vermin isn't a "War crime." It's more like scraping dogshit off your shoe.
Russia hasn't abided by any LOAC since this started. None applies to them. They are invading savages and terrorists, not a legitimate military force.
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For someone roughly the same age as I am he's in much better shape. He has served in the regular army, the army reserve, and the air force reserve, under the latter of which he served at least one tour in Iraq in the late unpleasantness.
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They bombed marked hospitals, including a maternity hospital.
Maybe I am too cynical, but when I read of incidents like this, my first thought is "What was in the parking lot? What was next door? Was anyone firing from an upper window?" Doesn't matter which side or which war. Battles are fought nowadays in the media as well as on the field. Don't get me started on the Paleos!
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Andrey Kots
[RIA Novosti] Torture, sadism, psychological abuse and executions - more and more evidence of the inhuman treatment of prisoners by Ukrainian security forces is being published on the Web. The servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Battalions, without hiding their faces, shoot and mutilate Russian soldiers on camera. Official Kyiv condemns these "excesses" only in words, but in reality it simply ignores them. In fact, the nationalists received carte blanche for any atrocities.
On the frames of a recent video from the Armed Forces of Ukraine - a road going through a forest belt in the Kiev region. On the pavement are four bloodied fighters in the form of the Russian Airborne Forces. One is still alive - moving and wheezing. However, no one tries to help him. On the contrary, the Ukrainian security officer calmly finishes off the wounded with three shots from a machine gun. “Here they are, defenders, here it is, the Russian army,” the cameraman says happily.
"Hands, legs were tied, they started beating." Soldier of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation about Ukrainian captivity.
Ukrainians are in a great mood: they joke, laugh and brag about their “victory”. It can be seen that they like the role of executioners. The fact that unarmed paratroopers were executed, and not killed in a fair fight, is beyond doubt. The bodies lie side by side, all finished off with a shot in the head, one has his hands tied behind his back. Later it turned out that this video was filmed on March 30, when Russian troops were leaving the Kiev region: the BMD was ambushed.
"The actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other Ukrainian military formations grossly violate the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War," the Russian Investigative Committee said. The Chairman of the Investigative Committee instructed to initiate a criminal case, thoroughly investigate the circumstances of the incident, record evidence of the nationalists' crimes, and establish their identities.
Social networks quickly identified some of the "heroes" of that video. This, presumably, is a militant of the "Georgian Legion" Teimuraz Khizanishvili and a resident of Kiev Alexei Antonyuk. They have repeatedly been on business trips in the Donbass and have considerable combat experience. And, probably, the Russian special services have already taken them on a pencil.
"TORTURE NOT TO SHOOT"
The first video of prisoners being tortured was published online on March 27. On the footage, nationalists mock wounded Russian soldiers. During interrogation, one of them apparently dies. Three are shot in the legs. With such injuries and the lack of medical care, a person bleeds very quickly. On the same day, an even more terrible video appeared: a nationalist with extreme cruelty kills a bound soldier with a knife.
Later it became known that the prisoners were abused in the village of Malaya Rogan near Kharkov on the territory of a local dairy plant. According to the Russian investigation, 28-year-old Sergey Velichko and 26-year-old Konstantin Nemichev took part in the massacre. Both are adherents of the ultra-right ideology, they are part of the command staff of the Kraken unit of the Azov regiment. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against them under the article "Attempted murder of two or more persons, committed by a group of persons with special cruelty."
The actions of the sadists amazed even Western journalists, who, as a rule, do not notice the Nazis in Ukraine. Many media accused Kyiv of violating the rules of war. I had to react. Presidential adviser Alexei Arestovich recognized such treatment of prisoners of war as a crime and called for the punishment of those responsible.
UKRAINIAN MILITARY IN THE CITY OF BUCHA
The Ukrainian negotiators said the same to the Russian delegation at a meeting in Istanbul at the end of March. Nevertheless, neither Velichko nor Nemichev was ever detained. Kyiv simply banned the publication of such videos. Once again: do not torture, but make public. However, the nationalists even ignored this ban.
Recently, the Russian Defense Ministry published a series of interviews with servicemen who returned on exchange from Ukrainian captivity. The fighters say that they were severely beaten, kept in cold rooms, and not fed. And they constantly pressed psychologically, mocked, discussed aloud how they would be killed. The pilots were especially hard hit - they tortured them all day long, they didn’t let them sleep, they threatened to cripple them.
Against this background, the conditions in which the surrendered Ukrainians are kept are more reminiscent of a sanatorium. They are treated in republican hospitals and hospitals, fed with army dry rations, and allowed to call their relatives.
“The maximum that we allow ourselves is to demand on camera to call on our comrades to lay down their arms,” says a DPR army officer with the call sign Bereza. “We consider it beneath our dignity to torture and shoot enemy soldiers. When the fighting ends, they will be exchanged for ours. war crimes, especially Nazis, we will judge. The human attitude towards the enemy is the best advertisement for our captivity. Recently, more than 250 marines surrendered in Mariupol. If we had hell, they would not have dared to do this."
The way the Ukrainian security forces treat Russian military personnel is very reminiscent of the "glorious traditions" of the militants of the "Islamic State" * or Mexican drug cartels - truly bestial cruelty. The ideological heirs of the executioners of Khatyn and Babi Yar are rapidly degrading to the level of their idols.
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Nobody in the twitter and CNN loving world cares. Tell 'em instead of the depredations of the Russian army, who are rather professional in my experience. Nobody wants to see that side.
Thank you, badanov. When we have both sides we can extrapolate the rest from how fervently the left is selling which side.
And the whiners coming along to whine and heckle Rantburg... feel free to fcuk off.
Russia, the Invaders, bombers of Civilians, schools, and Hospitals are now crying about being abused? Given the history of the USSR/Russia for propaganda smears. I would not put it past the Putin to dress up Russians in Ukrainian Uniforms and shoot its own soldiers.
The Flip Side
Given the Mega $$$ Millions the DC Swamp in general has reaped from Ukrainian sources. This could be part Wag the Dog and part more DC revenue generating also.
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He's an agent of influence, Russia placed a lot of them in the USA, I know a Russian who is actively a professor at Columbia who was an influencer who suddenly has gone silent on another website.
He spent a lot of time trying to explain the 2014 Donbas revolt was 100% local rebels even while I pointed out the tanks and BMPs they had militated against that idea.
F Badanov and all the Russian Nazis. He does not need to live in a good nation of people like the USA if he does.
He dropped a report that this morning's massacre of civilians at the rail station was a Ukrainian false flag as if Ukraine needs evidence of Russian Hitlerism.
Well, come to find out Russia bragged of the missile shots until they found one hit that station, then they started their "Badanov" pr campaign.
That guy is a Russian Nazi agent and he can kiss my ass and so can the owner of this Russian propaganda site.
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He dropped a report that this morning's massacre of civilians at the rail station was a Ukrainian false flag as if Ukraine needs evidence of Russian Hitlerism.
Well, come to find out Russia bragged of the missile shots until they found one hit that station, then they started their "Badanov" pr campaign.
If you had read my inline comments (which you didn't) I said the missile was probably a short, something the Ukrainians are known for.
The missile was one Russia no longer used, but Ukraine did.
The Russian ministry of defense said the missile wasn't theirs.
No false flags.
As an aside, someone from one of the the breakaway republics warned last Monday that anyone still in the territory of of Donbass in the next 24 hours (Donetsk and Lugansk) should leave immediately.
Honestly, you give me far more power to influence events in Russia than I have, nor would ever want.
You should give it a rest. I've been married three times in my life. Nagging doesn't work on me.
While the rest of the world is engaged in tightening monetary policy to tame the self-inflicted inflation beast, Russia’s central bank unexpectedly cut its key interest rate the most in nearly two decades last night
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Bloomberg, April 8:
"Russia’s central bank unexpectedly slashed its key interest rate in a sign of confidence that the worst of the financial turmoil triggered by the invasion of Ukraine is past."
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"Large Russian bank customers converting dollar and euro holdings into yuan"
"Pegged to gold, Russian ruble bounces back"
"Russian economy adjusting to sanctions; ruble recovery aided by unprecedented trade surplus and high energy prices"
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Zero Hedge:
"Most Sanctions Fail"
"Where Will The Food Riots Start?"
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene votes AGAINST Joe's epic fail:
"Sanctions will do nothing to stop the war in Ukraine, but WILL continue to drive up inflation, cause food famines"
"Sanctions aren’t working, they only cause people to suffer.”
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If sanctions weren't working, the trolls wouldn't be screeching about them. Grab an AK and head for the front lines, Chekist, your conscript buddies need help.
#29
Questions about the effectiveness of sanctions aside, my inner Chaos Monkey is amused that after so much time and energy spent to create global trade networks, we are now kicking them apart for seemingly little benefit.
#31
Russian companies are exempt from the IRAN sanctions. "Russia's state-controlled Rosatom energy firm and at least four of its major subsidiaries will receive sanctions waivers under a new accord so that they can complete nuclear projects in Iran worth more than $10 billion."
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Vasily Mikhailovich Badanov (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Бада́нов; 14 December 1895 – 1 April 1971) was a Soviet military officer and general, best known for his leadership in the Tatsinskaya Raid (1942) and subsequent command of the 4th Tank Army (1943–1944).
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[REGNUM] The next anniversary of the signing on April 13, 1941 between the USSR and Japan of the Neutrality Pact is approaching, which played a significant role in determining the policy and strategy of these two countries after the perfidious attack on our country by Nazi Germany and the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
[Breitbart] The following article is sponsored by Citizens United.
The upcoming documentary Rigged by Citizens United Productions finally explains the impact of Big Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s $400 million gift to a pair of non-profit organizations that used his bounty to tip the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor by spending it disproportionally to get-out-the-vote in key swing state Democratic areas under the guise of pandemic “election safety.”
As Rigged explains, this effort was funded with money from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a philanthropic organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, and which lists Barack Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe as a key strategist.
Plouffe, who authored the book A Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald Trump, knew exactly how many votes Joe Biden would need to win the swing state of Wisconsin.
“In Wisconsin, Trump won it with about 1,405,000. You know my sense and talking to people who really understand that state of the data, he’s probably going to get 1.6 [million] votes,” Rigged shows Plouffe saying in May of 2020. “So, Joe Biden’s going to have to get 1.625 [million], 1.650 [million]. What matters here is votes, not polls; and Donald Trump is going to get his vote out.”
Come election day, Joe Biden earned 1.63 million votes versus President Trump’s 1.6 million, meaning Plouffe’s predictions were dead accurate.
As Rigged explores, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) donated $69.5 million to the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) and another whopping $328 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), an organization headed by Obama Foundation fellow Tiana Epps-Johnson, who prior to forming CTCL in 2015, worked for an organization described by the Washington Post as “the Democratic party’s Hogwarts for digital wizardry.”
In 2019, CTCL received a mere $2.8 million in contributions before the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s $328 million cash infusion in the lead-up to the 2020 election. These funds were labeled as a grant for the “safe administrations of public elections during the COVID-19 pandemic.” The documentary claims CTCL’s grants, made possible by this donation, were distributed disproportionally to encourage mail-in voting in key swing state Democrat-run areas as well as to fund the proliferation of ballot drop boxes and a host of other things designed to boost Joe Biden’s vote totals in key swing states.
In Wisconsin, IRS tax filings show that the CTCL gave $860,000 to the city of Kenosha, $1.2 million to both Green Bay and Madison, $1.7 million to Racine, and $3.4 million to Milwaukee. According to Rigged, overall voter turnout for Joe Biden increased significantly in Zuckerberg funded areas.
“They’re sending the money to big urban centers, they’re dramatically-increasing the ballot boxes that are there, and they’re conditioning the money on those polling locations, those government entities, throwing open the flood gates, to potential voter fraud,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says in Rigged. “This was the greatest billionaire assault on election integrity we’ve ever seen.”
“The Zuckerbucks folks were paying governments with grants with conditions that they go do get-out-the-vote activities in the Democrat areas. In the Republican areas, they just gave them the money, and they said, ‘Hey, we’re helping them conduct the election,’” Ken Cuccinelli, the national chairman for the Election Transparency Initiative, explains in Rigged.
Hosted by Citizens United president David Bossie and featuring interviews from prominent conservative leaders, including Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, and President Trump himself, the documentary Rigged offers a warning cry for what’s surely to come if Republicans do not find a way to stop left-wing billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg using their spending power to influence elections for years to come.
“He should totally be held accountable, and he should never be allowed to do it again,” Trump tells Bossie in the documentary. “It was a rigged election. People have to find out what happened, and they have to hold people accountable.”
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There was a time when, even if this cockamamie 'body of evidence' were true, military establishments would never let the press get a whiff of it and would deal with shit on their own.
Today, everybody's either a primadonna or a drama queen who won't let an SF-312 deny them their fifteen minutes.
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MDUSA IIRC was an acronym stamped on medical hardware of the US Army during WWII. The GIs who noticed it, told each other it meant "Many Die, U Shall Also".
A huge pile of studies and death reports accumulated over decades as in this case may mean little or nothing.
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I stopped reading when I got to "Ex-CIA officer."
#5
I do wish Tucker could get over his apparent UFO obsession. Use the time spot wisely. Something relevant like, horse whispering, pet grooming, organic gardening.
#7
You know what this means, don't you? Now, in addition to our new terrestrial trolls, we will be getting alien trolls arguing for and against the existence of UFOs.
The US govt seems a bit UFO obsessed lately, what with all the video clips the Pentagon is releasing. Most curious.
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What I find shocking is that none of you have ever seen the testimony of staff and guards stationed at our Nuke silos.
Several years ago I ran into two Duluth Air Base air traffic control men. Independently they shared the same orders not to report jiggy high speed UFO their commanders referred to as "screen anomalies.
We have known about this shit for sometime and still the common response is "I stopped reading after CIA.
But have no fear, the ChiCom virus came from a bat hundreds of miles in Wuhan.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
